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Monsters
Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
", "rollType":"damage", "rollAction":"Quantum Strike", "rollDamageType":"force"} force damage if the fractal is Medium or bigger.To an untrained eye, a fractal mascot looks like a creature made from
their arithmetic basis, fractal mascots can alter both their size and density. Quandrix College has adopted the fractal as its mascot, and many a Quandrix student can be found playing fetch with a
Monsters
Spelljammer: Adventures in Space
Dying Burst. When the clown drops to 0 hit points, it pops like a balloon, releasing a splash of putrid, corrosive ichor. Each creature within 5 feet of the clown when it bursts must make a DC 12
and the nectar of the bozo flower. Eventually, Thrill Joy transformed the faithful into fiendish creatures and “blessed” them with clown-like appearances.
Space clowns acquired their
Monsters
Monstrous Compendium Vol. 2: Dragonlance Creatures
. If the seeker lacks the room to become Large, it attains the maximum size possible in the space available.
Change Shape (1/Day). The seeker magically transforms to look and feel like a Medium
teachings, some of them adopted the philosophies of other deities. Those irda who don’t serve the Dragon Queen live in hidden communities across Krynn, avoiding the eyes of their creator and her
Monsters
Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
who died a century ago, after a long and nefarious career. Esvele Rosznar, a brash young noble, has recently adopted the Black Viper's persona to lead a secret life of crime. Like many other nobles
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
Monsters
Monstrous Compendium Vol. 2: Dragonlance Creatures
Shape (3/Day). The veil keeper magically transforms to look and feel like a Medium Humanoid it has seen. Any equipment the veil keeper is wearing or carrying isn’t transformed, and the veil keeper
inhabitants from the outside world for centuries.
Irda
The Dragon Queen created the irda long ago. While most irda embraced their wicked creator’s teachings, some of them adopted the
Monsters
The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
eyelashes. Underneath her makeup, her flesh is textured like rotten bark and infested with wood lice and fungus. The windup key sticking out of her back is a part of her body and no easier to remove than one
adopted daughter, surpassed them in power and carved out a Feywild domain for herself in the guise of an archfey named Zybilna. The hags wormed their way into Iggwilv’s good graces, biding their time
Monsters
The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
uncontrollably.”
Bavlorna’s Appearance
Bavlorna has a toad-like face with a mouth that magically widens and elongates, enabling her to swallow creatures whole. Her bulging eyes move
submerged. As the hours pass between each immersion, her movements become more ponderous and her skin audibly cracks as she moves.
Bavlorna lives like a hermit. She is frazzled, impatient, paranoid
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
scales of perfect clarity that bend and refract light, sometimes making them difficult to see clearly.
The radiant energy of the Positive Plane shimmers in crystal dragons’ scales. It glows like
and hunters.
2
A young crystal dragon has adopted a group of kobold;kobolds and is trying to teach them the value of a good practical joke.
3
A young crystal dragon has captured a pack of
Equipment
objects are found in caches where they are often stacked like plates in a restaurant. But discoveries are few and far between, and merchants are sure to drive a hard bargain.
Monsters
Mordenkainen's Fiendish Folio Volume 1
merchants, or bold adventurers, all travelers have something interesting to offer a killmoulis.
Hungry Helpers. Despite their odd appearance and origins, killmoulis crave the same creature comforts as
group and attempts to flee. For the rest of the characters' journey, their rations taste like ash and any camping spots are infested with lice and biting insects. Each character in the party wakes up
Monsters
Mordenkainen's Fiendish Folio Volume 1
","rollDamageType":"radiant"} radiant damage and be blinded until the end of the blindheim's next turn. Creatures with the Sunlight Sensitivity trait have disadvantage on this saving throw.These frog-like
have a fascination with tales and objects from the surface world, particularly plants and other natural items. They gather in the depths of the Underdark near routes used by merchants and other brave
Backgrounds
Tomb of Annihilation
you’ve adopted, or roll on the Adopted Culture table.
