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Eberron: Rising from the Last War
forces, House Deneith brokers the services of a wide range of soldiers, including Valenar war bands and the goblins of Droaam. Beyond the battlefield, the Defender’s Guild provides exceptional
bodyguards for those who can afford their services. House Deneith is also renowned for its Sentinel Marshals, agents who hold the authority to pursue criminals and enforce the law across the length of
Monsters
Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
—a nervous disorder that manifests as trembling. It can affect her balance and her stride, but she has learned to cast her spells unimpeded by it.
Despite her firm grasp of the dark arts, she
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Companions. Since arriving in Icewind Dale, Vellynne has secured the services of six icewind kobold;Icewind kobolds that act as her valets and guides. Two of them were killed by a Melf's acid arrow spell (cast
Species
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
lurking just out of sight, and many of them have sneaked away from that god’s influence.
They are long of limb and covered in coarse hair, with wedge-shaped ears and pointed teeth. Despite their
character is a member of the human race or of a fantastical race. If you select a fantastical race, follow these additional rules during character creation.
Ability Score Increases
When determining
Species
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
The saurian lizardfolk are thought by some sages to be distant cousins of dragonborn and kobolds. Despite their resemblance to those other scaled folk, however, lizardfolk are their own people and
level, you choose whether your character is a member of the human race or of a fantastical race. If you select a fantastical race, follow these additional rules during character creation.
Ability Score
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything
character’s origin and give you the ability to create many different types of characters. Despite that versatility, a D&D race that has the Ability Score Increase trait includes little or no choice—a lack
Customizing Your Origin At 1st level, you choose various aspects of your character, including ability scores, race, class, and background. Together these elements help paint a picture of your
Halfling
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, even by the standards of his diminutive race, with the fluff of his curly brown locks barely cresting the three-foot mark, but his belly was amply thickened by his love of a good meal, or several, as
despite the rise and fall of empires.
Many halflings live among other races, where the halflings’ hard work and loyal outlook offer them abundant rewards and creature comforts. Some halfling
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
Rites Physical and mental discipline are important virtues of the Path of Light. Martial arts and guided meditation become a form of devotion and prayer. A kalashtar priest conducts services
telepathically, using shrines designed to amplify psychic abilities and allowing them to share thoughts and images directly with the congregation. To an outsider, a service can appear silent and tranquil despite being an ecstatic experience for the faithful.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
House Deneith has governed the mercenary trade. While warriors with the Mark of Sentinel are among its most elite forces, House Deneith brokers the services of a wide range of soldiers, including Valenar
war bands and the goblins of Droaam. Beyond the battlefield, the Defender’s Guild provides exceptional bodyguards for those who can afford their services. House Deneith is also renowned for its
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
Scout Scouts are skilled hunters and trackers who offer their services for a fee. Most hunt wild game, but a few work as bounty hunters, serve as guides, or provide military reconnaissance. Scout
Medium humanoid (any race), any alignment
Armor Class 13 (leather armor)
Hit Points 16 (3d8 + 3)
Speed 30 ft.
