both before decides colors rarely

Halfling Legacy

Species Basic Rules (2014)

colors. Halfling practicality extends beyond their clothing. They’re concerned with basic needs and simple pleasures and have little use for ostentation. Even the wealthiest of halflings keep their

communities are threatened. Pastoral Pleasantries Most halflings live in small, peaceful communities with large farms and well-kept groves. They rarely build kingdoms of their own or even hold much

Human Legacy

Species Basic Rules (2014)

. Human skin shades range from nearly black to very pale, and hair colors from black to blond (curly, kinky, or straight); males might sport facial hair that is sparse or thick. A lot of humans have a

dash of nonhuman blood, revealing hints of elf, orc, or other lineages. Humans reach adulthood in their late teens and rarely live even a single century. Variety in All Things Humans are the most

Changing Gods

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

Changing Gods If events in your character’s adventuring career warrant doing so, you can abandon the service of one god and turn to a different one. Once you abandon a god’s service, you can rarely

go back without performing some act of contrition. Your DM decides whether your new god will accept you as a champion and what you might have to do to prove your commitment. When you change gods, you

Paladin Legacy

Classes Basic Rules (2014)

, paladins are rarely of any evil alignment. Most of them walk the paths of charity and justice. Consider how your alignment colors the way you pursue your holy quest and the manner in which you conduct

A Broad Spectrum

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)

over 6 feet tall and weigh from 125 to 250 pounds. Human skin shades range from nearly black to very pale, and hair colors from black to blond (curly, kinky, or straight); males might sport facial

hair that is sparse or thick. A lot of humans have a dash of nonhuman blood, revealing hints of elf, orc, or other lineages. Humans reach adulthood in their late teens and rarely live even a single century.

Flumph Colors

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual

Flumph Colors A flumph’s extremities change color to reflect its mood. The Flumph Colors and Emotions table summarizes common flumph colors and the human emotions to which they most closely

correspond. Flumph Colors and Emotions Color Emotion Blue, Dark Sadness Blue, Light Happiness Green Curiosity Magenta Unknown* Orange Confusion Pink Amusement Purple Fear Red Anger Teal Serenity Yellow

A Broad Spectrum

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

over 6 feet tall and weigh from 125 to 250 pounds. Human skin shades range from nearly black to very pale, and hair colors from black to blond (curly, kinky, or straight); males might sport facial

hair that is sparse or thick. A lot of humans have a dash of nonhuman blood, revealing hints of elf, orc, or other lineages. Humans reach adulthood in their late teens and rarely live even a single century.

Auroral Diamond

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel

week. Rarely does it ever repeat a color. Some scholars believe each color represents the birth of a new civilization somewhere in the multiverse, and repetition of a color means the death of that

civilization. Other scholars hypothesize the changing colors are a countdown to some unknown event. The Auroral Diamond is indestructible. Whatever magic hollowed out the gemstone’s center and created the Preserve of the Ancestors (described later) is unknown.

Orc Legacy

Species Volo's Guide to Monsters

rarely keep records or write down their thoughts. When orcs need to communicate in writing, they use crude symbols to convey basic information, such as “food stored here,” “danger close

rangers might be familiar with many of these symbols, enabling them to keep their charges from inadvertently stumbling into a tribe’s territory. Colors of Conquest Three colors have special meaning

Fashion and Aesthetics

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Netheril’s Fall: Tales of Terror, Treasure, and Time Travel

wreaths. High Netherese Fashion Members of the upper class tend to flaunt their wealth and dress to impress. High Netherese drape themselves in silk, satin, or linen, all in bright, rich colors. They

light. Low Netherese Fashion Low Netherese individuals typically wear rough, homespun tunics; heavy woolen cloaks; and thick rope sandals or cloth boots. Their fabrics are rarely dyed, though when

Auroral Diamond

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Radiant Citadel

week. Rarely does it ever repeat a color. Some scholars believe each color represents the birth of a new civilization somewhere in the multiverse, and repetition of a color means the death of that

civilization. Other scholars hypothesize the changing colors are a countdown to some unknown event. The Auroral Diamond is indestructible. Whatever magic hollowed out the gemstone’s center and created the Preserve of the Ancestors (described later) is unknown.

