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Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
the others have all disbanded over the past century, with many of their former members settling in Ten-Towns and abandoning their traditional ways.
The Reghed tribes rely on a nomadic lifestyle to
Monsters
Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
Reghed tribes, but the others have all disbanded over the past century, with many of their former members settling in Ten-Towns and abandoning their traditional ways.
The Reghed tribes rely on a nomadic
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Acquisitions Incorporated
finish a long rest.
Ways to Read the Kill
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Reading
1
Using a tiny bellows to pump one last breath into a corpse.
2
Reading the entrails with special reading-the-entrails
within 5 feet of a creature killed within the past 24 hours, you can cast the augury spell. The course of action you inquire about with the spell does not need to have any connection to the dead creature
Personality Traits
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Personality traits are small, simple ways to help you set your character apart from every other character. Your personality traits should tell you something interesting and fun about your character
. They should be self-descriptions that are specific about what makes your character stand out.
Personality traits might describe the things your character likes, his or her past accomplishments
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for his demise. He drew on the warped resurrection of dracoliches to become a lich himself. He continues to lead the Cult of the Dragon from the shadows, developing new ways to control and corrupt
past, but the clever wizard returns each time to steer the Cult of the Dragon into more desperate and sinister plots.Acid, Necrotic, Poison
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. He drew on the warped resurrection of dracoliches to become a lich himself. He continues to lead the Cult of the Dragon from the shadows, developing new ways to control and corrupt dragonkind
this dracolich form and then destroying the soul gem before it reconstitutes him as a lich once again.
Would-be heroes have believed themselves victorious against Sammaster in the past, but the
Goliath
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Elemental Evil Player's Companion
skills.
This dedication to competition has a dark side. Goliaths are ferocious competitors, but above all else they are driven to outdo their past efforts. If a goliath slays a dragon, he or she might
seek out a larger, more powerful wyrm to battle. Few goliath adventurers reach old age, as most die attempting to surpass their past accomplishments.
Fair Play
For goliaths, competition exists only
Species
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
choose the kind of lycanthrope in your past, or you can determine it randomly by rolling on the Lycanthrope Ancestor table. The table also provides a suggestion for the Shifting option you might have
rules themselves, but some rules in the game affect creatures of certain types in different ways. For example, the cure wounds spell doesn’t work on a Construct or an Undead.
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Guildmasters’ Guide to Ravnica
the laboratories of the Simic.
Centaurs celebrate life and growth, and the birth of a foal is always cause for festivities. At the same time, they revere the traditions of the past, and among both
the Gruul and the Selesnya they are voices of memory and history, preserving old ways and keeping alive the legends of ancestral heroes. They feel a close kinship with wild animals, perhaps because of
Backgrounds
Guildmasters’ Guide to Ravnica
are my family.
4
I wield the same Boros weapon my grandparent did, for the honor of our family.
5
I ran with the Rakdos in my youth, and I’m striving to atone for my past misdeeds
;m alone.
2
I see everything in clear-cut black and white.
3
I’m just a little fascinated by the ways of the Gruul.
4
I trust the chain of command more than anything &mdash
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
Domain Overview The domain’s buildings, natural elements, and landmarks all represent the Darklord’s vile past. When developing these features, follow these steps: Specify Locations. Choose locations
similar to settings that appear in your Darklord’s past, or take inspiration from the Settings tables in the “Genres of Horror” section later in this chapter. Combine Locations and Visceral Details
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
Ghost Stories Ghost stories number among the more psychologically elaborate genres of horror. Only through revealing tales of tragedy and past wrongs can heroes truly bring peace to forces that share
heroes to spirits in ways they won’t predict, such as revealing that a phantasmal villain was a hero’s ancestor. Heroes are pure-hearted or unsuspecting individuals whose resolve is shaken by the story’s
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
Character Hooks Consider the following ways to involve characters in this adventure: Festive Homecoming. Every spring, the people of Yeonido gather to encourage a bountiful harvest during the
family friend or having helped them obtain supplies for Yeonido in the past. When Ahn-Jun has strange experiences no one else remembers, the magistrate asks that character to come to Yeonido to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
Character Hooks The characters might become involved in the dangers affecting Godsbreath in any of the following ways: Awakening Festival. The characters come to Promise, Godsbreath’s largest
. They’ve received a strange message from her inviting them to Promise, but when they arrive, she’s nowhere to be found. Honored Guests. A trader the characters have had past dealings with—perhaps from the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Quests from the Infinite Staircase
Adventure Hooks If you’re not using Nafas as a group patron, consider the following ways to involve the characters in this adventure: Mysterious Raids. Over the past few months, a walled town and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
any additions to you, privately or in the moment, so you can add them to the list. When this happens, don’t refer to past survey data, defend past choices, or ask players to explain their boundaries
respect these boundaries. Make it clear that players who don’t respect these boundaries will have to leave the game. Customize Your Experience During session zero, the group can discuss ways to customize
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
. They do things “the way they have always been done,” because the old ways offer stability and security in an uncertain world. Beneath that peaceful veneer lies a troubled society trapped in the
ghostly grasp of its ancestors. The past can’t be forgotten or left behind, because the spirits haunting the land embody that past. The social order can’t change, because the restless dead enforce the old
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual
between planes of existence. In these lairs, aboleths dream of epochs past, collect throngs of psychically dominated servants, consume the minds of unwitting victims, and prepare for their return to
Aboleth Seeks To... 1 Accomplish incomprehensible plans that lead it to act in seemingly random ways. 2 Learn more of the world by kidnapping people and consuming their minds. 3 Manipulate innocents
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
of this lost paradise still plunge from Avernus’s sky as burning meteors, and the land is dotted with the ruins of palaces and idyllic gardens that were obscenely beautiful in eons past. Fleeting
reminders of this ancient paradise can come to the characters in the following ways: While traveling across Avernus, the characters glimpse a fantastic mirage: a grand palace or garden oasis that vanishes
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Sigil and the Outlands
structures from which they ponder fate’s particularities. Many people bearing magical curses also live in the area. While some hunt for ways to end the magic affecting them, most have accepted their
seers are said to be able to see any creature’s past, future, and true purpose with perfect clarity. However, since many of the realm’s residents are aged, reclusive fortune tellers, none know who among them are the actual Norns, if indeed they exist.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual
innumerable goblinoid legions. In ages long past, Maglubiyet witnessed the destructive propensity of goblinoids and relocated a population of them from the Feywild to his realm on the Outer Planes
. Since then, hordes of these more martial-minded goblins have flourished, with some finding their ways to Material Plane worlds. These vicious invaders seek to sow ruin in preparation for their god’s conquest. Bree-yark!
