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Dungeon Master’s Guide
wielder doesn’t share this goal.
Destroying Whelm. Whelm can be dissolved in the acidic bile of a recently slain ancient black dragon. It can also be melted down in the forges of the Mightyhammer dwarf clan, but only by the rightful leader of that clan.
. Whelm has ties to the dwarf clan that created it, called the Dankil or the Mightyhammer clan. It longs to be returned to that clan. Whelm’s purpose is to protect dwarves. Conflict arises if the
Monsters
Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
is Master of Arms and Mercenaries for the Waterdeep Zhentarim. In this role, she provides armor, weapons, and training to sellswords on the Black Network's payroll.
Tashlyn has established a useful
cover by serving as a bodyguard to Vorondar Levelstone, a dwarf magister stationed at the South Gate. She likes the dwarf and has earned his confidence, allowing her to reach the rank of captain in the
Monsters
Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
metals and stones, such as coins and gems, within 60 feet of her.Istrid is regarded as the Black Network's Master of Trade and Coin in Waterdeep. The shield dwarf operates an illegal lending operation
Monsters
Keys from the Golden Vault
opportunity attack;opportunity attacks.Prisoner 13 is a dwarf named Korda Glintstone. Prior to her incarceration years ago, Korda was an ally and agent of Clan Axebreaker, a moderately influential dwarf
. Black and gray smoke and shadows coil down her left arm, ending in runes on the fingers of her left hand.
Knotwork. Purple and blue knotwork and runes run down her right arm, across the back of her right
Magic Items
Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything
gleaming black alloy of unknown origin, the servant is often described as a combination of a disproportioned dwarf and an oversized beetle. The servant contains enough space for 1 ton of cargo and a
Gray Dwarf (Duergar)
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Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide
grim, ashen-skinned dwarves now take slaves of their own and are as tyrannical as their former masters.
Physically similar to other dwarves in some ways, duergar are wiry and lean, with black eyes and
with your Dungeon Master to see if you can play a gray dwarf character.
Duergar see themselves as the true manifestation of dwarven ideals, clever enough not to be taken in by the treacherous deceptions
Human
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Basic Rules (2014)
. Human skin shades range from nearly black to very pale, and hair colors from black to blond (curly, kinky, or straight); males might sport facial hair that is sparse or thick. A lot of humans have a
single elf or dwarf might take on the responsibility of guarding a special location or a powerful secret, humans found sacred orders and institutions for such purposes. While dwarf clans and halfling
Dwarf
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Basic Rules (2014)
friend. In spite of the added discomfort, the dwarf’s long, pointed, often-broken nose and gray-streaked though still-fiery red beard came as a welcome sight to Drizzt. “Knew I’d find
common shades are light brown or deep tan, like certain tones of earth. Their hair, worn long but in simple styles, is usually black, gray, or brown, though paler dwarves often have red hair. Male
Species
Eberron: Rising from the Last War
My family has the finest vaults you can imagine. They forge the locks that secure royal jewels. And I learned to pick those locks when I was barely out of the crib.
—Cutter, burglar and
Kundarak excoriate
The Mark of Warding helps its bearers protect things of value. Using the mark, a dwarf can weave wards with mystic force. It also provides its bearer with an intuitive understanding
Lizardfolk
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Volo's Guide to Monsters
freshly grilled steak.
— Tordek, dwarf fighter and adventurer
Only a fool looks at the lizardfolk and sees nothing more than scaly humanoids. Their physical shape notwithstanding, lizardfolk
lizardfolk doesn’t share those feelings, but instead assesses them in the same clinical manner. Yes, the fallen dwarf might be most useful as a meal, but hacking the body into steaks provokes aggression
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
The Mark of Warding My family has the finest vaults you can imagine. They forge the locks that secure royal jewels. And I learned to pick those locks when I was barely out of the crib.
—Cutter
, burglar and Kundarak excoriate
The Mark of Warding helps its bearers protect things of value. Using the mark, a dwarf can weave wards with mystic force. It also provides its bearer with an intuitive understanding of locks used to protect and seal.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron
The Mark of Warding “My family has the finest vaults you can imagine. They forge the locks that secure the jewels of kings and queens. And I learned to pick those locks when I was barely out of the
crib.”
