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Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
This aasimar variant originally appeared in the Dungeon Master's Guide as an example for creating your own races.
Whereas tieflings have fiendish blood in their veins, aasimar are the descendants of
goodness on the Material Plane without drawing undue attention to their celestial heritage. They strive to fit into society, although they usually rise to the top, becoming revered leaders and honorable heroes.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)
Eberron and Dragonlance. Many of the nonhuman races worship the same gods on different worlds—Moradin, for example, is revered by dwarves of the Forgotten Realms, Greyhawk, and many other worlds.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
region to region, with different cultures and societies emphasizing some deities over others. Although exceptions exist — the gods of Mulhorand, for example — all the gods are revered across all of Faerûn.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
temples and shrines tended by priests who are devoted to various Faerûnian gods. In some of these places, the faithful of deities revered by rulers and other powerful individuals play a greater role in
local politics than those not so favored. In the extreme, worship that is deemed heretical or dangerous is outlawed — for example, in a region where followers of Shar hold authority and power, the worship of her good twin and nemesis Selûne might be against the law.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
dwarves have revered Moradin and sought to follow in his footsteps. Through constant, steady work, they strive to emulate the perfect example set by the originator of the arts and skills the dwarves pursue
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
different gods at different times and circumstances. People in the Forgotten Realms, for example, might pray to Sune for luck in love, make an offering to Waukeen before heading to the market, and pray
revered in your DM’s campaign so you can invoke their names when appropriate. If you’re playing a cleric or a character with the Acolyte background, decide which god your deity serves or served, and consider the deity’s suggested domains when selecting your character’s domain.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)
different gods at different times and circumstances. People in the Forgotten Realms, for example, might pray to Sune for luck in love, make an offering to Waukeen before heading to the market, and pray to
choose a single deity for your character to serve, worship, or pay lip service to. Or you can pick a few that your character prays to most often. Or just make a mental note of the gods who are revered
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
Attitude 1d12* Initial Attitude 4 or lower Hostile 5–8 Indifferent 9 or higher Friendly *Roll different dice to alter the range and likelihood of possible attitudes. For example, you could roll
of monsters in an encounter. For example, one bandit gang might be an unruly mob of braggarts, while the members of another gang are always on edge and ready to flee at the first sign of danger
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
. Githyanki Bonds d4 Bond 1 There is no greater duty than to serve the Revered Queen. 2 Humanity thrives only because we conquered the illithids. Therefore, what is theirs is ours. 3 Without battle, life
needs above our own. 4 Freedom. No strong soul should be enslaved. Better to die first than live as another’s puppet. Githzerai Bonds d4 Bond 1 Zerthimon provides an example of conduct that I
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
way to modify an existing race is to change its appearance. Changes to a race’s appearance need not affect its game elements. For example, you could transform halflings into anthropomorphic mice
increasing the diversity of options for a particular race, rather than replacing some options with other ones. The following example walks through the creation of an elf subrace: the eladrin. This
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)
Nonhuman Deities Certain gods closely associated with nonhuman races are revered on many different worlds, though not always in the same way. The nonhuman races of the Forgotten Realms and Greyhawk
share these deities. Nonhuman races often have whole pantheons of their own. Besides Moradin, for example, the dwarf gods include Moradin’s wife, Berronar Truesilver, and a number of other gods thought
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.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Xanathar's Guide to Everything
, you can assign the same personality traits to an entire group of monsters. For example, one bandit gang might be an unruly mob of braggarts, while the members of another gang are always on edge and
attachments exist among the monsters in an encounter? If so, you can use such relationships to inform the monsters’ behavior during combat. The death of a much-revered leader might throw its followers into
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
Nonhuman Deities Certain gods closely associated with nonhuman races are revered on many different worlds, though not always in the same way. The nonhuman races of the Forgotten Realms and Greyhawk
share these deities. Nonhuman races often have whole pantheons of their own. Besides Moradin, for example, the dwarf gods include Moradin’s wife, Berronar Truesilver, and a number of other gods thought
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
example of Corellon’s wild, ever-shifting ways. As these primal reflections of Corellon changed their nature and defined themselves, they came to see Corellon and Lolth in new lights. They now viewed
elves would be mortal, fixed in the forms they had adopted in defiance of Corellon’s will. The elves who most revered Lolth became drow, and the others divided themselves into a multitude of surface
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Guildmasters' Guide to Ravnica
, such as Hierarch, Revered, Grandmother, Healer, or Saint, when interacting with other races. Male Names: Bayul, Berov, Brooj, Chedumov, Dobrun, Droozh, Golomov, Heruj, Ilromov, Kel, Nikoom, Ondros
Common and Loxodon. RULE TIP: AC CALCULATIONS DON'T STACK
When the game gives you more than one way to calculate your Armor Class, you can use only one of them. You choose the one to use. For example
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
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
Demogorgon in chapter 6 is an ettin cultist who has received Demogorgon’s hideous gifts. Kostchtchie. Though he is not terribly important in the Abyss, the demon lord Kostchtchie is revered by many giants
chapter 6 is an example of a frost giant whose devotion to the demon lord has brought great and terrible rewards. (Kostchtchie is described in Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus.) Yeenoghu. Gnolls, ghouls
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
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
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
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
Obedience is revered by all who pledge their lives to the Scarlet Order. His goals—and, by extension, the order’s goals—are shrouded in mystery and could one day tilt the balance of power across the
involved with happenings on Oerth. Lesser gods are more likely to manifest in some form on the Material Plane and interact with their worshipers. Cuthbert, for example, is well known for appearing in mortal
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
gnomes believe that their ability to speak with burrowing animals comes from Segojan. All gnomes see Segojan as a healer of the sick and a protector of the hearth. He is also revered in his role as a
example of what befalls mortals who conduct themselves the same way. For the gnomes, this niche is filled by Urdlen, also known as the Glutton for its selfish and cruel behavior. Though the details
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
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
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
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
between them and their gods. To halflings, their gods are part of the family. And as family members do, the gods set an example that is reaffirmed through the stories of their heroic deeds, with each tale
— clear evidence that, as Urogalan promised, she is still looking out for her grandson from beyond the veil of death. As a divine being, Urogalan can move freely through the earth and across the planes of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
them as they emerge. If they don’t, they might at least weaken the shrine’s defenses. Yokka’s band bedevils the party without revealing its presence until the final moment. For example, if no guard is
is an alchemy jug, placed here ages ago by Chultans who revered it as a gift from Ubtao. The only safe way to pick up the alchemy jug is to emulate Man and Crocodile. Either member of a rider/carrier
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
keep Pollenella and doesn’t trouble the party again. Magical Deception. The characters use magic to fool or placate Mudlump. For example, a character might create an illusion of Pollenella that fools
ago, Feenia was caught stealing theater props, but Endelyn Moongrave promised not to punish her as long as Feenia agreed to fly the hag’s kite. Feenia did so and is now unable to let go of the cursed
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
sarcophagus and rises to slay intruders, while the shield guardian protects it. The mummy has complete knowledge of the crypt, and might, for example, move through the rotating sanctum (area P14) to
of the Talhund The seven carvings are no mere decorations; each covers a burial niche in which a miner-turned-priest was put to rest. These miner-priests were among the most revered of the Talhund
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
was impressed by Mublinesh’s dedication and promised that once the beholder destroyed one hundred intruders, Ilvaash would permit Mublinesh to consider this area its lair (and thus gain the benefits
searches the Far Realm for forbidden knowledge. Missing Bodyguards. Just a short time ago, Ashripask awoke to find Nellik and her soldiers gone. Ashripask would like Nellik slain as an example to the