bar bonds diffusing corner rules

High Fae Mage

Monsters Monstrous Compendium Vol. 4: Eldraine Creatures

also form strong bonds with the elemental powers of Eldraine, allowing the mages to call on forces like the eastern wind or the fiery hearth. “The high fae are capable of magic that would make

, embodying the natural splendor and danger of the wilderness. High fae have no regard for mortal values of honor and law, but they nonetheless operate under inviolable rules of their own: gifts must

Bugbear

races Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse

and from out of the corner of your eye, they came to the Material Plane, urged to spread throughout the multiverse by the conquering god Maglubiyet. Centuries later, they still bear a fey gift for

character is a member of the human race or of a fantastical race. If you select a fantastical race, follow these additional rules during character creation. Ability Score Increases When determining

Hobgoblin

races Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse

creates a mystical bond between the giver and the receiver of a gift. On some worlds, such bonds lead hobgoblins to form communities with deep ties to one another. In Eberron and the Forgotten Realms, vast

fantastical race. If you select a fantastical race, follow these additional rules during character creation. Ability Score Increases When determining your character’s ability scores, increase one score

Goblin

races Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse

A subterranean folk, goblins can be found in every corner of the multiverse, often beside their bugbear and hobgoblin kin. Long before the god Maglubiyet conquered them, early goblins served in the

character is a member of the human race or of a fantastical race. If you select a fantastical race, follow these additional rules during character creation. Ability Score Increases When determining your

Relationships

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos

Relationships As students, the characters have the opportunity to cement friendships, establish rivalries, deepen bonds, and otherwise develop relationships with student NPCs in this book’s

adventures. Although these pursuits could be played out entirely with roleplaying, you can use the following Relationship rules to reinforce this aspect of the adventures. These rules provide characters with

Relationships

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos

Relationships As students, the characters have the opportunity to cement friendships, establish rivalries, deepen bonds, and otherwise develop relationships with student NPCs in this book’s

adventures. Although these pursuits could be played out entirely with roleplaying, you can use the following Relationship rules to reinforce this aspect of the adventures. These rules provide characters with

Relationships

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos

Relationships As students, the characters have the opportunity to cement friendships, establish rivalries, deepen bonds, and otherwise develop relationships with student NPCs in this book’s

adventures. Although these pursuits could be played out entirely with roleplaying, you can use the following Relationship rules to reinforce this aspect of the adventures. These rules provide characters with

The Cog Carnival

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War

to make them fall down, and striking a homemade machine hard enough with a hammer to make it ring a bell. A small bar in the corner serves cheap ale. Behind this bar, a warforged bartender shouts

The Cog Carnival The Cog Carnival is a dilapidated warforged dive bar. The bar has a crumbling stone outside marred with graffiti that says things like, “Forged Are Scrap!” and “Leave, Metalheads

The Cog Carnival

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War

to make them fall down, and striking a homemade machine hard enough with a hammer to make it ring a bell. A small bar in the corner serves cheap ale. Behind this bar, a warforged bartender shouts

The Cog Carnival The Cog Carnival is a dilapidated warforged dive bar. The bar has a crumbling stone outside marred with graffiti that says things like, “Forged Are Scrap!” and “Leave, Metalheads

Loyalty

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss

Loyalty Having the adventurers leading an expanded party gives you the opportunity to use the optional loyalty rules in chapter 4, “Creating Nonplayer Characters,” of the Dungeon Master’s Guide. You

can track the loyalty scores of groups of NPCs, such as those belonging to each faction, rather than having to track NPCs individually. The characters must balance the goals and bonds of their followers in order to maintain and improve their loyalty.

Loyalty

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss

Loyalty Having the adventurers leading an expanded party gives you the opportunity to use the optional loyalty rules in chapter 4, “Creating Nonplayer Characters,” of the Dungeon Master’s Guide. You

can track the loyalty scores of groups of NPCs, such as those belonging to each faction, rather than having to track NPCs individually. The characters must balance the goals and bonds of their followers in order to maintain and improve their loyalty.

Loyalty

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss

Loyalty Having the adventurers leading an expanded party gives you the opportunity to use the optional loyalty rules in chapter 4, “Creating Nonplayer Characters,” of the Dungeon Master’s Guide. You

can track the loyalty scores of groups of NPCs, such as those belonging to each faction, rather than having to track NPCs individually. The characters must balance the goals and bonds of their followers in order to maintain and improve their loyalty.

