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Backgrounds
Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus
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Entertainer Routines
A good entertainer is versatile, spicing up every performance with a variety of different routines. Choose one to three routines or roll on the table below to define your expertise as an
occupation or social class that frequents the establishment. This contact is delighted to talk with you, and to listen.
Variant Entertainer: Gladiator
A gladiator is as much an
Backgrounds
Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus
Being who you are, you could never be a hero. Whether due to your class, your people, your family, or your sins, something about you prevents you from effectively pursuing the path you’ve
part of them expressed to an extreme. To define a persona, feel free to choose characteristics from other backgrounds, particularly folk hero, hermit, or noble. For the person behind the persona, the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
that class and race define. This section expounds on the details that distinguish characters from one another, including the basics of name and physical description, the rules of backgrounds and languages, and the finer points of personality and alignment.
Chapter 4: Personality and Background Characters are defined by much more than their race and class. They’re individuals with their own stories, interests, connections, and capabilities beyond those
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)
that class and race define. This chapter expounds on the details that distinguish characters from one another, including the basics of name and physical description, the rules of backgrounds and languages, and the finer points of personality and alignment.
Chapter 4: Personality and Background Characters are defined by much more than their race and class. They’re individuals with their own stories, interests, connections, and capabilities beyond those
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)
proficiencies: armor, weapons, skills, saving throws, and sometimes tools. Your proficiencies define many of the things your character can do particularly well, from using certain weapons to telling a convincing lie. On your character sheet, record all the features that your class gives you at 1st level.
2. Choose a Class bruenor Every adventurer is a member of a class. Class broadly describes a character’s vocation, what special talents he or she possesses, and the tactics he or she is most likely
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
university, but the students must travel to the dragon’s mountain lair for class.
Crystal Dragon Lairs
Crystal dragons seek out frigid, picturesque locations with clear views of the sky
. Rising from the far side of the bridge are the lair’s anterior spires. These solid, pointed shafts resemble inverted icicles more than towers and enclose a terraced, open-air amphitheater that
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Forge of the Artificer
conflicts take place among the dragonmarked houses—longstanding rivalries, short-term disputes, and family grudges can define the “intrigue” part of this campaign. Significant rivalries also exist within
in studying and manipulating the Prophecy—could easily become involved in interhouse intrigue.
You can replace one or more of these conflicts with others fromEberron: Rising from the Last War or
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)
Hit Points and Hit Dice Your character’s hit points define how tough your character is in combat and other dangerous situations. Your hit points are determined by your Hit Dice (short for Hit Point
Dice). At 1st level, your character has 1 Hit Die, and the die type is determined by your class. You start with hit points equal to the highest roll of that die, as indicated in your class description
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
Artificer,* Bard, Sorcerer, Wizard 2nd Vortex Warp Conjuration Artificer,* Sorcerer, Wizard 2nd Wither and Bloom Necromancy Druid, Sorcerer, Wizard *The artificer class appears in Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything and Eberron: Rising from the Last War.
Spells Created at Strixhaven, the spells presented in this section are available to the backgrounds offered in this chapter. The spells also appear on the class spell lists indicated in the Spells
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
character of that class, including how to assign your highest ability scores, a background suitable to the class, and starting spells.
Hit Points and Hit Dice Your character’s hit points define how tough
2. Choose a Class Every adventurer is a member of a class. Class broadly describes a character’s vocation, what special talents he or she possesses, and the tactics he or she is most likely to employ
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
Levels 1-4: Local Heroes Characters in this tier are still learning the range of class features that define them, including their choice of specialization. But even 1st-level characters are heroes
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragon of Icespire Peak
Character Options Each player has options when it comes to choosing a character race, class, and background. These options are summarized in the Character Options table. If there are multiple players
— Wizard Soldier While your players follow the steps of character creation as outlined in the Basic Rules, pay attention to the choices they make. The backgrounds they choose define who their
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
world and take on the challenges that lesser women and men can’t stand against. Class is the primary definition of what your character can do. It’s more than a profession; it’s your character’s
calling. Class shapes the way you think about the world and interact with it and your relationship with other people and powers in the multiverse. A fighter, for example, might view the world in pragmatic
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Xanathar's Guide to Everything
Chapter 1: This Is Your Life The character creation rules in the Player’s Handbook provide all the information you need to define your character in preparation for a life of adventuring. What they
don’t do is account for all the circumstances that shaped your character during the years between your birth and the start of your career as a member of a class. What did your character accomplish or
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
Fizban’s Platinum Shield Abjuration Yes No Sorcerer, Wizard
7th Draconic Transformation Transmutation Yes No Druid, Sorcerer, Wizard
*The artificer class appears in Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything and Eberron: Rising from the Last War.
