become being during change rise

Alter Self

Spells Player’s Handbook

spell to become quadrupedal, for instance. For the duration, you can take a Magic action to change your appearance in this way again. Natural Weapons. You grow claws (Slashing), fangs (Piercing

. 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

Wand of Orcus

Magic Items Dungeon Master’s Guide

some fell goal. The wand is topped with a skull that once belonged to a human hero slain by Orcus. The wand can magically change in size to better conform to the grip of its user. All Holy Water

). Call Undead. While holding the wand, you can take a Magic action to conjure 15 Skeleton;Skeletons and 15 Zombie;Zombies. These Undead magically rise up from the ground or otherwise form in

Drow Priestess of Lolth

Monsters Forgotten Realms: Adventures in Faerûn

has the Restrained condition until the start of the drow’s next turn. Success: Half damage only.Lolth’s worship is matriarchal, and only female drow can rise to become priestesses of the

Khoravar

Species Eberron: Forge of the Artificer

Over the course of centuries, those descended from both humans and elves have developed their own communities and traditions in Khorvaire. The rise of House Lyrandar and House Medani has strengthened

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

Alter Self Legacy

Spells Basic Rules (2014)

underwater and gain a swimming speed equal to your walking speed. Change Appearance. You transform your appearance. You decide what you look like, including your height, weight, facial features, sound of your

voice, hair length, coloration, and distinguishing characteristics, if any. You can make yourself appear as a member of another race, though none of your statistics change. You also can't appear as a

Living Blade of Disaster

Monsters Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden

by powerful eldritch forces can give rise to spell effects that become living beings. These so-called living spells haunt the places where they were created, subsisting on ambient magical energy.Poison; Bludgeoning, Piercing, and Slashing from Nonmagical Attacks

Humanoid Mutate

Monsters Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk

deliberately change themselves, seeking to embrace the fell powers they worship. Creatures that become mutates often inexplicably change back to their previous forms once the Far Realm influence abates

this transformation to become malevolent prophets and harbingers. Others find magical ways to return to their previous forms. Mutates A creature exposed to the strange energy of the Far Realm

School of Transmutation Legacy

Classes Player’s Handbook (2014)

You are a student of spells that modify energy and matter. To you, the world is not a fixed thing, but eminently mutable, and you delight in being an agent of change. You wield the raw stuff of

creation and learn to alter both physical forms and mental qualities. Your magic gives you the tools to become a smith on reality’s forge. Some transmuters are tinkerers and pranksters, turning

Living Bigby's Hand

Monsters Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden

serves as a guardian, attacking creatures that cross its path while remaining loyal to its caster. Areas of wild magic and sites that have been ravaged by powerful eldritch forces can give rise to spell

effects that become living beings. These so-called living spells haunt the places where they were created, subsisting on ambient magical energy.Poison

School of Transmutation (PHB) Legacy

Classes Player’s Handbook (2014)

You are a student of spells that modify energy and matter. To you, the world is not a fixed thing, but eminently mutable, and you delight in being an agent of change. You wield the raw stuff of

creation and learn to alter both physical forms and mental qualities. Your magic gives you the tools to become a smith on reality’s forge. Some transmuters are tinkerers and pranksters, turning

Barrowghast

Monsters Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants

on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one.A hill giant who dies with an empty stomach, full of rage and regret, might become suffused with energy from the Negative Plane and rise as

they feast indiscriminately on any creatures they encounter. When barrowghasts drain Humanoids’ life energy, those Humanoids rise as zombie;zombies.Necrotic, Poison

Lost Sorrowsworn

Monsters Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse

", "rollAction":"Tightening Embrace", "rollDamageType":"psychic"} psychic damage.The Shadowfell turns visitors around until they become marooned in its twisted landscape. Lost sorrowsworn—often

the victim suffers. Sorrowsworn The Shadowfell’s pervasive melancholy sometimes gives rise to strange incarnations of the plane’s bleak nature. Sorrowsworn embody the forms of suffering

Needle Lord

Monsters Mordenkainen's Fiendish Folio Volume 1

damage.A wise ranger knows that the sight of a needle spawn is an ill omen, for it heralds the rise of a dreaded needle lord and a war for the soul of a forest. Roving Corpses. Needle spawn are created

wrap around the corpse to animate it, causing it to rise and lurch about like a zombie. Invasive Species. When a great battle is fought in a fey woodland, the plants of the wood sometimes take on the

