before body decide completely reflection

Orb of Damara

Magic Items Forgotten Realms: Adventures in Faerûn

DM’s control. The type of chromatic dragon depends on your alignment and personality and is left to the DM to decide. The transformation is permanent, but if the dragon is slain, its body

reverts to its original form and the orb reappears outside its body. Destroying the Orb. If an Ancient Gold Dragon willingly swallows the orb, the orb and the dragon are both destroyed.

Vargouille Reflection

Monsters Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse

tears from its body and becomes a new vargouille reflection. Casting remove curse, greater restoration, or a similar spell on the target before the transformation is complete ends the curse and

restores the target’s Charisma. Horrific Reflection (Recharge 5–6);{"diceNotation":"1d6", "rollType":"recharge", "rollAction":"Horrific Reflection"}. The vargouille’s head mimics that of a

Jiangshi

Monsters Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft

Jiangshi Weaknesses. The jiangshi has the following flaws: Fear of Its Own Reflection. If the jiangshi sees its own reflection, it immediately uses its reaction, if available, to move as far away

from the reflection as possible. Susceptible to Holy Symbols. While the jiangshi is wearing or touching a holy symbol, it automatically fails saving throws against effects that turn Undead. Unusual

Wolf-in-Sheep's-Clothing

Monsters Quests from the Infinite Staircase

withered flowers, rootlike tentacles, and a fleshy growth atop its body that it uses to lure prey toward its fang-filled maw. Wolves-in-sheep’s-clothing can reshape their lures to mimic the

puppy 2 Cute little bunnyoid 3 Dapper, smiling frog with a little top hat 4 Fluffy kitten 5 Fox with adorably large ears 6 Spunky, dancing crawfish Completely

Mordenkainen's Magnificent Mansion Legacy

Spells Player’s Handbook (2014)

people. A staff of 100 near-transparent servants attends all who enter. You decide the visual appearance of these servants and their attire. They are completely obedient to your orders. Each servant can

Mist Hulk

Monsters Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants

hint of their ancestors’ physical form, and even less of the giants’ culture. A mist hulk resembles a bipedal figure made of dark rain clouds. Parts of its body seem more solid than others

, but these parts are transparent enough that the churning vapors of the hulk’s substance are visible inside. Wisps of cloud constantly leak from the creature, as if it might dissolve completely

Alter Self Legacy

Spells Basic Rules (2014)

action to gain the benefits of a different one. Aquatic Adaptation. You adapt your body to an aquatic environment, sprouting gills and growing webbing between your fingers. You can breathe

underwater and gain a swimming speed equal to your walking speed. Change Appearance. You transform your appearance. You decide what you look like, including your height, weight, facial features, sound of your

Marlos Urnrayle

Monsters Princes of the Apocalypse

Earthen Defeat. When Marlos drops to 0 hit points, his body transforms into mud and collapses into a pool. Anything he is wearing or carrying is left behind. Earth Passage. Marlos can move in

, a creature can avert its eyes to avoid the saving throw at the start of its turn. If the creature does so, it can’t see Marlos until the start of its next turn, when it can decide to avert its

Magnificent Mansion Legacy

Spells Basic Rules (2014)

people. A staff of 100 near-transparent servants attends all who enter. You decide the visual appearance of these servants and their attire. They are completely obedient to your orders. Each servant can

Death Tyrant Legacy

Monsters Monster Manual (2014)

place in the initiative order and animates at the start of its next turn, provided that its body hasn’t been completely destroyed.Bite. Melee Weapon Attack: +5;{"diceNotation":"1d20+5

creature to 0 hit points, its body becomes a pile of fine gray dust. If the target is a Large or smaller nonmagical object or creation of magical force, it is disintegrated without a saving throw. If

Inheritor

Backgrounds Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide

your adventuring career, you can decide whether to tell your companions about your inheritance right away. Rather than attracting attention to yourself, you might want to keep your inheritance a secret

trinket 4 An article of clothing 5 A piece of jewelry 6 An arcane book or formulary 7 A written story, song, poem, or secret 8 A tattoo or other body marking

Sorcerer Legacy

Classes Basic Rules (2014)

chooses the sorcerer. Raw Magic Magic is a part of every sorcerer, suffusing body, mind, and spirit with a latent power that waits to be tapped. Some sorcerers wield magic that springs from an ancient

