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Player’s Handbook
Make a Deal with the Lower Planes
Your pact draws on the Lower Planes, the realms of perdition. You might forge a bargain with a demon lord such as Demogorgon or Orcus; an archdevil such as Asmodeus
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
become beholden to such a master through a bleak bargain, or they might find themselves cursed by one. Once warped into a fishlike form, a sea spawn can’t leave the water for long without courting
the Forgotten Realms setting) might notice one curious fact about the islands’ human inhabitants: no infants or elderly are among them. This is because babies born to the Rocklanders are claimed
Dwarf
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Basic Rules (2014)
ye in trouble if I came out an’ looked for ye!”
— R. A. Salvatore, The Crystal Shard
Kingdoms rich in ancient grandeur, halls carved into the roots of mountains, the echoing of
. For example, some of the oldest dwarves living in Citadel Felbarr (in the world of the Forgotten Realms) can recall the day, more than three centuries ago, when orcs conquered the fortress and drove
Tabaxi
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Volo's Guide to Monsters
wanderers keep to civilized realms, preferring to bargain instead of pursuing more dangerous methods of sating their curiosity. However, they aren’t above a little discreet theft to get their claws
Ancient Deep Dragon
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Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
. Deep dragons look down on any creature that isn’t useful to them, though they are willing to bargain for knowledge they lack.
Creating a Deep Dragon
Use the Deep Dragon Personality Traits and
alliances or enmities. Their lairs are highly individual. Some are woven from networks of living fungus. Others are built upon the ruins of ancient cities or carved into caves near underground lakes.
Deep
Adult Deep Dragon
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Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
. Deep dragons look down on any creature that isn’t useful to them, though they are willing to bargain for knowledge they lack.
Creating a Deep Dragon
Use the Deep Dragon Personality Traits and
with whom they have alliances or enmities. Their lairs are highly individual. Some are woven from networks of living fungus. Others are built upon the ruins of ancient cities or carved into caves near
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)
The Material Plane The Material Plane is the nexus where the philosophical and elemental forces that define the other planes collide in the jumbled existence of mortal life and mundane matter. All
Realms, Mystara, Birthright, Dark Sun, and Eberron, among others. Each of these worlds boasts its own cast of heroic adventurers and scheming villains, its own ancient ruins and forgotten artifacts, its
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
trade for items that spark their interest. Tabaxi reluctantly accept gold, but they much prefer interesting objects or pieces of lore as payment. These wanderers keep to civilized realms, preferring to
bargain instead of pursuing more dangerous methods of sating their curiosity. However, they aren’t above a little discreet theft to get their claws on a particularly interesting item when an owner
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
Adventure Overview The holy city of Elturel has disappeared from the Forgotten Realms and descended into Avernus, the first layer of the Nine Hells. This event came about as the result of an infernal
bargain between the archdevil Zariel, who rules Avernus, and the treacherous High Overseer of Elturel, Thavius Kreeg. Zariel is capturing cities and using their citizens as fodder in the ongoing
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Hoard of the Dragon Queen
back to the days when giants and dragons fought great wars. The binding kept dragons from taking these castles for their own, and the bond still holds centuries later. The cult has struck a bargain with
castle’s propulsion and buoyancy. The cult cannot afford to alienate Blagothkus, because the castle’s spirit will not obey them. Skyreach Castle is carved from ice so thick as to be opaque. The ice is as
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tyranny of Dragons
to the days when giants and dragons fought great wars. The binding kept dragons from taking these castles for their own, and the bond still holds centuries later. The cult has struck a bargain with
propulsion and buoyancy. The cult cannot afford to alienate Blagothkus, because the castle’s spirit will not obey them. Skyreach Castle is carved from ice so thick as to be opaque. The ice is as
