before being dead causes radius

Gunpowder (keg)

Equipment

Setting fire to a keg full of Gunpowder causes it to explode. When a keg explodes, each creature in a 10-foot-radius Sphere centered on the keg makes a DC 12 Dexterity saving throw, taking 24 (7d6) Fire damage on a failed save or half as much damage on a successful one.

Gunpowder (powder horn)

Equipment

Setting fire to a powder horn full of Gunpowder causes it to explode. When a powder horn explodes, each creature in a 10-foot-radius Sphere centered on the powder horn makes a DC 12 Dexterity saving throw, taking 10 (3d6) Fire damage on a failed save or half as much damage on a successful one.

Bead of Force

Magic Items Dungeon Master’s Guide

. The bead explodes in a 10-foot-radius Sphere on impact and is destroyed. Each creature in the Sphere must succeed on a DC 15 Dexterity saving throw or take 5d4 Force damage. A sphere of transparent

enclosed creature can take a Utilize action to push against the sphere’s wall, moving the sphere up to half the creature’s Speed. The sphere can be picked up, and its magic causes it to weigh only 1 pound, regardless of the weight of creatures inside.

Hallow

Spells Player’s Handbook

You touch a point and infuse an area around it with holy or unholy power. The area can have a radius up to 60 feet, and the spell fails if the radius includes an area already under the effect of

. Magical Darkness created by spells of a level lower than this spell can’t extinguish the light. Peaceful Rest. Dead bodies interred in the area can’t be turned into Undead. Extradimensional

Wand of Orcus

Magic Items Dungeon Master’s Guide

from it (save DC 18). The table indicates how many charges you must expend to cast the spell. Spell Charge Cost Animate Dead 1 Blight 2 Circle of Death 3 Finger of

Death 3 Power Word Kill 4 Speak with Dead 1 While attuned to the wand, Orcus or a follower blessed by him can cast each of the wand’s spells using 2 fewer charges (minimum of 0

Rod of Lordly Might

Magic Items Dungeon Master’s Guide

push a different button or until you push the same button again, which causes the rod to revert to its normal form: Button 1. A fiery blade sprouts from the end opposite the rod’s flanged head

. The flames shed Bright Light in a 40-foot radius and Dim Light for an additional 40 feet, and the blade functions as a magic Longsword or Shortsword (your choice) that deals an extra 2d6 Fire damage

Reincarnate Legacy

Spells Basic Rules (2014)

You touch a dead humanoid or a piece of a dead humanoid. Provided that the creature has been dead no longer than 10 days, the spell forms a new adult body for it and then calls the soul to enter that

body. If the target's soul isn't free or willing to do so, the spell fails. The magic fashions a new body for the creature to inhabit, which likely causes the creature's race to change. The GM rolls

Gunpowder, Powder Horn Legacy

Equipment

halves the damage. Setting fire to an ounce of gunpowder causes it to flare for 1 round, shedding bright light in a 30-foot radius and dim light for an additional 30 feet.

Gunpowder, Keg Legacy

Equipment

halves the damage. Setting fire to an ounce of gunpowder causes it to flare for 1 round, shedding bright light in a 30-foot radius and dim light for an additional 30 feet.

Orcus Legacy

Monsters Out of the Abyss

Wand of Orcus. The wand has 7 charges, and any of its properties that require a saving throw have a save DC of 18. While holding it, Orcus can use an action to cast animate dead, blight, or speak

with dead. Alternatively, he can expend 1 or more of the wand’s charges to cast one of the following spells from it: circle of death (1 charge), finger of death (1 charge), or power word kill (2

Orcus

Monsters Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse

kill. Orcus needn’t see the creature, but he must be aware that the individual is in the lair. Grasp of the Dead. Orcus causes skeletal arms to rise from an area on the ground in a 20-foot square

. Master of Undeath. Orcus can cast animate dead (at will) and create undead (3/day). He chooses the level at which the spells are cast, and the creatures created by them remain under his control

Gem of Brightness Legacy

Magic Items Basic Rules (2014)

This prism has 50 charges. While you are holding it, you can use an action to speak one of three command words to cause one of the following effects: The first command word causes the gem to shed

bright light in a 30-foot radius and dim light for an additional 30 feet. This effect doesn't expend a charge. It lasts until you use a bonus action to repeat the command word or until you use another

Ghost Lantern

Magic Items Tomb of Annihilation

A restless spirit is trapped inside this lantern. While holding the lantern, you can command the spirit as a bonus action to shed bright light in a 30-foot radius and dim light for an additional 30

lantern and can’t be harmed, turned, or raised from the dead. Casting a dispel evil and good spell on the lantern releases the spirit to the afterlife and renders the lantern nonmagical.

