# Background



# Entertainer

***You thrive in front of an audience. You know how to entrance them, entertain them, and even inspire them. Your poetics can stir the hearts of those who hear you, awakening grief or joy, laughter or anger. Your music raises their spirits or captures their sorrow. Your dance steps captivate, your humor cuts to the quick. Whatever techniques you use, your art is your life.***

Source: Player's Handbook

**Skill Proficiencies:** Acrobatics, Performance  
**Tool Proficiencies:** Disguise kit, one type of musical instrument  
**Languages:** None  
**Equipment:** A musical instrument (one of your choice), the favor of an admirer (love letter, lock of hair, or trinket), a <span class="hover">costume</span>, and a <span class="hover">pouch</span> containing 15gp

# Variants

## Gladiator

A gladiator is as much an entertainer as any minstrel or circus performer trained to make the arts of combat into a spectacle the crowd can enjoy. This kind of flashy combat is your entertainer routine, though you might also have some skills as a tumbler or actor. Using your By Popular Demand feature, you can find a place to perform in any place that features combat for entertainment-perhaps a gladiatorial arena or secret pit fighting club. You can replace the musical instrument in your equipment package with an inexpensive but unusual weapon, such as a trident or net.

# Features

## Entertainer Routines

A good entertainer is versatile, spicing up every performance with a variety of different routines. Choose one to three routines or roll on the table below to define your expertise as an entertainer.

<table class="wiki-content-table" id="bkmrk-d10-entertainer-rout"><tbody><tr><th>d10</th><th>Entertainer Routine</th></tr><tr><td>1</td><td>Actor</td></tr><tr><td>2</td><td>Dancer</td></tr><tr><td>3</td><td>Fire-eater</td></tr><tr><td>4</td><td>Jester</td></tr><tr><td>5</td><td>Juggler</td></tr><tr><td>6</td><td>Instrumentalist</td></tr><tr><td>7</td><td>Poet</td></tr><tr><td>8</td><td>Singer</td></tr><tr><td>9</td><td>Storyteller</td></tr><tr><td>10</td><td>Tumbler</td></tr></tbody></table>

## By Popular Demand

You can always find a place to perform, usually in an inn or tavern but possibly with a circus, at a theater, or even in a noble's court. At such a place, you receive free lodging and food of a modest or comfortable standard (depending on the quality of the establishment), as long as you perform each night. In addition, your performance makes you something of a local figure. When strangers recognize you in a town where you have performed, they typically take a liking to you.

# Suggested Characteristics

Successful entertainers have to be able to capture and hold an audience's attention, so they tend to have flamboyant or forceful personalities. They're inclined toward the romantic and often cling to high-minded ideals about the practice of art and the appreciation of beauty.

## Personality Traits

<div id="bkmrk-d8-personality-trait"><div><div><div><table class="wiki-content-table"><tbody><tr><th>d8</th><th>Personality Trait</th></tr><tr><td>1</td><td>I know a story relevant to almost every situation.</td></tr><tr><td>2</td><td>Whenever I come to a new place, I collect local rumors and spread gossip.</td></tr><tr><td>3</td><td>I'm a hopeless romantic, always searching for that "special someone."</td></tr><tr><td>4</td><td>Nobody stays angry at me or around me for long, since I can defuse any amount of tension.</td></tr><tr><td>5</td><td>I love a good insult, even one directed at me.</td></tr><tr><td>6</td><td>I get bitter if I'm not the center of attention.</td></tr><tr><td>7</td><td>I'll settle for nothing less than perfection.</td></tr><tr><td>8</td><td>I change my mood or my mind as quickly as I change key in a song.</td></tr></tbody></table>

</div><div></div></div></div></div>## Ideals

<div id="bkmrk-d6-ideal-1-beauty.%C2%A0w"><div><div><div><table class="wiki-content-table"><tbody><tr><th>d6</th><th>Ideal</th></tr><tr><td>1</td><td>**Beauty.** When I perform, I make the world better than it was. (Good)</td></tr><tr><td>2</td><td>**Tradition.** The stories, legends, and songs of the past must never be forgotten, for they teach us who we are. (Lawful)</td></tr><tr><td>3</td><td>**Creativity.** The world is in need of new ideas and bold action. (Chaotic)</td></tr><tr><td>4</td><td>**Greed.** I'm only in it for the money and fame. (Evil)</td></tr><tr><td>5</td><td>**People.** I like seeing the smiles on people's faces when I perform. That's all that matters. (Neutral)</td></tr><tr><td>6</td><td>**Honesty.** Art should reflect the soul; it should come from within and reveal who we really are. (Any)</td></tr></tbody></table>

