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Monsters
Forgotten Realms: Adventures in Faerûn
Resistance. Sammaster has Advantage on saving throws against spells and other magical effects.
Soul Gem. If Sammaster is reduced to 0 Hit Points while his magical soul gem exists, his lich form dissolves
to dust. After 1d10;{"diceNotation":"1d10", "rollType":"roll", "rollAction":"Soul Gem"} days, he appears in the space of his soul gem, using the Sammaster (Dracolich Form) stat block. The gem is a
Monsters
Forgotten Realms: Adventures in Faerûn
Resistance. Sammaster has Advantage on saving throws against spells and other magical effects.
Soul Gem. Sammaster has a magical soul gem as his dracolich heart. The gem can’t be damaged or removed
until he is reduced to 0 Hit Points. If Sammaster is reduced to 0 Hit Points, his dracolich form dissolves to dust. After 1d10;{"diceNotation":"1d10", "rollType":"roll", "rollAction":"Soul Gem"} days
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
Unusual Nature. A devourer doesn’t require air, drink, or sleep.Multiattack. The devourer makes two Claw attacks and can use either Imprison Soul or Soul Rend, if available.
Claw. Melee Weapon
", "rollDamageType":"slashing"} slashing damage plus 21 (6d6);{"diceNotation":"6d6", "rollType":"damage", "rollAction":"Claw", "rollDamageType":"necrotic"} necrotic damage.
Imprison Soul. The devourer
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
Underdark cities from enemies and track down thieves who make off with prized treasures. In the city of Menzoberranzan in the Forgotten Realms, noble houses often employ shadowblades to eliminate rivals from
-forming in the Abyss, siphoning its essence into themselves.
drow shadowblade (summoner variant);Variant: Demon Summoning
Some drow shadowblades have an action that allows them to summon a demon
Monsters
Eberron: Rising from the Last War
magical effects.Multiattack. The quori makes two Soul Binding attacks. Alternatively, it can make four attacks with Arcane Blast.
Arcane Blast. Ranged Spell Attack: +13;{"diceNotation":"1d20+13
"} force damage.
Soul Binding. Melee Spell Attack: +13;{"diceNotation":"1d20+13","rollType":"to hit","rollAction":"Soul Binding"} to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 29 (4d10 + 7);{"diceNotation":"4d10+7
Sailor
Legacy
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Backgrounds
Player’s Handbook (2014)
more than one deserving soul to a briny grave. Fear and bloodshed are no strangers to you, and you’ve garnered a somewhat unsavory reputation in many a port town.
Variant Feature: Bad
Master will determine how long it takes to get where you need to go. In return for your free passage, you and your companions are expected to assist the crew during the voyage.
Variant Sailor: Pirate
Backgrounds
Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus
the Gray Wavers—the Flaming Fist harbor guards—and have a sense of how to operate the city’s mechanized cranes.
Variant Sailor: Pirate
You spent your youth under the sway of a
dread pirate, a ruthless cutthroat who taught you how to survive in a world of sharks and savages. You’ve indulged in larceny on the high seas and sent more than one deserving soul to a briny grave
Entertainer
Legacy
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Player’s Handbook (2014)
liking to you.
Variant Entertainer: Gladiator
A gladiator is as much an entertainer as any minstrel or circus performer, trained to make the arts of combat into a spectacle the crowd can
smiles on people’s faces when I perform. That’s all that matters. (Neutral)
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Honesty. Art should reflect the soul; it should come from within and reveal who we really are. (Any
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
explicitly include dragon turtles in the variant rules for making a dragon a spellcaster, you can apply those rules to these aquatic dragons.)
Dragon Turtle Personality Traits
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out of arrow range, so they know I am watching.
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I am fascinated by the politics of surface realms and talk endlessly with sailors and adventurers to stay current on the latest happenings on
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
characters, and use the Dragon Turtle Spellcasting table to help select spells for a spellcasting dragon. (Though the Monster Manual doesn’t explicitly include dragon turtles in the variant rules for
fascinated by the politics of surface realms and talk endlessly with sailors and adventurers to stay current on the latest happenings on land.
Dragon Turtle Ideals
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Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide
personnel and bureaucracy, and you know how to navigate those connections with some ease.
