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Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
create illusions, allowing them to better conceal their treasures from prying eyes and divinations.
Creating an Emerald Dragon
Use the Emerald Dragon Personality Traits and Emerald Dragon Ideals
tables to inspire your portrayal of distinctive emerald dragon characters.
Emerald Dragon Personality Traits
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Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
spells that create illusions, allowing them to better conceal their treasures from prying eyes and divinations.
Creating an Emerald Dragon
Use the Emerald Dragon Personality Traits and Emerald Dragon
Ideals tables to inspire your portrayal of distinctive emerald dragon characters.
Emerald Dragon Personality Traits
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Trait
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
illusions, allowing them to better conceal their treasures from prying eyes and divinations.
Creating an Emerald Dragon
Use the Emerald Dragon Personality Traits and Emerald Dragon Ideals tables to
inspire your portrayal of distinctive emerald dragon characters.
Emerald Dragon Personality Traits
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I repeat
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
, allowing them to better conceal their treasures from prying eyes and divinations.
Creating an Emerald Dragon
Use the Emerald Dragon Personality Traits and Emerald Dragon Ideals tables to inspire your
avoid interacting with other intelligent creatures. However, their interest in history and culture occasionally gets the better of them, prompting them to seek some engagement with the folk of the world
monsters
: destroy as much in their paths as possible. Before eldritch eddies manifest, telltale signs signal their arrival. Roll on or choose a result from the Eldritch Eddy Manifestations table to inspire what
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A geyser of multicolored light shoots from the ground toward the sky.
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The air shimmers, and unsettling laughter booms from all directions.
Fire, LightningForce
Entertainer
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Backgrounds
Player’s Handbook (2014)
You thrive in front of an audience. You know how to entrance them, entertain them, and even inspire them. Your poetics can stir the hearts of those who hear you, awakening grief or joy, laughter or
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Ideal
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Beauty. When I perform, I make the world better than it was. (Good)
2
Tradition. The stories, legends, and songs of the past must never be forgotten, for they teach us
Deep Dragon Wyrmling
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Traits and Deep Dragon Ideals tables to inspire your portrayal of distinctive deep dragon characters, and use the Deep Dragon Spellcasting table to help select spells for a spellcasting dragon.
Deep
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Understanding. True power comes from the ability to discern other creatures’ motivations better than they can discern yours. (Any)
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Kindred. All dragons are kin to one
Young Deep Dragon
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Creating a Deep Dragon
Use the Deep Dragon Personality Traits and Deep Dragon Ideals tables to inspire your portrayal of distinctive deep dragon characters, and use the Deep Dragon Spellcasting table to
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Ideal
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Understanding. True power comes from the ability to discern other creatures’ motivations better than they can discern yours
Lizardfolk
Legacy
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Species
Volo's Guide to Monsters
quirk for a lizardfolk character or to inspire a unique mannerism.
Lizardfolk Quirks
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Quirk
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You hate waste and see no reason not to scavenge fallen enemies. Fingers are tasty and
learned to laugh. You use this talent in response to all emotional situations, to better fit in with your comrades.
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You still don’t understand how metaphors work. That doesn’t stop
Backgrounds
Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus
, entertain them, and even inspire them. Your poetics can stir the hearts of those who hear you, awakening grief or joy, laughter or anger. Your music raises their spirits or captures their sorrow. Your
less than perfection.
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I change my mood or my mind as quickly as I change key in a song.
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Ideal
1
Beauty. When I perform, I make the world better than it was. (Good
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
The Court of Orestes On the third day of following Khea’s directions, the party reaches the Khystonos. Its riverbed is nearly dry, the river reduced to a muddy trickle. After following the lethargic
flow for the better part of a day, the adventurers reach a bend where several prominent rocks jut from the mud. These stones mark the entrance to the Court of Orestes.
Adult Deep Dragon
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monsters
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Deep Dragon Ideals tables to inspire your portrayal of distinctive deep dragon characters, and use the Deep Dragon Spellcasting table to help select spells for a spellcasting dragon.
