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Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus
military organization you were a part of, how far through its ranks you progressed, and what kind of experiences you had during your military career. Was it a standing army, a town guard, or a village
, blacksmith, or the like)
FEATURE: MILITARY RANK
You have a military rank from your career as a soldier. Soldiers loyal to your former military organization still recognize your authority and
Backgrounds
Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide
organization, but who serve as its hands, head, and heart.
As a prelude to your adventuring career (and in preparation for it), you served as an agent of a particular faction in Faerûn. You might have
Emerald Enclave: Maintaining balance in the natural order and combating the forces that threaten that balance is the twofold goal of the Emerald Enclave. Those who serve the faction are masters
Warlock
Legacy
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Classes
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relationship between warlock and patron is like that of a cleric and a deity, though the beings that serve as patrons for warlocks are not gods. A warlock might lead a cult dedicated to a demon
shapes their lives. This thirst drives warlocks into their pacts and shapes their later careers as well. Stories of warlocks binding themselves to fiends are widely known. But many warlocks serve patrons
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
Spirit Medium After a fateful experience, you believe you’re aligned with spirits and can serve as a conduit for their insights and goals. You have advantage on any Arcana or Religion check you make
to remember or research information about spirits and the afterlife. Additionally, you begin your adventuring career with a custom-made device for communing with otherworldly forces, perhaps a spirit
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
Spirit Medium After a fateful experience, you believe you’re aligned with spirits and can serve as a conduit for their insights and goals. You have advantage on any Arcana or Religion check you make
to remember or research information about spirits and the afterlife. Additionally, you begin your adventuring career with a custom-made device for communing with otherworldly forces, perhaps a spirit
Bard
Legacy
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beyond the horizon—makes an adventuring career a natural calling. Every adventure is an opportunity to learn, practice a variety of skills, enter long-forgotten tombs, discover lost works of magic
worthy of a story. Some bards acquire their magical music through extraordinary means, including the inspiration of fey or other supernatural creatures. Did you serve an apprenticeship, studying under
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
that work has been going on behind the scenes of the campaign during a character’s early adventuring career, so the Bastion is ready when the character reaches level 5. The shape, style, and function
fortified as a Fighter’s stronghold. And multiple characters can combine their Bastions to form a single large structure (see “Bastion Map”). Every Bastion has facilities that serve basic needs as well as
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
who serve as its hands, head, and heart. As a prelude to your adventuring career (and in preparation for it), you served as an agent of a particular faction in Faerûn. You might have operated openly or
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)
did your patron find and choose you? Do you chafe under the obligations of your pact or serve joyfully in anticipation of the rewards promised to you? Work with your DM to determine how big a part
your pact will play in your character’s adventuring career. Your patron’s demands might drive you into adventures, or they might consist entirely of small favors you can do between adventures. What kind
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)
did your patron find and choose you? Do you chafe under the obligations of your pact or serve joyfully in anticipation of the rewards promised to you? Work with your DM to determine how big a part
your pact will play in your character’s adventuring career. Your patron’s demands might drive you into adventures, or they might consist entirely of small favors you can do between adventures. What kind
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
who serve as its hands, head, and heart. As a prelude to your adventuring career (and in preparation for it), you served as an agent of a particular faction in Faerûn. You might have operated openly or
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
that work has been going on behind the scenes of the campaign during a character’s early adventuring career, so the Bastion is ready when the character reaches level 5. The shape, style, and function
fortified as a Fighter’s stronghold. And multiple characters can combine their Bastions to form a single large structure (see “Bastion Map”). Every Bastion has facilities that serve basic needs as well as
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Lost Laboratory of Kwalish
the characters the services of a number of hirelings in his employ — and insists that at least one of those hirelings accompany the party, to serve as custodian of his maps and materials. If the
characters develop an especially close relationship to the Cartophile, the gnome might reveal that his professional career commissioning expeditions and maps has been background research for a personal
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Lost Laboratory of Kwalish
the characters the services of a number of hirelings in his employ — and insists that at least one of those hirelings accompany the party, to serve as custodian of his maps and materials. If the
characters develop an especially close relationship to the Cartophile, the gnome might reveal that his professional career commissioning expeditions and maps has been background research for a personal
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
Life in the Sensa Empire Those who live in the Sensa Empire or who travel through the land experience its wealth, both in riches and deep traditions. Aurum Guild Gold mining is a respected career
plantains, cassava, and yams serve as staples of the Sensan diet. Split Rule The Sensa Empire’s three city-states are hereditary monarchies united into a coalition under the empress’s control
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
Life in the Sensa Empire Those who live in the Sensa Empire or who travel through the land experience its wealth, both in riches and deep traditions. Aurum Guild Gold mining is a respected career
plantains, cassava, and yams serve as staples of the Sensan diet. Split Rule The Sensa Empire’s three city-states are hereditary monarchies united into a coalition under the empress’s control
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Locathah Rising
into the face of one of the empty ornate helms on the altar.
This is Shoalar Quanderil, who was reincarnated by Gar to serve him in his new mission. Once jovial and quick to laugh, Shoalar has
grown quiet, bitter, and apprehensive. He doesn’t understand how Gar can serve both Olhydra and Umberlee, and has developed an extreme mistrust of his morose benefactor. Because of this, it wouldn’t take
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Locathah Rising
into the face of one of the empty ornate helms on the altar.
