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Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
years ago, but has since returned. The Rosznars' inability to regain the respect they feel they deserve rankles them. The slave trade has continued in Amn and elsewhere, and it's not like other noble
houses don't have skeletons in their closets. But just because of a little family squabble that went public, the Rosznar name has been said with a sneer for a century. As part of the family's constant
Monsters
Mythic Odysseys of Theros
, while a balor meeting a Theros demon on some other plane might consider it a rarity from some undiscovered Abyssal layer. In general, feel free to use whatever fiends you wish when telling stories
Monsters
Mythic Odysseys of Theros
mortals as one of the Underworld’s countless demonic denizens, while a balor meeting a Theros demon on some other plane might consider it a rarity from some undiscovered Abyssal layer. In general
, feel free to use whatever fiends you wish when telling stories in Theros—the Underworld’s a big place with room for all the incarnate wickedness you desire.
PoisonCold, Necrotic
Monsters
Mythic Odysseys of Theros
plane might consider it a rarity from some undiscovered Abyssal layer. In general, feel free to use whatever fiends you wish when telling stories in Theros—the Underworld’s a big place with room for all the incarnate wickedness you desire.
PoisonCold, Necrotic
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Eberron: Rising from the Last War
“Pierce was built by design, while you were built by accident,” Lakashtai said. “The soul is what matters, not the shape of the vessel.”
“What makes you think he has
a soul?” Gerrion said.
“What makes you think you do?”
—Keith Baker, The Shattered Land
The warforged were built to fight in the Last War. While the first warforged were
Monsters
Storm King's Thunder
said that the Forgotten God journeyed to the Elemental Plane of Earth and, through guile and deception, defeated the Grand Khan of the dao. The price of that defeat was harsh: the dao were forced to
communal creches once they are weaned, never to recognize them again. Yakfolk feel no loyalty to their families—only to their god and race.
Skin Crawlers. A yakfolk’s most frightening
Monsters
Storm King's Thunder
enslave dao for a time. It is said that the Forgotten God journeyed to the Elemental Plane of Earth and, through guile and deception, defeated the Grand Khan of the dao. The price of that defeat was harsh
parents pack children off to communal creches once they are weaned, never to recognize them again. Yakfolk feel no loyalty to their families—only to their god and race.
Skin Crawlers. A yakfolk
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
Warforged “Pierce was built by design, while you were built by accident,” Lakashtai said. “The soul is what matters, not the shape of the vessel.”
“What makes you think he has a soul?” Gerrion said
wood and metal, but they can feel pain and emotion. Built as weapons, they must now find a purpose beyond war. A warforged can be a steadfast ally, a cold-hearted killer, or a visionary in search of meaning.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron
Warforged “Pierce was built by design, while you were built by accident,” Lakashtai said. “The soul is what matters, not the shape of the vessel.”
“What makes you think he has a soul?” Gerrion
said.
“What makes you think you do?”
—Keith Baker, The Shattered Land
The warforged were built to fight in the Last War. The first warforged were mindless automatons, but House Cannith devoted vast
Magic Items
Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus
be the victim of a night hag’s curse.
Carrying Soul Coins. To hold a soul coin is to feel the soul bound within it — overcome with rage or fraught with despair.
An evil creature can
services rendered.
Soul coins are created by Mammon and his greater devils on Minauros, the third layer of the Nine Hells, in a vast chamber where the captured souls of evil mortals are bound into the coins
Backgrounds
Guildmasters’ Guide to Ravnica
1
I never raise my voice or lose my temper.
2
I feel the pains and joys of everyone around me, friend or foe.
3
I would rather make a friend than thwart an enemy.
4
I’m
always straining to peer into another reality that seems to be just beyond my senses.
5
I’m uneasy if I can’t see plants growing or feel soil beneath my feet.
6
Seeing illness
Backgrounds
Guildmasters’ Guide to Ravnica
.
Ideals
d6
Ideal
1
Guild. My guild is all that really matters. (Any)
2
Stoicism. All of us are part of the cyclical march of nature, which will continue with
fight it off.
