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Classes
Player’s Handbook
. But Bards’ depth of knowledge and mastery of magic sets them apart.
Becoming a Bard...
As a Level 1 Bard
Gain all the traits in the Core Bard Traits table.
Gain the Bard’s level 1
;Daggers, Musical Instrument of your choice, Entertainer's Pack, and 19 GP; or (B) 90 GP
Invoking magic through music, dance, and verse, Bards are expert at inspiring others, soothing hurts
Classes
Player’s Handbook
typically means some kind of adventure.
Becoming a Warlock...
As a Level 1 Character
Gain all the traits in the Core Warlock Traits table.
Gain the Warlock’s level 1 features, which are listed
+3
Ability Score Improvement
6
3
9
2
4
9
+4
Contact Patron
7
3
10
2
5
10
+4
Subclass feature
7
4
10
2
5
11
+4
Mystic Arcanum (level 6 spell)
7
4
11
3
5
Classes
Player’s Handbook
Sorcerer’s gift. So too might the gift of a deity, exposure to the strange magic of another plane of existence, or a glimpse into the inner workings of reality. Whatever the origin, the result is
talents of sorcery appear as a fluke. People who have this magical power soon discover that it doesn’t like to stay quiet. A Sorcerer’s magic wants to be wielded.
Becoming a Sorcerer...
As a
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
them valuable guides, and their insights can help other stone giants grasp the dangers of living in a dream.
Dreamwalkers become divorced from reality by isolation, shame, and their unendingly alien
consequences, dreamwalkers act as they please, becoming forces of chaos. As they travel the world, they collect objects and creatures that seem especially significant to them. Over time, the collected things accrete to their bodies, becoming encased in stone.
Monsters
Vecna: Eve of Ruin
Climb. Miska can climb difficult surfaces, including upside down on ceilings, without needing to make an ability check.
Web Sense. When in contact with a web, Miska knows the exact location of any other
creature in contact with the same web.
Web Walker. Miska ignores movement restrictions caused by webbing.Multiattack. Miska makes one Lupine Bite attack and two Trident of Chaos attacks.
Lupine Bite
Monsters
Monstrous Compendium Vol. 1: Spelljammer Creatures
One whispers promises of reality-defying knowledge and world-bending power. When a wizard or a warlock hears that whisper and listens too intently, they might set foot on the twisting path toward
becoming an eldritch lich.
Like other liches, eldritch liches are spellcasters who have cheated death, but an eldritch lich does so by allowing a Great Old One to implant a Far Realm parasite in the lich
Monsters
Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
fantasizes about rising to fame and prominence in record time and hopes that plundering the lost Netherese city of Ythryn will turn her fantasies into reality.
The tiefling has the secret support of the
serve her as bodyguards and scouts. Avarice uses her Rary's telepathic bond spell to stay in telepathic contact with her gargoyles before sending them off on any mission. Avarice also has the support of
Backgrounds
Guildmasters’ Guide to Ravnica
always straining to peer into another reality that seems to be just beyond my senses.
5
I’m uneasy if I can’t see plants growing or feel soil beneath my feet.
6
Seeing illness
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Selesnya Contacts
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Contact
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A wise centaur trainer believed in me even though I was a terrible student.
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A good friend has risen to become a Ledev guardian.
3
I left
Backgrounds
Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide
operated openly or secretly, depending on the faction and its goals, as well as how those goals mesh with your own. Becoming an adventurer doesn’t necessarily require you to relinquish membership
knowledge, rather than brute force. Harper agents are often proficient in Investigation, enabling them to be adept at snooping and spying. They often seek aid from other Harpers, sympathetic bards and
Monsters
The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
damage and be frightened of Iggwilv for 1 minute. A target can repeat the save at the end of each of its turns, ending the effect on itself on a success and thereby becoming immune to Iggwilv’s Dark
hideous laughter. Tasha’s magic-fueled ambitions brought her into contact with demons and demon lords, which she subjugated and used against her enemies. Tasha became known on the world of
Backgrounds
Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus
chosen. Even so, that doesn’t stop you. You’ve left your old face behind, taking on a new persona, becoming something more.
Characters with the faceless background don a disguise &mdash
comes to us all eventually.
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I never make eye contact or hold it unflinchingly.
3
I have no sense of humor. Laughing is uncomfortable and embarrassing.
