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Barbarian

Classes Player’s Handbook

Core Barbarian Traits Primary Ability Strength Hit Point Die D12 per Barbarian level Saving Throw Proficiencies Strength and Constitution Skill Proficiencies Choose 2

Barbarian... As a Level 1 Character Gain all the traits in the Core Barbarian Traits table. Gain the Barbarian’s level 1 features, which are listed in the Barbarian Features table. As a

Wizard

Classes Player’s Handbook

Core Wizard Traits Primary Ability Intelligence Hit Point Die D6 per Wizard level Saving Throw Proficiencies Intelligence and Wisdom Skill Proficiencies Choose 2: Arcana

explosive fire, arcing lightning, subtle deception, and spectacular transformations. Their magic conjures monsters from other planes of existence, glimpses the future, or forms protective barriers. Their

Hobgoblin Legacy

Species Volo's Guide to Monsters

; entire society forever stands prepared for war. Brutal Civility Hobgoblins hold themselves to high standards of military honor. The race has a long history of shared traditions, recorded and retold

rank or banner status. Of course, Maglubiyet’s call to conquest is always answered. Suffer nor Give Insult. As befits their warlike nature, hobgoblins believe that any insult demands a response

Lizardfolk Legacy

Species Volo's Guide to Monsters

plans, or cultivating other methods to progress beyond their simple existence as hunters and gatherers. Hapless Soft Ones At their core, lizardfolk view other humanoids with an indifference verging on

, if other creatures prove useful to lizardfolk, those creatures can trigger a protective response made all the stronger by their apparent weakness. The lizardfolk assess such beings as hatchlings

Hapless Soft Ones

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters

Hapless Soft Ones At their core, lizardfolk view other humanoids with an indifference verging on pity. Born into the world lacking stout scales and sharp teeth, it’s a wonder they have managed to

survive for so long. The typical human would barely make it through a day in the swamps. Still, if other creatures prove useful to lizardfolk, those creatures can trigger a protective response made all

Wizard

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules

Wizard Core Wizard Traits Primary Ability Intelligence Hit Point Die D6 per Wizard level Saving Throw Proficiencies Intelligence and Wisdom Skill Proficiencies Choose 2: Arcana, History, Insight

transformations. Their magic conjures monsters from other planes of existence, glimpses the future, or forms protective barriers. Their mightiest spells change one substance into another, call meteors

Tayyib Empire

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

Tayyib Empire The Tayyib Empire recently emerged from a brutal civil war, but its peace is fragile. Monsters roam the hinterland, and people vie for power to stave off desperation during the recovery

. The war began in response to the death of Emperor Tasneem, whose older heirs turned to sinister magic in their attempts to rule. These heirs burned the former capital and unleashed legions of

Wizard

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player’s Handbook

Wizard BILLY CHRISTIAN A Scholarly Magic-User of Arcane Power Core Wizard Traits Primary Ability Intelligence Hit Point Die D6 per Wizard level Saving Throw Proficiencies Intelligence and

fire, arcing lightning, subtle deception, and spectacular transformations. Their magic conjures monsters from other planes of existence, glimpses the future, or forms protective barriers. Their mightiest

Revel's End

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Keys from the Golden Vault

of the Sea of Moving Ice, the prison is a single-story structure topped with battlements. Rising from the core of the panopticon is a tower that holds the prison’s administrative offices and guard

barracks. Both the prison and the tower are carved from a tall, blade-shaped rock that rises high above the sea cliffs. This rock, called the Windbreak, shields the tower against the brutal winds that

Revel's End

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Prisoner 13

of the Sea of Moving Ice, the prison is a single-story structure topped with battlements. Rising from the core of the panopticon is a tower that holds the prison’s administrative offices and guard

barracks. Both the prison and the tower are carved from a tall, blade-shaped rock that rises high above the sea cliffs. This rock, called the Windbreak, shields the tower against the brutal winds that

Goblinoid Campaign Themes

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

, pillaged their tombs, and enslaved their descendants. The Dhakaani aren’t evil, but they believe humanity to be brutal and cruel, people without muut or atcha. Faced with an adventurer wielding a magic

sword taken from a Dhakaani ruin, the Heirs of Dhakaan are rightfully angry and violent in their response to this tomb robber.

Orc Legacy

Species Volo's Guide to Monsters

or less intact, the orcs leave themselves the option of returning to raid the community over and over. When orcs fight elves, all of that changes. The enmity between the two races cuts to the core

Ruhk Neega Bone Crusher 7 Mobad Baggi Flesh Ripper 8 Shamog Shautha Doom Hammer 9 Mugrub Ovak Elf Butcher 10 Bajok Vola Spine Snapper 11 Rhorog Engong Death Spear 12 Jahrukk Volen The Brutal

Revel's End

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden

of the Sea of Moving Ice, the prison is a single-story structure topped with battlements. Rising from the core of the panopticon is a tower that holds the prison’s administrative offices and guard

barracks. Both the prison and the tower are carved out of a tall, blade-shaped rock that rises high above the sea cliffs. This rock, called the Windbreak, shields the tower against the brutal winds that

