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                                                    Eberron: Rising from the Last War
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                     10 (3d6);{"diceNotation":"3d6","rollType":"damage","rollAction":"Crysteel Dagger","rollDamageType":"force"} force damage.
Vicious Mockery (Cantrip). The Inspired unleashes a string of insults laced
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     the nightmare spirits of Dal Quor, and they carry out the foul agenda of the Dreaming Dark.
Any humanoid who can dream can volunteer to serve as a quori vessel. But the Inspired of Sarlona are humans
                                                
                                            
                                        
                                                     Monsters
                                                    Eberron: Rising from the Last War
                                                    
                                                
                                            
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Vicious Mockery (Cantrip). The Inspired unleashes a string of insults laced with subtle enchantments at one creature it can see within 60 feet of it. If the target can hear the
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     that guide and empower them, but the truth is far darker. The Inspired are the mortal hosts of the nightmare spirits of Dal Quor, and they carry out the foul agenda of the Dreaming Dark.
Any humanoid
                                                
                                            
                                        
                                                     Monsters
                                                    Eberron: Rising from the Last War
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                     damage.
Vicious Mockery (Cantrip). The Inspired unleashes a string of insults laced with subtle enchantments at one creature it can see within 60 feet of it. If the target can hear the Inspired, the
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     and empower them, but the truth is far darker. The Inspired are the mortal hosts of the nightmare spirits of Dal Quor, and they carry out the foul agenda of the Dreaming Dark.
Any humanoid who can dream
                                                
                                            
                                        
                                                     Monsters
                                                    Eberron: Rising from the Last War
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                    ":"damage","rollAction":"Crysteel Dagger","rollDamageType":"force"} force damage.
Vicious Mockery (Cantrip). The Inspired unleashes a string of insults laced with subtle enchantments at one creature
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     they carry out the foul agenda of the Dreaming Dark.
Any humanoid who can dream can volunteer to serve as a quori vessel. But the Inspired of Sarlona are humans bred to be such vessels. They have no
                                                
                                            
                                        
                                                     Monsters
                                                    Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                     live in the mountains and hills of Icewind Dale are among the hardiest of their kind. Drawn to the north by a desire to find and serve white dragons, these kobolds adapted as best they can to the
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     hostile climate. Their sensitive eyes appreciate sunless days and long, dark nights. They use wooden javelins as tools to test the snow ahead of them.
Kobolds native to Icewind Dale frequently wander
                                                
                                            
                                        
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                                                    Eberron: Rising from the Last War
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                     their dark magic allows them to influence the dreams of others, sending messages or inflicting nightmares with a touch. Tales talk of ambitious wizards, frantic monarchs, and desperate heroes
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     waits behind a silver skull.â
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âThree days, three deaths, three eyes, three breaths.â
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âDoom falls on the peacock and the sparrow alike. Best be a raven.â
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âA white hand on a black field holds
                                                
                                            
                                        
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                                                    Vecna: Eve of Ruin
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                     Zarovich was a prince, a soldier, and a conqueror. His thirst for power never sated, Strahd made a pact with the Dark Powers to become immortal. Meanwhile, Strahdâs evil deepened, until in a jealous
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                    . He had become a vampire, and Barovia became a Domain of Dread.
Now the Dark Powers keep Strahd trapped in his realm, tormenting him with his inability to escape for all eternity. He spends his days
                                                
                                            
                                        
                                                     Magic Items
                                                    Baldurâs Gate: Descent into Avernus
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                     answer you truthfully and to the best of its ability. The answer is no more than a sentence or two and might be cryptic.
Freeing a Soul. Casting a spell that removes a curse on a soul coin frees the soul
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                    . These coins are then distributed throughout the Nine Hells to be used for goods and services, infernal deals, dark bargains, and bribes.
                                                
                                            
                                        