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I overexert myself
Wizard
Legacy
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Classes
Basic Rules (2014)
. Some aspire to become like the gods, shaping reality itself. Though the casting of a typical spell requires merely the utterance of a few strange words, fleeting gestures, and sometimes a pinch or
.
Creating a Wizard
Creating a wizard character demands a backstory dominated by at least one extraordinary event. How did your character first come into contact with magic? How did you discover you had
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player’s Handbook
any other entertainer. But Bards’ depth of knowledge and mastery of magic sets them apart. Becoming a Bard... As a Level 1 Bard Gain all the traits in the Core Bard Traits table. Gain the Bard’s level
Choose A or B: (A) Leather Armor, 2 Daggers, Musical Instrument of your choice, Entertainer’s Pack, and 19 GP; or (B) 90 GP Invoking magic through music, dance, and verse, Bards are expert at inspiring
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules
Instrument of your choice, Entertainer’s Pack, and 19 GP; or (B) 90 GP Invoking magic through music, dance, and verse, Bards are expert at inspiring others, soothing hurts, disheartening foes, and
creating illusions. Bards believe the multiverse was spoken into existence and that remnants of its Words of Creation still resound and glimmer on every plane of existence. Bardic magic attempts to
Magic Items
Lost Laboratory of Kwalish
adventure.
The Fates. Reality’s fabric unravels and spins anew, allowing you to avoid or erase one event as if it never happened. You can use the card’s magic as soon as you draw the card
Gloine (area O7), whichever comes later in the adventure. While your soul is trapped in this way, your body is incapacitated. Divination, contact other plane, or a similar spell of 4th level or higher reveals the location of the machinery that holds your soul. You draw no more cards.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
creation, though the process unfolds over the course of countless centuries. Thus, the gods of Theros and their servants were believed, dreamed, and narrated into existence, materializing and becoming
into being. Does that mean that the gods of Theros are less powerful or less divine than the gods of other worlds? Not at all. Once a dream or belief in Theros becomes reality, it is just as real as
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
Gith The descendants of an ancient people — so old their original name has been lost — have turned against each other, becoming vicious enemies divided over mortality, purpose, and the machinations
reality become if beings of thought ruled the plane of thought? Left to Right: Githyanki Gish, Githyanki Supreme Commander, and Githyanki Kith'rak
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
Chapter 2: Creating a Multiverse When adventurers reach higher levels, their path extends to other dimensions of reality: the planes of existence that form the multiverse. The characters might be
Limbo to contact a wizened githzerai sage. Planes of existence define the extremes of strange and often dangerous environments. The most bizarre locations present settings undreamed of in the natural
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
beholder’s mind remains semiconscious even as it dreams. As a result, on rare occasions when a beholder dreams of another beholder, the dream-reality becomes warped and takes on physical form, becoming
alien intelligence, inhuman forms of perception, and the ability to shape reality through force of will — or even by their mere presence. Inside the comfortable confines of its subterranean lair, a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
methods the locals use to placate their tempestuous gods. The characters’ contact hopes these techniques can be used to calm natural upheavals in other lands. Prepared for the Worst. The Shieldbearers of
the Radiant Citadel hire the characters to visit Tletepec to verify rumors that the region is becoming dangerous, so they can prepare for an influx of refugees. They suggest the characters start their investigations near Etizalan.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
Halflings of the Five Nations Quick and charming, many halflings put their natural talents to use as bards, barristers, merchants, and politicians throughout Khorvaire. Of course, these same talents
the criminal empire, but your past may yet catch up with you. You could also be the point of contact who has made the Boromar Clan your party’s group patron, as described later in this chapter.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
Touch of Death Your touch is pain, harming whoever you come in contact with. The deathly power within you is beyond your control, afflicting any who touch your bare skin. By the same token, you can
interest in you.
