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Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
dragon’s hoard, creating your bond through that token’s lingering draconic magic.
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A secret order of rangers who collect and guard draconic lore taught you their ways.
3
A
power.
5
An ancient Draconic inscription on a standing stone empowered you when you read it aloud.
6
You had a vivid dream of a mysterious figure accompanied by seven yellow canaries, who warned you of impending doom. When you awoke, your drake was there, watching you.
Classes
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
dragon’s hoard, creating your bond through that token’s lingering draconic magic.
2
A secret order of rangers who collect and guard draconic lore taught you their ways.
3
A
power.
5
An ancient Draconic inscription on a standing stone empowered you when you read it aloud.
6
You had a vivid dream of a mysterious figure accompanied by seven yellow canaries, who warned you of impending doom. When you awoke, your drake was there, watching you.
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
or Kezef—usually a warlock or other spellcaster—contacts the comet-borne emissary of an Elder Evil, the emissary can merge with a mortal consciousness to create a larva mage. None of the
available for communication. When the signs are right, cultists gather together, read aloud their blasphemous texts, and conduct the mind-searing rituals that guide star spawn into the world.
Elder Evil
Backgrounds
Guildmasters’ Guide to Ravnica
. You can choose your secondary guild or roll to determine it randomly. This secondary guild membership determines a portion of your starting equipment and is also where most of your contacts come from
) into a thought strand that others can potentially read, share, or steal. These thought strands are treated as valuable currency among the Dimir.
Suggested Characteristics
Skilled at infiltration
Backgrounds
Guildmasters’ Guide to Ravnica
-Boros Contacts table.
Boros Contacts
d8
Contact
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A former comrade in arms was promoted into the prestigious Sunhome Guard.
2
One of my parents is a ranking Boros officer
.
Contacts
The ordered structure of the Boros Legion offers abundant opportunities to make friends — and rivals — in higher places. You might have close friends in other guilds that share the
Backgrounds
Guildmasters’ Guide to Ravnica
protection and durability
2
Fin Clade, focused on movement
3
Gyre Clade, focused on cyclical patterns and metamagic
4
Guardian Project, focused on creating guard monsters and super
my research and any other tasks I have to complete.
Contacts
The fluid nature of clades, whose rosters span different laboratories and change as researchers discover new interests, creates
Backgrounds
Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus
spent a lot of time among other criminals and still have contacts within the criminal underworld. You’re far closer than most people to the world of murder, theft, and violence that pervades the
, working for someone who has more than they deserve. But the Guild offered you a way to fix that. You keep doing what you’ve always done — guard work, dock labor, business accounting &mdash
Balhannoth
Legacy
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Monsters
Mordenkainen’s Tome of Foes
well-traveled roads and paths, snatching people who come along. A balhannoth that has been captured and exploited by drow might lair in caves near Underdark passages and guard the ways in and out of a
in the area reshapes to assume the appearance of a location sought by one intelligent creature whose mind the balhannoth has read (see Regional Effects below). The transformation affects nonliving
races
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
physician. Personas can even be passed down through a family, allowing a younger changeling to take advantage of contacts established by the persona’s previous users.
Creating Your Character
At 1st
can follow those suggestions or ignore them, but you can’t raise any of your scores above 20.
Languages
Your character can speak, read, and write Common and one other language that you and
races
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
survive with just their wits in situations that would be deadly for other folk. Because of that fact, many lizardfolk myths state that their people were placed by the gods in the Material Plane to guard
follow those suggestions or ignore them, but you can’t raise any of your scores above 20.
Languages
Your character can speak, read, and write Common and one other language that you and your
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
necessary, though they are unwilling to risk their life or possessions. Carousing Contacts Tavern Contact Type The Snapping Line Fishers, sailors, laborers The Empty Net Smugglers, criminals The Wicker Goat Dwarves, town guard
contacts in town. A week of carousing costs 2d10 gp as you lavish money on food and drink for yourself and others. When carousing, pick a single tavern in town to frequent. At the end of the week, you earn
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sage Advice & Errata
Spells Known of 1st-Level and Higher (p. 98) In the final sentence of this subsection, the closing phrase has changed to read as follows: “… unless you’re replacing the spell you gained at 3rd, 8th, 14th, or 20th level from any school of magic.”
