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Classes
Player’s Handbook
, Deception, History, Intimidation, Investigation, Nature, or Religion
Weapon Proficiencies
Simple weapons
Armor Training
Light armor
Starting Equipment
Choose A or B: (A) Leather;Leather
+3
Ability Score Improvement
6
3
9
2
4
9
+4
Contact Patron
7
3
10
2
5
10
+4
Subclass feature
7
4
10
2
5
11
+4
Mystic Arcanum (level 6 spell)
7
4
11
3
5
Elder Brain
Legacy
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Monsters
Volo's Guide to Monsters
that loom large in its mind (including things the target worries about, loves, or hates). The elder brain can also make a Charisma (Deception) check with advantage to deceive the target’s mind
into thinking it believes one idea or feels a particular emotion. The target contests this attempt with a Wisdom (Insight) check. If the elder brain succeeds, the mind believes the deception for 1 hour
Backgrounds
Guildmasters’ Guide to Ravnica
. You infiltrate your secondary guild to learn its secrets, keep tabs on its activities, or perhaps undermine it from within.
Skill Proficiencies: Deception, Stealth
Tool Proficiencies:
, disguise, and deception, members of House Dimir appear inscrutable. Your true personality and ideals might never manifest, or they might mark you as a quirky member of your secondary guild.
Personality
Criminal / Spy
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Basic Rules (2014)
.
Skill Proficiencies: Deception, Stealth
Tool Proficiencies: One type of gaming set, thieves’ tools
Equipment: A crowbar, a set of dark common clothes including a hood, and a pouch
CONTACT
You have a reliable and trustworthy contact who acts as your liaison to a network of other criminals. You know how to get messages to and from your contact, even over great distances
Backgrounds
Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide
your companions.
Skill Proficiencies: Choose two from among Deception, Insight, Persuasion, and StealthTool Proficiencies: Choose two from among one type of gaming set, one musical instrument
, and thieves’ toolsEquipment: A set of clothes appropriate to your duties and a pouch containing 20 gp
FEATURE: EAR TO THE GROUND
You are in frequent contact with people in the segment
Backgrounds
Guildmasters’ Guide to Ravnica
meaningful connections with others.
Roll twice on the Golgari Contacts table (for an ally and a rival) and once on the Non-Golgari Contacts table.
Golgari Contacts
d8
Contact
1
One
just about anything, for the right price.
Non-Golgari Contacts
d10
Contact
1
An Azorius arrester I literally pulled out of the gutter will do anything for me.
2
Someone
Backgrounds
Guildmasters’ Guide to Ravnica
was traumatized by witnessing a crime as a child.
5
I’m incapable of deception.
6
I wish I had joined the Boros, but I fear they’d never accept me.
Contacts
The Azorius
the entire city, your place in the Azorius can easily bring you into contact with members of other guilds, for good or ill.
Roll twice on the Azorius Contacts table (for an ally and a rival) and
Backgrounds
Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus
focuses on detailing the hero behind the mask.
Skill Proficiencies: Deception, IntimidationTool Proficiencies: Disguise kitEquipment: Disguise kit, a Clothes, Costume;costume, a pouch
often as you wish, using one to hide the other or serve as convenient camouflage. However, should someone realize the connection between your persona and your true self, your deception might lose its
Backgrounds
Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus
underbelly of civilization, and you have survived up to this point by flouting the rules and regulations of society.
Skill Proficiencies: Deception, Stealth
Tool Proficiencies: One
arrested or killed with their idiocy.
FEATURE: CRIMINAL CONTACT
You have a reliable and trustworthy contact who acts as your liaison to a network of other criminals. You know how to get messages
Backgrounds
Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide
knowledge, rather than brute force. Harper agents are often proficient in Investigation, enabling them to be adept at snooping and spying. They often seek aid from other Harpers, sympathetic bards and
frequently proficient in Deception. They seek aid from the wizards, mercenaries, merchants and priesthoods allied with the Zhentarim.
FEATURE: SAFE HAVEN
As a faction agent, you have
Wizard
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Classes
Basic Rules (2014)
, defined and united as a class by the spells they cast. Drawing on the subtle weave of magic that permeates the cosmos, wizards cast spells of explosive fire, arcing lightning, subtle deception, and brute
.
