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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
Magic Items
Dungeon Master’s Guide
effect.
Comet. The next time you enter combat against one or more Hostile creatures, you can select one of them as your foe when you roll Initiative. If you reduce your foe to 0 Hit Points during that
Movement. The avatar can move through other creatures and objects as if they were Difficult Terrain. It takes 5 (1d10) Force damage if it ends its turn inside an object.
Actions
Multiattack. The
Monsters
Lorwyn: First Light
, meadows flourish and crop fields ripen in their presence, and kithkin rejoice when these incarnations pay their clachan a visit. In Shadowmoor, these same creatures are an ill omen—gruesome
of nature are beyond the ken of most mortal beings—untamable, primal, and awe inspiring.
In the realm of Lorwyn-Shadowmoor, these beings take the forms of chimeric behemoths that combine the
Monsters
Lorwyn: First Light
—untamable, primal, and awe inspiring.
In the realm of Lorwyn-Shadowmoor, these beings take the forms of chimeric behemoths that combine the features of three or more creatures. In Lorwyn
Ephemeral Movement. The incarnation can move through other creatures and objects as if they were Difficult Terrain, and its movement doesn’t provoke Opportunity Attack;Opportunity Attacks. It
Monsters
Guildmasters’ Guide to Ravnica
linger at the margins of the undercity but now increasingly making their buzzing voices heard in the subterranean Golgari guildhall. These six-legged, insectile beings are hard-headed and literal-minded
, 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
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
Ethereal Awareness. The shadow mastiff can see ethereal creatures and objects.
Sunlight Weakness. While in bright light created by sunlight, the shadow mastiff has disadvantage on attack rolls
sunlight, these hounds are usually met as a pack. Some faiths devoted to deities of gloom and night, such as that of Shar in the Forgotten Realms, perform unholy rites to summon shadow mastiffs to work
Monsters
The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
purified soil (stripped of things nourishing to fungi, of course). Eating salt is also a defense mechanism, because it makes the campestris taste salty and thus unpleasant to most creatures, though bullywugs consider them a delicacy.
creature can repeat the saving throw at the end of each of its turns, ending the effect on itself on a success.Campestris are happy-go-lucky mushroom-like creatures with few cares or worries. They
Monsters
Spelljammer: Adventures in Space
individuals, aside from the ability that a given creature has to control others, and they don’t comprehend the emotional aspects of existence that humans and similar beings experience. To a
poison the body and the mind of its targets and can subjugate even beings that are physically superior.
Neogi usually dwell in far-flung locations on the Material Plane, as well as on the Astral Plane
Classes
Xanathar's Guide to Everything
You have dedicated yourself to hunting down creatures of the night and wielders of grim magic. A Monster Slayer seeks out vampires, dragons, evil fey, fiends, and other magical threats. Trained in
Slayer Magic, Hunter’s Sense, Slayer’s Prey
7th
Supernatural Defense
11th
Magic-User’s Nemesis
15th
Slayer’s Counter
Classes
Xanathar's Guide to Everything
You have dedicated yourself to hunting down creatures of the night and wielders of grim magic. A Monster Slayer seeks out vampires, dragons, evil fey, fiends, and other magical threats. Trained in
Slayer Magic, Hunter’s Sense, Slayer’s Prey
7th
Supernatural Defense
11th
Magic-User’s Nemesis
15th
Slayer’s Counter
Monsters
The Book of Many Things
corpses to eat and living creatures to hunt. A harrow hawk can even travel the multiverse, flying magically from one world to another.
The Grim Harrow—a band of Undead beings created by the Deck
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
Monsters
Monstrous Compendium Vol. 2: Dragonlance Creatures
beings who dwell in the frozen wastelands of Krynn. They sport thick, ivory tusks, which they use both to defend themselves and to poke breathing holes in sea ice as they swim.
