detail invaders are bard

Playing with Class

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

be reframed for an Acq Inc campaign. Each class section offers up suggestions for adding detail and narrative flair to your character. Where tables are presented as part of those suggestions, you can

: Barbarian: Path of the Ancestral Guardian, Path of the Zealot Bard: College of Glamour, College of Whispers Druid: Circle of Dreams, Circle of the Shepherd Fighter: Arcane Archer, Cavalier, Samurai

Zones and Denizens

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

in more detail, with additional information contained in the “Ironslag: General Features” sidebar. The Yakfolk Village Roster tables and the Forge Roster table summarize the hostile inhabitants of

village within sight of this yakfolk must succeed on a DC 12 Dexterity (Stealth) check to avoid being spotted immediately. If this yakfolk spots any invaders, it heads to area 8 to warn Chief Kartha

Chapter 3: Character Classes

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player’s Handbook

Chapter 3: Character Classes ANDREA PIPARO The heroes Mercion, Molliver, Strongheart, and Ringlerun protect a portal to another plane from diabolical invaders Character class provides a

. Then follow the Path of the... Berserker to unleash raw violence. Wild Heart to manifest kinship with animals. World Tree to tap into cosmic vitality. Zealot to rage in union with a god. Bard

Tools

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)

represents broader knowledge of its use. For example, the DM might ask you to make a Dexterity check to carve a fine detail with your woodcarver's tools, or a Strength check to make something out of

proficiency bonus to any ability checks you make to play music with the instrument. A bard can use a musical instrument as a spellcasting focus. Each type of musical instrument requires a separate

Starting Points

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron

give an initial focus to the campaign—setting a tone and giving players an initial investment in the story. The player characters may be meeting in a tavern—but it’s their favorite tavern. The bard

happen?” You Meet at a Tavern … But Which Tavern? Where do you spend your off hours? As a group, once you settle on a location, each player can add one cosmetic detail about it. This could involve a

Escape from Vogler

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

: “Dragon!” Then it comes into view. Pitching this way and that, its scales clanking like steel plates, a black beast draws near the wharf, flanked by reptilian invaders. Flames crackle from the beast’s

crewed by four baaz draconians (see appendix B). This battle takes place in front of Vogler’s wharf, depicted on map 3.3. The “Vogler Battlefield Features” and “Vogler Battlefield Events” sections detail

Overlake Hold

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss

also the home of the Deepking and the center of government. Dunglorrin Torune bristles with forge chimneys from which smoke billows and ledges from which catapults can hurl stones at waterborne invaders

describes in detail how discovering the conspiracy and purging the corrupt will earn her great favor with the Deepking. Errde swears (truthfully) that she will arrange for the characters to get safe passage

Tools

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)

represents broader knowledge of its use. For example, the DM might ask you to make a Dexterity check to carve a fine detail with your woodcarver’s tools, or a Strength check to make something out of

instrument. A bard can use a musical instrument as a spellcasting focus, as described in chapter 10. Each type of musical instrument requires a separate proficiency. Navigator’s Tools. This set of

Creating a Rival

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

solve 3 High priest who worries the characters are diminishing the temple’s prestige 4 Wizard who blames the characters for some recent troubles 5 Rival adventuring party 6 Bard who loves a scandal

worried that recent misdeeds will be revealed To add the right amount of detail to a rival you want to create, give some thought to what that NPC is trying to accomplish and what resources and

Home, Sweet Home

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War

inspiration, or you can develop a unique location. Work with the players to develop the connections that each character has to the site. If the location is a tavern, for instance, a bard character

creative exercise, you could also allow each player to add a physical detail to the place or to describe one of the location's NPCs—the stuffed gorgon head over the hearth, another regular among the

Dwarven Religion

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

Moradin are responsible for judging and assessing the work of a stronghold’s artisans. They keep great volumes that describe various crafting techniques in detail, and use the guidelines in them to judge

lead from the front. When defending a stronghold, they guard the walls and lead sorties against enemy positions. When an external threat is near, the priests plan guerrilla raids to disrupt invaders

