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Monster Manual
feet (Constructs and Undead succeed automatically). Failure: The target has the Unconscious condition for 10 minutes or until it takes damage or a creature within 5 feet of it takes an action to wake
it. Success: The target is immune to this jackalwere’s Sleep Gaze for 24 hours.Shape-Shift. The jackalwere shape-shifting;shape-shifts into a Medium human or a Medium jackal-humanoid hybrid, or
Monsters
Monster Manual
Succubus Form. When the incubus finishes a Long Rest, it can shape-shifting;shape-shift into a Succubus, using that stat block instead of this one. Any equipment it’s wearing or carrying isn
condition for 1 hour, until it takes damage, or until a creature within 5 feet of it takes an action to wake it. Otherwise, the target takes 18 (4d8);{"diceNotation":"4d8", "rollType":"damage", "rollAction":"Nightmare", "rollDamageType":"Psychic"} Psychic damage.
Magic Items
Dungeon Master’s Guide
This robe has 3 charges, and it regains 1d3 expended charges daily at dawn. While you wear it, you can take a Magic action and expend 1 charge to cause the garment to display a shifting pattern of
Monsters
Monster Manual
;Opportunity Attacks. At the end of this movement, the weretiger can take the Hide action.
Shape-Shift. The weretiger shape-shifting;shape-shifts into a Large tiger-humanoid hybrid or a Large tiger, or it
Spells
Player’s Handbook
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
you have the Spellcasting feature, you retain it too.
Upon shape-shifting, you determine whether your equipment drops to the ground or changes in size and shape to fit the new form while you’re in it.
Spells
Player’s Handbook
Choose any number of willing creatures that you can see within range. Each target shape-shifting;shape-shifts into a Large or smaller Beast of your choice that has a Challenge Rating of 4 or lower
. You can choose a different form for each target. On later turns, you can take a Magic action to transform the targets again.
A target’s game statistics are replaced by the chosen Beast’s
Spells
Player’s Handbook
action on later turns to move the Cylinder up to 60 feet.
When the Cylinder appears, each creature in it makes a Constitution saving throw. On a failed save, a creature takes 2d10 Radiant damage, and if
the creature is shape-shifting;shape-shifted (as a result of the Polymorph spell, for example), it reverts to its true form and can’t shape-shift until it leaves the Cylinder. On a successful
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
DC 14):
At Will: Detect Magic, Etherealness, Magic Missile (level 4 version) 2/Day Each: Phantasmal Killer, Plane Shift (self only)Cold, FireShape-Shift. The hag shape-shifting;shape-shifts into a
Spells
Player’s Handbook
A willing creature you touch shape-shifting;shape-shifts, along with everything it’s wearing and carrying, into a misty cloud for the duration. The spell ends on the target if it drops to 0 Hit
Points or if it takes a Magic action to end the spell on itself.
While in this form, the target’s only method of movement is a Fly Speed of 10 feet, and it can hover. The target can enter and
Monsters
Monster Manual
, 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
equal to that amount. A Humanoid reduced to 0 Hit Points by this damage and then buried rises the following sunset as a Vampire Spawn under the vampire’s control.Legendary Action Uses: 3 (4 in Lair
Feats
Forgotten Realms: Heroes of Faerûn
Hit Points of the form. The shape-shifting effect lasts for 1 hour, and it ends early if you have no Temporary Hit Points left or if you take a Magic action to return to your true form.
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can take a Magic action to shape-shift into a Beast, Humanoid, or Monstrosity with a Challenge Rating no higher than 10. When you shape-shift, you gain a number of Temporary Hit Points equal to the
Monsters
Forgotten Realms: Adventures in Faerûn
Flyby (Swan Form Only). The swanmay doesn’t provoke an Opportunity Attack action when it flies out of an enemy’s reach.Multiattack. The swanmay makes two attacks, using Beak, Longbow, or
-Shifting;shape-shifts into a Small swan, or it returns to its true humanoid form. Its game statistics are the same in each form, except where noted. Any equipment it is wearing or carrying isn’t transformed.
