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Lizardfolk
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Species
Volo's Guide to Monsters
rage against their enemies. They simply observe and react as a situation warrants.
Lizardfolk lack meaningful emotional ties to the past. They assess situations based on their current and future
, young ones incapable of protecting themselves but who might prove useful in the future if they receive care.
Lizardfolk Personality
You can use the Lizardfolk Quirks table to determine a personality
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Spelljammer Academy
Ending the Adventure Although the training exercises were sabotaged, all the cadets completed enough of the session to receive their scores. The characters earn points in the training exercise as
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)
Starting Equipment When you create your character, you receive equipment based on a combination of your class and background. Alternatively, you can start with a number of gold pieces based on your
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Quests from the Infinite Staircase
Character Advancement If you want to use story-based level advancement, the characters receive experience points for achieving the following milestones rather than defeating monsters: Obtaining the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
Experience Points Experience points (XP) fuel level advancement for player characters and are most often the reward for completing combat encounters. Each monster has an XP value based on its
received substantial assistance from one or more NPCs, count those NPCs as party members when dividing up the XP. (Because the NPCs made the fight easier, individual characters receive fewer XP.) Chapter 3, "Creating Adventures" provides guidelines for designing combat encounters using experience points.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
forges at Eston, completed in the last moments before the Mourning. Perhaps the most outlandish idea is that the Lord of Blades is not a true warforged at all. The first warforged were created by an
artificer named Aaren d’Cannith, who became furious when the house used his invention to create weapons of war. Based on that knowledge, some believe Aaren transferred his consciousness into a warforged
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen
Kalaman military honorably discharged; they’ve completed the terms of their involvement with Kalaman’s defenders (as set forward in chapter 4). Characters who accept this honorable discharge are rewarded
with platinum medallions bearing the symbol of Kalaman worth 2,500 gp. Characters who choose to remain a part of Kalaman’s army receive the same medallion and are granted a new title: Knight of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
, it becomes petrified for 8 hours. At the end of this time, the giant is no longer petrified and gains tremorsense out to a range of 30 feet, as well as a measure of innate spellcasting ability based
which giants have recently completed the meditation and emerged from their petrified state with tremorsense and the ability to cast spells.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Quests from the Infinite Staircase
Character Advancement If you want to use story-based level advancement, the characters receive experience points for achieving the following milestones rather than defeating monsters: Encountering a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Quests from the Infinite Staircase
Character Advancement If you want to use story-based level advancement, the characters receive experience points for achieving the following milestones rather than defeating monsters: Entering the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
of a greater whole. Cults of the Dragon Below are based on madness or power. A cult that seeks power chooses to serve a dark force because of the gifts they receive from it. A cabal of scholars might
believing that if completed, this monstrosity could reunite the shattered kingdom.
When pressed to comment, Patriarch Dalin d’Vadalis denied any connections to this cult. “These are difficult times
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
. Starting Equipment When you create your character, you receive equipment based on a combination of your class and background. Alternatively, you can start with a number of gold pieces based on your
Goblin
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the fringes of a society first test its defenses by stealing objects, and if these crimes go unpunished, they begin stealing people.
Enslaved creatures receive the worst treatment the goblins can dish
-tiered caste system made up of lashers, hunters, gatherers, and pariahs. The status of every family in the tribe is based on its importance to the tribe’s survival. Families that belong to the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron
who accomplishes a meaningful personal goal could receive one to five hero points, as described in chapter 9 of the Dungeon Master’s Guide. Another twist that works well with a Morgrave campaign is to
use story-based advancement instead of standard XP. Level advancement could be based on time: player characters gain one level each semester, leveling up after finals. Alternately, advancement could
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
Qualith inscription, however, can receive fragmentary insight into the multilayered thoughts contained within it. A non-illithid that wants to understand a Qualith inscription can make an Intelligence
check (DC based on the complexity of the contained thoughts) to try to derive some of the inscription’s meaning. Multiple successful attempts might uncover different aspects about the illithid author
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Quests from the Infinite Staircase
Character Advancement If you want to use story-based level advancement, the characters receive experience points for achieving the following milestones rather than defeating monsters: Escape the Maze
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Quests from the Infinite Staircase
Character Advancement If you want to use story-based level advancement, the characters receive experience points for achieving the following milestones rather than defeating monsters: Entering the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
still have seen or spoken to the eye tyrant. Given that the faction is fundamentally evil, advancement is based on one’s wiles or one’s ability to dispose of rivals. Competition within the
might receive a monstrous bodyguard or assistant (such as a bugbear, a kenku, or a wererat), who has secret instructions to kill the guild member if they fail to complete the assignment as ordered. The
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Quests from the Infinite Staircase
Character Advancement If you want to use story-based level advancement, the characters receive experience points for achieving milestones rather than defeating monsters. When the characters leave the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen
A Test Completed Delivering the scroll to Wyhan is part of a test informing her which robed order of the Mages of High Sorcery might be a good fit for the character. After receiving the scroll, Wyhan
will join, based on the character’s alignment and whether they opened the scroll before delivering it. Don’t share this with the character immediately—Wyhan’s estimation comes up later in their
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm Lord’s Wrath
any of the other quests, except for the final quest. These quests are provided by various members of the Leilon community. These can be completed in any order. Aid from Phandalin Quest The town council
.” Thunder Cliffs Quest The final quest in this adventure takes place at Thunder Cliffs, where the local anchorite threat is based. There is no trigger or giver for this quest, since the location and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Lorwyn: First Light
experiences from the past year. Accounts are always embellished and highly entertaining, though they must be based in truth. When it’s in Shadowmoor, Kinsbaile is called Kinscaer. Reasons to Visit
they receive an invitation to participate in the Festival of Tales. If they put on an entertaining show recounting their deeds, the adventurers can win a fabulous prize. Odd Jobs. Kinsbaile has nearly
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
Adventure Types An adventure can be location-based or event-based, as discussed in the sections that follow.
