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Acquisitions Incorporated
The verdan owe their existence to chaos. Descended and transformed from a large clan of goblins and hobgoblins, those who became the verdan were simply living their lives, doing 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
Urchin
Legacy
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Backgrounds
Player’s Handbook (2014)
shaped by lives of desperate poverty, for good and for ill. They tend to be driven either by a commitment to the people with whom they shared life on the street or by a burning desire to find a better
;d rather kill someone in their sleep than fight fair.
5
It’s not stealing if I need it more than someone else.
6
People who can’t take care of themselves get what they deserve.
Backgrounds
Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide
areas to help you succeed.
You might be a cunning thief-catcher, prowling the rooftops to catch one of the myriad burglars of the city. Perhaps you are someone who has your ear to the street, aware of
the doings of thieves’ guilds and street gangs. You might be a “velvet mask” bounty hunter, one who blends in with high society and noble circles in order to catch the criminals that
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
. 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
New Race: Verdan The verdan owe their existence to chaos. Descended and transformed from a large clan of goblins and hobgoblins, those who became the verdan were simply living their lives, doing
Backgrounds
Guildmasters’ Guide to Ravnica
d6
Flaw
1
I like secrets so much that I’m reluctant to share details of a plan even with those who need to know.
2
I would let my friends die rather than reveal my true
met my guild contact, but I receive telepathic messages, usually in my dreams.
5
I’ve never met my guild contact, but I get coded messages from a pattern of street lights and graffiti
Charlatan
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them like they were children’s books. It’s a useful talent, and one that you’re perfectly willing to use for your advantage.
You know what people want and you deliver, or rather
weakness and secure their fortunes.
4
I put on new identities like clothes.
5
I run sleight-of-hand cons on street corners.
6
I convince people that worthless junk is worth their hard
Backgrounds
Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus
of desperate poverty, for good and for ill. They tend to be driven either by a commitment to the people with whom they shared life on the street or by a burning desire to find a better life &mdash
from a fight.
2
Gold seems like a lot of money to me, and I’ll do just about anything for more of it.
3
I will never fully trust anyone other than myself.
4
I’d rather
Backgrounds
Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus
one that you’re perfectly willing to use for your advantage.
You know what people want and you deliver, or rather, you promise to deliver. Common sense should steer people away from things that
.
5
I run sleight-of-hand cons on street corners.
6
I convince people that worthless junk is worth their hard-earned money.
FEATURE: FALSE IDENTITY
You have created a second
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
worshiping the source of divinity rather than its fallible manifestations. Its adherents are called Muwahhid. Some erudite worshipers join the Imperial Ulema, an order of Muwahhid scholars sponsored by
the throne. The Ulema provides spellcasting services to the populace and maintains the empire’s infrastructure of magical street lights and teleportation circles. Fashion and Food Clothing in the empire
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
, they come upon an unlikely commercial venture. A ramshackle stall set up along the street bears a sign that reads: “Maps and Poshuns.” Working the stall is a filthy but cheerful gnome urchin
magic spell shows that they are indeed magical, though that magic is of the transmutation school rather than conjuration. Each day, a kindly druid who thinks Jerr is an honest soul gives the gnome a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Sigil and the Outlands
looks the same, and the street numbers don’t help–some of them have decimals! What a nightmare.”
