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Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
visitors by reciting epic poetry.
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The only people I’m interested in are those who know history and those who make history.
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I like to adopt the personas of characters from legend
creators abandoned them, taking great interest in the artifacts and architecture they left behind. Visitors who manage to convince the dragon they are not a threat are treated to a tour of the vaults, with
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
reciting epic poetry.
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The only people I’m interested in are those who know history and those who make history.
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I like to adopt the personas of characters from legend.
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I
of the remaining areas of the vaults as they were when their creators abandoned them, taking great interest in the artifacts and architecture they left behind. Visitors who manage to convince the
Backgrounds
Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide
;n. Recent events in your homeland have led to the abolition of slavery, and a corresponding increase in the traffic between Mulhorand and the distant parts of Faerûn.
Those who leave behind
otherwise have, for you and your traveling companions. Noble lords, scholars, and merchant princes, to name a few, might be interested in hearing about your distant homeland and people.
Suggested
Backgrounds
Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide
behind the life of a soldier for hire, but your skills are undeniably suited for battle, so now you fight on in a different way.
MERCENARIES OF THE NORTH
Countless mercenary companies
promote elven causes or involve destroying orcs, gnolls, and the like. Prospective employers must leave written word (in Elvish) near Evereska, and the Silent Rain sends a representative if interested. The
Backgrounds
Guildmasters’ Guide to Ravnica
ruins. You are part of a savage society that clings desperately to the Old Ways — attuned to nature, full of primal rage, and given short shrift by a world consumed with continuing civilization
effects, such as flames smoldering behind your eyes or dancing over your hands.
Suggested Characteristics
Gruul ways aren’t the ways of civilized folk, and the Gruul have little patience for
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen
are interested in joining the Mages of High Sorcery, skip this section. The characters can easily find Wyhan’s Apothecary. Foggy windows obscure a selection of charms and occult trappings for sale
stands behind a counter heaped with open books. She looks up from her reading, eyes you with disinterest, then goes back to her book.
The shopkeeper here is Wyhan (lawful evil, human mage), a black
Orc
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Species
Volo's Guide to Monsters
numbers. Theirs is a life that has no place for weakness, and every warrior must be strong enough to take what is needed by force. Orcs aren’t interested in treaties, trade negotiations or
laden wagon or after heroically defending it from thieves gain great respect and advance higher in the tribe’s pecking order.
All Are Fighters
Most of the orcs that stay behind when the
Backgrounds
Guildmasters’ Guide to Ravnica
interested in taking notes on monstrous anatomy than in fighting monsters.
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Every social situation I’m in seems to lead to my asking rude personal questions.
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I’m supremely
make a nice sideshow act.
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I left the Selesnya — and a lover — behind when I joined the Simic.
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Roll an additional Simic contact; you can decide if the contact is an ally or a rival.
Backgrounds
Guildmasters’ Guide to Ravnica
basic knowledge of the structure of buildings, including the stuff behind the walls. You can also find blueprints of a specific building in order to learn the details of its construction. Such
Azorius inspector seems interested in my work.
2
I was ready to join the Boros before I decided on Izzet, and I sometimes still hear from the sergeant who tried to recruit me.
3
One of my
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Infernal Machine Rebuild
behind to keep an eye on activities outside the temple. When the characters arrive, this thief presents themself as a seemingly reluctant guide willing to join the characters on the incursion into the
seen before: a weremouse, a weremoose, or even a wereooze. Thessalar is extremely interested in studying this new lycanthropy. Alternatively, Mack might have been a normal human when he came to the temple, only to have Thessalar impose this strange lycanthropy upon him.
Kobold
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sent Kurtulmak to retrieve it. Garl lured his pursuer into a maze-like cavern, then collapsed the exits behind him, trapping Kurtulmak for all eternity. Kurtulmak is a hateful deity, one who despises
behind from a kill, eating everything that’s edible and using the rest to make tools or adornments.
