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Player’s Handbook
explosive fire, arcing lightning, subtle deception, and spectacular transformations. Their magic conjures monsters from other planes of existence, glimpses the future, or forms protective barriers. Their
mightiest spells change one substance into another, call meteors from the sky, or open portals to other worlds.
Most Wizards share a scholarly approach to magic. They examine the theoretical
Changeling
Legacy
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Species
Eberron: Rising from the Last War
Long ago there was a woman named Jes, and she had one hundred children. Her rivals conspired against her and swore to kill her children. Jes begged the Sovereigns for help, but their only answer
others might change clothes. A casual shape — one created on the spur of the moment, with no depth or history — is called a mask. A mask can be used to express a mood or to serve a
Backgrounds
Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus
Bands of orphans and runaways band together in the Outer City, running after passersby in ragged throngs to plead for scraps. In the Lower City, urchins are often recruited into the lowest echelons
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Change. The low are lifted up, and the high and mighty are brought down. Change is the nature of things. (Chaotic)
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Retribution. The rich need to be shown what life and death are like in
Ranger
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Classes
Basic Rules (2014)
in protecting the borderlands, or a significant change? What made you join up with a band of adventurers? Do you find it challenging to teach new allies the ways of the wild, or do you welcome the
druidic circles. Many rangers, though, are independent almost to a fault, knowing that, when a dragon or a band of orcs attacks, a ranger might be the first—and possibly the last—line of
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
their lairs fiercely, ambushing intruders and plotting assaults against their rivals. The sonic pulse of their breath weapon sows weakness, leaving the victims unable to fight back.
Luminous Blue
;gelatinous cubes and ochre jelly;ochre jellies.
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A band of minotaur;minotaurs in service to Baphomet has captured a sapphire dragon wyrmling to learn from the wyrmling’s strategies
Kobold
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Species
Volo's Guide to Monsters
races have little good to say about kobolds, but they do admit that the little reptilians do respectable tunnel work using simple tools. If a band of kobolds is enslaved by more powerful creatures
, kobold females aren’t exempted from war or work. Furthermore, kobolds can slowly change sex. If most males or females of a tribe are killed, some survivors change over several months until the
Backgrounds
Guildmasters’ Guide to Ravnica
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dominate person
Your magic often takes the form of blue or golden runes floating and glowing in the air in circular patterns or of shimmering azure barriers of magical energy. If you
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I never change my mind once it’s made up.
Ideals
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Ideal
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Guild. My guild is all that really matters. (Any)
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Order. The law is meant to ensure
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
represents treasure found in the wake of local floods, the blue band is the Shaengarne River, the blue triangle is Maer Dualdon, and the white field represents snow. Sacrifice to Auril. Warmth (see "Sacrifices to Auril"). Rivals. Lonelywood, Targos, Termalaine.
. Heraldry. A gold circle on a white field, with a horizontal blue band extending to the left under the circle, and a flaring blue triangle opening away from the circle on the right. The gold circle
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
the slightest setback. Personality Trait. “Morality is a comfortable term for cowardice. Reality bends to those bold enough to learn its secrets.” Ideal. “Knowledge is worth any price.” Bond. “My discoveries will change magic forever, and I will be legendary.” Flaw. “My brilliance knows no rivals.”
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
Complications and Rivals The franchise and downtime activities introduced in this section all incorporate the idea that such activities can introduce ongoing complications to the campaign, and that
anything a franchise’s characters or employees do might bring the franchise into conflict with rivals. If you use Xanathar’s Guide to Everything in your games, you’re probably already familiar with
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)
protecting the borderlands, or a significant change? What made you join up with a band of adventurers? Do you find it challenging to teach new allies the ways of the wild, or do you welcome the relief from solitude that they offer?