</div></div><div><div></div></div></div></div>## Bonds

<div id="bkmrk-d6-bond-1-my-instrum"><div><div><div><table class="wiki-content-table"><tbody><tr><th>d6</th><th>Bond</th></tr><tr><td>1</td><td>My instrument is my most treasured possession, and it reminds me of someone I love.</td></tr><tr><td>2</td><td>Someone stole my precious instrument, and someday I'll get it back.</td></tr><tr><td>3</td><td>I want to be famous, whatever it takes.</td></tr><tr><td>4</td><td>I idolize a hero of the old tales and measure my deeds against that person's.</td></tr><tr><td>5</td><td>I will do anything to prove myself superior to my hated rival.</td></tr><tr><td>6</td><td>I would do anything for the other members of my old troupe.</td></tr></tbody></table>

</div><div></div></div></div></div>## Flaws

<div id="bkmrk-d6-flaw-1-i%27ll-do-an"><div><div><table class="wiki-content-table"><tbody><tr><th>d6</th><th>Flaw</th></tr><tr><td>1</td><td>I'll do anything to win fame and renown.</td></tr><tr><td>2</td><td>I'm a sucker for a pretty face.</td></tr><tr><td>3</td><td>A scandal prevents me from ever going home again. That kind of trouble seems to follow me around.</td></tr><tr><td>4</td><td>I once satirized a noble who still wants my head. It was a mistake that I will likely repeat.</td></tr><tr><td>5</td><td>I have trouble keeping my true feelings hidden. My sharp tongue lands me in trouble.</td></tr><tr><td>6</td><td>Despite my best efforts, I am unreliable to my friends.</td></tr></tbody></table>

</div></div></div>

# Backgrounds

• [Acolyte](http://dnd5e.wikidot.com/background:acolyte)  
• [Anthropologist](http://dnd5e.wikidot.com/background:anthropologist)  
• [Archaeologist](http://dnd5e.wikidot.com/background:archaeologist)  
• [Athlete](http://dnd5e.wikidot.com/background:athlete)  
• [Charlatan](http://dnd5e.wikidot.com/background:charlatan)  
• [City Watch](http://dnd5e.wikidot.com/background:city-watch)  
• [Clan Crafter](http://dnd5e.wikidot.com/background:clan-crafter)  
• [Cloistered Scholar](http://dnd5e.wikidot.com/background:cloistered-scholar)  
• [Courtier](http://dnd5e.wikidot.com/background:courtier)  
• [Criminal](http://dnd5e.wikidot.com/background:criminal)  
• [Entertainer](http://dnd5e.wikidot.com/background:entertainer)  
• [Faceless](http://dnd5e.wikidot.com/background:faceless)  
• [Faction Agent](http://dnd5e.wikidot.com/background:faction-agent)  
• [Far Traveler](http://dnd5e.wikidot.com/background:far-traveler)  
• [Feylost](http://dnd5e.wikidot.com/background:feylost)  
• [Fisher](http://dnd5e.wikidot.com/background:fisher)  
• [Folk Hero](http://dnd5e.wikidot.com/background:folk-hero)  
• [Gladiator](http://dnd5e.wikidot.com/background:entertainer#toc1)  
• [Guild Artisan](http://dnd5e.wikidot.com/background:guild-artisan)  
• [Guild Merchant](http://dnd5e.wikidot.com/background:guild-artisan#toc1)  
• [Haunted One](http://dnd5e.wikidot.com/background:haunted-one)  
• [Hermit](http://dnd5e.wikidot.com/background:hermit)  
• [House Agent](http://dnd5e.wikidot.com/background:house-agent)  
• [Inheritor](http://dnd5e.wikidot.com/background:inheritor)  
• [Investigator](http://dnd5e.wikidot.com/background:city-watch#toc1)  
• [Knight](http://dnd5e.wikidot.com/background:noble#toc1)  
• [Knight of the Order](http://dnd5e.wikidot.com/background:knight-of-the-order)  
• [Marine](http://dnd5e.wikidot.com/background:marine)  
• [Mercenary Veteran](http://dnd5e.wikidot.com/background:mercenary-veteran)  
• [Noble](http://dnd5e.wikidot.com/background:noble)  
• [Outlander](http://dnd5e.wikidot.com/background:outlander)  
• [Pirate](http://dnd5e.wikidot.com/background:sailor#toc1)  
• [Sage](http://dnd5e.wikidot.com/background:sage)  
• [Sailor](http://dnd5e.wikidot.com/background:sailor)  
• [Shipwright](http://dnd5e.wikidot.com/background:shipwright)  
• [Smuggler](http://dnd5e.wikidot.com/background:smuggler)  
• [Soldier](http://dnd5e.wikidot.com/background:soldier)  
• [Spy](http://dnd5e.wikidot.com/background:criminal#toc1)  
• [Urban Bounty Hunter](http://dnd5e.wikidot.com/background:urban-bounty-hunter)  
• [Urchin](http://dnd5e.wikidot.com/background:urchin)  
• [Uthgardt Tribe Member](http://dnd5e.wikidot.com/background:uthgardt-tribe-member)  
• [Waterdhavian Noble](http://dnd5e.wikidot.com/background:waterdhavian-noble)  
• [Witchlight Hand](http://dnd5e.wikidot.com/background:witchlight-hand)

