You can cast this spell only at night. Choose up to three corpses of Medium or Small Humanoids within range. Each one becomes a Ghoul under your control (see the Monster Manual for its stat block). As a Bonus Action on each of your turns, you can mentally command any creature you animated with this spell if the creature is within 120 feet of you (if you control multiple creatures, you can command…
Level 6 Necromancy (Cleric, Warlock, Wizard) Casting Time: 1 minute Range: 10 feet Components: V, S, M (one 150+ GP black onyx stone for each corpse) Duration: Instantaneous You can cast this spell only at night. Choose up to three corpses of Medium or Small Humanoids within range. Each one becomes a Ghoul under your control (see the Monster Manual for its stat block). As a Bonus Action on each…
Choose a number of corpses, within range. You can reanimate up to 5 Challenge Rating 2 or lower Undead creatures from these corpses. On each of your turns, you can take a Bonus Action to mentally command any creature you made with this spell if the creature is within 120 feet of you (if you control multiple creatures, you can command any or all of them at the same time, issuing the same command…
Level 5 Necromancy (Cleric, Wizard) Casting Time: 1 minute Range: 10 feet Components: V, S, M (a drop of blood, a piece of flesh, a pinch of bone dust, and a black onyx stone worth 75+ GP for each level of CR you animate). Duration: Instantaneous Choose a number of corpses, within range. You can reanimate up to 5 Challenge Rating 2 or lower Undead creatures from these corpses. On each of your…
When animals perish in flames, their escaping spirits can cling to the fire that took their lives and arise as wildpyres. These Undead resemble the kind of animal they were in life, though made of ghostly flames. They lash out at anything in their vicinity, fanning the flames that consumed them. Secret. Water can extinguish the undying flames of wildpyres, despite their ephemeral existence.
Zombies animated from the corpses of beholders retain some use of those monsters’ magical eyestalks. These hovering corpses rely on their magic to destroy impediments and paralyze foes, allowing them to savage foes with their rotting maws. Magic-using beholders typically raise these abominations from the corpses of defeated rivals. Then, by a spectacular crack of lightning, the figures came into…
Banshee Beholder Zombie Bone Naga Crawling Claw Death Knight Death Knight Aspirant Death Tyrant Demilich Dracolich Flameskull Flaming Skeleton Ghast Ghast Gravecaller Ghost Ghoul Graveyard Revenant Haunting Revenant Lacedon Ghoul Lich Minotaur Skeleton Mummy Mummy Lord Ogre Zombie Poltergeist Revenant Shadow Skeleton Specter Swarm of Crawling Claws Vampire Vampire Nightbringer Vampire Spawn…
Choose a corpse, or a number or corpses, within range that are equivalent to the size of the creature you are animating (the GM determines how many corpses are required). Your spell imbues the target with a foul mimicry of life, raising it as an Undead creature. You can choose for the target to become an Undead creature of CR 3 or lower (the GM has the creature’s game statistics). On each of your…
Long Rest is full of undead, most of it evil. If your players are itching for a fight, have them encounter one or more low-level creatures that want to turn them into permanent residents. Any undead with a CR of less than 1 is appropriate, including crawling claws, zombies, or even a warhorse skeleton.
Only a few members of the Covenant of the Grave are undead. Covenant members have little use for less powerful undead such as skeletons and zombies, and other undead are usually too consumed by their hungers to maintain the intellectual rigor the covenant expects. The Undead Members table details the few undead scholars in the covenant.
Thick poison drips from the grimy teeth and claws of these feral, unarmored ghouls. Their sunken, stark white eyes glisten as they lick their lips with a long, slimy pointed tongue, hungry for their next meal. Ravenous Ghouls make up the brunt of the undead forces of vampires. They are vile undead creatures twisted to the will of their masters, forced to starve for months at a time to put them…
You call forth an Undead spirit. It manifests in an unoccupied space that you can see within range and uses the Undead Spirit stat block. When you cast the spell, choose the creature’s form: Ghostly, Putrid, or Skeletal. The spirit resembles an Undead creature with the chosen form, which determines certain details in its stat block. The creature disappears when it drops to 0 Hit Points or when…
You gain the following benefits. Obsidian Spell Surge. You can expend the use of your Spell Surge to cast Circle of Death or Create Undead. Stygian Sentinel. When you finish a Short Rest, you can regain the use of your Open the Iron Gates. Once you regain the use of it in this way, you can’t do so again until you finish a Long Rest.
