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Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus
Mercenaries, private guards, Watch soldiers, and members of the Flaming Fist number among just a few of the many soldiers on the streets of Baldur’s Gate.
War has been your life for as long as
standing national army or a mercenary company, or perhaps a member of a local militia who rose to prominence during a recent war.
When you choose this background, work with your DM to determine which
Backgrounds
Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide
Personality Trait
1
I’m always polite and respectful.
2
I’m haunted by memories of war. I can’t get the images of violence out of my mind.
3
I’ve lost too many
hell hound without flinching.
6
I enjoy being strong and like breaking things.
7
I have a crude sense of humor.
8
I face problems head-on. A simple, direct solution is the best path to
Soldier
Legacy
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Backgrounds
Basic Rules (2014)
War has been your life for as long as you care to remember. You trained as a youth, studied the use of weapons and armor, learned basic survival techniques, including how to stay alive on the
battlefield. You might have been part of a standing national army or a mercenary company, or perhaps a member of a local militia who rose to prominence during a recent war.
When you choose this background
Backgrounds
Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide
operate up and down the Sword Coast and throughout the North. Most are small-scale operations that employ a dozen to a hundred folk who offer security services, hunt monsters and brigands, or go to war in
memories of war. I can’t get the images of violence out of my mind.
3
I’ve lost too many friends, and I’m slow to make new ones.
4
I’m full of inspiring and cautionary
Orc
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Species
Volo's Guide to Monsters
dance to any tune.
— Volo
To feel the thunder of orcish war drums outside the gate and to hear a chorus of voices growling, “Gruumsh!” is the nightmare of every civilized place in
three gods are a tribe’s raiders and ravagers—often the only part of an orc tribe that its victims ever see.
Deep within the den of a tribe, far away from the war-hearth where warriors
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Forge of the Artificer
Construct Forge Level 17 Bastion Facility Prerequisite: Ability to use Artisan’s Tools as a Spellcasting Focus
Space: Vast
Hirelings: 2
Order: Recruit
A Construct Forge is used to create
Constructs. Recruit: Construct. When you issue the Recruit order to this facility, you commission the facility’s hirelings to craft a Construct from the Forge Constructs table. The construction takes the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Forge of the Artificer
Warforged Ignacio Bazan-Lazcano Warforged are mechanical beings built as weapons to fight in the Last War. An unexpected breakthrough produced sentient beings made from wood and metal that
an artificer to customize the look of their face, limbs, and plating. Warforged Traits Creature Type: Construct
Size: Medium (about 6–8 feet tall) or Small (about 3–4 feet tall), chosen when you
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
secret door that leads to area 8b.)
Wooden Donkeys. Standing around the room are five crude wooden constructs resembling donkeys. Each of these magic dummies has a body made of a wooden keg turned on
Small or Medium humanoid sits atop a wooden donkey, it moves and attacks as directed by its rider. Each donkey has the statistics of a mule, with these changes: The wooden donkey is a construct with
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
grieving as the elf approaches the end of life.
