muster such with only are feelings for like

Cradle of the Storm Scion

Monsters Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants

from harm it might cause. If the scion is threatened, it unleashes elemental might like few other forces in the multiverse can muster: blades of lightning, boulder-sized hailstones, and a storm of

Vladimir Horngaard

Monsters Curse of Strahd

. Vladimir wields a weapon, +2; +2 greatsword with a hilt sculpted to resemble silver dragon wings and a pommel shaped like a silver dragon's head clutching a black opal between its teeth Turn Immunity

feelings fueled the spirits of many of his fellow knights—including Godfrey—to come back as revenants as well. Vladimir continued to wage the hopeless war, even as Strahd tightened his grip on the valley

Scion of Stronmaus

Monsters Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants

elemental might like few other forces in the multiverse can muster: blades of lightning, boulder-sized hailstones, and a storm of churning elements. Regional Effects The region surrounding a scion

Half-Orc Legacy

Species Basic Rules (2014)

, ambition, and self-discipline to go far indeed, as Mhurren had. He was master of a tribe that could muster two thousand spears, and the strongest chief in Thar. — Richard Baker, Swordmage Whether

stings like acid, and sadness saps their strength. But they laugh loudly and heartily, and simple pleasures — feasting, drinking, wrestling, drumming, and wild dancing — fill their hearts

Gladiator Legacy

Backgrounds Player’s Handbook (2014)

Greed. I’m only in it for the money and fame. (Evil) 5 People. I like seeing the smiles on people’s faces when I perform. That’s all that matters. (Neutral) 6 Honesty

. 4 I once satirized a noble who still wants my head. It was a mistake that I will likely repeat. 5 I have trouble keeping my true feelings hidden. My sharp tongue lands me in trouble. 6 Despite my best efforts, I am unreliable to my friends.

Entertainer Legacy

Backgrounds Player’s Handbook (2014)

who we are. (Lawful) 3 Creativity. The world is in need of new ideas and bold action. (Chaotic) 4 Greed. I’m only in it for the money and fame. (Evil) 5 People. I like seeing the

likely repeat. 5 I have trouble keeping my true feelings hidden. My sharp tongue lands me in trouble. 6 Despite my best efforts, I am unreliable to my friends.

Entertainer - Baldur's Gate

Backgrounds Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus

’ve learned that most of the real business of entertainment (or any other venture) happens behind the scenes. It’s easy for you to case what sorts of audiences attend what venue — like

. (Chaotic) 4 Greed. I’m only in it for the money and fame. (Evil) 5 People. I like seeing the smiles on people’s faces when I perform. That’s all that matters. (Neutral) 6

Dimir Operative

Backgrounds Guildmasters’ Guide to Ravnica

guild. 5 I was a member of this guild before the Dimir recruited me. 6 I don’t like what this guild stands for and want to destroy it from within. 7 I secretly wish I could

Traits d8 Personality Trait 1 I’m good at hiding my true thoughts and feelings. 2 When I’m in doubt about revealing something, I assume it’s a secret, and I

Lizardfolk Legacy

Species Volo's Guide to Monsters

other humanoids. Like most reptiles, their feelings largely revolve around fear, aggression, and pleasure. Lizardfolk experience most feelings as detached descriptions of creatures and situations

lizardfolk doesn’t share those feelings, but instead assesses them in the same clinical manner. Yes, the fallen dwarf might be most useful as a meal, but hacking the body into steaks provokes aggression

Warforged

Species Eberron: Rising from the Last War

-hearted killer, or a visionary in search of meaning. Living Steel and Stone Warforged are formed from a blend of organic and inorganic materials. Root-like cords infused with alchemical fluids serve as

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

Alien Minds

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters

. Like most reptiles, their feelings largely revolve around fear, aggression, and pleasure. Lizardfolk experience most feelings as detached descriptions of creatures and situations. For example, humans

Dougan's Hole in a Nutshell

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden

years, speaks for the townsfolk. She seldom attends meetings of the Council of Speakers. Militia. Dougan’s Hole can muster up to 12 soldiers (use the tribal warrior stat block) and 1 veteran. Heraldry

. A gray, pillar-like monolith set against a sky-blue field above two crossed silver fish, their scaly bodies forming an X, with their heads at upper left and upper right. The monolith signifies local