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Xanathar's Guide to Everything
character, but not at the risk of their lives. Lower-class contacts include criminals, laborers, mercenaries, the town guard, and any other folk who normally frequent the cheapest taverns in town. Middle
specific NPCs as contacts. You might decide that the barkeep at the Wretched Gorgon and a guard stationed at the western gate are the character’s allied contacts. Assigning specific NPCs gives the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Guildmasters' Guide to Ravnica
questionnaire, “What’s Important to Me?”, in this chapter. Let its questions and your choice of answers direct you to a guild that appeals to you or that sounds like a fun character to play. Read the guild
descriptions in chapter 2 and choose one that appeals to you. Read the descriptions of races and classes in this chapter. Guild membership recommendations are provided for each race and class, should
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Guildmasters' Guide to Ravnica
Starting the Adventure Once the players are ready to begin, read or paraphrase the following introductory text: Life in the Tenth District is never dull. A hub of constant activity, it always offers
you’ll need a job that will help you prove your worth.
Today is your lucky day. This afternoon, you received a brief note from one of your contacts: “I heard today from someone who is looking for
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Keys from the Golden Vault
intruders, it contacts Tockworth telepathically, letting her know where the intruders are. Tockworth then orders the observer to use its next action to emit a piercing shriek, which is loud enough to
that lost its master and its control amulet. The shield guardian stands guard outside Tockworth’s workshop (area L9).
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
Tashalar. The characters can be in Candlekeep already doing research of their own, or they might be summoned there if they are known to the library and its scholars. Read or paraphrase the following when
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->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
are replacing your race with a lineage, replace any Ability Score Increase you previously had with these. Languages Your character can speak, read, and write Common and one other language that you and
campaign. If you are replacing your race with a lineage, you retain any languages you had and gain no new languages. Creature Type Every creature in D&D, including every player character, has a special
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
(area 15). She is an Emerald Enclave contact. Helvur and Maegla Tarnlar are clothiers (area 7). Both are Lords’ Alliance contacts. Harburk Tuthmarillar is the Constable of Red Larch, a stern, honest
guard commander and judge. He lives and works in area 11. Imdarr Relvaunder is a priest of Tempus in the Allfaiths Shrine (area 1). He is a contact for the Order of the Gauntlet. Kaylessa Irkell is
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Guildmasters' Guide to Ravnica
Inside the House House Dimir has a clandestine aspect hidden from all but its most important members. The guildmaster, Lazav, and his direct contacts guide and manipulate the covert operations of the
are concerned. Any given Dimir agent knows of no more than a handful of alleyway contacts and dossier drop spots. One agent knows another only by a code name, or receives communications only at a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Heroes of the Borderlands
7: Bank The keep’s residents and visitors store their most valuable belongings and savings in the bank. When the characters arrive at the bank, read the following boxed text aloud: This one-story
bank sports a teller’s window with a drop-down counter. A bespectacled halfling woman in a silk tabard sits behind the glass. Outside, a bored human guard stands watch.
The banker, Quink, relies on the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Guildmasters' Guide to Ravnica
suggested characteristics (personality traits, ideals, bonds, and flaws). Each guild entry also provides personal contacts; suggestions for your alignment, race, and class; and a list of spells that you can
you. Bonds and Contacts As a benefit of your guild membership, you have contacts both inside and outside the guild. Contacts are useful resources in the urban environment of Ravnica, where a friendly
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
Approaching the Caer When the characters first approach the castle, read: A sturdy, stone castle devoid of warmth and ostentation squats atop the cliffs overlooking the town and the frozen harbor
. Warding the castle entrance are thick, battle-hardened wooden doors. Four cylindrical guard towers have wind-worn flags bearing the town’s heraldry fluttering above their tiled, conical roofs. These
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
Recovery. Both the mind flayers of Bluetspur and the Mists surrounding the domain employ methods similar to the modify memory spell to obscure victims’ memories of their abduction, replacing them with
to their hidden memories, doled out as you deem appropriate. This might take the form of allowing the character to navigate an alien installation, operate an inscrutable device, or read an otherworldly
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen
Castle Kalaman When the characters and Darrett arrive at Castle Kalaman, read the following: Even if the imposing Castle Kalaman didn’t stand atop hundred-foot cliffs, it would still tower over every
.
