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Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything
Defense. When you take damage, you can use your reaction to become insubstantial for a moment, halving the damage you take. Then the reaction can’t be used again until the next sunset.
Magic Tattoo
Coverage
Tattoo Rarity
Area Covered
Common
One hand or foot or a quarter of a limb
Uncommon
Half a limb or the scalp
Rare
One limb
Very Rare
Two limbs or the chest or upper back
Legendary
Two limbs and the torso
Drow Matron Mother
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Mordenkainen’s Tome of Foes
slots): blade barrier, harm
7th level (2 slots): divine word, plane shift
8th level (1 slot): holy aura
9th level (1 slot): gate
Sunlight Sensitivity. While in sunlight, the drow has disadvantage on
allied demon within 30 feet of the drow uses its reaction to make one attack against a target of the drow's choice that she can see.
Cast a Spell (Costs 1–3 Actions). The drow expends a spell slot to
Monsters
Mythic Odysseys of Theros
spellcasting ability is Wisdom (spell save DC 18). The rider can innately cast the following spells, requiring no material components:
At will: command, compelled duel
1/day each: banishment, blade barrier
Assault (Costs 2 Actions). The ashen rider makes an attack using its ashen blade or bolt of ash, and then its mount can use its reaction to make a melee weapon attack.
Reduce to Ash (Costs 3 Actions). The
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
and using Charisma as the spellcasting ability (spell save DC 20):
At will: command, dancing lights, detect magic, thaumaturgy
2/day each: banishment, blade barrier, cure wounds, hold person, plane
allied demon within 30 feet of the drow uses its reaction to make one attack against a target of the drow’s choice that she can see.
Demon Staff. The drow makes one Demon Staff attack.
Cast a
Yeenoghu
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Out of the Abyss
covered in matted fur and taut, leathery hide, his face like a grinning predator’s skull. Patchwork armor made of discarded shields and breastplates is lashed onto his body with heavy chains
condition.
Each gnoll or hyena that Yeenoghu can see can use its reaction to move up to its speed.
Until the next initiative count 20, all gnoll;gnolls and hyena;hyenas within the lair are enraged
Monsters
Eberron: Rising from the Last War
). Each creature within 60 feet of Rak Tulkhesh must succeed on a DC 24 Wisdom saving throw or use its reaction to make a melee weapon attack against a random creature within reach. If no creatures
draconic creature twisted by demonic rage. Covered in iron spikes protruding from his bleeding flesh, this overlord looms fifteen feet high at the shoulders, and his wings span over forty feet. While
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
.
The Gnoll Lord is covered in matted fur and leathery hide, and his face resembles a grinning predator’s skull. He wields a triple-headed flail called the Butcher, which he can summon into his hand
or hyena that Yeenoghu can see can use its reaction to move up to its speed.
Regional Effects
The region containing Yeenoghu’s lair is warped by his magic, creating one or more of the
Monsters
The Book of Many Things
2/day: Mass Cure Wounds (cast at 8th level)
1/day each: Blade Barrier, Divination, Greater RestorationThe medusa can take 3 legendary actions, choosing from the options below. It can take only one
until the creature is freed by the Greater Restoration spell or other magic.
A creature can use its reaction, if available, to shut its eyes to avoid the saving throw. If the creature does so, it has the blinded condition until the end of its next turn.
Adult Deep Dragon
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Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
creature within 30 feet of it that it can see. The target must succeed on a DC 16 Wisdom saving throw or use its reaction to make a melee weapon attack against a random creature within reach. If no
creatures are within reach, or the target can’t take a reaction, it takes 5 (1d10);{"diceNotation":"1d10", "rollType":"damage", "rollAction":"Commanding Spores", "rollDamageType":"psychic"} psychic
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)
Shield 1st-level abjuration Casting Time: 1 reaction, which you take when you are hit by an attack or targeted by the magic missile spell Range: Self Components: V, S Duration: 1 round An invisible
barrier of magical force appears and protects you. Until the start of your next turn, you have a +5 bonus to AC, including against the triggering attack, and you take no damage from magic missile.
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules
Shield Level 1 Abjuration (Sorcerer, Wizard) Casting Time: Reaction, which you take when you are hit by an attack roll or targeted by the Magic Missile spell
Range: Self
Components: V, S
Duration: 1 round
An imperceptible barrier of magical force protects you. Until the start of your next turn, you have a +5 bonus to AC, including against the triggering attack, and you take no damage from Magic Missile.
