details invent are being

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

determine your inheritance from among the possibilities in the table below. Work with your Dungeon Master to come up with details: Why is your inheritance so important, and what is its full story? You might

Kenku Legacy

Species Volo's Guide to Monsters

. Most kenku use a combination of overheard phrases and sound effects to convey their ideas and thoughts. By the same token, kenku have no ability to invent new ideas or create new things. Kenku can

a talent for learning and memorizing details. Thus, ambitious kenku can excel as superb spies and scouts. A kenku who learns of clever schemes and plans devised by other creatures can put them to use

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

Feature: Inheritance Choose or randomly determine your inheritance from among the possibilities in the table below. Work with your Dungeon Master to come up with details: Why is your inheritance so

Preparing for the Play

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight

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

) while a gloomy audience of darklings watches from the amphitheater seats and masked goblins perch atop the stage rigging (see the boxed text in area M2 for details). Stagefright introduces the

Part 1: Master of Worlds

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

Part 1: Master of Worlds Every DM is the creator of his or her own campaign world. Whether you invent a world, adapt a world from a favorite movie or novel, or use a published setting for the D&D

game you want to run, and helps you nail down a few important details about your world and its overarching conflicts. Chapter 2 helps you put your world in the greater context of the multiverse

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

come alive, you’ll need to invest some time fleshing out details, but the players can help you with that work. Ask them to tell you a bit about mentors, family members, and other important people in

Premade Characters

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

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

. Thanks to details you’ve picked up here and there that corroborate the story, you’re certain it’s more than just a rumor. Personal Goal: Find the Lost Fortune. Whoever that Gilder was who skipped

Staff

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

Staff Chapter 5 of the Player’s Handbook details the costs for characters to hire skilled and untrained hirelings. As is true of characters in any campaign, Acquisitions Incorporated franchisees are

, 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

Minotaur

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros

chapter 3 for more details on Phoberos, the minotaur polis of Skophos, and various minotaur bands. Passion and Zeal Minotaurs are known for venting their outrage through violence, but they aren’t

, believing that a child will inherit the strength, audacity, guile, or fearsomeness of a heroic namesake. Other minotaur parents invent their own names, though, believing in their child’s potential to light

Gnome Gods

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

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

example of what befalls mortals who conduct themselves the same way. For the gnomes, this niche is filled by Urdlen, also known as the Glutton for its selfish and cruel behavior. Though the details

World-Shaking Events

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

name (or invent) a group that opposes it, fomenting revolution. Then let the following points help you flesh out the conflict: Name three things the rebels want or hope to achieve. The rebels achieve a

major change to the campaign world. You can build one from scratch using ideas from the current campaign or randomly determine a world-shaking event and flesh out the details. Write a list of three or

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