before beast drain check return

Adult Copper Dragon

Monsters Monster Manual

ability (spell save DC 17): At Will: Detect Magic, Mind Spike (level 4 version), Minor Illusion, Shapechange (Beast or Humanoid form only, no Temporary Hit Points gained from the spell, and no

rolls 1d6;{"diceNotation":"1d6", "rollType":"roll", "rollAction":"Giggling Magic"} whenever it makes an ability check or attack roll and subtracts the number rolled from the D20 Test. Failure or

Ancient Copper Dragon

Monsters Monster Manual

ability (spell save DC 21): At Will: Detect Magic, Mind Spike (level 5 version), Minor Illusion, Shapechange (Beast or Humanoid form only, no Temporary Hit Points gained from the spell, and no

turn, the target rolls 1d8;{"diceNotation":"1d8", "rollType":"roll", "rollAction":"Giggling Magic"} whenever it makes an ability check or attack roll and subtracts the number rolled from the D20 Test

Vampire

Monsters Monster Manual

, the vampire uses Shape-Shift to become mist (no action required). If it can’t use Shape-Shift, it is destroyed. While it has 0 Hit Points in mist form, it can’t return to its vampire form

regains 1 Hit Point after spending 1 hour there. Spider Climb. The vampire can climb difficult surfaces, including along ceilings, without needing to make an ability check. Vampire Weakness. The

Arch-hag

Monsters Monster Manual

). Otherwise, the hag drops to 1 Hit Point and teleports to a harmless demiplane, and it can’t return to the plane it left for 2d6;{"diceNotation":"2d6", "rollType":"roll", "rollAction":"Spiteful

(excluding the hag and its allies) within 1 mile of the lair subtract 1d10;{"diceNotation":"1d10", "rollType":"roll", "rollAction":"Lapsus Linguae"} from any ability check they make when they take the

Giant Insect

Spells Player’s Handbook

its movement to avoid danger. Using a Higher-Level Spell Slot. Use the spell slot’s level for the spell’s level in the stat block. Giant Insect Large Beast, Unaligned AC 11 + the spell

make an ability check. Actions Multiattack. The insect makes a number of attacks equal to half this spell’s level (round down). Poison Jab. Melee Attack Roll: Bonus equals your spell attack

Figurine of Wondrous Power

Magic Items Dungeon Master’s Guide

) for up to 12 hours and can be ridden as a mount. Once it has been used, it can’t be used again until 2 days have passed. Giant Fly Large Beast, Unaligned AC 11 Initiative +1 (11) HP 19

weapons disappear and the horns return when the goat reverts to figurine form. While you ride the goat, any Hostile creature that starts its turn within a 30-foot Emanation originating from the goat must

Monster Camouflage

Equipment

Camouflage looks like a Beast or Monstrosity, such as an owlbear. To discern that you’re disguised, a creature must take the Study action to inspect your appearance and succeed on a DC 10

Intelligence (Investigation or Nature) check. The creature has Advantage on this check if it is within 30 feet of you and automatically succeeds on this check if you do anything the monster you’re disguised as couldn’t do.

Mark of Handling

Feats Eberron: Forge of the Artificer

Handling) check, you can roll 1d4 and add the number rolled to the ability check. Primal Connection. You always have the Animal Friendship and Speak with Animals spells prepared. You can cast each

Handling Spells table are added to that feature’s spell list. Mark of Handling Spells Spell Level Spells 1 Command, Find Familiar 2 Beast Sense, Calm Emotions 3 Beacon of Hope, Conjure Animals 4 Aura of Life, Dominate Beast 5 Awaken

Boon of Fluid Forms

Feats Forgotten Realms: Heroes of Faerûn

can take a Magic action to shape-shift into a Beast, Humanoid, or Monstrosity with a Challenge Rating no higher than 10. When you shape-shift, you gain a number of Temporary Hit Points equal to the

Hit Points of the form. The shape-shifting effect lasts for 1 hour, and it ends early if you have no Temporary Hit Points left or if you take a Magic action to return to your true form. Your game

Beast Sense Legacy

Spells Player’s Handbook (2014)

return to your normal senses. While perceiving through the beast’s senses, you gain the benefits of any special senses possessed by that creature, though you are blinded and deafened to your own surroundings.

You touch a willing beast. For the duration of the spell, you can use your action to see through the beast’s eyes and hear what it hears, and continue to do so until you use your action to

Gingwatzim

Monsters Candlekeep Mysteries

as a book, dagger, or gemstone) that its creator is carrying or wearing when the gingwatzim is conjured. The other form can be any Tiny beast. Once these alternate forms are chosen, they can’t

be changed.Energy Drain (True Form Only). Melee Weapon Attack: +4;{"diceNotation":"1d20+4","rollType":"to hit","rollAction":"Energy Drain"} to hit, reach 5 ft., one creature. Hit: 16 (4d6 + 2

Giant Tick

Monsters Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants

itself by spending 5 feet of its movement. As an action, a creature within reach of the tick can try to detach the tick, doing so with a successful DC 13 Strength check. Blood Drain. The tick deals 10

