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Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
an undertaking would require building a new fort from scratch somewhere on the southwestern coast, and Liara has neither the hands nor the funds for that. She might try to enlist the player
characters into making a voyage to scout possible locations for such a fort, if only so she can reassure her impatient superiors in Baldur’s Gate that progress is being made. Although devoid of human life, the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player’s Handbook
offers examples to help a DM assign a type to a new effect. Damage Types Type Examples Acid Corrosive liquids, digestive enzymes Bludgeoning Blunt objects, constriction, falling Cold Freezing
water, icy blasts Fire Flames, unbearable heat Force Pure magical energy Lightning Electricity Necrotic Life-draining energy Piercing Fangs, puncturing objects Poison Toxic gas, venom Psychic Mind
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules
offers examples to help a DM assign a type to a new effect. Damage Types Type Examples Acid Corrosive liquids, digestive enzymes Bludgeoning Blunt objects, constriction, falling Cold Freezing
water, icy blasts Fire Flames, unbearable heat Force Pure magical energy Lightning Electricity Necrotic Life-draining energy Piercing Fangs, puncturing objects Poison Toxic gas, venom Psychic Mind
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)
. Roll four 6-sided dice and record the total of the highest three dice on a piece of scratch paper. Do this five more times, so that you have six numbers. If you want to save time or don’t like the
abilities to assign scores to Strength, Dexterity, Constitution, Intelligence, Wisdom, and Charisma. Afterward, make any changes to your ability scores as a result of your race choice. After assigning your
Species
Acquisitions Incorporated
the head with a single ring to keep them from flapping about.
Changes in gender are also a known and accepted part of verdan life. These fluid aspects of form and identity are seen as blessings
different ways. The verdan assign no cultural or biological relevance to any particular coloration, physical features, or gender.
Cultural Chameleons
The clan homes of the Underdark goblinoids who
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)
or she might have been a soldier or a pirate and done dangerous things before. Starting off at 1st level marks your character’s entry into the adventuring life. If you’re already familiar with the
description in chapter 3 includes a section offering suggestions to quickly build a character of that class, including how to assign your highest ability scores, a background suitable to the class, and starting spells.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
the activity of life as noisy, crude, and maddening. It rakes at his senses like the claws of a rat scratch across a hard floor. In his view, the universe can know peace only when life’s incessant hum
Orcus The bloated Demon Prince of the Undead seeks to end all life in the cosmos, replacing the living with immortal, undead creatures that answer only to him. In this grim future, the many suns of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron
also have access to a vast array of exotic woods and materials. You can also create a wand, but you’re starting from scratch and creating the tools you need. Essentially, when House Cannith creates magic
woods or metals, exotic herbs or other substances. While exotic, these things can be purchased or obtained in any major city. But creating a magic item from scratch often requires rarer components
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
about. Changes in gender are also a known and accepted part of verdan life. These fluid aspects of form and identity are seen as blessings, allowing an individual to experience more of the world and grow
in empathy and understanding. There is no pattern to any verdan’s mutations, as verdan from the same family can shift in drastically different ways. The verdan assign no cultural or biological relevance to any particular coloration, physical features, or gender.
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Volo's Guide to Monsters
adventurers are usually the survivors of a flock that has sustained heavy losses, or a rare kenku who has grown weary of a life of crime. These kenku are more ambitious and daring than their fellows
common animals. Non-kenku use names that refer to the sound made or the animal a kenku mimics, such as Rat Scratch, Whistler, Mouser, and Growler.
