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might use a circus troupe as cover for nefarious deeds such as assassination, robbery, and blackmail. Other blades strike at the wicked, bringing justice to bear against the cruel and powerful. Most
weapon skills and magic, these blades either take up work as enforcers for thieves’ guilds or strike out on their own as adventurers.
College of Swords Features
Bard Level
Feature
Classes
Xanathar's Guide to Everything
might use a circus troupe as cover for nefarious deeds such as assassination, robbery, and blackmail. Other blades strike at the wicked, bringing justice to bear against the cruel and powerful. Most
weapon skills and magic, these blades either take up work as enforcers for thieves’ guilds or strike out on their own as adventurers.
College of Swords Features
Bard Level
Feature
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
Warlocks Given their dealings with often sinister otherworldly patrons in exchange for power, warlocks don’t have a sterling reputation in the Realms. Even well-meaning warlocks are viewed with
suspicion and justifiable caution. Some wizards feel the very existence of warlocks taints the view of their noble Art and causes the common folk to view all practitioners of magic with doubt. Some
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Unearthed Arcana
Forgotten Realms Subclasses January 28, 2025
In this new Unearthed Arcana document, we explore material designed for upcoming books, using rules from the 2024 Player’s Handbook. This playtest
presents revised subclasses for the Cleric (Knowledge Domain), Fighter (Purple Dragon Knight), and Wizard (Bladesinger), along with new subclasses for the Bard (College of the Moon), Paladin (Oath of the Noble Genies), Ranger (Winter Walker), Rogue (Scion of the Three), and Sorcerer (Spellfire Sorcery).
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player’s Handbook
Speak with Animals Level 1 Divination (Bard, Druid, Ranger, Warlock) Casting Time: Action or Ritual
Range: Self
Components: V, S
Duration: 10 minutes
For the duration, you can comprehend and
, but at minimum, a Beast can give you information about nearby locations and monsters, including whatever it has perceived within the past day. JESPER EJSING A human Druid uses Speak with Animals to chat with his best bear friend
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
Bards Bards hold a special place of responsibility and respect in the Forgotten Realms. They are bearers of news, gossip, and messages in their travels from place to place, in addition to being
living storehouses of history and folklore. Bards know a great deal, and they tend to be willing to share what they know, or at least barter for it. The arrival of a renowned bard is a special occasion
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
Fallbacks, The Tessalynde is a young elf Rogue who dreams of leading the foremost adventuring party of the Forgotten Realms setting. While the crew she’s gathered isn’t the stuff of legend yet, she’s
theoretical mettle against the real world; Baldric, a dwarf Cleric who refuses to tie himself to a single deity when he can trade favors with them all; Lark, a tiefling Bard with as many secrets as songs; and Uggie, a pet otyugh.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
It’s Cosmopolitan Strixhaven draws students and faculty from across the world and from other realms in the multiverse. The university’s students and faculty are united by a desire to learn and
to meet a Humanoid. The faculty members mentioned in chapter 1 include genasi, tritons, and even a bipedal brown bear. To the faculty and students of Strixhaven, it is unremarkable to meet someone
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Forge of the Artificer
for details.) Whether one takes this myth literally or figuratively, one cannot deny that untold alien worlds exist within the subterranean reaches that bear the imprisoned dragon’s name—not just the
fiendish overlords, daelkyr, and other powerful evils. These coils also harbor sealed portals connecting to these creatures’ native realms. Expeditions into the depths of Khyber often incorporate elements of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Xanathar's Guide to Everything
3rd Filled with a rage that channels the primal magic of the storm Barbarian Path of the Zealot 3rd Fueled by a religious zeal that visits destruction on foes Bard College of Glamour 3rd Wields the
beguiling, glorious magic of the Feywild Bard College of Swords 3rd Entertains and slays with daring feats of weapon prowess Bard College of Whispers 3rd Plants fear and doubt in the minds of others
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
this baseline: a multitude of humanoid races coexist with humans in fantastic worlds. Adventurers bring magical powers to bear against the monstrous threats they face. These characters typically come
an effort to destroy monsters or villains.