skills as part of a band of rangers affiliated with a druidic circle, trained in mystic paths as well as wilderness lore. You might be self-taught, a recluse who learned combat skills, tracking, and even
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
the pack after putting down its rivals; more often, the band fragments and the survivors go their separate ways. Cultists Rarely, a war band includes orcs, humans, or other humanoids that have sworn
Anatomy of a War Band A gnoll war band is likely to contain a variety of gnolls and other creatures, and no two of these groups have the same composition. The gnolls that make up the rank and file
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
blaming a lack of faith in the Demon Queen of Spiders, as well as the power of the wizards. Chaos and agitation for change embroil the city, forcing the already weakened ruling houses to put down
challenges to their power even as they make concessions to their rivals. A civil war between the drow isn’t likely to remain contained within Menzoberranzan — or even the Underdark — as different sides look
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
protecting the borderlands, or a significant change? What made you join up with a band of adventurers? Do you find it challenging to teach new allies the ways of the wild, or do you welcome the relief
skills as part of a band of rangers affiliated with a druidic circle, trained in mystic paths as well as wilderness lore. You might be self-taught, a recluse who learned combat skills, tracking, and even
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Keys from the Golden Vault
altar is a serene priest in sunny robes.
The priest is, in fact, a gray slaad using its Change Shape ability to fool the characters. The slaad was sent here to kill them, plain and simple. It
Vault.” If you’re using the rivals described in this book’s introduction, their patron might be a STEAL operative. One of STEAL’s operatives, having recently acquired the gray slaad’s control gem, used
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules
transformations. Their magic conjures monsters from other planes of existence, glimpses the future, or forms protective barriers. Their mightiest spells change one substance into another, call meteors
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player’s Handbook
fire, arcing lightning, subtle deception, and spectacular transformations. Their magic conjures monsters from other planes of existence, glimpses the future, or forms protective barriers. Their mightiest
spells change one substance into another, call meteors from the sky, or open portals to other worlds. Most Wizards share a scholarly approach to magic. They examine the theoretical underpinnings of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
of food often brings them to the surface to hunt. Orcs respect an orog’s strength and cunning, and a lone orog might command an orc war band. Stronger and Smarter. An orog uses its strength to bully
makes them ideal leaders, and thus deadly rivals to orc war chiefs, who must be wary of orog treachery. Detached Killers. Wanting nothing more than to hack their enemies to pieces, orogs are a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a3
successful DC 15 Wisdom (Perception) check notices a narrow band of copper extending from wall to wall. A gap between the copper and the surrounding stone suggests that the metal might be part of a door or a
copper, come crashing down, sealing off the indicated area. These barriers are a foot thick; each has an AC of 15 and 100 hit points. Lifting a door requires a successful DC 25 Strength (Athletics) check
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
black dragon recently took control of a band of pirates and their backwater hideout. Emboldened, the pirates have started raiding nearby shipping lanes.
2 A conflict-averse black dragon is secretly
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2 A band of troglodytes is cowed into serving a black dragon wyrmling as bodyguards.
3 The recent appearance of a black dragon wyrmling has altered the local ecosystem, allowing various
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monsters of the Multiverse
, increase their personal power, and befuddle the minds of their enemies. Mind whisperers are elusive, manipulative, unpredictable, and willing to cheat or kill comrades and rivals alike if doing so
: detect thoughts, hypnotic pattern
Bonus Actions
Change Shape. The yuan-ti transforms into a Medium snake or back into its true form. Its statistics are the same in each form. Any equipment it is wearing or carrying isn’t transformed. If it dies, it stays in its current form.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
to change. This year brought an unseasonably warm and stormy spring. Tales spread of flooding, windstorms, wildfires, and tremors. These troubles have a source known to few in the North: Elemental Evil
four cults venerates a powerful entity of air, earth, fire, or water: a Prince of Elemental Evil. Like their princes, the four cults are rivals, yet they all serve a mysterious force they call the Elder
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
question the right of a ragtag band of adventurers to command them, even if their superiors seem to trust the player characters. Likewise, though the individual factions are typically disciplined
maintaining the balance of nature in the Underdark than on political struggles. SPLITTING THE PARTY
You can change up the feel of these later chapters of Out of the Abyss by allowing the players to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
characters, “From time to time, the great stones change position when no one is watching. That is how they talk to us. They show us signs of coming danger and warn us when we make bad choices.” The old
play, feigning surprise at the mention of evidence such as the corpses in area T5. The old man had no hand in such activities, but his denial is a lie. He knows of the murders. Treasure Baragustas has 25 cp and 19 sp on him. He also has a simple silver wedding band worth 10 gp.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
Yawning Portal. Three months ago, out of boredom, Meloon accompanied a fledgling band of adventurers on an expedition to Undermountain. There, his luck ran out. While resting in the dungeon, the
restored and his statistics change as follows: Meloon is neutral good. He loses his telepathy, and his ability to speak and understand Deep Speech. He can attune to Azuredge (see appendix A).
