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Charlatan Legacy

Backgrounds Player’s Handbook (2014)

-colored liquid will surely cure that unseemly rash, this ointment — nothing more than a bit of fat with a sprinkle of silver dust — can restore youth and vigor, and there’s a bridge in the

: Disguise kit, Forgery kitEquipment: A set of fine clothes, a disguise kit, tools of the con of your choice (ten stoppered bottles filled with colored liquid, a set of weighted dice, a deck of marked

Charlatan - Baldur's Gate

Backgrounds Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus

sound too good to be true, but common sense seems to be in short supply when you’re around. The bottle of pink-colored liquid will surely cure that unseemly rash, this ointment — nothing

, tools of the con of your choice (ten stoppered bottles filled with colored liquid, a set of weighted dice, a deck of marked cards, or a signet ring of an imaginary duke), and a pouch containing 15 gp

Aasimar Legacy

Species Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse

dark eyes 3 Starkly colored hair 4 An unusual hue tinting your shadow 5 A ghostly halo crowning your head 6 Rainbows gleaming on your skin Creating Your Character At

, Humanoid, Monstrosity, Ooze, Plant, Undead. These types don’t have rules themselves, but some rules in the game affect creatures of certain types in different ways. For example, the cure wounds spell

Kobold

Species Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse

dangerous those dragons can be and help others defend against draconic destruction. Whatever their relationship to dragons, kobold scales tend to be rust colored, although the occasional kobold sports

of certain types in different ways. For example, the cure wounds spell doesn’t work on a Construct or an Undead. Life Span The typical life span of a player character in the D&D multiverse

The Friendly Dragon

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist

with bronze-colored scales. Slewing to a stop, the creature gives a toothy grin, then raises a claw in a small wave. “Well met!” it chirps. Zelifarn, a young bronze dragon, recently moved into Deepwater

promised reward: an old chest with a rusted lock that can be busted or pried open with a successful DC 13 Strength (Athletics) check. It contains 300 sp plus a golden amulet shaped like an octopus

Activity While Traveling

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh

chapter 8 of the Player’s Handbook for more information on some of the topics discussed below. A number of activities are restricted to certain officers, unless the DM rules otherwise. For example, a

DM might decide that a threat can be noticed only by characters in a specific area of the ship. For example, only characters below deck might have a chance to hear or spot a creature hiding on board

Physical Variations

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

Physical Variations Kobolds vary widely in how their scales are colored and patterned. Although a human might have difficulty telling two similar-looking kobolds apart, the kobolds themselves can

easily recognize each other. Most kobolds of the same tribe tend to have similar coloration. For example, the Copper Tooth tribe might be mostly gray with red stripes. Two tribes that merge eventually

Using and Tracking Conditions

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

Using and Tracking Conditions Many rules and features in the game apply conditions to creatures. You can also apply conditions on the fly when it makes sense to do so. For example, the Poisoned

remember the effects of the condition. You can also place tokens or colored plastic rings (the rings from soda bottle caps work well) on a creature’s miniature, helping everyone remember which creatures are affected by conditions.

Character and Party Creation

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything

Character and Party Creation Each player has options when it comes to choosing a character race, class, and background, though you may restrict certain options that are deemed unsuitable for the

adventurers and also include roleplaying hooks in the form of ideals, bonds, and flaws—things you ought to know. For example, if a player chooses the criminal background, one of the options for the

Cave Features

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

. The cave’s crystal walls don’t restrict where Vecna can teleport using Fell Rebuke, although he still must be able to see his destination. Empowered by Secrets In the Cave of Shattered Reflection

of Secrets table to determine what additional powers, if any, the characters have in the Cave of Shattered Reflection. These powers are cumulative. For example, if the characters kept seven secrets

Dungeon Inhabitants

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

against each other to reduce the threat of the more powerful monsters. For example, in a dungeon inhabited by mind flayers and their goblinoid thralls, the adventurers might try to incite the goblins

over a cavern complex or a gang of trolls inhabiting an aboveground ruin. Other times, particularly in larger dungeons, multiple groups of creatures share space and compete for resources. For example

Session Zero

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

best suit the campaign. Character Creation When players are choosing their characters’ classes and origins, you can restrict options that are unsuitable for the campaign. Encourage the players to

in your campaign. For example, if a player chooses the Criminal background, help the player flesh out their character’s criminal past, and use that information when building relevant storylines into

