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Bandit
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sometimes led by thugs, veterans, or spellcasters. Not all bandits are evil. Oppression, drought, disease, or famine can often drive otherwise honest folk to a life of banditry. Pirates are bandits of the
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Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
;t help but lose myself in the emotions of others.
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The stars have much to tell us, and folk need me to interpret what the stars say.
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All play and no work—those are the words I
—if only they would stop trying to kill the dragon’s guests.
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A crystal dragon wyrmling is placed in a monastery to learn the teachings of the monks before returning home in three years. The monks don’t appreciate the wyrmling’s pranks.
Cold, Radiant
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Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
of her station.
In her younger days, Esvele openly rebelled, but that behavior led to locked doors at night and house guards watching her every move during the day. So she taught herself how to pick
. When she throws back her cloak to reveal the costume she has put together, most folk toss their purses and flee. If that doesn't work, she usually needs only to draw her dagger. Of course, some of the
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Spelljammer: Adventures in Space
first spelljamming helm;spelljamming helms from dohwar merchants (see “Dohwar”). Subsequent visits to other Wildspace systems led to contact with a multitude of other folk. In the wake of
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Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
of several individuals and their offspring, usually led by a dominant adult that also tends to be the oldest member of the group. When on the hunt away from their lair, girallons use roars and body
. Recognizing that girallons are peaceful among their own kind, other folk have learned how to approach a group’s leader, offering food and other gifts in hopes of establishing an alliance with
Folk Hero
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tyrants and monsters that threaten the common folk everywhere.
Skill Proficiencies: Animal Handling, Survival
Tool Proficiencies: One type of artisan’s tools, vehicles (land
disaster.
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I stood alone against a terrible monster.
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I stole from a corrupt merchant to help the poor.
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I led a militia to fight off an invading army.
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I broke into a tyrant
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Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide
Faerûn for being eccentric, spoiled, venal, and, above all else, rich.
Whether you are a shining example of the reason for this reputation or one who proves the rule by being an exception, people
and raised in a different world from the one that most folk know—one that grants you privilege but also calls you to fulfill a duty befitting your station. Your bond might be associated with your
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Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide
society.
Halruaa. Located on the southern edges of the Shining South, and hemmed in by mountains all around, the magocracy of Halruaa is a bizarre land to most in Faerûn who know about it. Many folk
Almost all of the common people and other folk that one might encounter along the Sword Coast or in the North have one thing in common: they live out their lives without ever traveling more than a
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Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide
family, similar to an order of monks. Although there are organizations, such as the Knights of the Shield, that use the trappings of knighthood without necessarily being warriors, most folk of Faer
important than the gear and fighting style of its members, and so most of these orders aren’t limited to fighting types, but are open to all sorts of folk who are willing to battle and die for the
Elf
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high cliff over the fabled city of Qualinost.
Four slender spires rose from the city’s corners like glistening spindles, their brilliant white stone marbled with shining silver. Graceful
that is not a quality to scorn. They’re good folk, they care for each other and tend their gardens, and they have proven themselves tougher than they seem when the need arises.”
Humans
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Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide
among the people as living embodiments of his power. Perhaps they needed a reminder of who they were and from whence they came. The Chosen of Uthgar led bands back to the old ways, and most of your people
you normally would when you forage there.
Additionally, you can call upon the hospitality of your people, and those folk allied with your tribe, often including members of druid circles, tribes of
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monks led by an elder monk instead. You can also limit those attending any audience in the central abbey to just the elder monks.
Part 3: The Ooze-Flooded City. Adjust the ooze-folk so that 1d4 of
. Then downplay those NPCs’ secret agendas as needed to increase their party loyalty.
Part 2: Monastery of the Distressed Body. For encounters built around five monks led by an elder monk, use three
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Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
creates a shining bead of gravitational force in its mouth, then releases the energy in a 60-foot cone. Each creature in that area must make a DC 20 Strength saving throw. On a failed save, the
monastery of githzerai warrior-monks, an adult amethyst dragon sends them aid against a mind flayer colony.
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An apostate community of githyanki follows the tutelage of an adult amethyst dragon
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Guildmasters’ Guide to Ravnica
vast, sprawling rubblebelts of broken terrain that civilized folk have long abandoned. You can find a suitable place for you and your allies to hide or rest in these areas. In addition, you can find
effects, such as flames smoldering behind your eyes or dancing over your hands.
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Gruul ways aren’t the ways of civilized folk, and the Gruul have little patience for
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A Sordid Past Neither Skalanthas nor the monks know that until recently, Ronnom led an assassins’ guild that carried out political killings for profit. Rival factions banded together to destroy the
to the island. Six days ago, Skalanthas sank a ship that sailed too close to Najkir for the dragon’s comfort. Three survivors swam ashore and followed a trail to the monastery. The monks fed and
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Lost Laboratory of Kwalish
steady series of new residents over long years.
Creatures. A group of five monks led by an elder monk can be found here at any time, sleeping, eating, and taking part in decidedly non-monastic
M4. Dormitories When not on duty, the monks reside in this series of ill-kept rooms. Each of these dormitory cells contains only a bed, a trunk for personal effects, and a table. All are crafted of
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. Five monks led by an elder are all sharpening tools and preparing to flay the flesh from the face of a new recruit to the monastery. They attack at the first sign of intruders, with the magically
of monks that appear to be preparing for some horrid ceremony. Hanging on the walls around the table are a number of grotesque leather masks.
