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Each target animates, sprouts legs, and becomes a Construct that uses the Animated Object stat block; this creature is under your control until the spell ends or until it is reduced to 0 Hit Points
any remaining damage carries over to that form.
Using a Higher-Level Spell Slot. The creature’s Slam damage increases by 1d4 (Medium or smaller), 1d6 (Large), or 1d12 (Huge) for each spell slot
Monsters
Curse of Strahd
destroyed only if it starts its turn with 0 hit points and doesn’t regenerate.
Rejuvenation. When Sir Godfrey Gwilym is destroyed, his soul lingers. After 24 hours, His soul inhabits and animates
the creature and Sir Godfrey Gwilym are on different planes of existence. If the creature being tracked by Sir Godfrey Gwilym dies, he knows.
Spellcasting. Sir Godfrey is a 16th-level spellcaster. His
spells
Xanathar's Guide to Everything
You touch one Tiny, nonmagical object that isn’t attached to another object or a surface and isn’t being carried by another creature. The target animates and sprouts little arms and legs
, it reverts to its original form, and any remaining damage carries over to that form.
At Higher Levels. When you cast this spell using a spell slot of 4th level or higher, you can animate two additional objects for each slot level above 3rd.
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Basic Rules (2014)
, Huge targets count as eight objects. You can't animate any object larger than Huge. Each target animates and becomes a creature under your control until the spell ends or until reduced to 0 hit points
bonus and bludgeoning damage determined by its size. The GM might rule that a specific object inflicts slashing or piercing damage based on its form.
At Higher Levels. If you cast this spell using a spell slot of 6th level or higher, you can animate two additional objects for each slot level above 5th.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything
Bardic Versatility 4th-level bard feature Whenever you reach a level in this class that grants the Ability Score Improvement feature, you can do one of the following, representing a change in focus
learned from this class’s Spellcasting feature with another cantrip from the bard spell list. A dragonborn bard of the College of Creation animates a statue to dance.
Monsters
Mythic Odysseys of Theros
become part of her throne.
Hythonia as a Mythic Encounter
Hythonia serves as a potent threat against even high-level characters, but you can increase the challenge by using the Shed Skin trait. When
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Hythonia briefly animates creatures that have been petrified by her gaze. Each statue attacks one creature within 5 feet of it, with a +11 bonus to hit and dealing 10 (3d6);{"diceNotation":"3d6
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Xanathar's Guide to Everything
Tiny Servant 3rd-level transmutation Casting Time: 1 minute Range: Touch Components: V, S Duration: 8 hours You touch one Tiny, nonmagical object that isn’t attached to another object or a surface
and isn’t being carried by another creature. The target animates and sprouts little arms and legs, becoming a creature under your control until the spell ends or the creature drops to 0 hit points. See
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
determined by drawing a card from the Secrets Deck (see appendix C). A head can also confirm that Halaster spends a lot of time on this level of Undermountain. Removing a head from a jar or removing a jar from this room ends the magic that animates the head, which immediately dies.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen
the city fell. As soon as a character approaches, magical energy swirls within the arch. The magic kicks up nearby debris that animates as a hostile clay golem. Few can survive the flood-prone
canyons of the Northern Wastes Golem. The golem resembles a proud-looking human with fine robes and an aura of sunbeams around its head. The magic that animates the golem was designed to safeguard the gate
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player’s Handbook
Animate Objects Level 5 Transmutation (Bard, Sorcerer, Wizard) Casting Time: Action
Range: 120 feet
Components: V, S
Duration: Concentration, up to 1 minute
DAVID AUDEN NASH A Brazier
as three. Each target animates, sprouts legs, and becomes a Construct that uses the Animated Object stat block; this creature is under your control until the spell ends or until it is reduced to 0 Hit
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
information on destruction and creation, whether abstract or dedicated to practical applications. They are fascinated by magic that creates objects from nothing, animates Undead, destroys matter, or
jut from the water below the outcropping. The largest features cliffs that rise steeply to a plateau 40 feet above sea level. The dragon sometimes basks here as well and takes many meals atop the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules
Animate Objects Level 5 Transmutation (Bard, Sorcerer, Wizard) Casting Time: Action
Range: 120 feet
Components: V, S
