merchant shines with only about from for like

Blackrazor

Magic Items Dungeon Master’s Guide

Hidden in the dungeon of White Plume Mountain, Blackrazor shines like a piece of night sky filled with stars. Its black scabbard is decorated with pieces of cut obsidian. You gain a +3 bonus to

Madcap

Monsters Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus

. At first, new redcaps look like tiny, bloodstained mushrooms just pushing their caps out of the soil. When moonlight shines on one of these caps, a creature that looks like a wizened and undersized

Yeth Hound

Monsters Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse

Sunlight Banishment. If the yeth hound starts its turn in sunlight, it is transported to the Ethereal Plane. While sunlight shines on the spot from which it vanished, the hound must remain in the

lie that way. A target that successfully saves is immune to the baying of all yeth hounds for the next 24 hours.Granted by mighty Fey to individuals who please them, yeth hounds serve their masters like

Warden Archon

Monsters Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse

portals and paths connected to goodly realms. They have powerfully built, bipedal bodies with the heads of great bears and eyes like pools of silvery light. When warden archons speak, glimmering

radiance shines from within their mouths, punctuating their deep, resonant voices. A warden archon knows when a creature uses a portal the archon is tasked to guard, and it moves swiftly to interrogate

Earth Genasi Legacy

Species Elemental Evil Player's Companion

tones of deep brown or black, eyes sparkling like agates. Earth genasi can also have smooth metallic flesh, dull iron skin spotted with rust, a pebbled and rough hide, or even a coating of tiny embedded crystals. The most arresting have fissures in their flesh, from which faint light shines.

Bheur Hag

Monsters Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse

staff that can be ridden like a flying broom and that augments the hag’s magic. Bheur hags are attracted to selfish actions inspired by deadly cold, such as murdering a traveler for a winter coat

or chopping down a dryad;dryad's grove for firewood. These actions are especially sweet to a bheur if they are unwarranted, such as a greedy merchant hoarding excess food for the winter while others

Aberrant Mind Legacy

Classes Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything

now its psionic power is yours. When you use it, your flesh shines with a strange mucus. 5 As a child, you had an imaginary friend that looked like a flumph or a strange platypus-like creature

Blackrazor Legacy

Magic Items Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)

Hidden in the dungeon of White Plume Mountain, Blackrazor shines like a piece of night sky filled with stars. Its black scabbard is decorated with pieces of cut obsidian. You gain a +3 bonus to

Mark of Shadow Elf

Species Eberron: Rising from the Last War

assassins within House Phiarlan. Only special clients—nobles, merchant lords, and the like—have access to these spies. Toward the end of the Last War, a bitter feud broke out between the

Soldier Legacy

Backgrounds Basic Rules (2014)

standing army, a town guard, or a village militia? Or it might have been a noble’s or merchant’s private army, or a mercenary company. Skill Proficiencies: Athletics

bearer 8 Support staff (cook, blacksmith, or the like) FEATURE: MILITARY RANK You have a military rank from your career as a soldier. Soldiers loyal to your former military

Gnome Legacy

Species Basic Rules (2014)

Skinny and flaxen-haired, his skin walnut brown and his eyes a startling turquoise, Burgell stood half as tall as Aeron and had to climb up on a stool to look out the peephole. Like most

, enjoying every moment of invention, exploration, investigation, creation, and play. Vibrant Expression A gnome’s energy and enthusiasm for living shines through every inch of his or her tiny body

The Way of the Lion

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus

clouds release heavy rain until the road runs thick with mud, yet you trudge on, passing by friendly merchant caravans heading north. On the morning of the fifth day, the rain subsides but the dark

clouds remain. Ahead, you see a path branch from the wider road, heading to the sea. A raven perches solemnly on a leaning post bearing two signs that point like arms toward the west. One says “The Way

Adult Emerald Dragon

Monsters Fizban's Treasury of Dragons

what others have said back to them to make sure I have remembered it correctly. 2 I might not like you, but I will endeavor to treat you with respect, if not kindness. 3 I like to impress

visitors by reciting epic poetry. 4 The only people I’m interested in are those who know history and those who make history. 5 I like to adopt the personas of characters from legend

