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Heroes of the Borderlands
Points equal to the Necrotic damage taken.Wights are the withered corpses of relentless warriors whose wickedness sustains them beyond death. After dying and returning from the grave, a wight
Classes
Xanathar's Guide to Everything
powerful familial connection to a divine being. Perhaps your ancestor was an angel, transformed into a mortal and sent to fight in a god’s name. Or your birth might align with an ancient
prophecy, marking you as a servant of the gods or a chosen vessel of divine magic.
A Divine Soul, with a natural magnetism, is seen as a threat by some religious hierarchies. As an outsider who commands
Classes
Xanathar's Guide to Everything
powerful familial connection to a divine being. Perhaps your ancestor was an angel, transformed into a mortal and sent to fight in a god’s name. Or your birth might align with an ancient
prophecy, marking you as a servant of the gods or a chosen vessel of divine magic.
A Divine Soul, with a natural magnetism, is seen as a threat by some religious hierarchies. As an outsider who commands
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
life, crystal dragons enjoy an innate psionic connection to the Positive Plane that suffuses their bodies as well as their personalities with light. Though they prefer to live in desolate, frigid regions
. They read these signs as omens, giving them glimpses of what is to come, and they eagerly examine the potential futures of any creatures who come to them in peace.
Crystal dragons’ connection to
Classes
Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything
Many rogues walk a fine line between life and death, risking their own lives and taking the lives of others. While adventuring on that line, some rogues discover a mystical connection to death itself
death and to recover knowledge that might otherwise be lost to the grave.
How did you discover this grim power? Did you sleep in a graveyard and awaken to your new abilities? Or did you cultivate them in a temple or thieves’ guild dedicated to a deity of death?
Classes
Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything
Many rogues walk a fine line between life and death, risking their own lives and taking the lives of others. While adventuring on that line, some rogues discover a mystical connection to death itself
death and to recover knowledge that might otherwise be lost to the grave.
How did you discover this grim power? Did you sleep in a graveyard and awaken to your new abilities? Or did you cultivate them in a temple or thieves’ guild dedicated to a deity of death?
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Keys from the Golden Vault
returning to his grave. His words bring tears as well as cheers.
A local carpenter named Lewth Fulchre (the father of local rabblerouser Ebbin Fulchre) offers to repair Frody’s coffin, which shouldn’t
Frody is returned to the earth, Toadhop’s residents stand around his grave wearing straw hats—a local custom, you reckon—to sing a somber hymn. A little girl lays a tiny flower on the dead bard’s grave
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Keys from the Golden Vault
occult acumen. Once the characters have determined their connection to Dr. Dannell, read the following out loud to get this adventure started: No matter your business this morning, a grave halfling
A Cry for Help Time is short, and Dr. Dannell is desperate for help. She has exhausted all official channels and has turned to the characters. The characters should have some connection to Dr
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
outsiders to Akharin Sangar to supplement the city’s guard during the festival. The group in power trusts that competent adventurers from outside the city will have no connection to the local revolutionary
factions. Midnight Sun. An ally of the characters has received permission to visit Akharin Sangar and witness a periodic event in which the moon shines like the sun. This ally asks the characters to escort them on a scholarly or religious expedition.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
her presence there can provide a connection for the characters when they visit the dwarven settlement in chapter 8. If Eldeth didn’t survive, she might have charged the characters with returning her
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Heroes of the Borderlands
Wight Lifedrinker Life-Leeching Corpse Warrior Wights are the withered corpses of relentless warriors whose wickedness sustains them beyond death. After dying and returning from the grave, a wight
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules
is favored by a god, pantheon, or religious order. This section presents the Life Domain subclass. Life Domain Soothe the Hurts of the World The Life Domain focuses on the positive energy that helps
domain, so a Cleric of almost any religious tradition might choose it. This domain is particularly associated with agricultural deities, gods of healing or endurance, and gods of home and community
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual
them beyond death. Unlike mere zombies, they retain the memories and evil agendas they harbored in life. After dying and returning from the grave, a wight continues its villainous ways, but it is now
Motives 1d8 The Wight Returned from the Dead To...
