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Guildmasters’ Guide to Ravnica
; did I mention focus?
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I get really excited about my ideas and I can’t wait to talk about them and start putting them into practice and tinkering with them and I want to tell you about how
I’m incapable of admitting a flaw in my logic.
Contacts
The laboratories of the Izzet League are constantly starting up new projects and dissolving old ones, so it’s easy for
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
Introduction It’s good to be the Dungeon Master! Not only do you get to tell fantastic stories about heroes, villains, monsters, and magic, but you also get to create the world in which these stories
&D tabletop roleplaying game. If you haven’t played before, the Dungeons & Dragons Starter Set is a great starting point for new players and DMs. These rules have two important companions: the Player’s
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
1 minute, allowing you to pass yourself off as a native speaker of a particular land, provided that you know the language. Master of Tactics Starting at 3rd level, you can use the Help action as a
or hear you. Insightful Manipulator Starting at 9th level, if you spend at least 1 minute observing or interacting with another creature outside combat, you can learn certain information about its
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
Involving the Characters Once you’ve identified what your campaign is about, let the players help tell the story by deciding how their characters are involved. This is their opportunity to tie their
enemies? Listen to the players’ ideas, and say yes if you can. Even if you want all the characters to have grown up in the starting town, consider allowing a recent arrival or a transplant if the player’s
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Xanathar's Guide to Everything
. Master of Tactics Starting at 3rd level, you can use the Help action as a bonus action. Additionally, when you use the Help action to aid an ally in attacking a creature, the target of that attack can be
within 30 feet of you, rather than within 5 feet of you, if the target can see or hear you. Insightful Manipulator Starting at 9th level, if you spend at least 1 minute observing or interacting with
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
can use a whiteboard to track initiative. As the players tell you their initiative numbers, write them on the whiteboard in order from highest to lowest, leaving space between each name. Either write
. Index Cards In this approach, each character gets an index card, as does each group of identical monsters. When the players tell you their initiative numbers, write the numbers on their characters
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tyranny of Dragons
Starting the Adventure The Rise of Tiamat begins in Waterdeep. If you played Hoard of the Dragon Queen, the characters might have already made their way back to the City of Splendors after Skyreach
, you need to get the party back to Waterdeep for the start of this adventure. It’s easy enough to simply tell the players that their characters are back in Waterdeep. However, if you suspect that your
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Rise of Tiamat
Starting the Adventure The Rise of Tiamat begins in Waterdeep. If you played Hoard of the Dragon Queen, the characters might have already made their way back to the City of Splendors after Skyreach
, you need to get the party back to Waterdeep for the start of this adventure. It’s easy enough to simply tell the players that their characters are back in Waterdeep. However, if you suspect that your
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
Hit Points of monsters, as well as other useful notes. If you use this approach, you tell the players when it’s their characters’ turn. When you call out the character whose turn is starting, consider
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Xanathar's Guide to Everything
. What’s a swashbuckler? Do you swash buckles or buckle swashes? You can’t tell me you don’t think that word is funny.
