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came between him and the riches he covets.
Alignment. Chaotic evil.
Personality Trait. “I mince people, not words.”
Ideal. “Coin is what I crave.”
Bond. “Once I
of his hapless prey. If defeat seems likely, he quaffs his potion of invisibility and flees.
League of Malevolence
The League of Malevolence is an odious assemblage of villains united in one purpose
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Bond. “Praise Orcus! May he give me the power to spread death, decay, and undeath in his name!”
Flaw. “I see living people as the corpses they are doomed to become and t reat them
defeat seems inevitable, he casts gaseous form on himself and flees, leaving his allies to fend for themselves.
League of Malevolence
The League of Malevolence is an odious assemblage of villains
Soldier
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Let Live. Ideals aren’t worth killing over or going to war for. (Neutral)
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Nation. My city, nation, or people are all that matter. (Any)
d6
Bond
1
I would still
forget the crushing defeat my company suffered or the enemies who dealt it.
5
Those who fight beside me are those worth dying for.
6
I fight for those who cannot fight for themselves
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on a particularly interesting item when an owner refuses to sell or trade it.
Tabaxi Names
Each tabaxi has a single name, determined by clan and based on a complex formula that involves astrology
tables to customize your character in addition to the trait, ideal, bond, and flaw from your background.
The Tabaxi Obsession table can help hone your character’s goals. For extra fun, roll a new
Monsters
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caverns and complex tunnel systems. As they grow older, they continually renovate their lairs, using their tunneling abilities and command over stone.
Sapphire dragons eventually create dizzying
dragon took part in.A Sapphire Dragon’s Lair
Sapphire dragons make their homes in extensive cave systems. As they grow older, they make increasingly complex renovations to their lairs, using
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suit your identity as a member of the city watch.
Your bond is likely associated with your fellow watch members or the watch organization itself and almost certainly concerns your community. Your
’t worth killing over or going to war for. (Neutral)
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Nation. My city, nation, or people are all that matter. (Any)
d6
Bond
1
I would still lay down my life for the
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when appropriate to suit your identity as a mercenary.
Your bond could be associated with the company you traveled with previously, or with some of the comrades you served with. The ideal you embrace
people are all that matter. (Any)
d6
Bond
1
I would still lay down my life for the people I served with.
2
Someone saved my life on the battlefield. To this day, I will
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. (Neutral)
6
Nation. My city, nation, or people are all that matter. (Any)
d6
Bond
1
I would still lay down my life for the people I served with.
2
Someone saved my
life on the battlefield. To this day, I will never leave a friend behind.
3
My honor is my life.
4
I’ll never forget the crushing defeat my company suffered or the enemies who dealt it
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of psychic forces has begun to affect the local fauna in strange ways.
Sapphire Dragon Lairs
Sapphire dragons make their lairs in enormous caverns and complex tunnel systems. As they grow
Sapphire dragons make their homes in extensive cave systems. As they grow older, they make increasingly complex renovations to their lairs, using their inherent magic and natural tunneling abilities to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
Level 6: Lost Level The Lost Level is designed for four 9th-level characters, and characters who defeat the monsters on this level should gain enough XP to advance halfway to 10th level. This level
was a temple complex dedicated to the dwarven god Dumathoin, the Keeper of Secrets under the Mountain. Hidden inside is the tomb of Melair, king of the Melairkyn dwarves. Before running this level
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
-bow and can’t afford anything else. He is also a member of the university’s Distinguished Society of Fine Artists, where he uses magic to sculpt beautiful statuary of complex fractal patterns. The
and then drinks the vinegar.
Extracurriculars: Distinguished Society of Fine Artists, Live-Action Roleplaying Guild
Job: None
Bond Boon: The esteem for Cadoras in live-action roleplaying
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
they can profit from it. The golem appears inactive, but the party can figure out how to activate the golem from the book. By talking with the Bedine, the adventurers learn about a ruined cave complex
known as the Hall of Rainbows that could contain clues to the golem’s origin. But the Bedine also warn that the cave complex is in the territory of a deadly purple worm. The adventurers travel to the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
closest translation of their name in Common. They are often found poring over ancient texts detailing battles, seeking to better understand the tactical decisions that result in victory and defeat. Rampart
Bond Boon: Rampart’s commanding presence rubs off, and when you’re trying to avoid campus security, your fellow students always help you lie low.
