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Player’s Handbook
cast the spell can enter the extradimensional dwelling as long as the door remains open. You can open or close it (no action required) if you are within 30 feet of it. While closed, the door is
can’t exceed 50 contiguous 10-foot Cube;Cubes. The place is furnished and decorated as you choose. It contains sufficient food to serve a nine-course banquet for up to 100 people. Furnishings
Spells
Player’s Handbook
You hide a chest and all its contents on the Ethereal Plane. You must touch the chest and the miniature replica that serve as Material components for the spell. The chest can contain up to 12 cubic
feet of nonliving material (3 feet by 2 feet by 2 feet).
While the chest remains on the Ethereal Plane, you can take a Magic action and touch the replica to recall the chest. It appears in an
Monsters
Monster Manual
use its Nightmare Haunting action.
The bag has AC 15, HP 20, and Resistance to all damage. The bag turns to dust if reduced to 0 Hit Points. If the bag is destroyed, any souls the bag is holding are
Ethereal Plane, the hag casts Dream, using the same spellcasting ability as Spellcasting. Only the hag can serve as the spell’s messenger, and the target must be a creature the hag can see on the
Monsters
Forgotten Realms: Adventures in Faerûn
Door, Invisibility, Scrying
1/Day Each: Circle of Death, Create UndeadLegendary Action Uses: 3. Immediately after another creature’s turn, the scion can expend a use to take one of the
), using the same spellcasting ability as Spellcasting. The scion can’t take this action again until the start of its next turn.Some wicked mortals have bound their souls to Bane, Bhaal, and
Monsters
Forgotten Realms: Adventures in Faerûn
surprisingly dexterous for creations made of animated wood and metal. A nimblewright walks with a flowing grace and fights with whirling pirouettes.
Nimblewrights can serve as interesting background
Hauling mundane goods, but it is lost.
Poison, PsychicNimble Movement. The nimblewright takes the Disengage action.
Monsters
Astarion's Book of Hungers
, the vampire uses Shape-Shift to become mist (no action required). If it can’t use Shape-Shift, it is destroyed.
While it has 0 Hit Points in mist form, it can’t return to its vampire form
Action Uses: 3 (4 in Lair). Immediately after another creature’s turn, the vampire can expend a use to take one of the following actions. The vampire regains all expended uses at the start of each
Magnificent Mansion
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Spells
Basic Rules (2014)
space can’t exceed 50 cubes, each cube being 10 feet on each side. The place is furnished and decorated as you choose. It contains sufficient food to serve a nine-course banquet for up to 100
perform any task a normal human servant could perform, but they can’t attack or take any action that would directly harm another creature. Thus the servants can fetch things, clean, mend, fold
Firbolg
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Species
Volo's Guide to Monsters
, typically those used to mask their presence, and many go on to master nature magic.
Firbolgs who become druids serve as stronghold leaders. With every action the tribe takes, the druids weigh not only
the group’s needs, but the effect each action will have on the forest and the rest of the natural world. Firbolg tribes would rather go hungry than strain the land during a famine.
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Mordenkainen's Magnificent Mansion
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Spells
Player’s Handbook (2014)
space can’t exceed 50 cubes, each cube being 10 feet on each side. The place is furnished and decorated as you choose. It contains sufficient food to serve a nine-course banquet for up to 100
perform any task a normal human servant could perform, but they can’t attack or take any action that would directly harm another creature. Thus the servants can fetch things, clean, mend, fold
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
appearance and attraction to ruins lead sages to believe they were created through magic to serve as guardians for some lost empire. When that empire fell ages ago, girallons turned feral and spread
out across the world.
Numerous creatures have tried to tame, subjugate, or cooperate with the monsters. For instance, some forest-dwelling peoples capture girallons and train them to serve as sentinels
Monsters
Spelljammer: Adventures in Space
systems for riches and adventure. They often serve as navigators aboard spelljamming ships. To them, the Astral Plane is a mostly uncharted expanse worthy of further exploration.
Hadozees
Hadozees are
slender, highly adaptive Humanoids with simian features and their own language. Their feet are fully as dexterous as their hands, even to the extent of having toes that serve as opposable thumbs
Infernal Tack
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Magic Items
Mordenkainen’s Tome of Foes
A narzugon binds a nightmare to its service with infernal tack, which consists of a bridle, bit, reins, saddle, stirrups, and spurs. A nightmare equipped with infernal tack must serve whoever wears
the spurs until the wearer dies or the tack is removed.
