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Elf Legacy

Species Basic Rules (2014)

insults with vengeance. Like the branches of a young tree, elves are flexible in the face of danger. They trust in diplomacy and compromise to resolve differences before they escalate to violence. They

might continue to use the child name. Each elf’s adult name is a unique creation, though it might reflect the names of respected individuals or other family members. Little distinction exists

Hadozee

Species Spelljammer: Adventures in Space

Hadozees’ progenitors were mammals no bigger than house cats. Hunted by larger natural predators, they took to the trees and evolved wing-like flaps that enabled them to glide from branch to

of the game’s fantastical races. If you create a character using a race option presented here, follow these additional rules during character creation. Ability Score Increases When

Adult Topaz Dragon

Monsters Fizban's Treasury of Dragons

the dragon’s mood. Embodiment of Decay While generally not malicious, topaz dragons embody decay. They view destruction as a natural means of clearing the way for new creation and growth

destruction and creation, whether abstract or dedicated to practical applications. They are fascinated by magic that creates objects from nothing, animates Undead, destroys matter, or manipulates negative

Kobold

Species Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse

a scale color more akin to that of a chromatic or a metallic dragon. A kobold’s cry can express a range of emotion: anger, resolve, elation, fear, and more. Regardless of the emotion expressed

race, follow these additional rules during character creation. Ability Score Increases When determining your character’s ability scores, increase one score by 2 and increase a different score

Using Your Journal

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

cameo to this halfling? This halfling could be tied to a bigger plot or have information that could help the characters resolve some conflict. Suddenly, a minor trinket foreshadows bigger events to come

foreshadowing easier because you can reread your notes from earlier game sessions and identify things that could resurface in upcoming sessions, giving past events greater weight or a bigger payoff

Ancient Topaz Dragon

Monsters Fizban's Treasury of Dragons

creation and growth, much as a forest fire clears dead wood, replenishes the soil, and allows the forest to regrow even healthier than before. To this end, topaz dragons use their power to reduce

information on destruction and creation, whether abstract or dedicated to practical applications. They are fascinated by magic that creates objects from nothing, animates Undead, destroys matter, or

Character Creation

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft

Character Creation The Mists of Ravenloft drift across worlds, sowing fear and abducting unsuspecting souls. These forces don’t claim individuals at random, though. The fear of innocents, the turmoil

of the corruptible, the resolve of the truly heroic—the Dark Powers savor these traits. Whether for a night or an eternity, Ravenloft seeks heroes of all sorts and pits them against their greatest

Breaking the Archetypes

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

Breaking the Archetypes To the uninitiated, fighters are the simpletons of the adventuring world, flailing away with their weapons while taking repeated blows to the head. But those folk know

, providing a boon to your franchise’s standing in the community. Any franchise could do worse than having you as its public face — especially when your sense of quiet resolve is needed to quietly resolve some unexpected business disaster.

Encounters

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

. Whether you’re running a published adventure or one of your own creation, your initial description of a room or situation should focus on what the characters can perceive. You don’t have to reveal every

situation, ask the players what their characters want to do. Note what the players say, and identify how to resolve their actions. Ask them for more information if you need it. Sometimes the players

Encounters

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules

usually describes locations so the players know what’s happening and have a sense of what their characters’ options are. Whether you’re running a published adventure or one of your own creation, your

Once you’re done describing the situation, ask the players what their characters want to do. Note what the players say, and identify how to resolve their actions. Ask them for more information if you

Izzet League

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

style of research: keep adding energy until something blows up, then observe the results. — Doug Beyer, Return to Ravnica: The Secretist The Izzet are obsessive experimenters, combining a keen

a methodology that relies on unexpected outcomes: all results are informative, even if they completely defy expectations. For example, an experiment that begins as the creation of a “hypermana

Purphoros's Influence

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

forms of creation. Keranos also inspires new ideas, but it is Purphoros who oversees the advancement of the craft that brings these ideas to life in the world. Purphoros is always ready to obliterate what

appear in the countryside. When he is wrathful, stars vanish in molten rain, and his hammer blows annihilate whole mountaintops. Purphoros’s Goals Purphoros acts not because of grand plans or high ideals

The Mourning and You

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron

represents you channeling these vengeful ghosts. Is there a way to lay these spirits to rest? Do they have unfinished business they want you to resolve? As a sorcerer your arcane powers could be the

actions? As a member of an unusual race, you could say that you are actually a creation of the Mourning. Perhaps your tortle was an actual turtle transformed on the day of Mourning. Or maybe your tiefling is touched by the dark power of the Mourning instead of by an infernal power.

