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Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide
Since not all tieflings are of the blood of Asmodeus, some have traits that differ from those in the Player’s Handbook. The Dungeon Master may permit the following variants for your
replaces the Ability Score Increase trait.
Appearance. Your tiefling might not look like other tieflings. Rather than having the physical characteristics described in the Player’s Handbook
Species
Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide
Since not all tieflings are of the blood of Asmodeus, some have traits that differ from those in the Player’s Handbook. The Dungeon Master may permit the following variants for your tiefling
character, although Devil’s Tongue, Hellfire, and Winged are mutually exclusive.
Appearance. Your tiefling might not look like other tieflings. Rather than having the physical
Monsters
Princes of the Apocalypse
Amphibious. The dragon can breathe air and water.
Legendary Resistance (3/Day). If the dragon fails a saving throw, it can choose to succeed instead.
Living Shadow. While in dim light or darkness
, the dragon has resistance to damage that isn’t force, psychic, or radiant.
Shadow Stealth. While in dim light or darkness, the dragon can take the Hide action as a bonus action.
Sunlight
Monsters
Spelljammer: Adventures in Space
damage. A Humanoid reduced to 0 hit points by this attack dies and instantly transforms into a free-willed shadow under the DM’s control.
Light Crossbow. Ranged Weapon Attack: +4;{"diceNotation
vampire’s but doesn’t use them to draw vital fluids from prey, which vampirates consider an unsavory act. Rather, a vampirate drains life energy from another creature by touching it or by
Species
Eberron: Rising from the Last War
appeared in the Shadow Marches, where clan hunters used it to find their prey.
House Tharashk
Leader: The Triumvirate (Maagrim Torrn, Khandar’aashta, and Daric Velderan)
Headquarters: Zarash&rsquo
;ak, Shadow Marches
House Tharashk traditionally licenses inquisitives and bounty hunters. Recently the house’s Finder’s Guild has expanded into dragonshard prospecting. As dragon
Monsters
Mythic Odysseys of Theros
(Recharges after a Short or Long Rest). The shepherd pulls twisted souls from the Underworld; 1d6;{"diceNotation":"1d6","rollType":"roll","rollAction":"Herd the Underworld"} shadow;shadows (without
the five wards of the Underworld where they will spend their dismal eternity. They prey upon souls who wander from their rightful places in the Underworld.
Some foul souls can’t let go of the
Species
Eberron: Rising from the Last War
appeared in the Shadow Marches, where clan hunters used it to find their prey.
House Tharashk
Leader: The Triumvirate (Maagrim Torrn, Khandar’aashta, and Daric Velderan)
Headquarters: Zarash&rsquo
;ak, Shadow Marches
House Tharashk traditionally licenses inquisitives and bounty hunters. Recently the house’s Finder’s Guild has expanded into dragonshard prospecting. As dragon
Monsters
Spelljammer: Adventures in Space
. A Humanoid reduced to 0 hit points by this attack dies and instantly transforms into a free-willed shadow or vampirate (captain’s choice) under the DM’s control.
Heavy Crossbow. Ranged
parchment. A vampirate has fangs like a vampire’s but doesn’t use them to draw vital fluids from prey, which vampirates consider an unsavory act. Rather, a vampirate drains life energy from
Monsters
Spelljammer: Adventures in Space
","rollDamageType":"necrotic"} necrotic damage. A Humanoid reduced to 0 hit points by this attack dies and instantly transforms into a free-willed shadow under the DM’s control.
Ray of Cold
use them to draw vital fluids from prey, which vampirates consider an unsavory act. Rather, a vampirate drains life energy from another creature by touching it or by siphoning off its energy from a
Half-Elf
Legacy
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Species
Basic Rules (2014)
Flint squinted into the setting sun. He thought he saw the figure of a man striding up the path. Standing, Flint drew back into the shadow of a tall pine to see better. The man’s walk was
-Elf Variants
Some half-elves in Faerûn have a racial trait in place of the Skill Versatility trait. If your DM allows it, your half-elf character can forgo Skill Versatility and instead take the elf trait Keen Senses or a trait based on your elf parentage:
Monsters
Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
revive with a benefit from the Boons of Undeath table. You can give a priest one or more of these boons of your choice before the priest faces adventurers. If you do so, the priest is Undead, rather than
body, but it otherwise uses the stat block of a shadow.