You can use an action to call a nightmare equipped with infernal tack by clashing the spurs together or scraping them through blood. The
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
become restrained as shadowy tendrils wrap around it for 1 minute. A restrained target can use its action to repeat the saving throw, ending the effect on itself on a success.
Spellcasting. The
door, dispel magic, fly, invisibilityThough deathlocks exist to serve their patrons, they retain some freedom when it comes to devising tactics and carrying out plans. Powerful deathlocks recruit
Monsters
Mordenkainen's Fiendish Folio Volume 1
Ethereal Jaunt. As a bonus action, a xill can magically shift from the Material Plane to the Ethereal Plane, or vice versa.
Poison Stinger. The xill injects poison into one creature it hit with its
"} piercing damage.Deep within the Ethereal Plane are the demiplanes, miniatures worlds built by powerful archmages and other mighty entities to serve as a private domain. Each demiplane is a designed realm
Pseudodragon (familiar variant)
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Monsters
Monster Manual (2014)
language.
Familiar. The pseudodragon can serve another creature as a familiar, forming a magic, telepathic bond with that willing companion. While the two are bonded, the companion can sense what the
":"piercing"} piercing damage, and the target must succeed on a DC 11 Constitution saving throw or become poisoned for 1 hour. If the saving throw fails by 5 or more, the target falls unconscious for the same duration, or until it takes damage or another creature uses an action to shake it awake.
Monsters
Storm King's Thunder
, requiring no material spell components and using Charisma as the spellcasting ability (spell save DC 17):
At will: detect magic, levitate, light
1/day each: control weather (cast as 1 action), water
others steal what the gods gave to us!”
Bond: “I serve Princess Mirran and her alone.”
Flaw: “For Mirran’s love or my revenge, I’d betray my king and my honor.”Lightning, ThunderCold
Monsters
Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
Indomitable (2/Day). Thwad rerolls a failed saving throw.
Second Wind (Recharges after a Short or Long Rest). As a bonus action, Thwad can regain 20 hit points.
Dwarven Resilience. Thwad has
Halaster Blackcloak. Halaster defeated Underbrew but offered to spare the dwarf's life if he vowed to serve the Mad Mage as an enforcer, ridding the dungeon of other invaders. Unwilling to face his
Imp (Familiar Variant)
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Monsters
Monster Manual (2014)
Shapechanger. The imp can use its action to polymorph into a beast form that resembles a rat (speed 20 ft.), a raven (20 ft., fly 60 ft.), or a spider (20 ft., climb 20 ft.), or back into its true
serve another creature as a familiar, forming a telepathic bond with its willing master. While the two are bonded, the master can sense what the imp senses as long as they are within 1 mile of each other
Monsters
Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
wriggle through the air, inklings serve as the mascots for Silverquill College. These living blobs of shadowy ink are often summoned by professors who require assistance in their writing workshops—the
inklings provide endless ink—or by lonely students hoping for company as they study. However, inklings can just as readily support mages in combat, disrupting opponents’ sight.PsychicShadow Stealth. While in dim light or darkness, the inkling takes the Hide action.
Magic Items
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
infernal tack must serve whoever wears the spurs until the wearer dies or the tack is removed.
You can use an action to call a nightmare equipped with infernal tack by clashing the spurs together or
or it dies, or until you dismiss it as an action. If the nightmare dies, it reforms in the Nine Hells within 24 hours, after which you can summon it again.
The tack doesn’t conjure a nightmare
Monsters
Mythic Odysseys of Theros
Aggressive. As a bonus action, the cerberus can move up to its speed toward a hostile creature that it can see.
