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Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
of the hunter that has the ability to cast spells must succeed on a DC 14 Wisdom saving throw or be mystically marked by the hunter for 1 hour.
While marked, a creature can’t become hidden from
the hunter and gains no benefit from the invisible condition against the hunter. Additionally, while a marked creature is on the same plane of existence as the hunter, the hunter always knows the
Axe of the Dwarvish Lords
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Magic Items
Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
marked by treachery and wickedness, the axe was lost in a bloody civil war fomented by greed for its power and the status it bestowed. Centuries later, the dwarves still search for the axe, and many
attunement ends, the curse remains. With each passing day, the creature’s physical appearance and stature become more dwarflike. After seven days, the creature looks like a typical dwarf, but
Charlatan
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Player’s Handbook (2014)
them like they were children’s books. It’s a useful talent, and one that you’re perfectly willing to use for your advantage.
You know what people want and you deliver, or rather
city that just happens to be for sale. These marvels sound implausible, but you make them sound like the real deal.
Skill Proficiencies: Deception, Sleight of HandTool Proficiencies
Species
Eberron: Rising from the Last War
massive, chimera-marked military forces of his house for his own ends, but he’s surrounded by aggressive advisors who would like to see a Deneith ruling all Khorvaire. House Deneith is also caught in an escalating rivalry with House Tharashk, as it edges into the mercenary trade.
Species
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
forever. Choose your season or roll on the Eladrin Seasons table. Your Trance trait lets you change your season.
Like other elves, eladrin can live to be over 750 years old.
Eladrin Seasons
d4
: cheerfulness and celebration, marked by merriment and hope as winter’s sorrow passes
4
Summer: boldness and aggression, a time of unfettered energy and calls to action
Creating Your
Half-Elf
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Basic Rules (2014)
marked by an easy grace—an elvish grace, Flint would have said; yet the man’s body had the thickness and tight muscles of a human, while the facial hair was definitely humankind’s. All
like elves, and to elves, they look human. In height, they’re on par with both parents, though they’re neither as slender as elves nor as broad as humans. They range from under 5 feet to
Species
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
winds.
Air genasi’s skin tones include many shades of blue, along with the full range of human skin tones, with bluish or ashen casts. Sometimes their skin is marked by lines that seem like cracks
’s description.
Height and Weight
Player characters, regardless of race, typically fall into the same ranges of height and weight that humans have in our world. If you’d like to determine
Backgrounds
Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus
can tease out their hearts’ desires after a few minutes of conversation, and with a few leading questions you can read them like they were children’s books. It’s a useful talent, and
you make them sound like the real deal.
Skill Proficiencies: Deception, Sleight of HandTool Proficiencies: Disguise kit, Forgery kitEquipment: A set of fine clothes, a disguise kit
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
Delegation If there are parts of the game you prefer not to handle yourself, assign them to players who enjoy them. If you don’t want to break your narrative stride by looking up a rule, designate
another player to be the rulebook reference expert. If you don’t like tracking Initiative, ask another player to do so.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules
Delegation If there are parts of the game you prefer not to handle yourself, assign them to players who enjoy them. If you don’t want to break your narrative stride by looking up a rule, designate
another player to be the rulebook reference expert. If you don’t like tracking Initiative, ask another player to do so.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
onerous, but it helps to have a system for larger groups of monsters. If you aren’t using miniatures or other visual aids, the easiest way to keep track of your monsters is to assign them unique
encounter with three ogres, each of which has 59 hit points. Once initiative is rolled, jot down each ogre’s hit points and add notes (and even a name, if you like) to differentiate each one: Krag (ogre w
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
Points a monster has remaining. It helps to have a system to track damage for groups of monsters. If you aren’t using miniatures or other visual aids, one way to track your monsters is to assign them
your players track which monster is which. Once Initiative is rolled, jot down each ogre’s Hit Points and add notes (and even a name, if you like) to differentiate each one: Krag (ogre w/ scar): 68
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Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus
their competence, which all marked them as different from the other adults you knew. As soon as you could, you joined the organization.
