Chapter One - Mirabar

[Aavarius]

Andraste (Half-Elf Sorcerer)

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AC: 15 | HP: 21/23 | HD: 3d6 | Passive Perception: 9 | Inspiration: No | Conditions: None
Spells: 1st: ▣▣▣▣, 2nd: ☐☐ | Sorcery: ▣▣▣ | Concentration: Dragon's Breath2nd Leve l Transmutation
Casting Time: 1 bonus action
Range/Area: Touch/15ft.
Components: V, S, M (a hot pepper)
Duration: Concentration, up to 1 minute

You touch one willing creature and imbue it with the power to spew magical energy from its mouth, provided it has one. Choose acid, cold, fire, lightning, or poison. Until the spell ends, the creature can use an action to exhale energy of the chosen type in a 15-foot cone. Each creature in that area must make a Dexterity saving throw, taking 3d6 damage of the chosen type on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one.

At Higher Levels. When you cast this spell using a spell slot of 3rd level or higher, the damage increases by 1d6 for each slot level above 2nd. (Acid) up to 1 minute

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After they had looked over the place for supplies, Andraste dusted off the last of the soot from her hands. She had employed a bit more prestidigitation magic to clean off herself, and for the moment she didn't look like she had been sliding around on the floor in ash and embers. As she stood around with the others, she put her hands on her hips and said, "If all goes well, this forge may become a secure place for us to make our own." She looked around a bit at the place, surveying the feasibility of her own idea. "Four solid walls, a roof over our head, and no cold to speak of. Plenty of firewood. Just needs a little tidying up."

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Mechanics

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[Wizard of the Coat]

Copper - Upbeat Urchin of Mirabar (Human Arcane Trickster)

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AC 13/16with Mage Armor  | HP 14/24 | Init +3 | P Percptn. 13 (Pooka 15 smell) | Spells 1/2 (1st) | Inspr. 0/1 | Darts 3/4 | Arr. 20/20 | CP 12 SP 5 GP 5

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Aided by a few of the others, Copper completed her search of the building. From her small crossbody bag, she'd drawn an empty sack which now held the iron bars that constituted their loot. The King might thing the bars worth a trade, and she was eager to find out. The bars were heavy, but she thought it best to keep the loot in one container all of them could recognize should the carrier fall.

She was about to speak when Andra began her musings. The girl listened, confused. "Wait... You remember the part of the plan where we close the portal to mephitland, right? The portal that keeps this place heated?"

Copper paused, looking to the others. "Or did I miss something while I was searching for the goods?"

The copper-haired girl looked to Hachi. "So, can we close that portal and get out of here now? These iron bars are burning a hole in my pocket."

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Mechanics

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Status Effects: none

Active Spells: Mage Armor (8 hrs)

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Copper

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Statblock

Female Human (Varient) Rogue (Arcane Trickster) 3

Languages Common, Sylvan, Thieves' Cant

Background Urchin Background Feature City SecretsYou know the secret patterns and flow to cities and can find passages through the urban sprawl that others would miss. When you are not in combat, you (and companions you lead) can travel between any two locations in the city twice as fast as your speed would normally allow.

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StrSave -1
Athletics -1 8 DexSave +5*
Acrobatics +5 | Sleight of Hand +7 (E) | Stealth +5 16 ConSave +2
No skills associated. 14 IntSave +3
Arcana +3 | History +1 | Investigation +3 | Nature +1 | Religion +1 13 WisSave +3
Animal Handling +1 | Insight +1 | Medicine +1 | Perception +3 | Survival +1 12 ChaSave +0
Deception +5 (E) | Intimidation +1 | Performance +1 | Persuasion +1 12

ProficiencyTools: Thieves tools (+5 Pick Locks*), herbalism kit
Weapons: Simple weapons, hand crossbows, longswords, rapiers, shortswords
Armors: Light Bonus +2 Saving Throws Dex, Int

Speed 30 (60 w/Cunning Action Dash)

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Actions

• Booming BladeEvocation cantrip
  Casting Time: 1 action
  Range: Self (5-foot radius)
  Components: S, M (a melee weapon worth at least 1 sp)
  Duration: 1 round
  
  You brandish the weapon used in the spell's casting and make a melee attack with it against one creature within 5 feet of you. On a hit, the target suffers the weapon attack's normal effects and then becomes sheathed in booming energy until the start of your next turn. If the target willingly moves 5 feet or more before then, the target takes 1d8 thunder damage, and the spell ends.
  
  This spell's damage increases when you reach certain levels. At 5th level, the melee attack deals an extra 1d8 thunder damage to the target on a hit, and the damage the target takes for moving increases to 2d8. Both damage rolls increase by 1d8 at 11th level (2d8 and 3d8) and again at 17th level (3d8 and 4d8).
• Scimitar +5 to hit for (1d6+3) slashing damage. | finesse, light
• Small Knife +5 to hit for (1d4+3) piercing damage. | finesse, light, thrown (20/60)
• Dart +5 to hit for (1d4+3) piercing damage. | finesse, thrown (20/60)
• Shortbow +5 to hit for (1d6+3) piercing damage | ammunition (80/120), two-handed

Bonus Actions

• Small Knife +5 to hit for (1d4+3) piercing/slashing damage. | finesse, light
• Cunning ActionStarting at 2nd level, your quick thinking and agility allow you to move and act quickly. You can take a bonus action on each of your turns in combat. This action can be used only to take the Dash, Disengage, or Hide action. (Dash, Disengage, Hide, Mage Hand LegerdemainStarting at 3rd level, when you cast mage hand, you can make the spectral hand invisible, and you can perform the following additional tasks with it:
  
  >You can stow one object the hand is holding in a container worn or carried by another creature.
  >You can retrieve an object in a container worn or carried by another creature.
  >You can use thieves' tools to pick locks and disarm traps at range.
  
  You can perform one of these tasks without being noticed by a creature if you succeed on a Dexterity (Sleight of Hand) check contested by the creature's Wisdom (Perception) check.
  
  In addition, you can use the bonus action granted by your Cunning Action to control the hand.)

Reactions

• Opportunity Attack (with additional Sneak Attack)

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Spell Save DC: 11 | Spell Attack Mod: +3

Cantrips Booming BladeEvocation cantrip
Casting Time: 1 action
Range: Self (5-foot radius)
Components: S, M (a melee weapon worth at least 1 sp)
Duration: 1 round

You brandish the weapon used in the spell's casting and make a melee attack with it against one creature within 5 feet of you. On a hit, the target suffers the weapon attack's normal effects and then becomes sheathed in booming energy until the start of your next turn. If the target willingly moves 5 feet or more before then, the target takes 1d8 thunder damage, and the spell ends.

This spell's damage increases when you reach certain levels. At 5th level, the melee attack deals an extra 1d8 thunder damage to the target on a hit, and the damage the target takes for moving increases to 2d8. Both damage rolls increase by 1d8 at 11th level (2d8 and 3d8) and again at 17th level (3d8 and 4d8). | Mage HandConjuration cantrip
Casting Time: 1 action
Range: 30 feet
Components: V, S
Duration: 1 minute

A spectral, floating hand appears at a point you choose within range. The hand lasts for the duration or until you dismiss it as an action. The hand vanishes if it is ever more than 30 feet away from you or if you cast this spell again.

You can use your action to control the hand. You can use the hand to manipulate an object, open an unlocked door or container, stow or retrieve an item from an open container, or pour the contents out of a vial. You can move the hand up to 30 feet each time you use it.

The hand can't attack, activate magic items, or carry more than 10 pounds. | MessageTransmutation cantrip
Casting Time: 1 action
Range: 120 feet
Components: V, S, M (a short piece of copper wire)
Duration: 1 round

You point your finger toward a creature within range and whisper a message. The target (and only the target) hears the message and can reply in a whisper that only you can hear.

You can cast this spell through solid objects if you are familiar with the target and know it is beyond the barrier. Magical silence, 1 foot of stone, 1 inch of common metal, a thin sheet of lead, or 3 feet of wood blocks the spell. The spell doesn't have to follow a straight line and can travel freely around corners or through openings. | Minor IllusionIllusion cantrip
Casting Time: 1 action
Range: 30 feet
Components: S, M (a bit of fleece)
Duration: 1 minute

You create a sound or an image of an object within range that lasts for the duration. The illusion also ends if you dismiss it as an action or cast this spell again.

If you create a sound, its volume can range from a whisper to a scream. It can be your voice, someone else's voice, a lion's roar, a beating of drums, or any other sound you choose. The sound continues unabated throughout the duration, or you can make discrete sounds at different times before the spell ends.

If you create an image of an object—such as a chair, muddy footprints, or a small chest—it must be no larger than a 5-foot cube. The image can't create sound, light, smell, or any other sensory effect. Physical interaction with the image reveals it to be an illusion, because things can pass through it.

If a creature uses its action to examine the sound or image, the creature can determine that it is an illusion with a successful Intelligence (Investigation) check against your spell save DC. If a creature discerns the illusion for what it is, the illusion becomes faint to the creature. | PrestidigitationTransmutation cantrip
Casting Time: 1 action
Range: 10 feet
Components: V, S
Duration: Up to 1 hour

This spell is a minor magical trick that novice spellcasters use for practice. You create one of the following magical effects within range:

>You create an instantaneous, harmless sensory effect, such as a shower of sparks, a puff of wind, faint musical notes, or an odd odor.
>You instantaneously light or snuff out a candle, a torch, or a small campfire.
>You instantaneously clean or soil an object no larger than 1 cubic foot.
>You chill, warm, or flavor up to 1 cubic foot of nonliving material for 1 hour.
>You make a color, a small mark, or a symbol appear on an object or a surface for 1 hour.
>You create a nonmagical trinket or an illusory image that can fit in your hand and that lasts until the end of your next turn.

