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making, or something thrust upon you by the actions of another, you are determined to achieve glory, even if you are not always forthcoming about what drives you to achieve greatness. Whatever you have
Satyr
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eccentricities. Some people spend too much time worrying over why satyrs behave as they do. But satyrs themselves simply are as they are, feeling no need to understand what drives them, much less explain it
problem.
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If I have something really important to say, I always make sure to sing it.
Myth of Xenagos the Satyr God
The satyr Xenagos savored his reputation for presiding over the most
Human
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shorter lives that they strive to achieve as much as they can in the years they are given. Or maybe they feel they have something to prove to the elder races, and that’s why they build their mighty
empires on the foundation of conquest and trade. Whatever drives them, humans are the innovators, the achievers, and the pioneers of the worlds.
A Broad Spectrum
With their penchant for migration
Tabaxi
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its secrets and nature have been laid bare.
Tinkers and Minstrels
Curiosity drives most of the tabaxi found outside their homeland, but not all of them become adventurers. Tabaxi who seek a safer
hand, which you constantly fidget with.
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You are always in debt, since you spend your gold on lavish parties and gifts for friends.
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When talking about something you’re obsessed
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron
something you could one day recover from the Mournland—arcane research, an heirloom artifact? Consider the impact this has on your background. As a Cyran noble or soldier, your estates have been lost
family? As an entertainer or guild artisan, are you preserving a particular Cyran tradition? What Drives You? Are you determined to solve the mystery of the Mourning? Do you want to help other refugees
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
? Did you lose something you could one day recover from the Mournland—arcane research, an heirloom artifact, or a precious family relic? Consider the impact the disaster has on your background. As a Cyran
you? Is your wand or weapon an heirloom of your family? As an entertainer or guild artisan, do you preserve a particular Cyran tradition? What Drives You? Are you determined to solve the mystery of the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)
lives that they strive to achieve as much as they can in the years they are given. Or maybe they feel they have something to prove to the elder races, and that’s why they build their mighty empires on
the foundation of conquest and trade. Whatever drives them, humans are the innovators, the achievers, and the pioneers of the worlds.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron
Sage You’re well versed in history and arcane lore, and you have a gift for uncovering the information you need. What is it that drives your pursuit of knowledge? 1d4 Sage
1 You’re an
on the lookout for breaking news. You know your history and you know how to research a story. But if you want to make headlines, you need to be on the scene for something big.
4 You’re on the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
lives that they strive to achieve as much as they can in the years they are given. Or maybe they feel they have something to prove to the elder races, and that’s why they build their mighty empires on
the foundation of conquest and trade. Whatever drives them, humans are the innovators, the achievers, and the pioneers of the worlds.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)
you set your character apart from every other character. Your personality traits should tell you something interesting and fun about your character. They should be self-descriptions that are specific
about what makes your character stand out. “I’m smart” is not a good trait, because it describes a lot of characters. “I’ve read every book in Candlekeep” tells you something specific about your
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)
extras in an adventure. Often, one of the NPCs is a villain whose agenda drives much of an adventure’s action. Over the course of their adventures, the characters are confronted by a variety of creatures
to another creature (or even a magical object) with a goal in mind. And often, the adventurers spend time trying to solve a puzzle, bypass an obstacle, find something hidden, or unravel the current
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
Sea Hag Sea hags live in dismal and polluted underwater lairs, surrounded by merrow and other aquatic monsters. Beauty drives a sea hag to fits of anger. When confronted with something beautiful, the
hag might simply attack it or deface it. If something beautiful gives hope, a sea hag wants it to cause despair. If it inspires courage, the sea hag wants it to cause fear. Ugly Inside and Out. Sea
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
often a negative emotion or destructive behavior—such as fear, hatred, insecurity, jealousy, mayhem, obsession, selfishness, shame—that drives an irrational habit causing the Darklord or others harm
chain objects of my affection to pedestals.
9 When I see something priceless or rare, I sacrifice all of my beliefs and loyalties to possess it.
10 I’m distrustful of anyone who seems pure of heart and will prove to all their admirers how secretly ugly they are.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
respect all beings who risk their lives in defense of something greater than themselves.
