before being damage called return

Double-Bladed Scimitar

Equipment

one. A Valenar blade in the hands of a non-elf is generally assumed to have been stolen or looted from a fallen foe, and a Valenar elf might feel entitled to demand its return or challenge the bearer

to prove they’re worthy to wield it. Special. If you attack with a double-bladed scimitar as part of the Attack action on your turn, you can use a bonus action immediately after to make a melee attack with it. This attack deals 1d4 slashing damage on a hit, instead of 2d4.

Crossbow Expert

Feats Player’s Handbook

Loading property of the crossbow, hand;Hand Crossbow, crossbow, heavy;Heavy Crossbow, and crossbow, light;Light Crossbow (all called crossbows elsewhere in this feat). If you’re holding one of

. Dual Wielding. When you make the extra attack of the Light property, you can add your ability modifier to the damage of the extra attack if that attack is with a crossbow that has the Light property and you aren’t already adding that modifier to the damage.

Death Dog

Monsters Monster Manual

+2", "rollType":"damage", "rollAction":"Bite", "rollDamageType":"Piercing"} Piercing damage. If the target is a creature, it is subjected to the following effect. Constitution Saving Throw: DC 12

. First Failure: The target has the Poisoned condition. While Poisoned, the target’s Hit Point maximum doesn’t return to normal when finishing a Long Rest, and it repeats the save every 24 hours

Mummy

Monsters Monster Manual

5 ft. Hit: 8 (1d10 + 3);{"diceNotation":"1d10+3", "rollType":"damage", "rollAction":"Rotting Fist", "rollDamageType":"Bludgeoning"} Bludgeoning damage plus 10 (3d6);{"diceNotation":"3d6", "rollType

":"damage", "rollAction":"Rotting Fist", "rollDamageType":"Necrotic"} Necrotic damage. If the target is a creature, it is cursed. While cursed, the target can’t regain Hit Points, its Hit Point

Blue Slaad

Monsters Monster Manual

. Hit: 12 (2d6 + 5);{"diceNotation":"2d6+5", "rollType":"damage", "rollAction":"Mutating Claw", "rollDamageType":"Slashing"} Slashing damage plus 3 (1d6);{"diceNotation":"1d6", "rollType":"damage

", "rollAction":"Mutating Claw", "rollDamageType":"Poison"} Poison damage. If the target is a Humanoid not cursed by a slaad, it is subjected to the following effect. Constitution Saving Throw: DC 15

Staff of the Woodlands

Magic Items Dungeon Master’s Guide

This staff has 6 charges and can be wielded as a magic Quarterstaff that grants a +2 bonus to attack rolls and damage rolls made with it. While holding it, you have a +2 bonus to spell attack rolls

discerned with the Detect Magic spell. While touching the tree and using a Magic action, you return the staff to its normal form. Any creature in the tree falls when the tree reverts to a staff

Dancing Sword

Magic Items Dungeon Master’s Guide

. The weapon uses your attack roll and adds your ability modifier to damage rolls. While the weapon hovers, you can take a Bonus Action to cause it to fly up to 30 feet to another spot within 30 feet of

tries to return to your hand. If you have no hand free, the weapon falls to the ground in your space. If the weapon has no unobstructed path to you, it moves as close to you as it can and then falls to the ground. It also ceases to hover if you grasp it or are more than 30 feet away from it.

Whelm

Magic Items Dungeon Master’s Guide

Whelm is a powerful weapon forged by dwarves and lost in the dungeon of White Plume Mountain. You gain a +3 bonus to attack rolls and damage rolls made with this magic weapon. Hurl. Whelm has the

Thrown property with a normal range of 60 feet and a long range of 180 feet. When you hit with a ranged attack roll using Whelm, the target takes an extra 1d8 Force damage, or an extra 4d8 Force damage

Suggestion

Spells Player’s Handbook

involve anything that would obviously deal damage to the target or its allies. For example, you could say, “Fetch the key to the cult’s treasure vault, and give the key to me.” Or

you could say, “Stop fighting, leave this library peacefully, and don’t return.” The target must succeed on a Wisdom saving throw or have the Charmed condition for the duration or

Otyugh

Monsters Monster Manual

);{"diceNotation":"2d8+3", "rollType":"damage", "rollAction":"Bite", "rollDamageType":"Piercing"} Piercing damage, and the target has the Poisoned condition. Whenever the Poisoned target finishes a