2
I assume that anyone outside the Golgari looks down on me.
3
I feel a need for revenge against those who enjoy the privilege of living above ground.
4
I don’t
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
,” and it’s said that every action carried out on one layer has repercussions on the other—an equal and opposite reaction, though a more metaphorical than physical one. An adventure in Bytopia might
Bytopia The surfaces of Bytopia’s two layers face each other like the covers of a closed book. Looking up from Dothion, the “top” layer of the plane, a traveler can see Shurrock, its other layer
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Xanathar's Guide to Everything
. Indeed, to those who have seen them operate and been the beneficiaries of their prowess, it scarcely matters why rangers do what they do. That said, no two rangers are likely to express their opinions on
feel the irresistible call to return to the wild. 6 Cities breed weakness by isolating folk from the harsh lessons of the wild.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Turn of Fortune’s Wheel
booming tick at a time—in sync with the workings of the plane beyond. To repair the Mosaic Mimir, the characters must visit Automata’s gate—a feat easier said than done in the rigidly structured gate-town
. To complicate matters, agents of chaos are eager to disrupt the town’s perfect order. Automata is detailed in chapter 3 of Sigil and the Outlands. Review the town’s description prior to running this
Backgrounds
Guildmasters’ Guide to Ravnica
.]
Ideals
d6
Ideal
1
Clan. My clan is all that really matters. (Any)
2
Anarchy. No person or law or custom can tell another what to do. (Chaotic)
3
Nature.
;AAAAAARRRRggggh! [To live is to feel and express the rage burning in your belly.] (Chaotic)
6
Tradition. The Old Ways must be preserved and upheld. (Any)
Bonds
d6
Bond
1
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
Table Talk Set expectations about how players talk at the table: Make it clear who’s speaking: the character or the player (out of character). Decide how you feel about a player sharing information
that his or her character wouldn’t know or that the character is incapable of sharing as a result of being unconscious, dead, or far away. Are you all right with players retracting what they just said their characters did?
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
be said that the true ruler of the Nine Hells is the immense body of rules and regulations that dictate how all devils, even Asmodeus, must conduct themselves. Layers and Rulers of the Nine Hells
Layer Layer Name Ruler 1 Avernus Zariel 2 Dis Dispater 3 Minauros Mammon 4 Phlegethos Belial and Fierna 5 Stygia Levistus 6 Malbolge Glasya 7 Maladomini Baalzebul 8 Cania Mephistopheles 9 Nessus Asmodeus
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
that information, but you aren’t bound by it. Feel free to embellish and change what you will. Your version of Waterdeep is the only version that matters for your campaign.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
originates in the lowest layer of Elysium, Thalasia, and flows through the plane’s layers before cascading onward to the Beastlands. Though illustrations of the plane’s layers seem to show the river
flowing “up” from each layer to the one “above” it, the experience of passing from one layer to another on the river is no more dramatic than weathering rapids on any ordinary river. Along its course, the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
Plane has led to speculation that Stygia was not always a layer of the Hells, but was previously a world on the Material Plane. Its inhabitants, facing annihilation, are said to have pledged their
, Levistus, both occupy strange positions in the hierarchy. Stygia is a frozen wasteland of mysterious origin, a churning, murky sea covered in a thick layer of ice. Where the ice gives way to open water
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Infernal Machine Rebuild
Lum the Mad (so named after its last owner). Yet with the defeat of Baron Lum, his Infernal Machine was said to have been destroyed as well. Currently, the archdevils Zariel and Bel both have designs
on rebuilding Lum’s infernal machine. Zariel is the present master of Avernus, the first layer of the Nine Hells. Bel is the deposed former master of that layer. But to rebuild the infernal machine
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
said to have the wickedest heart in the Nine Hells. The alliance of Belial and Fierna is unbreakable, for both are aware that their mutual survival hinges on it. Stygia The fifth layer of the Nine Hells
Layers The Nine Hells has nine layers. The first eight are ruled by archdevils who answer to Asmodeus, the archduke of Nessus, the ninth layer. Collectively, the rulers of the Hells are called the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
of the Nine Hells, from the first layer to the ninth, in a single day—if the powers of the Nine Hells desire it. Or it could take weeks for travelers to make a grueling trek across a single layer
