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Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide
choiceEquipment: A uniform in the style of your unit and indicative of your rank, a horn with which to summon help, a set of manacles, and a pouch containing 10 gp
FEATURE: WATCHER'S EYE
Your
experience in enforcing the law, and dealing with lawbreakers, gives you a feel for local laws and criminals. You can easily find the local outpost of the watch or a similar organization, and just as
Backgrounds
Guildmasters’ Guide to Ravnica
standard circus-style acrobatics with fire, wrought-iron spikes and hooks, and monsters. You can roll a d8 or choose from the options in the Performance Options table to determine your preferred
style of performance.
Performance Options
d8
Type of Performer
1
Spikewheel acrobat
2
Lampooning satirist
3
Fire juggler
4
Marionette puppeteer
5
Pain artist
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Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide
piece of jewelry worth 10 gp in the style of your homeland’s craftsmanship, and a pouch containing 5 gp
Why Are You Here?
A far traveler might have set out on a journey for one of a
foreign land.
2
I pretend not to understand the local language in order to avoid interactions I would rather not have.
3
I have a weakness for the new intoxicants and other pleasures of this
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
, akin to the visit of a dignitary. A bard can reasonably expect at least a hot supper and a clean place to sleep from a local landlord or inn in exchange for a few songs or stories. A noble might host a
bard in fine style — while also being careful to guard any secrets the noble’s household doesn’t want retold or sung across Faerûn. Not all wandering performers are true bards, nor are all bards
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
homeland, a thirst for revenge, or a need to prove yourself might all have been factors. You might have enjoyed formal training in a noble’s army or in a local militia. Perhaps you trained in a war
Intelligence if you plan to adopt the Eldritch Knight martial archetype. Second, choose the soldier background. Level
Proficiency
Bonus
Features
1st
+2
Fighting Style, Second Wind
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
with the seven merchant princes of Port Nyanzaru (whom he knows well), Volo is visiting local taverns to promote his work, and the characters might meet him at some point in the city. Volo is a font of
wish to explore jungles, lost cities, and dungeons. Friendly taverns and bawdy festhalls are more my style.”
Bond. “Planning an expedition? You really should buy a copy of my latest book, Volo’s Guide
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
Eyes of Blood After the characters have engaged with the local festival as much as they please, the character who has the highest passive Wisdom (Perception) score notices a group of celebrants
characters do the same, the attackers target them. Only one local holds their ground: a surprised woman named Aunt Dellie (commoner). She clearly recognizes some of the strange farmers and tries to reason
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
? Running Wild Branding is everything. Whenever you take on a wild shape form, you do so with a unique bit of personal style that lets folks know you’re a beast to be reckoned with. Distinguishing Features
, unsuitable for building, teeming with marsh flora and fauna
4 A large copse containing the habitats of tree-dwelling animals
5 A community garden whose bounty is shared by local residents
6
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
to the head of the Guild. These kingpins style themselves as elite criminals, often adopting memorable nicknames and distinctively decadent dress. Scores of common criminals work beneath each kingpin
their local kingpin. A kingpin might receive requests for help from citizens, asking for loans or dealing with unauthorized crime, such as a thieving neighbor. A kingpin tracks these favors and debts
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur’s Gate Gazetteer
to the head of the Guild. These kingpins style themselves as elite criminals, often adopting memorable nicknames and distinctively decadent dress. Scores of common criminals work beneath each kingpin
their local kingpin. A kingpin might receive requests for help from citizens, asking for loans or dealing with unauthorized crime, such as a thieving neighbor. A kingpin tracks these favors and debts
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Eve of Ruin
happy to share what she knows. She volunteers the following information: Foreign Complex. The complex’s architectural style is different than local traditions, so the complex must have been built by
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
is Cliffside Cemetery, located in the Tumbledown neighborhood and employing many local residents as gravediggers, stonemasons, morticians, and professional mourners. Long ago, the graveyard was an
feet tall, 5 feet thick, and topped with minarets in the classic Calishite style. These walls don’t simply surround the neighborhood, either. Little Calimshan is built like a traditional Calishite
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur’s Gate Gazetteer
of cemeteries outside the city. The largest of the latter is Cliffside Cemetery, located in the Tumbledown neighborhood and employing many local residents as gravediggers, stonemasons, morticians, and
Calimshan is sharply defined by brick-and-plaster walls, 15 feet tall, 5 feet thick, and topped with minarets in the classic Calishite style. These walls don’t simply surround the neighborhood, either
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Keys from the Golden Vault
. V9: Underground Wonders Exhibit Glittering ore and gemstones are arranged in velvet-backed display cases. Informational placards explain local geologic history.
