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Mythic Odysseys of Theros
called stratians, number among the fiercest soldiers on Theros. They train relentlessly and possess unflinching resolve. In the annals of Akros, tales abound of squads of stratians that defended a
win victories.
The three Hoplite Unit Names tables present the sorts of titles used by hoplite contingents hailing from Theros's great poleis. Consider using these names for military forces
Shifter
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Eberron: Rising from the Last War
Geth’s ancient heritage rose up from deep within him, spreading out from the core of his being. Some shifters manifested terrible claws, others massive fangs, still others astounding speed or
to friends and kin, shifters place great value on self-reliance and freedom. It’s a shifter proverb to “always be prepared for the journey yet to come,” and most shifters strive to be
Goliath
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Elemental Evil Player's Companion
At the highest mountain peaks — far above the slopes where trees grow and where the air is thin and the frigid winds howl — dwell the reclusive goliaths. Few folk can claim to have seen a
goliath, and fewer still can claim friendship with them. Goliaths wander a bleak realm of rock, wind, and cold. Their bodies look as if they are carved from mountain stone and give them great
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
a constant battle against deep gnome miners, who scour the tunnels of the dragon’s lair in search of emeralds.
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An adult silver dragon tries to befriend and draw out a reclusive adult
features:
Lava Tubes. When the volcano is quiet, the dragon uses the lava tubes to come and go from the lair.
Great Hall. The emerald dragon resides in a grand rectangular hall near the center of the
Backgrounds
Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus
to and from your contact, even over great distances; specifically, you know the local messengers, corrupt caravan masters, and seedy sailors who can deliver messages for you.
BALDUR’S GATE
Characteristics
Criminals might seem like villains on the surface, and many of them are villainous to the core. But some have an abundance of endearing, if not redeeming, characteristics. There might be honor
Centaur
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Monsters
Basic Rules (2014)
body of a great horse topped by a humanoid torso, head, and arms. Reclusive wanderers, they avoid conflict but fight fiercely when pressed.
Criminal / Spy
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Basic Rules (2014)
CONTACT
You have a reliable and trustworthy contact who acts as your liaison to a network of other criminals. You know how to get messages to and from your contact, even over great distances
sold the secrets you uncovered to the highest bidder.
Suggested Characteristics
Criminals might seem like villains on the surface, and many of them are villainous to the core. But some have an
Bugbear
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Volo's Guide to Monsters
; Elminster
Bugbears feature in the nightmare tales of many races — great, hairy beasts that creep through the shadows as quiet as cats. If you walk alone in the woods, a bugbear will reach out
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Shiftless, Savage Layabouts
When they’re not in battle, bugbears spend much of their time resting or dozing. They don’t engage in crafting or agriculture to any great extent, or
Orc
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Volo's Guide to Monsters
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 Nishrek
strongholds, and then decorated with uniquely orcish accessories.
A war wagon is a source of great pride for a war chief, comparable to a human army’s banner or flag. Many are clad in armor and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
lord’s keep. We’ve got those, and lots of ’em. But the foundation of the city is the core towers. The walls of these towers are so thick you could fit your lord’s castle in one.
