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Xanathar's Guide to Everything
barbarian who follows this path rages, the barbarian contacts the spirit world and calls on these guardian spirits for aid.
Barbarians who draw on their ancestral guardians can better fight to protect
their tribes and their allies. In order to cement ties to their ancestral guardians, barbarians who follow this path cover themselves in elaborate tattoos that celebrate their ancestors’ deeds
classes
Xanathar's Guide to Everything
barbarian who follows this path rages, the barbarian contacts the spirit world and calls on these guardian spirits for aid.
Barbarians who draw on their ancestral guardians can better fight to protect
their tribes and their allies. In order to cement ties to their ancestral guardians, barbarians who follow this path cover themselves in elaborate tattoos that celebrate their ancestors’ deeds
monsters
cares nothing for his domain. But should noteworthy threats or remarkable individuals appear, he seeks to crush or enlist them. The only exception is the spirit of his treacherous former ally, Caradoc
battle, Caradoc refused to capture her spirit unless Soth bargained with Takhisis to restore Caradoc to life. Enraged, Soth tried to destroy Caradoc as the Mists rose around them.
When the Mists faded
Monsters
Curse of Strahd
.
When Strahd became a vampire, Vladimir and his revenants should have gone to their eternal rest. But Strahd's deeds were so heinous that Barovia and the knight's spirits became trapped behind
memory shrouded by his hate.
Were Vladimir to let go of his hatred, his spirit would find peace and could remember the warmth of love. Were Strahd to be defeated, even temporarily, the mists surrounding
classes
Player’s Handbook (2014)
, the gods of war watch over warriors and reward them for their great deeds. The clerics of such gods excel in battle, inspiring others to fight the good fight or offering acts of violence as prayers
mantle, spirit guardians
7th
freedom of movement, stoneskin
9th
flame strike, hold monster
Species
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
Harengons originated in the Feywild, where they spoke Sylvan and embodied the spirit of freedom and travel. In time, these rabbitfolk hopped into other worlds, bringing the fey realm’s
fairy or the harengon in this section, follow these additional rules during character creation.
Ability Score Increases
When determining your character’s ability scores, increase one score by 2
Species
Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron
into the eyes of the stunned onlookers. She smiled behind her spirit veil, counting the blades arrayed against her.
“But forty will.”
Elven culture began on the distant continent of Xen
instead of serving in a Valenar warband. Are you driven by visions from your patron ancestor? Are you pursuing an epic quest that mirrors their legendary deeds? Do you seek vengeance for the death of a
Dhampir
Legacy
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Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
their lineage.
Dhampir Origins
d8
Origin
1
You are the reincarnation of an ancestor who was a vampiric tyrant.
2
Your pact with a predatory deity, fiend, fey, or spirit causes
lineage option, follow these additional rules during character creation.
Ability Score Increases
When determining your ability scores, you increase one of those scores by 2 and increase a different
Reborn
Legacy
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Species
Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
Your body hosts a possessing spirit that shares its memories and replaces your missing appendages with phantasmal limbs.
8
In public, you pass as an unremarkable individual, but you can feel the
, but you aren’t any longer. You now possess only your lineage’s racial traits.
When you create a character using a lineage option, follow these additional rules during character creation
Goliath
Legacy
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Elemental Evil Player's Companion
individual skill. They have a compulsion to keep score, counting their deeds and tallying their accomplishments to compare to others. Goliaths love to win, but they see defeat as a prod to improve their
mock folk who rely on society’s structures or rules to maintain power.
Survival of the Fittest
Among goliaths, any adult who can’t contribute to the tribe is expelled. A lone goliath has
Backgrounds
Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus
1
A flamboyant spy or brigand
2
The incarnation of a nation or people
3
A scoundrel with a masked guise
4
A vengeful spirit
5
The manifestation of a deity or your faith
Infamy. My name will be a malediction, a curse that fulfills my will. (Evil)
5
Incorruptibility. Be a symbol, and leave your flawed being behind. (Any)
6
Anonymity. It’s my deeds that
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
into the realm of dreams to communicate with the creatures that sleep near their lairs. In this way, they inspire artists and poets, encourage great thinkers, and spur adventurers to heroic deeds
to temper the dragon’s mischievous spirit.