If you cast this spell multiple times, you can have up to three of its non-instantaneous effects active at a time, and you can dismiss such an effect as an action. 

Spells Disguise Self1st-level illusion
Casting Time: 1 action
Range: Self
Components: V, S
Duration: 1 hour

You make yourself—including your clothing, armor, weapons, and other belongings on your person—look different until the spell ends or until you use your action to dismiss it. You can seem 1 foot shorter or taller and can appear thin, fat, or in between. You can't change your body type, so you must adopt a form that has the same basic arrangement of limbs. Otherwise, the extent of the illusion is up to you.

The changes wrought by this spell fail to hold up to physical inspection. For example, if you use this spell to add a hat to your outfit, objects pass through the hat, and anyone who touches it would feel nothing or would feel your head and hair. If you use this spell to appear thinner than you are, the hand of someone who reaches out to touch you would bump into you while it was seemingly still in midair.

To discern that you are disguised, a creature can use its action to inspect your appearance and must succeed on an Intelligence (Investigation) check against your spell save DC. | Find FamiliarCasting Time: 1 hour
Range: 10 feet
Components: V, S, M (10 gp worth of charcoal, incense, and herbs that must be consumed by fire in a brass brazier)
Duration: Instantaneous

You gain the service of a familiar, a spirit that takes an animal form you choose: bat, cat, crab, frog (toad), hawk, lizard, octopus, owl, poisonous snake, fish (quipper), rat, raven, sea horse, spider, or weasel. Appearing in an unoccupied space within range, the familiar has the statistics of the chosen form, though it is a celestial, fey, or fiend (your choice) instead of a beast.

Additional animal form choices may be available at the DM's discretion.

Your familiar acts independently of you, but it always obeys your commands. In combat, it rolls its own initiative and acts on its own turn. A familiar can't attack, but it can take other actions as normal.

When the familiar drops to 0 hit points, it disappears, leaving behind no physical form. It reappears after you cast this spell again. As an action, you can temporarily dismiss the familiar to a pocket dimension. Alternatively, you can dismiss it forever. As an action while it is temporarily dismissed, you can cause it to reappear in any unoccupied space within 30 feet of you. Whenever the familiar drops to 0 hit points or disappears into the pocket dimension, it leaves behind in its space anything it was wearing or carrying.

While your familiar is within 100 feet of you, you can communicate with it telepathically. Additionally, as an action, you can see through your familiar's eyes and hear what it hears until the start of your next turn, gaining the benefits of any special senses that the familiar has. During this time, you are deaf and blind with regard to your own senses.

You can't have more than one familiar at a time. If you cast this spell while you already have a familiar, you instead cause it to adopt a new form. Choose one of the forms from the above list. Your familiar transforms into the chosen creature.

Finally, when you cast a spell with a range of touch, your familiar can deliver the spell as if it had cast the spell. Your familiar must be within 100 feet of you, and it must use its reaction to deliver the spell when you cast it. If the spell requires an attack roll, you use your attack modifier for the roll. | Mage Armor1st-level abjuration
Casting Time: 1 action
Range: Touch
Components: V, S, M (a piece of cured leather)
Duration: 8 hours

You touch a willing creature who isn't wearing armor, and a protective magical force surrounds it until the spell ends. The target's base AC becomes 13 + its Dexterity modifier. The spell ends if the target dons armor or if you dismiss the spell as an action. | Sleep1st-level enchantment
Casting Time: 1 action
Range: 90 feet
Components: V, S, M (a pinch of fine sand, rose petals, or a cricket)
Duration: 1 minute

This spell sends creatures into a magical slumber. Roll 5d8; the total is how many hit points of creatures this spell can affect. Creatures within 20 feet of a point you choose within range are affected in ascending order of their current hit points (ignoring unconscious creatures).

Starting with the creature that has the lowest current hit points, each creature affected by this spell falls unconscious until the spell ends, the sleeper takes damage, or someone uses an action to shake or slap the sleeper awake. Subtract each creature's hit points from the total before moving on to the creature with the next lowest hit points. A creature's hit points must be equal to or less than the remaining total for that creature to be affected.

Undead and creatures immune to being charmed aren't affected by this spell.

At Higher Levels. When you cast this spell using a spell slot of 2nd level or higher, roll an additional 2d8 for each slot level above 1st.

[Gralhruk]

Mara Jade (Changeling Monk)

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AC: 16 | HP: 24/24 | Initiative: +3 | Passive Perception: 15 | Ki: 1/3 | DM Inspiration: 1/1

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Mara could see the eager gleam in Copper's eye - no doubt she was eager to get to the Clockwork King and trade for some of his goods. It was true that they needed to close the portal of flame here, but that alone did not negate the worthiness of the structure. A more normal fire could be lit, likely without drawing suspicion. Perhaps this would make a decent base for them; perhaps not, also, but she did not see any reason to rule it out.

"Zespara, do any apart from the Mephits come here now? Guards or priests or the like?"

It might give them time to figure out the mystery of the doors down below also. It still bothered her that the dwarves claim to have never been able to open them. It didn't seem right, but then she'd no idea how they might be opened either.

Mechanics Main Hand: Empty Off Hand: Empty Action: Bonus Action: None Move: Back to the main level Manipulate: Your one free object interaction goes here.

 

[Aavarius]

Andraste (Half-Elf Sorcerer)

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AC: 15 | HP: 21/23 | HD: 3d6 | Passive Perception: 9 | Inspiration: No | Conditions: None
Spells: 1st: ▣▣▣▣, 2nd: ☐☐ | Sorcery: ▣▣▣ | Concentration: Dragon's Breath2nd Leve l Transmutation
Casting Time: 1 bonus action
Range/Area: Touch/15ft.
Components: V, S, M (a hot pepper)
Duration: Concentration, up to 1 minute

You touch one willing creature and imbue it with the power to spew magical energy from its mouth, provided it has one. Choose acid, cold, fire, lightning, or poison. Until the spell ends, the creature can use an action to exhale energy of the chosen type in a 15-foot cone. Each creature in that area must make a Dexterity saving throw, taking 3d6 damage of the chosen type on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one.

At Higher Levels. When you cast this spell using a spell slot of 3rd level or higher, the damage increases by 1d6 for each slot level above 2nd. (Acid) up to 1 minute

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"Portal doesn't matter so much as the stone walls," Andraste explained to Copper. "Don't get me wrong, I'm not looking forward to going out in the elements again, but this place seems a lot less...ramshackle than the other buildings. And it's not currently occupied by people that want to enslave or kill us.

"Finder's keepers, yeah?" She gave that last remark with a big smile. Maybe all of this was wishful thinking, but it was pragmatic, too. There was still the matter of the ice box down below to be sorted out.

"I'm with Copper, though. Let's make our way back to the Clockwork King. We can see about sorting out the rest of this place after that. Or...I don't know, maybe our mysterious benefactors out there can provide more for us?" She made a broad gesture to indicate "out there" somewhere.

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Mechanics

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Off Hand: -

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[Underleaf]

   

Hachilah - Fire Genasi Barbarian 3

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AC: 17 | HP: 30/35 | Initiative: +2 | Passive Perception: 13 | Rage: 3/3

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Hachilah nodded at Copper and moved to complete the task the Clockwork King had given them. "A place away from the others in this city would be welcomed. But let us finish one mission before starting another."  The genasi thought back to their school days. They were often split into two, those who wished to stay the course and the others who wanted to push on to the unknown road. It made them better, question each other and find the ways that led them to be a successful adventuring party.

She looked around the forge once more, gripping Zespara firmly. "We will return."

 

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Mechanics Main Hand: Empty Off Hand: Empty Action: Straighten rod Bonus Action: ... Move: Put on gear and move to rod Manipulate: Your one free object interaction goes here. Reaction: Opportunity attack.

