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Knight
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Player’s Handbook (2014)
your line or even a spiritual member of the family?
These details help establish your family and your title as features of the world of the campaign.
A knighthood is among the lowest noble titles in
for you, will not follow you into obviously dangerous areas (such as dungeons), and will leave if they are frequently endangered or abused.
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Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide
order’s cause.
The “Knightly Orders of Faerûn” sidebar details several of the orders that are active at present and is designed to help inform your decision about which group
, such as the brutal Warlock Knights of Vaasa. Other knighthoods are secular and nongovernmental organizations of warriors who follow a particular philosophy, or consider themselves a kind of extended
Noble
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Basic Rules (2014)
your line or even a spiritual member of the family?
These details help establish your family and your title as features of the world of the campaign.
Skill Proficiencies: History, Persuasion
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family. These retainers can be attendants or messengers, and one might be a majordomo. Your retainers are commoners who can perform mundane tasks for you, but they do not fight for you, will not follow
Reborn
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Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
Memories table to inspire its details.
Lost Memories
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Memory
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You recall a physically painful moment. What mark or scar on your body does it relate to?
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A memory brings
, but you aren’t any longer. You now possess only your lineage’s racial traits.
When you create a character using a lineage option, follow these additional rules during character creation
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Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide
determine your inheritance from among the possibilities in the table below. Work with your Dungeon Master to come up with details: Why is your inheritance so important, and what is its full story? You might
prefer for the DM to invent these details as part of the game, allowing you to learn more about your inheritance as your character does.
The Dungeon Master is free to use your inheritance as a story
Hobgoblin
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Volo's Guide to Monsters
hobgoblin legion has a distinct code of honor and law, but all follow a few general precepts that are at the heart of the hobgoblin honor system.
Follow Orders. Carrying out orders without question is
critical on the battlefield, and hobgoblins follow this dictum in peaceful times as well in order to maintain stability in their society. Hobgoblins don’t shrink from following orders that they know
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Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus
your line or even a spiritual member of the family?
These details help establish your family and your title as features of the world of the campaign.
The patriars of Baldur’s Gate live in the
can be attendants or messengers, and one might be a majordomo. Your retainers are commoners who can perform mundane tasks for you, but they do not fight for you, will not follow you into obviously dangerous areas (such as dungeons), and will leave if they are frequently endangered or abused.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player’s Handbook
Casting Spells Each spell description has a series of entries that provide the details needed to cast the spell. The following sections explain each of those entries, which follow a spell’s name.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules
Casting Spells Each spell description has a series of entries that provide the details needed to cast the spell. The following sections explain each of those entries, which follow a spell’s name.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
Brevity Keep your descriptions short and evocative. Focus on the more important information to keep players’ interest and to highlight important clues and details. Players need to know about
significant features their characters can perceive—especially things like monsters in a room—before they decide what to do. Allow your players to ask follow-up questions, and provide additional description as needed.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ravenloft: The Horrors Within
Building a Domain Similar to building a Darklord, you can choose or randomly generate prompts from the tables below to flesh out the domain’s details. To build a Domain of Dread, follow these steps
: Step 1: Choose Genres. Most Domains of Dread are inspired by the same horror genres that shape their imprisoned Darklord, but feel free to mix in new genre elements. Step 2: Develop Details. What are
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
Domain Overview The domain’s buildings, natural elements, and landmarks all represent the Darklord’s vile past. When developing these features, follow these steps: Specify Locations. Choose locations
similar to settings that appear in your Darklord’s past, or take inspiration from the Settings tables in the “Genres of Horror” section later in this chapter. Combine Locations and Visceral Details
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen
Kalaman in the Dragon Queen’s name. To aid in this mission, Kansaldi has ordered the black-robed wizard Lohezet to follow his research to a ruin in the Northern Wastes, where he believes a great weapon
reveal details about Kansaldi, primarily her fanatical devotion to the Dragon Queen, the fear and respect she commands from her troops, her tactical prowess, and her signature crimson eye. More details on Kansaldi appear in appendix B.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ravenloft: The Horrors Within
Kartakass Campaign Arc A campaign in Kartakass might follow this outline: Levels 1–2. The characters meet Maria, a human woman whose idealistic son, Frantosh, ran away to Harmonia to become a
people-eating Goblins. Levels 3–6. In Harmonia, the characters find Frantosh has begun performing with a skilled bard named Harkon Lukas. Harkon encourages the characters to help Frantosh follow his
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
the room, two flanking each double door.
The drow are named Hlonlok, Izzorvir, Nephraen, and Sornnozz. They have orders to kill intruders on sight, and the phase spiders follow their lead. Sornnozz
phase spiders and the other guards. He then offers to lead the characters to Xarann in area 17d. If pressed for details, Sornnozz claims that Xarann is looking for ways to weaken House Auvryndar’s hold over Muiral’s Gauntlet, and he thinks a band of adventurers might be the answer to Xarann’s prayers.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tyranny of Dragons
follow-up for previous chapters whose outcome is resolved in that session. In all cases, see those specific chapters for full details. Two preliminary events help to set up the first session of the
Kenku
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Volo's Guide to Monsters
a talent for learning and memorizing details. Thus, ambitious kenku can excel as superb spies and scouts. A kenku who learns of clever schemes and plans devised by other creatures can put them to use
. The kenku lack the talent to improvise or alter a plan, but a wise Master sets multiple plans in motion at once, confident that underlings can follow orders to the letter.
