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Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
You’ve dedicated your life to studying runecraft. Whether you were taught by a master rune carver or learned by poring over ancient engravings, you can tap into the supernatural power held
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Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus
unsure how to begin.
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War, plague, famine, or a marauding monster ravaged your home, forcing you to flee for your life. You don’t even know how many of your people survived or where to find
them. Alone or accompanied by a handful of equally bereft survivors, you must navigate a new life that you never asked for.
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You were captured by kidnappers and taken far from your home. The
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Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus
of desperate poverty, for good and for ill. They tend to be driven either by a commitment to the people with whom they shared life on the street or by a burning desire to find a better life &mdash
of the Guild or pressed into dirty and dangerous work by unscrupulous masters.
You grew up on the streets alone, orphaned, and poor. You had no one to watch over you or to provide for you, so you
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
alarmed to see the dog without its master and fears for Garret’s life. He asks the characters to head toward Kelvin’s Cairn, find Garret, and see him safely back to Targos.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
multiverse.
—Bigby
Giants collect an eclectic assortment of treasures and trinkets over the course of their long life spans. This chapter, intended for the Dungeon Master, explores treasures
intrepid adventurers might find during their encounters with giants, focusing on the six main families of giants described in the Monster Manual. This chapter contains the following sections: “Giant Bags
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Locathah Rising
., passive Perception 20
Languages understands the languages it knew in life but can’t speak
Challenge 9 (5,000 XP)
Bound Together. The drowned master shares its mind with every other drowned one
master drops to 1 hit point instead.
Actions
Multiattack. The drowned master makes two attacks: one with its greatsword and one with its Life-Draining Tentacle.
Greatsword. Melee Weapon Attack
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Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide
As a sell-sword who fought battles for coin, you’re well acquainted with risking life and limb for a chance at a share of treasure. Now, you look forward to fighting foes and reaping even
greater rewards as an adventurer. Your experience makes you familiar with the ins and outs of mercenary life, and you likely have harrowing stories of events on the battlefield. You might have served with
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
you every courtesy and do their utmost to help you. Unless you have shown yourself to be a danger to them, they will even take up arms to fight alongside you, should you find yourself facing an enemy alone.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Xanathar's Guide to Everything
, traps, magic items, and downtime — which largely relate to how you create and stage your adventures. The material in this chapter is meant to make your life easier. Ignore anything you find here that
Chapter 2: Dungeon Master's Tools As the Dungeon Master, you oversee the game and weave together the story experienced by your players. You’re the one who keeps it all going, and this chapter is for
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
Urban Bounty Hunter Before you became an adventurer, your life was already full of conflict and excitement, because you made a living tracking down people for pay. Unlike some people who collect
instincts. 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 areas
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules
Lore to collect knowledge and magical secrets. Cleric. Invoke divine magic to heal, bolster, and smite. Then harness the Life Domain to be a master of healing. Druid. Channel nature magic to heal
, shape-shift, and control the elements. Then join the Circle of the Land to draw on the magic of the environment. Fighter. Master all weapons and armor. Then embody the Champion to strive for peak combat
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monsters of the Multiverse
, spearhead some covert enterprise, or enjoy a quiet life of luxury. When a master thief completes a challenging heist, they often leave behind a calling card to taunt their victims. You may roll on the
Master Thief Master thieves are known for perpetrating daring heists. They tend to develop a romanticized reputation. A master thief might “retire” from hands-on work to run a thieves’ guild
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player’s Handbook
. Then harness the...
Life Domain to be a master of healing.
Light Domain to wield searing, warding light.
Trickery Domain to bedevil foes with mischief.
War Domain to inspire valor and chastise
preserve life, joy, and nature.
Vengeance to hunt down evildoers.
Ranger. Weave together martial prowess, nature magic, and survival skills. Then embody the...
Beast Master to bond with a primal
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Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus
find ready audiences, and the constant flow of travelers means that both new spectators and new spectacles are always passing through.
You thrive in front of an audience. You know how to entrance them
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
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
Recovery and Downtime After their harrowing experiences in the Underdark, the characters might need time to recuperate, ridding themselves of madness and find the means to break curses and cure
diseases. Other downtime activities are also possible (as determined by you, the Dungeon Master). For more information on downtime activities, see the “Downtime Activities” sections in chapter 8 of the Player’s Handbook and chapter 6 of the Dungeon Master’s Guide.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
has no time for rest or deliberation; every moment must be used to the fullest before the hordes return. Every wasted second is a life lost. Vladeska refuses to flee. She knows doing so could save many
, or murdered civilians. She doesn’t understand why this is, but she knows the zombies are coming for her alone.
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Guildmasters’ Guide to Ravnica
You are a member of a teeming horde — one small part of a sprawling organism. Just as you are part of the swarm, the swarm is part of a larger ecosystem, a never-ending cycle of life, death
, rot, and rebirth. You have spent your life in the slow churn of that ecosystem, in the dark places of the city where the messy parts of existence are on display. There is little squeamishness among the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron
where changelings are true to their nature and deal openly with the people around them. Some are orphans, raised by other races, who find their way in the world without ever knowing another like
their true changeling nature? Do they embrace it? Do they have connections to other changelines or are they alone and in search of companions?
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
where changelings are true to their nature and deal openly with the people around them. Some are orphans, raised by other races, who find their way in the world without ever knowing another like
the character conceal their true changeling nature? Do they embrace it? Do they have connections to other changelings or are they alone and in search of companions?