The shadow obeys the priest’s mental commands (no action required) and takes its turn immediately after the priest. If the creature is
Monsters
Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
the Boons of Undeath table. You can give a priest one or more of these boons of your choice before the priest faces adventurers. If you do so, the priest is Undead, rather than Humanoid, and a priest
silhouette of its original body, but it otherwise uses the stat block of a shadow.
The shadow obeys the priest’s mental commands (no action required) and takes its turn immediately after the priest. If
Monsters
Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
these boons of your choice before the priest faces adventurers. If you do so, the priest is Undead, rather than Humanoid, and a priest can receive each boon only once.
Boons of Undeath
d6
Boon
unoccupied space the priest can see within 30 feet of it. The creature has the size and silhouette of its original body, but it otherwise uses the stat block of a shadow.
The shadow obeys the priest
Monsters
Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
before the priest faces adventurers. If you do so, the priest is Undead, rather than Humanoid, and a priest can receive each boon only once.
Boons of Undeath
d6
Boon
1
Priest of
can see within 30 feet of it. The creature has the size and silhouette of its original body, but it otherwise uses the stat block of a shadow.
The shadow obeys the priest’s mental commands (no
Monsters
Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
Boons of Undeath table. You can give a priest one or more of these boons of your choice before the priest faces adventurers. If you do so, the priest is Undead, rather than Humanoid, and a priest can
stat block of a shadow.
The shadow obeys the priest’s mental commands (no action required) and takes its turn immediately after the priest. If the creature is within 5 feet of the priest, it
Priest of Osybus
Legacy
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monsters
Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
boons of your choice before the priest faces adventurers. If you do so, the priest is Undead, rather than Humanoid, and a priest can receive each boon only once.
Boons of Undeath
d6
Boon
space the priest can see within 30 feet of it. The creature has the size and silhouette of its original body, but it otherwise uses the stat block of a shadow.
The shadow obeys the priest’s
Lizardfolk
Legacy
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Volo's Guide to Monsters
basic principles than those of warm-blooded creatures. Their dismal swamp homes might lie hundreds of miles from the nearest human settlement, but the gap between their way of thinking and that of the
pleasurable creatures and things are ones that allow lizardfolk to assess more situations as benign rather than fearsome.
Cold and Calculating
Most humanoids describe cold-blooded people as lacking in
Halfling
Legacy
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Species
Basic Rules (2014)
that, avoiding offense. Standing about 3 feet tall, they appear relatively harmless and so have managed to survive for centuries in the shadow of empires and on the edges of wars and political strife
treasures locked in a cellar rather than on display for all to see. They have a knack for finding the most straightforward solution to a problem, and have little patience for dithering.
Kind and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
Rest Variants The rules for short and long rests presented in chapter 8 of the Player’s Handbook work well for a heroic-style campaign. Characters can go toe-to-toe with deadly foes, take damage to
within an inch of their lives, yet still be ready to fight again the next day. If this approach doesn’t fit your campaign, consider the following variants. Epic Heroism This variant uses a short rest
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
Conversing with others is often difficult because I’m so easily distr… oh my goodness, is that circlet made of silver?
7
I find the waking world tedious and mundane and would much rather
centuries-old conflict between fey courts.
4
An ancient moonstone dragon;ancient moonstone dragon's sibling, imprisoned for centuries in the Shadowfell, has finally returned home as a shadow
Species
Acquisitions Incorporated
then passing through the shadow of That-Which-Endures changed them forever. Now the newest race to call Faerûn home, the verdan do their best to find their way in an unfamiliar world
.
Reality is a descent into chaos punctuated by brief flashes of order, whence we arose and so imagine it to be the norm rather than a distant outlier. That-Which-Endures held entropy back for a mere instant
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
Dragon, Shadow Shadow dragons are true dragons that were either born in the Shadowfell or transformed by years spent within its dismal confines. Some shadow dragons embrace the Shadowfell for its
bleak landscapes and desolation. Others seek to return to the Material Plane, hungry to spread the darkness and evil of the Plane of Shadow. Dark Portals. Portals to the Shadowfell manifest in forlorn
Ancient Deep Dragon
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Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
rather enjoy the company of people—as long as they remain unaware of my true nature.