The leather masks that hang around the room are the
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after that point, the monastery plunges into the valley to be destroyed, along with any creatures still inside it. Creatures. Five monks led by an elder oversee a group of twenty prisoners toiling to
frantically shovel ore into these hatches, which pulse with a deep-red glow. As you watch, a prisoner collapses from exhaustion. Under orders from the overseeing monks, other workers toss his body
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(see the sidebar) and teleported into one of these locked cells. Creatures. Five monks led by an elder monk guard the prisoners here. The elder monk carries keys to all the cells. The ten prisoners are
” and incarcerated here, where the monks attempt to break their wills and return them to servitude. Cells. The cells are all repurposed metal containers from the planar craft, and are all locked. A
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the Grand Master’s orders that any powerful visitors are to be brought to the devil’s attention. Alternatively, the Grand Master might send over a squad of five monks (cultists) led by an elder monk
(Perception) check to glimpse beneath its hood sees a skeletal face. (The character can later note the resemblance between this visage and the monastery’s flayed monks.)
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entering the cave and climbing to the monastery’s entrance. A pier allows small boats to dock near the entrance. The monastery has long been a retreat for folk seeking enlightenment. The monks who reside here are peaceful.
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
themselves at odds with a sapphire dragon if they cross into the dragon’s territory. But sapphire dragons sometimes forge peaceful relationships with rock gnomes or deep gnomes, relying on these folk
discuss how they might reunite and restore Sardior, the Ruby Dragon.
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A horde of revenant;revenants led by a death knight has one goal—destroying the ancient sapphire dragon who defeated
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Lost Laboratory of Kwalish
prisoners (commoners) escaping from the monastery look to the characters for aid. They are pursued by monks (five cultists led by a cult fanatic). If the prisoners are aided, they can supply some
between passageways. Negotiating with it successfully allows access to a secret tunnel that cuts days off the characters’ journey. 5 Roving outlaws (five to ten thugs led by a bandit captain) heading to
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actually an old stone temple built in a rocky vale at the southern edge of the Sumber Hills. It was recently reborn as the Sacred Stone Monastery, home to reclusive monks dedicated to a mysterious “Way
functions as the guarded entrance to the Temple of the Black Earth beneath it. All of the monks are earth cultists who are well aware of the true nature of the monastery. Scarlet Moon Hall Deep in the wild
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polearm on another target. In addition, each group of five monks is led by an elder monk. These are cult fanatics that have outfitted their polearms with laser weapons secured from the monastery’s stores of
. Though the vast majority of those recruits have perished or been imprisoned at the hands of the Grand Master, twenty-five monks — all a motley assemblage of evil humanoids — currently occupy various areas
Kenku
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Volo's Guide to Monsters
the area patrolled by the guard did she explain that the noises indicated that the wingless folk had claimed that area, and that to trespass would be to court death.
— Gimble, Notes from a
groups called flocks. A flock is led by the oldest and most experienced kenku with the widest store of knowledge to draw on, often called Master.
Although kenku can’t create new things, they have
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already met Toadhop’s honorary mayor: a friendly sow named Jenna Bean. You’ve also seen the frightened, troubled looks on the faces of the simple, hard-working folk who inhabit this rustic thorp.
You
good folk of Toadhop would like it very much if you, being adventurers, could pay a visit to the old Dartwild cabin and find out why Toadhop’s most famous bard has returned from the dead. The sooner he
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within, there are thousands of inconsequential recipes, old songs, bits of history, journals of long-dead folk, and myriad other pieces of writing of no lasting importance save to the monks of this place
this green space to the keep’s main door. However, most folk who visit Candlekeep see this structure only from the courtyard east of it, where the facilities for arriving scholars lie. The only gate
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— the rapidly spreading civilizations of humans and their ilk. Kayalithica’s followers, who are predominantly neutral, believe that violence against small folk is justified, because their thane has
assured them that she is heeding the will of Skoraeus Stonebones. Kayalithica believes that the works of the small folk are a pox on the land. They desecrate the very stone upon which they are built. By
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Guildmasters' Guide to Ravnica
Boros Legion AARON MILLER A brown-bearded, broad-chested man clad in massive-shouldered plate armor led a battalion of soldiers, the symbol of the Boros Legion emblazoned on white cloth draped over
Boros armor floated in protective positions over its animate flame.
— Doug Beyer, Return to Ravnica: The Secretist
Clad in shining armor and fueled by righteous zeal, the soldiers of the Boros
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best.” Ideal. “Someone must always command. Why not the one with the most ambition?” Bond. “The common folk are sheep to be led, and I am the capable shepherd.” Flaw. “Why should I settle for less than everything?”
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metallic crystals, with scraggly gardens set between them and paths winding throughout. Five monks led by an elder can be found here, silently going about the business of gardening, observing prayers
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Settlements Humans are the most widespread folk of the North, but no unified human nation exists in the North — only individual cities, towns, villages, fiefdoms, farmsteads, fortresses, and outposts
enjoys and maintains its independence, all these communities are at risk of being overrun by the monstrous threats that live outside their walls. Fear of the wilderness and its many terrors led to the
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committing some infraction of elven law, or emissaries who come to Faerûn for a purpose that benefits elven culture or society. Halruaa. Located on the southern edges of the Shining South, and hemmed in by
mountains all around, the magocracy of Halruaa is a bizarre land to most in Faerûn who know about it. Many folk have heard of the strange skyships the Halruaans sail, and a few know of the tales that
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
Rock Gnomes When most folk on the Sword Coast and in the North talk about gnomes, they mean rock gnomes. Unlike their shy forest cousins, the inquisitive and irrepressible rock gnomes interact
occasional adventuresome rock gnome takes up residence in a human or dwarven city. Rock gnome communities are most common in the Western Heartlands and along the coast of the Shining Sea, but gnome