Describing Monsters

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft

: Emphasize Wrongness. Focus on the features that make the creature alien, inhuman, and out of place. The Whistling Fiend looks like a humanoid skeleton dripping its own gelatinous musculature. Its skull

descriptions. Sometimes it’s a contrast between mundane and terrifying details that stands out, like a monster’s soulful eyes or pearly teeth set amid vicious features. Make it Personal. There’s a fine line

Giff

Species Spelljammer: Adventures in Space

Giff are tall, broad-shouldered folk with hippo-like features. Some have smooth skin, while others have short bristles on their faces and the tops of their heads. As beings of impressive size and

blossom into hard feelings, loud arguments, and head-butting contests, but they rarely escalate beyond that. Creating Your Character When you create your D&D character, you decide whether your

Selesnya Initiate

Backgrounds Guildmasters’ Guide to Ravnica

voices and actions aligned in common purpose. (Good) 3 Order. Like a well-pruned tree, society thrives when everything is kept in good order. (Lawful) 4 Life. Preserving life and

indebted to that guild. 8 At a time of terrible grief in my life, a Rakdos performer made a mockery of my pain, leaving me with mixed feelings of sadness and humor. 9 Roll an additional

Izzet Engineer

Backgrounds Guildmasters’ Guide to Ravnica

pursuits, and others just like explosions. Personality Traits d8 Personality Trait 1 I have a hard time staying focused on … oh, and my brain tends to jump from one &hellip

Life’s an experiment, and I can’t wait to see what happens. 6 I pepper my speech with the incomprehensible jargon of my trade, like mizzium droplets inserted into a weird-field

Bytopia

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide

Bytopia The surfaces of Bytopia’s two layers face each other like the covers of a closed book. Looking up from Dothion, the “top” layer of the plane, a traveler can see Shurrock, its other layer

Adventures Bytopia is the heaven of productive work, the satisfaction of a job well done. The goodness flowing through the plane creates feelings of goodwill and happiness in creatures dwelling there

Town Gates

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd

known as the Morning Gate, or, as some locals like to call it, the Mourning Gate. Heavy iron chains with iron padlocks keep the gates shut at night. During the day, the gates are closed but not typically

walls). The town can also muster a militia of fifty able-bodied human commoners armed with clubs, daggers, and torches.

2. Hall of War

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation

, and to the south is a wide, pillared hall. Yuan-ti troops muster in this hall before heading into the city. Unless they have been drawn elsewhere, a yuan-ti pureblood named Soakosh (pronounced SOH

the basilisks from their hooks and lead them into battle like war hounds. If the alarm has not been raised but combat ensues here, one broodguard runs to sound the gong in area 9. If the triceratops is

Yuan-ti Pureblood Legacy

Species Volo's Guide to Monsters

cannibalizing their victims, and then performed a sorcerous ritual while writhing in pools filled with living snakes that enabled them to mix their flesh with that of serpents, becoming like the gods in

agents infiltrate enemy governments to discover weaknesses that their leaders can exploit. The yuan-ti look forward to the day when their empire rises again and spreads across the world like venom through

Arvandor

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes

latent memories of a previous life spent on Arvandor. Because of the deep feelings associated with those memories, they are often among the first previous-life recollections to resurface at the

beginning of an elf’s Remembrance. Recalling such an existence can stir up a great longing to visit the place once again. Like most Outer Planes, Arvandor can be perilous for outsiders, including mortal elves

Passion vs. Restraint

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes

conflict taking place inside an elf’s mind. Elves keep their passion internalized because they learn at a young age that such feelings can become destructive when they are allowed to take control. Elves

for the sake of a common cause. They won’t like it — they might even hate themselves for a time afterward — but they’ll do what must be done according to the circumstances of the situation. Some elves

Giff

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Spelljammer: Adventures in Space->Astral Adventurer’s Guide

Giff Giff are tall, broad-shouldered folk with hippo-like features. Some have smooth skin, while others have short bristles on their faces and the tops of their heads. As beings of impressive size

blossom into hard feelings, loud arguments, and head-butting contests, but they rarely escalate beyond that.

