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Monsters
Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
tombs, temples, and caves in search of magic items, which they bear off. They usually try to seize magic from beings that they encounter.
Magic is sacred to tomb tappers. They don't use any magic items
they acquire, instead choosing to protect and venerate such items. Tappers spend their long lives in the search for the source of all magic, which they believe to be hidden deep in the Underdark. They
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
throw fails by 5 or more, the creature is also stunned until the end of its next turn.The tempest can take 3 legendary actions, choosing from the options below. Only one legendary action option can be
DC 19 Dexterity saving throw or take the same damage and be knocked prone.Terrifying storms manifest in the bodies of elder tempests. Beings carved from clouds, wind, rain, and lightning, elder
Monsters
The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
legendary actions, choosing from the options below. Only one legendary action option can be used at a time and only at the end of another creature’s turn. The jabberwock regains spent legendary
jabberwocks are difficult to come by, because the rare survivors of an encounter with one retain only a confused impression of its parts and not a sense of the whole. Pieced-together accounts
Gnome
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unlikely to find the burrows in the first place.
Gnomes who settle in human lands are commonly gemcutters, engineers, sages, or tinkers. Some human families retain gnome tutors, ensuring that their pupils
names, a gnome learns to use no more than three names: a personal name, a clan name, and a nickname, choosing the one in each category that’s the most fun to say.
Male Names: Alston, Alvyn
Monsters
Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen
encounters.The dragon can take 3 legendary actions, choosing from the options below. Only one legendary action can be used at a time and only at the end of another creature’s turn. The dragon regains
", "rollType":"damage", "rollAction":"Cataclysmic Rush", "rollDamageType":"necrotic"} necrotic damage. A creature can take this damage only once per turn.Some death dragons manage to retain almost all
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
mindwitness shoots one magical eye ray at random (roll a d6;{"diceNotation":"1d6","rollType":"roll","rollAction":"Eye Ray"}, and reroll if the ray has already been used this turn), choosing one target
flumph;flumphs (see the Monster Manual) and planar beings such as demons, shifting their worldview and alignment to match those of their new masters.
Monsters
The Book of Many Things
1/day: TeleportHulgaz can take 3 legendary actions, choosing from the options below. Only one legendary action option can be used at a time and only at the end of another creature’s turn. Hulgaz
martyrs pique Hulgaz’s interest because she loves the challenge of twisting and defiling the souls of such noble beings. She responds to unwavering do-gooders by redoubling her efforts to corrupt
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
, the mage gains 10 temporary hit points.The mage can take 3 legendary actions, choosing from the options below. Only one legendary action option can be used at a time and only at the end of another
planes of existence lie realms alien to mortal life. Some are so hostile that even a moment’s contact is enough to break a mortal’s mind. Yet beings do exist that are native to these
Monsters
Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
).Halaster can take 3 legendary actions, choosing from the options below. Only one legendary action option can be used at a time and only at the end of another creature’s turn. Halaster regains spent
, however, Halaster is alert and attentive to the activities and preparations of all beings near him. He never willingly enters combat without first casting mage armor and mind blank on himself.As the
Monsters
Vecna: Eve of Ruin
action), Gust of Wind, Mirror Image, Nondetection
1/day each: Greater Invisibility, Polymorph, Scrying (as an action)Strahd can take 3 legendary actions, choosing from the options below. Only one
. Little happens there without the Darklord’s knowledge, although Strahd rarely pays attention to what he considers the uninteresting dealings of lesser beings.
History
In life, Strahd von
Monsters
The Book of Many Things
2/day: Mass Cure Wounds (cast at 8th level)
1/day each: Blade Barrier, Divination, Greater RestorationThe medusa can take 3 legendary actions, choosing from the options below. It can take only one
with advantage.Sometimes deeply devout people, usually either Humanoids or medusas, dedicate themselves to a cause and are transformed by a deity or magic into hierophant medusas—beings with
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monsters of the Multiverse
Perception skill. Trance. You don’t need to sleep, and magic can’t put you to sleep. You can finish a long rest in 4 hours if you spend those hours in a trancelike meditation, during which you retain
acquire these proficiencies by drawing them from shared elven memory, and you retain them until you finish your next long rest. ELVES OF MANY REALMS
Created by the god Corellon, the first elves were Fey
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
waterThe dragon can take 3 legendary actions, choosing from the options below. Only one legendary action option can be used at a time and only at the end of another creature’s turn. The dragon regains
beings and their creations are ultimately doomed to death and decomposition, and the dragons’ demeanor is typically morbid and curmudgeonly as a result.
