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Eberron: Rising from the Last War
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Warforged Personality
The warforged were built to serve and to fight. For most of their existence, warforged had a clearly defined function and were encouraged to focus purely on that role. The Treaty
, Church, Crunch, Crystal, Dagger, Dent, Five, Glaive, Hammer, Iron, Lucky, Mace, Oak, Onyx, Pants, Pierce, Red, Rod, Rusty, Scout, Seven, Shield, Slash, Smith, Spike, Temple, Vault, Wall
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual
people defined by their roles and professions, such as mages, pirates, and warriors. They include members of varied species. Monstrosities are unnatural creatures with strange origins, such as mimics
as angels and pegasi, with ties to the Upper Planes. Constructs are magically created creatures such as homunculi, modrons, and shield guardians. Dragons are scaly beings of ancient origin, such as red
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules
magically created creatures such as homunculi, modrons, and shield guardians. Dragons are scaly beings of ancient origin, such as red dragons and wyverns. Elementals are beings from the Elemental
as balors and hell hounds. Giants are towering beings with humanlike shapes, like cyclopes, fire giants, and trolls. Humanoids are people defined by their roles and professions, such as mages, pirates
classes
Basic Rules (2014)
, defined and united as a class by the spells they cast. Drawing on the subtle weave of magic that permeates the cosmos, wizards cast spells of explosive fire, arcing lightning, subtle deception, and brute
meteors down from the sky, or open portals to other worlds.
Scholars of the Arcane
Wild and enigmatic, varied in form and function, the power of magic draws students who seek to master its mysteries
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
. Iroas carries a battle-worn bronze shield called the Bulwark of Brotherhood. It symbolizes the protective bond shared by all soldiers at war and his determination, ironically, to defeat his own brother
minotaur terror closed in on her, Rygyra whispered a prayer to Iroas and braced her flimsy wooden shield, knowing it would offer no defense against the giant’s strikes. Yet, when the blow came, the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
creatures. Because of their varied origins and purposes, dungeons have a range of distinctive qualities. For example, a dungeon that serves as a stronghold for hobgoblin soldiers has a different mood
Built beneath a city in catacombs or sewers 27–29 Built beneath or on top of a mesa or several connected mesas 30–32 Built by a religious group to serve as a temple and linked to the energy of other
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur’s Gate Gazetteer
hire (thugs) 8 1d6 religious pilgrims (acolytes) 9 1d6 Guild agents (bandits) 10 1 archmage accompanied by a shield guardian 11 1d6 entertainers (commoners) 12 1 gladiator leading an ox, which is
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
guards on riding horses providing escort
7 2d4 mercenaries for hire (thugs)
8 1d6 religious pilgrims (acolytes)
9 1d6 Guild agents (bandits)
10 1 archmage accompanied by a shield
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
shattered their minds. The kuo-toa adopted a religious fervor, inventing gods to protect them against threats. Most notable of these threats are the drow, which have slain the kuo-toa on sight since the
them for its own nefarious ends. Kuo-toa
Medium humanoid (kuo-toa), neutral evil
Armor Class 13 (natural armor, shield)
Hit Points 18 (4d8)
Speed 30 ft., swim 30 ft.
STR
13 (+1
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual
Mod Save
Int 14 +2 +5
Wis 11 +0 +3
Cha 15 +2 +5
Gear Javelins (9), Longsword, Plate Armor, Shield
Senses Darkvision 60 ft.; Passive Perception 10
Languages Common
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Taras Susak Homunculi are as varied as the
magic-users who create them
Homunculus Tiny Construct, Neutral
AC 13 Initiative +2 (12)
HP 4 (1d4 + 2)
Speed 20 ft., Fly 40 ft
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules
; or a pit fiend, balor, yugoloth, or night hag that is especially mighty. That patron’s aims are evil—the corruption or destruction of all things, ultimately including you—and your path is defined by
Burning Hands, Command, Scorching Ray, Suggestion 5 Fireball, Stinking Cloud 7 Fire Shield, Wall of Fire 9 Geas, Insect Plague Level 6: Dark One’s Own Luck You can call on your fiendish patron to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron
to see a warrior with a sword on one hip and a wand on the other. Within the army, such a soldier is referred to as an arcaneer. On the streets, they are called wandslingers. A wandslinger is defined
frost, burning hands, or shield. The critical limitation of the wandslinger is a dependence on an arcane focus. A wandslinger must have an arcane focus—a wand, rod, staff, orb, or crystal—to perform
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
Patriars Patriars are the elite upper class of the city, a rank defined largely by money and lines of vague, increasingly inconsequential heritage. Many nobles claim generations of lineage, dating to
dye production.