(2d6 + 3);{"diceNotation":"2d6+3", "rollType":"damage", "rollAction":"Blood Drain", "rollDamageType":"necrotic"} necrotic damage to one creature it is physically attached to, provided that creature

Strigoi

Monsters Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft

instinctual hunger that drives it to undertake bloodthirsty rampages along with swarms of emboldened, bloodsucking pests. Strigoi drain the blood, marrow, and soft tissues from their victims, leaving behind

nothing but empty husks. Due to the horrifying nature of their deaths, those slain by strigoi occasionally reanimate as boneless. Many strigoi seek ways to return to their former existence while being

Vampirate

Monsters Spelljammer: Adventures in Space

, without needing to make an ability check. Unusual Nature. The vampirate doesn’t require air or drink.Energy Drain. Melee or Ranged Spell Attack: +4;{"diceNotation":"1d20+4","rollType":"to hit

","rollAction":"Energy Drain"} to hit, reach 5 ft. or range 30 ft., one creature. Hit: 11 (2d10);{"diceNotation":"2d10","rollType":"damage","rollAction":"Energy Drain","rollDamageType":"necrotic"} necrotic

Bridle of Capturing

Magic Items Infernal Machine Rebuild

This fine leather bridle tugs at the hand when first held, as though it longs to reach out for a beast nearby. When you hold one end of the bridle, you can use an action to speak its command word

, causing the other end to lash out at a beast you can see within 20 feet of you. The target must succeed on a DC 17 Charisma saving throw or have the bridle tie itself around its neck, then fall under

Vampiric Mind Flayer

Monsters Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft

Spider Climb. The mind flayer can climb difficult surfaces, including upside down on ceilings, without needing to make an ability check. Sunlight Sensitivity. While in sunlight, the mind flayer has

dementia and death. The results were vampiric mind flayers, feral atrocities spawned from mind flayer tadpoles infected with vampirism. These specialized but flawed terrors serve a single purpose: to drain

Vampirate Mage

Monsters Spelljammer: Adventures in Space

to make an ability check. Unusual Nature. The mage doesn’t require air or drink.Multiattack. The mage makes two Ray of Cold attacks. Energy Drain. Melee or Ranged Spell Attack: +5

;{"diceNotation":"1d20+5","rollType":"to hit","rollAction":"Energy Drain"} to hit, reach 5 ft. or range 30 ft., one creature. Hit: 22 (4d10);{"diceNotation":"4d10","rollType":"damage","rollAction":"Energy Drain

Vampiric Mist

Monsters Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse

doesn’t require air or sleep.Life Drain. The mist touches one creature in its space. The target must succeed on a DC 13 Constitution saving throw (Undead and Constructs automatically succeed

), or it takes 10 (2d6 + 3);{"diceNotation":"2d6+3", "rollType":"damage", "rollAction":"Life Drain", "rollDamageType":"necrotic"} necrotic damage, the mist regains 10 hit points, and the target’s

Amble

Monsters Locathah Rising

unoccupied space they can see.Change Shape (2/Day). Amble magically polymorphs into a beast with a challenge rating of 1 or less, and can remain in this form for up to 6 hours. Amble's equipment melds with

statistics of the beast, but they retain their alignment, personality, and Intelligence, Wisdom, and Charisma scores. Amble also retains all their skill and saving throw proficiencies, in addition to

Jiangshi

Monsters Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft

the initiative order. If this wight slays a Humanoid with its Life Drain, the wight transforms into a jiangshi 5 days later. Change Shape. The jiangshi polymorphs into a Beast, a Humanoid, or an Undead

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

Vampirate Captain

Monsters Spelljammer: Adventures in Space

needing to make an ability check. Unusual Nature. The captain doesn’t require air or drink.Energy Drain. Melee or Ranged Spell Attack: +6;{"diceNotation":"1d20+6","rollType":"to hit","rollAction

":"Energy Drain"} to hit, reach 5 ft. or range 30 ft., one creature. Hit: 22 (4d10);{"diceNotation":"4d10","rollType":"damage","rollAction":"Energy Drain","rollDamageType":"necrotic"} necrotic damage

Puppeteer Parasite

Monsters Monstrous Compendium Vol. 1: Spelljammer Creatures

DC 14 Strength check. Consume Life. The parasite deals 12 (3d6 + 2);{"diceNotation":"3d6+2","rollType":"damage","rollAction":"Consume Life","rollDamageType":"necrotic"} necrotic damage to one creature

passes nearby. A parasite that comes in physical contact with a Humanoid uses its hooks to latch onto it. The parasite can then drain life energy from that creature or use it as transportation. The

Cloud Giant Smiling One

Monsters Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse

feel like a Beast or a Humanoid it has seen or to return to its true form. Any equipment the giant is wearing or carrying is absorbed by the new form. Its statistics, other than its size, don’t

Aboleth Legacy

Monsters Basic Rules (2014)

aboleth regains spent legendary actions at the start of its turn. Detect. The aboleth makes a Wisdom (Perception) check. Tail Swipe. The aboleth makes one tail attack. Psychic Drain (Costs 2