The guards at Castle Kalaman ask the characters to state their business. If the characters explain that they’re representatives of Vogler’s people, a guard leads them across a courtyard toward a council chamber where Lord Bakaris is speaking with the city council.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Prisoner 13
Varrin’s Proposition Varrin Axebreaker (lawful good, dwarf noble) contacts the characters to enlist their aid in retrieving the key. Varrin’s braided hair and beard are black with streaks of gray. He
wears a loose, comfortable robe over a steel breastplate. Whether Varrin approaches the characters or invites them to a meeting, read the following text: “Thank you for hearing me out. My name is
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Divine Contention
Arrival When the characters arrive at the tower, read the following boxed text aloud: The House of Thalivar is a tall tower at the heart of the town. Recently rebuilt by soldiers, the structure now
company of fifteen guards inhabit the tower, led by the wizard Gallio Elibro and his guard captain Hazz Yarrum. Two halflings serve the household as cooks and porters. Refer to “Meeting Gallio Elibro” when the characters present themselves for their quest.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
T7. Western Arch When the characters approach the bridge, read: The snowy pass comes to a gorge spanned by a stone bridge. At each end of the bridge is a thirty-foot-tall, thirty-foot-wide stone arch
empty guard posts, one on each side of the bridge. These 10-foot-wide chambers provide some protection against the howling wind.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Keys from the Golden Vault
Varrin’s Proposition Varrin Axebreaker (lawful good, dwarf noble) contacts the characters to enlist their aid in retrieving the key. Varrin’s braided hair and beard are black with streaks of gray. He
wears a loose, comfortable robe over a steel breastplate. Whether Varrin approaches the characters or invites them to a meeting, read the following text: “Thank you for hearing me out. My name is
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
Hold of the Deepking The Hold of the Deepking stands south of Laduguer’s Furrow and north of Themberchaud’s lair. When the characters first lay eyes on it, read the following boxed text aloud to the
from the turrets and battlements. One hundred more stand guard in the palace and comprise the Deepking’s honor guard.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragon Delves
Preparation Before running the adventure, prepare as follows: Step 1. Read the “Adventure Background” section (including “Redwood Watch” and “The Council”). Step 2. Familiarize yourself with the Key
: Blight, Twig Blight, Vine Commoner Dryad Green Dragon Wyrmling Guard Mud Mephits Noble Priest Acolyte Scout Yuan-ti Malison (Type 1) Zombie Animals: Constrictor Snake Giant Centipede Giant Venomous Snake
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Heroes of the Borderlands
13: Inner Bailey The sheltered inner bailey is where the keep’s defenders live and practice combat drills.
When the characters arrive at the inner bailey, read the following boxed text aloud
that rise around it.
A mountain of a man in heavy armor tromps up to you. “No lollygagging!” he grouses.
The man is the keep’s demanding and curmudgeonly sergeant of the guard, Shannik
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
in the mountains for thousands of years. The roc has a great nest on the top of Mount Ghakis to the southeast and feeds on fish in the nearby lake. When the Roc of Mount Ghakis appears, read: Diving
available. Otherwise, it attacks a party member. It can’t reach characters who hide in the guard posts at either end of the bridge. If it has nothing to attack on its turn, the roc lets loose a horrible shriek and flies back to its nest.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Keys from the Golden Vault
Arrival in Oztocan As the characters approach the town, read the following: Built on a large flat between two rocky mountains, the town of Oztocan is cradled by the crescent-shaped ruins of a massive
characters ask about Leandro Sedhar, a guard directs them to a local inn called the Giant’s Skull, where Leandro is known to spend much of his time. Tremor As soon as the characters enter the town
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Heroes of the Borderlands
citizens and peaceful visitors.
Summary. The beginning of each location summarizes its function in the keep and the NPCs who can be found at it. Don’t read this aloud.
When the characters
arrive at the outer gatehouse, read the following boxed text aloud:
Two stone towers flank an archway that leads into the keep. A sturdy-looking gatehouse spans the archway and connects the towers