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Curse of Strahd
in reuniting Strahd with his lost love and, in so doing, ending Barovia's curse. The Abbot has recently completed work on a flesh golem bride made from the body parts of dead women. While the Belviews
performance garnered the deva's sympathy, and the Abbot, playing into Strahd's hands, set for himself the goal of finding a cure for Strahd's âmalady.â The Abbot is now convinced that the cure lies
Monsters
Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
who died a century ago, after a long and nefarious career. Esvele Rosznar, a brash young noble, has recently adopted the Black Viper's persona to lead a secret life of crime. Like many other nobles
. When she throws back her cloak to reveal the costume she has put together, most folk toss their purses and flee. If that doesn't work, she usually needs only to draw her dagger. Of course, some of the
Monsters
The Book of Many Things
Bitterwindâhave noticed heâs become more reclusive recently, and when he does appear, heâs restless.
Augustus is a natural-born lycanthrope, born to werewolf parents. His parents
curse. And if bargaining doesnât work, thereâs always blackmail. (See the âUsing the Moonstalkers in Your Campaignâ section in chapter 11 for more details.)Change Shape
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
to leave.
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The sea around a wizardâs tower is too stormy for ships to sail through, but a resident dragon turtle might be convinced to ferry the characters across.
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A royal
relationships with other sea creatures that can bring them food or treasure, and they sometimes agree to work for creatures who ply them with generous sums of wealth.
Young Dragon Turtle Connections
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Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
;t help but lose myself in the emotions of others.
5
The stars have much to tell us, and folk need me to interpret what the stars say.
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All play and no workâthose are the words I
decades unexpectedly retires to the Elemental Plane of Air. Monstrous forces immediately move into the areaâand might take control of the pass unless the dragon can be convinced to return.
6
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Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
ship that tries to leave.
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The sea around a wizardâs tower is too stormy for ships to sail through, but a resident dragon turtle might be convinced to ferry the characters across.
5
A
enter symbiotic relationships with other sea creatures that can bring them food or treasure, and they sometimes agree to work for creatures who ply them with generous sums of wealth.
Dragon Turtle
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Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
dragons often work together, with emerald dragons tracking the source of an incursion while sapphire dragons plan and execute a decisive purgeâor recruit agents to do it for them.
Emerald
must be convinced to defend the school in a contest against a rival college.
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An emerald dragon invisibly tails a party of adventurers, causing trouble for the heroes so the dragon can watch how
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Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
. These gem dragons often work together, with emerald dragons tracking the source of an incursion while sapphire dragons plan and execute a decisive purgeâor recruit agents to do it for them
and must be convinced to defend the school in a contest against a rival college.
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An emerald dragon invisibly tails a party of adventurers, causing trouble for the heroes so the dragon can
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Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
well. I canât help but lose myself in the emotions of others.
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The stars have much to tell us, and folk need me to interpret what the stars say.
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All play and no workâthose are
mountain pass for decades unexpectedly retires to the Elemental Plane of Air. Monstrous forces immediately move into the areaâand might take control of the pass unless the dragon can be convinced to
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Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
.
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The sea around a wizardâs tower is too stormy for ships to sail through, but a resident dragon turtle might be convinced to ferry the characters across.
5
A royal bathhouse was
relationships with other sea creatures that can bring them food or treasure, and they sometimes agree to work for creatures who ply them with generous sums of wealth.
Ancient Dragon Turtle Connections
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Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
workâthose are the words I live by.
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I am always the first to offer a compliment.
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Get off my snowfield, you immature bipeds! When I was a wyrmling, people respected their elders
can be convinced to return.
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A royal heir goes missing while secretly visiting a crystal dragon. The heirâs family, the heirâs friends, and the dragon all want to find the heir, but
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Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
All play and no workâthose are the words I live by.
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I am always the first to offer a compliment.
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Get off my snowfield, you immature bipeds! When I was a wyrmling, people respected
unless the dragon can be convinced to return.
