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Instrument of the Bards

Magic Items Dungeon Master’s Guide

An Instrument of the Bards is superior to an ordinary instrument in every way. Seven types of these instruments exist, each named after a bard college. The Instruments of the Bards table lists the

spells common to all instruments, as well as the spells specific to each one and its rarity. A creature that attempts to play the instrument without being attuned to it must succeed on a DC 15 Wisdom

Great Old One Patron

Classes Player’s Handbook

Chained God; Zargon, the Returner; Hadar, the Dark Hunger; or Great Cthulhu. Or you might invoke several entities without yoking yourself to one. The motives of these beings are incomprehensible, and the

Unearth Forbidden Lore of Ineffable Beings When you choose this subclass, you might bind yourself to an unspeakable being from the Far Realm or an elder god—a being such as Tharizdun, the

College of Lore

Classes Player’s Handbook

Plumb the Depths of Magical Knowledge Bards of the College of Lore collect spells and secrets from diverse sources, such as scholarly tomes, mystical rites, and peasant tales. The college’s

Halfling

Species Player’s Handbook

territorial mob of halflings like those in the Dark Sun setting. Halflings who prefer to live underground are sometimes called strongheart halflings or stouts. Nomadic halflings, as well as those who

live among humans and other tall folk, are sometimes called lightfoot halflings or tallfellows. Halfling Traits Creature Type: HumanoidSize: Small (about 2–3 feet tall)Speed: 30 feet

Book of Vile Darkness

Magic Items 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

stone cracks and turns to powder if the book rests on it long enough. Whenever a creature that isn’t a Fiend or an Undead attunes to the Book of Vile Darkness, that creature makes a DC 17

Ioun Stone

Magic Items Dungeon Master’s Guide

;Absorption (Very Rare). While this pale lavender ellipsoid orbits your head, you can take a Reaction to cancel a spell of level 4 or lower cast by a creature you can see. A canceled spell has no effect

Dexterity increases by 2, to a maximum of 20, while this deep-red sphere orbits your head. Ioun Stone of Awareness;Awareness (Rare). While this dark-blue rhomboid orbits your head, you have Advantage on

Deck of Many Things

Magic Items Dungeon Master’s Guide

ally with its attacks. You and your allies can each summon only one avatar as a consequence of this draw. A creature slain by an avatar can’t be restored to life. Avatar of Death Medium Undead

, which must be cleared out before you can claim the keep as yours. Void. Your soul is drawn from your body and contained in an object in a place of the DM’s choice. One or more powerful beings

Khoravar

Species Eberron: Forge of the Artificer

philosophy often become bards, diplomats, mediators, or translators. Others, fascinated by their distant connection to the Fey, seek to build bridges between the Material Plane and the Feywild of

Thelanis. These Khoravar often become druids or warlocks with archfey patrons. Khoravar Traits Creature Type: HumanoidSize: Medium (about 4–6 feet tall) or Small (about 2–4 feet tall), chosen when you select this speciesSpeed: 30 feet

Incarnation of Vibrance

Monsters Lorwyn: First Light

Grappled condition (escape DC 15) from one of two vines. Radiant Blast. Constitution Saving Throw: DC 17, each creature of the incarnation’s choice in a 20-foot Emanation originating from the

incarnation. Failure: The creature takes 14 (2d8 + 5);{"diceNotation":"2d8+5", "rollType":"damage", "rollAction":"Radiant Blast", "rollDamageType":"Radiant"} Radiant damage. Success: Half damage

Incarnation of Transience

Monsters Lorwyn: First Light

Stampede. The incarnation moves up to 80 feet in a straight line. Each creature whose space the incarnation enters is targeted once by the following effect. Dexterity Saving Throw: DC 16. Failure: 18

condition. Success: Half damage only.The incarnations of transience represent all that is fleeting or ephemeral. Despite their apparent bulk, these incarnations are actually ephemeral beings with only a

Warforged

Species Eberron: Forge of the Artificer

Warforged are mechanical beings built as weapons to fight in the Last War. An unexpected breakthrough produced sentient beings made from wood and metal that nevertheless can feel pain and emotion

look of their face, limbs, and plating. Warforged Traits Creature Type: ConstructSize: Medium (about 6–8 feet tall) or Small (about 3–4 feet tall), chosen when you select this speciesSpeed: 30 feet

Dreaming Dark Infiltrator

Monsters Eberron: Forge of the Artificer

StaticDreaming Dark Infiltrators are spies sent to gather intelligence. They plant psychic seeds in their minds of their foes that enhance the infiltrators’ combat prowess against those

enemies.PsychicMind Curse. Wisdom Saving Throw: DC 15, one creature hit by the infiltrator’s Mind Blade attack this turn. Failure: The target takes 14 (4d6) Psychic damage and is cursed