Ignoring the Dice

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

Ignoring the Dice One approach is to use dice as rarely as possible. Some DMs use them only during combat, and determine success or failure as they like in other situations. With this approach, the

DM decides whether an action or a plan succeeds or fails based on how well the players make their case, how thorough or creative they are, or other factors. For example, the players might describe how

Aarakocra Legacy

Species Elemental Evil Player's Companion

brightly colored, with feathers of red, orange, or yellow. Females have more subdued colors, usually brown or gray. Their heads complete the avian appearance, being something like a parrot or eagle with

changes in the prevailing winds that they regarded as a bad omen. Unlike the aarakocra of other worlds on the Material Plane, the aarakocra of the Realms rarely travel to the Elemental Plane of Air

Grasslands of Oreskos

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

. Magnificent storms spread clouds in a rainbow of colors, creating vistas exhilarating to those brave enough to weather them. The hills yield ancient treasures and a bounty of precious metals and stones

Oreskos, a meeting place for the tribes, and the home of leonin leaders. Stone buildings and slender windmills jut above the plain, their pale colors and metal decorations shimmering in the light and

Moon Elves

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide

, provided that the moon elves’ whims and adventuresome urges don’t cause serious disruption. Given that the moon elves usually move on before wearing out their welcome, such unrest rarely occurs. Moon

elves have the racial traits of high elves in the Player’s Handbook. They have pale skin with a bluish tint. Their hair runs the gamut of human colors, and some moon elves have hair of silvery white or

Orc Culture and Beliefs

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters

have a written language adapted from that of the dwarves, but they aren’t a literate culture and rarely keep records or write down their thoughts. When orcs need to communicate in writing, they use

territory. Colors of Conquest Three colors have special meaning to all orcs, and they adorn their bodies, possessions, and lairs with pigments that produce those hues. Red ochre is used to represent blood

Age of Demons

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Forge of the Artificer

Age of Demons The Age of Demons is shrouded in myth, and explorers rarely find ruins from that ancient era. But a few sites remain, particularly in the Demon Wastes and Q’barra, kept relatively

at random 8 A weapon made from dark metal that dims the light immediately surrounding it 9 A die made of petrified bone with mysterious glyphs on the faces 10 Glass bangles of shifting colors that make

Creating a Paladin

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

your soul. As guardians against the forces of wickedness, paladins are rarely of any evil alignment. Most of them walk the paths of charity and justice. Consider how your alignment colors the way you

The Path Forward

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus

saw a bloodied woman in armor — a soldier wearing the colors and crest of Elturel — grasping a longsword fit for an angel. Fresh blood streamed from a nasty cut on the woman’s cheek. Flying next to the

Mantlemorn decides to stay in Elturel and help Ravengard protect the city, fighting back tears as she bids farewell to the characters.

Creating a Paladin

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)

your soul. As guardians against the forces of wickedness, paladins are rarely of any evil alignment. Most of them walk the paths of charity and justice. Consider how your alignment colors the way you

Will-o'-Wisp

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)

look like bobbing lantern lights in the distance, although they can choose to alter their colors, or wink out completely. When they activate their lights, will-o’-wisps offer hope, hinting of safety

feed on their misery. Agents of Evil. Will-o’-wisps rarely speak, but when they do, their voices sound like faint or distant whispers. In the miserable domains they haunt, will-o’-wisps sometimes form

Small and Practical

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

rare among them and mustaches even more so. They like to wear simple, comfortable, and practical clothes, favoring bright colors. Halfling practicality extends beyond their clothing. They’re

, peaceful communities with large farms and well-kept groves. They rarely build kingdoms of their own or even hold much land beyond their quiet shires. They typically don’t recognize any sort of halfling

Astral Plane

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

how perilous it will be, just which direction to go in. The DM decides how long it takes to get to a desired destination. A trek to a specific location—a particular Wildspace system or Astral outpost

-dimensional pools of rippling colors, 1d6 × 10 feet in diameter. (“Color,” as with everything in the Astral Plane, is a matter of metaphor; since these portals are perceived by the Astral self and not

Guild Membership

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

adventuring career warrant it, you can abandon membership in one guild and join a different one. Once you leave a guild, you can rarely go back. Your DM decides what requirements you must meet to join a new

for you.) Contacts, in comparison, are simply people you know. They might be friends, rivals, or even family members, but their relationship with you is rarely as strong as with a bond. Although the