Some kenku turn their back on crime to pursue
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
the affairs of the universe. People gather in public shrines to worship gods of life and wisdom, or meet in hidden places to venerate gods of deception or destruction. Each deity in a pantheon has a
gods the locals revere. To quickly build a pantheon for your world, create a single god for each of the eight domains available to clerics: Death, Knowledge, Life, Light, Nature, Tempest, Trickery
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
fundamental ways, controlling magic, the nature of life and death, and the means of escaping from their nightmare realms. Mysterious Magic In some domains, magic is an everyday part of life, while in
magic-using characters as figures of awe or terror, or to assign storied origins to common magic items. Corrupted Magic. The Dark Powers influence magical effects, imparting them with sinister qualities
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
six ability scores randomly. Roll four 6-sided dice and record the total of the highest three dice on a piece of scratch paper. Do this five more times, so that you have six numbers. If you want to
your character’s six abilities to assign scores to Strength, Dexterity, Constitution, Intelligence, Wisdom, and Charisma. Afterward, make any changes to your ability scores as a result of your race
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
languages it knew in life * See the Player’s Handbook for descriptions of this race’s features, none of which alter the NPC’s challenge rating. Creating NPCs from Scratch If you need completely new
and exhaustion; can’t be poisoned; darkvision 60 ft.; can’t speak but understands the languages it knew in life Tiefling* +1 Int, +2 Cha Infernal Legacy (use challenge rating instead of level to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
streaming show Critical Role. Forgotten Realms Larger-than-life heroes and villains struggle to determine the fate of the world as they explore the ruins and dungeons of fallen kingdoms and long
material about the campaign setting, other than what you create for yourself. Whether you create a setting from scratch or borrow elements from established settings, the result needs to resonate with
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
marks your character’s entry into the adventuring life. If you’re already familiar with the game, or if you are joining an existing D&D campaign, your DM might decide to have you begin at a higher
character of that class, including how to assign your highest ability scores, a background suitable to the class, and starting spells.
Hit Points and Hit Dice Your character’s hit points define how tough
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Xanathar's Guide to Everything
provides help once, not help for life. The contact remains friendly, which can influence roleplaying and how the characters interact with them, but doesn’t come with a guarantee of help. You can assign
players concrete options. It brings the campaign to life and seeds the area with NPCs that the characters care about. On the other hand, it can prove difficult to track and might render a contact useless
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Spelljammer Academy
signals her imminent arrival.
Quote: “Listen to what I tell you; it might just save your life.”
Assigning Roles Saerthe explains that each team of cadets must assign crew roles to its members. This
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Xanathar's Guide to Everything
, you can assign the same personality traits to an entire group of monsters. For example, one bandit gang might be an unruly mob of braggarts, while the members of another gang are always on edge and
a frenzy. On the other hand, a monster might decide to flee if its spouse is killed, or a mistreated toady might be eager to surrender and betray its master in return for its life. d6 Relationship
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
’ entries in the Monster Manual, or you can use the Monster Personality table to inform how you portray the monsters and their actions. It’s simplest to assign the same personality traits to an entire group
if its hunting companion is killed, or a mistreated toady might be eager to surrender and betray its boss in return for its life. You can use the Monster Relationships table to inspire such
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
cold sepulcher! Where were you centuries years ago when he was in the prime of life? Where were you when the frigid darkness consumed him? You are no good to Drakareth now! Nothing remains of him but
value, as Tekeli-li has no interest in treasure. H21. Frozen Frost Giant Entombed in the icy floor of this twenty-foot-high cave is the frozen, well-preserved corpse of a frost giant. Scratch marks in the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Domains of Delight: A Feywild Accessory
laced with bawdy insults and lewd gestures. Only on rare occasions do things get physical, and even then, the Fey do little more than bite, scratch, and hurl mud at each other. Every now and then, the
Steed. The steed looks like a giant, fuzzy caterpillar. Revivify. A creature restored to life by this spell wakes up wondering if their entire life was all just a dream. Weather Strolling across a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
Trielta Hills In the rolling terrain of the Trielta Hills, scattered with small settlements of gnomes and halflings, life seems pastoral and idyllic. Halfling farmers tend to their plots, and gnome
dwarf acquaintance of mine once referred to as “scratch mines” — close-to-the-surface operations, with decent yield for a small amount of digging, but not worth the construction of “proper” (by which he
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
a life of piracy, following in the enormous footsteps of Huzza, a hill giant in the world of the Forgotten Realms. The Boss Assignments table suggests the kinds of missions a giant boss might send
my life. My advice is to heed those whose minds are as expansive as their deeds.