For this reason, many
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm Lord’s Wrath
deeper into the Mere of Dead Men to investigate. Traveling within the Mere requires ability checks to follow the lizardfolk’s trail and avoid hazards and threats (see “Tracking the Lizards” below). Any
time the party fails at one of these ability checks, roll on the Mere Encounters table below. Mere Encounters 2d6 Event (see below for details)
2-3 Yuan-ti Scouts
4-5 Pit of Snakes
6-8 Quicksand and Alligators
9-10 Troll Brawl
11-12 Hydra Wranglers
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Rise of Tiamat
follow-up for previous chapters whose outcome is resolved in that session. In all cases, see those specific chapters for full details. Two preliminary events help to set up the first session of the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ravenloft: The Horrors Within
Dread Details The domain’s buildings, natural elements, landmarks, and creatures reflect the Darklord’s vile past. This section provides prompts for developing elements of your domain and connecting
those specifics to the imprisoned Darklord. Don’t get bogged down with the particulars of a working society. Things like weather, ecosystems, and agriculture needn’t follow logic in a domain. Mundane
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
Using a Map Whatever environment the adventurers are exploring, you can use a map to follow their progress as you relate the details of their travels. In a dungeon, tracking movement on a map lets
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
2 to inspire you as you craft a monster’s unique details. When it comes time for the final confrontation, it might not matter whether the bridge-haunting merrow was the product of an amoral
completely different paths for adventurers to follow when investigating the creature and ensuring nothing like it ever returns to be a menace again.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Book of Many Things
nearby woods. 2 A pixie beckons you to follow her, promising you a sight beyond your wildest dreams. 3 A man stumbles from the forest. He doesn’t speak, but his arms are full of delicious-looking fruit. 4
calls out to the characters in their dreams, giving them directions to the market but no further details.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm Lord’s Wrath
indicates the locations of places described later in this adventure or the adventures that follow. A player-friendly version of the map is also included with this adventure. It can be shared freely with the
can be shared with players if they request details about a location.
Map 1: The Sword Coast View Player Version
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
Frog’s the Word At some point during the weeks that follow their orientation day and the start of classes, the characters are hanging out together on the central campus. Another student is part of
following, altering the text to incorporate the student’s name or other details: Murmurs of excited curiosity ripple through the clusters of students around you, and another student suddenly barrels
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
Gods and Religion The myths of giants across the Material Plane differ in many details, but most of them portray giants as descendants of a progenitor god, typically Annam, the All-Father. Giants
don’t typically exalt themselves and demand worship from lesser beings. Rather, they are often drawn to follow gods—and sometimes other powerful beings—who help them live out their part in that epic
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ravenloft: The Horrors Within
Shadowlands Campaign Arc Campaigns in the Shadowlands often involve quests that reveal evils steeped in tragedies and abuses of power. A campaign here might follow this outline: Levels 1–4. The
and defeating Ebonbane. She shares the details in the “Quest of the Four Keys” section. The characters begin a journey across the Shadowlands and beyond to recover the other three sword fragments
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Quests from the Infinite Staircase
in the party who survives the encounter gains 1 level. If you follow this method, the characters should reach 11th level by the adventure’s conclusion.
About the Original
Published in 1982
offers tantalizing details of the story of Iggwilv the Witch Queen—better known as the archmage Tasha, famous for her Hideous Laughter spell. The adventure featured Drelnza, the vampire daughter of Iggwilv, and debuted the lightning-breathing behir, which appeared on its stunning cover.
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Shadows of Sithicus
details below to help provide additional depth to Avri’s and Ansilo’s opportunistic relationship.
The Nobriskov family has made their fortune off selling unwise patrons “miracle” cures, performing
fraudulent seances, and generally using their knowledge of the supernatural to make profit wherever they can. A deeper secret lies within their ranks – many follow the cult of Osybus, a foul order that
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
urges them to follow Machil’s route into the haven and destroy the ghost of Zyrian the scrivener, whom she describes as the queen’s evil pawn—the same pawn who cursed the party with his scrivener’s mark
, though she is not aware of the details of what they’re doing. “Destroy the scrivener,” she says, “and I will rid you of his evil mark!” She also says, “The only way this ends well is with us saving each other!”
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
the details from the “March of Vice” section at the end of this adventure. Revelers can also point out that the Prince of Vice is Azra Nir, the son of Grand Messer Amos Nir, the eldest member of the
Kings of Coin. Characters who follow the parade or search the pier for Kala wind up near the jetty as the parade reaches the end of the thoroughfare.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
create new things, they have a talent for learning and memorizing details. Thus, ambitious kenku can excel as superb spies and scouts. A kenku who learns of clever schemes and plans devised by other
creatures can put them to use. The kenku lack the talent to improvise or alter a plan, but a wise Master sets multiple plans in motion at once, confident that underlings can follow orders to the letter
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
characters choose to follow up on clues leading there (see the “March to Nowhere” and “Maze Engine” sections for details). The adventurers will also find a few unexpected opportunities to aid in the fight
approximately 240 miles from north to south and 120 miles east to west. Navigating the Labyrinth is a nightmare, since most tunnels follow a straight path only a short distance before doubling back on themselves
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm Lord’s Wrath
attempting or aiding with the Survival checks to follow the tracks cannot attempt Wisdom (Perception) checks to spot random encounters, as they are too focused on the details of tracking. After three
Player Version Following the Tracks Most of the time, the tracks are easy to follow. However, occasionally the trail runs through very swampy water, and tracking becomes more difficult. In order to catch
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tyranny of Dragons
Chapter 7: Hunting Lodge Characters who follow Wyrmspeaker Rezmir or Azbara Jos with the aid of the teleportation circle in Castle Naerytar’s dungeon are deposited high in the Greypeak Mountains
Realms, this chapter is the best time for that information to be revealed or confirmed. Although Talis won’t mention any details such as masks or summonings, the cultists share a general belief that the time is right for Tiamat’s arrival. The characters can find several clues that encourage this belief.