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Monsters
Monster Manual
Spider Climb. The piercer can climb difficult surfaces, including along ceilings, without needing to make an ability check.Bite. Melee Attack Roll: +3;{"diceNotation":"1d20+3", "rollType":"to hit
Saving Throw: DC 11, one creature directly underneath the piercer. Failure: 10 (3d6);{"diceNotation":"3d6", "rollType":"damage", "rollAction":"Drop. The piercer falls", "rollDamageType":"Piercing"} Piercing damage. Failure or Success: The piercer reduces any damage it takes from the fall by 20.
Monsters
Monster Manual
Amphibious. The dragon can breathe air and water.Multiattack. The dragon makes two Rend attacks.
Rend. Melee Attack Roll: +6;{"diceNotation":"1d20+6", "rollType":"to hit", "rollAction":"Rend
: The target has Disadvantage on Strength-based D20 Test;D20 Tests and subtracts 2 (1d4);{"diceNotation":"1d4", "rollType":"roll", "rollAction":"Weakening Breath"} from its damage rolls. It repeats the
Monsters
Monster Manual
Amphibious. The dragon can breathe air and water.Multiattack. The dragon makes three Rend attacks. It can replace one attack with a use of Weakening Breath.
Rend. Melee Attack Roll: +10
’t currently affected by this breath in a 30-foot Cone. Failure: The target has Disadvantage on Strength-based D20 Test;D20 Tests and subtracts 3 (1d6);{"diceNotation":"1d6", "rollType":"roll
Spells
Player’s Handbook
You alter your physical form. Choose one of the following options. Its effects last for the duration, during which you can take a Magic action to replace the option you chose with a different one
.
Aquatic Adaptation. You sprout gills and grow webs between your fingers. You can breathe underwater and gain a Swim Speed equal to your Speed.
Change Appearance. You alter your appearance. You decide
Magic Items
Dungeon Master’s Guide
directly away from yourself. If the creature is your size or smaller, you can also knock it down, giving it the Prone condition.
Protective Field. As a Reaction, when you or an ally you can see
While holding this Shield, you have a +2 bonus to Armor Class. This bonus is in addition to the Shield’s normal bonus to AC.
The Shield has the following additional properties that you can use
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Player’s Handbook
effect based on its current Hit Points, as shown in the Divine Word Effects table. Regardless of its Hit Points, a Celestial, an Elemental, a Fey, or a Fiend target that fails its save is forced back to
its plane of origin (if it isn’t there already) and can’t return to the current plane for 24 hours by any means short of a Wish spell.
Divine Word Effects
Hit Points
Effect
Feats
Player’s Handbook
Wearer. While you're wearing Medium armor, you can add 3, rather than 2 to your AC if you have a Dexterity score of 16 or higher.
Spells
Player’s Handbook
Choose an area of terrain no larger than 40 feet on a side within range. You can reshape dirt, sand, or clay in the area in any manner you choose for the duration. You can raise or lower the area
’s elevation, create or fill in a trench, erect or flatten a wall, or form a pillar. The extent of any such changes can’t exceed half the area’s largest dimension. For example, if you
Spells
Player’s Handbook
is based on the quality of the raw materials.
Creatures and magic items can’t be created by this spell. You also can’t use it to create items that require a high degree of skill&mdash
You convert raw materials into products of the same material. For example, you can fabricate a wooden bridge from a clump of trees, a rope from a patch of hemp, or clothes from flax or wool.
Choose
Spells
Player’s Handbook
damage if it acts in a manner directly counter to your command. It takes this damage no more than once each day.
You can issue any command you choose, short of an activity that would result in certain
You give a verbal command to a creature that you can see within range, ordering it to carry out some service or refrain from an action or a course of activity as you decide. The target must succeed
Spells
Player’s Handbook
spell end after it delivers its message, or it can remain and repeat its message whenever the trigger occurs.
The trigger can be as general or as detailed as you like, though it must be based on visual
You implant a message within an object in range—a message that is uttered when a trigger condition is met. Choose an object that you can see and that isn’t being worn or carried by
Spells
Player’s Handbook
You can cast this spell only at night. Choose up to three corpses of Medium or Small Humanoids within range. Each one becomes a Ghoul under your control (see the Monster Manual for its stat block
).
