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Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse
words and emotions.
Telepathic Shroud. The cranium rat is immune to any effect that would sense its emotions or read its thoughts, as well as to divination spells.Bite. Melee Weapon Attack: +4
created their progenitors. Rather, these magical rodents cooperate with the residents of the City of Doors, whether by simply living together or by pursuing greater ambitions. When squeakers collect in
Monsters
Spelljammer: Adventures in Space
struggling to find their new role.
A zodar can cause speech to issue from the air around it on three occasions in its lifetime. When it feels compelled to speak, it chooses its words wisely. It can
Disembodied Voice. Up to three times in its life, the zodar can cause a message of up to twenty-five words to issue from the air around it. It speaks only when it has something profoundly important
Backgrounds
Guildmasters’ Guide to Ravnica
exactly what I mean, no matter how many words it takes to communicate the particular nuance I am attempting to convey.
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I’m very literal and don’t appreciate metaphor or sarcasm
modeled my career after a highly respected lawmage or arrester, but I fear that my role model might be involved in something illegal.
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Backgrounds
Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide
family alone, or it could be concerned with another noble house that sides with or opposes your own. Your ideal depends to some extent on how you view your role in the family, and how you intend to
insatiable desire for carnal pleasures.
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In fact, the world does revolve around me.
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By my words and actions, I often bring shame to my family.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Spelljammer Academy
as ever while on board a ship. Spelljammer Academy has no better person to spearhead the training of raw recruits—and Tarto knows it. Never one to mince words (even when those words are directed
training exercise has two optional roles (Captain and Shipmate) and one mandatory role (Spelljammer). A team can have multiple Shipmates, but only one Captain and only one Spelljammer. Try to limit
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Xanathar's Guide to Everything
Bard Music is the fruit of the divine tree that vibrates with the Words of Creation. But the question I ask you is, can a bard go to the root of this tree? Can one tap into the source of that power
along as oral history, to survive even when no written record remains. It is also the bard’s role to chronicle smaller and more contemporary events — the stories of today’s heroes, including their
Goblin
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Volo's Guide to Monsters
; and the word is part of the name they give to any of its practitioners. A goblin with access to booyahg becomes a member of the lashers and can often rise to the role of boss.
“Booyahg&rdquo
.
— Elminster
Booyahg Caster. This goblin served under a hobgoblin wizard, stole a look at its master’s spellbook, and learned a little wizardry by aping the gestures and words it remembered
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
Roleplaying Roleplaying is, literally, the act of playing out a role. In this case, it’s you as a player determining how your character thinks, acts, and talks. Roleplaying is a part of every aspect
Roleplaying With this approach, you describe your character’s words and actions to the DM and the other players. Drawing on your mental image of your character, you tell everyone what your character does
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)
Roleplaying Roleplaying is, literally, the act of playing out a role. In this case, it’s you as a player determining how your character thinks, acts, and talks. Roleplaying is a part of every aspect
Roleplaying With this approach, you describe your character’s words and actions to the DM and the other players. Drawing on your mental image of your character, you tell everyone what your character does
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
; they might have been chosen to fulfill the words of a prophecy, because they were born at auspicious times and places, or because they happened to be in a particular place at a certain time. Individual
from an immortal patron, but puts faith in the dreams and inspiration of others, following such omens with an eager heart. This character is under no illusions of having a special role to play in the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen
stands as you enter. “Thank you for coming. I won’t mince words: we’re in the dark regarding the dangers I fear are fast approaching our gates, and your role will be to change that. But first, you must
up Darrett or his role. If the characters ask about him, she smiles and says she’ll let him tell them himself shortly (see the “Darrett’s Orders” section).
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sage Advice Compendium
The Role of Rules Why even have a column like Sage Advice when a DM can just make a ruling? Rules are a big part of what makes D&D a game, rather than simply improvised storytelling. The game’s rules
D&D. The direction we chose for the current edition was to lay a foundation of rules that a DM could build on, and we embraced the DM’s role as the bridge between the things the rules address and the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules
Learning by Observing One of the best ways to learn how to run a D&D game is to observe other DMs in action. Another DM can give you a solid foundation for understanding the role—as well as inspire
change over the course of the session? Turns of Phrase. Were there any words or bits of narration you really liked? (If so, jot them down.) World-building. What elements of the DM’s world or the adventure grabbed your attention?
