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Player’s Handbook
Unearth Forbidden Lore of Ineffable Beings
When you choose this subclass, you might bind yourself to an unspeakable being from the Far Realm or an elder god—a being such as Tharizdun, the
Chained God; Zargon, the Returner; Hadar, the Dark Hunger; or Great Cthulhu. Or you might invoke several entities without yoking yourself to one. The motives of these beings are incomprehensible, and the
Magic Items
Dungeon Master’s Guide
book must spend 80 hours reading and studying it to digest its contents and use its Adjusted Ability Scores, Tireless Form, Spells, Vile Lore, and Vile Speech properties.
The Book of Vile Darkness
disappears, your Attunement to it ends immediately, and you lose all benefits granted by it. If you die while attuned to the book, an entity of great evil claims your soul. You can’t be restored to life
Book of Vile Darkness
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Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
the book’s contents, provided that those modifications advance evil and expand the lore already contained within.
Whenever a non-evil creature attunes to the Book of Vile Darkness, that creature
great evil claims your soul. You can’t be restored to life by any means while your soul remains imprisoned.
Random Properties. The Book of Vile Darkness has the following random properties:
3
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
helped avert a war between the gods. She transformed them into the scabrous, birdlike creatures known as nagpas and rendered them able to acquire new lore and magical power only from the ruins of
fallen civilizations and great calamities.
Nagpas still fear the Raven Queen and do their best to avoid her and her agents. When it’s impossible to do so, they become cringing, fawning things, eager
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Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide
As a child, you were inquisitive when your playmates were possessive or raucous. In your formative years, you found your way to one of Faerûn’s great institutes of learning , where you
were apprenticed and taught that knowledge is a more valuable treasure than gold or gems. Now you are ready to leave your home—not to abandon it, but to quest for new lore to add to its storehouse
Sage
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Basic Rules (2014)
You spent years learning the lore of the multiverse. You scoured manuscripts, studied scrolls, and listened to the greatest experts on the subjects that interest you. Your efforts have made you a
Wizard’s apprentice
8
Scribe
FEATURE: RESEARCHER
When you attempt to learn or recall a piece of lore, if you do not know that information, you often know where and from whom you
Magic Items
Acquisitions Incorporated
possession of their own sending stone.
Quirks of Your Sending Stone
D8
QUIRK
1
It’s a flip stone.
2
It gets great reception everywhere except in your headquarters.
3
It
stone. These rumors reflect current or historical knowledge possessed by Acquisitions Incorporated or the organization’s many contacts.
Improved Rumor Mill
At rank 3, when you use your Rumor
Magic Items
Keys from the Golden Vault
the book’s contents, provided that those modifications advance evil and expand the lore already contained within.
Whenever a non-evil creature attunes to the Book of Vile Darkness, that creature
great evil claims your soul. You can’t be restored to life by any means while your soul remains imprisoned.
The Book of Vile Darkness has the following properties:
Circle of Death. While attuned
Tabaxi
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Volo's Guide to Monsters
stories, artifacts, and lore. Those who survive this period of wanderlust return home in their elder years to share news of the outside world. In this manner, the tabaxi remain isolated but never ignorant
of the world beyond their home.
Barterers of Lore
Tabaxi treasure knowledge rather than material things. A chest filled with gold coins might be useful to buy food or a coil of rope, but it’s
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Guildmasters’ Guide to Ravnica
convinced that everyone I know is plotting against me.
3
I’ll brave any risk if the monetary reward is great enough.
4
I am convinced that I am far more important than anyone else is
.
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
Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus
tomes related to a specific field of lore.
5
I’ve been searching my whole life for the answer to a certain question.
6
I sold my soul for knowledge. I hope to do great deeds and win it
with opportunities for arcane study, although its masters are dispersed across individual wizards’ abodes and lack concentrated communities.
You spent years learning the lore of the multiverse
Circle of Stars
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Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything
world. Some groups document these observations at megalithic sites, which serve as enigmatic libraries of lore. These repositories might take the form of stone circles, pyramids, petroglyphs, and
underground temples— any construction durable enough to protect the circle’s sacred knowledge even against a great cataclysm.
Monsters
Mythic Odysseys of Theros
world, and so great were its size and strength that the gods Nylea and Heliod combined their power to bind the monster deep within the Nessian Wood. That incarnation was slain, but the eternal ideal
the minds and lore of a people that, even after a hydra’s defeat, the beast might reappear as a Nyxborn being and begin its legend anew.Acid
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Guildmasters’ Guide to Ravnica
suspension.
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Great ideas are fine, but great results are what counts.
8
If you can guess what I’m about to do, that means I’ve run out of imagination.
Ideals
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research, often at the expense of my own health and safety.
5
I’m convinced there’s not a soul in Ravnica, except maybe the great Niv-Mizzet, who can match my boundless intellect.
6
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Guildmasters’ Guide to Ravnica
affairs of other guilds is a great way to get squashed like a bug. (Neutral)
Bonds
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Bond
1
I cherish the finger of a family member who was petrified by a
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
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
CONTACT
You have a reliable and trustworthy contact who acts as your liaison to a network of other criminals. You know how to get messages to and from your contact, even over great distances
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Guildmasters’ Guide to Ravnica
.]
3
I’m as stubborn as a batterboar.
4
I’m so convinced of my superiority over soft, civilized people that I’ll take great risks to prove it.
5
I’m easily
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
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Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide
. 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
prey on the rich, whether pickpockets or con artists. The community where you plied your trade might have been one of Faerûn’s great metropolises, such as Waterdeep or Baldur’s Gate
Monsters
The Book of Many Things
medusa’s lair.
