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Spells
Player’s Handbook
Until the spell ends, one willing creature you touch has Immunity to Psychic damage and the Charmed condition. The target is also unaffected by anything that would sense its emotions or alignment
, read its thoughts, or magically detect its location, and no spell—not even Wish—can gather information about the target, observe it remotely, or control its mind.
Monsters
Monster Manual
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Read Thoughts. The doppelganger casts Detect Thoughts, requiring no spell components and using Charisma as the spellcasting ability (spell save DC 12).
Unsettling Visage (Recharge 6);{"diceNotation
":"1d6", "rollType":"recharge", "rollAction":"Unsettling Visage"}. Wisdom Saving Throw: DC 12, each creature in a 15-foot Emanation originating from the doppelganger that can see the doppelganger. Failure
Monsters
Monster Manual
Shielded Mind. The couatl’s thoughts can’t be read by any means, and other creatures can communicate with it telepathically only if it allows them.Bite. Melee Attack Roll: +7
, and the target has the Poisoned condition until the end of the couatl’s next turn.
Constrict. Strength Saving Throw: DC 15, one Medium or smaller creature the couatl can see within 5 feet
Monsters
Monster Manual
’s thoughts can’t be read by any means, and magic can’t detect its location or observe it remotely.Tentacle. Melee Attack Roll: +4;{"diceNotation":"1d20+4", "rollType":"to hit
Throw: DC 10, one creature the flumph can see within 15 feet. Failure: The target is coated in a foul-smelling liquid, exudes a stench for 1d4;{"diceNotation":"1d4", "rollType":"roll", "rollAction
Magic Items
Dungeon Master’s Guide
While wearing this ring, you are immune to magic that allows other creatures to read your thoughts, determine whether you are lying, know your alignment, or know your creature type. Creatures can
in the ring, you can telepathically communicate with any creature wearing it. A wearer can’t prevent this telepathic communication.
Magic Items
Dungeon Master’s Guide
Each Scroll of Protection works against creatures of a specific creature type chosen by the DM or determined by rolling on the following table.
1d100
Creature Type
01-10
Scroll of
(Oozes);Oozes
86-90
Scroll of Protection (Plants);Plants
91-00
Scroll of Protection (Undead);Undead
Using a Magic action to read the scroll creates a 5-foot Emanation originating
Magic Items
Dungeon Master’s Guide
When you take a Magic action to read this scroll, a particular titan named in the scroll appears in an unoccupied space on the ground or in water that you can see within 1 mile of yourself. The DM
picks a suitable titan or determines it randomly by rolling on the table below (see the Monster Manual for the creature’s stat block).
The titan is Hostile toward all other creatures and
Spells
Player’s Handbook
of yourself that belong to creatures that know languages or are telepathic. You don’t read the thoughts, but you know that a thinking creature is present.
The spell is blocked by 1 foot of stone
, dirt, or wood; 1 inch of metal; or a thin sheet of lead.
Read Thoughts. Target one creature you can see within 30 feet of yourself or one creature within 30 feet of yourself that you detected with
Magic Items
Dungeon Master’s Guide
that tries to read from the book takes 24d6 Radiant damage. This damage ignores Resistance and Immunity, and it can’t be reduced or avoided by any means. A creature reduced to 0 Hit Points by
’s authors filled the pages with their own visions of true virtue, providing guidance for defeating evil.
The Book of Exalted Deeds rarely lingers in one place. As soon as the book is read, it
Spells
Player’s Handbook
script that is unintelligible. Alternatively, the illusion can alter the meaning, handwriting, and language of the text, though the language must be one you know.
If the spell is dispelled, the original script and the illusion both disappear.
A creature that has Truesight can read the hidden message.
