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Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus
underbelly of civilization, and you have survived up to this point by flouting the rules and regulations of society.
Skill Proficiencies: Deception, Stealth
Tool Proficiencies: One
among thieves, but criminals rarely show any respect for law or authority.
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Personality Trait
1
I always have a plan for what to do when things go wrong.
2
I am always calm, no
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Backgrounds
Basic Rules (2014)
than most people to the world of murder, theft, and violence that pervades the underbelly of civilization, and you have survived up to this point by flouting the rules and regulations of society
always have a plan for what to do when things go wrong.
2
I am always calm, no matter what the situation. I never raise my voice or let my emotions control me.
3
The first thing I do in a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
populace possesses dark hair and varied skin tones with cool undertones. Names often take inspiration from German, Slavic, and more fantastical conventions. When players create characters from Borca
loom in your future?
Whom have you hurt? In your family’s struggles, your attempts to get ahead, or your desire to impress an acquaintance, you’ve done someone a significant wrong. What was it? Why did you do it? Do you regret it?
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
populace possesses dark hair and varied skin tones with cool undertones. Names often take inspiration from German, Slavic, and more fantastical conventions. When players create characters from Borca
loom in your future?
Whom have you hurt? In your family’s struggles, your attempts to get ahead, or your desire to impress an acquaintance, you’ve done someone a significant wrong. What was it? Why did you do it? Do you regret it?
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
you with cool things you can do in your games. You can use these questions to help you reflect on a game you observe: Beginning the Session. How did the DM start the session? Was there a recap? Body
unexpected direction? How did the DM handle it? Rules Adjudication. To what extent did the DM lean on the rules to adjudicate outcomes? Did the DM adjudicate situations wisely or in ways that made the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules
you with cool things you can do in your games. You can use these questions to help you reflect on a game you observe: Beginning the Session. How did the DM start the session? Was there a recap? Body
unexpected direction? How did the DM handle it? Rules Adjudication. To what extent did the DM lean on the rules to adjudicate outcomes? Did the DM adjudicate situations wisely or in ways that made the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
appearance leads many to underestimate her. Ivana rules her family’s business and political empire brilliantly. Despite this, she is endlessly doubted and second guessed. Many believe she is a typical, vacant
and ambition, and she is ever disappointed. Maintaining her family’s vast array of social expectations is especially tedious. Ivana never found her father’s will and knows that should it fall into the wrong hands, her depraved cousin Ivan could claim all she’s earned. She’ll do anything to prevent this.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
bronze dragon spouting water into an ornate stone basin.
The fountains are fed by an underground spring and flow with clean, cool water. The living inhabitants of Vanrakdoom depend on this water for
object that weighs 500 pounds. Arch Gate The arch is one of Halaster’s gates (see “Gates”). Its rules are as follows: The gate opens for 1 minute when a real or illusory dragon touches the arch. An
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules
you with cool things you can do in your games. You can use these questions to help you reflect on a game you observe: Beginning the Session. How did the DM start the session? Was there a recap? Body
unexpected direction? How did the DM handle it? Rules Adjudication. To what extent did the DM lean on the rules to adjudicate outcomes? Did the DM adjudicate situations wisely or in ways that made the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
appearance leads many to underestimate her. Ivana rules her family’s business and political empire brilliantly. Despite this, she is endlessly doubted and second guessed. Many believe she is a typical, vacant
and ambition, and she is ever disappointed. Maintaining her family’s vast array of social expectations is especially tedious. Ivana never found her father’s will and knows that should it fall into the wrong hands, her depraved cousin Ivan could claim all she’s earned. She’ll do anything to prevent this.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
monsters, and more than its share of otherworldly phenomena. Traveling across the desert by day is not recommended. Use the extreme heat rules in the Dungeon Master’s Guide for daytime travel in Anauroch
. Traveling in the cool of the night is the best way to journey across the desert, but explorers should beware of nocturnal creatures hunting for prey. The Bedine travel mostly by night, along the ancient
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
you with cool things you can do in your games. You can use these questions to help you reflect on a game you observe: Beginning the Session. How did the DM start the session? Was there a recap? Body
unexpected direction? How did the DM handle it? Rules Adjudication. To what extent did the DM lean on the rules to adjudicate outcomes? Did the DM adjudicate situations wisely or in ways that made the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
bronze dragon spouting water into an ornate stone basin.