Spells Casting Ability: Wisdom Spell Save DC: 11 Spell Attack Modifier: +3 Cantrip: Produce FlameCASTING TIME: 1 Action RANGE/AREA: Self COMPONENTS: V, S DURATION: 10 Minutes A flickering flame appears in your hand. The flame remains there for the duration and harms neither you nor your equipment. The flame sheds bright light in a 10-foot radius and dim light for an additional 10 feet. The spell ends if you dismiss it as an action or if you cast it again. You can also attack with the flame, although doing so ends the spell. When you cast this spell, or as an action on a later turn, you can hurl the flame at a creature within 30 feet of you. Make a ranged spell attack. On a hit, the target takes 1d8 fire damage. This spell's damage increases by 1d8 when you reach 5th level (2d8), 11th level (3d8), and 17th level (4d8). One Use per Long Rest 1st: Burning HandsCASTING TIME: 1 Action RANGE/AREA: Self (15 ft ) COMPONENTS: V, S DURATION: Instantaneous As you hold your hands with thumbs touching and fingers spread, a thin sheet of flames shoots forth from your outstretched fingertips. Each creature in a 15-foot cone must make a Dexterity saving throw. A creature takes 3d6 fire damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one. The fire ignites any flammable objects in the area that aren't being worn or carried. At Higher Levels. When you cast this spell using a spell slot of 2nd level or higher, the damage increases by 1d6 for each slot level above 1st. 2nd: Flame Blade (C) -no access till 5thCASTING TIME: 1 Bonus Action RANGE/AREA: Self COMPONENTS: V, S, M * DURATION: Concentration 10 Minutes You evoke a fiery blade in your free hand. The blade is similar in size and shape to a scimitar, and it lasts for the duration. If you let go of the blade, it disappears, but you can evoke the blade again as a bonus action. You can use your action to make a melee spell attack with the fiery blade. On a hit, the target takes 3d6 fire damage. The flaming blade sheds bright light in a 10-foot radius and dim light for an additional 10 feet. At Higher Levels. When you cast this spell using a spell slot of 4th level or higher, the damage increases by 1d6 for every two slot levels above 2nd. Grovel. The target falls prone and then ends its turn. Halt. The target doesn't move and takes no actions. A flying creature stays aloft, provided that it is able to do so. If it must move to stay aloft, it flies the minimum distance needed to remain in the air. At Higher Levels. When you cast this spell using a spell slot of 2nd level or higher, you can affect one additional creature for each slot level above 1st. The creatures must be within 30 feet of each other when you target them.

Stat Block

 

Hachilah of the Wandering Sands
Fire Genasi Ancestral Guardian Barbarian (3)

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Str 14   Dex 14   Con 16   Int 10   Wis 12   Cha 10
HP 35/35   HD 3d12/3d12   AC 17   Speed 30 ft

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Passive Perception 13   Initiative +2
Languages Common, Primordial & Dwarvish
Background Tribe Member: Wandering Sands   Feature Wandering Sands HeritageYou have an excellent knowledge of not only your tribe’s territory, but also the terrain and natural resources of the rest of the Southwest. You are familiar enough with any wilderness area that you find twice as much food and water as you normally would when you forage there.

Additionally, you can call upon the hospitality of your people, and those folk allied with your tribe, often including members of druid circles, tribes of nomadic elves, the Harpers, and the priesthoods devoted to the gods of the First Circle.

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• Handaxe +4 attack, 1d6+2 slashing damage
• Javelin +4 thrown attack, 1d6+2 piercing
• Moon-touched GreataxeMoon-touched weapons count as magical but offer no bonuses and shed bright moonlight in a 15' radius and dim light another 15' beyond that. +4 attack, 1d12+2 slashing damage

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Proficiency +2   Saving Throws Strength, Constitution
Skills Athletics, Insight, Perception & Survival
Tools Cook's Utensils
Instruments ...
Weapons Simple weapons, martial weapons
Armor All armor, shields
Feats None
Features DarkvisionYou can see in dim light within 60 feet of you as if it were bright light and in darkness as if it were dim light. You discern colors in that darkness only as shades of gray., Fire ResistanceYou have resistance to fire damage., Reach to the BlazeYou know the produce flame cantrip. Starting at 3rd level, you can cast the burning hands spell with this trait. Starting at 5th level, you can also cast the flame blade spell with this trait, without requiring a material component. Once you cast burning hands or flame blade with this trait, you can’t cast that spell with it again until you finish a long rest. You can also cast either of those spells using any spell slots you have of the appropriate level.

Intelligence, Wisdom, or Charisma is your spellcasting ability for these spells when you cast them with this trait (choose when you select this race)., Rage (3)In battle, you fight with primal ferocity. On your turn, you can enter a rage as a bonus action.

While raging, you gain the following benefits if you aren’t wearing heavy armor:

•You have advantage on Strength checks and Strength saving throws.
•When you make a melee weapon attack using Strength, you gain a bonus to the damage roll that increases as you gain levels as a barbarian, as shown in the Rage Damage column of the Barbarian table.
•You have resistance to bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing damage.
•If you are able to cast spells, you can’t cast them or concentrate on them while raging.

Your rage lasts for 1 minute. It ends early if you are knocked unconscious or if your turn ends and you haven’t attacked a hostile creature since your last turn or taken damage since then. You can also end your rage on your turn as a bonus action.

Once you have raged the number of times shown for your barbarian level in the Rages column of the Barbarian table, you must finish a long rest before you can rage again., Unarmored DefenseWhile you are not wearing any armor, your Armor Class equals 10 + your Dexterity modifier + your Constitution modifier. You can use a shield and still gain this benefit., Reckless AttackStarting at 2nd level, you can throw aside all concern for defense to attack with fierce desperation. When you make your first attack on your turn, you can decide to attack recklessly. Doing so gives you advantage on melee weapon attack rolls using Strength during this turn, but attack rolls against you have advantage until your next turn., Danger SenseAt 2nd level, you gain an uncanny sense of when things nearby aren’t as they should be, giving you an edge when you dodge away from danger.

You have advantage on Dexterity saving throws against effects that you can see, such as traps and spells. To gain this benefit, you can’t be blinded, deafened, or incapacitated., Ancestral ProtectorsStarting when you choose this path at 3rd level, spectral warriors appear when you enter your rage. While you’re raging, the first creature you hit with an attack on your turn becomes the target of the warriors, which hinder its attacks. Until the start of your next turn, that target has disadvantage on any attack roll that isn’t against you, and when the target hits a creature other than you with an attack, that creature has resistance to the damage dealt by the attack. The effect on the target ends early if your rage ends. 

[bwatford]

Dungeons & Dragons 5e

with DM BWatford

"Zespara, do any others besides the Mephits come here now? Guards, priests, or similar?" Mara inquired of Zespara, to which the blade replied, "Nae one comes here, tha goblins be afraid o' tha mephits an' Vecna's clergy kinna be bothered.."

Hachilah ushered everyone away from the forge, preparing to approach once more, this time with the Dimensional Nullifier gripped firmly, her finger poised over the button. Once a safe distance was ensured for all, she stepped forward, a wave of heat engulfing her as she pressed the device into action. A pulsating wave emanated from it, and the forge's intense heat diminished rapidly as the link to the plane of fire was cut.

Copper observed in the corridor as the ice over the trapdoor thickened rapidly, eventually sealing the descent. As the temperature dropped, Zespara sighed, "She was a right good forge. Dinna find ta many o' those fire nodes just laying around. Hate ta see her grow cold. But all things must end I guess."

With that, the group ventured back into the chill of Mirabar's streets. Drift opted to return to the Forge Hammer and await their return as the others began trudging across the city, they followed Copper's lead to the realm and the labyrinth of sewer tunnels that descended to the Clockwork King. Upon arrival, they returned the borrowed device to the dwarf, along with the straightened axle rod, prompting a broad smile from the man. "Mighty fine job," said the dwarf, passing the rod to one of his mechanical servants.

Copper was engrossed in examining the items for sale once more in the area known as the Clockwork Bazaar, a name given by the Clockwork King.
 

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CLOCKWORK BAZAAR

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• A small, handheld device called the clockwork quantifier (worth 100 gp). If a character uses an action to wave the quantifier before a group of items, the quantifier announces, in a loud dwarven voice, the exact number of items in the group. The quantifier has ten remaining charges.
• A mechanical crab called a clockwork familiar (worth 200 gp). If a character places a drop of blood into a receptacle within the crab, then the crab bonds with the character as per the find familiar spell. The crab can use an action to transform, with a rumbling of gears, into a seahorse. Similarly, it can use an action to transform from a sea horse into a crab. If reduced to 0 hit points, the clockwork familiar is permanently destroyed.
• A small, toy coffin (worth 10 gp). Any character who succeeds at a DC 12 Wisdom (Perception) check can hear what sounds like dozens of tiny fists pounding to get out of the coffin. The coffin is locked. Although too delicate to be forced open without destroying it, the lock can be picked by a character who makes a successful DC 10 Dexterity check using thieves’ tools. 
• A mind-sharpened armor (chain shirt) (worth 250 gp) This infused armor can send a jolt to the wearer to refocus their mind. The armor has 4 charges. When the wearer fails a constitution saving throw to maintain concentration on a spell, the wearer can use its reaction to expend 1 of the armor’s charges to succeed instead. The armor regains 1d4 expended charges daily at dawn.
• A clockwork amulet (worth 150 gp). When a character makes an attack roll while wearing the amulet, they can forgo rolling the d20 to get a 10 on the die. Once used, this property can’t be used again until the next dawn.
• A musician’s clockwork companion (worth 250 gp). This bundle of gears and string still needs to be completed by the Clockwork King. Given 1d4 days, he can turn it into a clockwork instrument functionally equivalent to an instrument of the bards. It can be turned into either a lute, bandore, or cittern, depending on the purchasing character’s preference. Once this configuration has been completed it is irreversible.

The following potions brewed from a clockwork alchemist’s set that looks similar to a modern-day coffee maker: 

• three viscous potions of healing (worth 50 gp each)
• one viscous potion of greater healing (worth 100 gp)
• two viscous potions of resistance (fire) (worth 100 gp each)
• one viscous potion of vitality (200 gp). 

Viscous potions, being thick and syrupy, take longer to consume than usual. If one is taken during combat, its effects will not manifest until the character's next turn in the following round.

*Keep in mind that Mirabar is a trading city where items of equal value can be exchanged, and coins are valued at only half their worth.

