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Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
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A young moonstone dragon on the cusp of adulthood refuses to settle down and build a lair. To protect the local populace from the dragon’s chaotic activities, a minor deity sends a deva
’s life.
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A young moonstone dragon has acquired a powerful magic item belonging to one of the fey courts and is leading the assassin sent to retrieve the item on a chase through the
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Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
close without arousing suspicion. Once in a position to observe, the dragon studies the day-to-day life of local folk, with a keen interest in any magical phenomena.
Emerald dragons&rsquo
lizard;giant lizards—to settle and thrive in the region.
Emerald dragons use the features of their lairs to confuse and imperil intruders. They dig additional tunnels that allow them to move
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Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
arousing suspicion. Once in a position to observe, the dragon studies the day-to-day life of local folk, with a keen interest in any magical phenomena.
Emerald dragons’ attentiveness to unusual
awareness and subconsciously luring their favorite food—giant lizard;giant lizards—to settle and thrive in the region.
Emerald dragons use the features of their lairs to confuse and imperil
Human
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These were the stories of a restless people who long ago took to the seas and rivers in longboats, first to pillage and terrorize, then to settle. Yet there was an energy, a love of adventure, that
adaptable and ambitious people among the common races. They have widely varying tastes, morals, and customs in the many different lands where they have settled. When they settle, though, they stay: they
Gnome
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communities. Louder sounds punctuate the hum: a crunch of grinding gears here, a minor explosion there, a yelp of surprise or triumph, and especially bursts of laughter. Gnomes take delight in life
squeeze every ounce of enjoyment out of their three to five centuries of life. Humans might wonder about getting bored over the course of such a long life, and elves take plenty of time to savor the
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Mythic Odysseys of Theros
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Noble and Fierce
Leonin tend to be tall compared to humans and move with a boldness that suggests their physical might. Tawny fur covers leonin bodies, and some grow thick manes ranging in shades from
gods, but I roll my eyes at each new twist of fate and try to get on with my life.
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I wish that I could be as naive as humans and other mortals who actually think the gods are looking out for them
Entertainer
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anger. Your music raises their spirits or captures their sorrow. Your dance steps captivate, your humor cuts to the quick. Whatever techniques you use, your art is your life.
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I get bitter if I’m not the center of attention.
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I’ll settle for nothing less than perfection.
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I change my mood or my mind as quickly as I change key in a song
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Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide
and ruin. But for the last few generations, some bands among the tribes were tempted to settle, make peace, trade, and even to build towns. Perhaps this is why Uthgar chose to raise up the totems
in the Chondalwood, or the magic-hating human tribes of the sweltering jungles of Chult.
You might have grown up in one of the tribes that had decided to settle down, and now that they have
Halfling
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the glassy surface of Maer Dualdon.
— R.A. Salvatore, The Crystal Shard
The comforts of home are the goals of most halflings’ lives: a place to settle in peace and quiet, far from
communities travel as a way of life, driving wagons or guiding boats from place to place and maintaining no permanent home.
AFFABLE AND POSITIVE
Halflings try to get along with everyone else and are
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Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus
dance steps captivate, your humor cuts to the quick. Whatever techniques you use, your art is your life.
Skill Proficiencies: Acrobatics, PerformanceTool Proficiencies: Disguise kit, one
, since I can defuse any amount of tension.
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I love a good insult, even one directed at me.
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I get bitter if I’m not the center of attention.
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I’ll settle for nothing
Kenku
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. They settle in places that accept them, usually bleak cities that have fallen on hard times and are overrun with crime.
Dreams of Flight
Above all else, kenku wish to regain their ability to fly
produce large numbers of identical items. Few kenku find this work satisfying, since their quest for the freedom of flight makes them ill-suited to settle into a routine.
