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Backgrounds
Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide
of society that your chosen quarries move through. These people might be associated with the criminal underworld, the rough-and-tumble folk of the streets, or members of high society. This connection
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I would rather make a new friend than a new enemy.
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I am incredibly slow to trust. Those who seem the fairest often have the most to hide.
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I don’t pay attention to the risks
Backgrounds
Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide
knowledge, rather than brute force. Harper agents are often proficient in Investigation, enabling them to be adept at snooping and spying. They often seek aid from other Harpers, sympathetic bards and
I’ve enjoyed fine food, drink, and high society among my temple’s elite. Rough living grates on me.
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I’ve spent so long in the temple that I have little practical experience
Human
Legacy
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Species
Basic Rules (2014)
, striving to leave a lasting legacy. Individually and as a group, humans are adaptable opportunists, and they stay alert to changing political and social dynamics.
EVERYONE’S SECOND-BEST FRIENDS
, humans champion causes rather than territories or groups.
Human Names and Ethnicities
Having so much more variety than other cultures, humans as a whole have no typical names. Some human parents
Tabaxi
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Volo's Guide to Monsters
of the world beyond their home.
Barterers of Lore
Tabaxi treasure knowledge rather than material things. A chest filled with gold coins might be useful to buy food or a coil of rope, but it’s
result every few days that pass in the campaign to reflect your ever-changing curiosity.
Tabaxi Obsessions
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My curiosity is currently fixed on …
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A god or planar entity
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
characters succeeding or failing on any one check to move the action in a specific direction. You must be ready to improvise and react to a changing situation. Relying on dice also gives the players the sense
might work. A drawback of this approach is that roleplaying can diminish if players feel that their die rolls, rather than their decisions and characterizations, always determine success.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
effort to get to know him, rather than be put off by his size and rough exterior.
Extracurriculars: Intramural Silkball Club
Job: Bow’s End Tavern assistant manager
Bond Boon: Javenesh’s
initially assume, Javenesh is a friendly sort. To make ends meet, he works at Bow’s End Tavern, managing servers and keeping the peace, relying on his rough appearance to dissuade those intent on making
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual
to strangers. These tentacled, telepathic creatures jet through the air in short bursts, venting gases with a sound that gives them their name. Rather than speaking, flumphs communicate
telepathically and by changing color to reflect their moods. Flumphs dwell in psychically charged regions or near creatures with psionic magic. They harmlessly feed off psychic energies, but in doing so, they
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
gender. Titles such as “daimyo” are gender-neutral, as are most names. Clothing varies by class status rather than gender—instead, people express their gender through perfumes. Bright citrus scents
consult ancestral spirits before making life-changing decisions, but the perspectives of the dead can be just as flawed as those of the living. Disagreements in large family clans sometimes result in
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Spelljammer: Adventures in Space->Astral Adventurer’s Guide
there. One of the pirate captains, Cozar, sensed that times were changing on the Rock—that the days of lawlessness were coming to an end. Through a series of strategic alliances and shrewd business
, attracting profit-seekers, adventurers, and other more respectable types. Upon Cozar’s death, the rule of Bral passed to Frun, his son and heir. Frun was far from an able politician. Rather, he was a hedonist
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual
of Limbo
Unpredictable slaadi devour and multiply across the Ever-Changing Chaos of Limbo. These toad-like, extraplanar beings embody the endless potentiality of their home plane of existence
other creatures.
