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Player’s Handbook
typically require only half the suggested payment, while especially dangerous tasks might require a greater gift. Creatures rarely accept tasks that seem suicidal.
After the creature completes the
or magic items to an allied temple, while a Fiend might demand a living sacrifice or a gift of treasure. Some creatures might exchange their service for a quest undertaken by you.
A task that can be
Spells
Player’s Handbook
is based on the quality of the raw materials.
Creatures and magic items can’t be created by this spell. You also can’t use it to create items that require a high degree of skill&mdash
Backgrounds
Forgotten Realms: Heroes of Faerûn
, Backpack, Bedroll, Hooded Lantern, Oil (3 flasks), Rope, Tinderbox, Traveler's Clothes, Waterskin, 23 GP; or (B) 50 GP
You spent years wandering the highlands of Rashemen, a dangerous windswept heath
that’s dotted with ancient obelisks enchanted to imprison Fiends and home to dragons, gnolls, and other deadly creatures. Friendships are hard to find in such an isolated land, and you’ve learned to keep strangers at a distance.
Monsters
Forgotten Realms: Adventures in Faerûn
again until the start of her next turn.Scheming Marid Ruler
The calculating Biha Babir rules the pelagic city of Maran Saya in Calimshan. Though her physical form is as fluid as the ocean itself, she
whatever genie empire rises from the wreckage.
Personality
Biha Babir’s demeanor is like the ocean: seemingly placid on the surface, but dangerous and fierce deep below. Her amiable attitude hides
Magic Items
Mythic Odysseys of Theros
the creatures pulling them work like controlled mounts, as described in the mounted combat rules in the Player’s Handbook, but with the following differences:
Mounting or dismounting a chariot
The chariot’s riders and creatures pulling the chariot gain a +1 bonus to their AC.
If this magic chariot is pulled by one or more flying creatures, it too can fly.
CHARIOTS
Chariots and
Monsters
Monstrous Compendium Vol. 4: Eldraine Creatures
Queen, who rules from a castle called Dynnistan. It isn’t known whether these legends are based on any true experience or are simply the result of imagination trying to account for a terrifying and
Monsters
Mythic Odysseys of Theros
Returned palamnites. These Returned led violent lives, existences filled with such pain and hatred that violence now suffuses their deathless bodies. Such makes them exceptionally dangerous to the
living, as these aimless killers know only suffering and seek to spread it whenever the opportunity arises. While palamnites might wander the world as dangerous, lone murderers, many gravitate to Odunos
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
neighbors. To this end, duergar warriors fulfill a variety of combat roles, often marrying their fury in battle with their psionic abilities or training dangerous Underdark creatures as mounts.
Denigrated by
carrying. While enlarged, the duergar is Large, doubles its damage dice on Strength-based weapon attacks (included in the attacks), and makes Strength checks and Strength saving throws with advantage
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
. They read these signs as omens, giving them glimpses of what is to come, and they eagerly examine the potential futures of any creatures who come to them in peace.
Crystal dragons’ connection to
)
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Control. Everyone is welcome, as long as they follow my rules. (Lawful)
Crystal Dragon Adventures
The Crystal Dragon Adventure Hooks table offers suggestions for stories and adventures
Monsters
Quests from the Infinite Staircase
roll to use, potentially turning the failure into a success.Leprechauns are manifestations of the Feywild rules of hospitality and reciprocity. These rules infuse leprechauns with a deep connection to
ideas into vivid illusions.
A leprechaun’s adherence to Feywild rules affords it tremendous luck, but this fortune comes at a cost. These same magical strictures compel leprechauns to use their
Monsters
The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
;s much more dangerous against creatures that are significantly bigger than he is.
Valor's Call
The noble adventuring party known as Valor’s Call was founded by Strongheart, a resolute human
dead.”
Combat Notes
Elkhorn’s challenge rating is based on him using Feint to improve his rather weak sword attack. Having been trained in his youth to fight ogres and trolls, he&rsquo
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
their psionic abilities or training dangerous Underdark creatures as mounts.
Denigrated by some as joyless, duergar are in fact deeply passionate in all that they do—even if that passion rarely
minute, the duergar magically increases in size, along with anything it is wearing or carrying. While enlarged, the duergar is Large, doubles its damage dice on Strength-based weapon attacks
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
dangerous Underdark creatures as mounts.