3
Maintain a planar crossing from which great power flows while also curtailing the effects of that power as it infuses the world.
4
Seek out a new generation of
often decorated with the petrified bodies of creatures that raised arms against the medusa or its followers. The lair is typically a rich repository of knowledge, with lore both worldly and esoteric
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
gravity with flight that doesn’t rely solely upon their great wings, and gravitational force empowers both their devastating breath weapon and the exploding amethyst crystals they spit at their
A cult devoted to a Great Old One of the Far Realm seeks an alien monolith that can summon its master, but the site is guarded by an amethyst dragon.
6
An amethyst dragon wyrmling is actually
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
through their lairs in multiple ways and set traps leading to yawning chasms or pools and flows of lava.
Emerald dragons take great pains to hide the chambers that house their hoards and collected lore
features:
Lava Tubes. When the volcano is quiet, the dragon uses the lava tubes to come and go from the lair.
Great Hall. The emerald dragon resides in a grand rectangular hall near the center of the
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
had subsided, the dragon moved in.
The lair has the following features:
Lava Tubes. When the volcano is quiet, the dragon uses the lava tubes to come and go from the lair.
Great Hall. The emerald
find a way through.
Treasury. The dragon stores the finest treasures in a smaller chamber just above the great hall on the map.
Watery Caves. Near the bottom portion of the map, the vaults give way
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
physical laws affect them. They defy gravity with flight that doesn’t rely solely upon their great wings, and gravitational force empowers both their devastating breath weapon and the exploding
before swapping back.
5
A cult devoted to a Great Old One of the Far Realm seeks an alien monolith that can summon its master, but the site is guarded by an amethyst dragon.
6
An amethyst
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->Guildmasters' Guide to Ravnica
delve too deeply into forbidden secrets — perhaps at the behest of their guilds’ leaders, or sometimes in defiance of them — might unearth lore regarding the “old gods” of Ravnica. These mysterious beings
, called the Nephilim, grant warlocks the mysterious and maddening powers of the Great Old One. Warlock Subclass Guild The Archfey Selesnya The Celestial* Boros The Fiend Rakdos The Great Old One Any *Appears in Xanathar’s Guide to Everything
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Lost Laboratory of Kwalish
to power up once more, and not even the Blackstaff can shut them down. Old histories suggest that Kwalish’s lore might hold the secrets of doing so, and the characters are sent to seek that lore out
before the great magical statues can run amok. Alternatively, the grand parade of the Day of Wonders turns to deadly chaos when one of its inventive mechanical floats goes berserk and unleashes
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Ghosts of Saltmarsh
You have sailed into war on the decks of great ships, patching their hulls with soup bowls and prayers. You once helped build a fishing vessel that single-handedly saved a town from starvation. You
don’t belong to me, especially if they are very well made.
Saltmarsh Ties
Ships make Saltmarsh’s economy run. You have contacts with one of the following leaders in town. Choose
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Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus
spent a lot of time among other criminals and still have contacts within the criminal underworld. You’re far closer than most people to the world of murder, theft, and violence that pervades the
to and from your contact, even over great distances; specifically, you know the local messengers, corrupt caravan masters, and seedy sailors who can deliver messages for you.
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Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
Cloistered Scholar As a child, you were inquisitive when your playmates were possessive or raucous. In your formative years, you found your way to one of Faerûn’s great institutes of learning , where
you were apprenticed and taught that knowledge is a more valuable treasure than gold or gems. Now you are ready to leave your home—not to abandon it, but to quest for new lore to add to its
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
Seekers of New Lore Nothing excites an artificer quite like uncovering a new metal or discovering a source of elemental energy. In artificer circles, new inventions and strange discoveries create the
adventurers. Eberron’s main travel routes and populated regions have long since been explored. Thus, artificers seek the frontiers of civilization in hopes of making the next great discovery in arcane research.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron
Seekers of New Lore Nothing excites an artificer quite like uncovering a new metal or discovering a source of elemental energy. In artificer circles, new inventions and strange discoveries create the
adventurers. Eberron’s main travel routes and populated regions have long since been explored. Thus, artificers seek the frontiers of civilization in hopes of making the next great discovery in arcane research.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
, is anathema to her. Temples of Chauntea maintain a great body of lore about farming and cultivation. Her priests work closely with communities in rural areas, and they are willing to roll up their
Chauntea The Great Mother, the Grain Goddess Chauntea is goddess of agriculture: sowing and reaping, seeding and harvest, breeding and butchery, shearing and weaving. In this aspect she is a rural
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual
Sphinx of Lore Sphinxes of lore each know a great secret and protect it all costs. This truth might take the form of an ancient text, a magical puzzle, or a path to another world. These sphinxes
might gain reputations as sages or oracles, but they typically dwell far from civilization. Sphinx of Lore Large Celestial, Lawful Neutral
AC 17 Initiative +10 (20)
HP 170 (20d10 + 60)
Speed 40 ft
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
. The Cassalanters have no desire to kill the characters, even in self-defense. They take great pains to divide and subdue the party with their magic while not inflicting grievous harm. If the
, reputations, and contacts will keep them out of prison. They do fear the ticking clock of Founders’ Day. They plead for the characters to allow them to carry out their plan, if only to save Terenzio’s and Elzerina’s lives.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Infernal Machine Rebuild
Nolzur Fated to one day become a spellcaster of great renown, Nolzur (a neutral male human master thief) has not yet begun to hone his magical art in this time, but has already started a
. Who’s Who
According to game lore, Nolzur belonged to the Company of Seven, a famed group of adventurers whose names are immortalized in spells, artifacts, and magic items such as Keoghtom’s ointment