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
Learning by Observing One of the best ways to learn how to run a D&D game is to observe other DMs in action. Another DM can give you a solid foundation for understanding the role—as well as inspire
change over the course of the session? Turns of Phrase. Were there any words or bits of narration you really liked? (If so, jot them down.) World-building. What elements of the DM’s world or the adventure grabbed your attention?
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules
their traditions. This section presents the College of Lore subclass. College of Lore Plumb the Depths of Magical Knowledge Bards of the College of Lore collect spells and secrets from diverse sources
: Cutting Words You learn to use your wit to supernaturally distract, confuse, and otherwise sap the confidence and competence of others. When a creature that you can see within 60 feet of yourself
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen
. Some might collect mundane knickknacks or relics from magical sites, while others might become professional thieves. Kender Traits As a kender, you have the following racial traits. Creature Type. You
. Taunt. You have an extraordinary ability to fluster creatures. As a bonus action, you can unleash a string of provoking words at a creature within 60 feet of yourself that can hear and understand you. The
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tyranny of Dragons
Tracking the Load Characters have a few ways to collect clues about what’s happening at the work camp. Jamna can help out with these tasks if none of the characters are up to it. If they watch the
through the walls to the cultists’ conversation. They can’t make out entire conversations, but they do pick out the words “strong room,” “tunnel,” “lizardfolk,” and “Bog Luck.” Talking to other
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Hoard of the Dragon Queen
Tracking the Load Characters have a few ways to collect clues about what’s happening at the work camp. Jamna can help out with these tasks if none of the characters are up to it. If they watch the
through the walls to the cultists’ conversation. They can’t make out entire conversations, but they do pick out the words “strong room,” “tunnel,” “lizardfolk,” and “Bog Luck.” Talking to other
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
. Fate gave you the opportunity. You’re a hero, but no one cheered.
Roles in the Murder Each character plays a role in the murder, determined by rolling on the Murder: Character Roles table or
choosing an appropriate entry. Murder: Character Roles d4 Character’s Role
1 Murderer. Via a blade, a shove, or deliberate inaction, you took a life.
2 Bystander. You could have
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur’s Gate Gazetteer
a hero, but no one cheered. Beth Trott Roles in the Murder Each character plays a role in the murder, determined by rolling on the Murder: Character Roles table or choosing an appropriate entry
. Murder: Character Roles d4 Character’s Role 1 Murderer. Via a blade, a shove, or deliberate inaction, you took a life. 2 Bystander. You could have prevented a death. You chose not to. 3 Instigator
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sage Advice & Errata
The Role of Rules Why even have Sage Advice when a DM can just make a ruling? Rules are a big part of what makes D&D a game, rather than simply improvised storytelling. The game’s rules are meant to
perfect world, RAW and RAI align perfectly, but sometimes the words on the page don’t succeed at communicating the designers’ intent. Or perhaps the words succeed with one group of players but not
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
one-sided bargains from unnerved sailors. Bronze dragons have a romantic view of their role as guardians of justice and prefer treasures that tie into their heroic narrative. Their hoards teem with
natural whorls in the bark that form the words, “For service not forgotten”
5 A dragon-sized drinking vessel crafted from a behir horn
6 Framed blueprints of a siege engine called the Moonhammer
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
of the Blasphemer.” According to Thausil Kennar, a noted scholar at the Library of Korranberg, these words, translated from an ancient prophecy, foretell the course of recent events in the Eldeen
of the Lords of Dust or the Quori and the Dreaming Dark. Even those without evil motives are often inscrutable—the agendas of immortal beings spanning millennia. What role you might play in an
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
poster consists of a portrait of the boy drawn in ink, above which are the following words in the Elvish script: Wanted: Will of the Feywild!
