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Monsters
Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
Cunning Action. On each of her turns, the Black Viper can use a bonus action to take the Dash, Disengage, or Hide action.
Evasion. If the Black Viper is subjected to an effect that allows her to make
locks, pluck keys from belts and pouches, clamber up walls, and sneak past guards — playing the perfect daughter by day while cutting loose at night. To hide her identity from those she met, she wore a
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
Cunning Opportunist. The stone cursed has advantage on the attack rolls of opportunity attack;opportunity attacks.
False Appearance. If the stone cursed is motionless at the start of combat, it has
original victim’s memories resonates within the skull. A skilled magic-wielder can attempt to extract memories from it to gain insight into the victim’s past or find lore that otherwise
Backgrounds
Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus
elements, and endured sickness without the advantage of medicine or a place to recuperate. You’ve survived despite all odds, and did so through cunning, strength, speed, or some combination of each
if they deal fairly with strangers, have Guild or government connections, or have either helped or denied the Gateguides in the past.
Suggested Characteristics
Urchins are shaped by lives
Half-Orc
Legacy
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Species
Basic Rules (2014)
orc comrades didn’t last long among the Bloody Skulls or any other orc tribe for that matter. But it was often true that a bit of human blood gave a warrior just the right mix of cunning
exile. Any half-orc who has lived among or near orcs has scars, whether they are marks of humiliation or of pride, recounting their past exploits and injuries.
The Mark of Gruumsh
The one-eyed god
monsters
through expansion and contraction.
—H.P. Lovecraft, The Shadow Out of Time
The great race of Yith are creatures of the distant past, existing in a strange era before the gods forged the
among the locals. Promising them great magic and technology, it primes them to support the wave of Yithian explorers who are set to arrive after it logs its report in the distant past. These newcomers
Rogue
Legacy
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Classes
Basic Rules (2014)
skills that help them in a dungeon environment, such as climbing, finding and disarming traps, and opening locks. When it comes to combat, rogues prioritize cunning over brute strength. A rogue
treasure. Creating a Rogue As you create your rogue character, consider the character’s relationship to the law. Do you have a criminal past—or present? Are you on the run from the law or from
Orc
Legacy
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Species
Volo's Guide to Monsters
created the orcs and continues to direct their destiny. He is aided and abetted by the other warrior deities, Bahgtru and Ilneval, who bring strength and cunning to the battlefield. The followers of all
special significance beyond that is imparted to it.
At 4 years old an orc is considered a juvenile, and by age 12 it is a fully functioning adult. Most orcs don’t live past the age of 25 due to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
, with barely a hint of emotion left. He is above the concerns of the living. The only event that occasionally haunts him is the death of Tatyana, but his view of the past is bereft of romance or regret
, especially if a person is clever or attractive. Men and women of beauty and cunning amuse Strahd for a time—playthings to possess or discard as he desires. If he senses a lack of cohesion in a party of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
, with barely a hint of emotion left. He is above the concerns of the living. The only event that occasionally haunts him is the death of Tatyana, but his view of the past is bereft of romance or regret
, especially if a person is clever or attractive. Men and women of beauty and cunning amuse Strahd for a time—playthings to possess or discard as he desires. If he senses a lack of cohesion in a party of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron
cunning drow in the depths of a primordial jungle. In the distant past, Xen’drik was home to the civilizations of the giants. Now it is a place of mysteries and ruins. The giants were destroyed by the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
character’s chance of success. A player shows exceptional creativity or cunning in attempting or describing a task. Previous actions (whether taken by the character making the attempt or some other
the wizard advantage on the check. As a result, the character has neither advantage nor disadvantage on the Wisdom check, and you don’t need to consider any additional factors. Past encounters with an
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
Creating a Rogue As you create your rogue character, consider the character’s relationship to the law. Do you have a criminal past — or present? Are you on the run from the law or from an angry
Features
1st
+2
1d6
Expertise, Sneak Attack, Thieves’ Cant
2nd
+2
1d6
Cunning Action
3rd
+2
2d6
Roguish Archetype
4th
+2
2d6
Ability Score Improvement
5th
+3
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
Humans Dwarves are stoic. Elves are wise. Gnomes are cunning. And humans? They can’t make up their mind, so they try to be all of these things at once.
