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Spells
Player’s Handbook
, read its thoughts, or magically detect its location, and no spell—not even Wish—can gather information about the target, observe it remotely, or control its mind.
Monsters
Monster Manual
Shielded Mind. The couatl’s thoughts can’t be read by any means, and other creatures can communicate with it telepathically only if it allows them.Bite. Melee Attack Roll: +7
, and the target has the Poisoned condition until the end of the couatl’s next turn.
Constrict. Strength Saving Throw: DC 15, one Medium or smaller creature the couatl can see within 5 feet
Monsters
Monster Manual
’s thoughts can’t be read by any means, and magic can’t detect its location or observe it remotely.Tentacle. Melee Attack Roll: +4;{"diceNotation":"1d20+4", "rollType":"to hit
Throw: DC 10, one creature the flumph can see within 15 feet. Failure: The target is coated in a foul-smelling liquid, exudes a stench for 1d4;{"diceNotation":"1d4", "rollType":"roll", "rollAction
Monsters
Monster Manual
.
Read Thoughts. The doppelganger casts Detect Thoughts, requiring no spell components and using Charisma as the spellcasting ability (spell save DC 12).
Unsettling Visage (Recharge 6);{"diceNotation
":"1d6", "rollType":"recharge", "rollAction":"Unsettling Visage"}. Wisdom Saving Throw: DC 12, each creature in a 15-foot Emanation originating from the doppelganger that can see the doppelganger. Failure
Spells
Player’s Handbook
, dirt, or wood; 1 inch of metal; or a thin sheet of lead.
Read Thoughts. Target one creature you can see within 30 feet of yourself or one creature within 30 feet of yourself that you detected with
You activate one of the effects below. Until the spell ends, you can activate either effect as a Magic action on your later turns.
Sense Thoughts. You sense the presence of thoughts within 30 feet
Spells
Player’s Handbook
script that is unintelligible. Alternatively, the illusion can alter the meaning, handwriting, and language of the text, though the language must be one you know.
If the spell is dispelled, the original script and the illusion both disappear.
A creature that has Truesight can read the hidden message.
Magic Items
Dungeon Master’s Guide
While wearing this ring, you are immune to magic that allows other creatures to read your thoughts, determine whether you are lying, know your alignment, or know your creature type. Creatures can
telepathically communicate with you only if you allow it.
You can take a Magic action to cause the ring to become imperceptible until you take another Magic action to make it perceptible, until you
Magic Items
Dungeon Master’s Guide
When you take a Magic action to read this scroll, a particular titan named in the scroll appears in an unoccupied space on the ground or in water that you can see within 1 mile of yourself. The DM
Magic Items
Dungeon Master’s Guide
benefits.
Other creatures that peruse the book’s open pages can read the text but glean no deeper meaning and reap no benefits. A Fiend, an Undead, or a servant of a god from the Lower Planes
that tries to read from the book takes 24d6 Radiant damage. This damage ignores Resistance and Immunity, and it can’t be reduced or avoided by any means. A creature reduced to 0 Hit Points by
Magic Items
Dungeon Master’s Guide
again until the next dawn.
Only you can remove the tongue from the book’s cover. If you do so, all spells written in the book are permanently erased.
Vecna watches anyone using this tome and can write cryptic messages in it. These messages typically fade away after they are read.
tome are filled with indecipherable scrawls. The remaining pages are blank.
While attuned to this item, you can use it as a Spellbook and an Arcane Focus. In addition, while holding the tome, you can
Magic Items
Dungeon Master’s Guide
This Spell Scroll bears the words of the Fireball spell, written in a mystical cipher. If Fireball is on your spell list, you can read the scroll and cast it without Material components. Otherwise
;t lost.
If Fireball is on your spell list but of a higher level than you can normally cast, you make a DC 13 ability check using your spellcasting ability to determine whether you cast the spell. On
Magic Items
Dungeon Master’s Guide
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Scroll of Protection (Plants);Plants
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Scroll of Protection (Undead);Undead
Using a Magic action to read the scroll creates a 5-foot Emanation originating
from you. For 5 minutes, creatures of the specified type can’t enter or affect anything in the area. However, if you move in such a way that a creature of the specified type would be inside the
Magic Items
Dungeon Master’s Guide
A Spell Scroll bears the words of a single spell, written in a mystical cipher. If the spell is on your spell list, you can read the scroll and cast its spell without Material components. Otherwise
, the scroll isn’t lost.
