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Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
affect them. They defy gravity with flight that doesn’t rely solely upon their great wings, and gravitational force empowers both their devastating breath weapon and the exploding amethyst
swapping back.
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A cult devoted to a Great Old One of the Far Realm seeks an alien monolith that can summon its master, but the site is guarded by an amethyst dragon.
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An amethyst dragon
Genasi
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Elemental Evil Player's Companion
of savage humanoids and weird cults in untamed lands. Others gain positions of great influence, especially where elemental beings are revered. A few genasi leave the Material Plane to find refuge in
self-assurance in one genasi and as arrogance in another. Such self- confidence can sometimes blind genasi to risk, and their great plans often get them and others into trouble.
Too much failure can
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
upon their great wings, and gravitational force empowers both their devastating breath weapon and the exploding amethyst crystals they spit at their foes.
Royal Purple
When first hatched, an
adventurers to psychically trade bodies with adventurers from another world, so that each can carry out certain tasks before swapping back.
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A cult devoted to a Great Old One of the Far Realm
Species
Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide
reflect their fiendish heritage. And some younger tieflings, striving to find a place in the world, adopt a name that signifies a virtue or other concept and then try to embody that concept. For some
personality to any great degree. Years of dealing with mistrust does leave its mark on most tieflings, and they respond to it in different ways. Some choose to live up to the wicked stereotype, but others
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
gravity with flight that doesn’t rely solely upon their great wings, and gravitational force empowers both their devastating breath weapon and the exploding amethyst crystals they spit at their
A cult devoted to a Great Old One of the Far Realm seeks an alien monolith that can summon its master, but the site is guarded by an amethyst dragon.
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An amethyst dragon wyrmling is actually
Goliath
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Elemental Evil Player's Companion
goliath, and fewer still can claim friendship with them. Goliaths wander a bleak realm of rock, wind, and cold. Their bodies look as if they are carved from mountain stone and give them great
the goliath concept of fair play.
A permanently injured goliath is still expected to pull his or her weight in the tribe. Typically, such a goliath dies attempting to keep up, or the goliath slips
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
physical laws affect them. They defy gravity with flight that doesn’t rely solely upon their great wings, and gravitational force empowers both their devastating breath weapon and the exploding
before swapping back.
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A cult devoted to a Great Old One of the Far Realm seeks an alien monolith that can summon its master, but the site is guarded by an amethyst dragon.
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An amethyst
Backgrounds
Guildmasters’ Guide to Ravnica
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Feature: Rubblebelt Refuge
You are intimately familiar with areas of the city that most people shun: ruined neighborhoods where wurms rampaged, overgrown parks that no hand has tended in decades, and the
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I’m as stubborn as a batterboar.
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I’m so convinced of my superiority over soft, civilized people that I’ll take great risks to prove it.
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I’m easily
Firbolg
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Volo's Guide to Monsters
We spent three months tracking the green dragon before locating the forest in which it sought refuge. On our second day in that place, we woke to find the dragon’s head placed in the center
adopt elven names when they must deal with outsiders, although the concept of names strikes them as strange. They know the animals and plants of the forest without formal names, and instead identify the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Book of Many Things
character. Finally, this chapter presents a collection of magic items and supernatural gifts: charms bestowed by the gods or other great powers, inspired by the Deck of Many Things and the concept of fate.