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A royal heir goes missing while secretly visiting a crystal dragon. The heirâs family, the heirâs friends, and the dragon all want to
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
often work together, with emerald dragons tracking the source of an incursion while sapphire dragons plan and execute a decisive purgeâor recruit agents to do it for them.
Emerald dragons&rsquo
convinced to defend the school in a contest against a rival college.
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An emerald dragon invisibly tails a party of adventurers, causing trouble for the heroes so the dragon can watch how they respond
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Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
events makes them particularly useful to their sapphire dragon cousins, who hunt down Aberrations and seek evidence of Far Realm incursions into the Material Plane. These gem dragons often work
dragon are terrorizing a nearby halfling settlement. One solution is to get rid of the dragon.
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An emerald dragon is the headmaster in absentia of a bardic college and must be convinced to defend
Knight
Legacy
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Playerâs Handbook (2014)
you need to determine your noble title, but you should also work with the DM to describe your family and their influence on you.
Is your family old and established, or was your title only recently
unfamiliar with work or discomfort, a former merchant just elevated to the nobility, or a disinherited scoundrel with a disproportionate sense of entitlement. Or you could be an honest, hard-working
Noble
Legacy
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Basic Rules (2014)
you need to determine your noble title, but you should also work with the DM to describe your family and their influence on you.
Is your family old and established, or was your title only recently
unfamiliar with work or discomfort, a former merchant just elevated to the nobility, or a disinherited scoundrel with a disproportionate sense of entitlement. Or you could be an honest, hard-working
Charlatan
Legacy
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Playerâs Handbook (2014)
friendship last forever. (Good)
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Aspiration. Iâm determined to make something of myself. (Any)
d6
Bond
1
I fleeced the wrong person and must work to ensure that
luxuries faster than I bring them in...
3
Iâm convinced that no one could ever fool me the way I fool others.
4
Iâm too greedy for my own good. I canât resist taking a risk if
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Baldurâs Gate: Descent into Avernus
you need to determine your noble title, but you should also work with the DM to describe your family and their influence on you.
Is your family old and established, or was your title only recently
unfamiliar with work or discomfort, a former merchant just elevated to the nobility, or a disinherited scoundrel with a disproportionate sense of entitlement. Or you could be an honest, hard-working
Sage
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situations.
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Iâm convinced that people are always trying to steal my secrets.
d6
Ideal
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Knowledge. The path to power and self-improvement is through knowledge. (Neutral
work to preserve a library, university, scriptorium, or monastery.
4
My lifeâs work is a series of tomes related to a specific field of lore.
5
Iâve been searching my whole
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Guildmastersâ Guide to Ravnica
Armed with an inventive intellect, a love of magical technology, and an unquenchable energy, you are an enthusiastic participant in the research work of the Izzet League. Though youâre likely
to finding a solution to a scientific problem.
2
Iâll never forget the laboratory where I learned my skills, or the other attendants who learned alongside me.
3
Iâm convinced
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Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide
company, including the names and reputations of its commanders and leaders, and who has hired them recently. You can find the taverns and festhalls where mercenaries abide in any area, as long as you speak
the language. You can find mercenary work between adventures sufficient to maintain a comfortable lifestyle (see âPracticing a Professionâ under âDowntime Activitiesâ in
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⊠compared ⊠to me.
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I am horribly, horribly awkward in social situations.
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Iâm convinced that people are always trying to steal my secrets.
d6
Ideal
ancient text that holds terrible secrets that must not fall into the wrong hands.
3
I work to preserve a library, university, scriptorium, or monastery.
4
My lifeâs work is a series of
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. . . everyone . . . is . . . compared . . . to me.
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I am horribly, horribly awkward in social situations.
8
Iâm convinced that people are always trying to steal my secrets
.
2
I have an ancient text that holds terrible secrets that must not fall into the wrong hands.
3
I work to preserve a library, university, scriptorium, or monastery.
4
My lifeâs
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Guildmastersâ Guide to Ravnica
you can work your way into a more prominent position.