Monsters
Forgotten Realms: Adventures in Faerûn
", "rollDamageType":"Psychic"} Psychic damage, and the target has the Frightened condition until the end of the dragon’s next turn. Success: Half damage only.Legendary Action Uses: 3 (4 in Lair
, ending the effect on itself on a success. After 1 minute, it succeeds automatically. Failure or Success: The dragon can’t take this action again until the start of its next turn.The strange
Monsters
Forgotten Realms: Adventures in Faerûn
Flyby (Wyvern or Hybrid Form Only). The werewyvern doesn’t provoke an Opportunity Attack action when it flies out of an enemy’s reach.Multiattack. The werewyvern makes three attacks
;s transmission is unpredictable and often as much a surprise to the werewyvern as it is to the victim.Shape-Shift. The werewyvern Shape-Shifting;shape-shifts into a Medium wyvern-humanoid hybrid or a
Monsters
Forgotten Realms: Adventures in Faerûn
Breath", "rollDamageType":"Psychic"} Psychic damage, and the target has the Frightened condition until the end of the dragon’s next turn. Success: Half damage only.Legendary Action Uses: 3 (4 in
turns, ending the effect on itself on a success. After 1 minute, it succeeds automatically. Failure or Success: The dragon can’t take this action again until the start of its next turn.Ancient
Monsters
Forgotten Realms: Adventures in Faerûn
only), Dispel Magic, Invisibility
1/Day Each: Control Weather, Plane ShiftLegendary Action Uses: 3. Immediately after another creature’s turn, Biha Babir can expend a use to take one of the
":"Whirlpool", "rollDamageType":"Force"} Force damage, and the target is pulled 15 feet straight toward Biha Babir. Success: Half damage only. Failure or Success: Biha Babir can’t use this action
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Increase. Increase your Strength, Dexterity, or Wisdom score by 1, to a maximum of 20.
Shifting Endurance. At the start of your turn, you can use your Shifting trait (no action required). The
transformation now lasts 10 minutes.
Shifter Recovery. You can use your Shifting trait one additional time. You regain 1 expended use when you finish a Short Rest, and all expended uses when you finish a Long Rest.
Monsters
Eberron: Rising from the Last War
Shifting (Recharges after a Short or Long Rest). As a bonus action, the shifter takes on a more bestial form for 1 minute or until it dies. The shifter gains 5 temporary hit points. It can make a
bite attack when it activates this trait and also as a bonus action on each of its turns while in its bestial form.Shortsword. Melee Weapon Attack: +5;{"diceNotation":"1d20+5","rollType":"to hit
Robe of Scintillating Colors
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Magic Items
Basic Rules (2014)
This robe has 3 charges, and it regains 1d3 expended charges daily at dawn. While you wear it, you can use an action and expend 1 charge to cause the garment to display a shifting pattern of dazzling
Spells
D&D Beyond Drops
snakes. Creatures that are holding a targeted object can make a Charisma saving throw, preventing the target from shape-shifting on a success. Each shape-shifted target uses the Venomous Snake stat block
.
Each of these snakes is Friendly to you and your allies. In combat, it shares your Initiative count and takes its turn immediately after yours.
Until the spell ends, you can take a Bonus Action to
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":"Invert Flesh", "rollDamageType":"Force"} Force damage.Legendary Action Uses: 3 (4 in Lair). Immediately after another creature’s turn, the emissary can expend a use to take one of the following
action again until the start of its next turn.A star spawn emissary’s lesser form allows it to appear as another creature. Emissaries readily appear as people, animals, or other creatures—the
Monsters
Guildmasters’ Guide to Ravnica
choose to succeed instead.
Shapechanger Savant. Lazav can use a bonus action to polymorph into a Small or Medium humanoid he has seen. His statistics, other than his size, are the same in each form. Any
disadvantage on the next attack roll it makes before Lazav's next turn.Lazav can take 3 legendary actions, choosing from the options below. Only one legendary action option can be used at a time and
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":"Psychic"} Psychic damage, and the target has the Frightened condition until the start of the inquisitor’s next turn. Critical Hit: If the target is a Shape-Shifting;shape-shifted creature, it
the target take the Attack action (the inquisitor chooses the target), the Dash action, or no action.