Astral Dreadnought

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes

. Astral dreadnoughts don’t procreate, so their population can’t grow. Even though githyanki and other astral voyagers hunt the creatures, they rarely see any success, and the dreadnoughts aren’t in

area of antimagic, as in the antimagic field spell, in a 150-foot cone. At the start of each of its turns, the dreadnought decides which way the cone faces. The cone doesn’t function while the

Curst

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

life are forgotten in Curst, and citizens rarely inquire about one another’s pasts. Such information is either volunteered willingly or loudly proclaimed by officials scouring the town for renegades

or otherwise unforgivable acts, and the burgomaster alone decides which transgressions warrant the sentence. Regional Effects The region containing Curst’s planar gate is influenced by the magic of

Northern Flanaess

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

traditions of their people, many of which can be traced back to the ancient Baklunish empire. The Baklunish nomads favor bright pastel colors in gowns and robes. When traveling or at war, though

king of the Fruzti and the queen of the Cruski to join her army. King Hundgred of the Fruzti has no choice but to honor his oath to the Schnai, while Queen Tharla of the Cruski rarely turns down a

Vistani

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

at night to set up camp. Vistani bands occasionally camp near welcoming communities to trade and resupply, but rarely stay more than a week—though this can be complicated if a Darklord closes a

other peoples, particularly halflings, wood elves, orcs, and tieflings. Vistani have a range of skin, eye, and hair colors. When players create Vistani characters, consider asking them the following

Dungrunglung

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation

secrecy by Krr’ook. At any given time, Dungrunglung is home to grungs representing all castes and colors. There is only one gold grung (Groak) and one red grung (Krr’ook). For grung stat blocks and more

humanoids of different colors are fussing with the fungi and tossing flower petals into the pool. At the back of the shrine is an elevated semicircular basin of water 10 feet high. Wallowing in the basin

Beholder Lairs

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters

but out of reach of anyone on the ground. Leaving the Lair A beholder goes to a lot of trouble to make its lair as safe and comfortable as it possibly can, and so it rarely ventures outside. A typical

beholder goes on the offensive against a threat outside its lair, it plans ahead and makes use of all of its advantages. For example, if it decides a newly settled human village nearby is a threat, it and

Mayor Duvezin's House

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries

with an ornate snowdrop blossom; sticks of sealing wax in various colors as well as quills, ink, and paper; and the journal of Mayor Lei Duvezin. The journal chronicles the disaster at the mine and

Bedroom Empty except for a bed and a fireplace, this room is cold and has an air of loneliness about it. Intended as a guest bedroom, this chamber rarely saw much use. H11. Son’s Bedroom This bedroom

Journey Locations

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk

entering this lair, Vundru decides after a few minutes that he can become a Great Eater by vanquishing the characters who bested the behir. The grells then float out to slay the characters. Brian

: confusion, fear J8: Burbling Intersection Phosphorescent fungus growing throughout this side tunnel ripples with iridescent colors, and the walls glisten with a thin, moist sheen of mucus. Natural

Fellow Prisoners

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss

escape attempt. Others might be lost to the dangers of the Underdark — or might reveal their true colors and betray the party. A few could become true companions. Keep in mind the other prisoners have

companions. The player generally decides what that NPC is doing, with the knowledge that you, as Dungeon Master, can overrule them as needed by the story. Not only does this make the secondary characters

Random Encounters in Hither

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

(lawful neutral) who are wearing patchwork rags and furs (AC 12). Strapped to the back of each stilt walker is a wire cage padded with straw and filled with 1d20 eggs of various sizes and colors. These

bucket and a withered head of cabbage. It decides on a large gourd. 2 A bullywug bedecked in the trappings of a monarch constantly adjusts his ill-fitting crown of lily blossoms while leafing through

Hobgoblins

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters

members who remain are welcomed into another banner, taking their banner’s name and colors along with them, and assuming places of leadership in the group. Uphold the Legion. Hobgoblins care more for

enemies, devastators seldom employ sophisticated tactics, functioning essentially as a mobile artillery battery. They can bring tremendous force to bear, but rarely display the versatility and

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