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Knight
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Player’s Handbook (2014)
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
retainers loyal to your family. These retainers can be attendants or messengers, and one might be a majordomo. Your retainers are commoners who can perform mundane tasks for you, but they do not fight
Noble
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Basic Rules (2014)
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
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Variant Feature: Retainers
If your character has a noble background, you may select this background feature instead of Position of Privilege.
You have the service of three retainers loyal to your
Soldier
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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
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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
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
: Retainers
If your character has a noble background, you may select this background feature instead of Position of Privilege.
You have the service of three retainers loyal to your family. These retainers
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
Merchant Prince’s Villa Each merchant prince maintains a lavish villa where he or she lives and conducts private business. These airy, opulent mansions include guest quarters for important visitors
and trading partners, and they’re patrolled by loyal, well-drilled guards at all hours. Map 1.2 provides a sample floor plan. Each villa is both a palatial tropical home and a fortress. The outer walls
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
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
of them sits atop a web of debts, favors, incriminating information, and loyal muscle that allows them to get things done with an efficiency that the merchant princes sometimes envy. Unlike the
flimsy new huts and longhouses of bamboo and thatch. The Old City is run by “beggar princes” in a mocking parallel to the merchant princes of the city proper. They have no official authority, but each
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
family during their most vulnerable time, when they’re sleeping or relaxing in their own chambers. This station is always manned by 1d4 + 1 gladiators who are fanatically loyal to the merchant prince
Upper Level The rooms on this level are decorated for comfort. The artwork and other decor reflects the taste of the merchant prince to whom the villa belongs. 10. Library Chultans are fans of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
are causing trouble in the Cairn Hills. They’re raiding merchants, hoping the dragon will allow them to return home as its loyal servants. Hook. A merchant named Nondy Barducks (a Lawful Neutral, gnome
Warriors (Neutral) who demand that the merchant surrender his goods. In combat, the kobolds shout things like “For the Winged God!” and “Fight to reclaim our home!” If four of them fall in battle, the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
ballistae that can launch heavy bolts or canisters of alchemist’s fire. Its garrison consists of a noble (the castellan), four veterans (officers), and forty guards loyal to the merchant princes. 16
Harbor Ward Port Nyanzaru’s harbor can accommodate ships of all sizes. The enclosed, eastern portion of the harbor is reserved for the use of the merchant princes, but the rest of the docks are
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Astarion's Book of Hungers
and is loyal to its mysterious owner. Reigra Clawcroft For the past two hundred years, a Rakshasa named Reigra Clawcroft has owned Rat’s Run. Reigra was once a fearsome pirate captain who took the
guise of a tattooed tiefling. When she won ownership of Rat’s Run from a drunken merchant, the rakshasa saw an opportunity to expand her power. She retired from privateering, intent on easier paydays
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
immense wealth agreed on by the majority. The merchant princes surround themselves with loyal family and underlings, but they also employ foreign mercenaries both as city guards and as personal guards
Merchant Princes Seven merchant princes rule Port Nyanzaru, each one with an equal vote in matters of state. All are Chultan. Their single qualification is that they’re the seven richest people in
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
chapter have goals beyond helping the characters survive. Helping guides fulfill their personal goals increases their loyalty.
A particularly loyal guide (loyalty score of 10 or higher) will follow
characters into a dangerous location such as Omu or the Tomb of the Nine Gods. A tenuously loyal guide (loyalty score of 1 to 9) might choose to wait for the characters outside the location rather
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
is the current drow representative. A sophisticated merchant, she deals in luxury items from drow artisans: gems of high value, incense, art objects, various magical treasures, and exotic spices and
emotions spell allows Flink to speak coherently, whereupon he reveals the following information: A duergar ale merchant named Krimgol Muzgardt asked Flink’s mistress, Yantha Coaxrock, to appraise a large
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
of the world. Instead, great city-states have emerged, enriched by trade and protected by stout walls and loyal defenders. Such cities — including Baldur’s Gate, Mirabar, Neverwinter, Silverymoon, and
threats they must — to further that goal. In the end, though, a merchant of Waterdeep and one of Baldur’s Gate are concerned mainly for their own purses and the welfare of their home cities, and are
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)
is the distant line of the horizon, but the time has come to try your hand at something new. Discuss the nature of the ship you previously sailed with your Dungeon Master. Was it a merchant ship, a
my crewmates, not to ideals. (Neutral) 6 Aspiration. Someday I’ll own my own ship and chart my own destiny. (Any) d6 Bond 1 I’m loyal to my captain first, everything else second. 2 The ship is most
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
Mahadi, Emporium Master Mahadi the rakshasa appears as a wealthy merchant lord. Though extremely powerful, Mahadi doesn’t believe in taking unnecessary risks, particularly in the Nine Hells where he
adventurer with a rod of lordly might, to which only the recipient and its direct descendants can attune. Resurrection. Asmodeus sends one of his loyal priest followers to cast true resurrection on a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)
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
bond.) VARIANT FEATURE: RETAINERS
If your character has a noble background, you may select this background feature instead of Position of Privilege.
