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Player’s Handbook
definition, the life of a Paladin is an adventuring life, for every Paladin lives on the front lines of the cosmic struggle against annihilation. Fighters are rare enough among the ranks of a world&rsquo
;s armies, but even fewer people can claim the calling of a Paladin. When they do receive the call, these blessed folk turn from their former occupations and take up arms and magic.
Becoming a
Classes
Player’s Handbook
: Arcana, Deception, Insight, Intimidation, Persuasion, or Religion
Weapon Proficiencies
Simple weapons
Armor Training
None
Starting Equipment
Choose A or B: (A) Spear, 2 Dagger;Daggers
talents of sorcery appear as a fluke. People who have this magical power soon discover that it doesn’t like to stay quiet. A Sorcerer’s magic wants to be wielded.
Becoming a Sorcerer...
As a
Classes
Player’s Handbook
, Arcana, Insight, Medicine, Nature, Perception, Religion, or Survival
Weapon Proficiencies
Simple weapons
Tool Proficiencies
Herbalism Kit
Armor Training
Light armor and Shields
.
Druids are concerned with the delicate ecological balance that sustains plant and animal life and with the need for people to live in harmony with nature. Druids often guard sacred sites or watch over
Magic Items
The Book of Many Things
(Arcana) check. On a successful check, you and eight other willing creatures touching the telescope, along with everything all travelers are wearing and carrying, safely teleport to unoccupied spaces
chosen by the DM.
3
Excess cosmic energy overloads the telescope, causing it to explode. Each creature within 60 feet of the telescope takes 8d6 necrotic damage. Any Humanoid who survives this damage
Monsters
Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse
(the hand is invisible)
1/day each: jump, plane shift (self only), see invisibilityGithzerai travelers wander the multiverse to train and pursue cosmic enlightenment. These githzerai learn to
manipulate planar energies to create wondrous effects.
Githzerai descend from an ancient people who were also the progenitors of the githyanki—all of whom were destroyed or transformed by mind
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
also prize understanding of the cosmic forces that emanate from the Outer Planes, studying the opposing tides of good and evil, chaos and order, so they can offer counsel to those with the wisdom to
flayer;mind flayers and other wicked Aberrations, remind amethyst dragons that allies can be found in the strangest places.
Hoarded Arcana
In addition to material wealth, amethyst dragons delight in
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
other worlds in the Material Plane, and especially the way individual dragons manifest unique echoes across those worlds. They also prize understanding of the cosmic forces that emanate from the Outer
allies can be found in the strangest places.
Hoarded Arcana
In addition to material wealth, amethyst dragons delight in collecting knowledge and magic dealing with the nature of the planes of
Monsters
The Book of Many Things
with advantage.Sometimes deeply devout people, usually either Humanoids or medusas, dedicate themselves to a cause and are transformed by a deity or magic into hierophant medusas—beings with
Euryale’s story and unwavering conviction.
These medusas are divinely empowered champions, drawing their power from a cosmic truth, the will of a deity, or the primal forces of nature. They
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
. They also prize understanding of the cosmic forces that emanate from the Outer Planes, studying the opposing tides of good and evil, chaos and order, so they can offer counsel to those with the
mind flayer;mind flayers and other wicked Aberrations, remind amethyst dragons that allies can be found in the strangest places.
Hoarded Arcana
In addition to material wealth, amethyst dragons delight
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
of the cosmic forces that emanate from the Outer Planes, studying the opposing tides of good and evil, chaos and order, so they can offer counsel to those with the wisdom to accept it.
Amethyst
other wicked Aberrations, remind amethyst dragons that allies can be found in the strangest places.
Hoarded Arcana
In addition to material wealth, amethyst dragons delight in collecting knowledge and
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Curse of Strahd: Character Options
toll, isolating you from most people and making you question your sanity. You must find a way to overcome it before it destroys you.
Skill Proficiencies: Choose two from among Arcana, Investigation
1
A monster that slaughtered dozens of innocent people spared your life, and you don’t know why.