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To you, this is just a way to earn a living. You go to
Characteristics
Criminals might seem like villains on the surface, and many of them are villainous to the core. But some have an abundance of endearing, if not redeeming, characteristics. There might be honor
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Spelljammer: Adventures in Space->Boo’s Astral Menagerie
encounter you like. If the encounter is with a spelljamming ship, you can roll on the Ship Encounters table to determine the ship and its crew, or you can create a ship encounter of your own (see the
Astral Adventurer’s Guide for ship descriptions). Creatures marked with an asterisk (*) appear in this book; the rest are described in the Monster Manual. Any creature marked with a dagger (†) can serve
Species
Acquisitions Incorporated
spontaneous alterations over their lifetime, from the typical range of point and peak seen among the elves, to huge ears that sweep back from the head like wings, and which are often pierced behind
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
Firbolg
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Volo's Guide to Monsters
’ presence is marked by an absence of animals and a strange quiet, as if the forest wishes to avoid attracting attention to itself. The faster travelers decide to move on, the better.
If these
world.
A few rare firbolgs are entrusted by their clan with an important mission that takes them beyond their homes. These firbolgs feel like pilgrims in a strange land, and usually they wish only to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
the types. The damage types follow, with examples to help a DM assign a damage type to a new effect. Acid. The corrosive spray of an adult black dragon's breath and the dissolving enzymes secreted by
a black pudding deal acid damage. Bludgeoning. Blunt force attacks--hammers, falling, constriction, and the like--deal bludgeoning damage. Cold. The infernal chill radiating from an ice devil's spear
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur’s Gate Gazetteer
includes all neighborhoods outside the city walls). Regardless of what district one might be visiting, certain features are impossible to ignore, like the wash of Gray Harbor, the shadows of Dusthawk
Hill, or the gates that contribute to the city’s name. Important landmarks are marked on the large map of the city (map 6.2), which shows the entirety of Baldur’s Gate and its immediate surroundings.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Lorwyn: First Light
Isilu, Embodiment of the Moon Isilu, often considered a symbol of Shadowmoor, is an enormous, dragon-like creature with six legs and wings that trail billowing, void-like plumes. Similar to its
looks like a floating moon. Many Shadowmoor residents worship Isilu as a god, claiming they feel Isilu’s bolstering presence in calm silences and gentle chills in the air. The faithful believe Isilu
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
Baldur’s Gate would like nothing better than to do the same to Omu, but they’ve had no luck locating the lost city. The Flaming Fist’s researchers are convinced the city lies south of Lake Luo but east of
(major) and has complete autonomy in Chult, answering only to Duke Ulder Ravengard of Baldur’s Gate. Portyr will happily assign some of her mercenaries to accompany adventurers by sea to Refuge Bay or
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
increase. You can establish certain Renown Score thresholds as prerequisites (though not necessarily the only prerequisites) for advancing in rank. You can set these thresholds however you like, creating
character whose Renown Score rises to 50 might be able to call on a small army, acquire a Rare magic item, gain access to a helpful spellcaster, or assign special missions to members of lower status.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything
reinforcement is appropriate if you want to lean into the archetype, but it’s unhelpful if your character doesn’t conform to the archetype. If you’d like your character to follow their own path, you may
alter your Ability Score Increase trait and assign ability score increases tailored to your character. Here’s how to do it: take any ability score increase you gain in your race or subrace and apply
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)
the types. The damage types follow, with examples to help a DM assign a damage type to a new effect. Acid. The corrosive spray of an adult black dragon’s breath and the dissolving enzymes secreted by
a black pudding deal acid damage. Bludgeoning. Blunt force attacks — hammers, falling, constriction, and the like — deal bludgeoning damage. Cold. The infernal chill radiating from an ice devil’s
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player’s Handbook
