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Returning 35 results for 'voice secrets'.
Monsters
The Book of Many Things
Comet’s Voice (1/Day). The hierophant can cast Contact Other Plane, using Charisma as the spellcasting ability.
Magic Resistance. The hierophant has advantage on saving throws against spells
hierophants are present. As the cosmic narrative unfolds, the new hierophant is inducted into the esoteric secrets of the group’s leadership. The rite concludes with a mind-shattering vision of the Void
Magic Items
Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything
realm of Barovia. These travelers have learned many secrets of these domains and encountered countless others wandering amid the Shadowfell’s horrors. Most Vistani bands accept well-intentioned
the mists, leaving behind only the Tarokka of Souls. It is said that if you draw the Mists card from it, you can hear the whispers of her kind voice.
Kenku
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Species
Volo's Guide to Monsters
their ingenuity and skill had turned toward scheming against their patron, the spark of creativity was torn from their souls. Finally, to ensure that the kenku could never divulge any secrets, their
sound they hear, from a halfling’s voice to the noise of rocks clattering down a hillside. However, kenku cannot create new sounds and can communicate only by using sounds they have heard
Criminal / Spy
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Backgrounds
Basic Rules (2014)
sold the secrets you uncovered to the highest bidder.
Suggested Characteristics
Criminals might seem like villains on the surface, and many of them are villainous to the core. But some have an
always have a plan for what to do when things go wrong.
2
I am always calm, no matter what the situation. I never raise my voice or let my emotions control me.
3
The first thing I do in a
Backgrounds
Guildmasters’ Guide to Ravnica
.
2
I like to remind people of their inevitable demise.
3
Sometimes I give voice to the whispers of the rot, which I hear but no one else does.
4
I do my best to discourage anyone from
joined the Gruul in a battle against the Boros once, and the sergeant of that Boros squad would love to prove that it was me.
3
I had a romance with a Dimir agent whom I still feed secrets to
Backgrounds
Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus
different context: as an espionage agent. You might have been an officially sanctioned agent of the crown, or perhaps you sold the secrets you uncovered to the highest bidder.
Suggested
matter what the situation. I never raise my voice or let my emotions control me.
3
The first thing I do in a new place is note the locations of everything valuable—or where such things
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
in Dwarvish, “Neither secrets nor treasures shall ye find! Turn back! Ye are not welcome here!” Characters who have heard Halaster speak recognize the voice as his. Once all creatures leave this area, the magical warning resets.
the tunnel can spot the secret door at either end of it without having to make a check.
The first time a creature passes between the quartz pillars to the north, a booming, disembodied voice says
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
daring than their fellows. Others strike out on their own in search of the secrets of flight, to master magic, or to uncover the secret of their curse and find a method to break it. Kenku adventurers
, despite their relative independence, still have a tendency to seek out a companion to emulate and follow. A kenku loves to mimic the voice and words of its chosen companion. ROLEPLAYING A KENKU
If
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual
Galeb Duhr Eyes and Ears of the Earth Habitat: Hill, Mountain; Treasure: Any Luca Bancone Beings of living rock, galeb duhr seek harmony with the earth and give voice to the vibrations of stone
, but they often know much of the surrounding land and secrets within the earth. When motivated to action, galeb duhr slam into foes and animate nearby boulders to do the same. Some mountain dwellers
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Turn of Fortune’s Wheel
below.
“Looking for friends, hmm?” comes a cloyingly shrill voice. The words emanate from a crack in the cavern wall fifteen feet above the ledge. A rotten stench emanates from within.
It’s easy
was meant to know with one interested character (see the “Secrets of Eternity” section below). If the characters ignore the baernaloth, leave its cave, or refuse its offers, it lets them go. If the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
Build Your Group Newspapers employ a wide range of adventurers to bring news back to the home office. Consider some or all of these roles for the characters in your party: Voice of
BRELAND
does not. No, that honor goes to the shadowy board of the Chronicle’s owners.
Voice reporters have uncovered the names and positions of several members of this board, and the results are nothing less
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Eve of Ruin
Mount Ironrot, the graymatter engine fell into a despondent torpor that lasted until the arrival of its recent visitors. Brian Valeza Landro Sharing Secrets Landro understands the world by peering into
the clandestine variety. I would be interested to learn your secrets.”
