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Tiefling
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Basic Rules (2014)
is the burden of every tiefling. Some break under it, some make it the millstone around their neck, some revel in it.” He tilted his head again, scrutinizing her, with that wicked glint in his
reflect their fiendish heritage. And some younger tieflings, striving to find a place in the world, adopt a name that signifies a virtue or other concept and then try to embody that concept. For some
Species
Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide
is the burden of every tiefling. Some break under it, some make it the millstone around their neck, some revel in it.” He tilted his head again, scrutinizing her, with that wicked glint in his
reflect their fiendish heritage. And some younger tieflings, striving to find a place in the world, adopt a name that signifies a virtue or other concept and then try to embody that concept. For some
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
Firbolg Names Firbolg adopt elven names when they must deal with outsiders, although the concept of names strikes them as strange. They know the animals and plants of the forest without formal names
, and instead identify the forest’s children by their deeds, habits, and other actions. By the same token, their tribe names merely refer to their homes. When dealing with other races, firbolgs refer
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)
the game. It includes information on the various races, classes, backgrounds, equipment, and other customization options that you can choose from. Many of the rules in part 1 rely on material in parts
2 and 3. If you come across a game concept in part 1 that you don’t understand, consult the book’s index. Part 2 (chapters 7–9) details the rules of how to play the game, beyond the basics described
Goliath
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Elemental Evil Player's Companion
the goliath concept of fair play.
A permanently injured goliath is still expected to pull his or her weight in the tribe. Typically, such a goliath dies attempting to keep up, or the goliath slips
, committed by the goliath. Goliaths assign and use nicknames with their friends of other races, and change them to refer to an individual’s notable deeds.
Goliaths present all three names when
Firbolg
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Volo's Guide to Monsters
adopt elven names when they must deal with outsiders, although the concept of names strikes them as strange. They know the animals and plants of the forest without formal names, and instead identify the
forest’s children by their deeds, habits, and other actions.
By the same token, their tribe names merely refer to their homes. When dealing with other races, firbolgs refer to their lands by
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
Background There exists an underwater abyss known as the Endless Nadir — a haunted place shunned by the aquatic races of the region, for this realm is the site of a submerged city of aboleths. For
aboleth mulled over the concept of Tharizdun in idle moments, and eventually those thoughts flowered into something alien and repulsive to most aboleths: religious faith.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
any case, a few renegade mind flayers do pursue arcane magic. Using some of the items or spells they discover, they can shield their minds as they aspire to break free of the elder brain’s control
power. Since they are capable of planar travel, illithids don’t view the afterlife and the Outer Planes in the mythic way that most other races do. Illithids don’t believe they possess souls whose
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
varied cultures and races, Faerûn is dominated by human lands, be they kingdoms, city-states, or carefully maintained alliances of rural communities. Interspersed among the lands of humans are old dwarven
extraplanar exploration, “Faerûn” is more than large enough of a concept for them to comprehend. Except in the most remote or insular places, Faerûnians are accustomed to seeing people of different
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
associated with different races or cultures. You decide how flexible you want to be in allowing a player character to break these restrictions. Can a half-elf live among the elves and study their bardic
, paladins might not swear their oaths to ideals, but instead swear fealty to powerful sorcerers. To capture this story concept, you could build a new paladin spell list with spells meant to protect
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
embodying a concept. Their final work was the Material Plane, where all ideas would become manifest: a realm that could know war and peace, life and death, order and chaos. But cruel Khyber sought ultimate
, this much is true: if the Overlords ever break their bonds, the consequences would be catastrophic. Over the course of millennia, numerous civilizations rose only to fall. Giants built mighty kingdoms
Kobold
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Volo's Guide to Monsters
races have little good to say about kobolds, but they do admit that the little reptilians do respectable tunnel work using simple tools. If a band of kobolds is enslaved by more powerful creatures
lack of emotional bonding means they have no concept of marriage or permanent family relationships. Their eggs are placed in a common tribal hatchery with no effort to keep track of who each one
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
Dinosaur Racing The city is famous for its weekly dinosaur races through the streets. Dinosaurs are painted in bright designs, and their riders try to steer them along a course that winds around the
harbor and the city’s four hills. Spectators are seldom injured, but it’s a dangerous sport for the dinosaurs and their riders. A typical race day has three races: one for four-legged beasts, one for
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron
important locations, events, organizations, races, and features of the Eberron campaign setting, this gives a sense of what a player character might know about the world, while providing additional character
options. Races of Eberron (3.5E): This sourcebook delves deeply into changelings, kalashtar, shifters, and warforged. It provides detailed information on the psychology, society, culture, behavior
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a4
other methods. Ingenuity is required. Super-Tetanus. A creature that contracts the disease of super-tetanus is wracked with pain as its heart races and its muscles spasm hard enough to break its bones
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Spelljammer: Adventures in Space->Light of Xaryxis
on nightspiders. The Ebonsnare is crewed by eight neogi pirates (see Boo’s Astral Menagerie) and twenty commoners of various races and alignments, whom the neogi have enslaved. The neogi also keep
bolts and mangonel stones, forcing it to break off its attack and make for the cover of the asteroids.
