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creature takes a Study 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.
Sound. If you create a sound, its volume can range from a whisper to a scream. It can be your voice, someone else
Magic Items
Forgotten Realms: Adventures in Faerûn
hundred genies, including the physical forms of Calim and Memnon. The genies scream and strain in agonized fury, pressing their belligerent faces against the walls of their crystal line prison
attuned to the crystal, you are unaffected by the aura, and you can take a Magic action to disable or enable the aura.
Healing/Damage Rays. While holding the crystal, you can take a Magic action to fire
Deep Scion
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Monsters
Volo's Guide to Monsters
Shapechanger. The deep scion can use its action to polymorph into a humanoid-piscine hybrid form, or back into its true form. Its statistics, other than its speed, are the same in each form. Any
Long Rest). The deep scion emits a terrible scream audible within 300 feet. Creatures within 30 feet of the deep scion must succeed on a DC 13 Wisdom saving throw or be stunned until the end of the
Monsters
Storm King's Thunder
as a bonus action.
Spell Turning. The cat has advantage on saving throws against any spell that targets only the cat (not an area). If the cat’s saving throw succeeds and the spell is of 7th
cry resembles a human scream of terror. It often elicits such sounds from its victims, for it prefers human flesh to all other fare.
Crag cats blend in with their surroundings. During winter, their fur
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
throw fails by 5 or more, the creature is also stunned until the end of its next turn.The tempest can take 3 legendary actions, choosing from the options below. Only one legendary action option can be
tempests assume the shape of serpents that slither through the sky. They drown the land beneath them with rain and stab the earth with lances of lightning. Punishing winds scream around them as they fly
Minor Illusion
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Spells
Basic Rules (2014)
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
Magic Items
The Book of Many Things
Each of these black leg guards is decorated with a motif of monstrous skulls screaming in terror.
The greaves have 3 charges. While wearing these greaves, you can use a bonus action to expend 1
magic.
You have disadvantage on saving throws against the frightened condition. Whenever you start your turn frightened, the greaves release an ear-piercing scream. You and each creature within 10 feet
Spells
Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything
commands (no action required by you). If you don’t issue any, it takes the Dodge action and uses its move to avoid danger.
At Higher Levels. When you cast this spell using a spell slot of 4th
).
Chilling Rend. Melee Weapon Attack: your spell attack modifier to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 1d12 + 3 + the spell’s level cold damage.
Dreadful Scream (1/Day). The spirit screams. Each
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Flee, Mortals! Rule Primer
Mind Scream 3rd-Order Telepathy Power Manifestation Time: 1 action
Range: 30 feet
Duration: Instantaneous
You psionically pierce the mind of each enemy you can see within range. Each target
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Xanathar's Guide to Everything
Psychic Scream 9th-level enchantment Casting Time: 1 action Range: 90 feet Components: S Duration: Instantaneous You unleash the power of your mind to blast the intellect of up to ten creatures of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
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
Minor Illusion Illusion 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
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)
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
Minor Illusion Illusion 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
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player’s Handbook
Minor Illusion Illusion Cantrip (Bard, Sorcerer, Warlock, Wizard) Casting Time: 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. See the descriptions below for the effects of each. The illusion ends if you cast this spell again. If a creature takes a Study action to examine the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules
Minor Illusion Illusion Cantrip (Bard, Sorcerer, Warlock, Wizard) Casting Time: 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. See the descriptions below for the effects of each. The illusion ends if you cast this spell again. If a creature takes a Study action to examine the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
, he becomes agitated, placing his hands over his face and emits a strangled scream. Use the following to guide the party’s interaction with Alden: Alden badly wants to rescue his son but is terrified
of taking action and seeing Caden harmed. Caden was abducted almost a month ago. Alden tucked him in one night, he was gone the following morning with a message in his place. A hulking half-ogre met
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
the teleport trap.
The rotting corpse of a drow mage lies slumped against a wall at the end of the tunnel, his face frozen in a scream, his black robe torn and dusty. The drow, Elvilac Zmirth, was
telekinesis. Each of the purple mushrooms can be eaten as an action and has the magical properties of a potion of greater healing. Teleport Trap A teleport trap fills the 10-foot-square space marked on map 15
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything
Summon Shadowspawn 3rd-level conjuration Casting Time: 1 action Range: 90 feet Components: V, S, M (tears inside a gem worth at least 300 gp) Duration: Concentration, up to 1 hour You call forth a
ends. The creature is an ally to you and your companions. In combat, the creature shares your initiative count, but it takes its turn immediately after yours. It obeys your verbal commands (no action
Magic Items
The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
. The iron cauldron has the following properties:
You can use an action to scream into the empty cauldron, which magically summons a swarm of bats that flies out of the cauldron and acts immediately
cauldron from one form to another (by using an action to touch it), which either can do without being attuned to the item. In its first form, the cauldron is made of solid gold and embossed on the outside
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
scion can use its action to polymorph into a humanoid–piscine hybrid form, or back into its true form. Its statistics, other than its speed, are the same in each form. Any equipment it is wearing or
after a Short or Long Rest). The deep scion emits a terrible scream audible within 300 feet. Creatures within 30 feet of the deep scion must succeed on a DC 13 Wisdom saving throw or be stunned until
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
Purple Worm Attack As the altercation between the Ashen Heirs and the Brightguard comes to a head, read or paraphrase the following: Stone cracks and people scream as a massive, spiked worm erupts
cling to their buzzing boomhailers as they flee. A character who spends an action alerting an anarchist to the risk and succeeds on a DC 14 Charisma (Intimidation or Persuasion) check convinces that
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
mountains. Its cry resembles a human scream of terror. It often elicits such sounds from its victims, for it prefers human flesh to all other fare. Crag cats blend in with their surroundings. During
against it as a bonus action.