", "rollAction":"Bite"} and doesn’t return to normal until the Poisoned condition ends on the target. Success: The Poisoned condition ends. Tentacle. Melee Attack Roll: +6;{"diceNotation":"1d20+6

Etherealness

Spells Player’s Handbook

unless a feature gives them the ability to do so. When the spell ends, you return to the plane you left in the spot that corresponds to your space in the Border Ethereal. If you appear in an occupied

space, you are shunted to the nearest unoccupied space and take Force damage equal to twice the number of feet you are moved. This spell ends instantly if you cast it while you are on the Ethereal Plane

Blackrazor

Magic Items Dungeon Master’s Guide

attack rolls and damage rolls made with this magic weapon. If you hit an Undead with this weapon, you take 1d10 Necrotic damage, and the target regains 1d10 Hit Points. If this Necrotic damage reduces you

energy sprang from a void of negative energy and will one day return to it. Blackrazor is meant to hurry that process along. Despite its nihilism, Blackrazor feels a strange kinship to Wave and Whelm

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

vampire has these weaknesses: Forbiddance. The vampire can’t enter a residence without an invitation from an occupant. Running Water. The vampire takes 20 Acid damage if it ends its turn in running

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

+14", "rollType":"to hit", "rollAction":"Spectral Claw"}, reach 10 ft. or range 60 ft. Hit: 17 (3d6 + 7);{"diceNotation":"3d6+7", "rollType":"damage", "rollAction":"Spectral Claw", "rollDamageType

Deck of Many Things

Magic Items Dungeon Master’s Guide

die. If an ally of yours deals damage to the avatar, that ally summons another Avatar of Death. The new avatar appears in an unoccupied space as close to that ally as possible and targets only that

Movement. The avatar can move through other creatures and objects as if they were Difficult Terrain. It takes 5 (1d10) Force damage if it ends its turn inside an object. Actions Multiattack. The

Umbragen Shadow-Walker

Monsters Eberron: Forge of the Artificer

ft. or range 120 ft. Hit: 14 (2d8 + 5);{"diceNotation":"2d8+5", "rollType":"damage", "rollAction":"Gloom Burst", "rollDamageType":"Psychic"} Psychic damage. Shadow Cowl. Wisdom Saving Throw: DC 17

, one creature the shadow walker can see within 120 feet. Failure: 14 (4d6);{"diceNotation":"4d6", "rollType":"damage", "rollAction":"Shadow Cowl", "rollDamageType":"Necrotic"} Necrotic damage, and the

Lorwyn Giant

Monsters Lorwyn: First Light

"}, reach 15 ft. Hit: 21 (3d10 + 5);{"diceNotation":"3d10+5", "rollType":"damage", "rollAction":"Stone Sword", "rollDamageType":"Slashing"} Slashing damage. Boulder. Ranged Attack Roll: +8

;{"diceNotation":"1d20+8", "rollType":"to hit", "rollAction":"Boulder"}, range 60/240 ft. Hit: 14 (2d8 + 5);{"diceNotation":"2d8+5", "rollType":"damage", "rollAction":"Boulder", "rollDamageType":"Bludgeoning

Flizzlebin

Monsters Stranger Things: Welcome to the Hellfire Club

":"2d6+3", "rollType":"damage", "rollAction":"Dazzling Confetti", "rollDamageType":"Radiant"} Radiant damage. Vanishing Trick (3/Day). Flizzlebin has the Invisible condition for 10 minutes. This effect

ends early immediately after Flizzlebin makes an attack roll, deals damage, or has the Incapacitated condition, or if his hat is removed.Distracting Glitter. Trigger: Flizzlebin is hit by an attack

Vampire Infernalist

Monsters Astarion's Book of Hungers

, 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

. Running Water. The vampire takes 20 Acid damage if it ends its turn in running water. Stake to the Heart. If a weapon that deals Piercing damage is driven into the vampire’s heart while the

Medani Inquisitive

Monsters Eberron: Forge of the Artificer

hit", "rollAction":"Crooked Staff"}, reach 5 ft. Hit: 6 (1d8 + 2);{"diceNotation":"1d8+2", "rollType":"damage", "rollAction":"Crooked Staff", "rollDamageType":"Bludgeoning"} Bludgeoning damage. If

the target is a Medium or smaller creature, it has the Prone condition. If the target already has the Prone condition, the attack deals an extra 7 (2d6);{"diceNotation":"2d6", "rollType":"damage

Zlan