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Candlekeep Mysteries
exhaustion. When the target finishes a short or long rest, the target loses every level of exhaustion gained from this attack.
Change Shape. The gingwatzim changes from its true form—a 3-foot
gingwatzim reverts to its true form and then vanishes.A gingwatzim is a peculiar form of life created by a spell or a ritual. The magic that brings it into being draws on spirit energy from the
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
or Kezef—usually a warlock or other spellcaster—contacts the comet-borne emissary of an Elder Evil, the emissary can merge with a mortal consciousness to create a larva mage. None of the
planes of existence lie realms alien to mortal life. Some are so hostile that even a moment’s contact is enough to break a mortal’s mind. Yet beings do exist that are native to these
Monsters
Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse
1d100;{"diceNotation":"1d100", "rollType":"roll", "rollAction":"Cycle of Rebirth"} years. The dragon retains all memories and knowledge it gained in its previous life.
Legendary Resistance (5/Day
Magic Items
The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
, attack rolls, and saving throws. The creature will reach the end of its natural life span in 3d8 days. Only a wish spell or divine intervention can reverse this aging effect on the creature.
Three hags
in the multiverse to lose the Shared Spellcasting trait gained by being in a coven (see the “Hag Covens” sidebar in the Monster Manual).
Reconstructing the Cauldron. If all eight pieces
Equipment
When you smoke requiem clay, you summon the spirit of a single deceased person that you personally knew in life. The spirit’s image is visible, and its voice can be heard in whispers, but it
cannot touch you. You can ask the spirit up to five questions, as the speak with dead spell. The spirit knows only what it knew in life, including the languages it knew. Answers are usually brief
Backgrounds
Acquisitions Incorporated
You were an intern at a rival of Acquisitions Incorporated, and you gained a healthy respect for not just the job and the franchising opportunities, but for the ruthless and efficient way
. Maybe you hope to leverage the knowledge you gained there for an advantage at Acquisitions Incorporated. Either way, you’re now bringing your talents to the company, ready to put your skills to
monsters
take one of the following actions. Valindra regains all expended uses at the start of each of her turns.
Disrupt Life. Constitution Saving Throw: DC 20, each creature that isn’t Undead in a 20
-foot Emanation originating from Valindra. Failure: 21 (6d6);{"diceNotation":"6d6", "rollType":"damage", "rollAction":"Disrupt Life", "rollDamageType":"Necrotic"} Necrotic damage. Success: Half damage
Feats
Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen
gained the Initiate of High Sorcery feat.
Life Channel. You can channel your life force into the power of your magic. When a creature you can see within 60 feet of you fails a saving throw against a
Equipment
life and might touch you, though it cannot harm you. You can ask the spirit questions as the speak with dead spell with the following exceptions: you can ask up to ten questions, and the spirit cannot
that requiem is not smoked. Levels of exhaustion gained through requiem use do not reduce as normal after taking a long rest. Smoking requiem again eliminates levels of exhaustion gained from abstaining
Backgrounds
Guildmasters’ Guide to Ravnica
to obey the dictates of an ancestor on the Ghost Council.
3
I value my worldly goods more highly than my mortal life.
4
An oligarch publicly humiliated me, and I will exact revenge on
.
Contacts
The Orzhov Syndicate operates according to a strict hierarchy built on a network of connections among old, wealthy families. Your family might provide important contacts, while your family’s
Backgrounds
Guildmasters’ Guide to Ravnica
messenger, calm emotions, warding bond
3rd
plant growth, speak with plants
4th
aura of life, conjure minor elementals
5th
awaken, commune with nature
or injury in any creature saddens me.
7
I have much to be proud of, but I am still just one strand in the grand, interwoven tapestry of life.
8
Nature offers rich and abundant metaphors
Species
Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
and avoid the same.
While many hexbloods gain their lineage after making a deal with a hag, others reveal their nature as they age—particularly if a hag influenced them early in life or even
or choose an option from the Hexblood Origins table to determine how your character gained their lineage.
