before band decide creatures rites

Animate Dead

Spells Player’s Handbook

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

Create Undead

Spells Player’s Handbook

). 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

command any of them at the same time, issuing the same command to them). 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

Mordenkainen's Private Sanctum

Spells Player’s Handbook

decide what sort of security the spell provides, choosing any of the following properties: Sound can’t pass through the barrier at the edge of the warded area. The barrier of the warded

perimeter. Creatures in the area can’t be targeted by Divination spells. Nothing can teleport into or out of the warded area. Planar travel is blocked within the warded area. Casting this

Glyph of Warding

Spells Player’s Handbook

its trigger and choose whether it’s an explosive rune or a spell glyph, as explained below. Set the Trigger. You decide what triggers the glyph when you cast the spell. For glyphs inscribed on

triggers include opening that object or seeing the glyph. Once a glyph is triggered, this spell ends. You can refine the trigger so that only creatures of certain types activate it (for example, the

Symbol

Spells Player’s Handbook

symbol bears: Death, Discord, Fear, Pain, Sleep, or Stunning. Each one is explained below. Set the Trigger. You decide what triggers the glyph when you cast the spell. For glyphs inscribed on a

triggers include opening that object or seeing the glyph. You can refine the trigger so that only creatures of certain types activate it (for example, the glyph could be set to affect Aberrations). You can

Enchanter Legacy

Monsters Volo's Guide to Monsters

the attacker is within 30 feet of it and visible to it. The enchanter must decide to do so before the attack hits or misses. The attacker must make a DC 14 Wisdom saving throw. On a failed save, the

attacker targets the creature closest to it, other than the enchanter or itself. If multiple creatures are closest, the attacker chooses which one to target.

Shadow Mastiff

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

Harrow Hawk

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

Maw Demon

Monsters Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse

;t command the demons, which simply accompany the war band and attack whatever creatures the gnolls fall upon. Because maw demons are indiscriminate in their hunger, their stomachs contain all manner

Fensir Devourer

Monsters Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants

an insatiable hunger. These fensir devourers use their great size and strength to overwhelm foes. They can also issue a baleful curse in their final moments. Fensirs Long ago, a band of frost

Ysgard: creatures slain on that plane return to life the next dawn. Thus, the giants’ incursion became a part of the eternal battle that rages across the plane. The trolls, whose fundamental

Madcap

Monsters Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus

creature even more psychotic, causing it to brood over irrational hatreds. A group of madcaps will sometimes band together over a shared hatred of something, such as music, creatures with curly hair

Create Undead Legacy

Spells Basic Rules (2014)

creatures.) 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 command any or all 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 during its next turn, or you can issue a

Danse Macabre

Spells Xanathar's Guide to Everything

use a bonus action to mentally command the creatures you make with this spell, issuing the same command to all of them. To receive the command, a creature must be within 60 feet of you. You decide

Threads of dark power leap from your fingers to pierce up to five Small or Medium corpses you can see within range. Each corpse immediately stands up and becomes undead. You decide whether it is a

Fensir Skirmisher

Monsters Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants

splashes all creatures in a 30-foot-radius sphere centered on a point the fensir can see within 60 feet of itself. Each non-fensir creature in that area must succeed on a DC 13 Dexterity saving throw or

can transform even a pinch of mud or gravel into a boulder suitable for hurling, and the thrown stone grows in flight to knock its target flat on impact. Fensirs Long ago, a band of frost giants

Aartuk Elder

Monsters Spelljammer: Adventures in Space

, sendingAartuks are baleful plant creatures that live to wage war. Beholder;Beholders destroyed their original home world and scattered the survivors across the Material Plane. Aartuk cells can be found throughout

Wildspace, including aboard spelljamming ships whose former crews were either murdered or forcibly ejected by a band of aartuks. An aartuk’s body is shaped like a five-pointed star and is

Aartuk Weedling

Monsters Spelljammer: Adventures in Space

","rollDamageType":"radiant"} radiant damage.Aartuks are baleful plant creatures that live to wage war. Beholder;Beholders destroyed their original home world and scattered the survivors across the Material Plane

. Aartuk cells can be found throughout Wildspace, including aboard spelljamming ships whose former crews were either murdered or forcibly ejected by a band of aartuks. An aartuk’s body is shaped

Animate Dead Legacy

Spells Basic Rules (2014)

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 or all 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 during its next turn, or you can issue a general command, such as to guard a particular chamber or corridor. If you

Jiangshi

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

Aartuk Starhorror

Monsters Spelljammer: Adventures in Space

with plantsAartuks are baleful plant creatures that live to wage war. Beholder;Beholders destroyed their original home world and scattered the survivors across the Material Plane. Aartuk cells can be

found throughout Wildspace, including aboard spelljamming ships whose former crews were either murdered or forcibly ejected by a band of aartuks. An aartuk’s body is shaped like a five-pointed

Leucrotta

Monsters Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse

kills transformed into gnolls, others underwent more bizarre changes; leucrottas were the most numerous of these. As clever as it is cruel, a leucrotta loves to deceive, torture, and kill. Creatures who

venerate Yeenoghu—particularly his gnoll followers—view leucrottas with great respect. Although a leucrotta is unlikely to lead a gnoll war band, it can influence the leader and might

