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Eberron: Rising from the Last War
My family has the finest vaults you can imagine. They forge the locks that secure royal jewels. And I learned to pick those locks when I was barely out of the crib.
—Cutter, burglar and
establish the banking industry of Khorvaire. Anyone who makes a living from coin—from bankers to goldsmiths—likely learned their skills at House Kundarak. The security of banks bearing the
Half-Elf
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friends and loved ones age while time barely touches them. Others live with the elves, growing restless as they reach adulthood in the timeless elven realms, while their peers continue to live as
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Many half-elves learn at an early age to get along with everyone, defusing hostility and finding common ground. As a race, they have elven grace without elven aloofness and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)
Equipment Each background provides a package of starting equipment. If you use the optional rule from chapter 5 to spend coin on gear, you do not receive the starting equipment from your background.
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
Equipment Each background provides a package of starting equipment. If you use the optional rule from the Equipment section to spend coin on gear, you do not receive the starting equipment from your background.
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
The Golden Goose The wooden coin given to the characters by Princess Serissa is fairly unremarkable and easy to produce. It’s half again the size of a typical gold coin, and there’s nothing magical
about it. A legend lore spell provides no clues as to its origin, since the coin isn’t legendary. Any character who has a background, a bond, or a flaw related to gambling or festhalls knows that the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sage Advice Compendium
things they don’t. In a typical D&D session, a DM makes numerous rules decisions—some barely noticeable and others quite obvious. Players also interpret the rules, and the whole group keeps the game
running. There are times, though, when the design intent of a rule isn’t clear or when one rule seems to contradict another. Dealing with those situations is where Sage Advice comes in. This column
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
. The copper crown (cp) traditionally depicts the crown of Galifar on one face. The crown is the lowest denomination of coin minted under the rule of Galifar, which spawned the saying, “In Galifar
wealthiest citizens of Khorvaire, and the average peasant might never see such a coin. A number of other coins remain in circulation, such as the double crown of Breland (2 cp) and the silver throne of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron
commerce across Khorvaire. The crown (CP) is made from copper and traditionally depicts the crown of Galifar on one face. The crown is the lowest denomination of coin minted under the rule of Galifar, which
. With a value of one hundred sovereigns, these coins are used only by the wealthiest citizens of Khorvaire, and the average peasant may never see such a coin. There are a number of other coins in
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sage Advice & Errata
typical D&D session, a DM makes numerous rules decisions—some barely noticeable and others quite obvious. Players also interpret the rules, and the whole group keeps the game running. There are times
, though, when the design intent of a rule isn’t clear or when one rule seems to contradict another. Dealing with those situations is where Sage Advice comes in. It doesn’t replace a DM’s adjudication
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
south and work their way to the Open Shore docks. A key aspect of Luskan life is its rule by groups known as Ships. Five High Captains each rule a Ship made up of pirates and other Northlanders. Ship
coin. The order of mages known as the Arcane Brotherhood is the other major power group in Luskan. Though its members include ambitious arcanists of any and all genders, the newly restored order
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Lost Mine of Phandelver
decent coin as a burglar, enforcer, or fence. But you must have made an enemy among your fellow Redbrands. Someone set you up. On that person’s word, the head of the Redbrands—a wizard called Glasstaff
—tried to have you killed. You escaped, barely alive and thanking Tymora, the goddess of good fortune, for your luck. You fled Phandalin, almost penniless and with only the tools of your trade to your
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
Mount Celestia The single sacred mountain of Mount Celestia rises from a shining Silver Sea to heights barely visible and utterly incomprehensible, with seven plateaus marking its seven heavenly
the purest souls can. Gazing toward that peak fills even the most jaded of travelers with awe. Optional Rule: Blessed Beneficence In contrast to the dissonance experienced by evil creatures here, good
