both before declare caste rival

Yuan-ti Pureblood Legacy

Species Volo's Guide to Monsters

with that of snakes, producing a caste-based society of hybrids in which the most snakelike are the leaders and the most humanlike are spies and agents in foreign lands. Humans Transformed The

caste system based on how complete a person’s transformation was. The vast majority of yuan-ti fall into three categories — abominations, malisons, and purebloods — while the mutated

Goblin Legacy

Species Volo's Guide to Monsters

-tiered caste system made up of lashers, hunters, gatherers, and pariahs. The status of every family in the tribe is based on its importance to the tribe’s survival. Families that belong to the

goblin tribe has to nobility is the caste of lashers — families of goblins trained in the ways of battle, and also possessed of key skills such as strategy, trap-building, beast taming, mining

Rival Princes

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

Rival Princes When the characters arrive at the square, read or paraphrase the following: Locals crowd a shaded square, listening to a fervent argument between two well-dressed human men wearing dark

do while we bring our missing family home.” Voices in the crowd rise as they declare support for one prince or the other. Most of the folk wearing the grimy tunics of miners are impressed when Kirina

Emotionless Evil

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

well enough to know that they can get away with this casual disregard for life almost anytime. Furthermore, in the yuan-ti caste system, a greater yuan-ti’s life is worth far more than a lesser one’s

food taster for a royal family could poison a meal and declare it “safe” after taking a bite. YUAN-TI MALISON VARIANTS: TYPES 4 AND 5 A malison is a yuan-ti that has a blend of human and serpentine

Goblins

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

is a yellow-and-red striped whip made of leather. This mark of his authority is used by its wielder against goblins of a lower caste as well as on slaves and enemies. The knowledge of how to make

such a whip is enough to elevate a goblin to the master caste of lashers. Often the secret is guarded by one family in a tribe, which enjoys prestige and influence because it controls the supply of whips

Carousing

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Xanathar's Guide to Everything

contacts don’t count toward this limit — only ones that can be used at any time to declare an NPC as a contact. Complications. Characters who carouse risk bar brawls, accumulating a cloud of nasty

the streets seemed like a great idea at the time. 8 Everyone is calling you by some weird, embarrassing nickname, like Puddle Drinker or Bench Slayer, and no one will say why.* *Might involve a rival

Icewind Dale

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

old battle between rival fisherfolk that left the waters bloody. Ten-Towns thrives on fishing and trade, both endeavors reliant on the knucklehead trout of Icewind Dale’s lakes. Without these fish, the

some distance away in the shadow of the Cairn. The dwarves send a representative to the council of speakers that governs Ten-Towns, but have no say in their proceedings except to declare acceptance or refusal of the decisions of the human gathering.

Everyone Has Regrets

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

. You don’t know if you can ever trust anyone again. 3 You murdered a rival. Your actions may have been justified, but their face still haunts you. 4 You made a promise to a child or a lover that you

bounty off your head. It’s also an opportunity to establish an element that can be part of a character moving forward. If you’re trying to reclaim a magic item from a pawnshop, you declare that your

Reghed Nomads

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder

supernatural entity known as the Ice Witch. Her demise also spelled Wolvig’s doom, allowing the sole remaining chieftain, Günvald Halraggson, to declare himself the Bear King. He tries to be honorable

fear into the hearts of his enemies, many of whom believe he’s the Chosen of Malar. Several members of Isarr’s clan have deserted him or been killed off by rival tribes, but the few that remain are

Ribcage

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

Nine Hells and its rigid hierarchy of backstabbing Fiends, Ribcage obeys a strict but mobile caste system. Stratified by morality, residents climb the rungs of society through guile, treachery, and

Commanded by a fallen angel (lawful evil planetar) who runs a rival tavern, a gaggle of imps begins vandalizing the Bleeding Horn. The ice devil Sparax pays characters to deal with the situation. 3

Obviator

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

require combating a rival organization’s disinformation attempts one day, then besting a castle’s defenses the next. The day after that, some poor sap named Bob might need to be disposed of. And no matter

, you might undertake a deep study of conflicts and rival organizations, working carefully to stay three steps ahead of the opposition. In all cases, though, you help advance your franchise by

The Dark Seldarine

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

raid on the surface, the matron of a rival house being struck down by an inexplicable illness, or an heiress to the house being born under propitious omens. DROW TRANCE: ENTERING THE VOID Drow enter

him. Some succeed admirably and achieve great things beyond the reach of most males, but many more succumb to excesses of the flesh, dissipation, and disease, or they are ruined or murdered by a rival

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