before becoming diffusing cube releases

Octopus

Monsters Monster Manual

while underwater. Response: The octopus releases ink that fills a 5-foot Cube centered on itself, and the octopus moves up to its Swim Speed. The Cube is Heavily Obscured for 1 minute or until a strong current or similar effect disperses the ink.

Giant Octopus

Monsters Monster Manual

while underwater. Response: The octopus releases ink that fills a 10-foot Cube centered on itself, and the octopus moves up to its Swim Speed. The Cube is Heavily Obscured for 1 minute or until a strong current or similar effect disperses the ink.

Giant Squid

Monsters Monster Manual

straight toward itself.Ink Cloud (1/Day). Trigger: The squid takes damage while underwater. Response: The squid releases ink that fills a 15-foot Cube centered on itself, and the squid moves up to its Swim

Speed. The Cube is Heavily Obscured for 1 minute or until a strong current or similar effect disperses the ink.

Pipe of Smoke Monsters

Magic Items Dungeon Master’s Guide

While smoking this pipe, you can take a Magic action to exhale a puff of smoke that takes the form of a creature, such as a dragon, a flumph, or a slaad. The form must be small enough to fit in a 1-foot cube and loses its shape after a few seconds, becoming an ordinary puff of smoke.

Pipe of Smoke Monsters Legacy

Magic Items Xanathar's Guide to Everything

While smoking this pipe, you can use an action to exhale a puff of smoke that takes the form of a single creature, such as a dragon, a flumph, or a froghemoth. The form must be small enough to fit in a 1-foot cube and loses its shape after a few seconds, becoming an ordinary puff of smoke.

Dust of Corrosion

Magic Items The Wild Beyond the Witchlight

As an action, you can throw this dust into the air, filling a 10-foot cube that extends out from you. Surfaces and objects made of nonmagical ferrous metal in the area instantly corrode and turn to

dust, becoming useless and unsalvageable. Any creature in the area that is made wholly or partly out of ferrous metal must make a DC 13 Constitution saving throw, taking 4d8 necrotic damage on a failed

Sweettooth Horror

Monsters Monstrous Compendium Vol. 4: Eldraine Creatures

Caramelization. If the horror takes fire damage, it releases a sweet, mesmerizing scent. Each creature within 30 feet of the horror must succeed on a DC 11 Wisdom saving throw or have the charmed

a delicious chocolatey flavor, a gelatinous cube might have a more decorative shape and taste fruity, and an ochre jelly could smell like butterscotch. PoisonBludgeoning

Lichen Lich

Monsters Candlekeep Mysteries

its hit points and becoming active again. The new body appears within 5 feet of the phylactery.Multiattack. The lich makes four attacks. Poisonous Touch. Melee Weapon Attack: +9;{"diceNotation":"1d20

","rollType":"damage","rollAction":"Wither","rollDamageType":"necrotic"} necrotic damage. Fire Storm (7th-Level Spell; 1/Day). The lich fills up to ten 10-foot cubes with fire. Every cube must be within

Abracadabrus

Magic Items Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden

An abracadabrus is an ornate, gemstone-studded wooden chest that weighs 25 pounds while empty. Its interior compartment is a cube measuring 1½ feet on a side. The chest has 20 charges. A

24 hours. Gems and precious metals created by the chest disappear after 1 minute. The chest regains 1d20 expended charges daily at dawn. If the item’s last charge is expended, roll a d20. On a 1, the chest loses its magic (becoming an ordinary chest), and its gemstones turn to dust.

Gigant

Monsters Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants

is pulled 10 feet straight toward the gigant. Scale Dust (Recharge 5–6);{"diceNotation":"1d6", "rollType":"recharge", "rollAction":"Scale Dust"}. The gigant releases magical dust from its wings in a

30-foot cube. Each creature in that area must make a DC 19 Constitution saving throw, taking 45 (10d8);{"diceNotation":"10d8", "rollType":"damage", "rollAction":"Scale Dust", "rollDamageType":"poison

Demilich (Variant) Legacy

Monsters Monster Manual (2014)

exist. If the demilich drops to 0 hit points, it is destroyed and turns to powder, leaving behind its gems. Crushing a gem releases any soul trapped within, at which point the target’s body re

souls of the insolent intruders to his tomb, magically transferring them to his phylactery. Liches who follow Acererak’s path believe that by becoming free of their bodies, they can continue

