before body drives creation replacing

Djinni

Monsters Monster Manual

Elemental Restoration. If the djinni dies outside the Elemental Plane of Air, its body dissolves into mist, and it gains a new body in 1d4;{"diceNotation":"1d4", "rollType":"roll", "rollAction

Magic2/Day Each: Create Food and Water (can create wine instead of water), Tongues, Wind Walk1/Day Each: Creation, Gaseous Form, Invisibility, Major Image, Plane ShiftLightning, Thunder

Orb of Damara

Magic Items Forgotten Realms: Adventures in Faerûn

would enable him to achieve his dream. Yet the potential power of his creation terrified Damara so much that he dared not use the orb. Instead, the wizard entombed himself with the Artifact to seal it

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

Baaz Draconian

Monsters Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen

reduced to 0 hit points, its body turns to stone and releases a petrifying gas. Each creature within 5 feet of the draconian must succeed on a DC 11 Constitution saving throw or be restrained as it begins

body of the draconian crumbles to dust. Draconic Devotion. While the draconian can see a Dragon that isn’t hostile to it, the draconian has advantage on attack rolls.Multiattack. The draconian

Intellect Devourer Legacy

Monsters Monster Manual (2014)

intellect devourer must leave it. A protection from evil and good spell cast on the body drives the intellect devourer out. The intellect devourer is also forced out if the target regains its

Intelligence. Body Thief. The intellect devourer initiates an Intelligence contest with an incapacitated humanoid within 5 feet of it that isn’t protected by protection from evil and good. If it wins

Beholder Zombie Legacy

Monsters Monster Manual (2014)

damage reduces the 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 the target is a Huge or larger nonmagical object or creation of magical force, this ray disintegrates a 10-foot cube of it.Poison

Arcane Propulsion Arm

Magic Items Eberron: Rising from the Last War

magically forms a copy of the appendage it’s replacing. While attached, the prosthetic provides these benefits: The prosthetic is a fully capable part of your body. You can take an action to remove

Way of the Four Elements Legacy

Classes Player’s Handbook (2014)

You follow a monastic tradition that teaches you to harness the elements. When you focus your ki, you can align yourself with the forces of creation and bend the four elements to your will, using

them as an extension of your body. Some members of this tradition dedicate themselves to a single element, but others weave the elements together. Many monks of this tradition tattoo their bodies with

Carrionette

Monsters Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft

carrionette and the target die. A protection from evil and good spell cast on the controlled body drives the carrionette out and returns the consciousness of both creatures to their original bodies

spell, it must succeed on a DC 12 Charisma saving throw or have its consciousness swapped with the carrionette. The carrionette gains control of the target’s body, and the target is unconscious

Devourer

Monsters Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse

replacing all life with everlasting death. A lesser demon that proves itself to Orcus might be granted the privilege of becoming a devourer. The Prince of Undeath transforms such a demon into an 8-foot

appear in the Monster Manual) are particularly attracted to the presence of a devourer. Devourers hunt Humanoids with the intent of consuming them body and soul. After a devourer brings a target to the

Hypnos Magen

Monsters Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden

body disappears in a burst of harmless fire and a cloud of smoke that quickly dissipates. Magical Servants. Magen make ideal servants. At creation, each is instilled with an instinct to protect

Fiery End. If the magen dies, its body disintegrates in a harmless burst of fire and smoke, leaving behind anything it was wearing or carrying. Magic Resistance. The magen has advantage on saving

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

: conjure elemental (air elemental only), creation, gaseous form, invisibility, major image, plane shiftMultiattack. The djinni makes three scimitar attacks. Scimitar. Melee Weapon Attack: +9

Demos Magen

Monsters Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden

Fiery End. If the magen dies, its body disintegrates in a harmless burst of fire and smoke, leaving behind anything it was wearing or carrying. Magic Resistance. The magen has advantage on saving

are constructs. When one is wounded, its blood is seen to have the color and consistency of mercury. They exist purely through magical means. When one is killed, its body disappears in a burst of

Galvan Magen

Monsters Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden

Fiery End. If the magen dies, its body disintegrates in a harmless burst of fire and smoke, leaving behind anything it was wearing or carrying. Magic Resistance. The magen has advantage on saving

wounded, its blood is seen to have the color and consistency of mercury. They exist purely through magical means. When one is killed, its body disappears in a burst of harmless fire and a cloud of

Berbalang Legacy

Monsters Mordenkainen’s Tome of Foes

these creatures, thus preserving the information they gain. Spectral Spy. The pursuit of knowledge drives everything berbalangs do. Although they mostly learn their secrets from the dead, they aren&rsquo

places where the gods and their servants gather. When a berbalang is perceiving its environment through its duplicate, its actual body is unconscious and can’t protect or nourish itself. Thus, a

Berbalang

Monsters Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse

to these creatures, thus preserving the information they gain. Pursuit of knowledge drives everything berbalangs do. Although they mostly learn their secrets from the dead, they aren’t above

the gods and their servants gather. When a berbalang is perceiving its environment through its duplicate, its actual body is unconscious and can’t protect itself. Thus, a berbalang typically

Amethyst Dragon Wyrmling

Monsters Fizban's Treasury of Dragons

of creation. 5 To experience a thing is to truly understand it. Direct and personal experience is the most valuable form of knowledge. 6 I see a far more kaleidoscopic reality than you do

possible—including the creation of a more orderly and perfect cosmos than this one. Amethyst Dragon Ideals d6;{"diceNotation":"1d6","rollType":"roll","rollAction":"Ideal

