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Dungeon Master’s Guide
While you are playing this musical instrument, you can take a Magic action to create harmless, illusory visual effects within a 5-foot Emanation originating from the instrument. If you are a Bard
Monsters
Monster Manual
spellcasting ability (spell save DC 15):
At Will: Elementalism, Light 1/Day Each: Control Water, Create or Destroy WaterWatery Rebuke. Trigger: An enemy the merfolk can see enters a space within 5 feet of the
merfolk. Response—Strength Saving Throw: DC 15, the triggering enemy. Failure: 14 (4d6);{"diceNotation":"4d6", "rollType":"damage", "rollAction":"Watery Rebuke", "rollDamageType":"Cold"} Cold
Monsters
Monster Manual
Points or when the arcanaloth dies. If the tome is destroyed, the arcanaloth can create a new one when it finishes a Short or Long Rest.Multiattack. The arcanaloth makes three Fiendish Burst attacks
Hand, Prestidigitation 1/Day Each: Contact Other Plane, Detect Thoughts, Dimension Door, Mind BlankCounterspell. The arcanaloth casts Counterspell in response to that spell’s trigger, using the
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Forgotten Realms: Adventures in Faerûn
Thoughts, Dispel Magic, Mage Hand, Message
2/Day Each: Dimension Door, Fly, Scrying
1/Day Each: Befuddlement, DisintegrateCounterspell. Zlan casts Counterspell in response to the spell’s trigger
observe enemies and warp minds.
History
Seven powerful liches from other worlds came together to create the Crystal Shard millennia ago. Although the liches were jealous and suspicious of each
Monsters
Astarion's Book of Hungers
).Resilient Flesh. Trigger: The vampire is hit by a melee attack roll from an attacker the vampire can see. Response: The vampire reduces the damage it takes from the attack by 11 (2d6 + 4);{"diceNotation
don’t live for long and are inattentive while sleeping or simpering. Monstrous servants are often too unpredictable or simply unreliable. To keep their lairs safe, some vampires create more
Monsters
Forgotten Realms: Adventures in Faerûn
. If the gem is destroyed, Sammaster can create a new one by completing an 8-hour ritual using a gem worth 1,000+ GP, which the ritual consumes, and by expending 5,000 GP.Multiattack. Sammaster makes
, Prestidigitation
2/Day Each: Speak with Dead, Wall of Force
1/Day Each: Create Undead (level 8 version), Disintegrate, Power Word KillProtective Magic. Sammaster casts Counterspell or Shield in
Instrument of Illusions
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Magic Items
Xanathar's Guide to Everything
While you are playing this musical instrument, you can create harmless, illusory visual effects within a 5-foot-radius sphere centered on the instrument. If you are a bard, the radius increases to 15
Bard
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Basic Rules (2014)
, create illusions, and even heal wounds. Music and Magic In the worlds of D&D, words and music are not just vibrations of air, but vocalizations with power all their own. The bard is a master
, ensuring that her companions’ words will be well received. Whether scholar, skald, or scoundrel, a bard weaves magic through words and music to inspire allies, demoralize foes, manipulate minds
Monsters
Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus
","rollDamageType":"bludgeoning"} bludgeoning damage.A fiendish flesh golem is a particularly big flesh golem made of stitched-together body parts from devils, demons, yugoloths, and other fiends. As these parts
else.
Some fiendish flesh golems have wings. However, the magic used to create these golems allows them to fly and hover even without wings.Lightning, Poison; Bludgeoning, Piercing, and Slashing from Nonmagical Attacks that aren't Adamantine or SilveredCold, Fire
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
unoccupied space he can see.Fearful Voice (Recharge 5–6);{"diceNotation":"1d6","rollType":"recharge","rollAction":"Fearful Voice"}. In response to taking damage, Hutijin utters a dreadful word of power
all their backbiting and betrayal, devils do occasionally display loyalty, offering unwavering service to their masters. One such example is Hutijin, a duke of Cania and loyal servant of Mephistopheles
Magic Items
Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus
temporary hit points.
Query. You telepathically ask the soul a question and receive a brief telepathic response, which you can understand. The soul knows only what it knew in life, but it must
served or the outer plane most closely tied to its alignment (DM’s choice). The souls of lawful evil creatures released from soul coins typically emerge from the River Styx as lemure;lemure devils
Monsters
Tales from the Yawning Portal
dealing damage.