Swashbuckler Features Rogue Level Feature 3rd Fancy Footwork, Rakish Audacity
, if you make a melee attack against a creature, that creature can’t make opportunity attacks against you for the rest of your turn. Rakish Audacity Starting at 3rd level, your confidence propels you
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player’s Handbook
Intelligence Recall lore about spells, magic items, and the planes of existence. Athletics Strength Jump farther than normal, stay afloat in rough water, or break something. Deception Charisma Tell a
. Performance Charisma Act, tell a story, perform music, or dance. Persuasion Charisma Honestly and graciously convince someone of something. Religion Intelligence Recall lore about gods, religious
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules
Intelligence Recall lore about spells, magic items, and the planes of existence. Athletics Strength Jump farther than normal, stay afloat in rough water, or break something. Deception Charisma Tell a
. Performance Charisma Act, tell a story, perform music, or dance. Persuasion Charisma Honestly and graciously convince someone of something. Religion Intelligence Recall lore about gods, religious
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
during a howling gale so powerful that folk still tell stories of it, or your lineage might include the influence of potent air creatures such as vaati or djinn. Whatever the case, the magic of the
. (Knowing this language allows you to understand and be understood by those who speak its dialects: Aquan, Auran, Ignan, and Terran.) Tempestuous Magic Starting at 1st level, you can use a bonus action on
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
1 Proficiencies and Starting Equipment, Tiebreaker
2 Absentee Ballot, Coin of Decisionry
3 Better Odds, Inspired Decision
4 Charming Misdemeanor, Clandestine Kit
Proficiencies
and Starting Equipment As a rank 1 decisionist, you gain proficiency with a musical instrument (horn). Head office also grants you the use of a musical instrument (your choice of horn), a voting kit
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Xanathar's Guide to Everything
during a howling gale so powerful that folk still tell stories of it, or your lineage might include the influence of potent air creatures such as djinn. Whatever the case, the magic of the storm
Magic Starting at 1st level, you can use a bonus action on your turn to cause whirling gusts of elemental air to briefly surround you, immediately before or after you cast a spell of 1st level or
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Xanathar's Guide to Everything
isn’t protected from divination magic. This sense doesn’t tell you anything about a creature’s capabilities or identity. You can use this feature a number of times equal to your Wisdom modifier (minimum
of once). You regain all expended uses when you finish a long rest. Channel Divinity: Path to the Grave Starting at 2nd level, you can use your Channel Divinity to mark another creature’s life force
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
Rank Features
1 Proficiencies and Starting Equipment, It’s a Rental
2 Spyglass of Clairvoyance, Tale of Safe Travel
3 Map of Shortcuts, Map of the Moment
4 Elder
Cartographer’s Glossography, Greater Tale of Safe Travel
Proficiencies and Starting Equipment As a rank 1 cartographer, you gain proficiency with cartographer’s tools, and your choice of vehicles (land) or
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
, or tarokka deck. Starting at 6th level, when you cast a bard spell that deals damage or restores hit points through the Spiritual Focus, roll a d6, and you gain a bonus to one damage or healing roll
of the spell equal to the number rolled. Tales from Beyond 3rd-level College of Spirits feature You reach out to spirits who tell their tales through you. While you are holding your Spiritual Focus
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Xanathar's Guide to Everything
their ancestors’ deeds. These tattoos tell sagas of victories against terrible monsters and other fearsome rivals. So ancestors are people who did the procreation thing to make more people before you
Spirit Shield (2d6) 10th Consult the Spirits, Spirit Shield (3d6) 14th Vengeful Ancestors, Spirit Shield (4d6) Ancestral Protectors Starting when you choose this path at 3rd level, spectral warriors
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Xanathar's Guide to Everything
threat it poses. Following a general note on what the trap looks like and how it functions are three paragraphs that tell how the trap works in the game. Level and Threat. A trap’s level is actually a
characters discover a trap, be open to adjudicating their ideas for defeating it. The trap’s description is a starting point for countermeasures, rather than a complete definition. To make it easier
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
come alive, you’ll need to invest some time fleshing out details, but the players can help you with that work. Ask them to tell you a bit about mentors, family members, and other important people in
players describe where and how their characters spend their time — a favorite tavern, library, or temple, perhaps. Using these NPCs and locations as a starting point, flesh out the settlement’s cast of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tyranny of Dragons
) or Charisma (Performance) checks. If successful, a character realizes that the raiders are making a demonstration of starting a fire, but it’s for show. A few fires are burning around the building
healthy defenders arrive from the keep with orders to relieve the characters and defend the mill. They tell the characters to go back to the keep quietly while they remain behind at the mill. Rewards
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
variety of contemporary and historical cultures in your game’s setting, it’s enough to tell your players that some of the coins are unfamiliar in their size, shape, or inscription—but their value is
. The Hoard Mundane Items table in the “Creating a Hoard” section provides a quick starting point for generating these items. You can find more inspiration on the Trinkets table in the Player’s Handbook
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
a redcap, Grubba, grab it and run off. Barnabas is too embarrassed to tell Mad Maggie about it, though she suspects something is amiss because Barnabas has starting whistling when he speaks. He
tell Maggie because she warned them not to pick on the madcaps, so they see the characters as a potential solution to their situation. Helping the Imps. As events play out in Fort Knucklebone, the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Hoard of the Dragon Queen
Charisma (Performance) checks. If successful, a character realizes that the raiders are making a demonstration of starting a fire, but it’s for show. A few fires are burning around the building, but
healthy defenders arrive from the keep with orders to relieve the characters and defend the mill. They tell the characters to go back to the keep quietly while they remain behind at the mill. Rewards
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
soldiers tell stories of nearly dying before being saved by a Battle Smith and a steel defender. Battle Smiths played a key role in House Cannith’s work on battle constructs and the original warforged
with smith’s tools. If you already have this proficiency, you gain proficiency with one other type of artisan’s tools of your choice. Battle Smith Spells Starting at 3rd level, you always have
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
decipher codes. Loremongers talk a lot. It’s best to let them.