Mirabar

On the 4th Day of ChessMarch
in the 5th Year of Vecna's Reign
11:08 am
Day 2

Scene Information:

 

Active Maps

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Bookkeeping

PASSIVE PERCEPTION

Mara 15 | Cassandra 14 | Copper 13 | Hachilah 13 | Andraste 9

INITIATIVE

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MECHANICS

Dire Wolf Has 26 of 37 hit points remaining.

CONDITIONS

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DESCRIPTIONS

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ANDRASTE

Hit Points: 21/23 (fey ancestry) Hit Dice: 3/3 Sorcery Points: 3/3 *L Spell Slots (+5, DC 13) *L 1st Level: 4/4 2nd Level: 0/2 DM Inspiration: 1/1 Experience Points: 900 / 2,700

CASSANDRA

Hit Points: 25/25 (divine health) Hit Dice: 3/3 Channel Divinity: 1/1 *S/L Divine Sense: 2/3 *L Lay on Hands: 15/15 *L Lucky: 3/6 *L (6 times a day while in Mirabar.) Spell Slots (+4, DC 12) *L 1st Level: 3/3 DM Inspiration: 1/1 Experience Points: 900 / 2,700

COPPER

Hit Points: 14/24 Hit Dice: 3/3 Spell Slots (+3, DC 11) *L 1st Level: 1/2 Attuned Magic Items: 1/3 DM Inspiration: 0/1 Experience Points: 900 / 2,700

CHARACTER #4

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HACHILAH

Hit Points: 30/35 (danger sense, resist: fire) Hit Dice: 3/3 Rage: 2/2 *L Reach the Blaze: 1/1 *L DM Inspiration: 1/1 Experience Points: 900 / 2,700

MARA

Hit Points: 24/24 Hit Dice: 3/3 Ki Points: 1/3 *S/L DM Inspiration: 1/1 Experience Points: 900 / 2,700

 

 

[Aavarius]

Andraste (Half-Elf Sorcerer)

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AC: 15 | HP: 21/23 | HD: 3d6 | Passive Perception: 9 | Inspiration: No | Conditions: None
Spells: 1st: ▣▣▣▣, 2nd: ☐☐ | Sorcery: ▣▣▣ | Concentration: Dragon's Breath2nd Leve l Transmutation
Casting Time: 1 bonus action
Range/Area: Touch/15ft.
Components: V, S, M (a hot pepper)
Duration: Concentration, up to 1 minute

You touch one willing creature and imbue it with the power to spew magical energy from its mouth, provided it has one. Choose acid, cold, fire, lightning, or poison. Until the spell ends, the creature can use an action to exhale energy of the chosen type in a 15-foot cone. Each creature in that area must make a Dexterity saving throw, taking 3d6 damage of the chosen type on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one.

At Higher Levels. When you cast this spell using a spell slot of 3rd level or higher, the damage increases by 1d6 for each slot level above 2nd. (Acid) up to 1 minute

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It's not that Andraste was ungrateful to the Clockwork King for his fair dealing with them. Indeed, he had been the most refreshing thing she had seen since awaking. Despite his many, many quirks and oddities, the man was straightforward and plain about his intentions. All the double-speak and secrecy required with everyone else was getting tiring. The problem was that in her mind this little venture was a favor for a favor: an undesirable duty that she had to get done to get to the--in her mind--more important tasks.

At a time and place nearby when she thought the Clockwork King couldn't overhear Andraste said quietly, "I'm eager to get back to Racine, to see what this Silent Axes organization she's part of is all about. I think they owe us some more answers after what we've accomplished today. " She looked around a moment, then added, "At the very least she owes us that gemstone and access to an outfitter."

Still, it was good they had ended up with a favorable outcome with this self-styled king. They probably needed all the allies they could get, even the quirky ones.

 

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Nothin' to see here, chief

Main Hand: -
Off Hand: -

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Action: -
Bonus Action: -
Move: -
Manipulate: -

▣☐

[Gralhruk]

Mara Jade (Changeling Monk)

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AC: 16 | HP: 24/24 | Initiative: +3 | Passive Perception: 15 | Ki: 1/3 | DM Inspiration: 1/1

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Standing once more in front of the Clockwork King, surrounded by his mechanical contraptions and forge-crafted servants, Mara felt the full weight of the oddity of their situation hammering on her being. It was not just that they had been catapulted to the alternate reality, severed from almost everyone they had know, nor was it merely that the world had slid inexorably into a nightmare of its former self. Worst of all for her was the idea that she was like these automotons - created, not born, with nothing real of her own. Tucked within her sleeves, she pressed her slim hands against her belly, closing her eyes for a moment, recalling a time long ago and the beginning of a life anew. The memory pushed back the darkness that surrounded her, lent an inner calm that squashed her nagging doubt. Her eyes opened again, surveying the scene with serene patience. Mara glanced at Andraste beside her.

"Yes, I agree. We have accomplished much, hopefully proven ourselves to her so that she will trust us with more information."

She gave a brief smile, like a ray of sunlight peeking through the clouds. Despite the somberness of all they had been through, her dark eyes danced merrily.

"We put our past lessons to good use today - a difficult task, handled with skill. I will take it as a sign of our good fortune in all of this ill we have found."

Mechanics Main Hand: Empty Off Hand: Empty Action: Bonus Action: None Move: Back to the main level Manipulate: Your one free object interaction goes here.

 

[Wizard of the Coat]

Copper - Upbeat Urchin of Mirabar (Human Arcane Trickster)

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AC 13/16with Mage Armor  | HP 14/24 | Init +3 | P Percptn. 13 (Pooka 15 smell) | Spells 1/2 (1st) | Inspr. 0/1 | Darts 3/4 | Arr. 20/20 | CP 12 SP 5 GP 5

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Copper did not like the idea of Drift heading back to base on his own. Possibly, there were still mephits out there--and patrols. She tried to talk him out of what she considered a rash decision. Failing she pulled him aside and asked if he had any healing spells he could give her before departing--the burns on her face and neck remained painful when she moved.

The second time through the sewers, Copper drew her scimitar--rather than ask someone besides Drift to lead her. She seemed eager to reach the Clockwork King's lair. The girl enjoyed shopping almost as much as she enjoyed thieving.

At the Clockwork King's lair, she was quick to display one of the iron bars, asking how much it was worth to the King.

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At a point where the King stepped away from his counter to check on something, she joined the others for the brief conversation. "Hmm." she added sagely. "I like the idea of getting more answers. Should we tell them about the trap door to the chamber beneath the forge or do we keep that too ourselves? And what about our chatty new sword friend--do we tell them about him, er, it?"

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Mechanics

Main Hand: 
Off Hand: 

Status Effects: none

Active Spells: Mage Armor (8 hrs)

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Copper

Free Action: --

Action: --

Move: --

Statblock

Female Human (Varient) Rogue (Arcane Trickster) 3

Languages Common, Sylvan, Thieves' Cant

Background Urchin Background Feature City SecretsYou know the secret patterns and flow to cities and can find passages through the urban sprawl that others would miss. When you are not in combat, you (and companions you lead) can travel between any two locations in the city twice as fast as your speed would normally allow.

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StrSave -1
Athletics -1 8 DexSave +5*
Acrobatics +5 | Sleight of Hand +7 (E) | Stealth +5 16 ConSave +2
No skills associated. 14 IntSave +3
Arcana +3 | History +1 | Investigation +3 | Nature +1 | Religion +1 13 WisSave +3
Animal Handling +1 | Insight +1 | Medicine +1 | Perception +3 | Survival +1 12 ChaSave +0
Deception +5 (E) | Intimidation +1 | Performance +1 | Persuasion +1 12

ProficiencyTools: Thieves tools (+5 Pick Locks*), herbalism kit
Weapons: Simple weapons, hand crossbows, longswords, rapiers, shortswords
Armors: Light Bonus +2 Saving Throws Dex, Int

Speed 30 (60 w/Cunning Action Dash)

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Actions

• Booming BladeEvocation cantrip
  Casting Time: 1 action
  Range: Self (5-foot radius)
  Components: S, M (a melee weapon worth at least 1 sp)
  Duration: 1 round
  
  You brandish the weapon used in the spell's casting and make a melee attack with it against one creature within 5 feet of you. On a hit, the target suffers the weapon attack's normal effects and then becomes sheathed in booming energy until the start of your next turn. If the target willingly moves 5 feet or more before then, the target takes 1d8 thunder damage, and the spell ends.
  
  This spell's damage increases when you reach certain levels. At 5th level, the melee attack deals an extra 1d8 thunder damage to the target on a hit, and the damage the target takes for moving increases to 2d8. Both damage rolls increase by 1d8 at 11th level (2d8 and 3d8) and again at 17th level (3d8 and 4d8).
• Scimitar +5 to hit for (1d6+3) slashing damage. | finesse, light
• Small Knife +5 to hit for (1d4+3) piercing damage. | finesse, light, thrown (20/60)
• Dart +5 to hit for (1d4+3) piercing damage. | finesse, thrown (20/60)
• Shortbow +5 to hit for (1d6+3) piercing damage | ammunition (80/120), two-handed

Bonus Actions

• Small Knife +5 to hit for (1d4+3) piercing/slashing damage. | finesse, light
• Cunning ActionStarting at 2nd level, your quick thinking and agility allow you to move and act quickly. You can take a bonus action on each of your turns in combat. This action can be used only to take the Dash, Disengage, or Hide action. (Dash, Disengage, Hide, Mage Hand LegerdemainStarting at 3rd level, when you cast mage hand, you can make the spectral hand invisible, and you can perform the following additional tasks with it:
  
  >You can stow one object the hand is holding in a container worn or carried by another creature.
  >You can retrieve an object in a container worn or carried by another creature.
  >You can use thieves' tools to pick locks and disarm traps at range.
  
