before being depending corpse rolls

Myconid Sovereign Legacy

Monsters Monster Manual (2014)

rolls, and saving throws. The myconid dies if it spends more than 1 hour in direct sunlight.Multiattack. The myconid uses either its Hallucination Spores or its Pacifying Spores, then makes a fist

/Day). The myconid targets one corpse of a humanoid or a Large or smaller beast within 5 feet of it and releases spores at the corpse. In 24 hours, the corpse rises as a spore servant. The corpse

Shadow Legacy

Monsters Basic Rules (2014)

. Sunlight Weakness. While in sunlight, the shadow has disadvantage on attack rolls, ability checks, and saving throws.Strength Drain. Melee Weapon Attack: +4;{"diceNotation":"1d20+4","rollType":"to hit

lasts until the target finishes a short or long rest. If a non-evil humanoid dies from this attack, a new shadow rises from the corpse 1d4;{"diceNotation":"1d4","rollType":"roll"} hours

Lampad

Monsters Mythic Odysseys of Theros

Corpse Stride. Once on its turn, the lampad can use 10 feet of its movement to step magically into one creature's corpse within its reach and emerge from a second creature's corpse within 60 feet of

the first corpse, appearing in an unoccupied space within 5 feet of the second corpse. Both corpses must be Medium or bigger. Innate Spellcasting. The lampad's spellcasting ability is Charisma (+6

Wraith Legacy

Monsters Basic Rules (2014)

Movement","rollDamageType":"force"} force damage if it ends its turn inside an object. Sunlight Sensitivity. While in sunlight, the wraith has disadvantage on attack rolls, as well as on Wisdom

wraith targets a humanoid within 10 feet of it that has been dead for no longer than 1 minute and died violently. The target's spirit rises as a specter in the space of its corpse or in the nearest

Carrion Stalker

Monsters Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft

advantage on attack rolls against it. A creature can use its action to try to detach the carrion stalker and force it to move into the nearest unoccupied space, doing so with a successful DC 11 Strength

instantly kills the larvae in the creature, ending the effect on it. If a creature is reduced to 0 hit points by the infestation, it dies. The larvae remain in the corpse, and one survives to become a fully

Cloaker Mutate

Monsters Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk

if it fails. Light Sensitivity. While in bright light, the mutate has disadvantage on attack rolls.Multiattack. The mutate makes one Corpse Swipe attack and two Tail attacks, or it makes four Tail

attacks. Corpse Swipe. Melee Weapon Attack: +8;{"diceNotation":"1d20+8", "rollType":"to hit", "rollAction":"Corpse Swipe"} to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 20 (3d10 + 4);{"diceNotation":"3d10+4

Derro

Monsters Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse

Magic Resistance. The derro has advantage on saving throws against spells and other magical effects. Sunlight Sensitivity. While in sunlight, the derro has disadvantage on attack rolls, as well as

varies, depending on whatever foe the savants want to lead their people against, yet the essence of the story remains the same: a lesson of survival at any price and an example of how deceitfulness and cruelty can be virtues.

Blood-Toll Harpy

Monsters Mythic Odysseys of Theros

Blood Frenzy. The harpy has advantage on melee attack rolls against any creature that doesn't have all its hit points. Dark Devotion. The harpy has advantage on saving throws against being charmed or

to as a “blood toll.” Cruel, corpse-eating creatures, harpies endlessly seek their next meal, careless of whether it comes from the living or the dead. With equal zeal, these vicious scavengers set

Young Red Shadow Dragon Legacy

Monsters Monster Manual (2014)

the Hide action as a bonus action. Sunlight Sensitivity. While in sunlight, the dragon has disadvantage on attack rolls, as well as on Wisdom (Perception) checks that rely on sight.Multiattack. The

shadow rises from its corpse and acts immediately after the dragon in the initiative count. The shadow is under the dragon’s control.FireNecrotic

Reflections

Monsters Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything

action. Sunlight Weakness. While in sunlight, the reflections has disadvantage on attack rolls, ability checks, and saving throws.Strength Drain. Melee Weapon Attack: +4;{"diceNotation":"1d20+4

, the reduction lasts until the target finishes a short or long rest. If a non-evil humanoid dies from this attack, a new reflections rises from the corpse 1d4;{"diceNotation":"1d4","rollType":"roll

Specter of Night

Monsters Monstrous Compendium Vol. 4: Eldraine Creatures

. A creature marked for death can’t regain hit points, has disadvantage on death saving throws, and all attack rolls against it are made with advantage. This effect lasts for 1 minute or until

specter and imagine the rider in command of the mount, but the truth is the opposite; the flying horror is an Undead monster that scours the wilds for a knightly corpse. On finding one, the horror binds its

Swarm of Maggots

Monsters Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft

can’t be removed until the disease ends. The creature dies if its hit point maximum drops to 0. 5–6. The creature has disadvantage on ability checks and attack rolls until it finishes its

next long rest. The disease lasts until it’s removed by magic or until the creature rolls the same random effect for the disease two long rests in a row.Base creatures are among the first to