2
You were born under a dark star. You can feel it watching you, coldly and distantly
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Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide
Proficiencies: Survival, plus one from among Arcana, History, and ReligionTool Proficiencies: Your choice of a gaming set or a musical instrumentLanguages: Any one of your choiceEquipment: Your
intend to do with your gift once you realize what it is capable of.
Folk Hero
d8
Personality Trait
1
I judge people by their actions, not their words.
2
If someone is in
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Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide
across Faerûn.
Skill Proficiencies: History, plus your choice of one from among Arcana, Nature, and ReligionLanguages: Two of your choiceEquipment: The scholar’s robes of
. . . everyone . . . is . . . compared . . . to me.
7
I am horribly, horribly awkward in social situations.
8
I’m convinced that people are always trying to steal my secrets
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Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus
Proficiencies: Arcana, History
Languages: Two of your choice
Equipment: A bottle of black ink, a quill, a small knife, a letter from a dead colleague posing a question you have not yet been able to
… compared … to me.
7
I am horribly, horribly awkward in social situations.
8
I’m convinced that people are always trying to steal my secrets.
d6
Ideal
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Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide
you owe allegiance to.
Skill Proficiencies: Persuasion, plus one from among Arcana, History, Nature, and Religion, as appropriate for your order
Tool Proficiencies: One type of gaming set or musical
again in ruins, Dove Falconhand decided to reform the group with the primary goal of building alliances and friendship between the civilized races of the world and goodly people in order to combat evil
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Guildmasters’ Guide to Ravnica
against the schemes and ambitions of the other guilds, so much the better.
Skill Proficiencies: Arcana, Medicine
Languages: Two of your choice
Equipment: A Simic insignia, a set of
offer bribes, favors, or other incentives to induce people to reveal their secrets.
Your DM might rule that the knowledge you seek is secreted away in an inaccessible place, or that it simply can
School of Necromancy (PHB)
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Player’s Handbook (2014)
The School of Necromancy explores the cosmic forces of life, death, and undeath. As you focus your studies in this tradition, you learn to manipulate the energy that animates all living things. As
you progress, you learn to sap the life force from a creature as your magic destroys its body, transforming that vital energy into magical power you can manipulate.
Most people see necromancers as
School of Necromancy
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Player’s Handbook (2014)
The School of Necromancy explores the cosmic forces of life, death, and undeath. As you focus your studies in this tradition, you learn to manipulate the energy that animates all living things. As
you progress, you learn to sap the life force from a creature as your magic destroys its body, transforming that vital energy into magical power you can manipulate.
Most people see necromancers as
Feats
Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse
You can draw on the forces of the multiverse to survive cosmic extremes and to traverse its infinite realms, granting you these benefits:
Planar Adaptation. When you finish a long rest, you gain
action, you can concentrate on a portal you’re aware of that is within 5 feet of yourself and make a DC 20 Intelligence (Arcana) check. On a failed check, you take 3d8 psychic damage and can’t
feats
and send it back.
You gain the following benefits.
Delver into Forgotten Lore. You learn three languages of your choice.
Foul Arcana. You can tap into a brief glimpse of the mythos to empower a
spell, at the cost of overwhelming your mind with a horrifying, cosmic insight. When you cast a spell, you can give that spell’s save DC a +2 bonus but you have the paralyzed condition until the
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Ability Scores: Intelligence, Wisdom, Charisma
Feat: Fortune of the Thaumaturge
Skill Proficiencies: Arcana and Insight
Tool Proficiencies: Cartographer's Tools
Equipment: Choose A or B: (A
have passed since your last contact, but you know that there are forces beyond understanding that pull on people’s strings and make them dance.
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provinces), Traveler's Clothes, 10 GP; or (B) 50 GP
Province Affinities
Province
Skill
Tool
Ardengloom
History
Herbalism Kit
Astramar
Arcana
Navigator's Tools
Musical Instrument
Olmarsh
Arcana
Cartographer's Tools
Nerukhet
Persuasion
Weaver's Tools
Pholsense
Religion
Mason's Tools
Picco
Performance
Woodcarver's Tools
Syndramas
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Ability Scores: Dexterity, Constitution, Charisma
Feat: Magic Initiate (Wizard)
Skill Proficiencies: Arcana and Performance
Tool Proficiencies: Choose one kind of Musical Instrument
Equipment
somehow turn into a curse later in your life?