;ll choose an origin that ties to a draconic bloodline or the influence of wild magic, but the exact source of your power is up to you to decide. Is it a family curse, passed down to you from distant

Morkoth

Monsters Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse

, lightning bolt, sendingSpell Reflection. If the morkoth makes a successful saving throw against a spell or a spell attack misses it, the morkoth can choose another creature (including the spellcaster) it

, oddities, and castoffs of the multiverse in a massive, ever-growing collection. The first morkoths arose in the Astral Plane when the petrified body of a deity of greed and strife collided with a

Izzet Engineer

Backgrounds Guildmasters’ Guide to Ravnica

sparkles. If you use an arcane focus, it probably takes the form of an intricate device that could include metal gauntlets, glass canisters, copper tubing, and leather straps attaching it to your body

me with conflicted feelings. 5 I helped a minor Gruul chieftain acquire an Izzet weapon. 6 Roll an additional Izzet contact; you can decide if the contact is an ally or a rival. 7

Occultant Abacus

Magic Items Acquisitions Incorporated

glasses. 3 Burning a small piece of the body and looking for shapes in the smoke. 4 A cautious, reasoned, professional guesstimate. 5 Careful measurements. The distance between nostrils

. The difference between the index finger and the middle finger. The elasticity of the ear lobe. 6 You take a long, careful look, and then decide based on which fellow franchisee has been nice to

Vargouille Reflection

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Morte’s Planar Parade

area of a daylight spell. When the cursed target’s Charisma becomes 2, the target dies, and its head tears from its body and becomes a new vargouille reflection. Casting remove curse, greater

Vargouille Reflection Vargouilles are flying Fiends that resemble disembodied Humanoid heads with wings. While most vargouilles roam the planes to curse Humanoids and create more vargouilles, a

Druid Legacy

Classes Basic Rules (2014)

2 1 1 1 — 17th +6 — 4 4 3 3 3 2 1 1 1 1 18th +6 Timeless Body, Beast Spells

druids count them all (even the violent ones) as worthy of veneration. The druids of Eberron hold animistic beliefs completely unconnected to the Sovereign Host, the Dark Six, or any of the other

Powered Armor

Magic Items Lost Laboratory of Kwalish

possessed by the armor. While possessed, the user is incapacitated and loses control of its body but retains its awareness. The armor uses the possessed user’s statistics (as adjusted by the armor

Power. Powered armor originally required energy cells to fuel it, but was adapted by Kwalish to be fueled by the life energy of the creature wearing it. You might decide that the armor can also draw

Languages and Dialects

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)

, and humans who live in one kingdom speak a common language, which is completely different from that spoken in the neighboring kingdom. This might make communication (and diplomacy) between two

kingdoms significantly more difficult. Widely used languages might have ancient versions, or there might be completely different ancient tongues that adventurers find written in tombs and ruins. Such

Dragonmarks and Backgrounds

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron

dragonmarked houses. However, it’s up to you to decide on your relationship to the house. Were you brought up in the house? Or are you completely independent from it? This is best represented by your

, your mark would be flayed from your body. Although this mutilation is no longer practiced, such exiles are still called excoriates. If you’re an excoriate, consider what you did to deserve this

Book of Vile Darkness (Variant)

Magic Items Keys from the Golden Vault

and additions to existing text. There are places where pages are missing, torn, or covered so completely with ink, blood, and scratches that the original text can’t be divined. Nature can’t

book, the spirit tries to leave the book and enter your body. If you fail a DC 20 Charisma saving throw, it succeeds, and you become an NPC under the DM’s control until the intruding spirit is

No Competition

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated

such efforts have been skillfully rebuffed, of course, with Acq Inc embracing its place as an always-independent (and clearly superior) operation. Riding its past success into a completely deliberate

and planned expansion across the multiverse, Acquisitions Incorporated shows no signs of slowing down. (Because that would likely require self-reflection and measured responses that are historically

High Priest

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Lost Laboratory of Kwalish

. However, you might decide that if this is done, the priest’s still-potent magical power allows her to merge with the great ooze and control it — effectively using that titanic creature as the new body she seeks.

