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Magic Items
Dungeon Master’s Guide
magic items, are lost to you. Portable property vanishes. Businesses, buildings, and land you own are lost in a way that alters reality the least. If you have a Bastion (see the Dungeon Master’s
your choice of History, Insight, Intimidation, or Persuasion. In addition, you gain rightful ownership of a small keep somewhere in the world. However, the keep is currently home to one or more monsters
Monsters
Mythic Odysseys of Theros
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Although many masters of waves resent land-dwellers and strike out at those who trespass upon their waters, most are devoted followers of the sea god. Those who share their faith or who bear earnest
ally, using it to defend their people or enact Thassa’s wishes. While dire threats from the land might bring them to coastal shallows, most masters of waves keep to the ocean’s depths
Monsters
Mythic Odysseys of Theros
legendary hydra Polukranos.
Territorial Terrors. During their early years, hydras feed their rapid growth by terrorizing the land. When they grow large enough, they look for a territory to claim as
their own. Often, they steal lairs from other monsters in prolonged, devastating battles.
Vicious Growth. Soon after a hydra claims a territory, it typically buries itself, entering a period of
Monsters
Mythic Odysseys of Theros
the land while carrying or seeking vital information for their masters.The first anvilwroughts were created by the god of the forge, Purphoros. He gave the secret of breathing life into these metal
sands of time or are guarded by ancient monsters.
Constructed Nature. An anvilwrought doesn't require air, food, drink, or sleep.
VARIANT: ANVILWROUGHT RAPTOR FAMILIAR
Some anvilwrought raptors are
Monsters
Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
the titan doesn’t heal.Daemogoth titans are towering monsters that blight the land around them. A daemogoth grows in power over the course of decades spent feeding on sorrow and draining life from
Monsters
Mythic Odysseys of Theros
gods, like the legendary hydra Polukranos.
Territorial Terrors. During their early years, hydras feed their rapid growth by terrorizing the land. When they grow large enough, they look for a
territory to claim as their own. Often, they steal lairs from other monsters in prolonged, devastating battles.
Vicious Growth. Soon after a hydra claims a territory, it typically buries itself, entering a
Monsters
Curse of Strahd
Richten’s tale is a sad one. A scholar and doctor from a land called Darkon, he married his childhood sweetheart, Ingrid, and together they had a son, Erasmus. When he was fourteen, Erasmus was
hunting evil monsters.
The Waiting Game. Van Richten isn’t a young man anymore. He knows his road is coming to an end, but his work isn't done. He has come to Barovia to kill Strahd von Zarovich
Backgrounds
Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide
of survival and living off the land. They are often proficient in Nature, and can seek assistance from woodsmen, hunters, rangers, barbarian tribes, druid circles, and priests who revere the gods of
agent. (For instance, consider the words “faith” and “faction” to be interchangeable.)
Your bond might be associated with other members of your faction, or a location or an
Halfling
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Basic Rules (2014)
marauding monsters and clashing armies; a blazing fire and a generous meal; fine drink and fine conversation. Though some halflings live out their days in remote agricultural communities, others form
land beyond their quiet shires. They typically don’t recognize any sort of halfling nobility or royalty, instead looking to family elders to guide them. Families preserve their traditional ways
Deck of Many Things
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-handedly defeat the next hostile monster or group of monsters you encounter, you gain experience points enough to gain one level. Otherwise, this card has no effect.
Donjon. You disappear and become
property vanishes. Businesses, buildings, and land you own are lost in a way that alters reality the least. Any documentation that proves you should own something lost to this card also disappears
Species
Eberron: Rising from the Last War
a soul?” Gerrion said.
“What makes you think you do?”
—Keith Baker, The Shattered Land
The warforged were built to fight in the Last War. While the first warforged were
warforged embrace a concrete purpose — such as protecting allies, completing a contract, or exploring a land — and embrace this task as they once did war. However, there are warforged who
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
no one can steer me away from my higher calling. (Any)
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Bond
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I have a family, but I have no idea where they are. One day, I hope to see them again.
