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Spelljammer: Adventures in Space
impossible to duplicate. To interact with other folk, thri-kreen rely on a form of telepathy.
Creating Your Character
When you create your D&D character, you decide whether your character is a
, and write Common and one other language that you and your DM agree is appropriate for the character. The Player’s Handbook offers a list of widespread languages to choose from. The DM is free
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
Using These Rules The book’s adventures include Relationship encounters, featuring events during which characters can interact with one or more of the student NPCs in the “Fellow Students” section
. When such an encounter begins, use the adventure’s read-aloud text to describe the scene. Then work with the characters one at a time until each has had a turn to interact with the student NPCs. The
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Infernal Machine Rebuild
and player ingenuity, or a successful DC 16 Charisma (Persuasion) check. Suggesting a new design for a magical creature (ideally one combining the aspects of two or more existing creatures in some particularly deadly way) can grant advantage on checks made to interact with the artificer.
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
treaty, or achieve whatever other objective led to the interaction in the first place. The creatures they interact with also have agendas. Some DMs prefer to run a social interaction as a free-form
somewhere in between, balancing player skill (roleplaying and persuading) with character skill (reflected by ability checks).
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
Extras Extras are the characters and creatures in the background that the main characters rarely, if ever, interact with. Extras might be elevated to more important roles by virtue of adventurers
singling them out. For instance, a player might be hooked by a passing reference you make to a street urchin and try to strike up a conversation with the youngster. Suddenly, an extra on whom you placed
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
rendered. You can omit details that are not readily visible (such as secret doors and other hidden features) until the characters are able to detect and interact with them. Slopes and Staircases. On all
Icewind Dale, including Ten-Towns and other sites and features in the region that are common knowledge. The reverse side has player-friendly maps of the ten settlements that comprise Ten-Towns, with prominent locations called out in each town for the players’ benefit.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
rendered. You can omit details that are not readily visible (such as secret doors and other hidden features) until the characters are able to detect and interact with them. Poster Map The double-sided poster
of the poster map has player-friendly maps of the town of Phandalin as well as recurring encounter locations. Mike Schley Sword Coast region surrounding PhandalinView Unlabeled Version
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
Relationships: Before We Go Adventurers never know what
lurks within an ancient ruin This scene is the final opportunity for the characters to interact with their fellow students on campus before
personal importance to each character. If a player wishes to cement a Beloved Relationship when they normally couldn’t or gain a Friend even if they don’t have enough Relationship Points, allow them
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen
characters can detect and interact with them. Appendix E provides two maps for player use. Reproduce these maps and share them with your players as you see fit. Poster Map The poster map is meant to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragon Delves
Background” for more context and familiarize yourself with the Key NPCs table, which describes important individuals the characters will interact with throughout the adventure. Step 3. Make a copy of
the Copper for a Song handout for each player. (You will share it with them shortly after the adventure starts.) Step 4. Bookmark the following stat blocks in the Monster Manual or on D&D Beyond: Axe
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
Belviews—and all suffer from some form of madness. Whenever the characters interact with a mongrelfolk who isn’t detailed here, roll on the Indefinite Madness table (see “Madness Effects” in chapter 8 of
Player Version Most of the mongrelfolk in the abbey are locked up because they can’t be trusted to wander about unsupervised. The only mongrelfolk who are free to move about are the Abbot’s
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
Character Alignment Some common misconceptions about alignment can cause conflicts between players and DMs. The following sections can help you navigate how player characters interact with alignment
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
interact with, whether as allies, members, or enemies. As a starting point, decide what role you want an organization to play in the world. What is it all about? What are its goals? Who founded it and why
.” These are sophisticated people involved in a delicate political alliance, with more emphasis on stability than on fairness and equality. Finally, think about the ways that player characters might come
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Volo's Guide to Monsters
;t understand the goblins’ social system are sometimes surprised by how different castes interact with them. A single human warrior might frighten away a dozen gatherers, only to be shocked when
darkvision and the Nimble Escape traits common to all goblins. Each time the goblin casts a spell, there is an accompanying surge of wild magic; roll on the Wild Magic Surge table in the Player’s Handbook to determine the wild magic effect.
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Borderlands Quest: Goblin Trouble
for your players to claim on D&D Beyond. The Characters
The characters are heroes that the players use to interact with the world and story the DM presents. Let the players review these characters
regain Hit Points later in the game.
Skills. Each character can use the skills listed on their character sheet. The number after a skill shows what the player adds to a d20 roll. The higher the
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player’s Handbook
monster and a player character. Your Turn On your turn, you can move a distance up to your Speed and take one action. You decide whether to move first or take your action first. The main actions you
can interact with one object or feature of the environment for free, during either your move or action. For example, you could open a door during your move as you stride toward a foe. If you want to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules
monster and a player character. Your Turn On your turn, you can move a distance up to your Speed and take one action. You decide whether to move first or take your action first. The main actions you
can interact with one object or feature of the environment for free, during either your move or action. For example, you could open a door during your move as you stride toward a foe. If you want to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
they’re engaged in. If the characters have a ship or stronghold, record its name and whereabouts, as well as any hirelings in the characters’ employ. Player Handouts. Keep a copy of all handouts you
record of adventures, which you can refer to if your own log is incomplete.) NPC Notes. Record statistics and roleplaying notes for any NPC the characters interact with more than once. For example, your
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Xanathar's Guide to Everything
create your own shared campaign for a school D&D club, at a game store, a library, or anywhere else where D&D players and DMs gather. A shared campaign establishes a framework that allows a player to take
policies might need to be added to account for what might happen at the table when players and DMs interact. As a starting point, consider the following material, which is excerpted from the Adventurers
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules
bookshelf. Outside combat, the characters don’t need to take turns, but you need to give each player a chance to tell you what their character is doing so you can decide how to resolve everyone’s
to pick the lock, while a successful Charisma (Persuasion) check and some coins might be needed to bribe the guard. Roleplaying. When the players interact with other creatures, roleplay those
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
characters don’t need to take turns, but you need to give each player a chance to tell you what their character is doing so you can decide how to resolve everyone’s actions. In combat, everyone takes
determine the results of characters’ actions. Roleplaying. When the players interact with other creatures, roleplay those creatures based on whether they are Friendly, Indifferent, or Hostile. Improvise
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Borderlands Quest: Goblin Trouble
bandits, while Vonnet is an orc woman That’s the only thing you should remember. Otherwise, you can differentiate them in any way you want.