1 Challenge anyone who passes near its grave on a certain cursed night.
2 Conquer the land it believes it should rule.
3 Continue
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
Pious Born with a particular connection to a deity, you have been winning favor with your god since birth. Consult the Pious Quirks table to determine how your faith might influence your personality
finish a long rest. Religious Study. You have advantage on any Intelligence (Religion) check pertaining to your chosen god. Starting Piety. You begin with a piety score of 3 with your chosen god. Pious
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
Arcane Magic Users Unlike some other humanoids, kobolds don’t fear or shun arcane magic. They see magic as part of their connection to dragons, and are proud to be blessed with the ability to wield
such power. Young kobold sorcerers are trained by elders, and the training has an almost religious significance. Most kobold sorcerers are of the draconic bloodline origin and specialize in either
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
Build Your Group Religious orders attract people from all walks of life. It can be fun to play against type—to make a devout character with the criminal or charlatan background, for example
there simply so that Sir Baerdren can keep his eye on her and ensure that she doesn’t sabotage the templars from within?
Fixer. The Fixer might work for a religious order for entirely non-religious
Kobold
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Volo's Guide to Monsters
see magic as part of their connection to dragons, and are proud to be blessed with the ability to wield such power. Young kobold sorcerers are trained by elders, and the training has an almost
religious significance. Most kobold sorcerers are of the draconic bloodline origin and specialize in either damaging magic (which can also be used in mining), augmentation (of materials or allies), or
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything
between life and death, risking their own lives and taking the lives of others. While adventuring on that line, some rogues discover a mystical connection to death itself. These rogues take knowledge
otherwise be lost to the grave. How did you discover this grim power? Did you sleep in a graveyard and awaken to your new abilities? Or did you cultivate them in a temple or thieves’ guild dedicated
Orc
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Volo's Guide to Monsters
represents both life and the grave. It is her worshipers that raise young orcs to be warriors, and then, at the end of their lives, take them to Yurtrus and Shargaas to be carried into death and the
or less intact, the orcs leave themselves the option of returning to raid the community over and over.
When orcs fight elves, all of that changes. The enmity between the two races cuts to the core
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Guildmasters' Guide to Ravnica
, military and religious leaders in each vernadi regularly communicate with its members. Ordinary members of the conclave spend a few hours every day training with a military instructor and studying
with a religious teacher. Goals of the Selesnya Despite the growing tensions that now grip the world, in the long view of the Selesnya Conclave, not much has changed. Ravnica is troubled, but Ravnica
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Xanathar's Guide to Everything
distant but powerful familial connection to a divine being. Perhaps your ancestor was an angel, transformed into a mortal and sent to fight in a god’s name. Or your birth might align with an ancient
prophecy, marking you as a servant of the gods or a chosen vessel of divine magic. A Divine Soul, with a natural magnetism, is seen as a threat by some religious hierarchies. As an outsider who
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Xanathar's Guide to Everything
3rd Filled with a rage that channels the primal magic of the storm Barbarian Path of the Zealot 3rd Fueled by a religious zeal that visits destruction on foes Bard College of Glamour 3rd Wields the
Cleric Forge Domain 1st Clad in heavy armor, serves a god of the forge or creation Cleric Grave Domain 1st Opposes the blight of undeath Druid Circle of Dreams 2nd Mends wounds, guards the weary, and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
the dragon’s echo, which has become a draconic shard.
6 A dracolich keeps returning after being destroyed. The dracolich’s connection to its echoes on other worlds is keeping its soul intact
, like a phylactery, and the connection must be severed before the creature’s threat can be ended.
The black dracolich Ebondeath is venerated by a sect of the Cult of the Dragon
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual
beauty—natural or otherwise—risk returning as a banshee.
All manner of torments might give rise to a banshee. Roll on or choose a result from the Banshee Sorrows table to inspire how a banshee’s
a lost love and haunt their grave.
