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Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
Though you aren’t a Giant, you grew up among giants. Maybe you were an orphan taken in by a sympathetic family of stone giants who raised you as one of their own. Or perhaps you lived in a lost
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You were found as a baby by a family of nomadic giants who raised you as one of their own.
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A family of stone giants rescued you when you fell into a mountain chasm, and you have
Monsters
Curse of Strahd
, Strahd’s biological mother. The second was the queen’s midwife, a devout follower of Mother Night named Baba Lysaga. Although it was the former who raised Strahd and enabled him to follow in
her beloved boy, who, in her mind, is eternally blessed. Despite the horrors Strahd has wrought, Lysaga still envisions him as the perfect child she delivered into the world. Strahd is the only thing in
Backgrounds
Curse of Strahd: Character Options
cold, dark night, and you were unable to stop it.
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You were cursed with lycanthropy and later cured. You are now haunted by the innocents you slaughtered.
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A hag kidnapped and raised you
words and images are burned into your psyche.
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A fiend possessed you as a child. You were locked away but escaped. The fiend is still inside you, but now you try to keep it bottled up.
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Bard
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Basic Rules (2014)
. Perhaps you had a secure and mundane childhood. There’s no good story to be told about that, so you might paint yourself as an orphan raised by a hag in a dismal swamp. Or your childhood might be
were a young runaway or orphan, befriended by a wandering bard who became your mentor. Or you might have been a spoiled noble child tutored by a master. Perhaps you stumbled into the clutches of a hag
Kalashtar
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Species
Eberron: Rising from the Last War
I am kalashtar, born of two worlds. Over a thousand years ago, my ancestor bound her bloodline to the spirit Kashtai, and I am a child of that union. Kashtai moves within me. Her memories come to
an orphan kalashtar raised among strangers.
The bond to the spirit can cause some kalashtar to display unusual quirks. Consider rolling or selecting a trait from the Kalashtar Quirks table
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
see that Kretyana is deeply troubled. If the characters question the midwife, she tells them in confidence, “That child has no soul. Very sad.” Kretyana was raised to believe that newborns are soulless if they don’t cry, and she has come to believe, rightly, that most Barovians lack souls.
health of the mother and the child. Dimira gives birth to a healthy baby boy, but the baby doesn’t cry. While the mother coddles the infant, characters who succeed on a DC 10 Wisdom (Insight) check can
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
giants who raised you as one of their own. Or perhaps you lived in a lost prehistoric pocket of the world, surrounded by giants and fearsome behemoths or hulking dinosaurs. Something about your
. Foundling Origin d6 Origin 1 You were found as a baby by a family of nomadic giants who raised you as one of their own. 2 A family of stone giants rescued you when you fell into a mountain chasm
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)
. Perhaps you had a secure and mundane childhood. There’s no good story to be told about that, so you might paint yourself as an orphan raised by a hag in a dismal swamp. Or your childhood might be worthy of
young runaway or orphan, befriended by a wandering bard who became your mentor. Or you might have been a spoiled noble child tutored by a master. Perhaps you stumbled into the clutches of a hag, making a bargain for a musical gift in addition to your life and freedom, but at what cost?
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
chose to join this house. As a half-orc with the Mark of Finding, you could be a child of the Marches with a strong tie to the house, or you could be a scion of a small tribe of hunters, proud of your
, building towns and working with steel. If you were raised in one of the clans, the ways of civilization aren’t that strange to you; you’ve seen the city of Zarash’ak and worked with House Tharashk. By
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
cured. You are now haunted by the innocents you slaughtered. 7 A hag kidnapped and raised you. You escaped, but the hag still has a magical hold over you and fills your mind with evil thoughts. 8 You
opened an eldritch tome and saw things unfit for a sane mind. You burned the book, but its words and images are burned into your psyche. 9 A fiend possessed you as a child. You were locked away but
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
cursed with lycanthropy and later cured. You are now haunted by the innocents you slaughtered.
7 A hag kidnapped and raised you. You escaped, but the hag still has a magical hold over you and
possessed you as a child. You were locked away but escaped. The fiend is still inside you, but now you try to keep it bottled up.
10 You did terrible things to avenge the murder of someone you loved. You became a monster, and it haunts your waking dreams.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
child has secretly hidden and raised a red dragon wyrmling from an egg. The wyrmling is bonded to the child, but dangerous to anyone else.
5 A bound fire elemental serves as the guardian of an
raised there.
4 Ogres and ettins cowed by a young red dragon wander the foothills near the dragon’s lair, helping to drive away intruders.
5 A colony of mind flayers has captured and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
to usher a child into the world. They cannot understand how a birth is both a joy and a sorrow, a reunion and a parting. Each birth represents an elf soul that has been to Arvandor and returned
, are believed to have a special, intertwined destiny that can be fulfilled only if they are raised together. Elf legends are filled with tales of misfortune and tragedy that comes to pass when twins
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
. Perhaps you had a secure and mundane childhood. There’s no good story to be told about that, so you might paint yourself as an orphan raised by a hag in a dismal swamp. Or your childhood might be worthy of
young runaway or orphan, befriended by a wandering bard who became your mentor. Or you might have been a spoiled noble child tutored by a master. Perhaps you stumbled into the clutches of a hag, making a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
onlookers who compared your skill to Nylea’s.
