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Sailor Legacy

Backgrounds Player’s Handbook (2014)

You spent your youth under the sway of a dread pirate, a ruthless cutthroat who taught you how to survive in a world of sharks and savages. You’ve indulged in larceny on the high seas and sent

more than one deserving soul to a briny grave. Fear and bloodshed are no strangers to you, and you’ve garnered a somewhat unsavory reputation in many a port town. Variant Feature: Bad

Pirate Legacy

Backgrounds Player’s Handbook (2014)

under the sway of a dread pirate, a ruthless cutthroat who taught you how to survive in a world of sharks and lawlessness. You’ve indulged in larceny on the high seas and sent more than one

you may roll for a random trinket on the Trinkets table in chapter 5 of the Player’s Handbook), a set of common clothes, and a pouch containing 10 gp Feature: Bad Reputation No matter where

Sailor - Baldur's Gate

Backgrounds Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus

dread pirate, a ruthless cutthroat who taught you how to survive in a world of sharks and savages. You’ve indulged in larceny on the high seas and sent more than one deserving soul to a briny grave

. Fear and bloodshed are no strangers to you, and you’ve garnered a somewhat unsavory reputation in many a port town. Variant Feature: Bad Reputation If your character has a sailor

Shadar-kai

Species Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse

Shadar-kai are the elves of the Shadowfell, originally drawn to that dread realm by the Raven Queen. Over the centuries, some of them have continued to serve her, while others have ventured into the

weight that humans have in our world. If you’d like to determine your character’s height or weight randomly, consult the Random Height and Weight table in the Player’s Handbook, and choose the row in the table that best represents the build you imagine for your character.

Creating Domains of Dread

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

Creating Domains of Dread Ravenloft is a place where your nightmares can run wild, where anything you can imagine in moments of dread or despair can come to frightful life among the Mists. The

Satyr Legacy

Species Mythic Odysseys of Theros

amazing things ever. I want to pick them, wear them, and discover their silent secrets. 2 There isn’t a tree or statue that isn’t fun to climb. 3 Nothing wards off bad luck like a

jolly dance. 4 Sometimes talking to a plant really helps. 5 If stumped, I smoke a pipe. And if I’m going to smoke a pipe, it’s going to be a splendid pipe. 6 I imagine

Vistani Lore

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries

Domains of Dread, where creatures born in darkness dwell. This “gift” was thrust upon them by mysterious entities called the Dark Powers, as a boon for their kindness toward strangers. The Vistani

believe that ravens carry lost souls within them. Hence, killing a raven is considered bad luck in Vistani culture.

Darklord's Shadows

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

Darklord’s Shadows A Darklord lurks at the heart of every Domain of Dread. Everything in their realm is inspired by or personalized to them in some way. Some domains might be dismal ruins reflective

). For each evil act, imagine the scene where it took place, and then answer the following questions: What does the act sound like from a distance or to someone in the next room? How does the act, or its

Cultural Specifics

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

out. These details can fade into the background as your adventures focus on more exciting threats, or you can highlight the cosmic dread that declares, yes, this place doesn’t make sense at all, yet it

relocate, nor can they imagine living anywhere else. Life is as it’s always been and could never be better, but it’s constantly threatened with becoming worse.

Seeds of Fear

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

Seeds of Fear Aside from supernatural sources of dread and monsters who strike terror in their victims, fear is subjective and often quite personal. A battle-hardened warrior and a reclusive scholar

, they shouldn’t be able to do so again until they finish a long rest. For example, imagine that a character has the Seed of Fear “I hate being stuck in tight spaces” and must squeeze through a narrow

Adventures

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

characters take the Darklord’s situation from bad to worse, whether as fanatical supporters or tragic victims? Write down three types of characters who are aligned with the Darklord and three who

Connections table provides examples of such connections. Interactions with the Darklord. Imagine situations that allow the players’ characters and the Darklord to socialize without the encounter

Cambion

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)

) and a humanoid (usually a human). Cambions inherit aspects of both parents, but their horns, leathery wings, and sinewy tails are hallmarks of their otherworldly parentage. Born to Be Bad. Cambions

dread, but also with the expectation that it will one day rise to a place of prominence. Cambions raised in the Nine Hells serve as soldiers, envoys, and personal attendants to greater devils. In the