— Kessler, bard of Sharn
The first human
the Mourning and is now stranded with no home 4 A barbarian from the Demon Wastes who repented from a life of cruelty and hopes to atone for past evils 5 A kindly druid from the Eldeen Reaches who wants
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
character’s chance of success. A player shows exceptional creativity or cunning in attempting or describing a task. Previous actions (whether taken by the character making the attempt or some other
the wizard advantage on the check. As a result, the character has neither advantage nor disadvantage on the Wisdom check, and you don’t need to consider any additional factors. Past encounters with an
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
Creating a Rogue As you create your rogue character, consider the character’s relationship to the law. Do you have a criminal past — or present? Are you on the run from the law or from an angry
Features
1st
+2
1d6
Expertise, Sneak Attack, Thieves’ Cant
2nd
+2
1d6
Cunning Action
3rd
+2
2d6
Roguish Archetype
4th
+2
2d6
Ability Score Improvement
5th
+3
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron
cunning drow in the depths of a primordial jungle. In the distant past, Xen’drik was home to the civilizations of the giants. Now it is a place of mysteries and ruins. The giants were destroyed by the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
Humans Dwarves are stoic. Elves are wise. Gnomes are cunning. And humans? They can’t make up their mind, so they try to be all of these things at once.
— Kessler, bard of Sharn
The first human
the Mourning and is now stranded with no home 4 A barbarian from the Demon Wastes who repented from a life of cruelty and hopes to atone for past evils 5 A kindly druid from the Eldeen Reaches who wants
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player’s Handbook
Level Proficiency Bonus Class Features Eldritch Invocations Cantrips Prepared Spells Spell Slots Slot Level 1 +2 Eldritch Invocations, Pact Magic 1 2 2 1 1 2 +2 Magical Cunning 3 2 3 2 1 3 +2 Warlock
your Warlock spells. Level 2: Magical Cunning You can perform an esoteric rite for 1 minute. At the end of it, you regain expended Pact Magic spell slots but no more than a number equal to half your
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player’s Handbook
Level Proficiency Bonus Class Features Eldritch Invocations Cantrips Prepared Spells Spell Slots Slot Level 1 +2 Eldritch Invocations, Pact Magic 1 2 2 1 1 2 +2 Magical Cunning 3 2 3 2 1 3 +2 Warlock
your Warlock spells. Level 2: Magical Cunning You can perform an esoteric rite for 1 minute. At the end of it, you regain expended Pact Magic spell slots but no more than a number equal to half your
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules
Level Proficiency Bonus Class Features Eldritch Invocations Cantrips Prepared Spells Spell Slots Slot Level 1 +2 Eldritch Invocations, Pact Magic 1 2 2 1 1 2 +2 Magical Cunning 3 2 3 2 1 3 +2 Warlock
your Warlock spells. Level 2: Magical Cunning You can perform an esoteric rite for 1 minute. At the end of it, you regain expended Pact Magic spell slots but no more than a number equal to half your
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules
Level Proficiency Bonus Class Features Eldritch Invocations Cantrips Prepared Spells Spell Slots Slot Level 1 +2 Eldritch Invocations, Pact Magic 1 2 2 1 1 2 +2 Magical Cunning 3 2 3 2 1 3 +2 Warlock
your Warlock spells. Level 2: Magical Cunning You can perform an esoteric rite for 1 minute. At the end of it, you regain expended Pact Magic spell slots but no more than a number equal to half your
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
and house guards watching her every move during the day. So she taught herself how to pick locks, pluck keys from belts and pouches, clamber up walls, and sneak past guards — playing the perfect
Dex +7, Int +3
Skills Acrobatics +7, Athletics +3, Perception +3, Sleight of Hand +7, Stealth +7
Senses passive Perception 13
Languages Common, thieves’ cant
Challenge 5 (1,800 XP)
Cunning
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Book of Many Things
geared toward characters who rely on cunning, skills, and versatility, but any character’s story can benefit from the ideas presented here. When using this table to help shape your character’s story, you
personality traits, relationships, and events. Most describe your character’s past, but some foretell something in your character’s future instead. These events might be a mystery to your character, shared only
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Book of Many Things
geared toward characters who rely on cunning, skills, and versatility, but any character’s story can benefit from the ideas presented here. When using this table to help shape your character’s story, you
personality traits, relationships, and events. Most describe your character’s past, but some foretell something in your character’s future instead. These events might be a mystery to your character, shared only
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monsters of the Multiverse
into the victim’s past or find lore that otherwise would be lost. Cryptic Whispers Even though a creature transformed into a stone cursed is long dead, a vague whisper of their memories lives on in
Languages the languages it knew in life
Challenge 1 (200 XP) Proficiency Bonus +2
Cunning Opportunist. The stone cursed has advantage on the attack rolls of opportunity attacks.
