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Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
giants led trolls in a campaign to win Annam’s favor by conquering the outer plane of Ysgard. The campaign’s aspirations of conquest quickly failed, but the raiders discovered a key feature of
Ysgard: creatures slain on that plane return to life the next dawn. Thus, the giants’ incursion became a part of the eternal battle that rages across the plane. The trolls, whose fundamental
Monsters
Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
led trolls in a campaign to win Annam’s favor by conquering the outer plane of Ysgard. The campaign’s aspirations of conquest quickly failed, but the raiders discovered a key feature of
Ysgard: creatures slain on that plane return to life the next dawn. Thus, the giants’ incursion became a part of the eternal battle that rages across the plane. The trolls, whose fundamental
Monsters
Curse of Strahd
on the same plane of existence and regains all its hit points. While the soul is bodiless, a wish spell can be used to force the soul to go to the afterlife and not return.
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witnessing Strahd himself slay Vladimir's beloved, his fellow knight Sir Godfrey Gwilym. With the battle won, Strahd surrounded Argynvostholt. Rather than cower in his lair, Argynvost emerged and
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
without squeezing. Each foot of movement in water costs it 2 extra feet, rather than 1 extra foot. The mist can’t manipulate objects in any way that requires fingers or manual dexterity.
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undetected to bleed their victims dry.
Vampiric mists, sometimes called crimson mists, are all that remain of vampires who couldn’t return to their burial places after being defeated or suffering
Monsters
Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen
at his core, the seneschal didn’t return as a skeletal knight but rather as an intangible spirit. Caradoc’s Undead form suits him well, allowing him to possess the living and use unwilling
Monsters
Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse
farastu minions—rather than fight directly.
Demodands
Demodands, also called gehreleths, are Fiends from the Tarterian Depths of Carceri. Cast into the prison plane long ago for forgotten
creatures trapped there.
Demodands that manage to leave Carceri know they’re doomed to return; a demodand that dies outside Carceri re-forms there in a torturous process that takes 2d20
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
often difficult because I’m so easily distr… oh my goodness, is that circlet made of silver?
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I find the waking world tedious and mundane and would much rather spend my time asleep
is not a single location, but rather a collection of personally significant places spread out across multiple planes of existence and connected through portals under the dragon’s control. A lair
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
Conversing with others is often difficult because I’m so easily distr… oh my goodness, is that circlet made of silver?
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I find the waking world tedious and mundane and would much rather
dragon.
Moonstone Dragon Lairs
Often, a moonstone dragon’s lair is not a single location, but rather a collection of personally significant places spread out across multiple planes of
Monsters
Curse of Strahd
return the courtesy, the duchess commissioned the legendary toymaker Fritz von Weerg to build a clockwork effigy of Pidlwick as a gift for Strahd's family. Although the duchess's heart was in the right
, instead assuming that the guests had died in their sleep.
But Strahd was not fooled. He came to realize fairly quickly that the clockwork effigy had begun to display a murderous nature. Rather than have
Backgrounds
Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus
a patriar’s scion in an illegal duel. The family swore revenge, and you fled to the slums rather than risk bringing their wrath down on your kin.
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You aren’t originally from Baldur
superseding event. Suddenly directionless and unable to return to your homeland, you have lingered, adrift, in this wretched city.
Feature: Discovery
The quiet seclusion of your extended
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Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide
In your earlier days, you were a personage of some significance in a noble court or a bureaucratic organization. You might or might not come from an upper-class family; your talents, rather than the
looking for someone worthy.
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I owe my guild a great debt for forging me into the person I am today.
4
I pursue wealth to secure someone’s love.
5
One day I will return to my
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Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus
regular shift patrolling either the Lower City or the Outer City. In return, you have access to the Flaming Fist’s fortresses and a direct line of communication with Flaming Fist officers and
regular patrol in the Upper City or take a regular shift at its gates, and must report for training in the Watch Citadel once every ten days. In return, you have access to the Citadel and a direct line of
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Tomb of Annihilation
.
2
I’m a stickler when it comes to observing proper etiquette and local customs.