— Omin Dran
The Loremonger Franchise Rank Features
1 Proficiencies and Starting Equipment, Whisper Jar
2 Need to Know
, Whispered Encyclopedia
3 Construction Permits, Whispered Warnings
4 Efficient Upgrades, Whispered Arcana
Proficiencies and Starting Equipment As a rank 1 loremonger, you gain one of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
a jingle extolling the virtues of your franchise. The Secretarian Franchise Rank Features
1 Proficiencies and Starting Equipment, Sending Stone
2 Portfolio Keeper, Rumor Mill
3
Cards of Sending, Improved Rumor Mill
4 Always Hiring, Charming Introduction
Proficiencies and Starting Equipment As a rank 1 secretarian, you gain proficiency with one of the following of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Spelljammer Academy
signals her imminent arrival.
Quote: “Listen to what I tell you; it might just save your life.”
Assigning Roles Saerthe explains that each team of cadets must assign crew roles to its members. This
outskirts of Coliar, a sodding big gas giant. There, you’re to salvage the captain’s logbook from the wreckage of an abandoned ship, then return to your starting point with your own ship intact
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
Starting the Adventure Once the players are ready to begin, explain to them that their characters are among a group of travelers on the road headed into one of Theros’s great poleis. They don’t need
the players to leap into action—in the first moments after an accident, time is of the essence! Anyone who rushes to the horse and succeeds on a DC 10 Wisdom (Animal Handling or Medicine) check can tell
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
method is a good starting point, but the calendar of your world need not follow a modern calendar. If you want to customize your calendar with details unique to your world, consider these types of
in your calendar wherever you want. Your calendar can tell you when there’s a full moon for a lunar eclipse, but you can always fudge the date for a particular effect. THE CALENDAR OF HARPTOS
The
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
Sorcerer Yes, that’s a fine idea. We should totally put that to a vote. Hey, that’s weird — my hands are starting to glow. Is anyone else seeing that? A sorcerer’s use of magic runs the range from
show it. And that’s a good fit for you, because if you can tell others what to do and have them listen to you, it’s easier to give the most dangerous frontline tasks to them while you cast from the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)
your imagination. You’re not bound to those options, but they’re a good starting point. Personality Traits Give your character two personality traits. Personality traits are small, simple ways to help
you set your character apart from every other character. Your personality traits should tell you something interesting and fun about your character. They should be self-descriptions that are specific
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Eve of Ruin
encounters, starting with the first and proceeding in order. Wounded Pride The remnants of a deadly battle lie about this chamber: broken bits of furniture, scattered weapons, and two bodies shrouded in
stares intently at a human skull clutched in her outstretched hand.
“Now tell me, servant of evil,” Sarusanda demands of the skull, “where do your fellow occultists hide?”
The skull replies, its
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
fortune before sending young centaurs on their way, guiding the first steps of their journey. While most centaurs return to the band eventually, some find their calling elsewhere. When the Lagonna tell
restlessness in their soul that nothing else can soothe. Though renegades build their own life away from the band, most retain some connection with their past. Some stories tell of renegades returning to