Denigrated by some as joyless, duergar are in fact deeply passionate in all that they do—even if that passion rarely manifests as mirth. They bring an
in size, along with anything it is wearing or carrying. While enlarged, the duergar is Large, doubles its damage dice on Strength-based weapon attacks (included in the attacks), and makes Strength
Monsters
The Book of Many Things
"} poison damage.Delour the wererat is a sly trickster and consummate thief who rules the Moonstalkers alongside his friend Boss Augustus;Augustus. Delour’s honeyed words and calculating mind make
him dangerous. He can smile and shake someone’s hand while simultaneously plotting to ruin that person.
Expanding the guild’s activities beyond thievery was Delour’s idea. He
Calm Emotions
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Spells
Basic Rules (2014)
. When this spell ends, any suppressed effect resumes, provided that its duration has not expired in the meantime.
Alternatively, you can make a target indifferent about creatures of your choice that it
is hostile toward. This indifference ends if the target is attacked or harmed by a spell or if it witnesses any of its friends being harmed. When the spell ends, the creature becomes hostile again, unless the DM rules otherwise.
Planar Ally
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waived. Nonhazardous tasks typically require only half the suggested payment, while especially dangerous tasks might require a greater gift. Creatures rarely accept tasks that seem suicidal.
After the
donation of gold or magic items to an allied temple, while a fiend might demand a living sacrifice or a gift of treasure. Some creatures might exchange their service for a quest undertaken by you.
As a
Divine Word
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You utter a divine word, imbued with the power that shaped the world at the dawn of creation. Choose any number of creatures you can see within range. Each creature that can hear you must make a
Charisma saving throw. On a failed save, a creature suffers an effect based on its current hit points:
50 hit points or fewer: deafened for 1 minute
40 hit points or fewer: deafened and blinded for 10
Monsters
Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse
the spellcasting ability (spell save DC 12):
At will: guidance, light
1/day each: calm emotions, lesser restoration, remove curse, protection from energyA void soother cares for creatures struck by
curses and the negative effects of the planes. These warriors go to dangerous planes and areas torn by conflict to provide relief to those they find there.Soothing Word (3/Day). The void soother
Monsters
Curse of Strahd
, modestly give money to charity. They take steps to keep magic items out of evil hands by stashing them in secret hiding places.
Characters as Wereravens. The Monster Manual has rules for characters
already higher. Attack and damage rolls for the wereraven’s bite are based on whichever is higher of the character’s Strength and Dexterity. The bite of a wereraven in raven form deals 1
Backgrounds
Spelljammer: Adventures in Space
recurring nightmare. Roll on the Close Encounter table to determine which creature nearly got the best of you. Creatures marked with an asterisk appear in Boo’s Astral Menagerie; the others are
gravity isn’t present, the following rules apply:
Impeded Melee. When making a melee attack with a weapon, a creature that doesn’t have a flying or swimming speed (either naturally or
Monsters
Spelljammer: Adventures in Space
Long ago, some elves ventured to the Astral Plane to be closer to their gods. There, they ceased to age and could exist indefinitely without sustenance.
Astral elves were among the first creatures to
are fashioned from crystals harvested from Wildspace systems and bound together with an organic, plant-based material that hardens like ceramic. The elves sculpt these substances in various
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
underwater doesn't grant resistance against this damage.Dragon turtles are mighty creatures whose inherent magic is intimately linked with the oceans of the Material Plane. The dragon turtle presented in the
their shells. An angry ancient dragon turtle is terrible to behold, radiating heat from the shell to boil the surrounding water—and any creatures in it. And even if an enemy wears down the
Magic Items
Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
or slap it awake.
Visions of Terror. The cursed creature sees terrifying visions, causing it to view all creatures that aren’t also cursed as dangerous monsters for 10 minutes. The cursed
effects, targeting one or more creatures it has cursed:
Unconsciousness. The cursed creature falls unconscious for 1 hour. The creature is roused if it takes damage or someone uses an action to shake
Monsters
Mordenkainen's Fiendish Folio Volume 1
and his followers the initial, unwilling recruits into his crusade. Today, hobgoblins chafe at the suggestion that creatures as lazy and untamed as norkers could claim such an honor. For that reason
alone, hobgoblin warlords are loath to use these creatures, preferring to keep them around as disposable labor in mines and quarries.
