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Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen
action. He otherwise uses the possessed target’s statistics but doesn’t gain access to the target’s knowledge, class features, or proficiencies.
The possession lasts until the body
’s swiftly pulled back if caught beyond its walls without a host.
Personality Trait. “I might be dead, but there’s no reason I can’t live it up a little.”
Ideal. &ldquo
Rogue
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Classes
Basic Rules (2014)
class, making a living as burglars, assassins, cutpurses, and con artists. Often, these scoundrels are organized into thieves’ guilds or crime families. Plenty of rogues operate independently, but
an angry thieves’ guild master? Or did you leave your guild in search of bigger risks and bigger rewards? Is it greed that drives you in your adventures, or some other desire or ideal? What
Giff
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Monsters
Mordenkainen’s Tome of Foes
own life. Life is fleeting, but the regiment endures for generations or even centuries.
A Whiff of Gunpowder. Muskets and grenades are the favorite weapons of every giff. The bigger the boom, the
brighter the flash, and the thicker the smoke it produces, the more giff love a weapon. Their skill with gunpowder is another reason for their popularity as mercenaries. Giff revel in the challenge of
Monsters
Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
time). Thus, she has no reason to capitulate to mortals’ demands. As the embodiment of winter’s cruelty, she is incapable of showing mercy or compassion. Play her as a supremely cold and
, define her.
Lesser gods in the D&D multiverse are extremely powerful and arrogant, but also fallible and blind to their own flaws. It’s appropriate for Auril to act as though she’s
Monsters
Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
can’t truly die (although the characters can rid the world of her for a time). Thus, she has no reason to capitulate to mortals’ demands. As the embodiment of winter’s cruelty, she is
demystifying her in the eyes of your players. Let her actions, not her words, define her.
Lesser gods in the D&D multiverse are extremely powerful and arrogant, but also fallible and blind to their
Backgrounds
Guildmasters’ Guide to Ravnica
guildless masses of the city.
Consider why you’re embedded in the secondary guild. Create a story with your DM, inspired by rolling on the following table or choosing a reason that suits you
.
d8
Reason for Infiltration
1
My parents belong to this guild, and I let them think I’m following in their footsteps.
2
I’ve been assigned to track this guild&rsquo
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
Species
Spelljammer: Adventures in Space
Hadozees’ progenitors were mammals no bigger than house cats. Hunted by larger natural predators, they took to the trees and evolved wing-like flaps that enabled them to glide from branch to
use to determine the scores, such as rolling or point buy.
The “Quick Build” section for your character’s class offers suggestions on which scores to increase. You’re free to
Monsters
Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
might prove helpful:
So long as she has mortal worshipers, Auril can’t truly die (although the characters can rid the world of her for a time). Thus, she has no reason to capitulate to mortals
. The less she talks, the less risk you have of unintentionally demystifying her in the eyes of your players. Let her actions, not her words, define her.
Lesser gods in the D&D multiverse are
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->Princes of the Apocalypse
is home to treants of gigantic size, stags with antlers as wide across as a wagon, brown bears bigger than large sheds, owlbears, wolves, and unicorns. Woodcutters and even outlaws on the run dare
trees that is an important meeting-place for the Emerald Enclave. Foes of the enclave have to fight to reach it, but members can readily find aid, healing, and advice in the grove. Reason to Visit
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->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
. Having been trained in his youth to fight ogres and trolls, he’s much more dangerous against creatures that are significantly bigger than he is. Elkhorn
Medium Humanoid (Dwarf), Lawful Good
Armor Class
. or range 20/60 ft., one target. Hit: 3 (1d4 + 1) piercing damage. If the target is a creature that is Large or bigger, it takes an extra 5 (1d10) piercing damage.
+1 Longsword. Melee Weapon Attack
Goblin
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Volo's Guide to Monsters
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Beast Masters and Slave Drivers
Goblins know they are a weak, unsophisticated race that can be easily dominated by bigger, smarter, more organized, more ferocious, or more magical creatures. Their god
the tribe. If the creature is dimwitted, like a troll or ogre, the lower-class goblins give it obeisance, but before long the upper-class goblins begin to think that whoever can bend the ear of the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
fractal as its mascot, and many a Quandrix student can be found playing fetch with a fractal companion in between lessons. Fractal Mascot
Small Construct, Typically Neutral
Armor Class 12
Hit
5 ft., one target. Hit: 3 (1d4 + 1) force damage, or 6 (2d4 + 1) force damage if the fractal is Medium or bigger.