4 Lost in the forest as a child, you were raised by wolves. Nylea intervened to teach you language and enable you to one day take your place in society as
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
her to the hidden city of Evereska. Her parents then realized their grave mistake. In pampering and sheltering their daughter, they had raised not a young lady but a spoiled child. Accustomed to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
Waterdeep’s politics.
Outlander You’re a child of the icy wilderness, born and raised in one of the Reghed tribes. Imagine, after following herds of migrating reindeer your whole life, getting a taste
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
exploits of your famous parent are widely known. Kids across the land grew up wishing they were you. But being the child of a famous adventurer wasn’t all hugs and kisses. You seldom saw your celebrity
Bond
1 While my parent was out adventuring, a servant raised me, and I care about that person more than anyone.
2 I consider every member of my parent’s former adventuring party to be
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
named Baba Lysaga. Although it was the former who raised Strahd and enabled him to follow in his father’s footsteps, it was the latter who sensed a potential for greatness and darkness in Strahd
has succeeded in staying alive to witness the triumphs of her beloved boy, who, in her mind, is eternally blessed. Despite the horrors Strahd has wrought, Lysaga still envisions him as the perfect child
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
with a late sovereign, a silver dragon vows to assist the sovereign’s newly crowned child.
6 Portraits have been vanishing from a silver dragon’s hoard, and the people depicted in the portraits
Dragon Wyrmling Connections d6 Connected Creatures
1 A silver dragon wyrmling is raised by giant eagles who have lost their own clutch of eggs.
2 A silver dragon wyrmling becomes the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
Although minotaurs aren’t evil by nature and are free to worship any god, many are raised among those devoted to Mogis’s vile whims. Myths tell that Mogis created the first minotaurs from his own
, believing that a child will inherit the strength, audacity, guile, or fearsomeness of a heroic namesake. Other minotaur parents invent their own names, though, believing in their child’s potential to light
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Domains of Delight: A Feywild Accessory
real name is Fug. He has a strong affection for Mishka (the only child in Loomlurch who doesn’t fear or mock him) and treats her like a younger sibling. He resists any attempt to remove the maggot that
afraid of my own reflection and avoid looking into mirrors. The Hall of Illusions terrifies me.”
Clapperclaw the Scarecrow
CHAPTER 2: HITHER
Despite the loss of its original head, this child
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
real name is Fug. He has a strong affection for Mishka (the only child in Loomlurch who doesn’t fear or mock him) and treats her like a younger sibling. He resists any attempt to remove the maggot
afraid of my own reflection and avoid looking into mirrors. The Hall of Illusions terrifies me.”
Clapperclaw the Scarecrow
CHAPTER 2: HITHER
Despite the loss of its original head, this child
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
atop a raised stone block in the middle of the floor. Both fixtures are draped in cobwebs. Frescoes. A character who inspects the wall frescoes and succeeds on a DC 10 Wisdom (Perception) check notices
a child and can easily imagine a scenario in which Dagult Neverember might use his son as his vassal. (The dragon knows nothing of the animosity between Renaer and his father.) The characters can try
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
between families can go on for generations, with fortunes and estates (and the position in the ordning that goes with them) passing back and forth repeatedly. What a parent loses, a child hopes someday
to win back, plus more; what the child wins back, a grandchild probably will eventually lose again. The tales that cloud giants tell of their ancestors are seldom about wars or magic or battles
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
Maelstrom Level 2 14. Great Hall Music fills this hall when the characters first arrive. The room is split into two levels; a 15-foot-high raised ledge hugs the walls to the north and east, and
believes that her father yet lives. When she was a child, her mother would take her on trips to the Sword Coast and the Moonshae Isles, where they met small folk who were generous and kind. Serissa
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
water is a large lily pad.
Creaky wooden floorboards are arranged in a ten-foot-wide raised walkway around the pool. This walkway is crowded with shelves, tables, and stools in all shapes and styles
are discarded blankets, quilts, cushions, and clothing of all shapes and sizes, not to mention musical instruments, toys, dolls, jewelry boxes, flower vases, child-sized caskets, and broken furniture
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
they obey the commands of whoever spoke the words that raised them, serving that individual until they’re destroyed or their master is killed. D18. Gas Buildup The ceiling of this flooded room is
brothers, Thurstwell and Amrik, who view him as a simpleton and an abomination. Half of Mortlock’s face was scarred by fire when he was a child, and his disfigurement gives him a fearsome countenance. He
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
, and lend a helping hand in unseen ways. In the guise of an animal, the dragon might befriend a lost child, a wandering minstrel, or an innkeeper, serving as a companion for days or weeks on end
dragons covet the lost outposts of humanoid civilization. An abandoned mountaintop citadel or a remote tower raised by a long-dead wizard is the sort of lair that every silver dragon dreams of. Lair






