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Returning 35 results for 'becoming beyond death continue rites'.
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
Beyond Death When a character dies, the Underworld serves as an opportunity to allow a dead character to experience their own story while their companions (hopefully) try to get the body resurrected
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
Beyond Death When a character dies, the Underworld serves as an opportunity to allow a dead character to experience their own story while their companions (hopefully) try to get the body resurrected
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
Beyond Death When a character dies, the Underworld serves as an opportunity to allow a dead character to experience their own story while their companions (hopefully) try to get the body resurrected
Magic Items
Dungeon Master’s Guide
combat, you have Advantage on Death Saving Throws for 1 year. If someone else reduces your chosen foe to 0 Hit Points or you don’t choose a foe, this card has no effect.
Donjon. You disappear
1,000 GP each appear at your feet.
Jester. You have Advantage on D20 Tests for the next 72 hours, or you can draw two additional cards beyond your declared draws.
Key. A Rare or rarer magic weapon with
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
attuned to the book, you can cast the following spells (save DC 18) from it:
Animate Dead
Circle of Death
Dominate Monster
Finger of Death
Once you use the book to cast a spell, you can’t
Magic Items
Dungeon Master’s Guide
Vecna the Archlich;Vecna was a mighty wizard who, through magic and conquest, forged a terrible empire. For all his power, however, Vecna feared death and took steps to prevent his demise by becoming
Concentration required), demanding that you commit an evil act. The hand might have a specific act in mind or leave it up to you.
Hand of Vecna Spells
Spell
Charge Cost
Finger of Death
5
Monsters
Heroes of the Borderlands
Points equal to the Necrotic damage taken.Wights are the withered corpses of relentless warriors whose wickedness sustains them beyond death. After dying and returning from the grave, a wight
Monsters
Forgotten Realms: Adventures in Faerûn
, ancient forests, and miasmic lagoons touched by Abyssal evil.
A spore of Moander has no grand agenda beyond spreading death and sorrow. Still, cultists of Moander look on these terrible creatures
Monsters
Guildmasters’ Guide to Ravnica
, with little grasp of metaphor or nuance.
The death priests occupy the highest roles in kraul society. They lead the buzzing chants of the kraul rites. Their inscrutable clicks and buzzing can summon
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
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
Orcus who plundered corpses from necropolises to create the first spawn of Kyuss. Even centuries after Kyuss’s death, his malign disciples continue performing the horrific rites he perfected
Monsters
Eberron: Rising from the Last War
island domain.
Long ago, it was revealed that the elven line of Vol — a house that practiced the art of necromancy and bore the Dragonmark of Death — was engaged in secret blood rites
","rollAction":"Rejuvenation"} days, regaining all her hit points and becoming active again. The new body appears within two hundred miles of the location at which she was destroyed.
Spellcasting. Illmarrow
Magic Items
Lost Laboratory of Kwalish
;3) to your death saving throws. You can change this magical bonus each day at dawn.
Curse. This weapon is cursed, and becoming attuned to it extends the curse to you. Until the curse is broken with a remove curse spell or similar magic, you are unwilling to part with the weapon.
Monsters
Princes of the Apocalypse
Death Burst. When the stonemelder dies, it turns to stone and explodes in a burst of rock shards, becoming a smoking pile of rubble. Each creature within 10 feet of the exploding stonemelder must
make a DC 14 Dexterity saving throw, taking 11 (2d10);{"diceNotation":"2d10","rollType":"damage","rollAction":"Death Burst","rollDamageType":"bludgeoning"} bludgeoning damage on a failed save, or half as
Monsters
Monstrous Compendium Vol. 4: Eldraine Creatures
heralds of death. Specters are said to utter a keening wail, mournful beyond all other sounds and audible only to those who are about to die.PoisonNecrotic
, calling to those close to death. Each non-Undead creature within 120 feet of the specter must make a DC 15 Constitution saving throw. On a failure, the creature hears the wail and is marked for death
Monsters
Infernal Machine Rebuild
of life, resulting in such creatures as the thessalhydra and the owlbear. In recent years, he has also researched the prolonging of life—namely his own. Thessalar hopes that by becoming a lich
, his research and experiments can continue indefinitely.
