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Backgrounds
Astarion's Book of Hungers
Ability Scores: Strength, Constitution, CharismaFeat: Vampire’s PlaythingSkill Proficiencies: Persuasion and StealthTool Proficiency: Cook's UtensilsEquipment: Choose A or B: (A) Cook’s
and retain only a few muddled memories of your time as a vampire familiar. In either case, your time in the vampire den is over.
Shapechange
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Spells
Basic Rules (2014)
replaced by the statistics of the chosen creature, though you retain your alignment and Intelligence, Wisdom, and Charisma scores. You also retain all of your skill and saving throw proficiencies, in
hit points, you aren't knocked unconscious.
You retain the benefit of any features from your class, race, or other source and can use them, provided that your new form is physically capable of doing
Monsters
Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
Legendary Resistance (2/Day). If the necrichor fails a saving throw, it can choose to succeed instead.
Rejuvenation. Unless its lifeless remains are splashed with Holy Water (flask);holy water or
sludge in the crypts of failed liches. Despite the loss of a solid physical form, these foul creatures retain their terrible intellects and aspire to megalomaniacal goals—the first of which
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
Army Arcana. When the hobgoblin casts a spell that causes damage or that forces other creatures to make a saving throw, it can choose itself and any number of allies to be immune to the damage caused
of the magical arts, they learn the basics of weapon use, and they measure their deeds by the enemies defeated though their magic. They have the respect of other members of the host and receive
Monsters
Locathah Rising
, mass cure wounds6th level (1 slot): conjure feyBalm of the Summer Court (12d6). (As a Bonus Action) Amble can choose one creature they can see within 120 feet of them and spend up to 6d6
statistics of the beast, but they retain their alignment, personality, and Intelligence, Wisdom, and Charisma scores. Amble also retains all their skill and saving throw proficiencies, in addition to
Monsters
The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
throw, it can choose to succeed instead.
Regeneration. The jabberwock regains 10 hit points at the start of its turn. If the jabberwock takes slashing damage, this trait doesn’t function at the
jabberwocks are difficult to come by, because the rare survivors of an encounter with one retain only a confused impression of its parts and not a sense of the whole. Pieced-together accounts
Monsters
Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus
throw, she can choose to succeed instead.
Magic Resistance. Zariel has advantage on saving throws against spells and other magical effects.
Regeneration. Zariel regains 20 hit points at the start of
.
Matalotok. Zariel recently defeated the demon lord Kostchtchie and took his hammer, Matalotok, which grants Zariel immunity to cold damage. Without this hammer, Zariel has resistance to cold damage
Monsters
Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen
Legendary Resistance (3/Day). If the dragon fails a saving throw, it can choose to succeed instead.
Unusual Nature. The dragon doesn’t require air, food, drink, or sleep.Multiattack. The
", "rollType":"damage", "rollAction":"Cataclysmic Rush", "rollDamageType":"necrotic"} necrotic damage. A creature can take this damage only once per turn.Some death dragons manage to retain almost all
Monsters
Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
Legendary Resistance (4/Day). If the emissary fails a saving throw, it can choose to succeed instead.
Unusual Nature. The emissary doesn’t require air, food, drink, or sleep.Multiattack. The
in its lesser form. When this form is destroyed, the emissary’s body collapses into a gory slurry. It then instantly returns in its greater form. Only if the emissary is defeated in its greater
Monsters
Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
disappeared. The greater emissary uses the lesser emissary’s initiative count.
Legendary Resistance (3/Day). If the emissary fails a saving throw, it can choose to succeed instead.
Unusual
slurry. It then instantly returns in its greater form. Only if the emissary is defeated in its greater form does the star spawn die.
After finishing a long rest, a greater star spawn emissary regains
Elf
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Species
Basic Rules (2014)
humans translate their family names into Common, but others retain the Elvish version.
Child Names: Ara, Bryn, Del, Eryn, Faen, Innil, Lael, Mella, Naill, Naeris, Phann, Rael, Rinn, Sai, Syllin
(Moonbrook), Xiloscient (Goldpetal)
Subrace
Ancient divides among the elven people resulted in three main subraces: high elves, wood elves, and dark elves, who are commonly called drow. Choose one of
Magic Items
Vecna: Eve of Ruin
chosen creature’s appearance exactly, including its voice. Your size and speed are replaced by the chosen creature’s. You otherwise retain your own game statistics. While in this new form
your true form, you can choose for the crown to be visible if you wish.
