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Returning 35 results for 'patrons art and his calling'.
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Tomb of Annihilation
original purpose and determine its builders, whether those were dwarves, elves, humans, yuan-ti, or some other known race. In addition, you can determine the monetary value of art objects more than a
the treasures and relics of wizards, warlords, or royalty. Some archaeologists plunder for wealth or fame, while others consider it their calling to illuminate the past or keep the world’s
Monsters
Mordenkainen's Fiendish Folio Volume 1
giant’s desires. Instead, they seek out grand works of art, wondrous jewelry, and beautiful sculptures.
Reasonable Offers. Fog giants are powerful warriors, but they prefer to use threats and
down the gate of a backwater duke’s castle, slaying a dozen or more guards, then calling for parley is a typical fog giant strategy—followed by an offer to leave the duke alive in return
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
Warlocks Given their dealings with often sinister otherworldly patrons in exchange for power, warlocks don’t have a sterling reputation in the Realms. Even well-meaning warlocks are viewed with
suspicion and justifiable caution. Some wizards feel the very existence of warlocks taints the view of their noble Art and causes the common folk to view all practitioners of magic with doubt. Some
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
Warlocks Given their dealings with often sinister otherworldly patrons in exchange for power, warlocks don’t have a sterling reputation in the Realms. Even well-meaning warlocks are viewed with
suspicion and justifiable caution. Some wizards feel the very existence of warlocks taints the view of their noble Art and causes the common folk to view all practitioners of magic with doubt. Some
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
to a calm night. Then shouts ring out, shattering the peace. Someone’s calling for help!
The characters can tell the shouts are coming from the inn’s common room. Following the sound, the
characters find the common room lightly obscured, filled with swirling mist. The haze makes the area feel like it’s full of fog and floating on a stormy sea. Staff and other patrons who’ve stumbled out of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
to a calm night. Then shouts ring out, shattering the peace. Someone’s calling for help!
The characters can tell the shouts are coming from the inn’s common room. Following the sound, the
characters find the common room lightly obscured, filled with swirling mist. The haze makes the area feel like it’s full of fog and floating on a stormy sea. Staff and other patrons who’ve stumbled out of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
. Milil’s priests are patrons of the arts in addition to being performers themselves, and they frequently act as tutors in the arts of performance at his shrines and temples. Like Deneir, Milil is
hand (Deneir); rather, it stems from the fact that left-handedness is more often associated with great artistic ability and the belief that the greatest art comes from the acceptance of truth.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
. Milil’s priests are patrons of the arts in addition to being performers themselves, and they frequently act as tutors in the arts of performance at his shrines and temples. Like Deneir, Milil is
hand (Deneir); rather, it stems from the fact that left-handedness is more often associated with great artistic ability and the belief that the greatest art comes from the acceptance of truth.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
that, her priests foster beauty in the world. They do so by creating art, by acting as patrons for promising talents, and by investing in merchants who bring luxuries to far-off places that have never
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
that, her priests foster beauty in the world. They do so by creating art, by acting as patrons for promising talents, and by investing in merchants who bring luxuries to far-off places that have never
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
staff members, not the patrons, and won’t break up a fight unless a staff member is involved. Well-armed patrons (commoners and thugs mostly) huddle around tables in the main room and in private
lightly salted almonds. E7. Upstairs Dining Room Lit lanterns hang from the rafters in this windowless room. Rugs cover the wooden floor and help dampen the noise from drunken patrons gathered around
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
Room The most crowded area of the tavern is filled with students. At opening hour, the tavern’s seating is arranged neatly, as shown on the map. In short order, though, student patrons shift the
student employees make drinks for the tavern’s patrons and pass orders for food to the kitchen. The food on offer at the tavern includes caster’s stew—a hearty bowl of venison, gravy, and root
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
Room The most crowded area of the tavern is filled with students. At opening hour, the tavern’s seating is arranged neatly, as shown on the map. In short order, though, student patrons shift the