Clue 1: Hall of Oracles

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos

their body, overwhelmed by the snarl’s magical power. The character automatically disengages from the snarl and discovers that they are holding a potion of healing. The magic snarl at the heart of the Hall of Oracles shines through the Biblioplex like a miniature sun

Soldier - Baldur's Gate

Backgrounds Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus

militia? Or it might have been a noble’s or merchant’s private army, or a mercenary company. Skill Proficiencies: Athletics, Intimidation Tool Proficiencies: One type of

, blacksmith, or the like) FEATURE: MILITARY RANK You have a military rank from your career as a soldier. Soldiers loyal to your former military organization still recognize your authority and

Upper-Level Features

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Eve of Ruin

object with AC 10, 10 hit points, vulnerability to bludgeoning and thunder damage, and immunity to poison and psychic damage. The glass is enchanted so that only one color of moonlight shines through

it: Solinari’s white light shines into the white tower’s lunarium (area U1). Lunitari’s red light shines into the red tower’s lunarium (area U2). Nuitari’s black light shines into the black tower’s

Paladin Legacy

Classes Basic Rules (2014)

shines from her hands, the man’s wounds knit closed, and his eyes open wide with amazement. A dwarf crouches behind an outcrop, his black cloak making him nearly invisible in the night, and watches

of light that seems to illuminate only him, an elf laughs with exultation. His spear flashes like his eyes as he jabs again and again at a twisted giant, until at last his light overcomes its hideous

Noble - Baldur's Gate

Backgrounds Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus

unfamiliar with work or discomfort, a former merchant just elevated to the nobility, or a disinherited scoundrel with a disproportionate sense of entitlement. Or you could be an honest, hard-working

nuances of royal courts half a continent away and shockingly ignorant of what life is like for the poor outside their own doorsteps. This combination of worldly savvy and local blindness characterizes

Karontor's Hold Features

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

the hold is warped near and above the well. Within this area, glistening stone flows like viscous liquid, sickly purplish radiance gleams at the edge of perception, and the air has an acrid taste

defaced and illegible. Well. A giant-sized well in the keep’s deepest level plunges a seemingly infinite depth. Faint purple light shines from the depths, and psychic whispers caress the mind of anyone who peers into the depths. A 5-foot-high wall surrounds the well.

Gothic Horror Torments

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft

torment themselves viciously. Gothic Horror Torments d8 Torment 1 The Darklord’s soul is so consumed by shadows that it extinguishes all light that shines on them. 2 The Darklord inherited

unlimited wealth, but finery she wears turns to rags and food tastes like ash. 3 The Darklord is incomparably beautiful, but locals perceive him as a terrible beast. 4 Tattoos detailing

Factions and Their Representatives

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation

Factions and Their Representatives Port Nyanzaru is the lone civilized hub on a vast peninsula of great wealth. Many factions would like to tap into that wealth, and they all have agents vying for

influence in the city or scouting the jungle for opportunities. Some of these can aid the characters, and others will try to hinder them. Laws and Punishments The merchant princes can create or alter

Rumors in Red Larch

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

from Endrith Vallivoe, a local shopkeeper drinking in the Swinging Sword, who bought one of the books from a merchant recently arrived from Womford. Four new graves — simple rock cairns, really — have

. Larmon hangs around Gaelkur’s. He can guide the characters to the site where he found the graves, but he insists on waiting until morning. An Amnian merchant heading north on the Long Road stopped

Character Hooks

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel

factions. Midnight Sun. An ally of the characters has received permission to visit Akharin Sangar and witness a periodic event in which the moon shines like the sun. This ally asks the characters to escort them on a scholarly or religious expedition.