Deep Dragon Ideals
d6;{"diceNotation":"1d6","rollType":"roll","rollAction":"Ideal"}
Ideal
of my power. (Evil)
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Patience. All creatures might teach me something, and I’m willing to wait and find out what that might be rather than acting in haste. (Good)
Deep Dragon
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
lady of fortune” (Tymora) — an indication, tieflings say, that one’s outward appearance and bloodline are less important to the gods than the heart and soul within. TIEFLING VARIANTS
Since not all
tieflings are of the blood of Asmodeus, some have traits that differ from those in the Player’s Handbook. The Dungeon Master may permit the following variants for your tiefling character, although
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Morte’s Planar Parade
Undead Undead often lurk in the dismal reaches of the Outlands, but some wander the land, either seeking places to spend eternity or preying on the living. Outlands Undead d4 Encounter 1 The
characters find a trapped crawling claw. Rather than attacking, the severed hand can lead the characters to the thankful immortal who lost it. 2 A banshee influenced by Acheron appears as a fallen knight
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
House Tharashk Leader: The Triumvirate (Maagrim Torrn, Khandar’aashta, and Daric Velderan) Headquarters: Zarash’ak, Shadow Marches House Tharashk traditionally licenses inquisitives and bounty
usually retain their family names rather than adopting “d’Tharashk” as tradition dictates. Each of the three major clans—the Aashta, the Torrn, and the Velderan—has a representative on the Triumvirate that
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Shadows of Sithicus
Beginning the Adventure Read or paraphrase the following: Inza sent you into the Mist again to track the second shadow raven. Rather than emerging on a road, however, you fell into the cold water of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything
can undertake the puzzle and cross the room safely. You can also increase the difficulty by introducing trap variants, as described below. Trap Variants Rather than have the same poison gas trap on
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
crimson-tinged shadow. Closing the Borders. When Duchess Saidra wants to close the borders of her domain, the Mists don’t rise. Rather, those who try to leave find themselves roaming the lands of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
goblinoid things. But then passing through the shadow of That-Which-Endures changed them forever. Now the newest race to call Faerûn home, the verdan do their best to find their way in an unfamiliar world
. Reality is a descent into chaos punctuated by brief flashes of order, whence we arose and so imagine it to be the norm rather than a distant outlier. That-Which-Endures held entropy back for a mere instant, and the Verdan emerged. I’m sorry, was that the question?
— K’thriss Drow’b
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Forge of the Artificer
Greater Dragonmarks Lee Moyer Left to Right: Greater Mark of Detection, Greater Mark of Shadow, Greater Mark of Making
Most dragonmarks are small—no more than the size of the bearer’s palm
—and grant limited magical power. And even these minor marks are rather rare. But rarer and more powerful marks appear on some individuals, both within and outside the dragonmarked houses. Greater
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Basic Rules (2014)
necessary, using their magic to bolster their swords and armor. Their spells lean toward charms and illusions rather than blatantly destructive spells. They have a wide-ranging knowledge of many
. Perhaps you had a secure and mundane childhood. There’s no good story to be told about that, so you might paint yourself as an orphan raised by a hag in a dismal swamp. Or your childhood might be
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
balloon, all three are lurking in the guest room (see appendix C for their stat blocks). Charm’s detached shadow is also present unless the characters destroyed it earlier in the adventure. Like other
detached shadows found in Motherhorn, Charm’s shadow is a Fey, not an Undead. A creature whose Strength is reduced to 0 by the shadow’s Strength Drain attack does not die but falls unconscious instead
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
languages and cultures also explains the scripts used to write various languages. For example, the Orc language is written using the Goblin script (rather than Dwarvish, as stated in the Player’s Handbook
language of the goblin empire of Dhakaan and survives as the primary language in Darguun, Droaam, and the Shadow Marches. Goblin displaced the Orc language; the people of the Shadow Marches typically
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
shadows under his command try to destroy intruders as quickly as possible, enabling the shadow dragon to revel in their misery rather than his own. Umbraxakar’s Despair. The dragon has spent more than
32. Umbraxakar’s Lair Umbraxakar the shadow dragon dwells here and cannot be surprised by the characters, whose presence he has sensed since they first stepped into the Shadowfell. Characters who