3
I would rather observe than meddle.
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By living among violent people, I have become
.
2
Having lived among the people of a primeval tribe or clan, I long to return and see how they are faring.
3
Years ago, tragedy struck the members of an isolated society I befriended, and
Firbolg
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Species
Volo's Guide to Monsters
the group’s needs, but the effect each action will have on the forest and the rest of the natural world. Firbolg tribes would rather go hungry than strain the land during a famine.
Hidden
Shepherds
As caretakers of the land, firbolgs prefer to remain out of sight and out of mind. They don’t try to dominate nature, but rather seek to ensure that it prospers and survives according to its
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your nerve and fled the battlefield. Perhaps you lost your mind and killed when you were only supposed to capture. Perhaps you saw the terror you inspired in others as a moral failing rather than a
point of honor. Regardless, you were cast out of your clan and told never to return. You now travel Etharis having to live with what you’ve done and the shame (or honor) of your clan’s shunning.
Human
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empires on the foundation of conquest and trade. Whatever drives them, humans are the innovators, the achievers, and the pioneers of the worlds.
A Broad Spectrum
With their penchant for migration
and conquest, humans are more physically diverse than other common races. There is no typical human. An individual can stand from 5 feet to a little over 6 feet tall and weigh from 125 to 250 pounds
races
homelands.
The period written in history as the Era of Expansion is often portrayed as an endless eruption of violence that lasted centuries as humans spread to every corner of Etharis. Rather, the
Era of Expansion describes many separate conflicts that occurred in the wake of human migration. Humans didn’t send armies initially, but settlers. They cut trees from the Grove Maze to build
Bugbear
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Volo's Guide to Monsters
rather than perform the work or confront the foe. Even when subsumed into a goblinoid host and drawn into war, bugbears must often be roused from naps and bribed to get them to do their duties.
This
. Cunning Grankhul is the younger one, and in the stories bugbears tell, he gifted them with stealth but in return he sapped their vigor, so that bugbears sleep in his stead while he remains eternally alert
Orc
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serve as a battering ram if a settlement dares to close its gates, blocking the way to the treasures and tasty food that lie within.
A heavily laden wagon that requires the strongest orcs to return it to
authority and cause the tribe to collapse into chaos, with the survivors scattering either to join new tribes or to strike out on their own. At the other extreme, warriors that return home with a heavily
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen
Dragon Queen’s foul magic. All draconians are fanatically devoted to Takhisis and want nothing more than her conquest of the world. They are utterly loyal to the Dragon Army and those who speak in their
god’s name. In the course of the adventure, present draconians as magical, monstrous, fanatical, and unknowable. They aren’t creatures with their own goals and ambitions. Rather, they are magical
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen
Dragon Queen’s foul magic. All draconians are fanatically devoted to Takhisis and want nothing more than her conquest of the world. They are utterly loyal to the Dragon Army and those who speak in their
god’s name. In the course of the adventure, present draconians as magical, monstrous, fanatical, and unknowable. They aren’t creatures with their own goals and ambitions. Rather, they are magical
Tabaxi
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Volo's Guide to Monsters
stories, artifacts, and lore. Those who survive this period of wanderlust return home in their elder years to share news of the outside world. In this manner, the tabaxi remain isolated but never ignorant
of the world beyond their home.