Kobolds shed teeth as they wear out and grow new ones their entire lives. Many wear their own
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron
hope to achieve as an adventurer? Have you left Valenar behind, or are your aspirations tied to the kingdom? As a half-elf with Valenar blood, do you want to be recognized as a true Valenar—granted a
bond to a patron ancestor, a place in a warband, and a chance at immortality? Or are you more interested in building a homeland for your own people? As a native, do you want to work with the elves or do you want to drive them out—and if so, who do you want to replace them?
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
stayed behind to guard the white dragon eggs and watch over the Northlanders and yetis. Also present in Svardborg are Isendraug, a female adult white dragon who desperately wants her eggs back, and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
fighting for the common people. Dreams. Have you left Valenar behind, or are your aspirations tied to the new kingdom? As a half-elf with Valenar blood, do you want to be recognized as a true Valenar
—granted a bond to a patron ancestor and a chance at immortality—or are you more interested in building a homeland for your people? As a human whose land the elves reclaimed, do you want to work with
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
the palace, the Hourglass Coven ensured that Kelek’s rivals from Valor’s Call were close behind. The two factions clashed inside the palace. IGGWILV THE WITCH QUEEN
Iggwilv has a long and storied
transformed into a Fey creature, though she outwardly appears human. Her disposition changed over time as well, as she became less interested in personal power and more interested in exploring her
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
their ancient enemies. The more conservative among them want to maintain the traditions and remaining holdings of their people, isolated from the influence of outsiders and safe from invaders behind
thick walls of stone. Shield dwarves of a more adventurous bent are interested in exploring the world and seeing what lies beyond the bounds of their ancient dwarfholds. Shield dwarves have the racial
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
with him when he leaves Avernus. Its empty iron foundations remain behind to mark the site, and when the tower returns, it locks itself into place with a satisfying clunk. Mordenkainen pays yugoloths
. The fiends aren’t looking for trouble, since they’re more interested in landing a lucrative contract with the mage. Two of the nycaloths — Torgrazk and Shraal — are loyal to Zariel and have been sent
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
?”
When the characters arrive at the Sleeping Giant, the inside is dark. Wheel-of-Fortune stands behind the bar. Their purple skin gleams with a thin sheen of mucus, and their skull and limbs have
what they describe as psychic energy. The tiefling sees this energy as faint, bright-green trails that people and animals leave behind as they move, and the energy gives Wheel-of-Fortune premonitions
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
his honor. The campaign might end with the adventurers winning Iroas’s respect in some way, convincing the other gods (including Heliod if the party is interested in honor and justice, or Mogis if not
-worshiping minotaurs.
2 Heliod, weary of the constant strife between Iroas and Mogis, swears an oath to destroy Mogis with a godly coalition behind him. Erebos, disgusted with Heliod’s hubris
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
. Mordenheim desperately hastened her experiments, employing anyone who would bring her bodies—both newly dead and still living. On her operating table, victims were killed, returned to life, and died again
within her behind golden stitches. Dr. Mordenheim awoke in Lamordia, an unfamiliar land where her genius was celebrated. Elise and the Unbreakable Heart were nowhere to be found, but the doctor soon heard
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Hoard of the Dragon Queen
Othelstan by sending a messenger. Raggnar has a violent past and is treated as an unarmored veteran (AC 10). He keeps his weapons behind the bar.
Captain Othelstan
Prying information from Raggnar
stalling tactic, though he’ll certainly take the money. Because the cultists are about to ship a castle full of treasure from the village, they desperately don’t want the characters to find anything
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tyranny of Dragons
Captain Othelstan by sending a messenger. Raggnar has a violent past and is treated as an unarmored veteran (AC 10). He keeps his weapons behind the bar. Prying information from Raggnar and his clientele is
, though he’ll certainly take the money. Because the cultists are about to ship a castle full of treasure from the village, they desperately don’t want the characters to find anything suspicious, such as
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
minions, an iron flask with a powerful Fiend inside, or a magic portal to an echo’s lair. The characters must prevent the dragon from summoning aid or face a new threat.
