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Monster Manual
. Until the curse ends, the target can’t cast spells with a Verbal component, and when it speaks, it says the opposite of what it means.Legendary Action Uses: 3 (4 in Lair). Immediately after
Spectral Claw attack.
Malicious Magic. The hag uses Spellcasting to cast Dimension Door or Hypnotic Pattern. The hag can’t take this action again until the start of its next turn.Arch-hag Lairs
Magic Items
Dungeon Master’s Guide
if the target is a Construct, an Elemental, or a Giant. Immediately after hitting or missing, the weapon flies back to your hand.
Shock Wave. You can take a Magic action to strike the ground with
, a Wisdom of 12, and a Charisma of 15. It has hearing and Darkvision out to 120 feet.
The weapon communicates telepathically with its wielder and speaks Dwarvish, Giant, and Goblin.
Personality
Magic Items
Dungeon Master’s Guide
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Call Undead. While holding the wand, you can take a Magic action to conjure 15 Skeleton;Skeletons and 15 Zombie;Zombies. These Undead magically rise up from the ground or otherwise form in
Darkvision out to 120 feet.
The wand communicates telepathically with its wielder and speaks Abyssal and Common.
Personality. The wand’s purpose is to help satisfy Orcus’s desire to slay
Magic Items
Dungeon Master’s Guide
Initiative rolls.
Blade of Defense. When you take an action to attack with the sword, you can transfer some or all of its attack bonus to your Armor Class instead. The adjusted bonuses remain in
of 13, and a Charisma of 16. It has hearing and Darkvision out to 120 feet.
The weapon communicates telepathically with its wielder and speaks Common.
Personality. The sword’s purpose is to
Monsters
Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
Strixhaven.
Univocal Speech. When the guide speaks, any creature that knows at least one language and can hear the guide understands what it says.
Unusual Nature. The guide doesn’t require air, food
have a gift for finding things on campus, often popping up at the most inopportune times.PoisonNeed Directions? The guide takes the Help action.
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
Discern Lie. The drow discerns when a creature in earshot speaks a lie in a language the drow knows.
Fey Ancestry. The drow has advantage on saving throws against being charmed, and magic can&rsquo
.
Variant: Demon Summoning
Drow Inquisitor (Summoner Variant);Variant: Demon Summoning
Some drow inquisitors have an action that allows them to summon a yochlol.
Summon Demon (1/Day). The drow
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
he starts his turn with 0 hit points and doesn’t regenerate.
Ventriloquism. Whenever Titivilus speaks, he can choose a point within 60 feet of him; his voice emanates from that point.Multiattack
action and move away from Titivilus by the safest available route on each of its turns, unless there is nowhere to move, in which case it needn’t take the Dash action. The target can repeat the
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
speaks through the token, the holder can hear the hag’s whisper but not any other sounds at the hag’s location. Similarly, the hag can hear the holder of the token but not the noise around
it.
A hag can have up to three iron tokens active at one time. As an action, the hag can discern the direction and approximate distance to those active tokens. The hag can deactivate any of those
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
Summon Demon (1/Day). As an action, the molydeus has a 50 percent chance of summoning its choice of 1d6;{"diceNotation":"1d6","rollType":"roll","rollAction":"Summon Demon"} babau;babaus, 1d4 chasme;chasmes
below. Only one legendary action option can be used at a time and only at the end of another creature’s turn. The molydeus regains spent legendary actions at the start of its turn.
Attack. The
Monsters
Spelljammer: Adventures in Space
Disembodied Voice. Up to three times in its life, the zodar can cause a message of up to twenty-five words to issue from the air around it. It speaks only when it has something profoundly important
aloofness. They simply hover in silence. When a zodar finally performs some significant action, the reasons for that action aren’t always clear.
One interpretation of this behavior posits that
Titivilus
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Monsters
Mordenkainen’s Tome of Foes
start of his next turn. Titivilus dies only if he starts his turn with 0 hit points and doesn't regenerate.
Ventriloquism. Whenever Titivilus speaks, he can choose a point within 60 feet; his voice
, the target must take the Dash action and move away from Titivilus by the safest available route on each of its turns, unless there is nowhere to move, in which case it needn't take the Dash action
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
molydeus 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. The molydeus regains
.