Adventure Setting

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

internal logic, adventurers can use their understanding of that logic to make informed decisions. For example, characters who find a pool of fresh water in a dungeon might infer that many of the

creatures inhabiting the dungeon come to that spot to drink. The adventurers might set an ambush at the pool. Likewise, closed or locked doors can restrict the movement of some creatures. A dungeon

Mage Tower Practice

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos

a successful ability check for the purpose of determining the winner. Ask the player to describe which spell the character casts and how it helps their team during play. For example, a player might

knapsacks and pulls out a smooth, glowing stone. She says: “As promised, here’s a gift—think of it as a good luck charm for the upcoming game!” The stone is a stone of good luck, and the characters are welcome to keep it indefinitely.

Charlatan

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

deliver. Common sense should steer people away from things that sound too good to be true, but common sense seems to be in short supply when you’re around. The bottle of pink-colored liquid will surely

clothes, a disguise kit, tools of the con of your choice (ten stoppered bottles filled with colored liquid, a set of weighted dice, a deck of marked cards, or a signet ring of an imaginary duke), and a

Arrival at the Fort

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus

landscape. At the center of the compound is a hill of rust-colored stone that resembles a hand clawing out of the ground, with gaps between the fingers. A jagged wall made of rock, bones, and metal debris

consequences of the encounter. For example, if the characters end at a 10 on the scale, they get everything they want from Mad Maggie: one or more vehicles to expedite travel across Avernus, all the

Exploring Excelsior

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Turn of Fortune’s Wheel

buildings rises a tower of alabaster and gleaming, colored glass that reaches into the clouds. As you near the tower, your mimir rings like a bell, and its eyes pulse with golden light. Celestial

let it be used against Sincerity. If the characters repeatedly commit crimes, Varrel pays them as promised, then escorts them out of Excelsior.

Running Combat

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

. For example, if a conversation with an NPC is cut short because the Sorcerer is convinced that NPC is a Doppelganger and targets it with a Chromatic Orb spell, everyone rolls Initiative, and the

monsters. If you aren’t using miniatures or other visual aids, one way to track your monsters is to assign them unique features. For example, imagine that you’re running an encounter with three Ogres

Miniatures

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

combat using miniature figures on a grid. Tactical Maps You can draw tactical maps with colored markers on an erasable vinyl mat with 1-inch squares or a similar flat surface. Preprinted poster-sized

the table, that’s fine, but treat the monster as its official size for all rules. For example, you might use a miniature that has a Large base to represent a Huge giant. That giant takes up less

Using Miniatures

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

tactical maps with colored markers on a wet-erase vinyl mat with 1-inch squares, on a large sheet of paper, or on a similar flat surface. Preprinted poster-sized maps, maps assembled from cardboard

monster takes up an amount of space different from what’s on the table, that’s fine, but treat the monster as its official size for all other rules. For example, you might use a miniature that has a

Cult of the Howling Hatred

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse

perceptions over facts: illusionists, spies, and assassins, for example. Predatory or fierce winged creatures of any kind, even non-sentient monsters that would otherwise resist training, perceive the

of an old mystic with brown skin and white hair, who promised to teach her all she desired to know — a vision of Yan-C-Bin, the Prince of Evil Air. Aerisi turned her study to elemental air, learning

Woodland Pool

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Uni and the Hunt for the Lost Horn

shallower water near the banks is Difficult Terrain. Puffball Mushrooms. Brightly colored puffball mushrooms grow in the locations shown on the map. Each puffball mushroom has AC 5, HP 1, and Immunity to

trickery is used to fool the bugbear into leaving (for example, if the character claims to be working for Kelek). If the characters defeat eight or more bullywugs, Grump surrenders and begs for mercy. If

1. The Resplendent Grotto of Ichthyglug the Voluminous

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage

no farther falls to the floor inside the curtain. Spell effects that would not reasonably pass through the watery curtain are stopped by the barrier as though it were a solid wall. For example, a magic

Plane of Water. The characters find Ichthyglug’s promised reward at the bottom of the drained pool. Characters who complete Ichthyglug’s quest should receive XP as if they had defeated the marid and the