This is Shoalar Quanderil, who was reincarnated by Gar to serve him in his new mission. Once jovial and quick to laugh, Shoalar has
grown quiet, bitter, and apprehensive. He doesn’t understand how Gar can serve both Olhydra and Umberlee, and has developed an extreme mistrust of his morose benefactor. Because of this, it wouldn’t take
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
afterlife awaiting them can be powerful. From a personal standpoint, this sort of interlude can serve to reinforce a character’s choices and actions or offer a warning of what’s to come if their priorities
character’s dead rivals could have known. Whatever a character learns during their temporary death, they can carry with them back into the mortal world. Such might make dying one of the most helpful things to happen in a character’s greater heroic career.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Book of Many Things
Running Allies Allies are an important part of any adventuring party’s career. However, whenever an ally joins the party for a significant amount of time, it’s important the ally doesn’t overshadow
out orders in the heat of battle. This is especially useful for allies who serve as the bodyguard for a wizard character or who partner with a rogue character to help the rogue perform sneak attacks. In
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
did your patron find and choose you? Do you chafe under the obligations of your pact or serve joyfully in anticipation of the rewards promised to you? Work with your DM to determine how big a part
your pact will play in your character’s adventuring career. Your patron’s demands might drive you into adventures, or they might consist entirely of small favors you can do between adventures. What kind
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
afterlife awaiting them can be powerful. From a personal standpoint, this sort of interlude can serve to reinforce a character’s choices and actions or offer a warning of what’s to come if their priorities
character’s dead rivals could have known. Whatever a character learns during their temporary death, they can carry with them back into the mortal world. Such might make dying one of the most helpful things to happen in a character’s greater heroic career.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
did your patron find and choose you? Do you chafe under the obligations of your pact or serve joyfully in anticipation of the rewards promised to you? Work with your DM to determine how big a part
your pact will play in your character’s adventuring career. Your patron’s demands might drive you into adventures, or they might consist entirely of small favors you can do between adventures. What kind
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Book of Many Things
Running Allies Allies are an important part of any adventuring party’s career. However, whenever an ally joins the party for a significant amount of time, it’s important the ally doesn’t overshadow
out orders in the heat of battle. This is especially useful for allies who serve as the bodyguard for a wizard character or who partner with a rogue character to help the rogue perform sneak attacks. In
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Xanathar's Guide to Everything
unmistakable sign. I dropped everything to serve the divine. 4 Although I was always devout, it wasn’t until I completed a pilgrimage that I knew my true calling. 5 I used to serve in my religion’s bureaucracy
why I was chosen to serve. Druid d6 I became a druid because … 1 I saw too much devastation in the wild places, too much of nature’s splendor ruined by the despoilers. I joined a circle of druids
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Xanathar's Guide to Everything
unmistakable sign. I dropped everything to serve the divine. 4 Although I was always devout, it wasn’t until I completed a pilgrimage that I knew my true calling. 5 I used to serve in my religion’s bureaucracy
why I was chosen to serve. Druid d6 I became a druid because … 1 I saw too much devastation in the wild places, too much of nature’s splendor ruined by the despoilers. I joined a circle of druids
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
a place among them by claiming a victory in the annual Iroan Games. More commonly, members of lektoi families lose their place of privilege if they fail to fulfill their obligation to serve in the
or their family estates and go about the leisured life of aristocrats. Their households are run by a class of servants made up of lektoi who were unable or unwilling to undertake a military career
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
a place among them by claiming a victory in the annual Iroan Games. More commonly, members of lektoi families lose their place of privilege if they fail to fulfill their obligation to serve in the
or their family estates and go about the leisured life of aristocrats. Their households are run by a class of servants made up of lektoi who were unable or unwilling to undertake a military career
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
along this route, plus 30 gp for each wagon beyond the tenth. The company hires mercenaries and adventurers to serve as guards, paying each person 4 gp per day plus food and drink. Each guard also
corners of his rooftop and serve as living sentries. To alleviate their boredom, the malevolent gargoyles swoop down on townsfolk from time to time and terrify them for the sake of amusement, which
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
along this route, plus 30 gp for each wagon beyond the tenth. The company hires mercenaries and adventurers to serve as guards, paying each person 4 gp per day plus food and drink. Each guard also
corners of his rooftop and serve as living sentries. To alleviate their boredom, the malevolent gargoyles swoop down on townsfolk from time to time and terrify them for the sake of amusement, which
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
, which drains out the western end of the chamber to form the stream that flows from the cave mouth below. Low fieldstone walls serve as dams holding the water in. A wide exit stands to the south, while
”) and his mangy pet wolf, Ripper. The bugbear is filled with delusions of grandeur and views himself as a mighty king just beginning his career of conquest. He refers to himself in the third person
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
Zybilna is the archmage Iggwilv in a new form—a change for the better, in his estimation. He would never cross Zybilna, to whom he owes his career.
Shon and his “hump” (a giant wolf spider named
silently, staring and saying nothing.”
Ideal. “Children need work to keep them out of trouble. Those toys aren’t going to make themselves.”
Bond. “I serve Granny, who made me what I am today. I would
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
bit, he was simply called Screve. However, he had more than a few other names throughout his career as a slinger of magic, including Brutar the Bloody, Murst the Merciless, and That Wizard Who Fried
Screve’s attempts to create monodrones to serve him. These twelve replica modrons look exactly like their true modron counterparts and use the monodrone stat block, with the changes noted in “Replica
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
bit, he was simply called Screve. However, he had more than a few other names throughout his career as a slinger of magic, including Brutar the Bloody, Murst the Merciless, and That Wizard Who Fried
Screve’s attempts to create monodrones to serve him. These twelve replica modrons look exactly like their true modron counterparts and use the monodrone stat block, with the changes noted in “Replica
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
Zybilna is the archmage Iggwilv in a new form—a change for the better, in his estimation. He would never cross Zybilna, to whom he owes his career.
Shon and his “hump” (a giant wolf spider named
silently, staring and saying nothing.”
Ideal. “Children need work to keep them out of trouble. Those toys aren’t going to make themselves.”
Bond. “I serve Granny, who made me what I am today. I would