Location-Based Adventures Adventures set in crumbling dungeons and remote wilderness
locations are the cornerstone of countless campaigns. Many of the greatest D&D adventures of all time are location-based.
Creating a location-based adventure can be broken down into a number of steps
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
make predictions based on rainfall, wind, thunder, and other weather measurements. In some communities, oracles actively strive to be struck by lightning, risking their lives to receive mighty messages
from their god. Oracular Conflux Adventures The player characters could come to an oracular shrine for the same reason that most other people do: to receive a prediction about the future. They also
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
learned to the constables there. Shortly thereafter, the characters receive a visit from Barnibus Blastwind and Saeth Cromley (see appendix B), who have no reason to suspect the characters are lying
family took it in, not realizing it was a Zhentarim spy. Lady Gralhund reported that it stole her necklace of fireballs. Cromley’s summary of events is based on information given to the City Watch by
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
, or they can use some other method of conveyance — it’s up to them. Storm giants aren’t stealthy and would prefer to stage a direct assault on Iymrith’s lair, but they will adjust their tactics based
among the players in your group. If your group includes more than four players, not every player will receive a storm giant NPC to play, and that’s okay. Accompanying the giants’ stat blocks are
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
Kubazan receive advice when entering this area: Fickle I’jin urges her host to pull the lever. What harm could it do? Fearless Kubazan insists that his host jump to the platforms, even if others are better
addition, the winds cause creatures in the room to suffer disadvantage on all Strength-based skill checks, including checks made to jump to and from the floating platforms and checks made to climb the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
questions the characters ask based on the information in the adventure. Gromph’s Folly If the characters inquire about Gromph Baenre or the arrival of the demon lords, they receive a vision of how
Possible Visions The following are the most relevant visions the characters can receive as answers to their questions. Elaborate upon or modify these as needed, and improvise visions for other
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
philosophies and choose the schools of magic they focus on based on such teachings. The mark of a true thaumaturge, though, is a gift or positive omen from the gods; even the most accomplished student
of magic can’t earn the title without such a sign of divine approval. One mage might receive the gift of a spear from Heliod, another could receive a clockwork owl from Ephara, and still another might
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
receive relatively cordial treatment from those other hags instead. Every hag has a particular status relative to others of her kind and to hags of all sorts, based on age, abilities, influence
, planar travelers came to recognize that many of the realms and layers of the multiverse are configured in multiples of three. It is possible that plane-traveling hags learned of this planar-based
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
him to. Advice from the Spirits Any characters inhabited by the spirits of Kubazan or Nangnang receive advice when entering this area: Wild Kubazan urges his host to try the roast boar. Greedy
gains benefits and suffers detrimental effects based on what is consumed. Do not reveal detrimental effects to the players until those effects come into play. Roast Boar: The character feels stronger and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
the guild’s allies are based on business and built on upstanding reputations. Ultimately, though, the guild is a loose affiliation of groups, and organizations that have a good relationship with one
of guides with extensive experience exploring Xend’rik, and it is careful to retain only guides who receive positive referrals from guild members. House Tharashk also uses the guild as a means to hire
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Xanathar's Guide to Everything
gold piece cost by 50. A character can complete multiple items in a workweek if the items’ combined cost is 50 gp or lower. Items that cost more than 50 gp can be completed over longer periods of
covering other materials, tools, and so on, based on the item’s rarity. Those values, as well as the time a character needs to work in order to complete the item, are shown on the Magic Item Crafting Time
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
by an antimagic field or similar effect. There is no limit on the number of blessings a character can receive, but a character can’t benefit from multiple applications of a blessing at the same time
score based on the rarity of the item: Uncommon magic item: requires piety 3 or higher Rare magic item: requires piety 10 or higher Very rare magic item: requires piety 25 or higher Legendary magic
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)
by 30. Your lifestyle might change from one period to the next, based on the funds you have at your disposal, or you might maintain the same lifestyle throughout your character’s career. Your
finest inn. You dine at the best restaurants, retain the most skilled and fashionable tailor, and have servants attending to your every need. You receive invitations to the social gatherings of the