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Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron
ground and faced your ancestors, and twenty fell before his singing blades. You are no Dhakaani of old, and a mere twenty of you will bring no honor to the Taeri.”
The warlord hissed in fury, and
particular rival who channels the same ancestor, or one who channels a rival of your ancestor?
It’s also important to think about why you are traveling with a group of player characters
Backgrounds
Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron
function, and its prosperity will help everyone. (Good)
2
Tradition. I uphold traditions of my house and bring honor to my family. (Lawful)
3
Innovation. Abandon old traditions and
I would do anything for my family.
2
I love someone from another house, but the relationship is forbidden.
3
Someone I love was killed by a rival faction within my house, and I will have
Backgrounds
Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron
, and its prosperity will help everyone. (Good)
2
Tradition. I uphold traditions of my house and bring honor to my family. (Lawful)
3
Innovation. Abandon old traditions and find
do anything for my family.
2
I love someone from another house, but the relationship is forbidden.
3
Someone I love was killed by a rival faction within my house, and I will have revenge
Backgrounds
Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron
its prosperity will help everyone. (Good)
2
Tradition. I uphold traditions of my house and bring honor to my family. (Lawful)
3
Innovation. Abandon old traditions and find better
anything for my family.
2
I love someone from another house, but the relationship is forbidden.
3
Someone I love was killed by a rival faction within my house, and I will have revenge
Backgrounds
Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron
, and its prosperity will help everyone. (Good)
2
Tradition. I uphold traditions of my house and bring honor to my family. (Lawful)
3
Innovation. Abandon old traditions and find
do anything for my family.
2
I love someone from another house, but the relationship is forbidden.
3
Someone I love was killed by a rival faction within my house, and I will have revenge
Backgrounds
Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron
prosperity will help everyone. (Good)
2
Tradition. I uphold traditions of my house and bring honor to my family. (Lawful)
3
Innovation. Abandon old traditions and find better ways
for my family.
2
I love someone from another house, but the relationship is forbidden.
3
Someone I love was killed by a rival faction within my house, and I will have revenge.
4
I
Backgrounds
Tomb of Annihilation
disappeared on an expedition some time ago.
3
I have a friendly rival. Only one of us can be the best, and I aim to prove it’s me.
4
I won’t sell an art object or other treasure that
has historical significance or is one of a kind.
5
I’m secretly in love with the wealthy patron who sponsors my archaeological exploits.
6
I hope to bring prestige to a library, a
Backgrounds
Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron
prosperity will help everyone. (Good)
2
Tradition. I uphold traditions of my house and bring honor to my family. (Lawful)
3
Innovation. Abandon old traditions and find better ways
anything for my family.
2
I love someone from another house, but the relationship is forbidden.
3
Someone I love was killed by a rival faction within my house, and I will have revenge.
4
I
Backgrounds
Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron
function, and its prosperity will help everyone. (Good)
2
Tradition. I uphold traditions of my house and bring honor to my family. (Lawful)
3
Innovation. Abandon old traditions and
would do anything for my family.
2
I love someone from another house, but the relationship is forbidden.
3
Someone I love was killed by a rival faction within my house, and I will have
Backgrounds
Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron
its prosperity will help everyone. (Good)
2
Tradition. I uphold traditions of my house and bring honor to my family. (Lawful)
3
Innovation. Abandon old traditions and find better
anything for my family.
2
I love someone from another house, but the relationship is forbidden.
3
Someone I love was killed by a rival faction within my house, and I will have revenge.
4
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Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron
function, and its prosperity will help everyone. (Good)
2
Tradition. I uphold traditions of my house and bring honor to my family. (Lawful)
3
Innovation. Abandon old traditions
I would do anything for my family.
2
I love someone from another house, but the relationship is forbidden.
3
Someone I love was killed by a rival faction within my house, and I will have
Backgrounds
Guildmasters’ Guide to Ravnica
stench.
Suggested Characteristics
Members of the Golgari Swarm are unmistakably products of the undercity, ill at ease amid the comforts of civilization. They bring about the same discomfort in others
meaningful connections with others.