High Priest In the ooze-flooded city of Daoine Gloine, the high priest in area O5 might negotiate with the characters for a new physical body. She readily agrees to deactivate the clockwork kraken if

It Came from the Far Realm

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Keys from the Golden Vault

It Came from the Far Realm What happens to the Far Realm entity is for you to decide. As a thing of pure thought, it might corrupt creatures in its vicinity, transforming them into horrible

Aberrations or zealous Far Realm cultists. Conversely, it might find solace in the body of some creature powerful enough to serve as its new host.

Dragonmarks and Backgrounds

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War

flayed from your body. Although this mutilation is no longer practiced, such exiles are still called excoriates. If you’re an excoriate, consider what you did to deserve this punishment. Were you a

, choosing not to pursue a connection with the houses. Whatever you decide, this is an opportunity to talk with your DM about the role you’d like the house to play in a campaign. Do you want them to be

Appendix A: Random Encounters

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Lost Laboratory of Kwalish

Appendix A: Random Encounters Characters undertaking this adventure will spend a significant amount of game time on the journey to the Monastery of the Distressed Body and the lost city of Daoine

Gloine. You can help bring those weeks of exploration to life with random encounters — some of which might increase or decrease the length of the characters’ journey, as you decide. Chapter 2 of

A Mysterious Dream

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries

A Mysterious Dream After gaining the level 1 benefit and drawback of the scrivener’s mark, the characters experience a dream that comes to them during a time of rest, reverie, or quiet reflection

. Even characters who don’t sleep have the dream. If the characters don’t rest at the same time, you might decide that only the first character who rests has the dream. Read the following boxed text only

Jiangshi

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft

Jiangshi When a soul becomes trapped within its corpse, its bitterness can reanimate its body, creating a jiangshi. These vengeful dead stalk their descendants and the communities they knew in life

Weaknesses. The jiangshi has the following flaws: Fear of Its Own Reflection. If the jiangshi sees its own reflection, it immediately uses its reaction, if available, to move as far away from the

Mayastan Sadaar

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries

Mayastan Sadaar Word of Mayastan Sadaar’s death hits the scholars of Candlekeep hard. At your discretion, the characters can return the scholar’s body to Candlekeep so that she can be returned to

life (perhaps with the characters performing the rites). Alternatively, you might decide that the nature of Valin’s ritual prevents Mayastan from being restored to life even with a resurrection spell

M10. Treasury

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Lost Laboratory of Kwalish

M10. Treasury This solitary building is set atop a small floating islet within an area of open space punched down through the main body of the monastery’s island. It is held aloft on its own

energy cells, and the like. The controls that operate the antimagic field are set into a wall and completely hidden behind a pile of junk. More piles of junk hide the monastery’s treasure, including

Mordenkainen's Magnificent Mansion

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)

food to serve a nine-course banquet for up to 100 people. A staff of 100 near-transparent servants attends all who enter. You decide the visual appearance of these servants and their attire. They are

completely obedient to your orders. Each servant can perform any task a normal human servant could perform, but they can’t attack or take any action that would directly harm another creature. Thus

Eldath

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide

have a pond or a glade that locals ascribe to Eldath. Tradition dictates that it be a place of quiet reflection where others are left to their thoughts. A body of water such as a pond or a spring

Warforged Ossuary

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War

Warforged Ossuary A warforged ossuary is a former temple, crypt, or warehouse deep in the Mournland that now houses the remains of slain warforged. It is a place of honor and reflection for the Lord

within the ossuary that tells of a process for transferring a warforged consciousness from one body to another.

Adventure Background

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm Lord’s Wrath

Mortus in exchange for help finding and seizing the body of a living dragon to inhabit. The people of Leilon are completely unaware of these threats, as they focus on more immediate dangers, like the wild

, etc.) to assist in its construction, making the shrine more grandiose than it might otherwise be. Alternatively, if one of the characters worships a different deity, they might decide to invest in a

Resolving Outcomes

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide

Resolving Outcomes You decide when a player makes a D20 Test based on what the character is trying to do. Players shouldn’t just roll ability checks without context; they should tell you what their

you decide: Is a D20 Test Warranted? If the task is trivial or impossible, don’t bother with a D20 Test. A character can move across an empty room or drink from a flask without making a Dexterity check

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