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                                                    Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                     artistry to maintain a warm, desert-like dwelling under the water.
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I soothe myself to sleep by imagining the perfect insults for bronze dragons; while I wait to meet one, I hone them on other
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     company but their own, and they are usually indifferent at best even toward their own kind. Moreover, their unpredictability means that even if a creature proves itself useful to a topaz dragon, it
                                                
                                            
                                        
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                                                    Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                     unpredictability.
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It takes true artistry to maintain a warm, desert-like dwelling under the water.
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I soothe myself to sleep by imagining the perfect insults for bronze dragons; while I wait
                                                
                                            
                                                
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Topaz dragons rarely tolerate any company but their own, and they are usually indifferent at best even toward their own kind. Moreover, their unpredictability means that even if a creature
                                                
                                            
                                        
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                                                    Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
                                                    
                                                
                                            
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It takes true artistry to maintain a warm, desert-like dwelling under the water.
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I soothe myself to sleep by imagining the perfect insults for bronze dragons; while I wait to meet one, I
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     dragons rarely tolerate any company but their own, and they are usually indifferent at best even toward their own kind. Moreover, their unpredictability means that even if a creature proves itself
                                                
                                            
                                        
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                                                    Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                     honeycombs of hidden passages, deceptively thin walls, and secret chambers that allow them to traverse the entire lair without ever being seen by intruders. The best-defended sapphire dragon lairs have no
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     the lair.
Cobweb-Choked Tunnels. Adventurers who manage to access the other side of the caveâs crystal walls discover a network of dark, cobweb-choked tunnels extending deep into the earth, set
                                                
                                            
                                        
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                                                    Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                     predictable only in my unpredictability.
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It takes true artistry to maintain a warm, desert-like dwelling under the water.
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I soothe myself to sleep by imagining the perfect insults for
                                                
                                            
                                                
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Connected Creatures
Topaz dragons rarely tolerate any company but their own, and they are usually indifferent at best even toward their own kind. Moreover, their unpredictability means that
                                                
                                            
                                        
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                                                    Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                    , and secret chambers that allow them to traverse the entire lair without ever being seen by intruders. The best-defended sapphire dragon lairs have no easily accessible entrances or exits at all, and
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     manage to access the other side of the caveâs crystal walls discover a network of dark, cobweb-choked tunnels extending deep into the earth, set with natural steps and shelves throughout. The
                                                
                                            
                                        
                                                    Elf
                                                    
    
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                                                    Basic Rules (2014)
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                     learning a new skill or art, elves can be focused and relentless. They are slow to make friends and enemies, and even slower to forget them. They reply to petty insults with disdain and to serious
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     insults with vengeance.
Like the branches of a young tree, elves are flexible in the face of danger. They trust in diplomacy and compromise to resolve differences before they escalate to violence. They
                                                
                                            
                                        
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                                                    , striving to leave a lasting legacy. Individually and as a group, humans are adaptable opportunists, and they stay alert to changing political and social dynamics.
EVERYONEâS SECOND-BEST FRIENDS
                                                
                                            
                                                
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Elves. âItâs best not to wander into elven woods. They donât like intruders, and youâll as likely be bewitched as peppered with arrows. Still, if an elf can get past that damned
                                                
                                            
                                        
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                                                    Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                     dark eyes
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Starkly colored hair
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An unusual hue tinting your shadow
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A ghostly halo crowning your head
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Rainbows gleaming on your skin
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                                                     characterâs height or weight randomly, consult the Random Height and Weight table in the Playerâs Handbook, and choose the row in the table that best represents the build you imagine for your character.
                                                
                                            
                                        
                                                    Criminal / Spy
                                                    
    
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Skill Proficiencies: Deception, Stealth
Tool Proficiencies: One type of gaming set, thievesâ tools
Equipment: A crowbar, a set of dark common clothes including a hood, and a pouch
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     who seem the fairest often have the most to hide.
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I donât pay attention to the risks in a situation. Never tell me the odds.
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The best way to get me to do something is to tell me
                                                
                                            
                                        