Bonus Actions
Augment. The fractal’s size increases by one category. While the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
either spell with this trait, you can’t cast that spell with it again until you finish a short or long rest. Wisdom is your spellcasting ability for these spells. The Bigger They Are. Starting at 3rd
Spellcasting or the Pact Magic class feature, the spells on the Mark of Handling Spells table are added to the spell list of your spellcasting class. Mark of Handling Spells Spell Level Spells 1st
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->Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron
spell with this trait, you can’t cast that spell with it again until you finish a short or long rest. Wisdom is your spellcasting ability for these spells. The Bigger They Are. Starting at 3rd level
the Pact Magic class feature, the spells on the Mark of Handling Spells table are added to the spell list of your spellcasting class. Mark of Handling Spells Spell Level Spells
1st animal
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Guildmasters' Guide to Ravnica
size. Blistercoil Weird
Medium elemental, chaotic neutral
Armor Class 13
Hit Points 45 (7d8 + 14)
Speed 40 ft., swim 60 ft.
STR
16(+3)
DEX
16(+3)
CON
15(+2)
INT
available. While the weird is Large or bigger, it makes Strength checks and saving throws with advantage.
If the weird starts its turn at Gargantuan size, the weird releases energy in an explosion
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->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->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->Storm King's Thunder
Hulking Crab Much bigger than a giant crab, a hulking crab has a body 15 to 20 feet in diameter. Its shell is often covered with coral, anemones, ship wreckage, or some other sort of detritus
salvaged from the ocean floor. Hulking Crab
Huge Beast, Unaligned
Armor Class 17 (natural armor)
Hit Points 76 (8d12 + 24)
Speed 20 ft., swim 30 ft.
STR
19 (+4)
DEX
8 (–1)
CON
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->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
help each understand the other. All druids look after the natural world, but they act in different ways. Five well-established paths define most of Khorvaire’s druids. In creating a druid character
, consider whether you have ties to one of these traditions, and what led you to leave your order. Are you on a mission? Are you exploring the world? Have you been banished, with good reason or otherwise?
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
Armor and Shields D&D worlds are a vast tapestry made up of many different cultures, each with its own technology level. For this reason, adventurers have access to a variety of armor types, ranging
effectively, however. Your class gives you proficiency with certain types of armor. If you wear armor that you lack proficiency with, you have disadvantage on any ability check, saving throw, or attack
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
largest kruthik in the hive undergoes a metamorphosis, forming a cocoon around itself and emerging several weeks later as a hive lord — a bigger and smarter kruthik with the ability to spray digestive
acid from its maw. The hive lord claims the largest chamber of the lair and keeps several adult kruthiks nearby as bodyguards. Kruthik Hive Lord
Large monstrosity, unaligned
Armor Class 20
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
, however, endeavor to equip you with the tools to recognize nobility and to interact with the higher class. Spotting a Noble Nobility in Waterdeep are granted the right to bear arms. In the legal code
regale audiences with humor and song. Fabulous — that word doesn’t begin to describe it, especially when they enhance the merriment with magic.
The city is also a haven for those who define for
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->Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
covered in thick, shaggy hide, often in vibrant colors, such as sky blue or deep violet. Giant Ox Huge Fey, Unaligned
Armor Class 12 (natural armor)
Hit Points 105 (10d12 + 40)
Speed 40 ft
bigger than you tries to drain every drop of blood from your body. Nope, nope, nope. Time to go home.
—Bigby
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
knots around itself. “I unearthed this in the Fortress Badlands during my most recent expedition. Its creator and use remain uncertain. But by investigating the reason for its creation, we stand to
much about it yet. She suspects it was used as a magical focus by an ancient wizard she has yet to identify. A character who subtly casts detect magic in class learns the object exudes an aura of