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                                                     Monsters
                                                    Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                     consort is assured for long, though; Lolth’s priestesses are notoriously fickle, and a consort must often contend with rivals.
Some favored consorts work behind the scenes to undermine the evils
                                                
                                            
                                        
                                                     Monsters
                                                    Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                     sometimes ill-tempered and territorial, brackish trudges are usually content to mind their own business. When trudges are roused to defend themselves or drive off rivals, their punishing tusks laced
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     with deadly fungus spores can make short work of the unwary. Trudges are also notoriously difficult to slay; the energies of life and death within them allow them to survive harrowing injuries.Fire
                                                
                                            
                                        
                                                     Monsters
                                                    Acquisitions Incorporated
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                    . But as the point goblin for the group known as the Six (see “Factions and Rivals” in chapter 3), he’s made vengeance against Acq Inc and Omin Dran his life’s work. And then the work of his next life. And the one after that.
                                                
                                            
                                        
                                                     Monsters
                                                    Candlekeep Mysteries
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                     with her.Three Green Hag (Coven Variant);green hags named Dread Morgan, Vile Sazha, and Auntie Greenbones were once rivals who dwelled in an area of the Feywild coterminous with the High Forest. A
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                    . The covetous hags each knew part of a ritual for crafting magic paintings that could bind mortal creatures with a terrible curse. After agreeing to share their knowledge and work together, they
                                                
                                            
                                        
                                                     Monsters
                                                    Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                    ;t 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 work—those are the words I
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     wyrmling has befriended a white dragon wyrmling. The wyrmlings’ parents, who are ancient rivals, regard the relationship with concern.
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A crystal dragon wyrmling encourages nearby farmers to
                                                
                                            
                                        
                                                     Monsters
                                                    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 purge—or recruit agents to do it for them.
Emerald
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     adventurers in the hopes of pitting them against fire giant rivals.
Hoarded Histories
Emerald dragons prize knowledge, particularly local histories that focus on magical events and individuals
                                                
                                            
                                        
                                                     Monsters
                                                    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 purge—or recruit agents to do it for them
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     experienced adventurers in the hopes of pitting them against fire giant rivals.
Hoarded Histories
Emerald dragons prize knowledge, particularly local histories that focus on magical events and
                                                
                                            
                                        
                                                     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 purge—or recruit agents to do it for them.
Emerald dragons&rsquo
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     adventurers in the hopes of pitting them against fire giant rivals.
Hoarded Histories
Emerald dragons prize knowledge, particularly local histories that focus on magical events and individuals. They usually
                                                
                                            
                                        
                                                     Monsters
                                                    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
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     of pitting them against fire giant rivals.
Hoarded Histories
Emerald dragons prize knowledge, particularly local histories that focus on magical events and individuals. They usually know of places
                                                
                                            
                                        
                                                     Backgrounds
                                                    Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                    ;papers, and a purse containing 20 gp.
Role
You are always gathering information for your house. But when the barons come to you with a specific mission, what sort of work do you usually do? Choose
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     enclave. When the house assigns you a mission, it will usually provide you with the necessary supplies and transportation. Beyond this, you have many old friends, mentors, and rivals in your house, and
                                                
                                            
                                        
                                                     Backgrounds
                                                    Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                    , and a purse containing 20 gp.
Role
You are always gathering information for your house. But when the barons come to you with a specific mission, what sort of work do you usually do? Choose your
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                    . When the house assigns you a mission, it will usually provide you with the necessary supplies and transportation. Beyond this, you have many old friends, mentors, and rivals in your house, and you
                                                
                                            
                                        
                                                     Backgrounds
                                                    Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                    , and a purse containing 20 gp.
Role
You are always gathering information for your house. But when the barons come to you with a specific mission, what sort of work do you usually do? Choose your role
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                    . When the house assigns you a mission, it will usually provide you with the necessary supplies and transportation. Beyond this, you have many old friends, mentors, and rivals in your house, and you may
                                                
                                            
                                        
                                                     Backgrounds
                                                    Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                     containing 20 gp.
Role
You are always gathering information for your house. But when the barons come to you with a specific mission, what sort of work do you usually do? Choose your role or roll on
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     house assigns you a mission, it will usually provide you with the necessary supplies and transportation. Beyond this, you have many old friends, mentors, and rivals in your house, and you may encounter
                                                