Gleaming Gold
Upon hatching, topaz
Ancient Deep Dragon
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Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
creature can repeat the saving throw at the end of each of its turns, ending the effect on itself on a success.The dragon can take 3 legendary actions, choosing from the options below. Only one legendary
dragons, but we are superior beings and should not lower ourselves to direct conflict.
4
I have no interest in going to the surface world. It’s where one sends one’s servants.
5
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
legendary actions, choosing from the options below. Only one legendary action option can be used at a time and only at the end of another creature’s turn. The dragon regains spent legendary
the nature of topaz dragons, thanks to the necrotic energy of the Negative Plane that suffuses them. Their psionic power manifests the fundamental entropic principle that mortal beings and their
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
are destroyers too, and their appearance portends doom as often as it signals hope. Shards of the Divine. Angels are formed from the astral essence of benevolent gods and are thus divine beings of
permanent stain that marks the angel as an outcast. Fallen angels retain their power but lose their connection to the deities from which they were made. Most fallen angels take their banishment personally
Adult Deep Dragon
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Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
repeat the saving throw at the end of each of its turns, ending the effect on itself on a success.The dragon can take 3 legendary actions, choosing from the options below. Only one legendary action can
dragons, but we are superior beings and should not lower ourselves to direct conflict.
4
I have no interest in going to the surface world. It’s where one sends one’s servants.
5
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
Intelligence as the spellcasting ability (spell save DC 20):
1/day each: dissonant whispers, hold monster, meld into stone, telekinesis, teleportThe dragon can take 3 legendary actions, choosing from
creatures. On the rare occasion that one forms nonhostile relationships with other beings, it is almost always to bolster the defenses of the dragon’s lair and hoard.
Ancient Sapphire Dragon
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Guildmasters' Guide to Ravnica
cycle; the two can intersect, and at that nexus the liches find immense power, which commands the awe, envy, and fear of other Golgari. Unlike the shambling zombies they command, liches retain their
memories, their personalities, and especially their ambition. They also retain the grace and stature of living elves, but their bodies are in a constant state of slow decay. Various forms of fungus grow in
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)
. Comfortable. Choosing a comfortable lifestyle means that you can afford nicer clothing and can easily maintain your equipment. You live in a small cottage in a middle-class neighborhood or in a
private room at a fine inn. You associate with merchants, skilled tradespeople, and military officers. Wealthy. Choosing a wealthy lifestyle means living a life of luxury, though you might not have achieved
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
clean, if simple. Ordinary people living modest lifestyles include soldiers with families, laborers, students, priests, hedge wizards, and the like. Comfortable. Choosing a comfortable lifestyle
, skilled tradespeople, and military officers. Wealthy. Choosing a wealthy lifestyle means living a life of luxury, though you might not have achieved the social status associated with the old money
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
, and caves in search of magic items, which they bear off. They usually try to seize magic from beings that they encounter. Magic is sacred to tomb tappers. They don’t use any magic items they acquire
, instead choosing to protect and venerate such items. Tappers spend their long lives in the search for the source of all magic, which they believe to be hidden deep in the Underdark. They are in awe
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monsters of the Multiverse
Elder Tempest Terrifying storms manifest in the bodies of elder tempests. Beings carved from clouds, wind, rain, and lightning, elder tempests assume the shape of serpents that slither through the
the end of its next turn.
