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Monsters
Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus
struggled in performing his duties, finding his hands tied at every turn by both overt and invisible bureaucracy. Despite this, he's been a voice of reason and common sense on the Council of Four — if
politically. One of his only obvious pleasures remains the surprise inspections he regularly visits upon the troops at Wyrm's Rock.
Ravengard was recently tricked into attending a diplomatic summit in
Magic Items
Tales from the Yawning Portal
Waythe is a unique greatsword most recently in the possession of a high-ranking cloud giant ambassador.
You gain a +1 bonus to attack and damage rolls made with this magic weapon. When you hit a
Intelligence of 12, a Wisdom of 2, and a Charisma of 14. It has hearing and darkvision out to a range of 120 feet.
The weapon can speak and understand Giant and Common, and it can communicate telepathically
Monsters
Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
a grotesque window into the virulent refuse the otyugh recently consumed.
Mutates
A creature exposed to the strange energy of the Far Realm risks developing mutations. Such a creature undergoes a
the Underdark. However, their efforts always proved fruitless, and eventually the mind flayers gave up their schemes.
Several common types of mutates exist. The individuals with stat blocks presented
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
of evil. Having one horn is most common, but a particularly fierce ki-rin might have two horns or a set of antlers like those of a great stag.
In many lands, common folk view ki-rins as heralds of
lair, winds buoy creatures that fall due to no act of the ki-rin or its allies. Such creatures descend at a rate of 60 feet per round and take no falling damage. Aberrations, Fiends, and Undead don
Knight
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Backgrounds
Player’s Handbook (2014)
you need to determine your noble title, but you should also work with the DM to describe your family and their influence on you.
Is your family old and established, or was your title only recently
bestowed? How much influence do they wield, and over what area? What kind of reputation does your family have among the other aristocrats of the region? How do the common people regard them?
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Noble
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Basic Rules (2014)
you need to determine your noble title, but you should also work with the DM to describe your family and their influence on you.
Is your family old and established, or was your title only recently
bestowed? How much influence do they wield, and over what area? What kind of reputation does your family have among the other aristocrats of the region? How do the common people regard them?
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Species
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
Water genasi descend from marids, aquatic genies from the Elemental Plane of Water. Water genasi are perfectly suited to life underwater and carry the power of the waves inside themselves.
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suggestions or ignore them, but you can’t raise any of your scores above 20.
Languages
Your character can speak, read, and write Common and one other language that you and your DM agree is
Aarakocra
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Species
Elemental Evil Player's Companion
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Beak and Feather
From below, aarakocra look much like large birds. Only when they descend to roost on a branch or walk across the ground does their humanoid appearance reveal itself. Standing
ordinary birds. They are fastidious about their plumage, frequently tending their feathers, cleaning and scratching away any tiny passengers they might have picked up. When they deign to descend from the
Backgrounds
Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus
you need to determine your noble title, but you should also work with the DM to describe your family and their influence on you.
Is your family old and established, or was your title only recently
bestowed? How much influence do they wield, and over what area? What kind of reputation does your family have among the other aristocrats of the region? How do the common people regard them?
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Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
Feather Token Wondrous item, common This small metal disk is inscribed with the image of a feather. When you fall at least 20 feet while the token is on your person, you descend 60 feet per round and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron
Feather Token Wondrous item, common This small metal disk is inscribed with the image of a feather. When you fall at least 20 feet while the token is on your person, you descend 60 feet per round and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen
Solamnic humans, while others descend from the city’s Istarian founders. Traders from all over Ansalon settle in Kalaman through preference or necessity. As a result, some humans hail or have ancestors
from Abanasinia, Nordmaar, Ergoth, Estwilde, and farther-flung lands. Kender, hill dwarves, and gnomes are common in the region, while some elves, mountain dwarves, and other people also make their home in the city. Anyone is welcome in Kalaman if they come peaceably with goods to trade.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
Traxigor’s Tower Once the griffons land, characters are free to dismount and descend the stairs into Traxigor’s tower. After delivering the party safely to the tower, the griffons take a short rest
before flying back to Candlekeep. Read or paraphrase the following boxed text to the players when the characters descend into the tower: One level down, you see a cluttered chamber illuminated by
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
way. Perytons are common threats in the region, and ettins sometimes descend from the mountains to raid farmsteads. Night Travel If the characters ignore Paloma’s warning and travel at night, after a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
—formed the heart of the kingdom. Although each has a unique cultural identity, they share this unified foundation. Families are spread across the Five Nations; the rulers of the Five Nations descend from
the Wynarns, the royal bloodline of Galifar. Despite their differences, an Aundairian has more in common with a Thrane than with a Zil gnome or a Lhazaar pirate. A century ago Galifar collapsed into
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
(area K59). A recently constructed masonry wall blocks the staircase 10 feet below the landing west of area K17. A chink in this wall allows gas (or a vampire in gaseous form) to pass from one side
notice the crack automatically as they climb or descend the stairs. Widening the crack enough to squeeze through the wall requires major excavation and would take several days. The shaft that these
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
sorcerers. This legacy often lies dormant for generations, then suddenly manifests under the right (or wrong) circumstances. These wild mages are more common recently in lands directly affected by the Spellplague, including Halruaa, Mulhorand, and pockets of Cormyr and the Sword Coast.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
score of 10 and can speak Common. Zhentarim Characters who are members of the Zhentarim can approach Yagra Stonefist at the Yawning Portal (see “Familiar Faces”). She recently learned about a “back door
characters to a secret staircase in the Castle Ward sewers (area X1). As the characters prepare to descend the stairs, Mirt tells them that Xanathar doesn’t relate well to humanoids, doesn’t trust them as a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
Spirits’ Plea When the wraith is defeated, any surviving haints remain, lingering in the center of the common room. If both haints were destroyed, their voices emerge from silhouettes drifting in the
recently disturbed their remains and claimed the lore they were guarding. The wraith was one of the haints’ captors. The haints are free now, but the tomes they protected are in danger. They entreat
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
started to descend the stairs, heard ghastly shrieks and piercing wails, and ran, frightened out of his wits. He knows where the back door is and also noticed a nearby well. He can vaguely describe the
that the telling of his tale, in ever more lurid detail, was an easy means of obtaining free ale foisted on him by appreciative listeners. Recently, however, none have asked him to tell the tale, so
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
History Because elements of a ghost’s mortal life define and foreshadow the course of their death and undeath, a common aspect of a ghost-story adventure involves piecing together the history of the
died so recently that they might not yet fully realize they are dead.