Two guards patrol this exhibit and
archaeological tools are on display here. Informational placards label them as tools famous local experts used to dig up the wonders found in the museum. Murals along the south wall depict famous digs.
Two
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
have to their followers (whether the followers are aware their leader is a dragon or not). Each style of relationship suggests a variety of adventure possibilities, as shown on the Relationships and
alliance under the dragon’s rule. Depending on the dragon’s age and the power and number of minions involved, a dragon warlord might be a local menace or an imperial conqueror. Relationships and Adventures
Magic Items
Infernal Machine Rebuild
an encounter, it has advantage on the attack roll.
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Your clothes are wrapped in illusion that makes them appear to be the very latest style, drawing praise and attention. You have a +1 bonus to
all the local area you are aware of. This map doesn’t reveal anything you don’t know, but grants advantage on ability checks to find secret doors and to navigate back to where you’ve
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
his affable personality won over many in town by the time of his release. He thus stayed on in Phandalin, where he works doing odd jobs and keeping a close eye on local goings-on.
BRAWN MCGABLE
of the land, many of the businesses, and a good portion of the wealth in the local area. He was the last townmaster before that position was dissolved in favor of a three-person town council, and has
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
More Downtime Activities Chapter 8, "Adventuring" of the Player’s Handbook describes a few downtime activities to fill the void between adventures. Depending on the style of your campaign and the
. 91 or higher You make a small fortune gambling. You recuperate your lifestyle expenses for the time spent carousing and gain 4d6 × 10 gp. Your carousing becomes the stuff of local legend. Crafting a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur’s Gate Gazetteer
patriars, and started Baldur’s Mouth as a way to empower the city’s poor via what he saw as the greatest weapon of social change: information. In the beginning, he simply paid local lantern bearers
abandoned her. A local vagrant claims to have seen Aurayaun climb up and remove the sign-shield late on the night she went missing, then vanish into an alley with a cloaked figure. Since then, though
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
patriars, and started Baldur’s Mouth as a way to empower the city’s poor via what he saw as the greatest weapon of social change: information. In the beginning, he simply paid local lantern bearers
abandoned her. A local vagrant claims to have seen Aurayaun climb up and remove the sign-shield late on the night she went missing, then vanish into an alley with a cloaked figure. Since then, though
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
suspect. Bribery and influence-peddling run rife through the courts, where honest judges are rare and widely feared. In addition to hosting trials, the High Hall holds libraries containing all local
those responsible for its theft. Lutecia is content to leave this task in his capable hands. Lady’s Hall Tymora’s temple in Baldur’s Gate is made of local yellow granite, roofed with slate shingles
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur’s Gate Gazetteer
suspect. Bribery and influence-peddling run rife through the courts, where honest judges are rare and widely feared. In addition to hosting trials, the High Hall holds libraries containing all local
the shield back and punish those responsible for its theft. Lutecia is content to leave this task in his capable hands. Lady’s Hall Tymora’s temple in Baldur’s Gate is made of local yellow granite
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
with coin to spend. Village law is whatever the local Council of Elders says it is. The current head of the council is a retired ranger and active member of the Emerald Enclave named Quinn Nardrosz (NG
away and never grown back. He brutally attacks other dragons, seeking to slay any wyrm that might rival him in power, in a fighting style marked by sudden attacks and just as sudden disappearances
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
construction and style: a twisted birch branch, a sturdy oak dowel, a glittering haft of stone, a steel pole carved with blue runes, a dimpled copper staff topped with a copper crescent moon, and a blown
her present form. The gargoyle retains fragmented memories of the life of Lady Gondafrey, a native Waterdavian who served in the City Watch. After identifying Duhlark Kolat as a suspect in several local