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Monster Manual
spells and other magical effects.
Spiteful Escape. When the hag drops to 0 Hit Points, it dies only if it is within 30 feet of its anathema (a thing the DM chooses as the hag’s most hated thing
). 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
Magic Items
Dungeon Master’s Guide
you occupied when you disappeared. You remain imprisoned until you are found and removed from the sphere. You can’t be located by any Divination magic, but a Wish spell can reveal the location
an ally. As Dungeon Master, you should wait for a dramatically appropriate moment to reveal this enmity, leaving the adventurer guessing who is likely to become a betrayer.
Fool. You have
Monsters
Candlekeep Mysteries
Unusual Nature. The commoner doesn’t require air, food, drink, or sleep, and it gains no benefit from finishing a short or long rest. When it drops to 0 hit points, it becomes a lifeless
makes them look like flesh-and-blood people, and the constructs conduct themselves as convincingly real humanoids who are simply living their lives in Wisteria Vale. Detect magic spells do not reveal
Monsters
Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
Aberrant Rejuvenation. When the emissary drops to 0 hit points, its body melts away. A greater star spawn emissary instantly appears in an unoccupied space within 60 feet of where the lesser emissary
and just as readily appear as people, animals, or other creatures—the more unassuming, the better. Should it reveal its true form, an emissary appears as a roughly bipedal mass of agitated organs
Monsters
Ghosts of Saltmarsh
, unless the damage is radiant or from a critical hit. On a success, the drowned assassin drops to 1 hit point instead.Multiattack. The drowned assassin makes two hand crossbow attacks or two dagger attacks
succeed on a DC 12 Constitution saving throw or contract bluerot (see the “Bluerot” sidebar).
Reveal (1/Day). The drowned assassin removes its mask, revealing its rotting face. Each
Monsters
Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
Awakening of the Scion. The cradle is a container for the scion of Thrym. When the cradle drops to 0 hit points, its body shatters into shards of ice. The scion instantly appears in the space the
much damage only. If this damage would reduce the target to 0 hit points, the target drops to 1 hit point instead and has the petrified condition, turning into a frozen statue.
If the statue takes
Monsters
The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
solar eclipse or while she is within 60 feet of a symbolic representation of one. Otherwise, Endelyn disappears in a cloud of inky smoke when she drops to 0 hit points, along with anything she was
” veil. The outermost layers of her dress open to reveal a marionette theatre, and she manipulates her puppets using an arrangement of artificial hands that nestles in the folds of fabric. She
Valindra Shadowmantle
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Monsters
Tomb of Annihilation
Valindra drops to 30 hit points or fewer, or if dispel magic is cast on her.Valindra can take 3 legendary actions, choosing from the options below. Only one legendary action option can be used at a time
slots of that level or lower, nothing happens.
The lich targets one creature it can see within 30 feet of it. A crackling cord of negative energy tethers the lich to the target. Whenever the lich takes
Magic Items
Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus
on its own. The pit fiend won’t reveal its true nature, referring to itself only as the Hidden Lord. It drops hints and subtle suggestions that it is an angel trapped in an unholy prison. If
Deck of Many Things
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Basic Rules (2014)
you are found and removed from the sphere. You can't be located by any divination magic, but a wish spell can reveal the location of your prison. You draw no more cards.
Euryale. The card's medusa
you, warning all others that you must win the battle alone. The avatar fights until you die or it drops to 0 hit points, whereupon it disappears. If anyone tries to help you, the helper summons its
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sleeping Dragon’s Wake
iron bands and her face is fixed in a bestial scowl. Under her boar-skin hood, you see eyes crackling with lightning.
“This is my ship now,” she snarls. “And I mean to keep it!”
Fheralai is a
drops Fheralai to fewer than half her maximum hit points or she feels outmatched, she tries to abandon the vessel and flee to safety. Don’t worry if Fheralai dies or is captured here, as her cultists use divine intervention to bring her back later in the campaign!
