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Player’s Handbook
, Carpenter's Tools, Healer's Kit, Iron Pot, Shovel, Traveler's Clothes, 30 GP; or (B) 50 GP
You grew up close to the land. Years tending animals and cultivating the earth rewarded you with patience and good
health. You have a keen appreciation for nature’s bounty alongside a healthy respect for nature’s wrath.
Magic Items
Dungeon Master’s Guide
you. As part of the same Bonus Action, you can cause the weapon to attack one creature within 5 feet of the weapon.
After the hovering weapon attacks for the fourth time, it flies back to you and
tries to return to your hand. If you have no hand free, the weapon falls to the ground in your space. If the weapon has no unobstructed path to you, it moves as close to you as it can and then falls to the ground. It also ceases to hover if you grasp it or are more than 30 feet away from it.
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Dungeon Master’s Guide
the apparatus’s levers up or down. After each use, a lever goes back to its neutral position. Each lever, from left to right, functions as shown in the Apparatus of Kwalish Levers table
unable to benefit from bonuses to speed.
2
Forward window shutter opens.
Forward window shutter closes.
3
Side window shutters open (two per side).
Side window shutters close (two per
Magic Items
Forgotten Realms: Heroes of Faerûn
rings, you’ll never go back to cumbersome flint and fire.
While the cover on this ring is open, the ring produces a flame that creates no heat and consumes no fuel. It sheds Bright Light in a
20-foot radius and Dim Light for an additional 20 feet. As a Bonus Action, you can close the cover, smothering the flame, or open it again.
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
I repeat what others have said back to them to make sure I have remembered it correctly.
2
I might not like you, but I will endeavor to treat you with respect, if not kindness.
3
I like
dragon ages. Eventually, the scales become translucent and shimmer in the light, rippling as the dragon moves. The dragon’s horns and spines hover above the body, moving and shifting along the back
Monsters
Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
years ago, but has since returned. The Rosznars' inability to regain the respect they feel they deserve rankles them. The slave trade has continued in Amn and elsewhere, and it's not like other noble
effort to prove this conception wrong and win others' respect, Esvele has been brought up to be the most proper noble possible, partaking in lessons of etiquette, dance, and poise as befits someone
Monsters
Storm King's Thunder
secret agent of the Harpers, Darathra has sworn an oath to defend the town. She takes her duty very seriously. In addition to her gear, Darathra has an unarmored warhorse named Buster.
Ideal: “Good
people should be given every chance to prosper, free of tyranny.”
Bond: “I’ll lay down my life to protect Triboar and its citizens.”
Flaw: “I refuse to back down. Push me, and I’ll push back.”
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
dragon’s might. They serve as enforcers of their masters’ will; they often accompany dragon speakers—and are quick to defend them if they sense any ill intent. Dragon chosen are
skilled in close combat, using two weapons to tear at their foes.
Dragon Followers
Dragons boast many minions, students, employees, acolytes, and thralls. Dragon followers are those servitors whose
Monsters
Mythic Odysseys of Theros
lives of pure whimsy. When forced to defend their friends and homes, satyr thornbearers are quick to take up their bows and strike against danger. Particularly amid the dense trees of the Skola Vale
, these satyr skirmishers cooperate in loose teams, using guerrilla tactics to harass foes then melt back into the forest. The blessings of Nylea aid the satyrs in protecting their home, and a single arrow
Monsters
Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
essence of their ancestors’ mountainous home, goliaths have the strength and fortitude to garner a giant’s respect. Communities of goliaths who live in close relationship with giants
Monsters
Monstrous Compendium Vol. 2: Dragonlance Creatures
beings who dwell in the frozen wastelands of Krynn. They sport thick, ivory tusks, which they use both to defend themselves and to poke breathing holes in sea ice as they swim.
Often at odds with the
monstrous creatures that live in the frozen wastes, thanoi are adept hunters. In addition to their tusks, they use harpoons on long ropes that they can quickly reel back. Groups of thanoi hunters work
Monsters
Monstrous Compendium Vol. 4: Eldraine Creatures
gingerbrutes, these cookie Constructs are notoriously difficult to pin down.