Slaadi have no formal society. Rather, strong slaadi dominate weaker ones. Blue and red slaadi rampage across Limbo and spill into other worlds at the direction of green slaadi. More
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
8. The Ruby in the Rough The Stoneheart Enclave agreed to join the Diggermattock effort to resettle Blingdenstone in exchange for help reclaiming this temple known as the Ruby in the Rough. The
services (see “Changing Svirfneblin Attitudes” earlier in this chapter), as certain svirfneblin ask for their help. If the characters leave the svirfneblin without providing them assistance in dealing with
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Rise of Tiamat
supplies, and have the patience required to deal with the ornery ice trolls. A bizarre sight greets you in this rough-walled chamber. About a dozen giant toads with thick, mottled white hides are at work
claws. They also maintain rough maps of the Sea of Moving Ice based on reports from the Ice Hunter villagers. At regular intervals, their temporary records are transferred to more permanent form. See
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tyranny of Dragons
supplies, and have the patience required to deal with the ornery ice trolls. A bizarre sight greets you in this rough-walled chamber. About a dozen giant toads with thick, mottled white hides are at work
claws. They also maintain rough maps of the Sea of Moving Ice based on reports from the Ice Hunter villagers. At regular intervals, their temporary records are transferred to more permanent form. See
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
Magic Item Rarity Every magic item has a rarity, which provides a rough measure of an item’s power relative to other magic items. The rarities are shown in the Magic Item Rarities and Values table
table, though a seller might ask for a service rather than coin as payment. If a magic item incorporates an item that has a purchase cost in the Player’s Handbook (such as a weapon or a suit of armor
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Fiendish Folio Volume 1
magic button to bring things back to the way they should be, this person you love so much restored to who they really are rather than what cancer is grinding them down into. It’s easy to give in to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
poorly to changing circumstances. They can’t read, speak, emote, or communicate in any way except to nod, shake their heads, or point. Still, skeletons are able to accomplish a variety of relatively
careful instructions explaining how such tasks are accomplished.
Although they lack the intellect they possessed in life, skeletons aren’t mindless. Rather than break its limbs attempting to batter its
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Xanathar's Guide to Everything
experience, the characters can become overly cautious, and you run the risk of the action grinding to a halt as the players search every square inch of the dungeon for trip wires and pressure plates
characters discover a trap, be open to adjudicating their ideas for defeating it. The trap’s description is a starting point for countermeasures, rather than a complete definition. To make it easier
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
available to operate the balloon and its weapons alongside the characters. STICKING WITH WHAT THEY’VE GOT
If the characters’ mobile headquarters is something cool enough that they would rather use it
walking robot can be toppled by rough storm winds or damaged by lightning and hail. The area around a teleporting headquarters such as a tavern that lets characters travel to other taverns can become the site of the Six’s airship attack, and so forth.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a7
four rotting sofas, a couple of throne-like chairs, and a jumble of stands, small tables, and vases and urns that are dented, chipped, and broken. Only the rather plain tapestries hanging on the east
and west walls appear to have been spared a rough looting. Amid the general havoc are scattered several trunks and a larger number of coffers.
Heaving Floor. The weight of the characters upon the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
modify existing classes to better serve your game’s needs. Changing Proficiencies Changing a class’s proficiencies is a safe and simple way to modify a class to better reflect your world. Swapping
presented as a divine blessing. Changing Spell Lists Modifying a class’s spell list usually has little effect on a character’s power but can change the flavor of a class significantly. In your world
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Lost Mine of Phandelver
8. Crevasse The characters arrive here by one of three routes: the tunnel from area 1, the storeroom at area 7, or the rough-hewn passage to the south, which continues off the map for about one
a gang of slavers and thieves. A cold breeze fills this large natural cavern, carrying with it the faint scent of decaying flesh. A crevasse divides the cavern and is flanked by two rough stone
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything
, it’s a simple matter to create your own grid of hidden words. Raising the Difficulty You can increase this puzzle’s difficulty by changing the word search’s letters to use another alphabet, such as
can undertake the puzzle and cross the room safely. You can also increase the difficulty by introducing trap variants, as described below. Trap Variants Rather than have the same poison gas trap on
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
lose the faith of their followers, the source of their magic and a power they will not relinquish. Nyx can be perceived in the night sky, with its ever-changing brilliance marked by constellations and
territory. He doesn’t maintain a central residence. Rather, his influence binds the conflict, encompassing all perspectives and preventing the battle from spilling forth into the rest of Nyx.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
that best describe the creature. Knowing the creature’s alignment can also help with your portrayal. The classic advice for writers holds true: show, don’t tell. For example, rather than describe an
your head and chin high conveys confidence. Use Voices. Changing the volume of your voice and borrowing speech patterns from real life, movies, or television can make NPCs distinctive. Engaging the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
needs, and to organize into political structures that can withstand the changing fortunes of the passing centuries. Each polis is centered in a city but includes a wide region of surrounding
extensively. Its Abora Market, just inside the city gates, is open to outsiders only on certain days, and Setessan merchants prefer to barter goods rather than accept currency. Despite these restrictions
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
monolith that is constantly changing its shape, filling the great cavern with a thunderous grinding noise.