STR
11 (+0)
DEX
14 (+2)
CON
12 (+1)
INT
11 (+0
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron
celebration of the sacrifice of Tira Miron, who gave her life to serve as the Voice of the Silver Flame. There are services at all Silver Flame churches and shrines, and the faithful are encouraged to
find some way to help their communities. Aureon’s Crown (26 Dravago). A celebration of knowledge. Elders share their knowledge with the young. Morgrave University holds its graduate services on this
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
Attitude and Race Each ship’s crew and passengers have an attitude that guides how they interact with the characters. Friendly ships seek to trade or share news, neutral ones attack if they feel
table to determine the nature of the crew. The race chosen or rolled need not be the only one found on the ship, and you might use a table multiple times to make a ship’s crew and passengers more
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
. These serve as strongholds and hubs for house businesses. A city may also have any number of businesses tied to the house, but these are simply providing services and don’t have any direct connection to
house leadership. Names and Ranks. Any heir of the house who develops a dragonmark is allowed to add the d’ prefix to the house name: for example, Merrix d’Cannith. Despite the Korth Edicts
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Forge of the Artificer
the campus proper, renting residences to students and faculty. The university also leases business space to essential trades and services, from booksellers and stationers to scribes and cartographers
the university, several large courtyards among the towers feature grass and small trees. Locals call these courtyards the “ground floor” of the campus, despite their position high above the Menthis
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
A Culture of Fugitives Despite all their unique and overwhelming abilities, the mind flayers are a race on the edge of extinction. Thousands of years ago, the illithids were the dominant power of the
mind flayers relied on a slave race, the gith, to provide physical labor and sustenance when other sources of food grew thin. Eventually, the gith revolted. Whether the mind flayers became decadent or
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
spellcasting services. Clifftop, Upper Dura The Gold & White This tavern offers fare of comfortable quality at modest prices. It caters to members of the Sharn Watch and Brelish veterans, but others will
offers a range of services, with food and lodging of poor to comfortable quality. Underlook,
Middle Dura The Hollow Tower A vertically oriented arena used for aerial jousting and other unusual
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron
are a sixth of it; the rest is a blend of every race found across Khorvaire. Halflings, elves, and gnomes have a significant presence in the city, but even kalashtar and changelings have communities
the tone of a ward. Upper wards are home to the wealthy and powerful. Here you’ll find the finest goods and the most expensive services. The typical quality of meals and inns is wealthy or
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
. In other matters, it sells its services to all who have the gold to pay for them. House Tarkanan’s top priority is using its wealth to protect, train, and care for people who have aberrant marks. The
leaders of the house are pragmatists and soldiers, and they train their recruits to be warriors and thieves. Despite its name, House Tarkanan is not a dragonmarked house; it has taken the name to mock
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
services on this day, and a day-long schedule of public lectures is presented at the Great Hall of Aureon in Upper Menthis. Brightblade (12 Nymm) The festival of Dol Dorn is noted across the city with
Landing. The Race of Eight Winds (23 Lharvion) This event is an aerial race that takes place around Dura Quarter. The Hunt (4 Barrakas) In honor of the Sovereign Balinor, a fierce beast is brought to the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Guildmasters' Guide to Ravnica
Blastseekers While chemisters focus on inventing new tools, weapons, and other devices for the guild to use, the role of a blastseeker is to put those devices to work. Despite the name, not all such
devices produce explosions, but all the most interesting ones (from the Izzet perspective) do. Cosmotronic Blastseeker
Medium humanoid (any race), chaotic neutral
Armor Class 15 (chain shirt
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
enough—originating from hidden troves or ancient vaults—that no trader questions their value. Languages By impossible coincidence, all domains share a language despite their profoundly different
maintained by the Keepers. Individuals and businesses friendly with the Keepers—such as a village notary or inn—might surreptitiously contract their services, allowing customers to send a letter for 1
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Guildmasters' Guide to Ravnica
given in the form of debt and obligation. Orzhov attorneys and advokists maintain offices near New Prahv and other Azorius courts. Despite their proximity to law enforcement, these offices are centers of
declining profits in a vacillating economy, the Orzhov have begun offering protection services, promising to shield their “customers” from both physical harm and fiscal disaster. These operations amount to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Turn of Fortune’s Wheel
up to you, but they should have enough time to take a long rest before the Harmonium spoils the fun (see the “Sigil Encounters” section). Map of Sigil If the characters accept Parisa’s services, show
knows how the characters died. Despite their predicament, the characters can learn minor details about themselves through experiences in Sigil. They might discover they have a fear of needles after
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Heroes of the Borderlands
provisioner’s shop is small but has a big personality.
Loud. Ruckus compensates for his short stature by shouting up to taller customers.
Everything Has a Place. Despite the mess in his shop, Ruckus
toward the back of the shop is roped off and bears a hastily scrawled sign that reads, “WARNING! FIRE GHOST. STAY OUT!” Inside the storeroom, jumbled goods cram floor-to-ceiling shelves.