###### Ravnica

• [Azorius Functionary](http://dnd5e.wikidot.com/background:azorius-functionary)  
• [Boros Legionnaire](http://dnd5e.wikidot.com/background:boros-legionnaire)  
• [Dimir Operative](http://dnd5e.wikidot.com/background:dimir-operative)  
• [Golgari Agent](http://dnd5e.wikidot.com/background:golgari-agent)  
• [Gruul Anarch](http://dnd5e.wikidot.com/background:gruul-anarch)  
• [Izzet Engineer](http://dnd5e.wikidot.com/background:izzet-engineer)  
• [Orzhov Representative](http://dnd5e.wikidot.com/background:orzhov-representative)  
• [Rakdos Cultist](http://dnd5e.wikidot.com/background:rakdos-cultist)  
• [Selesnya Initiate](http://dnd5e.wikidot.com/background:selesnya-initiate)  
• [Simic Scientist](http://dnd5e.wikidot.com/background:simic-scientist)

# Gruul Anarch

***The entire world of Ravnica is a sprawling metropolis, but you are a native of the wild areas that still exist - the abandoned districts, the rubblebelts, the overgrown parks, and the crumbling ruins. You are part of a savage society that clings desperately to the Old Ways - attuned to nature, full of primal rage, and given short shrift by a world consumed with continuing civilization's march of progress.***

Source: Guildmaster's Guide to Ravnica

**Skill Proficiencies:** Animal Handling, Athletics  
**Tool Proficiencies:** Herbalism Kit  
**Languages:** Choose one of Draconic, Giant, Goblin, or Sylvan  
**Equipment:** A Gruul insignia, a <span class="hover">hunting trap</span>, an <span class="hover">herbalism kit</span>, the skull of a boar, a beast-hide cloak, a set of <span class="hover">traveler's clothes</span>, and a <span class="hover">pouch</span> containing 10gp (Azorius 1-zino coins)

# Features

## Rubblebelt Refuge

You are intimately familiar with areas of the city that most people shun: ruined neighborhoods where wurms rampaged, overgrown parks that no hand has tended in decades, and the vast, sprawling rubblebelts of broken terrain that civilized folk have long abandoned. You can find a suitable place for you and your allies to hide or rest in these areas. In addition, you can find food and fresh water in these areas for yourself and up to five other people each day.

## Gruul Guild Spells

*Prerequisite: Spellcasting or Pact Magic class feature*

For you, the spells on the Gruul Guild Spells table are added to the spell list of your spellcasting class. (If you are a multiclass character with multiple spell lists, these spells are added to all of them.)