Star Spawn Emissary

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft

reality toward terror. Heralded by ominous astrological events, these ravenous invaders make worlds ready for unimaginable masters or distant, greater manifestations of themselves. Employing their

the traits and actions of the previous form and gains those of the new form. The accompanying stat blocks detail both of the emissary’s forms. Lesser Form A star spawn emissary’s lesser form allows

Building a Dungeon

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

–18 Neutral evil 19–20 Chaotic evil NPC Class d20 Class 1 Barbarian 2 Bard 3–4 Cleric 5 Druid 6–7 Fighter 8 Monk 9 Paladin 10 Ranger 11–14 Rogue 15 Sorcerer 16 Warlock 17–20 Wizard Dungeon

Abandoned due to plague 5–8 Conquered by invaders 9–10 Creators destroyed by attacking raiders 11 Creators destroyed by discovery made within the site 12 Creators destroyed by internal conflict 13 Creators

World-Shaking Events

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

: a prominent playwright, bard, or court fool in whose words, art, or performance the people perceive universal truth. On a smaller scale, this might be an influential local poet, minstrel, satirist

presaged this event, or a series of signs and omens. Describe the omen in detail. Describe or name the creature that warned the populace about the oncoming disaster. Who listened? Who were the lucky

Background

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

I could make them laugh or cry with my stories or songs. 3 I ran away from home to follow a minstrel troupe. 4 I saw a bard perform once, and I knew from that moment on what I was born to do. 5 I

mercenary company, selling my sword to the highest bidder. 6 Invaders attacked my homeland. It was my duty to take up arms in defense of my people. Urchin d6 I became an urchin because … 1 Wanderlust

Hirelings

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Lost Laboratory of Kwalish

ignored as he attacks them. Garret Levistusson CN male tiefling bard/rogue The Cartophile’s first choice to join the characters’ expedition, Garret is an untrustworthy bon vivant and magpie. His mapmaking

skills are first rate, though, and the Cartophile trusts him to accurately detail the route to Daoine Gloine and sketch images of things discovered along the way. Garret claims that his infernal

The Mountain Door

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a2

successful DC 12 Strength or Dexterity saving throws to avoid losing their grip and falling if they aren’t otherwise secured. Development. If the orcs destroy the bridge but repel the invaders in doing

. (The ogre would never stoop to wielding the delicate blade like some prancing bard.) 13. Dwarven Statue At the end of the passage stands a statue of a fierce-looking dwarf in heavy mail armor. The stone

Area Locations

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Nest of the Eldritch Eye

Hallwinter but also what it has witnessed while haunting these catacombs. The ghost can share the following information with the characters: Catacomb Invaders. A small group of Humanoids descended into the

room is a square table covered in scribbled notes and ink-stained parchment. The notes spread across the table detail the cult’s experiments and history. A character who spends at least 10 minutes

Goldenfields Locations

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

invaders could scale the outer wall and enter the compound undetected if they were lucky enough to avoid the notice of the guards. G3. Earth Mother’s Bounty The first thing visitors to Goldenfields see as

the Goldenfields compound that lies northwest of the wheat fields. G16. Apple Orchard Many a bard has sung songs about Goldenfields’ apple orchard; its old yet seemingly ageless trees yield thousands

Wreck of the Marshal

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh

in pieces that litter the ground. Crab of Cuthbert. The day before the Marshal sank, Clergol of the Viola, a bard and a follower of St. Cuthbert, cast the awaken spell on a crab he named Barnacle

is described in detail after the table. Marshal Wreck Encounters d4 Encounter Level 1 Vecna’s Twist 5th 2 Merrow Mayhem 7th 3 Golem Diver 11th 4 Dragon Turtle Bandit 15th Vecna’s Twist The town

Necropolis Locations (Y1-Y9)

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

killed by drow invaders less than a tenday ago. The tomb tapper chased the drow to this point before they finally killed it. (The characters might have encountered the drow already in chapter 6.) The

into much detail, Xerophon alludes to horrible magical experiments performed on prisoners by the wizard who ran the prison, saying, “I was afraid I might be next.” Once it realizes the fate that has

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