2
A young moonstone dragon fell victim to a fomorian;fomorian's curse and has elected to stay with the Giant rather than reveal this magical
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
is learning, but without the boredom. (Chaotic)
6
Control. Everyone is welcome, as long as they follow my rules. (Lawful)
Crystal Dragon Adventures
The Crystal Dragon Adventure Hooks
spirit of their glacier home. Such worship amuses and flatters the dragon, who keeps the hunters safe and leads them to locations where seals are plentiful.
Crystal Dragon Lairs
Crystal dragons
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
money, no clan, and no deeds credited to her name. When Queen Young-Soo died ten years ago, a monument to her was unveiled in the city’s Park of the Elders. The next night, Won-Ha rose as a type of
ancestral spirit called a gwishin and began haunting the monument. When no family claimed the spirit as their descendant, the city’s spirit arbiters—magistrates responsible for rogue gwishin—tried to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
Levels 17-20: Masters of the World By 17th level, characters have superheroic capabilities, and their deeds and adventures are the stuff of legend. Ordinary people can hardly dream of such heights of
existence itself. Characters who reach 20th level have attained the pinnacle of mortal achievement. Their deeds are recorded in the annals of history and recounted by bards for centuries. Their
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
Ousa’s Pyramid A mountain of white limestone rises above the southern plateaus of Har’Akir. This pyramid is known as the spirit home of Ousa, partner of Ese and the god who rules in the afterlife
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Xanathar's Guide to Everything
and protect the living. When a barbarian who follows this path rages, the barbarian contacts the spirit world and calls on these guardian spirits for aid. Barbarians who draw on their ancestral
their ancestors’ deeds. These tattoos tell sagas of victories against terrible monsters and other fearsome rivals. So ancestors are people who did the procreation thing to make more people before you
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Book of Many Things
, suggestions for ways to use this adversary in your campaign, and its stat block. In addition, each Fiend is accompanied by new rules elements that you can use on their own or in tandem with the Fiend
incorporate these fearsome foes into your campaign in other ways. Characters might stumble across evidence of heinous deeds performed by one of these monsters or its servants, or you could make opposing
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules
a story as a group, so let the other players contribute through the words and deeds of their characters. Encourage players to engage by asking them what their characters are doing. It’s Not a
rules help you do this, but when you need to act as referee, try to make decisions that ensure everyone is having fun. Communicate with Your Players. Open communication is essential to a successful D&D
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
a story as a group, so let the other players contribute through the words and deeds of their characters. Encourage players to engage by asking them what their characters are doing. It’s Not a
rules help you do this, but when you need to act as referee, try to make decisions that ensure everyone is having fun. Communicate with Your Players. Open communication is essential to a successful D&D
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
lairs to track down magic items or rare spellbooks. Nagas never feel the ravages of time or succumb to sickness. Even if it is struck down, a naga’s immortal spirit reforms in a new body in a matter of
days, ready to continue its eternal work. Benevolent Dictators and Brutal Tyrants. A naga rules its domain with absolute authority. Whether it rules with compassion or by terrorizing its subjects, the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
seal, turning the prince to dust. Then she grabs the Nether Scroll of Azumar, howling with maniacal laughter. The dracolich’s mastery of magic and her evil spirit enable her to access the darker
aspects of the Nether Scroll of Azumar, turning the sky over Anauroch black and ushering in a reign of terror and darkness over the desert. She rules the southern part of Anauroch from her lair with cruelty
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
toolbox of horror-focused rules also provides options for what sort of grim adventures you might create. At the end of this chapter, a horror adventure puts these methods to use and leads characters on
their first steps into the Domains of Dread. During a séance, a spirit makes itself known to the Keepers of the Feather
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Forge of the Artificer
Elemental Engines Airships are powered by an elemental spirit bound to a core carved from a Khyber dragonshard. This core is placed into a heavily fortified containment chamber connected to an arcane
