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Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse
. If the target is a creature, the conduit can choose one of the following additional effects (up to once per turn each):
Incapacitate. The target must succeed on a DC 15 Constitution saving throw or
Transcendent Order train to act without thinking, eliminating thought behind action. Conduits react with the cadence of the multiverse. Their sharp reflexes border on precognition, allowing them to unconsciously act before their foes.
Wizard
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Classes
Basic Rules (2014)
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Creating a Wizard
Creating a wizard character demands a backstory dominated by at least one extraordinary event. How did your character first come into contact with magic? How did you discover you had
, Intelligence should be your highest ability score, followed by Constitution or Dexterity. If you plan to join the School of Enchantment, make Charisma your next-best score. Second, choose the sage
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)
Lifestyle Expenses Between adventures, you choose a particular quality of life and pay the cost of maintaining that lifestyle, as described in chapter 5. Living a particular lifestyle doesn't have a
huge effect on your character, but your lifestyle can affect the way other individuals and groups react to you. For example, when you lead an aristocratic lifestyle, it might be easier for you to influence the nobles of the city than if you live in poverty.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
Lifestyle Expenses Between adventures, you choose a particular quality of life and pay the cost of maintaining that lifestyle. Living a particular lifestyle doesn't have a huge effect on your
character, but your lifestyle can affect the way other individuals and groups react to you. For example, when you lead an aristocratic lifestyle, it might be easier for you to influence the nobles of the city than if you live in poverty.
Goblin
Legacy
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Species
Volo's Guide to Monsters
appreciation for the finer things!
— Volo
Goblins occupy an uneasy place in a dangerous world, and they react by lashing out at any creatures they believe they can bully. Cunning in battle and
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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
Orc
Legacy
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Species
Volo's Guide to Monsters
who serve Yurtrus and Shargaas. Some are sent forth into the cities dominated by humans, on dark missions. Beware them.
— Elminster
Search, Destroy, Repeat
When a tribe is on the move, orc
orcs can be dominated by evil creatures of immense power, and they accept this subservient role either because they are forced to or because it offers them a measure of security while they engage in
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
Developing a Darklord Darklords are villains because of what they choose to do, not because of who they were. As you refine your idea for a Darklord, determine what deeds a Darklord committed, who
future Darklord realize that they were losing any hope of redemption, yet choose to commit other heinous acts in keeping with their flaw? What evil act was so atrocious that the future Darklord’s
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player’s Handbook
imagine. How does your character react to those situations?
This advice comes with one important caveat: avoid character choices that ruin the fun of the other players and the DM. Choose actions that delight you and your friends.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules
imagine. How does your character react to those situations?
This advice comes with one important caveat: avoid character choices that ruin the fun of the other players and the DM. Choose actions that delight you and your friends.
Kobold
Legacy
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Species
Volo's Guide to Monsters
dominated by his emotions—intelligent, but not wise. Arrogant and prone to gloating, he carries grudges, has a huge chip on his shoulder, and spends a lot of time fashioning elaborate revenge scenarios
, giving each individual and every generation a reason to feel pride and self-respect. The kobolds prefer to run away than fight, to live off the scraps of others, and they are often dominated by larger
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
Legendary Resistance (3/Day). If the dragon fails a saving throw, it can choose to succeed instead.
Shift Perception (1/Day). The dragon can cast hallucinatory terrain, requiring no spell components
know of places of power near their lairs and keep detailed records of how phenomena connected to those sites react to outside influences. They also avidly collect magic items and spells that create
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
Legendary Resistance (3/Day). If the dragon fails a saving throw, it can choose to succeed instead.
