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Dark Gift Descriptions

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Dark Gift Descriptions This section presents a selection of Dark Gifts in alphabetical order.

Touch of Death

Feats Ravenloft: The Horrors Within

Dark Gift Feat (Prerequisite: Ravenloft Campaign) Deathly power resides within you, bursting out at the slightest provocation. You gain the following features. Death Touch. You learn the Chill

Priest of Osybus (DMR)

Monsters Dungeon Masters: Ravenloft Play-Along Pack

possibly prolong his life. He became a devotee of the Dark Powers and tapped into their immortal malice to fuel his apotheosis. As his power grew, he shared his secrets with disciples who wished to defy

disciples aided the inquisition by destroying Osybus’s physical form. As Osybus perished, he cursed his former allies: Their immortality would fail them eventually, and he would become one of the Dark

Echoing Soul

Feats Ravenloft: The Horrors Within

Dark Gift Feat (Prerequisite: Ravenloft Campaign) You experience echoes from a past or alternate life. You gain the following features. Channeled Prowess. You have proficiency in two skills of your

Priest of Osybus

Monsters Ravenloft: The Horrors Within

possibly prolong his life. He became a devotee of the Dark Powers and tapped into their immortal malice to fuel his apotheosis. As his power grew, he shared his secrets with disciples who wished to defy

disciples aided the inquisition by destroying Osybus’s physical form. As Osybus perished, he cursed his former allies: Their immortality would fail them eventually, and he would become one of the Dark

Aberrant Anatomy

Feats Ravenloft: The Horrors Within

Dark Gift Feat (Prerequisite: Ravenloft Campaign) Exposure to alien horrors like those of the Far Realm has warped your physical form in supernatural ways. You gain the following features

Gathered Whispers

Feats Ravenloft: The Horrors Within

Dark Gift Feat (Prerequisite: Ravenloft Campaign) You are haunted by a cacophony of whispering spirits only you can hear. You gain the following features. Spirit Whispers. You learn the Message

Mist Walker

Feats Ravenloft: The Horrors Within

Dark Gift Feat (Prerequisite: Ravenloft Campaign) You know how to slip through the Mists’ grasp, but this freedom comes at a price: If you remain in one area for too long, the Mists find you

Watchers

Feats Ravenloft: The Horrors Within

Dark Gift Feat (Prerequisite: Ravenloft Campaign) Something unnatural is always watching you, taking the form of scurrying vermin and other eerie creatures. You gain the following features

Second Skin

Feats Ravenloft: The Horrors Within

Dark Gift Feat (Prerequisite: Ravenloft Campaign) There is another side of you that most people never see: a beast, a terrifying avenger, or a walking nightmare. You gain the following features

Symbiotic Being

Feats Ravenloft: The Horrors Within

Dark Gift Feat (Prerequisite: Ravenloft Campaign) A second being resides within your body, offering knowledge and assistance while furthering its own agenda. You gain the following features

Living Shadow

Feats Ravenloft: The Horrors Within

Dark Gift Feat (Prerequisite: Ravenloft Campaign) The shadow you cast is animate and ever-present—sometimes it even acts according to its own will. You gain the following features. Grasping

Strahd von Zarovich

Monsters Ravenloft: The Horrors Within

after spending 1 hour there. Spider Climb. Strahd can climb difficult surfaces, including ceilings, without making an ability check. Vampire Weakness. Strahd has these weaknesses: Forbiddance

—over and over again. Tormented by the Dark Powers, Strahd is haunted by visions of his lost family and tarnished nobility. The count spends long years brooding in the depths of Castle Ravenloft, but

Piwafwi (Cloak of Elvenkind)

Magic Items Out of the Abyss

This dark spider-silk cloak is made by drow. It is a cloak of elvenkind. It loses its magic if exposed to sunlight for 1 hour without interruption. While you wear this cloak with its hood up, Wisdom

Nezznar the Black Spider Legacy

Monsters Lost Mine of Phandelver

3 (1d6);{"diceNotation":"1d6","rollType":"damage","rollAction":"Spider Staff","rollDamageType":"poison"} poison damage.Drow (dark elves) are a devious, scheming subterranean race that worships Lolth

Special Equipment. Nezznar has a spider staff. Fey Ancestry. Nezznar has advantage on saving throws against being charmed, and magic can’t put him to sleep. Sunlight Sensitivity. Nezznar has

Spider King

Monsters Out of the Abyss

Spider Climb. The spider can climb difficult surfaces, including upside down on ceilings, without needing to make an ability check. Web Sense. While in contact with a web, the spider knows the exact

location of any other creature in contact with the same web. Web Walker. The spider ignores movement restrictions caused by webbing. Second Head. Because of its two heads, the Spider King has

Tiny Hut Legacy

Spells Basic Rules (2014)

A 10-foot-radius immobile dome of force springs into existence around and above you and remains stationary for the duration. The spell ends if you leave its area. Nine creatures of Medium size or

smaller can fit inside the dome with you. The spell fails if its area includes a larger creature or more than nine creatures. Creatures and objects within the dome when you cast this spell can move

Giant Spider Legacy

Monsters Basic Rules (2014)

Spider Climb. The spider can climb difficult surfaces, including upside down on ceilings, without needing to make an ability check. Web Sense. While in contact with a web, the spider knows the exact

location of any other creature in contact with the same web. Web Walker. The spider ignores movement restrictions caused by webbing.Bite. Melee Weapon Attack: +5;{"diceNotation":"1d20+5","rollType

Leomund's Tiny Hut Legacy

Spells Player’s Handbook (2014)

smaller can fit inside the dome with you. The spell fails if its area includes a larger creature or more than nine creatures. Creatures and objects within the dome when you cast this spell can move

space is comfortable and dry, regardless of the weather outside.Until the spell ends, you can command the interior to become dimly lit or dark. The dome is opaque from the outside, of any color you choose, but it is transparent from the inside.

