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Inquisitor of the Sword Legacy

monsters Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft

by a tome. Today the inquisition rules the city of Malitain, a vast city-state to the north of Barovia’s original site, and the inquisition sends its members throughout the multiverse, seeking

Inquisitor of the Mind Fire Legacy

monsters Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft

members became the inquisition’s scholars, represented by a tome. Today the inquisition rules the city of Malitain, a vast city-state to the north of Barovia’s original site, and the

High Fae Noble

Monsters Monstrous Compendium Vol. 4: Eldraine Creatures

they jockey for favors and status in the Kindly Lord’s court. High Fae Ageless and inhuman, high fae are the oldest creatures in Eldraine, embodying the natural splendor and danger of the

untamed wilderness. High fae have no regard for mortal values of honor and law, but they nonetheless operate under inviolable rules of their own: gifts must always be repaid, promises must be honored

Hobgoblin

Species Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse

creates a mystical bond between the giver and the receiver of a gift. On some worlds, such bonds lead hobgoblins to form communities with deep ties to one another. In Eberron and the Forgotten Realms, vast

fantastical race. If you select a fantastical race, follow these additional rules during character creation. Ability Score Increases When determining your character’s ability scores, increase one score

Inquisitor of the Tome Legacy

monsters Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft

order’s members became the inquisition’s scholars, represented by a tome. Today the inquisition rules the city of Malitain, a vast city-state to the north of Barovia’s original site

Folk Hero Legacy

Backgrounds Basic Rules (2014)

disaster. 3 I stood alone against a terrible monster. 4 I stole from a corrupt merchant to help the poor. 5 I led a militia to fight off an invading army. 6 I broke into a tyrant

. d6 Flaw 1 The tyrant who rules my land will stop at nothing to see me killed. 2 I’m convinced of the significance of my destiny, and blind to my shortcomings and the risk of

Orcus Legacy

Monsters Out of the Abyss

multiverse transformed into a vast necropolis populated solely by undead creatures under his command. Orcus rewards those who spread death in his name by granting them a small portion of his power

chapter 7, "Treasure” of the Dungeon Master’s Guide.Orcus’s Lair Orcus makes his lair in the fortress city of Naratyr, which is on Thanatos, the layer of the Abyss that he rules

Orcus

Monsters Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse

into a vast necropolis populated solely by Undead creatures under his command. Orcus rewards those who spread death in his name by granting them a small portion of his power. The least of these

Dungeon Master’s Guide.Orcus’s Lair Orcus makes his lair in the fortress city of Naratyr, which is on Thanatos, the layer of the Abyss that he rules. Surrounded by a moat fed by the

Azorius Functionary

Backgrounds Guildmasters’ Guide to Ravnica

The brutes are at the gate, chaos is looming, and the only thing standing in the way of disaster is the foundation of law and order — as embodied in the Azorius Senate. You’re a proud

-minted 1-zino coins) Feature: Legal Authority You have the authority to enforce the laws of Ravnica, and that status inspires a certain amount of respect and even fear in the populace. People mind

Goliath Legacy

Species Elemental Evil Player's Companion

much on them can grow complacent, a recipe for disaster in the mountains. This trait manifests most strongly when goliaths interact with other folk. The relationship between peasants and nobles puzzles

mock folk who rely on society’s structures or rules to maintain power. Survival of the Fittest Among goliaths, any adult who can’t contribute to the tribe is expelled. A lone goliath has

Using These Rules

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

character of each participating player gains 1 Relationship Point or more with student NPCs during Relationship encounters. A character’s number of Relationship Points with a specific NPC determines their status with that NPC.

Cyran Characters

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War

Cyran Characters When creating a character from Cyre, consider the following questions: What Have You Lost? Did you lose wealth or status? Did you have family or loved ones killed in the Mourning

? Did you lose something you could one day recover from the Mournland—arcane research, an heirloom artifact, or a precious family relic? Consider the impact the disaster has on your background. As a Cyran

The Mourning

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War

Vermishard. Others swear that the disaster began in the Cannith stronghold of Making. All that is known is that the mist swiftly spread across the kingdom, transforming the lands and creatures caught

the disaster in time to flee. Others survived because they were already beyond the borders of Cyre; the mist stopped mere feet away from the camps of Cyran soldiers holding sections of the Brelish

Fair Play

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters

advantage can always be lost. A goliath who relies too much on them can grow complacent, a recipe for disaster in the mountains. This trait manifests most strongly when goliaths interact with other folk

. Goliaths rarely keep such opinions to themselves, and mock folk who rely on society’s structures or rules to maintain power.