Staff of the Forgotten One

Magic Items Tomb of Annihilation

force tries to possess the staff wielder. The wielder must succeed on a DC 20 Charisma saving throw or be possessed, becoming an NPC under the DM’s control. If the intruding life force is targeted

. Destroying the Staff. A creature in possession of the staff can use an action to break it over one knee or a solid surface. The staff is destroyed and releases its remaining magic in an explosion that

Ancient Deep Dragon Legacy

Monsters Fizban's Treasury of Dragons

action can 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. Commanding Spores. The dragon releases spores

"} psychic damage. Tail. The dragon makes one Tail attack. Spore Salvo (Costs 2 Actions). The dragon releases poisonous spores around a creature within 30 feet of it that it can see. The target must

Adult Deep Dragon Legacy

Monsters Fizban's Treasury of Dragons

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. Commanding Spores. The dragon releases spores around a

damage. Tail. The dragon makes one Tail attack. Spore Salvo (Costs 2 Actions). The dragon releases poisonous spores around a creature within 30 feet of it that it can see. The target must succeed on

Pipe of Smoke Monsters

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide

. The form must be small enough to fit in a 1-foot cube and loses its shape after a few seconds, becoming an ordinary puff of smoke.

Pipe of Smoke Monsters

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight

froghemoth. The form must be small enough to fit in a 1-foot cube and loses its shape after a few seconds, becoming an ordinary puff of smoke.

Pipe of Smoke Monsters

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Xanathar's Guide to Everything

froghemoth. The form must be small enough to fit in a 1-foot cube and loses its shape after a few seconds, becoming an ordinary puff of smoke.

Dust of Corrosion

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight

Dust of Corrosion Wondrous Item, Uncommon As an action, you can throw this dust into the air, filling a 10-foot cube that extends out from you. Surfaces and objects made of nonmagical ferrous metal

in the area instantly corrode and turn to dust, becoming useless and unsalvageable. Any creature in the area that is made wholly or partly out of ferrous metal must make a DC 13 Constitution saving

9. Metal Pools

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage

removed from a pool, its depth never changes. Metal removed from the pool solidifies instantly, becoming as strong and immutable as wrought iron or cold steel. The metal instantly hardens upon leaving the

pools in cube form. A creature might learn the method by casting identify on a pool or by asking Zox. A creature must place one or more of its hands within 1 foot of the pool’s surface and recite the

23. Hook Horror Larder

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage

enough to fit in a 1-foot cube. It loses its shape after a few seconds, becoming an ordinary puff of smoke.

7. Traders' Grotto

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss

quietly and not be so open. He inspects the gems, weighs them by hand while looking at the characters with suspicion, then pays them for the delivery with a zircon worth 50 gp. Gelatinous Cube Incursion The

around you all draw weapons and retreat as you see a guard stumble back, then rise up in the air. A strange shimmer around him reveals the surface of the gelatinous cube that has engulfed him. Two

Lichen Lich

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries

. Rejuvenation. If it has a phylactery, a destroyed lich gains a new body in 1d10 days, regaining all its hit points and becoming active again. The new body appears within 5 feet of the phylactery. Actions

hit, range 60 ft., one target. Hit: 14 (4d6) necrotic damage. Fire Storm (7th-Level Spell; 1/Day). The lich fills up to ten 10-foot cubes with fire. Every cube must be within 150 feet of the lich and

Random Traps

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)

from wall, floor, or object 28–30 Touching an object triggers a flesh to stone spell 31–33 Floor collapses or is an illusion 34–36 Vent releases gas: blinding, acidic, obscuring, paralyzing, poisonous

bladed or weighted as a maul, swings across the room or hall 63–67 Hidden pit opens beneath characters (25 percent chance that a black pudding or gelatinous cube fills the bottom of the pit) 68–70 Hidden

30. Halaster's Handiwork

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage

name to Netherskull after becoming a death tyrant. Netherskull has slain countless interlopers, none more deserving of death than a pompous human paladin named Fidelio, who wept bitter tears before

property. 30b. Play-by-Play Generator This dusty room has a 10-foot-high ceiling. A 3-foot cube composed of equal parts adamantine and flesh sits atop a 3-foot-tall hexagonal plinth of carved stone