Merchants' Ward

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation

concocted from jungle plants, dinosaur skulls and claws, iron, tiger pelts, carved ivory, Batiri and grung handiwork, colored feathers, tropical fruit, monkeys, plesiosaurus meat, and all the other riches of

listed in chapter 5 of the Player’s Handbook can be purchased in the Grand Souk. Unusual items might not be available (elephants aren’t found in Chult, for example), but a merchant can always be

Astral Plane

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

petrified corpse of a dead god or other chunks of rock drifting forever in the silvery void. Much more commonplace are color pools—magical pools of colored light that flicker like radiant, spinning coins

, for example—might take 4d6 days. For a more general location, such as a color pool leading to a specified plane, the journey might take 1d4 × 10 hours. Dead Gods The Astral Plane is where the

Feywild Features

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Domains of Delight: A Feywild Accessory

, music, and singing birds Values ceremony and refinement (for example, proper ways of speaking, formal etiquette, and extravagant dinner parties) Favors elaborate, manufactured costuming with

) Gloaming Court (Unseelie Fey) Favors gloom, twilight, cobwebs, fireflies, hooting owls, and croaking frogs Values the intuitive and instinctual (for example, mystical rituals, visionaries, and

Encounters (F-H)

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden

, either by offering it treasure worth at least 1,000 gp or by convincing it that the party is on a quest that would benefit frost giants in some way. For example, the frost giant considers Arveiaturace

mostly interested in bragging rights, but they’re open to other possible rewards. For example, the characters might propose that the losing team carry the winning team’s gear for a day. Athletic

Firefinger

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation

toppled them, many such towers were used to send messages between cities via colored flames at night or colored smoke during the day. Firefinger is one of the few still standing, if not the only one

taken (roping characters together, for example). Pterafolk glide around the spire constantly except when it’s raining. They don’t pay much attention to the spire itself, since they arrogantly believe

Fortune-Telling

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Book of Many Things

Fortune-Telling A silver-colored tent stands near the market’s center, marked with a banner bearing a colorful jester’s hat surrounded by the words “Oddlewin’s Tent of Many Fortunes.” When the

or is the first to see it. For example, they might see a villain slaying an important NPC, a village being burned to the ground, or a catastrophic storm on the horizon. Fool. An innocent-looking

Other Religious Systems

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

example of a tight pantheon. Odin is the pantheon’s leader and father figure. Deities such as Thor, Tyr, and Freya embody important aspects of Norse culture. Meanwhile, Loki and his devotees lurk in the

existence. Initiates are born into a new life, remaining in the world of mortal affairs but feeling elevated to a higher sphere. The initiate is promised a place in the god’s realm after death, but also

The Morkoth

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

raves on and on about the spells the kraken has promised to teach him. Morale aboard the ship is understandably low. Half of the cultists are on duty at any given time, while the rest are asleep in their

characters want to delay their departure, Hekaton agrees to stay around long enough for them to search the Morkoth or to take care of other matters. For example, the characters might need to conclude some

Random Encounters in Thither

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

Random Encounters in Thither Roll for a random encounter whenever you feel it is appropriate; for example, you might decide to stage a random encounter while the characters are traveling toward a

to rub melted butter into its flesh and has promised it a hot bath before dinner. Kro’ah is gathering firewood but should be back soon! Persuading the campestri to leave the campsite requires a

Factions

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tyranny of Dragons

exploitation. When Rezmir promised that Voaraghamanthar would reward the tribe’s labors for the cult, the lizardfolk were ready to listen. Where the bullywugs fill the role of a static defense force, the

in The Rise of Tiamat). If characters stray from the lizardfolk’s path between the work camp and Castle Naerytar, intentionally or unintentionally—if, for example, they follow will-o’-wisps into the

Factions

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Hoard of the Dragon Queen

The Scaly Death lizardfolk tribe has no leader. Pharblex killed its shaman, Suncaller, and the death left the tribe with an inferiority complex that was ripe for exploitation. When Rezmir promised

Tiamat). If characters stray from the lizardfolk’s path between the work camp and Castle Naerytar, intentionally or unintentionally — if, for example, they follow will-o’-wisps into the mere — they could

Mournland Environment

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War

spring is marked by the Crimson Water, a stagnant lake of blood-colored liquid. The shores of the Crimson Water are littered with the remains of animals and travelers that have strayed into the

by how much, or you can simply increase it by 1 or 2 as you see fit. Many Mournland creatures have mutations that are purely cosmetic and don’t change their stat blocks. For example, one might have

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