Each poster promises a different reward for Will’s capture
character can choose to redeem one of these posters, whereupon the hag must give that character the poster’s promised reward. A character need not collect the reward immediately; a poster can be
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
Worshiping Athreos Most funeral traditions include small offerings and words of reverence to Athreos. Predominant among these traditions is burying or burning the dead with a clay funerary mask, to
Underworld. During the River Guide’s ages of toil, he has inspired a number of legends.
The Athrean Obols. Some claim that Athreos doesn’t collect coins out of greed but because he’s looking for five
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
fulfillment in a particular direction. You stand among the heroes of the present age; surely you have a role to play in the unfolding prophecy.
In order for the Draconic Prophecy to work as a patron, one or
more of the characters needs to have access to words from the Prophecy. Your group might adventure to seek out places where the Prophecy is written: mountainsides and cavern walls, ancient text and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
destruction of the Sword of Zariel, Zariel gives her servants (including the characters if they have taken on that role) the task of forging a new blade for her. This endeavor comes with the following
freshly forged weapon must be quenched in the blood of a celestial, a demon lord, and an archdevil. Zariel can supply her own blood, but her servants must collect the other two sacrifices. Zariel names
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
pause between two great moments in their history. The mission of this scholarly order is to collect the accumulated learning of the past and preserve it so a future giant civilization can build upon
Xen’drik in Eberron), members of the Hidden Rune venture into the ruins of these lost civilizations to collect any writings, technology, and artifacts they find. On worlds with no historical record of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual
memories. They collect the histories and lore of those they live among, guarding cultures’ stories and passing them on to new generations with infallible accuracy. Guardian nagas that outlive their
inspire what a naga knows. Guardian Naga Lore 1d8 The Guardian Naga Recalls... 1 The last words of an ancient sage or leader. 2 The location of a hidden city or continent. 3 A magic word, password, or
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Morte’s Planar Parade
City of Doors, whether by simply living together or by pursuing greater ambitions. When squeakers collect in large numbers, their swarms merge into a single intelligence with enhanced psionic abilities
Telepathy. Any creature touching the cranium rat can use the rat’s telepathy if the rat allows it. If the creature knows any language, the creature can use the telepathy to communicate words and emotions
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
will miss some words and subtlety of meaning. As you create a Khoravar character, you have a wide range of options to describe your backstory. The Khoravar Origin table can provide inspiration for it
associated with House Lyrandar or House Medani, but you’re more interested in the role the house plays in supporting Khoravar communities than in the work of its guilds. 10 You ride with the Valenar, hoping one day to prove that you are worthy of taking on a patron ancestor.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
snarling displacer beast surrounded by the words, “First in battle, last to fall”—the Redcloak insignia and motto—on the right. Allies. As part of Breland’s military forces, the Redcloaks can count on
bitterly. Thrane. In the waning years of the Last War, the Redcloaks played a major role in the devastating Battle of Cairn Hill between Brelish and Thrane forces. Thanks to heavy losses on both sides, veterans of that battle tend to nurse bitter grudges against their enemies.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragon of Icespire Peak
Role of the Dungeon Master The Dungeon Master (also called “the DM”) has a special role in the D&D game. The DM is a referee. When it’s not clear what ought to happen next, the DM decides how to
group, so let the players contribute to the outcome through the words and deeds of their characters. If some players are reluctant to speak up, remember to ask them what their characters are doing
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
strives to collect everyday objects that played a significant role in an exciting story (such as “the rolling pin that Aunt Hattie used to chase away a bugbear” or “the shoes that Timtom wore when he
tune on a second-hand mandolin. Serious Business. The oldest members of a halfling community are its leaders, although that role has a special application. A clan’s elders aren’t authority figures in
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
, you are a studious individual, usually with an interest in history or technical subjects. You might revel in your role, working as a central figure in your franchise as you use your knowledge to
words at the same pace they were recorded. Activating the playback of a particular recording is an action. Things Recorded in Your Whisper Jar d8 Recording
1 A live recording of the only