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Acolyte Legacy

Backgrounds Basic Rules (2014)

You have spent your life in the service of a temple to a specific god or pantheon of gods. You act as an intermediary between the realm of the holy and the mortal world, performing sacred rites and

the religious ceremonies of your deity. You and your adventuring companions can expect to receive free healing and care at a temple, shrine, or other established presence of your faith, though you

Acolyte - Baldur's Gate

Backgrounds Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus

between the realm of the holy and the mortal world, performing sacred rites and offering sacrifices in order to conduct worshipers into the presence of the divine. You are not necessarily a cleric&mdash

an acolyte, you command the respect of those who share your faith, and you can perform the religious ceremonies of your deity. You and your adventuring companions can expect to receive free healing

Aasimar Legacy

Species Volo's Guide to Monsters

Dragons Aasimar bear within their souls the light of the heavens. They are descended from humans with a touch of the power of Mount Celestia, the divine realm of many lawful good deities. Aasimar are

Aasimar are placed in the world to serve as guardians of law and good. Their patrons expect them to strike at evil, lead by example, and further the cause of justice. From an early age, an aasimar

Constructs

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Morte’s Planar Parade

inquisitive monodrones and its duodrone leader insist on following a character, saying they expect that individual’s doom to be “statistically noteworthy.” 4 A clay golem influenced by the Beastlands

has been transformed into the walking hive that’s home to numerous swarms of insects (wasps). Quintin Gleim Mechanical dinosaurs roam an orderly realm influenced by the lawful energies of Mechanus

Introduction: Creatures A to Z

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Spelljammer: Adventures in Space->Boo’s Astral Menagerie

the countless amazing creatures that hail from the starry realm known as the Astral Plane. Apparently, giant space hamsters aren’t as bright or as legendary as their smaller cousins. Minsc has shared

this information and a host of other pieces of lore from Boo freely and loudly during his travels. This book presents much of that lore, but don’t expect commentary from the famous hamster himself. He’s too busy saving the multiverse and, as Minsc might put it, “kicking butt for goodness.”

Khyber

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

, networks of tunnels and caverns formed from stone and soil. These passages are dark and dangerous, but they’re exactly what you expect to find in an underground realm. Such passages might be home to

Khyber In Khyber, you could… Fight mind flayers and armies of hideous aberrations. Discover a wondrous realm lit by an inner sun. Prevent a fiendish overlord from escaping its ancient prison. The

Hall of the Fire Giant King

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a6

planning the well-executed attacks, for Snurre is said to be far stronger than smart. It is a sad fact that the characters can expect all encounters here to be worse than those the party has faced

holds the Hall of the Fire Giant King. They have penetrated near the heart of the matter—into a fell realm where even the strongest need beware!

Patron Benefits

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

governs the town of New Cyre by the sufferance of King Boranel, is planning a brazen act of secession, hoping to transform all of eastern Breland into a new Cyran realm, sources say. According to a group of

, though, you have a great deal of leeway in how you choose to do that, and the law isn’t an obstacle. (However, note that agents of Prince Oargev can’t necessarily expect the same clemency in Breland

Acolyte

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

Acolyte You have spent your life in the service of a temple to a specific god or pantheon of gods. You act as an intermediary between the realm of the holy and the mortal world, performing sacred

and your adventuring companions can expect to receive free healing and care at a temple, shrine, or other established presence of your faith, though you must provide any material components needed for

Acolyte

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

Acolyte You have spent your life in the service of a temple to a specific god or pantheon of gods. You act as an intermediary between the realm of the holy and the mortal world, performing sacred

and your adventuring companions can expect to receive free healing and care at a temple, shrine, or other established presence of your faith, though you must provide any material components needed for

Story Overview

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd

Story Overview Adventurers from a foreign land find themselves in Barovia, a mysterious realm surrounded by deadly fog and ruled by Strahd von Zarovich, a vampire and wizard. Using a deck of tarokka

enemies, not all of them as dead as one might expect. For the people of Barovia, there is no escape from this harsh land. The town of Vallaki stands ready to defend itself against the servants of Strahd

Heliod's Influence

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

imagines Nyx rebuilt as his personal palace, where all can witness him in his glory. He considers himself a kind and beneficent ruler—a benign autocrat, not a tyrant—and he doesn’t expect abject servility

mysterious being who is capable of sealing the borders between the mortal world and the divine realm of Nyx. Kruphix is perhaps the only being who can impose limits on the other gods’ actions, which makes Heliod resent and fear the god of horizons.

Illithinoch Locations

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk

while engaging in telepathic conversation, but they aren’t expecting an attack. The fanatics have told the mind flayers to expect surface cultists, such as the aberrant zealots who reside elsewhere in

trickery. Shalghast asks the characters whether they’ve come “to worship Ilvaash, who bleeds from the Far Realm,” or whether they are bringing more “obelisk pieces for the masters.” The mind flayers don’t

Champions and Quests

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

example, you might build a campaign around the idea that Erebos, Mogis, and Pharika are conspiring to unleash slaughter and plague on the mortal realm. Perhaps heroic champions of Ephara, Heliod

champion can expect a reward for doing so. As long as the champion is actively pursuing the quest and upholding the god’s ideals along the way, you can increase the character’s piety score, using the

Wailing Battlefield

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk

, Nellik and her unit of nine mezzoloths served an arcanaloth named Ashripask. Ashripask led the group into many dangerous locations, including several lore-filled locations in the Far Realm, like the

Briny Maze. Resignation Tendered. Unwilling to continue these dangerous forays, Nellik and her mezzoloths fled while Ashripask slept. They fled in a direction Ashripask wouldn’t expect: into the Briny

Membership

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

their concerns and ridicule their beliefs, so they expect a low success rate in their recruitment efforts. The group’s carefully crafted recruitment message has its appeal: all your suffering and all the

Basil, the Sage of Sages, founder of the group and the architect of its belief system. While serving a forgotten king in an insignificant realm, Basil became fascinated with the original Deck of Many

Infiltrating Dran Enterprises

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated

-off against the Dran Enterprises strike team is a tough encounter, and might not go the way the characters expect. If the entire party is defeated or surrenders, Hoffman can order the characters to

means of reaching Dangerous Business. Once on that ship, one of the spies might mistakenly open the portal door leading to the Far Realm horror, with the strike team members alone dragged into that

Finders Guild

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

intermediaries between the realm of monsters and the east, bartering the services of monstrous mercenaries across Khorvaire. The house takes great pride in having forced mainstream Khorvaire to

races from Droaam. As a result, members of the Finders’ Guild can expect at least a modicum of respect while traveling in Droaam Gatekeepers. House Tharashk and the druidic sect of the Gatekeepers share

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