Actions). One creature charmed by the aboleth takes 10 (3d6);{"diceNotation":"3d6","rollAction":"Psychic Drain","rollType":"damage","rollDamageType":"psychic"} psychic damage, and the aboleth regains hit

Memory Web

Monsters Quests from the Infinite Staircase

18 Intelligence (Investigation) check to discern that the memory web is animate. Memory Flood. When the memory web is reduced to 0 hit points, it discharges any memories it consumed over the past 24

Intelligence saving throw. Constructs, Oozes, Plants, and Undead succeed on the save automatically. On a failed save, the target takes 5 (2d4);{"diceNotation":"2d4", "rollType":"damage", "rollAction":"Drain

Spiderdragon

Monsters Vecna: Eve of Ruin

ceilings, without needing to make an ability check. Web Walker. The spiderdragon ignores movement restrictions caused by webbing.Multiattack. The spiderdragon makes one Bite attack and two Claw attacks

powerful as their black dragon progenitors, though, and they often drain the enclaves’ resources with their selfish demands. Uninterested in building lairs, spiderdragons weave powerful webs and

Artus Cimber

Monsters Tomb of Annihilation

must be modeled after a beast with a challenge rating of 2 or less. The ice creature has the same statistics as the beast it models, with the following changes: the creature is a construct with

Lugg. Artus has spent most of his life trying to keep the Ring of Winter out of evil hands, but his return to Chult is focused on reuniting with his beloved Alisanda, who disappeared along with the

Leprechaun

Monsters Quests from the Infinite Staircase

, Phantasmal Force 1/day each: Fabricate (as an action), MisleadAstonishing Luck. When the leprechaun fails an ability check, an attack roll, or a saving throw, it can roll a new d20 and choose which

. They delight in pranking such foolish creatures or pilfering from them in return. Leprechauns take pride in their appearances, dressing in dapper outfits that typically feature red fabrics, gleaming

Reduced-threat Aboleth

Monsters Tales from the Yawning Portal

and only at the end of another creature's turn. The aboleth regains spent legendary actions at the start of its turn. Detect. The aboleth makes a Wisdom (Perception) check. Tail Swipe. The aboleth

makes one tail attack. Psychic Drain (Costs 2 Actions). One creature charmed by the aboleth takes 10 (3d6);{"diceNotation":"3d6","rollType":"damage","rollAction":"Psychic Drain","rollDamageType

Adult Gold Dragon Legacy

Monsters Basic Rules (2014)

polymorphs into a humanoid or beast that has a challenge rating no higher than its own, or back into its true form. It reverts to its true form if it dies. Any equipment it is wearing or carrying is absorbed

spent legendary actions at the start of its turn. Detect. The dragon makes a Wisdom (Perception) check. Tail Attack. The dragon makes a tail attack. Wing Attack (Costs 2 Actions). The dragon beats

Horrid Plant

Monsters Quests from the Infinite Staircase

advantage on its initiative roll. Moreover, if a creature hasn’t observed the horrid plant move or act, that creature must succeed on a DC 18 Intelligence (Nature) check to discern that the horrid

these tendrils to drain the moisture and life force from their prey. Purple Blossom The purple blossom is a treelike plant with cup-shaped purple flowers. Tubules within the plant’s branches

Ancient Brass Dragon Legacy

Monsters Basic Rules (2014)

damage or someone uses an action to wake it. Change Shape. The dragon magically polymorphs into a humanoid or beast that has a challenge rating no higher than its own, or back into its true form. It

be used at a time and only at the end of another creature's turn. The dragon regains spent legendary actions at the start of its turn. Detect. The dragon makes a Wisdom (Perception) check. Tail

Conclave Dryad

Monsters Guildmasters’ Guide to Ravnica

become restrained by twisting vines for 1 minute. A target restrained in this way can use an action to make a DC 17 Strength (Athletics) or Dexterity (Acrobatics) check, ending the effect on itself on

: it is a plant instead of a beast, it has an Intelligence of 6, and it understands Sylvan but can’t speak. While within 1 mile of the mount, the dryad can communicate with it telepathically

Wolf-in-Sheep's-Clothing

Monsters Quests from the Infinite Staircase

observed the wolf-in-sheep’s-clothing move or act (except for the lure), that creature must succeed on a DC 18 Intelligence (Investigation) check to discern that the wolf-in-sheep’s-clothing is

Harmless Lure. The wolf-in-sheep’s-clothing can change the color, texture, and shape of its lure to resemble a Tiny Beast or Tiny object. It can move the lure to reinforce the resemblance (no action

Yeenoghu Legacy

Monsters Out of the Abyss

5 or more, the target falls prone. Savage (Costs 2 Actions). Yeenoghu makes a bite attack against each creature within 10 feet of him.The Beast of Butchery appears as a great battle-scarred gnoll

. Those that ate of great Yeenoghu’s kills became gnoll;gnolls, emulating their master’s ways. Few others worship the Beast of Butchery, but those who do tend to take on a gnoll-like aspect

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