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Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player’s Handbook
Origin Components Each part of your character’s origin reflects facets of your character, their life, and the circumstances that started them on the path to adventure. If you choose a background or a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules
Origin Components Each part of your character’s origin reflects facets of your character, their life, and the circumstances that started them on the path to adventure. If you choose a background or a
Backgrounds
Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus
Origins table for an event that started you down your heroic path..
d10
Origin
1
You helped get healing for a sick child. Now the sick come to you, knowing you’ll help them
: SOCIAL VENGEANCE
You’ve lived your entire life in the Lower or Outer City of Baldur’s Gate. You grew up seeing arrogant patriars flaunt their wealth while your hardworking neighbors
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Spelljammer Academy
a DC 13 Intelligence (Investigation) check. If the check is a failure, the character knows only that the fire started near Petty Officer Ryeback’s portable cooking surface. If the check succeeds, the
enough to cause such a conflagration, nor could it summon the magma mephits. Magical Origin. The fire was likely started by a magic spell—perhaps a spell cast on or near Petty Officer Ryeback’s portable
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragon of Icespire Peak
that they come to collect her. Before envoys could be sent, Vyldara killed two guards trying to escape, only to be cut down by dwarven axes before she could succeed. When the elf’s evil spirit started
now prowl Axeholm, while the banshee continues to haunt the fortress’s upper halls. The banshee senses the arrival of adventurers with its Detect Life trait. In its twisted spectral mind, they are invaders who must be destroyed for their trespass.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
callused from years of work. Lukas lived in Vermeillon and worked there as a miner. His young wife, Lorna, died in the disaster. He left after her death but before the disappearances started. If the
it to him. Lukas can give them a rough map of the village, though he notes a lot can change in seventy years. Personality Trait. “Every since me wife died, my life has been a dreary march toward death
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
Arms, Armor, and Combat Individuals accustomed to the rough-and-tumble life in much of the North are often surprised by the fact that Waterdavians go about unarmed and unarmored. Yet Waterdeep
involving assault. Individuals caught brawling by the Watch will all be arrested and judged regardless of who started the fracas, or why. (The tavern brawls that typically break out under the influence
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
was fun for a while, but the zombie started to smell real bad, so we doused it in oil and set it on fire. Beek would’ve found that hilarious.”
— Fonkin Hoddypeak, on friendship
Hideous Forms
. Zombies appear as they did in life, showing the wounds that killed them. However, the magic that creates these vile creatures often takes time to run its course. Dead warriors might rise from a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
, this corrupted avatar of Lurue is instead a nightmare come to life. While tainted by the influence of Malar, the avatar of Lurue carries out the Beast Lord’s will: to slaughter anything that dares
to cross its path. When the corrupted unicorn comes into being, it does so within reach of at least one of the cult members. If a fight has not already started, roll initiative. On each of the avatar’s
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
barrelstalk mushrooms into mead. The only thing Jibber-Jabber is missing in its simple life is treasure to ogle. If the characters offer it 50 gp or more in coins, gems, and shiny art objects, the
aboleth and knows nothing about its conflict with the kuo-toa.) The water in the river has started to taste bad. (The ettin has not yet been poisoned by the water, which the aboleth has tainted with its
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur’s Gate Gazetteer
imagination can turn on such champions almost as quickly as it anoints them. Baldur’s Gate Feature: Social Vengeance You’ve lived your entire life in the Lower or Outer City of Baldur’s Gate. You grew up