**Gruul Guild Spells**

<table class="wiki-content-table" id="bkmrk-spell-level-spell-ca"><tbody><tr><th>Spell Level</th><th>Spell</th></tr><tr><td>Cantrip</td><td>[Fire Bolt](http://dnd5e.wikidot.com/spell:fire-bolt), [Produce Flame](http://dnd5e.wikidot.com/spell:produce-flame)</td></tr><tr><td>1st</td><td>[Compelled Duel](http://dnd5e.wikidot.com/spell:compelled-duel), [Speak With Animals](http://dnd5e.wikidot.com/spell:speak-with-animals), [Thunderwave](http://dnd5e.wikidot.com/spell:thunderwave)</td></tr><tr><td>2nd</td><td>[Beast Sense](http://dnd5e.wikidot.com/spell:beast-sense), [Shatter](http://dnd5e.wikidot.com/spell:shatter)</td></tr><tr><td>3rd</td><td>[Conjure Animals](http://dnd5e.wikidot.com/spell:conjure-animals), [Conjure Barrage](http://dnd5e.wikidot.com/spell:conjure-barrage)</td></tr><tr><td>4th</td><td>[Dominate Beast](http://dnd5e.wikidot.com/spell:dominate-beast), [Stoneskin](http://dnd5e.wikidot.com/spell:stoneskin)</td></tr><tr><td>5th</td><td>[Destructive Wave](http://dnd5e.wikidot.com/spell:destructive-wave)</td></tr></tbody></table>

Fueled by the fire of rage burning in your heart, your magic is almost always accompanied by fiery effects, such as flames smoldering behind your eyes or dancing over your hands.

# Suggested Characteristics

Gruul ways aren't the ways of civilized folk, and the Gruul have little patience for social niceties. But they do have cherished traditions and values, just as important to them as the different values held by the urban, cosmopolitan culture of Ravnica.

## Personality Traits

<div class="feature" id="bkmrk-d8-personality-trait"><div class="row"><div class="col-sm-6"><table class="wiki-content-table"><tbody><tr><th>d8</th><th>Personality Trait</th></tr><tr><td>1</td><td>Unlike people, the beasts of the wild are friends who won't stab me in the back.</td></tr><tr><td>2</td><td>Go ahead and insult me - I dare you.</td></tr><tr><td>3</td><td>I scorn those who can't survive away from the comforts of the city.</td></tr><tr><td>4</td><td>Don't tell me I'm not allowed to do something.</td></tr><tr><td>5</td><td>Laws are for people who are afraid to face their inner beasts.</td></tr><tr><td>6</td><td>I smear the blood of my enemies over my skin.</td></tr><tr><td>7</td><td>I was, in fact, raised by maaka.</td></tr><tr><td>8</td><td>HarrRRAAGGHH! \[I rarely form a coherent sentence and prefer to express myself by breaking things.\]</td></tr></tbody></table>

</div><div class="col-sm-6">  
</div></div></div>## Ideals

<div class="feature" id="bkmrk-d6-ideal-1-clan.%C2%A0my-"><div class="row"><div class="col-sm-6"><table class="wiki-content-table"><tbody><tr><th>d6</th><th>Ideal</th></tr><tr><td>1</td><td>**Clan.** My clan is all that really matters. (Any)</td></tr><tr><td>2</td><td>**Anarchy.** No person or law or custom can tell another what to do. (Chaotic)</td></tr><tr><td>3</td><td>**Nature.** We weren't born tame or domesticated, so we shouldn't have to live that way. (Neutral)</td></tr><tr><td>4</td><td>**Might.** The strongest are meant to dominate the weak. (Evil)</td></tr><tr><td>5</td><td>**Rage.** AAAAAARRRRggggh! \[To live is to feel and express the rage burning in your belly.\] (Chaotic)</td></tr><tr><td>6</td><td>**Tradition.** The Old Ways must be preserved and upheld. (Any)</td></tr></tbody></table>