Dreaming Dark Mindkiller

Monsters Eberron: Forge of the Artificer

", "rollType":"damage", "rollAction":"Nightmare Whisper", "rollDamageType":"Psychic"} Psychic damage. Primal Fear (1/Day). Wisdom Saving Throw: DC 17, each creature in a 30-foot-radius Sphere

following on each of its turns: move, take an action, or take a Bonus Action. Success: Half damage only.Mindkillers are the assassins of the Dreaming Dark, sent to terrify their foes before striking

Shadowmoor Giant

Monsters Lorwyn: First Light

"} Bludgeoning damage. If the target is a Large or smaller creature, it has the Prone condition. Wild Magic Cataclysm (Recharge 5–6);{"diceNotation":"1d6", "rollType":"recharge", "rollAction":"Wild Magic

Cataclysm"}. Dexterity Saving Throw: DC 15, each creature in a 20-foot-radius Sphere centered on a point within 120 feet. Failure: 28 (8d6) damage (roll 1d4;{"diceNotation":"1d4", "rollType":"roll

Lorwyn Giant

Monsters Lorwyn: First Light

"} Bludgeoning damage. If the target is a Large or smaller creature, it has the Prone condition.In Lorwyn, giants are curious colossi who roam vast plains, bathe in salty lagoons, and nap against

mountains. They sometimes lend their brawn to smaller species who have something interesting to offer in return. Giants The giants of the realm of Lorwyn-Shadowmoor are wise, ancient beings wandering

Kraul Death Priest

Monsters Guildmasters’ Guide to Ravnica

Feed on Death. When a creature within 30 feet of the kraul drops to 0 hit points, the kraul or another creature of its choice within 30 feet of it gains 5 (1d10);{"diceNotation":"1d10","rollType

: animate dead, blight, vampiric touch Pack Tactics. The kraul has advantage on an attack roll against a creature if at least one of the kraul's allies is within 5 feet of the creature and the ally

Living Portent

Monsters The Book of Many Things

willing creature the living portent can see within 30 feet of itself. The target’s hit point maximum and current hit points increase by 7 (1d8 + 3);{"diceNotation":"1d8+3", "rollType":"roll

", "rollAction":"Prophetic Blessing"}, and it gains a prophecy die, a d8. Once during each of the creature’s turns, when it fails an ability check or saving throw or misses an attack roll, it can

Darkvision Legacy

Spells Basic Rules (2014)

You touch a willing creature to grant it the ability to see in the dark. For the duration, that creature has darkvision out to a range of 60 feet.

Cultist Legacy

Monsters Basic Rules (2014)

"} to hit, reach 5 ft., one creature. Hit: 4 (1d6 + 1);{"diceNotation":"1d6+1","rollType":"damage","rollAction":"Scimitar","rollDamageType":"slashing"} slashing damage.Cultists swear allegiance to dark

Dark Devotion. The cultist has advantage on saving throws against being charmed or frightened.Scimitar. Melee Weapon Attack: +3;{"diceNotation":"1d20+3","rollType":"to hit","rollAction":"Scimitar

Willowshade Oil

Equipment

A dark blue oil can be extracted from the rare fruit of the willowshade plant. A creature can use its action to apply the oil to another creature that has been petrified for less than 1 minute

, causing the petrified condition on that creature to end at the start of what would be that creature’s next turn.

Shadow Magic (XGtE)

Classes Xanathar's Guide to Everything

You are a creature of shadow, for your innate magic comes from the Shadowfell itself. You might trace your lineage to an entity from that place, or perhaps you were exposed to its fell energy and

transformed by it. The power of shadow magic casts a strange pall over your physical presence. The spark of life that sustains you is muffled, as if it struggles to remain viable against the dark energy

Viari

Monsters Acquisitions Incorporated

and earnest debate, he demonstrates an equal flair for planning and forethought, mad combat moves (involving leaping off high places whenever possible), and dark vengeance. Viari's career as an

adventurer was nearly cut short during a battle of which the bards still sing. Unleashing a devastating attack with the aptly named Apocalypse Dagger, the rogue destroyed a giant single-handedly — and lost

The Archfey Legacy

Classes Player’s Handbook (2014)

Your patron is a lord or lady of the fey, a creature of legend who holds secrets that were forgotten before the mortal races were born. This being’s motivations are often inscrutable, and

sometimes whimsical, and might involve a striving for greater magical power or the settling of age-old grudges. Beings of this sort include the Prince of Frost; the Queen of Air and Darkness, ruler of the

Black Sap

Equipment

This tarry substance harvested from the dark boughs of the death’s head willow is a powerful intoxicant. It can be smoked as a concentrate or injected directly into the bloodstream. A creature

subjected to a dose of black sap cannot be charmed or frightened for 1d6 hours. For each dose of black sap consumed, a creature must succeed on a DC 15 Constitution saving throw or become poisoned for 2d4 hours—an effect that is cumulative with multiple doses.