If Marlos Urnrayle has been defeated elsewhere, this cavern is guarded by two earth elemental
Geode Locations G1. Hall of the Guardians This cave lies at the end of a twisting, declining tunnel that began in area F13 of the Fane of the Eye. The rough walls of this cavern rise to a vaulted
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
numerous gourds, most of which contain failed alchemical elixirs.
Stone Block. A rough-hewn block of stone in the middle of the cave serves as a table. It is covered with a set of alchemist’s supplies
. For now, it has adopted the guise of a scatterbrained, shabbily dressed young man who has, for reasons he would rather not divulge, set up an alchemist’s lab in this cave. The slaad refers to itself
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Infernal Machine Rebuild
lizardfolk guards heading out on patrol and monsters potentially breaking free and running amok. When that happens, keep a rough idea of where those guards and monsters might be heading, and let the
. Accustomed to inspiring fear, and having grown somewhat lazy in its guardian role, it is usually content to let foes flee from it rather than pursuing. Each time the characters finish a long rest in
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules
Intelligence Recall lore about spells, magic items, and the planes of existence. Athletics Strength Jump farther than normal, stay afloat in rough water, or break something. Deception Charisma Tell a
ask for a Strength (Intimidation) check rather than a Charisma (Intimidation) check. That character would make a Strength check and add their Proficiency Bonus if they have Intimidation proficiency.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player’s Handbook
Intelligence Recall lore about spells, magic items, and the planes of existence. Athletics Strength Jump farther than normal, stay afloat in rough water, or break something. Deception Charisma Tell a
ask for a Strength (Intimidation) check rather than a Charisma (Intimidation) check. That character would make a Strength check and add their Proficiency Bonus if they have Intimidation proficiency.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
the following text: Sunlight coming through the barrow’s entry hall dims, as if a shadow has been cast on the entrance. Right afterward, a grinding of stone is followed by cascade of dirt and stone in
from the earth in the main chamber. It attacks those it can see, rather than pursuing Javor. While the party fights the elemental, Javor works with supernatural fervor to clear the rubble choking the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Keys from the Golden Vault
rotation in the “Preparation” section know two guards are posted in the lobby, seven guards patrol the first floor of the vault, and no guards patrol upstairs. Rather than requiring you to track each
on checks made to nonviolently deal with guards increases by 2 (see “Evading Guards”), and the price to bribe a guard increases to 100 gp. Changing of the Guard If the characters neutralize all nine
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
adventurers into places where his foul influence remains. Moloch obsesses over power he lost rather than thinking of the power he could gain elsewhere in the planes. What a pity he so wastes his
spells, requiring no material components:
At will: alter self (can become Medium when changing his appearance), animate dead, burning hands (as a 7th-level spell), confusion, detect magic, fly, geas
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
no such principles exist, how that power might be seized. Most mortals would rather be annihilated than have their souls travel to the Abyss, but some see its chaos as something that can be harnessed
— and the madly ambitious might even seek out the means of becoming a demon lord. Ever-Changing Layers The physical nature of the Abyss is something that few mortal minds can understand. Those who
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual
its next turn.
Necrosis. The demilich makes one Necrotic Burst attack.
Sean Murray
Deva World-Changing Angelic Messenger
Habitat: Planar (Upper Planes); Treasure: Relics
Devas are
emissaries of divine will. These immortal messengers adopt the shapes of mystical beasts or idealized, winged mortals. As with all angels, their true forms are known only to the gods they serve.
Rather