Often at odds with the
monstrous creatures that live in the frozen wastes, thanoi are adept hunters. In addition to their tusks, they use harpoons on long ropes that they can quickly reel back. Groups of thanoi hunters work
Monsters
The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
, of course). Eating salt is also a defense mechanism, because it makes the campestris taste salty and thus unpleasant to most creatures, though bullywugs consider them a delicacy.Bludgeoning, Piercing, Slashing
of its turns, ending the effect on itself on a success.Campestris are happy-go-lucky mushroom-like creatures with few cares or worries. They are captivated by music, though they can’t
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
, aside from the ability that a given creature has to control others, and they don’t comprehend the emotional aspects of existence that humans and similar beings experience. To a neogi, hatred is as
subjugate even beings that are physically superior.
Neogi usually dwell in far-flung locations on the Material Plane, as well as in the Astral Plane and the Ethereal Plane. They left their home world long
Monsters
Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
abilities to manipulate and harm other creatures.
Magen are magical, humanlike beings created by a wizard spell (see the create magen spell in appendix D) or by other arcane methods.
Though magen look
Monsters
Locathah Rising
expel an ink cloud in a 20-foot radius. The cloud spreads around corners, and that area is heavily obscured to creatures other than kraken priest;kraken priests or a kraken. Each creature other than a
Defense. Whymsee withdraws into her shell. Until she emerges, she gains a +4 bonus to AC and has advantage on Strength and Constitution saving throws. While in her shell, Whymsee is prone, her speed is 0
Monsters
Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
unsuspecting victims with their vines or accept captives brought to them by their podling servants. In either case, they drag creatures into their central pod, where potent chemicals render the captive
comatose. Over the course of hours, the creature is dissolved and its body repurposed into a podling duplicate.
Podlings are near-perfect mimics of the creatures they replace. Despite having the
Monsters
Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
their descendants and the communities they knew in life, sowing terror and taking retribution for the slights or neglected burial rites that led to their cursed resurrections. Rigor mortis notoriously
within their tombs and hidden ruins to avoid the attention of the living. At night, they emerge to drain life from other creatures, these vital energies sustaining their unnatural existences and granting
Monsters
Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
, an unfurnished stone chamber 30 feet in every dimension. A creature too big to fit in this space succeeds on the saving throw automatically. Creatures in the chamber never run out of breathable air
. Magic that enables transit between planes, such as plane shift, can be used to escape the chamber, which has no exits otherwise. Creatures trapped inside the extradimensional chamber can't see
Species
Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
veins making it clear that they’ve been touched by death. Other reborn are marvels of magic or science, being stitched together from disparate beings or bearing mysterious minds in manufactured
of Dread (detailed in chapter 3):
Har’Akir. You died and endured the burial rites of this desert realm, yet somehow a soul—yours or another’s—has taken refuge in your
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
Out-of-Phase Movement. The seer can move through other creatures and objects as if they were difficult terrain, and its movement doesn’t provoke opportunity attack;opportunity attacks.
Each
’s goal is to tap into vast energy sources and perform the dire rites that will extend a bridge between the Material Plane and the squirming chaos of an Elder Evil’s realm.
An entity that
Magic Items
Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything
crew compartment within, from which up to two Medium creatures can control it—and potentially execute a spree of unstoppable destruction.
Tales of the servant’s origins involve more
conjecture than fact, often referring to otherworldly beings, the mysterious Barrier Peaks in Oerth, and the supposedly related device known as the Machine of Lum the Mad. The best details on the device
Monsters
Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse
Psychic Defense. While the githzerai is wearing no armor and wielding no shield, its AC includes its Wisdom modifier.Multiattack. The githzerai makes three Unarmed Strike attacks.
Unarmed Strike
within 15 feet of the githzerai is difficult terrain for other creatures while the flowers and vines are present.