Hexblood Origins
d6
Origin
1
Seeking a child, your parent made a bargain
Backgrounds
Guildmasters’ Guide to Ravnica
course of my life.
8
A Boros angel knows my name.
Non-Boros Contacts
d10
Contact
1
One of my siblings is an Azorius arrester.
2
Roll an additional Boros contact
As a member of the Boros Legion, your life is devoted to the service of angels and consecrated to the work of establishing justice and peace on the streets of Ravnica. You might be a true believer
Backgrounds
Guildmasters’ Guide to Ravnica
I am determined that one day I will lead my clan — or a new one.
2
I would give my life for my clan chieftain.
3
The chieftain of another clan has a grudge against me.
4
I am
manipulated by people I find attractive.
6
I’m not actually all that angry.
Contacts
The members of the Gruul Clans rely on each other even as they vie for territory and glory. Their
Backgrounds
Guildmasters’ Guide to Ravnica
guild is all that really matters. (Any)
2
Hedonism. Death comes for everyone, so take as much pleasure as you can from every moment of life. (Neutral)
3
Creativity. I strive to
.
Flaws
d6
Flaw
1
My family is prominent in another guild. I enjoy my wild life, but I don’t want to embarrass them.
2
I couldn’t hide my emotions and opinions
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Guildmasters’ Guide to Ravnica
stronger than members of other guilds, isolated as they are from the realities of life and death.
RYAN PANCOAST
Contacts
To the extent that the Golgari Swarm acts like a single organism
You are a member of a teeming horde — one small part of a sprawling organism. Just as you are part of the swarm, the swarm is part of a larger ecosystem, a never-ending cycle of life, death
Backgrounds
Guildmasters’ Guide to Ravnica
Imagine a perfect world: one in which nature and civilization exist in harmony, adapted to each other; one in which life is shaped to match its environment and the environment is shaped to match life
a set of beliefs about the nature of life. Simic members’ bonds and flaws derive from their scientific research — including their creation of new life forms, which they can become very
Backgrounds
Guildmasters’ Guide to Ravnica
Life’s an experiment, and I can’t wait to see what happens.
6
I pepper my speech with the incomprehensible jargon of my trade, like mizzium droplets inserted into a weird-field
. (Chaotic)
6
Power. Someday I’ll find or create the magic that will make me the most powerful being in Ravnica. (Evil)
Bonds
d6
Bond
1
I have dedicated my life
Species
Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
Poised between the worlds of the living and the dead, dhampirs retain their grip on life yet are endlessly tested by vicious hungers. Their ties to the undead grant dhampirs a taste of a vampire
’s deathless prowess in the form of increased speed, darkvision, and a life-draining bite.
With unique insights into the nature of the undead, many dhampirs become adventurers and monster hunters
Species
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
physician. Personas can even be passed down through a family, allowing a younger changeling to take advantage of contacts established by the persona’s previous users.
Creating Your Character
At 1st
doesn’t work on a Construct or an Undead.
Life Span
The typical life span of a player character in the D&D multiverse is about a century, assuming the character doesn’t meet a violent
Criminal / Spy
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Basic Rules (2014)
You are an experienced criminal with a history of breaking the law. You have spent a lot of time among other criminals and still have contacts within the criminal underworld. You’re far closer
. Even criminals who operate outside of such organizations have strong preferences for certain kinds of crimes over others. Choose the role you played in your criminal life, or roll on the table below
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Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus
nuances of royal courts half a continent away and shockingly ignorant of what life is like for the poor outside their own doorsteps.
This combination of worldly savvy and local blindness characterizes
wish to use the background’s standard feature might have gained their standing in Baldur’s Gate from business rather than inheritance.