first layer of a multilayered plane. This layer is depicted as the top or bottom layer, depending on the plane. As the arrival point for most visitors, the first layer functions like an antechamber
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
shelter in places where the howls of the winds sound like distant cries of torment. Layers of Pandemonium Layer Description Pandesmos Howling winds, dark streams bound for the River Styx, and
blowing snow pour through vast, desolate caverns. Cocytus Winds blowing through narrower tunnels create a stronger force and louder wails, making this the so-called “Layer of Lamentation.” Phlegethon
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
, frigid oceans, and black ice. All form a miserable home for the traitors and backstabbers trapped on this prison plane. Layers of Carceri Layer Description Orthrys The River Styx meanders through a
layer of vast bogs and quicksand. Cathrys The stench of decay hangs over fetid jungles and scarlet plains. Minethys Stinging sand blows in unending storms, hiding the ruins of the ancient city
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
it is said that only Asmodeus has ever deceived or thwarted him. Nessus. The lowest layer of the Nine Hells, Nessus is a realm of dark pits whose walls are set with fortresses. There, pit fiend
Hells. Optional Rule: Pervasive Evil Evil pervades the Nine Hells, and visitors to this plane feel its influence. At the end of each long rest taken on this plane, a visitor that isn’t evil must make a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
won’t sometimes do a dishonest day’s work for an honest day’s wage. I feel like making your company’s name a tongue twister is a bold move in this marketplace. I wouldn’t have done that. I’ve told the
Silver Sliver on multiple occasions that I’m available for consulting on things like this. No response, though. The organization is said to be headed up by someone named Glimmr Violente: a woman
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
discuss such matters use the term “layer” to define a certain part of this infinite expanse. That nomenclature, to the extent that it implies a particular configuration, is misleading. The Abyss is a
Demonweb Pits with three eyes and vestigial wings. A chasme might appear on the layer of Azzagrat possessing the ability to belch forth clouds of flies. If a demon survives for centuries, it
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
matters of rulership to the pit fiends and lesser archdevils that make up the infernal bureaucracy of the Nine Hells, even as he knows that those powerful devils conspire to usurp the Throne of Baator
of sulfurous smoke or dissolves into a pool of ichor, instantly returning to its home layer, where it reforms at full strength. Devils that die in the Nine Hells are destroyed forever — a fate that
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
winds through every layer of the Nine Hells, allowing passage from one layer of that plane to the next. Sinister ferries float on the waters of the Styx, crewed by pilots skilled in negotiating the
of wood or stone to a chaotic jumble of stairs hanging in radiant space, where no two steps share the same gravitational orientation. It is said that one can find one’s heart’s desire on the Infinite
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
reputation in proper society. As a result of being a member of the Lords’ Alliance, Amphail is the equal of such great cities as Neverwinter and Baldur’s Gate in matters that concern the other powers of
the region, despite its clear inferiority in size and strength. Amphail’s sovereignty means that, although patrols from the Waterdeep City Guard sometimes ride north to check on matters in Amphail, the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Book of Many Things
. That said, a particularly well-equipped observatory can employ magic to cut through the firelight and smoke created by a nearby settlement, enable quick travel for astronomers and supply wagons, and
forces. You can apply one or more regional effects to an observatory to make the place feel otherworldly, or you can invent a new regional effect of your own. These regional effects don’t affect the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
It’s Just Business With its roots set firmly in heroic fantasy, D&D might feel out of sync with modern-day business dealings. But the game and its settings are actually a perfect fit for such tropes
gain money, power, and influence into D&D adds another layer of depth to the story your campaigns create.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
failed saves, the transformation can be undone only by a Remove Curse spell or similar magic. Layers of the Beastlands Layer Description Krigala The River Oceanus is a strong torrent flowing
in this wilderness of eternal night. Beastlands Adventures The Beastlands embodies wild, beautiful nature and the vibrant power of life thriving in the natural world. Visitors to the plane feel