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)
Spellcasting Services People who are able to cast spells don’t fall into the category of ordinary hirelings. It might be possible to find someone willing to cast a spell in exchange for coin or
favors, but it is rarely easy and no established pay rates exist. As a rule, the higher the level of the desired spell, the harder it is to find someone who can cast it and the more it costs. Hiring
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
Spellcasting Services People who are able to cast spells don't fall into the category of ordinary hirelings. It might be possible to find someone willing to cast a spell in exchange for coin or
favors, but it is rarely easy and no established pay rates exist. As a rule, the higher the level of the desired spell, the harder it is to find someone who can cast it and the more it costs. Hiring
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)
or other settlement, provided that you can find buyers and merchants interested in your loot. Arms, Armor, and Other Equipment. As a general rule, undamaged weapons, armor, and other equipment fetch
trade them in for coin or use them as currency for other transactions. For exceptionally valuable treasures, the DM might require you to find a buyer in a large town or larger community first. Trade
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
the lycanthropes to turn on him. The would-be leader murdered dozens but barely escaped alive, fleeing into a nation of humans. In the years that followed, Harkon learned how to blend in with other
peoples, how to manipulate those he considered his inferiors, and how to turn adoration into a weapon. He decided that if rule over a nation of hunters wasn’t possible, he would force an empire of sheep
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual
their pools. Rule 2: Before you drink from a fountain or pool, toss a copper coin into it. It’s a small price to pay for your life!
—X the Mystic’s
Rules of Dungeon Survival
Water Weird Large
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
. Tales of Sora Kell claim she is the first night hag, born from Khyber in the first age of the world alongside the ancient rakshasas. Some even claim that her daughters—the hags who rule Droaam—are
vicious monster Sora Maenya—rule the nation of Droaam, either to facilitate their own scheming or at their mother’s command. Adventurers who enjoy the patronage of Sora Kell can impose on her
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
suns. The city’s two local coins are the toal and the harbor moon. The toal is a square brass trading-coin pierced with a central hole to permit it to be easily strung on a ring or string, worth 2 gp in
of cargo at once. The coin is worth 50 gp in Waterdeep and 30 gp elsewhere. The northern city of Silverymoon mints a crescent-shaped, shining blue coin called an electrum moon, worth 1 gp in that city
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
of trade or festival periods, when they fill swiftly, and many locals open up their homes to lodgers. Warriors in need of coin can help their purses by offering their services as trainers for the
citizens of Daggerford aren’t easily cowed by armed folk demanding goods, coin, or passage, and are slightly more likely to take up work as mercenaries, caravan guards, or adventurers. Although she is
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
. “Before you drink from a fountain or pool, toss a copper coin into it. It’s a small price to pay for your life.”
— X the Mystic’s 2nd rule of dungeon survival
Water Weird
Large elemental
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
Getting the Quest The town sits quietly at the foot of Kelvin’s Cairn. A few bundled-up people shuffle between snow-battered houses, keeping their heads down, barely bothering to give you a look as
the characters inquire about a reward for dealing with the thieves, Trovus explains that the town doesn’t have the coin to pay someone to investigate the matter. Most of the valuables in the village have disappeared already, so there’s little left to use as compensation.
Yuan-ti Pureblood
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interest of maintaining the strength of their personal bloodline.
The yuan-ti have abandoned their humanity and consider non-serpentine humanoids to be lesser creatures, barely more civilized than
the blood, as it once did.
Because their population is so small, the yuan-ti are aware they are vulnerable in open warfare. Instead, their current plans assume they will never rule outwardly in
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
from the life of a long dead elf lord. 6 A seemingly mundane gold piece. Anyone who touches it gains the unshakable belief that this is the very first gold coin minted by humanity. 7 A black box, 3
winking on its surface, before settling to the ground nearby. 9 A thick, dusty tome, every page filled with tiny, barely legible writing. Careful study of the book reveals it to be a written transcript
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Spelljammer: Adventures in Space->Light of Xaryxis
comparison.