Additionally, you are likely to gain preferential treatment at other libraries across the Realms, as
work is a series of tomes related to a specific field of lore.
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I’ve been searching my whole life for the answer to a certain question.
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I sold my soul for knowledge. I hope to do
Backgrounds
Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus
occupation or social class that frequents the establishment. This contact is delighted to talk with you, and to listen.
Variant Entertainer: Gladiator
A gladiator is as much an
Honesty. Art should reflect the soul; it should come from within and reveal who we really are. (Any)
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My instrument is my most treasured possession, and it reminds
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
characters in a Forgotten Realms campaign, many of them specific to Faerûn or to the Sword Coast and the North in particular. As in the Player’s Handbook, each of the backgrounds presented here provides
proficiencies, languages, and equipment, as well as a background feature and sometimes a variant form. For personality traits, ideals, bonds, and flaws, most of the backgrounds in this chapter use a thematically similar background in the Player’s Handbook as their foundation.
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
table to help select spells for a spellcasting dragon. (Though the Monster Manual doesn’t explicitly include dragon turtles in the variant rules for making a dragon a spellcaster, you can apply
snippets of tunes I have overheard.
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I swim alongside ships sailing through my domain, just out of arrow range, so they know I am watching.
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I am fascinated by the politics of surface realms
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
latest spells, clerics on missions from their gods, treasure hunters searching for lost artifacts, grim-faced merchants who deal in slaves, smugglers of soul coins, and scholars seeking firsthand
knowledge of the machinations of the diabolical realms. Adventurers come here to negotiate with powerful fiends, meddle in the Blood War, and free poor souls trapped in the Nine Hells.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
Roleplaying Strahd Strahd believes his soul is lost to evil. He feels neither pity nor remorse, neither love nor hate. He doesn’t suffer anguish or wallow in indignation. He believes, and has always
. In his mind, her death couldn’t have been prevented, and what is done cannot be undone. In life, Strahd lived to conquer. In undeath, he conquers still—not realms, but people, driving good souls to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
believing they are as powerful as the gods. Some go so far as to demand that mortals of other realms — even whole continents or worlds — bow down before them. VARIANT: GENIE POWERS
Genies have a variety
of the Elements. A genie is born when the soul of a sentient living creature melds with the primordial matter of an elemental plane. Only under rare circumstances does such an elemental-infused soul
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
devourer’s first foray into the planes. Most devourers remain in the Abyss or on the Astral or Ethereal Plane, pursuing Orcus’s schemes and interests in those realms. When Orcus sends devourers to the
particularly attracted to the presence of a devourer. Devourers hunt Humanoids with the intent of consuming them body and soul. After a devourer brings a target to the brink of death, it pulls the victim’s
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
life and death to escape these realms. Beyond that, who does and doesn’t have a soul among the domains rarely matters unless an adventure explores themes of life, death, and reincarnation. Players
fundamental ways, controlling magic, the nature of life and death, and the means of escaping from their nightmare realms. Mysterious Magic In some domains, magic is an everyday part of life, while in
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
demon to power the devourer’s first foray into the planes. Most devourers remain in the Abyss, or on the Astral or Ethereal Plane, pursuing Orcus’s schemes and interests in those realms. When Orcus sends
presence of a devourer. Tormentors of Souls. Devourers hunt humanoids, with the intent of consuming them body and soul. After a devourer brings a target to the brink of death, it pulls the victim’s
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron
. Battle supernatural evil with steel, fire, and magic. Every mortal soul can be guided to the light. Inspire and guide others to virtuous behavior; force is a last resort. Listen to the Voice of the
you support the theocracy of Thrane or whether you feel that it’s a mistake to draw the Church into politics. A number of variant sects worship the Silver Flame; you can always find your own path
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
Revenant A revenant forms from the soul of a mortal who met a cruel and undeserving fate. It claws its way back into the world to seek revenge against the one who wronged it. The revenant reclaims
to dust and its soul fades into the afterlife. If its foe is too powerful for the revenant to destroy on its own, it seeks worthy allies to help it fulfill its quest. Divine Justice. No magic can hide
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything
Shadowfell are masters of these macabre techniques, and some are willing to teach this path. In places like Thay in the Forgotten Realms and Karrnath in Eberron, where many necromancers practice their craft, a
