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Forgotten Realms: Heroes of Faerûn
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You’ve pledged your loyalty to a member-city of the Lords&rsquo
house, whether that means securing trade roads for a merchant-lord of Waterdeep or vanquishing monsters upriver of Daggerford. You’ve trained in the arts of swordplay and statecraft and are as deft with a blade as you are with a quill.
Monsters
Eberron: Rising from the Last War
places where such creatures are willing to live side by side.
Some beholderkin serve Belashyrra as guards and agents, while others spend their lives in deep meditation, pursuing inner visions known only
“I perceive certain types of people — vocations or entire societies — as hideous monsters.”
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“Someone is watching everything I do.”
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“When I
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
a bond of loyalty, gratitude, or love. You can delegate decisions about an NPC’s actions to one of the players, especially in combat, but you can override the player’s decisions to reflect the NPC’s
unless approached, and eagerly avoids the spotlight. Their primary purpose is to give monsters another target to attack. Even useful NPCs can slow down the game or overstay their welcome. Consider having
Backgrounds
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
can spend 2d10 minutes to convince 1d6 commoners to perform a non-illegal act that inconveniences a member of the Watch or Flaming Fist, a patriar, or some other wealthy looking individual.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
Wandering Monsters If the characters spend a long time in an area, you can check for wandering monsters by rolling a d20. On a roll of 17–20, an encounter takes place. Conversely, if the players seem
restless, you can decide that an encounter occurs. Roll a d12 and consult the Wandering Monsters table to determine what threat the party meets. Wandering Monsters d12 Monsters 1–3 2d4 stirges 4–5 1d4 ghouls 6 1d4 gricks 7–8 1d4 bugbears 9 1d6 skeletons 10 1d6 zombies 11–12 1 ochre jelly
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
Progressing Stages The plague’s progress begins at stage one, advances to stage four, and then either wanes back to stage one or ends when everyone in a community is dead. Each stage can last for
roll a 17 or higher, the stage increases by one. If the characters spend at least 1 hour during the day working to treat the sick, the stage decreases by one if you roll a 4 or lower. Let the plague’s
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Infernal Machine Rebuild
mummy rot antidote, and one vial of thessaltoxin antidote. See appendix C for all these items. Manipulating Time Having a mechanical guide spend 1 charge in this area advances the experiments underway
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Lost Mine of Phandelver
can become tedious, so use them sparingly. If the characters spend a long time in a given area, you can check for wandering monsters by rolling a d20. On a roll of 17–20, an encounter takes place
Wandering Monsters Monsters roam through all areas of the mine. Random encounters remind players that monsters aren’t necessarily confined to specific areas, and that no part of the dungeon is safe
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
Phenax’s Villains Servants of Phenax dot the world, largely staying hidden until they are needed to help spin the web of lies that advances his plots. His servants prefer to confront foes using guile
missing then turn up with no memory of their disappearance. Phenax cult fanatics are brainwashing these souls for use as sleeper agents.
Phenax’s Monsters Phenax is often associated with monsters
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Xanathar's Guide to Everything
present what seems like an incompetent combatant who proves frustrating to engage. The drunken master’s erratic stumbles conceal a carefully executed dance of blocks, parries, advances, attacks, and
Attack. When a creature misses you with a melee attack roll, you can spend 1 ki point as a reaction to cause that attack to hit one creature of your choice, other than the attacker, that you can see
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
Nine Dread Princes reside, with each of these dungeons stocked with enough monsters and hazards to advance the adventurers two or three levels. The adventurers spend their whole careers fighting the
organization, for example. Wherever their allegiance lies, the adventurers are motivated by loyalty and the goal of protecting whatever it is they serve. The characters’ overarching mission might be
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player’s Handbook
Hit Point Dice Hit Point Dice, or Hit Dice for short, help determine a player character’s Hit Point maximum, as explained in chapter 2. Most monsters also have Hit Dice. A creature can spend Hit Dice during a Short Rest to regain Hit Points. See also “Short Rest.”