4
A pair of adult crystal dragon;adult crystal dragons lairing on neighboring mountaintops have enjoyed a decades-long snowball war, but their
take in the breathtaking view.A Crystal Dragon’s Lair
Crystal dragons dwell in cold regions, where they construct ice and snow structures reminiscent of castles but open to the sky. Glittering
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
adventure is to keep the town safe from a possible lizardfolk attack. Judging from a crude map found aboard the smugglers’ vessel and from information provided by the sea elf Oceanus, it seems likely that
the lizardfolk are preparing for war. The council members hope that the townspeople are not the intended target, but they greatly fear this possibility.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
Knucklebones, serving as a garage where they build and repair infernal war machines. The Knucklebones answer to Mad Maggie, a night hag warlord who has an agreement with Zariel: the archduke of Avernus leaves
the fingers of which are caves where Mad Maggie oversees repairs to several infernal war machines (see appendix B for infernal war machine rules and stat blocks). Around this hill is a ring of debris
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Forge of the Artificer
was shattered during the Daelkyr War, when armies of mind flayers, beholders, and other Aberrations spewed from Xoriat, the plane of delirium, and launched an overwhelming attack on Khorvaire. Though
the Gatekeeper druids ultimately drove the daelkyr back and held them in check, the war so destabilized the Dhakaani Empire that it soon collapsed. Ruins of cities and fortifications built during the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
followers of Yurtrus and Shargaas are relegated to the deep, dark recesses of the site, away from the rest of the tribe. At the center of the camp is the tribe’s war hearth. Once a war hearth is lit
moves its camp, coals from the hearth are kept glowing within shells and pots so they can be used to start the war hearth at the new encampment. Given a choice between occupying a site on the surface
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
hopes to use the Star Forge to create a crown that will end a war of succession in their clan, but they need protection to reach the forge and finish their work. The forge is protected by an iron
golem fueled by radiant energy and other creatures from the Giant Construct Encounters table in chapter 3. Guiding Whispers A voice whispers into a character’s dreams, leading the character toward the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
Warforged Titan Warforged titans are hulking constructs built to wreak paths of destruction through enemy armies. Some of the most feared combatants of the Last War, warforged titans are barely
sentient, with just enough intelligence to follow commands. Legacy of Giants. In the Age of Giants, giant artificers built mindless war golems to aid them in their war against the quori. Millennia later
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
from these crude barricades, the room contains the following: Automaton. An animated, life-size puppet of Halaster Blackcloak is hard at work on an experiment. The puppet is made primarily of wood and
isn’t doing anything other than mixing harmless substances while muttering gobbledygook. The puppet is a Medium construct with AC 10, 8 hit points, a walking speed of 20 feet, immunity to poison and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
arrives. The doors lead to the Hall of War, a large room containing a terrifying construct — the aptly named slaughterstone eviscerator — ready to defend the enclave in times of need. See the “11:15 AM
summon more guards and raise a general alarm, summoning Ironbeard, Rizwin, Lady Kira, or Lord Zardak. In true emergencies, Ironbeard activates the slaughterstone eviscerator in the Hall of War (see
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Eve of Ruin
Warforged Warrior Warforged warriors are formed from wood and steel, then magically imbued with life and sentience. They were created to fight in the Last War on the continent of Khorvaire in Eberron
. In the aftermath of that conflict, they struggle to understand their place in the world. Warforged Warrior Medium Construct, Any Alignment
Armor Class 16 (natural armor)
Hit Points 30 (4d8 + 12
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monsters of the Multiverse
Duergar Constructs Creative duergar engineers have built numerous war machines, including some that can be fused with a duergar. Such a duergar-machine hybrid is fueled by the duergar’s psionic
energy, and the duergar inside the machine can psychically channel pain into power when attacked. These machines are deployed to assist with construction projects and war. Some duergar bravely volunteer to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
have no noteworthy universal social traits, but some commonality does exist in the crude written communication that all orcs employ and in the way that they use pigments to decorate and distinguish
five stones at dawn before a long journey, you will always find your way back to the war hearth. Stomping your foot three times and uttering “Gruumsh” wards off bad magic. Symbolic Communication Orcs
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
Lord of Blades Campaign Themes The Voice of
THRANE
Do They Know the War Is Over?
Against all logic and reason, people in Breland continue to argue that the warforged — creations of House
dead land of Cyre continue to fight as if the war had not ended, launching raids out of the “dead-gray mist” to the neighboring lands — including, of course, Thrane. Proclaiming allegiance to something
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)
Soldier War has been your life for as long as you care to remember. You trained as a youth, studied the use of weapons and armor, learned basic survival techniques, including how to stay alive on
the battlefield. You might have been part of a standing national army or a mercenary company, or perhaps a member of a local militia who rose to prominence during a recent war. When you choose this
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
nearby mountains are at war with creatures from the Giant Kin Encounters table in chapter 3. On the brink of destruction, the goliaths hope the observatory they have seen from afar can tip the scales in
leading to the observatory. Creatures from the Giant Construct Encounters table in chapter 3, fueled by magical lightning, deny entrance to the turret when the characters escort the gnome there to study.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
magical energy unleashed during the Last War caused spell effects to take on sentience. A living spell appears much like a normal spell effect, except that its magical energy endures indefinitely. Living
spells haunt the Mournland and other areas blasted by the Last War, somehow subsisting on ambient magical energy as they writhe and across the landscape. Though they have no need for sustenance, they
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
construct fortresses on land deeded them by local rulers. They found guilds, temples, or martial orders. They take on apprentices or students of their own. They broker peace between nations or lead them into war. And their formidable reputations attract the attention of very powerful foes.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Infernal Machine Rebuild
further states that Sir Ursas wants the missing components for his own lost cause of leading a war in the Nine Hells, which would invariably result in the components falling into diabolical hands. As
Infernal Machine and installed it in a magical construct resembling a silvery skeleton with decorative wings, nicknamed Eludecia. (If you connect this adventure to Lost Laboratory of Kwalish, the construct
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual
Servant of Superstition
Habitat: Grassland; Treasure: None
Spirits of vengeance bound to crude frames, scarecrows arise from folk magic, the prayers of desperate commoners, or possession by
.
