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Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
world and steeped themselves in the energy of the Elemental Planes. Over the course of centuries, these giants were transformed into Elementals made of smoke and cinders. Half the size of their giant
locations on the Material Plane, in the Elemental Planes of Air and Fire, and especially in the Great Conflagration, the border region between those two planes. They retain none of the skills and motivation
Monsters
Eberron: Rising from the Last War
creature within 30 feet of it. A creature that fails the saving throw but can't expend a spell slot is instead stunned until the end of its next turn.Overlords
In the first days of the world, the
children of Khyber rose from the darkness to reign over Eberron. The greatest among them were the overlords, who held dominion over a world of fear, war, and death until the children of Eberron and Siberys
Monsters
Monstrous Compendium Vol. 4: Eldraine Creatures
courts of Eldraine have joined to form a new organization, the Verdant Order. These knights renounced their oaths in favor of a new one, swearing to protect the last part of their world untouched by war
former oaths, the knights of the Verdant Order retain their focus on the five virtues of the courts, so their Knightly Virtue trait remains unchanged.
Backgrounds
Acquisitions Incorporated
the life of an adventurer, your insight into the world of commerce brought you into the sphere of Acquisitions Incorporated — and a franchise just might be in your future.
Skill Proficiencies
clothes, and a belt pouch containing 10 gp
Feature: Supply Chain
From your time as a merchant, you retain connections with wholesalers, suppliers, and other merchants and entrepreneurs. You can call upon these connections when looking for items or information.
Gnome
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Basic Rules (2014)
beauties of the world in their long years, but gnomes seem to worry that even with all that time, they can’t get in enough of the things they want to do and see.
Gnomes speak as if they can’t
) risks and dreaming large.
Bright Burrows
Gnomes make their homes in hilly, wooded lands. They live underground but get more fresh air than dwarves do, enjoying the natural, living world on the surface
Centaur
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Guildmasters’ Guide to Ravnica
In the sprawling city of Ravnica, where “open road” seems like a contradiction and “open plain” is sheer nonsense, centaurs nevertheless retain a love of wide spaces and the
natural world. Among the guilds that share that affinity, centaurs favor the rubblebelts of the Gruul Clans and the wide plazas of the Selesnya Conclave over the undercity tunnels of the Golgari and
Elf
Legacy
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.
— Margaret Weis & Tracy Hickman, Dragons of Autumn Twilight
Elves are a magical people of otherworldly grace, living in the world but not entirely part of it. They live in places of
magic, art and artistry, music and poetry, and the good things of the world.
Slender and Graceful
With their unearthly grace and fine features, elves appear hauntingly beautiful to humans and members
Yuan-ti Pureblood
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Volo's Guide to Monsters
advancement and expanding their territory. They believed themselves to be the most enlightened mortals in the world, and in their hubris they sought to become ever greater.
The serpent gods of the
primordial world heeded the prayers of these people and hissed dark demands into their ears. The people tainted their souls by performing human sacrifices in the name of the gods, debased their flesh by
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
Bright Burrows Gnomes make their homes in hilly, wooded lands. They live underground but get more fresh air than dwarves do, enjoying the natural, living world on the surface whenever they can. Their
in the first place. Gnomes who settle in human lands are commonly gemcutters, engineers, sages, or tinkers. Some human families retain gnome tutors, ensuring that their pupils enjoy a mix of serious
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)
Bright Burrows Gnomes make their homes in hilly, wooded lands. They live underground but get more fresh air than dwarves do, enjoying the natural, living world on the surface whenever they can. Their
in the first place. Gnomes who settle in human lands are commonly gemcutters, engineers, sages, or tinkers. Some human families retain gnome tutors, ensuring that their pupils enjoy a mix of serious
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
heresy, while clinging to the power and prestige they’ve wrested from other houses. A dark elf who challenges another for superiority and fails, or who fails to respect the hierarchy in some other way
. And even that achievement is no guarantee of safety, because a lone drow above ground is likely to be attacked on sight by surface dwellers. Those who find a way to survive in the painful world of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual
Archmage Archmages have mastered incredible magical power. While some use their magic to protect the world, others become tyrants or pursue forbidden secrets. Many archmages retain magical servants
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
subterranean civilization. Whatever she demands, the drow do.