You’ve got your outside
districts where you get the open air, built on the bridges and platforms that connect the core towers together. You’ve got the little turrets, built on the core tower walls and the bridges between
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
It’s Your World In creating your campaign world, it helps to start with the core assumptions and consider how your setting might change them. The subsequent sections of this chapter address each
, but they’re not the only set of assumptions that can do so. You can build an interesting campaign concept by altering one or more of those core assumptions, just as well-established D&D worlds have done
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
Yeonido Gazetteer The people of Yeonido, the City of Judgment, pride themselves on upholding tradition. Thousands of years ago, the great dragon Mireu entrusted the founders of the city-state with a
mandate to forge and lead a great civilization. Yeonido’s people took the dragon’s words to heart, establishing a reverence for fealty and order that has remained steadfast through the centuries. Two
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Sigil and the Outlands
that creature from entering or leaving, but she reserves this intervention for extreme circumstances. During times of great strife, notably when Sigil’s factions war openly against one another, the
Lady can cause all the city’s portals to cease functioning. This grinds the city to a halt; food and drink can’t enter the city, sewage and refuse pool in the streets, and corpses stack in the Mortuary with no hope of being interred. This compels the factions to quickly resolve their conflicts.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
the frigid winds howl — dwell the reclusive goliaths. Few folk can claim to have seen a goliath, and fewer still can claim friendship with one. Goliaths wander a bleak realm of rock, wind, and cold
. Their bodies look as if they are carved from mountain stone and give them great physical power. Their spirits take after the wandering wind, making them nomads who wander from peak to peak. Their
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
Competition for a Hoard Shadowy cults, reclusive scholars, rival adventurers, and mysterious organizations might seek out a dragon’s hoard, either trying to claim it from a dragon or trying to
dragon’s hoard to perform some great ritual. The Hoard Magic table suggests some possibilities. Hoard Magic d6 Magical Motivation
1 Create a permanent protective ward covering a city-state or
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
Chapter 10: Hold of the Storm Giants Before the dissolution of the ordning, the influence of the storm giants was so great that lesser giants were compelled to abide by their decrees. The storm
giants, reclusive by nature, did their best to discourage lesser giants from destroying the civilizations of the small folk. The death of Queen Neri and the disappearance of King Hekaton have left
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Hoard of the Dragon Queen
back to the days when giants and dragons fought great wars. The binding kept dragons from taking these castles for their own, and the bond still holds centuries later. The cult has struck a bargain with
strong and impenetrable as granite, thanks to ancient cloud giant wizardry. Towers and walls surround an iceberg core that’s been hollowed out to serve as the lair of a powerful white dragon allied with
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
reflects the structure of dramatic stories. At the beginning of a story, something happens to shake the protagonists’ world and spur them into action. The characters take action to resolve their
adventure hooks and affect the characters’ lives directly. In the middle, they make great turning points as the characters’ fortunes reverse — rising after a defeat or falling after a victory. Near the end
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Xanathar's Guide to Everything
die and the new spring forth. 2 Oak trees represent strength and vitality. Meditating under an oak fills your body and mind with resolve and fortitude. 3 The river’s endless flow reminds you of the
great span of the world. You seek to act with the long-term interests of nature in mind. 4 The sea is a constant, churning cauldron of power and chaos. It reminds you that accepting change is necessary
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
Time in the Campaign Most conflicts in a D&D campaign take weeks or months of in-world time to resolve. A typical campaign concludes within a year of in-world time unless you allow the characters to
certain times of year make for great adventure opportunities. Perhaps a ghostly castle appears on a certain hill on the winter solstice every year, or every thirteenth full moon is blood red and fills
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tyranny of Dragons
to the days when giants and dragons fought great wars. The binding kept dragons from taking these castles for their own, and the bond still holds centuries later. The cult has struck a bargain with
strong and impenetrable as granite, thanks to ancient cloud giant wizardry. Towers and walls surround an iceberg core that’s been hollowed out to serve as the lair of a powerful white dragon allied with
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron
keep. We’ve got those, and lots of ‘em. But the foundation of the city is the core towers. The walls of these towers are so thick, you could fit your lord’s entire castle in one.
You’ve got your
outside districts where you get the open air, built on the bridges and platforms that connect the core towers together. You’ve got the little turrets, built on the core tower walls and the bridges
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
cavern, called the Great Dismal Delve or the Sevenfold Mazework, is home to the City of Jewels—the capital city of the dao. The dao take great pride in their wealth and send teams across the plane in
Para-elemental Plane of Magma. Lava seeps through their caverns, and the air reeks of sulfur. The dao have great forges and smelting furnaces here to process ores and shape precious metals. Mud Hills
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
clear why you make a great addition to any franchise. Cavalier An Acquisitions Incorporated franchise is a heady mix of adventuring and business, and both those pursuits require travel. Who better to
Fighter? Wizard? Why not both?! If a franchise’s recruiting efforts result in a party lacking either fighting or magical ability — or, Tymora forbid, both — you make a great addition to the team as an
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen
groups eke out lives in ruins or harsh lands as reclusive survivalists. As a hill dwarf, you might come from lands near the great mountain dwarf nations or from a diverse town far away. Or perhaps you come from everywhere, having been raised in a traveling community that’s seen most corners of Ansalon.