matrix spanning—and powering—the whole ship. When the elemental spirit within the core is activated, its elemental energy flows through the matrix’s arteries and the ship’s binding struts, forming
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)
Damage Types Different attacks, damaging spells, and other harmful effects deal different types of damage. Damage types have no rules of their own, but other rules, such as damage resistance, rely on
damage. Radiant. Radiant damage, dealt by a cleric’s flame strike spell or an angel’s smiting weapon, sears the flesh like fire and overloads the spirit with power. Slashing. Swords, axes, and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
Damage Types Different attacks, damaging spells, and other harmful effects deal different types of damage. Damage types have no rules of their own, but other rules, such as damage resistance, rely on
damage. Radiant. Radiant damage, dealt by a cleric's flame strike spell or an angel's smiting weapon, sears the flesh like fire and overloads the spirit with power. Slashing. Swords, axes, and monsters
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
followers of Shar have done dark deeds in her name — most notably the shadovar of Netheril, an entire society dedicated to Shar. The tragedies and losses brought about by the fanaticism of her
followers have caused many places to outlaw her worship and thus driven most of her priests into secrecy, but such prohibitions only heighten the priests’ umbrage at authorities and make the faithful a focal point for rebellion and revenge against whoever rules.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ravenloft: The Horrors Within
Renown in Kalakeri You can track the characters’ influence with Ramya’s loyalist faction and her siblings’ rebel faction, using the renown rules from the Dungeon Master’s Guide to track the
, as they view the characters as useful pawns. If the characters have a Renown Score of 5+ with either group, their deeds might benefit the faction enough for it to take control of Jadurai and claim the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ravenloft: The Horrors Within
mysteries or tragedies led them to adventure. The abandoned estates of Mordent also make fine places to use the rules for Haunted Bastions, detailed in chapter 3. Ghosts of Mordent Ghost stories often
to inspire adventures featuring the lingering dead. Mordent Hauntings 1d8 The Spirit Seeks Aid In … 1 Freeing a living loved one from possession by another ghost. 2 Hiding a secret that could
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Fated Flight of the Recluse
An airship’s pilot is subject to the rules of extended travel (beyond 8 hours per day) in the Dungeon Master’s Guide. Characters able to successfully interface with the Recluse’s Helm and the spirit
arriving before their supplies run out. This section references the rules and guidance in the “Journeys in the Skies” section of chapter 7 of Eberron: Forge of the Artificer. Weather At the beginning of each
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragon of Icespire Peak
apply the rules and keep the story going. The DM is a storyteller. The DM sets the pace of the story and presents the various challenges and encounters that the players must overcome. The DM is the
helpful ones. The most important thing to remember about being a good DM is that the rules are a tool to help you and the players have fun. The rules aren’t in charge. You’re the DM — you’re in
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
reckless discovery and the spirit of adventure in their research of the past—the essence and emotion of history over precision or procedure. Scholars of Lorehold The Lorehold Scholars table offers examples
Dustspeaker, conversing with spirits of the past to learn their stories Chaos 6 Pastraiser, binding spirits into the monuments that bear their likeness to learn about their inspiring deeds Order 7 Relic
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
blood of angels
8 The commander of a legion of soul-addicted templars who punish crimes by burning criminals into psychoactive spirit dust
9 An ancient dragon whose godlike magic drains the domain of life
10 A god who killed all their peers and now rules the mortal realm
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
it is littered with yuan-ti bones. 17b. Death of a Naga The phantasmal scene of a spirit naga battling four yuan-ti purebloods plays out for characters who set foot on this island. As characters view
statistics of a yuan-ti pureblood with 2d20 hit points remaining. Hexacali, a spirit naga with 35 hit points, is trapped on the island and fights yuan-ti characters to the death. Yuan-ti characters who drop
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
. Darklords range from monstrous tyrants to depraved individuals who otherwise appear as ordinary people. A Darklord’s position and powers stem from their deeds, not their game statistics. While some
absence, those who sought to escape or supplant them seize their chance. Rudolph van Richten prepares for his next expedition, watched over by the spirit of his son, Erasmus.