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The Book of Many Things
Everything was going so well! You had a life of luxury, love, and comfort when you suddenly lost it all. Perhaps you were framed for crimes you didn’t commit and lost your reputation, fortune
successful life even more glorious—only to draw a destructive card that changed your destiny forever.
Your desperation has driven you to the career of adventurer. You don’t seek out dark dungeons
Backgrounds
Curse of Strahd: Character Options
hunter's pack (containing a chest, a crowbar, a hammer, three stake (wooden);wooden stakes, a holy symbol, a holy water (flask);flask of holy water, a manacles; set of manacles, a mirror, steel;steel
, common;set of common clothes, and 1 sp.
Harrowing Event
Prior to becoming an adventurer, your path in life was defined by one dark moment, one fateful decision, or one tragedy. Now you feel a darkness
Backgrounds
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
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Independence. When people follow orders blindly, they embrace a kind of tyranny. (Chaotic)
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Might. In life as in war, the stronger force wins. (Evil)
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Live and Let Live. Ideals aren
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player’s Handbook
offers examples to help a DM assign a type to a new effect. Damage Types Type Examples Acid Corrosive liquids, digestive enzymes Bludgeoning Blunt objects, constriction, falling Cold Freezing
water, icy blasts Fire Flames, unbearable heat Force Pure magical energy Lightning Electricity Necrotic Life-draining energy Piercing Fangs, puncturing objects Poison Toxic gas, venom Psychic Mind
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules
offers examples to help a DM assign a type to a new effect. Damage Types Type Examples Acid Corrosive liquids, digestive enzymes Bludgeoning Blunt objects, constriction, falling Cold Freezing
water, icy blasts Fire Flames, unbearable heat Force Pure magical energy Lightning Electricity Necrotic Life-draining energy Piercing Fangs, puncturing objects Poison Toxic gas, venom Psychic Mind
Species
Acquisitions Incorporated
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
different ways. The verdan assign no cultural or biological relevance to any particular coloration, physical features, or gender.
Cultural Chameleons
The clan homes of the Underdark goblinoids who
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)
or she might have been a soldier or a pirate and done dangerous things before. Starting off at 1st level marks your character’s entry into the adventuring life. If you’re already familiar with the
description in chapter 3 includes a section offering suggestions to quickly build a character of that class, including how to assign your highest ability scores, a background suitable to the class, and starting spells.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Infernal Machine Rebuild
into the temple to challenge intruders. Prisoner A gruesome scene plays out along the east wall. One of Moghadam’s thieves hangs from manacles there, dead, torn open, and with his innards hanging out
prisoner back to life. Little Gadai is a lawful neutral human spy. He joins the characters if allowed to, seeking to rescue and rejoin the other thieves to complete their original mission. His knowledge of the temple is limited to areas 1 through 6.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
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, allowing an individual to experience more of the world and grow
in empathy and understanding. There is no pattern to any verdan’s mutations, as verdan from the same family can shift in drastically different ways. The verdan assign no cultural or biological relevance to any particular coloration, physical features, or gender.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
you and tries to emulate you in every way 6 A hardened adventurer who thinks a moral compass is akin to a pair of manacles 7 An injured retired adventurer who can’t quite let go of the adventuring
life and experiences it vicariously by spending time in the guildhall 8 A grouchy employee who keeps the guildhall clean and cares for its guests while quietly complaining about how adventurers should
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
fundamental ways, controlling magic, the nature of life and death, and the means of escaping from their nightmare realms. Mysterious Magic In some domains, magic is an everyday part of life, while in
magic-using characters as figures of awe or terror, or to assign storied origins to common magic items. Corrupted Magic. The Dark Powers influence magical effects, imparting them with sinister qualities
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
polluted water with iron pokers sticking out of it, an iron crate filled with manacles, and two racks of hooked poles. Hanging on the south wall is a set of rusty manacles. Prisoners who misbehave are hung
as quarters for the general fire giant population. No giants are in these rooms now. 16A. Northwest Room This room contains an iron-framed bed, a cabinet filled with manacles and instruments of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Book of Many Things
Ruined Everything was going so well! You had a life of luxury, love, and comfort when you suddenly lost it all. Perhaps you were framed for crimes you didn’t commit and lost your reputation, fortune
successful life even more glorious—only to draw a destructive card that changed your destiny forever. Your desperation has driven you to the career of adventurer. You don’t seek out dark dungeons and their
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
sentence)
3 Assassin or noble convicted of conspiracy to murder members of a noble family (has served 1d20 years of a life sentence)
4 Famous adventurer convicted of reckless endangerment
multiple crimes (has served 1d20 years of a life sentence)
R18. Surveillance Hub This hexagonal room is the base of the prison’s central tower. A spiral staircase connects it to the tower’s upper
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
marks your character’s entry into the adventuring life. If you’re already familiar with the game, or if you are joining an existing D&D campaign, your DM might decide to have you begin at a higher
character of that class, including how to assign your highest ability scores, a background suitable to the class, and starting spells.
