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Lizardfolk
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Species
Volo's Guide to Monsters
basic principles than those of warm-blooded creatures. Their dismal swamp homes might lie hundreds of miles from the nearest human settlement, but the gap between their way of thinking and that of the
. For example, humans confronted by an angry troll experience fear on a basic level. Their limbs shake, their thinking becomes panicked and jumbled, and they react by instinct. The emotion of fear takes
Entertainer
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Player’s Handbook (2014)
routines or roll on the table below to define your expertise as an entertainer.
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Entertainer Routine
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Actor
2
Dancer
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Fire-eater
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Jester
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Juggler
but possibly with a circus, at a theater, or even in a noble’s court. At such a place, you receive free lodging and food of a modest or comfortable standard (depending on the quality of the
Backgrounds
Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus
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Entertainer Routines
A good entertainer is versatile, spicing up every performance with a variety of different routines. Choose one to three routines or roll on the table below to define your expertise as an
court. At such a place, you receive free lodging and food of a modest or comfortable standard (depending on the quality of the establishment), as long as you perform each night. In addition, your
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
? Brilliant and charming? Nimble and hardy? Ability scores define these qualities--a creature's assets as well as weaknesses. The three main rolls of the game -- the ability check, the saving throw
, and the attack roll -- rely on the six ability scores. The Introduction describes the basic rule behind these rolls: roll a d20, add an ability modifier derived from one of the six ability scores, and compare the total to a target number.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
Franchise Advancement A license to operate an Acquisitions Incorporated franchise comes with nearly limitless benefits! When your party starts a franchise, you receive a region in which to operate, a
franchise headquarters, and a majordomo to assist with basic headquarters needs. As your characters become accomplished adventurers (and continue to contribute to Head Office coffers), Acquisitions
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)
? Brilliant and charming? Nimble and hardy? Ability scores define these qualities — a creature’s assets as well as weaknesses. The three main rolls of the game — the ability check, the saving throw
, and the attack roll — rely on the six ability scores. The Introduction describes the basic rule behind these rolls: roll a d20, add an ability modifier derived from one of the six ability scores, and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
Types of Treasure Treasure comes in many forms. Coins. The most basic type of treasure is money, including copper pieces (cp), silver pieces (sp), electrum pieces (ep), gold pieces (gp), and platinum
pieces (pp). Fifty coins of any type weigh 1 pound. Gemstones. Gemstones are small, lightweight, and easily secured compared to their same value in coins. See the “Gemstones” section for types of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
receive. Agency Contacts d8 Contact 1 A condescending career desk agent who views you as expendable tools 2 A bitter former field agent, now confined to a field office, who envies your work 3 A
kindly bureau chief who views you as a truly special team with invaluable skills 4 A crotchety middle-manager on the cusp of retirement who constantly bemoans the state of today’s agents compared to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Xanathar's Guide to Everything
compared to other characters. Their power not only rests within them, but it likely takes some effort to keep it at bay. Every sorcerer is born to the role, or stumbles into it through cosmic chance
less magically gifted contemporaries. Sorcerers are often defined by the events surrounding the manifestation of their power. For those who receive it as an expected birthright, its appearance is a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragon of Icespire Peak
— Wizard Soldier While your players follow the steps of character creation as outlined in the Basic Rules, pay attention to the choices they make. The backgrounds they choose define who their
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Keys from the Golden Vault
Keys from the Golden Vault If the characters become Golden Vault operatives, they receive an ornate, key-operated music box from their handler. Each adventure in this book includes a “Using the
open and plays a message that assigns them a heist, provides basic details, and sets them on the right path. After the message plays, the box closes and the key vanishes.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
character might inherit or receive a parcel of land on which to build their Bastion (see “Marks of Prestige” in chapter 3), or they might take a preexisting structure and refurbish it. It’s fair to assume
fortified as a Fighter’s stronghold. And multiple characters can combine their Bastions to form a single large structure (see “Bastion Map”). Every Bastion has facilities that serve basic needs as well as
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
houses. It’s up to you to define your relationship to the house. Were you brought up in the house? Or are you independent from it? This is best represented by your background. Consider the following
, but you also don’t have responsibilities. Guild artisan is a good choice to reflect basic house training, but you could choose entertainer for the Mark of Shadow, sailor for the Mark of Storms
Orc
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to be invincible. They see the principles that define them and their deities at work every day in the world around them — nature rewards the strong and mercilessly eliminates the weak and the
rarely keep records or write down their thoughts. When orcs need to communicate in writing, they use crude symbols to convey basic information, such as “food stored here,” “danger close
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
takes 250 days to gain mastery of a language, consider allowing characters to navigate basic social interactions—such as asking for directions or conveying peaceful intentions—after 7 days of training
your adventures, you define what deities are worshiped in a domain and whether those deities are actual gods, manifestations of the Dark Powers, or one masquerading as the other. EZRA, GOD OF THE MISTS
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
architects of grand, heavily fortified edifices, which other folk dwell in for a price. The cultural notes in chapter 1 are the standard D&D depiction of these creatures, but by no means do they define them
dwarves and have adopted their culture. 4 At a young age, you adopted a human religion and now serve it faithfully. 5 You received divine insight that sent you on your path, and occasionally receive new
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
a troupe of adventuring Entertainers. The origins the players choose define who their characters were before becoming adventurers. Think about how the characters’ backgrounds might inform adventures
together—a tried and true trope! Setting the Stage Session zero is a great time to share basic information about the campaign with your players. Such information typically includes the following