  You can perform one of these tasks without being noticed by a creature if you succeed on a Dexterity (Sleight of Hand) check contested by the creature's Wisdom (Perception) check.
  
  In addition, you can use the bonus action granted by your Cunning Action to control the hand.)

Reactions

• Opportunity Attack (with additional Sneak Attack)

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Spell Save DC: 11 | Spell Attack Mod: +3

Cantrips Booming BladeEvocation cantrip
Casting Time: 1 action
Range: Self (5-foot radius)
Components: S, M (a melee weapon worth at least 1 sp)
Duration: 1 round

You brandish the weapon used in the spell's casting and make a melee attack with it against one creature within 5 feet of you. On a hit, the target suffers the weapon attack's normal effects and then becomes sheathed in booming energy until the start of your next turn. If the target willingly moves 5 feet or more before then, the target takes 1d8 thunder damage, and the spell ends.

This spell's damage increases when you reach certain levels. At 5th level, the melee attack deals an extra 1d8 thunder damage to the target on a hit, and the damage the target takes for moving increases to 2d8. Both damage rolls increase by 1d8 at 11th level (2d8 and 3d8) and again at 17th level (3d8 and 4d8). | Mage HandConjuration cantrip
Casting Time: 1 action
Range: 30 feet
Components: V, S
Duration: 1 minute

A spectral, floating hand appears at a point you choose within range. The hand lasts for the duration or until you dismiss it as an action. The hand vanishes if it is ever more than 30 feet away from you or if you cast this spell again.

You can use your action to control the hand. You can use the hand to manipulate an object, open an unlocked door or container, stow or retrieve an item from an open container, or pour the contents out of a vial. You can move the hand up to 30 feet each time you use it.

The hand can't attack, activate magic items, or carry more than 10 pounds. | MessageTransmutation cantrip
Casting Time: 1 action
Range: 120 feet
Components: V, S, M (a short piece of copper wire)
Duration: 1 round

You point your finger toward a creature within range and whisper a message. The target (and only the target) hears the message and can reply in a whisper that only you can hear.

You can cast this spell through solid objects if you are familiar with the target and know it is beyond the barrier. Magical silence, 1 foot of stone, 1 inch of common metal, a thin sheet of lead, or 3 feet of wood blocks the spell. The spell doesn't have to follow a straight line and can travel freely around corners or through openings. | Minor IllusionIllusion cantrip
Casting Time: 1 action
Range: 30 feet
Components: S, M (a bit of fleece)
Duration: 1 minute

You create a sound or an image of an object within range that lasts for the duration. The illusion also ends if you dismiss it as an action or cast this spell again.

If you create a sound, its volume can range from a whisper to a scream. It can be your voice, someone else's voice, a lion's roar, a beating of drums, or any other sound you choose. The sound continues unabated throughout the duration, or you can make discrete sounds at different times before the spell ends.

If you create an image of an object—such as a chair, muddy footprints, or a small chest—it must be no larger than a 5-foot cube. The image can't create sound, light, smell, or any other sensory effect. Physical interaction with the image reveals it to be an illusion, because things can pass through it.

If a creature uses its action to examine the sound or image, the creature can determine that it is an illusion with a successful Intelligence (Investigation) check against your spell save DC. If a creature discerns the illusion for what it is, the illusion becomes faint to the creature. | PrestidigitationTransmutation cantrip
Casting Time: 1 action
Range: 10 feet
Components: V, S
Duration: Up to 1 hour

This spell is a minor magical trick that novice spellcasters use for practice. You create one of the following magical effects within range:

>You create an instantaneous, harmless sensory effect, such as a shower of sparks, a puff of wind, faint musical notes, or an odd odor.
>You instantaneously light or snuff out a candle, a torch, or a small campfire.
>You instantaneously clean or soil an object no larger than 1 cubic foot.
>You chill, warm, or flavor up to 1 cubic foot of nonliving material for 1 hour.
>You make a color, a small mark, or a symbol appear on an object or a surface for 1 hour.
>You create a nonmagical trinket or an illusory image that can fit in your hand and that lasts until the end of your next turn.

If you cast this spell multiple times, you can have up to three of its non-instantaneous effects active at a time, and you can dismiss such an effect as an action. 

Spells Disguise Self1st-level illusion
Casting Time: 1 action
Range: Self
Components: V, S
Duration: 1 hour

You make yourself—including your clothing, armor, weapons, and other belongings on your person—look different until the spell ends or until you use your action to dismiss it. You can seem 1 foot shorter or taller and can appear thin, fat, or in between. You can't change your body type, so you must adopt a form that has the same basic arrangement of limbs. Otherwise, the extent of the illusion is up to you.

The changes wrought by this spell fail to hold up to physical inspection. For example, if you use this spell to add a hat to your outfit, objects pass through the hat, and anyone who touches it would feel nothing or would feel your head and hair. If you use this spell to appear thinner than you are, the hand of someone who reaches out to touch you would bump into you while it was seemingly still in midair.

To discern that you are disguised, a creature can use its action to inspect your appearance and must succeed on an Intelligence (Investigation) check against your spell save DC. | Find FamiliarCasting Time: 1 hour
Range: 10 feet
Components: V, S, M (10 gp worth of charcoal, incense, and herbs that must be consumed by fire in a brass brazier)
Duration: Instantaneous

You gain the service of a familiar, a spirit that takes an animal form you choose: bat, cat, crab, frog (toad), hawk, lizard, octopus, owl, poisonous snake, fish (quipper), rat, raven, sea horse, spider, or weasel. Appearing in an unoccupied space within range, the familiar has the statistics of the chosen form, though it is a celestial, fey, or fiend (your choice) instead of a beast.

Additional animal form choices may be available at the DM's discretion.

Your familiar acts independently of you, but it always obeys your commands. In combat, it rolls its own initiative and acts on its own turn. A familiar can't attack, but it can take other actions as normal.

When the familiar drops to 0 hit points, it disappears, leaving behind no physical form. It reappears after you cast this spell again. As an action, you can temporarily dismiss the familiar to a pocket dimension. Alternatively, you can dismiss it forever. As an action while it is temporarily dismissed, you can cause it to reappear in any unoccupied space within 30 feet of you. Whenever the familiar drops to 0 hit points or disappears into the pocket dimension, it leaves behind in its space anything it was wearing or carrying.

While your familiar is within 100 feet of you, you can communicate with it telepathically. Additionally, as an action, you can see through your familiar's eyes and hear what it hears until the start of your next turn, gaining the benefits of any special senses that the familiar has. During this time, you are deaf and blind with regard to your own senses.

You can't have more than one familiar at a time. If you cast this spell while you already have a familiar, you instead cause it to adopt a new form. Choose one of the forms from the above list. Your familiar transforms into the chosen creature.

Finally, when you cast a spell with a range of touch, your familiar can deliver the spell as if it had cast the spell. Your familiar must be within 100 feet of you, and it must use its reaction to deliver the spell when you cast it. If the spell requires an attack roll, you use your attack modifier for the roll. | Mage Armor1st-level abjuration
Casting Time: 1 action
Range: Touch
Components: V, S, M (a piece of cured leather)
Duration: 8 hours

You touch a willing creature who isn't wearing armor, and a protective magical force surrounds it until the spell ends. The target's base AC becomes 13 + its Dexterity modifier. The spell ends if the target dons armor or if you dismiss the spell as an action. | Sleep1st-level enchantment
Casting Time: 1 action
Range: 90 feet
Components: V, S, M (a pinch of fine sand, rose petals, or a cricket)
Duration: 1 minute

This spell sends creatures into a magical slumber. Roll 5d8; the total is how many hit points of creatures this spell can affect. Creatures within 20 feet of a point you choose within range are affected in ascending order of their current hit points (ignoring unconscious creatures).

Starting with the creature that has the lowest current hit points, each creature affected by this spell falls unconscious until the spell ends, the sleeper takes damage, or someone uses an action to shake or slap the sleeper awake. Subtract each creature's hit points from the total before moving on to the creature with the next lowest hit points. A creature's hit points must be equal to or less than the remaining total for that creature to be affected.

Undead and creatures immune to being charmed aren't affected by this spell.

At Higher Levels. When you cast this spell using a spell slot of 2nd level or higher, roll an additional 2d8 for each slot level above 1st.

[Aavarius]

Andraste (Half-Elf Sorcerer)

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AC: 15 | HP: 21/23 | HD: 3d6 | Passive Perception: 9 | Inspiration: No | Conditions: None
Spells: 1st: ▣▣▣▣, 2nd: ☐☐ | Sorcery: ▣▣▣ | Concentration: No

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"I don't know," Andraste replied to Copper. "I'm of two minds about how the...well, the economy works around here. Secrets seems to be the most valuable thing, so having some of our own seems prudent. Then again, I'm in a mood to flip a few tables and spill all the secrets into the open, just to spite the bastards."