4 You survived a near-death experience—but shouldn’t have. Ever since, death and ill omens follow you.
5 You are out of sync with time or reality. Anything you touch is
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Turn of Fortune’s Wheel
arcanaloth is frustrated by the characters’ interfering with her plot and avoids them for a time, but she isn’t one to let annoyance get in the way of opportunity. Shemeshka might eventually contact the
characters to involve them in future schemes. Shemeshka might contact the characters sooner if the data in their mimir skewed toward evil, as it’s possible the characters produced the results she was
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
sponsoring and then leading adventuring expeditions into Undermountain. One of the items they recovered from the dungeon was a tablet of black crystal that allowed contact with entities of the Far Realm
. Their brother, Xerrion, came to possess the tablet and used it to contact otherworldly beings in an attempt to destroy his family’s business rivals and political enemies. This contact drove Xerrion
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
moment’s contact with such a place is enough to plunge a mortal mind into madness. Yet beings do exist that are native to these realms: beings that are eternally hungering, searching, warring, sometimes
cultists hasten to gather together, read aloud their blasphemous texts, and conduct the mind-searing rituals that guide the blazing star spawn into the world. The cultists who blaspheme reality by
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron
communication and cooperation between members of different cultures or species. Such Khoravar often become mediators, diplomats, translators, or bards. Others are fascinated by their distant connection to
the Fey, becoming Greensinger druids or warlocks bargaining with Archfey. As a Khoravar, do any of these paths appeal to you? Half-Elves and Dragonmarks Half-elves families carry two dragonmarks
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules
Attunement Some magic items require a creature to form a bond—called Attunement—with them before the creature can use an item’s magical properties. Without becoming attuned to an item that requires
attuned to it, but none of its magical properties. Attune during a Short Rest Attuning to an item requires you to spend a Short Rest focused on only that item while being in physical contact with it
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player’s Handbook
Attunement Some magic items require a creature to form a bond—called Attunement—with them before the creature can use an item’s magical properties. Without becoming attuned to an item that requires
attuned to it, but none of its magical properties. Attune during a Short Rest Attuning to an item requires you to spend a Short Rest focused on only that item while being in physical contact with it
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monsters of the Multiverse
surface world makes them valuable guides, and their insights can help other stone giants grasp the dangers of living in a dream. Dreamwalkers become divorced from reality by isolation, shame, and their
have no real consequences, dreamwalkers act as they please, becoming forces of chaos. As they travel the world, they collect objects and creatures that seem especially significant to them. Over time
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules
. Tier 3 (Levels 11–16) In tier 3, characters have reached a level of power that makes them special among adventurers. At level 11, many spellcasters learn reality-altering spells. Other characters gain
achieve the pinnacle of their class features, becoming heroic archetypes. The fate of the world or even the order of the multiverse might hang in the balance during their adventures. Bonus Feats at
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player’s Handbook
. So too might the gift of a deity, exposure to the strange magic of another plane of existence, or a glimpse into the inner workings of reality. Whatever the origin, the result is an indelible mark on
fluke. People who have this magical power soon discover that it doesn’t like to stay quiet. A Sorcerer’s magic wants to be wielded. Becoming a Sorcerer... As a Level 1 Character Gain all the traits in the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules
strange magic of another plane of existence, or a glimpse into the inner workings of reality. Whatever the origin, the result is an indelible mark on the Sorcerer, a churning magic that can be passed
that it doesn’t like to stay quiet. A Sorcerer’s magic wants to be wielded. Becoming a Sorcerer... As a Level 1 Character Gain all the traits in the Core Sorcerer Traits table. Gain the Sorcerer’s
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
those obsessive, treacherous spellcasters. Eager and encouraged to push past the weakness of mortality, he sought to discover hidden truths of magic and its command of reality. He obsessed over radical
lands into a realm that knew nothing of magic. He had changed, becoming covered in golden tattoos evocative of symbols that meant “traitor” in his homeland. Undaunted, Hazlik claimed the title of zulkir and dubbed his new world Hazlan.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player’s Handbook
. Tier 3 (Levels 11–16) In tier 3, characters have reached a level of power that makes them special among adventurers. At level 11, many spellcasters learn reality-altering spells. Other characters gain
achieve the pinnacle of their class features, becoming heroic archetypes. The fate of the world or even the order of the multiverse might hang in the balance during their adventures. Bonus Feats at
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
death knights that dwell on the lower tiers of Shadowdusk Hold. Contact with the Far Realm has given Dezmyr the ability to warp reality to a limited extent. Zalthar has no such ability but wields a
rest of her family, but she can sense that her mind is slowly being eroded by contact with the Far Realm. Fearing that her descent into madness is inevitable, she lives in a state of self-imposed