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Dungeon Master’s Guide
, foul rites that allow one to transform into a death knight or lich, or long-lost spells crafted by beings so evil their names ought never to be spoken aloud.
Vile Speech. While the book is on your
damage unless the creature is a Fiend or an Undead.
Destroying the Book. The Book of Vile Darkness allows pages to be torn from it, but any evil lore contained on those pages finds its way back into the
Monsters
Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
that is Medium or Small or back into its true form. Its statistics, other than its size, are the same in each form. Any equipment it is wearing or carrying is absorbed or borne by the new form (the
their descendants and the communities they knew in life, sowing terror and taking retribution for the slights or neglected burial rites that led to their cursed resurrections. Rigor mortis notoriously
Species
Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
sensations or visions of the past to come rushing back.
Rather than sleeping, reborn regularly sit and dwell on the past, hoping for some revelation of what came before. Most of the time, these are dark
of Dread (detailed in chapter 3):
Har’Akir. You died and endured the burial rites of this desert realm, yet somehow a soul—yours or another’s—has taken refuge in your
Monsters
Mythic Odysseys of Theros
volcanoes, where they caper among the forces of dissolution and rebirth. During avalanches and volcanic eruptions, groups of oreads might race ahead of the destruction, dancing, singing, and doing what
they can to maximize the impending devastation.
Honor Among Fey. Hearkening back to some ages-old conflict, oreads refuse to knowingly destroy any land inhabited by another nymph. While they won't work
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
of the following spells, requiring no material components and using Intelligence as the spellcasting ability (spell save DC 17):
At will: dancing lights, mage hand
1/day each: darkness, dispel
(Recharges after a Short or Long Rest). The drow magically transforms into a Large spider, remaining in that form for up to 1 hour, or back into its true form. Its statistics, other than its size, are
Backgrounds
Guildmasters’ Guide to Ravnica
effects, such as flames smoldering behind your eyes or dancing over your hands.
Suggested Characteristics
Gruul ways aren’t the ways of civilized folk, and the Gruul have little patience for
Personality Trait
1
Unlike people, the beasts of the wild are friends who won’t stab me in the back.
2
Go ahead and insult me — I dare you.
3
I scorn those who can
Cleric
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Classes
Basic Rules (2014)
her holy symbol as light pours from it to drive back the zombies crowding in on her companions.
Clerics are intermediaries between the mortal world and the distant planes of the gods. As varied as the
to those chosen to fulfill a high calling.
Harnessing divine magic doesn’t rely on study or training. A cleric might learn formulaic prayers and ancient rites, but the ability to cast cleric
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
Intelligence as the spellcasting ability (spell save DC 14):
At will: dancing lights, guidance
1/day each: hypnotic pattern, lesser restorationShimmering with radiant energy and brimming with life
starlight between their bodies and the spines and horns that hover close to their heads and backs. These horns shift with the dragon’s mood: bristling with anger, lying back with fear or
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
casts one of the following spells, requiring no spell components and using Intelligence as the spellcasting ability:
At will: dancing lights, guidanceShimmering with radiant energy and brimming with
their bodies and the spines and horns that hover close to their heads and backs. These horns shift with the dragon’s mood: bristling with anger, lying back with fear or suspicion, and rippling
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
and using Charisma as the spellcasting ability (spell save DC 20):
At will: command, dancing lights, detect magic, thaumaturgy
2/day each: banishment, blade barrier, cure wounds, hold person, plane
favor, and the goddess sometimes capriciously takes back what she has given. This represents a matron mother at the height of her power.
A matron mother is almost never encountered alone. She is
Magic Items
Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything
.
Properties of the Pestle. The pestle is a 6-inch-long, worn wooden tool. Once during your turn while you are holding the pestle, you can extend it into a quarterstaff or shrink it back into a pestle (no action
.