Spell Turning. The cat has advantage on saving throws against any spell that targets only the cat (not an area). If the cat’s saving throw succeeds and the spell is of 7th
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
cry resembles a human scream of terror. It often elicits such sounds from its victims, for it prefers human flesh to all other prey. Crag cats blend in with natural surroundings. During the winter
bonus action.
Spell Turning. The cat has advantage on saving throws against any spell that targets only the cat (not an area). If the cat’s saving throw succeeds and the spell is of 7th level or
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Masters: Zombie Clot Play-Along Pack
. Suddenly, a scream wrenches the air, and the crowd turns to see a Zombie Clot shambling toward the crowd. As long as the Zombie Clot has more than 0 Hit Points, on Initiative count 20, roll on the table
town demands Remus be hanged at once. A character that takes the Influence action and succeeds on a DC 14 Charisma (Persuasion or Intimidation) check can convince the crowd to let Remus go free
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual
with eyes, teeth, and strange organs. These mind-bending terrors sing and scream, laugh and cry with a cacophony of voices ranging from disturbingly unnatural to shockingly familiar. They exist only to
. The target does nothing.
5–6. The target takes no action or Bonus Action and uses all its movement to move in a random direction.
7–8. The target makes a melee attack against a randomly
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
through the sky. The tempest drowns the land beneath it with rain and stabs the earth with lances of lightning. Punishing winds scream around it as it flies, feeding the chaos it creates. Elder Tempest
of its next turn.
Legendary Actions
The tempest can take 3 legendary actions, choosing from the options below. Only one legendary action option can be used at a time and only at the end of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
sky. They drown the land beneath them with rain and stab the earth with lances of lightning. Punishing winds scream around them as they fly, feeding the chaos they create. Elder Tempest
Gargantuan
the end of its next turn.
Legendary Actions
The tempest can take 3 legendary actions, choosing from the options below. Only one legendary action option can be used at a time and only at the end
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Fiendish Folio Volume 1
an event occurs, the creature’s scream echoes through the Feywild. If it echoes at just the right angle between a rocky outcropping in the dead of night, the scream gains intensity and volume until
space within 60 feet of Ygorl, acts as an ally of Ygorl, and can’t summon other slaadi. It remains for 1 minute, until it or Ygorl dies, or until Ygorl dismisses it as an action.
Teleport. Ygorl
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
coursing through the River Styx claw and scream at the bathysphere as they pass by. Once the bathysphere is lowered to the river bottom, characters inside it can use its siphoning tubes to suck up the
unattended crane. While seated at the crane’s controls, the character can use an action to try to figure out how to operate them, doing so with a successful DC 17 Intelligence (Arcana) check. If the check
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
for ages past when hearts were pure
Against all reason now they seem unsure
They laugh and scream between mine ears anon.
Now fill my cup not once, not twice, but thrice
With flagon’s brim upon
effects. Usually, only one satyr in a group carries such pipes. If a satyr has pipes, it gains the following additional action option.
Panpipes. The satyr plays its pipes and chooses one of the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
remains of a Humanoid. Mud-encrusted skulls protrude from the soil, with vegetation sprouting from their open jaws and eye sockets. As an action once per day, Granny Nightshade can raise eight
five scarecrows scream loudly enough to alert everyone inside Loomlurch. Each scarecrow is a Medium object with AC 11, 5 hit points, vulnerability to fire damage, and immunity to poison and psychic damage.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
flee, the characters hear a child’s scream coming from the opposite direction. Through the blowing snow, they can see that one of the urchins, Jenks, has fallen through a thin patch of ice and is in
can use an action to try to pull the boy from the cold water, doing so with a successful DC 11 Strength (Athletics) check. If no adult comes to Jenks’s aid within 1 minute of his falling through the ice
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
cauldron can’t be used again until the next dawn. Iggwilv’s Cauldron (Iron Version) Iron Cauldron. The iron cauldron has the following properties: You can use an action to scream into the empty cauldron
two forms. Only Iggwilv or Baba Yaga can change the cauldron from one form to another (by using an action to touch it), which either can do without being attuned to the item. In its first form, the
compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Legends of Greyhawk: Secrets of the Free City
his window shutters. A character who takes the Influence action can attempt to coax him into speaking, making a DC 12 Charisma (Persuasion) check. On a success, he agrees to talk. A proud man, he won’t
be intimidated and responds to attempts with, “Yeah, maybe I will scream so loud for the guard it will wake the dead, and we can see who gets there first, yeah?” If Kercut is persuaded to talk, he
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
charmed until the song ends. The harpy must take a bonus action on its subsequent turns to continue singing. It can stop singing at any time. The song ends if the harpy is incapacitated.
While charmed
straight-up combat.
When they attack, harpies play with their food, delighting in the “music” their victims make as they scream. A harpy takes its time dismembering a helpless foe and can spend
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Turn of Fortune’s Wheel
, conical projectiles—each made of rusted iron and over fifteen feet long—blast through the gate in rapid succession, impacting amid Rigus’s defenders. Soldiers scream and barricades shatter. Then a wave of
15 Dexterity saving throw, taking 35 (10d6) piercing damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one. Midbattle Deductions During the battle, a character can spend an action to