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, Deception, History, Intimidation, Investigation, Nature, or Religion
Weapon Proficiencies
Simple weapons
Armor Training
Light armor
Starting Equipment
Choose A or B: (A) Leather;Leather
, devils, hags, and alien entities of the Far Realm, Warlocks piece together arcane secrets to bolster their own power.
Warlocks view their patrons as resources, as means to the end of achieving magical
Species
Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide
haven’t heard that rubbish before?”
“I know you have.” When she glared at him, he added, “It’s not as if I’m plumbing the depths of your mind, dear girl. That
eyes. “You fight it, don’t you? Like a little wildcat, I wager. Every little jab and comment just sharpens your claws.”
— Erin M. Evans, Brimstone Angels
To be greeted with
Backgrounds
Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus
between the realm of the holy and the mortal world, performing sacred rites and offering sacrifices in order to conduct worshipers into the presence of the divine. You are not necessarily a cleric&mdash
, or even an occult group that served a fiendish master that you now deny.
Skill Proficiencies: Insight, Religion
Languages: Two of your choice
Equipment: A holy symbol (a gift
Acolyte
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Basic Rules (2014)
You have spent your life in the service of a temple to a specific god or pantheon of gods. You act as an intermediary between the realm of the holy and the mortal world, performing sacred rites and
.
Skill Proficiencies: Insight, Religion
Languages: Two of your choice
Equipment: A holy symbol (a gift to you when you entered the priesthood), a prayer book or prayer wheel, 5 sticks of
Tiefling
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Basic Rules (2014)
haven’t heard that rubbish before?”
“I know you have.” When she glared at him, he added, “It’s not as if I’m plumbing the depths of your mind, dear girl. That
eyes. “You fight it, don’t you? Like a little wildcat, I wager. Every little jab and comment just sharpens your claws.”
— Erin M. Evans, Brimstone Angels
To be greeted with
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
.
“What is it they say?” he asked. “One’s a curiosity, two’s a conspiracy —”
“Three’s a curse,” she finished. “You think I haven’t heard that rubbish before?”
“I know you have.” When she glared
in it.” He tilted his head again, scrutinizing her, with that wicked glint in his eyes. “You fight it, don’t you? Like a little wildcat, I wager. Every little jab and comment just sharpens your claws
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)
.
“What is it they say?” he asked. “One’s a curiosity, two’s a conspiracy —”
“Three’s a curse,” she finished. “You think I haven’t heard that rubbish before?”
“I know you have.” When she glared
in it.” He tilted his head again, scrutinizing her, with that wicked glint in his eyes. “You fight it, don’t you? Like a little wildcat, I wager. Every little jab and comment just sharpens your claws
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual
Knights Battle Masters and Heroic Wanderers Habitat: Any; Treasure: Armaments, Individual Knights are skilled warriors trained for war and tested in battle. Many serve the rulers of a realm, a religion, or an order devoted to a cause.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Sigil and the Outlands
Religion and the Gods Creatures in the Outlands revere gods as folk do anywhere else. At the center of the Great Wheel, faiths are as diverse as their worshipers, who hail from neighboring planes and
distant Material Plane worlds. The Outlands contain the domains of several gods, such as the hidden tower of Annam the All-Father, creator of giants, and the gaseous realm of the beholder god Gzemnid. Devout worshipers, whether alive or dead, gravitate to their gods and carry out their will.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
flowers, fruits, and crafts are brought here and to similar shrines to thank the gods for their bounty, as the volcanic pools are viewed as passages to the gods’ realm. As the characters near the Gate
noticed the tlexolotl carvings at the Twin Gods Observatory recognize similar imagery here. A character who succeeds on a DC 16 Intelligence (Nature or Religion) realizes the carvings depict reptilian spirits that dwell in volcanoes.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
to enter the mortal realm; its destruction could hurl Klothys back into the Underworld for untold ages to come.
Klothys’s Divine Schemes Klothys has many designs for Theros and for the futures she
convinced that mortals giving worship to the gods distorts their proper relationship to each other, and she sets out to abolish religion.
4 Now that she has left the Underworld, Klothys knows it’s only
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules
, Intimidation, Investigation, Nature, or Religion Weapon Proficiencies Simple weapons Armor Training Light armor Starting Equipment Choose A or B: (A) Leather Armor, Sickle, 2 Daggers, Arcane Focus (orb
Warlock is drawn into a binding pact with a powerful patron. Drawing on the ancient knowledge of beings such as angels, archfey, demons, devils, hags, and alien entities of the Far Realm, Warlocks
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
strange mutations. The Far Realm goblins push forward, trying to press through the portal and into your world.