Destroying the Crown. If a creature wearing the crown is killed by the creature it is disguised as, the crown disintegrates and is destroyed.
Monsters
Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
weather, detect thoughts, ice storm
Legendary Resistance (2/Day in This Form). If Auril fails a saving throw, she can choose to succeed instead.
Magic Resistance. Auril has advantage on saving throws
current weakened state, Auril can assume three different forms. To destroy her, heroes must reduce each of her forms to 0 hit points one after another. After she’s defeated in her third and final
Monsters
Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
point in this form, each creature within 10 feet of her takes 10 cold damage at the start of each of her turns.
Legendary Resistance (1/Day in This Form). If Auril fails a saving throw, she can choose
, heroes must reduce each of her forms to 0 hit points one after another. After she’s defeated in her third and final form, Auril dies. As long as she has mortal followers who worship her, however
Magic Items
Lost Laboratory of Kwalish
attempting to slay you. If the Grand Master has already been defeated, you gain the enmity of Garret Levistusson’s patron — a similarly powerful devil.
Fool. For the duration of the
possess for the duration of this adventure.
Knight. You gain the service of any of the NPCs in the “Hirelings” section not currently with the party, who appears in a space you choose
Gnome
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Species
Basic Rules (2014)
unlikely to find the burrows in the first place.
Gnomes who settle in human lands are commonly gemcutters, engineers, sages, or tinkers. Some human families retain gnome tutors, ensuring that their pupils
know that most races don’t share their sense of humor, but they enjoy anyone’s company just as they enjoy everything else they set out to do.
Subrace
Choose one of the subraces below
Feats
Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen
Constitution, Wisdom, or Charisma score by 1, to a maximum of 20.
Bolstering Rally. As a bonus action, you can encourage one creature you can see within 30 feet of yourself (you can choose yourself). If
this path or another, they retain what they learned as a member of an order even if they join another. Characters can change what knightly order they’re a part of, but they always have access to any Knight of Solamnia feats they’ve acquired.
Magic Items
Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything
. Choose one of the following effects:
Weal. The creature has advantage on attack rolls, ability checks, and saving throws for the next hour.
Woe. The creature has disadvantage on attack rolls
released and destroyed. This reveals a fifteenth soul, a lich, that inhabits the Nether card, which appears only when the fourteen souls are defeated. If this ancient entity is destroyed, the Nether card
Monsters
Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
.
Legendary Resistance (2/Day in This Form). If Auril fails a saving throw, she can choose to succeed instead.
Magic Resistance. Auril has advantage on saving throws against spells and other magical
after another. After she’s defeated in her third and final form, Auril dies. As long as she has mortal followers who worship her, however, Auril is reborn at full strength during the next winter
Species
Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
Poised between the worlds of the living and the dead, dhampirs retain their grip on life yet are endlessly tested by vicious hungers. Their ties to the undead grant dhampirs a taste of a vampire
sustenance from the living. Roll on or choose an option from the Dhampir Hungers table to determine what tempts your character to feed.
Dhampir Hungers
d6
Hunger
1
Blood
2
Flesh
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
Reincarnation I died and was brought back to life by a friendly human druid using the reincarnate spell. I have no idea what became of the druid, whose name I don’t know. I retain the memories of my
previous life, some or all of which was spent in Icewind Dale. (Roll on the table in the spell’s description to determine your character’s previous race, or choose a race from the table that you like, then flesh out the story of your previous life.)
Backgrounds
Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide
formidable adventurer.
See the “Uthgardt Lands” section of chapter 2 for details on each tribe’s territory and its activities that will help you choose your affiliation.
Skill
totem spirits were defeated by Uthgar and where the heroes of the tribes are interred—are sacred to you.
Your bond is undoubtedly associated with your tribe or some aspect of Uthgardt philosophy or
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Astarion's Book of Hungers
Vampire Devotee Ability Scores: Strength, Constitution, Charisma
Feat: Vampire’s Plaything
Skill Proficiencies: Persuasion and Stealth
Tool Proficiency: Cook’s Utensils
Equipment: Choose A or
magically charmed and retain only a few muddled memories of your time as a vampire familiar. In either case, your time in the vampire den is over.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
, they still receive the map — it was given over to the town council by the individuals who defeated the smugglers.) The party can choose between two methods of traveling to the lair.