If the spell is on your spell list but of a higher level than you can normally cast, you make an ability check using your spellcasting ability to determine whether you
Classes
Player’s Handbook
, a Cleric can reach out to the divine magic of the Outer Planes—where gods dwell—and channel it to bolster people and battle foes.
Because their power is a divine gift, Clerics typically
devotion through prayer and rituals, not through magic. Many mortals claim to speak for the gods, but few can marshal the power of those gods the way a Cleric can.
Becoming a Cleric...
As a Level 1
Species
Lorwyn: First Light
that self-realization is the most important thing an individual can do with their life. Flamekin call this lifelong pursuit the Path of Flame.
Flamekin dwell in either Lorwyn or Shadowmoor. Physically
Spells
Guildmasters’ Guide to Ravnica
memory), you can transform the thoughts or memories you read, rather than your own, into a thought strand.
Casting this spell while holding a thought strand allows you to instantly receive whatever
duration or until you cast this spell again. The thought strand appears in an unoccupied space within 5 feet of you as a Tiny, weightless, semisolid object that can be held and carried like a ribbon. It is
Cranium Rat
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Monsters
Volo's Guide to Monsters
Illumination. As a bonus action, the cranium rat can shed dim light from its brain in a 5-foot radius or extinguish the light.
Telepathic Shroud. The cranium rat is immune to any effect that would
sense its emotions or read its thoughts, as well as to all divination spells.Bite. Melee Weapon Attack: +4;{"diceNotation":"1d20+4","rollType":"to hit","rollAction":"Bite"} to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 1 piercing damage.
Monsters
Mythic Odysseys of Theros
throws against any effect that turns undead.
Unreadable Face. The Returned is immune to any effect that would sense its emotions or read its thoughts. Wisdom (Insight) checks to ascertain the
., one creature. Hit: 13 (2d8 + 2);{"diceNotation":"2d8+2","rollType":"damage","rollAction":"Underworld Bolt","rollDamageType":"necrotic"} necrotic damage, and the target can’t regain hit points
Equipment
tuft of howler fur that is burned in a fireplace can ward off evil spirits. Howler fur can be found snagged on bramble thickets, along game trails, and near howler camps within and around the forests and caves where they dwell.
Monsters
Mythic Odysseys of Theros
Turn Resistance. The Returned has advantage on saving throws against any effect that turns undead.
Unreadable Face. The Returned is immune to any effect that would sense its emotions or read its
. Despite this, even the most languorous Returned defend themselves if threatened and might be pressed into the service of their more willful brethren.
Returned have escaped the Underworld and dwell among
Monsters
Mythic Odysseys of Theros
.
Turn Resistance. The Returned has advantage on saving throws against any effect that turns undead.
Unreadable Face. The Returned is immune to any effect that would sense its emotions or read its
work well together, sharing the unified goals of overcoming their foes and getting back to the task at hand.
Returned have escaped the Underworld and dwell among the living once more, but their
Book of Exalted Deeds
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Magic Items
Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
is read, it vanishes to some other corner of the multiverse where its moral guidance can bring light to a darkened world. Although attempts have been made to copy the work, efforts to do so fail to
digest its contents and gain its benefits. Other creatures that peruse the book’s open pages can read the text but glean no deeper meaning and reap no benefits. An evil creature that tries to read
Flumph
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Monsters
Monster Manual (2014)
Advanced Telepathy. The flumph can perceive the content of any telepathic communication used within 60 feet of it, and it can’t be surprised by creatures with any form of telepathy.
Prone
Deficiency. If the flumph is knocked prone, roll a die. On an odd result, the flumph lands upside-down and is incapacitated. At the end of each of its turns, the flumph can make a DC 10 Dexterity saving
Doppelganger
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Monsters
Basic Rules (2014)
Shapechanger. The doppelganger can use its action to polymorph into a Small or Medium humanoid it has seen, or back into its true form. Its statistics, other than its size, are the same in each form
"} to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 7 (1d6 + 4);{"diceNotation":"1d6+4","rollType":"damage","rollAction":"Slam","rollDamageType":"bludgeoning"} bludgeoning damage.