The Planes of Eberron

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron

eldritch machines or interaction with extraplanar entities. There are also manifest zones: places in the material plane where the barriers are thin and where some aspects of a plane can bleed through

experiences of dreamers. There is a dark core at the heart of the plane, shaped by the nightmare force known as the Dreaming Dark. For reasons unknown to the general populace, Dal Quor is always remote

Inquisitor of the Tome

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Eve of Ruin

inquisitors’ zealous and sometimes brutal methods inspire terror in many communities throughout the multiverse. Each Ulmist inquisitor belongs to one of three orders that harness the power of psionics

(spell save DC 15): At will: Detect Magic, Dispel Magic, Levitate, Mage Armor, Mage Hand, Sending 1/day each: Otiluke’s Resilient Sphere, Telekinesis Reactions Telekinetic Deflection. In response

Xen'drik

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Forge of the Artificer

Xen’drik Expeditions to Xen’drik remain the core of Morgrave University’s archaeological work and the foundation of its reputation—for both good and ill. The school’s founder, Lord Lareth ir’Morgrave

relics of the ancient giants weren’t meant for the eyes of prying adventurers. No one knows better than the scholars of Morgrave University how to circumvent those barriers and plunder the continent’s

Spells

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)

Spells Sarya raised her hands and began to declaim the words of a very powerful spell, one of the most dangerous she knew, a spell designed to breach the barriers between the planes and create a

magical bridge into another realm of existence. The mythal thrummed in response, the intangible pulse of the old device taking on a new and different note. Sarya ignored the mythal stone’s change and

Gracklstugh

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss

Gracklstugh If the characters visited Gracklstugh previously, the duergar response to their return is dictated by the gray dwarves’ prior experience with the characters. The duergar are cautious — if

agents of that order use increasingly brutal methods to ferret out and eliminate the Gray Ghosts — or anyone believed to associate with them. Whether due to the intervention of the adventurers, the

Scourge of Worlds

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes

significant amount of time, the area starts to warp in response to the abyssal energy that churns within it. If a demonic infestation is left unchecked, a portal to the Abyss is the result, and more and

presence begins to erode the barriers between their location and the Abyss. It can take a few years for weaker demons to warp their environment, while changes begin to occur around the location of a

Gauntlgrym

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss

the great empires of the elves, dwarves, and humans soured as the centuries passed. And so when numberless hordes of orcs smashed into the north, each empire stood alone. The war was brutal and

still bound within its core. The drow House Xorlarrin eventually took Gauntlgrym, establishing a new city they called Q’Xorlarrin, producing weapons at the forge that they traded and used to pay

Helm's Hold

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide

women who had remained ever watchful for Helm’s return, experienced their own divine signs. In response to prayers, some were even rewarded with spells. Javen took those priests and followers from the

curled into a fist — and it is a claim I can’t disregard. The Order of the Gilded Eye can be brutal in their pursuit of evil. Did Helm’s symbol weep as Javen Tarmikos and others have said? If it did

Random Encounters

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss

adornment’s sake is something duergar society frowns upon, the guards’ violent response was unnatural — a hint of the growing madness festering inside the City of Blades. Deep Gnome Merchant A female

the influence of Demogorgon. Many are developing tics, habits, and behaviors that fly against their core beliefs, including guards flaunting their corrupt behavior, the use of adornment for adornment’s

Hobgoblins

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters

weapons capably. Every legion in the hobgoblins’ entire society forever stands prepared for war. Brutal Civility Hobgoblins hold themselves to high standards of military honor. The race has a long

banner status. Of course, Maglubiyet’s call to conquest is always answered. Suffer nor Give Insult. As befits their warlike nature, hobgoblins believe that any insult demands a response. Suitably

Maglubiyet's Will Be Done

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters

brutal. — Volo Stealthy Shock Troops. Bugbears that are subsumed into a host function as a special cadre of spies, assassins, and bodyguards, answering to the senior leadership of the host rather

is released by someone remote from the group, and it can be sent out again to look for the individual that released it in order to deliver a response. Most of the army travels on foot, and wolf-riding

Ascendant Factions

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Sigil and the Outlands

prize. With brutal efficiency, he exploits the financial stranglehold his faction has over Sigil, richly rewarding informants for secrets that might give the Fated leverage over the other factions

transcend their potential and attain the power of gods. Even still, Seekers suspect that divinity isn’t the ultimate expression of their core beliefs, but rather a stepping stone to an unknowable

A Detour to Neverwinter

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

entertaining hallmark of assignments handed down from Head Office, and plausible deniability is one of the core competencies of any successful Acquisitions Incorporated franchise.) The Backstory

message her indirectly through a third party (a bribed guard or worker, for instance), Oppal’s response makes it clear that she is willing to pass along “the information” only if she is liberated. She

Wedding Itinerary

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

a solid background in company history might recall that this is the same vault that the core members of Acquisitions Incorporated once robbed.) Vault Doors and Keys. Each vault door is covered in

characters to explore their NPCs’ personalities and backstories as things get heated. By focusing on the humor of potential conflicts, you can avoid having the guards rush in as a first response. The

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