</div></div><div class="row"><div class="col-sm-6">  
</div></div></div>## Bonds

<div class="feature" id="bkmrk-d6-bond-1-i-am-deter"><div class="row"><div class="col-sm-6"><table class="wiki-content-table"><tbody><tr><th>d6</th><th>Bond</th></tr><tr><td>1</td><td>I am determined that one day I will lead my clan - or a new one.</td></tr><tr><td>2</td><td>I would give my life for my clan chieftain.</td></tr><tr><td>3</td><td>The chieftain of another clan has a grudge against me.</td></tr><tr><td>4</td><td>I am devoted to a sacred site in the midst of the rubblebelt.</td></tr><tr><td>5</td><td>My weapon is made from the first raktusk I ever hunted.</td></tr><tr><td>6</td><td>GrrrRRAAAAGGHH! \[I will do anything to prove myself greater than my siblings or ancestors.\]</td></tr></tbody></table>

</div><div class="col-sm-6">  
</div></div></div>## Flaws

<div class="feature" id="bkmrk-d6-flaw-1-if-you-que"><div class="row"><div class="col-sm-6"><table class="wiki-content-table"><tbody><tr><th>d6</th><th>Flaw</th></tr><tr><td>1</td><td>If you question my courage, I will never back down.</td></tr><tr><td>2</td><td>HrrrGGGAAAARRuuuh! \[My anger in battle led to the death of a loved one.\]</td></tr><tr><td>3</td><td>I'm as stubborn as a batterboar.</td></tr><tr><td>4</td><td>I'm so convinced of my superiority over soft, civilized people that I'll take great risks to prove it.</td></tr><tr><td>5</td><td>I'm easily manipulated by people I find attractive.</td></tr><tr><td>6</td><td>I'm not actually all that angry.</td></tr></tbody></table>

</div></div></div># Contacts

The members of the Gruul Clans rely on each other even as they vie for territory and glory. Their encounters with members of other guilds are more often violent than friendly, but occasional bonds do form.

Roll twice on the Gruul Contacts table (for an ally and a rival) and once on the Non-Gruul Contacts table.

## Gruul Contacts

<div class="row" id="bkmrk-d8-contact-1-one-of-"><div class="col-sm-6"><table class="wiki-content-table"><tbody><tr><th>d8</th><th>Contact</th></tr><tr><td>1</td><td>One of my parents is a renowned warrior in my clan.</td></tr><tr><td>2</td><td>My sibling has the ear of the clan chief.</td></tr><tr><td>3</td><td>I have cousins in a different clan.</td></tr><tr><td>4</td><td>When we were younger, I was romantically involved with a prominent warrior in my clan.</td></tr><tr><td>5</td><td>A druid in my clan believes I have a destiny to fulfill.</td></tr><tr><td>6</td><td>The warrior who trained me remembers me for my exceptional potential.</td></tr><tr><td>7</td><td>My clan chief killed one of my parents, who had challenged the chief for leadership of the clan. Some combination of resentment and remorse stirs the clan chief to help me sometimes.</td></tr><tr><td>8</td><td>I made a strong impression on Borborygmos.</td></tr></tbody></table>

</div><div class="col-sm-6">  
</div></div>## Non-Gruul Contacts

<div class="row" id="bkmrk-d10-contact-1-an-azo"><div class="col-sm-6"><table class="wiki-content-table"><tbody><tr><th>d10</th><th>Contact</th></tr><tr><td>1</td><td>An Azorius arrester thinks I can be reformed.</td></tr><tr><td>2</td><td>A Boros soldier gives me gifts in exchange for information about other clans' movements.</td></tr><tr><td>3</td><td>I once caught and released a Dimir spy.</td></tr><tr><td>4</td><td>I consult with a Golgari shaman for spiritual guidance at times.</td></tr><tr><td>5</td><td>Roll an additional Gruul contact; you can decide if the contact is an ally or a rival.</td></tr><tr><td>6</td><td>An Izzet scientist blames the Gruul for the destruction of his life's work in a raid, but seems to think that I'm not like other Gruul.</td></tr><tr><td>7</td><td>I foolishly borrowed money from an Orzhov syndic to indulge a shameful vice.</td></tr><tr><td>8</td><td>A close friend left our clan and joined the Cult of Rakdos.</td></tr><tr><td>9</td><td>A distant relative is trying to recruit me into the Selesnya Conclave.</td></tr><tr><td>10</td><td>I stopped a Simic biomancer from trapping wild beasts to perform vile experiments on them.</td></tr></tbody></table>