Hit Points and Hit Dice Your character’s hit points define how tough
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Xanathar's Guide to Everything
provides help once, not help for life. The contact remains friendly, which can influence roleplaying and how the characters interact with them, but doesn’t come with a guarantee of help. You can assign
players concrete options. It brings the campaign to life and seeds the area with NPCs that the characters care about. On the other hand, it can prove difficult to track and might render a contact useless
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Spelljammer Academy
signals her imminent arrival.
Quote: “Listen to what I tell you; it might just save your life.”
Assigning Roles Saerthe explains that each team of cadets must assign crew roles to its members. This
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Xanathar's Guide to Everything
, you can assign the same personality traits to an entire group of monsters. For example, one bandit gang might be an unruly mob of braggarts, while the members of another gang are always on edge and
a frenzy. On the other hand, a monster might decide to flee if its spouse is killed, or a mistreated toady might be eager to surrender and betray its master in return for its life. d6 Relationship
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
. Ballista. This weapon is inoperable since the crash. N2. Cargo Hold Attached to the walls in this chamber are three sets of chains and manacles designed to hold large creatures. A staircase rises to the
manacles once held a pair of carrion crawlers and a bulette, all of which the gnome ceremorphs released after the crash. The characters met the carrion crawlers on the way to the ship; they meet the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
with gemstones (see “Treasure”). “Guarding” the throne on either side are two life-size statues of cloud giants — one male, one female — standing at attention, wearing tall helmets with feather
, an adult bronze dragon, is chained to the back wall and floor of this spacious, windowless cell. Two locked manacles bind the dragon’s hind legs, preventing him from moving more than a few feet in
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
manacled iron chains anchored to the curved outer wall. Two other sets of manacles hang empty.
Cradle. Against the south wall, between the two doors, is an ornate cradle carved with spiders and fitted
manacles in this room.)
Both prisoners have been strung up to face the wall, their bare backs covered in blood from the cuts inflicted by Erelal Freth’s scourge. One of the prisoners is Hatchrin Alet’taz
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
’ entries in the Monster Manual, or you can use the Monster Personality table to inform how you portray the monsters and their actions. It’s simplest to assign the same personality traits to an entire group
if its hunting companion is killed, or a mistreated toady might be eager to surrender and betray its boss in return for its life. You can use the Monster Relationships table to inspire such
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Sigil and the Outlands
life are forgotten in Curst, and citizens rarely inquire about one another’s pasts. Such information is either volunteered willingly or loudly proclaimed by officials scouring the town for renegades
, and melted-down manacles and chains. A cranium rat genius broods within the junk piles. Called the Node, the hairless rat claims to have escaped the Lady of Pain’s Mazes—a feat that bestowed it a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
a life of piracy, following in the enormous footsteps of Huzza, a hill giant in the world of the Forgotten Realms. The Boss Assignments table suggests the kinds of missions a giant boss might send
my life. My advice is to heed those whose minds are as expansive as their deeds.