Tunneler. The dragon can burrow through solid rock at half its burrowing speed and can leave a 20
of power near their lairs and keep detailed records of how phenomena connected to those sites react to outside influences. They also avidly collect magic items and spells that create illusions
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Morte’s Planar Parade
Transcendent Order Conduit Members of the Transcendent Order train to act without thinking, eliminating thought behind action. Conduits react with the cadence of the multiverse. Their sharp reflexes
choose one of the following additional effects (up to once per turn each):
Incapacitate. The target must succeed on a DC 15 Constitution saving throw or have the incapacitated condition until the end
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual
between planes of existence. In these lairs, aboleths dream of epochs past, collect throngs of psychically dominated servants, consume the minds of unwitting victims, and prepare for their return to
power. Aboleths’ alien goals and methods are often mysterious to other creatures. Roll on or choose a result from the Aboleth Schemes table to inspire an aboleth’s schemes. Aboleth Schemes 1d6 The
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
Creating a Wizard Creating a wizard character demands a backstory dominated by at least one extraordinary event. How did your character first come into contact with magic? How did you discover you
, Intelligence should be your highest ability score, followed by Constitution or Dexterity. If you plan to join the School of Enchantment, make Charisma your next-best score. Second, choose the sage background
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
. The Path of Light teaches that this age is dominated by il-Lashtavar, “the great darkness that dreams.” This force poisons the world and promotes darkness. But all things change. If enough light can
Light, you must choose your side. As a lightbringer, you seek to spread hope and goodwill. As a shadow watcher, you hunt down and eliminate sources of darkness. Which path will you follow?
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
alternative to the five factions, you can use Eberron’s dragonmarked houses. If you do so, remember that many members of the houses don’t possess dragonmarks, and that even houses dominated by one race (the
half-elves of House Lyrandar, for example) include members of other races. When you start the adventure, have every character choose a dragonmarked house in addition to a race, class, and background
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Turn of Fortune’s Wheel
. Choose whichever one corresponds with the result from the “Reactivating X01” section. This determines how the characters’ actions and the released modrons affect the planes. Accurate On returning to
causes all modrons across the planes to react differently toward different philosophies or types of beings. The Multiversal Effects of Skewed Data table summarizes the new behavior of the vast majority
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
Darklord has a monstrous form. If so, in a few sentences, describe how the Darklord gained this form. You might also roll or choose an option from the Monstrous Transformations table to provide a twist on a
idealized form, though it’s made of an inorganic material or others react as if it were terrifying.
6 The Darklord’s body disintegrates, leaving only an animate heart, hand, gory ooze, or nervous
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Xanathar's Guide to Everything
. In these lands, ecclesiastical positions are dominated by a few bloodlines and preserved over generations. Why do so many celestial things have bird wings and infernal things have bat wings? It seems
higher, you can choose the new spell from the cleric spell list or the sorcerer spell list. You must otherwise obey all the restrictions for selecting the spell, and it becomes a sorcerer spell for you
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
imagination. It’s about picturing the towering castle beneath the stormy night sky and imagining how a fantasy adventurer might react to the challenges that scene presents. Dungeon Master (DM
gives way? Or cast a spell to carry them over the chasm? Then the DM determines the results of the adventurers’ actions and narrates what they experience. Because the DM can improvise to react to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)
imagination. It’s about picturing the towering castle beneath the stormy night sky and imagining how a fantasy adventurer might react to the challenges that scene presents. Dungeon Master (DM): After
way? Or cast a spell to carry them over the chasm? Then the DM determines the results of the adventurers’ actions and narrates what they experience. Because the DM can improvise to react to anything
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)
) White Cold 15 ft. cone (Con. save) Draconic Ancestry. You have draconic ancestry. Choose one type of dragon from the Draconic Ancestry table. Your breath weapon and damage resistance are determined by
twice at folk they interact with. But the small towns and villages that dot the countryside are different. The common folk aren’t accustomed to seeing members of these races, and they often react with curiosity, wariness, or wonder.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
this for certain, but they’ve just glimpsed a wereraven (see chapter 5). They have no way of stopping the mysterious creature. Again, ask the characters how they react. Those who approach the
down the trails sees their path shrouded in haze. Eventually, characters will proceed along one of the paths and into this fog. Regardless of which trail they choose, those who enter the fog vanish for a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
Adventures in I’Cath I’Cath presents two worlds: a reality of want and desperation, and a dream of beautiful control, both dominated by Tsien Chiang. The reality of I’Cath is an inescapable ghost
wakes from the dream and attempts to set I’Cath on fire, believing it’s better for everything to burn than to live a lie. The characters must choose how to contend with the murderous arsonist.