Private Sanctum Legacy

Spells Basic Rules (2014)

dismiss it. When you cast the spell, you decide what sort of security the spell provides, choosing any or all of the following properties: Sound can't pass through the barrier at the edge of the

pass through the barrier at its perimeter. Creatures in the area can't be targeted by divination spells. Nothing can teleport into or out of the warded area. Planar travel is blocked within the

Mordenkainen's Private Sanctum Legacy

Spells Player’s Handbook (2014)

dismiss it. When you cast the spell, you decide what sort of security the spell provides, choosing any or all of the following properties: Sound can't pass through the barrier at the edge of the

pass through the barrier at its perimeter. Creatures in the area can't be targeted by divination spells. Nothing can teleport into or out of the warded area. Planar travel is blocked within the

Mordenkainen's Magnificent Mansion Legacy

Spells Player’s Handbook (2014)

people. A staff of 100 near-transparent servants attends all who enter. You decide the visual appearance of these servants and their attire. They are completely obedient to your orders. Each servant can

removed from the mansion. When the spell ends, any creatures or objects left inside the extradimensional space are expelled into the open spaces nearest to the entrance.

Tiny Servant

spells Xanathar's Guide to Everything

is within 120 feet of you. (If you control multiple creatures with this spell, you can command any or all of them at the same time, issuing the same command to each one.) You decide what action the

servant does nothing other than defend itself against hostile creatures. Once given an order, the servant continues to follow that order until its task is complete. When the creature drops to 0 hit points

Magnificent Mansion Legacy

Spells Basic Rules (2014)

people. A staff of 100 near-transparent servants attends all who enter. You decide the visual appearance of these servants and their attire. They are completely obedient to your orders. Each servant can

removed from the mansion. When the spell ends, any creatures or objects left inside the extradimensional space are expelled into the open spaces nearest to the entrance.

Owlin

Species Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos

character’s class offers suggestions on which scores to increase. You’re free to follow those suggestions or to ignore them. Whichever scores you decide to increase, none of the scores can be

some rules in the game affect creatures of certain types in different ways. For example, the text of the cure wounds spell specifies that the spell doesn’t work on a creature that has the

Mark of Healing Halfling

Species Eberron: Rising from the Last War

during the Last War, working with House Vadalis to develop biological weapons and new creatures. A Jorasco heir has to decide if they want to investigate these rumors.

Yuan-ti

Species Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse

Yuan-ti were originally humans who transformed themselves into serpent folk through ancient rituals. Most yuan-ti were corrupted into monsters by those rites, but some yuan-ti instead became a new

, Elemental, Fey, Fiend, Giant, Humanoid, Monstrosity, Ooze, Plant, Undead. These types don’t have rules themselves, but some rules in the game affect creatures of certain types in different ways. For

Metallic Dragonborn

Species Fizban's Treasury of Dragons

forge, the cold of high mountain air, the spark of inspiration, and the scouring touch of acid that purifies. Creating Your Character When you create your D&D character, you decide whether your

scores to increase. You’re free to follow those suggestions or to ignore them. Whichever scores you decide to increase, none of the scores can be raised above 20. Languages Your character can

Chromatic Dragonborn

Species Fizban's Treasury of Dragons

forest, toxic and corrosive. Creating Your Character When you create your D&D character, you decide whether your character is a member of the human race or one of the game’s fantastical races

. Whichever scores you decide to increase, none of the scores can be raised above 20. Languages Your character can speak, read, and write Common and one other language that you and your DM agree is

Gem Dragonborn

Species Fizban's Treasury of Dragons

echo of discovery—but also the desiccation of despair. Creating Your Character When you create your D&D character, you decide whether your character is a member of the human race or one of

those suggestions or to ignore them. Whichever scores you decide to increase, none of the scores can be raised above 20. Languages Your character can speak, read, and write Common and one other

Thri-kreen

Species Spelljammer: Adventures in Space

speak by clacking their mandibles and waving their antennae, indicating to other thri-kreen what they are thinking and feeling. Other creatures find this method of communication difficult to interpret and

impossible to duplicate. To interact with other folk, thri-kreen rely on a form of telepathy. Creating Your Character When you create your D&D character, you decide whether your character is a

Sapphire Dragon Wyrmling

Monsters Fizban's Treasury of Dragons

, 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

intruder I haven’t dealt with yet. (Neutral) 2 Preservation. Most creatures cannot be trusted to properly safeguard historically significant artifacts. I can. (Lawful) 3 Knowledge

Symbol Legacy

Spells Basic Rules (2014)

(Investigation) check against your spell save DC to find it. You decide what triggers the glyph when you cast the spell. For glyphs inscribed on a surface, the most typical triggers include touching or

creatures that don't trigger the glyph, such as those who say a certain password. When you inscribe the glyph, choose one of the options below for its effect. Once triggered, the glyph glows, filling a

Star Spawn Seer

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

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