                                            
                                        
                                                     Backgrounds
                                                    Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                     those who can’t appreciate fine art.
3
I always want to know how things work and what makes people tick.
4
I’m full of witty aphorisms and have a proverb for every occasion
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                    .
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I’m rude to people who lack my commitment to hard work and fair play.
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I like to talk at length about my profession.
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I don’t part with my money easily and will haggle
                                                
                                            
                                        
                                                     Backgrounds
                                                    Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                     a purse containing 20 gp.
Role
You are always gathering information for your house. But when the barons come to you with a specific mission, what sort of work do you usually do? Choose your role or
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     the house assigns you a mission, it will usually provide you with the necessary supplies and transportation. Beyond this, you have many old friends, mentors, and rivals in your house, and you may
                                                
                                            
                                        
                                                     Backgrounds
                                                    Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                     you, or else to the work that you produce. Your ideal might have to do with maintaining the high quality of your work or preserving the dwarven traditions of craftsmanship.
 
Guild Artisan
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     can’t appreciate fine art.
3
I always want to know how things work and what makes people tick.
4
I’m full of witty aphorisms and have a proverb for every occasion.
5
I
                                                
                                            
                                        
                                                     Backgrounds
                                                    Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                     purse containing 20 gp.
Role
You are always gathering information for your house. But when the barons come to you with a specific mission, what sort of work do you usually do? Choose your role or roll
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     house assigns you a mission, it will usually provide you with the necessary supplies and transportation. Beyond this, you have many old friends, mentors, and rivals in your house, and you may
                                                
                                            
                                        
                                                     Backgrounds
                                                    Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                    ;papers, and a purse containing 20 gp.
Role
You are always gathering information for your house. But when the barons come to you with a specific mission, what sort of work do you usually do? Choose
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     enclave. When the house assigns you a mission, it will usually provide you with the necessary supplies and transportation. Beyond this, you have many old friends, mentors, and rivals in your house, and
                                                
                                            
                                        
                                                     Backgrounds
                                                    Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                     purse containing 20 gp.
Role
You are always gathering information for your house. But when the barons come to you with a specific mission, what sort of work do you usually do? Choose your role or
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     the house assigns you a mission, it will usually provide you with the necessary supplies and transportation. Beyond this, you have many old friends, mentors, and rivals in your house, and you may
                                                
                                            
                                        
                                                     Backgrounds
                                                    Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                    ;papers, and a purse containing 20 gp.
Role
You are always gathering information for your house. But when the barons come to you with a specific mission, what sort of work do you usually do? Choose
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     enclave. When the house assigns you a mission, it will usually provide you with the necessary supplies and transportation. Beyond this, you have many old friends, mentors, and rivals in your house
                                                
                                            
                                        
                                                     Compendium
                                                    
                                                    
                                                         - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Xanathar's Guide to Everything
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                     good are all examples of rivals. A rival’s 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.
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                    Rivals Rivals are NPCs who oppose the characters and make their presence felt whenever the characters are engaging in downtime. A rival might be a villain you have featured in past adventures or plan
                                                
                                            
                                        
                                                     Backgrounds
                                                    Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                    ;papers, and a purse containing 20 gp.
Role
You are always gathering information for your house. But when the barons come to you with a specific mission, what sort of work do you usually do? Choose
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     enclave. When the house assigns you a mission, it will usually provide you with the necessary supplies and transportation. Beyond this, you have many old friends, mentors, and rivals in your house, and
                                                
                                            
                                        
                                                     Backgrounds
                                                    Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                    , and a purse containing 20 gp.
Role
You are always gathering information for your house. But when the barons come to you with a specific mission, what sort of work do you usually do? Choose your
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                    . When the house assigns you a mission, it will usually provide you with the necessary supplies and transportation. Beyond this, you have many old friends, mentors, and rivals in your house, and you
                                                
                                            
                                        
                                                     Backgrounds
                                                    Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                     purse containing 20 gp.
Role
You are always gathering information for your house. But when the barons come to you with a specific mission, what sort of work do you usually do? Choose your role or roll
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     house assigns you a mission, it will usually provide you with the necessary supplies and transportation. Beyond this, you have many old friends, mentors, and rivals in your house, and you may
                                                