Roll twice on the Golgari Contacts table (for an ally and a rival) and once on the Non-Golgari Contacts table.
Golgari Contacts
d8
Contact
1
One
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
Ashen Grotto Adventures Here are sample adventure hooks to bring characters to the Ashen Grotto or to give them missions to pursue within the cave. Greedy Usurpers Giants who wish to inter their dead
in the Ashen Grotto ask the characters to help them remove a rival faction claiming it for themselves. The friendly giants respect the grotto’s traditions and refuse to shed another giant’s blood
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
Forest Crystal Adventures Here are sample adventure hooks to bring characters to the Forest Crystal or to give them missions to pursue there. Lost Legacy A young green dragon who lairs near the
crystal approaches the characters and requests their aid. The minions of a rival dragon (creatures from the Giant Kin Encounters table in chapter 3) seek to destroy the crystal. The rival, a young black
Backgrounds
Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron
function, and its prosperity will help everyone. (Good)
2
Tradition. I uphold traditions of my house and bring honor to my family. (Lawful)
3
Innovation. Abandon old traditions and
would do anything for my family.
2
I love someone from another house, but the relationship is forbidden.
3
Someone I love was killed by a rival faction within my house, and I will have
Backgrounds
Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron
, and its prosperity will help everyone. (Good)
2
Tradition. I uphold traditions of my house and bring honor to my family. (Lawful)
3
Innovation. Abandon old traditions and find
would do anything for my family.
2
I love someone from another house, but the relationship is forbidden.
3
Someone I love was killed by a rival faction within my house, and I will have revenge
Backgrounds
Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron
prosperity will help everyone. (Good)
2
Tradition. I uphold traditions of my house and bring honor to my family. (Lawful)
3
Innovation. Abandon old traditions and find better ways
anything for my family.
2
I love someone from another house, but the relationship is forbidden.
3
Someone I love was killed by a rival faction within my house, and I will have revenge.
4
I
Backgrounds
Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron
its prosperity will help everyone. (Good)
2
Tradition. I uphold traditions of my house and bring honor to my family. (Lawful)
3
Innovation. Abandon old traditions and find better
anything for my family.
2
I love someone from another house, but the relationship is forbidden.
3
Someone I love was killed by a rival faction within my house, and I will have revenge
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
Keranos’s Champions Keranos sees his champions as tools to bring insight and change to the world. He doesn’t contemplate the moral or ethical consequences of his insights, believing that such
.
2 Break down a ruling structure that stifles ingenuity and creativity.
3 Bring together lost icons of power to create an incredible storm with the might to halt a greater threat.
4
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Guildmasters' Guide to Ravnica
during a prison transfer, and it’s urgent that the characters locate him and bring him back to justice as soon as possible and with discretion. The characters can retrace the route of the transfer
Shattergang Brothers, a rival gang intent on murdering Krenko. Members of that gang will trail the party throughout the city in an attempt to find the goblin mob boss’s location. Eventually, the adventurers
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the entire city, your place in the Azorius can easily bring you into contact with members of other guilds, for good or ill.
Roll twice on the Azorius Contacts table (for an ally and a rival) and
complimented me on my work.
Non-Azorius Contacts
d10
Contact
1
Roll an additional Azorius contact; you can decide if the contact is an ally or a rival.
2
The person who
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
Quests d6 Adventure Goal
1 Rob or defend a gambling parlor.
2 Destabilize or aid the government of the local polis.
3 Form or foil a heretical cult of Heliod to bring discord to
simple heist could be the triggering event for a series of major conflicts between two rival temples that ends in a citywide conflagration. Champions of Phenax could also serve as a bulwark against more
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
drawn to these locations by rumors or quests. These sites are ancillary to the main story but help bring the harsh land of Icewind Dale to life. The adventure kicks off in earnest with chapter 3, as the
by a rival and a book titled The Codicil of White. The orb has useful magical properties, while the book contains a magical poem that can create a passage through the Reghed Glacier. Chapter 6
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
Fort Knucklebone After leaving Elturel, the adventurers head to Fort Knucklebone, a junkyard stronghold on the edge of a desolate expanse of Avernus ravaged by rival gangs of scavengers. Fort
partially true. They can bring Lulu and the characters to Mad Maggie, who can in turn provide them with assistance. AREAS OF FORT KNUCKLEBONE
The main feature of the fort is the hand-shaped hill, between
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
appearance of loyalty toward rival terrors. Every part of Kalakeri holds secrets and dangers, and nowhere is untouched by its rulers’ war for dominance. When planning adventures in Kalakeri, consider
grown only in the gardens of the Cerulean Citadel. Estavan, a mysterious oni merchant, offers to pay good money for the spice and even more for the seeds.