Duration: Concentration, up to 1 minute
Objects animate at your command
ability modifier; for this number, a Medium or smaller target counts as one object, a Large target counts as two, and a Huge target counts as three. Each target animates, sprouts legs, and becomes a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)
School of Necromancy The School of Necromancy explores the cosmic forces of life, death, and undeath. As you focus your studies in this tradition, you learn to manipulate the energy that animates
Savant Beginning when you select this school at 2nd level, the gold and time you must spend to copy a necromancy spell into your spellbook is halved. Grim Harvest At 2nd level, you gain the ability
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
destruction and creation, whether abstract or dedicated to practical applications. They are fascinated by magic that creates objects from nothing, animates Undead, destroys matter, or manipulates negative
outcropping. The largest features cliffs that rise steeply to a plateau 40 feet above sea level. The dragon sometimes basks here as well and takes many meals atop the plateau.A Topaz Dragon’s
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
-carved staircase that ascends to a higher level. The walls are a dense tangle of tree roots and brambles, nestled among which are five animated portraits: one of a svelte, dark-haired woman and the
members, any remaining portraits are blank.) Each portrait magically animates to create the impression that the subject is looking around and shifting uncomfortably, but the animation has the quality of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
. These blades are flying swords rendered inert by the antimagic field. If a flying sword is taken from the tower, it animates and attacks. Where’s the Stone? Fenerus hid the Stone of Golorr in the
cauldron that hangs in the fireplace on the upper level (area O3). But it’s not there anymore. Before the characters reach area O3, three drow gunslingers (see appendix B) under the effect of potions of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
Animate Objects 5th-level transmutation Casting Time: 1 action Range: 120 feet Components: V, S Duration: Concentration, up to 1 minute Objects come to life at your command. Choose up to ten
larger than Huge. Each target animates and becomes a creature under your control until the spell ends or until reduced to 0 hit points. As a bonus action, you can mentally command any creature you
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)
Animate Objects 5th-level transmutation Casting Time: 1 action Range: 120 feet Components: V, S Duration: Concentration, up to 1 minute Objects come to life at your command. Choose up to ten
larger than Huge. Each target animates and becomes a creature under your control until the spell ends or until reduced to 0 hit points. As a bonus action, you can mentally command any creature you
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
treant animates two nearby trees and then attacks. The treant and its animated allies are too big to enter the mausoleum. The characters can kill the treant, try to slip past it, or retreat until
enter unmolested, and says to Renaer in passing, “Your mother was a lovely person.” Glyph of Warding A glyph of warding spell has been cast on the first step leading down to the underground level
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm Lord’s Wrath
character and animates as another hostile air elemental myrmidon! Curse of Talos. If a character is hit with a lightning strike attack from any of the myrmidons, and then fails their saving throw and
of these creatures is a deadly encounter, even for 6 characters of 8th level. For fewer characters, or for lower level characters, have the enemies start at half their normal hit points, and allow
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Forge of the Artificer
it were cast using a spell slot 1 level above the slot expended.
Mabar, the Endless Night. When you use a spell slot to cast a spell that animates or summons an Undead (including Animate Dead
Manifest Zone Level 13 Bastion Facility Prerequisite: Ability to use a Spellcasting Focus
Space: Vast
Hirelings: 1
Order: Empower
A Bastion with a Manifest Zone is infused with the planar
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
attack. He then casts spells from the balcony, switching to melee combat when one or more enemies move within his reach. 11a. Lower Level Balcony. A 30-foot-high balcony circles the room. Eight stone
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The statue of Lolth animates and attacks the nearest creature if it takes damage or if any of the double doors on the balcony are opened by a creature that isn’t a drow. The statue can’t leave
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual
danger. When such a guardian is created, the magic that animates it is intertwined with a bonded command amulet. Any creature that has a shield guardian’s command amulet can control that Construct and, in
Hit Points at the start of each of its turns if it has at least 1 Hit Point.
