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Returning 35 results for 'masters some with only agent for for law'.
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granted to them by their diabolical masters, and are not meant to be claimed as treasure. If either agent is killed in the course of the adventure, their special equipment vanishes, returning to Bel or Zariel.
Fire
Monsters
Infernal Machine Rebuild
) have been granted to them by their diabolical masters, and are not meant to be claimed as treasure. If either agent is killed in the course of the adventure, their special equipment vanishes, returning to Bel or Zariel.
PoisonNecrotic, Psychic
Monsters
Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse
Multiattack. The law bender makes three Arcane Burst attacks and uses Power of Authority or Spellcasting.
Arcane Burst. Melee or Ranged Spell Attack: +8;{"diceNotation":"1d20+8", "rollType":"spell
"} force damage.
Power of Authority. The law bender targets a creature it can see within 60 feet of itself. The target must succeed on a DC 16 Intelligence saving throw or take 10 (3d6);{"diceNotation
Criminal / Spy
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Backgrounds
Basic Rules (2014)
You are an experienced criminal with a history of breaking the law. You have spent a lot of time among other criminals and still have contacts within the criminal underworld. You’re far closer
; specifically, you know the local messengers, corrupt caravan masters, and seedy sailors who can deliver messages for you.
Variant Criminal: Spy
Although your capabilities are not much different
Backgrounds
Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus
the organization due to incompetence or after offending a more powerful member, and now shuffle for scraps to survive.
You are an experienced criminal with a history of breaking the law. You have
to and from your contact, even over great distances; specifically, you know the local messengers, corrupt caravan masters, and seedy sailors who can deliver messages for you.
BALDUR’S GATE
Monsters
Eberron: Rising from the Last War
as the Lords of Dust — scheme to unleash their ancient masters. The overlords gain strength when mortals embrace the dark paths laid down for them. And as they grow stronger, they gain more influence
and revenge. By sharing her power in this way, the overlord perpetuates the image of the evil warlock, inciting fear that strengthens the Keeper of Secrets even more.
Sul Khatesh's chief agent among
Aasimar
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Species
Volo's Guide to Monsters
Aasimar are placed in the world to serve as guardians of law and good. Their patrons expect them to strike at evil, lead by example, and further the cause of justice.
From an early age, an aasimar
celestial agent of the gods as a guide. This entity is typically a deva, an angel who acts as a messenger to the mortal world.
Hidden Wanderers
While aasimar are strident foes of evil, they typically
Classes
Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything
spies.
Many shadar-kai of the Shadowfell are masters of these macabre techniques, and some are willing to teach this path. In places like Thay in the Forgotten Realms and Karrnath in Eberron, where many
necromancers practice their craft, a Phantom can become a wizard’s confidant and right hand. In temples of gods of death, the Phantom might work as an agent to track down those who try to cheat
Classes
Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything
spies.
Many shadar-kai of the Shadowfell are masters of these macabre techniques, and some are willing to teach this path. In places like Thay in the Forgotten Realms and Karrnath in Eberron, where many
necromancers practice their craft, a Phantom can become a wizard’s confidant and right hand. In temples of gods of death, the Phantom might work as an agent to track down those who try to cheat
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Acquisitions Incorporated
swing a sword? They promised to teach you! Think you have what it takes to sling spells? They’ve got masters who’ll have you throwing fire in no time!
With the promise of untold treasures
of that system. Even when the law is not on your side, you can use complex terms like ex injuria jus non oritur and cogitationis poenam nemo patitur to frighten people into thinking you know what you
Backgrounds
Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide
organization, but who serve as its hands, head, and heart.
As a prelude to your adventuring career (and in preparation for it), you served as an agent of a particular faction in Faerûn. You might have
proliferation of secret societies and conspiracies in those lands. If your background is as an agent for one of the main factions of the North and Sword Coast, here are some possibilities.