Landro wishes to learn secrets from the characters through a type of osmosis. Landro tells the characters that this process is
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
those memories voice once more: Varyas’s eidolon. With the aid of both the eidolon and Varyas’s mask, a character can start the process of revealing the message written on the mask. While Varyas’s eidolon
left to you to choose, depending on the story you want to tell. Consult the Secrets of Phenax table, which presents several options for what divine secret Varyas’s eidolon might relate. The veracity
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
.
The Voice of
THRANE
Are you a six fanatic?
The Vassals of the Sovereign Host have long condemned the Dark Six as forces of evil. Yet correspondents at the Voice of Thrane have uncovered a shocking
said to be Aureon’s shadow, given malign life when Aureon mastered magic. The Shadow is the maker of monsters and the keeper of forbidden secrets, and it offers malevolent spells to warlocks and wizards
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
life and each other. Voice of
BRELAND
Corpse Cleric Condemns Claw
Last month, the Emerald Claw took credit for the ghoul outbreak in Wroat. This terrorist organization has a new and unusual
has nothing to do with the necromantic attacks on our people? Here at the Voice of Breland, we think something about this smells rotten, and it’s not just the mummy.
What just god would allow death
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
and identities to gain access to carefully guarded secrets such as ancestral maps, buried cities, and mages’ keeps. The bond between Harpers is strong, and their friendships are nigh unbreakable. Rarely
. Only a true Harper can pass this test and transform weakness into strength. That is why we are the hand that stops the tyrant, feeds the oppressed, and asks for nothing in return.
“We are the song for those who have no voice.”
Remallia “Remi” Haventree
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
crime syndicate, while the others include the following groups: Voice of
BRELAND
Blood ADDICTS’ Dragon Drug
Imagine it: a long-lasting state of euphoria, a feeling of power and energy, a measurable
secrets, blackmail powerful people, and forge everything from identification papers to coins and works of art. Running Your Own. Rather than join an existing syndicate, you can start your own. You need
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
voice and focuses on the business of running the bathhouse. Dread Morgan knows the ritual needed to bind a creature’s desire to a cursed painting, which is recorded on a tiny scroll hidden in a bone
jovial voice, and she promotes physical strength and good health. Vile Sazha knows how to create a suitable canvas for the hags’ cursed paintings. This secret is tattooed on her withered arm in
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
, whether in modest rural temples or urban cathedrals. When many common folk give voice to their hopes or seek to ward off evil, it’s to Ezra they pray. The Circle The heroic knights of this order quest from
calamities by containing them within hidden, heavily warded, vault-like monasteries. Over generations, these sites have become repositories of incredible secrets and great evil that members of the order
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
eight-foot-diameter, circular wooden disk painted to look like a smiling moon leans against one wall.
From a cluttered corner, a raspy voice says, “Psst! Over here!” Glancing in that direction, you
following secrets: Endelyn is terrified of eclipses (this is Motherhorn’s worst kept secret, Break-a-leg admits). Endelyn wrote a secret about her sister, Skabatha, on a piece of invisible parchment that
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
Cities and Sites The Voice of
Karrnath
Mror Holds: Birthplace of abomination!