8 Wedding clothes that were never worn.
DAARKEN
Scarecrow Medium Construct, Chaotic Evil
AC 11 Initiative +3 (13)
HP 27 (6d8)
Speed 30 ft.
Ability Score Mod Save
Str
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Eve of Ruin
Cadaver Collector Tom Babbey Ancient war machines known as cadaver collectors lumber aimlessly across the blasted plains of Acheron until they are called on by a necromancer to bolster the ranks of
Collector Large Construct, Typically Lawful Evil
Armor Class 17 (natural armor)
Hit Points 189 (18d10 + 90)
Speed 30 ft.
STR
21 (+5)
DEX
14 (+2)
CON
20 (+5)
INT
5 (−3)
WIS
11
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
hit with a ranged attack roll using Whelm, the target takes an extra 1d8 Force damage, or an extra 4d8 Force damage if the target is a Construct, an Elemental, or a Giant. Immediately after hitting or
ancient black dragon. It can also be melted down in the forges of the Mightyhammer dwarf clan, but only by the rightful leader of that clan. Conceptopolis Weapon of Warning (Trident), +1 Weapon (War Pick), Wind Fan, Winged Boots, Wings of Flying
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
, but the evil there proved to be too much for us. Asmodeus appeared and promised Zariel infernal legions to end the Blood War, but she had to give the Lord of the Nine Hells her fealty. She accepted and
became an archdevil, but not before Yael and I took her sword, hoping it could redeem Zariel someday. I gave up my magic and memories, and Yael gave her life to construct this place to protect the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
creator and Ruxithid can command the Construct to cast it. If this fight seems too easy for the party, add two goblin psi brawlers (see appendix A), who rush from Zorzula’s Rest to join the combat in
. Victims Elsewhere. More victims were here at one point. However, those victims were taken somewhere else by the goblins for a “special purpose.” War Room. Ruxithid used the east wing of the sanctum as his
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
fraught with tests of strength, fierce competition and nothing in the way of maternal or paternal love. From the time a child can wield a stick or a crude knife, it asserts itself and defends itself while
the chief can plan where to send raiders next. The territory that orc war parties cover can extend for many miles around the lair, and any encampment or settlement of elves, dwarves, or humans in that
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
battlefield. The followers of all three gods are a tribe’s raiders and ravagers — often the only part of an orc tribe that its victims ever see. Deep within the den of a tribe, far away from the war-hearth
into death and the great unknown. NISHREK AND THE ETERNAL WAR
Orcs believe that if they die with honor, their spirits go to the plane of Acheron, the Infinite Battlefield — specifically the layer of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
a real unicorn and a make-believe one. To reach the lake themselves, the kids created a crude unicorn costume under which they can hide. (They keep the costume in their treehouse and can lend it to
, is a rusty oilcan that looks out of place. Heaped in another corner is a crude unicorn costume made of polka-dot quilts and a wooden horse’s head that has a wooden horn attached to it.
The crumpled
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything
War, these artificers led efforts to aid those who were injured in the war’s horrific battles. Tool Proficiency 3rd-level Battle Smith feature You gain proficiency with smith’s tools. If you already
have smith’s tools with you. If you already have a defender from this feature, the first one immediately perishes. The defender also perishes if you die. Steel Defender
Medium construct
Armor