masters stitch with only about for for look

Criminal / Spy Legacy

Backgrounds Basic Rules (2014)

; 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

. 4 I have a “tell” that reveals when I’m lying. 5 I turn tail and run when things look bad. 6 An innocent person is in prison for a crime that I committed. I’m okay with that.

Criminal - Baldur's Gate

Backgrounds Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus

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

tail and run when things look bad. 6 An innocent person is in prison for a crime that I committed. I’m okay with that.

Dragonflesh Grafters

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Fizban's Treasury of Dragons

Dragonflesh Grafters The best way to identify one of these grafters is if you see someone running around chanting, “Look at me! I’m a dragon! I’m a draaaaaagon!” -Fizban Dragonflesh grafters

—that they scavenge from around dragon lairs, take from dragon corpses, or buy from merchants and adventurers. They stitch on, implant, or ingest these dragon parts, attempting to incorporate them into

Talk with Your DM

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player’s Handbook

direction for your character than if the DM is planning for swashbuckling on the high seas. Think about the kind of adventurer you want to play in this game. If you don’t know where to begin, look at the

character illustrations in this book for inspiration. Session Zero Some Dungeon Masters start a campaign with a “session zero,” an initial gathering focused on creating characters and setting

Rune Carver

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants

wood into small figurines you mark with runes. 3 You engrave runes onto glass beads and thread them onto necklaces and bracelets. 4 You stitch runes into the hems of clothing. 5 You carve runes on a set

that legacy. 3 The old, traditional markings of runecraft look so boring. Why not give my runes some flair? 4 In my studies of runes, I strive to understand how great civilizations of the past fell

The Cult of the Dragon

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Rise of Tiamat

knows what to look for can often pick an incognito dragon cultist out of a crowd. Cultists sometimes greet one another with the sign of Tiamat: right hand extended, palm forward, with all five fingers

spread in imitation of Tiamat’s five heads. Characters trying to pass as cultists might find this sign useful if they don’t overdo it. Cult members venerate dragons as powerful icons and masters, but

Modifying a Class

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)

their masters, drawn from the sorcerer or wizard lists. Suddenly, the paladin feels like a different class. Be cautious when changing the warlock spell list. Since warlocks regain their spell slots

begin, look at the existing options and see what class features they provide. It’s perfectly acceptable for two class options to have similar features, and it’s also fine to look at other classes for

Cult of the Crushing Wave

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse

or masters to be obeyed. The Sign of the Crushing Wave. Water cultists use a simple hand sign to identify one another when a token of recognition is required: crossing the forefingers and overlapping

at fighting in water, so they look for opportunities to surprise their enemies by using bodies of water to slip around or through defenses. Because the cultists see water as the wellspring of all life

Dungeon Characteristics

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a5

areas detailing a particular example. Magic gates separate zones from one another. Sectors are labeled on the map: Abyssal Prisons, Blood Pens, Masters’ Domain, Far Realm Cysts, Forests of Slaughter

into the floor. It exudes wisps of shadowy energy that look like curling black smoke. Thereafter, you can shorten the description of the gates they encounter to avoid repetition. When a black gate’s

Stone Giants

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters

the seeking of treasure or ale, that they forgot how to live in any other way but in pursuit of it. That’s what stone giants do. — Elminster Speaking Stones Although they are unsurpassed masters of

giants encountered on the fringes of their territory look and behave like primitives. First, personal adornment has little value in the ordning of stone giants, so their clothing tends to be simple

Temple Locations T1-T9

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries

ask about the missing Falthrax, Saeth feigns ignorance. If the characters aren’t interested in the Restful Lily’s services at present, he encourages them to look around. In any event, as soon as he is

their best. Azirssa’s Workouts. Any character who wants to can join in one of the hag’s workouts. If any characters look particularly unfit or scrawny, Vile Sazha singles them out and tries to goad

Traveling to Phandalin

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated

well maintained. After a few hours’ travel east, the adventurers come upon the following scene. Sitting cross-legged in the middle of the road is an odd-looking figure wearing not a stitch of clothing

. Either way, he doesn’t look up as he speaks in a voice that sounds like a goat choking on sawdust. “Fortune has strange and wonderful and terrible things in store for you. So I am here as fortune’s

Roleplaying a Giant

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters

overly cruel masters, but neither are they particularly kind — they are uncaring about their slaves, because slaves aren’t giants, and there are always more to be had if the supply runs low. Most

plundered, in the same way that a farmer might look at a rainstorm as a blessing from the harvest god. Frost giants recognize two kinds of loot: rod and kvit. Rod (“red”) plunder consists of living

Fortress Level 2

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh

contains no furniture, but clusters of what look like large fish eggs float against the walls, five or six feet above the floor. The eggs are unhatched sahuagin. Disturbing the eggs in any way, including

, read: This long, narrow area contains no furniture, but clusters of what look like large fish eggs float against the walls, five or six feet above the floor. Two sahuagin wearing coral-colored

Crushing Wave Cultists

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse

surprise, and look for chances to launch sudden attacks from positions of concealment whenever possible. The soldiers of the Crushing Wave cult are highly loyal to the cult priests, but they rarely fight to

fog. One-eyed shivers inspire dread and fear in all who meet them, including their fellow cultists. Only the leaders of the Crushing Wave cult dare to give commands to these masters of icy magic. One

Chromatic Dragons

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)

. Kobolds infest the lairs of many black dragons like vermin. They become as cruel as their dark masters, often torturing and weakening captives with centipede bites and scorpion stings before

consummate liars and masters of double talk. They favor intimidation of lesser creatures, but employ more subtle manipulations when dealing with other dragons. A green dragon attacks animals and monsters

Abyssal Prisons

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a5

gold coffer wrought to look like a sleeping dragon with violet garnet eyes (worth 1,000 gp). The coffer holds 200 pp and a dark, smooth river rock (a loadstone; see appendix A). True Name Box. If

starts, the demon demands to be freed, promising to “lay waste to these undead and their masters.” If the characters refuse to aid it, the demon attacks them if it can. To free the demon, a character

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