brings bards diffusing could recruit

Build Your Group

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War

. The Boromars recruit ex-soldiers as muscle, trained sages for research, sailors to crew smuggling vessels, and charlatans and urchins for their unique talents. Consider some or all of these roles for

give them a broad range of knowledge to support their schemes. Bards, rogues, and wizards are often drawn to this role. Safecracker. The “breaking” part of “breaking and entering” is the Safecracker’s

Religious Service

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Xanathar's Guide to Everything

a temple risks becoming embroiled in such struggles. Every workweek spent in religious service brings a 10 percent chance of a complication, examples of which are on the Religious Service

sect in the temple offers you membership. 4 Another temple tries to recruit you as a spy.* 5 The temple elders implore you to take up a holy quest. 6 You accidentally discover that an important person in the temple is a fiend worshiper. *Might involve a rival

Membership

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Book of Many Things

. A knight might recruit help for a mission that’s too difficult to handle alone, but more often a knight opportunistically joins forces with adventurers, offering help with the party’s efforts as long

is relevant. Characters who prove themselves competent and good-hearted might earn an invitation to become knights themselves. If the characters express interest, the knight brings them to the Solar

Build Your Group

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War

this character’s divine connection. The Prophet is often a cleric or druid, but could also be an NPC with no real adventuring skills, who needs the group’s protection. Scholar. The Scholar brings

Persuasion (or sometimes Intimidation) and Religion can be useful for this character. Many clerics fill this role, but devout bards can also be effective Teachers. Some Teachers bring skills from the

Monk

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated

likely brings their old monastery’s entrepreneurial spirit with them — along with new ideas to energize that spirit even more. In my experience, hiring a monk skilled in the art of peaceful arbitration

the love of money. So if you just like money — you know, as a friend — then it’s all good! Many Acq Inc franchises actively try to recruit monks into entrepreneurship, knowing of their reputation for

Knights' Quest

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse

golden ring set with a garnet and holds it aloft, saying, “A prize for the one who brings me the beast’s head!” Merosska asks the characters to join four of his knights in the manticore hunt. He offers

a secret mission to master elemental air to annihilate Waterdeep’s enemies. Savra offers to meet with Thurl to request he recruit the character into the Feathergale Knights. In doing so, she

Gala at the Cerulean Lyceum

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel

filled with Janyans enraptured by the low-toned, hypnotic music of a group of bards. Xoese-Addae leads the characters to a private audience suite overlooking the quad, occupied by a single Janyan wearing

two civilizations. Diplomacy. If the characters don’t want to publicly align themselves with either faction, a character brings the debate to an end civilly by succeeding on a DC 16 Charisma (Deception

City Celebrations

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist

. Although some of the dancing is wanton and performed for show, large-scale ring dances in the street for all ages are also popular. All the dancing ends at dusk, after which bards and minstrels perform at

hedge wizards and professional raconteurs) at which prizes or free samples are distributed. Many guilds try to recruit during this time. Guildhall Day is an excellent time to browse the city’s

Screaming Devilkin

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Fiendish Folio Volume 1

believe that their appearance derives from the primal fear inspired by fiendish creatures, while bards assert that panic, being such a repulsive emotion, is embodied by an equally ugly creature

follow close behind the lord of entropy, delighting and furthering the destruction it brings. Cycles of Chaos. As a personification of entropy, Ygorl is cursed to see things as they will become

Lower Palace Locations

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight

counsel Zybilna on matters concerning demons and the Abyss Snitcher, a goblin boss (neutral) with dragonfly wings that grant a flying speed of 40 feet and the ability to hover, who brings news from other

worth 2,500 gp or more). If the characters recruit him, Warduke stays with the party for the remainder of the adventure, then goes his own way. While in the party’s employ, Warduke stoically follows

Chromatic Dragons

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)

an avalanche as it attacks. Overlords and Minions. Blue dragons covet valuable and talented creatures whose service reinforces their sense of superiority. Bards, sages, artists, wizards, and assassins

dragon’s favored treasures are the sentient creatures it bends to its will, including significant figures such as popular heroes, well-known sages, and renowned bards. Among material treasures, a green

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