Adopted Culture
d8
Culture
d8
Culture
1
Aarakocra
5
Halfling
2
Dwarf
6
Human
3
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Suggested Characteristics
Anthropologists leave behind the societies into which they were born to discover what life is like in other parts of the world. They seek to see how other races and civilizations
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
of the outlying villages, like Shuaran? Were you adopted? Were you born without the gift, or do you display a different manifestation?
What secret of the land do you know better than anyone else? Is
it the existence of the grotto filled with healing flowers? The secret way out of a box canyon? How to get a giant parrot to like you?
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
entrusted with more important tasks than simply roughing up local merchants or breaking into empty apartments. If you’re anything like a typical adventuring party, you bring a combination of powerful
magic, physical might, and a broad selection of skills to your work, making you well suited to missions like grand heists, high-profile assassinations, and epic cons. Crime syndicates thrived during
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
outside, making them ideal places for hidden temples and black markets. Swaying rope bridges provide the best avenues between the blocks of this quarter, since the old boardwalks are sinking like
Styes, alchemists are free to conduct whatever dangerous experiments they like, and to cut corners on safety and quality control. Iron chimneys belch smoke and foul vapors into the air, while liquid
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tyranny of Dragons
next two questions that need answering. Frume and Erlanthar would like the characters to join the cult’s caravan and accompany it on the journey. They could get themselves hired as guards—if not by
the cult’s wagon masters, then by other merchants who are traveling in the same direction at the same time. Merchants from different companies commonly join together to form larger trains for
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
“goats of coin,” for they will cling like such animals to the most precarious of mountain ridges while seeking the opportunities that wait beyond. My own journeys with the goats of coin have impressed
one of the few goats of coin that refused to be daunted by the fens around Castle Hartwick), I’ve found these lands to be still frontier-like, similar to some of the wilder portions of the North
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
merchants. Maerin sits at the junction of three main roads. The market surrounds the intersection, making it a welcome stop for travelers of all types. Jewelers, clothiers, bakers, farmers, and
. “Gossip nourishes me like a spring rain, but I hate to hear or pass on bad news.” Ideal. “People are like flowers: Some grow best when left alone, others must be carefully cultivated—and some need to be
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
merchants who visit the city, and is made up of many enclaves, blocks, and streets primarily occupied by citizens who trace their ancestry to other realms. One can indulge in the finest halfling food here
district of laborers catering to travelers, so its folk have adopted the architectural custom of building homes and businesses above stables or around inn yards, near to where wagon trains are housed
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)
or other settlement, provided that you can find buyers and merchants interested in your loot. Arms, Armor, and Other Equipment. As a general rule, undamaged weapons, armor, and other equipment fetch
Goods. On the borderlands, many people conduct transactions through barter. Like gems and art objects, trade goods — bars of iron, bags of salt, livestock, and so on — retain their full value in the market and can be used as currency.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
Jacqueline RenierJacqueline Renier A century ago, Richemulot was a lively place. In those days, not a building stood vacant as merchants from both ends of the Musarde set up shop along the broad
boulevards of Pont-a-Museau. As wealth trickled into the merchants’ coffers, those of low birth began to taste the benefits of nobility. Renier saw how the city was changing and tried to convince her
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
Fighters “Slow to learn, aren’t they?” a white-haired old knight who’d lost his helm in the last fray drawled. “This is getting to be like a proper romp in the Dragonjaws, it is! I’ll have to get my
, slashing swords, and beady goblin eyes. Men planted themselves — no running and leaping now — to hew steadily, like harvesters with scythes and many fields in front of them, in a rhythm of death
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sleeping Dragon’s Wake
The Quest Board The job board outside the fishery is where the adventurers can learn about quests. Let the players choose the order in which they tackle them. If the players don’t like a quest, they
Quest “Go north along the coast and track the bronze dragon Lhammaruntosz, the Claws of the Coast, to her lair. This location looks like a bronze dragon carved into the side of a cliff overlooking
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
their exclusion; they like to be left alone to their own schemes, not constrained by a fey queen’s whims, and to be able to talk out of both sides of their mouths. Hags are virtually immortal, with a
offspring (whether adopted or birthed). Hags often appear unlooked-for, in moments of great need, because they have been spying and see an opportunity to aid now to set up darker mischief later.