She put her hand on the jambiya dagger's hilt tied into the sash around her waist. Her symbol of Oghma usually hung there out in the open. Recent events had made her pack it away out of sight to protect it from prying eyes, but now she wondered if that had been the wrong decision. Knowledge was meant to be shared--secured, certainly--but shared all the same. Secrets were not the Binder's way. Maybe she had been acting out of fear when she should have been acting out of faith?

After this moment of introspection, she finally blurted out, "You know what? Let's spill it all. Secrets are how Vecna stays in power, so if we make people comfortable with openness again then we'll limit his ability to control everything."

 

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Nothin' to see here, chief

Main Hand: -
Off Hand: -

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Action: -
Bonus Action: -
Move: -
Manipulate: -

▣☐

[Gralhruk]

Mara Jade (Changeling Monk)

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AC: 16 | HP: 24/24 | Initiative: +3 | Passive Perception: 15 | Ki: 1/3 | DM Inspiration: 1/1

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Mara, in whom a secretive nature was part and parcel, felt a small stab at the idea that she was somehow in support of the evil that was Vecna. Secrets were a part of life, and as with much else it was how they were used that determined morality. What Vecna thrived on was a lack of trust and a requirement of utmost selfishness in order to survive - secrets were only a means to that end. Even so, she might have simply nodded if it weren't for the magical sword, a plight that struck very close to home.

"In good faith, we can speak of all save Zespara. The dwarf adopted their current form as a means to save themselves; to give up that information without consent would be a betrayal of trust."

 

Mechanics Main Hand: Empty Off Hand: Empty Action: Bonus Action: None Move: Back to the main level Manipulate: Your one free object interaction goes here.

 

[Wizard of the Coat]

Copper - Upbeat Urchin of Mirabar (Human Arcane Trickster)

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AC 13/16with Mage Armor  | HP 14/24 | Init +3 | P Percptn. 13 (Pooka 15 smell) | Spells 1/2 (1st) | Inspr. 0/1 | Darts 3/4 | Arr. 20/20 | CP 12 SP 5 GP 5

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Copper marveled at Andra's bold conclusion. Despite her cheery disposition and irrepressible optimism, the Mirabar urchin had developed a healthy penchant for paranoia in this twisted future, and the idea of sharing all acquired secrets terrified her.

Mara spoke up and the copper-haired girl nodded agreement with the odd notion that the sword had a right to privacy. Her eyes shifted to the chatty blade, wondering if it would speak up.

Then Copper remember something one of her Academy instructors had said, blurting it out loud. "One bakery can't lower the price of bread by giving theirs away for free." Struggling to remember the proper terms and principles, she pressed on. "The price of... stuff is not simply a matter between the buyer and the seller. It depends on how many other sellers at the market are selling the stuff, and how many other buyers at the market are... wanting to buy the stuff. I don't think freely giving away our secrets is going to impact the market for secrets in any big way. If we want to lower the price of bread, we need to do more. I don't remember the details, I slept through much of it, but I remember Master Maldavio talking about shocks that dramatically alter markets. That's what we need to do: dramatically alter the market by delivering a powerful shock."

Copper didn't know if she'd made any sense at all, so she provided the short version. "I think we should hang onto our secrets for the time being."

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Mechanics

Main Hand: 
Off Hand: 

Status Effects: none

Active Spells: Mage Armor (8 hrs)

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Copper

Free Action: --

Action: --

Move: --

Statblock

Female Human (Varient) Rogue (Arcane Trickster) 3

Languages Common, Sylvan, Thieves' Cant

Background Urchin Background Feature City SecretsYou know the secret patterns and flow to cities and can find passages through the urban sprawl that others would miss. When you are not in combat, you (and companions you lead) can travel between any two locations in the city twice as fast as your speed would normally allow.

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StrSave -1
Athletics -1 8 DexSave +5*
Acrobatics +5 | Sleight of Hand +7 (E) | Stealth +5 16 ConSave +2
No skills associated. 14 IntSave +3
Arcana +3 | History +1 | Investigation +3 | Nature +1 | Religion +1 13 WisSave +3
Animal Handling +1 | Insight +1 | Medicine +1 | Perception +3 | Survival +1 12 ChaSave +0
Deception +5 (E) | Intimidation +1 | Performance +1 | Persuasion +1 12

ProficiencyTools: Thieves tools (+5 Pick Locks*), herbalism kit
Weapons: Simple weapons, hand crossbows, longswords, rapiers, shortswords
Armors: Light Bonus +2 Saving Throws Dex, Int

Speed 30 (60 w/Cunning Action Dash)

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Actions

• Booming BladeEvocation cantrip
  Casting Time: 1 action
  Range: Self (5-foot radius)
  Components: S, M (a melee weapon worth at least 1 sp)
  Duration: 1 round
  
  You brandish the weapon used in the spell's casting and make a melee attack with it against one creature within 5 feet of you. On a hit, the target suffers the weapon attack's normal effects and then becomes sheathed in booming energy until the start of your next turn. If the target willingly moves 5 feet or more before then, the target takes 1d8 thunder damage, and the spell ends.
  
  This spell's damage increases when you reach certain levels. At 5th level, the melee attack deals an extra 1d8 thunder damage to the target on a hit, and the damage the target takes for moving increases to 2d8. Both damage rolls increase by 1d8 at 11th level (2d8 and 3d8) and again at 17th level (3d8 and 4d8).
• Scimitar +5 to hit for (1d6+3) slashing damage. | finesse, light
• Small Knife +5 to hit for (1d4+3) piercing damage. | finesse, light, thrown (20/60)
• Dart +5 to hit for (1d4+3) piercing damage. | finesse, thrown (20/60)
• Shortbow +5 to hit for (1d6+3) piercing damage | ammunition (80/120), two-handed

Bonus Actions

• Small Knife +5 to hit for (1d4+3) piercing/slashing damage. | finesse, light
• Cunning ActionStarting at 2nd level, your quick thinking and agility allow you to move and act quickly. You can take a bonus action on each of your turns in combat. This action can be used only to take the Dash, Disengage, or Hide action. (Dash, Disengage, Hide, Mage Hand LegerdemainStarting at 3rd level, when you cast mage hand, you can make the spectral hand invisible, and you can perform the following additional tasks with it:
  
  >You can stow one object the hand is holding in a container worn or carried by another creature.
  >You can retrieve an object in a container worn or carried by another creature.
  >You can use thieves' tools to pick locks and disarm traps at range.
  
  You can perform one of these tasks without being noticed by a creature if you succeed on a Dexterity (Sleight of Hand) check contested by the creature's Wisdom (Perception) check.
  
  In addition, you can use the bonus action granted by your Cunning Action to control the hand.)

Reactions

• Opportunity Attack (with additional Sneak Attack)

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Spell Save DC: 11 | Spell Attack Mod: +3

Cantrips Booming BladeEvocation cantrip
Casting Time: 1 action
Range: Self (5-foot radius)
Components: S, M (a melee weapon worth at least 1 sp)
Duration: 1 round

You brandish the weapon used in the spell's casting and make a melee attack with it against one creature within 5 feet of you. On a hit, the target suffers the weapon attack's normal effects and then becomes sheathed in booming energy until the start of your next turn. If the target willingly moves 5 feet or more before then, the target takes 1d8 thunder damage, and the spell ends.

This spell's damage increases when you reach certain levels. At 5th level, the melee attack deals an extra 1d8 thunder damage to the target on a hit, and the damage the target takes for moving increases to 2d8. Both damage rolls increase by 1d8 at 11th level (2d8 and 3d8) and again at 17th level (3d8 and 4d8). | Mage HandConjuration cantrip
Casting Time: 1 action
Range: 30 feet
Components: V, S
Duration: 1 minute

A spectral, floating hand appears at a point you choose within range. The hand lasts for the duration or until you dismiss it as an action. The hand vanishes if it is ever more than 30 feet away from you or if you cast this spell again.

You can use your action to control the hand. You can use the hand to manipulate an object, open an unlocked door or container, stow or retrieve an item from an open container, or pour the contents out of a vial. You can move the hand up to 30 feet each time you use it.

The hand can't attack, activate magic items, or carry more than 10 pounds. | MessageTransmutation cantrip
Casting Time: 1 action
Range: 120 feet
Components: V, S, M (a short piece of copper wire)
Duration: 1 round

You point your finger toward a creature within range and whisper a message. The target (and only the target) hears the message and can reply in a whisper that only you can hear.

You can cast this spell through solid objects if you are familiar with the target and know it is beyond the barrier. Magical silence, 1 foot of stone, 1 inch of common metal, a thin sheet of lead, or 3 feet of wood blocks the spell. The spell doesn't have to follow a straight line and can travel freely around corners or through openings. | Minor IllusionIllusion cantrip
Casting Time: 1 action
Range: 30 feet
Components: S, M (a bit of fleece)
Duration: 1 minute

You create a sound or an image of an object within range that lasts for the duration. The illusion also ends if you dismiss it as an action or cast this spell again.

If you create a sound, its volume can range from a whisper to a scream. It can be your voice, someone else's voice, a lion's roar, a beating of drums, or any other sound you choose. The sound continues unabated throughout the duration, or you can make discrete sounds at different times before the spell ends.