Yuan-ti Pureblood
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Species
Volo's Guide to Monsters
live births aren’t uncommon. A mating between yuan-ti of different types almost always produces eggs that hatch into yuan-ti of the weaker parent, so most choose partners of the same type in the
— yuan-ti make perfect courtiers. And, worse for the rest of us, rulers.
— Elminster
The physical and magical prowess of the yuan-ti empire allowed the former humans to retain their
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
Legendary Resistance (3/Day). If the dragon fails a saving throw, it can choose to succeed instead.
Spider Climb. The dragon can climb difficult surfaces, including upside down on ceilings, without
discuss how they might reunite and restore Sardior, the Ruby Dragon.
2
A horde of revenant;revenants led by a death knight has one goal—destroying the ancient sapphire dragon who defeated
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)
following rules apply: Your game statistics are replaced by the statistics of the beast, but you retain your alignment, personality, and Intelligence, Wisdom, and Charisma scores. You also retain all of your
on a spell you’ve already cast, however, or prevent you from taking actions that are part of a spell, such as call lightning, that you’ve already cast. You retain the benefit of any features from your
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
rules apply: Your game statistics are replaced by the statistics of the beast, but you retain your alignment, personality, and Intelligence, Wisdom, and Charisma scores. You also retain all of your
a spell you’ve already cast, however, or prevent you from taking actions that are part of a spell, such as call lightning, that you’ve already cast. You retain the benefit of any features from your
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)
trait. Your game statistics are replaced by the statistics of the chosen creature, though you retain your alignment and Intelligence, Wisdom, and Charisma scores. You also retain all of your skill and
reduce your normal form to 0 hit points, you aren’t knocked unconscious. You retain the benefit of any features from your class, race, or other source and can use them, provided that your new form is
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
trait. Your game statistics are replaced by the statistics of the chosen creature, though you retain your alignment and Intelligence, Wisdom, and Charisma scores. You also retain all of your skill and
reduce your normal form to 0 hit points, you aren’t knocked unconscious. You retain the benefit of any features from your class, race, or other source and can use them, provided that your new form is
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
Creating Your Character At 1st level, you choose whether your character is a member of the human race or of one of the game’s fantastical races. Alternatively, you can choose one of the following
lineages. If you choose a lineage, you might have once been a member of another race, but you aren’t any longer. You now possess only your lineage’s racial traits. When you create a character using a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tyranny of Dragons
. The sisters are actually two doppelgangers. They can either attack someone that night or join the caravan for a few days while they study the travelers and choose their victims. When the time comes
to strike, they wait until after dark, then try to lure their target away from other people by calling for assistance in a familiar voice. Fortunately for the characters and their fellow travelers, if one is defeated, the other one flees in a flurry of curses and vengeful threats.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Hoard of the Dragon Queen
on. The sisters are actually two doppelgangers. They can either attack someone that night or join the caravan for a few days while they study the travelers and choose their victims. When the time
comes to strike, they wait until after dark, then try to lure their target away from other people by calling for assistance in a familiar voice. Fortunately for the characters and their fellow travelers, if one is defeated, the other one flees in a flurry of curses and vengeful threats.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Spelljammer: Adventures in Space->Astral Adventurer’s Guide
, Wisdom, or Charisma is your spellcasting ability for it (choose when you select this race). Darkvision. You can see in dim light within 60 feet of yourself as if it were bright light, and in darkness as
or tool of your choice, selected from the Player’s Handbook. You mystically acquire these proficiencies by drawing them from shared elven memory and the experiences of entities on the Astral Plane, and you retain them until you finish your next long rest.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monsters of the Multiverse
Charisma modifier (choose when you select this race): Autumn. Immediately after you use your Fey Step, up to two creatures of your choice that you can see within 10 feet of you must succeed on a Wisdom
don’t need to sleep, and magic can’t put you to sleep. You can finish a long rest in 4 hours if you spend those hours in a trancelike meditation, during which you retain consciousness. Whenever you finish