Elemental Plane of Fire

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

cinder storms away from the City of Brass, but elsewhere in the plane, the wind always blows, sometimes rising to hurricane force during the worst storms. The heat on the Plane of Fire is comparable to

Fountains of Creation toward the Para-elemental Plane of Ash and pools into a great expanse of lava called the Sea of Fire, traversed by efreeti and azer sailors in great brass ships. Islands of

Making an Attack

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)

target. In addition, spells, special abilities, and other effects can apply penalties or bonuses to your attack roll. Resolve the attack. You make the attack roll. On a hit, you roll damage

determined at character creation, whereas the AC of a monster is in its stat block. Modifiers to the Roll When a character makes an attack roll, the two most common modifiers to the roll are an

Plane of Earth

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

Plane of Earth Earth symbolizes stability, rigidity, stern resolve, and tradition. The plane’s position opposite the Plane of Air in the ring of the Elemental Planes reflects its opposition to

nearest the Fountains of Creation (on the Plane of Fire) are called the Furnaces. Lava seeps through their caverns, and the air reeks of sulfur. The dao have great forges and smelting furnaces here to

Spindle Cavern

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Spelljammer Academy

one a slimy green orb with a large central eye and four writhing eyestalks. Gathered around them are half a dozen smaller creatures of similar shape, each no bigger than a grapefruit. Sitting on a

spectators can’t decide which of them should guard the meteorite, and they are anxious for someone to help resolve their dispute. The gazers were drawn to the cavern by the spectators’ argument but lack the

Trinkets

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

well? Then consider rolling on the Acquisitions Incorporated Trinkets table instead of the table in chapter 5 of the Player’s Handbook, to gain a unique trinket at character creation with a bit of

sometimes rolls a seven 80 A left-hand gauntlet 81 A music box that plays nursery rhymes 82 A locket that’s bigger on the outside than the inside 83 A potted plant that grows

The Mourning

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War

way to lay these spirits to rest? Do they have unfinished business they want you to resolve? As a sorcerer, your magical powers could be the result of your exposure to the Mourning. Were you physically

serving the Mourning? Or do you believe that you siphon power from it and weaken it with your actions? As a member of an unusual race, you could say that you are actually a creation of the Mourning

Feywild Features

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Domains of Delight: A Feywild Accessory

fall, and the flakes grow bigger over time. Flakes as big as dinner plates, wagon wheels, and even a waterwheel fall, but they’re light as a feather. 6 The sky fills with iridescent bubbles that lazily

touches. 8 A howling wind blows through the party, and each party member must roll a d8. Anyone who rolls an 8 has a trinket or some other tiny, nonmagical item (such as a coin) stolen from them by

Monsters (D)

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules

Walk 1/Day Each: Creation, Gaseous Form, Invisibility, Major Image, Plane Shift Doppelganger Medium Monstrosity, Neutral AC 14 Initiative +4 (14) HP 52 (8d8 + 16) Speed 30 ft. Ability

spell again), Druidcraft 1/Day Each: Entangle, Pass without Trace Bonus Actions Tree Stride. If within 5 feet of a Large or bigger tree, the dryad teleports to an unoccupied space within 5 feet of a second Large or bigger tree that is within 60 feet of the previous tree.

Ascendant Factions

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Sigil and the Outlands

entirely natural, something to be fostered in its own time. They don’t recklessly hasten destruction or oppose creation. Instead, they see that every act of creation is intrinsically tied to

revels in danger and decay. Pentar has come to blows with Harmonium patrols on many occasions. She toys with the idea of aligning with the Hands of Havoc, hoping to toss a spark into the mass of dry

Quandrix Scholars

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos

an action) 1/day each: creation (as an action), dimension door, mage armor, plant growth, polymorph Bonus Actions Dilation (Recharge 5–6). The professor magically alters its physical form until

professors tweak probability to impede attacks and strike at the minds of their foes with lancing equations that disrupt the opponent’s resolve. Professors of theory hold that altering the way a person

Fighter Subclasses

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player’s Handbook

Superiority Die to bolster the resolve of a companion. Choose an ally of yours within 30 feet of yourself who can see or hear you. That creature gains Temporary Hit Points equal to the Superiority Die roll

combine rigorous training with physical excellence to deal devastating blows, withstand peril, and garner glory. Whether in athletic contests or bloody battle, Champions strive for the crown of the

Palace Garden Locations

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight

scare off the characters. The ettercaps lack the courage to fight anything bigger than a pixie, but they defend themselves if attacked. An ettercap reduced to 22 hit points or fewer tries to flee by

lei must be presented to Envy as a gift and draped over its shoulders. To determine whether Envy is satisfied, each character who contributed to the necklace’s creation can make a DC 15 Intelligence

Fane Locations

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse

captives. The captives are unconscious, although they groan and writhe slowly. A steady breeze blows toward a passage to the west, while from the east comes the distant sound of running water. The mist

losing to Karg. When the party arrives, he calls out, “I wanna play dese li’l guys! Hey, puny-bones! Wanna play?” If a character accepts the challenge, resolve the outcome of each game with an

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