Splugoth laughs. “You are too late! The ritual is under my control, and now you must hear
Far Realm As the ritual approaches its end, the magic imbued into the orrery components senses the presence of the characters and works to thwart them. Drawing from the franchise’s collective
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
pantheon of strict gods (see “Gods of Har’Akir” later in this section). The priests of these gods oversee all aspects of labor, agriculture, trade, justice, and religion in the pharaoh’s name. The
inspirations. When players create characters from Har’Akir, consider asking them the following questions.
How do you survive in the desert realm? Are you a laborer in the fields or camps surrounding
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player’s Handbook
Charisma Skill Proficiencies Choose 2: Arcana, Deception, History, Intimidation, Investigation, Nature, or Religion Weapon Proficiencies Simple weapons Armor Training Light armor Starting Equipment
, demons, devils, hags, and alien entities of the Far Realm, Warlocks piece together arcane secrets to bolster their own power. Warlocks view their patrons as resources, as means to the end of achieving
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
through the structure’s roof.
Workers race toward the building as smoke billows through the roof and doors. A character who succeeds on a DC 16 Intelligence (Arcana or Religion) check suspects that the
figures appear within. These are creatures from the Far Realm called whistlers (detailed at the end of this adventure). They’ve teleported into the sinkhole and seek to feed on the trapped workers. If
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
Other Religious Systems In your campaign, you can create pantheons of gods who are closely linked in a single religion, monotheistic religions (worship of a single deity), dualistic systems (centered
), or even forces and philosophies that don’t center on deities. Tight Pantheons In contrast to a loose pantheon, a tight pantheon focuses on a single religion whose teachings and edicts embrace a small
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual
monsters such as aboleths and mind flayers or forces such as Cthulhu, Hadar, Ityak-Ortheel the Elf Eater, Nyarlathotep, malicious solar bodies, or entities from the Far Realm. Aberrant Cultist Medium
Int 16 +3 +6
Wis 18 +4 +7
Cha 15 +2 +2
Skills Arcana +6, Perception +7, Religion +6
Senses Darkvision 90 ft.; Passive Perception 17
Languages Common, Deep Speech; telepathy
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
gateway to the Far Realm. A character examining the runes who succeeds on a DC 13 Intelligence (Religion) check realizes that the runes spell out prayers to Ilvaash that will open the gateway into
trickery. Shalghast asks the characters whether they’ve come “to worship Ilvaash, who bleeds from the Far Realm,” or whether they are bringing more “obelisk pieces for the masters.” The mind flayers don’t
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)
Acolyte You have spent your life in the service of a temple to a specific god or pantheon of gods. You act as an intermediary between the realm of the holy and the mortal world, performing sacred
: Insight, Religion Languages: Two of your choice Equipment: A holy symbol (a gift to you when you entered the priesthood), a prayer book or prayer wheel, 5 sticks of incense, vestments, a set of common
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
different kinds working together, perhaps united as members of a religious order or some other kind of organization that crosses the divide of giant kinds (see “Gods and Religion” and “Organizations
when they play out on the stage of a giant’s realm. The Giant-Sized Schemes table offers suggestions, including several inspired by the plots of famous dramas. Giant-Sized Schemes d6 Adventure Hook
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
Acolyte You have spent your life in the service of a temple to a specific god or pantheon of gods. You act as an intermediary between the realm of the holy and the mortal world, performing sacred
, Religion Languages: Two of your choice Equipment: A holy symbol (a gift to you when you entered the priesthood), a prayer book or prayer wheel, 5 sticks of incense, vestments, a set of common
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
system to glimpse other regions of the Far Realm. The beholder would gaze into ten eyepieces to see random regions of the Far Realm. Several years ago, Golcuus inadvertently peered into the Briny Pool
feeblemind spell (save DC 18). Regardless of the result of this saving throw, the viewer realizes that a tiny, dark hole at the pool’s bottom is a powerful gate to a deeper place in the Far Realm. The
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
exception of the Far Realm horror, the specific locations of portal encounters are not detailed here. If the characters ask about where they are in any given encounter, or if they’re inclined to venture
