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Creating Encounters

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)

Creating Encounters Encounters are the individual scenes in the larger story of your adventure. First and foremost, an encounter should be fun for the players. Second, it shouldn’t be burden for you

Creating Religions

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide

Creating Religions A list of gods is a good starting point, and it can be sufficient to get a campaign started. But you can add more depth to your campaign world by fleshing out more details of

religious belief and practice. Myths Stories about the gods explore their relationships with each other, with the natural world, and with the realm of mortals. Myths might describe familial relationships

Creating Factions

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)

Creating Factions Factions and organizations that you create for your campaign should grow out of the stories that are important to the world. Create organizations that your players will want to

interact with, whether as allies, members, or enemies. As a starting point, decide what role you want an organization to play in the world. What is it all about? What are its goals? Who founded it and why

Creating Your Character

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules

Creating Your Character Creating a higher-level character uses the same character-creation steps outlined in this chapter and the rules for advancing beyond level 1 provided in the “Level Advancement

Chapter 5: Creating Campaigns

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide

Chapter 5: Creating Campaigns Noor Rahman The arrival of a mind flayer nautiloid means trouble for any world—and adventure for that world’s heroes! If encounters are the building blocks of a D&D

adventure, then adventures are the building blocks of a D&D campaign, for a campaign is what you get when you string two or more adventures together. A campaign setting is the world in which those

Chapter 4: Creating Adventures

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide

Chapter 4: Creating Adventures David Auden Nash A mysterious carriage brings the vampire Strahd von Zarovich out from Castle Ravenloft Whether you’re creating your own adventures or using published

ones, this chapter helps you create fun and memorable experiences for your players. Creating an adventure involves blending scenes of exploration, social interaction, and combat into a unified whole

Creating a Background

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)

Creating a Background Backgrounds are designed to root player characters in the world, and creating new backgrounds is a great way to introduce players to the special features of your world

qualities. It could include musical instrument proficiency, and its feature probably involves receiving hospitality from the faithful. Guidelines for creating a new background are provided in chapter 9, “Dungeon Master’s Workshop.”

Creating a Combat Encounter

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)

Creating a Combat Encounter When creating a combat encounter, let your imagination run wild and build something your players will enjoy. Once you have the details figured out, use this section to

Creating Theros Adventures

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros

Creating Theros Adventures Can the gods determine my fate?” Elspeth asked. “What is truly the extent of their power? Can they make what I want happen—if only I please them enough?” “If you want a

deity interacts with the mortal world. Beyond the gods, tools for running nautical odysseys and descents into the Underworld appear in this chapter, along with an adventure that explores the machinations

Creating a Campaign

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)

Creating a Campaign The world you create is the stage for the adventures you set in it. You don’t have to give more thought to it than that. You can run adventures in an episodic format, with the

characters as the only common element, and also weave themes throughout those adventures to build a greater saga of the characters’ achievements in the world. Planning an entire campaign might seem like

Creating a Domain

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft

Creating a Domain The guidelines in this section help you create your own unique Domain of Dread. This setting’s details should reflect the Darklord of the domain, being a reflection of that

Creating a Background

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules

Creating a Background A character’s background represents what the character did prior to becoming an adventurer. Creating a unique background or customizing an existing one can reflect the

particular theme of your campaign or elements of your world. You can also create a background to help a player craft the story they have in mind for their character. This section describes, step by step, how you can create backgrounds tailored for your world and the heroes in it.

Creating a Sorcerer

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)

Creating a Sorcerer The most important question to consider when creating your sorcerer is the origin of your power. As a starting character, you’ll choose an origin that ties to a draconic bloodline

powerful individual in the world — the fey creature that blessed you at birth, the dragon who put a drop of its blood into your veins, the lich who created you as an experiment, or the deity who chose you to carry this power.

Creating an Artificer

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron

Creating an Artificer When creating an artificer, think about your character’s relationship with the artisan who taught them their craft. Does the character have a rival? Talk to your DM about the

role played by artificers in the campaign and the sort of organizations you might have ties to. ARTIFICERS IN OTHER WORLDS Eberron is the world most associated with artificers, yet the class can be

Creating a Background

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide

Creating a Background A character’s background represents what the character did prior to becoming an adventurer. Creating a unique background or customizing an existing one from the Player’s

Handbook can reflect the particular theme of your campaign or elements of your world. You can also create a background to help a player craft the story they have in mind for their character. Luca Bancone

Creating a Sapphire Dragon

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Fizban's Treasury of Dragons

Creating a Sapphire Dragon Use the Sapphire Dragon Personality Traits and Sapphire Dragon Ideals tables to inspire your portrayal of distinctive sapphire dragon characters. Sapphire Dragon

a call from beyond this world. I must prepare to answer that call by amassing powerful arms and armor. 3 I secretly look forward to adventurers trying to infiltrate my lair. How else could I