Guthmere owns butchery and tannery facilities.
Hhune has ties to Tethyr nobility and the Knights of the Shield, as well as holdings in other major cities.
Hlath owns several
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player’s Handbook
is favored by a god, pantheon, or religious order. This section presents the Life Domain, Light Domain, Trickery Domain, and War Domain subclasses. Life Domain Soothe the Hurts of the World
The
itself relies on the positive energy associated with this domain, so a Cleric of almost any religious tradition might choose it. This domain is particularly associated with agricultural deities, gods
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur’s Gate Gazetteer
Patriars Patriars are the elite upper class of the city, a rank defined largely by money and lines of vague, increasingly inconsequential heritage. Many nobles claim generations of lineage, dating to
dye production.
Guthmere owns butchery and tannery facilities.
Hhune has ties to Tethyr nobility and the Knights of the Shield, as well as holdings in other major cities.
Hlath owns several
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules
modifier in the space for Initiative on your character sheet. Armor Class. Without armor or a shield, your base Armor Class is 10 plus your Dexterity modifier. If your starting equipment includes
armor or a Shield (or both), calculate your AC using the rules in “Equipment”. A class feature might give you a different way to calculate your AC. Attacks. In the Weapons & Damage Cantrips section of the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player’s Handbook
in the space for Initiative on your character sheet. Armor Class. Without armor or a shield, your base Armor Class is 10 plus your Dexterity modifier. If your starting equipment includes armor or a
Shield (or both), calculate your AC using the rules in chapter 6. A class feature might give you a different way to calculate your AC. Attacks. In the Weapons & Damage Cantrips section of the character
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
are petty crimes. The perpetrator pays a fine of 2d10 GP or works to provide restitution. Minor Crime. The category of minor crimes includes armed assault (defined as any nonfatal attack made with a
penalty, or permanent exile. A city magistrate decides which punishment is appropriate. Religion The city has temples and shrines dedicated to various gods. Religious practices that are certifiably
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Sigil and the Outlands
only as stable as the thoughts that bind it. Xaos lies in a region of extreme climates and varied terrain—rugged mountains, muddy swamps, balmy coasts, and barren dunes. The town’s fragile structures
transformations don’t harm Xaos’s inhabitants. Noteworthy Sites Xaos has no defined districts and few steady landmarks. Aside from a handful of local anchors—structures built on stable, neutral-aligned areas
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
Other Religious Systems In your campaign, you can create pantheons of gods who are closely linked in a single religion, monotheistic religions (worship of a single deity), dualistic systems (centered
shadows, sometimes aiding the other deities, and sometimes working against them with the pantheon’s enemies. Mystery Cults A mystery cult is a secretive religious organization based on a ritual of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
elemental fire in its worst incarnation.
Firenewt Warrior
Medium humanoid (firenewt), neutral evil
Armor Class 16 (chain shirt, shield)
Hit Points 22 (4d8 + 4)
Speed 30 ft.
STR
10(+0
pleasant internal heat and it enables a firenewt to vomit forth a small ball of flame. Most firenewts carry a container with this mixture in it. Religious Militants. Firenewt society and culture are
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
residence in the nearby ruins and are working to rebuild their great temple. The rest of the adventure focuses on exploring the ruined Temple of Elemental Evil and dealing with the varied evil factions
leaders and free the captain-general’s captive brother, they discover that the villains were agents of Iuz.
Levels 11–16. Iuz and the Horned Society launch an all-out invasion into the Shield Lands
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
kingdom of Synnoria, the home of the Llewyr elves, plus a few small shield dwarf settlements, and the ruins of Caer Corwell, the former Ffolk settlement on Gwynneth. High King Derid wants to reclaim the
threats of the island, which are many and varied: the Black Blood tribe of Malar-worshiping werefolk, the giants of the Trollclaw Range in the north, and the ogres and orcs of the Orcskill Mountains in
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
encompass the complexities of the strange relationships formed by beings of immortal evil.