Over time, Thessalar has subjected himself to so many of his own experiments that his blood has taken on alchemical and magical properties. He regularly uses it as the basis for many of the reagents used throughout his labs.Acid, Poison
Monsters
Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen
Death Throes. When the draconian is reduced to 0 hit points, its scales and flesh immediately shrivel away, and then its bones explode. Each creature within 10 feet of it must succeed on a DC 10
Dexterity saving throw or take 9 (2d8);{"diceNotation":"2d8", "rollType":"damage", "rollAction":"Death Throes", "rollDamageType":"force"} force damage.
Glide. When the draconian falls and isn’t
Monsters
Quests from the Infinite Staircase
can continue to feed on a corpse’s memories for days after its death.
If a memory web is slain, any memories it consumed over the last day are discharged from its body in a telepathic deluge
;{"diceNotation":"1d4", "rollType":"roll", "rollAction":"Drained Memories"} each time it makes an ability check or attack roll, subtracting the d4 roll from it. Each time the target is memory drained beyond
Demilich (Variant)
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Monsters
Monster Manual (2014)
souls of the insolent intruders to his tomb, magically transferring them to his phylactery.
Liches who follow Acererak’s path believe that by becoming free of their bodies, they can continue
their quest for power beyond the mortal world. As their patron did, they secure their remains within well-guarded vaults, using soul gems to maintain their phylacteries and destroy the adventurers who
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
replacing all life with everlasting death.
A lesser demon that proves itself to Orcus might be granted the privilege of becoming a devourer. The Prince of Undeath transforms such a demon into an 8-foot
creature is restrained and has disadvantage on death saving throws. If the creature dies while imprisoned, the devourer regains 25 hit points and immediately recharges Soul Rend. Additionally, at the
Monsters
Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen
Death Throes. When the draconian is reduced to 0 hit points, it dissolves into acid that splashes on those around it. Each creature within 5 feet of the draconian must succeed on a DC 12 Dexterity
saving throw or be covered in acid for 1 minute. A creature covered in the acid takes 7 (2d6);{"diceNotation":"2d6", "rollType":"damage", "rollAction":"Death Throes", "rollDamageType":"acid"} acid
Monsters
Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen
Death Throes. When the draconian is reduced to 0 hit points, it dissolves into acid that splashes on those around it. Each creature within 5 feet of the draconian must succeed on a DC 12 Dexterity
saving throw or be covered in acid for 1 minute. A creature covered in the acid takes 7 (2d6);{"diceNotation":"2d6", "rollType":"damage", "rollAction":"Death Throes", "rollDamageType":"acid"} acid
Monsters
Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen
advantage on saving throws made to avoid or end the frightened condition on itself.
Death Throes. When the draconian is reduced to 0 hit points, its magical essence lashes out as a ball of lightning at
creature takes 9 (2d8);{"diceNotation":"2d8", "rollType":"damage", "rollAction":"Death Throes", "rollDamageType":"lightning"} lightning damage and is stunned until the end of its next turn. On a successful
Deck of Many Things
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Basic Rules (2014)
1d4 + 1 (to a minimum score of 1). You can draw one additional card beyond your declared draws.
Jester. You gain 10,000 XP, or you can draw two additional cards beyond your declared draws.
Key. A
30 feet of you. The fighter is of the same race as you and serves you loyally until death, believing the fates have drawn him or her to you. You control this character.
Moon. You are granted the
Monsters
Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen
Death Throes. When the draconian is reduced to 0 hit points by a creature that is Large or smaller, the draconian crumbles into dust that then forms a spectral, shrieking image of the creature that
combination of warped alchemy and the Dragon Queen’s foul magic. The Dragon Armies closely guard the secret of the draconians’ creation, allowing Krynn’s metallic dragons to continue to think their eggs are being held hostage so they don’t oppose the Dragon Queen’s conquests.