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tyranny of Dragons
7. Gorgon Maze As they follow the path, the characters are drawn into a maze within the larger maze of the magical garden. The curving path you follow suddenly twists to reveal a proper maze cut out
and drops to the ground. A character can spot the gem with a successful DC 15 Wisdom (Perception) check. A character can pick the diamond up before the start of the gorgon’s next turn, but if not picked
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Rise of Tiamat
7. Gorgon Maze As they follow the path, the characters are drawn into a maze within the larger maze of the magical garden. The curving path you follow suddenly twists to reveal a proper maze cut out
and drops to the ground. A character can spot the gem with a successful DC 15 Wisdom (Perception) check. A character can pick the diamond up before the start of the gorgon’s next turn, but if not picked
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual
. The hag has Advantage on saving throws against spells and other magical effects.
Spiteful Escape. When the hag drops to 0 Hit Points, it dies only if it is within 30 feet of its anathema (a thing the
DM chooses as the hag’s most hated thing). 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 days. When the hag teleports
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Keys from the Golden Vault
minute can discern its cold indifference with a successful DC 10 Wisdom (Insight) check. Abilities such as truesight and magic that detects illusions reveal the true nature of the simulacrum: an elf made
attuned to the Far Realm entity trapped inside.) If the simulacrum drops to 0 hit points, it turns to snow and melts away, and the shard solitaire necklace teleports to the safe in Zorhanna’s vault tower
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Netheril’s Fall: Tales of Terror, Treasure, and Time Travel
Points or fewer, all three attempt to surrender, promising to tell the characters anything they wish to know in exchange for their lives. A Swampclaw can reveal that the gnome was killed by Yorg, an
Invisible Stalker Yorg taunts the gnomes for their foolishness before it moves to kill them. If the characters interrupt, Yorg drops the gnomes and fights the characters to the death. Conclusion. If the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
reveal this circle’s existence to outsiders unless absolutely necessary, and he never gives away its sigil sequence. VIZERAN'S TOWER: GENERAL FEATURES
The following features are found throughout the
levitate spell in effect, such that any creature that steps into the shaft (or that falls off the stairs) is suspended in midair. A creature that speaks the command word aluhal’kafion (“descend”) drops
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Locathah Rising
drowned assassin drops to 1 hit point instead.
Actions
Multiattack. The drowned assassin makes two hand crossbow attacks or two dagger attacks. It can then take the Dash, Disengage, or Hide action
must succeed on a DC 12 Constitution saving throw or contract bluerot (see the “Bluerot” sidebar).
Reveal (1/Day). The drowned assassin removes its mask, revealing its rotting face. Each creature of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
makes them look like flesh-and-blood people, and the constructs conduct themselves as convincingly real humanoids who are simply living their lives in Wisteria Vale. Detect magic spells do not reveal
doesn’t require air, food, drink, or sleep, and it gains no benefit from finishing a short or long rest. When it drops to 0 hit points, it becomes a lifeless object.
Actions
Club. Melee Weapon Attack: +2 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 2 (1d4) bludgeoning damage.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
points, it must make a Constitution saving throw with a DC of 5 + the damage taken, unless the damage is radiant or from a critical hit. On a success, the drowned assassin drops to 1 hit point instead
or contract bluerot (see the “Bluerot” sidebar).
Reveal (1/Day). The drowned assassin removes its mask, revealing its rotting face. Each creature of the assassin’s choice within 30 feet of it that
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything
those presented in the Player’s Handbook. Alternatively, you can create an entirely new code to replace the letters, requiring the characters to find a cipher to reveal the tiles’ meanings before they
mind. Unless the creature is a construct or undead, it must make a DC 13 Constitution saving throw. On a failure, the creature drops to 0 hit points. On a success, it takes 10 (3d6) psychic damage
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
and a successful DC 15 Wisdom (Perception) check, a character notes irregularities in the floor’s tile patterns that reveal the pressure plates. Wedging an iron spike or similar object under a plate
more. Any creature that passes through the hatch drops into the sluggish underground river, which flows toward area 17.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
and turns a near miss into a hit, but she then drops the sword. A character narrowly escapes the full brunt of a Fireball spell but has the Prone condition. A character fails to intimidate a kobold
. For example, rolling a 1 on a failed attempt to pick a lock might jam the lock, and rolling a 20 on a successful Intelligence (Investigation) check might reveal an extra clue. For attack rolls, the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
Personality. Gargauth desperately seeks freedom but can’t escape on its own. The pit fiend won’t reveal its true nature, referring to itself only as the Hidden Lord. It drops hints and subtle
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a3
her song, she enters the water in a long, arching dive.