Deep Dragon
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Understanding. True power comes from the ability to discern other creatures’ motivations better than they can discern yours. (Any)
2
Kindred. All dragons are kin to one another
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
Lizardfolk Personality You can use the Lizardfolk Quirks table to determine a personality quirk for a lizardfolk character or to inspire a unique mannerism. Lizardfolk Quirks d8 Quirk 1 You hate
species of humanoid: lizardfolk and meat. 5 You have learned to laugh. You use this talent in response to all emotional situations, to better fit in with your comrades. 6 You still don’t understand how
Backgrounds
Guildmasters’ Guide to Ravnica
against the schemes and ambitions of the other guilds, so much the better.
Skill Proficiencies: Arcana, Medicine
Languages: Two of your choice
Equipment: A Simic insignia, a set of
My research builds on my parents’ work and takes it in interesting new directions.
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If a serious problem confounds me, I can count on my mentor to provide clarity of thought.
3
A
Ancient Deep Dragon
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monsters
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Deep Dragon Ideals tables to inspire your portrayal of distinctive deep dragon characters, and use the Deep Dragon Spellcasting table to help select spells for a spellcasting dragon.
Deep Dragon
1
Understanding. True power comes from the ability to discern other creatures’ motivations better than they can discern yours. (Any)
2
Kindred. All dragons are kin to one another, and
Kobold
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Species
Volo's Guide to Monsters
provoke retaliatory attacks from the creatures they steal from. It’s better to be cautious and overlooked than to be considered dangerous and a threat.
In a couple of situations, kobolds might
resources or territory. Such conflicts aren’t common, because two tribes will always prefer to expand in different directions if they come into contact, but they do happen.
For example, two
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
pack breaks through windows and terrifies the staff. (It’s all the better if the characters are eating a meal there themselves). The monsters single-mindedly pursue the characters and fight until one is
hounds. Thorsk Thelorn in Red Larch can connect the symbol to a mysterious gathering of druids in the Sumber Hills he heard about from a passing merchant and provide directions to Scarlet Moon Hall.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
“Raised by wolves” trait in the outlander background, roll again. In addition, you can use the Lizardfolk Quirks table below to determine a personality quirk for a lizardfolk character or to inspire a
to all emotional situations, to better fit in with your comrades. 6 You still don’t understand how metaphors work. This doesn’t stop you from trying to use them at every opportunity. 7 You appreciate
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
people out of darkness. Inspire people to be better than they are. Even the smallest change is a victory, yet lightbringers—the followers of this path—hope that this is merely a step on a greater journey
light. Violence is never the answer, and the only way to defeat evil is to redeem it. Lightbringers seek to inspire those who live in fear and enlighten those whose evil is driven by ignorance. The
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
this matter, simpler is better!
-Fizban
Use the Bronze Dragon Personality Traits and Bronze Dragon Ideals tables to inspire your portrayal of distinctive bronze dragon characters, and use the Bronze
’ military technology, especially magic armaments and siege engines—the bigger, the better!
