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Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sage Advice & Errata
Can damage be reduced to 0 by Resistance or another form of damage reduction? Yes, it is possible to reduce damage to 0 but no lower.
Magic Items
Dungeon Master’s Guide
While touching this crystal orb, you can cast Scrying (save DC 17) with it. In addition, you can cast Detect Thoughts (save DC 17) targeting creatures you can see within 30 feet of the spell’s
sensor. You don’t need to concentration;concentrate on this Detect Thoughts spell to maintain it during its duration, but it ends if the Scrying spell ends.
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
;{"diceNotation":"1d20+7", "rollType":"to hit", "rollAction":"bite"}, reach 5 ft. Hit: 11 (1d12 + 5);{"diceNotation":"1d12+5", "rollType":"damage", "rollAction":"Bite", "rollDamageType":"Piercing"} Piercing damage
Spells
Player’s Handbook
effects that detect magical auras, such as Detect Magic. You can make a nonmagical object appear magical, make a magic item appear nonmagical, or change the object’s aura so that it appears to belong to a school of magic you choose.
Monsters
Monster Manual
becomes bound to the tome and can escape only if the tome is reduced to 0 Hit Points.
Fiendish Burst. Melee or Ranged Attack Roll: +9;{"diceNotation":"1d20+9", "rollType":"to hit", "rollAction":"Fiendish
arcanaloth has Advantage on saving throws against spells and other magical effects.
Soul Tome. The arcanaloth has a magic tome. While holding or carrying the tome, the arcanaloth can use its Banishing
Monsters
Monster Manual
can prevent this trait from functioning.Multiattack. The naga makes three attacks, using Bite or Necrotic Ray in any combination.
Bite. Melee Attack Roll: +7;{"diceNotation":"1d20+7", "rollType":"to
hit", "rollAction":"Bite"}, reach 10 ft. Hit: 7 (1d6 + 4);{"diceNotation":"1d6+4", "rollType":"damage", "rollAction":"Bite", "rollDamageType":"Piercing"} Piercing damage plus 14 (4d6);{"diceNotation
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
Multiattack. The naga makes two Bite attacks. It can replace any attack with a use of Serpentine Gaze.
Bite. Melee Attack Roll: +5;{"diceNotation":"1d20+5", "rollType":"to hit", "rollAction":"Bite
", "rollAction":"Bite", "rollDamageType":"Necrotic"} Necrotic damage.
Serpentine Gaze. Wisdom Saving Throw: DC 13, one creature the naga can see within 60 feet. Failure: 13 (3d6 + 3);{"diceNotation
Magic Items
Dungeon Master’s Guide
This wand has 3 charges. While holding it, you can expend 1 charge to cast Detect Magic from it. The wand regains 1d3 expended charges daily at dawn.
Magic Items
Dungeon Master’s Guide
following spells from it:
Detect Evil and Good
Detect Magic
Detect Poison and Disease
See Invisibility
Protective Aura. As a Magic action, you can plant the haft end of the rod in the ground
This rod has the following properties.
Alertness. While holding the rod, you have Advantage on Wisdom (Perception) checks and on Initiative rolls. Spells. While holding the rod, you can cast the
Magic Items
Dungeon Master’s Guide
While wearing this helm, you have telepathy with a range of 30 feet, and you can cast Detect Thoughts or Suggestion (save DC 13) from the helm. Once either spell is cast from the helm, that spell can’t be cast from it again until the next dawn.
Magic Items
Dungeon Master’s Guide
items and have additional properties.
Crystal Ball of Mind Reading. You can use an action to cast the Detect Thoughts spell (save DC 17) while you are scrying with the crystal ball, targeting
creatures you can see within 30 feet of the spell’s sensor. You don’t need to concentrate on this Detect Thoughts to maintain it during its duration, but it ends if Scrying ends.
Crystal Ball
Spells
Player’s Handbook
You conjure a phantom watchdog in an unoccupied space that you can see within range. The hound remains for the duration or until the two of you are more than 300 feet apart from each other.
No one
but you can see the hound, and it is intangible and invulnerable. When a Small or larger creature comes within 30 feet of it without first speaking the password that you specify when you cast this
Spells
Player’s Handbook
Strength saving throw or take 5d10 Bludgeoning damage. A creature can take this damage only once per round. At the end of the turn, the wall’s height is reduced by 50 feet, and the damage the wall
deals on later rounds is reduced by 1d10. When the wall reaches 0 feet in height, the spell ends.
