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Lorwyn: First Light
, Cartographer’s Tools, Backpack, Basket, Parchment (4 sheets), Rope, Traveler’s Clothes, 29 GP; or (B) 50 GP
You hail from Lorwyn, a land of eternal sunshine, or you have studied the place with
Species
Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron
’drik. Tens of thousands of years ago, the elves rose up against the giants who ruled that land. Ultimately, the elves fled from Xen’drik and settled the island nation of Aerenal. There
godlike power and has protected your island home for thousands of years. The greatest heroes of your people join the Undying Court after death; if you achieve great things in your life, you too could
Monsters
Curse of Strahd
Richten’s tale is a sad one. A scholar and doctor from a land called Darkon, he married his childhood sweetheart, Ingrid, and together they had a son, Erasmus. When he was fourteen, Erasmus was
, the greatest vampire of them all. Van Richten has studied Strahd for years and knows he can’t hope to best the vampire in a straight-up confrontation: he must wait for the right moment to strike
Monsters
Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
Thrym, the scion can achieve a tremendous feat of strength: creating a glacier in the ground and hurling it skyward, along with any creatures standing on it.
Regional Effects
The region surrounding a
scion of Thrym is altered by the giant’s magic, creating one or more of the following effects:
Biting Chill. Extreme cold envelops the land within 6 miles of the scion (see the Dungeon Master
Species
Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron
’drik. Tens of thousands of years ago, the elves rose up against the giants who ruled that land. Ultimately, the elves fled from Xen’drik and settled the island nation of Aerenal. There
godlike power and has protected your island home for thousands of years. The greatest heroes of your people join the Undying Court after death; if you achieve great things in your life, you too could
Monsters
Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
rushes at any foe that dares to challenge it. Emulating sagas of Thrym, the scion can achieve a tremendous feat of strength: creating a glacier in the ground and hurling it skyward, along with any
envelops the land within 6 miles of the scion (see the Dungeon Master’s Guide for rules on extreme cold). If the climate in the area already features extreme cold, the cold is numbing—creatures
Human
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Species
Basic Rules (2014)
pages were tales of bold heroes, strange and fierce animals, mighty primitive gods, and a magic that was part and fabric of that distant land.
— Elaine Cunningham, Daughter of the Drow
In the
shorter lives that they strive to achieve as much as they can in the years they are given. Or maybe they feel they have something to prove to the elder races, and that’s why they build their mighty
Soldier
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Backgrounds
Basic Rules (2014)
War has been your life for as long as you care to remember. You trained as a youth, studied the use of weapons and armor, learned basic survival techniques, including how to stay alive on the
, Intimidation
Tool Proficiencies: One type of gaming set, vehicles (land)
Equipment: An insignia of rank, a trophy taken from a fallen enemy (a dagger, broken blade, or piece of a banner), a set of bone dice
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Lorwyn: First Light
: (A) Quarterstaff, Cartographer’s Tools, Backpack, Basket, Parchment (4 sheets), Rope, Traveler’s Clothes, 29 GP; or (B) 50 GP
You hail from Lorwyn, a land of eternal sunshine, or you have studied
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
69. Mechanus Chain Hot wind tinged with the smell of burning oil blows down a forty-foot-diameter vertical shaft. Stone balconies protrude from the walls on opposite sides of this expanse, with the
, Acererak contaminated a workforce of modrons from the plane of Mechanus. Under the stewardship of a corrupt pentadrone, the modrons rerouted one of their great chains into the tomb. The sections of the shaft
Bard
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Classes
Basic Rules (2014)
wandering across the land gathering lore, telling stories, and living on the gratitude of audiences, much like any other entertainer. But a depth of knowledge, a level of musical skill, and a touch of magic
a master, following the more experienced bard until you were ready to strike out on your own? Or did you attend a college where you studied bardic lore and practiced your musical magic? Perhaps you
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Infernal Machine Rebuild
Background According to legend, Acererak was a tiefling fathered by a balor named Tarnhem. In his youth, he studied spellcasting under Vecna, and has since become an archmage of surpassing evil
. While researching the means to achieve lichdom, Acererak built a number of dungeons and tombs, including his famed Tomb of Horrors. Those dungeons were created partly as a means to draw out and defeat
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
belt, you can achieve fame in Saltmarsh. 5–6 Your family lost their holdings when Keoland’s enemies pushed back the realm’s borders. In compensation, you have been given a writ by the crown to found a new barony. The trouble is, the land you were ceded has been swallowed by the Drowned Forest.