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Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
cogwork archivists (see chapter 7) move to attack the offending students. It’s unclear why the archivists react so aggressively. Firebreak On the night of the masquerade, the hall will be lit with
the day’s preparations. Choose a character and have them make a DC 16 Intelligence (Investigation) check. On a successful check, they notice that one of the devices is faulty. On a failed check, the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragon of Icespire Peak
Quests” and “Follow-Up Quests” below). Let the players choose which quest to complete first, second, third, and so on. If the players don’t like a particular quest, they are under no obligation to complete
characters embark on a journey to a location, go to the section of this book that describes that location in detail. For example, if the players choose to undertake the Umbrage Hill Quest, go to the “Umbrage
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
— l promise to serve and guide you as your seneschal until you grow comfortable with the position.” Then, before the stunned trio could react, the Lord of the Dead asked, “Who among you shall rule
skulls, he found that the trio had just finished a game of knucklebones.
Bane cried out triumphantly, “As winner, I choose to rule for all eternity as the ultimate tyrant. I can induce hatred and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
least make it momentarily predictable. And, I fear, suspicious of thee. Ye could choose an easier career than adventuring.
— Elminster
Use Antimagic Freely Although a beholder can’t use its rays on
Actions The beholder’s ability to use legendary actions effectively doubles the number of times it can shoot rays in a round. Each legendary action a beholder takes gives it an opportunity to react to a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
dormant but its mind never stops working. The creature is fully aware, even though to an outside observer it might appear oblivious of its surroundings. Sometimes a beholder’s dreams are dominated by
fear that any creature not under its direct control is working for an enemy. Most known beholders who choose to interact with humanoid society in any way are eye tyrants. For an example of an eye
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
from which you can choose adventure elements or roll randomly for inspiration. As with location-based adventures, you don’t necessarily have to follow these steps in order. Vampire Villain
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from those actions, think about how the adventurers are likely to react. If they can prevent an action or hamper its success, what effect does that have on the villain’s overall plan? What can the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
choose to honor that enemy by giving it the same treatment. The bodies of orcs that die in a failed battle are left behind; they were weak and don’t deserve to join Gruumsh. Those that die of old age
commodity that the cult prizes. Not all orc weaklings are taken by those who serve Yurtrus and Shargaas. Some are sent forth into the cities dominated by humans, on dark missions. Beware them.
— Elminster
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Heroes of the Borderlands
encounter on the trail. Alternatively, you can forgo rolling and simply choose an encounter from the table.
Theater of the Mind. While the “Bandit Ambush” encounter later in this region uses a map
React. In combat, the characters and the bandits act on their turns. Use the D&D Beyond Basic Rules to run this encounter.
Treasure. Stashed in the bushes are the recent ill-gotten gains stolen
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
Goblins Goblins occupy an uneasy place in a dangerous world, and they react by lashing out at any creatures they believe they can bully. Cunning in battle and cruel in victory, goblins are fawning
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 was conquered by Maglubiyet, after all
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
leads up to area F2 in the Fane of the Eye. The rough walls can be climbed safely. N2. Deadly Pool The temperature plunges in this cave, which is dominated by a frozen pool. Ice crystals glitter on the
feeds through the alcoves and fissures of faraway caves.
Occasionally, while here, one or more characters hear whispered lies or hateful howls, as many times as you wish. Whispered Lies. Choose an NPC