Lady’s Whisper is a powerful servitor of Nhimbaloth, a unique skeletal creature related to the lesser deaths that serve the Grim Reaper. They speak only rarely, preferring to gesture instead, and what few words they utter comes out low and hollow, like a whisper emanating from far away. Lady’s Whisper has inhabited the Gate of Nhimbaloth for millennia, judging whether aspirants are worthy to join…
A magical army might supplement or even replace ordinary soldiers with magical minions. During the Last War, Eberron’s armies extensively used magical minions, with the nation of Karrnath fielding armies of zombies and skeletons while Cyre and other nations used constructs. Outside Eberron, other magical realms fill their armies with conjured creatures or elementals summoned from the Inner…
Graveknights are undead warriors granted unlife by a cursed suit of armor. Even the lowliest of graveknights are deadly foes—graveknights are almost never encountered in less-powerful incarnations than those presented below.
Wondrous Item, Very Rare Some people have no qualms about exploiting any opportunity for profit, including the sorrow caused by the loss of a loved one. Such people would appreciate the Collar of the Undead, whether as con artists looking for bereaved individuals to fleece, or as dark sorcerers in need of souls. As a Magic action, you can place this collar around the neck of a Humanoid creature…
Choose a pile of bones or a corpse of a Medium or Small Humanoid within range. The target becomes an Undead creature: a Skeleton if you chose bones or a Zombie if you chose a corpse. On each of your turns, you can take a Bonus Action to mentally command any creature you made with this spell if the creature is within 60 feet of you (if you control multiple creatures, you can command any of them at…
Staff, Legendary (Requires Attunement) Staff of the Spirit Aegis This weathered bone staff is topped with a skull and decorated with vertebrae. It can be wielded as a magic Quarterstaff that grants a +3 bonus to attack rolls and damage rolls made with it. While holding the staff, you have Resistance to Necrotic damage. Aura of Haunted Power. As a Magic action while holding the staff, you can…
Trick Weapon (Maul, Scythe), Rare (Requires Attunement) Trick Weapon. As a Bonus Action, you can switch between the Transformed and Untransformed states of this weapon. In its Untransformed state, the Dream Executioner is a Scythe and a lantern. In its Transformed state, the weapon is a single massive Maul. You gain a +1 bonus to attack rolls and damage rolls made with this magic weapon.…
Humanoid zombies usually serve as guardians, servants, or soldiers for evil magic-users. In rare cases, foul magic might result in widespread reanimation of the dead, unleashing hordes of zombies to terrorize the living. Zombies Zombies are unthinking, reanimated corpses, often gruesomely marred by decay and lethal traumas. They serve whatever supernatural force animates them—typically evil…
Wondrous Item, Rare This dark Hooded Lantern doesn’t require fuel; it continuously glows with a will-o’-wisp’s blue flame that can reveal the final moments of a creature’s life. As a Bonus Action, you can adjust the lantern’s hood to change the light’s radius, causing it to cast Bright Light in a 5- to 20-foot radius and Dim Light for an additional number of feet equal to the chosen radius.…
Mabaran manifest zones are infamous and almost universally shunned, for nearly all are harmful to the flora and fauna of the region. In some zones, life withers and dies. In others, it’s twisted in strange ways; plants may seek the blood of living creatures, or grow unnaturally pale and cold. Rot and decay are often accelerated, and disease can thrive. However, such regions are also often…
Common mummies are the remains of priests, nobles, or champions of faith that underwent magical burial rites. Some are preserved through processes using linen wrappings or clay, but others are preserved by peat bogs, ice, magic, or other means. Roll on or choose a result from the Mummy Resurrections table to determine why a mummy has returned from the dead.
Mummies…
Ossified Evil Skeletons are reanimated Humanoid bones bearing the equipment they had in life. They have rudimentary faculties and greater agility than zombies and similar shambling corpses.
| Warlock Level | Spells |
|---|---|
| 3 | Bane, Blindness/Deafness, Phantasmal Force, Ray of Sickness |
| 5 | Speak with Dead, Summon Undead … |
When animals perish in flames, their escaping spirits can cling to the fire that took their lives and arise as wildpyres. These Undead resemble the kind of animal they were in life, though made of ghostly flames. They lash out at anything in their vicinity, fanning the flames that consumed them. Secret. Water can extinguish the undying flames of wildpyres, despite their ephemeral existence.
You shape-shift into another creature for the duration or until you take a Magic action to shape-shift into a different eligible form. The new form must be of a creature that has a Challenge Rating no higher than your level or Challenge Rating. You must have seen the sort of creature before, and it can’t be a Construct or an Undead. When you cast the spell, you gain a number of Temporary Hit…
As you finish creating your character, consider whether you’d like to make up any other details about the character. Here are the sorts of things you might ask yourself as the character:
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