Arms of Hadar Legacy

Spells Player’s Handbook (2014)

You invoke the power of Hadar, the Dark Hunger. Tendrils of dark energy erupt from you and batter all creatures within 10 feet of you. Each creature in that area must make a Strength saving throw. On

a failed save, a target takes 2d6 necrotic damage and can’t take reactions until its next turn. On a successful save, the creature takes half damage, but suffers no other effect. At

Shadow Mastiff

Monsters Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse

+3", "rollType":"damage", "rollAction":"Bite", "rollDamageType":"piercing"} piercing damage. If the target is a creature, it must succeed on a DC 13 Strength saving throw or be knocked prone.Shunning

sunlight, these hounds are usually met as a pack. Some faiths devoted to deities of gloom and night, such as that of Shar in the Forgotten Realms, perform unholy rites to summon shadow mastiffs to work

Monastery of the Distressed Body, Monk

Monsters Lost Laboratory of Kwalish

Medium or smaller creature, it is grappled (escape DC 10). Until this grapple ends, the monk cannot use its polearm on another target.Cultists swear allegiance to dark powers such as elemental princes

Dark Devotion. The monk has advantage on saving throws against being charmed or frightened.Hooked Polearm. Melee Weapon Attack: +3;{"diceNotation":"1d20+3","rollType":"to hit","rollAction":"Hooked

Spies' Murmur

Magic Items Guildmasters’ Guide to Ravnica

This headpiece, crafted from dark metal, is worn curved around the ear. If you know a creature wearing another Spies’ Murmur and that creature is within 1 mile of you, you can communicate

telepathically with each other. As a bonus action, you can allow that creature to hear everything you hear for 1 hour. You can end this effect as a bonus action, and it ends if you’re incapacitated.

The Undead (VRGtR)

Classes Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft

You’ve made a pact with a deathless being, a creature that defies the cycle and life and death, forsaking its mortal shell so it might eternally pursue its unfathomable ambitions. For such

beings, time and morality are fleeting things, the concerns of those for whom grains of sand still rush through life’s hourglass. Having once been mortal themselves, these ancient undead know

Reborn

Species Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft

veins making it clear that they’ve been touched by death. Other reborn are marvels of magic or science, being stitched together from disparate beings or bearing mysterious minds in manufactured

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

The Undead

Classes Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft

You’ve made a pact with a deathless being, a creature that defies the cycle and life and death, forsaking its mortal shell so it might eternally pursue its unfathomable ambitions. For such

beings, time and morality are fleeting things, the concerns of those for whom grains of sand still rush through life’s hourglass. Having once been mortal themselves, these ancient undead know

Kolyarut

Monsters Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse

":"Edict of Blades"}. The kolyarut moves up to its speed without provoking opportunity attack;opportunity attacks and can make one Unerring Blade attack against each creature it moves past. Whenever it

hits a creature with an Unerring Blade attack during this movement, each spell of 5th level or lower on the creature ends, and the creature has the incapacitated condition until the end of the kolyarut

Giant Fire Beetle Legacy

Monsters Basic Rules (2014)

creature that takes its name from a pair of glowing glands that give off light. Miners and adventurers prize these creatures, for a giant fire beetle's glands continue to shed light for 1d6;{"diceNotation

":"1d6","rollType":"roll"} days after the beetle dies. Giant fire beetles are most commonly found underground and in dark forests.

Valetta

Monsters Waterdeep: Dragon Heist

long rest); each creature in the line must make a DC 11 Dexterity saving throw, taking 2d6;{"diceNotation":"2d6","rollType":"damage","rollAction":"Dragonborn","rollDamageType":"lightning"} lightning

rites. A priest typically has one or more acolytes to help with religious ceremonies and other sacred duties.Lightning

Cult Fanatic Legacy

Monsters Basic Rules (2014)

Dark Devotion. The fanatic has advantage on saving throws against being charmed or frightened. Spellcasting. The fanatic is a 4th-level spellcaster. Its spellcasting ability is Wisdom (spell save DC

Ranged Weapon Attack: +4;{"diceNotation":"1d20+4","rollType":"to hit","rollAction":"Dagger"} to hit, reach 5 ft. or range 20/60 ft., one creature. Hit: 4 (1d4 + 2);{"diceNotation":"1d4+2","rollType

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