Gilean; and the elven deity Labelas Enorath. The chapter begins with two backgrounds representing adventurers whose lives have gone through sudden reversals of fortune—falling from a great height or rising
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
them for refuge amid the unforgiving land. The four greatest riverines—Adirohit, Iravati, Mehul, and Joltara—each wished to claim the Riverine’s Shankha as their own. Kubjhatika proposed the Shankha
site for a great city. Thus, the riverines created the stable islands on which Manivarsha, Sagorpur, Ashwadhatu, and Tippurika would be built, and the histories of those great cities began.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
, paladins might not swear their oaths to ideals, but instead swear fealty to powerful sorcerers. To capture this story concept, you could build a new paladin spell list with spells meant to protect
to help a player express a particular character concept, and any class feature you replace is also removing an aspect of that character. Substituting a class feature should be done only to fit a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
long, slow decline, and many of their kind took part in the great Retreat to their refuge on Evermeet. As the elves increasingly withdrew from the world, other races and civilizations rose to prominence
of the great elven nations are now long past, and many elves have withdrawn from the world into isolated sylvan realms, or set sail across the Trackless Sea to the isle of Evermeet. Unlike dwarves
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Locathah Rising
Thayan army. On their way out of Thay, they were forced to take refuge on a broken-down skiff that drifted far out into the Sea of Fallen Stars. Both Fhenimore and Whymsee preferred death to becoming
for another chance at some kind of life, the two have embarked on this mission with great enthusiasm and have spent the last ten years looking for a place where they might protect the young titan from the world, so that it might grow in power.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
, or assuming leadership of savage humanoids and weird cults in untamed lands. Others gain positions of great influence, especially where elemental beings are revered. A few genasi leave the Material Plane to find refuge in the households of their genie parents.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
, but they’re not the only set of assumptions that can do so. You can build an interesting campaign concept by altering one or more of those core assumptions, just as well-established D&D worlds have done
champions of the first great empires, such as the empires of Netheril and Cormanthyr in the Forgotten Realms setting. The World Is Known. What if the world is completely charted and mapped, right down to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tyranny of Dragons
Appendix E: Concept Gallery Just as most adventurers don’t walk into a dragon’s lair without a plan, neither were D&D’s iconic monsters developed without considerable forethought. This gallery
. The images herein show just a few avenues explored in updating these foes to the most current edition of the game, along with notes taken from internal concept and story documents. Some present
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sage Advice & Errata
melee theme of the feature? It sure does, but we’re willing to occasionally bend a design concept if doing so is likely to increase a player’s happiness. If you’re a Pact of the Blade Warlock, can
than 5 feet away from the Warlock for 1 minute or more. Does the Awakened Mind feature of a Warlock with a Great Old One Patron allow two-way telepathic communication? Yes. See “Telepathy” in appendix C of the Player’s Handbook.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
centuries, but the Netherese who mastered the power of the Nether Scrolls became a ruling class, living on great flying cities or taking refuge in remote, subterranean lairs.
Despite their great
magic or simply unable to control it.
Without great magic to keep them aloft, the remaining flying cities of Netheril crashed to the ground, and many arcanists who survived were driven mad. Once magic
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
you’re ready to begin the adventure, replacing Great Reader A’lai Aivenmore with another scholar of the characters’ acquaintance if you so choose: A’lai Aivenmore’s mood is dark as they pace before you
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron
.
6 You don’t understand the concept of “truth.” To you, everything is a story and it’s all about how you tell it.
7 You are annoyed by buildings and tools designed without consideration for
fighting styles based on different dinosaurs. Likewise, in playing a Beast Totem barbarian or Circle of the Shepherd druid, consider replacing the traditional totems with the following. Bear: Hammertail
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
The Blue Wyrm When Iymrith confronts the characters in area 6, read: You hear the crunch of frost under heavy feet as an enormous blue dragon bursts through the main doors of the temple. The great
her or deal any damage to her, she tries to kill them, ignoring those who slip away and any who take refuge in the narrow ice spider tunnels (area 9). To reach the Eye of Annam, she assumes the form of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
. In the ancient past, bonesingers oversaw the final rites when great bakunawa died, then infused the creatures’ bones into the magical bridges that unite Dayawlongon as one land. During the days of
the first colonial incursions, bonesingers became Dayawlongon’s earliest freedom fighters, but their victories came at a great cost. Many skybridges became battlegrounds, and countless allied bakunawa
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
lesser creatures to help them carry out their missions and, in this capacity, become the masterminds behind vast conspiracies and intrigues that culminate in the accomplishment of great acts of evil
You can customize a deathlock by replacing some or all of the spells in its Spellcasting trait with spells specific to its patron. Here are examples.
