bards body diffusing checks ritual

Dracolich

Monsters Monster Manual

the gem is on the same plane of existence as it, the dracolich gains a new body in 1d20;{"diceNotation":"1d20", "rollType":"roll", "rollAction":"Soul Gem"} days, regaining all its Hit Points and

it turns to dust if reduced to 0 Hit Points. If the gem is destroyed, the dracolich can create a new one by completing an 8-hour ritual using a gem worth 1,000+ GP and by expending 5,000 GP, which the

Shadow Demon

Monsters Monster Manual

Demonic Restoration. If the demon dies outside the Abyss, its body dissolves into ichor, and it gains a new body instantly, reviving with all its Hit Points somewhere in the Abyss. Incorporeal

", "rollDamageType":"Force"} Force damage if it ends its turn inside an object. Light Sensitivity. While in Bright Light, the demon has Disadvantage on ability checks and attack rolls.Umbral Claw. Melee

Meld into Stone

Spells Player’s Handbook

You step into a stone object or surface large enough to fully contain your body, merging yourself and your equipment with the stone for the duration. You must touch the stone to do so. Nothing of

your presence remains visible or otherwise detectable by nonmagical senses. While merged with the stone, you can’t see what occurs outside it, and any Wisdom (Perception) checks you make to hear

Tome of the Dragon

Magic Items Forgotten Realms: Adventures in Faerûn

cover. The Tome of the Dragon contains the secret ritual to transform a dragon or a dead dragon’s body into a dracolich. To decipher and use the Tome of the Dragon, you must be either a

supplied for the ritual. If the target was a dead dragon’s body, the body reanimates, and the gem is inhabited by an evil dragon spirit from the Outer Planes. The dracolich is under no obligation toward its creators and acts according to its nature.

Wight

Monsters Monster Manual

Sunlight Sensitivity. While in sunlight, the wight has Disadvantage on ability checks and attack rolls.Multiattack. The wight makes two attacks, using Necrotic Sword or Necrotic Bow in any

rises 24 hours later as a Zombie under the wight’s control, unless the Humanoid is restored to life or its body is destroyed. The wight can have no more than twelve zombies under its control at a time.PoisonNecrotic

Sammaster (Lich Form)

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

can. Sammaster personally checks in on the cult’s most important plots, often surprising his minions with his presence. Rather than keep a soul jar as liches do, Sammaster keeps a magical soul

Valindra Shadowmantle

Monsters Forgotten Realms: Adventures in Faerûn

", "rollType":"roll", "rollAction":"Spirit Gem"} days if her spirit gem is intact, reviving with all her Hit Points. The new body appears in an unoccupied space within her lair.Multiattack. Valindra makes

. Thirst for Knowledge. Within 1 mile of the lair, creatures have Advantage on Intelligence checks made when they take the Study action. If Valindra dies or moves her lair elsewhere, these effects end

Vampire Infernalist

Monsters Astarion's Book of Hungers

course it is. —Astarion on Vampire Infernalists Vampire Infernalist Lairs Vampire infernalists lurk in gloomy libraries or ritual chambers, far from the sun’s light. The region

sap the body and mind. Creatures (excluding the vampire and its allies) that finish a Short or Long Rest while within 1 mile of the lair make a DC 15 Wisdom saving throw. On a failed save, a creature

Darkling Legacy

Monsters Volo's Guide to Monsters

qualify to undergo a ritual to become an elder. Other elders mark the supplicant with glowing tattoos, channeling some of the darkling's absorbed light away from its body. If the ritual succeeds, the

Death Flash. When the darkling dies, nonmagical light flashes out from it in a 10-foot radius as its body and possessions, other than metal or magic objects, burn to ash. Any creature in that area

Wood Woad

Monsters Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse

Plant Camouflage. The wood woad has advantage on Dexterity (Stealth) checks it makes in any terrain with ample obscuring vegetation. Regeneration. The wood woad regains 10 hit points at the start of

everlasting guardian. The ritual to create a wood woad is a primeval secret passed down through generations of forest-dwelling societies and druid circles. Performing the ritual isn’t necessarily an

Darkling Elder

Monsters Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse

Death Burn. When the darkling elder dies, magical light flashes out from it in a 10-foot radius as its body and possessions, other than metal or magic objects, burn to ash. Any creature in that area

(Recharges after a Short or Long Rest). The darkling elder casts darkness, requiring no spell components and using Wisdom as the spellcasting ability.A wise and respected darkling can undergo a ritual to

Staggering Smite Legacy

Spells Player’s Handbook (2014)

The next time you hit a creature with a melee weapon attack during this spell’s duration, your weapon pierces both body and mind, and the attack deals an extra 4d6 psychic damage to the target

. The target must make a Wisdom saving throw. On a failed save, it has disadvantage on attack rolls and ability checks, and can’t take reactions, until the end of its next turn.