Spell Storing. A spellcaster who wears the guardian’s amulet can cause the guardian to store one spell of level 4 or
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Turn of Fortune’s Wheel
characters first enter area W6. Zaythir can reactivate it with a word, at which point its body animates and the table before it projects an illusory image of the Outlands. The Castellan has the
Common and Gith but can’t speak. It communicates through gestures alone. The Castellan can cause Iedcaru to stand or sit. While the castle stands, its lowest level is 40 feet off the ground. The castle
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
anything from the room, the four-armed statue animates and attacks. It has the statistics of a stone golem, but replace its Multiattack and Slam action options with the following: Multiattack. The golem
5th level or higher while in the demiplane, all creatures and objects in the demiplane instantly appear in Gromph’s inner sanctum instead. Treasure The collection of rare books and scrolls in the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules
. Hit: 28 (4d10 + 6) Piercing damage.
Animate Trees (1/Day). The treant magically animates up to two trees it can see within 60 feet of itself. Each tree uses the Treant stat block, except it has
. The troll has 1 Exhaustion level for each missing limb, and it grows replacement limbs the next time it regains Hit Points.
Regeneration. The troll regains 15 Hit Points at the start of each of its
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
8. Trapped Hall This part of the temple contains quarters where visiting giants used to rest, with two sets of stairs leading to an upper level (area 10). A 60-foot-high hall stretches northward. The
8A) animates and uses its outstretched arms to stop the sphere before it slams into the wall around the alcove. Each round thereafter on initiative count 15, the statue moves 20 feet northward
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Lost Laboratory of Kwalish
prone.
Actions
Slam. Melee Weapon Attack: +8 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 12 (2d6 + 5) bludgeoning damage.
Animate Boulders (1/Day). The galeb duhr magically animates up to two boulders it
roll, or when the target is within 5 feet of an ally of Garret that isn’t incapacitated and Garret doesn’t have disadvantage on the attack roll.
Spellcasting. Garret is a 2nd-level spellcaster. His
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
that was once a favorite of the captain’s and that faculty members using the office know to avoid. The plaque animates both heads to attack any character who moves within 5 feet of it. While animated
Passageway This wide hallway offers access to the rooms on the second level of the manor. A large pillar that juts into the passageway appears to be a structural column, but actually hides a staircase
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
golem. She animates the giant that stands closest to the character or characters she considers the most threatening, then orders the construct to attack them. The golem obeys Kayalithica’s commands; it
before emerging to attack them with her adamantine greatclub. The Steinfang is impervious to all spells of 3rd level or lower, but has vulnerability to bludgeoning, slashing, and piercing damage from
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
soldier uses the stone golem stat block, except that its Slam action deals slashing damage because it wields a giant glaive. At the start of the soldier’s next turn, a second stone soldier animates and
removed either by using one of the mages’ keys or by picking the lock with a successful DC 18 Dexterity check using thieves’ tools. Freeing Tulao reduces his exhaustion by 1 level. If freed, Tulao thanks
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
animates creatures that have been petrified by her gaze. Each statue attacks one creature within 5 feet of it, with a +11 bonus to hit and dealing 10 (3d6) bludgeoning damage on a hit. If a Medium or
she has grappled to see her eyes and be affected by her gaze.
(CHRIS RAHN) Hythonia as a Mythic Encounter Hythonia serves as a potent threat against even high-level characters, but you can increase
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a5
. Another four-armed gargoyle animates whenever another such door is opened. This process continues for as long as any gargoyles remain in the alcoves. The gargoyles don’t leave the room. Pillars of
room radiates only dim light unless it is a spell of 3rd level or higher. Wailing. Pervading the chamber is a horrid wailing that has unnerving effects on non-undead creatures that hear it. Such
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Quests from the Infinite Staircase
Bronze Arm. When combat begins, the bronze arm atop the stairs animates to defend Nafik. On initiative count 20 of each round (losing initiative ties), Nafik can command the arm to grab or push a
) bludgeoning damage. A creature can climb from the water level onto the north landing without needing to make any checks. Water flows into the room from area P57, entering through a forked, 10-foot
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
the holes from the main level of Castle Never. That level is being rebuilt, so bricklayers, stonemasons, and untrained hirelings are common throughout. A minimum of four guards and three veterans
level. This doesn’t grant characters access to the Vault of Tomes, but it gets them close. Alternative Entry Characters wanting access to the basement might attempt Charisma (Deception) or Dexterity