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
facial expressions help convey a creature’s emotions. Smile, scowl, snarl, yawn, or pout, as appropriate. Use Motions and Posture. Movement and posture can help define an NPC’s personality. You might
that the characters can’t use the information they receive until they interpret those obscure facts. Or the NPC refuses to give a direct answer, speaking only in vague hints that the characters must
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
Should They or Shouldn’t They? The characters must proceed carefully, since they have no evidence that directly implicates the Gralhunds in the attack in Trollskull Alley. Their two basic choices are
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
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
servants deliver invitations two days before the event. Invitations. If the characters have established themselves in Port-a-Lucine as important, wealthy, and interesting people, they receive genuine
invitations. The duchess hears about them if they spend lavishly, or as your adventure demands. Forging an invitation requires a successful DC 10 Intelligence check. Costumes. A basic costume with a simple
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
predicated on where a particular form of yuan-ti lies along the ladder of transformation. The basic form of yuan-ti society is a pyramid with abominations at the top, malisons in the middle level, and
envisioned. Absent the presence of an anathema, yuan-ti abominations are the leaders in most yuan-ti cities. Yuan-ti Malisons The various kinds of malisons are imperfect compared to abominations but
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)
routines or roll on the table below to define your expertise as an entertainer. d10 Entertainer Routine 1 Actor 2 Dancer 3 Fire-eater 4 Jester 5 Juggler 6 Instrumentalist 7 Poet 8 Singer 9 Storyteller
receive free lodging and food of a modest or comfortable standard (depending on the quality of the establishment), as long as you perform each night. In addition, your performance makes you something
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Lost Mine of Phandelver
Healing” in the Basic Rules). Roleplaying Sildar Sildar Hallwinter is a kindhearted human male of nearly fifty years who holds a place of honor in the famous griffon cavalry of the great city of
receive an equal share of the XP earned for the encounter. (The characters receive less XP as a consequence.) NPCs have their own lives and goals. Consequently, an NPC should remain with the party
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Book of Many Things
cards. Diagram 4.4: Unseen Order Solution (Example) Hint Checks Any character can make the following ability check to receive a hint: Charisma (Persuasion) DC 10. If asked politely, the ghost provides
an example of how the game might play out. Show the players diagram 4.4. Choose a different solution for the actual puzzle. Customizing the Puzzle As long as the basic rules of the game remain the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Book of Many Things
readings. At the rite’s conclusion, the initiates receive a vision of the All-Consuming Star. As part of this initiation, new members of the Heralds of the Comet shed their old identities and take on new
names. Initiates also donate all their possessions to the group, which uses its accumulated wealth to provide for the basic needs of its initiates, and they take solemn vows of secrecy that prohibit
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
of thing. In time, this hunger to define and make official the rhythm of daily life found its expression in documancy, a kind of mystic bureaucratic art founded by Omin Dran. Anything you put a
receive documents to and from Head Office through a special pouch. Your documancy satchel magically produces prewritten and signature-ready contracts at your request, covering most common contractual
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything
quest to create something perfect that will define their life’s work and secure their legacy. They lose sight of right and wrong in pursuit of the finest materials and exciting opportunities. 2
difficulty grasping the passage of time and the state of the world compared to its original era. 6 Fallen Muse. Your contact is a fallen celestial. Whether they regret their transgressions or hunger for
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
seek greater power to combat a formidable threat, they suppress their basic nature and come together to do their work. The result is a coven. Being part of a coven gives each individual hag more
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything
equipment, and basic services don’t draw a second glance. Immunity. As long as you remain in the aristocrat’s good graces, you are nearly immune to prosecution under the laws within the aristocrat’s sphere
the locale if necessary, but you’re largely afforded time to relax as you please. However, poor (or outright destructive) guests rarely receive invitations to stay again. Salary. Your employment
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
on the statue destroys the trap. Pits Mechanical trap Four basic pit traps are presented here. Simple Pit. A simple pit trap is a hole dug in the ground. The hole is covered by a large cloth anchored
variations in the mortar and stone used to create it, compared to the surrounding floor. Wedging an iron spike or other object under the pressure plate prevents the trap from activating. Stuffing the holes
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Xanathar's Guide to Everything
one additional trinket. 7 You once performed a service for a local temple. The next time you visit the temple, you can receive healing up to your hit point maximum. 8 A friendly alchemist gifted you
basic details about your former employer. 7 You went insane for 1d6 years and recently regained your sanity. A tic or some other bit of odd behavior might linger. 8 A lover of yours was secretly a silver
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
other garments upon request. Feldmar teaches a compulsory class on simple stitching to adjutants in an effort to reduce the amount of basic patchwork he and his family do to keep the Avowed neatly
consent to receive a signed and sealed letter of admittance. The wax seal must be intact and unbroken when the letter is presented to the Keeper of the Emerald Door. The Keeper determines the letter’s
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
. (A gift from one family member to another doesn’t prove anything about the family’s largesse.) No cloud giant truly believes that it’s better to give than to receive; a family does so only with an
in Calimshan, maybe, or some patriar’s estate in Baldur’s Gate? Let me tell you, you’ve seen nothing. Those places are hovels compared to the palaces of the skyejotuns.
— Volo
Fire Giants The
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
, the characters receive a reward. Characters who decline to serve the Flaming Fist are welcome to continue about their business, but anything they wish to buy in Fort Beluarian costs five times the
” policy. It sells basic necessities during the day and serves food and drink in the evening. The store is run by a sharp-tongued old man named Jaro (NG male Chultan human commoner). 9. Flaming Fist
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
purpose. The longer dragons stay with a lauth, the more wards they receive. Most hidecarved dragons have one of these wards plus an additional ward for each age category above wyrmling. You can roll for
develops a basic awareness of multiple echoes and begins to communicate directly with them in a process akin to lucid dreaming by the time they undergo initiation. Any dragons with well-developed