— Cutter, burglar and Kundarak excoriate
The Mark of Warding helps its bearers protect things of value. Using the mark, a dwarf can weave wards and seal portals with mystic force. It also
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
-bearded dwarf in a custodial uniform carrying a heavy, square tome bound in black leather. The weight of the book causes the old dwarf to wheeze, squint, and clench his teeth. Before he can utter a word
, his knees buckle and he collapses with the book pressed underneath him.
The dwarf, Buron Sternmettle, is dead—the victim of a sudden heart attack. Because his soul doesn’t want to return, spells
Species
Acquisitions Incorporated
.
Reality is a descent into chaos punctuated by brief flashes of order, whence we arose and so imagine it to be the norm rather than a distant outlier. That-Which-Endures held entropy back for a mere instant
turned the color of jade and their blood began to flow black. Their ears grew pointed, and they gained a limited form of telepathy — but at the cost of forgetting their history. The underground homes
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
significance of a dragon’s schemes to make those plots fit the dragon’s stature in the world. Imagine the dragon’s hoard on the scale of a national treasury. Think of the dragon’s minions as the entire
characters might loyally serve one dragon in opposition to another, or they might attempt to play multiple dragons against one another—perhaps earning the ire of them all. In the heart of the jungle, the black greatwyrm Rhashaak keeps watch over a ruined city
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
, which the characters can remove from its corpse. The massive heart is the size of a small trunk and weighs nearly one hundred pounds. Any characters close to it while it is being transported imagine
second component takes the form of a few spatters of a demon lord’s blood. A successful DC 10 Wisdom (Perception) check finds some of Yeenoghu’s black blood on the fallen goristro’s horns.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Lost Mine of Phandelver
supplies, you see the body of a dwarf miner, dead for at least a week.
The northeastern section of the cavern has collapsed, forming a ten-foot-wide, twenty-foot-deep pit. A sturdy hemp rope is tied off
around a nearby stalagmite and dangles down the side of the pit, at the bottom of which is a rough-hewn tunnel heading northwest and east.
This was the campsite of the Rockseekers. The dead dwarf is
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
Work Read the following text aloud: A team of dwarves is hard at work, pounding on the stone behind the altar with stout tools. Watching them intently is another dwarf wearing black leather armor. Next
to him, tapping its foot impatiently, is a blue-skinned ogre.
Grumink the Renegade The leather-clad dwarf is Grumink the Renegade (see “Other Villains” in chapter 7), and the “blue-skinned ogre” is
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
Black Dragon Treasures Black dragons appreciate objects of cultural, magical, or scientific significance that originated from lost cultures. Knowing a relic they possess is coveted by others because
it presents a link to a lost past is what gives that relic its value. Black dragons also love conventional treasures such as gems (particularly opals), precious metals that don’t corrode easily, and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Lost Mine of Phandelver
messenger told him that someone named the Black Spider was paying the Cragmaws to watch out for the dwarf Gundren Rockseeker, capture him, and send him and anything he was carrying back to King Grol
. Klarg followed his orders. Gundren was ambushed and taken along with his personal effects, including a map.
The dwarf and his map were delivered to King Grol, as instructed. The dwarf’s human companion is being held in the “eating cave” (area 6).
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
T7. Dwarf Statue This fifty-foot-square chamber is hewn out of rock. The floor is rough but flat, the walls show the chisel-marks of the original builders, and the ceiling is about ten feet high
. Identical stone doors with iron pull-ring handles stand in the middle of the east, north, and west walls.
In the center of the room stands a life-sized and lifelike statue of a dwarf warrior wearing a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
37. Showers and Sauna Temple workers came here to shower and bathe. 37a. Showers Benches. Black marble benches stand in the middle of this marble-tiled room.
Showers. Alcoves in the west and east
protrudes from the wall just inside the door.
Benches. Black marble benches hug the wall.
When cold water from an underground river is fed into the tank through the pipe, the fire elemental turns
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
15. Temple of Dumathoin This huge chamber has been sculpted to resemble a cavern with a 30-foot-high vaulted ceiling. 15a. Nave Monsters. Eight duergar plus their leader, a half-shield dwarf, half
the nave support the roof.
Dais. At the south end of the temple, stone steps climb 10 feet to a golden marble dais (area 15b).