student employees make drinks for the tavern’s patrons and pass orders for food to the kitchen. The food on offer at the tavern includes caster’s stew—a hearty bowl of venison, gravy, and root
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
staff members, not the patrons, and won’t break up a fight unless a staff member is involved. Well-armed patrons (commoners and thugs mostly) huddle around tables in the main room and in private
lightly salted almonds. E7. Upstairs Dining Room Lit lanterns hang from the rafters in this windowless room. Rugs cover the wooden floor and help dampen the noise from drunken patrons gathered around
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual
assassins kill for a reason, perhaps hiring themselves out to wealthy patrons or slaying for an unscrupulous cause. They use poisons and other deadly tools, and they might carry equipment to help them
hollow furnishings. 3 Leaving behind a signature item, such as a calling card, flower, seashell, or tooth. 4 Posing as celebrities, holy people, or servants. 5 Taking trophies from their victims. 6 Using
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
opportunity for the characters to get information from the patrons, which leads them to “Candle Lane,” where their quest continues. Blood in the Streets As the characters travel through the Dock Ward
own domain, the gnome settled in Waterdeep, bought the Old Xoblob Shop from its previous owner, and tried renaming it after himself, yet everyone kept calling it the Old Xoblob Shop. He therefore
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual
assassins kill for a reason, perhaps hiring themselves out to wealthy patrons or slaying for an unscrupulous cause. They use poisons and other deadly tools, and they might carry equipment to help them
hollow furnishings. 3 Leaving behind a signature item, such as a calling card, flower, seashell, or tooth. 4 Posing as celebrities, holy people, or servants. 5 Taking trophies from their victims. 6 Using
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
opportunity for the characters to get information from the patrons, which leads them to “Candle Lane,” where their quest continues. Blood in the Streets As the characters travel through the Dock Ward
own domain, the gnome settled in Waterdeep, bought the Old Xoblob Shop from its previous owner, and tried renaming it after himself, yet everyone kept calling it the Old Xoblob Shop. He therefore
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
sees preparing for and winning life’s essential battles as being of paramount importance and the highest calling one can experience. The true warrior fights with honor, courage, and dedication, and
warriors in the products of his artifice. Iroas sees finely crafted arms as the highest form of art, sublime and deadly at once. Still, Iroas finds Purphoros’s volatile temper and bouts of passion unbecoming
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
sees preparing for and winning life’s essential battles as being of paramount importance and the highest calling one can experience. The true warrior fights with honor, courage, and dedication, and
warriors in the products of his artifice. Iroas sees finely crafted arms as the highest form of art, sublime and deadly at once. Still, Iroas finds Purphoros’s volatile temper and bouts of passion unbecoming
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
!” after any group decision seemed to suggest your true calling.
7 You believe that language is an art, not a science. Who’s to say what is or isn’t a “real” word?
8 The smell of old parchment makes you giddy.
information. Not everyone truly appreciates the art of documancy, and only the best and brightest are chosen for this most important work. Come to think of it, I’m not sure you make the cut.
— Walnut
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
!” after any group decision seemed to suggest your true calling.
7 You believe that language is an art, not a science. Who’s to say what is or isn’t a “real” word?
8 The smell of old parchment makes you giddy.
information. Not everyone truly appreciates the art of documancy, and only the best and brightest are chosen for this most important work. Come to think of it, I’m not sure you make the cut.
— Walnut
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
calling out their name and the time of day. 03–04 Two shifters drinking and spoiling for a fight. 05–06 A warforged quietly reads a book called The Machine Manifesto. 07–08 A half-elf sits down, says
patrons. 35–36 A dog with no apparent owner wanders around. 37–38 Two Karrnathi soldiers seem extremely nervous and speak to no one. 39–40 A halfling leads a tiny pet dinosaur on a leash, tugging at it
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
calling out their name and the time of day. 03–04 Two shifters drinking and spoiling for a fight. 05–06 A warforged quietly reads a book called The Machine Manifesto. 07–08 A half-elf sits down, says
patrons. 35–36 A dog with no apparent owner wanders around. 37–38 Two Karrnathi soldiers seem extremely nervous and speak to no one. 39–40 A halfling leads a tiny pet dinosaur on a leash, tugging at it
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
thronged by reporters, judge Haliss ir’Cronn took her seat for the first session in what some are calling the “trial of the century.”
