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Player’s Handbook
their companions, so they’re all ready when destiny calls.
These paladins share the following tenets:
Endeavor to be known by your deeds.
Face hardships with courage.
Inspire others to strive for glory.
Oath of Glory
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Classes
Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything
ready when destiny calls.
TENETS OF GLORY
The tenets of the Oath of Glory drive a paladin to attempt heroics that might one day shine in legend.
Actions over Words. Strive to be known by
Folk Hero
Legacy
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Backgrounds
Basic Rules (2014)
You come from a humble social rank, but you are destined for so much more. Already the people of your home village regard you as their champion, and your destiny calls you to stand against the
home communities remain very important to them.
d8
Personality Trait
1
I judge people by their actions, not their words.
2
If someone is in trouble, I’m always ready to
Backgrounds
Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide
and raised in a different world from the one that most folk know—one that grants you privilege but also calls you to fulfill a duty befitting your station. Your bond might be associated with your
insatiable desire for carnal pleasures.
5
In fact, the world does revolve around me.
6
By my words and actions, I often bring shame to my family.
Backgrounds
Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus
their champion, and your destiny calls you to stand against the tyrants and monsters that threaten the common folk everywhere.
Skill Proficiencies: Animal Handling, Survival
Tool
remain very important to them.
d8
Personality Trait
1
I judge people by their actions, not their words.
2
If someone is in trouble, I’m always ready to lend help.
3
Bard
Legacy
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Classes
Basic Rules (2014)
set bards apart from their fellows. Only rarely do bards settle in one place for long, and their natural desire to travel—to find new tales to tell, new skills to learn, and new discoveries
a master, following the more experienced bard until you were ready to strike out on your own? Or did you attend a college where you studied bardic lore and practiced your musical magic? Perhaps you
Yuan-ti Pureblood
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Species
Volo's Guide to Monsters
remained ensconced in their hidden strongholds, biding their time until they were ready to strike again. Today, with their numbers greatly depleted and their enemies much stronger than in ages past, the
of evil that calls for them to butcher or eradicate all who oppose them. In keeping with their goal of domination, the yuan-ti would rather capture potentially useful opponents than kill them. They use
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
Rolling with It Some DMs rely on die rolls for almost everything. When a character attempts a task, the DM calls for a check and picks a DC. As a DM using this style, you can’t rely on the
characters succeeding or failing on any one check to move the action in a specific direction. You must be ready to improvise and react to a changing situation. Relying on dice also gives the players the sense
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
Borca Domain of Desire and Deceit Darklords: Ivana Boritsi and Ivan Dilisnya Genres: Gothic horror and psychological horror Hallmarks: Political intrigue, poison, revenge Mist Talismans: Dram of
their idealized vision of noble life leads them to mimic the aristocrats’ callousness and appetite for empty fads. These starry-eyed innocents provide ready pawns for corruption. And those who don’t bend to the whims of Borca’s rulers face humiliation before they’re inevitably crushed.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
, entering the Nightsea. Gurau and Kisaroua furl the sails and drop a sea anchor at what Gurau calls the gateway to Janya, an area of glassy open water that Kisaroua identifies by careful compass and
sun reckonings. Gurau offers to wait for the characters and hold on to any equipment the characters don’t want to take underwater. When the characters are ready to descend, Gurau explains what to expect
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
agenda. Vizeran has cultivated his role as a patron and ally of the council to gain influence among its members — while giving them no hint of his desire to destroy the drow’s obsessive worship of Lolth
. Vizeran has told council members that adventurers are helping him banish the demon lords back to the Abyss, and that they might come to Menzoberranzan seeking lore from Gromph’s sanctum in Sorcere. The council stands ready to disable the magical wards on the tower, should this come to pass.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
Lord of Blades NPCs The Lord of Blades highlights the issues surrounding the creation of the warforged. He and his followers are ready antagonists, employing deadly methods in pursuit of their aims
, but their ire isn’t born from evil. The Lord of Blades’ greatest desire is to ensure that his people have a future, but his methods are colored by his anger at the injustices the warforged have
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen
Day of Dread When you’re ready to proceed with this section, the characters hear a commotion in Castle Kalaman or the city streets. Scouts have returned to the city with news: A flying citadel has