Read Thoughts. The doppelganger
Contact Other Plane
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Spells
Basic Rules (2014)
understand what other creatures say, can't read, and speak only in gibberish. A greater restoration spell cast on you ends this effect.
On a successful save, you can ask the entity up to five questions. You
You mentally contact a demigod, the spirit of a long- dead sage, or some other mysterious entity from another plane. Contacting this extraplanar intelligence can strain or even break your mind. When
Illusory Script
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Spells
Basic Rules (2014)
know.
Should the spell be dispelled, the original script and the illusion both disappear.
A creature with truesight can read the hidden message.
script that is unintelligible. Alternatively, you can cause the writing to appear to be an entirely different message, written in a different hand and language, though the language must be one you
Detect Thoughts
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Spells
Basic Rules (2014)
For the duration, you can read the thoughts of certain creatures. When you cast the spell and as your action on each turn until the spell ends, you can focus your mind on any one creature that you
detect the presence of a creature in this way, you can read its thoughts for the rest of the duration as described above, even if you can’t see it, but it must still be within range.
Lightfoot Halfling
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Species
Basic Rules (2014)
As a lightfoot halfling, you can easily hide from notice, even using other people as cover. You’re inclined to be affable and get along well with others. In the Forgotten Realms, lightfoot
halflings have spread the farthest and thus are the most common variety.
Lightfoots are more prone to wanderlust than other halflings, and often dwell alongside other races or take up a nomadic life. In the world of Greyhawk, these halflings are called hairfeet or tallfellows.
Evil Mage
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Monsters
Lost Mine of Phandelver
(1d8 - 1);{"diceNotation":"1d8-1","rollType":"damage","rollAction":"Quarterstaff","rollDamageType":"bludgeoning"} bludgeoning damage.Evil mages hunger for arcane power and dwell in isolated places, where they can perform terrible magical experiments without interference.
Swarm of Cranium Rats
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Monsters
Volo's Guide to Monsters
Illumination. As a bonus action, the swarm can shed dim light from its brains in a 5-foot radius, increase the illumination to bright light in a 5- to 20-foot radius (and dim light for an additional
than half of its hit points remaining, the swarm can innately cast the following spells, requiring no components:
At will: command, comprehend languages, detect thoughts
1/day each: confusion
Monsters
Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
. Hit: 1 (1d6 − 2);{"diceNotation":"1d6-2","rollType":"damage","rollAction":"Javelin","rollDamageType":"piercing"} piercing damage.Kobolds can be found anywhere dragons are known to dwell, and those that
live in the mountains and hills of Icewind Dale are among the hardiest of their kind. Drawn to the north by a desire to find and serve white dragons, these kobolds adapted as best they can to the
Couatl
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Monsters
Basic Rules (2014)
Innate Spellcasting. The couatl's spellcasting ability is Charisma (spell save DC 14). It can innately cast the following spells, requiring only verbal components:
At will: detect evil and good
Weapons. The couatl's weapon attacks are magical.
Shielded Mind. The couatl is immune to scrying and to any effect that would sense its emotions, read its thoughts, or detect its location.Bite
Monsters
Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse
Shared Telepathy. Any creature touching the cranium rat can use the rat’s telepathy if the rat allows it. If the creature knows any language, the creature can use the telepathy to communicate
words and emotions.
Telepathic Shroud. The cranium rat is immune to any effect that would sense its emotions or read its thoughts, as well as to divination spells.Bite. Melee Weapon Attack: +4
Ring of Mind Shielding
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Magic Items
Basic Rules (2014)
While wearing this ring, you are immune to magic that allows other creatures to read your thoughts, determine whether you are lying, know your alignment, or know your creature type. Creatures can
telepathically communicate with you only if you allow it.
You can use an action to cause the ring to become invisible until you use another action to make it visible, until you remove the ring, or until
Scroll of Protection
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Magic Items
Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
Aberrations
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Beasts
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Celestials
31-40
Elementals
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Fey
51-75
Fiends
76-80
Plants
81-00
Undead
Using an action to read the scroll encloses
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A creature can attempt to overcome the barrier by using an action to make a DC 15 Charisma check. On a success, the creature ceases to be affected by the barrier.






