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Death Curse Understanding how Acererak’s death curse works is vital to running the adventure smoothly. The Soulmonger was activated 20 days ago and remains active until it is destroyed. While the
spells or similar magic. The death curse has no effect on preexisting ghosts or spirits. Meat Grinder Tomb of Annihilation can be played as written, or you can make it even more difficult by running it as
Magic Items
Dungeon Master’s Guide
or similar magic. Removing the Shield fails to end the curse on you. Whenever an attack with a Ranged weapon targets a creature within 10 feet of you, the curse causes you to become the target instead.
While holding this Shield, you have Resistance to damage from attacks made with Ranged weapons.
Curse. This Shield is cursed. Attuning to it curses you until you are targeted by a Remove Curse spell
Monsters
Monster Manual
every 24 hours and doesn’t return to normal after finishing a Long Rest. If the curse reduces the target’s Hit Point maximum to 0, the curse ends, and instead of dying, the target
Monsters
Monster Manual
Multiattack. The death dog makes two Bite attacks.
Bite. Melee Attack Roll: +4;{"diceNotation":"1d20+4", "rollType":"to hit", "rollAction":"Bite"}, reach 5 ft. Hit: 4 (1d4 + 2);{"diceNotation":"1d4
. First Failure: The target has the Poisoned condition. While Poisoned, the target’s Hit Point maximum doesn’t return to normal when finishing a Long Rest, and it repeats the save every 24 hours
Spells
Player’s Handbook
the clone finishes forming, the creature’s soul transfers to the clone if the soul is free and willing to return. The clone is physically identical to the original and has the same personality
, memories, and abilities, but none of the original’s equipment. The creature’s original remains, if any, become inert and can’t be revived, since the creature’s soul is elsewhere.
Spells
Player’s Handbook
death. Should you issue a suicidal command, the spell ends.
A Remove Curse,Greater Restoration, or Wish spell ends this spell.
Using a Higher-Level Spell Slot. If you use a level 7 or 8 spell slot
Monsters
Monster Manual
Death Burst. The gas spore bursts when it dies. Constitution Saving Throw: DC 10, each creature in a 20-foot Emanation originating from the gas spore. Failure: The target takes 10 (3d6
);{"diceNotation":"3d6", "rollType":"damage", "rollAction":"Death Burst", "rollDamageType":"Poison"} Poison damage and has the Poisoned condition for 1d12;{"diceNotation":"1d12", "rollType":"roll", "rollAction
Monsters
Monster Manual
). Otherwise, the hag drops to 1 Hit Point and teleports to a harmless demiplane, and it can’t return to the plane it left for 2d6;{"diceNotation":"2d6", "rollType":"roll", "rollAction":"Spiteful
Escape"} days. When the hag teleports away, each creature within 60 feet of the space it left is cursed. Until the curse ends, a creature has Disadvantage on ability checks and saving throws, and the
Spells
Player’s Handbook
You touch a creature, which must succeed on a Wisdom saving throw or become cursed for the duration. Until the curse ends, the target suffers one of the following effects of your choice:
Choose
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
and become entombed in a state of suspended animation in an extradimensional sphere. Everything you’re wearing and carrying disappears with you except for Artifacts, which stay behind in the space
Magic Items
Dungeon Master’s Guide
the creature, the figurine doesn’t become a creature.
The creature is Friendly to you and your allies. It understands your languages, obeys your commands, and takes its turn immediately after
of Wondrous Power (Bronze Griffon);Bronze Griffon (Rare). This bronze statuette is of a griffon rampant. It can become a Griffon for up to 6 hours. Once it has been used, it can’t be used again
Magic Items
Dungeon Master’s Guide
of these weapons have faded from the world, their magic lost as family lines have become extinct. Others have vanished with their bearers during great quests. Thus, only a few of these weapons remain
rejects you but also places a curse on you, causing you to make D20 Test;D20 Tests with Disadvantage for 24 hours or until the curse is ended by a Remove Curse spell or similar magic. If you’re
Monsters
Monster Manual
, the vampire uses Shape-Shift to become mist (no action required). If it can’t use Shape-Shift, it is destroyed.
While it has 0 Hit Points in mist form, it can’t return to its vampire form
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
your body, devours it, and then takes control of the body like a puppet. If that happens, you become an NPC under the DM’s control.
Eye of Vecna Spells
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Classes
Forgotten Realms: Heroes of Faerûn
and murder; and Myrkul, a god of death. While some Rogues of this subclass pledge themselves ardently to those three macabre gods, others are thrust on this path by a curse. Either way, a scion’s
Become a Gruesome Agent of Malice
A Scion of the Three draws power from a group of malevolent gods known in Baldur’s Gate as the Dead Three: Bane, a god of tyranny; Bhaal, a god of violence
Magic Items
Forgotten Realms: Adventures in Faerûn
dying essence. Myrkul has since returned to become one of the Dead Three, and the Crown of Horns continues to further his gruesome will by seeking out mortal agents and gradually transforming them into
the curse to you. Only a Wish spell or the will of Myrkul can remove this curse. As long as you remain cursed, the following properties apply to you:
Bound. You are unwilling to part with the crown
Monsters
Astarion's Book of Hungers
, the vampire uses Shape-Shift to become mist (no action required). If it can’t use Shape-Shift, it is destroyed.
While it has 0 Hit Points in mist form, it can’t return to its vampire form
Monsters
Forgotten Realms: Adventures in Faerûn
, Wall of Force
1/Day Each: Befuddlement, Clone, Finger of Death, Mind Blank (cast before combat), SimulacrumProtective Magic. Manshoon casts Counterspell or Shield in response to the spell’s
knowledge and personal secrets. The Zhentarim wouldn’t have become the organization it is today—one where treachery and subterfuge are the order of the day—without Manshoon’s
Magic Items
Tales from the Yawning Portal
spell, but you can use a bonus action to revert to your normal form.