This genre is also common in fantasy fiction. Most novels set in the Forgotten Realms are best described as heroic fantasy, following in the footsteps of many of the authors listed in the Appendices of the Player’s Handbook.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual
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Mind flayers are infamous plotters and manipulators, concocting plans that reach beyond their subterranean realms. Aside from using their psionic powers to control others, mind flayers often
’ biological tampering, while other Underdark-dwelling monsters—including kuo-toa, quaggoths, and troglodytes—often serve illithid masters. Githyanki and githzerai have a long adversarial history with mind flayers and bear the scars of illithid manipulation.
Michael Broussard
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
Dragon Campaigns Dragons occupy a prominent place in most D&D worlds, but in some realms, they are central to a world’s story. Consider these three examples. Laurana and Kitiara—generals and
battle between Humanoid clans and the ancient dragonlords and their broods, the dragons triumphed and claimed dominion over the clans, which now bear the dragons’ names. If you want to build a campaign that puts dragons in a similarly prominent role, consider any of the following options.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
Mystran temples count wizards and sorcerers among their numbers, as well as the occasional bard. The goal of Mystra’s faithful is simple: that magic be preserved and promulgated throughout the Realms. It
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a6
characters should have magic items to help them overcome the challenges they face. For a small party, the most important qualities are experience and caution. A group of four well-played characters can expect
acting against the wishes of the Daughters of Sora Kell due to another sinister influence.
Forgotten Realms. In Faerûn, the giants could be raiding the Sword Coast after emerging from the Sword
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual
what disaster brought their glorious civilization to an end, but elves, humans, mind flayers, and the kuo-toan gods bear the brunt of their blame. From the lands and seas of the surface, the kuo-toa
retreated into cavernous trenches and Underdark seas. In these hidden realms, kuo-toa brood over all they’ve lost and forgotten, nursing plots to avenge themselves for slights that might never have
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm Lord’s Wrath
of various ages and size, but two of them bear cages. Each cage contains four humans, and you recognize four of them, by their uniform, as the soldiers you were sent to rescue.
A tall lizardfolk
are a typical adventuring party, they charge in without a plan. However, they might favor caution and knowledge over brute force. A more cautious party can better catch the lizards unaware and might
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
and their borders remains graven on cavern walls, trail markings, and scattered coins. Some of these realms, and the marks that bear testimony to their presence, are detailed below.
Haungdannar
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
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
Bardic Colleges In addition to the tradition of apprenticing with a master bard, the Sword Coast has some bardic colleges where masters teach students the bardic arts. They hark back to the great
master bard attended each of the elder colleges, seeking to learn its musical and magical secrets. Traditionally, the colleges were attended in the order given above, starting with Fochlucan. That
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
magic traditions of the giants, so a rod of rulership created by a giant artisan might be inscribed with the king rune, while a giant-crafted periapt of wound closure might bear the life rune. Also
sentinel shield once carried by a frost giant could be perpetually cold to the touch.
None of these cosmetic effects alter a magic item's capabilities. They merely provide a narrative link to giants' realms that characters might explore.
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
Dread, some more pervasively than others. The same language spoken in multiple domains might bear subtle differences or unique words. Speakers from different domains might also have distinct accents
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
bear to leave the place. If the theater were to close down, the ghost would haunt it still, perhaps becoming more deranged over time. Only razing or burning the theater to the ground can force his
includes thirty commoners. Also present is a Zhentarim spy named Agorn Fuoco (NE male Turami bard; see appendix B) and his companion, Amath Sercent (LE female Mulan priest of Bane). Agorn is swept up in the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Xanathar's Guide to Everything
lives. One blade might use a circus troupe as cover for nefarious deeds such as assassination, robbery, and blackmail. Other blades strike at the wicked, bringing justice to bear against the cruel and
. With their weapon skills and magic, these blades either take up work as enforcers for thieves’ guilds or strike out on their own as adventurers. College of Swords Features Bard Level Feature 3rd Bonus
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
in which these shape-shifters are sometimes erroneously identified as unique varieties of metallic dragons.
