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Monsters
Eberron: Rising from the Last War
from Dal Quor, quori in Eberron are typically encountered while possessing a host body. The Inspired are the most common type of willing host for the quori and are described earlier in this chapter
tipped with a vicious stinger. They are cruel and calculating, enjoying the power they wield over others as they concoct elaborate schemes to advance their own positions and discredit their rivals
Barbarian
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Classes
Basic Rules (2014)
the latest challenger to her authority over their tribe, ready to break his neck with her bare hands as she did to the last six rivals.
Frothing at the mouth, a dwarf slams his helmet into the face
stranger in the area of the campaign? Or is the campaign set in a rough-and-tumble frontier where barbarians are common?
What led you to take up the adventuring life? Were you lured to settled lands
Backgrounds
Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron
the house assigns you a mission, it will usually provide you with the necessary supplies and transportation. Beyond this, you have many old friends, mentors, and rivals in your house, and you may
my house and take pride in my looks.
6
I’m critical of monarchies and limits on the houses.
D6
IDEAL
1
Common Good. My house serves a vital function, and
Backgrounds
Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron
. When the house assigns you a mission, it will usually provide you with the necessary supplies and transportation. Beyond this, you have many old friends, mentors, and rivals in your house, and you may
represent my house and take pride in my looks.
6
I’m critical of monarchies and limits on the houses.
D6
IDEAL
1
Common Good. My house serves a vital function
Backgrounds
Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron
house assigns you a mission, it will usually provide you with the necessary supplies and transportation. Beyond this, you have many old friends, mentors, and rivals in your house, and you may encounter
house and take pride in my looks.
6
I’m critical of monarchies and limits on the houses.
D6
IDEAL
1
Common Good. My house serves a vital function, and its
Backgrounds
Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron
house assigns you a mission, it will usually provide you with the necessary supplies and transportation. Beyond this, you have many old friends, mentors, and rivals in your house, and you may
house and take pride in my looks.
6
I’m critical of monarchies and limits on the houses.
D6
IDEAL
1
Common Good. My house serves a vital function, and its
Backgrounds
Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron
enclave. When the house assigns you a mission, it will usually provide you with the necessary supplies and transportation. Beyond this, you have many old friends, mentors, and rivals in your house, and
I represent my house and take pride in my looks.
6
I’m critical of monarchies and limits on the houses.
D6
IDEAL
1
Common Good. My house serves a vital
Backgrounds
Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron
the house assigns you a mission, it will usually provide you with the necessary supplies and transportation. Beyond this, you have many old friends, mentors, and rivals in your house, and you may
my house and take pride in my looks.
6
I’m critical of monarchies and limits on the houses.
D6
IDEAL
1
Common Good. My house serves a vital function, and
Backgrounds
Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron
enclave. When the house assigns you a mission, it will usually provide you with the necessary supplies and transportation. Beyond this, you have many old friends, mentors, and rivals in your house
I represent my house and take pride in my looks.
6
I’m critical of monarchies and limits on the houses.
D6
IDEAL
1
Common Good. My house serves a vital
Backgrounds
Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron
enclave. When the house assigns you a mission, it will usually provide you with the necessary supplies and transportation. Beyond this, you have many old friends, mentors, and rivals in your house, and
I represent my house and take pride in my looks.
6
I’m critical of monarchies and limits on the houses.
D6
IDEAL
1
Common Good. My house serves a vital
Backgrounds
Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron
. When the house assigns you a mission, it will usually provide you with the necessary supplies and transportation. Beyond this, you have many old friends, mentors, and rivals in your house, and you
represent my house and take pride in my looks.
6
I’m critical of monarchies and limits on the houses.
D6
IDEAL
1
Common Good. My house serves a vital function
Backgrounds
Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron
enclave. When the house assigns you a mission, it will usually provide you with the necessary supplies and transportation. Beyond this, you have many old friends, mentors, and rivals in your house, and
represent my house and take pride in my looks.
6
I’m critical of monarchies and limits on the houses.
D6
IDEAL
1
Common Good. My house serves a vital
Backgrounds
Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron
. When the house assigns you a mission, it will usually provide you with the necessary supplies and transportation. Beyond this, you have many old friends, mentors, and rivals in your house, and you
represent my house and take pride in my looks.