Destroying the Mortar and Pestle. The mortar and pestle are destroyed if they are crushed underfoot by the Dancing Hut of Baba Yaga or by Baba Yaga herself.
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
with opalescent scales and ruffs of emerald-green fur running down their chins, chests, backs, and tails. One horn arcs from the back of a moonstone dragon’s skull and another at the tip of the
Plane can’t find a way back home to the Feywild.
Connected Creatures
In the Feywild, moonstone dragons interact mostly with pixie;pixies, sprite;sprites, and other Fey creatures who
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Borderlands Quest: Goblin Trouble
Bowl Bandits The passage continues onwards, taking the characters north for a while, and then switching back to the south. The caves here are empty, save for some old cobwebs on the ceiling
around this area are damp with moisture from the nearby stream. Read or paraphrase the following text as the characters near the curving passage, but before they reach the steps leading into the cavern
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Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
visibly in the gem-like spines that run in a ridge from the crown of the head to the tip of the tail. These spines hover above a living topaz dragon’s back, dancing and shifting with the dragon
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
spines that run in a ridge from the crown of the head to the tip of the tail. These spines hover above a living topaz dragon’s back, dancing and shifting with the dragon’s mood.
Embodiment of
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Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
and ruffs of emerald-green fur running down their chins, chests, backs, and tails. One horn arcs from the back of a moonstone dragon’s skull and another at the tip of the nose; the two horns
find a way back home to the Feywild.
Connected Creatures
In the Feywild, moonstone dragons interact mostly with pixie;pixies, sprite;sprites, and other Fey creatures who revere and serve the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Turn of Fortune’s Wheel
, wheeling corpses to embalming chambers or to the crematorium. The Heralds of Dust treat the dead with reverence and dignity, granting them last rites in accordance with the beliefs of the deceased
book’s introduction. If all the characters die at once, they reappear back in the morgue. Morte heckles them on their return.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tyranny of Dragons
7. Gorgon Maze As they follow the path, the characters are drawn into a maze within the larger maze of the magical garden. The curving path you follow suddenly twists to reveal a proper maze cut out
up, it dissipates to mist. When a character picks up the diamond, a pathway opens up in the middle of each of the four sides of this area, any of which lead the characters back to the sundial. The
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Rise of Tiamat
7. Gorgon Maze As they follow the path, the characters are drawn into a maze within the larger maze of the magical garden. The curving path you follow suddenly twists to reveal a proper maze cut out
up, it dissipates to mist. When a character picks up the diamond, a pathway opens up in the middle of each of the four sides of this area, any of which lead the characters back to the sundial. The
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
32. Far and Gone The curving west wall of this room is a seething mass of color and sickly light — a partially breached portal to the Far Realm. Creatures can’t physically pass through the portal
creature that comes into contact with the back wall must succeed on a DC 20 Wisdom saving throw or become charmed by the wall for 1 minute. While charmed in this way, the creature is stunned and stares at
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
west and east walls hold battleaxes and war picks.
Arch. Set into the back of a deep alcove to the south is a stone arch engraved with images of dancing dwarves.
Arch Gate to Level 5 The arch in
the south alcove is one of Halaster’s magic gates (see “Gates”). Its rules are as follows: Standing within 5 feet of the arch and imitating the moves of the dancing dwarves carved into it causes the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
water. A topaz dragon’s psionic power manifests visibly in the gem-like spines that run in a ridge from the crown of the head to the tip of the tail. These spines hover above a living topaz dragon’s back, dancing and shifting with the dragon’s mood.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
taste for humanoid flesh. Prisoners are often taken back to their camps to become the centerpieces of great feasts and rites involving dancing, storytelling, and ritual combat. Victims are either
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
start of its turn.
Claw. The dragon makes one Claw attack.
Psionics (Costs 2 Actions). The dragon uses Psychic Step or Spellcasting.