Creating a Wizard
Creating a wizard character demands a backstory dominated by at least one extraordinary event. How did your character first come into contact with magic? How did you discover you had
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
. The Deception, Intimidation, Performance, and Persuasion skills reflect aptitude in certain kinds of Charisma checks. Deception Your Charisma (Deception) check determines whether you can convincingly
hide the truth, either verbally or through your actions. This deception can encompass everything from misleading others through ambiguity to telling outright lies. Typical situations include trying to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)
. The Deception, Intimidation, Performance, and Persuasion skills reflect aptitude in certain kinds of Charisma checks. Deception. Your Charisma (Deception) check determines whether you can convincingly
hide the truth, either verbally or through your actions. This deception can encompass everything from misleading others through ambiguity to telling outright lies. Typical situations include trying to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
Halflings of the Five Nations Quick and charming, many halflings put their natural talents to use as bards, barristers, merchants, and politicians throughout Khorvaire. Of course, these same talents
the criminal empire, but your past may yet catch up with you. You could also be the point of contact who has made the Boromar Clan your party’s group patron, as described later in this chapter.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
cloak or disguise one’s appearance), and proficiency with skills such as Deception, Performance, and Sleight of Hand all greatly benefit the Chameleon. Bards and rogues, as well as characters with
patron’s behalf. Consider some or all of these roles for the characters in your party: Chameleon. A master of disguise, sleight of hand, and deception, the Chameleon can perform the work of the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
The Tyrants The Tyrants are forgers and grifters, specialists in deception and the acquisition of information. Most of the members are changelings, who use their shapeshifting abilities to fool marks
life. If you have a contact in the Tyrants, you might know someone on the Tyrants Contacts table. Tyrants Contacts d4 Contact 1 Korryn (elf) maintains Korryn’s Quill, a shop in the Bazaar of Dura
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
. If the characters refuse to aid her, the princess continually makes telepathic contact with random characters, urging them to reconsider before it’s too late. She tries to convince the characters
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Xanathar's Guide to Everything
College of Whispers Most folk are happy to welcome a bard into their midst. Bards of the College of Whispers use this to their advantage. They appear to be like other bards, sharing news, singing
songs, and telling tales to the audiences they gather. In truth, the College of Whispers teaches its students that they are wolves among sheep. These bards use their knowledge and magic to uncover
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
give them a broad range of knowledge to support their schemes. Bards, rogues, and wizards are often drawn to this role. Safecracker. The “breaking” part of “breaking and entering” is the Safecracker’s
relies on interpersonal skills and a network of contacts falls into the role of the Talker. Charisma proves useful for this role, along with proficiencies in skills such as Deception, Intimidation
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Adventure Atlas: The Mortuary
to expel a dybbuk† from a corpse. The exorcist asks the characters to help in dispatch the Fiend. 9 Two bards† in the Heralds of Dust approach the characters and sing a ballad honoring the dead. If the
characters interrupt or otherwise ruin the tune, 1d4 irascible specters emerge from the walls and attack, causing the bards to flee. 10 Three skeleton farmers quietly tend to corpse-white grave
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Keys from the Golden Vault
might hear you!” hisses another.
Ebbin Fulchre and his three companions are unarmed commoners who refuse to enter the cabin, even on a dare. Morbid curiosity brought them here, but they’re nothing
imparts the following information: Grave Theft. Two halflings dug up his grave in the dead of night and stole his Canaith mandolin (an instrument of the bards). Frody wants it back. (“It was a gift
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Xanathar's Guide to Everything
upper class, but other characters can do so only if you judge that the character has made sufficient contacts. Alternatively, a character might use a disguise kit and the Deception skill to pass as a
using the Carousing table. Carousing Check Total Result 1–5 Character has made a hostile contact. 6–10 Character has made no new contacts. 11–15 Character has made an allied contact. 16–20 Character
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
persuasive than facts. These bards wield a blend of logic and theatrical wordplay, winning over skeptics and detractors with logical arguments and plucking at heartstrings to appeal to the emotions of
audiences. Silver Tongue 3rd-level College of Eloquence feature You are a master at saying the right thing at the right time. When you make a Charisma (Persuasion) or Charisma (Deception) check, you can treat
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
tokens, or they attempt to speak with the dead and succeed on a DC 16 Charisma (Deception or Persuasion) check, the gwishin is calmed enough to talk; see “Conversing with the Gwishin.” Additionally
Charisma (Deception or Persuasion) check. If the characters present two tokens, they have advantage on this check. If the characters fail this check (or haven’t obtained any of the tokens yet), the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
some unknown end, but none can say whether these statements are another layer of deception or evidence of a true insight. Cultists. Those who worship Fraz-Urb’luu fall into two camps. Most of his so
saintly figure, or contact a wizard while in the guise of a wise sage. He tells these folk whatever stories and promises they want to hear, playing to their needs and slowly drawing them into his circle of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Spelljammer: Adventures in Space->Boo’s Astral Menagerie
merging, in which two dohwars stay in mental contact while both are telepathically linked with a third creature. Dohwar
Small Fey, Any Alignment
Armor Class 11
Hit Points 10 (3d6)
Speed 20 ft
., swim 20 ft.