When an unfortunate baker accidentally creates a gingerbrute, the cookie causes mayhem throughout the kitchen before running back to
the wilds where its ingredients originated. Many witches of Dunbarrow craft gingerbrutes intentionally, whipping them into shape (sometimes with actual whipped cream) as soldiers to defend their
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
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I repeat what others have said back to them to make sure I have remembered it correctly.
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I might not like you, but I will endeavor to treat you with respect, if not kindness.
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I
the back and tail to mirror the dragon’s mood.
Clever Concealment
The shyest of the gem dragons, emerald dragons are also the most curious. They love to observe local settlements and peoples
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
feed primarily on offal and one another. Within a month, the survivors become young kruthiks large enough to hunt and defend themselves.
Kruthiks
Kruthiks are chitin-covered reptiles that hunt in
packs and nest in sprawling subterranean warrens. They are attracted to sources of heat, such as dwarven forges and pools of molten lava, and carve out lairs as close to such locations as possible
Monsters
Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
. When these plants die, they decay and become the ideal habitat for fungi. The older a trudge is, the wilder and more varied are the plants and fungi that thrive in the tiny ecosystem on its back.
While
sometimes ill-tempered and territorial, brackish trudges are usually content to mind their own business. When trudges are roused to defend themselves or drive off rivals, their punishing tusks laced
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
, such stone giants can become dreamwalkers.
Dreamwalkers occupy an odd place of respect outside the stone giant ordning. They are considered outcasts, but their familiarity with the surface world makes
surroundings, and this delirium leaches out into the world around them, affecting other creatures that get too close. Believing that they’re living in a dream and that their actions have no real
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Player’s Handbook (2014)
of questions.
3
I like to squeeze into small places where no one else can get to me.
4
I sleep with my back to a wall or tree, with everything I own wrapped in a bundle in my arms.
5
or hiding.
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Respect. All people, rich or poor, deserve respect. (Good)
2
Community. We have to take care of each other, because no one else is going to do it
Monsters
Acquisitions Incorporated
resembles a massive version of its namesake bird, this creature is a unique form of avian insect. Seen up close, it can easily be discerned from any other giant bird by its insectoid maw, its four-clawed
doesn't struggle, the deep crow takes it back to its lair to be devoured at leisure. Creatures that do struggle might be repeatedly dropped from a height to soften them up a bit.
Family Ties. Deep crows
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Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
might die. If it is freed from its specific duties, a wood woad might roam to find another place of natural beauty or fey influence to watch over.
Wood woads are drawn to creatures that have close ties
to nature and that protect and respect the land, such as druid;druids and treant;treants (both appear in the Monster Manual). Some treants have wood woad servants by virtue of age-old pacts with druids
Monsters
Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse
greet newly arrived souls to Mount Celestia and light the path for those who traverse the plane with reverence and respect. They appear as glowing, winged balls of vaporous light wrapped in a gleaming
from place to place between blasts to confound their foes.
Archons
Archons are denizens of the Seven Heavens of Mount Celestia. Created by the powers of order and benevolence, archons defend their
Monsters
Candlekeep Mysteries
grasping and climbing. A grippli can move as quickly on all fours as it can on two legs.
Communal Effort. Grippli rely on ambushes and guerrilla warfare to defend themselves and their settlements. They
grippli, since lizardfolk, yuan-ti, and other creatures are known to have a taste for them.
Close to Nature. Most grippli care more about survival than they do about abstract ideals such as good and evil
Dragonborn
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Species
Basic Rules (2014)
foreign house. The sword at his back was the same, though, the one he had carried since even before he had found the twins left in swaddling at the gates of Arush Vayem.
For all her life, Farideh had
, gold, or copper-green. They are tall and strongly built, often standing close to 6½ feet tall and weighing 300 pounds or more. Their hands and feet are strong, talonlike claws with three
Magic Items
The Book of Many Things
to four windows, and only you can open or close them. It has a floor and a roof, and it maintains a comfortable temperature inside.
