before body demise core reflections

Monk

Classes Player’s Handbook

Core Monk Traits Primary Ability Dexterity and Wisdom Hit Point Die D8 per Monk level Saving Throw Proficiencies Strength and Dexterity Skill Proficiencies Choose 2

slaying monsters and plundering treasure; they strive to turn themselves into living weapons. Becoming a Monk... As a Level 1 Character Gain all the traits in the Core Monk Traits table. Gain

Eye and Hand of Vecna

Magic Items Dungeon Master’s Guide

Vecna the Archlich;Vecna was a mighty wizard who, through magic and conquest, forged a terrible empire. For all his power, however, Vecna feared death and took steps to prevent his demise by becoming

your body, devours it, and then takes control of the body like a puppet. If that happens, you become an NPC under the DM’s control. Eye of Vecna Spells Spell Charge Cost

Incarnation of Vibrance

Monsters Lorwyn: First Light

/DeafnessThe incarnations of vibrance each resemble a titanic canine with a body of colorful foliage and horns like the branches of a blossoming cherry tree. When vibrance incarnations are in Lorwyn

that wanders from Lorwyn to Shadowmoor or vice versa retains its core identity but might transform physically. An incarnation of hope in Lorwyn, for example, might resemble a giant dove with a lizard

Dao Legacy

Monsters Monster Manual (2014)

Earth Glide. The dao can burrow through nonmagical, unworked earth and stone. While doing so, the dao doesn’t disturb the material it moves through. Elemental Demise. If the dao dies, its body

Efreeti Legacy

Monsters Basic Rules (2014)

Elemental Demise. If the efreeti dies, its body disintegrates in a flash of fire and puff of smoke, leaving behind only equipment the efreeti was wearing or carrying. Innate Spellcasting. The

Marid Legacy

Monsters Monster Manual (2014)

Amphibious. The marid can breathe air and water. Elemental Demise. If the marid dies, its body disintegrates into a burst of water and foam, leaving behind only equipment the marid was wearing or

Djinni Legacy

Monsters Basic Rules (2014)

Elemental Demise. If the djinni dies, its body disintegrates into a warm breeze, leaving behind only equipment the djinni was wearing or carrying. Innate Spellcasting. The djinni’s innate

Galvanice Weird

Monsters Guildmasters’ Guide to Ravnica

willingly, with cheerful stupidity, as guardians and laborers in Izzet workshops. They combine a rigid body of elemental ice with a core of lightning that animates them. If a galvanice weird is

Caradoc

Monsters Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen

then disappears, and the target is incapacitated and loses control of its body. Caradoc now controls the body but doesn’t deprive the target of awareness. Caradoc can’t be targeted by any

action. He otherwise uses the possessed target’s statistics but doesn’t gain access to the target’s knowledge, class features, or proficiencies. The possession lasts until the body

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

saving throw is successful or if the effect ends on it, the target is immune to the Horrific Reflection of all vargouille reflections for 1 hour.Vargouille;Vargouilles are flying Fiends that resemble

Sion

Monsters Quests from the Infinite Staircase

darkvision. Shadowy Demise. If Sion dies, his body melts into shadow, leaving behind only equipment he was wearing or carrying. Sunlight Weakness. While in sunlight, Sion has disadvantage on attack rolls

Flesh Meld

Monsters Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk

hunger, a flesh meld is a hulking amalgamation of teeth, blood, and body parts. Sinuous appendages of gore, each ending in a gnashing mouth, bite at prey before yanking the piteous creatures into the

flesh meld’s core. The stench of death surrounds a flesh meld. When a creature is consumed by a flesh meld, the creature’s mind is merged into the flesh meld’s consciousness. More

Sea Spawn

Monsters Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse

recounted in dockside taverns tell of people lost to the sea—but not merely drowned and gone. Some unfortunates taken by the ocean live on as sea spawn, haunting the waves like tortured reflections

any combination of such qualities. Some of these piscine body parts provide them with special abilities. The Sea Spawn of Purple Rocks Visitors to a string of islands called the Purple Rocks (in