5–6: Retaliating Light. Multicolored lights surround the githzerai until the start
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
Air and Darkness, the dread ruler of the Gloaming Court. Once lazy, egotistical folk, the creatures that would become the quicklings were late in answering the queen’s summons one time too many
rain drifts earthward like lazy snowflakes, and lightning crawls in a meandering path from cloud to cloud. The slow and boring world seems to be populated by torpid creatures whose deep, sonorous speech
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
Fist attacks against one random creature within reach. If no creatures are within reach, the giant flies into a rage and gains advantage on all attack rolls until the end of its next turn.
4–5
: The giant makes one Fist attack against each creature within reach. If no creatures are within reach, the giant makes one Fist attack against itself.
6–7: The giant makes one Bite attack
Monsters
Monstrous Compendium Vol. 4: Eldraine Creatures
succeed on a DC 18 Intelligence (Investigation) check to discern that the wurm is animate.
Leafy Handholds. Creatures have advantage on ability checks made to climb the wurm.
Legendary Resistance (3
wurm’s turns from thorns in the wurm’s gullet.
The wurm’s stomach can hold up to two creatures at a time. If the wurm takes 30 damage or more on a single turn from a creature inside it
Monsters
Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
free to catch the weapon.The Netherese arcanists who created these creatures called them “thaluud,” which means “faceless.” Wrought from the fusion of magic and elemental earth, each of these sexless
nonhuman spellcasting creatures. Tomb tappers can dig through earth and rock with their claws or use their metal sledgehammers to shatter rock when needed. They absorb water through their skin and crush rock
Monsters
Spelljammer: Adventures in Space
umber. It takes them days to digest a meal, during which time they attack only in self-defense.
A brown scavver likes to swallow its prey whole. The creature’s stomach is filled with poisonous
always aggressive; often they trail behind larger creatures as well as ships and asteroids, living off droppings and discarded refuse. They can enter the air envelopes of these bodies, so that as
Monsters
Mythic Odysseys of Theros
terror can manifest as one of these massive Nyxborn beings. Once unleashed, a doomwake giant goes on a rampage, fulfilling the prophecy mortals believed into being. After doing so, these terrors
strength from aspects of the world itself—from ancient stone and roiling flames to the depths of the seas and skies. Unlike many creatures of legend, most giants owe their existence not to Nyx and the
Monsters
Spelljammer: Adventures in Space
’s neck and head. It can poison the body and the mind of its targets and can subjugate even beings that are physically superior.
Neogi usually dwell in far-flung locations on the Material Plane
, as well as on the Astral Plane and the Ethereal Plane. They left their home world long ago to conquer and devour creatures in other realms. During this era, they dominated umber hulk;umber hulks and
Monsters
Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
", "rollType":"recharge", "rollAction":"Psychic Wave"}. The herald unleashes a blast of psionic energy into the minds of up to three creatures it can see within 90 feet of itself. Each target must make a DC
: control water, control weather (as an action), sendingAncient and alien beings dwell or slumber in ocean depths, awaiting some cosmic circumstance that signals their time to rise. In their retreat
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
targets and can subjugate even beings that are physically superior.
Neogi usually dwell in far-flung locations on the Material Plane, as well as in the Astral Plane and the Ethereal Plane. They left
their home world long ago to conquer and devour creatures in other realms. During this era, they dominated umber hulk;umber hulks and used them to build sleek, spidery ships capable of traversing the multiverse.
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
the traps to the test.
Connected Creatures
Sapphire dragons are generally solitary creatures. On the rare occasion that one forms nonhostile relationships with other beings, it is almost
, preferring to assess intruders first in order to devise the most advantageous approach to dealing with them.
Sapphire dragons watch for signs of Aberrations and other creatures corrupted by the Far Realm
Monsters
Eberron: Rising from the Last War
, and only half damage if it fails. It can't use this trait if it's incapacitated.
Unarmored Defense. While the dolgaunt is wearing no armor and wielding no shield, its AC includes its Wisdom
Xoriat to conquer Khorvaire, they captured and transformed that land's indigenous creatures to create armies of hideous warriors. Dyrrn the Corruptor shaped dolgaunts from hobgoblin stock, turning them