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Classes
Basic Rules (2014)
treasure. Creating a Rogue As you create your rogue character, consider the character’s relationship to the law. Do you have a criminal past—or present? Are you on the run from the law or from
was the trigger that led you away from your previous life? Did a great con or heist gone terribly wrong cause you to reevaluate your career? Maybe you were lucky and a successful robbery gave you the
Urchin
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Backgrounds
Player’s Handbook (2014)
recuperate. You’ve survived despite all odds, and did so through cunning, strength, speed, or some combination of each.
You begin your adventuring career with enough money to live modestly but
will run away from a fight.
2
Gold seems like a lot of money to me, and I’ll do just about anything for more of it.
3
I will never fully trust anyone other than myself.
4
I&rsquo
Backgrounds
Guildmasters’ Guide to Ravnica
to begin your career as a mere attendant, you can aspire to become a skilled mage or alchemist, a laboratory supervisor, or even a flamethrower-wielding scorchbringer tasked with defending Izzet
suspension.
7
Great ideas are fine, but great results are what counts.
8
If you can guess what I’m about to do, that means I’ve run out of imagination.
Ideals
d6
Backgrounds
Guildmasters’ Guide to Ravnica
5th
dominate person
Your magic often takes the form of blue or golden runes floating and glowing in the air in circular patterns or of shimmering azure barriers of magical energy. If you
modeled my career after a highly respected lawmage or arrester, but I fear that my role model might be involved in something illegal.
Flaws
d6
Flaw
1
I’m
Backgrounds
Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus
.
You begin your adventuring career with enough money to live modestly but securely for at least ten days. How did you come by that money? What allowed you to break free of your desperate
important person, and I’m wanted for it.
6
No one else should have to endure the hardships I’ve been through.
d6
Flaw
1
If I’m outnumbered, I will run away
Backgrounds
Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus
No career criminal in Baldur’s Gate operates without being aware of the Guild. Some studiously keep a low profile, carrying just the occasional smuggled load in with legitimate merchandise, or
tail and run when things look bad.
6
An innocent person is in prison for a crime that I committed. I’m okay with that.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
provisions from Neverwinter to Phandalin. They’re a half-day’s march from Phandalin when they run into trouble with goblin raiders from the Cragmaw band. Read the following text to get the adventure
started. (If you’re using another adventure hook, skip to the second paragraph and adjust the details as necessary, ignoring the information about driving the cart.) You began your adventuring career in
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)
Creating a Rogue As you create your rogue character, consider the character’s relationship to the law. Do you have a criminal past — or present? Are you on the run from the law or from an angry
you away from your previous life? Did a great con or heist gone terribly wrong cause you to reevaluate your career? Maybe you were lucky and a successful robbery gave you the coin you needed to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
about a dungeon. Even the most wide-open terrain presents clear pathways. Roads seldom run straight because they follow the contours of the land, finding the most level or otherwise easiest routes across
uneven ground. Valleys and ridges channel travel in certain directions. Mountain ranges present forbidding barriers traversed only by remote passes. Even the most trackless desert reveals favored
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Giants of the Star Forge
. After Diasma shares what she knows, she issues the party a challenge in exchange for further help from the monastery. Run the “Fireside Contests” section below. Roleplaying Diasma Diasma is a serene but
giants might just be the impetus Diasma needs to leave the monastery and continue her adventuring career. Diasma’s Challenge Diasma questions whether the characters have what it takes to compete with
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
Creating a Rogue As you create your rogue character, consider the character’s relationship to the law. Do you have a criminal past — or present? Are you on the run from the law or from an angry
led you away from your previous life? Did a great con or heist gone terribly wrong cause you to reevaluate your career? Maybe you were lucky and a successful robbery gave you the coin you needed to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
failed check, you are bitten and take 1d4 piercing damage, and the dogs count as 5 feet of difficult terrain. 7 You run into a brawl in progress. Make a DC 15 Strength (Athletics), Dexterity
ground counts as 10 feet of difficult terrain. 3 You run through a swarm of insects (see the Monster Manual for game statistics, with the DM choosing whichever kind of insects makes the most sense). The
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
possibly against the dangers they perceive from the city’s less-well-off districts, which all lie outside the main wall. The walls are impressive barriers of massive, fitted stone. Like other structures
interesting. That being said, if the players seem restless, use the random encounters in appendix B to spice things up a bit as they’re gathering supplies for their expedition. At any time, the party might run
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Forge of the Artificer
perception that dragonmarks run only in family lines. This book instead allows a character of any species to manifest any dragonmark. If you choose a dragonmark for your character, consider these four
. Alternatively, you can take the House Agent background, or some other background reflecting your character’s history, and choose a Dragonmark feat later in your career. Since dragonmarks typically
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
time before this all ends in misery and bloodshed, I promise you!”