White Maw can eat through 2-inch-thick, nonmagical metal in 1 round.
False Appearance. While White Maw remains motionless, it is indistinguishable from white stone.
Killer Response
), the Red Wizards experiment with a process to create sentient oozes. The creature they call White Maw is one of their early achievements—a gray ooze of enormous size that has intelligence and
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Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
gruesome demon-slaying machines.
To replenish her legions, Zariel needs the souls of mortals to create lemure;lemures, which she can then promote to higher forms of devils. She is keenly interested in
’s wall—the dying remains of those who failed to impress the archdevil. The stronghold, covering five square miles, is surrounded by walls reinforced with high turrets. Devils of all kinds
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
devils, to insulate him against criticism, and, above all, to create complications that he can solve so as to reinforce his value in the eyes of his master. Titivilus finds adventurers well suited
plots are being hatched against him and that Asmodeus himself seeks to remove Dispater from power. In response, Dispater has withdrawn to his palace and left day-to-day decisions to Titivilus, even
monsters
Forgotten Realms: Adventures in Faerûn
attack roll. Response: The cultist makes one Gauntlet or Oppressive Burst attack against the triggering creature.Cultists of Bane sow strife, either by directly bullying others or by abusing existing
power structures to create division and oppression. Although many cultists of Bane are tyrants capable of influencing large groups of lackeys, other cultists prefer to operate from the shadows. These
Monsters
Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
the swarm has half of its hit points or fewer, plus 7 (2d6);{"diceNotation":"2d6","rollType":"damage","rollAction":"Bite","rollDamageType":"force"} force damage.Spell Redirection. In response to a
by novice spellcasters seeking to create life. The results are cat-sized, magically unstable creatures with a taste for the trappings of magic—particularly spellbooks, spell components
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
transforms those slashed by the claws into statues.
As part of the ritual used to create a stone cursed, a fist-sized obsidian skull forms within the creature’s torso. The skull isn’t visible
while the stone cursed is active, but when it is slain, the statue shatters and the skull clatters to the ground. Because it is the nexus for the alchemy used to create these horrors, a faint echo of the
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
knows which one, but not the exact location there.Explosive Retribution. In response to dropping to 15 hit points or fewer, the orthon explodes. All other creatures within 30 feet of it must each make
, and its brass crossbow are destroyed.When an archduke of the Nine Hells needs a creature tracked, found, and either done away with or captured, the task usually falls to an orthon. These devils are
Zariel
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Mordenkainen’s Tome of Foes
to the stronghold’s wall, the dying remains of those who failed to impress the archdevil. The stronghold, covering five square miles, is surrounded by walls reinforced with high turrets. Devils
create images of intruders’ loved ones being burned alive. Zariel doesn’t need to concentrate on the spells, which end on initiative count 20 of the next round. Each creature that can see
Monsters
Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus
other. To keep Bel busy and out of her sight, Zariel tasks him with forging weapons, armor, and gruesome demon-slaying machines.
To replenish her legions, Zariel needs the souls of mortals to create
lemures, which she can then promote to higher forms of devils. Only by tempting mortals with power on the Material Plane and striking bargains with them can she bind them to her in the afterlife
Monsters
Quests from the Infinite Staircase
normally follow casting the Wish spell to produce an effect other than duplicating another spell.Multiattack. Nafas makes three Storm Shamshir attacks and uses Create Vortex.
Storm Shamshir. Melee
"} lightning or thunder damage (Nafas’s choice).
Create Vortex. A 10-foot-radius, 60-foot-tall cylinder of swirling cosmic dust forms on a point Nafas can see within 120 feet of him. The vortex
Monsters
Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse
succeeds on three of these saves.The dragon can take up to three reactions per round but only one per turn.
Reactive Rend. After using Legendary Resistance or in response to being hit by an attack
the flow of time, their horns grow with branching, rainbow-hued veins suggestive of time’s paths and possibilities.
Ancient time dragon;Ancient time dragons can create temporal gates connected
Monsters
Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
Deathly Boon. It can cast animate dead and create undead once per day each, using Intelligence as the spellcasting ability.
Tattoo of Osybus. If the priest drops to 0 hit points, roll on the Boons
cheat death and become undead horrors.