. If you wish, you may roll on the Folk Hero Origins table for an event that started you down your heroic path. Folk Hero Origins d6 Origin 1 You helped get healing for a sick child. Now the sick
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
live a life of adventure and have many stories to tell. 4 Protective. You make sure to shelter the innocent. 5 Honest. Your mother told you to always tell the truth. 6 Excitement. Can you steal the
your own path through life. No one can tell you what to do. 4 You have a special heirloom that you never part with. 5 You won’t rob or hurt those who are weaker or less fortunate than you. 6 No matter
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
imagination can turn on such champions almost as quickly as it anoints them. Baldur’s Gate Feature: Social Vengeance You’ve lived your entire life in the Lower or Outer City of Baldur’s Gate. You grew up
. If you wish, you may roll on the Folk Hero Origins table for an event that started you down your heroic path. Folk Hero Origins d6 Origin
1 You helped get healing for a sick child. Now the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
Claw refused to surrender. The order fragmented as its original members scattered, but a number of those rebellious knights started their own cells, rallying all who wanted to see Karrnath achieve
will grant them personal power. They believe that she is poised to become a god of death, and that when she ascends to divinity, they will be granted immortality or at least the eternal life of undeath.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur’s Gate Gazetteer
indiscriminate violence, doing little to make citizens feel safer. As a result, in recent years many citizens have started banding together in crews. These counter-gangs align along professional or
your step in the shadows. Watch your back in the light. Win a prize beyond your wildest dreams or disappear into forgotten history. Every day your life is on the line. Every day you could become a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
indiscriminate violence, doing little to make citizens feel safer. As a result, in recent years many citizens have started banding together in crews. These counter-gangs align along professional or
shadows. Watch your back in the light. Win a prize beyond your wildest dreams or disappear into forgotten history. Every day your life is on the line. Every day you could become a legend. Welcome to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
suffusing the inn started. When the characters enter, the Dran & Courtier appears normal at first. But opening any of its interior doors causes the entire site to transform under the watchful eye of
, the characters discover the members of the “C” Team fallen in combat and must fight the horrid Far Realm creature that slew them. Doing so brings those NPC heroes back to life. Once the Keymaster has
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
for its sauna, until the dragon turtle supplying the steam escaped and started rampaging through the palace.
6 A millennium ago, a fabled sword was buried at sea with its wielder. Now the sword
the deep.
5 An adult dragon turtle serves as a mount for the storm giant who saved the dragon turtle’s life.
6 An adult dragon turtle hunts an aquatic purple worm that has been hollowing
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Turn of Fortune’s Wheel
passengers, full of encouragement, lifestyle advice, and enthusiasm for varied athletic pursuits. CoupleOfKooks “What’s my secret? Well, I died, but then I started working out and seeing serious gains
realm of the lizardfolk deity, Semuanya Contests in Semuanya’s Bog Life is good but not easy in Semuanya’s Bog. The spirits of lizardfolk champions engage in endless competition here. If the characters
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
rubble, while others are eerily preserved, devoid of life but otherwise unharmed. In some of them, treasures left behind by the former inhabitants await discovery, and many people across Khorvaire are
the Mourning started here also expect that Making is where the mystery of its origin will be unraveled. A secret Cannith facility is supposed to lie in the city’s subterranean depths. Metrol This city
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
black dragon recently took control of a band of pirates and their backwater hideout. Emboldened, the pirates have started raiding nearby shipping lanes.
2 A conflict-averse black dragon is secretly
has hidden a cache of gems in a dismal topiary maze filled with shambling mounds, traps, and noxious plant life, all for the amusement of testing adventurers.