The Harpers
Backgrounds
Guildmasters’ Guide to Ravnica
The brutes are at the gate, chaos is looming, and the only thing standing in the way of disaster is the foundation of law and order — as embodied in the Azorius Senate. You’re a proud
choice
Equipment: An Azorius insignia, a scroll containing the text of a law important to you, a bottle of blue ink, a pen, a set of fine clothes, and a belt pouch containing 10 gp (Azorius
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron
Dragonmarked Characters Here are examples of characters with this mark. Druid House Agent. House Tharashk is home to an ancient order of druids who protect the world from aberrant threats. Although
you are officially an operative of the house, you are truly an agent of the Gatekeepers, and investigate the activities of mad cultists and the Daelkyr. Criminal Rogue. You’re an inquisitive who works
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Infernal Machine Rebuild
Mechanical Guides The mechanical guides are programmed to serve their agent masters—and to self-destruct in the event that anyone else attempts to take control of them. Still, exposure to the power
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
Law and Order Although the council steers the village’s economy, the true power in Uskarn lies in the hands of Feldrin Kane (LN male human knight), an intimidating bailiff who ensures that the
independent-minded natives don’t stray too far from his own vision of good government. His taciturn agent Merrick (N male halfling veteran) commands a small force of deputies and officers who maintain order
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
Celestial Champions Aasimar are placed in the world to serve as guardians of law and good. Their patrons expect them to strike at evil, lead by example, and further the cause of justice. From an
count a specific celestial agent of the gods as a guide. This entity is typically a deva, an angel who acts as a messenger to the mortal world.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)
Criminal You are an experienced criminal with a history of breaking the law. You have spent a lot of time among other criminals and still have contacts within the criminal underworld. You’re far
criminals. You know how to get messages to and from your contact, even over great distances; specifically, you know the local messengers, corrupt caravan masters, and seedy sailors who can deliver messages
Backgrounds
Guildmasters’ Guide to Ravnica
proven to be a danger to them. The members of the enclave will shield you from the law or anyone else searching for you, though they will not risk their lives in this effort.
In addition, as a guild
Dimir agent.
4
I know a disgruntled Golgari assassin who is ripe for recruitment.
5
I’m friendly with a Gruul centaur who almost joined us a few years back.
6
I once had a heated
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
Criminal You are an experienced criminal with a history of breaking the law. You have spent a lot of time among other criminals and still have contacts within the criminal underworld. You’re far
criminals. You know how to get messages to and from your contact, even over great distances; specifically, you know the local messengers, corrupt caravan masters, and seedy sailors who can deliver messages
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Astarion's Book of Hungers
associated with law enforcement to leave and never return; those who defy these instructions become Reigra’s victims. Further, representatives of criminal organizations make regular payments of coins
is also friendly with Roka, a tavern patron and kenku agent for the Guild (see area R2d in “Rat’s Run Locations”). The vampire spawn occasionally hunts individuals Roka has designated for elimination.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
exploiting the law for her own good, Glasya is a patron of thieves and other criminals, especially corrupt nobles. Her influence is supposed to strengthen family bonds, but she has taken a liberal
interpretation of that and offers gifts that can be turned against family members. Goblins who risk insurrection against their hobgoblin masters make pacts with Glasya, as do kenku who form criminal gangs. Glasya
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
in those lands. If your background is as an agent for one of the main factions of the North and Sword Coast, here are some possibilities. The Harpers. Founded more than a millennium ago, disbanded
frequently seek aid from law enforcement friendly to the order’s ideals, and the clergy of the order’s patron gods. The Emerald Enclave. Maintaining balance in the natural order and combating the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
Angels An angel is a celestial agent sent forth into the planes to further its god’s agenda for weal or woe. Its sublime beauty and presence can drive awestruck onlookers to their knees. Yet angels
them to fulfill divine commands. An angel follows a single driving purpose, as decreed by its deity. However, an angel is incapable of following commands that stray from the path of law and good. An
Backgrounds
Guildmasters’ Guide to Ravnica
law-abiding citizens of Ravnica.
Personality Traits
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Personality Trait
1
I revel in mayhem, the more destructive the better.