8 Conflict drives evolution. By sparking wars between nations, I contribute to the advancement of their
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
directions and suggestions as follows: Buppido knows how to reach Gracklstugh from the southern route out of Velkynvelve. He can also find a route to Gracklstugh from the Darklake. Buppido urges the
characters to go to Gracklstugh to acquire better equipment, and out of a desire to return to his people. He also intends to murder the characters one by one along the way, believing them to be divine
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
Respect quandary Ally Quandary. The adventurers have a better chance of achieving their goal with the help of two individuals whose expertise is all but essential. However, these two NPCs hate each
plead with the characters to spare the villain’s life, to prove that they are better than the villain. A weak NPC might beg for a chance to win favor from the characters by undertaking a dangerous but
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
restricted to the Darklake District, and the characters have better luck asking other outsiders for directions rather than trying to engage the duergar locals. They are directed to the Blade Bazaar if
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
back his fiendish urges long enough to resume his human form. He confessed to his mother, then fled his home as he felt himself transforming again. For the better part of the day since, he has flown
directions to Doña Rosa’s home. If the characters kept Serapio’s cityscape drawings, they can use it to find the vecindad with a successful DC 14 Wisdom (Survival) check. As the characters near the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
Meeting in the Mists Once the players are ready to begin, explain that they’ve each chosen to follow the message’s directions. Then read the following boxed text: Following the directions in the
the Mists table in chapter 3 to inspire other events. No matter what the characters do, the Mists lead the characters back to the crossroads. Development. As the realization that they’re trapped
compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Netheril’s Fall: Tales of Terror, Treasure, and Time Travel
Manifestations table to inspire what happens right before an eldritch eddy arises. Eldritch Eddy Manifestations 1d6 Right Before an Eddy Manifests … 1 Brightly colored sparks fly through the air like
multicolored light shoots from the ground toward the sky. 6 The air shimmers, and unsettling laughter booms from all directions. ZUZANNA WUZYK Eldritch eddies often cropped up in the most inopportune
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
Creating a Gold Dragon Use the Gold Dragon Personality Traits and Gold Dragon Ideals tables to inspire your portrayal of distinctive gold dragon characters, and use the Gold Dragon Spellcasting table
to help select spells for a spellcasting dragon. Gold Dragon Personality Traits d8 Trait
1 I prefer to parley before combat. If villains can be reformed without violence, all the better
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual
on or choose a result from the Gorgon Command Keys table to inspire the word or signal that temporarily neutralizes a gorgon. Notable among my eccentric ancestor’s scattered designs was a schematic of
a swamp-dwelling bovine monster and an ominous note: “Do better.”
—Lum the Maestro, A Mind of Metal
Gorgon Command Keys 1d6 Gorgon Won’t Attack Those That... 1 Cast a particular spell in the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
Creating a Red Dragon Use the Red Dragon Personality Traits and Red Dragon Ideals tables to inspire your portrayal of distinctive red dragon characters, and use the Red Dragon Spellcasting table to
are so few foes and so little prey worthy of me.
2 The worship of smaller creatures pleases me, though their weakness is pathetic—how can they do other than adore me?
3 Nothing is better
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual
Otyugh Garbage-Heap Gourmand Habitat: Underdark; Treasure: Any Néstor Ossandón leal Otyughs live to eat—the more disgusting the meal, the better. They consider all non-otyughs that come within reach
to inspire how an otyugh tempts prey close. Otyugh Lures 1d4 To Attract Potential Meals, the Otyugh... 1 Disguises its tentacles with garbage puppets. 2 Sings an enticing song in Otyugh. 3
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
Creating a Deep Dragon Use the Deep Dragon Personality Traits and Deep Dragon Ideals tables to inspire your portrayal of distinctive deep dragon characters, and use the Deep Dragon Spellcasting table
people—as long as they remain unaware of my true nature.
Deep Dragon Ideals d6 Ideal
1 Understanding. True power comes from the ability to discern other creatures’ motivations better
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
Some players enjoy roleplaying and interaction more than others. Whatever your players’ tastes, your lively portrayal of NPCs and monsters can inspire players to make just as much investment in
discussed in the Introduction. Players who like acting thrive in interaction situations, and it’s fine to let those players take the spotlight. They often inspire other players by their example, but
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Turn of Fortune’s Wheel
characters find Curst’s townsfolk to be a sour, suspicious lot who are generally uninterested in conversation. Getting terse directions to the gate to Carceri or any of the Curst locations requires a
multiverse… but we’re still better than you.”
–Tovus Gilaf, former burgomaster of Curst,
to his replacement, Villigus Bazengar
Encounters in Curst While exploring Curst, the characters might have any
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
Creating a Copper Dragon Use the Copper Dragon Personality Traits and Copper Dragon Ideals tables to inspire your portrayal of distinctive copper dragon characters, and use the Copper Dragon
mine.
2 I love music. It is truly the universal language, able to express ideas far better than mere words alone.
3 I find the notion of trade and barter fascinating, and sometimes even
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
centers on the purpose of communication. Is it to help others or further a personal agenda? Does literature selflessly better society or selfishly advance one’s own goals? The college’s perspective of
—to uplift and empower others, to shine light on the evils of society, and to inspire the best in those around them. The college’s perspective of shadow focuses on the power of language to stab, to






