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Spelljammer: Adventures in Space
exist or where they came from, but the most popular hypothesis is that they are the creations of some long-forgotten god. Zodars interact with other sapient creatures in a manner that goes beyond mere
each zodar has a specific mission and is relentless in its pursuit of the goal, but it reacts oddly to situations that don’t involve its mission because it doesn’t know what else to do
Species
Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
sensations or visions of the past to come rushing back.
Rather than sleeping, reborn regularly sit and dwell on the past, hoping for some revelation of what came before. Most of the time, these are dark
, silent stretches. Occasionally, though, in a moment of peace, stress, or excitement, a reborn gains a glimpse of what came before. When you desire to have such a dreamlike vision, roll on the Lost
Monsters
Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
gnolls. Their noses can’t stand the scent of perfumes, and their ears can’t abide words spoken aloud in Celestial. They don’t cast reflections in mirrors unless they want to.
Unlike
normal vampires, gnoll vampires don’t have coffins where they rest, and they have no such places to return to when their corporeal bodies are destroyed. They are undeterred by running water, and
Dwarf
Legacy
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Species
Basic Rules (2014)
“Yer late, elf!” came the rough edge of a familiar voice. Bruenor Battlehammer walked up the back of his dead foe, disregarding the fact that the heavy monster lay on top of his elven
friend. In spite of the added discomfort, the dwarf’s long, pointed, often-broken nose and gray-streaked though still-fiery red beard came as a welcome sight to Drizzt. “Knew I’d find
Spells
Xanathar's Guide to Everything
for the sixth time, it is released, and the spell ends. While a soul is trapped, the dead humanoid it came from can’t be revived.
Steal Life. You can use a bonus action to drain vigor from
;You can use a bonus action to bolster yourself with the soul’s life experience, making your next attack roll, ability check, or saving throw with advantage. If you don’t use this benefit
Backgrounds
Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus
nomad, an explorer, a recluse, a hunter-gatherer, or even a marauder. Even in places where you don’t know the specific features of the terrain, you know the ways of the wild.
Skill
gates, but finding clues in an urban environment is very different from tracking someone across the wilderness. You don’t know where to go from here, but your people need you to succeed.
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Backgrounds
Tomb of Annihilation
, rituals, religious beliefs, languages, and art, you have learned how tribes, empires, and all forms of society in between craft their own destinies and doom. This knowledge came to you not only through
;
Cultural Chameleon
Before becoming an adventurer, you spent much of your adult life away from your homeland, living among people different from your kin. You came to understand these foreign cultures
Cleric
Legacy
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Classes
Basic Rules (2014)
power of the gods, flowing from them into the world. Clerics are conduits for that power, manifesting it as miraculous effects. The gods don’t grant this power to everyone who seeks it, but only
expected to protect their deities’ worshipers, which can mean fighting enemy raiders, negotiating peace between warring nations, or sealing a portal that would allow a demon prince to enter the world
Species
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
and from out of the corner of your eye, they came to the Material Plane, urged to spread throughout the multiverse by the conquering god Maglubiyet. Centuries later, they still bear a fey gift for
. These types don’t have rules themselves, but some rules in the game affect creatures of certain types in different ways. For example, the cure wounds spell doesn’t work on a Construct or
Species
Spelljammer: Adventures in Space
to fend for yourself.
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A glitch caused you to forget your original programming. You don’t remember who made you or where you came from.
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You didn’t like how you were being
, Celestial, Construct, Dragon, Elemental, Fey, Fiend, Giant, Humanoid, Monstrosity, Ooze, Plant, Undead. These types don’t have rules themselves, but some rules in the game affect creatures of
Orc
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Species
Volo's Guide to Monsters
infirm. Orcs don’t revere their gods as much as they fear them; every tribe has superstitions about how to avert their wrath or bring their favor. This deep-seated uncertainty and fear comes forth
three gods are a tribe’s raiders and ravagers—often the only part of an orc tribe that its victims ever see.
