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Player’s Handbook
) Gaming Set (same as above), Fine Clothes, Perfume, 29 GP; or (B) 50 GP
You were raised in a castle, surrounded by wealth, power, and privilege. Your family of minor aristocrats ensured that you received
a first-class education, some of which you appreciated and some of which you resented. Your time in the castle, especially the many hours you spent observing your family at court, also taught you a great deal about leadership.
Wizard
Legacy
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Classes
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, defined and united as a class by the spells they cast. Drawing on the subtle weave of magic that permeates the cosmos, wizards cast spells of explosive fire, arcing lightning, subtle deception, and brute
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What drew you forth from your life of study? Did your first taste of magical knowledge leave you hungry for more? Have you received word of a secret repository of knowledge not yet plundered by any
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
occupation or social class that frequents the establishment. This contact is delighted to talk with you, and to listen.
Variant Entertainer: Gladiator
A gladiator is as much an
Bard
Legacy
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, ensuring that her companions’ words will be well received. Whether scholar, skald, or scoundrel, a bard weaves magic through words and music to inspire allies, demoralize foes, manipulate minds
22 4 3 3 3 3 2 1 1 1 20th +6 Superior Inspiration 4 22 4 3 3 3 3 2 2 1 1 Class Features As a bard, you gain the following class features.
Warlock
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With a pseudodragon curled on his shoulder, a young elf in golden robes smiles warmly, weaving a magical charm into his honeyed words and bending the palace sentinel to his will. As flames spring to
20th +6 Eldritch Master 4 15 4 5th 8 Class Features As a warlock, you gain the following class features.
Backgrounds
Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus
Being who you are, you could never be a hero. Whether due to your class, your people, your family, or your sins, something about you prevents you from effectively pursuing the path you’ve
part of them expressed to an extreme. To define a persona, feel free to choose characteristics from other backgrounds, particularly folk hero, hermit, or noble. For the person behind the persona, the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
that class and race define. This section expounds on the details that distinguish characters from one another, including the basics of name and physical description, the rules of backgrounds and languages, and the finer points of personality and alignment.
Chapter 4: Personality and Background Characters are defined by much more than their race and class. They’re individuals with their own stories, interests, connections, and capabilities beyond those
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)
that class and race define. This chapter expounds on the details that distinguish characters from one another, including the basics of name and physical description, the rules of backgrounds and languages, and the finer points of personality and alignment.
Chapter 4: Personality and Background Characters are defined by much more than their race and class. They’re individuals with their own stories, interests, connections, and capabilities beyond those
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)
proficiencies: armor, weapons, skills, saving throws, and sometimes tools. Your proficiencies define many of the things your character can do particularly well, from using certain weapons to telling a convincing lie. On your character sheet, record all the features that your class gives you at 1st level.
2. Choose a Class bruenor Every adventurer is a member of a class. Class broadly describes a character’s vocation, what special talents he or she possesses, and the tactics he or she is most likely
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)
Hit Points and Hit Dice Your character’s hit points define how tough your character is in combat and other dangerous situations. Your hit points are determined by your Hit Dice (short for Hit Point
Dice). At 1st level, your character has 1 Hit Die, and the die type is determined by your class. You start with hit points equal to the highest roll of that die, as indicated in your class description
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player’s Handbook
family of minor aristocrats ensured that you received a first-class education, some of which you appreciated and some of which you resented. Your time in the castle, especially the many hours you spent observing your family at court, also taught you a great deal about leadership.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
world and take on the challenges that lesser women and men can’t stand against. Class is the primary definition of what your character can do. It’s more than a profession; it’s your character’s
calling. Class shapes the way you think about the world and interact with it and your relationship with other people and powers in the multiverse. A fighter, for example, might view the world in pragmatic
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
character of that class, including how to assign your highest ability scores, a background suitable to the class, and starting spells.
Hit Points and Hit Dice Your character’s hit points define how tough
2. Choose a Class Every adventurer is a member of a class. Class broadly describes a character’s vocation, what special talents he or she possesses, and the tactics he or she is most likely to employ
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
Levels 1-4: Local Heroes Characters in this tier are still learning the range of class features that define them, including their choice of specialization. But even 1st-level characters are heroes
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragon of Icespire Peak
Character Options Each player has options when it comes to choosing a character race, class, and background. These options are summarized in the Character Options table. If there are multiple players
— 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->Xanathar's Guide to Everything
Chapter 1: This Is Your Life The character creation rules in the Player’s Handbook provide all the information you need to define your character in preparation for a life of adventuring. What they
don’t do is account for all the circumstances that shaped your character during the years between your birth and the start of your career as a member of a class. What did your character accomplish or
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sage Advice Compendium
Multiclassing Are ability score improvements class-level dependent, rather than total level? Ability score improvements are based on your level in a particular class, not your total character level
if you multiclass. For instance, if you’re a 4th-level multiclass character, you haven’t yet received the Ability Score Improvement feature because you haven’t attained 4th level in one of your classes
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
delivering presentations in class. When she orates, one can almost imagine a hardened general marshaling her bloodied and exhausted troops for a final push against a far superior foe.
Rubina is part
of the Strixhaven Show Band Association and has moved from playing to conducting. No previous student conductor has demanded and received such unwavering respect as Rubina. With merely a look and a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player’s Handbook
. Ready Prepare to take an action in response to a trigger you define. Search Make a Wisdom (Insight, Medicine, Perception, or Survival) check. Study Make an Intelligence (Arcana, History
, Investigation, Nature, or Religion) check. Utilize Use a nonmagical object. Player characters and monsters can also do things not covered by these actions. Many class features and other abilities provide
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules
. Ready Prepare to take an action in response to a trigger you define. Search Make a Wisdom (Insight, Medicine, Perception, or Survival) check. Study Make an Intelligence (Arcana, History
, Investigation, Nature, or Religion) check. Utilize Use a nonmagical object. Player characters and monsters can also do things not covered by these actions. Many class features and other abilities provide
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->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
the minds or petrify the bodies of its victims. Death’s Head
Tiny Undead
Armor Class 16 (natural armor)
Hit Points 17 (5d4 + 5)
Speed 0 ft., fly 30 ft. (hover)
STR
8 (−1)
DEX
plus 7 (2d6) necrotic damage.