Legendary Actions
The tempest can take 3 legendary actions, choosing from the options below. Only one legendary action option can be used at a time and only at the end
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
occasional family heirloom. It’s up to you to decide how pervasive magic is in a domain, choosing whether a dearth or an excess of magic is more terrifying. Rarity of Magic. In domains where
creations of the Dark Powers, whose bodies have been formed from the land and the Mists. For all intents and purposes, and even under magical detection, these beings are what they appear to be. The Dark
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
Undying The undying are undead creatures sustained by positive energy or the devotion of mortal beings. Where strong negative emotions can trap a spirit as a ghost or wraith, the undying are spirits
from their physical forms, existing as beings of pure light. This state is the ultimate goal of the elves of Aerenal, and such beings are known as ascendant councilors. Bound by Love and Light. Undying
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
spellcasting ability (spell save DC 17):
1/day each: dissonant whispers, hold monster, meld into stone, telekinesisThe dragon can take 3 legendary actions, choosing from the options below. Only one
relationships with other beings, it is almost always to bolster the defenses of the dragon’s lair and hoard.
Adult Sapphire Dragon Connections
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Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
of an encounter with one retain only a confused impression of its parts and not a sense of the whole. Pieced-together accounts describe it as a sinewy, dragon-like creature that can walk on its hind
3 legendary actions, choosing from the options below. Only one legendary action option can be used at a time and only at the end of another creature’s turn. The jabberwock regains spent legendary
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything
serve as a spellcasting focus for your druid spells. You determine its form by rolling on the Star Map table or by choosing one. While holding this map, you have these benefits: You know the guidance
starry form, rather than transforming into a beast. While in your starry form, you retain your game statistics, but your body becomes luminous; your joints glimmer like stars, and glowing lines connect
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Book of Many Things
Hierophant Medusa Sometimes deeply devout people, usually either Humanoids or medusas, dedicate themselves to a cause and are transformed by a deity or magic into hierophant medusas—beings with
end of its next turn.
Legendary Actions
The medusa can take 3 legendary actions, choosing from the options below. It can take only one legendary action at a time and only at the end of another
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules
addition, starting at level 8, you can adopt a form that has a Fly Speed. When choosing known forms, you may look in the Monster Manual or elsewhere for eligible Beasts if the Dungeon Master permits
you to do so. Beast Shapes Druid Level Known Forms Max CR Fly Speed 2 4 1/4 No 4 6 1/2 No 8 8 1 Yes Rules While Shape-Shifted. While in a form, you retain your personality, memories, and ability
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Guildmasters' Guide to Ravnica
, working toward some mysterious end. There can be little doubt that this ancient dragon is one of the most intelligent beings on Ravnica and one of the world’s most powerful spellcasters. He is just as
as much damage on a successful one.
Legendary Actions
Niv-Mizzet can take 3 legendary actions, choosing from the options below. Only one legendary action option can be used at a time and only at
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
choosing their lairs, black dragons are fond of locations that are naturally constraining and confounding. Whether adventurers seeking the dragon must wind their way through the roots of an ancient
of knights kneeling before angelic beings line the stairwell. Tower Top. The dragon’s true hoard is kept safely at the top of the crumbling tower, where the dragon enjoys perching and staring out into
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
telepathic creatures to tell it what to do. Mindwitnesses have been known to ally with flumphs and telepathic planar beings such as demons, shifting their worldview and changing their alignment to match that
following magical eye rays at random (reroll duplicates), choosing one to three targets it can see within 120 feet of it:
1. Aversion Ray. The targeted creature must make a DC 13 Charisma saving throw. On
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
activities and preparations of all beings near him. He never willingly enters combat without first casting mage armor and mind blank on himself. Halaster Blackcloak
Medium humanoid (human), chaotic
legendary actions, choosing from the options below. Only one legendary action option can be used at a time and only at the end of another creature’s turn. Halaster regains spent legendary actions at the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player’s Handbook
. In addition, starting at level 8, you can adopt a form that has a Fly Speed. When choosing known forms, you may look in the Monster Manual or elsewhere for eligible Beasts if the Dungeon Master permits
you to do so. Beast Shapes Druid Level Known Forms Max CR Fly Speed 2 4 1/4 No 4 6 1/2 No 8 8 1 Yes Rules While Shape-Shifted. While in a form, you retain your personality, memories, and