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Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
Created by the Cat Lord—a divine being of the Upper Planes—to blend the qualities of humanoids and cats, tabaxi are a varied people in both attitude and appearance. In some lands, tabaxi
live like the cats they resemble, naturally curious and at home in playful environments. In other places, tabaxi live as other folk do, not exhibiting the feline behavior the Cat Lord intended
Criminal / Spy
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Basic Rules (2014)
than most people to the world of murder, theft, and violence that pervades the underbelly of civilization, and you have survived up to this point by flouting the rules and regulations of society
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I have a “tell” that reveals when I’m lying.
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I turn 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.
Backgrounds
Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus
underbelly of civilization, and you have survived up to this point by flouting the rules and regulations of society.
Skill Proficiencies: Deception, Stealth
Tool Proficiencies: One
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->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
gremishka makes a comically bad cat noise, trying to lure them closer. Treasure. Anyone who investigates the wine racks and succeeds on a DC 8 Wisdom (Perception) check finds an especially long apron. In its pocket is a silver tastevin worth 10 gp and the key to the footlocker in area 21.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sage Advice Compendium
) Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014) (abbreviated DMG) The free Basic Rules (2014) contains portions of those three books.
Rules References The fifth edition of D&D has three official rulebooks, each of which was first published in 2014: Player’s Handbook (2014) (abbreviated PHB) Monster Manual (2014) (abbreviated MM
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Unearthed Arcana
The Artificer December 17, 2024
In this new Unearthed Arcana document, we explore material designed for upcoming books, using rules from the 2024 Player’s Handbook. This playtest document presents
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
attention to it, the cat waits for a short time, but then loses interest and leaves for the kitchen. If the characters spend 30 minutes investigating the books in this room, they discover the following facts
shelves filled with books line the walls of this room. Two more shelves run through the middle of the room with a ten-foot-wide aisle between them. Several stacks of books are piled high throughout the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything
Rules House rules include optional rules, such as those presented in chapter 9 of the Dungeon Master’s Guide, and rules you create. If you plan to use any house rules, session zero is a good time to
discuss those rules with the players and solicit their input. House rules are best presented as experiments, and time will tell if they’re good for your game. If you introduce a house rule in session
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
between relying on their bonuses and abilities and paying attention to the game and immersing themselves in its world. Remember that dice don’t run your game — you do. Dice are like rules. They’re
bad die roll foiling the character’s plans. By the same token, a bad plan or unfortunate circumstances can transform the easiest task into an impossibility, or at least impose disadvantage.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Unearthed Arcana
Forgotten Realms Subclasses January 28, 2025
In this new Unearthed Arcana document, we explore material designed for upcoming books, using rules from the 2024 Player’s Handbook. This playtest
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Unearthed Arcana
Eberron Updates February 27, 2025
In this new Unearthed Arcana document, we explore material designed for upcoming books, using rules from the 2024 Player’s Handbook. This playtest presents a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragon Delves
share this role.) Rules Consultant. One player references rules in the Player’s Handbook or other books as needed.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
covered with glass vessels and books. Cabinets with glass doors line the walls, and they contain all manner of specimens. Just below the ceiling in the middle of the room, colorful globes circle each other
, mounted animals, rocks and minerals, dried plants, and jars with creatures floating in liquid. Measuring devices, glassware, and other scientific apparatus sit on the tables between books on the natural
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
Table Rules Ideally, players come to the gaming table with the same goal: to have a fun time together. This section gives recommendations for table rules you can establish to help meet that goal
. Here are some fundamentals: Foster respect. Don’t bring personal conflicts to the table or let disagreements escalate into bad feelings. Don’t touch others’ dice if they’re sensitive about it. Avoid
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
Street in the Trades Ward. She claims to have trapped a monster in her shop and fears for the welfare of her books and her cat. The City Watch isn’t likely to lend a hand, given Uza’s propensity for tall
the appearances of Davil Starsong and Yagra Stonefist. Reward: Each Harper character gains 1 renown. 3rd “Uza Solizeph is an old woman who sells books out of a narrow three-story building on Sorn
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
Orders of Accordance All who enter Candlekeep must agree to the Orders of Accordance, rules set forth by the senior staff to prevent misconduct. Violating one or more of these orders results in
banishment from Candlekeep, and the banished are seldom allowed to return. The rules are simple: No fighting. All arguments must follow the rules of cordial debate and discussion. Violent altercations are
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
Rulebooks As the Dungeon Master, you need this book plus the Player’s Handbook (which contains most of the rules of the game) and the Monster Manual. Your players need access to the Player’s Handbook
, too, but they can share as needed. Let players know beforehand what books (other than the Player’s Handbook) they can reference during a playing session. For example, it’s not appropriate for
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Borderlands Quest: Goblin Trouble
Introducing the Game Once the players have familiarized themselves with their characters, you’re ready to introduce the game. Now that you’re familiar with your characters and the basics of the rules
, we’re going to play a short adventure to introduce you to Dungeons & Dragons. As the Dungeon Master, I tell you what’s going on in the world around you, and I use the rules and dice rolls to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual
books. This book is intended for Dungeon Masters (DMs) and provides game statistics for monsters: all sorts of creatures—whether friend or foe—controlled by the DM. Those statistics appear in stat blocks
the rules for monster customization and encounter building in the Dungeon Master’s Guide—to build your own adventures. Consult appendix B for monster lists that will help your adventure building. What’s
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
Rules of Conduct Although Zybilna is indisposed, three of the rules she put into place when she created her Feywild domain continue to hold weight: the rule of hospitality, the rule of ownership, and
the rule of reciprocity. These three rules are common knowledge in Prismeer, and both natives and visitors would do well to abide by them: Rule of Hospitality. When a friend, an enemy, or a stranger
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Borderlands Quest: Goblin Trouble
(see the list below). Step 3. Reference the monsters (open monster entries or bookmark physical books). They all appear in the 2024 Monster Manual or D&D Beyond Basic Rules (available for free on D&D
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Forge of the Artificer
, and they gain other benefits from having a group patron. (If you use the group patron rules in Eberron: Rising from the Last War or Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything, you can use the benefits listed
here instead of the ones in those books; you can use the information on the University and Academy patrons to flesh out the characters’ contacts, fields of study, and so on.) The Archaeologist background
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Forge of the Artificer
vehicle rules for your Eberron campaign. You don’t need that book to use this one, but these books work best in tandem, and you’ll find frequent references to Eberron: Rising from the Last War throughout this book.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything
encourage you to choose the ones that fit best with your campaign’s story and with your group’s style of play. Whatever options you choose to use, this book relies on the rules in the Player’s
Handbook, Monster Manual, and Dungeon Master’s Guide, and it can be paired with the options in Xanathar’s Guide to Everything and other D&D books. UNEARTHED ARCANA
Much of the material in this book
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
, ownership, and reciprocity in detail (see “Rules of Conduct” in chapter 2). Twilight Tides is a fat, wrinkled book about navigating the oceans of the Feywild. After two books were stolen from her
shelves contain books of Feywild lore, all written in Elvish, each of which has a withered frog’s body stitched into its spine. Kissing the frog or stroking it with a moistened finger causes the frog to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur’s Gate Gazetteer
, anticipating that they can find such a book in the city’s markets. As such, Baldur’s Gate does a small but bustling trade in rare books. Several merchants have a known policy of buying valuable books without
rare tomes scholars might carry to gain admission. The Guild knows the signs of a traveler headed for Candlekeep, and often dispatches robbers to steal books and resell them to the merchants of the city
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
, anticipating that they can find such a book in the city’s markets. As such, Baldur’s Gate does a small but bustling trade in rare books. Several merchants have a known policy of buying valuable books without
rare tomes scholars might carry to gain admission. The Guild knows the signs of a traveler headed for Candlekeep, and often dispatches robbers to steal books and resell them to the merchants of the city
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
. We’ve visited Waterdeep before, but not like this. Clever heroes will respect the city’s rules. Those who get on the city’s bad side are in for a rough time, as the City of Splendors is home to some of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
and lands like a cat on the roof of the keep (area K53). He leads pursuers right to Strahd, wherever the lord of the castle happens to be (and regardless of whether the characters are ready to face
open window and investigates. The books in the bookcase have no value and aren’t much help to the characters. Some of the titles found on the bookshelf include Embalming: The Lost Art, Life Among the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
(see “Rules of Conduct” in chapter 2) to grant them an audience. FEY TO THE RESCUE!
If the characters helped the korreds and brigganocks settle their differences earlier in the chapter, they offer to
give her one of the following items in exchange: Shadow. If a character agrees to give up their shadow, Endelyn uses her scissors of shadow snipping (see appendix A) to snip it off. Gloam the Cat
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
-pound alabaster sarcophagus atop a 1-foot-high block of granite. The lid of the sarcophagus is carved in the likeness of a regal elf of indeterminate age and gender, with a yawning cat stretching on
the elf’s chest. The cat is part of the lid’s carving, not a separate sculpture. A character who inspects the sarcophagus closely and succeeds on a DC 17 Wisdom (Perception) check realizes that it’s a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
rules help you do this, but when you need to act as referee, try to make decisions that ensure everyone is having fun. Communicate with Your Players. Open communication is essential to a successful D&D
reorganized, expanded, and rewritten from the 2014 version, and the versions of things in this book replace versions from older books. Here are a few highlights:
Sound Advice. Every chapter (but
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
, or 6 as a standalone adventure, you should ask each player to choose at least one student to be a Friend, a Beloved, or a Rival, as described in the Relationship rules later in this chapter. The
Beloved 3 Rival −2 First-year students rush to class carrying armloads of books—
and all their excitement for the start of a new academic year
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
, Richard Whitters
Lead Rules Developer: Jeremy Crawford
Managing Editors: Jeremy Crawford, Christopher Perkins
Editors: Michele Carter, Scott Fitzgerald Gray
Editorial Assistance: Matt Sernett
following D&D books provided material and inspiration:
Cook, David. Dwellers of the Forbidden City. 1981.
Gygax, Gary. Monster Manual II. 1983.
Gygax, Gary. Tomb of Horrors. 1978.
Lowder, James
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player’s Handbook
, either in physical form or on DnDBeyond.com: Player’s Handbook. This book is your essential reference for the game’s rules, and it guides you through making an adventurer of your own. Dungeon Master’s
Guide and Monster Manual. The first of these books guides the DM through creating and running adventures, and the second holds hundreds of monsters to fill those adventures. Dice. You need a set of