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                                                    Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                     masses.
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I take great pains to always look my best and follow the latest fashions.
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I donât like to get my hands dirty, and I wonât be caught dead in unsuitable accommodations
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     hide a truly scandalous secret that could ruin my family forever.
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I too often hear veiled insults and threats in every word addressed to me, and Iâm quick to anger.
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I have an
                                                
                                            
                                        
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                                                    Baldurâs Gate: Descent into Avernus
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                    
Thanks to your noble birth, people are inclined to think the best of you. You are welcome in high society, and people assume you have the right to be wherever you are. The common folk make every
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     unquestioned, and impress those on the lookout for wealthy patrons. You are welcome in the Upper City and may stay there after dark without being harassed or evicted. Your word is accepted over others&rsquo
                                                
                                            
                                        
                                                    Genasi
                                                    
    
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                                                    Elemental Evil Player's Companion
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                     accustomed to a variety of different people.
GENASI ON ATHAS
Although any world that includes one or more elemental planes can feature genasi, on Athas, the world of the Dark Sun campaign setting
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     time. People there tend to be less accepting of differences. Sometimes a cold shoulder and a suspicious glare are the best genasi can hope for; in more backward places, they face ostracism and even
                                                
                                            
                                        
                                                     Compendium
                                                    
                                                    
                                                         - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                     an arrogant smileâBakaris the Younger.
 âMy father has matters well in hand. Weâll be sure to send for you and the rest of the fish-folk once weâve determined whatâs best for them.â
 Bakaris the
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     step aside through roleplaying or by succeeding on a DC 10 Charisma (Intimidation) check. Alternatively, a character convinces the guard theyâre with to ignore Bakaris by succeeding on a DC 14 Charisma (Persuasion) check. Afterward, Bakaris hurls weak insults and slinks off.
                                                
                                            
                                        
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                                                    Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                     traditional rituals that are unfamiliar to those around me.
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Sarcasm and insults are my weapons of choice.
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Ideal
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Open. I have much to learn from the kindly folk I meet
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     be deluded innocents at best, or ignorant fools at worst.
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I have a weakness for the exotic beauty of the people of these lands.
 
                                                
                                            
                                        
                                                     Compendium
                                                    
                                                    
                                                         - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldurâs Gate Gazetteer
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                     comical, some age-old insults that can quickly turn violent. Bloomridge. The wealthiest and most fashionable Lower City residents gravitate toward the commanding views of Bloomridge, where townhouses
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     poor, its location making it the worst for residents seeking to serve Upper City denizens â but the best for smuggling in untaxed goods from Rivington. Victor Adame Minguez  Eastway. Home to the
                                                
                                            
                                        
                                                     Compendium
                                                    
                                                    
                                                         - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                     comical, some age-old insults that can quickly turn violent. Bloomridge. The wealthiest and most fashionable Lower City residents gravitate toward the commanding views of Bloomridge, where townhouses
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     poor, its location making it the worst for residents seeking to serve Upper City denizens â but the best for smuggling in untaxed goods from Rivington.  Eastway. Home to the Basilisk Gate, Eastway is
                                                
                                            
                                        
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                                                    Guildmastersâ Guide to Ravnica
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                    , rot, and rebirth. You have spent your life in the slow churn of that ecosystem, in the dark places of the city where the messy parts of existence are on display. There is little squeamishness among the
                                                
                                            
                                                
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I like to remind people of their inevitable demise.
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Sometimes I give voice to the whispers of the rot, which I hear but no one else does.
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I do my best to discourage anyone from
                                                
                                            
                                        
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                                                    Baldurâs Gate: Descent into Avernus
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                     type of gaming set, thievesâ tools
Equipment: A crowbar, a set of dark common clothes including a hood, and a pouch containing 15 gp
 
Criminal Origins
Criminals are pervasive in Baldur
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     attention to the risks in a situation. Never tell me the odds.
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The best way to get me to do something is to tell me I canât do it.
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I blow up at the slightest insult.
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                                                    Goliath
                                                    