Sailor

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

sway of a dread pirate, a ruthless cutthroat who taught you how to survive in a world of sharks and lawlessness. You’ve indulged in larceny on the high seas and sent more than one deserving soul to a

the Bad Reputation feature (see sidebar) instead of the Ship’s Passage feature. Variant Feature: Bad Reputation If your character has a sailor background, you may select this background feature

Horror Characteristics

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

Misdirection. I work vigorously to keep others from realizing my flaws or misdeeds. 7 Obsession. I’ve lived this way for so long that I can’t imagine another way. 8 Obligation. I owe it to my people

face a tragic end. 2 I’m convinced something is after me, appearing in mirrors, dreams, and places where no one could. 3 I’m especially superstitious and live life seeking to avoid bad luck

Personal Characteristics

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

or phrases, tics and habitual gestures, vices and pet peeves, and whatever else you can imagine. Each background presented in this chapter includes suggested characteristics that you can use to spark

bad fall during her career as a thief. Artemis Entreri is always prepared for the worst and moves with a quick, precise confidence. Consider their ideals. Tika Waylan is innocent, almost childlike

Reality Dawns

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Eve of Ruin

. Alustriel correctly supposes that Kas plans to find Vecna and co-opt the lich-god’s ritual to become the most powerful being in existence. This outcome is as bad as Vecna ruling the multiverse, as far as

, Alustriel suggests the characters use the Chime of Exile to return Kas to Tovag, his Domain of Dread. Alustriel notes that the characters need to significantly weaken Kas before the magic item will work on

Mutual Respect

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

” section earlier in this chapter can help you describe your game to others.) Telling players what to expect prepares them as they imagine what sorts of characters they could create and launches

” in chapter 3 for suggestions). Scott Murphy Conflicts between characters aren’t always bad, but they can get in the way of the game Communicating Limits. Make sure everyone is comfortable with how

Satyr

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

, and discover their silent secrets. 2 There isn’t a tree or statue that isn’t fun to climb. 3 Nothing wards off bad luck like a jolly dance. 4 Sometimes talking to a plant really helps

. 5 If stumped, I smoke a pipe. And if I’m going to smoke a pipe, it’s going to be a splendid pipe. 6 I imagine that my clothes are my glorious soul on display for all the world to behold

Evermeet

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide

along? I felt a little bad about taking advantage of the elf’s blindness and forcing him to leave behind some of his baggage, but it was the opportunity of a lifetime! I overheard it said by the

enraptured. As to what we beheld, well, imagine a place of staggering natural beauty and impossible elven artifice, an alien realm as distant and beautiful as the stars, but as much a part of you as

Alignment

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

character’s favorite words or phrases, tics and habitual gestures, vices and pet peeves, and whatever else you can imagine. Each background presented later in this chapter includes suggested

boastfulness and has a fear of heights resulting from a bad fall during her career as a thief. Artemis Entreri is always prepared for the worst and moves with a quick, precise confidence. Consider their

Mutual Respect

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules

” section earlier in this chapter can help you describe your game to others.) Telling players what to expect prepares them as they imagine what sorts of characters they could create and launches

. Conflicts between characters aren’t always bad. It’s OK for characters (and players) to disagree about how to deal with a captured enemy or which side to back in a brewing war. If the disagreement gets

The Grand Dame

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

to bad taste, with its purple velvet curtains and scented candles in gaudy candelabras. In the middle of the room is a table with a large aquarium tank resting atop it. The aquarium contains a coral

receives a telepathic message from the kraken — a wave of mind-shattering dread that deals 20 psychic damage to the nobleman. An instant later, Lord Drylund keels over dead, blood running from his

Roleplaying a Giant

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters

worth by its size. The small folk are beneath my concern. 7 The small folk are vermin. I enjoy torturing and killing them. 8 Good or bad, Annam’s sons represent the ideals that we, as giants, must

overt displays of it. 6 Ancient dragons fill me with dread. My knees grow weak in their presence. Cloud Giants Cloud giants are aptly named, or at least were at one time. Few of them live literally on

Locations I - L

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

cold, cold north. Roaming this expanse are hundreds of sheep, goats, and cattle plucked from other regions of the North by the vale’s dread overlord, the red wyrm Klauth. Scattered here and there are the

. Refugees are pouring into Loudwater, and those who can’t afford to stay at the local inns are being herded like cows into warehouses overlooking the harbor. As if that weren’t bad enough, stone giants have

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