Cultist (Knights of the Black Sword)

Monsters Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden

Dark Devotion. The cultist has advantage on saving throws against being charmed or frightened. Icy Doom. When the cultist dies, its corpse freezes for 9 days, during which time it can’t be

Levistus, the archdevil who rules Stygia, the sixth layer of the Nine Hells, from the confines of an ice prison from which he cannot escape. Most of the cultists are Icewind Dale natives who would

Investigator

backgrounds

Ability Scores: Intelligence, Wisdom, Charisma Feat: Sharp Eye or a Dark Gift feat of your choice (see “Feats”) Skill Proficiencies: Insight and Investigation Tool Proficiencies

Halfling

races Player’s Handbook

attribute their unusual gift to one or more of their benevolent gods, including Yondalla, Brandobaris, and Charmalaine. The same gift might contribute to their robust life spans (about 150 years

territorial mob of halflings like those in the Dark Sun setting. Halflings who prefer to live underground are sometimes called strongheart halflings or stouts. Nomadic halflings, as well as those who

Haunted One

backgrounds

Ability Scores: Constitution, Wisdom, Charisma Feat: Survivor or a Dark Gift feat of your choice (see “Feats”) Skill Proficiencies: Arcana and Survival Tool Proficiencies: Choose one

Spiderdragon

Monsters Vecna: Eve of Ruin

of spiders. Though spiderdragons were not created in the Abyss or by Lolth’s faithful, worshipers of the Spider Queen claim that spiderdragons are a gift from their deity, as spiderdragons are

Magic Resistance. The spiderdragon has advantage on saving throws against spells and other magical effects. Spider Climb. The spiderdragon can climb difficult surfaces, including upside down on

Corpse Flower Legacy

Monsters Mordenkainen’s Tome of Foes

up to nine dead humanoids. These remains have total cover against attacks and other effects outside the corpse flower. If the corpse flower dies, the corpses within it can be pulled free. While it has

the initiative order. The zombie acts as an ally of the corpse flower but isn't under its control, and the flower's stench clings to it (see the Stench of Death trait). Spider Climb. The corpse flower

Forlarren

Monsters Mordenkainen's Fiendish Folio Volume 1

demands of the Nine Hells and the impulsive hedonism of the Feywild. Driven by dramatic and unpredictable emotions, these feral creatures wreak havoc wherever they go. Corrupted Essence. The devils

of Avernus attempted an expedition to the Feywild long ago, and the forlarren are the bitter reminder of that doomed excursion. The archdevil Fierna—co-ruler of Phlegethos, the fourth layer of the Nine

Xardorok Sunblight

Monsters Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden

the Spine of the World. In the guise of Deep Duerra, the duergar god of conquest, the archdevil Asmodeus visited Xardorok and urged him to conquer Icewind Dale, beginning with Ten-Towns. Dark

forge a dragon, which he plans to unleash upon Ten-Towns. See the sidebar for more information about chardalyn. Father of Nine. Xardorok has been married three times and has sired nine children

Cult Fanatic (Knights of the Black Sword)

Monsters Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden

Dark Devotion. The fanatic has advantage on saving throws against being charmed or frightened. Spellcasting. The fanatic is a 4th-level spellcaster. Its spellcasting ability is Wisdom (spell save DC

","rollDamageType":"piercing"} piercing damage.The Knights of the Black Sword are a secret society of cultists devoted to Levistus, the archdevil who rules Stygia, the sixth layer of the Nine Hells, from the

Mist Wanderer

backgrounds

Ability Scores: Dexterity, Constitution, Wisdom Feat: A Dark Gift feat of your choice (see “Feats” later in this chapter; Mist Walker is recommended) Skill Proficiencies: Survival and

Spirit Medium

backgrounds

Ability Scores: Constitution, Intelligence, Wisdom Feat: Dark Gift feat of your choice (see “Feats”; Gathered Whispers is recommended) Skill Proficiencies: Insight and Religion Tool

Soul Coin

Magic Items Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus

. These coins are then distributed throughout the Nine Hells to be used for goods and services, infernal deals, dark bargains, and bribes.

. Soul coins are a currency of the Nine Hells and are highly valued by devils. The coins are used among the infernal hierarchy to barter for favors, bribe the unwilling, and reward the faithful for

Priest of Osybus (Blazing)

Monsters Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft

his life. He became a devotee of the Dark Powers and tapped into their immortal malice to fuel his apotheosis. As his power grew, he attracted disciples who also wished to defy life and death. He

physical form. As he perished, he uttered a curse upon them—that their immortality would fail them when they least expected it and that he himself would become one of the Dark Powers. As a result of

Priest of Osybus (Deathly)

Monsters Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft

delved into any eldritch secret that would prolong his life. He became a devotee of the Dark Powers and tapped into their immortal malice to fuel his apotheosis. As his power grew, he attracted

become one of the Dark Powers. As a result of that curse, a priest of Osybus can’t be certain that they will be reborn when they perish. In an effort to rid themselves of this curse, they

Corpse Flower

Monsters Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse

remains of up to nine Humanoids. These remains have total cover against attacks and other effects outside the corpse flower. If the corpse flower dies, the corpses within it can be pulled free. Spider

Hulgaz

Monsters The Book of Many Things

Nine Hells. The self-styled Tempter corrupts mortals’ souls by offering them tantalizing but ruinous boons. To do so, she directs her entourage of loyal succubi and incubi to the Material Plane

, instinctively deducing the most effective tack to take in any conversation. This might mean lending a sympathetic ear to a weepy-eyed supplicant one moment, then seconds later offering hearty laughter to a

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