2 The ghost died recently enough that people who knew them in life are still around.
3 The ghost died years ago, and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
2. Hall of Many Pillars At the west end of a 20-foot-wide hall (area 2a), stairs descend 10 feet to a room lined with pillars (area 2b). Similar staircases descend into the room from 10-foot-wide
loudly as it hits the floor.
Warning. The words “Certain death this way!” are carved in Common on the southeast wall, with an arrow pointing toward the southern exit.
The bugbears detect the approach
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
for a season or a few months at a time by bandits, and a few overgrown ruins of the ancient elven kingdom of Rilithar. Recently, a roving band of Elk tribe barbarians (see “The Uthgardt Tribes” below
adventurers have common enemies: the elemental cults. Although characters will be hard-pressed to win the barbarians’ trust, they can pry useful information out of them. The Elk hunters know the Sumber
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
transformed into a vast, sprawling network of passages. Abandoned settlements within the Labyrinth are common, marked out by rusting iron rails and scattered ore carts. Dark mine shafts descend into the
leave a vast, yawning chasm. Some of these rifts run to depths of a few hundred feet. Others ascend and descend for miles. Many of the rifts show their age by the presence of carved switchback
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Keys from the Golden Vault
recently excavated tunnel leads to Xeluan’s tomb and is guarded at all times, as described below: Ten members of the town guard stand watch atop giant blocks of stone that were once part of a great
citadel, now a tumbled-down ruin. A tunnel has been opened at the base of the ruined citadel. Crude, torchlit steps descend into the earth.
The ten veterans guarding the tunnel entrance are loyal to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragon Delves
T1: Temple Entry As the characters descend the staircase leading to this room, read or paraphrase the following: The stairs end at a wide chamber. Two gaunt creatures with sharp claws and long
characters. Broken Tiles. Until recently, the floor had a painted tile mosaic set into it. The mosaic depicted Orcus slaying a legion of human knights and reanimating their corpses. Xia ordered her
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
the prisoners, only Eldeth and Jimjar speak fluent Common. The others speak Undercommon (or at least understand it). Ront knows some Common, while Derendil speaks Elvish. Stool’s rapport spores can
disfiguring injuries recently. Before then, he seemed more in Ilvara’s favor. Now Shoor seems to have displaced him. Jorlan used to have a wand that shot globs of sticky material able to trap targets. Now
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
Outlander Outlanders are a common sight in ports such as Saltmarsh. Even a small port attracts folk from across the world, though how they end up in a place like Saltmarsh varies greatly. The table
below provides some ideas for how your character came to town. d6 Origin 1–2 You spent years shipwrecked on a deserted isle. Finally, you were recently picked up by a passing ship on its way to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Heroes of the Borderlands
. Recently, Vinx got caught in a bind while pursuing a stolen family heirloom. When she gets loose, those goblins won’t know what hit them! Vinx Medium Humanoid (Dwarf), Chaotic Good
AC 13 Initiative +2
+1
Cha 11 +0 +0
Skills Perception +5, Stealth +6, Survival +5
Gear Leather Armor, Shortsword, Sling
Senses Passive Perception 15
Languages Common, Dwarvish
CR 1/4 (XP 50; PB +2
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
hometown heroes. They are immigrants who’ve made good, common people who’ve risen to rival the barons and kings. They give the people what they want, whether it’s untaxed gambling, cheap spirits, or
thus feels justified, since it’s not the citizens of Sharn that are victimized. Boromar’s longstanding status at the head of Sharn’s criminal enterprises has recently come under challenge. After nearly
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
interactions with random patrons. The general gist of the information is that trade routes out of Gracklstugh have become more dangerous recently. The fauna and more primitive denizens of the
Underdark are all riled up about something. Among the tales told by the travelers, second-hand stories about demons attacking isolated settlements are common.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
discover that it’s an awakened plesiosaurus. A frost druid (see appendix C) recently cast an awaken spell on the creature, granting it an Intelligence of 10 and the ability to communicate in the Common
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
characters can find any common goods they seek. A local inn called the Jolly Cotinga can also host guests, giving them a place to stay and a delicious meal of rice, fruit, and smoked turkey for 1 gp
near volcanoes. They don’t usually attack settlements. The earthquake the town recently suffered is the fourth this month. Earthquakes aren’t uncommon, but this is far more than usual. A fire giant
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Adventure Atlas: The Mortuary
Herald of Dust pays a pittance for every corpse delivered to the Mortuary. Some contemptible folk make corpse collecting their vocation. These aptly named corpse collectors are a common sight in the Hive
contract the rights to recently deceased corpses—or soon-to-be-dead folk—through death contracts and raise them as skeletons, zombies, and other Undead. Remnants. Remnants are Dusters who exist in a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Xanathar's Guide to Everything
, divine spellcasting ability, and a few hundred common folk recently converted to the temple’s cause. Plans. Cheldar is stern but fundamentally a good person. He tries to win support by providing