Xaos

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Sigil and the Outlands

. Robson Michel Three modrons prepare to enter the Cube, a mechanical outpost corrupted by the disorder of Xaos Gate The gate to Limbo shifts with the town, changing shape and location at indeterminate

diamond, domed obsidian taverns, and magnesium enclosures that shelter inhabitants from roiling storms of matter and energy. The Cube Recently, a unit of modrons from the far end of the Outlands set out to

Sweettooth Horror

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monstrous Compendium Volume Four

the Monster Manual. For example, a black pudding might have a delicious chocolatey flavor, a gelatinous cube might have a more decorative shape and taste fruity, and an ochre jelly could smell like

Languages — Challenge 4 (1,100 XP) Proficiency Bonus +2 Caramelization. If the horror takes fire damage, it releases a sweet, mesmerizing scent. Each creature within 30 feet of the horror must succeed

4. Shagambi's Shrine

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation

. The pedestal is a 4-foot-high stone cylinder that is impervious to damage and spells. Close inspection reveals a stone hatch in the top of it. Any physical attempt to force open the hatch releases a

cloud of gas through the holes in the wall relief. The gas fills a 15-foot cube directly in front of the mural. Creatures in the area must make a DC 12 Constitution saving throw, taking 14 (4d6

K38. False Treasury

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd

. The chest weighs 40 pounds and is unlocked. When opened, it releases a cloud of sleeping gas that fills the room. Any creature in the room must succeed on a DC 18 Constitution saving throw or be

the torch from its sconce at any time causes the secret door to close and lock shut, becoming sealed as before. Characters can locate this secret door normally, but a successful check doesn’t reveal

51. Wind Tunnel

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a3

lintels run the length of the passage. The corridor abruptly widens to a cube fifteen feet on a side with a corrugated floor. In the ceiling of this area, a bronze, circular trapdoor is set. The cover is

rusty spikes. On the other side of this area, the corridor continues. Hazardous Hatch. Opening the hatch releases a whirlwind. The character who climbed up to open the hatch is hurled to the floor

39. Golem Pit

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation

the golem to attack. A character using thieves’ tools can pick the lock with a successful DC 20 Dexterity check. However, opening the chest by any means other than the silver key releases a cloud of

gas that fills a 15-foot cube centered above the chest (filling the entire pit). The gas instantly corrodes and destroys all nonmagical metal that comes into contact with it, including armor and

2. Kalabash's Chambers

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage

flying swords that deal bludgeoning damage instead of slashing damage. If the specter is defeated, the pots and pans clatter to the ground, becoming inanimate once more. 2d. Kalabash’s Bedroom The door to

tries to break or smash the lock, the mechanism releases a small bolt of lightning that deals 10 (3d6) lightning damage to the creature tampering with it (no saving throw). The chest is empty except for

Gigant

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants

releases magical dust from its wings in a 30-foot cube. Each creature in that area must make a DC 19 Constitution saving throw, taking 45 (10d8) poison damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a

Monsters F - M

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Lost Laboratory of Kwalish

. Gelatinous Cube Large ooze, unaligned Armor Class 6 Hit Points 84 (8d10 + 40) Speed 15 ft. STR 14(+2) DEX 3(−4) CON 20(+5) INT 1(−5) WIS 6(−2) CHA 1(−5

) Ooze Cube. The cube takes up its entire space. Other creatures can enter the space, but a creature that does so is subjected to the cube’s Engulf and has disadvantage on the saving throw. Creatures

Exploration Example

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player’s Handbook

spell, drenching the fireplace. Jared: What does the spell’s description say? Phillip: It causes 10 gallons of water to rain down in a 30-foot Cube, extinguishing flames there. 5 Casting

it releases a cloud of sweet-smelling gas. Amy: Oh, no. Jared: Oh, yes. I need Auro and Gareth to make Constitution saving throws. Amy: Sorry, Phillip! I got an 8. Phillip: And a 5 for Gareth

Lich

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)

lichdom on a whim, and the process of becoming a lich is a well-guarded secret. Wizards that seek lichdom must make bargains with fiends, evil gods, or other foul entities. Many turn to Orcus, Demon

as the lich for the spell to work. A lich’s phylactery can hold only one creature at a time, and a dispel magic cast as a 9th-level spell upon the phylactery releases any creature imprisoned within

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