merchant some with only also from for linked

Tiefling

Species Player’s Handbook

Tieflings are either born in the Lower Planes or have fiendish ancestors who originated there. A tiefling (pronounced TEE-fling) is linked by blood to a devil, a demon, or some other Fiend. This

chthonic legacy feel not only the tug of Carceri but also the greed of Gehenna and the gloom of Hades. Some of these tieflings look cadaverous. Others possess the unearthly beauty of a succubus, or

Kithkin

Species Lorwyn: First Light

Kithkin are short folk with stout legs, long arms, and sturdy torsos. Their broad faces; round ears; and large, expressive eyes lend them a vaguely ursine appearance. Most kithkin are linked by an

Book of Kith and Kin. They also often entertain many superstitions, particularly related to Lorwyn’s incarnations of nature. In Shadowmoor Shadowmoor kithkin are more insular and xenophobic

Ring of Elemental Command Legacy

Magic Items Basic Rules (2014)

This ring is linked to one of the four Elemental Planes. The DM chooses or randomly determines the linked plane. While wearing this ring, you have advantage on attack rolls against elementals from

the linked plane, and they have disadvantage on attack rolls against you. In addition, you have access to properties based on the linked plane. The ring has 5 charges. It regains 1d4 + 1 expended

Dohwar

Monsters Spelljammer: Adventures in Space

also shroud themselves in hooded cloaks. The average dohwar stands 3 feet tall and has bright plumage matching a particular color in the rainbow spectrum. This color can change at unpredictable times in

call merging, in which two dohwars stay in mental contact while both are telepathically linked with a third creature.

Field Spear

Equipment

Also known as the merchant’s blade, the field spear was proven a useful and sturdy tool by the hundreds of merchants and travelers that use it in their expeditions across the island. Its

Returned Kakomantis

Monsters Mythic Odysseys of Theros

, which manifest as separate beings known as eidolons. The experience of escaping the Underworld also causes them to lose their faces, which become expressionless surfaces with empty eye sockets and gaping

such cursed relics or with those who try to traffic in them. Finding an unscrupulous merchant willing to trade for Returned masks is rare, as the items are effectively another sapient being’s face

Ring of Fire Elemental Command

Magic Items Basic Rules (2014)

This ring is linked to the Elemental Plane of Fire. While wearing this ring, you have advantage on attack rolls against fire elementals, and they have disadvantage on attack rolls against you. In

. You can expend 2 of the ring's charges to cast dominate monster on a fire elemental. In addition, you have resistance to fire damage. You can also speak and understand Ignan. If you help slay a fire

Returned Sentry

Monsters Mythic Odysseys of Theros

tirelessness, which makes them exceptional guards. In the necropoleis, this sees many Returned employed as sentries, though they might also be messengers or laborers. If threatened, groups of these Returned

, which manifest as separate beings known as eidolons. The experience of escaping the Underworld also causes them to lose their faces, which become expressionless surfaces with empty eye sockets and gaping

Returned Drifter

Monsters Mythic Odysseys of Theros

), the Returned lose their identities, which manifest as separate beings known as eidolons. The experience of escaping the Underworld also causes them to lose their faces, which become expressionless

Returned and want nothing to do with such cursed relics or with those who try to traffic in them. Finding an unscrupulous merchant willing to trade for Returned masks is rare, as the items are

Ring of Air Elemental Command

Magic Items Basic Rules (2014)

This ring is linked to the Elemental Plane of Air. While wearing this ring, you have advantage on attack rolls against air elementals, and they have disadvantage on attack rolls against you. In

. You can expend 2 of the ring's charges to cast dominate monster on an air elemental. In addition, when you fall, you descend 60 feet per round and take no damage from falling. You can also speak and

Ring of Earth Elemental Command

Magic Items Basic Rules (2014)

This ring is linked to the Elemental Plane of Earth. While wearing this ring, you have advantage on attack rolls against earth elementals, and they have disadvantage on attack rolls against you. In

normal terrain. You can also speak and understand Terran. If you help slay an earth elemental while attuned to the ring, you gain access to the following additional properties: You have resistance to

Elder Brain Legacy

Monsters Volo's Guide to Monsters

trait and establishes a psychic link with that creature. Until the psychic link ends, the elder brain can perceive everything the target senses. The target becomes aware that something is linked to its

"} psychic damage. The psychic link also ends if the target and the elder brain are more than 5 miles apart, with no consequences to the target. The elder brain can form psychic links with up to ten

Guild Artisan / Guild Merchant Legacy

Backgrounds Player’s Handbook (2014)

you if a good case can be made for your innocence or the crime is justifiable. You can also gain access to powerful political figures through the guild, if you are a member in good standing. Such

in the guild’s good graces. Variant Guild Artisan: Guild Merchant Instead of an artisans’ guild, you might belong to a guild of traders, caravan masters, or shopkeepers. You don&rsquo

Elder Brain

Monsters Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse

it has a psychic link. The elder brain breaks the creature’s concentration on a spell it has cast. The creature also takes 2 (1d4);{"diceNotation":"1d4","rollType":"damage","rollAction":"Break

are so-called among non-illithids because they act as the central communication hub for an entire mind flayer colony, just as a brain does for a living body. Linked to the elder brain, the colony acts

Ring of Water Elemental Command

Magic Items Basic Rules (2014)

This ring is linked to the Elemental Plane of Water. While wearing this ring, you have advantage on attack rolls against water elementals, and they have disadvantage on attack rolls against you. In

17. You can expend 2 of the ring's charges to cast dominate monster on a water elemental. In addition, you can stand on and walk across liquid surfaces as if they were solid ground. You can also speak