In the world of the Forgotten Realms, stories speak of “weredragons” or “song dragons
dragons are careful to avoid being seen in their true forms. They show great caution in dealing with adventurers or anyone else who might have the magical ability to expose their nature. And dragons
compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
Johnson, Omega “Critical Bard” Jones, Ty Koebernick, Erin Kramer, Dan LaValby, Randy Lenius, Joshua Mendenhall, Connor Miller, Glen Miller, Nick Mitchell, Tim O’Hara, Michele Picard, Bob Pursley, Jeff
Laboratory of Kwalish. 2018.
Greenwood, Ed and Tim Beach. Pages from the Mages. 1995.
James, Brian R. and Ed Greenwood. The Grand History of the Realms. 2007.
Perkins, Christopher. Storm King’s
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
short-lived relationships, though, as most shadow dragons can scarcely bear the bleakness of their own existence. Shadow Dragon Wyrmling Connections d6 Connected Creatures
1 A bard befriends
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Xanathar's Guide to Everything
solve 3 High priest who worries the characters are diminishing the temple’s prestige 4 Wizard who blames the characters for some recent troubles 5 Rival adventuring party 6 Bard who loves a scandal
methods the rival can bring to bear against the characters. Goals. An effective rival has a clear reason for interfering with the characters’ lives. Think about what the rival wants, how and why the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
you’ll take that risk. If you had to choose between entering a battle without your favorite combat gear or without the party’s bard, Singy McLuteface can sit this one out. You and your equipment have
whose heads bear the mark of a lightning bolt, and which give a distinctive whistle when fired
2 A shield made from the shell of a giant turtle
3 A matching shortsword and dagger, decorated
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
they visit other realms, particularly the Material Plane, githzerai feel sluggish and aren’t comfortable functioning in a landscape that they see as being locked in immutability. Despite their
new monastery or joining an existing one. These “missionaries” are always looking for those with psionic potential who can bring those powers to bear against the githzerai’s foes. Most often, they
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
, their hearts, and their weapons to bear against villainy. Knights of the order and their loyal squires can be found throughout the North, gathering information on the giants, searching for their lairs
prying eyes. TENDAYS AND THE ROLL OF YEARS
In the Forgotten Realms setting, a week is ten days long and is referred to as a tenday. There are three tendays per month, and twelve months in a year. For
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Sigil and the Outlands
heart of a lion with a thunderous roar. The favored cleric of a deity of light, the Sunweaver, Forough is the voice of a god and can bring its might to bear. Those who mistake her mercy for weakness
prefer the cloud-topped comforts of the Chandelier, the gate-town’s aerial district. Winged chariots act as taxis between the two realms, ferrying townsfolk up to sky-dwelling businesses and hanging
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
cultists dedicated to one of the demon lords exist all across the realms of the material world. For as long as these mortals do the bidding of their lord, they are allowed to live. From a demon’s
planes. The devils are generally more successful at this tactic because of the discipline they can bring to bear on these ostensible allies. Even so, powerful, intelligent demon lords such as Graz’zt can
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
in the shadows, growing stronger until they attack. This seemed particularly true of otherworldly threats, such as portals to fiendish realms, evil spirits that seek to possess the living, and the
capacity to deal with threats, welcoming exorcists, abjurers, and spies, as well as paladins and clerics of Helm. I’ve even heard that assassins bear the order’s symbol — Helm’s eye upon a golden gauntlet
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
holding fast against a raging blizzard.
The blizzard rages for the duration of the test and is inescapable. This camp is home to the King of the Bear Tribe, Gunvald Halraggson (see appendix C). If
Gunvald died earlier in the adventure, replace him with another Bear Tribe chieftain named Svilbrekhild Forennal (a female human gladiator in hide armor who speaks Common and has Survival +5). See “Reghed
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
pantheon, pushes his children to increase their numbers so they may be his instrument of revenge against the realms of elves, humans, and dwarves. In order to spite the gods who spurned him, Gruumsh leads
their progenitors. By invoking the power of superstitions, omens, and traditions, these claws of Luthic hold the tribe together through ritual, fear and, if necessary, force. Talons of the Bear