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Eberron: Forge of the Artificer
With ever-changing appearances, changelings reside in many societies undetected. Each changeling can supernaturally adopt any face they like. For some changelings, a new face may reveal an aspect of
personas for many situations, including negotiation, investigation, and combat.
Multiple changelings can share a persona. Personas can even pass down through a family, allowing a younger changeling to take
Monsters
Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse
inhabitants of the Outer Planes. They travel widely and are important indicators of the health of the realms in which they reside; when sunflies struggle, so do the places they inhabit. Sunflies have
stingers that they use to inject natural toxins into other creatures. Planar magic can alter a sunfly’s toxin so that its effect is different depending on which Outer Plane the sunfly is on.
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Folk Hero
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Backgrounds
Basic Rules (2014)
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Equipment: A set of artisan’s tools (one of your choice), a shovel, an iron pot, a set of common clothes, and a pouch containing 10 gp
Defining Event
You previously pursued a simple
randomly determine a defining event that marked you as a hero of the people.
d10
Defining Event
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I stood up to a tyrant’s agents.
2
I saved people during a natural
Hobgoblin
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Species
Volo's Guide to Monsters
its officers. For instance, the captains of the highest-ranking banners can expect their orders to be followed by the captains of any banners of lower rank.
Rank and responsibility aren’t
death becomes a hero eternal.
Young hobgoblins start soldiering when they can walk and heed the mustering call as soon as they can wield their weapons capably. Every legion in the hobgoblins&rsquo
Monsters
Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse
Swarm. The swarm can occupy another creature’s space and vice versa, and the swarm can move through any opening large enough for a Tiny dragonfly. The swarm can’t regain hit points or
swarm must succeed on a DC 10 Constitution saving throw or have the stunned condition for 1 minute. A creature can repeat the saving throw at the end of each of its turns, ending the effect on itself
Monsters
The Book of Many Things
Legendary Resistance (2/Day). If the hag fails a saving throw, it can choose to succeed instead.
Trace the Threads (1/Day). The hag can cast the Legend Lore spell, requiring no material components
and using Wisdom as the spellcasting ability.Multiattack. The hag makes two Shears attacks. It can replace one attack with a use of Spellcasting.
Shears. Melee Weapon Attack: +6;{"diceNotation":"1d20
Gray Dwarf (Duergar)
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Species
Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide
bald heads, with the males growing long, unkempt, gray beards.
Duergar value toil above all else. Showing emotions other than grim determination or wrath is frowned on in their culture, but they can
with your Dungeon Master to see if you can play a gray dwarf character.
Duergar see themselves as the true manifestation of dwarven ideals, clever enough not to be taken in by the treacherous deceptions
Ki-rin
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Monsters
Volo's Guide to Monsters
Innate Spellcasting. The ki-rin's innate spellcasting ability is Charisma (spell save DC 17). The ki-rin can innately cast the following spells, requiring no material components:
At will: gaseous
form, major image (6th-level version), wind walk
1/day: create food and water
Legendary Resistance (3/Day). If the ki-rin fails a saving throw, it can choose to succeed instead.
Magic Resistance. The ki
Changeling
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Species
Eberron: Rising from the Last War
be. And so it remains. Though the children are shunned by all, the gift of the Traveler protects them still.
—Chance, changeling priest
Changelings can shift their forms with a thought. Many
changelings with suspicion.
A Hidden People
Wherever humans live, changelings reside also; the question is whether their presence is known.
Changelings are born to one of three paths. A few are raised
Species
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
astral clouds.
Githyanki who reside in the Astral Plane can live indefinitely.
Creating Your Character
At 1st level, you choose whether your character is a member of the human race or of a fantastical
children can reach adulthood.
A lanky people with skin tones of yellows, greens, and browns, githyanki complement their physical prowess with psionic might, instilled in them by mind flayers and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tyranny of Dragons
15. Linens This room is stacked with blankets, sheets, various animal furs, tablecloths, flags, banners, and rolled-up rugs.