Although her mother was a shield dwarf, Skella has the statistics of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tyranny of Dragons
Boareskyr Bridge Boareskyr Bridge bears the name of a now-vanished realm north and east of the Trade Way. The bridge spans the Winding Water and is a major landmark. Constructed of black granite, it
Varram, they are directed to Bolo’s and its female halfling proprietor. “A dwarf in purple robes? Oh, I saw him. He was asking about escorts into the hills, when this hooded fellow starts asking him his
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Rise of Tiamat
Boareskyr Bridge Boareskyr Bridge bears the name of a now-vanished realm north and east of the Trade Way. The bridge spans the Winding Water and is a major landmark. Constructed of black granite, it
Varram, they are directed to Bolo’s and its female halfling proprietor. “A dwarf in purple robes? Oh, I saw him. He was asking about escorts into the hills, when this hooded fellow starts asking him his
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
square heads pressed against the floor. The west wall bears a cracked mosaic that depicts a dwarf smith at a forge, crafting dwarves out of black metal and diamonds. (In the south end of the wall is a
of dwarf warriors in plate armor. Crumbling Bridges. The bridges connect area V4 to adamantine doors that seal off areas V6, V7, and V8. The eastern half of the northern bridge and the western half of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
, gold dwarves tend to be more optimistic than their shield dwarf cousins, but they’re still standoffish and prideful as only a dwarf can be. They believe their race’s stable history is the result of their
traits of hill dwarves in the Player’s Handbook. They are stocky and muscular, averaging about 4 feet tall, with brown skin, black or brown hair, and brown or hazel eyes, with green eyes rare (and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
ancient black dragon. It can also be melted down in the forges of the Mightyhammer dwarf clan, but only by the rightful leader of that clan. Conceptopolis Weapon of Warning (Trident), +1 Weapon (War Pick), Wind Fan, Winged Boots, Wings of Flying
Whelm Weapon (Warhammer), Artifact (Requires Attunement by a Dwarf or a Creature Attuned to a Belt of Dwarvenkind) Whelm is a powerful weapon forged by dwarves and lost in the dungeon of White Plume
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
follows: Door Handles. The black basalt doors leading to the dais (area 15b) have handles on this side and are easily pulled open from within.
Mithral Veins. Thin veins of mithral spread across the
phrase in Common: “The gate cannot hide from those it cannot see.”
While in this room, dwarf characters can sense the immense weight of the mountain gently pressing down on them and realize
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
pillar is carved to look like a scowling dwarf with bulging muscles that supports the column’s upper third on its broad shoulders. Blue sapphires glitter in the dwarves’ eyes.
Double Door. The doors
-long, 20-foot-high curtain of black dragon scales hangs from an iron rod bolted to the west wall. (The scales have become brittle with age and are not valuable.)
Hanging Horn. Suspended from the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen
their introduction or more details about them. Pronunciations Name Pronunciation Description Introduced Akhviri AK-veer-ee Black dragon serving the Red Dragon Army Chapter 5 Alstare Bellis AL
GRASH-ah ME-ghan Dwarf matron of a reclusive clan Chapter 5 Ishvern ish-VERN Sea elf leader of a group of Dimernesti elves Chapter 5 Ispin Greenshield ISS-pin GREEN-shield Deceased storytelling human
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)
Chapter 1: Step-By-Step Characters Your first step in playing an adventurer in the Dungeons & Dragons game is to imagine and create a character of your own. Your character is a combination of game
information you need and how you use it during the game. BUILDING BRUENOR
Each step of character creation includes an example of that step, with a player named Bob building his dwarf character, Bruenor.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
Chapter 1: Step-By-Step Characters Your first step in playing an adventurer in the Dungeons & Dragons game is to imagine and create a character of your own. Your character is a combination of game
place to start until you know what information you need and how you use it during the game. BUILDING BRUENOR
Each step of character creation includes an example of that step, with a player named Bob building his dwarf character, Bruenor.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
Master’s Guide). 29b. Underbrew in Chains Affixed to the back wall of the western alcove is a stone-framed painting of a scarred male dwarf wearing black plate armor. He is bound by heavy iron chains
on a DC 22 Charisma saving throw or be magically pulled into it, switching places with the dwarf currently trapped inside (see below). A humanoid drawn into the painting finds itself chained in an
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Lost Mine of Phandelver
wizards fought alongside their dwarf and gnome allies to defend the Forge of Spells, and the ensuing spell battle destroyed much of the cavern. Few survived the cave-ins and tremors, and the location of
Cave, and they intend to reopen the mines. Unfortunately for the Rockseekers, they are not the only ones interested in Wave Echo Cave. A mysterious villain known as the Black Spider controls a






