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Kenku
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Volo's Guide to Monsters
city, alerting their allies to the approach of a guard patrol or signaling a prime opportunity for a robbery.
Since kenku can precisely reproduce any sound, the messages they carry rarely suffer
The map we found showed the entrance to the Priest King’s treasure cache right in the middle of the ruined section of the city. We approached our destination without issue, but as we arrived
Monsters
Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
overheard her master talking to another wizard about a covert expedition to Icewind Dale being undertaken to seek out long-lost magic from a bygone empire. Rather than carry out her original plan, Nass
this book tells how to reach a lost city of magic entombed in the ice. Before she could obtain the book, Nass perished. She now exists as a ghost, unable to rest until she finds the book. Characters
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Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus
Baldur’s Gate is a city badly in need of heroes, and every so often, one rises from among its own. Ordinary people who rise to greatness are beloved in local history, but the popular
find a way to salvation.
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You helped break a Guild protection racket afflicting a community of immigrants in the Outer City. Now, you can’t travel through that part of the city without your
Tortle
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The Tortle Package
our homes on our backs.” The shells they carry around provide all the shelter they require. Consequently, tortles don’t feel the need to root themselves in one place for too long. A tortle
fortifications. They marvel at the works of other civilized creatures, humans in particular, and can lose themselves for years in a city, studying its architectural wonders and learning skills they can
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Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus
You understand wealth, power, and privilege. You carry a noble title, and your family owns land, collects taxes, and wields significant political influence. You might be a pampered aristocrat
Upper City, where they host grand galas and flaunt cosmopolitan fashions, but are walled off from the poverty and squalor of the less fortunate districts and their neighborhoods. Although they might
Folk Hero
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, and I carry them so that I will never forget my roots.
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I protect those who cannot protect themselves.
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I wish my childhood sweetheart had come with me to pursue my destiny
failure.
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The people who knew me when I was young know my shameful secret, so I can never go home again.
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I have a weakness for the vices of the city, especially hard drink.
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Guildmasters’ Guide to Ravnica
journals or hidden away in someone’s mind. Even you might not be aware of all the reasons behind the missions you carry out. Sometimes a mission’s sole purpose is to conceal the
motivation behind another strike performed in a different part of the city, or simply to spread fear.
As part of your covert work for House Dimir, you maintain a false identity as a member of another guild
Yuan-ti Pureblood
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cluster of allied city-states. Conquered neighbors were allowed to keep their leaders and culture so long as they paid tribute, swore allegiance to the victors, and incorporated their conquerors
one city-state were killed and eaten to create the first yuan-ti, and once the news of how to perform these rituals spread to other leaders, the call for slaves to fuel the process increased. As the
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Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide
My tools are symbols of my past life, and I carry them so that I will never forget my roots.
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I protect those who cannot protect themselves.
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I wish my childhood sweetheart had come
city, especially hard drink.
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Secretly, I believe that things would be better if I were a tyrant lording over the land.
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I have trouble trusting in my allies.
compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Legends of Greyhawk: Secrets of the Free City
Player Aid: City of Greyhawk The following knowledge is available to characters entering or living in the City of Greyhawk. Choose your additional knowledge the first time you receive this handout
; if playing the same character in multiple adventures, carry those choices forward without selecting new ones.
compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Legends of Greyhawk: Secrets of the Free City
Player Aid: City of Greyhawk The following knowledge is available to characters entering or living in the City of Greyhawk. Choose your additional knowledge the first time you receive this handout
; if playing the same character in multiple adventures, carry those choices forward without selecting new ones.
compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Legends of Greyhawk: Secrets of the Free City
Player Aid: City of Greyhawk The following knowledge is available to characters entering or living in the City of Greyhawk. Choose your additional knowledge the first time you receive this handout
; if playing the same character in multiple adventures, carry those choices forward without selecting new ones.
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
restriction.
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An amethyst dragon recruits a group of adventurers to psychically trade bodies with adventurers from another world, so that each can carry out certain tasks before swapping back.
