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Monstrous Compendium Vol. 4: Eldraine Creatures
surviving populace fleeing into the wilds. A young prince, Will Kenrith, does his best to reunite the shattered realm, but a return to its former glory seems far off.
Even in the shattered remnants of
courts of Eldraine have joined to form a new organization, the Verdant Order. These knights renounced their oaths in favor of a new one, swearing to protect the last part of their world untouched by war
Entertainer
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Player’s Handbook (2014)
Proficiencies: Acrobatics, PerformanceTool Proficiencies: Disguise kit, one type of musical instrumentEquipment: A musical instrument (one of your choice), the favor of an admirer (love letter, lock of hair, or
likely repeat.
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I have trouble keeping my true feelings hidden. My sharp tongue lands me in trouble.
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Despite my best efforts, I am unreliable to my friends.
Gladiator
Legacy
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Player’s Handbook (2014)
inexpensive but unusual weapon or a musical instrument (one of your choice), the favor of an admirer (love letter, lock of hair, or trinket), a costume, and a pouch containing 15 gp
.
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I once satirized a noble who still wants my head. It was a mistake that I will likely repeat.
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I have trouble keeping my true feelings hidden. My sharp tongue lands me in trouble.
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Despite my best efforts, I am unreliable to my friends.
Elf
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Basic Rules (2014)
, bronze, and almost bluish-white, hair of green or blue, and eyes like pools of liquid gold or silver. Elves have no facial and little body hair. They favor elegant clothing in bright colors, and they
, sophistication, and manners, they make up in valor. And I must admit, their best smiths produce art that approaches elven quality.”
Halflings. “Halflings are people of simple pleasures, and
Backgrounds
Guildmasters’ Guide to Ravnica
concentrates the spoils at the top of the hierarchy. As a functionary in that system, your best hope is to claim as much as possible of the money that passes through your hands on its way up, so that
and wealth. (Evil)
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Stability. The economy functions best when chaos is kept under control and everyone knows their place. (Lawful)
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Eternity. I want to live forever — in
Backgrounds
Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus
Thanks to your noble birth, people are inclined to think the best of you. You are welcome in high society, and people assume you have the right to be wherever you are. The common folk make every
; without question, and any corruption among guards or government officials tends to work in your favor, not against you—at least until you make some effort to expose it.
Variant Noble: Knight
A
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
with a beholder that has moved into the dragon’s domain.
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Xorn serve as lookouts and spies for an adult amethyst dragon who rewards them with gems.
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To repay a favor long owed to a
the best of its ability any command the dragon issues that isn’t directly harmful to the creature.
Imprisoning Force. The dragon casts the forcecage spell, using its spell save DC and requiring
Genasi
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Elemental Evil Player's Companion
time. People there tend to be less accepting of differences. Sometimes a cold shoulder and a suspicious glare are the best genasi can hope for; in more backward places, they face ostracism and even
audience. They rarely stay in one place for long, always looking for a new sky to see and breathe. Air genasi who don’t live in cities favor open lands such as plains, deserts, and high
Backgrounds
Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus
type of musical instrumentEquipment: A musical instrument (one of your choice), the favor of an admirer (love letter, lock of hair, or trinket), a costume, and a pouch containing 15 gp
follow me around.
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I once satirized a noble who still wants my head. It was a mistake that I will likely repeat.
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I have trouble keeping my true feelings hidden. My sharp tongue lands me in trouble.
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Despite my best efforts, I am unreliable to my friends.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
favor by using an approach that relies on your best bonuses and skills. If the group needs to trick a guard into letting them into a castle, the rogue who is proficient in Deception is the best bet
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)
favor by using an approach that relies on your best bonuses and skills. If the group needs to trick a guard into letting them into a castle, the rogue who is proficient in Deception is the best bet
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
in the retelling of stories. Each new teller adds a bit of themself to the spell. (Any)
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Nurture. Rearing a child is our best chance to make sure our own stories are passed on. (Any)
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the dragon acting like the curator of a museum.An Emerald Dragon’s Lair
Emerald dragons dwell in enormous caverns, lava tubes, and tunnel networks deep within the earth. They favor warm spaces
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
retelling of stories. Each new teller adds a bit of themself to the spell. (Any)
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Nurture. Rearing a child is our best chance to make sure our own stories are passed on. (Any)
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Inquisitiveness
, and tunnel networks deep within the earth. They favor warm spaces, particularly in volcanic regions. Over time, their psychic presence seeps into the land surrounding their lairs, expanding their
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Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide
masses.
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I take great pains to always look my best and follow the latest fashions.
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I don’t like to get my hands dirty, and I won’t be caught dead in unsuitable accommodations
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Despite my noble birth, I do not place myself above other folk. We all have the same blood.
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My favor, once lost, is lost forever.