You have the service of three retainers loyal
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Book of Many Things
mortician. Balance The Merchant; Most Prominent in Late Winter A scale made of stars represents the Balance. The constellation’s brightest star forms the fulcrum on which the plates of the scale rest
succeed in a great quest. In adulthood, they take up the adventuring lifestyle and befriend other thrill-seeking heroes. There’s no more loyal friend than one born under the sign of the Knight. Euryale
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
two personalities. He appears to be a concerned, fatherly figure, a loyal retainer who worries about his young master. With a few moments of focus, however, he can shift to become a cold-blooded
, turning them into useful agents. 13–14 Tainted grain delivered by a merchant in league with the Brotherhood leads to an outbreak of plague. 15–16 The Brotherhood uses kidnapping, blackmail, or other
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
workers. Rumors of Evil. If the characters ask Thorsk about strange customers, the busy wagonmaker recalls an Amnian merchant heading north on the Long Road who stopped for a wagon repair. His goods
were marked by a strange symbol, like a bowl. The Amnian merchant paid Thorsk well and talked about a big gathering of druids he was heading to, hoping to sell kegs of beer and various trinkets
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
called the Companion, but some ascribe it to one deity or another. Where the natural sun journeys across the sky and disappears at night, the Companion is steady and loyal, ever preventing creatures of
trouble; Scornubel is a haven for outlanders, many of whom are either troublemakers or folk whom trouble is pursuing. Add to this the machinations of Scornubel’s native merchant-princes and the rumors of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
the dragon might install dragon or half-dragon offspring in the highest echelons of government. Depending on the size of the domain, the dragon might have thousands or even millions of loyal subjects
A struggling merchant hires the characters to identify a mysterious competitor who seems to have unlimited resources. (Business owner)
3 A repentant enemy comes to the characters, telling them
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
merchant company based in the city of Yartar. Above the store’s entrance hangs a polished shield emblazoned with the head of a stylized golden lion on a blue background. Lionshields are not well liked in
feed and exercise the animals, clean the stables, and replace horseshoes. T9. The Triboar Travelers Merchant sponsors can hire the personnel and the vehicles of the Triboar Travelers to make caravan runs
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
offense against one of the council’s merchant houses. Other infractions are forgiven after the miscreant makes payment of an appropriate fine. Calimshan. This southern land has long been the
, along the southern shore of the lake, explorers and fortune seekers squander their amassed wealth building castles, founding communities, and drawing loyal vassals to them — only to have all those
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
the dour leader of the Crushing Wave cult. He is embittered by a life of suffering at the hands of others. Pirates killed his family when he was young, he was forced into servitude aboard a merchant
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
asks them to create a distraction so some Flaming Fist soldiers stop harassing a newly arrived family of refugees he’s helping.
12 A merchant and gate guard argue over how to accurately measure
activities. Since then, he’s been slowly laying off existing workers and replacing them with cultists loyal to the group’s mission. Assisting him are Corian Khee, a death’s head of Bhaal who spends days
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur’s Gate Gazetteer
family of refugees he’s helping. 12 A merchant and gate guard argue over how to accurately measure and compare the sizes of an unusually small donkey and an exceptionally large peacock. They ask for a
would provide a suitable cover for the cult’s murderous activities. Since then, he’s been slowly laying off existing workers and replacing them with cultists loyal to the group’s mission. Assisting him
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Guildmasters' Guide to Ravnica
of the Azorius Senate to sidestep a checkpoint, or transform into a Tin Street merchant to deceive a passing noble. His true form might be that of a doppelganger or some other creature; no one has ever
wields — and with the support of his loyal guards and soldiers — he has survived a number of assassination attempts from various upstarts.
Undead Nature. Jarad doesn’t require air, food, drink, or sleep
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
hands the characters his apron, mistaking them for the actual kitchen staff. Bepis Honeymaker is a honey merchant who was kidnapped from his Trades Ward home a month ago. The Xanathar Guild tried to
, written on which are the words “SMOKEPOWDER! DO NOT OPEN!” in Common and Elvish. Neither Xanathar nor its loyal underlings know this room exists. When Nar’l found it, he asked to have the adjoining room
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
residence, attended by a loyal staff and a private garrison of twenty veterans. Moonlord Daviana Yalrannis (CG female Tethyrian human knight) is the master of the tower, charged with its defense and upkeep
veins of copper and silver ore. In the years that followed, miners settled nearby, giving rise to the town of Fireshear. The miners work for a consortium of three allied merchant companies: Hammaver