Shop Services
Kobold
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Volo's Guide to Monsters
at the actions or deeds of other races. They aren’t forgiving of other races, and they enjoy nursing their hatred until they get a chance to wreak revenge on a creature or a race that has wronged
protection from invaders and in return providing services such as excavating new living spaces and disposing of trash. If it’s unlucky, the tribe is enslaved by the other humanoids, and the kobolds
Goblin
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Beast Masters and Slave Drivers
Goblins know they are a weak, unsophisticated race that can be easily dominated by bigger, smarter, more organized, more ferocious, or more magical creatures. Their god
out while still getting decent performance out of the slaves. But humanoids and monsters that are especially capable or that provide unusual services find themselves treated like favored (though
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
. This set of circumstances prompts hellish and abyssal armies to carry war chests with them in the hope of buying the services of the yugoloths on the other side. The war chests themselves thus become
that hires them, yugoloths almost never fight on their home plane of Gehenna despite the fact that both sides sometimes traverse it and many battles of the Blood War are fought there. A yugoloth killed
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Guildmasters' Guide to Ravnica
. Inside were hundreds of well-preserved corpses suffused with a latent necromantic power that Mazirek activated, bringing the corpses back to a shambling semblance of life. This new race of undead is
called the Erstwhile (equivalent to the wight in the Monster Manual). In their time, the Erstwhile were aristocratic elves of immense wealth and opulence. They still wear their stately attire, despite its
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Book of Many Things
stat block to represent these scholars, if necessary. Despite their meager resources, the astronomers who work at this remote observatory don’t charge adventurers for most services. Instead, the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
Cunning, and Innate Spellcasting features of a deep gnome). Despite the desecration of the drow invasion and the decades of scavenging and raiding in its aftermath, the old city’s honored dead still rest
services (see “Changing Svirfneblin Attitudes” earlier in this chapter), as certain svirfneblin ask for their help. If the characters leave the svirfneblin without providing them assistance in dealing with
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
Vlaakith’s Dilemma Long gone are the days when the gith race was fully embroiled in conflict. When the githyanki settled Tu’narath and took up residence in the Astral Plane, they no longer had to
smallest pieces of exquisite jewelry. Indolent Dilettantes As a race bred and shaped by the mind flayers for a life of fighting, the githyanki never knew anything else while they were enslaved. Now that they
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron
want them to be your enemy? Would you prefer to avoid them completely? Or do you want to work your way into a position of power in the house, despite being an outsider? Dragonmarks and Houses Table
Dragonmark House Race Guild Specialties
Detection Medani Half-Elf Bodyguards, Investigation, Risk Management
Finding Tharashk Human, Half-Orc Bounty Hunting, Investigation
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Guildmasters' Guide to Ravnica
suggested characteristics (personality traits, ideals, bonds, and flaws). Each guild entry also provides personal contacts; suggestions for your alignment, race, and class; and a list of spells that you can
, consolidate wealth, and fragment a populace against itself. The numbers of the guildless include people engaged in a wide variety of trades and services that aren’t managed and regulated by the guilds
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
Commander, Iyanna is idealistic and honorable. She fights for the good of the common people. If the adventurers need an honest ally in the Watch, Iyanna is perhaps their best hope. Despite her father’s best
efforts to keep her from getting entangled in the criminal underworld, her actions have won her no friends among Sharn’s crime lords, and her life could be in danger despite her parentage. Lady Warden
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
hags typically offer to NPCs can take whatever form makes sense for the story. If one or more of the characters enter into a bargain for the hags’ services (even if only to learn more of the procedure
score for that ability increases by 2, as does the character’s maximum for that score. Physical Transformation. A character bargaining with the hags can choose to change their race, sex, or appearance
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything
. These like-minded individuals follow specific teachings, spreading word of their expertise through their services and training. 6 Identity Traders. These enigmatic dealers buy and sell documents
Guild Artisan background). These dues fund the guild’s services and activities. Accommodations. You can stay at your organization’s guildhall. The rooms are comparable to those in a comfortable inn, but