2
When violence breaks out, I lose myself in
very amusing dark side.
2
A Boros captain really wants to “redeem” me.
3
I think a member of my troupe is a Dimir agent.
4
I once convinced a Golgari medusa to participate
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Infernal Machine Rebuild
” section of their stat blocks) have been granted to them by their diabolical masters, and are not meant to be claimed as treasure. If either agent is killed in the course of the adventure, their special equipment vanishes, returning to Bel or Zariel.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
a sword? They promised to teach you! Think you have what it takes to sling spells? They’ve got masters who’ll have you throwing fire in no time! With the promise of untold treasures and realms of
of artisan’s tools, fine clothes, 20 gp Feature: Legalese Your experience with your local legal system has given you a firm knowledge of the ins and outs of that system. Even when the law is not on
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Lost Mine of Phandelver
Tor” in Part 3. Quest: Finding Cragmaw Castle. After resting at the Stonehill Inn, Sildar Hallwinter establishes himself at the townmaster’s hall. As an agent of the Lords’ Alliance, his goal is to
bring law and order to Phandalin. As such, he wants to find the lost mine of Wave Echo Cave and help the Rockseeker brothers put it back into production, believing that bringing prosperity to the region
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Infernal Machine Rebuild
Machine of Lum the Mad. Each agent pledges to use the Infernal Machine against devilish forces plaguing the world — but each secretly plans to give it to their own patron archdevil. Both ask for the
appeared in the era of 1998’s Return to the Tomb of Horrors.
The Temple of Moloch derives from the sample dungeon map appearing in the first edition Dungeon Masters Guide of 1979, and includes the famed
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tyranny of Dragons
the cult’s wagon masters, then by other merchants who are traveling in the same direction at the same time. Merchants from different companies commonly join together to form larger trains for
waiting for them in the hands of a Harper agent in Waterdeep. That night, Frume sees that the characters are all equipped with new clothing and gear, and even new weapons if they want. He suggests that
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Book of Many Things
148 explored the deck through a conversation between a pompous wizard named Basil and his mercenary agent, a warrior named Jared. In this story, author Robin Jenkins offered answers for some of the
worked but didn’t explain what the deck was or how it came to exist. Those questions were left for individual Dungeon Masters to figure out—or simply leave unanswered. That same issue of Dragon also
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Hoard of the Dragon Queen
the cult’s wagon masters, then by other merchants who are traveling in the same direction at the same time. Merchants from different companies commonly join together to form larger trains for
waiting for them in the hands of a Harper agent in Waterdeep. That night, Frume sees that the characters are all equipped with new clothing and gear, and even new weapons if they want. He suggests that
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron
, the conspiracy that maintains order in Zilargo. If you are working for the Trust, you could have a specific mission, but you could also be a sleeper agent—gathering information and allies and
never been there, and if you don’t visit it within a year, you’ll lose the claim.
4 Due to an unusual twist of Triumvirate law, you share the same name with a number of other Zil and you’re all
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
asked, you receive handsome rewards. 3 You’ve inherited a plot of land in Q’barra. If you don’t visit within a year, you’ll lose the claim. 4 Due to an unusual twist of Triumvirate law, you share the
sleeper agent — gathering information and allies until you’re activated and you are put to your intended use. Zil Names. Zil society is divided into major houses, each of which is composed of multiple
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
strange chimeric pets, with winged hares and venomous baboons being particularly popular.
12 The members of Ythryn’s orchestra were known across the world of Toril as masters of their art
.
13 By law, every mage was taught the prestidigitation cantrip and was obliged to use it to keep the city clean.
14 The wizards used humanlike constructs called magen as guards, workers, and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
enter his realm remain there for all time. Within the Underworld, only the relative paradise of Ilysia is sheltered from his influence. In the other four realms of the dead, his will is law. Mortals
him, Erebos occasionally feels the need to remind them that the dead are his, and other gods’ acceptance of death’s inevitability doesn’t make them masters of it. Erebos has no true allies but operates