the school of magic of a spell, whether it requires concentration, whether it bears the ritual tag, and which classes have access to it. Spells Level Spell School Conc. Ritual Class
2nd
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player’s Handbook
. Ready Prepare to take an action in response to a trigger you define. Search Make a Wisdom (Insight, Medicine, Perception, or Survival) check. Study Make an Intelligence (Arcana, History
, Investigation, Nature, or Religion) check. Utilize Use a nonmagical object. Player characters and monsters can also do things not covered by these actions. Many class features and other abilities provide
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules
. Ready Prepare to take an action in response to a trigger you define. Search Make a Wisdom (Insight, Medicine, Perception, or Survival) check. Study Make an Intelligence (Arcana, History
, Investigation, Nature, or Religion) check. Utilize Use a nonmagical object. Player characters and monsters can also do things not covered by these actions. Many class features and other abilities provide
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
attacks weaken. Each of the Angry has two heads, which bicker with each other until they find something else on which they can vent their wrath. The Angry
Medium monstrosity, neutral evil
Armor Class 18
Angry has advantage on Wisdom (Perception) checks and on saving throws against being blinded, charmed, deafened, frightened, stunned, or knocked unconscious.
Rising Anger. If another creature deals
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
Skeletal Swarm This swarm of bones found rising out of the sand in Isle of the Abbey is made from the remains of several animated skeletons. A skeletal swarm alternates its appearance between
partially formed humanoid shapes and a chaotic, swirling mass. Skeletal Swarm
Large swarm of Medium undead, lawful evil
Armor Class 13 (armor scraps)
Hit Points 60 (8d10 + 16)
Speed 30 ft.
STR
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
, Mordent is a quiet domain of peaceful country estates that sprawl across rolling moors. Landowners of the aristocratic class maintain a pretense of being the benevolent custodians of the land and
its hard-working farmers, fishers, and laborers. From the loftiest families to the lowliest workers, Mordent’s people cling to traditions that define the order of society and each person’s place in it
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
Drowned Ascetic Dressed in tattered robes, its fists wrapped in long ribbons of rotting cloth, the drowned ascetic moves with alarming speed for an undead creature. This martial artist, rising from
the ocean in Tammeraut’s Fate, retains its fighting reflexes despite its rotting flesh. Drowned Ascetic
Medium undead, chaotic evil
Armor Class 13
Hit Points 75 (10d8 + 30)
Speed 30 ft.
STR
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
Skill Variants A skill dictates the circumstances under which a character can add his or her proficiency bonus to an ability check. Skills define those circumstances by referring to different aspects
proficiency in two abilities: one tied to the character’s class and one tied to the character’s background. The Ability Proficiencies by Class table suggests a proficiency for each class, and you choose which
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
Otyugh Mutate Rising from piles of carrion and filth exposed to Far Realm energy, an otyugh mutate grows chitinous, jet-black plating over its limbs. The plates contrast sharply with the translucent
, almost ghostly, appearance of its flesh, which provides a grotesque window into the virulent refuse the otyugh recently consumed. Otyugh Mutate Large Aberration, Typically Neutral
Armor Class 16
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
characters come within sight of the elven tomb, read: The tracks lead to a large, circular indentation in a snowy hillside. Rising from the middle of this circle is a triangular gnomon of beautifully
encounter the moose in area E6. Awakened White Moose
Large beast, neutral evil
Armor Class 11 (natural armor)
Hit Points 68 (8d10 + 24)
Speed 40 ft.
