before borders dying core rebuke

Life in the Big City

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Guildmasters' Guide to Ravnica

tremendous scope of its sprawl, and its borders (if it has any) are unknown, except possibly to those who live near the edges. The story of Ravnica focuses on its core. Sometimes called the city proper

, this core is divided into ten districts, each of which is a huge urban environment in its own right. The districts are named in simple numerical order from the First to the Tenth. No correlation

It's Your World

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)

It’s Your World In creating your campaign world, it helps to start with the core assumptions and consider how your setting might change them. The subsequent sections of this chapter address each

, but they’re not the only set of assumptions that can do so. You can build an interesting campaign concept by altering one or more of those core assumptions, just as well-established D&D worlds have done

Background

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Quests from the Infinite Staircase

Background Axel Defois A door to the Barrier Peaks Hundreds of years ago, an advanced society of Humanoid peoples launched a mission to find a replacement for their distant, dying world in the wake

of origin. During the voyage, the ship’s built-in computer went haywire. Core systems of the spacecraft—doors, navigation, and life support—began to degrade, and the robots aboard the vessel began

Core Assumptions

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)

Core Assumptions The rules of the game are based on the following core assumptions about the game world. Gods Oversee the World. The gods are real and embody a variety of beliefs, with each god

deny their existence. Much of the World Is Untamed. Wild regions abound. City-states, confederacies, and kingdoms of various sizes dot the landscape, but beyond their borders the wilds crowd in. People

Orc Legacy

Species Volo's Guide to Monsters

or less intact, the orcs leave themselves the option of returning to raid the community over and over. When orcs fight elves, all of that changes. The enmity between the two races cuts to the core

. These tenets vary from tribe to tribe, and are often based in events that the tribe has experienced. Here are a few examples: If a dwarf or a human invokes its god upon dying, you must carry the

Deathly Interludes

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros

symbolic or direct examples of their past failings and rebuke their old vices in a final, crystallizing act of growth. Funerary masks help the newly dead resist the erosion of memory and identity in the

character’s dead rivals could have known. Whatever a character learns during their temporary death, they can carry with them back into the mortal world. Such might make dying one of the most helpful things to happen in a character’s greater heroic career.

Life or Death

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Spelljammer: Adventures in Space->Light of Xaryxis

blowing up the star is what it takes to save the characters’ world, then Topolah is all for it. She reminds the characters that Xaryxis is dying anyway and observes that the opportunity to witness the

all-consuming core. Death of a Star When Xaryxis is destroyed, read: The star flares, becoming a thousand times brighter. Moments later, it is gone. The exploding star destroys everything within

Regaining Control of the Helm

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Fated Flight of the Recluse

, having fallen into the elemental ring, was absorbed into the airship’s elemental core. The spirit’s inhabitancy allows a creature occupying the Helm to bypass that station’s requirements and use the

skilled airship pilot, but he was cautious to a fault—a trait that played a large role in his demise. Instead of dying a noble death in battle, he fell overboard during a skirmish and into the ship’s

Ranger

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated

being a defender is core to your identity as a ranger. As a member of Acquisitions Incorporated, you channel your natural proclivity for protectiveness into a razor-sharp focus on the franchise. Pure

profit is never an end in and of itself, but whatever deep-seated personal goals you only ever talk about in the dead of night over a dying fire, those goals need financing. Your role as a defender and a

Membership

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Book of Many Things

for social interaction, material support, and the fulfillment of spiritual needs. The core tenet held by initiates—that they alone are destined to survive the apocalyptic end of all things and populate

personal issues, but the readings all point to the same conclusion: the world is dying, and the Heralds of the Comet offers the only way to endure its destruction. Aspirants are sometimes called Jesters

Above the Ashen Spires

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Fated Flight of the Recluse

is a plane of endless fire populated by Celestials and Fiends, who both embody the raw power and versatility of flame. The borders between the Material Plane and Fernia are thin in a manifest zone; the

Dragon Chase Complications 1 One random crew station powers down as waves of fear can be felt emanating from the elemental core powering the airship. The station can be reactivated if a creature

Black Cabin Locations

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden

dense chunk of coal at its core. The Summer Star has lost its luster but not its magic. A detect magic spell or similar magic reveals a weak, residual aura of transmutation magic surrounding it. The

first time a creature picks up the Summer Star, its core glows with a golden radiance as bright as a candle flame. Unless the creature drops the device immediately, the light suddenly blossoms, becoming

Dungeon Locations

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus

Hellish Rebuke reaction, which she can use twice per day (but only once before her next turn). If she is reduced to fewer than half her hit points, Thalamra tries to escape through the nearest secret door

die before consenting to ransom demands. When death finally takes her, Thalamra’s dying words to her killers are, “See you in hell.” Thalamra keeps two keys in a pocket of her dress. One key unlocks

Stone Giants

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters

, to serve as guards on the tribe’s most distant borders or as hunters that wander beyond those borders. As such, the stone giants that are first encountered by outsiders are almost always the least

the chamber inside each stone giant settlement where they “reside.” A dead (or sometimes merely dying) stone giant is carried into the ancestors’ chamber and leaned upright against the end of one of

Temples of Extraction

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a5

in this zone. 104. Temple of Savagery This chamber of red marble rings with the dying screams of humanoids. The sounds arouse feelings of violence. Creatures. A Red Wizard evoker (see appendix B

Nature The power of nature is stripped down to its most destructive core in this zone. 105. Temple of Plague A glowing green mist drifts around a shrine of binding in this white marble chamber. To the

The Seldarine

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes

core of divine entities remained loyal. Because they rejected Lolth’s treacherous ways, they retained their primal power and their immortality. Surface elves, and other elves who dwell in the light

over all such cycles, be it from season to season or cradle to grave. She is midwife to elf mothers, ushering souls into the world. She is also thought to stand beside dying elves, to greet their

Lambent Zenith Locations

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Eve of Ruin

to an end a few months ago when the ship collided with the body of a dying god. Strange Magic. The ship’s prow was outfitted with “fancy magic stuff” beyond the githyanki’s understanding. This magic

overwhelmingly foul stench fills this destroyed and empty room. Where the prow should be is a gaping hole leading into the putrid core of Havock’s heart. The rod piece was consumed by the hertilod lurking

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