–Quen Tooday, planar courier
Great Modron March Every 289 years, thousands of modrons emerge from
marching down the street—are synchronized to the gate’s beat. Ordered Environment. Buildings, rock formations, and vegetation in Automata are perfectly symmetrical, and the town’s climate is always
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
apples tumbling down the alley. The tiefling boy is thrown from the cart but not seriously hurt. The boy is one of three street urchins who teamed up to steal the apple cart from a nearby street corner
street urchins, described below, appear in several of this chapter’s scenes:
Nat is a lanky, 10-year-old deaf Illuskan girl with a wooden toy sword. She is the leader of the group and communicates using
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
Manor (or asking Arnulf the butler) reveals that Vecken still lives on Immar Street, a few blocks away from the manor. All the people in the area know Vecken and speak of him as an example of bravery
would rather let the past fade. In truth, he won’t join the characters because their unexpected news has inspired thoughts of vengeance that he wants to undertake on his own. As soon as the characters
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
her young twin boys, Ezo and Brask, were out searching for provisions when the three devils spotted them. The chase has progressed into this street, 30 feet from the location of the characters’ arrival
family or attracting other fiends, but does so as a last resort. Members of the Hunt family reduced to 0 hit points by the devils are knocked unconscious rather than killed, as the devils are hoping to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
frequently, though he hasn’t seen any of them in a few days. He ponders a while on how that’s rather unusual. Zurb can suggest the characters talk to Fryer the bartender to figure out why. (She earned
“The Peg and Hook” below for more on Arla.) Recent word on the street is that Arla continues to be a thorn in Dran Enterprises’ side — and that she’s been marked for exile or elimination. A character
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
. Skilled hirelings can be fired and hired as needed. A franchise might bring on a couple of thugs to act as distraction during a street fair, then release those NPCs to hire a different set of skilled
(sailors for a seagoing franchise, engineers for a giant hollow statue, and so on). Crew do not leave a franchise and cannot perform franchise tasks. They typically run rather than fight back when attacked
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen
Onyari’s final moments before the flying city was destroyed. A moment later, a young silver dragon strafes the street ahead, freezing structures and people alike. Consider the following suggestions as you
okay for the character’s surroundings to shift dramatically or for unexpected individuals to show up. Don’t let these changes make the character feel like their choices don’t matter. Rather, change
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)
read them like they were children’s books. It’s a useful talent, and one that you’re perfectly willing to use for your advantage. You know what people want and you deliver, or rather, you promise to
cons on street corners. 6 I convince people that worthless junk is worth their hard-earned money. Feature: False Identity You have created a second identity that includes documentation, established
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
drow. Slaves are often kept as signs of status as much as for their intrinsic worth as laborers. When they are put to work, they are also put on display, doing jobs that enable everyone on the street or
exceptional females in such a clan have any chance of rising above their low station, and those who do advance end up hurting rather than helping their families because they are adopted into the more prestigious house, leaving their original house even weaker than before.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
of street network that tends to delineate most large settlements; instead it has a single street running inside the circular town wall, and another pair of straight roads crossing the town north-to
for storage rather than being left vacant. Almost every family in the town has some space that it uses for its own needs or rents out for use by others. Those who buy storage from a Hardbuckler must
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
, but passersby ignore her. As she calls out once more, the tavern door behind her opens and two guards toss a young male human in bright clothing out into the street. He tumbles into the old woman
to secure them elsewhere, ask about that location and their security measures. For the purpose of the adventure, it’s best if the characters keep the orrery components with them, rather than leaving
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
contempt, their first thought is to enslave them or use them rather than kill them.
The duergar of Gracklstugh are beginning to suffer the effects of the arrival of the demon lords — and specifically
emotion they have when interacting with others is seething hatred, and they make no effort to hide it. Their eyes are shifty, their teeth grind, and they look as though they would rather be somewhere else
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
“civilized” folk for a short time — but occasionally, a strong hand or a skilled warrior can be culled from the bunch. While this event is going on, Yartar is overrun with visitors it would rather not welcome
, who steal goods, sell wares in the street (sometimes those they have just stolen), meet unscrupulous contacts to hand off coin, information, or purloined items, and engage in the occasional spell
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
serves as the local slaughterer and butcher for folk wishing to take meat, rather than live animals, away from Longsaddle. Rumor holds that the sausages have much improved down the years but buyers are
into the street, and a local marbles game known as scattershields is popular. Dry goods, candles, lanterns, saddles, rope, and wagon wheels are available from a number of other shops. It can’t be
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur’s Gate Gazetteer
down the street. The proprietor of Danthelon’s Dancing Axe gives chase (see “Danthelon’s Dancing Axe”, for more information). 4 Ubis Garynmor of Garynmor Stables and Menagerie goes from alley to alley
are coming.” 9 Several cackling, half-dressed gnomes are covered in body paint and drive a wheeled contraption down the street. The device is a mobile piece of art crafted at Whitkeep Hostel and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
obviously magical axe menaces passersby as it floats down the street. The proprietor of Danthelon’s Dancing Axe gives chase (see “Danthelon’s Dancing Axe”, for more information).