</div></div>

# Simic scientist

<div id="bkmrk-"><div class="floatright" id="bkmrk--1"><div id="bkmrk--2"></div></div></div>***Imagine a perfect world: one in which nature and civilization exist in harmony, adapted to each other; one in which life is shaped to match its environment and the environment is shaped to match life. That's the world you have been trying to grow in the laboratories of the Simic Combine. Nature is all about adaptation, evolution, and balance - but for it to keep up with the pace of advancing civilization, nature needs some help from biomancers and terraformers. If, along the way, you happen to create super-soldiers and mutant monsters that can bolster the combine's defenses against the schemes and ambitions of the other guilds, so much the better.***

Source: Guildmaster's Guide to Ravnica

**Skill Proficiencies:** Arcana, Medicine  
**Languages:** Two of your choice  
**Equipment:** A Simic insignia, a set of <span class="hover">commoner's clothes</span>, a <span class="hover">book</span> of research notes, an <span class="hover">ink pen</span>, a <span class="hover">bottle of squid ink</span>, a <span class="hover">flask of oil</span> (made from blubber), a <span class="hover">vial of acid</span> (derived from digestive juices), a vial of fish scales, a vial of seaweed, a vial of jellyfish stingers, a <span class="hover">glass bottle</span> of unidentified slime, and a <span class="hover">pouch</span> containing 10gp (Azorius 1-zino coins)

# Features

## Clades and Projects

As a Simic researcher, you are part of a clade - a diverse group of individuals combining disparate talents in pursuit of a common goal - or a researcher on a specialized, short-term project focused on addressing an immediate need. You can roll a d6 or choose from the options in the Research Options table to determine your area of research.

<div id="bkmrk-d6-clade%2Fproject-1-h"><table class="wiki-content-table"><tbody><tr><th>d6</th><th>Clade/Project</th></tr><tr><td>1</td><td>Hull Clade, focused on protection and durability</td></tr><tr><td>2</td><td>Fin Clade, focused on movement</td></tr><tr><td>3</td><td>Gyre Clade, focused on cyclical patterns and metamagic</td></tr><tr><td>4</td><td>Guardian Project, focused on creating guard monsters and super soldiers</td></tr><tr><td>5</td><td>Crypsis Project, focused on intelligence and counterintelligence</td></tr><tr><td>6</td><td>Independent research in a new area</td></tr></tbody></table>

</div>## Researcher

When you attempt to learn or recall a magical or scientific fact, if you don't know that information, you know where and from whom you can obtain it. Usually, this information comes from a Simic laboratory, or sometimes from an Izzet facility, a library, a university, or an independent scholar or other learned person or creature. Knowing where the information can be found doesn't automatically enable you to learn it; you might need to offer bribes, favors, or other incentives to induce people to reveal their secrets.

Your DM might rule that the knowledge you seek is secreted away in an inaccessible place, or that it simply can't be found. Unearthing the deepest secrets of the multiverse can require an adventure or even a whole campaign.

## Simic Guild Spells

*Prerequisite: Spellcasting or Pact Magic class feature*

For you, the spells on the Simic Guild Spells table are added to the spell list of your spellcasting class. (If you are a multiclass character with multiple spell lists, these spells are added to all of them.)