outside the encounter area, the choice of location is up to you. Portals d6 or d8 Portal
1 Far Realm horror
2 Guarded warehouse
3 Raging storm
4 Amid the rigging
5
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual
hundred years. 3 Reclaim and resurrect a loved one’s corpse. 4 Reconquer the lands that once composed its empire. 5 Recover the pieces of its lost heart. 6 Replace its descendant as the ruler of a realm
+0 Con 17 +3 +3 Mod Save Int 11 +0 +5 Wis 19 +4 +9 Cha 16 +3 +3
Skills History +5, Perception +9, Religion +5
Vulnerabilities Fire
Immunities Necrotic, Poison; Charmed, Exhaustion
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
Intelligence (Religion) check. On a successful check, the character realizes that the message’s tone as well as the means of communication are unlike any known divine tradition—this is some other kind
three circled pieces corresponding to the three pieces left to find. Ruxithid’s overlords described the obelisk to him and used powers drawn from the Far Realm to roughly locate the obelisk’s scattered
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
confrontation: he must wait for the right moment to strike. He has good evidence to suggest that Strahd periodically hibernates in his coffin, sometimes for years, when all is quiet in the realm. While he bides
, Insight +7, Medicine +7, Perception +7, Religion +6, Sleight of Hand +4
Senses passive Perception 17
Languages Abyssal, Common, Elvish, Infernal
Challenge 5 (1,800 XP)
Special Equipment. In
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Eve of Ruin
, and Barovia became a Domain of Dread.
Now the Dark Powers keep Strahd trapped in his realm, tormenting him with his inability to escape for all eternity. He spends his days amusing himself as best
, Perception +12, Religion +10, Stealth +14
Damage Resistances necrotic; bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing from nonmagical attacks
Senses darkvision 120 ft., passive Perception 22
Languages
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monsters of the Multiverse
)
Skills Perception +9, Insight +9, Religion +8
Damage Immunities poison
Condition Immunities poisoned
Senses darkvision 120 ft., truesight 30 ft., passive Perception 19
Languages all
. Pure Waters. Water flows pure within 3 miles of a ki-rin’s lair. Any purposeful corruption of the water lasts for no longer than 3 minutes. Realm of Respite. Curses, diseases, and poisons on creatures
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
sophistication, each has sealed that pact with the murder of a sentient being — deaths the knights have dubbed necessary for the security of the realm. The knights have access to wingwear, as described in the
ft.
STR
10 (+0)
DEX
15 (+2)
CON
10 (+0)
INT
10 (+0)
WIS
9 (−1)
CHA
11 (+0)
Skills Deception +2, Religion +2, Stealth +4
Senses passive
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
of days before the characters discovered the portal site, Splugoth accessed the extradimensional space and began the process of opening the portal. Energy from the Far Realm has infused several
fidgets with the medallion she wears, especially when trying to remember something. A DC 12 Intelligence (Religion) check notes that priests often wear such medallions, engraved with their holy symbol
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
gateway to the ancestors. Orcs who die having served the tribe well go on to rituals meant to send them to Gruumsh’s realm. As befits followers of a god who doesn’t speak, hands of Yurtrus remove
, Religion +2
Senses darkvision 60 ft., passive Perception 12
Languages understands Common and Orc but can’t speak
Challenge 2 (450 XP)
Aggressive. As a bonus action, the orc can move up to its
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
hoped to use it in service to the god Athreos, helping to predict which souls would eventually try to escape the Underworld and reenter the living realm as Returned. Soon after they arrived, though
. Images of pale drops hover over a skeleton, while black drops loom over a Returned. Any character who succeeds at a DC 15 Intelligence (Religion) check learns that the sarcophagus itself bears a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
the most as a result of the loss? Who or what benefits the most from it? 7. New Organization The foundation of a new order, kingdom, religion, society, cabal, or cult can shake the world with its
, goldsmiths) 3 Magical circle/society 4 Military/knightly order 5 New family dynasty/tribe/clan 6 Philosophy/discipline dedicated to a principle or ideal 7 Realm (village, town, duchy, kingdom) 8
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
creatures and can’t repair itself while one or more creatures occupy its space. A character who studies the rubble of the shattered dais and succeeds on a DC 17 Intelligence (Arcana or Religion) check
(History or Religion) check, understands that once its corruption is undone, the pool can bestow a blessing on anyone who meditates here. A character who finishes a long rest in this area can roll a d20