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Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
overshadow their original race, if any, becoming their new race. A character might choose a lineage during character creation, their transformation having occurred before play begins. Or, events might
unfold during adventures that lead your character to replacing their race with this new lineage. Work with your DM to establish if you’re amenable to such a development and how such stories
Shapechange
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addition to gaining those of the creature. If the creature has the same proficiency as you and the bonus listed in its statistics is higher than yours, use the creature's bonus in place of yours. You
hit points, you aren't knocked unconscious.
You retain the benefit of any features from your class, race, or other source and can use them, provided that your new form is physically capable of doing
Goliath
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Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
The first goliaths lived on the highest mountain peaks—far above the tree line, where the air is thin and frigid winds howl. Distantly related to giants and infused with the supernatural
, you choose whether your character is a member of the human race or of a fantastical race. If you select a fantastical race, follow these additional rules during character creation.
Ability Score
Halfling
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Basic Rules (2014)
, even by the standards of his diminutive race, with the fluff of his curly brown locks barely cresting the three-foot mark, but his belly was amply thickened by his love of a good meal, or several, as
more like closely related families than true subraces. Choose one of these subraces or one from another source.
Dwarf
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identities and affiliations, recognize related dwarves, and invoke their ancestors’ names in oaths and curses. To be clanless is the worst fate that can befall a dwarf.
Dwarves in other lands are
a dwarf saying that might be hyperbole, but certainly points to how difficult it can be for a member of a short-lived race like humans to earn a dwarf’s trust.
Elves. “It’s not wise
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron
elf. There is another option related to dragonmarks if your group uses feats: the Aberrant Dragonmark feat grants potentially dangerous magical abilities. Aberrant dragonmarks aren’t tied to the dragonmark houses and can be taken by a character of any race.
Creating a Dragonmarked Character Dragonmarks are associated with race, depicted by a combination of variant races and subraces. For humans and half-orcs, a dragonmark is a variant race that replaces
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
Feature: Official Inquiry You’re experienced at gaining access to people and places to get the information you need. Through a combination of fast-talking, determination, and official-looking
documentation, you can gain access to a place or an individual related to a crime you’re investigating. Those who aren’t involved in your investigation avoid impeding you or pass along your requests
Kobold
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Volo's Guide to Monsters
, they might build a warren and make a permanent home there, while continuing to expand the town’s sewers as the community grows. These so-called “city kobolds” live underground but
use for healing magic, and a sorcerer can meet most of the tribe’s other magic-related needs. Kobold shamans are very rare; priests of Kurtulmak, when they reveal themselves, are easily recognized
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
Creating a Dragonmarked Character Dragonmarks manifest on certain members of a few species, represented in the rules by variant race options: For humans and half-orcs, a dragonmark is a variant race
that replaces traits associated with those races. For half-elves, a dragonmark is a variant race that lets you keep some half-elf traits and replace others with the traits associated with your mark
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
overshadow their original race, if any, becoming their new race. A character might choose a lineage during character creation, their transformation having occurred before play begins. Or, events might
unfold during adventures that lead your character to replacing their race with this new lineage. Work with your DM to establish if you’re amenable to such a development and how such stories unfold. WHAT
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
). The course covers the anatomy, abilities, and dispositions of monsters commonly encountered while adventuring. Students read popular accounts related to Aberrations, Monstrosities, and Oozes, as well
events of the “A Great Frog Race” section and sees students tested on their knowledge of the creatures known as slaadi. The rules for Exams can be found earlier in this chapter.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
wizard’s spell or a ritual bath in dragon’s blood. In all these cases, the result is a creature that combines the essence of a dragon with the form of its original race. Regardless of their origins
, all half-dragons have similar features and appearance, gaining special senses, resistance to destructive energy, and a breath weapon. Draconic Nature. Half-dragons are incapable of having natural born
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
Names and Surnames The naming conventions among the people of Khorvaire tend to follow language, rather than being linked to race. A Brelish dwarf who doesn’t speak Dwarvish might also carry a name
name or related to an occupation or region of origin. So Sorn Fellhorn, Kara of Windshire, and Tellan Magewright are all names you might find among the common folk. The noble families of Galifar
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
students, having chosen a college, spend virtually all their remaining school years on that campus and study with those professors, diving into their preferred area of study and related fields. Other
students take as many as a third of their classes in other colleges, continuing the breadth of their first-year education and looking for places where the perspectives of other disciplines can bring
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Keys from the Golden Vault
Adventure Background Dr. Cassee Dannell, a brilliant academic, long ago learned to hide her interest in the occult. She instead built a career gaining expertise in the peoples and cultures of the
region surrounding Varkenbluff, continuing her occult research in secret. By age twenty-four, Dr. Dannell had earned her doctorate in anthropology from Varkenbluff University, a prestigious institution
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
Sex You can play a male or female character without gaining any special benefits or hindrances. Think about how your character does or does not conform to the broader culture’s expectations of sex
character’s sexual orientation is for you to decide. Height and Weight Race Base
Height Height
Modifier Base
Weight Weight
Modifier Human 4'8" +2d10 110 lb. × (2d4) lb. Dwarf, hill 3'8" +2d4
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Xanathar's Guide to Everything
Cause of Death 1 Unknown 2 Murdered 3 Killed in battle 4 Accident related to class or occupation 5 Accident unrelated to class or occupation 6–7 Natural causes, such as disease or old age 8 Apparent
, hermit, or refugee 39–43 Explorer or wanderer 44–55 Farmer or herder 56–60 Hunter or trapper 61–75 Laborer 76–80 Merchant 81–85 Politician or bureaucrat 86–90 Priest 91–95 Sailor 96–00 Soldier Race