Nasty, Brutish, and Short. Even goblins bully and harass norkers
Ki-rin
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Volo's Guide to Monsters
creatures into its service, its lair doubles as a sacred site wherein the ki-rin not only rests, but also teaches of holy mysteries.
Inside its lair, a ki-rin has the power to conjure objects up to three
times per day, using each of the following versions of the power once. One version permanently creates enough objects made of soft, plant-based material — including manufactured objects such as cloth
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
turtles are mighty creatures whose inherent magic is intimately linked with the oceans of the Material Plane. The dragon turtle presented in the Monster Manual is a typical adult, at least a century
behold, radiating heat from the shell to boil the surrounding water—and any creatures in it. And even if an enemy wears down the dragon turtle’s defenses, magical storms manifest to
Monsters
Spelljammer: Adventures in Space
to the Astral Plane to be closer to their gods. There, they ceased to age and could exist indefinitely without sustenance.
Astral elves were among the first creatures to dwell in the Silver Void. As
harvested from Wildspace systems and bound together with an organic, plant-based material that hardens like ceramic. The elves sculpt these substances in various configurations to create star moth;star
Species
Eberron: Rising from the Last War
Mark of Handling allows Vadalis to work with more exotic creatures as well. Griffons, hippogriffs, and even bulettes can be bred and trained. Even with the Mark of Handling, this is dangerous work
; there’s a lot of turnover at the bulette ranch. But these exotic creatures aren’t enough to satisfy the most innovative members of the house, leading to the practice of magebreeding. Using
Shapechange
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of equipment, based on the creature's shape and size. Your equipment doesn't change shape or size to match the new form, and any equipment that the new form can't wear must either fall to the ground
rules for the original form, with one exception: if your new form has more hit points than your current one, your hit points remain at their current value.
Magic Items
Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
rest within 30 feet of it, meditating on the mythallar. Up to eight creatures can be attuned to it at one time; otherwise, the Ythryn mythallar follows the attunement rules in the Dungeon Master&rsquo
;s Guide. If a ninth creature tries to attune to the mythallar, nothing happens.
All creatures attuned to the Ythryn mythallar can sense when the device is being used. A creature attuned to the device
Monsters
Monstrous Compendium Vol. 2: Dragonlance Creatures
after 3 (1d6);{"diceNotation":"1d6", "rollType":"roll", "rollAction":"Days"} days, with all its hit points restored.
Incorporeal Movement. The foresworn can move through other creatures and objects as
refuse to abandon their undead state until the duty they had in life is fulfilled. For example, a foresworn might be pledged to protect a family’s bloodline from harm or guard a dangerous artifact
Monsters
Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
Campus Knowledge. While at Strixhaven, the guide can’t become lost by magical or nonmagical means. The guide also has advantage on ability checks made to locate creatures or objects at
of the guide. The target doesn’t move into obviously dangerous ground, such as a fire or a pit. Whenever the charmed target takes damage, it can repeat the saving throw, ending the effect on
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
suitable only to become nupperibos. These pitiful creatures shuffle across the landscape, driven to purposeful action only when the clouds of swarming vermin that surround them find them prey to destroy or
when a greater fiendish power commands it.
Individually, nupperibos are weak, but they’re rarely alone and can be dangerous when gathered into packs. Clouds of stinging insects, stirge;stirges
Monsters
Mordenkainen's Fiendish Folio Volume 1
, and caverns inhabited by much larger, more dangerous folk. The jermlaine huddle in their small tunnels, avoiding contact with all other creatures unless they can marshal overwhelming numbers. When the
creatures. They are acutely aware that their small size and weakness in combat makes them prey for countless Underdark creatures. This anger and resentment is channeled into vengeful scheming against
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Mordenkainen's Fiendish Folio Volume 1
","rollDamageType":"slashing"} slashing damage.
Fight On, You Slugs. The norker war leader picks up to three allied goblinoids within 60 feet that can see it. The chosen creatures can each use their reactions to
-lost god may have been Maglubiyet's first conquest and his followers the initial, unwilling recruits into his crusade. Today, hobgoblins chafe at the suggestion that creatures as lazy and untamed as