The Cog Carnival

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War

to make them fall down, and striking a homemade machine hard enough with a hammer to make it ring a bell. A small bar in the corner serves cheap ale. Behind this bar, a warforged bartender shouts

The Cog Carnival The Cog Carnival is a dilapidated warforged dive bar. The bar has a crumbling stone outside marred with graffiti that says things like, “Forged Are Scrap!” and “Leave, Metalheads

13. Recreation Room

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage

13. Recreation Room Students come here to relax and recuperate between lessons. 13a. Taproom This room resembles a comfortable taproom in Waterdeep. The bar is stocked with bottles of fine liquor and

parchment in the southwest corner, facing the north door. Elan recently acquired a spell scroll of legend lore from Wormriddle the night hag and is carefully copying the spell from the scroll to his

13. Recreation Room

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage

13. Recreation Room Students come here to relax and recuperate between lessons. 13a. Taproom This room resembles a comfortable taproom in Waterdeep. The bar is stocked with bottles of fine liquor and

parchment in the southwest corner, facing the north door. Elan recently acquired a spell scroll of legend lore from Wormriddle the night hag and is carefully copying the spell from the scroll to his

13. Recreation Room

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage

13. Recreation Room Students come here to relax and recuperate between lessons. 13a. Taproom This room resembles a comfortable taproom in Waterdeep. The bar is stocked with bottles of fine liquor and

parchment in the southwest corner, facing the north door. Elan recently acquired a spell scroll of legend lore from Wormriddle the night hag and is carefully copying the spell from the scroll to his

9: Tavern

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Heroes of the Borderlands

in one corner is empty. A human man in an apron greets you from behind the bar. “Welcome to the Drunken Dragon. What can I getcha?” he asks in a smooth voice. The man behind the bar is Umbrusk

likes dessert.” (True) Tavern Features The tavern has the following features: Taproom. The tavern’s taproom holds a sticky bar counter, ten round tables, and forty chairs in varying states of

9: Tavern

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Heroes of the Borderlands

in one corner is empty. A human man in an apron greets you from behind the bar. “Welcome to the Drunken Dragon. What can I getcha?” he asks in a smooth voice. The man behind the bar is Umbrusk

likes dessert.” (True) Tavern Features The tavern has the following features: Taproom. The tavern’s taproom holds a sticky bar counter, ten round tables, and forty chairs in varying states of

9: Tavern

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Heroes of the Borderlands

in one corner is empty. A human man in an apron greets you from behind the bar. “Welcome to the Drunken Dragon. What can I getcha?” he asks in a smooth voice. The man behind the bar is Umbrusk

likes dessert.” (True) Tavern Features The tavern has the following features: Taproom. The tavern’s taproom holds a sticky bar counter, ten round tables, and forty chairs in varying states of

20. Spirit Guard of Ayocuan

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a3

instruments. If the characters work in concert, the time can be divided among multiple workers. Inside are six sets of worthless bones and six jade bead pectorals, worth 50 gp each. In a dusty corner

shut with a pitted copper bar so that it can’t be opened from the outside. From inside this room, one has merely to remove the bar.

20. Spirit Guard of Ayocuan

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a3

instruments. If the characters work in concert, the time can be divided among multiple workers. Inside are six sets of worthless bones and six jade bead pectorals, worth 50 gp each. In a dusty corner

shut with a pitted copper bar so that it can’t be opened from the outside. From inside this room, one has merely to remove the bar.

20. Spirit Guard of Ayocuan

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a3

instruments. If the characters work in concert, the time can be divided among multiple workers. Inside are six sets of worthless bones and six jade bead pectorals, worth 50 gp each. In a dusty corner

shut with a pitted copper bar so that it can’t be opened from the outside. From inside this room, one has merely to remove the bar.

Activities and Rumors

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos

character. 3 Bar Games. The student asks the character to play a friendly bar game, such as darts or cards. This is more an opportunity to chat than about winning. 4 Eating Everything. The student wants

Relationship encounter using the rules in chapter 3. Have players note the results of this encounter on their copies of the tracking sheet.

Adventurer NPCs

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)

built (either by you or your players) using the character creation and advancement rules in the Player’s Handbook. It’s easiest on you if you let the players create and run these supporting characters

. Encourage players to roleplay supporting characters as true to the NPCs’ personality traits, ideals, bonds, and flaws as possible, so that they don’t come across as automatons. If you don’t feel that an

Character Options

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragon of Icespire Peak

— Wizard Soldier While your players follow the steps of character creation as outlined in the Basic Rules, pay attention to the choices they make. The backgrounds they choose define who their

characters were before becoming adventurers, and also include roleplaying hooks in the form of ideals, bonds, and flaws — things that you, as the DM, want to know. For example, if a player chooses the

Adventurer NPCs

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)

built (either by you or your players) using the character creation and advancement rules in the Player’s Handbook. It’s easiest on you if you let the players create and run these supporting characters

. Encourage players to roleplay supporting characters as true to the NPCs’ personality traits, ideals, bonds, and flaws as possible, so that they don’t come across as automatons. If you don’t feel that an

Roleplaying

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)

sits at Tordek’s table and tries to strike up a conversation with the dwarf. Chris says, “Tordek spits on the floor, growls an insult at the bard, and stomps over to the bar. He sits on a stool and