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Xanathar's Guide to Everything
Sleep Just as in the real world, D&D characters spend many hours sleeping, most often as part of a long rest. Most monsters also need to sleep. While a creature sleeps, it is subjected to the unconscious condition. Here are a few rules that expand on that basic fact.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules
Hit Point Dice Hit Point Dice, or Hit Dice for short, help determine a player character’s Hit Point maximum, as explained in “Creating a Character”. Most monsters also have Hit Dice. A creature can spend Hit Dice during a Short Rest to regain Hit Points. See also “Short Rest.”
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Volo's Guide to Monsters
; their loyalty by turning them into slaves.
If a tribe is defeated and driven from its lair, the survivors might come under the sway of a strong but dimwitted creature, such as a hill giant or an ogre
battle skills.
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I always appear like I am about to kill everyone around me.
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I love a good brawl.
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I drink the blood of monsters to consume their power.
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I chant orcish war
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
kick in the dungeon door, fight the monsters, and grab the treasure. This style of play is straightforward, fun, exciting, and action-oriented. The players spend relatively little time developing
personas for their characters, roleplaying noncombat situations, or discussing anything other than the immediate dangers of the dungeon.
In such a game, the adventurers face clearly evil monsters and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
vertical surfaces. The monster doesn't need to spend extra movement to climb. Fly A monster that has a flying speed can use all or part of its movement to fly. Some monsters have the ability to hover, which
makes them hard to knock out of the air. Such a monster stops hovering when it dies. Swim A monster that has a swimming speed doesn't need to spend extra movement to swim.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
movement to fly. Some monsters have the ability to hover, which makes them hard to knock out of the air (as explained in the rules on flying in the Player’s Handbook). Such a monster stops hovering when it dies. Swim A monster that has a swimming speed doesn’t need to spend extra movement to swim.
speed can use all or part of its movement to move on vertical surfaces. The monster doesn’t need to spend extra movement to climb. Fly A monster that has a flying speed can use all or part of its
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Lost Mine of Phandelver
D&D settings are somewhere between those two extremes: worlds of medieval high fantasy with knights and castles, as well as elven cities, dwarven mines, and fearsome monsters. The world of the
magic, deadly monsters, and cruel local rulers are all perils that you face when you travel in the Forgotten Realms. Even farms and freeholds within a day’s walk of a city can fall prey to monsters, and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Xanathar's Guide to Everything
Ranger I spend a lot of my life away from civilization, keeping to its fringes to protect it. Don’t assume that because I don’t bend the knee to your king that I haven’t done more to protect him than
. Others are survivalists who eschew civilization altogether. They vanquish monsters to keep themselves safe while they live in and travel through the perilous wild areas of the world. If their efforts
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
Sacred Stone Monastery The third of the Haunted Keeps of the Sumber Hills, the Sacred Stone Monastery is where the lich Renwick Caradoon chose to make his home, discouraging other monsters from
settling nearby. The former keep has been reborn as the Sacred Stone Monastery, now home to a reclusive order of mysterious monks (actually earth cultists in disguise) who spend their days in meditation
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
their loyalty to Basidia. Loobamub redirects the spore servants and awakened zurkhwoods Phylo creates away from its circle’s territory. Loobamub is happy to enlist the party’s aid in dealing with a few
unwelcome monsters that have found their way into the fungal wilds. In particular, the circle leader asks the adventurers to kill a grick alpha and then take its carcass to Basidia for reanimation. A
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
, liches, night hags, and other vile monsters. It resembles a fiendish horse, and a nightmare’s fiery red eyes betray its malevolent intelligence. A nightmare can be summoned from the Lower Planes, but
unless a worthy sacrifice is offered to it as food upon its arrival, the nightmare displays no special loyalty to the creature it serves. Creating a Nightmare. Nightmares don’t appear naturally in the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