over an alley, providing help to refugees recently arrived in the city. 2 A baker stands outside their bakery, handing out free bread to all passersby. 3 A lost child calls for their parents on a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
shard per person above the age of ten years, and is collected door-to-door by patrols of the City Guard on the last day of each month. Individuals who so desire can pay a single dragon in tax and
receive a writ exempting them for twelve months, but the writ must be produced every month when the Guard calls, or a new payment is required. If the Guard knocks at a door and receives no answer, a notice
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
Halaster’s voice, “Terrible and painful magical death! Fireballs and lightning bolts! Begone!” It speaks and understands Common, but voices nothing but empty threats and a desire to continue its “work
fire. The breaking flask does no harm to nearby creatures. If the puppet is destroyed, Halaster’s voice magically calls out, “Auugh! Now who will find the cure to filth fever?!” before trailing off into silence.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur’s Gate Gazetteer
to its river access. Sow’s Foot. Here, expatriates from dozens of far-flung nations mingle with races ranging from lizardfolk to svirfneblin among the scents of succulent cooked foods and the calls of
overlooking the river, this perpetually foggy neighborhood hosts the Cliffside Cemetery. Twin Songs. Standing ready to welcome visitors as they cross the river, Twin Songs is renowned for its enormous
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
immortal’s grand plans, but is ready to make sure those with such roles play them. This is often a character with no magical ability or sometimes from a scholarly background, such as a sage or hermit
intention of becoming adventurers and desire no connection to the machinations of the immortals, but they get caught up in schemes and prophecies anyway. The Innocent might have been identified as a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Keys from the Golden Vault
superiors caused a glitch that prompted the confused quadrone to quit its job. Glitch has become a free-thinking being with no desire to reintegrate into the modron hierarchy. Eager to help the
time, and the characters have 24 hours until the train departs. Glitch takes the characters to the train when they’re ready (see “Catching the Train” below) and stays with them in the interim. Glitch
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
to its river access. Sow’s Foot. Here, expatriates from dozens of far-flung nations mingle with races ranging from lizardfolk to svirfneblin among the scents of exotic food and the calls of strange
overlooking the river, this perpetually foggy neighborhood hosts the Cliffside Cemetery. Twin Songs. Standing ready to welcome visitors as they cross the river, Twin Songs is renowned for its enormous diversity
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
: Long–short–short–short: “Is it safe?” (The ship initiates the exchange with this signal.) Short–long–short–long: “Everything safe.” (The smugglers respond with this signal.) Long–long–long: “Ready to
unload; come to the ship.” (The ship confirms a reply with this signal.) The arrangement calls for someone aboard the ship to flash the first signal. The shore party replies by flashing the second signal
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)
Wisdom (Survival) check when the DM calls for it. (The Dungeon Master’s Guide has rules for tracking.) Forage. The character can keep an eye out for ready sources of food and water, making a Wisdom (Survival) check when the DM calls for it. (The Dungeon Master’s Guide has rules for foraging.)
from becoming lost, making a Wisdom (Survival) check when the DM calls for it. (The Dungeon Master’s Guide has rules to determine whether the group gets lost.) Draw a Map. The character can draw a map
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
a Wisdom (Survival) check when the DM calls for it. (The Dungeon Master’s Guide has rules for tracking.) Forage. The character can keep an eye out for ready sources of food and water, making a Wisdom (Survival) check when the DM calls for it. (The Dungeon Master’s Guide has rules for foraging.)
group from becoming lost, making a Wisdom (Survival) check when the DM calls for it. (The Dungeon Master’s Guide has rules to determine whether the group gets lost.) Draw a Map. The character can draw
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
directly to the sewers. Public facilities for those out and about can be found all around the Market and the Field of Triumph, and near the largest city squares. In places without ready access to sewers
offer free instruction in reading to all who desire it, and the city has over thirty publishers of broadsheets in addition to chapbook printers and book publishers. Large paper advertisements are
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Borderlands Quest: Goblin Trouble
adjust the last sentences of the first and second paragraphs so the goblins are ready to fight. These two connected rooms have an open door between them and a makeshift forge in the back of the second
particularly tough and devious goblin called Sprika. She has tamed and trained a Giant Centipede to act as bodyguards. She carries a gnarled staff that glows with a sickly green light, which she calls her
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
ready to start: An ordinary afternoon in Red Larch is broken by a tremor. A second later, four small children and the old cart they are playing on slide down into a sinkhole that suddenly opens. They
homes. Calls of “A rope, a rope!” and “Get a ladder!” fill the air.