Step 3: Determine Ability Scores To determine your character’s ability scores, you first generate a set of six numbers using the instructions below and then assign them to your six abilities. Chapter
Score Point Costs Score Cost 8 0 9 1 10 2 11 3 12 4 13 5 14 7 15 9 Assign Ability Scores Once you’ve generated six scores, assign them to Strength, Dexterity, Constitution, Intelligence, Wisdom
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
includes all neighborhoods outside the city walls). Regardless of what district one might be visiting, certain features are impossible to ignore, like the wash of Gray Harbor, the shadows of Dusthawk
Hill, or the gates that contribute to the city’s name. Important landmarks are marked on the large map of the city (map 6.2), which shows the entirety of Baldur’s Gate and its immediate surroundings.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules
Step 3: Determine Ability Scores To determine your character’s ability scores, you first generate a set of six numbers using the instructions below and then assign them to your six abilities
. Ability Score Point Costs Score Cost 8 0 9 1 10 2 11 3 12 4 13 5 14 7 15 9 Assign Ability Scores Once you’ve generated six scores, assign them to Strength, Dexterity, Constitution, Intelligence
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)
Game Dice The game uses polyhedral dice with different numbers of sides. You can find dice like these in game stores and in many bookstores. In these rules, the different dice are referred to by the
, roll a d6 and divide the number rolled by 2 (round up). To simulate the roll of 1d2, roll any die and assign a 1 or 2 to the roll depending on whether it was odd or even. (Alternatively, if the number rolled is more than half the number of sides on the die, it’s a 2.)
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules
following tools: A whiteboard on a wall or propped up nearby A battle mat you use for miniatures Folded index cards for each character and each group of identical monsters, placed like tents in
monsters. If you aren’t using miniatures or other visual aids, one way to track your monsters is to assign them unique features. For example, imagine that you’re running an encounter with three Ogres
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
a creature enters the trapped 10-foot-square space marked on map 9 for the first time on a turn or starts its turn there, the medusa statue in area 3 animates and shoots a magic arrow at the creature
, disguised to look like a section of the staff that represents conjuration. A character who searches the wall spots the button with a successful DC 15 Wisdom (Perception) check. Pressing the button results in a loud clicking noise as the arrow trap deactivates for 1 minute.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
Elturel from its chains. Navigating the wastelands of Avernus might seem like a difficult proposition, but thankfully the characters have the map given to them by Sylvira Savikas in chapter 1. For more
information on how to use the Avernus poster map, see “Using the Poster Map”. Elturel and Fort Knucklebone aren’t marked on the poster map, as Elturel was not present when the map was drawn, and the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
typical range of point and peak seen among the elves, to huge ears that sweep back from the head like wings, and which are often pierced behind the head with a single ring to keep them from flapping
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->Rrakkma
temple marked the tenants of their faith upon these walls, but the writing has been virtually scoured from the walls. Only vague markings in certain places here and there give testimony that the
record even existed to begin with. Even a comprehend languages spell turns up gibberish from what is left. The adventurers can spend as much time as they like attempting to decipher the vague scrawl
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
Chapter 3: Avernus - Other Locations Some locations marked on the players’ map of Avernus lie outside the two quest paths. Others, like the Wandering Emporium and Zariel’s Flying Fortress, move
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monsters of the Multiverse
. Choose your season or roll on the Eladrin Seasons table. Your Trance trait lets you change your season. Like other elves, eladrin can live to be over 750 years old. Eladrin Seasons d4 Season 1 Autumn
: peace and goodwill, when summer’s harvest is shared with all 2 Winter: contemplation and dolor, when the vibrant energy of the world slumbers 3 Spring: cheerfulness and celebration, marked by
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
and groans underfoot, much like in area Q50, but here things aren’t so safe. The 10-foot-long section marked T on the map is particularly weak, collapsing under 50 or more pounds of weight. A creature