**Simic Guild Spells**

<div id="bkmrk-spell-level-spell-ca"><table class="wiki-content-table"><tbody><tr><th>Spell Level</th><th>Spell</th></tr><tr><td>Cantrip</td><td>[Acid Splash](http://dnd5e.wikidot.com/spell:acid-splash), [Druidcraft](http://dnd5e.wikidot.com/spell:druidcraft)</td></tr><tr><td>1st</td><td>[Detect Poison and Disease](http://dnd5e.wikidot.com/spell:detect-poison-and-disease), [Expeditious Retreat](http://dnd5e.wikidot.com/spell:expeditious-retreat), [Jump](http://dnd5e.wikidot.com/spell:jump)</td></tr><tr><td>2nd</td><td>[Alter Self](http://dnd5e.wikidot.com/spell:alter-self), [Enhance Ability](http://dnd5e.wikidot.com/spell:enhance-ability), [Enlarge/Reduce](http://dnd5e.wikidot.com/spell:enlarge-reduce)</td></tr><tr><td>3rd</td><td>[Gaseous Form](http://dnd5e.wikidot.com/spell:gaseous-form), [Water Breathing](http://dnd5e.wikidot.com/spell:water-breathing), [Wind Wall](http://dnd5e.wikidot.com/spell:wind-wall)</td></tr><tr><td>4th</td><td>[Freedom of Movement](http://dnd5e.wikidot.com/spell:freedom-of-movement), [Polymorph](http://dnd5e.wikidot.com/spell:polymorph)</td></tr><tr><td>5th</td><td>[Creation](http://dnd5e.wikidot.com/spell:creation)</td></tr></tbody></table>

</div>When your magic causes physical alterations in yourself or others, the result often displays the characteristics of fish, amphibians, or other water-dwelling creatures. Blue-green eddies of magical energy sometimes accompany your spellcasting, forming spirals that reflect the mathematical perfection of nature.

# Suggested Characteristics

The bizarre science of the Simic Combine attracts a certain type of personality and encompasses a set of beliefs about the nature of life. Simic members' bonds and flaws derive from their scientific research - including their creation of new life forms, which they can become very attached to.

## Personality Traits

<div id="bkmrk-d8-personality-trait"><div class="feature"><div class="row"><div class="col-sm-6"><table class="wiki-content-table"><tbody><tr><th>d8</th><th>Personality Trait</th></tr><tr><td>1</td><td>I can't wait to see what I become next!</td></tr><tr><td>2</td><td>I am convinced that everything inclines toward constant improvement.</td></tr><tr><td>3</td><td>I'm eager to explain every detail of my most intricate experiments and theories to anyone who shows the least bit of interest.</td></tr><tr><td>4</td><td>I assume that everyone needs even the most basic concepts explained to them.</td></tr><tr><td>5</td><td>I describe everything that happens as if it were going into my research notes (and it often is).</td></tr><tr><td>6</td><td>I am insatiably curious about the seemingly infinite forms and adaptations of life.</td></tr><tr><td>7</td><td>I can't resist prying into anything forbidden, since it must be terribly interesting.</td></tr><tr><td>8</td><td>I employ a highly technical vocabulary to avoid imprecision and ambiguity in my communication.</td></tr></tbody></table>

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</div></div></div></div>## Ideals

<div id="bkmrk-d6-ideal-1-guild.%C2%A0my"><div class="feature"><div class="row"><div class="col-sm-6"><table class="wiki-content-table"><tbody><tr><th>d6</th><th>Ideal</th></tr><tr><td>1</td><td>**Guild.** My guild is all that really matters. (Any)</td></tr><tr><td>2</td><td>**Change.** All life is meant to progress toward perfection, and our work is to hurry it along - no matter what must be upended along the way. (Chaotic)</td></tr><tr><td>3</td><td>**Knowledge.** Understanding the world is more important than what you do with your knowledge. (Neutral)</td></tr><tr><td>4</td><td>**Greater Good.** I want to reshape the world into higher forms of life so that all can enjoy evolution. (Good)</td></tr><tr><td>5</td><td>**Logic.** It's foolish to let emotions and principles interfere with the conclusions of logic. (Lawful)</td></tr><tr><td>6</td><td>**Superiority.** My vast intellect and strength are directed toward increasing my sway over others. (Evil)</td></tr></tbody></table>

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</div></div></div></div>## Bonds

<div id="bkmrk-d6-bond-1-i-helped-c"><div class="feature"><div class="row"><div class="col-sm-6"><table class="wiki-content-table"><tbody><tr><th>d6</th><th>Bond</th></tr><tr><td>1</td><td>I helped create a krasis that I love like a pet and would carry with me everywhere … except it's the size of a building, and it might eat me.</td></tr><tr><td>2</td><td>In my laboratory, I discovered something that I think could eliminate half the life on Ravnica.</td></tr><tr><td>3</td><td>The other researchers in my clade are my family - a big, eccentric family including members and parts of many species.</td></tr><tr><td>4</td><td>The laboratory where I did my research contains everything that is precious to me.</td></tr><tr><td>5</td><td>I will get revenge on the shortsighted fool who killed my precious krasis creation.</td></tr><tr><td>6</td><td>Everything I do is an attempt to impress someone I love.</td></tr></tbody></table>