Bond Bane: Library books you need inexplicably go missing at key times, especially those about history. As a result, you can’t pull all-nighters.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
. It craves powerful magic items and surrounds itself with gold, platinum, and precious gems. Its bond is to its lair — an elaborate cavern complex carved out between the twisting sewers of Waterdeep
give it a bit of background, a distinctive quirk of appearance, and especially an ideal, a bond, and a flaw. As an example, consider the Xanathar, a beholder that runs extensive criminal operations in
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
Cellar Complex: Spring The characters have learned that a halfling necromancer named Losser Mirklav took the Stone of Golorr. He lives in a cellar complex under a powdered wig shop in the Trades Ward
the wig shop and the characters’ point of entry into the cellar complex. Misty Sewers The dense fog from outside settles in the sewers, and areas B2, B3, and B4 are lightly obscured. Necromancer
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
proves my excellence and sets me apart.” Ideal. “Once I’ve crushed my opposition, I will claim my realm, ruling not as a conqueror but as royalty.” Bond. “All who live in my domain are my troops, and they
exist to further my will. Those who deny me are traitors bound for execution.” Flaw. “I and all I command will know death before we show weakness in defeat.” Vladeska Drakov and her Talons struggle to defend Lekar from endless zombie hordes
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
take it by force (encounter 2, “Mistshore”). After the characters defeat these attackers, they learn that Grinda told her rat familiar to hide the stone in her family’s crypt in the City of the Dead
Windmill”). Fearing arrest, the grave robbers point them to a cellar complex under the Trades Ward (encounter 9, “Cellar Complex”). When the characters arrive, they find Losser surrounded by foes and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
was irrevocably insane. She fled, but Halaster dragged her back to Undermountain and trapped her in the Citadel of the Bloody Hand, a dungeon complex under Mount Waterdeep connected to Undermountain
, inhabiting the very dungeon itself. Halaster is unaware of Jhesiyra’s presence but also wonders over her disappearance following the Spellplague. Jhesiyra’s plan is to use adventurers to defeat Halaster so
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
local government or temple.
6 Defeat a champion of another god (most likely Heliod, Erebos, or Iroas).
A Phenax Campaign Phenax fits easily into the role of primary campaign villain. He also
one of the necropoleis in expanding or dealing with various threats. Plots and schemes are Phenax’s lifeblood, suggesting a complex, shifting campaign full of surprises and twists. For example, a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Xanathar's Guide to Everything
two complex ones Three or four scenes involving significant exploration or social interaction Within these constraints, it can be difficult to create open-ended adventures. A time limit assumes a
dungeon presents a natural limit on character options, while still giving the players choices. The adventure could be a quest to defeat a creature or recover an item, but the path to achieving that goal
Orc
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relieved of their other roles and taken to the lair’s whelping pens, where they are tended to by Luthic’s followers.
Orcs don’t take mates, and no pair-bonding occurs in a tribe
goals of the tribe don’t concern me. Personal glory is what I crave. (Chaotic)
6
Savagery. I will not be controlled. (Chaotic)
Orc Bonds
d6
Bond
1
I will defend my
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
am, and I know my limits.” Bond. “Magistrates should do everything in our power to serve those who need assistance.” Flaw. “I have to check to reassure myself that my work has been done right, even if
claim to have seen the fog and creatures within it as well, Ahn-Jun is relieved and shares the following details with the party: No one else in the city has seen the fog, but it’s been rising and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
, an ambassador, or something else? Work with the player to determine how the character ended up as an adventurer. The character’s bond is a great starting point to consider for this question. How did
the bond drive the character to adventure? The character’s trait, flaw, and ideal can also play a role in fleshing out the story. Friends or Enemies? Figure out what special ties the character has to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
distraught populace. Atash possesses an ageless and inflexible perspective. Everlasting and seemingly emotionless, the angel answers complex problems with direct solutions. He believes that only by
began.” Ideal. “To disobey the Sunweaver is to protest truth.” Bond. “I must protect the people of Akharin Sangar, even from themselves.” Flaw. “The subtleties of mortal nuance are simply the repetition of mortal mistakes.”