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Serpents of the Dreaming City draws power from an ancient amethyst dragon, which the cultists keep in eternal slumber with braziers of enchanted smoke.
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A rogue purple worm swallowed a large
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Basic Rules (2014)
defense.
This fierce independence makes rangers well suited to adventuring, since they are accustomed to life far from the comforts of a dry bed and a hot bath. Faced with city-bred adventurers who
grouse and whine about the hardships of the wild, rangers respond with some mixture of amusement, frustration, and compassion. But they quickly learn that other adventurers who can carry their own weight
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
merchants carry armor, martial weapons, and more specialized gear. Most villages have inns that cater to travelers, where adventurers can find a hot meal and a bed, even if the quality leaves much to be
traversing roads that might be menaced by bandits or wandering monsters, they hire guards to keep their goods safe. They also carry news from town to town, including reports of situations that cry out for the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
Watch reports to the Open Lord, Laeral Silverhand. Game Statistics Most City Watch members are veterans. Some of the highest-ranked members are knights. All City Watch members wear helmets and carry clubs while on duty.
City Watch The City Watch is Waterdeep’s police force, charged with keeping the peace and apprehending criminals. City Watch patrols are usually four to twelve persons strong. A patrol expecting
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
killing Ravengard. Doing so involves a ritual that the characters can help carry out. If the ritual is successful, the stunned condition ends on Ravengard, and he recalls the visions he experienced
that hint at how to return Elturel to Faerûn. These visions trigger some of Lulu’s memories. She sees a path forward, but it involves the characters leaving the city to brave the terrible landscape of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Sigil and the Outlands
umber hulks. These deluxe chairs cost more, a minimum of 1 gp per passenger, and those who carry them might be willing to travel to dangerous areas of the city for an extra fee. Touts Touts are
Getting Around Knowing where to look for something one needs is made challenging by Sigil’s prodigious sprawl. Without the aid of magic or in-depth knowledge of portals within the city and their
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen
Chapter 4: Shadow of War Vogler is gone, devastated by the Red Dragon Army. After escaping the village by following the Vingaard River, the characters and other survivors seek refuge in the city of
Kalaman. They carry with them a warning: war is coming for Kalaman. The city’s leaders recruit the characters to help identify and resist the threat of the Red Dragon Army. As the characters travel the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
known one of the city’s prominent figures for many years, while someone who has just arrived in the city might have a mutual friend with that connection or might carry a letter of introduction
How to Use the City A bustling city like Greyhawk can serve the following important functions in a campaign. Background Connections Use the backgrounds of the characters to connect them to people and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Sigil and the Outlands
Services Any and every service is for sale in the Cage. Courier services staffed by mephits, imps, and lantern archons (see Morte’s Planar Parade) carry messages across planar boundaries. Brave
bodies safe and preserved, and resurrecting them when trouble has died down, sometimes years or decades later. Travelers from across the multiverse flood the city, whose establishments cater to a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Eve of Ruin
Graveyard. Cult members have been kidnapping city residents who carry significant secrets, draining their knowledge and their souls in a fell ritual and passing the collected secrets to Vecna as he
in the city of Neverwinter on the Sword Coast. Several calamities have battered Neverwinter in the recent past. The greatest was the eruption of nearby Mount Hotenow, which nearly destroyed the city
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
have to travel the Lower City always do so with guards, and still risk robbery or worse violence. Many patriar families hire proxies to carry out their business in the Lower City or Outer City. If
Patriars Patriars are the elite upper class of the city, a rank defined largely by money and lines of vague, increasingly inconsequential heritage. Many nobles claim generations of lineage, dating to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur’s Gate Gazetteer
have to travel the Lower City always do so with guards, and still risk robbery or worse violence. Many patriar families hire proxies to carry out their business in the Lower City or Outer City. If
Patriars Patriars are the elite upper class of the city, a rank defined largely by money and lines of vague, increasingly inconsequential heritage. Many nobles claim generations of lineage, dating to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)
compassion. But they quickly learn that other adventurers who can carry their own weight in a fight against monstrous foes are worth any extra burden. Coddled city folk might not know how to feed themselves or find fresh water in the wild, but they make up for it in other ways.