Cast a Spell (Costs 2 Actions). The molydeus uses Spellcasting.The fearsome molydeus speaks for the demon lord it serves and enforces its master’s will. This demon is 12 feet tall, and its
Magic Items
Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse
can use an action to cast legend lore from the device. The device speaks the revealed lore aloud. Once this property has been used, it can’t be used again until the next dawn.
Planar Knowledge
This skull-shaped device is filled with knowledge. The device weighs 5 pounds and is covered with subtle etchings of planar sigils.
As a bonus action, you can toss the device into the air, whereupon
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
Discern Lie. The drow discerns when a creature in earshot speaks a lie in a language the drow knows.
Fey Ancestry. The drow has advantage on saving throws against being charmed, and magic can&rsquo
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The dagger lasts for 1 minute. As a bonus action on later turns, the drow can move the dagger up to 20 feet and repeat the attack against one creature within 5 feet of the dagger.
monsters
Ebonbane ends the possession as a Bonus Action. Once the possession ends, Ebonbane can’t possess the corpse again. The corpse crumbles to dust 24 hours after the possession ends.
Worthy
Action Uses: 3 (4 in Domain). Immediately after another creature’s turn, Ebonbane can expend a use to take one of the following actions. Ebonbane regains all expended uses at the start of each of its
Monsters
Vecna: Eve of Ruin
Ear of the Chosen. Whenever a creature on the same plane of existence as Alustriel speaks Alustriel’s name, Alustriel hears her name and the next nine words the speaker utters.
Legendary
for 1 hour or until she has the incapacitated condition or uses another bonus action to quench it. While wreathed in silver fire, Alustriel gains truesight within 30 feet and can use her Argent Blaze
Monsters
Candlekeep Mysteries
, the shards deal no damage to her.Nintra 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
, wrapped in a cloak-like darkness that appears to devour the light.
Nintra’s eyes burn with green fire, and she speaks in a high, musical voice. Deception comes naturally to her, but imprisonment
monsters
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
Monsters
Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
within the sphere is heavily obscured, and the sphere moves with Auril. The effect lasts until Auril drops to 0 hit points in this form, until she chooses to end the effect (no action required), or
until her concentration is broken (as if concentrating on a spell).Auril can take 3 legendary actions, choosing from the options below. Only one legendary action option can be used at a time and only at
Monsters
The Book of Many Things
1/day: TeleportHulgaz 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. Hulgaz
victims.
Roleplaying Hulgaz
Hulgaz is witty, garrulous, and patient all at once. She speaks calmly in a low voice, and her movements are graceful and purposeful. Each shrug of her shoulders or waggle of
Monsters
Mythic Odysseys of Theros
escape from the corpse by using 15 feet of movement, exiting prone.Tromokratis can take 3 legendary actions, choosing from the options below. Only one legendary action option can be used at a time and
to assert its claim. Often, before a journey, sailors blow conch-shell horns in the belief that the sound will soothe nearby krakens.
The Horn of Humenades. Legend speaks of a magic horn that the
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Spells
Basic Rules (2014)
Intelligence saving throw. On a failed save, the target is driven insane for 1 minute. An insane creature can't take actions, can't understand what other creatures say, can't read, and speaks only in
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Sleep. Each target must make a Wisdom saving throw and falls unconscious for 10 minutes on a failed save. A creature awakens if it takes damage or if someone uses an action to shake or slap it awake.
Stunning. Each target must make a Wisdom saving throw and becomes stunned for 1 minute on a failed save.
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
Constitution saving throw or fall unconscious for 10 minutes. This effect ends for a creature if the creature takes damage or someone uses an action to wake it.
Moonlight Breath. The dragon exhales a beam of
affliction.