Shadow Assassin

Monsters Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage

. Sunlight Weakness. While in sunlight, the assassin has disadvantage on attack rolls, ability checks, and saving throws.Multiattack. The assassin makes two Shadow Blade attacks. Shadow Blade. Melee

. If a non-evil humanoid dies from this attack, a shadow (see the Monster Manual) rises from the corpse 1d4;{"diceNotation":"1d4","rollType":"roll"} hours later.Necrotic, PoisonAcid, Cold, Fire, Lightning, Thunder; Bludgeoning, Piercing, and Slashing from Nonmagical AttacksRadiant

Derro Savant

Monsters Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse

Magic Resistance. The derro has advantage on saving throws against spells and other magical effects. Sunlight Sensitivity. While in sunlight, the derro has disadvantage on attack rolls, as well as

this legend varies, depending on whatever foe the savants want to lead their people against, yet the essence of the story remains the same: a lesson of survival at any price and an example of how deceitfulness and cruelty can be virtues.

Danse Macabre

Spells Xanathar's Guide to Everything

Threads of dark power leap from your fingers to pierce up to five Small or Medium corpses you can see within range. Each corpse immediately stands up and becomes undead. You decide whether it is a

zombie or a skeleton (the statistics for zombies and skeletons are in the Monster Manual), and it gains a bonus to its attack and damage rolls equal to your spellcasting ability modifier. You can

Brain in a Jar

Monsters Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden

target is Undead, it also has disadvantage on attack rolls against the brain until the end of the brain’s next turn. Mind Blast (Recharge 5–6);{"diceNotation":"1d6","rollType":"recharge

wrought masterwork, depending on its creator. Still other brains desire nothing more than to regain a body. This might be the brain’s original body, another frame they covet, or some more

Black Rose Bearer

Monsters Vecna: Eve of Ruin

berserk. On each of its turns while berserk, the bearer has advantage on melee attack rolls, it can Dash as a bonus action, and it must attack the nearest creature it can see. If no creature is near

. Suffer not their presence; destroy rose bearers on sight.” —Common saying among the Knights of Solamnia A black rose bearer is a rotting corpse animated by necromancers on Krynn to serve

Hollow Dragon

Monsters Fizban's Treasury of Dragons

and it has disadvantage on attack rolls until the end of its next turn. On a successful save, the creature is immune to this hollow dragon’s Sapping Presence for 24 hours. Radiant Breath

. Depending on the dragon’s original kind, that energy might take the appearance of flames, lightning, or misty vapors. Hollow dragons don’t suffer distractions from their undying purpose. So

Spectral Cloud

Monsters Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants

Blurred Form. Attack rolls against the spectral cloud are made with disadvantage unless the attacker is within 15 feet of the spectral cloud or the spectral cloud is incapacitated. Incorporeal

’s appearance becomes clear: a skeletal cloud giant corpse. Tales suggest cloud giants sometimes seek this fate rather than accept the end of their naturally long lives. In such stories, a

Strike of the Giants (Frost Strike)

Feats Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants

weapon attack or a ranged weapon attack using a thrown weapon, you can imbue the attack with an additional effect depending on the benefit you chose: Cloud Strike. The target takes an extra 1d4 thunder

attack rolls until the start of your next turn. The saving throw DC for these effects equals 8 + your proficiency bonus + your Strength or Constitution modifier. You can use this feat a number of times equal to your proficiency bonus, and you regain all expended uses when you finish a long rest.

Darkweaver

Monsters Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse

Shadowy Form. While the darkweaver is in dim light or darkness, attack rolls against it are made with disadvantage unless the darkweaver has the incapacitated condition. Spider Climb. The darkweaver

in sunlight. While in sunlight, it has disadvantage on attack rolls and ability checks.Multiattack. The darkweaver makes two Shadow Web attacks and one Bite attack. It can use Reel after any of these

Strike of the Giants (Hill Strike)

Feats Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants

weapon attack or a ranged weapon attack using a thrown weapon, you can imbue the attack with an additional effect depending on the benefit you chose: Cloud Strike. The target takes an extra 1d4 thunder

attack rolls until the start of your next turn. The saving throw DC for these effects equals 8 + your proficiency bonus + your Strength or Constitution modifier. You can use this feat a number of times equal to your proficiency bonus, and you regain all expended uses when you finish a long rest.

Strike of the Giants

Feats Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants

weapon attack or a ranged weapon attack using a thrown weapon, you can imbue the attack with an additional effect depending on the benefit you chose: Cloud Strike. The target takes an extra 1d4 thunder

attack rolls until the start of your next turn. The saving throw DC for these effects equals 8 + your proficiency bonus + your Strength or Constitution modifier. You can use this feat a number of times equal to your proficiency bonus, and you regain all expended uses when you finish a long rest.