Ideal Minions
Kenku gather in
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
settled. When they settle, though, they stay: they build cities to last for the ages, and great kingdoms that can persist for long centuries. An individual human might have a relatively short life span
, but a human nation or culture preserves traditions with origins far beyond the reach of any single human’s memory. They live fully in the present — making them well suited to the adventuring life — but
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)
settled. When they settle, though, they stay: they build cities to last for the ages, and great kingdoms that can persist for long centuries. An individual human might have a relatively short life span
, but a human nation or culture preserves traditions with origins far beyond the reach of any single human’s memory. They live fully in the present — making them well suited to the adventuring life — but
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Xanathar's Guide to Everything
Sworn Enemy Every ranger begins with a favored enemy (or two). The determination of a favored enemy might be tied to a specific event in the character’s early life, or it might be entirely a matter
of choice. What spurred your character to select a particular enemy? Was the choice made because of tradition or curiosity, or do you have a grudge to settle? Sworn Enemies d6 Enemy 1 You seek
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
University. In this adventure, the characters explore campus as first-year students. They’ll navigate orientation at the Biblioplex and settle into social life in rowdy gathering spots. They’ll get
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)
humans do, and most are expected to settle down into an adult life by around age 40. They can live 350 to almost 500 years. Size. Gnomes are between 3 and 4 feet tall and average about 40 pounds. Your
size is Small. Speed. Your base walking speed is 25 feet. Darkvision. Accustomed to life underground, you have superior vision in dark and dim conditions. You can see in dim light within 60 feet of you
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
humans do, and most are expected to settle down into an adult life by around age 40. They can live 350 to almost 500 years. Size. Gnomes are between 3 and 4 feet tall and average about 40 pounds. Your
size is Small. Speed. Your base walking speed is 25 feet. Darkvision. Accustomed to life underground, you have superior vision in dark and dim conditions. You can see in dim light within 60 feet of you
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
Drinking Deeply of Life A gnome is rarely bored and tries to savor every minute, for life is full of opportunities to learn, to help others, and to have fun. Gnomes are born with a fascination for
learning fueled by an irrepressible curiosity. Most individuals settle on a specialized area of study such as an aspect of the natural world, a particular method of invention, or the patterns that
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)
in the first place. Gnomes who settle in human lands are commonly gemcutters, engineers, sages, or tinkers. Some human families retain gnome tutors, ensuring that their pupils enjoy a mix of serious
learning and delighted enjoyment. A gnome might tutor several generations of a single human family over the course of his or her long life. ALWAYS APPRECIATIVE
It’s rare for a gnome to be hostile or
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)
hard study and some measure of natural talent that most troubadours and jongleurs lack. It can be hard to spot the difference between these performers and true bards, though. A bard’s life is spent
magic set bards apart from their fellows. Only rarely do bards settle in one place for long, and their natural desire to travel — to find new tales to tell, new skills to learn, and new discoveries
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
Legends of Tletepec Long ago, two lovers led their people away from war and conflict, looking for a new place to settle. They and their people were starving by the time they arrived at a peaceful but
have offered a portion of what they have to the volcanoes to maintain these blessings. It’s said that when the lovers became volcanoes, their memories of mortal life began to fade. When they forget their
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
in the first place. Gnomes who settle in human lands are commonly gemcutters, engineers, sages, or tinkers. Some human families retain gnome tutors, ensuring that their pupils enjoy a mix of serious
learning and delighted enjoyment. A gnome might tutor several generations of a single human family over the course of his or her long life. ALWAYS APPRECIATIVE
It’s rare for a gnome to be hostile or
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
hard study and some measure of natural talent that most troubadours and jongleurs lack. It can be hard to spot the difference between these performers and true bards, though. A bard’s life is spent
magic set bards apart from their fellows. Only rarely do bards settle in one place for long, and their natural desire to travel — to find new tales to tell, new skills to learn, and new discoveries
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron
by the Treaty of Thronehold, but many fear Aundair will try to reclaim the region. Druidic magic is a central part of life in the Eldeen Reaches. Most of its people seek to live in harmony with the
Wood maintain order and settle disputes, and the Great Druid Oalian—an awakened greatpine—is the spiritual leader of the Reaches.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
Reaches as a nation, but its citizens fear Aundair will try to reclaim the region. Druidic magic is central to life in the Eldeen Reaches. Its people seek to live in harmony with the natural world, and each
community has a druidic advisor who helps with planning and planting. The Towering Wood is also home to tribes of shifters, who maintain a nomadic existence. The Wardens of the Wood uphold order and settle disputes, and the Great Druid Oalian—an awakened greatpine—is the spiritual leader of the Reaches.