Deep within the den of a tribe, far away from the war-hearth where warriors
Backgrounds
Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide
course, you followed an equally long route when you came north from your place of birth. Though it isn’t unusual for Zakharans to visit the southern extremes of Faerûn for trading purposes, few
strong code of honor or sense of propriety that others don’t comprehend.
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I express affection or contempt in ways that are unfamiliar to others.
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I begin or end my day with small
Backgrounds
Guildmasters’ Guide to Ravnica
.
Flaws
d6
Flaw
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My family is prominent in another guild. I enjoy my wild life, but I don’t want to embarrass them.
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I couldn’t hide my emotions and opinions
in a show. We’ve been on good terms ever since.
5
I came from the Gruul and still have relatives there.
6
An Izzet technician provides pyrotechnics for my performances.
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An
Backgrounds
Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide
, however, finding a dwarf master who was willing to receive potential apprentices who came with your recommendation.
Skill Proficiencies: History, InsightTool Proficiencies: One type of
’m rude to people who lack my commitment to hard work and fair play.
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I like to talk at length about my profession.
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I don’t part with my money easily and will haggle
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tyranny of Dragons
Seek the Keep Characters have random encounters with raiders when they enter Greenest, but this one should be their first mission of the chapter. It begins when a terrified human family (father
race across the street into more shadows, and a woman carrying a round shield and a broken spear turns and faces back in the direction from which they came. Seven kobolds stream out of the alley on the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Hoard of the Dragon Queen
Seek the Keep Characters have random encounters with raiders when they enter Greenest, but this one should be their first mission of the chapter. It begins when a terrified human family (father
race across the street into more shadows, and a woman carrying a round shield and a broken spear turns and faces back in the direction from which they came. Seven kobolds stream out of the alley on the
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
other nature protectors who don’t understand the dragons’ proclivity for destroying large swaths of countryside. Beyond that, topaz dragons dislike company and grow irritated when disturbed
that comes into my territory has forfeited its right to be upset by anything I do to it. (Evil)
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Wonder. Though I don’t wish to spend time in it, my soul sings at the sight of the vast
Backgrounds
Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide
among the people as living embodiments of his power. Perhaps they needed a reminder of who they were and from whence they came. The Chosen of Uthgar led bands back to the old ways, and most of your people
societies.
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Violence is my answer to almost any challenge.
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Don’t expect me to save those who can’t save themselves. It is nature’s way that the strong thrive and the weak perish.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen
few raiders. She’s eager to hear advice from the characters and others about how to address this potential threat. At the outset, Raven is inclined to draft a letter to the commander of the camp to
soldiers loyal to Gragonis but who didn’t have orders to participate in the reenactment. During the night, Jeyev’s scouts came across a large military force to the northwest of the village, much too
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Hoard of the Dragon Queen
and fell in with the raiders when they retreated, hoping to learn more about the cult’s plans and the location of their camp. Rezmir spotted him after the sun came up, and the monk was quickly
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
Orcs Orcs are burly raiders with prominent lower canines that resemble tusks. Gruumsh One-Eye. Orcs worship Gruumsh, the mightiest of the orc deities and their creator. The orcs believe that in
whence they came, their bloodlust satisfied. Ranging Scavengers. Their lust for slaughter demands that orcs dwell always within striking distance of new targets. As such, they seldom settle permanently
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tyranny of Dragons
raiding party and walking wounded straggle into camp all through the day after the raid. The situation at the camp is confused, and security is lax. Most of these raiders are mercenaries and bandits
, and not even the dedicated cultists wear recognizable uniforms on raids. No one challenges latecomers for passwords or security signals. Put simply, the raiders are confident that no enemies followed