Coin Legions Taking a cue from the sword, shield, and dreg legions into which the devils’ armies are
, the gold composition of a coin was strictly defined at the time of the coin’s creation, but no law governed a coin’s state after it left the mint. As long as it was made in the mint, it was legal
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
defined by the prominent leaders, innovators, and tyrants of the day. These people change the world and etch their signatures indelibly on the pages of history. When they rise to power, they shape the
. You can choose the type of leader or determine one randomly using the Leader Types table. Leader Types d6 Leader Type 1 Political 2 Religious 3 Military 4 Crime/underworld 5 Art/culture 6
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
building serves as a quasi-religious museum for the magnificent inventions wrought in Gond’s name. Unlike the similarly named High House of Wonders, which serves as both temple and workshop housing
, in Balduran’s case, a glass casket containing all that lingers from the city’s vanished founder: the age-cracked remnants of his cloak, longsword, shield, and favorite spyglass. High House of Wonders
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur’s Gate Gazetteer
building serves as a quasi-religious museum for the magnificent inventions wrought in Gond’s name. Unlike the similarly named High House of Wonders, which serves as both temple and workshop housing working
, in Balduran’s case, a glass casket containing all that lingers from the city’s vanished founder: the age-cracked remnants of his cloak, longsword, shield, and favorite spyglass. Mike Schley The High
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player’s Handbook
fiend, balor, yugoloth, or night hag that is especially mighty. That patron’s aims are evil—the corruption or destruction of all things, ultimately including you—and your path is defined by the extent to
Spells Warlock Level Spells
3 Burning Hands, Command, Scorching Ray, Suggestion
5 Fireball, Stinking Cloud
7 Fire Shield, Wall of Fire
9 Geas, Insect Plague
Level 6
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
, the creature’s heart and viscera are removed from the corpse and placed in canopic jars. These jars are usually carved from limestone or made of pottery, etched or painted with religious hieroglyphs
bolt, shield of faith
2nd level (3 slots): hold person, silence, spiritual weapon
3rd level (3 slots): animate dead, dispel magic
4th level (3 slots): divination, guardian of faith
5th level
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
. Presiding over the crammed shelves is Entharl Danthelon, a neutral good male shield dwarf commoner who claims to have been an adventurer once himself, as evidenced by the magical flying axe that guards his
. Unlike most of the Outer City, where neighborhoods blend into each other and no one can quite say where one ends and another begins, Little Calimshan is sharply defined by brick-and-plaster walls, 15
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
line of defense against these varied threats. In recent years, they have mobilized against the rising threats of Iuz and Elemental Evil, forcing them to broaden the scope of their operations into
penetrate the Bright Desert and extract its riches, but none have ever returned. Riftcanyon. Between the Bandit Kingdoms and the Shield Lands stretches a deep canyon, ten miles wide at the ends, thirty
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur’s Gate Gazetteer
weapons and armor to rowboats and mobile monster cages. Presiding over the crammed shelves is Entharl Danthelon, a neutral good male shield dwarf commoner who claims to have been an adventurer once
Calimshan is sharply defined by brick-and-plaster walls, 15 feet tall, 5 feet thick, and topped with minarets in the classic Calishite style. These walls don’t simply surround the neighborhood, either
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
light is now under “Elturel’s Shield,” but such claims raise hackles among Elturgard’s neighbors. The Creed Resolute With no clear sign of the source of the Companion and so many faithful arriving in
will not ascribe the Companion to any one god, nor allow religious differences to come between themselves and others. Those who swear the Creed Resolute also promise to serve the High Observer and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
’ status to that of hunters and reducing the number of castes in the host to two. Leaders and religious figures of the tribe still maintain some of their authority, but the lowliest hobgoblin or bugbear can
weapons to create openings in enemy formations.
Bulwarks. The wild attack of a group of thugs is often followed by the charge of one or more bulwarks. A bugbear bulwark carries a spiked shield
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
be chipped. The svirfneblin Rivibiddel in area P9 wants a chip of the gemstone at the heart of the sanctum. He doesn’t care that it’s not a genuine emerald, as its importance to him is religious
passages of the crypt. A statue of a glowering dwarf stands protectively over a sarcophagus with a cracked lid.
The statue is an old shield guardian bound to the crypt’s architect, who was buried here