6 An adult black dragon has bound
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
. Although Kro’ah has no regard for the life of campestris and finds them quite delicious, he won’t pick a fight with a group of well-armed adventurers. If the characters leave him alone, he gives them some
invisible when the characters first arrive. The pixies share their twig houses with three families of squirrels. Less than an hour ago, three redcaps emerged from the woods and started throwing rocks
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragons of Stormwreck Isle
Premade Characters To get started, have each player choose one character to play. Dwarf Cleric Shawn Wood You trained as a soldier on the island of Mintarn and joined a mercenary company. You
Whitters Your parents identified your magical talent early in your long elven life and arranged for you to be apprenticed to a kindly wizard in the city of Neverwinter. You excelled at your studies
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
everything started. An imperious drow archwizard in spider-silk robes casts a mighty conjuration spell. As the ritual draws toward its conclusion, a web of faerzress energy expands outward. The wizard seems
Neverlight Grove. A cavern of peculiar beauty opens up before you, with lights of every color shining from the pure essence of life, diffused and amplified by the glow of faerzress. The glow pulses, and you
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Xanathar's Guide to Everything
live a life of discipline. Paladin d6 I became a paladin because … 1 A fantastical being appeared before me and called on me to undertake a holy quest. 2 One of my ancestors left a holy quest
I want through sneakiness rather than direct confrontation. 6 I’m a sucker for a shiny bauble or a sack of coins, as long as I can get my hands on it without risking life and limb. Sorcerer d6 I
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragon Delves
the card, he entered this suite and started looting it. He keeps his treasure inside the makeshift abode and defends it with his life. He is otherwise Friendly toward other creatures. Characters who
treasure in the room with the planar gate (area S12). Very recently, treasure started disappearing from the dragon’s hoard. After failing to locate the thief, Ylagan accused the modrons of stealing his
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
against her. Seeing other wizards as a threat, paranoia rules her life. Avarice has been a member of the Arcane Brotherhood for almost two years. She fantasizes about rising to fame and prominence in
making a few too many enemies. Dzaan’s Demise. Dzaan’s trouble started after he broke away from his fellow wizards and hired adventurers to scour Icewind Dale for Netherese ruins. One group of them
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
lie piled on the floor in one corner, as if someone had started to gather them. Kitchen utensils are scattered about the floor, most of them bent and misshapen. Open bags of spices rest on shelves
into a dry husk. Stealing the life force of the boy enables her to cast antilife shell immediately and without visibly doing so. She continues to concentrate on the spell as she resumes her grisly work
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
courses in each ward, and the winners from each ward compete at the Field of Triumph. If you really want to see the wards come to life, this is the time. Pick your favorite, wear its colors, and cheer
started in Baldur’s Gate of lighting celebratory smokepowder fireworks — all purchased from Felogyr’s Fireworks of that city, and utilized only by the City Guard, of course. This nightlong festival
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
: Storeroom Shelves and racks in this storeroom hold iron bars of various lengths.
The heavy bars were raw materials for the duergar workshop, left here once the duergar started relying on mithral
easy to fold for transport when empty. The duergar ran a moderately successful business selling these macabre cages, but their business reached new heights when they started incorporating lightweight
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
unkind words to Stella that she went mad, and Fiona had to lock her daughter away (see area N4n). Lady Wachter’s latest scheme to gain control of Vallaki is far more diabolical. She has started a cult
ghastly sight awaits those who peer into the room: Across from the door, a fire sputters and struggles for life in the hearth, above which hangs a framed family portrait: a noble father and mother
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur’s Gate Gazetteer
patriars, and started Baldur’s Mouth as a way to empower the city’s poor via what he saw as the greatest weapon of social change: information. In the beginning, he simply paid local lantern bearers
or with a lot of friends — preferably both. The place takes its name from the life-sized wooden mermaid hanging above the incongruous reception desk, a dozen blackened and withered hands nailed to its
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
patriars, and started Baldur’s Mouth as a way to empower the city’s poor via what he saw as the greatest weapon of social change: information. In the beginning, he simply paid local lantern bearers
or with a lot of friends — preferably both. The place takes its name from the life-sized wooden mermaid hanging above the incongruous reception desk, a dozen blackened and withered hands nailed to its
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
stone archway leading to a dark tunnel. To the left of the statue is a crude animal pen with a small, panicked bird running around inside it. There are no other signs of life.
When the Order of the
all the canvas is at the point of disintegration from mildew and jungle rot. 3. Burned-Out Shrine During the battle, overturned lamps started fires in the templars’ partially built shrine, setting
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
Small creatures to squeeze through. The north turret contains a traumatized male human guard named Trevick Thantorme. The other guards here ran downstairs when the attack started, only to quickly fall
Companion appeared in the sky, a young red dragon made life miserable for the residents of Elturel. It ate livestock, burned crops, and demanded tribute. Then one day, a scruffy-looking, unarmored