Skill Proficiencies: History, Persuasion
Tool
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
necessary, though they are unwilling to risk their life or possessions. Carousing Contacts Tavern Contact Type The Snapping Line Fishers, sailors, laborers The Empty Net Smugglers, criminals The Wicker Goat Dwarves, town guard
contacts in town. A week of carousing costs 2d10 gp as you lavish money on food and drink for yourself and others. When carousing, pick a single tavern in town to frequent. At the end of the week, you earn
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
Ready Accomplices Characters readily win contacts among Borca’s nobility, since the elite seem easily charmed by the adventuring life. Friendly nobles soon embroil new acquaintances in their schemes
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
Head of State Contacts Often, your connection to your patron is quite direct—the head of state summons you, grants you an audience, and gives you an assignment or hears your report. Heads of state
are busy people, though, and if your business isn’t pressing, you might be handled by a functionary of the court. The State Contacts table provides several options for what functionaries your group
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Xanathar's Guide to Everything
upper class, but other characters can do so only if you judge that the character has made sufficient contacts. Alternatively, a character might use a disguise kit and the Deception skill to pass as a
noble visiting from a distant city. Resolution. After a workweek of carousing, a character stands to make contacts within the selected social class. The character makes a Charisma (Persuasion) check
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
Adventurers’ Guild Contacts Typically, an adventuring group has no particular contact within the larger guild. There’s a local leader or bookkeeper who collects dues, but otherwise you might interact
inspiration for contacts you might encounter during any given encounter with your adventurer’s guild. Guild Contacts d10 Contact 1 The charismatic leader of the guild, who doesn’t actually do very much
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
Rival Intern You were an intern at a rival of Acquisitions Incorporated, and you gained a healthy respect for not just the job and the franchising opportunities, but for the ruthless and efficient
organization. Maybe you hope to leverage the knowledge you gained there for an advantage at Acquisitions Incorporated. Either way, you’re now bringing your talents to the company, ready to put your
Backgrounds
Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide
Before you became an adventurer, your life was already full of conflict and excitement, because you made a living tracking down people for pay. Unlike some people who collect bounties, though, you
. What’s more, you aren’t alone, as a bounty hunter in the wild would be: you routinely interact with both the criminal subculture and other bounty hunters, maintaining contacts in both
Species
Acquisitions Incorporated
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
the head with a single ring to keep them from flapping about.
Changes in gender are also a known and accepted part of verdan life. These fluid aspects of form and identity are seen as blessings
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
life. If you have a contact in the Tyrants, you might know someone on the Tyrants Contacts table. Tyrants Contacts d4 Contact 1 Korryn (elf) maintains Korryn’s Quill, a shop in the Bazaar of Dura
Aarakocra
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Elemental Evil Player's Companion
exceptional circumstance for an aarakocra to leave his or her tribe and undertake the adventurer’s life. Neither treasure nor glory is enough to lure them from their tribes; a dire threat to their people
interacting with other races, aarakocra may use nicknames gained from people they meet or shortened forms of their full names.
An aarakocra of either gender may have one of these short names: Aera, Aial
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
character gained their lineage. Hexblood Origins d6 Origin
1 Seeking a child, your parent made a bargain with a hag. You are the result of that arrangement.
2 Fey kidnappers swapped you and
into a hexblood, now free of the curse.
5 You began life as a fey creature, but an accident changed you and forced you from your home.
6 A slighted druid transformed you and bound you to live only so long as a sacred tree bears fruit.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Guildmasters' Guide to Ravnica
that you maintain your association with it throughout your life. As a result, your choice of guild can play a more significant role than most backgrounds do in shaping what your character does now
suggested characteristics (personality traits, ideals, bonds, and flaws). Each guild entry also provides personal contacts; suggestions for your alignment, race, and class; and a list of spells that you can
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
Monstrous Transformation Some Darklords have features that make them similar to familiar monsters. The Darklord might have been a supernatural creature to begin with, or perhaps they gained their
form and related powers through their deeds or a curse. Maybe they even gained supernatural abilities via a pact with the Dark Powers or upon arriving in their domain. Consider whether or not your