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Hoard of the Dragon Queen
the lodge. They might also bargain and make a deal with Talis, striking against those who oppose her ascension. If they do the latter, she helps the party reach the nearby village of Parnast and aboard
Realms, this chapter is the best time for that information to be revealed or confirmed. Although Talis won’t mention any details such as masks or summonings, the cultists share a general belief that the time is right for Tiamat’s arrival. The characters can find several clues that encourage this belief.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tyranny of Dragons
the lodge. They might also bargain and make a deal with Talis, striking against those who oppose her ascension. If they do the latter, she helps the party reach the nearby village of Parnast and aboard
Realms, this chapter is the best time for that information to be revealed or confirmed. Although Talis won’t mention any details such as masks or summonings, the cultists share a general belief that the time is right for Tiamat’s arrival. The characters can find several clues that encourage this belief.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Hoard of the Dragon Queen
offerings for years to come. On the following pages, you’ll find a number of images designed to serve as story beats in the larger Tyranny of Dragons campaign. These images were created to define impactful
number of designs focused on threats integral to the Tyranny of Dragons campaign. This includes explorations of well-known Forgotten Realms villains, like the Cult of the Dragon and the Red Wizards of Thay
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Rise of Tiamat
offerings for years to come. On the following pages, you’ll find a number of images designed to serve as story beats in the larger Tyranny of Dragons campaign. These images were created to define impactful
number of designs focused on threats integral to the Tyranny of Dragons campaign. This includes explorations of well-known Forgotten Realms villains, like the Cult of the Dragon and the Red Wizards of Thay
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
or to define what could be? The perspective of substance emphasizes physical reality. In this view, math is embodied in the natural forces of the multiverse, waiting to be discovered by those with the
possibility. The perspective of theory focuses on the abstract realms of conjecture and possibility. Its scholars view math as a lens through which a mind can understand the cosmos, not something that
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tyranny of Dragons
offerings for years to come. On the following pages, you’ll find a number of images designed to serve as story beats in the larger Tyranny of Dragons campaign. These images were created to define impactful
number of designs focused on threats integral to the Tyranny of Dragons campaign. This includes explorations of well-known Forgotten Realms villains, like the Cult of the Dragon and the Red Wizards of Thay
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
shadar-kai owners, Mister Witch and Mister Light. Chapters 2, 3, and 4 describe the carved-up domain of Prismeer, which the hags of the Hourglass Coven have usurped and split into thirds. The
characters can move between these splinter-realms only if they have the right fey guides to help them. Chapter 5 describes the Palace of Heart’s Desire, where the archfey Zybilna and her court are frozen in
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
them to interact and bargain with creatures of both realms. Other popular choices are a place where the ambient energy augments certain kinds of magic, a site related to death such as a burial ground
exact her vengeance, and no dish of revenge is sweeter than one served cold and to the next three generations of her enemy’s family. Hags hate to be in debt to someone who’s done them a favor spontaneously, outside of any bargain, and so will return favors unexpectedly to such folk.
— Elminster
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
reality is a contest played out under secret rules. If he can discover the principles that define the true nature of the cosmos, he can learn how to ascend to the top of the Nine Hells’ hierarchy and
then eventually the entire planar order. He covets the souls of those who seek secrets and those who have useful, secret information of their own that he can bargain for.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
for them in most worlds. I’ve walked many realms, and nary a one has even a hint of a gnome nation.
