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Returning 5 results for 'motivations study'.
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Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide
your cloister, a writing kit (small pouch with a quill, ink, folded parchment, and a small penknife), a borrowed book on the subject of your current study, and a pouch containing 10 gp
FEATURE
professional courtesy shown to a fellow scholar.
Suggested Characteristics
Use the tables for the sage background below as the basis for your traits and motivations, modifying the entries when
Bard
Legacy
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Basic Rules (2014)
from Experience True bards are not common in the world. Not every minstrel singing in a tavern or jester cavorting in a royal court is a bard. Discovering the magic hidden in music requires hard study
. Creating a Bard Bards thrive on stories, whether those stories are true or not. Your character’s background and motivations are not as important as the stories that he or she tells about them
Sorcerer
Legacy
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otherworldly influence, or exposure to unknown cosmic forces. One can’t study sorcery as one learns a language, any more than one can learn to live a legendary life. No one chooses sorcery; the power
motivations driving them to adventure. Some seek a greater understanding of the magical force that infuses them, or the answer to the mystery of its origin. Others hope to find a way to get rid of it, or to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Quests from the Infinite Staircase
dangerously exhausted and avoids combat. Shalfey’s Motivations. If pressed about why he covets the star, Shalfey tells most of the truth but doesn’t expose the sages’ reliance on the Books of Prophecy. He
explains that “through arduous study of ancient and esoteric tomes,” he learned of svirfneblin smiths to the west who would exchange a “wondrous library” for a black rock from the heavens. He claims
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Quests from the Infinite Staircase
dangerously exhausted and avoids combat. Shalfey’s Motivations. If pressed about why he covets the star, Shalfey tells most of the truth but doesn’t expose the sages’ reliance on the Books of Prophecy. He
explains that “through arduous study of ancient and esoteric tomes,” he learned of svirfneblin smiths to the west who would exchange a “wondrous library” for a black rock from the heavens. He claims