The fountains are fed by an underground spring and flow with clean, cool water. The living inhabitants of Vanrakdoom depend on this water for
object that weighs 500 pounds. Arch Gate The arch is one of Halaster’s gates (see “Gates”). Its rules are as follows: The gate opens for 1 minute when a real or illusory dragon touches the arch. An
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
monsters, and more than its share of otherworldly phenomena. Traveling across the desert by day is not recommended. Use the extreme heat rules in the Dungeon Master’s Guide for daytime travel in Anauroch
. Traveling in the cool of the night is the best way to journey across the desert, but explorers should beware of nocturnal creatures hunting for prey. The Bedine travel mostly by night, along the ancient
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Book of Many Things
, right spot? An orb turns red!
Right card, wrong spot? Blue instead.
Ten guesses, no tricks, good luck to you.
Guess it right in six or less,
Win an extra prize, woohoo!
Diagram 4.2: Unseen
riddle, the ghost can explain the rules more clearly: Objective. The characters must guess which cards are in the ghost’s hand and in what order. Rules. To make their first guess, the characters must
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Book of Many Things
, right spot? An orb turns red!
Right card, wrong spot? Blue instead.
Ten guesses, no tricks, good luck to you.
Guess it right in six or less,
Win an extra prize, woohoo!
Diagram 4.2: Unseen
riddle, the ghost can explain the rules more clearly: Objective. The characters must guess which cards are in the ghost’s hand and in what order. Rules. To make their first guess, the characters must
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
pounds. The rules of this gate are as follows: Only one piece of the arch can be removed at any given time. A detect magic spell reveals that one of the pieces (determined randomly) is magical. When that
becomes magical and must be removed to reopen the gate. If a wrong piece is removed from the arch, an adult white dragon magically appears in an unoccupied space within 60 feet of the arch and attacks
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
rules (discussed in part 3), and the type of game you want to run. Describe to the players how you envision the game experience and let them give you input. The game is theirs, too. Lay that groundwork
opponents and occasionally meet clearly good and helpful NPCs. Don’t expect the adventurers to anguish over what to do with prisoners, or to debate whether it’s right or wrong to invade and wipe out a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
pounds. The rules of this gate are as follows: Only one piece of the arch can be removed at any given time. A detect magic spell reveals that one of the pieces (determined randomly) is magical. When that
becomes magical and must be removed to reopen the gate. If a wrong piece is removed from the arch, an adult white dragon magically appears in an unoccupied space within 60 feet of the arch and attacks
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
rules (discussed in part 3), and the type of game you want to run. Describe to the players how you envision the game experience and let them give you input. The game is theirs, too. Lay that groundwork
opponents and occasionally meet clearly good and helpful NPCs. Don’t expect the adventurers to anguish over what to do with prisoners, or to debate whether it’s right or wrong to invade and wipe out a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
in the legal code of Waterdeep, but guilds are mentioned in the oldest surviving legal documents — penned by Ahghairon himself — and the rules of Guild Law are respected by wise city folk. Guilds
addition, many guilds have their own codes of accusation, trial, and punishment, such as: A member of the Bakers’ Guild who sells bread baked in the wrong shape will be drenched with water and coated in his
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
in the legal code of Waterdeep, but guilds are mentioned in the oldest surviving legal documents — penned by Ahghairon himself — and the rules of Guild Law are respected by wise city folk. Guilds
addition, many guilds have their own codes of accusation, trial, and punishment, such as: A member of the Bakers’ Guild who sells bread baked in the wrong shape will be drenched with water and coated in his
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
. Life goes much more smoothly when you follow the rules and work within a system. (Lawful)
3 Uncertainty. The more chaos that swirls around me, the more opportunities I can find to profit. (Chaotic
goes wrong, it must be someone else’s fault. Let me explain that in detail.