    
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                                                    Elemental Evil Player's Companion
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                     skills.
This dedication to competition has a dark side. Goliaths are ferocious competitors, but above all else they are driven to outdo their past efforts. If a goliath slays a dragon, he or she might
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                    . Goliaths see females and males as equal in all things, and they find societies with roles divided by gender to be puzzling or worthy of mockery. To a goliath, the person who is best at a job should be
                                                
                                            
                                        
                                                     Compendium
                                                    
                                                    
                                                         - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Masterâs Guide (2014)
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                    Domains of Dread In remote corners of the Shadowfell, it is easy to reach horrific demiplanes ruled over by accursed beings of terrible evil. The best known of these is the valley of Barovia
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                    , overlooked by the towering spires of Castle Ravenloft and ruled by Count Strahd von Zarovich, the first vampire. Beings of the Shadowfell called the Dark Powers created these domains as prisons for these âdarklords,â and through cruelty or carelessness trapped innocent mortals in these domains as well.
                                                
                                            
                                        
                                                     Compendium
                                                    
                                                    
                                                         - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                     mysterious and terrifying figure known far and wide as âthe Dark Lady.â Locals warn everyone to stay well away from the ruins. The truth of the tale is that the âDark Ladyâ is a female adult black shadow
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     stalks them. She sometimes poses as a drow captive of a dragon, desperate to avoid being eaten and willing to pay with her treasure to be rescued. The Harpers have learned her secret, and do their best to
                                                
                                            
                                        
                                                     Compendium
                                                    
                                                    
                                                         - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richtenâs Guide to Ravenloft
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                    Skald The largest community in Kartakass, Skald presents itself as a bustling hub of commerce and creativity that boasts the best of everything in the land. The lure of overnight celebrity, glowing
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     and aging celebrities prey on youth and creativity, while critics and struggling performers create a culture of desperate deceptions. Vice, criminality, dark bargains, and supernatural predators flourish in Skald, like a pack of wolves hiding behind glamorous masks.
                                                
                                            
                                        
                                                     Compendium
                                                    
                                                    
                                                         - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurerâs Guide
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                     drawn to serve Shar often nurture their own deep wounds or dark secrets, which in their minds makes them best suited to console those who suffer from a similar ill. Throughout the worldâs history, many
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                    Shar The Mistress of the Night, the Dark Lady, Our Lady of Loss The dark twin of Selûne, Shar is the goddess of darkness, both in its physical form and as it exists in the minds and souls of mortals
                                                
                                            
                                        
                                                     Compendium
                                                    
                                                    
                                                         - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                    Setup This adventure is best used late in the campaign for two reasons. First, the characters know more about the elemental cults and have a better perspective to understand the Dark Ladyâs
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     information. Second, it strains credulity for any of the factions to send inexperienced agents into the Dark Ladyâs lair. The characters receive a sending spell, telling them to meet a faction agent at a local
                                                
                                            
                                        
                                                     Compendium
                                                    
                                                    
                                                         - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                     are the mortal hosts of the nightmare spirits of Dal Quor, and they carry out the foul agenda of the Dreaming Dark. Any humanoid who can dream can volunteer to serve as a quori vessel. But the
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     and merchants might all be secret servants of the Dreaming Dark. Such Inspired have to willingly accept quori possession, but the Dreaming Dark has long experience in weaving dreams that can convince
                                                
                                            
                                        
                                                     Compendium
                                                    
                                                    
                                                         - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Guildmasters' Guide to Ravnica
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                     floated effortlessly down from the upper reaches of the chamber, and alighted on the chamber floor near the two of them.
 â Doug Beyer, Return to Ravnica: The Secretist
 House Dimir is Ravnicaâs dark
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     secret: behind a facade of respectable messengers and reporters lurks an association of spies and assassins whose existence is barely suspected by the populace at large. Secrecy is both House Dimirâs best
                                                
                                            
                                        