Barath Drinn, a Karrn who has been living in Wroat since the end of
particularly skilled in this role. Guild artisans might also disguise tools of destruction as mundane objects or works of art. Many Saboteurs come from backgrounds such as charlatans or soldiers.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Fiendish Folio Volume 1
giant’s desires. Instead, they seek out grand works of art, wondrous jewelry, and beautiful sculptures. Reasonable Offers. Fog giants are powerful warriors, but they prefer to use threats and
down the gate of a backwater duke’s castle, slaying a dozen or more guards, then calling for parley is a typical fog giant strategy—followed by an offer to leave the duke alive in return for a treasure
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
thronged by reporters, judge Haliss ir’Cronn took her seat for the first session in what some are calling the “trial of the century.”
Barath Drinn, a Karrn who has been living in Wroat since the end of
particularly skilled in this role. Guild artisans might also disguise tools of destruction as mundane objects or works of art. Many Saboteurs come from backgrounds such as charlatans or soldiers.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Spelljammer: Adventures in Space->Astral Adventurer’s Guide
an update at no charge. Gaspar’s Reclamations Gaspar’s Reclamations specializes in recovering magic items, gems, and works of art on behalf of its clients. The firm makes a living by charging a modest
hanging over the door depicts a thrashing bull rendered crudely in red paint. Most of the tavern’s patrons don’t suspect the establishment’s true purpose. Those who are here on guild business need to be
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Fiendish Folio Volume 1
giant’s desires. Instead, they seek out grand works of art, wondrous jewelry, and beautiful sculptures. Reasonable Offers. Fog giants are powerful warriors, but they prefer to use threats and
down the gate of a backwater duke’s castle, slaying a dozen or more guards, then calling for parley is a typical fog giant strategy—followed by an offer to leave the duke alive in return for a treasure
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Spelljammer: Adventures in Space->Astral Adventurer’s Guide
an update at no charge. Gaspar’s Reclamations Gaspar’s Reclamations specializes in recovering magic items, gems, and works of art on behalf of its clients. The firm makes a living by charging a modest
hanging over the door depicts a thrashing bull rendered crudely in red paint. Most of the tavern’s patrons don’t suspect the establishment’s true purpose. Those who are here on guild business need to be
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
, comportment, love — these things are practiced with an art and a zest in the city uncommon elsewhere. Visit a festhall or festival and see for yourself! And don’t miss the cross-dressing performers who
in Waterdeep whose lives are more magical than the marvels possible with spells.
Nobles and Patronage Nobles in Waterdeep are patrons of and investors in all manner of businesses in the city and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
Nargis Ruba, entertains customers from behind the bar. Characters who survey the crowd and succeed on a DC 14 Wisdom (Perception) check note several armed figures focusing more on the tavern patrons than
Wisdom (Medicine) check suspects this is some manner of poison. Nargis’s Confession In the aftermath of the fight, terrified patrons clear the tavern. A distraught Nargis embraces Zenia and takes the blame
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
, comportment, love — these things are practiced with an art and a zest in the city uncommon elsewhere. Visit a festhall or festival and see for yourself! And don’t miss the cross-dressing performers who
in Waterdeep whose lives are more magical than the marvels possible with spells.
Nobles and Patronage Nobles in Waterdeep are patrons of and investors in all manner of businesses in the city and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
Nargis Ruba, entertains customers from behind the bar. Characters who survey the crowd and succeed on a DC 14 Wisdom (Perception) check note several armed figures focusing more on the tavern patrons than
Wisdom (Medicine) check suspects this is some manner of poison. Nargis’s Confession In the aftermath of the fight, terrified patrons clear the tavern. A distraught Nargis embraces Zenia and takes the blame
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything
represent guild patrons. A guild could even embody a more sinister group, such as one that deals in terrifying wares like deadly monsters, dangerous knowledge, or souls. Roll or pick from the Guild Types
adventurers and other individuals who deal with large sums of wealth. They exchange coin for gemstones as readily as they find buyers for historical relics and recovered art. 5 Philosophical Faction