The ship’s sails are patchworks of mended canvas, while its hull seems barely held together by thick vines that bind it like rope. Its strangest feature is the full-grown tree that sprouts
tiefling has turned to smuggling to make enough coin to buy her way out of an infernal contract she entered into many years ago. Fel Ardra Although Krux doesn’t approve of Fel’s line of business, the giff
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
hope, as tenacious civilizations and peoples rebuild, reclaim, and create anew. Amn. A nation led by the representatives of five noble families, Amn is a place where the wealthy rule, openly and without
for the “fat philosophers” of Heptios is widely known. Toreus welcomes all visitors, even those from lands that are despised or mistrusted, and foreign coin can buy nearly anything there. The
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tyranny of Dragons
distances. But that’s what fills Sechepol’s wagon. He will make his money on the road, selling his stock to his fellow travelers in the caravan. He is diplomatic and has a gift for defusing arguments
as the grave, staring sullenly at the road ahead, barely moving on the seat of his wagon, seeming hardly to breathe. No one knows what he transports in his wagon, but it is guarded by a brooding
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
Might. The world is divided into the strong who rule and the weak who obey or die. 3 Cunning. Always have a backup plan ready, especially if it involves betraying someone. 4 Strength. Strength is the
one coin accepted in all realms and by all folk. 5 Ambition. We reach the station in the cosmos that we deserve due to our drive and talents. 6 Cruelty. Strength without regular demonstrations of its
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Hoard of the Dragon Queen
long distances. But that’s what fills Sechepol’s wagon. He will make his money on the road, selling his stock to his fellow travelers in the caravan. He is diplomatic and has a gift for defusing
silent as the grave, staring sullenly at the road ahead, barely moving on the seat of his wagon, seeming hardly to breathe. No one knows what he transports in his wagon, but it is guarded by a brooding
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
merchant princes who rule the city.” Syndra has misgivings about sending inexperienced adventurers on so dangerous a quest, but she isn’t taking any chances. She fails to mention that other, more
also expects that the characters will find enough treasure in Chult to make them as rich as kings. If the characters press for coin up front, Syndra gives each character 50 gp to defray expenses in
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player’s Handbook
grown shoddy with the passage of years. A blazing fire in the hearth barely gives any warmth to the room. You see a man behind the counter, methodically cleaning glasses. Three older women huddle
holds a coin toward the bartender: “A pitcher for the visitors.” The glint of silver catches the server’s attention.
Maeve (as Mirabella): “Thank you, friend. May we know to whom we’re indebted
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
Tyr’s faith in the previous center of his operations — is only further proof, to some, that Neverember deserves to rule Neverwinter. As yet, Castle Never remains a dangerous ruin, but Neverember has
it up to shipping from the Sea of Swords, goods from the north, and coin from the south. Adventurers come to Neverwinter seeking work and following rumors of nearby treasures, and often find
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragon Delves
room’s eastern wall between shelves of cooking supplies. A stressed-looking human barely out of his youth, with blue skin and disheveled white hair, stirs a cauldron over a small fire. On either side of
feather rests on the skeleton’s head. Scratched into the rock nearby are the following words in Common: “Here lies a weakling unfit to rule.”
This skeleton is all that remains of Captain Edgard Brandle
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
shields the Northlanders prefer. Each Ship accepts new candidates from time to time to fill vacancies caused by death, but as a rule, the Ships don’t expand their ranks by taking on a large number of
a quick and perhaps violent way to grab some coin. People and Laws Without question, the people of Luskan show their Northlander heritage. They raid ships and coastal settlements, engage in
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything
might also organize into guilds. Merchant barons who effectively rule a city or nation through iron-clad control of the economy or a network of innkeepers who share news and supply routes could both
adventurers and other individuals who deal with large sums of wealth. They exchange coin for gemstones as readily as they find buyers for historical relics and recovered art. 5 Philosophical Faction