Darkling Elder Legacy

Monsters Volo's Guide to Monsters

, channeling some of the darkling's absorbed light away from its body. If the ritual succeeds, the darkling grows into a tall and fair form, like that of a gray-skinned elf. The darkling perishes if the ritual fails.

Death Burn. When the darkling elder dies, magical light flashes out from it in a 10-foot radius as its body and possessions, other than metal or magic objects, burn to ash. Any creature in that area

Relentless Impaler

Monsters Vecna: Eve of Ruin

Bloodheart Stake. The impaler is magically bound to the ceremonial stake and the sacrificed corpse the ritual caster used to create it. If the impaler is reduced to 0 hit points, it disappears, then

);{"diceNotation":"1d6", "rollType":"recharge", "rollAction":"Spike Burst"}. Twisted, spectral spikes shoot out from the impaler’s body. Each creature within 30 feet of the impaler must make a DC 19

Contagion Legacy

Spells Basic Rules (2014)

Wisdom checks and Wisdom saving throws and is blinded. Filth Fever. A raging fever sweeps through the creature’s body. The creature has disadvantage on Strength checks, Strength saving throws

, and attack rolls that use Strength. Flesh Rot. The creature’s flesh decays. The creature has disadvantage on Charisma checks and vulnerability to all damage. Mindfire. The creature’s

Shadow Sibling

magic-items

ectoplasmic shadow that surrounds your body and conceals you from prying eyes. While the shadow is active, Wisdom (Perception) checks made to see you have Disadvantage, and you have Advantage on Dexterity

(Stealth) checks made to Hide. In addition, when you are hit by an attack, you can take a Reaction to expend one Hit Point Dice;Hit Die to shield yourself. Roll the die and add the result to your Armor

Raise Dead Legacy

Spells Basic Rules (2014)

You return a dead creature you touch to life, provided that it has been dead no longer than 10 days. If the creature's soul is both willing and at liberty to rejoin the body, the creature returns to

closes all mortal wounds, but it doesn't restore missing body parts. If the creature is lacking body parts or organs integral for its survival--its head, for instance--the spell automatically fails

Stone Cursed

Monsters Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse

repeat the saving throw. The effect ends if the second save is successful; otherwise the target is petrified for 24 hours.Stone cursed are spawned through a foul alchemical ritual performed on a Humanoid

that has been turned to stone. The ritual, which requires a mixture of basilisk blood and the ashes from the burned feathers of a cockatrice, awakens a dim echo of the petrified victim’s spirit

Tempest Spirit

Monsters Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants

hit point maximum is reduced to 0.A storm giant can escape death through a mystical ritual that transforms the giant into a semiconscious storm. However, if the giant performs the ritual in a place

where the barrier between the Material Plane and the Shadowfell is thin, the seeping negative energy drastically alters the ritual’s outcome. The giant’s soul becomes infused with negative

Slithering Tracker

Monsters Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse

half.The quest for revenge sometimes leads those terribly aggrieved to undergo a ritual whereby they transform into bodies of semiliquid sentience known as slithering trackers. Innocuous and insidious at

the same time, a slithering tracker flows into places where a normal creature can’t go and brings its own brand of watery death down on its quarry. The ritual for creating a slithering tracker

Resurrection Legacy

Spells Basic Rules (2014)

removed prior to casting the spell, they afflict the target on its return to life. This spell closes all mortal wounds and restores any missing body parts. Coming back from the dead is an ordeal

. The target takes a −4 penalty to all attack rolls, saving throws, and ability checks. Every time the target finishes a long rest, the penalty is reduced by 1 until it disappears. Casting this

Murgaxor

Monsters Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos

can’t be targeted by any divination magic or perceived through magical scrying sensors, and he adds double his proficiency bonus to Charisma (Deception) checks (included above). Sanguine Sense

use that action again until he finishes a long rest: Clay Behemoth. A clay golem erupts from the floor in an unoccupied space within 15 feet of the ritual circle. The golem obeys Murgaxor's commands

Dracolich (Gargantuan)

monsters Monster Manual

the gem is on the same plane of existence as it, the dracolich gains a new body in 1d20;{"diceNotation":"1d20", "rollType":"roll", "rollAction":"Soul Gem"} days, regaining all its Hit Points and

it turns to dust if reduced to 0 Hit Points. If the gem is destroyed, the dracolich can create a new one by completing an 8-hour ritual using a gem worth 1,000+ GP and by expending 5,000 GP, which the

Griffon Legacy

Monsters Basic Rules (2014)

Keen Sight. The griffon has advantage on Wisdom (Perception) checks that rely on sight.Multiattack. The griffon makes two attacks: one with its beak and one with its claws. Beak. Melee Weapon Attack

":"2d6+4","rollType":"damage","rollAction":"Claws","rollDamageType":"slashing"} slashing damage.A griffon is a ferocious avian carnivore with the muscular body of a lion and the head, forelegs, and wings of an eagle.