STR
19 (+4)
DEX
11 (+0)
CON
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
uprisings, clear out rabble, and eliminate scouts and skirmishers, and they revel in the butchery they create, their unhinged laughter rising above their victims’ screams. Since dhergoloths are little more
spin a different direction from its dancing legs. I’d like to vivisect one at some point to find out how this can be. Dhergoloth
Medium fiend (yugoloth), neutral evil
Armor Class 15 (natural armor
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monsters of the Multiverse
contracts to put down uprisings, clear out rabble, and eliminate scouts and skirmishers, and they revel in the butchery they create, their gleeful laughter rising above their victims’ screams. Since
Neutral Evil
Armor Class 15 (natural armor)
Hit Points 119 (14d8 +56)
Speed 30 ft.
STR
17 (+3)
DEX
10 (+0)
CON
19 (+4)
INT
7 (-2)
WIS
10 (+0
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
Gray Ooze A gray ooze is stone turned to liquid by chaos. When it moves, it slithers like a liquid snake, rising to strike. Gray Ooze
Medium ooze, unaligned
Armor Class 8
Hit Points 22 (3d8 + 9
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
Salamander As salamanders age, they increase in size and status, rising to positions of power as cruel nobles among their kind. Nobles rule wandering bands of salamanders, which move across the
, but others enlist the salamanders for their crafting skills, or bind them to forges and ovens to generate limitless heat. Salamander
Large elemental, neutral evil
Armor Class 15 (natural armor
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
Asian martial-arts movies is a perfect match for D&D. Players can define the appearance of their characters and gear however they like for the campaign, and spells need only minor flavor changes so
actions in the game don’t change the nuts and bolts of the rules, but they make all the difference in the feel of a campaign. Similarly, a class doesn’t need new rules to reflect a cultural influence; a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything
Character and Party Creation Each player has options when it comes to choosing a character race, class, and background, though you may restrict certain options that are deemed unsuitable for the
include multiple backgrounds, as sometimes it’s fun to play an all-soldier party or a troupe of adventuring entertainers. The backgrounds they choose define who their characters were before becoming
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
warlock who fails to live up to a bargain with an evil patron runs the risk of rising from the dead as a deathlock, a foul undead driven to serve its otherworldly patron from beyond the grave. An
world. Undead Nature. A deathlock doesn’t require air, food, drink, or sleep. Deathlock
Medium undead, neutral evil
Armor Class 12 (15 with mage armor)
Hit Points 36 (8d8)
Speed 30 ft.
STR
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
bore in that former life. After quickly rising in the ranks of Acquisitions Incorporated since joining that august team, Viari has come to head what’s known as the organization’s Stabbing Department. A
events weigh on him still, perhaps suggesting consequences that only he foresees. Viari
Medium humanoid (human), chaotic good
Armor Class 18 (+1 studded leather; 19 while wielding two melee
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Quests from the Infinite Staircase
archmage’s mysterious departure. The identity of Drelnza’s father is unknown even to her. Drelnza slumbers deep in the Lost Caverns of Tsojcanth, rising to dispatch those few who make it to Iggwilv’s hoard
serve the Witch Queen. Armed with her sentient longsword, Heretic, Drelnza terrorized the people of Perrenland. Drelnza Medium Undead (Vampire), Lawful Evil
Armor Class 18 (plate armor)
Hit Points
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
volunteered for mystical experiments. These may be responsible for your class abilities, but you might experience side effects. Why Do You Need 200 Gold Pieces? A regret helps shape your personality as an
element of your past that plays an ongoing role in your story. But perhaps you have a problem that needs to be resolved right now. Another way to define a character’s flaw is to roll on the Debts
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur’s Gate Gazetteer
Faceless (New Background) Being who you are, you could never be a hero. Whether due to your class, your people, your family, or your sins, something about you prevents you from effectively pursuing
hero or extraordinary person they are every day. That’s all a facade, though, or a part of them expressed to an extreme. To define a persona, feel free to choose characteristics from other backgrounds