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monstrous Compendium Volume Two
Forest Master Said to be older than the trees themselves, the Forest Master is a wise and powerful unicorn who rules over the creatures of Darken Wood in Krynn. The ancient being’s body is wreathed
in protective briars, and moonlight dances around the unicorn’s horn. Those who threaten the Forest Master’s lands find themselves beguiled by magical mist and nigh-impregnable thorny thickets, but
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
escape the squalor of your life. Did wanderlust finally call you away from your home? Perhaps you suddenly found yourself cut off from your family or your mentor, and you had to find a new means of
thieves’ guild master? Or did you leave your guild in search of bigger risks and bigger rewards? Is it greed that drives you in your adventures, or some other desire or ideal? What was the trigger that
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
Gray Render A curious impulse drives the gray render. Despite its hulking form and terrible appetite, it wants most of all to bond with an intelligent creature and, once bonded, give its life to
on their bodies that, upon reaching maturity, break off to begin life as young gray renders. These monstrosities feel no obligation to their young, and they have no inclination to gather with others of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Infernal Machine Rebuild
Thessalheart Construct A thessalheart construct is created with a connection to the life energy of another creature, allowing that creature to regenerate back from the dead as long as the construct
(10 XP)
Telepathic Bond. While the construct is on the same plane of existence as its master, it can magically convey what it senses to its master, and the two can communicate telepathically
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
, individuals. These Returned find the world of the living far different from how they experienced it in life—not that they remember their lives. Although they’ve escaped from the Underworld, the Returned still
Realms of the Returned Death and life are two sides of the same coin. Opposite, but eternally connected. One cannot exist without the other.
—Slighos the Body-binder
Before becoming a god, Phenax
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tyranny of Dragons
—yet they need not do so alone. Groups like the Harpers, the Lord’s Alliance, and even the wicked Zhentarim might be rallied to oppose the Cult of the Dragon, but only if clever souls convince them to
revisiting. Within these pages you’ll find Hoard of the Dragon Queen and The Rise of Tiamat woven together into a complete campaign. While the original adventures remain as their own distinct sections
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual
the crimes it was executed for.
4 Follow the foul master it served in life.
5 Honor an oath it left unfulfilled in life.
6 Obey the cult or deity that gave it unlife.
7 Prove
Wight Life-Leeching Corpse Warrior Habitat: Desert, Planar (Shadowfell), Swamp, Underdark, Urban; Treasure: Armaments Wights are the withered corpses of relentless warriors whose wickedness sustains
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
often a way of life for their native tribes, and the rootless life of the adventurer is little hardship for a barbarian. Some barbarians miss the close-knit family structures of the tribe, but eventually find them replaced by the bonds formed among the members of their adventuring parties.
A Life of Danger Not every member of the tribes deemed “barbarians” by scions of civilized society has the barbarian class. A true barbarian among these people is as uncommon as a skilled fighter in
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
Half-Orc Deities As befits their dual nature, many half-orcs revere deities from both the human and the orc pantheons. Alone or among themselves, half-orcs offer prayers to orc deities, particularly
Master in the pantheon, revered by those who believe in the wisdom of attacking with overwhelming numbers. Black and White The two most sinister members of the orc pantheon lie at opposite ends of the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
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 threatening to consume you, and you
innocent people spared your life, and you don’t know why.
2 You were born under a dark star. You can feel it watching you, coldly and distantly. Sometimes it beckons you in the dead of night.
3
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
A Wide Range of Talents No matter whether a ranger ranges in the crowded city streets, the trackless wilderness, or the most desolate and confounding planes, all ranger archetypes can find a place in
an Acquisitions Incorporated campaign. Beast Master Any Beast Master understands that a beast companion is far more diligent, friendly, and reliable than most people. This might be doubly true in an
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
16. Master Bedroom A grand, canopied bed occupies this room, its headboard engraved with the phases of the moon. A wardrobe, writing desk, and torn leather chair fill out the space, all bearing
days of life. Awakened Haunt. Anyone in this room or an adjacent area hears wracking coughing fits. Those who enters the bedroom see a wheezing form huddled under the bed’s heavy comforter. If the bed’s sheets are pulled back or attacked, a zombie plague spreader (see chapter 5) emerges and attacks.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
whole. Most people believe that only a being with the wisdom (and long life) of the Founder Dragons or the archaics can truly master both halves of a school’s dichotomy, but a mage must learn at least
unity of two polar principles: life and death, order and chaos, reason and emotion, and so on. The five Founder Dragons are thought to embody the coexistence of these principles, while the ten deans of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Rise of Tiamat
that the mysterious master of the green dragon was one of the cult’s wyrmspeakers is true, the survivors of Altand might know something that will help find him.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Infernal Machine Rebuild
Chapter 4: Temple of Moloch The Temple of Moloch is an ancient site steeped in magic, and the former home of a legendary artificer. Thessalar was a master alchemist and creator of monsters, whose own
blood was said to possess dire magical properties. The artificer’s mad plots, thirst for power, and pursuit of lichdom eventually left the temple a ruin long ago. But the characters now find
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
laws of nature, and sought instead to use her mind to master the world. The brain of
Baron Rudolph von Aubrecker
constructs a new body Eventually, Dr. Mordenheim became convinced that she could do
more than create life—she could defeat death! She wished to breathe sentience into dead flesh and produce sturdier shells than the bodies of fragile, temporary mortals. She added corpse theft to her