Barterers of Lore
Tabaxi treasure knowledge rather than material things. A chest filled with gold coins might be useful to buy food or a coil of rope, but it’s
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
toward it. Upon its return, Stool is greatly disturbed by the changes it encounters in the grove. It isn’t well acquainted with either sovereign, but finds itself drawn toward Basidia. The former drow
Going to Neverlight Grove Because so few Underdark travelers have ever stumbled upon Neverlight Grove, it rarely appears on any maps. Nearly all the routes leading to it are dangerous and difficult
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen
The Dragon Queen’s Return Even as Ansalon healed, a new threat grew. The Dragon Queen Takhisis—known as Tiamat on other worlds—was banished from Krynn over a thousand years ago. Since then, she had
waited patiently, plotting her return. Unbeknownst to the other gods, she planted a piece of the kingpriest’s ruined temple at Neraka—hidden in the volcanic Taman Busuk region. There it grew into a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen
The Dragon Queen’s Return Even as Ansalon healed, a new threat grew. The Dragon Queen Takhisis—known as Tiamat on other worlds—was banished from Krynn over a thousand years ago. Since then, she had
waited patiently, plotting her return. Unbeknownst to the other gods, she planted a piece of the kingpriest’s ruined temple at Neraka—hidden in the volcanic Taman Busuk region. There it grew into a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
3) inhabit the grove and view intruders as food. Discerning Taste The hill giant leader occupying Grolantor’s Larder wants a delicacy from Karontor’s Hold (in this chapter). He uncharacteristically
offers to share wondrous food from the larder to anyone who manages to slay an aboleth living in flooded tunnels beneath the castle and return with its meat. Creatures from the Fomorian Encounters table
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
3) inhabit the grove and view intruders as food. Discerning Taste The hill giant leader occupying Grolantor’s Larder wants a delicacy from Karontor’s Hold (in this chapter). He uncharacteristically
offers to share wondrous food from the larder to anyone who manages to slay an aboleth living in flooded tunnels beneath the castle and return with its meat. Creatures from the Fomorian Encounters table
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
toward it. Upon its return, Stool is greatly disturbed by the changes it encounters in the grove. It isn’t well acquainted with either sovereign, but finds itself drawn toward Basidia. The former drow
Going to Neverlight Grove Because so few Underdark travelers have ever stumbled upon Neverlight Grove, it rarely appears on any maps. Nearly all the routes leading to it are dangerous and difficult
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
Neverlight Grove If the characters return to Neverlight Grove, myconids loyal to Sovereign Basidia (including Stool and Rumpadump if they remained behind) try to intercept them before their arrival
and warn them off. The myconids say that matters have become grave, and that the characters should avoid the grove at all costs. If the adventurers don’t leave immediately, six myconid adults, four
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
Neverlight Grove If the characters return to Neverlight Grove, myconids loyal to Sovereign Basidia (including Stool and Rumpadump if they remained behind) try to intercept them before their arrival
and warn them off. The myconids say that matters have become grave, and that the characters should avoid the grove at all costs. If the adventurers don’t leave immediately, six myconid adults, four
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
Achieving Victory If the adventurers succeed, they achieve a great victory with two demon lords banished back to the Abyss. The creatures under the demon lords’ influence eventually return to normal
Fungi wins the adventurers the eternal gratitude of the surviving myconids of Neverlight Grove. Basidia quickly assumes leadership of the grove, taking steps to heal the minds of those myconids
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
Achieving Victory If the adventurers succeed, they achieve a great victory with two demon lords banished back to the Abyss. The creatures under the demon lords’ influence eventually return to normal
Fungi wins the adventurers the eternal gratitude of the surviving myconids of Neverlight Grove. Basidia quickly assumes leadership of the grove, taking steps to heal the minds of those myconids
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
few escape plans ready, and has nutrient caches hidden along exit tunnels in case Basidia decides it is better to abandon the grove and return to a nomadic lifestyle. Characters can climb the eastern
” splashes as water drips from stalactites above onto the caps of oversized mushrooms sprouting from mushy earth.
Circle of Explorers This circle is the smallest in Neverlight Grove, since it is
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
few escape plans ready, and has nutrient caches hidden along exit tunnels in case Basidia decides it is better to abandon the grove and return to a nomadic lifestyle. Characters can climb the eastern
” splashes as water drips from stalactites above onto the caps of oversized mushrooms sprouting from mushy earth.
Circle of Explorers This circle is the smallest in Neverlight Grove, since it is
Druid
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of nature itself or from a nature deity. Many druids pursue a mystic spirituality of transcendent union with nature rather than devotion to a divine entity, while others serve gods of wild nature
becoming a druid was part of your character’s destiny.
Have you always been an adventurer as part of your druidic calling, or did you first spend time as a caretaker of a sacred grove or spring