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
Running the Siege You have a few options on how to run the battle. Consider the following: You can treat each defender and orc as an individual, and run the combat as a long, complex encounter. If
easily defeat twice their number of commoners, but with the defenses available to the ranchers, the odds improve considerably. The ranchers don’t have to defeat the orcs outright. They just have to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
. Iroas carries a battle-worn bronze shield called the Bulwark of Brotherhood. It symbolizes the protective bond shared by all soldiers at war and his determination, ironically, to defeat his own brother
tragic tales, Kalemne has committed to aiding only those who can defeat her in a contest of athletic skill or a test of speed. Those who do can count on her aid, and possibly that of her troops. Those who can’t must seek other answers to their problems.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
. Githyanki Bonds d4 Bond 1 There is no greater duty than to serve the Revered Queen. 2 Humanity thrives only because we conquered the illithids. Therefore, what is theirs is ours. 3 Without battle, life
Personality Traits d4 Flaw 1 All energy must be expended to a useful end. Frivolity is the first step to defeat. 2 Patience in all things. The first step in any venture is the most treacherous. 3 Emotions
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. But anyone who can endure their abrasive demeanor, caustic observations, and morbid interests can form a lasting bond with a powerful ally.
Entropic Hoards
Topaz dragons prize information on
Features
The topaz dragon lair shown in map 5.14 is situated among the rocky cliffs and beaches of a rugged coastline. The lair is set in a cavern complex near the top of the cliffs, 50 feet above the sandy
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
temple and contend with a complex trap that, over time, has developed consciousness.
8 Lead dangerous individuals into the temple and ensure they never leave.
9 Question the priest to find
the location of another temple of mystery.
10 Lead dangerous creatures into the temple to trap them there.
11 Defeat a cabal of mages that has claimed the temple.
12 Defeat a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
, emotionless logic is the way I defeat my foes. 3 I determine if a creature is worth keeping alive within the first minute of speaking to it. 4 I frequently dream of [a particular creature] and am
perfect as I am, I can strive to be even better. (Neutral) 6 Power. I will be secure when I rule over all. (Evil) Beholder Bonds d6 Bond 1 My followers are all spying on me, and I seek motivated
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
Oozing Royalty When the characters defeat the last group of oozes, but before they reach area 30, the Pudding King appears. The insane, slime-covered deep gnome points at you and cackles. “Devour
telepathic bond, telekinesis, wall of stone
6th level: chain lightning, disintegrate, Drawmij’s instant summons, eyebite, flesh to stone, Otto’s irresistible dance, true seeing
7th level: forcecage
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
die, Orcus will transform me into a vampire.” Ideal. “Entropy is not simply the bane of existence. It’s the doom of the multiverse. My job is to speed it along.” Bond. “Praise Orcus! May he give me
wears a rusty chain shirt under his robe and likes to thwart enemy spellcasters by enveloping them in the area of a silence spell. If defeat seems inevitable, he casts gaseous form on himself and flees
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
mince people, not words.” Ideal. “Coin is what I crave.” Bond. “Once I agree to kill something, I pursue my quarry until the job is done.” Flaw. “A friend is just an enemy I haven’t made yet.” Combat
garrote, so that he can hear the dying breath of his hapless prey. If defeat seems likely, he quaffs his potion of invisibility and flees. Zarak
Medium Humanoid (Orc), Chaotic Evil
Armor Class 14
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
Xanthoria’s Defeat Once Xanthoria is defeated, the characters find the last few pages of her notes among her possessions. They detail her growing obsession with undead and her success at turning
brought back to life by any means. If the adventurers fail to convince Thunderwing to give up her life, she turns invisible and leaves the cave complex, taking refuge in the surrounding forest. Xanthoria re
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
under the law. Simultaneously, they manage a complex relationship with the founding civilizations. The Speakers’ first duty is to the Radiant Citadel, which sometimes puts them at odds with the
pragmatic, shrewd leader. For two hundred and fifty years, she has been a consummate councilor and has deftly managed the complex politics of the city. She hopes to find the missing twelve founding