Dwarves While known for their great subterranean nations, dwarves have long traded and traveled among the peoples of Krynn’s surface. The Cataclysm devastated many dwarven lands and destroyed some of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
, appearing as a great fireball blazing through the night sky. Characters who investigate this celestial event find mind flayers skirmishing with githyanki warriors and a githyanki knight amid the wreckage
built the circle. She demands tribute in the form of magical metal treasure to allow the characters to access the circle. She also accepts a fragment from the core of a supposedly inert runic colossus (see chapter 6).
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron
bonds and wreak havoc, and we must always be vigilant.
Civilizations rose and fell. The giants of Xen’drik worked great magics, even destroying one of the moons. This rash action led the reclusive
conflict with the vile daelkyr. These flesh-warping lords of madness were eventually trapped in Khyber by wise orcish druids, but ruins are all that remain of that great empire.
Modern civilization
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
. But it was the Great Forge that was the burning heart and true treasure of the city. Deep beneath the settled levels of Gauntlgrym, dwarven crafting and elven magic bound the slumbering primordial
Maegera, a being of fire and destruction, harnessing its incredible powers to heat the forge. On anvils of adamantine blessed by priests of Moradin, great items of power were forged, their base
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
Core Assumptions The rules of the game are based on the following core assumptions about the game world. Gods Oversee the World. The gods are real and embody a variety of beliefs, with each god
know the area they live in well. They’ve heard stories of other places from merchants and travelers, but few know what lies beyond the mountains or in the depths of the great forest unless they’ve
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragon of Icespire Peak
Location Overview The reclusive anchorites of the Circle of Thunder gather on this hill to make sacrifices to Talos the storm god. In stormy weather, the anchorites also perform rituals to summon
dug out of the hillside. When the characters arrive, the anchorites are gathered on the hilltop. If Gorthok has not been defeated yet, the anchorites are in the midst of summoning the great boar
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
Plane of Earth Earth symbolizes stability, rigidity, stern resolve, and tradition. The plane’s position opposite the Plane of Air in the ring of the Elemental Planes reflects its opposition to
highest mountains. Most visitors to the plane arrive by way of caves and caverns that honeycomb the mountains. The largest cavern beneath the mountains, called the Great Dismal Delve or the Sevenfold
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
Dungeons Some dungeons are old strongholds abandoned by the folk who built them. Others are natural caves or lairs carved out by monsters. Dungeons attract cults, groups of monsters, and reclusive
were hunted by monsters 16–18 Built as a stronghold but abandoned after it fell to invaders 19–21 Built as a treasure vault to protect powerful magic items and great wealth 22–23 Built atop a cloud 24–26
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
agent of the Sunweaver—deemed service in the Brightguard a holy calling, the group’s ranks swelled. Most members have unshakable resolve, but recent revolutionary acts have the order on edge. The
, preserve the city.” Beliefs. Atash has cost this once-great city-state its splendor. Goals. Remove Atash and remake the city. Character Role. After the Brightguard initially sets the characters on the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
. An adventure typically hinges on the successful completion of a quest, and can be as short as a single game session. Longer adventures might embroil players in great conflicts that require multiple
game sessions to resolve. When strung together, these adventures form an ongoing campaign. A D&D campaign can include dozens of adventures and last for months or years. A Dungeon Master gets to wear
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
Chapter 1: A Great Upheaval This chapter is designed to advance a party of 1st-level characters to 5th level. The characters gain levels by accomplishing various goals, which are summarized in the
northern neighbors, the elves of the Ardeep Forest. Lady Velrosa Nandar has been searching for skilled mediators to help resolve the dispute. The Nightstone Inn is renowned for its food and cozy guest