—Bigby
A giant who serves as a tutor to adventurers is often an exile from giant society, dwelling by necessity or
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Guildmasters' Guide to Ravnica
that you maintain your association with it throughout your life. As a result, your choice of guild can play a more significant role than most backgrounds do in shaping what your character does now
met during your adventures or someone who seeks you out because of your fame. Your DM will assign you a contact or have you roll on the Contacts table for the appropriate guild. Some guilds — notably
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
with gemstones (see “Treasure”). “Guarding” the throne on either side are two life-size statues of cloud giants — one male, one female — standing at attention, wearing tall helmets with feather
. 7. Griffon Aviary Haphazardly arranged about this untidy room are five tall wooden cages. Five griffons are kept here, one locked in each cage. The griffons peck and scratch at their cages, and the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
. Assign Hit Dice. Alternatively, you can assign a number of Hit Dice to a monster, then calculate its average hit points. Don’t worry if the hit points aren’t matching up with the expected challenge
the Player’s Handbook for descriptions of the various damage types). Assign a vulnerability, resistance, or immunity to a monster only when it’s intuitive. For example, it makes sense for a monster made
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Adventure Atlas: The Mortuary
this effect reduces its hit point maximum to 0. A Humanoid that dies in the reservoir rises from its corpse as a hostile specter 1d4 hours later unless the Humanoid is restored to life or its body is
the direction, roll a d6 and assign a direction to each die face. Each creature in the line must make on a DC 18 Dexterity saving throw, taking 35 (10d6) necrotic damage on a failed save, or half as
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Netheril’s Fall: Tales of Terror, Treasure, and Time Travel
well to seek her out. Entertainment. For adventurers seeking the fine life, the court offers the most elevated performances, the most elegant dances, and stunningly romantic gardens. Place to Stay
investigating the Free Warriors, or who wish to join its cause, can seek out Liberax Volt. If they prove their trustworthiness, the rebellion leader reveals himself. He might assign the characters tasks
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Scions of Elemental Evil
: “Welcome to the Primordial Alliance. Your Para-elemental Queen, Ulsedra Vox, awaits your service in the coming calamity. First, I must assign you to your order. To which element do you pledge: ash, ice
Cinderhide’s utterance portends another attempt on Queen Yolande’s life. If the characters warn the queen when they return to her palace, Queen Yolande gives them each an extra 500 GP gem from her
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
as they try in vain to cross through.
Creatures. Two hell hounds are presently held within magical wards in this area. Hoobur summoned these fiends but has yet to assign them a task, so he keeps them
slaughtered everyone. Since then, Rainbow has remained in this area. The spider can feel that its master is not dead, but is also not truly alive. Rainbow believes Wizzy persists in some sort of half-life at
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Keys from the Golden Vault
fragments sits on Edino’s desk. The other three fragments are in a desk drawer. Any character who examines a fragment and succeeds on a DC 15 Intelligence (Arcana) check senses there’s a life force trapped
at various stages of his life. A hallway leads east, and in the center of the room, stairs descend to the lower level.
The murals in this room depict Xeluan’s legend (see the “Adventure Background
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
Either on their way to Neverwinter or while in the city, the characters might want to dig around a bit to find out more about what exactly they’re getting into. They might also assign a franchise task to
skilled laborers. It’s a perfect meeting place for citizens engaged in activities they wish to keep out of the public eye. The low-life element normally eschews the place, except in cases where they
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
.” The top shelf holds a stuffed cat that shambles to life when the cabinet is opened. The cat formerly belonged to Bavlorna’s sister, Endelyn. (She suspects Bavlorna stole the cat, but she has no proof
mirror’s command word (“bandersnatch”), but they can’t remember or pronounce the word accurately. Instead, they say phrases such as, “blunder scratch,” “bangle stash,” “banter catch,” “bandy crasher