As a Bonus Action on each of your turns, you can mentally command any creature you animated with this spell if the creature is within 120 feet of you (if you control multiple creatures, you can
Monsters
Monster Manual
Amphibious. The dragon can breathe air and water.
Legendary Resistance (3/Day, or 4/Day in Lair). If the dragon fails a saving throw, it can choose to succeed instead.Multiattack. The dragon makes
three Rend attacks. It can replace one attack with a use of (A) Spellcasting to cast Guiding Bolt (level 2 version) or (B) Weakening Breath.
Rend. Melee Attack Roll: +14;{"diceNotation":"1d20+14
Monsters
Monster Manual
Amphibious. The dragon can breathe air and water.
Legendary Resistance (4/Day, or 5/Day in Lair). If the dragon fails a saving throw, it can choose to succeed instead.Multiattack. The dragon makes
three Rend attacks. It can replace one attack with a use of (A) Spellcasting to cast Guiding Bolt (level 4 version) or (B) Weakening Breath.
Rend. Melee Attack Roll: +17;{"diceNotation":"1d20+17
Magic Items
Dungeon Master’s Guide
You can cast Dancing Lights or Light from the ring.
The ring has 6 charges and regains 1d6 expended charges daily at dawn. You can expend its charges to use the properties below.
Faerie Fire. You
can expend 1 charge to cast Faerie Fire from the ring.
Lightning Spheres. You can expend 2 charges as a Magic action to create up to four 3-foot-diameter spheres of lightning.
Each sphere appears in
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turns, you can take a Bonus Action to mentally command any creature you made with this spell if the creature is within 60 feet of you (if you control multiple creatures, you can command any of them
at the same time, issuing the same command to each one). You decide what action the creature will take and where it will move on its next turn, or you can issue a general command, such as to guard a
Spells
Player’s Handbook
their attire. They are invulnerable and obey your commands. Each servant can perform tasks that a human could perform, but they can’t attack or take any action that would directly harm another
cast the spell can enter the extradimensional dwelling as long as the door remains open. You can open or close it (no action required) if you are within 30 feet of it. While closed, the door is
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can be activated again.
The trigger can be as general or as detailed as you like, though it must be based on visual or audible phenomena that occur within 30 feet of the area. For example, you could
larger than a 30-foot Cube, and you decide when you cast the spell how the illusion behaves and what sounds it makes. This scripted performance can last up to 5 minutes.
When the trigger you specify
Magic Items
Dungeon Master’s Guide
The definitive treatise on all that is good in the multiverse, the Book of Exalted Deeds figures prominently in many religions. Rather than being a scripture devoted to a particular faith, the book
vanishes to some other corner of the multiverse where its moral guidance can bring hope to an endangered world. Although attempts have been made to copy the work, efforts to do so fail to capture its
Feats
Player’s Handbook
leaving your reach, you can take a Reaction to cast a spell at the creature rather than making an Opportunity Attack. The spell must have a casting time of one action and must target only that creature
.
Somatic Components. You can perform the Somatic components of spells even when you have weapons or a Shield in one or both hands.
Feats
Player’s Handbook
Ritual tag to the spells always prepared with this feature.
Quick Ritual. With this benefit, you can cast a Ritual spell that you have prepared using its regular casting time rather than the extended
a maximum of 20.
Ritual Spells. Choose a number of level 1 spells equal to your Proficiency Bonus that have the Ritual tag. You always have those spells prepared, and you can cast them with any spell
Spells
Player’s Handbook
Force damage.
Bonus Actions
Fey Step. The spirit magically teleports up to 30 feet to an unoccupied space it can see. Then one of the following effects occurs, based on the spirit’s chosen mood
You call forth a Fey spirit. It manifests in an unoccupied space that you can see within range and uses the Fey Spirit stat block. When you cast the spell, choose a mood: Fuming, Mirthful, or Tricksy
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to it to aid you, making the creature appear in an unoccupied space within range. If you know a specific creature’s name, you can speak that name when you cast this spell to request that creature
, though you might get a different creature anyway (DM’s choice).
When the creature appears, it is under no compulsion to behave a particular way. You can ask it to perform a service in
Magic Items
Dungeon Master’s Guide
regains 1d4 + 1 expended charges daily at dawn. While wearing the ring, you can cast a spell from it. Choose the spell from the list of available spells based on the Elemental Plane the ring is linked to
Disadvantage on attack rolls against you.