Noble The folk of Saltmarsh care little for nobles and their titles. Although the king technically rules the land, the south has long been left to its own devices. Are you a local noble turning to a
Backgrounds
Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus
you care to remember. You trained as a youth, studied the use of weapons and armor, learned basic survival techniques, including how to stay alive on the battlefield. You might have been part of a
gaming set, vehicles (land)
Equipment: An insignia of rank, a trophy taken from a fallen enemy (a dagger, broken blade, or piece of a banner), a set of bone dice or deck of cards, a set of common
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
, only to form anew, again and again. Beneath the ruby glow lay a dark nightmare land of bare rock and flumes of sparks and gouting flame, where things slithered and scrambled half-seen in the shadows
. Mountains clawed the ruby sky. The Land of Teeth, Azuth had once aptly called it, surveying the endless jagged rocks. This was the Greeting Ground, the realm of horror that had claimed the lives of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
a Celestial and a Fiend arguing in a tavern while sharing a fine bottle of wine. Gate-Towns of the Outlands Town Gate Destination Automata Mechanus Bedlam Pandemonium Curst Carceri Ecstasy
slaad to wreak havoc in the gate-town of Automata than it is for even a horde of slaadi to accomplish anything in Mechanus itself. Celestial spies and Fiend assassins carry out subtle plots and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
Supernatural Gifts Most heroes of Theros have some kind of supernatural aid to help them achieve their goals. Often this aid comes from the gods, but some heroes might find their support from other
fruit that blessed me with extraordinary resilience. (Resilient)
I studied with a supernatural tutor. (Skilled)
I was bathed in the waters of a mystic river that left my skin resistant to harm—and glittering with starlight. (Tough)
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
creatures, even his cultists. Free from any prospect of being betrayed or insulted, he can finally rest in a perfectly peaceful cosmos. According to one hypothesis, if Demogorgon were ever to achieve
, dedicated ever after to a life of lurking in the shadows, lashing out against unsuspecting victims and striking fear into those who discover the bodies left behind. I studied Demogorgon’s symbol. I
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
pages were tales of bold heroes, strange and fierce animals, mighty primitive gods, and a magic that was part and fabric of that distant land.
— Elaine Cunningham, Daughter of the Drow
In the
lives that they strive to achieve as much as they can in the years they are given. Or maybe they feel they have something to prove to the elder races, and that’s why they build their mighty empires on
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
Duerra. In Xardorok, the Lord of the Nine Hells has found an eager and petty tyrant. To achieve his goal, Xardorok is scouring the land for chardalyn, which he is forging into a dragon that he will send
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual
Cultist Agendas table to inspire what a cultist seeks to achieve. Cultist Agendas 1d6 The Cultist Strives To... 1 Bring about the end of a dominant order, an age, or the world. 2 Burn away the
comfortable lies of reality, revealing forgotten or terrible truths. 3 Expand their faith though mind control or supernatural coercion. 4 Make global changes, like sinking the land or awakening
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)
pages were tales of bold heroes, strange and fierce animals, mighty primitive gods, and a magic that was part and fabric of that distant land.
— Elaine Cunningham, Daughter of the Drow
In the
lives that they strive to achieve as much as they can in the years they are given. Or maybe they feel they have something to prove to the elder races, and that’s why they build their mighty empires on
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
From the Tome of Strahd I am the Ancient. I am the Land. My beginnings are lost in the darkness of the past. I was the warrior, I was good and just. I thundered across the land like the wrath of a
did not die. Nor did I live. I became undead, forever.