—Approximate translation from Goblin to Common: “Hey, rube!”
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Eve of Ruin
History In eons past, Lolth regularly plotted against her family of elven gods, seeking to kill those deities and subjugate their followers. Though her attempts mostly failed, she learned from them
her. Lolth conveys her favor in monstrous ways. One of the most accursed of the Spider Queen’s gifts is transformation into a drider. Followers of Lolth seek to foment chaos everywhere in the Spider
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
Bigby Bigby (BIG-bee) is a former apprentice of Mordenkainen. Though he began his career determined to use magic to dominate and control others, Bigby eventually changed his ways and has worked hard
to make amends for his past villainy. Mordenkainen welcomed Bigby into the adventuring company known as the Citadel of Eight (which later became the Circle of Eight, described in chapter 5). Shy and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
it’s possible to return to the previous ways. More foreigners visit the Plains than at any time in the past. Settlers and merchants cross the Plains as they make their way to Q’barra, and they clash
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Spelljammer: Adventures in Space->Light of Xaryxis
ship as it glides alongside one of the docks and slows to a stop.
“Welcome to the Rock!” says Captain Sartell. “This is where we part ways.”
If she hasn’t done so already, Captain Sartell urges the
characters to seek out Commodore Krux, a giff who has clashed with astral elves in the past and who might be able to help the characters plan their next move. Sartell knows that Krux can usually be
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
one’s ancestors is deeply ingrained in Dayawlongo society, where a passion for the past is demonstrated by people’s love for oaths, poetry, and song. Ancestors sometimes return as guardians called
. In the ancient past, bonesingers oversaw the final rites when great bakunawa died, then infused the creatures’ bones into the magical bridges that unite Dayawlongon as one land. During the days 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
spellbook—the DM can allow them to exchange an existing spell for a new spell.
This applies to arcane magic as well as divine. The Silver Flame is worshipped in many different ways around the world
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
raiding, handing down less-desirable opportunities to Fourth Ship Taerl. Fifth Ship Rethnor acts as the city’s guard — an unprofitable enough duty that many of its members look for other ways to earn
maintains its original name as a reflection of its past power — and as a sign that it seeks to restore that power once again. If you want to make Luskan a bigger part of your campaign, more information about the city can be found in the Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monsters of the Multiverse
Chapter 2: Bestiary This bestiary provides game statistics and lore for more than 250 monsters, which are suitable for any D&D campaign. The chapter includes old favorites from past editions of the
weapons that deal unusual damage types and spellcasting that functions in atypical ways. Such an exception is a special feature of a monster and represents how it uses the weapon or casts its spells
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron
of the smith, while the Mark of Shadows helps its bearer avoid enemies. The power of a dragonmark can also manifest in more dramatic ways. An heir with the Mark of Storms can scatter enemies with a
, transportation, communication, manufacturing — gives the houses tremendous power. In the past, the dragonmarked houses were held in check by the united kingdom of Galifar. But in the wake of the Last War
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
the smith, while the Mark of Shadows helps its bearer avoid enemies. The power of a dragonmark can also manifest in more dramatic ways. The Mark of Storms can scatter enemies with a blast of wind
services gives the houses tremendous power. In the past, the dragonmarked houses were held in check by the united kingdom of Galifar. But in the wake of the Last War, people wonder if any nation has the power to enforce its wishes on the houses.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen
the Northern Wastes. Darrett. With the danger of the Dragon Armies past for the moment, Darrett plans to travel to the city of Maelgoth, where he hopes to become a true member of the Knights of
Solamnia. Marshal Vendri. Ever pragmatic, Marshal Vendri is wary the Dragon Army might soon return, and she seeks ways to reinforce the city’s defenses. She also plans to send agents to Maelgoth and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
some past members of the group have exhibited a tendency to indulge in wanton violence, causing as much damage as they ostensibly prevent. Although the Open Lord sets mission goals and parameters
Hands) are arrested for a crime, the Open Lord or the Blackstaff will usually intervene on their behalf and facilitate their release. Force Grey support comes in these ways: Adventurers who are arrested
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
pause between two great moments in their history. The mission of this scholarly order is to collect the accumulated learning of the past and preserve it so a future giant civilization can build upon
it. Giants of the Hidden Rune are active across many worlds of the Material Plane. On worlds that had giant empires in the ancient past (such as Ostoria in the Forgotten Realms and the giant empire of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
practice each of these things in different ways than humanoids. Truly alien creatures, myconids have difficulty telling flesh-and-blood humanoids apart.
Myconids are innocent about matters of ethics
and morality, their lives centered on living fully each day and worrying little about the future and nothing at all about the past. Despite the communal nature of their existence, they are individuals