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player’s Handbook
Shield Level 1 Abjuration (Sorcerer, Wizard) Casting Time: Reaction, which you take when you are hit by an attack roll or targeted by the Magic Missile spell
Range: Self
Components: V, S
Duration: 1 round
An imperceptible barrier of magical force protects you. Until the start of your next turn, you have a +5 bonus to AC, including against the triggering attack, and you take no damage from Magic Missile.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Uni and the Hunt for the Lost Horn
Shield Level 1 Abjuration (Sorcerer, Wizard) Casting Time: Reaction, which you take when you are hit by an attack roll or targeted by the Magic Missile spell
Range: Self
Components: V, S
Duration: 1 round
An imperceptible barrier of magical force protects you. Until the start of your next turn, you have a +5 bonus to AC, including against the triggering attack, and you take no damage from Magic Missile.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
Shield 1st-level abjuration Casting Time: 1 reaction, which you take when you are hit by an attack or targeted by the magic missile spell Range: Self Components: V, S Duration: 1 round An invisible
barrier of magical force appears and protects you. Until the start of your next turn, you have a +5 bonus to AC, including against the triggering attack, and you take no damage from magic missile.
Ancient Deep Dragon
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Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
around a creature within 30 feet of it that it can see. The target must succeed on a DC 19 Wisdom saving throw or use its reaction to make a melee weapon attack against a random creature within reach. If
no creatures are within reach, or the target can’t take a reaction, it takes 11 (2d10);{"diceNotation":"2d10", "rollType":"damage", "rollAction":"Commanding Spores", "rollDamageType":"psychic
Monsters
Eberron: Rising from the Last War
succeed on a DC 22 Wisdom saving throw or take 22 (4d10);{"diceNotation":"4d10","rollType":"damage","rollAction":"Implant Fear","rollDamageType":"psychic"} psychic damage and immediately use its reaction
close my eyes, I see my past misdeeds.”
5
“I don’t trust my sight. I have no idea what’s real and what’s a hallucination.”
6
“Something watches the world through my eyes. To thwart them, I keep my eyes closed or covered.”
Poison, Psychic
Magic Items
Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything
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
action, you can command the servant to take one of the actions in its stat block or some other action.
When a creature provokes an opportunity attack from the servant, you can use your reaction to command
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
Arrival in Janya As the characters near the seafloor, a pearlescent haze cuts through the darkness. Below they see a shimmering dome of light, a great magical barrier that shelters the city below. As
covered with designs marked by bioluminescent barnacles. People slip through open corridors between buildings, swimming high above the volcanic rock and coral of the seafloor below.
As the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
, he can take lair actions. Barrier. Murgaxor is surrounded by a barrier of arcane energy resembling a cocoon of writhing mud. While surrounded by this barrier, Murgaxor and the stones encircling him
can’t be targeted by attacks or spells. The barrier has AC 14; 200 hit points; resistance to bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing damage from nonmagical attacks; and immunity to poison and psychic
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything
to magically create a replacement. This ceremony can be performed during a short or long rest, and it destroys the previous map. Star Map d6 Map Form 1 A scroll covered with depictions of
finish your next long rest, you gain access to a special reaction based on whether you rolled an even or an odd number on the die: Weal (even). Whenever a creature you can see within 30 feet of you is
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monstrous Compendium Volume Two
that area must succeed on a DC 14 Dexterity saving throw or be covered in the sludge for 1 minute. While covered in the sludge, a creature’s speed is halved. A creature can use its action to scrape
only once during a turn.
Reaction
Violent Retaliation. If a creature within 10 feet of the draconian hits it with an attack, the draconian can make one Claw attack against that creature. If the Claw attack hits, it deals an additional 4 (1d8) slashing damage.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
openings overlook the snow-covered grounds outside the stronghold.
Unless she has cause to leave the overlook and raise the drawbridge in area O2, a duergar named Urthhild stands guard here, stamping
on a DC 12 Dexterity saving throw or take 7 (2d6) piercing damage from the spikes and be restrained until the spikes are retracted or the barrier is destroyed. The spikes can be retracted only by
Magic Items
Infernal Machine Rebuild
known today. However, its true origins derive from a planar craft that crashed in the Barrier Peaks, for the Infernal Machine once functioned as this craft’s central command console.
Explorers who
checks made using thieves’ tools or tinker’s tools.