False Appearance. If
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monsters of the Multiverse
into the victim’s past or find lore that otherwise would be lost. Cryptic Whispers Even though a creature transformed into a stone cursed is long dead, a vague whisper of their memories lives on in
Languages the languages it knew in life
Challenge 1 (200 XP) Proficiency Bonus +2
Cunning Opportunist. The stone cursed has advantage on the attack rolls of opportunity attacks.
False Appearance. If
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
to extract memories from it to gain insight into the victim’s past or find lore that otherwise would be lost. Constructed Nature. A stone cursed doesn’t require air, food, drink, or sleep. CRYPTIC
Condition Immunities charmed, exhaustion, frightened, petrified, poisoned
Senses passive Perception 9
Languages the languages it knew in life
Challenge 1 (200 XP)
Cunning Opportunist. The stone
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
and house guards watching her every move during the day. So she taught herself how to pick locks, pluck keys from belts and pouches, clamber up walls, and sneak past guards — playing the perfect
Dex +7, Int +3
Skills Acrobatics +7, Athletics +3, Perception +3, Sleight of Hand +7, Stealth +7
Senses passive Perception 13
Languages Common, thieves’ cant
Challenge 5 (1,800 XP)
Cunning
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
to extract memories from it to gain insight into the victim’s past or find lore that otherwise would be lost. Constructed Nature. A stone cursed doesn’t require air, food, drink, or sleep. CRYPTIC
Condition Immunities charmed, exhaustion, frightened, petrified, poisoned
Senses passive Perception 9
Languages the languages it knew in life
Challenge 1 (200 XP)
Cunning Opportunist. The stone
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
reference to that individual’s past deeds. She then asks the characters if they want their fortunes read. If they say yes, Madam Eva produces a worn deck of cards and proceeds with the sequence outlined
, cunning and sharp of mind. She has met a good many adventurers in her time and knows they can’t be fully trusted. She wants to free the land of Barovia from its curse, and her fate is interwoven with
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
Gnoll Tactics Gnolls might seem to throw themselves into battle mindlessly, driven only by fury and hunger, but they do possess a rudimentary form of cunning that is borne out by several tactics they
a past victim. Gnolls use ranged attacks mainly to prevent their prey from fleeing, rather than softening up their targets with an initial barrage of arrows before an assault. A target wounded by a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
smithed into a gleaming javelin that hummed with power. When Keranos wants to send a message, of either destruction or enlightenment, Epiphany is his tool of choice.
Font of Fortunes. In ages past
, which flowed from Keranos himself. Bemused, the storm lord arranged for the oracle to meet a particularly cunning sphinx and engage in an epic battle of wits. The objective set forth by Keranos was
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
NPCs d6 NPC 1 A wizard agent of the Chamber seeks to eliminate all the people they worked with in the past to cover their tracks and preserve the Chamber’s secrecy. 2 The Prophecy requires the
eventual destruction of a humanoid city. A disguised silver dragon, cunning and subtle, works to destabilize the city and bring about its ruin. 3 A local librarian is a disguised gold dragon in the service
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron
the ruler of Darguun, and many fear that his death could throw the region into chaos. Among the Ghaal’dar, you hold your place through cunning and strength. As a Ghaal’dar goblinoid, you may have been
with tales of past glory. Among the Dhakaan, all goblinoids work together, using their talents for the greater good. Hobgoblins are the strategists and commanders, typically having the skills of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
NPCs d6 NPC 1 A wizard agent of the Chamber seeks to eliminate all the people they worked with in the past to cover their tracks and preserve the Chamber’s secrecy. 2 The Prophecy requires the
eventual destruction of a humanoid city. A disguised silver dragon, cunning and subtle, works to destabilize the city and bring about its ruin. 3 A local librarian is a disguised gold dragon in the service