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can devise a general line of thought of 25 words or fewer. While you wear this pin, a creature that reads your thoughts detects your preprogrammed line of thought instead. A creature that takes the
When you attune to this pin, choose a Harper persona (see the Forgotten Realms: Heroes of Faerûn for examples), including an alignment and a creature type. While wearing this pin, you register
Sailor
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Player’s Handbook (2014)
Proficiencies: Athletics, Perception
Tool Proficiencies: Navigator’s tools, vehicles (water)
Equipment: A belaying pin (club), 50 feet of silk rope, a lucky charm such as a rabbit foot or a small stone
Reputation
If your character has a sailor background, you may select this background feature instead of Ship’s Passage.
No matter where you go, people are afraid of you due to your reputation. When
Backgrounds
Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus
fellows, or on the run?
Skill Proficiencies: Athletics, Perception
Tool Proficiencies: Navigator’s tools, vehicles (water)
Equipment: A belaying pin (club), 50 feet of silk rope, a lucky
background, you may select this background feature instead of Ship’s Passage.
No matter where you go, people are afraid of you due to your reputation. When you are in a settlement, you can get away with
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
shifters are fierce and aggressive, but they form deep bonds with their friends. Many longtooth shifters have canine traits that become more pronounced as they shift, but they might instead draw on
, instead of the bludgeoning damage normal for an unarmed strike. Swiftstride Swiftstride shifters are graceful and quick. Typically feline in nature, swiftstride shifters are often aloof and difficult
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
may roll once on the Silverquill Trinkets table, instead of on the Trinkets table in the Player’s Handbook, for your starting trinket. Silverquill Trinkets d6 Trinket 1 A black leather notebook
access to the special archives of Strixhaven’s libraries 5 A stylish silver pin that references a famous series of novels about warlocks 6 A stack of small pieces of parchment, each enchanted to stick to whatever surface it’s pressed against and peel off easily
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
replacement for a leg (instead of the traditional peg leg), and that a peg was more useful to replace a lost hand. Dran Enterprises ignored Arla at first, convinced that she would be a failure. Surprisingly
explorer’s pack between them, plus a total of 180 gp. Hoffman wears a round metal pin bearing the symbol of Dran Enterprises, and which radiates abjuration to a detect magic spell or similar effect. The pin allows passage through the portal doors on the Dran Enterprises ship (see the next section).
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)
: Athletics, Perception Tool Proficiencies: Navigator’s tools, vehicles (water) Equipment: A belaying pin (club), 50 feet of silk rope, a lucky charm such as a rabbit foot or a small stone with a hole
the Bad Reputation feature (see sidebar) instead of the Ship’s Passage feature. Variant Feature: Bad Reputation
If your character has a sailor background, you may select this background feature
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
he tries to pin the theft of the spellbook on the adventurers once they’re gone. If the characters turn down Spite’s deal, he teams up with Nylas Jowd and Skrianna Shadowdusk (see below) to destroy
instead of fly) wanders the halls of Dweomercore with a pair of invisible will-o’-wisps that obey his commands. Nylas journeyed from Thay to study under Halaster and learn the deeper secrets of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragon Delves
-wide wooden rolling pin falls from the ceiling at the north end of the hall and rolls the length of the hallway, flattening creatures in its path. Each creature in the hallway must succeed on a DC 15
. The rolling pin stops at the south end of the hall. C7: Candied Apple Orchard Nestled in this courtyard are four trees with peppermint bark. Candied apples dangle from their delicate white branches
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
strives to collect everyday objects that played a significant role in an exciting story (such as “the rolling pin that Aunt Hattie used to chase away a bugbear” or “the shoes that Timtom wore when he
doesn’t simply announce, “We must be always ready for a goblin attack.” Instead, that advice is delivered in a story about how a village long ago turned back a goblin invasion, which both entertains the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
as a “Duergar Patrol” encounter instead. Random Encounters in Gracklstugh d20 Encounter 1–2 Abusive duergar guards 3–4 deep gnome (svirfneblin) merchant* 5–7 derro rioters* 8–9 drow emissary* 10–12
the characters investigate the circumstances leading to the assault, bystanders tell them that one of the guards noticed a golden pin the merchant was wearing inside his collar. Though adornment for
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
hides a 2-foot-long golden pin (see “Treasure”) in her hair, and she can use an action to make a melee weapon attack with it. The attack has a +6 bonus to hit, has a reach of 5 feet, targets one
. Cinderhild wears a fire opal pendant on a gold chain around her neck (worth 2,500 gp and weighing 25 pounds) and has a 2-foot-long golden pin (worth 250 gp and weighing 5 pounds) hidden in her hair
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
into the inn’s basement. Instead, anyone opening it glimpses a bricked-over doorway before the next stage is triggered. The door remains open when the characters return, but shows only a brick wall
Blit’zen’s room smells like a college dorm, has exercise equipment in one corner, three boxes of delicious snacks bearing the Big Daddy Donaar’s Yum Yum Hut brand, an autographed pin-up scroll of a band named Sixty Wrong Sausages, and a wall calendar where every month bears his likeness.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Keys from the Golden Vault
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Merle, the dwarf cook (commoner), works here from 6 a.m. to midnight. When confronted with danger, he grabs a rolling pin (treat it as a club) and defends himself. The door that leads outside is used
demonic stone hand rises from the floor and clutches a three-foot-tall, three-foot-wide brazier. The hand has five fingers instead of four.
The stone hand merges seamlessly with the stone floor
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
temple. Those seeking entrance must make signs like those described in E1. If the characters instead ask to speak with the temple’s leaders, one ogre leaves and returns with a razerblast from area E2
doors spaced fifteen feet apart along the north and south walls. Many of the doors are secured from this side with hasp-and-pin mechanisms.
The four westernmost cells (furnished on the map) serve as
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Quests from the Infinite Staircase
on a hit, the attack deals no damage and instead switches the lever’s position. P14: Mists and Corridors Sections of these hallways are filled with an orange mist (marked on map 5.2). The first time
ceiling is encircled by a narrow ledge. Steel spears pin four humanoid skeletons to the left wall, and a chest sits on the far end of the room.
This room contains a brutal spear trap. Secret Door. A
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
instead: The passage opens into a large, dark cavern filled by a subterranean lake. At the east end of the lake, a torch illuminates a stone quay with a ten-foot skiff tied up alongside it. The west end
. Gaol An iron hasp-and-pin arrangement secures the door to this room. The lock can’t be reached from inside but is easy to undo from the corridor. This room evidently serves as a prison. A half-dozen