2
I worked the land
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
the church’s coffers. Your faith might drive you to hunt evil monsters or stave off interplanar invasions, to protect and defend the powerless from oppression and exploitation, or to spread the
Religious Order Your group acts in the service of one of Khorvaire’s most prominent or obscure religious institutions. Perhaps you’re a team of devotees pursuing a cause for your faith, or maybe
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
vengeful souls and monsters. These include villains such as the necromancer Morgoroth; the fallen paladin Elena Faith-hold; and Ebonbane, Kateri Shadowborn’s accursed sword.
The Shadowlands Darklord: Ebonbane Hallmarks: Falls from grace, heroic sacrifice Within this forested land of peasants and heroes dwells an order of questing knights known as the Circle. These
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Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide
operate up and down the Sword Coast and throughout the North. Most are small-scale operations that employ a dozen to a hundred folk who offer security services, hunt monsters and brigands, or go to war in
sort looking for a fresh start and a new family among the bold Bloodaxes.
Skill Proficiencies: Athletics, PersuasionTool Proficiencies: One type of gaming set, vehicles (land
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Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus
their champion, and your destiny calls you to stand against the tyrants and monsters that threaten the common folk everywhere.
Skill Proficiencies: Animal Handling, Survival
Tool
Proficiencies: One type of artisan’s tools, vehicles (land)
Equipment: A set of artisan’s tools (one of your choice), a shovel, an iron pot, a set of common clothes, and a pouch containing 10 gp
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
beings might be accepted as part of society. Does the community in your folk horror domain live alongside deadly monsters? Does a regional faith consider an obvious abomination their god? Does a group
Folk Horror Monsters Eerie traditions and unnatural alliances with monsters fill folk horror tales. When something’s been normalized over generations, even the strangest practices and most dangerous
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron
Thrane Characters As you develop a Thrane character or NPC, consider the following. The Impact of Faith. Are you a follower of the Silver Flame? Faith doesn’t require divine magic, but if you want to
service with the templars. Church or Crown? Do you fully support the theocracy? Or would you like to see Queen Diani restored to the throne? There are many people of faith who believe that miring the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
Appendix D: Monsters and NPCs Barovia is a land of vampires, ghosts, and werewolves. In addition, adventurers who explore this unholy realm encounter other things that go bump in the night, including
creatures born out of Strahd’s evil. The new monsters that appear in this adventure are described below, along with several of the vampire’s allies and enemies—souls whose fates are entwined with
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
chance to explore a land untethered by the laws of the treaty nations, a realm where they are the outsiders and the monsters are at home. Adventurers might have to pursue a fugitive or a war criminal
into Droaam, or go there in search of unusual services or information found only in the land of monsters.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
mealtimes and at the birth of children, and folk give her thanks whenever they experience the pleasure of settling by a fire and feeling safe and loved. Chauntea’s faith is one of nurturing and growth
. Agricultural aphorisms and farming parables dot her teachings. Growing and reaping, the eternal cycle, is a common theme in the faith. Destruction for its own sake, or leveling without rebuilding
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
Folk Horror Torments A folk horror domain’s Darklord has been consumed by the traditions, land, or rituals they embody. They might not fully understand their own beliefs, though, causing them to fail
speaks prophecies.