Drow are seldom seen by the surface world. Though they plot to destroy the elves that banished them, they no longer see themselves as
stone rivals that of the greatest dwarf artisans, yet their structures retain a decidedly elven aesthetic. Though appearing delicate, drow settlements are structurally sound and remarkably resilient
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
Undercover Empire The human civilization that gave rise to the yuan-ti was among the richest in the mortal world. It rapidly progressed in metalworking, using keen intellect and magic to discover the
sacrifices, the yuan-ti stepped up their raids on bordering settlements to meet this need. The physical and magical prowess of the yuan-ti empire allowed the former humans to retain their holdings for
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
are certainly those among them who might try if they could see a way to retain their own powers.
The Silence. When the squabbling of the gods threatened the world once more despite Kruphix’s warning
refrain from drawing attention to themselves. Some followers and champions of Kruphix travel the world in secret, searching for hidden truths. Many use secret signals to enable them to find safe
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
in area U1 or area U2 takes 132 (24d10) fire damage from the rocket engines as the tower lifts off. Any creatures clinging to the outside of the tower when it launches are shaken off, while those
allow them to return to the world, from reprogramming the tower’s controls and the rocket engines, to having a spell scroll of teleportation circle found amid Stonky’s books. If Stonky and his cultists
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
Cinder Hulk Cinder hulks are distant descendants of fire giants who isolated themselves from the world and steeped themselves in the energy of the Elemental Planes. Over the course of centuries
Conflagration, the border region between those two planes. They retain none of the skills and motivation of their giant ancestors; they simply want to burn as much as they can until their own flames are
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
transformed them into Elementals. They are little more than clouds of gravel and dust, barely maintaining a cohesive form. When a dust hulk dies, it disperses into a cloud of dust. Dust hulks retain
hardly fair to the giants who still survive and thrive in the world, heirs of tremendous glory.
—Bigby
Dust Hulk Large Elemental, Typically Chaotic Neutral
Armor Class 16 (natural armor)
Hit
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Giants of the Star Forge
Cinder Hulk Cinder hulks are distant descendants of fire giants who isolated themselves from the world and steeped themselves in the energy of the Elemental Planes. Over the course of centuries
Conflagration, the border region between those two planes. They retain none of the skills and motivation of their giant ancestors; they simply want to burn as much as they can until their own flames are
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
loved ones if they honor them with an ofrenda: food and drink enjoyed in life, among other traditional offerings, presented on elaborate altars that guide souls back to the world. The days leading up to
Remembered. Known as olvidados, or “forgotten,” these intelligent Undead often take the form of sapient, peaceful skeletons or spirits. Most retain the memories and personality they had in life, but
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
World-Shaking Events You can use this section for ideas and inspiration to expand on world-shaking events already occurring (or soon to occur) within your world. Alternatively, you can roll on the
tables below to randomly generate an event to inspire your imagination. The attempt to justify a random result can reveal unforeseen possibilities. To get started, select a world-shaking event category
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
Wraith A wraith is malice incarnate, concentrated into an incorporeal form that seeks to quench all life. The creature is suffused with negative energy, and its mere passage through the world leaves
and objects as easily as a mortal creature moves through fog.