5 There’s right and there’s wrong, and there’s no gray area in between.
6 Our superiors might not like what you’re doing. I’m going to have to put that in my report.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
looks and feels. There is no wrong way to approach the process. Headquarters customization is deliberately open-ended to allow for creativity. This might create some work for you as the DM, since you
adjudicate the characters’ customization choices. A good rule of thumb is to allow the players full creative freedom while sticking to the mechanics (however loose) presented by the rules in chapter
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
. Life goes much more smoothly when you follow the rules and work within a system. (Lawful)
3 Uncertainty. The more chaos that swirls around me, the more opportunities I can find to profit. (Chaotic
goes wrong, it must be someone else’s fault. Let me explain that in detail.
5 There’s right and there’s wrong, and there’s no gray area in between.
6 Our superiors might not like what you’re doing. I’m going to have to put that in my report.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
frightening member of the Daughters of Sora Kell!
When I could set aside my sheer terror, I was learning a great deal about this strange nation. The Daughters invested power in warlords, each of whom rules a
caravan was being protected by gnolls. Not protected from gnolls, protected by gnolls. I thought things couldn’t get any stranger. I couldn’t have been more wrong. …
Capital: The Great Crag Hallmarks
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
Curses Alexandre Honoré The curse of demonic possession
has devastating effects Every curse has rules that govern it. A curse typically takes one of the forms detailed below. Bestow Curse The
discussed in this section. A creature affected by such a curse should know why they’re being punished and be able to learn how to end their curse, likely by symbolically righting the wrong they
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
looks and feels. There is no wrong way to approach the process. Headquarters customization is deliberately open-ended to allow for creativity. This might create some work for you as the DM, since you
adjudicate the characters’ customization choices. A good rule of thumb is to allow the players full creative freedom while sticking to the mechanics (however loose) presented by the rules in chapter
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
Curses Alexandre Honoré The curse of demonic possession
has devastating effects Every curse has rules that govern it. A curse typically takes one of the forms detailed below. Bestow Curse The
discussed in this section. A creature affected by such a curse should know why they’re being punished and be able to learn how to end their curse, likely by symbolically righting the wrong they
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules
Curses Every curse has rules that govern it. A curse typically takes one of the forms detailed below. Bestow Curse The simplest curses are created by the Bestow Curse spell. The effects of such
know why they’re being punished and be able to learn how to end their curse, likely by symbolically righting the wrong they committed. How a spell like Remove Curse affects a curse that’s part of your
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules
Curses Every curse has rules that govern it. A curse typically takes one of the forms detailed below. Bestow Curse The simplest curses are created by the Bestow Curse spell. The effects of such
know why they’re being punished and be able to learn how to end their curse, likely by symbolically righting the wrong they committed. How a spell like Remove Curse affects a curse that’s part of your
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
is one of Halaster’s gates (see “Gates”). It is composed of one hundred stone jigsaw pieces, each weighing 10 pounds. The rules of this gate are as follows: Only one piece of the arch can be removed at
the gate closes, the piece removed from the arch magically reappears in its proper place, and a different piece becomes magical and must be removed to reopen the gate. If a wrong piece is removed from
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
is one of Halaster’s gates (see “Gates”). It is composed of one hundred stone jigsaw pieces, each weighing 10 pounds. The rules of this gate are as follows: Only one piece of the arch can be removed at
the gate closes, the piece removed from the arch magically reappears in its proper place, and a different piece becomes magical and must be removed to reopen the gate. If a wrong piece is removed from
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
frightening member of the Daughters of Sora Kell!
When I could set aside my sheer terror, I was learning a great deal about this strange nation. The Daughters invested power in warlords, each of whom rules a
caravan was being protected by gnolls. Not protected from gnolls, protected by gnolls. I thought things couldn’t get any stranger. I couldn’t have been more wrong. …
Capital: The Great Crag Hallmarks
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
nutshell — using the connections of your pact to sell your skills, your services, and your legend. The right people need to hear about you, and the wrong people need to be completely unaware of your
your bag of holding with the sweetest loot. Cool Mottos d6 Motto
1 “I don’t break even; I get even.”
2 “I’m the prophet of profit, and I’ve got a prediction for success.”
3