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
Monsters
Monstrous Compendium Vol. 1: Spelljammer Creatures
becoming an eldritch lich.
Like other liches, eldritch liches are spellcasters who have cheated death, but an eldritch lich does so by allowing a Great Old One to implant a Far Realm parasite in the lich
. Immediately after taking damage, the lich, along with any equipment it is wearing or carrying, magically teleports up to 60 feet to an unoccupied space it can see.From beyond the stars, a Great Old
races
of the cultures where they are raised, though satarre raised on the planes or in cults of darkness or death tend toward names common to those planes or that invoke the cult’s tenets. Names in
cult or god with ai- and sometimes shorten the cult or god’s name to two or three syllables. Most continue to serve or at least pray to these gods as adults, with varying degrees of piety
Monsters
Adventure Atlas: The Mortuary
(exorcist’s choice).
Admit Entity (Recharge 5–6);{"diceNotation":"1d6", "rollType":"recharge", "rollAction":"Admit Entity"}. The exorcist thins the veil of death for a creature it can see within 60
, speak with dead
1/day each: banishment, dispel evil and goodDauntless in the face of death, exorcists in the Heralds of Dust cleanse hapless creatures and resting places haunted by ghost;ghosts, specter
Monsters
Mythic Odysseys of Theros
continue to flock around the demon, offering fealty and squabbling for scraps.
Some foul souls can't let go of the miserable lives they had. Having been despicable in life, these spirits fester in death
creatures whose gray, leathery skin is in stark contrast to the gleaming jewelry made of Underworld gold that they adorn themselves with. Their appetite for pain and death is eclipsed only by their greed
Monsters
Tales from the Yawning Portal
"} days, regaining all his hit points and becoming active again. The new body appears within 5 feet of the phylactery.
Spellcasting. Var is a 12th-level spellcaster. His spellcasting ability is
(1 slot): circle of death
* Conjuration spell of 1st level or higher
Turn Resistance. Var has advantage on saving throws against any effect that turns undead.Paralyzing Touch. Melee Spell Attack: +9
Monsters
Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
, hoping to learn tactics the devils have fine-tuned over millennia and to acquire magical gifts to help the giant rise in the ordning.
Over time, the giant is corrupted, becoming a Fiend in its own right
this way, the devil stands to gain a constant supply of souls from the giant’s enemies, as well as the promise that the giant will serve the devil as a smith in the Nine Hells after death.
The
Backgrounds
Guildmasters’ Guide to Ravnica
You are a member of a teeming horde — one small part of a sprawling organism. Just as you are part of the swarm, the swarm is part of a larger ecosystem, a never-ending cycle of life, death
Golgari, no fear of death or taboo about the dead, just a fierce affirmation of the cycle.
Skill Proficiencies: Nature, Survival
Tool Proficiencies: Poisoner’s kit
Languages
Monsters
Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen
Controlled Fall. When the draconian falls and isn’t incapacitated, it subtracts up to 100 feet from the fall when calculating the fall’s damage.
Death Throes. When the draconian is
to continue to think their eggs are being held hostage so they don’t oppose the Dragon Queen’s conquests.
Monsters
Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
keep them roaming the wilds for years after their murderers are slain.
A frostmourn looks like a desiccated corpse mummified by exposure to bitter cold. It carries the marks of its death on its body: a
wound that seeps frosty vapor or vibrant, purple veins showing the ravages of poison. It can momentarily dissolve its body into a swirling blizzard to avoid harm, reforming at a distance to continue its assault.Cold, PoisonFire
Monsters
Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
teachers channel the elements of wind, flame, and lightning to accompany them. Their magic is fast and beautiful, which becomes swift death in battle, mesmerizing in its energetic flow. Devastating
lightning strikes and searing lashes of flame meet the professors’ foes head on.
Professors who embrace the Prismari philosophy of expression focus on magic becoming art in the moment. Whether to