Regardless of your past and the wealth of your family, your initial status with the guild is near the bottom, until you have proven your value
convinced that everyone I know is plotting against me.
3
Iâll brave any risk if the monetary reward is great enough.
4
I am convinced that I am far more important than anyone else is
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Guildmastersâ Guide to Ravnica
attached to.
Personality Traits
d8
Personality Trait
1
I canât wait to see what I become next!
2
I am convinced that everything inclines toward constant improvement
our work is to hurry it along â no matter what must be upended along the way. (Chaotic)
3
Knowledge. Understanding the world is more important than what you do with your knowledge
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
to work together for their mutual benefit, but he also encourages them to pursue their own evil schemes. Five members of the league, including Kelek, are described here, although one member (Skylla) has recently parted ways with the others.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Xanathar's Guide to Everything
Orcus whose plans the characters have foiled, the ambitious merchant prince who wants to rule the city with an iron fist, and the nosy high priest of Helm who is convinced the characters are up to no
good are all examples of rivals. A rivalâs agenda changes over time. Though the characters engage in downtime only between adventures, their rivals rarely rest, continuing to spin plots and work against the characters even when the characters are off doing something else.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragon Delves
. Recently, sheâs had nightmares of the dragonâs return; she worries that the dragonâs spirit lingers among the redwoodsâ roots. Gwenhumara happily heals characters who are injured, though she is too
afraid to leave the village herself. Selenar Woodwise. Selenar (Medium Noble) was among the elf warriors in Death-at-Sunsetâs lair when the ancient green dragon died, and he is erroneously convinced
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurerâs Guide
company, including the names and reputations of its commanders and leaders, and who has hired them recently. You can find the taverns and festhalls where mercenaries abide in any area, as long as you
speak the language. You can find mercenary work between adventures sufficient to maintain a comfortable lifestyle (see âPracticing a Professionâ under âDowntime Activitiesâ in chapter 8 of the Playerâs Handbook).
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Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide
determine your inheritance from among the possibilities in the table below. Work with your Dungeon Master to come up with details: Why is your inheritance so important, and what is its full story? You might
with me to pursue my destiny.
d6
Flaw
1
The tyrant who rules my land will stop at nothing to see me killed.
2
Iâm convinced of the significance of my destiny, and
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.]
3
Iâm as stubborn as a batterboar.
4
Iâm so convinced of my superiority over soft, civilized people that Iâll take great risks to prove it.
5
Iâm easily
work in a raid, but seems to think that Iâm not like other Gruul.
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I foolishly borrowed money from an Orzhov syndic to indulge a shameful vice.
8
A close friend left our clan and
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Baldurâs Gate: Descent into Avernus
work to ensure that this individual never crosses paths with me or those I care about.
2
I owe everything to my mentorâa horrible person whoâs probably rotting in jail somewhere
gains on decadent luxuries faster than I bring them in...
3
Iâm convinced that no one could ever fool me the way I fool others.
4
Iâm too greedy for my own good. I canât
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Divine Contention
House of Thalivar This wizardâs tower has been recently rebuilt as a garrison for the Neverwinter soldiery. Gallio Elibro is a brooding middle-aged male Rashemi human with the mage statistics (except
ruin, which he decrypted. He has now rebuilt the towerâs planar beacon and is using it to study the creatures of the Ethereal Plane. Gallio does not talk much about his work with adventurers but is willing to cast spells in exchange for gold. The mage casts the legend lore spell for 400 gp.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Xanathar's Guide to Everything
, divine spellcasting ability, and a few hundred common folk recently converted to the templeâs cause. Plans. Cheldar is stern but fundamentally a good person. He tries to win support by providing
charity, promoting peace, and working to enforce law and order. He is skeptical of the characters, however, convinced that they are troublemakers who will undermine the peace. He wants only officials of the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
the party must convince the loggers to relocate before their work touches off a conflict with the Gatekeepers. 4 Working with an agent of the Chamber, the Gatekeepers are convinced the actions of the