Emerald Embers (Costs 3 Actions). The dragon creates a dancing
scales become translucent and shimmer in the light, rippling as the dragon moves. The dragon’s horns and spines hover above the body, moving and shifting along the back and tail to mirror the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
disaster. In truth, generations of hapless humans raised their city, realizing too late that they’d done so upon the back of a titanic kraken. When the kraken Arixmethes awakened, its throes devastated the
city upon its back and wiped out the residents. Since returning to its slumber, Arixmethes drifts where it will, still bearing the ruins of a legendary city upon its back. Cronemouth Cove This tiny
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules
Dancing Sword Weapon (Greatsword, Longsword, Rapier, Scimitar, or Shortsword), Very Rare (Requires Attunement) You can take a Bonus Action to toss this magic weapon into the air. When you do so, the
within 5 feet of the weapon. After the hovering weapon attacks for the fourth time, it flies back to you and tries to return to your hand. If you have no hand free, the weapon falls to the ground in
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragon Delves
an eye patch. It clutches a whip in one bony hand.
Along the east wall are three rusty gates with mold-covered cells beyond them.
Cultists used to perform ghastly rites here. Human prisoners were
confined to the cells (see below) until they were sacrificed. After death, they would be brought back to this room, where the high priest would animate them as zombies. Cells. All three cell doors
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
Dancing Sword Weapon (Greatsword, Longsword, Rapier, Scimitar, or Shortsword), Very Rare (Requires Attunement) You can take a Bonus Action to toss this magic weapon into the air. When you do so, the
within 5 feet of the weapon. After the hovering weapon attacks for the fourth time, it flies back to you and tries to return to your hand. If you have no hand free, the weapon falls to the ground in
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
seriously wrong with them. The tunnel opens into a natural cave, wherein you see several fungal creatures dancing to a silent tune. Three of them stand five feet tall, while the others are half as tall
recognizes one of the sprouts — the one not dancing — as his buddy, Rumpadump (see “Development”). The ape-like creatures are two quaggoth spore servants, and each one is covered with a patch of yellow
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
abruptly stops screaming. A brief moment of lucidity replaces his terror, even as his eyes roll back into his head in some kind of bizarre euphoria as he goes limp and slowly sinks back down into the fungal
. They are joined by dancing fungi vaguely shaped and twisted into forms resembling humanoids. Some of these creatures are spore servants enthralled to the Demon Queen of Fungi. Others are myconids and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
Hunting Axe, to be brought back into the light of day. The Order of the Gauntlet is worried about the Iceshield orc raids. They also want to make sure the hidden shrine in the Vale of Dancing Waters
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
(Psionics). The dragon casts one of the following spells, requiring no spell components and using Intelligence as the spellcasting ability (spell save DC 16):
At will: dancing lights, guidance
1/day
; scales. It glows like starlight between their bodies and the spines and horns that hover close to their heads and backs. These horns shift with the dragon’s mood: bristling with anger, lying back
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Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
(Psionics). The dragon casts one of the following spells, requiring no spell components and using Intelligence as the spellcasting ability (spell save DC 19):
At will: dancing lights, guidance
1/day each
anger, lying back with fear or suspicion, and rippling in side-to-side waves with amusement or joy.
Visions in Starlight
Many crystal dragons study the stars, recording their observations of the night
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
Mogis and regularly hold bloody rites in his honor. Warchanters, the minotaur clergy of Mogis, whip their marauders into a near-mindless frenzy before battle; the ensuing slaughter gives glory to
such, whispers among the servants of other gods claim that there might be a way to piece the fractured god back together. Doing so would require an incredible feat, though, likely involving the
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Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
creates a dancing mote of green flame around a creature it can see within 60 feet of it. The target must succeed on a DC 17 Dexterity saving throw or take 31 (9d6);{"diceNotation":"9d6", "rollType
. Eventually, the scales become translucent and shimmer in the light, rippling as the dragon moves. The dragon’s horns and spines hover above the body, moving and shifting along the back and tail