Scion of Grolantor

Monsters Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants

condition. If the scion dies, any swallowed creature no longer has the restrained condition and can escape from the corpse using 15 feet of movement, exiting with the prone condition.Feed

feet of the scion gain a +7 bonus to attack and damage rolls. Farming Weather. The weather within 6 miles of the scion is always ideal for farming: sunny and warm with occasional showers. If the scion

Umbraxakar

Monsters Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage

Sensitivity. While in sunlight, the dragon has disadvantage on attack rolls, as well as on Wisdom (Perception) checks that rely on sight.Multiattack. The dragon can use its Frightful Presence. It then

successful one. A humanoid reduced to 0 hit points by this damage dies, and an undead shadow rises from its corpse and acts immediately after Umbraxakar in the initiative count. The shadow is under

Ruinblade

Magic Items Infernal Machine Rebuild

surroundings to appear reflected in the blade as if in a state of decay. You gain a +2 bonus to attack and damage rolls made with this magic weapon. When you hit an undead creature with it, the attack

to it, Ruinblade also understands every language you know. Personality. Ruinblade speaks either with a dolorous or frenetic tone, depending on its mood. That mood improves when the sword is actively

Strike of the Giants (Cloud Strike)

Feats Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants

weapon attack or a ranged weapon attack using a thrown weapon, you can imbue the attack with an additional effect depending on the benefit you chose: Cloud Strike. The target takes an extra 1d4 thunder

attack rolls until the start of your next turn. The saving throw DC for these effects equals 8 + your proficiency bonus + your Strength or Constitution modifier. You can use this feat a number of times equal to your proficiency bonus, and you regain all expended uses when you finish a long rest.

Strike of the Giants (Fire Strike)

Feats Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants

weapon attack or a ranged weapon attack using a thrown weapon, you can imbue the attack with an additional effect depending on the benefit you chose: Cloud Strike. The target takes an extra 1d4 thunder

attack rolls until the start of your next turn. The saving throw DC for these effects equals 8 + your proficiency bonus + your Strength or Constitution modifier. You can use this feat a number of times equal to your proficiency bonus, and you regain all expended uses when you finish a long rest.

Strike of the Giants (Stone Strike)

Feats Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants

weapon attack or a ranged weapon attack using a thrown weapon, you can imbue the attack with an additional effect depending on the benefit you chose: Cloud Strike. The target takes an extra 1d4 thunder

attack rolls until the start of your next turn. The saving throw DC for these effects equals 8 + your proficiency bonus + your Strength or Constitution modifier. You can use this feat a number of times equal to your proficiency bonus, and you regain all expended uses when you finish a long rest.

Strike of the Giants (Storm Strike)

Feats Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants

weapon attack or a ranged weapon attack using a thrown weapon, you can imbue the attack with an additional effect depending on the benefit you chose: Cloud Strike. The target takes an extra 1d4 thunder

attack rolls until the start of your next turn. The saving throw DC for these effects equals 8 + your proficiency bonus + your Strength or Constitution modifier. You can use this feat a number of times equal to your proficiency bonus, and you regain all expended uses when you finish a long rest.

Unfortunate Swimmer

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh

Unfortunate Swimmer The corpse on the beach was once an older human male, with a scraggly gray beard and short gray hair balding at the crown. His left ear is missing, though it is obviously an old

body gave out just a short distance from land, and his corpse washed up on the beach with the next tide. If speak with dead is used to communicate with the body, it initially produces incoherent rambling

4. Prison

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

corpse to rot. The iron lever operates the mechanism that raises and lowers the portcullises by sliding it along the comb-shaped hole in the floor plate. Depending on how the lever is positioned, it

effects). The room has the following additional features: Cells. Six 10-foot-high cells with arched ceilings are barred with iron portcullises. Lying in the southwest cell is a humanoid corpse clad in plate

Nurvureem

Monsters Princes of the Apocalypse

Sensitivity. While in sunlight, the dragon has disadvantage on attack rolls, as well as on Wisdom (Perception) checks that rely on sight.Multiattack. The dragon can use its Frightful Presence. It then

on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one. A humanoid reduced to 0 hit points by this damage dies, and an undead shadow rises from its corpse and acts immediately after the dragon

Juiblex

Monsters Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse

’s body, where the corpse is dissolved after 1 minute. Eject Slime (Recharge 5–6);{"diceNotation":"1d6","rollType":"recharge","rollAction":"Eject Slime"}. Juiblex spews out a corrosive slime

weapon the target is carrying or wearing takes a permanent −1 penalty to damage rolls. The penalty worsens each time a target is subjected to this effect. If the penalty on an object drops to

Cloaker Mutate

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk

the saving throw, and only half damage if it fails. Light Sensitivity. While in bright light, the mutate has disadvantage on attack rolls. Actions Multiattack. The mutate makes one Corpse Swipe

Cloaker Mutate The malign energy of the Far Realm causes a cloaker to merge with the rotted corpse of its last meal, resulting in a hideous puppeteering Aberration. The cloaker mutate shrouds its

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