Ten Rules to Remember

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything

Ten Rules to Remember 1. The DM Adjudicates the Rules The rules of D&D cover many of the twists and turns that come up in play, but the possibilities are so vast that the rules can’t cover

everything. When you encounter something that the rules don’t cover or if you’re unsure how to interpret a rule, the DM decides how to proceed, aiming for a course that brings the most enjoyment to your whole

Zikzokrishka Obtains the Nether Scroll

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries

aspects of the Nether Scroll of Azumar, turning the sky over Anauroch black and ushering in a reign of terror and darkness over the desert. She rules the southern part of Anauroch from her lair with cruelty

across Faerûn respond to the disaster in a joint campaign to defeat the dracolich and destroy the Nether Scroll of Azumar.

Dwarves and Dragonmarks

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War

dragonmarked house, it is obliged to remain neutral in the politics of all nations, including its homeland. As a result, Clan Kundarak is no longer represented on the Iron Council that rules the Mror

Holds. However, it wields an influence over the other clans that reflects its wealth and its status in the world beyond the Holds, and the voice of Kundarak members arguing against the use of daelkyr magic carries significant weight.

Supplemental Tables

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Xanathar's Guide to Everything

suicide 9 Torn apart by an animal or a natural disaster 10 Consumed by a monster 11 Executed for a crime or tortured to death 12 Bizarre event, such as being hit by a meteorite, struck down by an

Friendly 11–12 Indifferent Status 3d6 Status 3 Dead (roll on the Cause of Death table) 4–5 Missing or unknown 6–8 Alive, but doing poorly due to injury, financial trouble, or relationship difficulties 9–12 Alive and well 13–15 Alive and quite successful 16–17 Alive and infamous 18 Alive and famous

Darkon

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ravenloft: The Horrors Within

Darkon Domain on the Brink of Destruction Darklord: None Genres: Dark fantasy and disaster horror Hallmarks: Fractured realm, magical ruins, ongoing supernatural catastrophe Mist Talismans

somber gothic cities, vast wildernesses, hidden secrets, and the dead. The ruins of forgotten magical empires scar the land. Undead creatures haunt the domain’s lonely reaches, and the living

Noteworthy Features

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft

Noteworthy Features Those familiar with I’Cath know the following facts: The citizens of the vast city of I’Cath sleep endlessly within their homes. Those who wake feel the pangs of starvation. Food

is more valuable in the city than gold. Jiangshi haunt the streets of I’Cath, tearing down whole districts and rebuilding them. Tsien Chiang rules the city from the Palace of Bones. By day, she drafts

Hazlan

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft

Hazlan Domain Doomed by Magic Darklord: Hazlik Genres: Dark fantasy and disaster horror Hallmarks: Amoral spellcasters, magic-ravaged environment, magical experiments, wild magic Mist Talismans: Eye

nation than a vast magical laboratory, whose wizard overlord Hazlik views every being as either an apprentice or a test subject. He conscripts those he acknowledges as lesser wizards into performing

House Kundarak

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Forge of the Artificer

House Kundarak House Kundarak is one of the most insular dragonmarked houses, thanks to a variety of factors—foremost among them the secrecy needed to protect its vast wealth. Additional

complications include its status as the only dwarven dragonmarked house and its sometimes contentious relationship with other dwarf clans and families of the Mror Holds. Lord Morrikan d’Kundarak keeps connections

Underdark Travel

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss

Underdark Travel The Underdark is a vast network of caverns, tunnels, vaults, and passages stretching from one end of Faerûn to the other. Its physical features are even more varied than those of the

through the Underdark is handled abstractly, using the rules and advice in chapter 8, “Adventuring,” of the Player’s Handbook. The following specific guidelines apply to travel in the Underdark during this adventure.