Autumn Eladrin Legacy

Monsters Mordenkainen’s Tome of Foes

material components: At will: calm emotions, sleep 3/day each: cure wounds (as a 5th-level spell), lesser restoration 1/day each: greater restoration, heal, raise dead Magic Resistance. The eladrin has

"} psychic damage.Foster Peace. If a creature charmed by the eladrin hits with an attack roll while within 60 feet of the eladrin, the eladrin magically causes the attack to miss, provided the eladrin can see the attacker.Bludgeoning, Piercing, and Slashing from Nonmagical Attacks

Scion of Surtur

Monsters Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants

concentrating must succeed on a DC 26 Constitution saving throw or lose concentration. Incendiary Smoke. The scion causes smoke and white-hot embers to billow from its skin, filling a 30-foot-radius sphere

points, and it is immune to fire, poison, and psychic damage. On a successful save, a creature takes half as much damage only.A scion of Surtur slumbering at the peak of a volcano causes an unending

Undying Soldier

Monsters Eberron: Rising from the Last War

Illumination. The soldier magically sheds bright light in a 10-foot radius and dim light for an additional 10 feet. The soldier can extinguish or restore this light as a bonus action. Turn Resistance

the Dead. They guard the temples of the Undying Court and the mansions of the noble lines of Aerenal, and Aereni ambassadors are often accompanied by undead bodyguards. Undying soldiers wear heirloom

Elise

Monsters Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft

, though they can still die in other ways. The glowing device sheds light in a 10-foot radius and dim light for an additional 10 feet. While inside a creature, the device causes the creature to shed dim

Bead of Force Legacy

Magic Items Basic Rules (2014)

explodes on impact and is destroyed. Each creature within a 10-foot radius of where the bead landed must succeed on a DC 15 Dexterity saving throw or take 5d4 force damage. A sphere of transparent

creature can use its action to push against the sphere's wall, moving the sphere up to half the creature's walking speed. The sphere can be picked up, and its magic causes it to weigh only 1 pound, regardless of the weight of creatures inside.

Coldlight Walker

Monsters Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden

Blinding Light. The walker sheds bright light in a 20-foot radius and dim light for an additional 20 feet. As a bonus action, the walker can target one creature in its bright light that it can see

can't be thawed, harmed by fire, animated, or raised from the dead. Unusual Nature. The walker doesn't require air, food, drink, or sleep.Multiattack. The walker makes two attacks. Slam. Melee Weapon

Lorehold Pledgemage

Monsters Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos

each: comprehend languages, locate object 1/day each: mage armor, speak with dead, stone shapeLearn from the Past (2/Day). When another creature within 60 feet of the pledgemage misses a target with an

Lorehold apprentice;apprentices and then as pledgemages—study the magic of the past, searching for arcane artifacts and speaking with long-dead adventurers to uncover secrets lost to time. Though

Tree Blight

Monsters Curse of Strahd

a tree blight is a particularly enormous variety. It looks like a dead tree or treant, 30 feet tall, with spongy wooden flesh, thorny branches, and rubbery roots that trail behind it. It has blood

cutting them causes the blight no harm. Blight Animosity. A tree blight will often fight alongside other kinds of blights, but it hates other tree blights and will attack them given the chance. Tree

Witherbloom Professor of Decay

Monsters Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos

Essence Transfer (1/Day). The professor can cast the animate dead spell, using Wisdom as the spellcasting ability.Multiattack. The professor makes two Mortality Spear attacks. It can replace one of

vortex in a 30-foot-radius sphere centered on itself. Each creature of the professor’s choice that it can see within that area must make a DC 15 Constitution saving throw, taking 23 (5d8

Darkling Elder Legacy

Monsters Volo's Guide to Monsters

Death Burn. When the darkling elder dies, magical light flashes out from it in a 10-foot radius as its body and possessions, other than metal or magic objects, burn to ash. Any creature in that area

. The Killing Light. The Summer Queen's curse causes a darkling's body to absorb light, and doing so wizens the creature, much like the effect of rapid aging. For this reason, darklings cover every

Stalker of Baphomet

Monsters Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants

no more rocks to throw. Erupting Horns (Recharge 5–6);{"diceNotation":"1d6", "rollType":"recharge", "rollAction":"Erupting Horns"}. The stalker causes the earth to churn at a point on the ground it

can see within 60 feet of itself. Six horn-shaped stones erupt in a 30-foot-radius, 30-foot-high cylinder centered on that point and then crumble to dust. Each creature in that area must make a DC 15