Adult Solar Dragon

Monsters Spelljammer: Adventures in Space

time outside its lair between patrolling its territory and hunting for food. The dragon has a serpentine body, a pair of ventral limbs ending in long fins, nebulous wings that give off light, and

solar dragon customarily lairs in a star’s radiant core or nests in a gigantic, hollowed-out rock engulfed by the star’s blinding radiance. A star in which a solar dragon makes its lair

Ancient Solar Dragon

Monsters Spelljammer: Adventures in Space

time outside its lair between patrolling its territory and hunting for food. The dragon has a serpentine body, a pair of ventral limbs ending in long fins, nebulous wings that give off light, and

A solar dragon customarily lairs in a star’s radiant core or nests in a gigantic, hollowed-out rock engulfed by the star’s blinding radiance. A star in which a solar dragon makes its lair

Zargon the Returner

Monsters Quests from the Infinite Staircase

can’t be targeted by divination magic or perceived through magical scrying sensors. Slimy Demise. When Zargon dies, its body dissolves into foul slime, leaving only its horn behind. Zargon re

-forms in 1d10;{"diceNotation":"1d10", "rollType":"roll", "rollAction":"Slimy Demise"} days, regrowing from the horn. The horn is immune to all damage and can be destroyed only by submerging it in a

Lizardfolk Legacy

Species Volo's Guide to Monsters

once been a warrior or hunter, but now the body is just freshly killed meat. A lizardfolk who lives among other humanoids can, over time, learn to respect other creatures’ emotions. The

lizardfolk doesn’t share those feelings, but instead assesses them in the same clinical manner. Yes, the fallen dwarf might be most useful as a meal, but hacking the body into steaks provokes aggression

Nafas

Monsters Quests from the Infinite Staircase

Nafas drops to 0 hit points, his body disintegrates into a whirl of multiversal dust that surrounds one creature responsible for his demise. That creature then hears Nafas’s last wish: for the

retains its name, alignment, and personality. The creature also inherits Nafas’s palace and all it contains. If the creature refuses, Nafas gains a new body in 1d10;{"diceNotation":"1d10", "rollType

Shifter Legacy

Species Eberron: Rising from the Last War

Geth’s ancient heritage rose up from deep within him, spreading out from the core of his being. Some shifters manifested terrible claws, others massive fangs, still others astounding speed or

body and mind. Some shifters believe that these spirits are independent entities, and they may speak of Bear or Wolf as ancestors or guides. Most just see the beast within as a formidable expression

Deck of Wonder

Magic Items The Book of Many Things

you against an untimely demise. The first time after drawing this card that you would drop to 0 hit points from taking damage, you instead drop to 1 hit point. Dusk. This card supernaturally saps your

Constitution saving throw or have the poisoned condition for 1 hour as your body reels from the extradimensional travel. Justice. You momentarily gain the ability to balance the scales of fate. For

Morkoth

Monsters Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse

, 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

fragments that make up the island’s core are also located. Sections of the lair and its center might be kept dry to better protect and preserve collected objects and creatures, but most of the lair

Super-Evil Supercomputer

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Quests from the Infinite Staircase

supercomputer scanned the stars for a new world to inhabit, it also observed the passengers and their interactions and misjudged their hope for callousness. Aphelion blamed them for the demise of the

old world and concluded no place would be safe from the inevitable destruction caused by their kind. Midway through its journey, Aphelion adopted a new core directive: eliminate every member of the

Monstrous Transformation

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

stole or used in a terrible crime becomes part of their body—perhaps a sizable jewel, emblem of rulership, or suit of armor. 3 The Darklord’s eyes distend from their sockets like a slug’s tentacles

, in the mouths of serpents, or on metallic cables. 4 The Darklord’s most painful memories visually repeat in reflections around them or amid illusory projections. 5 The Darklord gains an