A wraith might retain a few memories of its mortal life as shadowy echoes. However, even the strongest events and emotions become little
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sage Advice Compendium
, you’re not going to break anything in the game system, but you might undermine the story and the world being created in your campaign. Can a bound and gagged druid simply use Wild Shape to get out
only languages that appear in an elemental’s stat block, but the intent (RAI) is that druids retain their knowledge, including of languages, when they transform and can speak the languages they know if
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Guildmasters' Guide to Ravnica
riders toward the fires raging in Precinct Three. Soldiers on the ground will put out the flames, while it’s her job to deal with their source: the dragon she can just make out, clinging to the spire of
a distant tower. Standing in her stirrups and raising her sword, she turns her mount toward the dragon, ready to battle once again for the sake of Ravnica. Ravnica is a whole new world for your
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
conjure spiritual embodiments of powerful forces to change the world once more. Such spirits are capricious, though, and what a bard summons isn’t always entirely under their control. Guiding Whispers
retain the tale in mind until you bestow the tale’s effect or you finish a short or long rest. You can use an action to choose one creature you can see within 30 feet of you (this can be you) to be the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Guildmasters' Guide to Ravnica
Centaur
RYAN PANCOAST
In the sprawling city of Ravnica, where “open road” seems like a contradiction and “open plain” is sheer nonsense, centaurs nevertheless retain a love of wide spaces and
smaller than a human rider mounted on a horse, they fill similar roles as cavalry warriors, messengers, outriders, and scouts. Affinity for Nature Centaurs have an affinity for the natural world
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
absolutely necessary.
— Walnut Dankgrass
Nature’s Envoy Some of the most lucrative ruins and monster lairs happen to be located inconveniently in the uncivilized wilds of the world. As an Acquisitions
natural world to gain resources and power needs a conservation expert to tell them when they’ve gone too far. After all, only fools would destroy their environment in the name of vast profits. Right
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
is a sullen man who says little, letting his actions speak for him. He believes he has been wronged by the world and hates all people except those as broken and unfortunate as himself. Gar also
when pirates attacked the merchant ship. During the fighting, Gar was knocked overboard. For days he survived by clinging to the ship’s wreckage, until a shark ripped off his left arm. Death seemed
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
the surface world. Withers and his crew use the staircase at area 26 to roam unseen through the tomb’s many levels. When their work is done, they retreat to their secret headquarters on level 2 of the
enter an area containing a skeleton key, it might be standing in the middle of the room, standing in a corner, walking across the ceiling, or clinging to a wall. A skeleton key’s primary goal is to avoid
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
Revenant A revenant forms from the soul of a mortal who met a cruel and undeserving fate. It claws its way back into the world to seek revenge against the one who wronged it. The revenant reclaims
. Undead Nature. A revenant doesn’t require air, food, drink, or sleep. VARIANT: REVENANTS WITH SPELLS AND WEAPONS
Revenants that were spellcasters before they died might retain some or all of their
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything
the powers of the cosmos. Many druids of this circle keep records of the constellations and the stars’ effects on the world. Some groups document these observations at megalithic sites, which serve as
starry form, rather than transforming into a beast. While in your starry form, you retain your game statistics, but your body becomes luminous; your joints glimmer like stars, and glowing lines connect
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)
Lifestyle Expenses Lifestyle expenses provide you with a simple way to account for the cost of living in a fantasy world. They cover your accommodations, food and drink, and all your other
finest inn. You dine at the best restaurants, retain the most skilled and fashionable tailor, and have servants attending to your every need. You receive invitations to the social gatherings of the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monstrous Compendium Volume Four
part of their world untouched by war: the wildest parts of Eldraine. To that end, they patrol the forests along the Boundary Lands, turning back loggers and hunters—by force if necessary.
Though
they’ve renounced their former oaths, the knights of the Verdant Order retain their focus on the five virtues of the courts, so their Knightly Virtue trait remains unchanged.
Knight of Eldraine Medium
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
martial bands, holding strong in the face of unbeatable odds. It sings of a great yearly competition that crowns the preeminent warrior-athlete in Akros, and—by extension—the world. The majority of
. These servants lack citizenship’s full privileges but retain a position of some honor thanks to their class. Below these servants, at the bottom of Akros’s social hierarchy, are the serfs. Comprising
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
Centaur Powerful and curious, quick to act and knowledgeable of the wider world, centaurs seek to experience life’s boundless bounty. The centaurs of Theros are divided into two groups: members of
. Barterers must know the customs of other cultures and speak several different languages. An omener is an oracle who reads messages from the gods in the natural world and reveals how the immortals would