Hidden but Homey Deep gnomes protect their enclaves with labyrinthine tunnels, traps, and armed
close off living spaces with doors or window coverings. Most of their homes are sparsely furnished dwellings of one or two rooms. Bed spaces, often carved into the cavern walls, are strung with hammocks
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
nightmare realms remain just so. Currency Many domains mint their own gold, silver, and copper coins. Though these currencies bear different markings, merchants aren’t particular about the designs stamped
your adventures, you define what deities are worshiped in a domain and whether those deities are actual gods, manifestations of the Dark Powers, or one masquerading as the other. EZRA, GOD OF THE MISTS
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
Skeleton Gate When the characters get close enough to make out the details of the green door, read: This twelve-foot-high, ten-foot-wide door is made of green stone, its surface carved with grinning
, it cackles as it returns to the Border Ethereal with it. If two hags die, the third tries to bargain with the characters, offering useful information in exchange for her life. The hag makes the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
Patrons in the Realms The gods are far from the only forces at work in the Realms, and ambitious warlocks have many potential patrons able to offer them arcane power. The Archfey In the vast
wilderness of the Realms one can still find connections to the Feywild. These are fey crossings, places of mysterious natural beauty in the world that have a near-perfect mirror in the Feywild. You can pass
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
Waterdeep, or a Myth Drannor, there was the brief (in dwarven terms) glory of Besilmer, and the realms of Haunghdannar and Gharraghaur. Ruins now, to be sure, but these kingdoms lasted longer than almost any
living realm of humans, even if their works have been forgotten by humans and dwarves alike. The greatest and most recent of these dwarven realms was Delzoun, also called the Northkingdom. It
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
carved out of a wild and untamed land. People resettling the Dessarin Valley found the remains of “kingdoms of old” scattered here and there throughout the area. TIME IN THE REALMS
The people of the
Forgotten Realms number the years by the Dalereckoning calendar, which is abbreviated “DR.” Years are also given names, which are drawn from the writings of a great seer from long ago. The adventure is
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
and Akros, no villages or military outposts mark Setessan territory, but a few key features in the Nessian Wood define the area under Setessan control. Amatrophon The Amatrophon encompasses a large
Nessian Wood from the east. Ancient Setessans carved an impenetrable fortress into the mountains to guard the pass. Bassara patrols from Setessa still check in on the fortress regularly, and they occupy
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
element and give details on how to flesh out your world with gods, factions, and so forth. The assumptions sketched out above aren’t carved in stone. They inspire exciting D&D worlds full of adventure
champions of the first great empires, such as the empires of Netheril and Cormanthyr in the Forgotten Realms setting. The World Is Known. What if the world is completely charted and mapped, right down to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
against the Abyss and end its threat forever. Instead, as long as the demons focus most of their efforts on the doorstep of the Nine Hells, realms such as the Seven Heavens and Bytopia are loath to commit
in Gehenna can’t be restored to life except through an exceptional ritual, so the sums required to entice one to fight on its home plane are astronomical … and making such a bargain always draws the attention of the ultroloths.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
access extraplanar realms. A conversation with a sphinx that begins between tumbled stone walls might suddenly shift to an alien locale, such as a life-sized game board or a daunting cliff that must be
its realm. Fallen Sphinxes. Whether through the weariness of the ages, regret at the slaughter of innocents, or dreams of worship by supplicants that attempt to bargain their way to knowledge, some
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tyranny of Dragons
altar carved with the form of a giant, open-mouthed cobra, the comatose Varram has been beaten and bound. Dealing for the Dwarf If the characters have made any mention of their search for Varram
the yuan-ti great wealth if he is freed. The priestess plans to bargain with the characters by offering them the hypothetical wealth the dwarf has promised her. Either way, if the characters want
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules
Make a Deal with the Lower Planes Your pact draws on the Lower Planes, the realms of perdition. You might forge a bargain with a demon lord such as Demogorgon or Orcus; an archdevil such as Asmodeus
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Rise of Tiamat
an altar carved with the form of a giant, open-mouthed cobra, the comatose Varram has been beaten and bound. Dealing for the Dwarf If the characters have made any mention of their search for Varram
promising the yuan-ti great wealth if he is freed. The priestess plans to bargain with the characters by offering them the hypothetical wealth the dwarf has promised her. Either way, if the characters want
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
failed to keep. 5 You squandered your family’s fortune and brought shame and ruin to your household. 6 You made a bargain with an extraplanar entity that you now regret. 7 You abandoned your family to
element of your past that plays an ongoing role in your story. But perhaps you have a problem that needs to be resolved right now. Another way to define a character’s flaw is to roll on the Debts
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron
for your character, something that helps define your motivations. But if you want to add a little hard-boiled flavor to your character, you might consider a few additional aspects: Do you have a debt
life of adventure. Your village was destroyed in the war and you don’t know if they survived.
8 You made a bargain with an extraplanar entity that you now regret.
9 You made a promise to a