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</div></div></div></div>## Flaws

<div id="bkmrk-d6-flaw-1-i-have-a-r"><div class="feature"><div class="row"><div class="col-sm-6"><table class="wiki-content-table"><tbody><tr><th>d6</th><th>Flaw</th></tr><tr><td>1</td><td>I have a rather embarrassing mutation that I do everything I can to keep hidden.</td></tr><tr><td>2</td><td>I'm more interested in taking notes on monstrous anatomy than in fighting monsters.</td></tr><tr><td>3</td><td>Every social situation I'm in seems to lead to my asking rude personal questions.</td></tr><tr><td>4</td><td>I'm supremely confident in my ability to adapt to any situation and handle any danger.</td></tr><tr><td>5</td><td>I'll take any risk to earn recognition for my scientific brilliance.</td></tr><tr><td>6</td><td>I have a tendency to take shortcuts in my research and any other tasks I have to complete.</td></tr></tbody></table>

</div></div></div></div># Contacts

The fluid nature of clades, whose rosters span different laboratories and change as researchers discover new interests, creates abundant connections among the Simic. The guild members live in watery sinkholes called zonots, and their isolation shelters them from much contact with outsiders. Nonetheless, a fair number of Simic members are former members of other guilds.

Roll twice on the Simic Contacts table (for an ally and a rival) and once on the Non-Simic Contacts table.

## Simic Contacts

<div id="bkmrk-d8-contact-1-my-rese"><div class="row"><div class="col-sm-6"><table class="wiki-content-table"><tbody><tr><th>d8</th><th>Contact</th></tr><tr><td>1</td><td>My research builds on my parents' work and takes it in interesting new directions.</td></tr><tr><td>2</td><td>If a serious problem confounds me, I can count on my mentor to provide clarity of thought.</td></tr><tr><td>3</td><td>A former laboratory colleague went on to work on the Guardian Project.</td></tr><tr><td>4</td><td>A former colleague has ventured into fields of research that are possibly immoral and almost certainly illegal.</td></tr><tr><td>5</td><td>A former lover is now the supervisor of a prominent clade.</td></tr><tr><td>6</td><td>My sibling has become an almost unrecognizable mutant.</td></tr><tr><td>7</td><td>An old friend has retreated into a secluded life as an ascetic deepsage, devoted to contemplating philosophical principles.</td></tr><tr><td>8</td><td>My former clade supervisor is now engaged in field research studying some of the largest beasts and monsters on Ravnica.</td></tr></tbody></table>

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</div></div></div>## Non-Simic Contacts

<div id="bkmrk-d10-contact-1-my-old"><div class="row"><div class="col-sm-6"><table class="wiki-content-table"><tbody><tr><th>d10</th><th>Contact</th></tr><tr><td>1</td><td>My older sibling is upset that I didn't follow them into the Azorius.</td></tr><tr><td>2</td><td>A Boros sergeant is always asking questions about my work, but I suspect they're genuinely curious.</td></tr><tr><td>3</td><td>A friend in my clade thinks I don't know they're a Dimir agent.</td></tr><tr><td>4</td><td>I helped a Golgari spore druid with the fertilization and growth of their fungus field.</td></tr><tr><td>5</td><td>I can't fathom what could have made my childhood friend run off and join the Gruul.</td></tr><tr><td>6</td><td>I love comparing notes with my friend in the Izzet, though our fields of research are very different.</td></tr><tr><td>7</td><td>I borrowed a lot of money from an Orzhov syndic to help finance my research.</td></tr><tr><td>8</td><td>A Rakdos ringmaster has taken an interest in my research which, come to think of it, might make a nice sideshow act.</td></tr><tr><td>9</td><td>I left the Selesnya - and a lover - behind when I joined the Simic.</td></tr><tr><td>10</td><td>Roll an additional Simic contact; you can decide if the contact is an ally or a rival.</td></tr></tbody></table>

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