Magic Items
Dungeon Master’s Guide
creature that can't use a manual of golems and attempts to read it takes 6d6 psychic damage.
d20
Golem
Time
Cost
1-5
Manual of Clay Golems
30 days
65,000 GP
6-17
Manual of
Monsters
Tomb of Annihilation
);{"diceNotation":"4d6+4","rollType":"damage","rollAction":"Tail","rollDamageType":"bludgeoning"} bludgeoning damage. If the target is a creature, it must succeed on a DC 14 Strength saving throw or be knocked prone.This creature is slow and barely aware of its surroundings.Poison
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
", "rollType":"recharge", "rollAction":"Calming Mist"}. The warbler releases a calming gas in a 5-foot-radius sphere centered on itself. Each creature in that area must succeed on a DC 11 Charisma saving
throw or become charmed by the warbler for 1 minute. While charmed in this way, the creature is incapacitated and has a speed of 0.Metallic warblers resemble songbirds and serve as clandestine agents
Mind Blank
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Spells
Basic Rules (2014)
Until the spell ends, one willing creature you touch is immune to psychic damage, any effect that would sense its emotions or read its thoughts, divination spells, and the charmed condition. The
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
itself. Each creature in that area must succeed on a DC 14 Charisma saving throw or become charmed by the peacekeeper for 1 minute. While charmed in this way, the creature is incapacitated and has a
a guardian created by a metallic dragon, forged from the metal associated with its creator and powered by the energy of the dragon’s breath. An artificial being sculpted in elegant filigree, it is dedicated to defusing tensions that could spiral into violence.Fire
Book of Exalted Deeds
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Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
digest its contents and gain its benefits. Other creatures that peruse the book’s open pages can read the text but glean no deeper meaning and reap no benefits. An evil creature that tries to read
is read, it vanishes to some other corner of the multiverse where its moral guidance can bring light to a darkened world. Although attempts have been made to copy the work, efforts to do so fail to
Scroll of Protection
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Magic Items
Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
Each scroll of protection works against a specific type of creature chosen by the DM or determined randomly by rolling on the following table.
d100
Creature Type
01-10
Aberrations
11-20
Beasts
21-30
Celestials
31-40
Elementals
41-50
Fey
51-75
Fiends
76-80
Plants
81-00
Undead
Using an action to read the scroll encloses
Classes
Xanathar's Guide to Everything
You are a creature of shadow, for your innate magic comes from the Shadowfell itself. You might trace your lineage to an entity from that place, or perhaps you were exposed to its fell energy and
are always icy cold to the touch.
2
When you are asleep, you don’t appear to breathe (though you must still breathe to survive).
3
You barely bleed, even when badly injured.
4
Monsters
Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
Blinding Light. The walker sheds bright light in a 20-foot radius and dim light for an additional 20 feet. As a bonus action, the walker can target one creature in its bright light that it can see
and force it to succeed on a DC 14 Constitution saving throw or be blinded until the start of the walker's next turn.
Icy Doom. Any creature killed by the walker freezes for 9 days, during which time it
Monsters
Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
Mental Burst. When the goblin dies, its pent-up mental energy explodes in a psychic blast. Each creature within 5 feet of it must succeed on a DC 13 Intelligence saving throw or take 5 (2d4
other Aberrations, which help them transform in return for their service as shock troops. Regardless, the result is the same: a goblin with unnatural and barely contained psychic power.
Psionic goblins
Flumph
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Monsters
Monster Manual (2014)
throw, righting itself and ending the incapacitated condition if it succeeds.
Telepathic Shroud. The flumph is immune to any effect that would sense its emotions or read its thoughts, as well as all
divination spells.Tendrils. Melee Weapon Attack: +4;{"diceNotation":"1d20+4","rollType":"to hit","rollAction":"Tendrils"} to hit, reach 5 ft., one creature. Hit: 4 (1d4 + 2);{"diceNotation":"1d4+2
Ring of Mind Shielding
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Magic Items
Basic Rules (2014)
While wearing this ring, you are immune to magic that allows other creatures to read your thoughts, determine whether you are lying, know your alignment, or know your creature type. Creatures can
you die.
If you die while wearing the ring, your soul enters it, unless it already houses a soul. You can remain in the ring or depart for the afterlife. As long as your soul is in the ring, you can telepathically communicate with any creature wearing it. A wearer can't prevent this telepathic communication.
Monsters
Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
Air Form. The dust hulk can enter a hostile creature’s space and stop there. It can move through a space as narrow as 1 inch without squeezing.
Death Burst. When the dust hulk dies, it
explodes in a burst of dust that fills a 10-foot-radius sphere centered on itself. Each creature in that area must succeed on a DC 14 Constitution saving throw or have the blinded condition for 1 minute. An
Monsters
Eberron: Rising from the Last War
Platforms. The warforged titan has two platforms built into its chassis. One Medium or smaller creature can ride on each platform without squeezing. To make a melee attack against a target within 5
","rollDamageType":"bludgeoning"} bludgeoning damage. If the target is a creature, it must succeed on a DC 17 Strength saving throw or be knocked prone.
