Adventuring for Dummies
Adventurers must keep good track of their individual attributes from the first day, but some have trouble understanding the nuance between similar Skills. This Skill measures how well a curious individual can connect known information together.
What is Insight?
Creatures of this classification are the classic archetypal adversary of our liturgical warriors, and their class of monster contains the most creatures weak to Radiance.
What are Devils, Fiends, or Demons?
The temporary death of this Goddess brought about the Spellplague- a time of strife wherein all magicks of old were lost, and next to none could cast even the simplest of spells.
Who is Mystra?
Who among the Party has not used or attempted to use sexual favors as a form of bribery?
Trick question. You all have.
This race of birdlike folk are commonly known to have short lives, eclectic personalities, and tons to say. Bonus points if you can properly spell it!
What are the Aarakocra?
Mind Flayers are known across all realms as a dastardly scourge of true evil, seeking not but its own gain. These Illithids regularly enslave beasts by creating what kind of familiar?
What is an Intellect Devourer?
This deity arose from Barovian mythos surrounded a haggard woman that saved orphans from cold wintry nights, using the Moon as her only guiding light.
Who is The Night Mother?
Creatures of this race have been known to accidentally intoxicate visitors if they are made to laugh or be too suddenly happy.
Who are Myconids?
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While most of the Shadowfell deals only in Gold, most of the rest of Faerun has looked to the future- adopting a number of intermediary coinage. Name all five generally accepted kinds of minted coins across Faerun. The one with the most wins these points.
What are Copper, Silver, Electrum, Gold, and Platinum?
Accidental racism is unfortunately quite easy with many of the sapient Monster races, none moreso than the noble Dragon. This subset of dragons worship the likes of Tiamat- the grotesque villainess of their kind.
What are Chromatic Dragons?
Strahd has long talked of his past, and he harbors ill will for those that do not listen and heed his words. The provenance of Barovia was once known by this quite similar title.
What is Barinova?
Within this Party's adventuring, this beastly entity born from the Dark Powers has been the most deadly- dealing the most downs of any creature and killing two of you.
Who is the Vestige of Obsession?
One surefire mistake made by past Adventurers is doubting the raw power of some Magic Items. Many have fallen into the trap of asking "What could go wrong?". This magic item, when combined with another identical magic item, has the potential to instantly kill everyone within a 50 foot radius.
What is Bag of Holding?
Name three races of Faerun known for the practice of slavery within their society.
Answers can vary but may include Githyanki, Githerazi, Drow, Duergar, Illithids/Mindflayers, Quaggoths, Orcs, Goblins, Bugbears, Dwarves, Gnomes, Yuan-Ti, Neoghi, Aboleth, Grung, Kobold, Deep Gnome. More may exist but this is what I know.
This term belies the dominant motif for representing the cosmology of known reality, invoking the scale, shape, and size of all realms and their interconnected nature.
What is The Great Wheel?
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Strahd has, at times, been a bit too forward about how far his depravity has reached in seeking the limits of his immortality. Relay to me his most dangerous sexual encounter.
Difficult terrain induces movement penalties as any good Adventuring Theory 202 student will tell you. An adventurer stuck crawling on Difficult Terrain with a movement speed limit calculated at 30 feet will be able to move this distance within one turn.
What is 10 feet?
This monster can often be overlooked as a simple pile of refuse but harbors the ability to corrode even metal.
What is a Black Pudding?
These three, once merely unwilling siblings, competed for the role of Lord of Death, only for the then-god Jergal.
Who are Bane, Bhaal, and Myrkul?
This race of Faerun is known by the weirder and kinkier denizens for having minty tasting breast milk.
What are Elves?