Deathlock
Archfey patron: blink, faerie fire
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Radiant Citadel
Legends and Lore Two hundred and fifty years ago, the great brass dragon Sholeh undertook a quest to find the Radiant Citadel. For millennia, the dragons of her lineage had recounted tales of its
civilizations and worlds. Some scholars studying the Radiant Citadel’s origins posit that the Citadel is a relic of the mythical First World and was a vital center of diplomacy between great cultures
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
Legends and Lore Two hundred and fifty years ago, the great brass dragon Sholeh undertook a quest to find the Radiant Citadel. For millennia, the dragons of her lineage had recounted tales of its
civilizations and worlds. Some scholars studying the Radiant Citadel’s origins posit that the Citadel is a relic of the mythical First World and was a vital center of diplomacy between great cultures
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
archdruid, the other werebats drove Vool out of their village. He found a secluded cave nearby (see area 17) and took refuge there. He ventures out once a day to feed but avoids contact with his kin. If Vool
Wyllow, painting the archdruid as a creature of pure madness and malevolence. He also shares rumors of “great treasures” that are hidden inside Wyllow’s tower.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
absolute evil, demons have no concept of empathy. Each demon believes that only its needs and desires matter. This self-centeredness applies even with regard to other demons. These fiends have no
powerful demon usually has an intent that goes beyond merely causing carnage, and a plan to achieve it. DEMONIC AMULETS: BLESSING AND CURSE
Some demon lords have a way of cheating death, but this great
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
is concerned, elves see things the same way. Even if a murdered creature is brought back to life with magic, that doesn’t negate the crime any more than replacing stolen gold makes up for the original
whether it was premeditated. It can take the form of being exiled from the community, paying a great sum to the survivors, or being forced to carry on whatever unfinished work the slain elf was
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
concept they espouse as the Balance, and they seek to maintain equilibrium across the cosmos above all. Mordenkainen and his compatriots are among its most notable devotees. Since a true appreciation of
might vie with a great arcanist as both search for knowledge of a ritual that would cripple Asmodeus for a short time. The arcanist correctly believes that performing the ritual would free a world of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
destroy an opposing force, not realizing the orc is an orog. When encountered in great numbers, orogs form their own detachments within much larger orc hordes, and they are always at the forefront of
terrifying presence on the battlefield. They form no attachments, even to their parents and siblings, and have no concept of love or dedication. They worship the orc pantheon of gods — Gruumsh and Luthic
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Locathah Rising
discovering they were both intended for execution and summary transformation into undead warriors in the dreaded Thayan army. On their way out of Thay, they were forced to take refuge on a broken-down
great enthusiasm and have spent the last ten years looking for a place where they might protect the young titan from the world, so that it might grow in power. Fhenimore is a tall, lanky human woman
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
. Those who despise and challenge the Great Kingdom’s oppression—outlaws both good and bad—find refuge in borderlands just beyond the reach of the overking’s soldiers. These include the woods and swamp
Eastern Flanaess Once a powerful force for order and good, the Great Kingdom of Aerdy has declined over the last century to a state of utter decadence. The reigning overking—Ivid V, patriarch of the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
drow in their refuge. The constant fear of punishment, from one’s mistress or another, more powerful drow, keeps most slaves obedient, even when they aren’t directly supervised. The great cavern of
the city is filled with tall spires, and homes both great and small are carved into the stalagmites and stalactites that pierce the darkness. Gentle illumination from magic or glowing fungus decorates
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Keys from the Golden Vault
life in their service. Xeluan and his heroic friends went on to perform great deeds. When earthquakes and volcanic eruptions threatened to destroy the heroes’ homeland, Xeluan carved a citadel into a
mountainside, creating a refuge for the heroes and their people. The giant harnessed earth magic to create a protective ward around the settlement, but the devastation proved unstoppable. As the