People you encounter instantly recognize your connection with the Land of Faerie. Sometimes this works to your favor, as folks seem entranced by your glowing
Sage
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Basic Rules (2014)
master in your fields of study.
Skill Proficiencies: Arcana, History
Languages: Two of your choice
Equipment: A bottle of black ink, a quill, a small knife, a letter from a dead
situations.
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I’m convinced that people are always trying to steal my secrets.
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Ideal
1
Knowledge. The path to power and self-improvement is through knowledge. (Neutral
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Feat: Dread Speech
Skill Proficiencies: Arcana, Intimidation
Language: Choose one (Deep Speech recommended)
Tool Proficiency: Calligrapher's Supplies
Equipment: Choose A or B: (A
) Calligrapher's Supplies, Book (a topic of arcana), Ink, Ink Pen, Lamp, Oil (3 flasks), Paper (10 sheets), 2 GP; or (B) 50 GP
Building a Scholar of the Forbidden
Wizards and warlocks make the most
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
Hoarded Arcana In addition to material wealth, amethyst dragons delight in collecting knowledge and magic dealing with the nature of the planes of existence, cosmic forces, and distant worlds. They
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
Hoarded Arcana In addition to material wealth, amethyst dragons delight in collecting knowledge and magic dealing with the nature of the planes of existence, cosmic forces, and distant worlds. They
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bonded and dedicated people who pursue a common, if esoteric, goal.
Feat: Cult Intiate
Skill Proficiencies: Arcana, choose one (Cultist Affinity table skill recommended)
Language: Choose one
table suggests events and people who can be the start of story threads for your character that weave through the campaign.
Cultist Story Threads
1d6
Thread
1
You learned that the cult
Paladin
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has taken him or her away from adventuring for a time, every paladin lives on the front lines of the cosmic struggle against evil. Fighters are rare enough among the ranks of the militias and armies
of the world, but even fewer people can claim the true calling of a paladin. When they do receive the call, these warriors turn from their former occupations and take up arms to fight evil. Sometimes
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death. You may have learned from a detailed treatise that you’ve put into practice, daring to become versed in the forbidden arts.
Feat: Crimson Ritualist
Skill Proficiencies: Arcana
Threads table suggests events and people who can be the start of story threads for your character that weave through the campaign.
Crimson Aspirant Story Threads
1d6
Thread
1
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, and your would-be killer will have its own destruction in turn.
Feat: Hunter of Hunters
Skill Proficiencies: Stealth, and one other of your choice from the following list: Arcana
.
Suggested Story Threads. The Crossroads Gambler Story Threads table suggests events and people who can be the start of story threads for your character that weave through the campaign.
Night Stalker
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
Cosmic Horror Plots Adventures in cosmic horror realms are bleak, desperate affairs where the best one can hope for is to survive relatively intact. There is no stopping the ultimate evil, but
players may aspire to temporarily seal it away. Cosmic Horror Plots d8 Plot
1 Help a parent recover a child who’s gone missing in the impossibly vast space underneath their bed.
2 Stop a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
Cosmic Horror Plots Adventures in cosmic horror realms are bleak, desperate affairs where the best one can hope for is to survive relatively intact. There is no stopping the ultimate evil, but
players may aspire to temporarily seal it away. Cosmic Horror Plots d8 Plot
1 Help a parent recover a child who’s gone missing in the impossibly vast space underneath their bed.
2 Stop a
Sorcerer
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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
world, and it’s unusual to find a sorcerer who is not involved in the adventuring life in some way. People with magical power seething in their veins soon discover that the power doesn’t
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual
Sphinxes Collectors and Keepers of Secrets Habitat: Desert, Planar (Upper Planes); Treasure: Arcana Hazem Ameen Sphinxes protect the secrets of the multiverse. Formed from the spirits of sages and
battles with dangerous beasts. Through their existences, sphinxes might change form as they gain more nuanced understanding of cosmic enigmas. Round she is, yet flat as a board
Altar of the Lupine