4 Ubis Garynmor of
the street. The device is a mobile piece of art crafted at Whitkeep Hostel and titled “The Patriars.”
10 A group of obviously drunk Flaming Fist officers stumble away from a Wyrm’s Crossing bar
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
warehouse, three members of the Waterdeep City Watch stand guard. No one else is on the street, except a seemingly inebriated halfling who stumbles toward you.
Gray Hands Spy The stumbling figure is Otis
is Captain Mergen Truff (NG female elf veteran), a laconic figure who would rather be doing “real work” than standing here warning off vagrants too foolish to avoid falling into a massive hole in the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Sigil and the Outlands
demodand (see Morte’s Planar Parade) street food vendor pushes a rusty cart down a nearby alley. Charred, sausage-link manacles dangle from the cart’s torn awning. The demodand offers the characters
and shakers of Sigil or burn away detritus within the ward—engulf the innocent. Rather than maintain a single base of operations, the Hands of Havoc operate out of warehouses strewn throughout the
compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Legends of Greyhawk: Secrets of the Free City
the snow clinging outdoors into a thick slush. It hasn’t been a hard rain, the sort that leaves you soaked to the bone if you dare step outside. Rather, it’s steady and ever-present, but it hasn’t
street from the Foreign Quarter and just down the main thoroughfare from its friendly rival, the Silver Dragon Inn. Olaf and Sivan of the Silver Dragon Inn hired a mage to enchant the Black Dragon Inn’s
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
. Although some of the dancing is wanton and performed for show, large-scale ring dances in the street for all ages are also popular. All the dancing ends at dusk, after which bards and minstrels perform at
some candy on hand or some sweet rolls, and all will be calm where you live. Kythorn 14: Guildhall Day This day is a time of trade fairs. Most shops are closed, and street sales are suspended for all but
compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Legends of Greyhawk: Secrets of the Free City
threats and warnings and may return to cause trouble later in the adventure. Law and Violence in the City
While Greyhawk lacks an omnipresent constabulary to enforce swift justice, street violence is
still frowned upon, and murder is not tolerated. NPCs typically aim to subdue rather than kill, and they surrender if reduced to half their starting Hit Points or fewer. Characters who openly and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur’s Gate Gazetteer
finest ingredients: it serves roast chicken rather than peacocks or partridges, and the fish never have that distinctive Gray Harbor film. The establishment consists of two buildings joined as a single
rusty but functional locks, connect one cobbled chamber to the next. Some tunnels ascend to street-level buildings, while others open through grates and sewer covers to the streets themselves. At least
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
finest ingredients: it serves roast chicken rather than peacocks or partridges, and the fish never have that distinctive Gray Harbor film. The establishment consists of two buildings joined as a single
, connect one cobbled chamber to the next. Some tunnels ascend to street-level buildings, while others open through grates and sewer covers to the streets themselves. At least two dozen ways into and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Lost Laboratory of Kwalish
poses and petrified (or, rather, vitrified) by the cult of the medusa. Many of the statues above the ooze show chips and cracks from long years of weathering. But below the ooze, most of the well
chapter 9 of the Player’s Handbook. O3. Street Level Several trails lead down into the city, granting a better view of the tableau beneath the ooze. Unlike the figures seen standing staidly along the edges
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
tunnels beneath the warehouse were dug as smugglers’ byways. Later, worshipers of That-Which-Endures (see the sidebar in the “New Race: Verdan” section in chapter 3) excavated chambers beneath the ground
. The traps were set up to scare people away rather than kill them. Mostly. When the characters enter this area, read: As the passage runs east, it widens to thirty feet for the next ninety feet. At the