Curse. This cloak is cursed with the essence of a hell hound, and becoming attuned to it extends the curse to you. Until the curse
is broken with remove curse or similar magic, you are unwilling to part with the cloak, keeping it within reach at all times.
The sixth time you use the cloak, and each time thereafter, you must
Mummy
Legacy
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Basic Rules (2014)
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 other magic.
Dreadful
Glare. The mummy targets one creature it can see within 60 feet of it. If the target can see the mummy, it must succeed on a DC 11 Wisdom saving throw against this magic or become frightened until the
Clone
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Basic Rules (2014)
This spell grows an inert duplicate of a living creature as a safeguard against death. This clone forms inside the vessel used in the spell’s casting and grows to full size and maturity after
clone matures, if the original creature dies, its soul transfers to the clone, provided that the soul is free and willing to return. The clone is physically identical to the original and has the same
Monsters
Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
Death Curse. When the fensir starts its turn with 0 hit points and doesn’t regenerate, it releases a curse on those around it. Each creature within 30 feet of the fensir when it dies must
, the creature must succeed on a DC 13 Charisma saving throw or take 11 (2d10);{"diceNotation":"2d10", "rollType":"damage", "rollAction":"Death Curse", "rollDamageType":"psychic"} psychic damage
Geas
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result in certain death. Should you issue a suicidal command, the spell ends.
You can end the spell early by using an action to dismiss it. A remove curse, greater restoration, or wish spell also
understand you, it must succeed on a Wisdom saving throw or become charmed by you for the duration. While the creature is charmed by you, it takes 5d10 psychic damage each time it acts in a manner
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.
Darkling Elder
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Volo's Guide to Monsters
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
must make a DC 11 Constitution saving throw. On a failure, the creature takes 7 (2d6);{"diceNotation":"2d6","rollType":"damage","rollAction":"Death Burn","rollDamageType":"radiant"} radiant damage and
Gynosphinx
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, suggestion
3rd level (3 slots): dispel magic, remove curse, tongues
4th level (3 slots): banishment, greater invisibility
5th level (1 slot): legend loreMultiattack. The sphinx makes two claw attacks
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
Monsters
Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen
damage.Skeletal knights are powerful Undead that arise to serve even more wicked beings—often death knight;death knights. Those who become skeletal knights were typically virtuous in life but betrayed
free to pursue its own ends.
Skeletal knights are relentless in battle and difficult to destroy. They cling to the sins that curse them, and they fight until their skulls are reduced to shards. Their
Bestow Curse
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You touch a creature, and that creature must succeed on a Wisdom saving throw or become cursed for the duration of the spell. When you cast this spell, choose the nature of the curse from the
, your attacks and spells deal an extra 1d8 necrotic damage to the target.
A remove curse spell ends this effect. At the DM's option, you may choose an alternative curse effect, but it should
Monsters
Tomb of Annihilation
spells on herself before combat.
Death Curse. Syndra’s hit point maximum has been reduced to 79 by the Soulmonger’s death curse, and it decreases by 1 every midnight. If her hit point
maximum drops to 0, Syndra dies and can’t be brought back from the dead until the death curse has ended (and if her soul hasn’t been devoured). Destroying the Soulmonger is the only way to halt
Magic Items
Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
orb that you control.
Curse. Any Humanoid you touch while holding the orb must succeed on a DC 10 Wisdom saving throw or become cursed. Each creature cursed by the orb bears an echo of Murgaxor
terrible curse among Strixhaven’s students.
Sentience. Murgaxor’s orb is a sentient, chaotic evil magic item with the following properties:
The orb has an Intelligence of 20, a Wisdom of 16
Monsters
Mordenkainen's Fiendish Folio Volume 1
). The killmoulis targets up to eight creatures within 100 feet of it that it can see. The next time a target finishes a long rest, it regains all spent Hit Dice and gains 10 temporary hit points.
Curse
help a tired or lost traveler. Emerging from the shadows near the site of the deed, the creature takes to the road, wandering to seek out travelers who might have food it can sneak away with in return
Monsters
Curse of Strahd
is to become as powerful a vampire as Strahd.
Kasimir Velikov's Traits
Ideal. “I failed my people and my sister, and now I must atone or be damned.”
Bond. “I seek to return my long-dead sister, Patrina
a return to the old ways.
Dreams of the Damned. Kasimir's sister, Patrina Velikovna, is sealed in the catacombs below Castle Ravenloft. Convinced that she was the concubine of the devil Strahd
Magic Items
Tales from the Yawning Portal
. If you use the Dash or Disengage action while the stone is on your person, its curse activates. Until the curse is broken with remove curse or similar magic, your speed is reduced by 5 feet, and your maximum load and maximum lift capacities are halved. You also become unwilling to part with the stone.
This stone is a large gem worth 150 gp.
Curse. The stone is cursed, but its magical nature is hidden; detect magic doesn’t detect it. An identify spell reveals the stone’s true nature
Darkling
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Volo's Guide to Monsters
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
chambers beneath the towns of other species. From such enclaves, they quietly ply their trade as thieves and assassins.
The Killing Light. The Summer Queen's curse causes a darkling's body to absorb light
Monsters
Lost Laboratory of Kwalish
, suggestion
3rd level (3 slots): dispel magic, remove curse, tongues
4th level (3 slots): banishment, greater invisibility
5th level (1 slot): legend lore
It has a +1 bonus to Intelligence checks and
. The sphinx can choose not to reroll.
The effects of time are altered such that every creature in the lair must succeed on a DC 15 Constitution saving throw or become 1d20;{"diceNotation":"1d20