—Bigby
A giant who serves as a tutor to adventurers is often an exile from giant society, dwelling by necessity or
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
met during your adventures or someone who seeks you out because of your fame. Your DM will assign you a contact or have you roll on the Contacts table for the appropriate guild. Some guilds — notably
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
d10 and consult the Mad Duergar table to determine what the party encounters. d10 NPC 1–2 A merchant desperate to sell his wares, convinced that his life depends on it. 3–4 A street sweeper who
combat starts. Slave Caravan The characters come across a group of 1d4 + 1 duergar slavers herding unarmed slaves (roll a d12 and consult the Slaves table). The slaves wear iron collars and manacles
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Prisoner 13
sentence. 4 Pirouette (chaotic evil tiefling), a thieves’ guild leader convicted of multiple crimes, has served 1d20 years of a life sentence. 5 Ishar (chaotic evil elf), convicted of conspiracy to
murder members of a noble family, has served 1d20 years of a life sentence. 6 Grix (neutral goblin), convicted of espionage, has served 1d6 years of a 10-year sentence. An adventurer makes contact with
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Keys from the Golden Vault
sentence. 4 Pirouette (chaotic evil tiefling), a thieves’ guild leader convicted of multiple crimes, has served 1d20 years of a life sentence. 5 Ishar (chaotic evil elf), convicted of conspiracy to
murder members of a noble family, has served 1d20 years of a life sentence. 6 Grix (neutral goblin), convicted of espionage, has served 1d6 years of a 10-year sentence. An adventurer makes contact with
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Sigil and the Outlands
life in the city. Currently Sigil has twelve ascendant factions. The following sections present these factions, along with notes on their leaders, sites in Sigil that serve as their headquarters
Epithet: Dusters The Heralds of Dust believe the multiverse itself is an afterlife—a shadow of some other existence now gone—and every creature is already dead. The “life” that beings cling to is
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
. Assign Hit Dice. Alternatively, you can assign a number of Hit Dice to a monster, then calculate its average hit points. Don’t worry if the hit points aren’t matching up with the expected challenge
the Player’s Handbook for descriptions of the various damage types). Assign a vulnerability, resistance, or immunity to a monster only when it’s intuitive. For example, it makes sense for a monster made
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Sigil and the Outlands
demodand (see Morte’s Planar Parade) street food vendor pushes a rusty cart down a nearby alley. Charred, sausage-link manacles dangle from the cart’s torn awning. The demodand offers the characters
pave the way for reconstruction and renewal. In the Hive, however, Wreaker activity sometimes compounds the miseries of everyday life when their fires—vain attempts to garner attention from the movers
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen
earnest prayer to Sirrion causes flames to spring to life within the altar’s candle sconces and a thick, red liquid to fill its basin. This liquid is a potion of fire breath. After creating this potion
of manacles, and a blue pearl worth 150 gp. D3: Lower Chambers The stairs descend into an space surrounded by a series of halls and cramped rooms. A thick, rotten smell permeates the air. Digging
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Adventure Atlas: The Mortuary
this effect reduces its hit point maximum to 0. A Humanoid that dies in the reservoir rises from its corpse as a hostile specter 1d4 hours later unless the Humanoid is restored to life or its body is
the direction, roll a d6 and assign a direction to each die face. Each creature in the line must make on a DC 18 Dexterity saving throw, taking 35 (10d6) necrotic damage on a failed save, or half as
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Netheril’s Fall: Tales of Terror, Treasure, and Time Travel
well to seek her out. Entertainment. For adventurers seeking the fine life, the court offers the most elevated performances, the most elegant dances, and stunningly romantic gardens. Place to Stay
investigating the Free Warriors, or who wish to join its cause, can seek out Liberax Volt. If they prove their trustworthiness, the rebellion leader reveals himself. He might assign the characters tasks
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a1
back. Several sets of corroded manacles are connected to the walls,and some still bind a few crumbling skeletons.
Creatures. Three kobolds are bound with crude rope to the iron spike. A battered
as a loyal friend. Currently, though, he has no gear. Those who free Erky gain XP as if they defeated him in combat. Manacles. The rusted iron restraints can bind a Small or Medium creature. If the