It’s been exactly seventy years since the Iron Council declared the Mror Holds’ independence from Karrnath. King
of Noldrunhold? The Realm Below No one knows the extent or depth of the ancient dwarven empire deep beneath the Ironroot Mountains. Great wealth and arcane secrets remain hidden in these halls, along
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Turn of Fortune’s Wheel
castle is a mighty, pearl-colored dragon with branch-like horns. Its brilliant eyes fix on you. In a warm, slow voice that sounds as though it were coming from far away, it says, “My old friend. How good
leaves behind the talisman of the sphere. One Pixel Brush Dragons from across the planes visit the Mausoleum of Chronepsis, seeking to learn the secrets of fate The Witch and the Wyrmling This encounter
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
. Bewitching Whispers Prerequisite: 7th level You can cast compulsion once using a warlock spell slot. You can’t do so again until you finish a long rest. Book of Ancient Secrets Prerequisite: Pact of
, whenever you take the Attack action on your turn. Visions of Distant Realms Prerequisite: 15th level You can cast arcane eye at will, without expending a spell slot. Voice of the Chain Master
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
Mannerisms d20 Mannerism 1 Prone to singing, whistling, or humming quietly 2 Speaks in rhyme or some other peculiar way 3 Particularly low or high voice 4 Speaks in an unusually formal manner 5
trying to hide. The NPC Flaws and Secrets table provides several ideas. The backgrounds in the Player’s Handbook can be used to create more detailed flaws. Player characters who uncover an NPC’s flaw or
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
calm, no matter what the situation. I never raise my voice or let my emotions control me. 3 The first thing I do in a new place is note the locations of everything valuable — or where such things
very different context: as an espionage agent. You might have been an officially sanctioned agent of the crown, or perhaps you sold the secrets you uncovered to the highest bidder.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
copper pieces tossed by commoners isn’t for everyone — and it certainly isn’t for bards in the Acq Inc world. The power and magic tied up in the voice of a franchise bard is meant for greater things
official who you tricked into providing secrets
9 A former tavern owner who lost their business when you implicated them in a scheme they weren’t actually involved in
10 A moneylender who you inadvertently bankrupted
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
Notable Locations Aerenal taunts visitors with its ancient secrets and trackless jungles. Pylas Talaear The gateway to Aerenal, this port city is the primary point of contact between Aerenal and the
from Aerenal d8 Trinket 1 A bronzewood ring inscribed with the Elvish word for “hope” 2 A dried flower; if it’s placed in water, it blooms 3 An ebony locket; when it’s opened, an elven voice
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal
of the Forgotten Realms. Halaster eventually disappeared, as have all his apprentices, but the massive complex he built remains to this day. For untold years, the secrets of Undermountain remained
thought him dead. But one night, a voice called up from the well. Few at first believed it could be Durnan, but folk as long-lived as he vouched it so. The Yawning Portal had passed into the hands of his
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)
calm, no matter what the situation. I never raise my voice or let my emotions control me. 3 The first thing I do in a new place is note the locations of everything valuable — or where such things
very different context: as an espionage agent. You might have been an officially sanctioned agent of the crown, or perhaps you sold the secrets you uncovered to the highest bidder.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything
Shadowfell, which includes terrifying demiplanes like the vampire-haunted realm of Barovia. These travelers have learned many secrets of these domains and encountered countless others wandering amid the
years ago, Mother Luba disappeared into the mists, leaving behind only the Tarokka of Souls. It is said that if you draw the Mists card from it, you can hear the whispers of her kind voice.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything
scroll. Research. Relying on an ancient being’s network of contacts, the being’s vast collection of lore, or perhaps the being’s direct teaching helps you unearth hidden secrets. If you can contact
entity that appears outside the flow of time, or a projected illusion of a being that never leaves your patron’s hidden sanctum. 6 The Mouthpiece. The ancient being’s voice whispers through the lips of an
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
secrets lost to time. Though many Lorehold students bury themselves in old tomes, others take a more cavalier approach to their studies and travel the world to see history made before their eyes. Their
Bonus +3
Voice from the Past (1/Day). The professor can cast the contact other plane spell to contact a long-dead spirit, using Intelligence as the spellcasting ability.
Actions
Multiattack. The
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Domains of Delight: A Feywild Accessory
secrets of the multiverse. If you want your archfey to have an obsession, you can determine it randomly by rolling on the Archfey Obsession table. Archfey Obsession d8 Obsession 1 Beauty. The
antlers. 2 Compelling Voice. The archfey has a magical voice that can charm creatures of a certain type (such as Beasts or Fey). This voice might be as soft as a whisper or loud like thunder. 3
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Sigil and the Outlands
marches, defending their seats from challengers advocating similar platforms of goodliness and law. Nevertheless, even exemplars of decency have sinister secrets, and the Spotless Seven aren’t as clean
constituents to voice their concerns. Vain and corruptible, these politicians regularly cast doubt on their opponents and hire mercenaries to bring shame to other candidates. Pavilion of Purity Opposite
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
Tips for New Dungeon Masters Most of this book is for the DM’s eyes only, since it’s full of secrets that your players won’t discover until you run the adventure for them. That said, the adventure
owners of the Witchlight Carnival) as a flamboyant figure, but you get to decide what his voice sounds like and how he reacts to a given situation, based on what the adventure says about him. You can also