Sweeping Axe (Recharge 6);{"diceNotation":"1d6
Doppelganger
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Monsters
Basic Rules (2014)
. Any equipment it is wearing or carrying isn't transformed. It reverts to its true form if it dies.
Ambusher. The doppelganger has advantage on attack rolls against any creature it has surprised
.
Surprise Attack. If the doppelganger surprises a creature and hits it with an attack during the first round of combat, the target takes an extra 10 (3d6);{"diceNotation":"3d6","rollType":"roll
Magic Items
Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
Using an action to read the scroll causes the tarrasque (see the creature’s entry in the Monster Manual) to appear in an unoccupied space you can see within 1 mile of you. The tarrasque disappears when it drops to 0 hit points and is hostile toward all creatures other than itself.
Illusory Script
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Spells
Basic Rules (2014)
know.
Should the spell be dispelled, the original script and the illusion both disappear.
A creature with truesight can read the hidden message.
Monsters
Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse
Shared Telepathy. Any creature touching the cranium rat can use the rat’s telepathy if the rat allows it. If the creature knows any language, the creature can use the telepathy to communicate
words and emotions.
Telepathic Shroud. The cranium rat is immune to any effect that would sense its emotions or read its thoughts, as well as to divination spells.Bite. Melee Weapon Attack: +4
Detect Thoughts
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Spells
Basic Rules (2014)
For the duration, you can read the thoughts of certain creatures. When you cast the spell and as your action on each turn until the spell ends, you can focus your mind on any one creature that you
detect the presence of a creature in this way, you can read its thoughts for the rest of the duration as described above, even if you can’t see it, but it must still be within range.
Couatl
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Basic Rules (2014)
Weapons. The couatl's weapon attacks are magical.
Shielded Mind. The couatl is immune to scrying and to any effect that would sense its emotions, read its thoughts, or detect its location.Bite
. Melee Weapon Attack: +8;{"diceNotation":"1d20+8","rollType":"to hit","rollAction":"Bite"} to hit, reach 5 ft., one creature. Hit: 8 (1d6 + 5);{"diceNotation":"1d6+5","rollType":"damage","rollAction":"Bite
Equipment
The jagged vertebrae sword of a fishfolk warrior can barely be called a sword. Locals would say it’s better described as a makeshift weapon crafted from a fish skeleton and sea trash. Its poor
construction is the reason it’s not often a weapon seen on land, though when used by a skilled fighter, it most certainly can be a formidable tool.
When you successfully hit a creature with a
Monsters
Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse
. Nonmagical objects and vegetation in that area that aren’t being worn or carried crumble to dust. Each creature in that area must make a DC 14 Constitution saving throw. On a failed save, a
creature takes 27 (6d8);{"diceNotation":"6d8", "rollType":"damage", "rollAction":"Time Breath", "rollDamageType":"force"} force damage and is magically weakened as it is desynchronized from the time stream
Monsters
Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse
. Nonmagical objects and vegetation in that area that aren’t being worn or carried crumble to dust. Each creature in that area must make a DC 17 Constitution saving throw. On a failed save, a
creature takes 31 (7d8);{"diceNotation":"7d8", "rollType":"damage", "rollAction":"Time Breath", "rollDamageType":"force"} force damage and is magically weakened as it is desynchronized from the time
Sage
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Backgrounds
Basic Rules (2014)
can obtain it. Usually, this information comes from a library, scriptorium, university, or a sage or other learned person or creature. Your DM might rule that the knowledge you seek is secreted away in
, sometimes as a means toward other ideals.
d8
Personality Trait
1
I use polysyllabic words that convey the impression of great erudition.
2
I’ve read every book in the
Monsters
Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
Death Burst. When the cinder hulk dies, it leaves behind a cloud of cinders and smoke that fills a 10-foot-radius sphere centered on its space. The sphere is heavily obscured. Any creature that moves
);{"diceNotation":"1d6", "rollType":"recharge", "rollAction":"Wave of Cinders"}. The cinder hulk emits a wave of smoldering ash from its face, hands, or chest in a 30-foot cone. Each creature in that area must make