There’s nothing of exceptional value here, but one of the banners has
five stripes colored black, blue, green, red, and white, respectively. The banner is meant to be flown on a lance or spear as a signal when approaching Skyreach Castle, to show that the bearer is friendly. Any captured cultist can explain the banner’s purpose.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Hoard of the Dragon Queen
15. Linens This room is stacked with blankets, sheets, various animal furs, tablecloths, flags, banners, and rolled-up rugs. There’s nothing of exceptional value here, but one of the banners has five
stripes colored black, blue, green, red, and white, respectively. The banner is meant to be flown on a lance or spear as a signal when approaching Skyreach Castle, to show that the bearer is friendly. Any captured cultist can explain the banner’s purpose.
Species
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
With ever-changing appearances, changelings reside in many societies undetected. Each changeling can supernaturally adopt any face they like. For some changelings, a new face is only a disguise. For
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 specific purpose and then might never be used again. However, many
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
Legendary Resistance (3/Day). If the ki-rin fails a saving throw, it can choose to succeed instead.
Magic Resistance. The ki-rin has advantage on saving throws against spells and other magical
: banishment, calm emotions, create food and water, greater restoration, plane shift, protection from evil and good, revivify, wind walkThe ki-rin can take 3 legendary actions, choosing from the options
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Infernal Machine Rebuild
The Two Agents The two agents reside in or close to the characters’ current city or home base. If you are playing through Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus, you can arrange for both agents to
reside in Baldur’s Gate, where they seek the characters out after they arrive. Lynx and Sir Ursas both send couriers to deliver invitations to their respective manors.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen
test, the test-taking character might create mental manifestations of their allies, which other players can control during the test. If you allow other characters to participate alongside a test-taking
character, keep the focus of the encounters on the magic-using character. This should remain a character-defining moment for the spellcaster.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
Shuaran The skilled warriors of Shuaran village don’t shape-shift like the Oselo, though Oselo refugees who believe Chakuna’s rule is cursed and shun her protection can be found here. Opposed to the
rule of Chakuna, the Shuaran fear her deeply and might aid those who resist her, defining their relationships with strangers through a prickly, easily offended sense of honor. The Shuaran constantly
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
Creating Domains of Dread Ravenloft is a place where your nightmares can run wild, where anything you can imagine in moments of dread or despair can come to frightful life among the Mists. The
process that starts by defining a Darklord—the villain at the heart of each sinister realm. Descriptions of various genres of horror also provide details to guide and inspire your creations. The rivalry between Darklords Strahd von Zarovich and
Azalin Rex spills through endless ages and countless domains
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tyranny of Dragons
can only be an ankheg’s head. Two tattered banners hang from the ceiling, and two leather chairs and a handful of braziers complete the comfortable parlor.
This is very much a hunter’s bragging room
. Secret Door A secret door can be discovered between the eastern tapestries with a DC 20 Intelligence (Investigation) check. The door is cunningly hidden among the room’s wooden panels, and pulls
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Xanathar's Guide to Everything
saving throw modifiers, as well as how much damage the mightiest characters can deal with a single attack. Character level and challenge rating are good for defining the difficulty of an encounter, but
ratings of creatures you can pit them against without making a fight too hard or too easy. Even though character level is important, you should also take note of each character’s hit point maximum and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Hoard of the Dragon Queen
can only be an ankheg’s head. Two tattered banners hang from the ceiling, and two leather chairs and a handful of braziers complete the comfortable parlor. This is very much a hunter’s bragging room
. Secret Door A secret door can be discovered between the eastern tapestries with a DC 20 Intelligence (Investigation) check. The door is cunningly hidden among the room’s wooden panels, and pulls open
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Heroes of the Borderlands
Exploring the Keep The player characters can visit any location in the keep, meeting and interacting with the citizens who reside there. Each keep location employs one or more NPCs, typically
representing the most important person at a location, such as an establishment’s owner or highest ranking representative. The map of the keep isn’t to scale, but you can use it to track the characters
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
represent a way to explore the consequences of corporate greed and unrestrained expansion. This self-interest can be a defining feature of some or all of the houses, or you can focus on factions within
adventurers are allied with a dragonmarked house, you can concentrate on the house’s positive aspects and its work in moving Khorvaire beyond the feudalism of Galifar. At the same time, the houses also
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monsters of the Multiverse
cultivated over eons in the Astral Plane. Now all githyanki can use their psychic bond with that plane to access splinters of knowledge left behind by beings who travel, live, and die among the silver astral clouds. Githyanki who reside in the Astral Plane can live indefinitely.