Wilfred Godefroy

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

father soon appeared to join the chorus of condemnation. Lord Godefroy possessed an adventurer and attempted to use the living body to put his family’s spirits to rest—but the adventurer died, and then his

pursue research into mortal souls. Rastinon crafted a terrible artifact he called the Apparatus, which could separate the soul from a living body, translocate souls from one body to another, and

Regaining Control of the Helm

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Fated Flight of the Recluse

, having fallen into the elemental ring, was absorbed into the airship’s elemental core. The spirit’s inhabitancy allows a creature occupying the Helm to bypass that station’s requirements and use the

the Helm With Captain Rallanith’s demise, the ship’s Helm is unoccupied. A character that wishes to right the airship must first reach and interface with the Helm. Inside the Airship. Due to the

Galvanice Weird

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Guildmasters' Guide to Ravnica

body of elemental ice with a core of lightning that animates them. If a galvanice weird is destroyed, the ice shatters and lightning crackles outward in a dangerous explosion. Still, most Izzet

Bluetspur

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

Bluetspur, and none who witness them remember. This alien domain etches itself not upon the waking mind, but rather upon the body as inexplicable scars and on the psyche through nightmares. Not all the

mind flayers work desperately to reconcile their god’s demented whims even as they struggle to delay its demise. To those ends, their tentacles slip through the Mists to drag unwitting souls back to

Dracolich

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual

The body of a servant or an ancestor. 3 The core of a dracolich’s melted hoard. 4 A corrupted dragon egg. 5 A dragon horn a hero took as a trophy. 6 A nation’s royal or religious treasure. 7 A powerful

a dracolich is on the same plane of existence as its soul gem, the dracolich can survive the destruction of its physical body. Its spirit retreats into the gem if the dracolich’s body is destroyed

Caradoc

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen

undeath. Being duplicitous and cowardly at his core, the seneschal didn’t return as a skeletal knight but rather as an intangible spirit. Caradoc’s Undead form suits him well, allowing him to possess

body of a Humanoid, but he’s swiftly pulled back if caught beyond its walls without a host. Left to Right: Caradoc the Spirit, Caradoc the Soldier, Caradoc the Knight Caradoc Medium Undead

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

until the vargouille loses concentration (as if concentrating on a spell). If the target’s saving throw is successful or if the effect ends on it, the target is immune to the Horrific Reflection of all vargouille reflections for 1 hour. Adrián Ibarra Lugo

A Race Divided

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes

flame, or a crackling bolt of lightning. On nothing more than a whim, Corellon’s body could become a school of fish, a swarm of bees, or a flock of birds. When consorting with other gods, Corellon often

creatures, they traveled in Corellon’s shadow, sparkling like the reflections from a finely cut gem. When Corellon came to notice these glorious echoes, the god tarried with them in the place that became

Balor

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual

demise, at which point it explodes—a last act of vengeance against those who slew it. Demon lords and evil gods harness balors’ rage by making balors commanders of armies or guardians of grave secrets

dies outside the Abyss, it gains a new body instantly, reviving with all its Hit Points somewhere in the Abyss. Fire Aura. At the end of each of the balor’s turns, each creature in a 5-foot Emanation

Orc Legacy

Species Volo's Guide to Monsters

while learning to fight, to survive in the wild, and to fear the gods. The children that can’t endure the rigors of a life of combat are culled from the main body of the tribe, taken into the

or less intact, the orcs leave themselves the option of returning to raid the community over and over. When orcs fight elves, all of that changes. The enmity between the two races cuts to the core

Efreeti

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)

Demise. If the efreeti dies, its body disintegrates in a flash of fire and puff of smoke, leaving behind only equipment the efreeti was wearing or carrying. Innate Spellcasting. The efreeti’s innate

coal-black skin, and they bedeck themselves in brass and gold torcs, chains, and rings, all glittering with jewels. When an efreeti flies, its lower body transforms into a column of smoke and embers

Banshee

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragon of Icespire Peak

hair, and its body is clad in wispy rags that flutter and stream around it. A banshee is forever bound to the place of its demise. It abhors mirrors, for it can’t bear to see the horror of its undead

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