Deck of Several Things

Magic Items Lost Laboratory of Kwalish

defeat the next hostile monster or group of monsters you encounter, you have advantage on ability checks made using one skill of your choice for the duration of the adventure. Otherwise, this card has no

effect. Donjon. You are instantly teleported to and confined within the prison of the Monastery of the Distressed Body (area M6). Everything you were wearing and carrying stays behind in the

Boneclaw

Monsters Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse

Rejuvenation. While its master lives, a destroyed boneclaw gains a new body in 1d10;{"diceNotation":"1d10", "rollType":"roll", "rollAction":"Hours"} hours, with all its hit points. The new body

ritual occurs when the soul of the aspiring lich migrates to a prepared phylactery. If the wizard is too physically or magically weak to compel the soul into its new home, the soul instead seeks out a

Nafik

Monsters Quests from the Infinite Staircase

. Rejuvenation. When he is destroyed, Nafik gains a new body in 24 hours if his heart is intact, regaining all his hit points. The new body appears in an unoccupied space within 5 feet of Nafik’s

"} for every 24 hours that elapse. If the curse reduces the target’s hit point maximum to 0, the target dies and its body turns to dust. The curse lasts until removed by the Remove Curse spell or

Deathwolf

Monsters Vecna: Eve of Ruin

necromancy are prevalent. To create a deathwolf, a necromancer reanimates the body of a powerful werewolf by conducting a profane ritual fueled by lunar magic. The result is an Undead abomination that

god Lunitari is a trickster and master of illusions; necromancers perform the ritual to create a deathwolf under the light of her moon to instill the deathwolf with powers of illusion and trickery. Poison; Bludgeoning, Piercing, and Slashing from Nonmagical Attacks that aren't Silvered

Rot Troll

Monsters Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse

necrotic energy as it regenerates can develop a symbiotic relationship with that deathly power. The troll’s body withers, and the flesh falls away from the body as quickly as it forms. Eventually a

their bodies were damaged by elemental forces. These unusual forms can also be produced and shaped by the ritual magic of evil spellcasters or by trolls’ own practices, as is the case for dire

Meld into Stone Legacy

Spells Basic Rules (2014)

You step into a stone object or surface large enough to fully contain your body, melding yourself and all the equipment you carry with the stone for the duration. Using your movement, you step into

Wisdom (Perception) checks you make to hear sounds outside it are made with disadvantage. You remain aware of the passage of time and can cast spells on yourself while merged in the stone. You can use

Gremorly's Ghost

Monsters The Book of Many Things

incapacitated condition and loses control of its body. Gremorly can’t be targeted by any attack, spell, or other effect, except ones that turn Undead, and he retains his alignment, Intelligence

performed a ritual that turned Sovereign Keep into a ghost trap: anyone who dies within the castle walls rises as an incorporeal spirit, trapped within the castle. Then, he waited. When adventurers

Deep Scion

Monsters Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse

by an undersea power: surrender, body and soul, or drown. Those who submit are subjected to an ancient ritual widespread among evil aquatic creatures. Its methods are painful and the result never

, regardless of distance, so long as it and its master are in the same body of water.Deep scions began life as people who were stolen from shore or saved from sinking ships and offered a terrible bargain

Thorny Legacy

Monsters Volo's Guide to Monsters

Plant Camouflage. The thorny has advantage on Dexterity (Stealth) checks it makes in any terrain with ample obscuring plant life. Regeneration. The thorny regains 5 hit points at the start of its

. Thorny Body. At the start of its turn, the thorny deals 2 (1d4);{"diceNotation":"1d4","rollType":"damage","rollAction":"Thorny Body","rollDamageType":"piercing"} piercing damage to any creature

Bodak

Monsters Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse

attack rolls and ability checks. Unusual Nature. The bodak doesn’t require air, food, drink, or sleep.Fist. Melee Weapon Attack: +5;{"diceNotation":"1d20+5", "rollType":"to hit", "rollAction

a successful one.A bodak is the undying remains of someone who revered Orcus. Devoid of life and soul, it exists only to cause death. A worshiper of Orcus can take ritual vows while carving the demon

Lunar Sorcery (SotDQ)

Classes Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen

On many worlds, the moon is a revered celestial body with magical properties. On Krynn, the gods of magic are associated with the world’s three moons. On the world of Toril, the god Selû

from your lineage has been exposed to the concentrated magic of the moon (or moons) of your world, imbuing you with lunar magic. Perhaps your ancestor was involved in a druidic ritual involving an

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