Returned Palamnite

Monsters Mythic Odysseys of Theros

known as eidolons. The experience of escaping the Underworld also causes them to lose their faces, which become expressionless surfaces with empty eye sockets and gaping mouths. These blank surfaces

who try to traffic in them. Finding an unscrupulous merchant willing to trade for Returned masks is rare, as the items are effectively another sapient being’s face. Convincing a merchant to buy

Mark of Shadow Elf

Species Eberron: Rising from the Last War

The illusions that I weave dazzle and deceive. Sometimes that deception eases your burdens, letting you forget your troubles for a moment. But I can also ease your burdens by ending your life

. —Lady Elara d’Thuranni, shadow dancer The Mark of Shadow lets an elf weave illusions, crafting magic to distract or delight. It also allows its bearer to sculpt shadows, making it easy to

Brain Breaker

Monsters Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk

ends, the brain breaker can perceive everything the target senses. The target becomes aware that something is linked to its mind once it no longer has the incapacitated condition, and the brain breaker

the link this way, the target takes 10 (3d6);{"diceNotation":"3d6", "rollType":"damage", "rollAction":"Psychic Link", "rollDamageType":"psychic"} psychic damage. The link also ends if the target and

Infected Elder Brain

Monsters Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk

and establishes a psychic link with the target. Until the link ends, the elder brain can perceive everything the target senses. The target becomes aware that something is linked to its mind once it

":"psychic"} psychic damage. The link also ends if the target and the elder brain are more than 1 mile apart. The elder brain can form psychic links with up to ten creatures at a time.

Bheur Hag

Monsters Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse

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

starve. Bheurs use their ability to manipulate weather to batter villages with freezing cold, hoping to instill a despair that turns folk against each other. In combat, a bheur hag also strives to

Guild Artisan - Baldur's Gate

Backgrounds Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus

innocence or the crime is justifiable. You can also gain access to powerful political figures through the guild, if you are a member in good standing. Such connections might require the donation of

neighborhoods, you can seek out crew members in that area and learn the local gossip. You can also gain unimpeded entry to nearly any bank, guild hall, place of business, workhouse, or crew meeting place in

Mahadi the Rakshasa

Monsters Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus

, Mahadi loses this action option.Mahadi appears as a wealthy merchant lord. Though extremely powerful, Mahadi doesn’t believe in taking unnecessary risks, particularly in the Nine Hells where he

his business, as well as to pursue information and broker contracts and other such arrangements as needed. In addition to managing the Wandering Emporium, Mahadi is also the proprietor and host of

Knight Legacy

Backgrounds 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

you need to determine your noble title, but you should also work with the DM to describe your family and their influence on you. Is your family old and established, or was your title only recently

Noble Legacy

Backgrounds 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

you need to determine your noble title, but you should also work with the DM to describe your family and their influence on you. Is your family old and established, or was your title only recently

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

horses for temporary use. You can also usually gain access to friendly military encampments and fortresses where your rank is recognized. Suggested Characteristics The horrors of war

Human Legacy

Species Basic Rules (2014)

traditions with origins far beyond the reach of any single human’s memory. They live fully in the present—making them well suited to the adventuring life—but also plan for the future

give their children names from other languages, such as Dwarvish or Elvish (pronounced more or less correctly), but most parents give names that are linked to their region’s culture or to the

Sailor - Baldur's Gate

Backgrounds Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus

Dungeon Master. Was it a merchant ship, a naval vessel, a ship of discovery, or a pirate ship? How famous (or infamous) is it? Is it widely traveled? Is it still sailing, or is it missing and presumed lost

coin flows. As a result, it’s easy for you to hustle a load of cargo ashore or see such a cargo onto a cooperative ship without attracting suspicion or taxation. You also know the movements of

Far Traveler

Backgrounds Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide

you might or might not choose to share. Although you will undoubtedly find some of this land’s ways to be strange and discomfiting, you can also be sure that some things its people take for

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

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

influence, and they defer to you if they are of a lower rank. You can invoke your rank to exert influence over other soldiers and requisition simple equipment or horses for temporary use. You can also

Ring of Elemental Command

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

Ring of Elemental Command Ring, legendary (requires attunement) This ring is linked to one of the four Elemental Planes. The DM chooses or randomly determines the linked plane. While wearing this

ring, you have advantage on attack rolls against elementals from the linked plane, and they have disadvantage on attack rolls against you. In addition, you have access to properties based on the linked

Ring of Elemental Command

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

Ring of Elemental Command Ring, legendary (requires attunement) This ring is linked to one of the four Elemental Planes. The DM chooses or randomly determines the linked plane. While wearing this

ring, you have advantage on attack rolls against elementals from the linked plane, and they have disadvantage on attack rolls against you. In addition, you have access to properties based on the linked

Appendix A: Linked Adventures

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder

Appendix A: Linked Adventures Wizards of the Coast has published other D&D adventures that can serve as springboards for Storm King’s Thunder, not only getting characters to 5th level but also

Clavigers

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

Clavigers Clavigers oversee the Concord Jewels. Each Speaker for the Ancestors chooses the Clavigers for the Jewel linked to that Speaker’s civilization. A dozen Clavigers are assigned to each

also serve as ambassadors from the city to the founding civilizations. Many Clavigers go on to become Speakers for the Ancestors.

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

you need to determine your noble title, but you should also work with the DM to describe your family and their influence on you. Is your family old and established, or was your title only recently

Clavigers

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Radiant Citadel

Clavigers Clavigers oversee the Concord Jewels. Each Speaker for the Ancestors chooses the Clavigers for the Jewel linked to that Speaker’s civilization. A dozen Clavigers are assigned to each

also serve as ambassadors from the city to the founding civilizations. Many Clavigers go on to become Speakers for the Ancestors.

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