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If you do me an injury, I will crush you, ruin
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Xanathar's Guide to Everything
Charisma modifier (minimum of one unused favor). Complications. Temples can be labyrinths of political and social scheming. Even the best-intentioned sect can fall prone to rivalries. A character who serves
activity has a chance of winning the favor of the temple’s leaders. Resources. Performing religious service requires access to, and often attendance at, a temple whose beliefs and ethos align with the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
Special Favors A reward might be a favor the characters can call on at some future date. Special favors work best when the individual granting them is trustworthy. A Lawful Good or Lawful Neutral NPC
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
Death Must Be Fair The best way to avoid hard feelings connected to the death of a beloved character is to make sure the players know you’re being fair. Keep these principles in mind: Don’t Cheat in
the Monsters’ Favor. Rolling dice in front of the players when a situation is especially deadly is one way to communicate that you’re not cheating in the monsters’ favor or singling out a single
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
who owe them fealty, and some exiles and outcasts who have fallen out of favor. Favor in the Nine Hells shifts like the wind, and the fortunes of the great and mighty rise and fall at the whims of their
, Moloch — they are pawns. Even the lords of layers such as Zariel and Mammon are merely more powerful pieces. Archdevils may make dramatic moves, but it is Asmodeus who plays the game best.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
Haven of the Red Quill, hidden beneath the ruins of Delimbiyran. An overland journey from Baldur’s Gate or Candlekeep would take a month, so the characters’ best course of action is to teleport to
Delimbiyran or the nearby town of Daggerford. If the characters lack the means to teleport themselves, Teles Ahvoste can cast the teleport spell for them, or he might know a suitable spellcaster in Baldur’s Gate who owes him a favor, or whom the characters can hire for the job.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
Special Favors A reward might come in the form of a favor that the characters can call on at some future date. Special favors work best when the individual granting them is trustworthy. A lawful good
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
The Red Knight The Lady of Strategy, the Crimson General, the Grandmaster of the Lanceboard The Red Knight is the goddess of planning and strategy. Those who favor her call themselves the Red
Fellowship. They believe wars are won by the best planning, strategy, and tactics. The worship of the Red Knight is filled with doctrine about strategy, such as: “Every war is a series of battles. Losing
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
you find? I’d be grateful. What’s more, I’d owe you a favor. What do you say?”
Encourage the characters to take on Professor Sharpbeak’s favor within the first few days of this adventure. For ease of
running this adventure, it’s best that the characters complete this event before the “Practice Makes Perfect” section. If the characters are reluctant, reinforce that the mascots are bound to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm Lord’s Wrath
call the area home: young dragons, trolls, lizardfolk tribes, swamp beasts, and even more aberrant monsters. At best, the forces of civilization hope to keep the High Road safely passable to
. Prisoners are left tied up in cages, then the lizardfolk move in the opposite direction, hoping the trolls leave them alone in favor of the offering.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules
you can; communicate what you can’t as early as possible. If possible, play in an area with minimal visual or auditory distractions. Favor surroundings that reinforce your desired atmosphere and have
once a month. Create a schedule that works best for your group.
For new groups, it often helps to schedule a single-session game (often called a “one-shot”) as a way for people to try it out. If everyone has a great time at that one session, it can be easier to get them to make a long-term commitment.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Forge of the Artificer
, many in House Deneith question whether the path of neutrality remains the best course to follow.
House Deneith Renown Perks When you request a favor from your house, it can take one of these special
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
forgoing attack rolls in favor of approximating the average number of hits a large group of monsters can inflict on a target. Instead of rolling an attack roll, determine the minimum d20 roll a creature
needs in order to hit a target by subtracting its attack bonus from the target’s AC. You’ll need to refer to the result throughout the battle, so it’s best to write it down. Look up the minimum d20 roll
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron
). The master of the Augury is an elf named Kestia. She has ties to a number of angels of Syrania, and if she chooses she can perform commune. However, as this requires her to call in a celestial favor
, it’s not something she offers as a standard service. The Drunken Dragon is a legendary watering hole. While the service is slow and the food is modest at best, it has the widest selection of beverages
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
the characters want to impress or need a favor from asks them to deal with the adventure situation. 3 When the characters arrive in a new city, they find a job board where someone has posted in
a quest. Ralph Horsley When rival factions inhabit a ruined dungeon, sometimes the best course is to stay out of the way!
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
is reflected by the waters of the deep. Any such community makes sure to host festivals to propitiate the Wavemother and seek her favor. Although mercurial in temperament, she can be generous to those
common moniker suggests, she is viewed as capricious and cruel with no firm ethical outlook; the sea is a savage place, and those who travel it had best be willing to pay the price of challenging her
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
, in which case the other prisoners are initially indifferent toward the characters. Handle the interactions using roleplaying, Charisma checks, or a balance of the two as best suits your group and the
disfiguring injuries recently. Before then, he seemed more in Ilvara’s favor. Now Shoor seems to have displaced him. Jorlan used to have a wand that shot globs of sticky material able to trap targets. Now
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
bigger picture—often followers of Heliod or Ephara. Undermining these faiths might be the best means of preserving Pharika’s favorite wildernesses and laboratories. Ultimately, Pharika might call upon
servants to abandon worldly scruples in favor of deciphering one of Theros’s great secrets. To accomplish this, the god might send the characters into the Underworld or Nyx to answer a burning cosmic question.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
, outlander, soldier Most champions of Mogis are antiheroes motivated by rage and a thirst for war. Many are tortured souls with a thirst for vengeance. Mogis’s Favor Mogis’s favor isn’t difficult to earn for
if they don’t satisfy him. The Mogis’s Favor table suggests a few ways that a mortal might come to Mogis’s attention, or vice versa. Mogis’s Favor d6 Circumstance
1 You were born under a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
you can; communicate what you can’t as early as possible. If possible, play in an area with minimal visual or auditory distractions. Favor surroundings that reinforce your desired atmosphere and have
once a month. Create a schedule that works best for your group.
For new groups, it often helps to schedule a single-session game (often called a “one-shot”) as a way for people to try it out. If
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
character earns favor and reputation within a particular organization. You can tie benefits to a character’s renown, including ranks and titles within the organization and access to resources. A player tracks
discount on adventuring gear. A middle-ranked character might gain a follower (see chapter 4, “Creating Nonplayer Characters”), access to potions and scrolls, the ability to call in a favor, or
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
Dispater The cosmos is a grand game. He who knows its rules the best shall win the prize.
— Dispater
Dispater is the foremost arms dealer of the Nine Hells, and perhaps the greatest weapons
discovery that could tip the scales in his favor might be enough to entice him to act against his fellow Lords of the Nine. Given his reclusive nature, gaining an audience with Dispater is difficult at