Living Demiplane

Monsters Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden

wearing or carrying. Unusual Nature. The living spell doesn't require air, food, drink, or sleep.A living demiplane is a demiplane spell that has become vaguely self-aware. It is a shadowy rectangle, 5

pull that creature into itself, then deposits the victim in an extradimensional chamber. Areas of wild magic and sites that have been ravaged by powerful eldritch forces can give rise to spell effects

Nine-Fingers Keene

Monsters Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus

is as feared as she is respected. Keene has become increasingly intolerant of the populous tide turning against her organization. While the occasional rabble-rouser has always impeded criminal

business, the rise of organized crews and vigilantes is interfering with Guild operations. After a carefully coordinated attack on a patriar’s estate fell to pieces when a vigilante clumsily alerted the estate guards, Keene declared open season on do-gooders of all stripes.

Irda Seeker

Monsters Monstrous Compendium Vol. 2: Dragonlance Creatures

. If the seeker lacks the room to become Large, it attains the maximum size possible in the space available. Change Shape (1/Day). The seeker magically transforms to look and feel like a Medium

Humanoid it has seen. Any equipment the seeker is wearing or carrying isn’t transformed, and the seeker’s statistics don’t change. The seeker reverts to its true form if the seeker is

Cloaker Mutate

Monsters Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk

with the Far Realm. Some creatures become mutates after prolonged exposure to Far Realm energy or magic drawn from that strange plane. Others deliberately change themselves, seeking to embrace the fell

powers they worship. Creatures that become mutates often inexplicably change back to their previous forms once the Far Realm influence abates. Forcing a transformation on creatures inexplicably fails

Otyugh Mutate

Monsters Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk

with the Far Realm. Some creatures become mutates after prolonged exposure to Far Realm energy or magic drawn from that strange plane. Others deliberately change themselves, seeking to embrace the

fell powers they worship. Creatures that become mutates often inexplicably change back to their previous forms once the Far Realm influence abates. Forcing a transformation on creatures inexplicably

Mold Earth

Spells Elemental Evil Player's Companion

difficult terrain. Alternatively, you can cause the ground to become normal terrain if it is already difficult terrain. This change lasts for 1 hour. If you cast this spell multiple times, you can have

appear on the dirt or stone, spelling out words, creating images, or shaping patterns. The changes last for 1 hour. If the dirt or stone you target is on the ground, you cause it to become

Cairnwight

Monsters Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants

exclusion of all other tasks, retreating into a spacious cavern and blocking out all distractions. Creating a masterwork can become such a driving obsession that death can’t stop it: a giant who dies

while creating art might rise as a cairnwight and continue the work. Once the artwork is completed, the cairnwight remains as its undying guardian. A cairnwight looks much like an emaciated stone

Winter Eladrin

Monsters Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse

ruled by emotion—and due to their magical nature, they undergo physical changes to match their changes in temperament. Eladrin have spent centuries in the Feywild, and most of them have become Fey

to their emotional state by transforming them into different seasonal aspects, with behaviors and abilities that change with their forms. Some eladrin might remain in a particular aspect for years

Irda Veil Keeper

Monsters Monstrous Compendium Vol. 2: Dragonlance Creatures

with advantage. If the veil keeper lacks the room to become Large, it attains the maximum size possible in the space available. These augmentations end if the veil keeper is incapacitated. Change

’s statistics don’t change. The veil keeper reverts to its true form if the veil keeper is reduced to 0 hit points or if the veil keeper uses an action to end the transformation

Tlacatecolo

Monsters Journeys through the Radiant Citadel

":"piercing"} piercing damage plus 14 (3d8);{"diceNotation":"3d8","rollType":"damage","rollAction":"Talon (Poison)","rollDamageType":"poison"} poison damage. Change Shape. The tlacatecolo magically

damage and become poisoned. While poisoned in this way, the creature can’t regain hit points. At the end of every hour, the creature must succeed on a DC 13 Constitution saving throw or gain 1