Mind Fire. Intelligence Saving Throw: DC 16, one creature the inquisitor can see within 120 feet
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can take its Hungering Stride Bonus Action. A Humanoid reduced to 0 Hit Points by this damage rises at the end of the jiangshi’s turn as a Wight under the jiangshi’s control. If this wight
kills a Humanoid with its Life Drain action, the wight transforms into an independent Jiangshi 5 days later.When a soul becomes trapped within its corpse, its bitterness can reanimate its body
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Action Uses: 3 (4 in Lair). Immediately after another creature’s turn, the emissary can expend a use to take one of the following actions. The emissary regains all expended uses at the start of
turn. Failure or Success: The emissary can’t take this action again until the start of its next turn.
Teleporting Lash. The emissary can teleport up to 30 feet to an unoccupied space it can see
Cloaker
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Basic Rules (2014)
creature, including the target, can take its action to detach the cloaker by succeeding on a DC 16 Strength check.
Tail. Melee Weapon Attack: +6;{"diceNotation":"1d20+6","rollType":"to hit","rollAction
itself if it isn't in bright light. The duplicates move with it and mimic its actions, shifting position so as to make it impossible to track which cloaker is the real one. If the cloaker is ever in
Monsters
Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
Shapechanger. The mimic can use its action to polymorph into an object or back into its true, amorphous form. Its statistics are the same in each form. Any equipment it is wearing or carrying isn't
damage on a successful one.Mimics are shape-shifting monsters described in the Monster Manual. The variant presented here is a particularly large and voracious specimen—the result of Netherese experiments on ordinary mimics—that spits acid.Acid
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
-shifting abilities and the power to create illusions.Veil Walk (Recharge 4–6);{"diceNotation":"1d6", "rollType":"recharge", "rollAction":"Veil Walk"}. The seeker, along with any equipment it is wearing
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Monstrous Compendium Vol. 2: Dragonlance Creatures
’s statistics don’t change. The veil keeper reverts to its true form if the veil keeper is reduced to 0 hit points or if the veil keeper uses an action to end the transformation
/day each: invisibility, major image, phantasmal force
1/day: hallucinatory terrain (as an action)Obscuring Mist. If a creature that the veil keeper can see within 30 feet of itself is targeted by an
Mirror Image
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Three illusory duplicates of yourself appear in your space. Until the spell ends, the duplicates move with you and mimic your actions, shifting position so it's impossible to track which image is
real. You can use your action to dismiss the illusory duplicates.
Each time a creature targets you with an attack during the spell's duration, roll a d20 to determine whether the attack instead targets
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Prone condition.Legendary Action Uses: 3. Immediately after another creature’s turn, the loup garou can expend a use to take one of the following actions. The loup garou regains all expended uses
Bite. The loup garou uses Shape-Shift, turning into its hybrid or dire wolf form, then makes one Bite attack. The loup garou can’t take this action again until the start of its next turn.Loup
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minute, after a spell restores Hit Points to the target, or after the target or a creature within 5 feet of it takes an action to staunch the wound, doing so by succeeding on a DC 15 Wisdom (Medicine
) check. Hit or Miss: The spear magically returns to Chakuna’s hand immediately after a ranged attack.Legendary Action Uses: 3 (4 in Domain). Immediately after another creature’s turn
Monsters
Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
Build (Humanoid Form Only). The werebear counts as one size larger when determining its carrying capacity and the weight it can push, drag, or lift.
Shapechanger. The werebear can use its action to
the weather and the geography of Icewind Dale can be brutal. They know the safest routes across the tundra, and they can help guide travelers through the Sea of Moving Ice and across its ever-shifting
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Invisible), Minor Illusion, Ray of Sickness (level 3 version)
1/Day Each: Augury, Blight, Plant Growth, Scrying, Unseen ServantLegendary Action Uses: 3 (4 in Domain). Immediately after another creature&rsquo
see within 30 feet and can make one Mother’s Brand attack.
Overwhelming Presence. Lorinda casts Slow, using the same spellcasting ability as Spellcasting. Lorinda can’t take this action
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The Book of Many Things
damage against it.The corrupter 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 creature’s turn
dissolves into a shifting mass of flesh, tentacles, eyes, claws, and mouths. Up to two creatures the corrupter can see within 20 feet of itself must make a DC 20 Intelligence saving throw, taking 18