Creating Your Character

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos

Creating Your Character If you create an owlin character, follow these additional rules during character creation. Ability Score Increases When determining your character’s ability scores, increase

characters, including owlin, typically fall into the same ranges of height and weight that humans have in our world. If you’d like to determine your character’s height or weight randomly, consult the

Creating a Dragon Turtle

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Fizban's Treasury of Dragons

Creating a Dragon Turtle Use the Dragon Turtle Personality Traits and Dragon Turtle Ideals tables to inspire your portrayal of distinctive dragon turtle characters, and use the Dragon Turtle

crawl upon the land? (Any) 3 Curiosity. I want to know about everything that enters my domain, especially oddities from the surface world. (Any) 4 Supremacy. Creatures who refuse to recognize

Creating a Druid

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)

Creating a Druid When making a druid, consider why your character has such a close bond with nature. Perhaps your character lives in a society where the Old Faith still thrives, or was raised by a

Chapter 4: Creating Adventures

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sage Advice & Errata

Chapter 4: Creating Adventures

Creating Common Magic Items

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War

Creating Common Magic Items Normally, a magic item in Eberron is created using the crafting rules in the Dungeon Master’s Guide or Xanathar’s Guide to Everything. But if you have a dragonshard, you

proficiency in the Arcana skill, and they must provide all material components required for the spell. A cantrip scribed onto a scroll works as if the caster were 1st level. The Creating Common Magic

Creating Your Character

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight

Creating Your Character At 1st level, you choose whether your character is a member of the human race or of a fantastical race. If you select a fantastical race such as the fairy or the harengon in

characters, regardless of race, typically fall into the same ranges of height and weight that humans have in our world. If you’d like to determine your character’s height or weight randomly, consult the

Creating Your Character

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monsters of the Multiverse

Creating Your Character At 1st level, you choose whether your character is a member of the human race or of a fantastical race. If you select a fantastical race in this chapter, follow these additional rules during character creation.

Creating a Creature

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide

Creating a Creature Randy Vargas Baba Yaga invents a new creature—a fire-breathing Giant Toad! Use the approaches and examples in the following sections to build custom creatures for your game.

Creating a Ranger

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)

Creating a Ranger As you create your ranger character, consider the nature of the training that gave you your particular capabilities. Did you train with a single mentor, wandering the wilds together

Creating a Topaz Dragon

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Fizban's Treasury of Dragons

Creating a Topaz Dragon Use the Topaz Dragon Personality Traits and Topaz Dragon Ideals tables to inspire your portrayal of distinctive topaz dragon characters. Topaz Dragon Personality Traits d8

Creating a Black Dragon

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Fizban's Treasury of Dragons

Creating a Black Dragon Use the Black Dragon Personality Traits and Black Dragon Ideals tables to inspire your portrayal of distinctive black dragon characters, and use the Black Dragon Spellcasting

Creating New Character Options

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)

Creating New Character Options If the options for player characters in the Player’s Handbook don’t meet all the needs of your campaign, consult the following sections for advice on creating new race, class, and background options.

Creating a Red Dragon

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Fizban's Treasury of Dragons

Creating a Red Dragon Use the Red Dragon Personality Traits and Red Dragon Ideals tables to inspire your portrayal of distinctive red dragon characters, and use the Red Dragon Spellcasting table to

Creating a Cleric

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)

Creating a Cleric As you create a cleric, the most important question to consider is which deity to serve and what principles you want your character to embody. Appendix B includes lists of many of

Creating a Druid

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)

Creating a Druid When making a druid, consider why your character has such a close bond with nature. Perhaps your character lives in a society where the Old Faith still thrives, or was raised by a

Creating a Fighter

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)

Creating a Fighter As you build your fighter, think about two related elements of your character’s background: Where did you get your combat training, and what set you apart from the mundane

Creating a Sorcerer

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)

Creating a Sorcerer The most important question to consider when creating your sorcerer is the origin of your power. As a starting character, you’ll choose an origin that ties to a draconic bloodline

powerful individual in the world — the fey creature that blessed you at birth, the dragon who put a drop of its blood into your veins, the lich who created you as an experiment, or the deity who chose

Creating a Copper Dragon

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Fizban's Treasury of Dragons

Creating a Copper Dragon Use the Copper Dragon Personality Traits and Copper Dragon Ideals tables to inspire your portrayal of distinctive copper dragon characters, and use the Copper Dragon

, appreciate, and sustain beauty is the true measure of a creature or civilization. (Good) 2 Curiosity. The world holds so much to experience. I value different perspectives and insights. (Any

Creating a Spell

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)

Creating a Spell When creating a new spell, use existing spells as guidelines. Here are some things to consider: If a spell is so good that a caster would want to use it all the time, it might be

dragons. Though such a spell could exist in the world, few characters will bother to learn or prepare it unless they know in advance that doing so will be worthwhile. Make sure the spell fits with the

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