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
represent uniform strains virtually identical to each other. Other demons (such as manes) are created from mortal souls shunned or cursed by the gods, or which are otherwise trapped in the Abyss
status grows with the blood it spills; the more enemies that fall before it, the greater it becomes. A demon might spawn as a manes, then become a dretch, and eventually transform to a vrock after untold
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
gate? The noisy hubbub of merchants and buyers thronging the market square? The overpowering stench of manure? Sensory details help bring a settlement to life and vividly communicate its personality to
your players. Settle on a single defining factor that sums up a settlement’s personality and extrapolate from there. Maybe a city is built around canals, like real-world Venice. That key element
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
staircase constructed to navigate it.
Labyrinth Encounters d20 Encounter 1–10 No encounter 11 1 behir 12 2d4 flumphs 13 Gnoll pack 14 1d4 grells 15 1d4 hezrous 16 4d8 manes 17 2d4 minotaurs 18 1
afflicted with madness, Kurr can’t bring himself to kill any living creature except in self-defense. If the characters spare his life, Kurr can act as a guide, for he has explored a great deal of the
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
itself augmented by some of his favorite demons, such as barlguras, dretches, hezrous, or manes. The Lord of Savagery also has a special affinity for maw demons, which share his insatiable hunger
information on leucrottas, see chapter 3 of this book. Trolls Of all the creatures encountered by gnolls, trolls are the most likely to join them simply because the gnolls’ way of life appeals to them. As ravenous creatures with incredible toughness, trolls fit well into the loose scheme of a gnoll war band.
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Quests from the Infinite Staircase
Random Encounters You can breathe life into the garden by introducing random encounters as the characters explore the realm. A random encounter occurs whenever you want one to, such as while the
satyrs argue as they pick berries for making wine. They ask the characters to settle a dispute over which of the satyrs has the best muscles. 4 Stargleam and Silverlily, the unicorns from area G15
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their own plane and establish nests in high mountains or in the canopies of old forests.
Once tribes of aarakocra settle in an area, they share a hunting territory that extends across an area up to 100
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
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
live a life of adventure and have many stories to tell. 4 Protective. You make sure to shelter the innocent. 5 Honest. Your mother told you to always tell the truth. 6 Excitement. Can you steal the
your own path through life. No one can tell you what to do. 4 You have a special heirloom that you never part with. 5 You won’t rob or hurt those who are weaker or less fortunate than you. 6 No matter
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
raiders to give up their ways, settle down, found a village, and devote their lives to farming.
A Karametra Campaign At first glance, a campaign in which the player characters are champions of
Karametra might seem counterintuitive, since Karametra’s goals seem to promote the antithesis of an adventuring life. But her ideals might be attractive to some adventurers, such as exiles for whom the
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
here to settle. Their descendants live here to this day and keep alive the memory of their ancestors’ deeds. Today, the keep is the residence of the town speaker, Crannoc Siever, who recently made the
mistake of opening his doors to the Knights of the Black Sword. This group consists of people from all walks of life who owe their lives to the archdevil Levistus (see “Black Swords” below for detailed descriptions of the castle and the cult of Levistus).
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
the daelkyr for the use of their minions — strange symbiotic items (some of which appear in chapter 5) that use the life force of their hosts to power their magical abilities. Some clans have banned
hope to make a name for yourself in the wider world. 3 Your clan has arranged your marriage and your future, and you’ve decided to have a few adventures before you settle down. 4 You’re pursuing a