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
during the Hiring Fair or the Shieldmeet festival, each summer at least one adventuring band seems to get its start in Yartar. Most fall into obscurity, but the Smiling Company — the still-active
portion of a larger band of warriors who gathered in Yartar nearly a decade ago — still enjoys moderate success, and makes annual contributions to the Happy Hall. Yartar is ruled by a Waterbaron who is
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
; they have no rules of their own, although some rules refer to the schools.
Abjuration spells are protective in nature, though some of them have aggressive uses. They create magical barriers, negate
use of necromancy spells such as animate dead is not a good act, and only evil casters use such spells frequently.
Transmutation spells change the properties of a creature, object, or environment
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
folk who band together for mutual protection. Depending on the crew, this protection can range from taking someone’s side in a tavern brawl or guarding each other’s shops to price fixing or inter-crew
their hands dirty, while the Apothecary Alliance and Brethren of Barbers don’t need to throw a punch to strike fear into rivals. From carpenters to grocers, the Forgeworkers’ Lodge to the Wisewoman
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur’s Gate Gazetteer
folk who band together for mutual protection. Depending on the crew, this protection can range from taking someone’s side in a tavern brawl or guarding each other’s shops to price fixing or inter-crew
their hands dirty, while the Apothecary Alliance and Brethren of Barbers don’t need to throw a punch to strike fear into rivals. From carpenters to grocers, the Forgeworkers’ Lodge to the Wisewoman
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
Spells Sarya raised her hands and began to declaim the words of a very powerful spell, one of the most dangerous she knew, a spell designed to breach the barriers between the planes and create a
magical bridge into another realm of existence. The mythal thrummed in response, the intangible pulse of the old device taking on a new and different note. Sarya ignored the mythal stone’s change and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron
eldritch machines or interaction with extraplanar entities. There are also manifest zones: places in the material plane where the barriers are thin and where some aspects of a plane can bleed through
of fire and the idea of fire: flame used as a weapon, as a force that holds darkness at bay, as a destructive power and force for change. It is home to all manner of fire elementals and also to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
must change the timing of events so that the Tyranny of Dragons story and the events that precipitate Storm King’s Thunder happen concurrently, with Annam the All-Father breaking the ordning to stir
orchestrated the king’s abduction. Although they share a disdain for dragons, Blagothkus and Countess Sansuri are bitter rivals. If the characters intend to confront Sansuri (see chapter 9, “Castle of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
stone giant recluse asks adventurers to help stop a hill giant who has gathered a band of other giants and is plundering nearby giant steadings in Grolantor’s name. 4 A fire giant priest of Hiatea
of Thrym leads a hunting band to prey on the beleaguered people, who seek adventurers’ protection. 12 A frost giant seeks help protecting a strange baby giant whom she believes to be a child of Annam
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
Conspiracy in Baldur’s Gate The characters are all that’s left of a group that strove to change Baldur’s Gate and failed. Now the city’s leaders or other powerful figures seek to stamp out the last
motes of their movement. Perhaps they were rebels, or members of a union or some clandestine organization. Regardless, their rivals didn’t get where they are by being oblivious or merciful. Conspiracy
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
. Nevertheless, devils trade silver to those wishing to eliminate rivals in their path.
Bargain-Basement Death Saves Whenever a character fails a death save in the Nine Hells, an archdevil may
on this plane, a visitor that isn’t evil must make a DC 10 Wisdom saving throw. On a failed save, the creature’s alignment changes to lawful evil. The change becomes permanent if the creature doesn’t