from the comforts of a dry bed and a hot bath. Faced with city-bred adventurers who grouse and whine about the hardships of the wild, rangers respond with some mixture of amusement, frustration, and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Guildmasters' Guide to Ravnica
Life in the Big City Ravnica is a vast city, covering the entirety of the world in many layers of construction, from deep sewers and catacombs to sky-raking spires. No single map can encompass the
tremendous scope of its sprawl, and its borders (if it has any) are unknown, except possibly to those who live near the edges. The story of Ravnica focuses on its core. Sometimes called the city proper
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Sigil and the Outlands
. Despite their influence within the city, factions have been erased from the city in the past, and current factions tread carefully to avoid that fate for themselves. They actively recruit new members
in a council that debates and passes laws in the Hall of Speakers (see the “Clerks’ Ward” section later in this chapter). Most factions also have a physical headquarters in Sigil where they carry out
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
, is legal only if it occurs in a location registered with the city for that purpose. Additionally, any blade more than one foot in length is subject to an extra tax whenever it is sold, which helps to
explain why Waterdavians prefer to carry knives and knuckledusters for self-defense. Businesses and individuals do employ armed guards, but except for nobles or foreign envoys, few people travel about
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
forge, to pump bellows, heft ingots, and carry barrels of quenching oil. The place is called the City of Blades, for good reason: the fine steel of the duergar is impressive, considering the quality of
places it is barely ten feet above the water’s surface. The whole of the great cavern glows, and the continuous flow of hot iron through the city gives the illumination a yellow cast at all times. It
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
, frustration, and compassion. But they quickly learn that other adventurers who can carry their own weight in a fight against civilization’s foes are worth any extra burden. Coddled city folk might
accustomed to life far from the comforts of a dry bed and a hot bath. Faced with city-bred adventurers who grouse and whine about the hardships of the wild, rangers respond with some mixture of amusement
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
City Watch The first soldiers you see in service to the city will be the members of the City Guard who patrol the roads leading to Waterdeep, watch the walls, guard civic structures, and protect
magisters. Waterdeep’s streets, however, are policed by an altogether different force: the City Watch. The similarity of their names often confuses newcomers, so I offer this handy mnemonic: “The Guard
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
the darkest hours of the plane display a deep-red twilight. At noon, the light is intense. Most business in the City of Brass (see below) takes place during the darker hours. The weather on the plane
cinder storms away from the City of Brass, but elsewhere in the plane, the wind always blows, sometimes rising to hurricane force during the worst storms. The heat on the Plane of Fire is comparable to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
Amenities You’ll find no city on the Sword Coast or in all the North half as civilized as Waterdeep. It’s not just the law of the land that makes this so, but also the comforts that life here
provides. In most other towns and cities, you’ll start with an early-morning stumble on the stairs as you carry your night soil down to deposit it outside. But in Waterdeep, many buildings are connected
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
Giant Rat NOTICE
Giant rats have been sighted throughout the city. Anyone bitten by a giant rat should visit a temple for ministration and prayer.
The city hereby offers a silver coin for each
) piercing damage.
VARIANT: DISEASED GIANT RATS
Some giant rats carry vile diseases that they spread with their bites. A diseased giant rat has a challenge rating of 1/8 (25 XP) and the following
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur’s Gate Gazetteer
rare tomes scholars might carry to gain admission. The Guild knows the signs of a traveler headed for Candlekeep, and often dispatches robbers to steal books and resell them to the merchants of the city
, the city can count on the other members of the Lords’ Alliance to come to its defense. This arrangement infuriates Amn, which is not prepared to test the alliance’s resolve. To the east, the nations of