Azalin's Lair

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ravenloft: The Horrors Within

servants who avoided the disaster have returned, unaffected by the castle’s frozen time. Meanwhile, the fortress’s magic attempts to heal the wreckage, slowly creating new halls and winding stairs

between the fractured floors. Castle Avernus Amid its magical destruction, Castle Avernus is a vast structure filled with Azalin’s arcane creations and summoned servants. Prominent locations from this

Orc Legacy

Species Volo's Guide to Monsters

killers that washes over the countryside and leaves vast tracts of devastation in its wake. Such an event is rare in the extreme, but its consequences can lay low entire nations that are unable to

represent darkness. The unwritten laws that govern the status of individual orcs within a tribe are manifested to a degree in how each orc uses these colors on itself and its personal items. For

The Demonweb Connection

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes

wants something from it, typically a means of improving one’s status or gaining leverage against enemies. A demon that answers the call wants something in return: an opportunity to spread carnage, to

could handle. Calling forth a demon and failing to rein it in is a capital crime in most drow communities — an uncontrolled demon often spells disaster not only for the drow who pulled it from the Abyss

Nova Vaasa

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ravenloft: The Horrors Within

Nova Vaasa Darklord: Myar Hiregaard Hallmarks: Nomadic riders, transformation An unparalleled warrior, Myar Hiregaard united the nomadic tribes of the vast plains of Nova Vaasa. But, while

crush them. Subtly, she did this again and again. After Hiregaard’s greatest massacre, the Mists enfolded all of Nova Vaasa, splitting the Darklord’s personality in two when they did. Now she rules her

Chapter 1: Fool

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Book of Many Things

of powerful fiends. But they’ve also gained vast wealth or a stronghold of their own, rewound time to reverse disaster, or suddenly advanced in level far beyond the other characters in the group. The

Nova Vaasa

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft

Nova Vaasa Darklord: Myar Hiregaard Hallmarks: Nomadic riders, transformation An unparalleled warrior, Myar Hiregaard united the nomadic tribes of the vast plains of Nova Vaasa. But, while respected

. Subtly, she did this again and again. After Myar’s greatest massacre, the Mists enfolded all of Nova Vaasa, splitting Myar’s personality in two when they did. Now she rules her people with strict

Ivana's Torment

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft

appearance leads many to underestimate her. Ivana rules her family’s business and political empire brilliantly. Despite this, she is endlessly doubted and second guessed. Many believe she is a typical, vacant

and ambition, and she is ever disappointed. Maintaining her family’s vast array of social expectations is especially tedious. Ivana never found her father’s will and knows that should it fall into the wrong hands, her depraved cousin Ivan could claim all she’s earned. She’ll do anything to prevent this.

Relationship Points

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos

, other roleplaying encounters might also provide Relationship Points. A character’s total number of Relationship Points with an NPC determines their status with that NPC, as described below

. Relationship Points start at 0 and increase or decrease by 1 each time a character interacts with one of the NPCs covered by these rules, whether in a Relationship encounter or during another roleplaying scene

Storm Giant

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)

beginnings and ends of fortune and disaster, and find the patterns within seemingly unrelated events. By reading omens and prophesying, storm giants learn of vast secrets previously unknown and

to restore what was lost when those empires fell. They don’t compete for status in the ordning but live out the centuries of their existence in contemplative seclusion, watching the starry heavens

Thassa's Champions

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros

Thassa’s Champions Thassa’s champions are more expressions of her desires than the means for enacting long-term agendas. She disdains the status quo but also has no interest in committing to lengthy

discovering ancient knowledge. The campaign might begin with Thassa warning the characters about an impending attack or disaster involving a seaside community, leaving them to convince others and organize a

Noteworthy Features

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft

Noteworthy Features Those familiar with Hazlan know the following facts: The wizard Hazlik rules Hazlan. His apprentices have free rein to exploit the land and its people to further their magical

magic to join Hazlan’s elite? Has magic altered you? Have you been affected by a magical disaster, pollution, or experimentation? Do you have an obvious Dark Gift or characteristic that sets you

The Rank and File

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes

Material Plane deal primarily with devils from the lower tiers of the hierarchy. All Creatures in Their Places Status is all-important to devils. Every devil knows its place in the hierarchy, and each

devil has a unique name to ensure that no cases of mistaken identity occur when a devil is called to account for its actions. A devil’s form usually corresponds to its status, but circumstances can

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