the sum of its parts. Building Encounters on a Budget You can build an encounter if you know its desired difficulty. The party’s XP thresholds give you an XP budget that you can spend on monsters to
2,400 4,900 7,300 10,900 20th 2,800 5,700 8,500 12,700 CHALLENGE RATING
When putting together an encounter or adventure, especially at lower levels, exercise caution when using monsters whose
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a7
Running the Adventure As clever players will gather from the information in the “Legend of the Tomb,” this dungeon has more tricks and traps than it has monsters to fight. This is a thinking person’s
of a lifetime. Negotiation of the tomb will require quite a long time, so be prepared to spend several sessions with this material. When the game ends for the day, assume the expedition is spending
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Turn of Fortune’s Wheel
adventure. As the DM, you decide what character options are available to your players. Consider allowing players to choose from the character options in Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse when
, each character has normal starting equipment plus 250 gp to spend on additional nonmagical gear. Each character also gains one uncommon magic item of the player’s choice, subject to your approval.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Xanathar's Guide to Everything
Rogue People forget that the entire point of venturing down into a dusty tomb is to bring back the prizes hidden away there. Fighting is for fools. Dead men can’t spend their fortunes.
— Barnabas
into and out of trouble in ways that few other characters can emulate. Some rogues who turn to adventuring are former criminals who have decided that dodging monsters is preferable to remaining one
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sage Advice Compendium
Elements feature lets the monk spend ki points, rather than a spell slot, to increase the level of a spell. This rule is true for player characters and monsters alike, which is why the innate spellcasters in the Monster Manual must cast an innate spell at its lowest possible level.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
monsters that are an appropriate challenge for higher-level characters can deal enough damage to instantly kill or incapacitate a low-level follower. The adventurers should expect to spend effort and resources protecting lower-level NPC party members and to provide healing when this protection fails.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
adventure. Humans tend to equate adventurers with people who battle monsters, explore dangerous ruins, delve into deep caverns, and generally stir up trouble, usually in pursuit of gold and glory. Elves
their eternal contentment. So they seek out experiences that will produce exciting, beautiful, or satisfying memories. A few battles against monsters certainly could qualify, but such activities aren’t
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
when exploring a dungeon, fighting monsters, or engaging in a tense negotiation. The character classes are described in the Classes section.
Your character receives a number of benefits from your
.
On your character sheet, record all the features that your class gives you at 1st level.
Level Typically, a character starts at 1st level and advances in level by adventuring and gaining
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tyranny of Dragons
have no special loyalty to the Cult of the Dragon. They reveal that they’ve been raiding communities around the Greenfields for loot, and they’ve heard rumors in the camp about dragon eggs. Cultists
the information to the governor doesn’t count. The characters also receive standard XP for any monsters they defeat along the way.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Hoard of the Dragon Queen
; they have no special loyalty to the Cult of the Dragon. They reveal that they’ve been raiding communities around the Greenfields for loot, and they’ve heard rumors in the camp about dragon eggs
bringing the information to the governor doesn’t count. The characters also receive standard XP for any monsters they defeat along the way.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
d8 Personality Trait 1 I don’t run from evil. Evil runs from me. 2 I like to read and memorize poetry. It keeps me calm and brings me fleeting moments of happiness. 3 I spend money freely and live
what the personal cost. (Good) 2 I’ll stop the spirits that haunt me or die trying. (Any) 3 I kill monsters to make the world a safer place, and to exorcise my own demons. (Good) 4 I have a dark
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
possibilities: Ambush. Monsters set up an ambush along a route they expect travelers to follow. Attack from Above. Flying monsters swoop down to attack the characters. Distant Sighting. The
characters and monsters spot each other from a distance in open terrain. Found by Chance. The characters happen upon monsters that are camping, eating, hunting, basking in the sun, walking along the same trail