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Wildhunt Legacy

Species Eberron: Rising from the Last War

Wildhunt shifters are sharp and insightful. Many are constantly alert, ever wary for possible threats. Others focus on their intuition, searching within. Wildhunt shifters are excellent hunters, and they also tend to become the spiritual leaders of shifter communities.

Lizardfolk Legacy

Species Volo's Guide to Monsters

swamps they inhabit are filled with a staggering variety of threats. Lizardfolk focus on survival above all, without sentiment. Lizardfolk assess everyone and everything in terms of utility. Art and

Yuan-ti Pureblood Legacy

Species Volo's Guide to Monsters

the snake as the embodiment of the qualities they most appreciated. They developed a philosophy of separating emotion from intellectual pursuits, allowing them to focus their energy on personal

focus on intellectual pursuits. These nobles turned to philosophy and prayer, offering gifts of magic and animal sacrifices to their serpent gods, paying homage to the perfection of the ophidian form. The

Wildhunt

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron

Wildhunt Wildhunt shifters are sharp and insightful. Many are constantly alert, ever wary for possible threats. Others focus on their intuition, searching within. Wildhunt shifters are excellent

Conclusion

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel

tlexolotls, the volcanic threats cease, and the characters find their travels back to Etizalan free of volcanic dangers. If the warriors from Etizalan survived, they ask to accompany the characters

. Back in Etizalan, Ameyali is eager to hear the characters’ story. So long as the volcanic threats to the region have ended, she rewards the characters with 250 gp each regardless of whether her town’s

Utility and Survival

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

Utility and Survival The lizardfolk mindset might seem unnecessarily cruel, but it helps them survive in a hostile environment. The swamps they inhabit are filled with a staggering variety of threats

. Lizardfolk focus on survival above all, without sentiment. Lizardfolk assess everyone and everything in terms of utility. Art and beauty have little meaning for them. A sharp sword serves a useful

Ephara's Champions

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

Ephara’s Champions The god of the polis seeks out those who would defend their cities with the same devotion that she does, fighting against threats both within and outside a city’s walls. The

cities, and a campaign centered on her champions and goals might focus on just one of these aspects over the course of the campaign. A game focused on establishment might see the characters founding a

Adventure Background

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm Lord’s Wrath

Mortus in exchange for help finding and seizing the body of a living dragon to inhabit. The people of Leilon are completely unaware of these threats, as they focus on more immediate dangers, like the wild

Adventure Background As the settlers of Leilon bend their backs to the arduous task of creating a defensible settlement in the dangerous wilds of the Sword Coast, even larger threats loom all around

Adventure Flow

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden

Adventure Flow The accompanying adventure flowchart visualizes the narrative flow of the adventure, which includes chapters that focus on places of interest (chapters 1 and 2) and chapters that focus

more than one or two game sessions each to complete. Chapter 2 describes several interesting locations on the fringes of Icewind Dale, including some future threats to Ten-Towns. The characters are

Roleplaying

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)

roleplaying, keep the following things in mind: Describe your character’s emotions and attitude. Focus on your character’s intent and how others might perceive it. Provide as much embellishment as you

feel comfortable with. Don’t worry about getting things exactly right. Just focus on thinking about what your character would do and describing what you see in your mind. Active Approach to Roleplaying

Remarkable Heroes

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

ancient archfiends, Eberron faces many threats, and few people besides the player characters are able to stop them. The gods are distant and don’t directly intervene. The Silver Flame is a divine

spiritual leader of the Eldeen Reaches, is a tree. Most of the powerful people in the world focus on selfish goals. If an angry dragon attacks Sharn, there’s no one else to deal with the problem: the

Using an Overarching Story

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)

Nine Dread Princes before finally pursuing an epic quest to destroy the princes’ monstrous progenitor. As long as every dungeon is unique and interesting, your players will appreciate the tight focus

to explore and map an uncharted region, forging alliances where they can and overcoming threats they encounter along the way. Their goal might be to find the ancient capital of a fallen empire, which

Roleplaying

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)

roleplaying, keep the following things in mind: Describe your character’s emotions and attitude. Focus on your character’s intent and how others might perceive it. Provide as much embellishment as you

feel comfortable with. Don’t worry about getting things exactly right. Just focus on thinking about what your character would do and describing what you see in your mind. Active Approach to Roleplaying

Yarana

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel

from the Far Realm attacked the Ghost Orchid Tepui. Yarana would like to take a more active role in combating the threats to her original home, but her immortality is tied to the Feywild. If she leaves

, a focus of Chimagua’s power, has sent the spirit visions of a Far Realm terror known as the Drought Elder that’s trying to exert control over Atagua. Recently, creatures from the Far Realm slipped

Closing the Circles

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated

your circle focus on protecting the helpless creatures of the wild from natural and unnatural threats. But your vow of protection extends to the common folk as well, recognizing that they are just as

Types of Officers

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh

experts to direct a crew’s efforts. Other roles focus on keeping the crew’s health and morale in order. The roles are meant to provide a sense of the types of ability checks useful to managing a ship

. Of these, though, captain is the only role that must be filled for the ship to function. A ship needs a single person to issue orders and respond to threats, otherwise a ship risks chaos and confusion

Dread Details

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

details can fade into the background as your adventures focus on the domain’s threats. Domain Elements Above all else, a domain is a torturous prison for its Darklord. Visceral sights, sounds, and

Cultural Specifics

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

out. These details can fade into the background as your adventures focus on more exciting threats, or you can highlight the cosmic dread that declares, yes, this place doesn’t make sense at all, yet it

College of Spirits (Bard)