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
involve themselves in. Erebos’s Quests d6 Adventure Goal
1 Capture a hero who came back to Theros as a Returned and send them back to the Underworld.
2 Find out why those who die in a
there, they might be drawn into helping Erebos maintain the line between life and death by fighting against Returned raiders. Champions of Erebos who want to maintain a moral code separate from that of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen
: Meeting. A Knight of Solamnia saves a group of elf travelers from ogre raiders. An elf woman falls into the knight’s arms. Behind him, the silhouette of a human woman turns and fades away. Disgraced. The
first vision. They taunt him and point back the way he came. The knight slays them and turns back home in a rage. Confrontation. The knight slays his wife as the world around him crumbles and burns. The
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Lost Mine of Phandelver
, friendly young human male named Toblen Stonehill. Toblen is a native of the town of Triboar to the east. He came to Phandalin to prospect, but soon realized that he knew a lot more about running an inn
, a gossipy barmaid: “Daran Edermath, the orchard keeper, is a former adventurer.” (See the “Edermath Orchard” section for more information.) Lanar, a miner: “Orc raiders have been seen on the east
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
Investigating the Monastery Unlike the flamboyant Feathergale Knights or the aggressive raiders of Rivergard Keep, the monks of the Sacred Stone Order keep a low profile. They quietly recruit
area M9). Disguises The Sacred Stone monks normally wear hooded robes and gargoyle masks made of gilded tin that cover their faces. If the characters acquire these articles, they can don the monks
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tyranny of Dragons
fell in with the raiders when they retreated, hoping to learn more about the cult’s plans and the location of their camp. Rezmir spotted him after the sun came up, and the monk was quickly overpowered
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
the camp grew, a wooden palisade was added to discourage raiders. Later came the stone castle of Caer-Konig. Alas, neither the palisade nor the castle fared well; both fell to orcs before falling into
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Hoard of the Dragon Queen
, and slower members of the raiding party and walking wounded straggle into camp all through the day after the raid. The situation at the camp is confused and security is lax. Most of these raiders are
mercenaries and bandits, and not even the dedicated cultists wear recognizable uniforms on raids. No one challenges latecomers for passwords or security signals. Put simply, the raiders are confident
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
. When the ogre attuned to it, the headband grew in size, allowing him to don it. As a genius, the ogre felt compelled to learn the error of his ways and seek out a better life. He adopted the name Little
One, to honor the poor halfling whose life he cut short. Shunned by polite society, Little One came to Candlekeep hoping to learn as much as he can. He’s a quiet but popular fixture in the fortress, and the monks are always saying hello to him and recommending new books for him to read.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Lost Mine of Phandelver
Road to the Triboar Trail, which heads east (as shown on the overland map). When they’re a half-day’s march from Phandalin, they run into trouble with goblin raiders from the Cragmaw tribe. Read the
: Encourage the players to introduce their characters to each other if they haven’t done so already. Ask the players to think about how their characters came to know their dwarf patron, Gundren
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
sizable, snakelike tracks nearby, suggesting the travelers were killed by salamanders. The tracks lead toward the Gate of Illumination, with a few dropped prickly pears along the path—offerings the raiders
attacked first, but he blocks the characters’ way and tries to frighten them into returning the way they came. Calming the giant and convincing him to talk requires either a successful DC 14 Charisma
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron
. Today, there are four primary goblinoid cultures in Khorvaire. City Goblins Goblins are found in most of the major cities of the Five Nations. When humans first came to Khorvaire, they enslaved many
strife; when they weren’t fighting with Galifar or Zilargo, the tribes usually turned on one another. This came to an end with the Last War. House Deneith hired Ghaal’dar mercenaries, and this gave
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
years, as I earned Gyrt’s respect and she mine, we became friends, and I came to know her three sons as well. Though Gyrt died some decades ago, I still visit her children, whom I played with when they
view of the world and their place in it, their traditions and the laws they live by. I came to realize, as I came across other Uthgardt tribes in my travels, that much of what is true for the Elk tribe
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
. Characters who succeed on a DC 15 Wisdom (Insight) check can tell that she came alone. Istrid fears being arrested by the City Watch. Although she wasn’t involved in the matters concerning Gralhund Villa
against being double-crossed, Istrid shared her plan concerning the characters with at least one other member of the Doom Raiders (see appendix B). If the characters betray or harm Istrid, her former