6 The dragon is desperately
dragon’s lair left behind a curse, a trap, or a lingering spirit that clever characters can turn against the dragon.
8 The dragon’s lair is almost impossible to navigate without access to one or more
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Book of Many Things
characters; perhaps the characters saved the ally’s life or helped the ally in a significant way. This is an especially good way to bring back an ally the characters liked but left behind in their
remains with the characters as long as there are more secrets to learn; when the characters leave the region the ally is interested in, the ally amiably parts ways with them. A fortune teller might
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
the statue is a tremendous oak desk, behind which stands a high-backed chair carved with screaming faces (see below).
Pneumatic Tubes. Fifteen copper pneumatic tubes span the northwest wall, with a
treatises on the Outer Planes and chronicles of historical events on various Material Plane worlds, including Toril, Oerth, Athas, and others; these tomes are worth 100 gp each to an interested buyer. A
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
while they rest. Considering its origins and appearance, the troll literally being a troll isn’t important to you; you’re more interested in that general challenge and look for the creature. To make your
him and leaves behind some trinket from his hidden kingdom of lost junk. Some say that if you speak too loudly over an open bag of holding or whisper “follow my voice” into a magical storage space
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sage Advice Compendium
. RAI. Some of you are especially interested in knowing the intent behind a rule. That’s where RAI comes in: “rules as intended.” This approach is all about what the designers meant when they wrote
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sage Advice & Errata
you are especially interested in knowing the intent behind a rule. That’s where RAI comes in: “rules as intended.” This approach is all about what the designers meant when they wrote something. In a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
other. Two svirfneblin — one male, one female — sit behind the desks, conferring with advisers and each other. They turn their attention to you as you enter.
The de facto rulers of Blingdenstone are
interested in everything the characters have to say about their adventures, especially if they’ve witnessed any events related to demonic influence in their visits to other parts of the Underdark. The
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
dance, or even sample the canapes. All the illusory figments know nothing of Ythryn’s fate and are interested only in revelry and gossip. Characters who spend at least 5 minutes talking to the illusory
, surgical tools, coiled leather tubes, and more. Behind the tables stands an ornate suit of armor. Where the head should be is a swollen human brain floating inside a canister of translucent fluid
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Scions of Elemental Evil
you don them, ask me your questions.”
The queen snaps her fingers, and an elven man in green-and-gold courtier attire emerges from behind a nearby curtain. In his arms are enough sets of black
you.” What Do You Know about This Temple? “It was a place that harbored great evil. I thought it was destroyed long ago.” (If the players are interested, Queen Yolande details the temple’s history as
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
operates the carousel is named Diana Cloppington. Once a human, Diana sought the help of Granny Nightshade of the Hourglass Coven, desperately wishing to be reunited with her warhorse, which went missing
home in their carnival. Diana greets patrons with good humor, but there’s a sadness behind her eyes. She’s quick to correct anyone who calls her a centaur, saying that she’s “a human who made a bad
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
known for fear the pirates will return and finish them off. Even though the survivors desperately want to leave the island, their superiors would not approve of their abandoning the island to the
against the pirates because he tried to rescue important books and scrolls from the burning abbey, and a collapsing hall closed a doorway behind him. He was forced to abandon the written works, and he
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
treasures of an entire nation, along with the secrets of House Cannith and everything else that was left behind. It’s dangerous. It’s mysterious. But it’s also a dungeon the size of a nation, with
interested in studying its effects more closely. Might you even hope to unravel its mysteries yourself? Do you see it solely as a tragedy, or do you hope that this awesome power could somehow be harnessed
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Turn of Fortune’s Wheel
Hunt. If the characters can find out who is behind Oka’s death, Ophelia promises to reward them with a figurine of wondrous power (serpentine owl). Razortooth Rock Razortooth Rock stands 5 miles
be interested in the figurine of wondrous power (serpentine owl) Ophelia offered the characters. He’s also willing to accept a gift at a later date, at which point he sends agents to see if the