The newly arrived space galleons are the Stalwart and the Incorrigible, both under the command
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sage Advice Compendium
weapons appear in a campaign. Does this versatility extend outside the melee theme of the feature? It sure does, but we’re willing to occasionally bend a design concept if doing so is likely to increase
. Does using a bonus action break invisibility from a warlock’s One with Shadows invocation? Taking a bonus action breaks the invisibility of a warlock’s One with Shadows. A bonus action is an action.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
fit. The Astral Plane would be their home domain, because in that timeless realm they could ignore the need for food, water, and other mundane concerns that plague lesser races. Vlaakith also
innermost court — the wondrous realm that Gith discovered in her journeys, and where she awaits those who have proven themselves worthy. Imagine you lack any concept of family. You’re constantly told that
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Fiendish Folio Volume 1
you receive a cancer diagnosis or a similar health news, you probably appreciate that concept a little more than other people. Watching someone you love waste away is a terrible thing. You want a
despair, to let a disease break your spirit as it tries to kill everyone it touches. Well, f*** that. We might not have the magic bullet that puts cancer away for good, but we’re getting there. Your support
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
peace. The conflicts, the anger, and the pain of the long war remain, however, and the new nations seek every advantage as they prepare for the next war to break out on the continent. Dragonmarked
called dragonshards, dragonmarks can be made more powerful, elementals can be controlled and harnessed, and magic items can be crafted and shaped. New Races. In addition to the common player character
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
blows over their differences. Kobolds choose mates primarily for convenience. Their lack of emotional bonding means they have no concept of marriage or permanent family relationships. Their eggs are
other humanoid races. At 6 years old a kobold is considered an adult. Most succumb to violence, accidents, or disease by age 20, but a kobold can live for up to 120 years — a longevity they attribute to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
where a giant stands among his or her ilk. Traditionally, storm giants have stood at the top of the ordning. Tall and powerful, they struggle to keep the weaker races of giants from despoiling the
shattered the ordning between the giants to break his “children” out of their complacency, pitting the six giant types against one another while keeping some semblance of order within each type. In
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
of giant and try to break from the ordning by exceeding those standards. A strong stone giant, for example, might try to claim a place within the frost giants’ ordning. Third, giants who turn from the
otherwise enjoy in the ordning. When giants join the cults of demon lords, they reject the entire concept of the ordning—the idea that there is any kind of order to the multiverse at all, which is the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
Father. They bind prisoners with tough cords of gut, each with 2 hit points and requiring a successful DC 17 Strength check to break. The Enemy of My Enemy On the way to Sloobludop after the previous
Underdark, and the fish-folk continue to do so out of habit or some deep-seated need. Certainly, their relative usefulness to the other races of the Underdark has served the kuo-toa well. Only the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
in a city or town dominated by another race. Everything Has a Story As do many other races, halflings enjoy accumulating personal possessions. But unlike with most other races, a halfling’s idea of
, over time, halflings who pursue a dark path — especially those who break too many oaths or hurt other halflings along the way — lose the protection of Yondalla and the other halfling gods. Some say
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
number of different arguments: Even if the aboleths can enslave the kraken now, the creature is still growing and will eventually break free of their control. Even a gang of aboleths is no match for a
argument with highly intelligent alien minds, they can lead the aboleths toward one option or the other with a successful DC 20 group Charisma (Persuasion) check. If negotiations break down or if the
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
–30: Fleetswake This festival celebrates the sea, maritime trade, and the gods of the sea, navigation, and weather. It spans the last tenday of Ches, and includes a series of boat races, the
sense of shared activities of plowing fields and moving (or “running”) livestock. But within the city, the holiday is celebrated with a series of races. Foot, horse, and chariot races are run through
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
defense of Goldenfields. Stationed at each post are thirty scouts (NG males and females of various races and ethnicities) two-thirds of whom are on duty at any given time. The rest are asleep in their
differentiating it from its neighbors. Most of Goldenfields’ workers are human commoners. A handful of peaceful Chauntea worshipers (NG male and female druids of various races and ethnicities) live and work
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
of the guards are human, with a sprinkling of shield dwarves, half-orcs, and other races. A sheriff’s deputy named Augrek Brighthelm (see appendix D) often stands watch at the southwest gate. She
the most exorbitant rates in town. (His prices for room and board are double those listed in the Player’s Handbook.) Scramsax often cuts a break for customers who are between jobs, allowing them to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
down the stairs, races along the tunnels of the lower level, up into area B8, and through the secret door into area B7 to alert Lord Viallis. B4. Office The lack of a door along the stairs to the
” sidebar for additional guidance on how to portray this villain. A grell and two cultists stand beside Lord Viallis but break off from the ritual to repel intruders, leaving him to finish it alone. At the
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
overlook. The hours are very flexible, you get a 20 percent discount in the gift shop, you get a bathroom break every four hours as long as you ask your supervisor first. And sometimes if you go into the
malfunctioning magic, and so forth. The DM approves the headquarters concept and decides how large or small the initial structure can be, as well as any useful features. DMs and players can work together
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
three items in Dagdra’s cart as the dwarf races around the warehouse. The items are found and collected regardless of the success or failure of the checks. But if the characters fail three or more of
mouth should be — with those tentacles oddly tied into a stylish handlebar mustache. The creature wordlessly looks at two archers accompanying it, who draw their bows. Its three other companions break
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur’s Gate Gazetteer
-chopped Avery is usually happy to chat with customers and other alchemical enthusiasts on the lower floors. At the moment, however, Avery is visibly troubled. Recently, someone managed to break into
up in the Seatower. While the Fist treats the prison as something of an afterthought, any trying to break in or out of the dungeons still have their work cut out for them. Only the upper cells have
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
, however, Avery is visibly troubled. Recently, someone managed to break into the upper workshop while he was sleeping and steal four kegs of smokepowder. In their place, he found a drawing of a phoenix
trying to break in or out of the dungeons still have their work cut out for them. Only the upper cells have windows, and anyone trying to break through the walls of the lower cells risks catastrophic
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
of them, and fill out papers with their names, races, ages, heights, eye color, skills, and home cities. The same information is also entered in a large ledger. Inquiries about other visitors are met
sound an alarm if someone tries to break into the storehouse. The chamber contains thirty 5-gallon casks. Eight of them hold Wyrmwizz, a muddy swill, and the rest are empty. 21k. Captains’ Barracks The