Politics in Phandalin. Phandalin was long run by an elected townmaster, until trouble with bandits some years ago saw the townmaster
mayor. One is Harbin Wester, a male human with the integrity and unctuous personality of … well, a career politician. Wester is a former townmaster, and is running against Sildar Hallwinter, a male human
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
see its opponents before 60-foot darkvision sees it. A beholder always has several backup plans ready. When dealing with one, I have three plans of my own: run, hide, and distract. Rival adventurers
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
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
by 30. Your lifestyle might change from one period to the next, based on the funds you have at your disposal, or you might maintain the same lifestyle throughout your character's career. Your
lifestyle choice can have consequences. Maintaining a wealthy lifestyle might help you make contacts with the rich and powerful, though you run the risk of attracting thieves. Likewise, living frugally might
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
) and the overlook (area O3) run down to release the ogre zombie from its cage and attack intruders who breach this hall. The zombie sides with the duergar in any fight. Duergar that fall below half
he moves the lever to trigger a trap. Trap. When the lever is pulled, iron spikes spring out from the floor and ceiling to form barriers across each doorway. A creature in either opening must succeed
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
or their family estates and go about the leisured life of aristocrats. Their households are run by a class of servants made up of lektoi who were unable or unwilling to undertake a military career
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)
by 30. Your lifestyle might change from one period to the next, based on the funds you have at your disposal, or you might maintain the same lifestyle throughout your character’s career. Your
lifestyle choice can have consequences. Maintaining a wealthy lifestyle might help you make contacts with the rich and powerful, though you run the risk of attracting thieves. Likewise, living frugally might
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)
on board — boatswain, captain, navigator, cook, or some other position? Who were the captain and first mate? Did you leave your ship on good terms with your fellows, or on the run? Skill Proficiencies
briny grave. Fear and bloodshed are no strangers to you, and you’ve garnered a somewhat unsavory reputation in many a port town. If you decide that your sailing career involved piracy, you can choose
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
the hobgoblins run it accordingly. A war camp might be a permanent settlement that a hobgoblin legion uses as a garrison. The accompanying map depicts one such place, and it can also be used to
. If an enemy force does approach, though, these barriers do a good job of delaying any incursion until the goblinoids can rally their defenses. Inside the surrounding bulwark, the goblinoids all have
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Forge of the Artificer
relics of the ancient giants weren’t meant for the eyes of prying adventurers. No one knows better than the scholars of Morgrave University how to circumvent those barriers and plunder the continent’s
environmental hazards that can extend the journey, perhaps even to the point where supplies begin to run low. The most common challenge in the second stage involves a confrontation with sahuagin that dwell in
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
delighted to make your acquaintance.
“I’ve acquired many treasures and made important contacts during my lengthy adventuring career,” says Madryck. “I would like to pass the treasures I possess and the
.
“Seek out Zybilna of Prismeer, help her if you can, and return with proof that she is alive and well. Upon your return, all the hard-won earnings of my adventuring career shall be yours.”