A creature caught in the wall can move by swimming. Because of the wave’s force, though, the
Magic Items
Dungeon Master’s Guide
The medallion has 5 charges. While wearing it, you can expend 1 charge to cast Detect Thoughts (save DC 13) from it. The medallion regains 1d4 expended charges daily at dawn.
Equipment
As a Utilize action, you can spread Caltrops from their bag to cover a 5-foot-square area within 5 feet of yourself. A creature that enters this area for the first time on a turn must succeed on a DC
15 Dexterity saving throw or take 1 Piercing damage and have its Speed reduced to 0 until the start of its next turn. It takes 10 minutes to recover the Caltrops.
Magic Items
Dungeon Master’s Guide
While you wear these boots, your Speed becomes 30 feet unless your Speed is higher, and your Speed isn’t reduced by you carrying weight in excess of your carrying capacity or wearing Heavy Armor.
Once on each of your turns, you can jump up to 30 feet by spending only 10 feet of movement.
Monsters
Monster Manual
random direction. 7–8. The target makes a melee attack against a randomly determined creature within its reach or does nothing if it can’t make such an attack.Bite. Melee Attack Roll: +2
;{"diceNotation":"1d20+2", "rollType":"to hit", "rollAction":"Bite"}, reach 5 ft. Hit: 7 (2d6);{"diceNotation":"2d6", "rollType":"damage", "rollAction":"Bite", "rollDamageType":"Piercing"} Piercing damage
Spells
Player’s Handbook
An aura radiates from you in a 30-foot Emanation for the duration. While in the aura, you and your allies have Resistance to Necrotic damage, and your Hit Point maximums can’t be reduced. If an ally with 0 Hit Points starts its turn in the aura, that ally regains 1 Hit Point.
Monsters
Monster Manual
Coven Magic. While within 30 feet of at least two hag allies, the hag can cast one of the following spells, requiring no Material components, using the spell’s normal casting time, and using
that spell again.
Magic Resistance. The hag has Advantage on saving throws against spells and other magical effects.
Soul Bag. The hag has a soul bag. While holding or carrying the bag, the hag can
Spells
Player’s Handbook
You unleash virulent magic on a creature you can see within range. The target makes a Constitution saving throw. On a failed save, it takes 14d6 Necrotic damage, and its Hit Point maximum is reduced
by an amount equal to the Necrotic damage it took. On a successful save, it takes half as much damage only. This spell can’t reduce a target’s Hit Point maximum below 1.
Feats
Player’s Handbook
language. Your communication doesn’t give the creature the ability to respond to you telepathically.
Detect Thoughts. You always have the Detect Thoughts spell prepared. You can cast it without a
. You can speak telepathically to any creature you can see within 60 feet of yourself. Your telepathic utterances are in a language you know, and the creature understands you only if it knows that
Monsters
Monster Manual
it turns to dust if reduced to 0 Hit Points. If the gem is destroyed, the dracolich can create a new one by completing an 8-hour ritual using a gem worth 1,000+ GP and by expending 5,000 GP, which the
Legendary Resistance (3/Day, or 4/Day in Lair). If the dracolich fails a saving throw, it can choose to succeed instead.
Life Suppression. Creatures within 60 feet of the dracolich can’t
Monsters
Monster Manual
it turns to dust if reduced to 0 Hit Points. If the gem is destroyed, the dracolich can create a new one by completing an 8-hour ritual using a gem worth 1,000+ GP and by expending 5,000 GP, which the
Legendary Resistance (3/Day, or 4/Day in Lair). If the dracolich fails a saving throw, it can choose to succeed instead.
Life Suppression. Creatures within 60 feet of the dracolich can’t
Monsters
Monster Manual
Inscrutable. No magic can observe the sphinx remotely or detect its thoughts without its permission. Wisdom (Insight) checks made to ascertain its intentions or sincerity are made with Disadvantage
.
Magic Resistance. The sphinx has Advantage on saving throws against spells and other magical effects.Multiattack. The sphinx makes three Claw attacks. It can replace one attack with a use of Curse of
Monsters
Monster Manual
’s permission, no spell can observe the rakshasa remotely or detect its thoughts, creature type, or alignment.