3 The Darklord is haunted by the judgmental spirits of their predecessors.
4 The Darklord is the only one who adheres to an ancient faith and desperately works to convert
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything
group is a team of devotees pursuing a cause for your faith, or maybe you’re a bunch of cynics taking advantage of a wealthy congregation. Your collective faith could compel you to hunt evil monsters or
service of a religious institution. The patronage of a religious order isn’t simply a matter of each member of your party belonging to the same faith, though. The faith’s administration—with its own
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
. The most zealous of Viktal’s faithful are Mother’s Minders. These devotees sacrifice their left eyes to Mother to show their faith. Caves dot the land, connecting to deeper caverns where dangerous
, naturalistic faith of the god known as Mother. Supposedly, no one born there ever wants to leave. The frequent festivals in Viktal include a fertility celebration called the Tithe, which occurs once each season
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
Circle of the Land The Circle of the Land is made up of mystics and sages who safeguard ancient knowledge and rites through a vast oral tradition. These druids meet within sacred circles of trees or
standing stones to whisper primal secrets in Druidic. The circle’s wisest members preside as the chief priests of communities that hold to the Old Faith and serve as advisors to the rulers of those
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Quests from the Infinite Staircase
Adventure Summary “Pharaoh” begins with the characters wandering the Desert of Desolation. After enduring the desert’s terrible monsters and harsh conditions, they happen on the ghost of Amun Sa, who
beseeches them to enter his pyramid and retrieve his royal staff and star-gem to end the curse that blights both the land and his soul. Inside the pyramid, the characters meet the Tears of Athis, a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
emotion. Many warforged embrace a concrete purpose — such as protecting allies, completing a contract, or exploring a land — and embrace this task as they once did war. However, there are warforged who
delight in exploring their feelings, their freedom, and their relationships with others. Most warforged have no interest in religion, but some embrace faith and mysticism, seeking higher purpose and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
Legends of Shankhabhumi The ancestors of the people of Shankhabhumi migrated here from other lands about a thousand years ago. They arrived to find swamp forests infested with monsters and other
dangers—a land shaped by hundreds of riverines who were indifferent to the newcomers and their fates. Then the elven leader Kubjhatika killed a giant mollusk that attacked her people. After the battle
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron
The Mournland A wall of dead-grey mist surrounds the remnants of Cyre. Beyond the mists lies a land twisted by magic, a wound that will not heal. The land is blasted and strangely transformed. In
. The Mournland is a vast open grave. In the Mournland, the wounds of war never heal, vile magical effects linger, and monsters mutate into even more foul and horrible creatures. Arcane effects
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
Notorious Monsters Every monster tells a story. The more you treat monsters as unique individuals and foreshadow their threat, the larger they’ll loom in characters’ minds. Build dread by giving
monsters reputations that suggests their form, deeds, or peculiarities while letting players’ imaginations embellish details. For example, tales describe a horrifying skeletal figure that corrupts the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
Chapter 2: The Land of Chult When the adventurers mount their expedition into the heart of Chult, they have the option of striking out from any of several locations. Port Nyanzaru is the most
ropes of this unforgiving land. Characters can also strike out from Fort Beluarian or travel by ship to coastal landing sites such as Jahaka Bay, Kitcher’s Inlet, Refuge Bay, Shilku Bay, and Snapping
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
spellcasting possible. She provides and tends the Weave, the conduit through which mortal spellcasters and magical crafters can safely access the raw force of magic. The faith of Mystra is pervasive in
Faerûn, which is to be expected for a land as touched by magic as it is. Her worshipers include those who use magic or work closely with it, such as alchemists and sages. The blue-clad priests of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
includes clerics, paladins, and fighters who stand for law and order and generally oppose evil, and it is found in many different lands throughout the Flanaess. The Emerald Enclave The Old Faith The
druids of the Flanaess belong to a great order known as the Old Faith. Each region of the continent falls under the purview of a Great Druid, who in turn oversees a hierarchy of lower-ranking druids
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron
Ghaash’kala are orcs or half-orcs. They’re deeply devoted to their faith and might be paladins (Vengeance or Devotion), clerics (Life, Light, or War) or Zealot barbarians. Hermit and outlander are logical
, who poses a more immediate threat to Khorvaire? Either way, you are a stranger in a strange land: a savage used to a constant battle for survival in a world shaped by demons.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual
comfortable lies of reality, revealing forgotten or terrible truths. 3 Expand their faith though mind control or supernatural coercion. 4 Make global changes, like sinking the land or awakening