Madryck
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
your entire DMing career, or you might change it with each campaign. Offering inspiration as a reward encourages certain types of behavior in your players. Think of your style as a DM and your
role in their campaigns. Inspiration normally requires a DM’s judgment to award, which might run against your style if you like a campaign where you let dice determine most outcomes. If that’s your
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
Tezrin (see appendix D), as well as a hidden vault containing their wealth. Alaestra and Narth run a successful business even in the face of local insults and mild harassment. They have an agreement with
covering the doors and windows, and tall weeds have the building surrounded. T14. Six Windows This chilly, creaking, decrepit wooden rooming house is run by Tolmara Hysstryn (CN female Illuskan human
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
area’s rustic standards. Each room boasts a hearth, warm draperies and tapestries, and running water (provided by rooftop cisterns). Now run by the Irkell family from Waterdeep, the inn has become a
). Key NPCs. The Helm is run by the jovial but grasping Garlen Harlathurl (male Tethyrian human commoner). He is a cynic bitter from failed Waterdhavian mercantile ventures, but he has turned out to be
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur’s Gate Gazetteer
of the early knights achieved renown for their heroics. Today, the Knights of the Unicorn continue to call the Helm and Cloak their informal headquarters. The establishment is even run by two retired
suspect. Bribery and influence-peddling run rife through the courts, where honest judges are rare and widely feared. In addition to hosting trials, the High Hall holds libraries containing all local
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
of the early knights achieved renown for their heroics. Today, the Knights of the Unicorn continue to call the Helm and Cloak their informal headquarters. The establishment is even run by two retired
suspect. Bribery and influence-peddling run rife through the courts, where honest judges are rare and widely feared. In addition to hosting trials, the High Hall holds libraries containing all local
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
bit, he was simply called Screve. However, he had more than a few other names throughout his career as a slinger of magic, including Brutar the Bloody, Murst the Merciless, and That Wizard Who Fried
disks can be inserted. Wires run between these slots, this door, and the door to area 1, but the wires on the crumbling walls show several gaps. Spare wires are easily had by digging through duodrone
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Domains of Delight: A Feywild Accessory
Zybilna is the archmage Iggwilv in a new form—a change for the better, in his estimation. He would never cross Zybilna, to whom he owes his career.
Shon and his “hump” (a giant wolf spider named Gray
CHAPTER 5: PALACE OF HEART’S DESIRE
Iggwilv was a brilliant, calculating figure hardly prone to emotional outbursts, but as Zybilna, she allows her emotions to run rampant and is more likely to find
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
Zybilna is the archmage Iggwilv in a new form—a change for the better, in his estimation. He would never cross Zybilna, to whom he owes his career.
Shon and his “hump” (a giant wolf spider named
CHAPTER 5: PALACE OF HEART’S DESIRE
Iggwilv was a brilliant, calculating figure hardly prone to emotional outbursts, but as Zybilna, she allows her emotions to run rampant and is more likely to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
Master’s Guide). Secomber This town of farmers, fishers, brewers, and stonecutters is perched on three hills located near the confluence of the Unicorn Run and the Delimbiyr River. Beneath these hills
or barriers, so anyone traversing it is at the mercy of the wind. Suggested Encounter The first time the adventurers approach the midpoint of the bridge, they see a fire giant and a hell hound
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a5
dimensional barriers that prevent fiends from teleporting or summoning other demons within the sector. Fiendish Arena In this zone, a vampire named Issem culls the weakest demons using arena combat. When
junction of the corridors that lead to the Temple of Chaos and to the Vermin Halls. Another gate lies in the passage to the east that connects with the Swine Run. 9. Dead End A set of double doors is
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
middle of the night and taxing them for the privilege. Desperate and weary, the refugees finally found succor in a caravanserai run by a fellow Calishite in the Outer City. There they used what little
and each other, speaking through the barriers so as to maintain anonymity. Also popular are schools like the Lamp of Learning and the Verdashir Academy (also known as the Dervish Academy), which train