Fiendish Restoration. If the rakshasa dies outside the Nine Hells, its body turns to
spells, requiring no Material components and using Charisma as the spellcasting ability (spell save DC 18):
At Will: Detect Magic, Detect Thoughts, Disguise Self, Mage Hand, Minor Illusion 1/Day
Monsters
Monster Manual
Legendary Resistance (3/Day, or 4/Day in Lair). If the vampire fails a saving throw, it can choose to succeed instead.
Misty Escape. If the vampire drops to 0 Hit Points outside its resting place
, the vampire uses Shape-Shift to become mist (no action required). If it can’t use Shape-Shift, it is destroyed.
While it has 0 Hit Points in mist form, it can’t return to its vampire form
Spells
Player’s Handbook
is an ordeal. The target takes a −4 penalty to D20 Test;D20 Tests. Every time the target finishes a Long Rest, the penalty is reduced by 1 until it becomes 0.
Casting this spell to revive a
creature that has been dead for 365 days or longer taxes you. Until you finish a Long Rest, you can’t cast spells again, and you have Disadvantage on D20 Tests.
Monsters
Monster Manual
Inscrutable. No magic can observe the sphinx remotely or detect its thoughts without its permission. Wisdom (Insight) checks made to ascertain its intentions or sincerity are made with Disadvantage
.
Legendary Resistance (3/Day, or 4/Day in Lair). If the sphinx fails a saving throw, it can choose to succeed instead.Multiattack. The sphinx makes three Claw attacks.
Claw. Melee Attack Roll: +8
Monsters
Monster Manual
Inscrutable. No magic can observe the sphinx remotely or detect its thoughts without its permission. Wisdom (Insight) checks made to ascertain its intentions or sincerity are made with Disadvantage
.
Legendary Resistance (3/Day, or 4/Day in Lair). If the sphinx fails a saving throw, it can choose to succeed instead.Multiattack. The sphinx makes two Claw attacks and uses Roar.
Claw. Melee Attack
Monsters
Monster Manual
Vampiric Connection. While the familiar and its vampire master are on the same plane of existence, the vampire can communicate with the familiar telepathically, and the vampire can perceive through
);{"diceNotation":"3d4", "rollType":"damage", "rollAction":"Umbral Dagger", "rollDamageType":"Necrotic"} Necrotic damage. If the target is reduced to 0 Hit Points by this attack, the target becomes Stable but
Monsters
Monster Manual
Amphibious. The marid can breathe air and water.
Elemental Restoration. If the marid dies outside the Elemental Plane of Water, its body dissolves into brine, and it gains a new body in 1d4
the Wish spell. If the marid knows it, the marid can cast it only on behalf of a non-genie creature who communicates a wish in a way the marid can understand. If the marid casts the spell for the
Monsters
Monster Manual
Amphibious. The archelon can breathe air and water.Multiattack. The archelon makes two Bite attacks.
Bite. Melee Attack Roll: +6;{"diceNotation":"1d20+6", "rollType":"to hit", "rollAction":"Bite
"}, reach 5 ft. Hit: 14 (3d6 + 4);{"diceNotation":"3d6+4", "rollType":"damage", "rollAction":"Bite", "rollDamageType":"Piercing"} Piercing damage.
Monsters
Monster Manual
Spider Climb. The carrion crawler can climb difficult surfaces, including along ceilings, without needing to make an ability check.Multiattack. The carrion crawler uses Paralyzing Tentacles and makes
one Bite attack.
Bite. Melee Attack Roll: +4;{"diceNotation":"1d20+4", "rollType":"to hit", "rollAction":"bite"}, reach 5 ft. Hit: 7 (2d4 + 2);{"diceNotation":"2d4+2", "rollType":"damage
Monsters
Monster Manual
Detect Intelligence. The intellect devourer magically senses the location of any creature within 300 feet of itself that has an Intelligence score of 3 or higher, regardless of interposing
intellect devourer can see within 5 feet. Failure: 11 (2d10);{"diceNotation":"2d10", "rollType":"damage", "rollAction":"Devour Intellect", "rollDamageType":"Psychic"} Psychic damage, and the target has the