4 Presage a disaster or tragedy.
5 Seek the return of a stolen treasure.
6 Slay those more beautiful than it was in life.
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Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
creators of the First World, are the closest things to gods among dragonkind. Since they share the same fundamental connection to the Material Plane as their dragon offspring, Bahamut and Tiamat are
transcendent beneficence, described as a god of life). A number of such dragons of legend are discussed in more detail in sidebars in chapters 5 and 6. Dragons are not religious by nature. They can grow to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
like the Harpers. The Order of the Gauntlet The Church of the Silver Flame The Church of the Silver Flame is more narrowly religious than the Order of the Gauntlet, but its overall tone is similar
that way. The Zhentarim The Order of the Emerald Claw Replace the Black Network with the Order of the Emerald Claw, though you should downplay the connection to Vol. Dragonmarked Houses As an
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
Connection to Strahd Once you know what form Tatyana’s current incarnation takes, consider how the character feels toward Barovia’s Darklord. If your version of Tatyana wants to stay away from Strahd
Strahd d8 Concealment
1 The incarnation pretends to be a religious zealot who took a vow of silence.
2 The incarnation (or their guardians) made a bargain with Madam Eva or the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
in Sloobludop is sleepwalking, ignoring everyone around it and moving in a shuffling gait from place to place.
Shuushar Connection If Shuushar accompanies the party, the kuo-toa monk can be helpful
religious obsessions as anything other than “dangerous illusions,” combined with his preference for nonviolent solutions.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
known as Mistress Leafwind
Path of the Totem Warrior Unlike your wilder cousins, your connection to the spirit world is a little less woodsy and a little more civilized. However, that doesn’t mean
faithful, but your dedication to your job can easily be mistaken for a kind of religious zeal. For long years, that dedication has been a force that guides you, granting you abilities beyond those of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player’s Handbook
is favored by a god, pantheon, or religious order. This section presents the Life Domain, Light Domain, Trickery Domain, and War Domain subclasses. Life Domain Soothe the Hurts of the World
The
itself relies on the positive energy associated with this domain, so a Cleric of almost any religious tradition might choose it. This domain is particularly associated with agricultural deities, gods
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Rise of Tiamat
its destruction. Members of the order are driven by religious fervor and by devotion to the principle of justice for all. Whether a member places more emphasis on one or the other of those ideals is
such a villain to justice will raise them even higher in the order’s sight. Ontharr Frume’s dedication to heroic justice creates a strong connection between him and the paladin Sir Isteval. However
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
others than to make sure the value of faith is measured in gp. In addition to your franchise’s regular operations, you always keep a sideline going in religious paraphernalia, selling specialized signature
Faith Every cleric has a uniquely personal connection to their deity. You are no exception, though you like to think you bring your own special flair to the relationship, and vice versa. Relationship
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tyranny of Dragons
its destruction. Members of the order are driven by religious fervor and by devotion to the principle of justice for all. Whether a member places more emphasis on one or the other of those ideals is
such a villain to justice will raise them even higher in the order’s sight. Ontharr Frume’s dedication to heroic justice creates a strong connection between him and the paladin Sir Isteval. However
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a5
recaptured or replaced, and new challenges could be set up to foil incursions. Alter the dungeon’s contents as you see fit to account for the returning party’s previous actions and the reactions of
, the warrior’s eyes glow with pale light. If someone casts counterspell or dispel magic on the dread warrior during this time, and successfully dispels a 5th-level spell, Var’s connection is suppressed for 1 minute. Preemptively casting dispel magic on a dread warrior can have the same effect.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Hoard of the Dragon Queen
its destruction. Members of the order are driven by religious fervor and by devotion to the principle of justice for all. Whether a member places more emphasis on one or the other of those ideals is
such a villain to justice will raise them even higher in the order’s sight. Ontharr Frume’s dedication to heroic justice creates a strong connection between him and the paladin Sir Isteval. However