The shelter has AC 15, 50 hit points, and immunity to poison and
psychic damage. The shelter lasts for 24 hours, until you dismiss it as an action, or until it is reduced to 0 hit points. When the shelter’s duration ends, it transforms back into a deck of cards
Monsters
The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
heritage, he might pass for an ugly, beardless dwarf were it not for his rotting tusks and grayish pallor. The only thing he loves is money, and he wouldn’t hesitate to stab allies in the back if they
prefers to hurl daggers from a distance. When targeting a lone individual, especially someone he has been hired to kill, he prefers the up-close-and-personal garrote, so that he can hear the dying breath
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
alive. After using their stingers to paralyze victims and their spiked chains to bind them, tlincallis take these captives back to their encampment and tie them to cacti or rock formations. When the
sun sets, the newly hatched young emerge from the lair to eat the captives alive.
These predators see themselves as great hunters, and respect others with such skills. If a tlincalli encounters a more
races
muscles, and each of their fingers ends in a retractable claw. Respect is hard to gain from a canisar, but they will defend their friends with tenacity and devotion.
Canisars are covered in coarse fur that
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Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
skin, especially around the head and neck. Their wings are attached to their front legs and can fold in close to the body, allowing deep dragons to easily maneuver through relatively narrow tunnels
earn respect as partners—albeit junior ones.
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Monsters
Curse of Strahd
wereraven polymorphs into a raven–humanoid hybrid or into a raven, or back into its humanoid form. Its statistics, other than its size and speed, are the same in each form. Any equipment it is wearing
everyone else. Although skilled at blending into society, they keep mostly to themselves, respect local laws, and strive to do good whenever possible.
In their human and hybrid forms, wereravens favor
Monsters
Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse
jailers of the plane. Demodands viciously defend the few known portals that lead out of Carceri and ruthlessly torment other creatures trapped there.
Demodands that manage to leave Carceri know they
survive on other planes find themselves eventually dragged back, pulled by some planar tether.Acid, PoisonCold, Fire
Backgrounds
Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus
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I like to squeeze into small places where no one else can get to me.
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I sleep with my back to a wall or tree, with everything I own wrapped in a bundle in my arms.
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I eat like
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Respect. All people, rich or poor, deserve respect. (Good)
2
Community. We have to take care of each other, because no one else is going to do it. (Lawful
Halfling
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Regis the halfling, the only one of his kind for hundreds of miles in any direction, locked his fingers behind his head and leaned back against the mossy blanket of the tree trunk. Regis was short
protecting their own lands, they protect us as well.”
Exploring Opportunities
Halflings usually set out on the adventurer’s path to defend their communities, support their friends, or explore a
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
tissue, and poison leaks from the pores to coat the troll’s fangs and claws. These creatures are especially dangerous in close combat because poison drips off their flesh and sprays out from every
and uncontrollably fears the plots and ambitions of other deities.
Vaprak’s troll worshipers believe this god devours the souls of those who have been cooked or digested (slain by fire or acid). Otherwise, the god spits the soul back into the world to regenerate a new body.Poison
Apparatus of Kwalish
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many as two of the apparatus's levers up or down. After each use, a lever goes back to its neutral position. Each lever, from left to right, functions as shown in the Apparatus of Kwalish Levers
it unable to benefit from bonuses to speed.
2
Forward window shutter opens.
Forward window shutter closes.
3
Side window shutters open (two per side).
Side window shutters close (two
Monsters
Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
chieftain (the most powerful of whom often carries the title of king or queen). A clan might set up its camp for a tenday or two, then dismantle it and go back on the move, allowing the clan to stay close to a migrating herd of reindeer as it travels across the tundra.
Monsters
Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse
transgressions, these bitter, wicked creatures have appointed themselves the jailers of the plane. Demodands viciously defend the few known portals that lead out of Carceri and ruthlessly torment other
;{"diceNotation":"2d20", "rollType":"roll", "rollAction":"Days"} days. Even those who survive on other planes find themselves eventually dragged back, pulled by some planar tether.Acid, PoisonCold