Cradle of the Fire Scion

Monsters Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants

each of its turns, ending the effect on itself on a success.A scion of Surtur slumbering at the peak of a volcano causes an unending plume of smoke to rise, sometimes lit from below by fiery bursts of

magma at intruders, exhales fiery gases, and causes molten stone to erupt from the ground around it. If the cradle is destroyed, the scion of Surtur inside it awakens. Standing 60 feet tall, the scion

Darkling Legacy

Monsters Volo's Guide to Monsters

Death Flash. When the darkling dies, nonmagical light flashes out from it in a 10-foot radius as its body and possessions, other than metal or magic objects, burn to ash. Any creature in that area

chambers beneath the towns of other species. From such enclaves, they quietly ply their trade as thieves and assassins. The Killing Light. The Summer Queen's curse causes a darkling's body to absorb light

Staff of the Forgotten One

Magic Items Tomb of Annihilation

, remove curse, or similar spell ends the curse on the target. The Forgotten One. The bodiless life force of a dead archmage empowers the staff and is imprisoned within it. The rune carved into the

by magic such as a dispel evil and good spell, it becomes trapped in the staff once more. Once it takes control of another creature, the spirit of the dead archmage attempts to destroy the staff

Dhampir

Species Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft

Poised between the worlds of the living and the dead, dhampirs retain their grip on life yet are endlessly tested by vicious hungers. Their ties to the undead grant dhampirs a taste of a vampire

lineage. Dhampir Origins d8 Origin 1 You are the reincarnation of an ancestor who was a vampiric tyrant. 2 Your pact with a predatory deity, fiend, fey, or spirit causes you

Zombie Plague Spreader

Monsters Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft

);{"diceNotation":"2d8","rollType":"damage","rollAction":"Slam","rollDamageType":"necrotic"} necrotic damage. Virulent Miasma (1/Day). The plague spreader releases toxic gas in a 30-foot-radius sphere

Manual) 1 minute later. The zombie acts immediately after the plague spreader in the initiative count.Among the undead, a lone zombie ranks far from the most menacing. The horror of the shambling dead lies

Returned Kakomantis

Monsters Mythic Odysseys of Theros

Bolt","rollDamageType":"necrotic"} necrotic damage.Although the dead typically recall little of their lives, some have an obsession with magic that survives both death and rebirth as a Returned. These

, which manifest as separate beings known as eidolons. The experience of escaping the Underworld also causes them to lose their faces, which become expressionless surfaces with empty eye sockets and gaping

Lorehold Professor of Order

Monsters Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos

Voice from the Past (1/Day). The professor can cast the contact other plane spell to contact a long-dead spirit, using Intelligence as the spellcasting ability.Multiattack. The professor makes two

for 1 minute or until the professor uses this action again. The barrier can be a vertical or horizontal plane up to 30 feet on a side or a 10-foot-radius hemispherical dome with a floor. The wall

Oinoloth

Monsters Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse

wherever they go. When armies recognize their awful forms, their mere appearance causes soldiers to break ranks and flee, lest they succumb to one of the awful plagues that oinoloths let loose

);{"diceNotation":"1d6", "rollType":"recharge", "rollAction":"Bringer of Plagues"}. The oinoloth blights the area in a 30-foot-radius sphere centered on itself. The blight lasts for 24 hours. While the area is

Hallow Legacy

Spells Basic Rules (2014)

You touch a point and infuse an area around it with holy (or unholy) power. The area can have a radius up to 60 feet, and the spell fails if the radius includes an area already under the effect a

. Affected creatures in the area have vulnerability to one damage type of your choice, except for bludgeoning, piercing, or slashing. Everlasting Rest. Dead bodies interred in the area can't be turned

Wand of Wonder Legacy

Magic Items Basic Rules (2014)

. Roll d100 and consult the following table to discover what happens. If the effect causes you to cast a spell from the wand, the spell's save DC is 15. If the spell normally has a range expressed in

Heavy rain falls in a 60-foot radius centered on the target. The area becomes lightly obscured. The rain falls until the start of your next turn. 34-36 An animal appears in the unoccupied space

Iggwilv's Cauldron

Magic Items The Wild Beyond the Witchlight

dissipates quickly. At the same time, all Humanoid creatures within a certain radius of the cauldron fall unconscious for 1 hour, except those that are attuned to the cauldron or immune to being charmed. The

radius of the effect is 100 feet per gallon of blood used. An unconscious creature awakens if it takes damage or if someone uses an action to shake or slap it. Once used, this property of the cauldron

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