STR
5 (−3)
DEX
12 (+1)
CON
11 (+0)
INT
11 (+0)
WIS
14 (+2)
CHA
13 (+1)
Saving Throws Dex +3, Wis +4
Skills Deception +3, Insight
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual
collection of one kind of thing—typically items of rare pedigree or emblems of power. Barbed devils refuse to steal what they covet; instead they strike bargains to claim both treasure and mortal souls. Barbed
+4 +7
Ability Score Mod Save
Int 12 +1 +1
Wis 14 +2 +5
Cha 14 +2 +5
Skills Deception +5, Insight +5, Perception +8
Resistances Cold
Immunities Fire
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
arrived through a gate and successfully bribed Gorglak, they might come here looking for his contact, Werz Saltbaron. Assassins Interrupted The characters spot a male duergar merchant at the end of a
’ access point to a secret cavern system beneath Gracklstugh (see “Whorlstone Tunnels”). It takes a successful DC 15 Wisdom (Perception) check to notice the pipe beneath piles of refuse. Within, loose
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
and forced them to question their blind obedience to him. Prolonged contact with malevolent magic suffusing the chardalyn has made Xardorok extraordinarily paranoid. He keeps his two sons, Durth and
pseudodragon made of chardalyn (a pseudo-pseudodragon, if you will)—and make her an offer she can’t refuse. Once he conquers Icewind Dale, he wants the Muzgardts to control the ale trade throughout his
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron
. The Tyrants are forgers and grifters, specialists in deception and the acquisition of information. The majority of the Tyrants are changelings, who use their shapeshifting abilities to fool marks and
identities. A particular persona is a job and different changelings may take it on from day to day. So if you have a contact in the Tyrants, the contact you meet seems consistent, but you may actually be
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
Autumn Encounter Chain Deception and misdirection are Jarlaxle’s forte, and he likes to trick his rivals into working for him. He steers the characters toward the Stone of Golorr and lets them think
Ward (encounter 6, “Theater”). Jarlaxle makes the characters an offer they can’t refuse, setting his agents on them if they dare to do so. Once he realizes the Xanathar Guild doesn’t have the stone
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
ballrooms, boardrooms, and seedy taverns, willing to do whats necessary to get what they need. Those in this role often exude Charisma and might be adept with the Deception, Intimidation, and Persuasion
skills. Bards and rogues make natural academic Financiers, as do those with the charlatan and noble backgrounds. Research Assistant. Whether their seeking to graduate, get published, or make their
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
proficient in Investigation, enabling them to be adept at snooping and spying. They often seek aid from other Harpers, sympathetic bards and innkeepers, rangers, and the clergy of gods that are
in nature. Agents of the Black Network must often work in secret, and are frequently proficient in Deception. They seek aid from the wizards, mercenaries, merchants and priesthoods allied with the Zhentarim.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
on detailing the hero behind the mask. Skill Proficiencies: Deception, Intimidation Tool Proficiencies: Disguise kit Languages: One of your choice Equipment: A disguise kit, a costume, a pouch
hide the other or serve as convenient camouflage. However, should someone realize the connection between your persona and your true self, your deception might lose its effectiveness. Suggested
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
. Skill Proficiencies: Deception, Stealth Tool Proficiencies: One type of gaming set, thieves’ tools Equipment: A crowbar, a set of dark common clothes including a hood, and a pouch containing 15 gp
3 Enforcer 4 Fence 5 Highway robber 6 Hired killer 7 Pickpocket 8 Smuggler Feature: Criminal Contact You have a reliable and trustworthy contact who acts as your liaison to a network of other