If you create an image of an object—such as a chair, muddy footprints, or a small chest—it must be no larger than a 5-foot cube. The image can't create sound, light, smell, or any other sensory effect. Physical interaction with the image reveals it to be an illusion, because things can pass through it.

If a creature uses its action to examine the sound or image, the creature can determine that it is an illusion with a successful Intelligence (Investigation) check against your spell save DC. If a creature discerns the illusion for what it is, the illusion becomes faint to the creature. | PrestidigitationTransmutation cantrip
Casting Time: 1 action
Range: 10 feet
Components: V, S
Duration: Up to 1 hour

This spell is a minor magical trick that novice spellcasters use for practice. You create one of the following magical effects within range:

>You create an instantaneous, harmless sensory effect, such as a shower of sparks, a puff of wind, faint musical notes, or an odd odor.
>You instantaneously light or snuff out a candle, a torch, or a small campfire.
>You instantaneously clean or soil an object no larger than 1 cubic foot.
>You chill, warm, or flavor up to 1 cubic foot of nonliving material for 1 hour.
>You make a color, a small mark, or a symbol appear on an object or a surface for 1 hour.
>You create a nonmagical trinket or an illusory image that can fit in your hand and that lasts until the end of your next turn.

If you cast this spell multiple times, you can have up to three of its non-instantaneous effects active at a time, and you can dismiss such an effect as an action. 

Spells Disguise Self1st-level illusion
Casting Time: 1 action
Range: Self
Components: V, S
Duration: 1 hour

You make yourself—including your clothing, armor, weapons, and other belongings on your person—look different until the spell ends or until you use your action to dismiss it. You can seem 1 foot shorter or taller and can appear thin, fat, or in between. You can't change your body type, so you must adopt a form that has the same basic arrangement of limbs. Otherwise, the extent of the illusion is up to you.

The changes wrought by this spell fail to hold up to physical inspection. For example, if you use this spell to add a hat to your outfit, objects pass through the hat, and anyone who touches it would feel nothing or would feel your head and hair. If you use this spell to appear thinner than you are, the hand of someone who reaches out to touch you would bump into you while it was seemingly still in midair.

To discern that you are disguised, a creature can use its action to inspect your appearance and must succeed on an Intelligence (Investigation) check against your spell save DC. | Find FamiliarCasting Time: 1 hour
Range: 10 feet
Components: V, S, M (10 gp worth of charcoal, incense, and herbs that must be consumed by fire in a brass brazier)
Duration: Instantaneous

You gain the service of a familiar, a spirit that takes an animal form you choose: bat, cat, crab, frog (toad), hawk, lizard, octopus, owl, poisonous snake, fish (quipper), rat, raven, sea horse, spider, or weasel. Appearing in an unoccupied space within range, the familiar has the statistics of the chosen form, though it is a celestial, fey, or fiend (your choice) instead of a beast.

Additional animal form choices may be available at the DM's discretion.

Your familiar acts independently of you, but it always obeys your commands. In combat, it rolls its own initiative and acts on its own turn. A familiar can't attack, but it can take other actions as normal.

When the familiar drops to 0 hit points, it disappears, leaving behind no physical form. It reappears after you cast this spell again. As an action, you can temporarily dismiss the familiar to a pocket dimension. Alternatively, you can dismiss it forever. As an action while it is temporarily dismissed, you can cause it to reappear in any unoccupied space within 30 feet of you. Whenever the familiar drops to 0 hit points or disappears into the pocket dimension, it leaves behind in its space anything it was wearing or carrying.

While your familiar is within 100 feet of you, you can communicate with it telepathically. Additionally, as an action, you can see through your familiar's eyes and hear what it hears until the start of your next turn, gaining the benefits of any special senses that the familiar has. During this time, you are deaf and blind with regard to your own senses.

You can't have more than one familiar at a time. If you cast this spell while you already have a familiar, you instead cause it to adopt a new form. Choose one of the forms from the above list. Your familiar transforms into the chosen creature.

Finally, when you cast a spell with a range of touch, your familiar can deliver the spell as if it had cast the spell. Your familiar must be within 100 feet of you, and it must use its reaction to deliver the spell when you cast it. If the spell requires an attack roll, you use your attack modifier for the roll. | Mage Armor1st-level abjuration
Casting Time: 1 action
Range: Touch
Components: V, S, M (a piece of cured leather)
Duration: 8 hours

You touch a willing creature who isn't wearing armor, and a protective magical force surrounds it until the spell ends. The target's base AC becomes 13 + its Dexterity modifier. The spell ends if the target dons armor or if you dismiss the spell as an action. | Sleep1st-level enchantment
Casting Time: 1 action
Range: 90 feet
Components: V, S, M (a pinch of fine sand, rose petals, or a cricket)
Duration: 1 minute

This spell sends creatures into a magical slumber. Roll 5d8; the total is how many hit points of creatures this spell can affect. Creatures within 20 feet of a point you choose within range are affected in ascending order of their current hit points (ignoring unconscious creatures).

Starting with the creature that has the lowest current hit points, each creature affected by this spell falls unconscious until the spell ends, the sleeper takes damage, or someone uses an action to shake or slap the sleeper awake. Subtract each creature's hit points from the total before moving on to the creature with the next lowest hit points. A creature's hit points must be equal to or less than the remaining total for that creature to be affected.

Undead and creatures immune to being charmed aren't affected by this spell.

At Higher Levels. When you cast this spell using a spell slot of 2nd level or higher, roll an additional 2d8 for each slot level above 1st.

[bwatford]

Dungeons & Dragons 5e

with DM BWatford

"And what about our talkative new sword companion—should we inform them about her?" Copper inquired, just as the sword interjected in her mind, audible only to Copper, "I am not an 'it'! I am a 'she'. Please show more respect to your elders, child."

Having finished their dealings with the Clockwork King, the group retraced their steps out of the sewers and headed south, returning to the compound where they had initially awakened. They proceeded straight to The Goblet and Gems to meet with Racine. Upon showing their coin, they were swiftly escorted into the cozy room by Lapis, the AAO. Comfortably seated with the man, they heard Racine's voice in their minds once more as they reported the successful completion of their mission.

As if on cue, Lapis extracted a small tin from his robes and slid it across the table. Inside the unassuming tin lay four gemstones, each worth 100 gold pieces, as promised. Racine also made good on the other promise, revealing that a man in the market named Zain could procure almost anything, within reason, for the right price. They were cautioned that Zain was a sly character, enshrouded in the bustling shadows of Mirabar’s market. With keen eyes and eloquent speech, he specialized in discreet transactions and quiet agreements. His clothing, as unremarkable as his stall, allowed him to merge with the market crowds, yet to those in search of the prohibited wares he offered, his presence was distinctly apparent. Zain's reputation for secrecy and his ability to source rare, sometimes illicit items had been well-earned. Despite the inherent dangers, his extensive network and talent for obtaining the unobtainable rendered him an indispensable figure in Mirabar's clandestine network.

Having concluded their business, Racine stands ready to answer any questions the group may have before she presents her second offer...

"Over time, it has been established that Vecna derives power from three gemstones. Our operatives have attempted to purloin these stones, aiming to precipitate the lich's defeat. It was ascertained that one was hidden deep in the Underdark, prompting an alliance with the dwarven resistance to obtain it. We have been informed of their success. Yet, the envoy tasked with its delivery to us has been missing for twelve days, raising concerns. We urge you to locate this envoy and retrieve the stone. A reward of eight gemstones awaits you upon successful completion."

She halted momentarily to gauge their reaction to the opening proposal.
 

MIRABAR

On the 4th Day of ChessMarch
in the 5th Year of Vecna's Reign
11:44 am
Day 2

Scene Information: Drift would have fully healed Copper before leaving earlier. The previous message might seem rushed, but it is an attempt to progress since we have been on mission #1 for an extended period.

Inventory: Four gemstones, each valued at 100 gp, have been added to the party sheet. Locally, these gemstones are often referred to as "ice diamonds," or simply "ice."

Active Maps

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Bookkeeping

PASSIVE PERCEPTION

Mara 15 | Cassandra 14 | Copper 13 | Hachilah 13 | Andraste 9

INITIATIVE

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MECHANICS

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DESCRIPTIONS

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ANDRASTE

Hit Points: 21/23 (fey ancestry) Hit Dice: 3/3 Sorcery Points: 3/3 *L Spell Slots (+5, DC 13) *L 1st Level: 4/4 2nd Level: 0/2 DM Inspiration: 1/1 Experience Points: 900 / 2,700

CASSANDRA

Hit Points: 25/25 (divine health) Hit Dice: 3/3 Channel Divinity: 1/1 *S/L Divine Sense: 2/3 *L Lay on Hands: 15/15 *L Lucky: 3/6 *L (6 times a day while in Mirabar.) Spell Slots (+4, DC 12) *L 1st Level: 3/3 DM Inspiration: 1/1 Experience Points: 900 / 2,700

COPPER

Hit Points: 24/24 Hit Dice: 3/3 Spell Slots (+3, DC 11) *L 1st Level: 1/2 Attuned Magic Items: 1/3 DM Inspiration: 0/1 Experience Points: 900 / 2,700

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HACHILAH

Hit Points: 30/35 (danger sense, resist: fire) Hit Dice: 3/3 Rage: 2/2 *L Reach the Blaze: 1/1 *L DM Inspiration: 1/1 Experience Points: 900 / 2,700

MARA

Hit Points: 24/24 Hit Dice: 3/3 Ki Points: 1/3 *S/L DM Inspiration: 1/1 Experience Points: 900 / 2,700

 

 

[Underleaf]

   

Hachilah - Fire Genasi Barbarian 3

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AC: 17 | HP: 30/35 | Initiative: +2 | Passive Perception: 13 | Rage: 3/3

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Upon arrival at the tavern, Hachilah scanned the room again, hoping to see some details that would imply there were not only mindless activities present, but they were quickly ushered to sit with Lapis once more. The deal concluded and new mission offered, the Fire Genasi's lips dipped in thought. Her mind reached out to the sword that hung at her hip. "Zespara...would you know the routes of dwarves in the Underdark?"  She raised a brow and awkwardly motioned her head to her own mid-section, hoping to get her friends to have the same thought.