Any creature that moves to the sinkhole’s edge without taking precautions, such as lying flat on the ground and crawling forward or
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen
insists on giving them her newest invention (see “The Fargab”). Rookledust regrets her weed-clearing device was misused, but she doesn’t dwell on the past. She’s ready to leave with the characters
whenever they want to go; she just needs to grab her invention. The Fargab Rookledust calls her newest invention the “fargab” (see appendix A). She was supposed to design a new weapon for the Red Dragon
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Turn of Fortune’s Wheel
Scholar of Impossibilities Run this encounter when you’re ready to bring the hunt for R04M to an end. The tunnel ends in a ledge overlooking a vast, empty crevasse. No path clearly proceeds above or
evil being that calls itself the Scholar. It is curious about the characters and seeks to expose them to its corruptive ideas. Should a character converse with it, the Scholar speaks cryptically while
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
. They’re ready to take on the world and hoping to become part-owners of a share in a valuable, prestigious Acquisitions Incorporated franchise — or at least gain a coveted internship with the
Incorporated franchise. After that, the players and characters can take their treasure-hunting activities in any direction that you and they desire. Between episodes, characters will use downtime to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
, ready to emerge and attack when commanded to do so. While inside the cask, they have total cover against attacks that originate outside the cask. Twig Blight The druid is poisoning the fermentation
gown and horned headdress, the druid wears necklaces of human teeth. If the characters attack the druid, she calls forth her twig blights. When that happens, the swarms of ravens descend from the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
forms of creation. Keranos also inspires new ideas, but it is Purphoros who oversees the advancement of the craft that brings these ideas to life in the world. Purphoros is always ready to obliterate what
Purphoros, deeply involved in the project of civilization. Purphoros’s desire to overturn the established order with violence stands in stark contrast to their measured ways. As a result, Purphoros stands aloof from them.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
Order in a Sea of Chaos We githzerai crave a challenge, so that when Zerthimon returns he shall find us ready. Thus we traveled to howling Limbo to make our new home.
— The Teachings of Menyar-Ag
in this effort, the tides of Limbo would overwhelm and destroy them. The githzerai have a unity of purpose that comes from their reverence for their great heroes and their desire to emulate the virtues
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
Sylvira Savikas When the characters are ready, they can make their way toward the main keep, a towering edifice housing hundreds of monks and wizards, and thousands of books and scrolls. As they
they present the box to her, she snatches it out of their hands and studies it closely. She takes similar interest in the Shield of the Hidden Lord (which she calls “the Shield of Gargauth”), but avoids
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
Master Manipulators Hags delight in corrupting others. They do so not by imposing their will or being outwardly violent, but by making sinister bargains with those who seek their aid. This desire to
orchestrate the downfall of others is why so many hags make their homes near humanoid settlements, which gives them a ready supply of creatures to tantalize and torment. Folk with nowhere else to turn
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
, eventually subjugating a black pudding he calls “Princess Ebonmire” and a gray ooze he calls “Prince Livid.” When the demon lords arrived in the Underdark, he followed the oozes drawn by Juiblex’s
channeling a terrible power, the Pudding King sits upon his throne with his “children” at his side, summoning ever more loyal subjects with each passing day. When he is ready, he will send them forth
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
sister, Yaeda, fell under Viallis’s sway and went to what Kara calls the noble’s “new estate” (the cult’s temple). She believes that Yaeda is working for or romantically involved with Viallis, not
agreed-upon signal of a window being opened in Faerl’s house, they go there immediately, ready for trouble. Use the guidelines in the “Street Fight” section earlier to run the encounter if the cultists