I have studied much since then. “Vampyr” is my new name. I still lust for life and youth, and I curse the living that took them from me. Even
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
secrets to achieve goals known only to her. While this might lead to plots involving all manner of amoral science, the doctor’s work includes the following routine abominable operations. Construct
degrees and driving snow scours the land (detailed in the Dungeon Master’s Guide). Those who reach the Mists find they function as detailed in “The Mists” at the start of this chapter.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
alignment. Abyssal Corruption d10 Result 1–4 Treachery. The character gains the following flaw: “I can only achieve my goals by making sure that my companions don’t achieve theirs.” 5–7 Bloodlust
resemble his dead realm of Thanatos, and all creatures would become undead under his control. Under its black sky, Thanatos is a land of bleak mountains, barren moors, ruined cities, and forests of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
. Its inhabitants include wizards, monks, and mystics; if you want to play a monk from an exotic land, you could have learned your art in Kasshta Keep. Ohr Kaluun Riedra built its empire on the
-consuming thirst for power. The sages of Ohr Kaluun studied the darkest paths of magic and bargained with fiends and other foul creatures. They warped their bodies through mystical rituals and pacts
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
confronted by the Vistani seer Madam Eva, who told them Strahd had died, only to become a prisoner in his own land, tormented by the death of his beloved Tatyana and the murder of his brother Sergei. After
described in the Monster Manual, has a year to achieve its revenge before its body crumbles to dust and its soul enters the afterlife. In Barovia, however, a revenant can remain in its body indefinitely, and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
. Unwilling to go the way of his father, Strahd studied magic and forged a pact with the Dark Powers of the Shadowfell in return for the promise of immortality. Strahd scoured his conquered lands for
Zarovich as great as he or his father could sway the Dark Powers to release him. I am the Ancient. I am the Land.
My beginnings are lost in the darkness of the past. I am not dead. Nor am I alive. I am undead, forever.
—Tome of Strahd
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
ringmaster is, in fact, a legendary human vampire hunter named Rudolph van Richten. Van Richten’s tale is a sad one. A scholar and doctor from a land called Darkon, he married his childhood sweetheart, Ingrid
. He has come to Barovia to kill Strahd von Zarovich, the greatest vampire of them all. Van Richten has studied Strahd for years and knows he can’t hope to best the vampire in a straight-up
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)
Soldier War has been your life for as long as you care to remember. You trained as a youth, studied the use of weapons and armor, learned basic survival techniques, including how to stay alive on
Proficiencies: One type of gaming set, vehicles (land) Equipment: An insignia of rank, a trophy taken from a fallen enemy (a dagger, broken blade, or piece of a banner), a set of bone dice or deck of cards, a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
table resemble those that affect our own world. Think of planar warps and magic gone awry like nuclear incidents; they’re big events that unnaturally alter the land and its people. For example, in the
the land and effectively eliminates a place the characters once knew. Leave one or two survivors to tell the characters what happened, and ensure that the characters feel the depth of the catastrophe
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
better for everyone. Heroism. You can use inspiration to encourage player characters to take risks. A fighter might not normally hurl himself over a balcony to land in the midst of a pack of hungry
style, consider using inspiration as a reward when the characters achieve an important goal or victory, representing a surge of confidence and energy. Under this model, give everyone in the party
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
possibility that adventurers might cross her path, and she won’t necessarily be hostile toward them. Her mission is to seize the Soulmonger by any means; if adventurers can help her achieve that, she’ll
wizard who wants to “imprison” the Soulmonger; that way, its unique magic can be studied while it’s safely quarantined from the world. She argues that destroying it should be a last resort. Valindra
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
cinders from the nearby Hellfurnaces. Land of Black Ice. Those who have ventured far north of the Burneal Forest tell of a strange phenomenon. Instead of normal stark-white snow and translucent blue
-white ice, there is an endless landscape of deep-blue ice partially covered in snow. Strange arctic monsters prowl these fields of dark ice. Stranger still, a verdant land is rumored to exist beyond
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
Map a new land. 9 Find a place to establish a colony. 10 Find a natural resource. 11 Hunt a specific monster. 12 Return home from a distant place. 13 Obtain information from a reclusive hermit. 14 Find
to achieve their goal. (Use this climax carefully, and don’t overuse it.) 7 A portal opens to another plane of existence. Creatures on the other side spill out, forcing the adventurers to close the