Mind-Bending Bite (Aberrant Head Only). Melee Weapon Attack: +3 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 4 (1d6 + 1) piercing damage plus 5 (1d10) necrotic damage, and the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
, Mordent is a quiet domain of peaceful country estates that sprawl across rolling moors. Landowners of the aristocratic class maintain a pretense of being the benevolent custodians of the land and
its hard-working farmers, fishers, and laborers. From the loftiest families to the lowliest workers, Mordent’s people cling to traditions that define the order of society and each person’s place in it
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
, and long branches bending downward to serve as its arms. When it is ready, the tree pulls its legs free from the clutching earth and joins its fellows in protecting its woodland home. Legendary
careless with fire, those who poison the forest, and those who destroy great trees, especially a tree close to awakening, face the treant’s wrath. Treant
Huge plant, chaotic good
Armor Class 16
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Eve of Ruin
victims more susceptible to the mind-bending phantoms the deathwolf can conjure. DEATHWOLVES IN DRAGONLANCE
On the world of Krynn, deathwolves are associated with Lunitari, Krynn’s red moon and the god of
illusion and trickery.
Deathwolf Medium Undead, Typically Chaotic Evil
Armor Class 15 (natural armor)
Hit Points 153 (18d8 + 72)
Speed 40 ft.
STR
20 (+5)
DEX
16 (+3)
CON
18 (+4)
INT
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron
find challenges worthy of a hero. In creating a Valenar, think about your patron ancestor. Your class should reflect their class; if you’re a wizard, your ancestor was likely a legendary archmage. If
opportunity to purchase one. If you’re an elf, your blade could have a long and storied history. If you’re not an elf, you might have stolen the weapon from a fallen foe or received it from a dying
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
Skill Variants A skill dictates the circumstances under which a character can add his or her proficiency bonus to an ability check. Skills define those circumstances by referring to different aspects
proficiency in two abilities: one tied to the character’s class and one tied to the character’s background. The Ability Proficiencies by Class table suggests a proficiency for each class, and you choose which
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Lost Mine of Phandelver
, bending eastward as it goes. A waterfall sounds out from a larger cavern somewhere ahead of you.
If the characters didn’t spot the bridge while navigating area 4, they spot it now. Add: A rickety
-high walls are rough but slick with spray, requiring a successful DC 15 Strength (Athletics) check to climb. The bridge has an Armor Class (AC) of 5 and 10 hit points. If the bridge is reduced to 0 hit
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
Asian martial-arts movies is a perfect match for D&D. Players can define the appearance of their characters and gear however they like for the campaign, and spells need only minor flavor changes so
actions in the game don’t change the nuts and bolts of the rules, but they make all the difference in the feel of a campaign. Similarly, a class doesn’t need new rules to reflect a cultural influence; a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything
Character and Party Creation Each player has options when it comes to choosing a character race, class, and background, though you may restrict certain options that are deemed unsuitable for the
include multiple backgrounds, as sometimes it’s fun to play an all-soldier party or a troupe of adventuring entertainers. The backgrounds they choose define who their characters were before becoming
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
, chalking disappearances and deaths up to the innumerable dangers of the sea. Triton Shorestalker
Medium humanoid (triton), neutral evil
Armor Class 13
Hit Points 32 (5d8 + 10)
Speed 30 ft
damage.
Triton Master of Waves Triton masters of waves sculpt storms and change the tides, bending the sea to their will. Drawing forth living currents and the icy cold of the deep, these mages
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Forge of the Artificer
. Ghash Duurkat Though he hasn’t yet received a professorship (he carries the title of lecturer in the history department), Ghash Duurkat (Lawful Neutral Hobgoblin Captain) remains a popular sensation at
Morgrave. A hobgoblin who wears traditional battle armor to every class, Duurkat is a boisterous lecturer. But despite the theatrics, his knowledge of Dhakaani history is unmatched. A rakshasa
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
one another by means of a humming sound created by skin vibrations. Seekers of Magic. Tomb tappers received their colloquial name from their habit of burrowing into the depths to plunder tombs, temples
of earth elementals, believing that they come directly from this source, and are reluctant to attack them. Tomb Tapper
Huge construct, lawful neutral
Armor Class 17 (natural armor)
Hit Points
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monstrous Compendium Volume One: Spelljammer Creatures
Eldritch Lich From beyond the stars, a Great Old One whispers promises of reality-defying knowledge and world-bending power. When a wizard or a warlock hears that whisper and listens too intently
, the lich uses its telepathy to share those whispers with the minds around it. Eldritch Lich
Medium Undead, Typically Neutral Evil
Armor Class 17 (natural armor)
Hit Points 165 (22d8 + 66
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monsters of the Multiverse
. Fraz-Urb’luu can create dreamlands and mind-bending fantasies able to deceive the most discerning foes. Once imprisoned for centuries below Castle Greyhawk on the world of Oerth, Fraz-Urb’luu has
Large Fiend (Demon), Chaotic Evil
Armor Class 18 (natural armor)
Hit Points 337 (27d10 + 189)
Speed 40 ft., fly 40 ft.
STR
29 (+9)
DEX
12 (+1)
CON
25 (+7)
INT