                                            
                                        
                                                     Backgrounds
                                                    Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                     a purse containing 20 gp.
Role
You are always gathering information for your house. But when the barons come to you with a specific mission, what sort of work do you usually do? Choose your role or
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     the house assigns you a mission, it will usually provide you with the necessary supplies and transportation. Beyond this, you have many old friends, mentors, and rivals in your house, and you may
                                                
                                            
                                        
                                                     Compendium
                                                    
                                                    
                                                         - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                    Factions and Rivals Other books detail the many power groups and factions that operate in Faerûn and the Sword Coast (including the Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide). But a number of new factions and
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                    . Typically, they don’t. But we don’t work for them, we work for you™. We’ve acquired it all, but we specialize in staffs, gems, and storied weapons of great lineage. We do apply a reasonable surtax for
                                                
                                            
                                        
                                                     Compendium
                                                    
                                                    
                                                         - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                    , a survivor of the disaster reports being attacked by a creature thought to be long extinct. The characters must aid in rescuing the miners, but to do so they’ll have to work alongside the rivals
                                                
                                            
                                        
                                                     Compendium
                                                    
                                                    
                                                         - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                     printed page. Depending on the editor, you might not even recognize the stories when they’re printed, and your editor’s personality and goals can have a tremendous impact on your work for the paper
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     high standards but rewards you well when you reach them 2 A wealthy newspaper owner who demands the paper use your work even though the editor doesn’t want to 3 An ambitious junior editor who hopes that
                                                
                                            
                                        
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                                                     Species
                                                    Volo's Guide to Monsters
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                     strong social structure that stresses devotion to the tribe, are clever with their hands, and viciously work together in order to overcome their physical limitations.
In the kobolds’ version of
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     races have little good to say about kobolds, but they do admit that the little reptilians do respectable tunnel work using simple tools. If a band of kobolds is enslaved by more powerful creatures
                                                
                                            
                                        
                                                     Compendium
                                                    
                                                    
                                                         - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                    Complications and Rivals The franchise and downtime activities introduced in this section all incorporate the idea that such activities can introduce ongoing complications to the campaign, and that
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     anything a franchise’s characters or employees do might bring the franchise into conflict with rivals. If you use Xanathar’s Guide to Everything in your games, you’re probably already familiar with
                                                
                                            
                                        
                                                     Compendium
                                                    
                                                    
                                                         - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                      The party is forced to work with an evil being, one from the Darkon Rivals table or another Darklord. 
   5  The dead of Darkon wish to aid the characters, flocking to them in a growing legion
                                                
                                            
                                        
                                                     Backgrounds
                                                    Guildmasters’ Guide to Ravnica
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                    As a member of the Boros Legion, your life is devoted to the service of angels and consecrated to the work of establishing justice and peace on the streets of Ravnica. You might be a true believer
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     the more warfare-oriented aspects of the legion’s work.
Personality Traits
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Personality Trait
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I approach every task with the same high degree of military precision
                                                
                                            
                                        
                                                     Compendium
                                                    
                                                    
                                                         - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                     how quickly the year passes and work with your players to decide what else they get up to. You can conduct roleplaying scenes with the characters’ fellow students, taking into account their Friends
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                    , Rivals, and Beloveds. You might also narratively describe developments in their courses to help the academic year feel varied and robust. Finally, as the characters are completing tasks together for
                                                
                                            
                                        
                                                     Compendium
                                                    
                                                    
                                                         - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                     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 together, with emerald dragons
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     conflict with fire giants. Despite their reluctance to reveal themselves to strangers, emerald dragons might approach experienced adventurers in the hopes of pitting them against fire giant rivals.
                                                
                                            
                                        
                                                     Compendium
                                                    
                                                    
                                                         - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Radiant Citadel
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                     open plazas, and plentiful work is available here for talented adventurers. The Speakers for the Ancestors—the leaders of the Radiant Citadel—employ freelancers from the Court of Whispers to keep track
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     identify crisis points where their operatives are needed. Even common citizens might hire folk from the Court to find missing loved ones, locate lost family treasures, or gather information on rivals
                                                
                                            
                                        