Water covers more than half of the cavern. The floor drops off sharply, creating a pool that is 12 feet deep. A ledge runs from the southern
surface and strikes when the watery “god” levels its trident at a character. Treasure. If seriously threatened, the nereid might reveal the location of her treasure. At the deepest part of the pool is
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
“theater curtain” veil. The outermost layers of her dress open to reveal a marionette theatre, and she manipulates her puppets using an arrangement of artificial hands that nestles in the folds of
60 feet of a symbolic representation of one. Otherwise, Endelyn disappears in a cloud of inky smoke when she drops to 0 hit points, along with anything she was wearing or carrying, and reappears 24
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
maddening ateliers; Thassa remains bitterly unwilling to reveal her work until her creations—and the time—are absolutely perfect.
Every Tear the Sea. Few myths tell of those who escaped Thassa’s
clutches. The explorer’s daughters never forgot that just as countless drops make the sea, so too is every raindrop, tear, and cup part of Thassa’s domain.
Thief’s Fate. According to legend, a mortal
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
. The Chieftain’s Return After the characters have a minute to look around, read the following: The temperature drops further, and with a crackling sound, frost coats the entire chamber. Flames on the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
threatened, or when their foes have lost all hope, do emissaries reveal their actual, impossible forms.
Forms of the Emissary Star spawn emissaries can assume two forms: a lesser form suited to infiltration
it to appear as any creature. Emissaries have no misplaced pride and just as readily appear as people, animals, or other creatures—the more unassuming, the better. Should it reveal its true form, an
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
M20. Paper Birds and Hidden Belfry Bottles filled with crackling lightning line wooden bookcases along the walls of this chamber.
An open archway leads to a stone balcony that overlooks the
cobwebs. Imagine what she’ll be like when she’s senile.
Your favorite sister,
End
Dearest Skab,
Mummy’s little warlock spy was happy to betray her companions and reveal that Kelek, Zargash, and the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm Lord’s Wrath
Intelligence (Arcana or Religion) check, the details of the connection are understood. Also reveal that the corresponding lightning bolt symbols on the statue and Teega’s bracers power this connection
. As an action, a character within 5 feet of either the statue or Teega can attempt a DC 20 Dexterity (Sleight of Hand) check. On a success, the connection is broken, Teega drops to 0 hit points
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
airship drops two 50-foot-long rope ladders over the sides of the ship so that the characters can climb aboard without the vehicle landing. Characters can fly up to the ship if they have the means to do
so. If they decline to board the vessel, the crew signals for them to come aboard. If they still decline, the airship lands so that the dragon cultists can reveal who sent them and why. The ship’s
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
reveal the glowing sapphire only when the golem receives a command to use its power from someone whose commands it obeys (see “Getting the Golem’s Attention” below). Otherwise, the sapphire remains hidden
and the Nether Scroll to Elysium. Over the course of the journey, the golem might face mortal peril. If it drops to 0 hit points, the golem stabilizes and topples over but isn’t destroyed. It doesn’t
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
protects the Nematode’s throat. When a creature approaches this structure, read or paraphrase the following: The tent walls open like a flower to reveal a gaping throat that expels tangled knots of
the creature drops off suddenly into a lake of churning acid.
The throat ends at a digestion pool 30 feet in diameter and 20 feet deep. If the characters destroyed the membrane and caused the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Keys from the Golden Vault
deactivated while the museum is open to the public. The first time a creature steps on the pressure plate while the trap is activated, a weighted net drops from a secret compartment in the ceiling
restrained by the net once it drops to 0 hit points. V2: Museum Shops Display racks here are filled with tunics, bandannas, books, and bric-a-brac, most emblazoned with the museum’s logo. Plush benches serve