Multiheaded. The cerberus can’t be surprised, and it has advantage on saving
action, freeing itself or a creature within reach from the rock on a success. The rock has AC 17 and 20 hit points, and it is immune to fire, poison, and psychic damage.Three-headed cerberi dwell
Acolyte
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Backgrounds
Basic Rules (2014)
to serve your god in a different way? Perhaps you were the leader of a small cult outside of any established temple structure, or even an occult group that served a fiendish master that you now deny
your chosen deity or pantheon, and you have a residence there. This could be the temple where you used to serve, if you remain on good terms with it, or a temple where you have found a new home. While
Monsters
Monstrous Compendium Vol. 4: Eldraine Creatures
/day: commune with nature (as an action)The wise and ancient treefolk thrive in the depths of Eldraine’s forested wilds. Though many treefolk rival members of the high fae in age, they rarely
interfere with the goings-on of the faerie court. Instead, treefolk serve as guardians and shepherds of their wild groves, dispensing wisdom and blessings to travelers who wander under their branches
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
invulnerability, plane shift, wall of forceThe githzerai 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 another
mystics who lead communities and maintain the adamantine citadels that serve as strong points in Limbo and on other planes. They have formidable psionic capabilities and are able to manipulate the
Monsters
Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
following spells, using Wisdom as the spellcasting ability (spell save DC 13):
At will: entangle, speak with animals, speak with plants
1/day each: commune with nature (as an action), detect magic
, disguise selfLike giant priests of Hiatea, firbolgs who serve her fall into two distinct roles that parallel Hiatea’s dual nature. At home, primeval wardens tend the hearths and tutor the young
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damage at the start of each of the boneless’s turns. The boneless can smother only one creature at a time. While grappling a target, the boneless can’t take this action again.Boneless are the
, constricting and smothering victims using their elastic bodies. Alternatively, necromancers might create boneless to serve as stealthy assassins.
Vile magic-users might order a boneless to hang like a
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
summon these creatures to serve as guards and assassins, two roles at which they excel.
Star Spawn
The Material Plane represents only one small part of the multiverse. Beyond the best-known planes
Disciples of certain Elder Evils can bestow supernatural gifts on those who serve that cult, including star spawn. The following powers are unique to specific cults; typically a creature has only one
Monsters
The Book of Many Things
roll the prophecy die and add the number rolled to the total, potentially changing the outcome. The blessing ends after 1 hour or when the living portent ends the blessing (no action required) or uses
this action again.
Spellcasting. The living portent casts one of the following spells, requiring no material components and using Wisdom as the spellcasting ability:
2/day: Cure Wounds
1/day each
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
Dexterity saving throw or be covered in acid for 1 minute. A creature can use its action to scrape or wash the acid off itself or another creature. A creature covered in the acid takes 7 (2d6
":"Dagger", "rollDamageType":"poison"} poison damage.Copper, black, and topaz dragon eggs yield these sly and stealthy draconians, who often serve their creators as scouts and spies. They use the
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
abishai was once a mortal who somehow won Tiamat’s favor before death and, as a reward, found its soul transformed into a draconic devil to serve at her pleasure in the Nine Hells. Each type of
destruction.Acid, Fire, PoisonCold; Bludgeoning, Piercing, and Slashing from Nonmagical Attacks that aren't SilveredShadow Stealth. While in dim light or darkness, the abishai can take the Hide action.
Monsters
Monstrous Compendium Vol. 2: Dragonlance Creatures
reduced to 0 hit points or if the seeker uses an action to end the transformation.Irda seekers are skilled spies who use their magic to disguise themselves and gather intelligence for their allies. In
teachings, some of them adopted the philosophies of other deities. Those irda who don’t serve the Dragon Queen live in hidden communities across Krynn, avoiding the eyes of their creator and her
Monsters
Storm King's Thunder
, feats, and proficiencies.
The possession lasts until either the body drops to 0 hit points, the yakfolk ends the possession as an action, or the yakfolk is forced out of the body by an effect such as the
":"spell", "rollAction":"Spellcasting"} to hit with spell attacks):
At will: light, sacred flame, thaumaturgy
1/day each: augury (cast as 1 action), bane, banishment, bestow curse, command, cure wounds
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
", "rollAction":"Web"} to hit, range 30/60 ft., one Large or smaller creature. Hit: The target is restrained by webbing. As an action, the restrained target can make a DC 11 Strength check, bursting the webbing
spiderlike creatures originally created to serve Lolth. They rule colonies of chitine;chitines and lead them into battle in Lolth’s war against her enemies.
When devotees of Lolth created the first
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Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
passages or serve as beasts of war. Cave fishers have a natural aversion to fire, since their blood is flammable. As such, Underdark denizens often use the threat of fire when training them.Adhesive
stuck to it, requiring an action and a successful DC 13 Strength check to pull free. Destroying the filament deals no damage to the cave fisher. The filament crumbles away if the cave fisher takes this bonus action again.
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Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
hound in the Border Ethereal can return to the Material Plane as an action.
Telepathic Bond. While the yeth hound is on the same plane of existence as its master, it can magically convey what it senses
feet of the hound must use all its movement on that turn to get as far from the hound as possible, must finish the move before taking an action, and must take the most direct route, even if hazards