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Mythic Odysseys of Theros
called stratians, number among the fiercest soldiers on Theros. They train relentlessly and possess unflinching resolve. In the annals of Akros, tales abound of squads of stratians that defended a
glorification of the warrior's spirit, the basis of an ethos that forges an unbreakable bond between members of a military unit. In combat, hoplites typically work in groups and use coordinated tactics to
Backgrounds
Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide
provided. The following section, discussing possible homelands, includes some suggested reasons that are appropriate for each location.
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Pilgrim
hundreds of miles of the Great Glacier and the Great Ice Sea. No one from your nation makes the effort to cross such colossal barriers without a convincing reason. You must fear something truly
Backgrounds
Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide
possibilities.)
Now you’re looking for something else, perhaps greater reward for the risks you take, or the freedom to choose your own activities. For whatever reason, you’re leaving
few organizations operating in the North are described below. The Chill. The cold and mysterious Lurkwood serves as the home of numerous groups of goblinoids that have banded together into one tribe
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
Splitting Up Creatures being chased can split up into smaller groups. This tactic forces pursuers to either divide their forces or allow some of the quarry to escape. If a pursuit splits into several
smaller chases, resolve each chase separately. You can keep all the creatures in Initiative order, but track the distances separately for each group.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
Splitting Up Creatures being chased can split up into smaller groups. This tactic forces pursuers to either divide their forces or allow some of the quarry to escape. If a pursuit splits into several
smaller chases, resolve each chase separately. You can keep all the creatures in Initiative order, but track the distances separately for each group.
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Volo's Guide to Monsters
groups called flocks. A flock is led by the oldest and most experienced kenku with the widest store of knowledge to draw on, often called Master.
Although kenku can’t create new things, they have
. The kenku lack the talent to improvise or alter a plan, but a wise Master sets multiple plans in motion at once, confident that underlings can follow orders to the letter.
For this reason, many
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
courtesy, and then sets out the rules of her test: Contenders may divide into small groups or choose to participate alone. Once groups are established at the trial’s start, alliances between contenders
. Later that day, at dusk, Chakuna pursues the contenders with hunting partners of her choice, attempting to slay anyone she encounters outside a shrine. Contenders may kill one another for any reason
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
courtesy, and then sets out the rules of her test: Contenders may divide into small groups or choose to participate alone. Once groups are established at the trial’s start, alliances between contenders
. Later that day, at dusk, Chakuna pursues the contenders with hunting partners of her choice, attempting to slay anyone she encounters outside a shrine. Contenders may kill one another for any reason
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
might visit Skytower Shelter to resolve a long-standing dispute between the two goliath clans (see “Tall Tales in Ten-Towns” and “A Goliath Problem”). Or a goliath player character who hails from
Skytower Shelter might return home for some reason, perhaps to seek help with matters concerning Icewind Dale. All goliaths who dwell in Skytower Shelter are members of the Akannathi clan. In addition to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
might visit Skytower Shelter to resolve a long-standing dispute between the two goliath clans (see “Tall Tales in Ten-Towns” and “A Goliath Problem”). Or a goliath player character who hails from
Skytower Shelter might return home for some reason, perhaps to seek help with matters concerning Icewind Dale. All goliaths who dwell in Skytower Shelter are members of the Akannathi clan. In addition to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
Large Groups The biggest considerations with large groups are maintaining order at the table and keeping combat from becoming too slow. Structured Turns If you find yourself in a situation where
Information. If you tell the players what the Armor Class of their opponents is, you reduce the steps of interaction needed to resolve an attack. Instead of telling you a number and asking if it hits
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
Large Groups The biggest considerations with large groups are maintaining order at the table and keeping combat from becoming too slow. Structured Turns If you find yourself in a situation where
Information. If you tell the players what the Armor Class of their opponents is, you reduce the steps of interaction needed to resolve an attack. Instead of telling you a number and asking if it hits
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
Ideal Minions Kenku gather in groups called flocks. A flock is led by the oldest and most experienced kenku with the widest store of knowledge to draw on, often called Master. Although kenku can’t
. For this reason, many kenku make an easy living serving as messengers, spies, and lookouts for thieves’ guilds, bandits, and other criminal cartels. A network of kenku can relay a bird call or similar
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
Rival Outfit Some criminals believe you can’t do a job without betraying your partners. Perhaps you have your own share of adversaries you’ve angered. The Group Rivals table presents a host of groups
War. Some members of a rival syndicate (such as Daask, House Tarkanan, or the Tyrants) hate you, probably for good reason. 3 The Press. Your group’s adventures make for great headlines. Your every move
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal
ambitious souls might launch impromptu expeditions into the dungeon. Few such ill-prepared parties ever return. Groups seeking to enter Undermountain for a specific reason generally come to the tavern
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
Guild often uses the stage to rehearse and perform, and other amateur groups and courses with a performance component regularly do so as well. The Playactors Drama Guild is organizing the festival
, pledgemages, and professors from the different colleges. SETTING UP SEDGEMOOR
The characters will have heard about Sedgemoor during their first year at Strixhaven, but they have likely had no reason
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
Guild often uses the stage to rehearse and perform, and other amateur groups and courses with a performance component regularly do so as well. The Playactors Drama Guild is organizing the festival
, pledgemages, and professors from the different colleges. SETTING UP SEDGEMOOR
The characters will have heard about Sedgemoor during their first year at Strixhaven, but they have likely had no reason
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
Ideal Minions Kenku gather in groups called flocks. A flock is led by the oldest and most experienced kenku with the widest store of knowledge to draw on, often called Master. Although kenku can’t