6 A parent asks the characters to bring
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
cantankerous grandparent who no longer cares what anyone thinks — set in her ways, free to speak her mind, and not afraid to bring down punishment if pushed too far. Hags enjoy meddling with other people’s
offering so she can examine it more closely, even if this makes it obvious she is interested. If she doesn’t have anything else like it, or can think of a use for it, or if having it means a rival
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
by creatures it can catch in the open, including the travelers that enter and exit the place. On occasion, this state of (relatively) peaceful coexistence is shattered when a devious rival dragon with
designs on a white dragon’s territory enters the picture. Taking advantage of the dragon’s limited mental faculties, the rival secretly sends its minions out to harass the dragon. Convinced that the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Turn of Fortune’s Wheel
town. Whether the characters ask about the yelling or she has to bring up the matter herself, she also shares the following information: The ruckus is coming from a despondent empyrean: Kopoha, the
defeat by her bitterest rival, her sister Alethira. The two are always trying to outdo each other as they vie for their parents’ approval. They are usually well matched, but this time Alethira humiliated
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
. For any tasks in which the outcome includes a complication due to a rival, the Six could be attempting to undermine the characters’ franchise to eliminate their threat. Business as Usual Even as the
the characters. With a suitable degree of success, such activities can bring the characters into contact with agents of the Six. Likewise, the characters might use the cover of criminal activity to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
use to her, dispatches eight elite drow patrols (see above) to bring them to her at once. If the characters allow themselves to be brought before the most powerful individual in the city, see the
demand to know their business. The noble also seizes any opportunity to reverse his or her recent misfortune, perhaps by rooting out enemy spies or using the characters to dispose of a rival. This noble
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron
its prosperity will help everyone. (Good)
2 Tradition. I uphold traditions of my house and bring honor to my family. (Lawful)
3 Innovation. Abandon old traditions and find better ways to do
someone from another house, but such relationships are forbidden.
3 Someone I love was killed by a rival faction within my house, and I will have revenge.
4 I don’t care about the house as
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
save Gazre-Azam and bring Zikran to justice. They can offer a valuable or beautiful treasure in exchange for being allowed to carefully peruse Zikran’s old laboratory. A character familiar with bronze
dragons can bring up their famous love of ships and the sea in an attempt to bond with Ashgarlyth. If the players fight Ashgarlyth, treat the laboratory as his lair, granting the dragon lair actions as
compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Netheril’s Fall: Tales of Terror, Treasure, and Time Travel
executions take place, which adventurers might need to witness, prevent, or escape from. Information Source. Due to its widespread popularity, the coliseum is an easy place for an adventurer to bring
in this district devoted to higher learning.
The Last Academies, a collection of rival institutions, are named as such because once you finish here, there’s nowhere else to learn. Each institution
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
, orc warriors are commanded to scour the surrounding landscape for any opportunity to spill blood and bring glory to their gods. Often, bands of warriors work on a rotation, with one group heading out
amount of resources to remain strong. As a rule, a tribe is violently hostile toward any other tribe it meets, seeing the rival orcs first and foremost as competitors for food and victims. On some
compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Guildmasters' Guide to Ravnica
tension at best, and open warfare at worst. All it takes is a villain willing to upset the balance of power, and the characters’ guild or their own motivations should easily bring them into conflict with
Guild Role table presents a range of options.
Secondary Guild Role
d8 Secondary Guild Role
1 A rival pursues the same goal as the adventurers, but is doing it “wrong.”
2 One or more