decide invent are bustling

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

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

Karkolohk Overview

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden

structures occasionally come loose and crash down the mountainside. Other times, chemistry experiments gone awry send wooden structures up in flames. Thus, the fort is always bustling with

hides its imperfections, and tear Spellix Romwod limb from limb. Gnome Diplomacy If you decide to use the “Peace Out” quest (see "Peace Out"), the characters are treated as diplomats by the goblins

Neighbors, Rivals, and Allies

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur’s Gate Gazetteer

. Baldur’s Gate joined the Lords’ Alliance, a coalition of independent cities that includes Neverwinter and Waterdeep, largely because of disputes with Amn. Should Amn decide to attack Baldur’s Gate

, anticipating that they can find such a book in the city’s markets. As such, Baldur’s Gate does a small but bustling trade in rare books. Several merchants have a known policy of buying valuable books without

Neighbors, Rivals, and Allies

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus

. Baldur’s Gate joined the Lords’ Alliance, a coalition of independent cities that includes Neverwinter and Waterdeep, largely because of disputes with Amn. Should Amn decide to attack Baldur’s Gate

, anticipating that they can find such a book in the city’s markets. As such, Baldur’s Gate does a small but bustling trade in rare books. Several merchants have a known policy of buying valuable books without

Premade Characters

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragons of Stormwreck Isle

Neverwinter as a carpenter working at the city’s bustling docks. But it’s clear to you and everyone around you that you are destined for much more. You stood up to an abusive ship captain once, so

contemplate your place in the world there. View Character Sheet Downloadable PDF Tell the players to read over the character sheets; give their characters names; and invent the details of their

Currency

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

pieces from abroad. In Waterdeep, the bustling cosmopolitan center of trade, coppers are called nibs, silvers are shards, electrum pieces are moons, gold pieces are dragons, and platinum coins are

moons of Silverymoon, provides another level of detail. As long as you keep the value of these new coins simple (in other words, don’t invent a coin worth 1.62 gp), you add local flavor to key locations in your world without adding undue complexity.

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

Theater: Autumn

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist

backstage are locked. Characters who slip in through the back see actors and stagehands bustling about and the director arguing with the playwright while the stage manager looks on helplessly. On the stage

drow depart, a cold wind tears through the alley and awakens the unconscious characters. Next Encounter If the characters decide to speak with Fenerus, proceed with encounter 8, “Courthouse.”

Finding Nim's Creation

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist

nimblewright is in Gralhund Villa on Saerdoun Street, in the North Ward. It isn’t, however, the only nimblewright to be found outside the House of Inspired Hands. If the characters decide to search

chapter 7) has at least one nimblewright aboard. The docks are bustling and chaotic during the day, except in winter. At night, darkness provides sufficient cover for characters to approach the

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

Gnome Gods

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes

an expert in fortification, siege tactics, combat, and traps. Instead of bustling about as gnome deities normally do, Gaerdal has a tendency to dig in and hide out, and in many tales Garl finds it

lizardfolk god splashed in his favorite pool? Who else would use Thor’s hammer to pound a nail and thus be inspired to invent the lightning rod? Garl never needs to persuade Nebelun to join an excursion

Market Ward

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

bustling avenues at all hours, doing business with vendors from every corner of the multiverse. The Great Bazaar is a cosmopolitan sampling of the planes and the goods they have to offer. Though more

Presence. The Free League congregates in the Great Bazaar. Although the Harmonium patrols the bazaar’s busy avenues, it’s the members of the Free League who capture thieves and decide whether to turn

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

Locations V - Z

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder

of Splendors is a bustling, walled city on the Sword Coast. Some merchants have dubbed Waterdeep the best supply center in the world, with the largest collection of superb craft workers, experts

ominous shadow causing widespread panic. Lady Laeral Silverhand dispatches heralds to calm the people and assure them that no harm will befall the city. If the adventurers decide to investigate, they must

Red Larch Locations

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

that aren’t relevant to the part of the adventure you’re running now. You can assume that the Believers decide to keep a low profile as long as adventurers are asking questions about the missing

-bustling place that works day and night (three shifts of workers) because making wagons of top quality takes time. The quality of Thelorn’s wagons is well known throughout the region, with the result that

Gibbet Crossing Locations

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

its aid. Qunbraxel’s grimlocks know to avoid the grick when they come this way on errands. Although the days when this intersection was a bustling market are gone, it resonates with faint psychic

enemies deeper in the Underdark and hid it in this enclave until they could decide what to do with it. They never figured out how to activate it. The erratic magic of the nearby Netherese obelisk

Locations E - H

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder

characters decide to call in the favor, Dral contacts his employers, and High Captain Horix Zoar does everything in his power to give the characters what they want, provided it’s within his power and isn’t

numerous residences surrounding a central district called the Heartward, wherein the characters can find a roomy tavern (called the Old Dirty Dwarf), several quiet hostels, and a bustling marketplace

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