Any metal object you wield or wear is covered in a thin layer of oil that drips occasionally and leaves your fingerprints everywhere
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tyranny of Dragons
6. Main Gate A lowered drawbridge spans a foggy moat. Beyond the drawbridge is an open portcullis, and beyond the portcullis is a covered gateway leading to an open courtyard. Large figures loom in
-foot-tall cloud giants—one male and one female—stand behind the portcullis, facing each other within the covered gateway.
The winches that raise and lower the drawbridge and portcullis are located in
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Hoard of the Dragon Queen
6. Main Gate A lowered drawbridge spans a foggy moat. Beyond the drawbridge is an open portcullis, and beyond the portcullis is a covered gateway leading to an open courtyard. Large figures loom in
cloud giants — one male and one female — stand behind the portcullis, facing each other within the covered gateway. The winches that raise and lower the drawbridge and portcullis are located in the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation Supplement
damage in this cave, it can use its reaction to animate one of the tentacles of the kraken statue and cause it to make a melee weapon attack (+3 to hit) against one creature within 20 feet of the
is reduced to 11 hit points or fewer, it casts sanctuary on itself and cowers behind the kraken statue. Statue and Holy Symbol. The statue weighs 5,000 pounds and is covered with slimy mildew. Lying on
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a6
, and the players might rue thoughtless actions, but do not allow this reaction to temper what you have before you. Likewise, do not set about to entrap the characters in a hopeless situation—allow
strikes and then retires, the attack will be assessed and countermeasures taken. Even when the party first enters the hall, you will have to gauge the reaction of the giants if and when they learn that
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
puts the ruins on alert and activates the necromantic barrier described in area N2. A character who wants to sneak past the watchtower or climb its ladder undetected must succeed on a DC 13 Dexterity
assaulting the walls of Caerdoon, and their moss-covered bones rest at the bottom of the fortress’s moat. Shield of the Fallen. When a creature not approved by Murgaxor moves within 10 feet of the moat, a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Book of Many Things
, Thaumaturgy
2/day: Mass Cure Wounds (cast at 8th level)
1/day each: Blade Barrier, Divination, Greater Restoration
Bonus Actions
Petrifying Gaze (Recharge 4–6). The medusa unleashes petrifying
Greater Restoration spell or other magic.
A creature can use its reaction, if available, to shut its eyes to avoid the saving throw. If the creature does so, it has the blinded condition until the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
barrier, harm
7th level (2 slots): divine word, plane shift
8th level (1 slot): holy aura
9th level (1 slot): gate
Sunlight Sensitivity. While in sunlight, the drow has disadvantage on attack
. The drow makes one attack with her demon staff.
Compel Demon (Costs 2 Actions). An allied demon within 30 feet of the drow uses its reaction to make one attack against a target of the drow’s choice
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Quests from the Infinite Staircase
level’s map. Security Mechanism. Between each pair of floors is a metal aperture with a barrier that prevents a creature from traveling to floors it isn’t authorized to access. If a creature doesn’t
source (such as a room’s overhead lighting) or other means of seeing in the dark. Radiation Some parts of the spaceship leak radioactive chemicals used in the vessel’s construction. Surfaces covered in
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
vegetation forms the city’s outer wall, with the treetops magically woven together to create a barrier against intruders. Expertly trained archers stand guard on platforms nestled among the upper
both Karametra and Nylea here. Summer Nexus. Located in an olive grove west of the city proper, the Summer Nexus is covered by a leafy green canopy. As a shelter from summer’s heat, the nexus is a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen
sivak draconian (see appendix B) stands guard in human guise. It’s using its Shape Theft reaction to take the form of a Kalaman soldier it killed. If slain, it shifts back to its true form. Two
large animals and blood. The ground is covered with the scattered skeletons of two horses. Looming over them, something large, red, and reptilian picks through their bones.
A Dragon Army dragonnel and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
archon makes a radiant spear attack, and then its mount can use its reaction to make a melee weapon attack.
Return to Nyx (Costs 3 Actions). The archon causes a corpse it can see within 30 feet of it
the following spells, requiring no material components:
At will: command, compelled duel
1/day each: banishment, blade barrier
Mount. If the ashen rider isn’t mounted, it can use a bonus action
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything
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
can use your reaction to command the servant to make one Destructive Fist attack against that creature. While there are no attuned creatures inside the servant, it is an inert object. Ghost in the