Fungus Humongous

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Hoard of the Dragon Queen

throw. Failure means the character is overcome with feelings of grief and remorse, seemingly triggered by hearing thousands of tiny cries of pain and death groans but which is in fact the result of

toxin is completely out of their system. You can impose even more lingering results if you like, such as a lifelong aversion to eating mushrooms of any kind. People can clear a path through the

Nyxborn

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros

make mortal existence worthwhile? A Nyxborn is like a fragment of divinity, an idea or a dream that is incarnate. You embody an idea—like the way leaves turn toward the sun or the feeling of ocean

sand between the toes, the way the heart stirs when the tide of battle changes or the sadness that lingers when remembering a happy moment of childhood. These ideas, dreams, memories, and feelings are

The Dreaming Dark in the War

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War

agents fanning the flames of fear and hate — often by invading the dreams of soldiers and rulers alike. The feelings of mistrust and festering animosity between the nations that linger after the Treaty

the role of dreams early on. If dreams feel like a regular part of the story, it will be less obvious when the Dreaming Dark starts manipulating the characters’ dreams. For example, you might establish

Fungus Humongous

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tyranny of Dragons

throw. Failure means the character is overcome with feelings of grief and remorse, seemingly triggered by hearing thousands of tiny cries of pain and death groans but which is in fact the result of

toxin is completely out of their system. You can impose even more lingering results if you like, such as a lifelong aversion to eating mushrooms of any kind. People can clear a path through the

All for One: The Clan

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes

child enters the world — an event that calls for great celebration. Few dwarves develop romantic feelings for their spouses, at least not in the way that other races do. They view their spouses as

collaborators and co-creators, their elders as respected experts to be obeyed, and their children as their most treasured creations. The emotion that underlies all those feelings might not be love, as others

Mount Celestia

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide

Mount Celestia The Seven Heavens of Mount Celestia rise like a mountain from a shining Silver Sea to utterly incomprehensible heights, with seven plateaus marking its seven heavenly layers. The plane

plains of the Platinum Heaven, holy soldiers muster in grand citadels for battles across the planes. Jovar The Glittering Heaven, strewn with beautiful rubies and garnets, is home to the seven-tiered

Saga of the Whirlwyrm

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Turn of Fortune’s Wheel

!” Tyrza Bonebreaker (chaotic good, human gladiator; detailed further in Sigil and the Outlands) is loud, powerful, and free with her feelings and praise. She’s fond of Bkol, and listens as he

encourages the characters to recount the whirlwyrm attack. When he’s done reporting, Tyrza says the following: “Whirlwyrms! Lost villagers! Certain peril! Hear that, Glorium?” Tyrza booms. “It sounds like

Adirohit's Retribution

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel

has complex feelings about this, seeing Adirohit as a tie to her ancient people and one who could restore a measure of what was lost, but also a tempestuous being who destroyed her ancestors. She will

riverine (detailed at the end of this adventure) who looks like a muscular, middle-aged man with white hair and blue skin. He thanks the characters for their service and brings forth treasure to reward

2. Giants' Lodge

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder

a frost giant or similarly sized creature can wrap its mouth around the narrow end of the horn and muster the breath needed to blow it. Sounding the horn requires an action. Development. If the horn

nearly 8 feet across, a wooden fork as big as a pitchfork, and a mug of bronze as large as a barrel, with handles shaped like a dragon’s wings. The platter is worth 750 gp and weighs 75 pounds. The mug is

Vladimir Horngaard

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd

Strahd and his thirst for vengeance that those feelings fueled the spirits of many of his fellow knights—including Godfrey—to come back as revenants as well. Vladimir continued to wage the hopeless

resemble silver dragon wings and a pommel shaped like a silver dragon’s head clutching a black opal between its teeth. As an action, he can make two attacks with the sword (+9 to hit). It deals 20 (4d6 + 6

Fighter

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated

to look like the upper and lower jaws of a carnivorous dinosaur 4 A battleaxe with its head shaped like the flowing hair of a dwarf warrior 5 A suit of armor made from the discarded

chitin of giant arthropods 6 A pair of boots fashioned to look like the paws of a large feline 7 A sword whose pommel is shaped in the form of a hand, so that you shake the hand when you wield

Wisdom

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)

someone’s feelings, notice things about the environment, or care for an injured person. The Animal Handling, Insight, Medicine, Perception, and Survival skills reflect aptitude in certain kinds of

accomplish tasks like the following: Get a gut feeling about what course of action to follow Discern whether a seemingly dead or living creature is undead Spellcasting Ability Clerics, druids, and rangers use Wisdom as their spellcasting ability, which helps determine the saving throw DCs of spells they cast.

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