— Elminster
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
gate? The noisy hubbub of merchants and buyers thronging the market square? The overpowering stench of manure? Sensory details help bring a settlement to life and vividly communicate its personality to
your players. Settle on a single defining factor that sums up a settlement’s personality and extrapolate from there. Maybe a city is built around canals, like real-world Venice. That key element
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
, which means “Ever-Gnawing” in Goblin. Spellix was repulsed by the goblins’ squalor and took pity on them. Abandoning all concern for his former mates, whom he didn’t particularly like anyway, Spellix
adopted the name given to him by the goblins and spent the next several months engineering ways to improve their standard of living. Long after the other members of the caravan had been eaten, Yarb-Gnock
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
Market Ward The Market Ward is where most of Port Nyanzaru’s regular shops are located and where most of its tradesfolk, merchants, and other middle-class residents live and work. 18. Red Bazaar No
hygiene. Most would be repulsed by the thought of a day without a bath. Dozens of small bathhouses across the city operate like private clubs, but the public bathhouse is open to everyone and is run
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
Ghorbani, and its agents are largely chaotic good artisans, philosophers, and merchants who have suffered under Atash’s isolationist policies. Silent Roar agents are usually patient and nonviolent, but
they defend the order and its members like lions protect their prides. They resent other revolutionary groups whose violent ways cause the people to distrust the Silent Roar by extension. Many Silent
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
. Performers gather here throughout the day, and merchants keep their shops open day and night. Most of the city’s guilds—known in the city as trades—keep their headquarters among the district’s towers
. Artisans are expected to register with the headquarters of the appropriate trade and support the furthering of their craft. Covenant Hunched over brass cauldrons in their manor-like headquarters, members
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->Monster Manual
oases that regularly draw visitors. They enjoy adopting Humanoid forms, disguising themselves as traveling merchants, scholars, storytellers, or anyone else invested in others’ stories. Caio
Monteiro Brass Dragon Wyrmling
Brass dragons collect eclectic objects. While such items might seem like knickknacks, each is part of a story—perhaps a nostalgic memento or evidence of a tale passed
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
frequented by merchants, mercenaries, and other foreigners who can offer information about traveling elsewhere in the Underdark — or perhaps even to the surface world. GRACKLSTUGH: GENERAL FEATURES
like the teeth of some great maw.
Light. Gracklstugh’s glowing forges and smithies operate continuously. Most of the city is dimly lit by a hellish red glow, with patches of darkness here and there
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
E2. Blood of the Vine Tavern A single shaft of light thrusts illumination into the main square, its brightness looking like a solid pillar in the heavy fog. Above the gaping doorway, a sign hangs
most of his life. Ismark isn’t a typically dour Barovian. He invites the characters to join him, offers to pay for their wine, and asks for their aid in protecting his adopted sister, Ireena Kolyana. If
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Hoard of the Dragon Queen
believes they are deadly poisonous (they aren’t). The merchants are terrified of the things and refuse to drive through them, fearing that they may be poisonous or worse. Besides that, the sounds spook
toxin is completely out of their system. You can impose even more lingering results if you like, such as a lifelong aversion to eating mushrooms of any kind. People can clear a path through the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Book of Many Things
merchants relate this information to anyone who buys a fruit, always downplaying potentially negative side effects. Fey Fruit Effects d10 Effect 1 Every 10 minutes, the creature must eat another fey
of a Speak with Animals spell for 8 hours. 9 The creature gains 4d4 + 4 temporary hit points. 10 The creature sprouts dragonfly-like wings, gaining a flying speed of 30 feet for 1 hour. Price