2 My payment is a matter of principle. Requiring even a small fee for my service allows those I help to
’ 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->Ravenloft: The Horrors Within
into something sinister. Choose or randomly generate at least one prompt from the Dark Catalyst table to develop what encouraged the Darklord’s corruption. Dark Catalyst 1d10 Something in the
allies’ loyalty. 10 Spurred them to pursue perfection. Wicked Ambitions All Darklords have a core ambition or goal that drives them to commit evil acts. These unobtainable goals fueled their corruption
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
plane of lawful evil. A devil does not choose to be lawful evil or tend toward lawful evil, but rather it is lawful evil in its essence. If it somehow ceases to be lawful evil, it changes into something
traits are small, simple ways to help you set your character apart from every other character. Your personality traits should tell you something interesting and fun about your character. They should be
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Guildmasters' Guide to Ravnica
as common as meals. The Bolrac clan specializes in bringing down massive structures using mauls and battering rams. The only thing the Bolrac love more than destroying something smaller than them is
toppling, overrunning, and destroying something larger than them. Trogs. Some wandering hermits, known as trogs, find even the company of a clan to be too suffocating, so they spend their days alone
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
dragonmarked houses remained neutral in the war and made considerable profit selling their services to all sides. War drives innovation; House Cannith developed many new weapons during the war, including the
in major cities. But there is always the possibility that something you want—a luxury item or a spell component—simply isn’t available or can be acquired only through the black market.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
them, infecting them with a pernicious destiny that Klothys herself tore from the natural order. None can say what terrible destiny the Smoking Strand drives its possessor toward, but the ruins within
left their young world vulnerable to dangers from both inside and out. Putting their rivalry aside, the pair agreed it was better to share and have something than let their struggles destroy all creation
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
people in their nation, or reviled by the people they served? Grim Inspiration Something the villain saw or experienced during the war made a lasting impression that still drives them today. Perhaps
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Xanathar's Guide to Everything
the influence of dark forces that drives them to evil. By setting the proper example, and working to heal the wounds of a deeply flawed world, you can set anyone on a righteous path. Patience. Change
decision, follow through with it knowing your path is just. Redemption. So you feel bad about having done something, and then you have to do something to feel better? Why don’t you just kill and eat
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
underground, and within easy reach of humanoids and their succulent brains. No two lairs are the same, as the resident elder brain drives the form and function of each one. The lair shown in the
particular colony’s elder brain is something of a bully, and has been known to destroy illithids that outwit it in discussions. Guardrooms Chambers on the perimeter of the lair are continually
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
Chukka and Clonk These two kenku are loyal, longtime associates of Mad Maggie’s. She refers to them as the Magpies. Clonk, the bigger of the two kenku, is the strong, silent type who sometimes drives
a redcap, Grubba, grab it and run off. Barnabas is too embarrassed to tell Mad Maggie about it, though she suspects something is amiss because Barnabas has starting whistling when he speaks. He
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
much time worrying over why satyrs behave as they do. But satyrs themselves simply are as they are, feeling no need to understand what drives them, much less explain it to others. The Satyr
, and I dress accordingly.
7 Having horns is the best. They are fun to decorate, and they can pop open an amphora, no problem.
8 If I have something really important to say, I always make
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ravenloft: The Horrors Within
or roll on the Cosmic Horror Villains table to inspire villains appropriate to this genre. Cosmic Horror Villains 1d10 The Villain Is … 1 A smiling minstrel whose music drives listeners to
space beneath their bed. 2 Something drags a coastal town’s inhabitants out in the night, garbs them in silver, and leads them to the surf to drown. 3 A wandering minstrel plays music that robs
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
adornment’s sake is something duergar society frowns upon, the guards’ violent response was unnatural — a hint of the growing madness festering inside the City of Blades. Deep Gnome Merchant A female
, honor, hard work, and seeing all non-duergar as lesser creatures. Duergar are ruthless but not unnecessarily cruel, and pragmatism drives their every decision. Though they treat the adventurers with
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
beholder to ignorant creatures in an attempt to intimidate them, or as a spectator to its summoner in order to drain magic items it is expected to guard. Inferior Tyrant. A beholder usually drives
. A gazer might follow humanoids in its territory, noisily mimicking their speech and generally being a nuisance, until they leave the area, but it flees if confronted by something it can’t kill. Gazer
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
no shortage of the good and the just among my people, but the sheer zeal and genuine bravado the Companions have in pursuit of righteousness seems to me something uniquely human. And it’s not just
note are located within the borders of Elturgard. I describe three of them briefly here. Berdusk. A large population of artisans drives the activity in the city of Berdusk. Its native nobility, the so
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Divine Contention
north gate is on fire! Defenders huddle behind the palisade, not daring to peek over the parapet. Every few seconds, the gate heaves on its hinges as something heavy slams into it from the other side
than once, it retreats into the clouds. If the dragon retreats, the defenders are inspired to turn the tide of battle against their enemies. The party drives off the dragon. Mark one victory and go to
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
of gnawing on old kills, and is often seen with a mangled corpse hanging from her mouth. Other dragons rarely remain in Kryptgarden Forest for long, because Claugiyliamatar drives them out. Suggested
forest critters) warn her of their presence. She decides on a whim to leave her lair and confront them. The characters hear something enormous approaching them through the dark woods and tangled