But then she cleared her throat and thought to Racine instead. "What makes you believe we are capable of succeeding where dwarven warriors may have failed?" Hachi knew she and her party were skilled, but they were, for all intents and purposes, university graduates with little adventuring life experience. Why were they special? Why were they so special to be summoned back from the past?

 

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Mechanics Main Hand: Empty Off Hand: Empty Action: Straighten rod Bonus Action: ... Move: Put on gear and move to rod Manipulate: Your one free object interaction goes here. Reaction: Opportunity attack.

Spells Casting Ability: Wisdom Spell Save DC: 11 Spell Attack Modifier: +3 Cantrip: Produce FlameCASTING TIME: 1 Action RANGE/AREA: Self COMPONENTS: V, S DURATION: 10 Minutes A flickering flame appears in your hand. The flame remains there for the duration and harms neither you nor your equipment. The flame sheds bright light in a 10-foot radius and dim light for an additional 10 feet. The spell ends if you dismiss it as an action or if you cast it again. You can also attack with the flame, although doing so ends the spell. When you cast this spell, or as an action on a later turn, you can hurl the flame at a creature within 30 feet of you. Make a ranged spell attack. On a hit, the target takes 1d8 fire damage. This spell's damage increases by 1d8 when you reach 5th level (2d8), 11th level (3d8), and 17th level (4d8). One Use per Long Rest 1st: Burning HandsCASTING TIME: 1 Action RANGE/AREA: Self (15 ft ) COMPONENTS: V, S DURATION: Instantaneous As you hold your hands with thumbs touching and fingers spread, a thin sheet of flames shoots forth from your outstretched fingertips. Each creature in a 15-foot cone must make a Dexterity saving throw. A creature takes 3d6 fire damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one. The fire ignites any flammable objects in the area that aren't being worn or carried. At Higher Levels. When you cast this spell using a spell slot of 2nd level or higher, the damage increases by 1d6 for each slot level above 1st. 2nd: Flame Blade (C) -no access till 5thCASTING TIME: 1 Bonus Action RANGE/AREA: Self COMPONENTS: V, S, M * DURATION: Concentration 10 Minutes You evoke a fiery blade in your free hand. The blade is similar in size and shape to a scimitar, and it lasts for the duration. If you let go of the blade, it disappears, but you can evoke the blade again as a bonus action. You can use your action to make a melee spell attack with the fiery blade. On a hit, the target takes 3d6 fire damage. The flaming blade sheds bright light in a 10-foot radius and dim light for an additional 10 feet. At Higher Levels. When you cast this spell using a spell slot of 4th level or higher, the damage increases by 1d6 for every two slot levels above 2nd. Grovel. The target falls prone and then ends its turn. Halt. The target doesn't move and takes no actions. A flying creature stays aloft, provided that it is able to do so. If it must move to stay aloft, it flies the minimum distance needed to remain in the air. At Higher Levels. When you cast this spell using a spell slot of 2nd level or higher, you can affect one additional creature for each slot level above 1st. The creatures must be within 30 feet of each other when you target them.

Stat Block

 

Hachilah of the Wandering Sands
Fire Genasi Ancestral Guardian Barbarian (3)

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Str 14   Dex 14   Con 16   Int 10   Wis 12   Cha 10
HP 35/35   HD 3d12/3d12   AC 17   Speed 30 ft

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Passive Perception 13   Initiative +2
Languages Common, Primordial & Dwarvish
Background Tribe Member: Wandering Sands   Feature Wandering Sands HeritageYou have an excellent knowledge of not only your tribe’s territory, but also the terrain and natural resources of the rest of the Southwest. You are familiar enough with any wilderness area that you find twice as much food and water as you normally would when you forage there.

Additionally, you can call upon the hospitality of your people, and those folk allied with your tribe, often including members of druid circles, tribes of nomadic elves, the Harpers, and the priesthoods devoted to the gods of the First Circle.

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• Handaxe +4 attack, 1d6+2 slashing damage
• Javelin +4 thrown attack, 1d6+2 piercing
• Moon-touched GreataxeMoon-touched weapons count as magical but offer no bonuses and shed bright moonlight in a 15' radius and dim light another 15' beyond that. +4 attack, 1d12+2 slashing damage

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Proficiency +2   Saving Throws Strength, Constitution
Skills Athletics, Insight, Perception & Survival
Tools Cook's Utensils
Instruments ...
Weapons Simple weapons, martial weapons
Armor All armor, shields
Feats None
Features DarkvisionYou can see in dim light within 60 feet of you as if it were bright light and in darkness as if it were dim light. You discern colors in that darkness only as shades of gray., Fire ResistanceYou have resistance to fire damage., Reach to the BlazeYou know the produce flame cantrip. Starting at 3rd level, you can cast the burning hands spell with this trait. Starting at 5th level, you can also cast the flame blade spell with this trait, without requiring a material component. Once you cast burning hands or flame blade with this trait, you can’t cast that spell with it again until you finish a long rest. You can also cast either of those spells using any spell slots you have of the appropriate level.

Intelligence, Wisdom, or Charisma is your spellcasting ability for these spells when you cast them with this trait (choose when you select this race)., Rage (3)In battle, you fight with primal ferocity. On your turn, you can enter a rage as a bonus action.

While raging, you gain the following benefits if you aren’t wearing heavy armor:

•You have advantage on Strength checks and Strength saving throws.
•When you make a melee weapon attack using Strength, you gain a bonus to the damage roll that increases as you gain levels as a barbarian, as shown in the Rage Damage column of the Barbarian table.
•You have resistance to bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing damage.
•If you are able to cast spells, you can’t cast them or concentrate on them while raging.

Your rage lasts for 1 minute. It ends early if you are knocked unconscious or if your turn ends and you haven’t attacked a hostile creature since your last turn or taken damage since then. You can also end your rage on your turn as a bonus action.

Once you have raged the number of times shown for your barbarian level in the Rages column of the Barbarian table, you must finish a long rest before you can rage again., Unarmored DefenseWhile you are not wearing any armor, your Armor Class equals 10 + your Dexterity modifier + your Constitution modifier. You can use a shield and still gain this benefit., Reckless AttackStarting at 2nd level, you can throw aside all concern for defense to attack with fierce desperation. When you make your first attack on your turn, you can decide to attack recklessly. Doing so gives you advantage on melee weapon attack rolls using Strength during this turn, but attack rolls against you have advantage until your next turn., Danger SenseAt 2nd level, you gain an uncanny sense of when things nearby aren’t as they should be, giving you an edge when you dodge away from danger.

You have advantage on Dexterity saving throws against effects that you can see, such as traps and spells. To gain this benefit, you can’t be blinded, deafened, or incapacitated., Ancestral ProtectorsStarting when you choose this path at 3rd level, spectral warriors appear when you enter your rage. While you’re raging, the first creature you hit with an attack on your turn becomes the target of the warriors, which hinder its attacks. Until the start of your next turn, that target has disadvantage on any attack roll that isn’t against you, and when the target hits a creature other than you with an attack, that creature has resistance to the damage dealt by the attack. The effect on the target ends early if your rage ends. 

[Aavarius]

Andraste (Half-Elf Sorcerer)

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AC: 15 | HP: 21/23 | HD: 3d6 | Passive Perception: 9 | Inspiration: No | Conditions: None
Spells: 1st: ▣▣▣▣, 2nd: ☐☐ | Sorcery: ▣▣▣ | Concentration: No

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All this sounded highly dangerous. The Underdark wasn't a place Andraste had ever been, but she had heard stories. Drow and beholders and bugbears. Oh my! Fear wasn't a normal motivating emotion for her, so it wasn't so much that Andraste was afraid to go into a dangerous situation as it was that she didn't yet trust their benefactor. Other than those companions here at the table, she hardly trusted anyone in this frozen hole.

And that's precisely how Vecna wants it, she reminded herself. All this skulking around was frustrating to her.

"We'd need a lot of detail on what this gemstone is," she mentally telegraphed to Racine, "as well as details about how this envoy was supposed to make contact and navigate the Underdark. If we're to retrace his steps, we need to understand the steps."

If, if, if. So much non-committal language. It wasn't like Andraste had anything better to do. Sitting around in desperation awaiting the world's inevitable doom wasn't something she was prepared to do. Still, she didn't want to commit anyone to anything without first getting more information. She was certainly impulsive enough to leap without looking at times, but very occasionally she did the opposite.

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Nothin' to see here, chief

Main Hand: -
Off Hand: -

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Action: -
Bonus Action: -
Move: -
Manipulate: -

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