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
some other set of skills suited to the specialties of your patron house’s guilds. Heir. The Heir is a member of your dragonmarked house patron, related by blood and carrying the house name. This
character most likely chooses the race that matches the bloodline of the house. The Heir can be dragonmarked (with the appropriate marked subrace or racial variant) or unmarked. The house agent background (described in this chapter) proves particularly appropriate for this character.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
feature, the player defines aspects of his or her background to which the benefit applies. Continuing the noble example, the player might decide to apply Expertise to “situations where courtly manners
proficiencies. Instead, a character can add his or her proficiency bonus to any ability check directly related to the character’s positive personality traits. For example, a character with a positive
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
are jet black. Night Haunters. By the light of day, an oni hides its true form with magic, gaining the trust of those it intends to betray when darkness descends. These creatures can change their size
a settlement and devises ways to abduct and devour some of them. Magical Ogres. Oni are sometimes called ogre mages because of their innate magical ability. Though they are only distantly related to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monsters of the Multiverse
Aasimar Traits As an aasimar, you have the following racial traits. Creature Type. You are a Humanoid. Size. You are Medium or Small. You choose the size when you select this race. Speed. Your
within yourself, gaining the benefits of that revelation. Your transformation lasts for 1 minute or until you end it as a bonus action. Once you transform using your revelation below, you can’t use it
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
Tools A tool helps you to do something you couldn't otherwise do, such as craft or repair an item, forge a document, or pick a lock. Your race, class, background, or feats give you proficiency with
particularly hard wood. Artisan's Tools. These special tools include the items needed to pursue a craft or trade. The table shows examples of the most common types of tools, each providing items related
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
skill and saving throw proficiencies, in addition to gaining those of the creature. If the creature has the same proficiency as you and the bonus in its stat block is higher than yours, use the
class, race, or other source and can use them if the new form is physically capable of doing so. However, you can’t use any of your special senses, such as darkvision, unless your new form also has
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
The Ordning Each of the main giant races — the cloud giant, fire giant, frost giant, hill giant, stone giant, and storm giants — are related by common elements of history, religion, and culture. They
giant kin such as fomorians, ettins, and ogres. Regardless of a giant’s rank among its own race, the chief of a hill giant tribe is inferior to the most common of stone giants. The lowest ranked giant
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
saving throw proficiencies, in addition to gaining those of the creature. If the creature has the same proficiency as you and the bonus listed in its statistics is higher than yours, use the creature’s
reduce your normal form to 0 hit points, you aren’t knocked unconscious. You retain the benefit of any features from your class, race, or other source and can use them, provided that your new form is
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)
saving throw proficiencies, in addition to gaining those of the creature. If the creature has the same proficiency as you and the bonus listed in its statistics is higher than yours, use the creature’s
reduce your normal form to 0 hit points, you aren’t knocked unconscious. You retain the benefit of any features from your class, race, or other source and can use them, provided that your new form is
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)
skill and saving throw proficiencies, in addition to gaining those of the creature. If the creature has the same proficiency as you and the bonus in its stat block is higher than yours, use the
class, race, or other source and can use them if the new form is physically capable of doing so. However, you can’t use any of your special senses, such as darkvision, unless your new form also has
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything
Character and Party Creation Each player has options when it comes to choosing a character race, class, and background, though you may restrict certain options that are deemed unsuitable for the
. Here are some questions you can ask the players as they create characters to get a sense of the party’s relationships: Are any of the characters related to each other? What keeps the characters together
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
seek out knowledge that could free Levistus or allow Geryon to vanquish him and ascend to the lordship. Geryon fulfills his responsibilities in the soul trade by continuing to court mortals through his
agents, offering them superior strength and great physical prowess in return for their allegiance. A Frozen Wasteland Every other layer of the Nine Hells has a function related to warfare, industry
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
-related, secrets are an important component of gaining leverage over others. Moreover, your successful franchise will eventually have many secrets of its own that you desperately need to keep quiet
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
gaining entrance. Mahadi has a special collection of named soul coins, each of which harbors the soul of an enemy the rakshasa vanquished in the past. Mahadi consults with these souls individually
. Mahadi and Zariel Zariel relies on Mahadi’s services to provide supplies, magic items, and other items of value necessary for continuing her campaign in the Blood War. Infernal Rapture has also been
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
and prosperity, they could become envoys of the Daughters in the Five Nations or help to fight their enemies in Droaam. A character of a monstrous race could even become a warlord of Droaam. Even if
before the armies of Droaam and agents of Daask make their move? A middle-of-the-road view is that the Daughters are motivated solely by Sora Teraza’s visions. They have no interest in gaining power
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
Oath of Glory feature You emanate an aura that fills you and your companions with supernatural speed, allowing you to race across a battlefield in formation. Your walking speed increases by 10 feet. In
—whether true or exaggerated—of your great deeds. As a bonus action, you gain the following benefits for 1 minute: You are blessed with an otherworldly presence, gaining advantage on all Charisma checks
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
return with the spoils of war. The githyanki sky ships attack from above in the dead of night, gaining an instant advantage since communities on the surface rarely offer strong defenses against
word, and multiple tir’su connect to form phrases and sentences.
Githyanki and githzerai both speak Gith, but each race has a distinct dialect and accent. Similarly, the two races of gith
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
deformed, gaining a glimpse into the pain and malice that has consumed this evil race.
Fomorian
Huge giant, chaotic evil
Armor Class 14 (natural armor)
Hit Points 149 (13d12 + 65)
Speed