their children can reach adulthood. A lanky people with skin tones of yellows, greens, and browns, githyanki complement their physical prowess with psionic might, instilled in them by mind flayers and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player’s Handbook
. Chapter 3 offers twelve classes to choose from, along with forty-eight subclasses. Chapter 4: Character Origins. Background and species are key elements in defining a character’s origin, which further
spellcasters can cast. Appendix A: The Multiverse. Here you’ll find an overview of the magical multiverse where D&D adventures take place. Appendix B: Creature Stat Blocks. This appendix brims with
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Xanathar's Guide to Everything
the story. This chapter provides a variety of new options for them, focusing on additional subclasses for each of the classes in the Player’s Handbook. Each class offers a character-defining choice at
presentations leads off with advice on how to add depth and detail to your character’s personality. You can use the tables in these sections as a source of inspiration, or roll a die to randomly determine a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)
artisan’s tools (one of your choice), a shovel, an iron pot, a set of common clothes, and a pouch containing 10 gp Defining Event You previously pursued a simple profession among the peasantry, perhaps
as a farmer, miner, servant, shepherd, woodcutter, or gravedigger. But something happened that set you on a different path and marked you for greater things. Choose or randomly determine a defining
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
has been turned into a dance floor. Above it all, banners depicting Strixhaven heroes hang amid drifting lanterns glowing with soft light.
Students don’t need to present their invitations to gain
without adequate attire, a helpful student working the desk takes them to a room upstairs with a wardrobe full of musty costumes from past Prismari theatrical events. The character can use these costumes to assemble an outfit, albeit an atrocious one.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
artisan’s tools (one of your choice), a shovel, an iron pot, a set of common clothes, and a pouch containing 10 gp Defining Event You previously pursued a simple profession among the peasantry, perhaps
as a farmer, miner, servant, shepherd, woodcutter, or gravedigger. But something happened that set you on a different path and marked you for greater things. Choose or randomly determine a defining
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragon of Icespire Peak
hair. A character who succeeds on a DC 15 Intelligence (Religion) check can discern that the totem’s purpose is to bring ill fortune to all who reside near it. Destroying the totem causes any ankhegs that haven’t attacked yet to lose interest in the camp and burrow away.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
your players. Settle on a single defining factor that sums up a settlement’s personality and extrapolate from there. Maybe a city is built around canals, like real-world Venice. That key element
an early system of democracy might boast an open-air market where philosophical ideas are traded as freely as produce. All the possible combinations of these factors can inspire endless variety in the settlements of your campaign world.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
, while the less devoted might still pour out a splash of wine before drinking the rest. The defining feature of a Theran temple is a statue of a god—which the actual god can occupy and animate at any time
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
legion that is reflected in the power of its officers. For instance, the captains of the highest-ranking banners can expect their orders to be followed by the captains of any banners of lower rank. Rank
they carry their living acts into the afterlife. A hero in death becomes a hero eternal. Young hobgoblins start soldiering when they can walk and heed the mustering call as soon as they can wield their
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual
Crawling Claws Severed Appendages with Malicious Will Habitat: Any; Treasure: None Crawling claws are severed hands that move and act of their own murderous accord. These deathless appendages can
hands to the fresh appendages of animals or monsters.
Crawling Claw Lone crawling claws can continue killing sprees they perpetrated in life. Some recklessly attack the living, while others pursue
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen
the crowd: Colorful banners and paper decorations shaped like kingfishers decorate the village circle. Temporary stalls sell food and colorful crafts, and in the center of the circle, an ancient tree
dance. From the various stalls in the circle, characters can buy a variety of fish-filled pastries, sweet drinks, and kingfisher-shaped crafts for 3 cp each.