6
I’m critical of monarchies and limits on the houses.
D6
IDEAL
1
Common Good. My house serves a vital function
Backgrounds
Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron
house assigns you a mission, it will usually provide you with the necessary supplies and transportation. Beyond this, you have many old friends, mentors, and rivals in your house, and you may
house and take pride in my looks.
6
I’m critical of monarchies and limits on the houses.
D6
IDEAL
1
Common Good. My house serves a vital function, and its
Backgrounds
Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron
the house assigns you a mission, it will usually provide you with the necessary supplies and transportation. Beyond this, you have many old friends, mentors, and rivals in your house, and you may
my house and take pride in my looks.
6
I’m critical of monarchies and limits on the houses.
D6
IDEAL
1
Common Good. My house serves a vital function, and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual
Warrior Veteran Warrior veterans have participated in numerous battles and can hold their own against lesser rivals and monsters. Warrior Veteran Medium or Small Humanoid, Neutral
AC 17 Initiative
+0 +0
Cha 10 +0 +0
Skills Athletics +5, Perception +2
Gear Greatsword, Heavy Crossbow, Splint Armor
Senses Passive Perception 12
Languages Common plus one other language
CR 3
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual
Young White Dragon Young white dragons defend their hunting grounds from rivals. In some cases, kobolds and groups of humanoids might offer food and treasure to young white dragons, attempting to
12 +1 +1
Skills Perception +6, Stealth +3
Immunities Cold
Senses Blindsight 30 ft., Darkvision 120 ft.; Passive Perception 16
Languages Common, Draconic
CR 6 (2,300 XP; PB +3
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron
normal starting equipment. You have two common magic items and two uncommon magic items. All magic items are subject to the approval of the DM, and the DM may choose whether to assign these items or to
, home to valued comrades and rivals. It’s where you get your next job. But as a Clifftop adventurer you’ll be venturing to exotic locales. You may delve into the ruins below Sharn or crash an airship into Skyway. You may head to Xen’drik or other distant lands. Wherever you go, adventure awaits!
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
identify crisis points where their operatives are needed. Even common citizens might hire folk from the Court to find missing loved ones, locate lost family treasures, or gather information on rivals
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Radiant Citadel
identify crisis points where their operatives are needed. Even common citizens might hire folk from the Court to find missing loved ones, locate lost family treasures, or gather information on rivals
Kobold
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Volo's Guide to Monsters
lack of emotional bonding means they have no concept of marriage or permanent family relationships. Their eggs are placed in a common tribal hatchery with no effort to keep track of who each one
resources or territory. Such conflicts aren’t common, because two tribes will always prefer to expand in different directions if they come into contact, but they do happen.
For example, two
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
nor his yuan-ti priests have been able to ascertain the cause or find a remedy. As Ras Nsi’s power wanes, his rivals are preparing to dispose of him and continue their holy mission. Acererak promised
to help the yuan-ti if they would guard the Tomb of the Nine Gods. Ras Nsi doesn’t know that Acererak is playing him for a fool. If the characters convince Ras Nsi that Acererak is a common enemy, he
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual
among their rivals, manipulating others and making foes vulnerable to the plots of more powerful yuan-ti. Yuan-ti Infiltrator Medium Monstrosity, Neutral Evil
AC 11 Initiative +1 (11)
HP 40 (9d8
Skills Deception +5, Perception +4, Stealth +3
Immunities Poison; Poisoned
Senses Darkvision 60 ft.; Passive Perception 14
Languages Abyssal, Common, Draconic
CR 1 (XP 200; PB +2)
Traits
Backgrounds
Guildmasters’ Guide to Ravnica
;s wing, a tattered piece of a Boros banner (a souvenir from a famous battle), a set of common clothes, and a belt pouch containing 2 gp (Boros-minted 1-zino coins)
Feature: Legion Station
You have
important to me than my life.
6
Dangerous work is best accomplished by an orderly group working with common purpose.