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

through you. You gain the following benefits. Guiding Whispers. You know the Guidance cantrip. It has a range of 60 feet when you cast it. Spiritual Focus. You employ tools that aid you in channeling

spirits. You gain a Gaming Set (playing cards). You have proficiency with this Gaming Set, and you can use it or one of the following items as a Spellcasting Focus for your Bard spells: Arcane Focus

A Wide Range of Talents

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated

, your specialized combat training as a Hunter ranger makes you a stalwart defender of your franchise and your party. On a mission, you take a lead role in dispensing with threats. In a social

encounter, you stand at the back of the room and look dangerous. Just focus on a bit of sensitivity training to counter your predator’s instincts and you can be the definitive Acquisitions Incorporated

Shifter Traits

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

doesn’t provoke opportunity attacks. Wildhunt Wildhunt shifters are sharp and insightful. Many are constantly alert, ever wary for possible threats. Others focus on their intuition, searching within

Commander Portyr

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus

to help Baldur’s Gate. Although she must focus her efforts on various threats to the city’s security, she makes it possible for the characters to leave Baldur’s Gate when they’re ready, going as far

Battle of High Hill

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen

hostile mercenary guards, each mounted on a warhorse, appear on the road at the southwest edge of the battlefield and focus their attacks on the characters. If Darrett or another well-liked NPC accompanied

battlefield encounters in this adventure. These are events that take place on active battlefields. During these scenes, the wider battle is abstracted, allowing the characters focus on specific, tide

Travel-Montage Approach

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)

. There, the rogue finds a small rock that looks like a grinning face, but otherwise you encounter nothing out of the ordinary.” The trick is to focus on a few details that reinforce the desired mood rather

be a signal that the adventurers are drawing close to the site of evil power that is their destination or can provide clues to the nature of the threats to be found there. Specific wilderness

Monster Slayer

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

Monster Slayer You have dedicated yourself to hunting down creatures of the night and wielders of grim magic. A Monster Slayer seeks out vampires, dragons, evil fey, fiends, and other magical threats

of times equal to your Wisdom modifier (minimum of once). You regain all expended uses of it when you finish a long rest. Slayer’s Prey Starting at 3rd level, you can focus your ire on one foe

Loyalists

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh

Loyalists The loyalists consist of newcomers who arrived from the northern reaches of Keoland, loyal to King Kimbertos Skotti. They feel that the town should focus on becoming a useful asset to the

Saltmarsh into a trading hub with a higher standard of living and improved security. If the Sea Princes are held in check and the sea lanes cleared of threats, Saltmarsh can grow to become the envy of

Roleplaying

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)

and monsters mutter with slurred speech, while lizardfolk hiss their threats. In any interaction with multiple NPCs, make sure the adventurers remain the focus. Have the NPCs talk to them, not so much

Druid

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated

fit for an Acquisitions Incorporated campaign, with its frequent forays into urban settings and its focus on treasure procurement and business considerations. But the primal power wielded by druids

lots when no one’s looking), you might also be called upon to tend to struggling foliage or sick animals, eliminate threats to natural spaces, or serve as a font of horticultural and biological lore to

Unwelcome Party

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus

forget about those NPCs, assuming that the most capable among them are dealing with minor threats in the background while the adventurers handle the potent foes. You can also have combat-worthy NPCs

join the fight, if you’re up for running them. Have all NPCs act on the same initiative count, and focus their actions on assisting the characters in combat, rather than engaging in side fights of their

Madness

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)

Madness In many campaigns, little focus is placed on the mental and emotional impact of the dangers characters face day after day, but sometimes the stress of being an adventurer can be too much to

bear. If your campaign has a strong horror theme, you might want to use madness as a way to reinforce that theme, emphasizing the extraordinarily horrific nature of the threats the adventurers face

Map of the Sword Coast

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragon of Icespire Peak

match what’s in the printed adventure. Focus on getting the shape and dimensions correct, and leave the rest to the players’ imaginations. Map: The Sword Coast View Player Version Conyberry The

off threats from the Mere of Dead Men. Mere of Dead Men Travelers on the High Road, which skirts the mere to the east, must resist being lured into this cold and desolate swamp by bobbing will-o

Using Survivors

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

survivors are designed to engage with terrifying circumstances, but their triumph over such threats is not assured. Players’ decisions will certainly impact the survivors’ fates, but if it seems like doom

is in store, encourage the players to embrace it and make sure their survivors meet unforgettable ends. What’s Old Is New For survivors, any foe might become the focus of its own horror

Welcome to Theros

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

mythology and adapt it into a world built from the ground up for fantasy adventures. This book is your guide to Theros, its gods, its peoples and their cities (or poleis), its threats, and its tales

into the divine realm of Nyx and the dismal realms of the Underworld. Chapter 4 builds on the guidelines in the Dungeon Master’s Guide, highlighting adventures set in Theros. Maintaining a focus on the

Religious Order

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

all threats to their beliefs. 6 Doomsaying Evangelists. This order believes the world is about to end. They’re convinced that if they persuade everyone else of this fact they might stave off the

symbol or druidic focus, even if it isn’t needed for spellcasting. Each of you also has a book containing prayers, rites, and scriptures of your faith. Proficiencies. Each member of your party gains

Settlers, Squatters, and Invaders

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

of svirfneblin spellcasters once trained under the Emerald Enclave but eventually splintered off, choosing to focus solely on earth elemental magic. After doing so, they absorbed the surviving

for extermination. Chipgrin is all too aware of the threat posed by Ogrémoch’s Bane and the oozes plaguing the settlement, and he hopes that making common cause against those threats will force the

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