decide invent are brazier

Inheritor

Backgrounds Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide

prefer for the DM to invent these details as part of the game, allowing you to learn more about your inheritance as your character does. The Dungeon Master is free to use your inheritance as a story

your adventuring career, you can decide whether to tell your companions about your inheritance right away. Rather than attracting attention to yourself, you might want to keep your inheritance a secret

Languages and Dialects

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

languages can add an element of mystery to inscriptions and tomes that characters encounter. You might invent additional secret languages, besides Druidic and thieves’ cant, that allow members of certain

organizations or political affiliations to communicate. You could even decide that each alignment has its own language, which might be more of an argot used primarily to discuss philosophical concepts

Missing Players

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

should strive to keep the character alive and use resources wisely. Run the character yourself. It’s an extra burden for you, but it can work. Decide the character isn’t there. Invent a good reason for

Choosing a Guild

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Guildmasters' Guide to Ravnica

Choosing a Guild Chapter 2 describes the ten guilds of Ravnica in detail. How do you decide what guild you want your character to belong to? You can choose one of these approaches: Look at the

within guilds, or the DM can invent contacts for you that aren’t associated with the guilds of Ravnica in any way. If you want your character to join a guild at a later time, the same guidelines apply as if the person were changing guilds, as described in chapter 2.

Feature: Inheritance

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide

important, and what is its full story? You might prefer for the DM to invent these details as part of the game, allowing you to learn more about your inheritance as your character does. The Dungeon

conditions are met. When you begin your adventuring career, you can decide whether to tell your companions about your inheritance right away. Rather than attracting attention to yourself, you might

Preparing for the Play

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

once on the Performers’ Roles table to determine what role Stagefright assigns to that player’s character. If two players get the same result, Stagefright lets them decide which one of them takes that

role before suggesting another role for the other character (choose a table entry that hasn’t already been assigned). Allow characters to invent new roles for themselves if they don’t like the ones

Creating a Portal

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Sigil and the Outlands

Creating a Portal You can create portals quickly by choosing or rolling on the Planar Portals table. First, decide whether the portal’s destination resides in Sigil or on another plane. Then, roll on

Blazing hearth Smoldering Corpse Bar Elemental Plane of Fire Brass brazier, burning coal 78–80 Crumbling well The Ditch Elemental Plane of Water Pearl, pure water 81–90 Mausoleum entrance Mortuary

The Citadel's Destruction

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen

The Citadel’s Destruction If the characters destroy the brazier in area S23, read the following text: With a cacophony of whispered sighs, the violet flames vanish. You feel the flying island beneath

into darkness. He doesn’t appear again in this adventure, and it will take exceptional coercion for Soth to ally with the Dragon Armies in the future. Escape Routes Allow the characters to decide how

Purpose

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

notes on new places you invent. Local Color A settlement might serve as a place where the characters stop to rest and to buy supplies. A settlement of this sort needs no more than a brief description

. Include the settlement’s name, decide how big it is, add a dash of flavor (“The smell of the local tanneries never lifts from this town”), and let the adventurers get on with their business. The history

Part 3: Master of Rules

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

that might arise during a typical D&D session. For example, a player might want his or her character to hurl a brazier full of hot coals into a monster’s face. How you determine the outcome of this

hot coals affects the monster. You might decide that it deals 1d4 fire damage and imposes disadvantage on the monster’s attack rolls until the end of its next turn. You roll the damage die (or let the

Cave Locations

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk

excavated rock faces. This maze of passages is an old section of Wave Echo Cave’s original mine site. Lurking in one dead end is an ochre jelly. (You can decide the jelly’s exact location.) When

(Perception) check. Old stone bunks in orderly rows line the walls of this chamber, and a corroded iron brazier full of cold coals stands near the middle of the room. The bones of a half-dozen dwarves

Court of Orestes Locations

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

by rusted grates. An iron brazier, its sides sculpted with furious-looking faces, stands in the middle of the hall, midway along its length. Not far beyond, the ceiling has collapsed, burying whatever

lies there. These crypts hold the bodies of Phenax worshipers who were expected to return from the afterlife. None did. Brazier. The brazier that once lit this hall is sculpted with faces

Buying a Magic Item

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Xanathar's Guide to Everything

determining which items are for sale and their final price, no matter what the tables say. If the characters seek a specific magic item, first decide if it’s an item you want to allow in your game. If so

Complications table or invent your own complication. Magic Item Purchase Complications d12 Complication 1 The item is a fake, planted by an enemy.* 2 The item is stolen by the party’s enemies.* 3 The item is

Staff

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated

, who slowly applies those features to the headquarters. A majordomo of a franchise modeling itself after a spy organization might constantly invent devices for the franchise, making continuing progress

, though the DM can decide otherwise. If a mobile franchise headquarters requires more crew than is granted by the franchise’s rank, the characters must hire the remainder (typically at the skilled

World-Shaking Events

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

disaster takes whatever form you want, but it’s always a big, bold, unsubtle sign of a deity’s displeasure. You might decide to wipe a town, region, or nation off the map of your world. A disaster ravages

. What are the ongoing effects of this cataclysm? The following points can help you define the nature and consequences of the disaster: Decide what caused this cataclysm and where it originated. An omen

Areas of the Water Temple

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse

fanged maws. This room is filled with a rank reptilian smell and cluttered with tattered animal hides and dank straw. A battered iron brazier brimming with hot embers glows in the middle of the room. Half

-gnawed carcasses heaped beside the brazier attest to an indifferent effort to cook them over the coals. There are two doors: one north and one south. This is the den of a band of lizardfolk who

Locations on the Upper Level

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a6

the place by the various giants in the upper area. If the characters decide to look through the refuse, it takes 10 minutes to search a 10-foot-square area, and the toads from area 12 come into the

with fire immunity) who have delivered their message and are about to depart for their own land. There are two piles of furs and skins in the place, a rude table, a bench, three stools, a large brazier

Creating a Monster Stat Block

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

monster might be based on a real-world creature or a monster from myth, in which case its name might be obvious. If you need to invent a name, keep in mind that the best names either reflect the

ability determines its ability modifier, as shown in the Ability Scores and Modifiers table in the Player’s Handbook. If you can’t decide what a monster’s ability scores should be, look for comparable

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