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A treant and a young moonstone dragon love to meet and share stories. While the dragon speaks of travels and adventures, the treant tells tales of the tiny moments that make up a forest
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
Aarakocra +2 Dex, +2 Wis Dive Attack; talon attack action; speed 20 ft., fly 50 ft.; speaks Auran Bullywug -2 Int, -2 Cha Amphibious, Speak with Frogs and Toads, Swamp Camouflage, Standing Leap; speed
20 ft., swim 40 ft.; speaks Bullywug Dragonborn* +2 Str, +1 Cha Breath Weapon (use challenge rating instead of level to determine damage), Damage Resistance, Draconic Ancestry; speaks Common and
Magic Items
Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything
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2 minor beneficial properties
1 major beneficial property
1 minor detrimental property
Spells. The crook has 6 charges. While holding it, you can use an action to expend 1 or more
inverting and exploding into a 50-foot-diameter portal. This portal functions as a permanent gate spell cast by Iggwilv. The gate then, once per round on initiative count 20, audibly speaks a fiend&rsquo
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
Tongues 3rd-level divination Casting Time: 1 action Range: Touch Components: V, M (a small clay model of a ziggurat) Duration: 1 hour This spell grants the creature you touch the ability to
understand any spoken language it hears. Moreover, when the target speaks, any creature that knows at least one language and can hear the target understands what it says.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)
Tongues 3rd-level divination Casting Time: 1 action Range: Touch Components: V, M (a small clay model of a ziggurat) Duration: 1 hour This spell grants the creature you touch the ability to
understand any spoken language it hears. Moreover, when the target speaks, any creature that knows at least one language and can hear the target understands what it says.
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
neck. He speaks Common, Giant, and Giant Owl. He has Wisdom and Charisma scores of 16 (+3) and gains the Spellcasting action option described below. Spellcasting. Storvald casts one of the following
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
. Or a teacher. Or a student. Or any other member of the university staff. Rosie speaks quickly and with so much energy that it often takes a moment to recover from a conversation with her. She moves
silkball and takes fair play very seriously. Woe betide any participant who feels the wrath of her whistle. Rosie is also an enthusiastic participant in Strixhaven’s Live-Action Roleplaying Guild. She
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
Iymrith the Dragon The treacherous Iymrith is an ancient blue dragon, with the following changes: She speaks Giant and Terran in addition to Common and Draconic. She gains the Spellcasting and Change
Shape action options, both described below. When she casts her stone shape spell, Iymrith can shape the targeted stone into a living gargoyle instead of altering the stone as described in the spell’s
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
Languages. The half-dragon speaks Draconic in addition to any other languages it knows. New Action: Breath Weapon. The half-dragon has the breath weapon of its dragon half. The half-dragon’s size
determines how this action functions. Size Breath Weapon Optional Prerequisite Large or smaller As a wyrmling Challenge 2 or higher Huge As a young dragon Challenge 7 or higher Gargantuan As an adult dragon Challenge 8 or higher
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
to Candlekeep, though she is unaware that the book was the cause of the malaise. Varnyr is a noble with the following changes: Varnyr speaks Common and Elvish, and she has darkvision out to a range of
60 feet. She has advantage on saving throws against being charmed, and magic can’t put her to sleep. Instead of a rapier, Varnyr wields a cane and can use an action to make two melee weapon attacks
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)
Animal Messenger 2nd-level enchantment (ritual) Casting Time: 1 action Range: 30 feet Components: V, S, M (a morsel of food) Duration: 24 hours By means of this spell, you use an animal to deliver a
the creature that you described, replicating the sound of your voice. The messenger speaks only to a creature matching the description you gave. If the messenger doesn’t reach its destination before
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
Steel Weapon (Longsword), Very Rare (Requires Attunement by a Good-aligned Creature) You have a +2 bonus to attack and damage rolls made with this magic weapon. Revivify. You can use an action to
doll is within 5 feet of you, you can spend a short rest telling it to say up to six phrases, none of which can be more than six words long, and you can set a condition under which the doll speaks each
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
Animal Messenger 2nd-level enchantment (ritual) Casting Time: 1 action Range: 30 feet Components: V, S, M (a morsel of food) Duration: 24 hours By means of this spell, you use an animal to deliver a
the creature that you described, replicating the sound of your voice. The messenger speaks only to a creature matching the description you gave. If the messenger doesn’t reach its destination before