The threat posed by Osybus and his disciples raised alarms far and wide. In response, the Ulmist Inquisition and the then-mortal Count Strahd von Zarovich
Triton
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Volo's Guide to Monsters
the world above.
Aquatic Crusaders
Centuries ago, tritons entered the world in response to the growing threat of evil elementals. Tritons waged many wars against their enemies on the Plane of Water
extended their stewardship over the sea floor from their initial settlements and built outposts to create trade with other races. Despite this expansion, few folk know of them. Their settlements are so
Monsters
Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse
Legendary Resistance or in response to being hit by an attack roll, the dragon makes one Rend attack.
Slow Time. Immediately after a creature the dragon can see ends its turn, the dragon targets a creature
dragons can create temporal gates connected to specific times and places in the multiverse. Using these, they and allied creatures can travel anywhere in time to affect fate-determining moments or to banish
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
Fiendish Variations Devils work tirelessly to create new and more powerful engines of war to stem the demonic tides flowing out of the Abyss. In addition, infernal war machines can be equipped with more unusual weapons and armor.
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
Entering into a Deal Despite their thirst for trapping mortal souls in binding contracts, devils can enter into deals only in specific circumstances. The easiest way for a devil to forge a deal is to
do so within the Nine Hells, where it’s closer to the infernal hierarchy and can more easily channel its power. Elsewhere in the multiverse, most devils are too removed from their power structure to
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Rise of Tiamat
23. Northern Exits The dragon bones that blanket the caldera have been pushed away from these exits to create a bleak open plaza connecting both tunnel exits to the entrance to the temple. This space
blocked by 2 barbed devils and 4 guard drakes (see appendix D for statistics). The devils’ attention is focused toward the plaza, however, not down the tunnels or on what the guard drakes do. The
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tyranny of Dragons
23. Northern Exits The dragon bones that blanket the caldera have been pushed away from these exits to create a bleak open plaza connecting both tunnel exits to the entrance to the temple. This space
blocked by 2 barbed devils and 4 guard drakes (see appendix D for statistics). The devils’ attention is focused toward the plaza, however, not down the tunnels or on what the guard drakes do. The
Monsters
Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
response, the Ulmist Inquisition and the then-mortal Count Strahd von Zarovich faced the lich in battle. Their bravery would have been for naught if Osybus’s disciples hadn’t betrayed him
can cast animate dead and create undead once per day each, using Intelligence as the spellcasting ability, and it gains the following action:
Circle of Death (Spell; Recharge 5–6;{"diceNotation":"1d6
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Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
master did and to cheat death and become undead horrors.
The threat posed by Osybus and his disciples raised alarms far and wide. In response, the Ulmist Inquisition and the then-mortal Count Strahd
.
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Priest of Osybus (Deathly);Deathly. The priest’s visage becomes bone white, and its challenge rating increases by 1. It can cast animate dead and create undead once per day each, using
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
Unwelcome Party The characters’ first encounter in Elturel is a gruesome one. A number of innocent residents of the city have been in hiding to avoid the devils patrolling their streets, but a lack
of food and water has forced one group to abandon their refuge. Spotted by devils, these citizens are about to come under attack, and the characters are their only hope of survival. Read the following
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
, ensuring that her companions’ words will be well received. Whether scholar, skald, or scoundrel, a bard weaves magic through words and music to inspire allies, demoralize foes, manipulate minds, create illusions, and even heal wounds.
Bard Humming as she traces her fingers over an ancient monument in a long-forgotten ruin, a half-elf in rugged leathers finds knowledge springing into her mind, conjured forth by the magic of her
Monsters
Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
threat posed by Osybus and his disciples raised alarms far and wide. In response, the Ulmist Inquisition and the then-mortal Count Strahd von Zarovich faced the lich in battle. Their bravery would have
visage becomes bone white, and its challenge rating increases by 1. It can cast animate dead and create undead once per day each, using Intelligence as the spellcasting ability, and it gains the
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
Characters from Akharin Sangar If players want to create characters native to Akharin Sangar, consider asking them the following questions during character creation: How have you been affected by the
angel Atash’s rule? What changes have you or your loved ones made in response to Atash’s edicts? How has this theocracy benefited or harmed you? Do you worship the Sunweaver? If not, do you make that