Elemental Compulsion. While wearing the ring, you can take a Magic action to try to compel an Elemental you see within 60 feet of yourself. The Elemental makes
Classes
Player’s Handbook
skills that help them in a dungeon environment, such as climbing, finding and disarming traps, and opening locks.
In combat, Rogues prioritize subtle strikes over brute strength. They would rather make
to the law, no common criminal or officer of the law can match the subtle brilliance of the greatest Rogues.
Becoming a Rogue...
As a Level 1 Character
Gain all the traits in the Core Rogue
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Player’s Handbook
Until the spell ends, you control any water inside an area you choose that is a Cube up to 100 feet on a side, using one of the following effects. As a Magic action on your later turns, you can
directions. The water in the area moves as you direct it, but once it moves beyond the spell’s area, it resumes its flow based on the terrain. The water continues to move in the direction you
Monsters
Forgotten Realms: Adventures in Faerûn
Blood-Soaked Resolve. While Bloodied, the cultist has Advantage on saving throws.Multiattack. The cultist makes three Cursed Blade attacks. It can replace one of these attacks with a use of
: Mind Spike
1/Day Each: Dimension Door, MisleadCultists of Bhaal revel in bloodshed. They enjoy the act of murder, particularly when they can use inventive methods that instill fear among witnesses
Species
Eberron: Forge of the Artificer
directly with their quori spirits. Rather, kalashtar might experience them as a source of instinct and inspiration, drawing on the spirits’ memories when the kalashtar sleep. This connection grants
them in a variety of ways. They have symmetrical, slightly angular features, and their eyes often glow when they are concentrating or expressing strong emotions.
Kalashtar can’t communicate
Monsters
Forgotten Realms: Adventures in Faerûn
":"Necrotic Burst", "rollDamageType":"Necrotic"} Necrotic damage and the target can’t regain Hit Points until the end of the cultist’s next turn.
Spellcasting. The cultist casts one of the
wicked cults that follow their paths of tyranny, murder, and necromancy.
More than any other gods, the Dead Three directly influence Faerûn—and particularly the city of Baldur’s Gate
Monsters
Forgotten Realms: Adventures in Faerûn
Oppressive Burst in any combination. It can replace one attack with a use of Spellcasting to cast Dominate Person, if available.
Gauntlet. Melee Attack Roll: +8;{"diceNotation":"1d20+8", "rollType
", "rollAction":"Oppressive Burst", "rollDamageType":"Psychic"} Psychic damage, and the target can’t take Reactions until the start of the cultist’s next turn.
Spellcasting. The cultist casts one of
Feats
Forgotten Realms: Heroes of Faerûn
Melody. When you take the Help action to assist an ally’s attack roll, the enemy you’re distracting can be within 30 feet of you, rather than within 5 feet of you, provided the enemy can see or hear you.
Monsters
Forgotten Realms: Adventures in Faerûn
Multiattack. The Zhentilar makes two attacks, using Shortsword or Pistol in any combination. It can replace one attack with a use of Knock Down.
Shortsword. Melee Attack Roll: +4;{"diceNotation
. Strength Saving Throw: DC 12, one creature within 5 feet that the Zhentilar can see. Failure: 4 (1d4 + 2);{"diceNotation":"1d4+2", "rollType":"damage", "rollAction":"Knock Down", "rollDamageType
Monsters
Forgotten Realms: Adventures in Faerûn
Spider Climb (Hybrid or Spider Form Only). The aranea can climb difficult surfaces, including along ceilings, without needing to make an ability check.
Web Walker. The aranea ignores movement
a bulky, humpbacked spider with two short arms beneath its head. An aranea can shape-shift into a humanoid form or into a multiarmed humanoid-spider hybrid. Araneas live in insular communities, such
Monsters
Forgotten Realms: Adventures in Faerûn
Magic Resistance. Manshoon has Advantage on saving throws against spells and other magical effects.Multiattack. Manshoon makes three Arcane Burst attacks. He can replace two attacks with a use of
. That Manshoon is dead, and the current Manshoon is one of the original’s many clones. Being a magical copy rather than an original doesn’t make Manshoon any less of a threat, as he’s
Monsters
Forgotten Realms: Adventures in Faerûn
efficiently as he 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
Legendary Resistance (3/Day). If Sammaster fails a saving throw, he can choose to succeed instead.
Life Suppression. Creatures within 60 feet of Sammaster can’t regain Hit Points.
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