Sometimes waiting to see how the characters interact with them
is the best option, because you can then adjust their personalities and actions to tell the best story. If a player asks the other players about potentially manipulating them, for example, you might
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Xanathar's Guide to Everything
provides help once, not help for life. The contact remains friendly, which can influence roleplaying and how the characters interact with them, but doesn’t come with a guarantee of help. You can assign
if that character doesn’t come into play. Alternatively, you can allow the player to make an NPC into a contact on the spot, after carousing. When the characters are in the area in which they caroused
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
Macreadus and interact with it only if they cross over to the Border Ethereal, which is what happens to someone who dies in the cabin (see “Dying in the Black Cabin” below). In the Border Ethereal, the
is what happened to Macreadus, and the same fate awaits characters who perish in the cabin. If a character dies in the cabin and its spirit manifests in the Border Ethereal, the player can choose the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
Type A monster's type speaks to its fundamental nature. Certain spells, magic items, class features, and other effects in the game interact in special ways with creatures of a particular type. For
spellcasting), and a bipedal form. The most common humanoid races are the ones most suitable as player characters: humans, dwarves, elves, and halflings. Almost as numerous but far more savage and brutal, and
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Eve of Ruin
Castle Locations The following locations are keyed to map 11.2. Dyson Logos Map 11.2: Torment of Kas View Player Version K1: Ruined Bailey The hulking figures the characters saw from afar are two
illusionary; Vecna can’t interact with any creature in this chamber, and vice versa. K5: Kas’s Chamber The unmistakable form of Kas sits hunched in the far corner of this dank, stone room. Each of the
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
, the DM tells the player the secret and informs them that their character is compelled to fulfill that secret goal. For maximum entertainment value, wait until the triggering scene to tell the players
quest for further development, depending on how and if the characters interact with the dwarves in the wedding party. Amara Dhargun. Amara (NG female dwarf bandit captain) is Gwendolyn’s mother — a
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
Type A monster’s type speaks to its fundamental nature. Certain spells, magic items, class features, and other effects in the game interact in special ways with creatures of a particular type. For
learn spellcasting), and a bipedal form. The most common humanoid races are the ones most suitable as player characters: humans, dwarves, elves, and halflings. Almost as numerous, are the races of
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
, or engaged in some other activity. Pursuit. The characters are tracking monsters, or the monsters are tracking them. The encounter begins when the two groups get close enough to interact. Foraging
work that into your narration of the journey so the player feels good about choosing that skill proficiency. You can also assume the characters can load their mounts with enough Rations for their
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
punoView Player Version Map 10.2 represents Pangil ng Buwan’s lair. When the characters arrive, read the following description: Charred roots the size of buildings surround an open clearing with a
veterans; see “The Dragon Hunters” earlier in this adventure) arrive 3 rounds later. If the characters took an indirect path but didn’t interact with the dragon hunters, the dragon hunters are already
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
air. The player should secretly write down their character’s wish on a piece of paper; collect these notes and keep them somewhere safe. On the Story Tracker, jot down the names of the characters who
reverence, addressing the character as “Your Majesty” or “Your Highness.” The characters don’t become aware of these benefits until they arrive in Prismeer and interact with its inhabitants. The Feywild awaits!
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
allowing that character’s player to choose Zybilna as the warlock’s patron. Warlocks who make pacts with Zybilna regard her as a generous, fairy godmother-like figure.
Setting the Stage Identify which
forgotten childhood memory of her, which you can determine by having that character’s player roll on the Childhood Memories table. Childhood Memories d8 Memory 1 When you were a small child, a
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Guildmasters' Guide to Ravnica
information to the adventure’s villain, subtly aid the villain’s efforts, or even become villains themselves.
Contacts can complicate things even more when they interact with multiple player
first location by investigating the second.
Guild Villains Player characters might belong to any guild, and their adversaries might as well. The guild entries in this chapter offer examples of the
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
whole of Eastern Oerik. Adventurers and Organizations
Factions and organizations aimed at player characters can connect adventurers to your world, providing ties to key NPCs and a clear agenda beyond
involved with happenings on Oerth. Lesser gods are more likely to manifest in some form on the Material Plane and interact with their worshipers. Cuthbert, for example, is well known for appearing in mortal
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
Haven Locations The following locations are keyed to the map of the Haven of the Red Quill. Map 16.1: haven of the red quill View Player Version H1. Deep Stairwell The wall near the top of the
the room, nodding and moving his mouth as if speaking to unseen people. If the characters interact with the ghost, or after a few minutes of this one-sided silent conversation, it finally takes notice