. For this reason, many kenku make an easy living serving as messengers, spies, and lookouts for thieves’ guilds, bandits, and other criminal cartels. A network of kenku can relay a bird call or similar
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
Rival Outfit Some criminals believe you can’t do a job without betraying your partners. Perhaps you have your own share of adversaries you’ve angered. The Group Rivals table presents a host of groups
War. Some members of a rival syndicate (such as Daask, House Tarkanan, or the Tyrants) hate you, probably for good reason. 3 The Press. Your group’s adventures make for great headlines. Your every move
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal
ambitious souls might launch impromptu expeditions into the dungeon. Few such ill-prepared parties ever return. Groups seeking to enter Undermountain for a specific reason generally come to the tavern
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen
, if for no other reason than to honor Ispin Greenshield’s last wishes. If a character refuses, Mayor Raven offers to pay them 5 gp to be a judge during the battle, making sure no one uses real weapons
and other participants charge down. The two groups will clash midway in a mock fight, with the mercenaries’ Istarian forces eventually retreating. Participants are encouraged to use their own armor but
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen
, if for no other reason than to honor Ispin Greenshield’s last wishes. If a character refuses, Mayor Raven offers to pay them 5 gp to be a judge during the battle, making sure no one uses real weapons
and other participants charge down. The two groups will clash midway in a mock fight, with the mercenaries’ Istarian forces eventually retreating. Participants are encouraged to use their own armor but
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
hit the fighter. According to the table, for every three orcs that attack the fighter, one of them hits. There are enough orcs for two groups of three. The remaining two orcs fail to hit the fighter
attack bonus, assume that it hits once with each of those attacks. If a creature’s attacks have different attack bonuses, resolve each attack separately. This attack resolution system ignores critical
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
, saying, “No closer, friends! This is a private matter, and we don’t wish to be disturbed.” Unferth presents himself with a false joviality, making light of the fact that two groups of upstanding
citizens should find themselves engaged in an ugly bit of skulduggery involving opening a tomb. Underneath the self-deprecating manner is a stern resolve. The Kraken Society paid good money for the orb
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
hit the fighter. According to the table, for every three orcs that attack the fighter, one of them hits. There are enough orcs for two groups of three. The remaining two orcs fail to hit the fighter
attack bonus, assume that it hits once with each of those attacks. If a creature’s attacks have different attack bonuses, resolve each attack separately. This attack resolution system ignores critical
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
, saying, “No closer, friends! This is a private matter, and we don’t wish to be disturbed.” Unferth presents himself with a false joviality, making light of the fact that two groups of upstanding
citizens should find themselves engaged in an ugly bit of skulduggery involving opening a tomb. Underneath the self-deprecating manner is a stern resolve. The Kraken Society paid good money for the orb
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
agent of the Sunweaver—deemed service in the Brightguard a holy calling, the group’s ranks swelled. Most members have unshakable resolve, but recent revolutionary acts have the order on edge. The
they defend the order and its members like lions protect their prides. They resent other revolutionary groups whose violent ways cause the people to distrust the Silent Roar by extension. Many Silent
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
because it best emulates the Scourge Mistress, and for the same reason her faithful appreciate beauty, cultural refinement, and a certain adeptness at manipulation. Though temples to Loviatar are rare
their victims. She is favored by sadists and masochists, and some of her followers form cultish cells of secret adherents. Each of these groups is led by someone who takes pleasure in administering pain
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
because it best emulates the Scourge Mistress, and for the same reason her faithful appreciate beauty, cultural refinement, and a certain adeptness at manipulation. Though temples to Loviatar are rare
their victims. She is favored by sadists and masochists, and some of her followers form cultish cells of secret adherents. Each of these groups is led by someone who takes pleasure in administering pain
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
agent of the Sunweaver—deemed service in the Brightguard a holy calling, the group’s ranks swelled. Most members have unshakable resolve, but recent revolutionary acts have the order on edge. The
they defend the order and its members like lions protect their prides. They resent other revolutionary groups whose violent ways cause the people to distrust the Silent Roar by extension. Many Silent
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
regardless of order. You can count on these clergy to help you secure spellcasting services, and to offer you other material aid within reason. Enemies. Since the order of knights templar is sworn to
exterminate supernatural evil, such creatures are always hostile when they recognize a knight templar. The following groups and creatures viciously oppose the templars of the Silver Flame: Fiends and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
regardless of order. You can count on these clergy to help you secure spellcasting services, and to offer you other material aid within reason. Enemies. Since the order of knights templar is sworn to
exterminate supernatural evil, such creatures are always hostile when they recognize a knight templar. The following groups and creatures viciously oppose the templars of the Silver Flame: Fiends and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur’s Gate Gazetteer
. For this callous lot, the common people are nothing more than fools to be bilked, clods undeserving of comfort and wealth due to their lack of comfort and breeding. For a few patriars, though, the
action that protects the vulnerable groups. They stage robberies on their own property and secretly send the “stolen goods” to sick houses and charities. These patriars know that to act openly is to invite
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Xanathar's Guide to Everything
methods the rival can bring to bear against the characters. Goals. An effective rival has a clear reason for interfering with the characters’ lives. Think about what the rival wants, how and why the
marshal. Does the character have enough money to pay bribes or to hire a small gang of mercenaries? Does the rival hold sway over any guilds, temples, or other groups? Make a list of the rival’s assets
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
. For this callous lot, the common people are nothing more than fools to be bilked, clods undeserving of comfort and wealth due to their lack of comfort and breeding. For a few patriars, though, the
action that protects the vulnerable groups. They stage robberies on their own property and secretly send the “stolen goods” to sick houses and charities. These patriars know that to act openly is to invite