Korred

Monsters Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse

their hooves and clubs. Korreds typically flee from other creatures but become aggressive when they feel insulted or are annoyed by the sounds of mining. No one knows the ways of stone and earth better

than a korred. Korreds can seemingly smell veins of metal and gems. A korred on the surface can feel the rise and fall of bedrock under the earth and where caves are present, and underground it knows

Orcus Legacy

Monsters Out of the Abyss

creatures whose combined average hit points don’t exceed 500. These undead magically rise up from the ground or otherwise form in unoccupied spaces within 300 feet of Orcus and obey his commands

. The least of these become ghoul;ghouls and zombie;zombies who serve in his legions, while his favored servants are the cultists and necromancers who murder the living and then manipulate the dead

Gynosphinx Legacy

Monsters Basic Rules (2014)

that every creature in the lair must succeed on a DC 15 Constitution saving throw or become 1d20;{"diceNotation":"1d20","rollType":"roll","rollAction":"Aging"} years older or younger (the sphinx&rsquo

moves up to 10 years forward or backward (sphinx’s choice). Only the sphinx is immediately aware of the time change. A wish spell can return the caster and up to seven other creatures designated by

Jiangshi

Monsters Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft

the initiative order. If this wight slays a Humanoid with its Life Drain, the wight transforms into a jiangshi 5 days later. Change Shape. The jiangshi polymorphs into a Beast, a Humanoid, or an Undead

them greater powers. Humanoids killed by a jiangshi rise as life-hungry corpses and might turn into jiangshi themselves if they feed upon the living.

Dullahan

Monsters Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft

become frightened of the dullahan until the end of its next turn. Head Hunt (Costs 3 Actions). The dullahan moves up to its speed without provoking opportunity attacks and makes one Battleaxe attack

a specific location their battlefield. This gives rise to stories of haunted battlegrounds, ruins, roads, river crossings and other strategic locations where a dullahan continues a terrifying

Half-Orc Legacy

Species Basic Rules (2014)

marriages, half-orcs are born. Some half-orcs rise to become proud leaders of orc communities. Some venture into the world to prove their worth. Many of these become adventurers, achieving greatness for

Minotaur Infiltrator

Monsters The Book of Many Things

, doubles its damage dice on Strength-based weapon attacks (included in the attacks), and makes Strength checks and Strength saving throws with advantage. If the minotaur lacks the room to become Large

, the minotaur doesn’t change size.Unerring Tracker. The minotaur magically creates a psychic link with one creature it can see. For the next hour, the minotaur knows the current distance and

Strahd, Master of Death House

Monsters Vecna: Eve of Ruin

flaws: Harmed by Running Water. While in running water, Strahd takes 20 acid damage if he ends his turn there, and he can’t use his Change Shape. Sunlight Hypersensitivity. While in sunlight

, Strahd takes 20 radiant damage at the start of his turn, has disadvantage on attack rolls and ability checks, and can’t use his Change Shape bonus action.Multiattack. Strahd makes two Death Strike

Spring Eladrin

Monsters Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse

emotion—and due to their magical nature, they undergo physical changes to match their changes in temperament. Eladrin have spent centuries in the Feywild, and most of them have become Fey

their emotional state by transforming them into different seasonal aspects, with behaviors and abilities that change with their forms. Some eladrin might remain in a particular aspect for years, while

Summer Eladrin

Monsters Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse

the Feywild, and most of them have become Fey creatures as a result—those presented here are of the Fey variety. Some are still Humanoid, however, similar in that respect to their other elven kin

. The magic flowing through eladrin responds to their emotional state by transforming them into different seasonal aspects, with behaviors and abilities that change with their forms. Some eladrin

Zargash

Monsters The Wild Beyond the Witchlight

; Bond. “Praise Orcus! May he give me the power to spread death, decay, and undeath in his name!” Flaw. “I see living people as the corpses they are doomed to become and t reat them

own evil schemes.Animate Corpse (1/Day). Zargash targets the lifeless corpse of one Humanoid he can see within 30 feet of him and commands it to rise, transforming it into a zombie under his control

Orcus

Monsters Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse

creatures whose combined average hit points don’t exceed 500. These creatures magically rise up from the ground or otherwise form in unoccupied spaces within 300 feet of Orcus and obey his commands

become ghoul;ghouls and zombie;zombies (both appear in the Monster Manual) that serve in his legions, while his favored servants are the cultists and necromancers who murder the living and then manipulate

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