7
I treat my weapons, uniform, and insignia with reverence, for they
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Guildmasters' Guide to Ravnica
. Conversely, your party can include members of different guilds united by alliances or common principles. Or they could be childhood friends who ended up in different guilds, or just a haphazard
can also help you create connections among the characters in your party. Those tables describe family relationships, current and former romantic connections, random acquaintances, past rivals, and many
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
cover its surface — some written in Common and others etched in jagged cuneiform.
The tablet is a proclamation from an Omuan queen to her rivals in Mezro. The Mezroans couldn’t read the Omuans’ native
script, so the tablet contains the same message written both in Common and Old Omuan. It reads, “Queen Napaka proclaims that the free people of Omu fear nothing. Brave new gods protect us, as Ubtao
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Keys from the Golden Vault
Vault.” If you’re using the rivals described in this book’s introduction, their patron might be a STEAL operative. One of STEAL’s operatives, having recently acquired the gray slaad’s control gem, used
invisible sensor and says in Common, “So much for that. Next time you won’t be so lucky!” If the characters are working for the Golden Vault, the voice adds, “The Golden Vault won’t be able to protect you from our wrath.” The scrying sensor then disappears.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
Rival Coin Wondrous Item, Common This gold coin has a creature embossed on each side. The two depicted creatures must be famous rivals or enemies of each other. For example, a Rival Coin might show
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
Morgrave University, but they still celebrate the two institutions’ common purpose of pursuing knowledge. If Morgrave’s own libraries are insufficient for the task at hand, your group can probably find
rivals. Despite the friendly ties among academic institutions, Morgrave occupies the low end of the prestige scale among academic bodies, so its faculty tends to look for opportunities to steal glory
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
any humanoid, from a corrupt politician to a common criminal thug. Some of these folks use monsters to do their dirty work. Examples of such villains appear on the Agora Villains table. Agora Villains
d6 Villain
1 An assassin murders a politician’s rivals then poses the victims in grisly, public tableaus.
2 A group of thugs vandalizes market stalls whose owners don’t pay a weekly
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
support for an orc horde or a hobgoblin army. Another could serve as a hunting companion for a hill giant chief, or guard the entrance to a lamia’s lair. The manticores’ greatest territorial rivals
)
CHA
8 (−1)
Senses darkvision 60 ft., passive Perception 11
Languages Common
Challenge 3 (700 XP)
Tail Spike Regrowth. The manticore has twenty-four tail spikes. Used spikes regrow when
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monsters of the Multiverse
, increase their personal power, and befuddle the minds of their enemies. Mind whisperers are elusive, manipulative, unpredictable, and willing to cheat or kill comrades and rivals alike if doing so
darkvision 120 ft., passive Perception 12
Languages Abyssal, Common, Draconic
Challenge 4 (1,100 XP) Proficiency Bonus +2
Devil’s Sight. Magical darkness doesn’t impede the yuan-ti’s darkvision
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Xanathar's Guide to Everything
rundown neighborhoods. Folk demand that action be taken. Action Caravan raids by goblinoids become more common, and folk talk of gathering a militia. Marina contributes generously to the effort. Action
against them. Event A sudden storm creates minor flooding, washing dozens of dead, bloated, diseased rats from the sewers. Terror over the plague rips through town. Action Marina fans the flames of panic, spreading rumors that the characters or other rivals in town are responsible for the disease.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
makes them ideal leaders, and thus deadly rivals to orc war chiefs, who must be wary of orog treachery. Detached Killers. Wanting nothing more than to hack their enemies to pieces, orogs are a
11 (+0)
CHA
12 (+1)
Skills Intimidation +5, Survival +2
Senses darkvision 60 ft., passive Perception 10
Languages Common, Orc
Challenge 2 (450 XP)
Aggressive. As a bonus action
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual
followers, shadowy criminal networks, or cultic enclaves. Endlessly suspicious and wary of rivals, these dragons enact elaborate schemes to ruin their foes, test the loyalty of their servants, and ensure
+5
Immunities Lightning
Senses Blindsight 60 ft., Darkvision 120 ft.; Passive Perception 22
Languages Common, Draconic
CR 16 (XP 15,000, or 18,000 in lair; PB +5)
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