regain all expended uses when you finish a long rest. Tokens of the Departed 9th-level Phantom feature When a life ends in your presence, you’re able to snatch a token from the departing soul, a sliver
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
ventures into the darkness to retrieve the soul of her lost love. Calling on their divine parentage, a group of demigods undertake twelve labors to win the gods’ blessings for other mortals. A mythic-fantasy
— misbegotten offspring of a philandering god. Adventures might lead the heroes through a series of trials to the realms of the gods in search of a gift or favor. Such a campaign can draw on the myths and legends of any culture, not just the familiar Greek tales.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a7
entrance to his halls, and went to reside in his final haunt, while his soul roamed strange planes unknown to even the wisest of sages. If the characters gain access to the innermost part of the tomb
where the lich’s crypt lies, their actions along the way will have caused his soul to be called back to the Material Plane and alerted Acererak, now a demilich, that interlopers have invaded his resting
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
Harpers This clandestine network of spellcasters and spies seeks to tip the scales in favor of the innocent, the weak, and the poor within the Realms. Harper agents pride themselves on being
growing force that is rumored to have evil intent. The Harpers has its finger on the pulse of power in the Realms and works tirelessly to even the odds for the downtrodden. Individual Harper agents
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Xanathar's Guide to Everything
a martial arts tradition inspired by the swaying of a drunkard Monk Way of the Kensei 3rd Channels ki through a set of mastered weapons Monk Way of the Sun Soul 3rd Transforms ki into bursts of fire
, manipulates others Rogue Scout 3rd Combines stealth with a knack for survival Rogue Swashbuckler 3rd Delivers deadly strikes with speed and panache Sorcerer Divine Soul 1st Harnesses magic bestowed
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
Spellcasting table to help select spells for a spellcasting dragon. (Though the Monster Manual doesn’t explicitly include dragon turtles in the variant rules for making a dragon a spellcaster, you can apply
of arrow range, so they know I am watching.
8 I am fascinated by the politics of surface realms and talk endlessly with sailors and adventurers to stay current on the latest happenings on land
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
Patrons in the Realms The gods are far from the only forces at work in the Realms, and ambitious warlocks have many potential patrons able to offer them arcane power. The Archfey In the vast
wilderness of the Realms one can still find connections to the Feywild. These are fey crossings, places of mysterious natural beauty in the world that have a near-perfect mirror in the Feywild. You can pass
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
physical characteristics of humans can change wildly from region to region. In the Forgotten Realms, for example, the clothing, architecture, cuisine, music, and literature are different in the northwestern
migrations of the earliest humans, so that the humans of the Silver Marches have every possible variation of coloration and features. In the Forgotten Realms, nine human ethnic groups are widely
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
Monastic Orders The following orders can be found in various parts of the Forgotten Realms. The Dark Moon A monastic order devoted to Shar, the Dark Moon works openly in lands where her worship is
relieving the suffering of others. They tend to follow the Way of the Open Hand, as described in the Monastic Tradition class feature in the Player’s Handbook. The Sun Souls The Sun Soul monks follow a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
ready to travel at a moment’s notice, with franchisees always rushing headlong into the next amazing opportunity. As a Horizon Walker, you’re a master of travel, blazing trails into unknown realms by
passing through the even-more-unknown realms of the planes. Whatever path your franchise walks, your combat and magical skill helps ensure a safe journey for you and your companions. Moreover, the
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Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything
destruction unleashed by certain artificers’ creations.
In the Forgotten Realms, the island of Lantan is home to many artificers, and in the world of Dragonlance, tinker gnomes are often
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Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
with a fetid purple radiance.
Elturel’s grand cemetery was once a beautiful memorial to those who had passed into the realms beyond. Picturesque flowers and grass framed the graves, statues, and
of a relic of Torm kept beneath the cemetery chapel. The Helm of Torm’s Sight is said to give a worthy soul the ability to commune directly with that noble god. The duke and his guards came to the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual
many know the locations of portals to the Lower Planes, the Shadowfell, and other sinister realms. Nightmares’ speed, resilience, and ability to gallop between planes of existence make them steeds
messenger of an evil deity. 2 A group of joyriding imps or quasits. 3 An innocent soul trapped on the wild Fiend. 4 A lore-hunting mage, cultist, or lich. 5 A night hag herding larvae between planes. 6 A