Far Traveler

Backgrounds Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide

they use for everyone who shares your origin. The folk of Kara-Tur occasionally travel to Faerûn as diplomats or to forge trade relations with prosperous merchant cartels. You might have come

of them stray as far from home as you have. You might be traveling to discover what wonders are to be found outside the deserts and sword-like mountains of your homeland, or perhaps you are on a

Paladin

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)

radiance shines from her hands, the man’s wounds knit closed, and his eyes open wide with amazement. A dwarf crouches behind an outcrop, his black cloak making him nearly invisible in the night, and

of light that seems to illuminate only him, an elf laughs with exultation. His spear flashes like his eyes as he jabs again and again at a twisted giant, until at last his light overcomes its hideous

Mayhem in the Market

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel

man’s glassy eyes and puppet-like movement suggest he has been drugged in some way. A protection from poison spell or similar magic ends the effect on the merchant. Victim. The man the merchant is

make an innocent merchant attack the local lordling. Kala Mabarin Kala Mabarin (neutral evil, human druid) is a skilled herbalist and datura, a protector of the spirits of the land. After years in the

Paladin

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)

radiance shines from her hands, the man’s wounds knit closed, and his eyes open wide with amazement. A dwarf crouches behind an outcrop, his black cloak making him nearly invisible in the night, and

of light that seems to illuminate only him, an elf laughs with exultation. His spear flashes like his eyes as he jabs again and again at a twisted giant, until at last his light overcomes its hideous

Other Nonplayer Characters

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tyranny of Dragons

spice up the journey, to help bring the trip to life, and to give characters people to like and protect, or dislike and quarrel with, along the way. Achreny Ulyeltin (Male Human Merchant). Ulyeltin is

. He is suspicious of everyone and makes outrageous accusations at the drop of a hat. Beyd Sechepol (Male Half-Elf Merchant). Ale and beer are so common that not much money can be made hauling them long

Earth Genasi

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

, with skin tones of deep brown or black, eyes sparkling like agates. Earth genasi can also have smooth metallic flesh, dull iron skin spotted with rust, a pebbled and rough hide, or even a coating of tiny

embedded crystals. The most arresting have fissures in their flesh, from which faint light shines. Ability Score Increase. Your Strength score increases by 1. Earth Walk. You can move across

Adventures in Siabsungkoh

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel

business as a front to deal in illegal exports, like tut-krogh caterpillar eggs or wynling wings. The Dyn Singh Merchant Collective hires the characters to pose as buyers. 2 A revenant appears at the

Port Nyanzaru Encounters

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation

Nyanzaru Encounters table to determine what the characters encounter, or simply choose an encounter you like. Port Nyanzaru Encounters d20 Encounter 1 A parrot poops on a random character’s head

. 2 Near the harbor, an ankylosaurus that tows boats through the warehouse canals goes on a rampage and must be calmed, restrained, or killed. 3 A merchant shouts, “Stop! Thief!” as a furtive youngster

Other Nonplayer Characters

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Hoard of the Dragon Queen

spice up the journey, to help bring the trip to life, and to give characters people to like and protect, or dislike and quarrel with, along the way. Achreny Ulyeltin (Male Human Merchant). Ulyeltin is

. He is suspicious of everyone and makes outrageous accusations at the drop of a hat. Beyd Sechepol (Male Half-Elf Merchant). Ale and beer are so common that not much money can be made hauling them

Chapter 1: Prisoners of the Drow

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss

Chapter 1: Prisoners of the Drow Deep beneath the surface of the world lies the Underdark, a realm of endless labyrinthine tunnels and caverns where the sun never shines. The Underdark is filled with

and get to know each other as prisoners of the drow. Players who would like their characters to have a stronger Underdark connection can choose from the background options in appendix A. “Prisoners

Coins

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd

black markets; fair and equitable trades Four of coins Merchant A rare commodity or business opportunity; deceitful or dangerous business transactions Five of coins Guild Member Like-minded individuals

Card Name Represents Master of coins Rogue Anyone for whom money is important; those who believe money is the key to their success One of coins Swashbuckler Those who like money yet give it up

Meeting Elra

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Keys from the Golden Vault

spirit manifests as a disembodied head. In this form, Elra reaches out to the characters and provides some helpful information: A ray of sunlight shines down on a tree stump by the side of road, and the

experiments. Beware creatures that look like puddles of eyes and mouths. Beware the thing that has hooks for hands. And beware the mansion itself, for it transforms weirdly. Most of all, stop Markos

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