Nightmare Haunt

Monsters Monstrous Compendium Vol. 4: Eldraine Creatures

minds of Eldraine’s sleeping citizens, made tangible by the planeswalker Ashiok. These creatures can hurt the body and also attack the minds of dreamers afflicted by the Wicked Slumber. Nightmare

, Eriette and Ashiok conspire to build a nightmare realm in the ruins of Castle Ardenvale at the heart of the Wicked Slumber, replacing the virtuous court with one composed of sleepwalkers and dreamers

Brain in a Jar

Monsters Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden

laughterThrough rituals combining alchemy, necromancy, and grim surgical precision, the brain of a mortal being is encased in a glass jar filled with preserving fluids and the liquefied goop of their body&rsquo

wrought masterwork, depending on its creator. Still other brains desire nothing more than to regain a body. This might be the brain’s original body, another frame they covet, or some more

Young Amethyst Dragon

Monsters Fizban's Treasury of Dragons

shared with those who can appreciate it? 4 Although some are fascinated by words, I think numbers are the true foundations of creation. 5 To experience a thing is to truly understand it

to interfere. I merely seek to observe, learn, and understand. 8 With a true understanding of metaphysics, anything is possible—including the creation of a more orderly and perfect cosmos

Death Tyrant Legacy

Monsters Monster Manual (2014)

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

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

Gnome Squidling

Monsters Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden

, the tadpole transforms its host into a mind flayer. The new creation typically retains no memory of its previous existence. When the process of turning a gnome into a mind flayer goes horribly awry

, the result is a gnome squidling—a deformed mind flayer with weak, spindly limbs and oversized tentacles. It relies on levitation to keep its body aloft and uses its tentacles like legs, to

Reborn

Species Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft

perfectly preserved remains. Lamordia. You awoke amid the bizarre experiments of an amoral scientist. They consider you their finest creation or have a task for you to fulfill. Mordent. You emerged from the mysterious device known as the Apparatus, your body a lifeless shell and your past a mystery.

Memories table to inspire its details. Lost Memories d6 Memory 1 You recall a physically painful moment. What mark or scar on your body does it relate to? 2 A memory brings

Ancient Amethyst Dragon

Monsters Fizban's Treasury of Dragons

use is vast knowledge or insight if it is not shared with those who can appreciate it? 4 Although some are fascinated by words, I think numbers are the true foundations of creation. 5 To

the creation of a more orderly and perfect cosmos than this one. Amethyst Dragon Ideals d6;{"diceNotation":"1d6","rollType":"roll","rollAction":"Ideal"} Ideal 1 Balance

Adult Amethyst Dragon

Monsters Fizban's Treasury of Dragons

foundations of creation. 5 To experience a thing is to truly understand it. Direct and personal experience is the most valuable form of knowledge. 6 I see a far more kaleidoscopic reality than

, anything is possible—including the creation of a more orderly and perfect cosmos than this one. Amethyst Dragon Ideals d6;{"diceNotation":"1d6","rollType":"roll","rollAction":"Ideal

Beholder Legacy

Monsters Monster Manual (2014)

or take 45 (10d8);{"diceNotation":"10d8","rollType":"damage","rollAction":"Disintegration Ray","rollDamageType":"force"} force damage. If this damage reduces the 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 the target is a Huge or larger

Allip

Monsters Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse

the creation of an allip. Secrets protected in this manner range in scope from a demon lord’s true name to the hidden truths of the cosmic order. The creature acquires the secret, but the curse

annihilates its body and leaves behind a spectral being composed of fragments from the victim’s psyche and overwhelming psychic agony. Every allip is wracked with a horrifying insight that

Esthetic

Monsters Spelljammer: Adventures in Space

which can grapple one target.An esthetic is a biological, symbiotic creation of a reigar. It is essentially an organic ship with only the barest hint of awareness. Without its reigar to guide it, an

its acid-secreting tentacles. Each esthetic is unique in appearance. One might be bilaterally symmetrical (two matching halves, like a humanoid body along its vertical axis), radially symmetrical

Lineages

Species Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft

overshadow their original race, if any, becoming their new race. A character might choose a lineage during character creation, their transformation having occurred before play begins. Or, events might

unfold during adventures that lead your character to replacing their race with this new lineage. Work with your DM to establish if you’re amenable to such a development and how such stories

Kender

Species Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen

During the mythical origins of Krynn, Reorx, god of craft, indulged in an age of unfettered creation. Many peoples sprang from his divine forge, but not all among them remained as the god created

diminutive Humanoids who look like humans with pointed ears and diverse appearances. Kender have a supernatural curiosity that drives them to adventure. Due to this inquisitiveness, many kender find

Demogorgon

Monsters Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse

a meld of different forms. He has a saurian lower body and clawed, webbed feet; suckered tentacles sprout from the shoulders of his great apelike torso, which is surmounted by two hideous simian heads

named Aameul and Hathradiah. Their gaze brings bewilderment and confusion to any who confront them. Similarly, the spiraling Y sign of Demogorgon’s cult drives those who contemplate it for too

Theran Chimera

Monsters Mythic Odysseys of Theros

creation effortlessly, Keranos created another combination of deadlier beasts to challenge her. She slayed that beast, too. Despite countless attempts, Keranos was unable to create a beast that Renata

. To do so, simply roll once on one or all of the following tables. Results from the Body Composition table adjust the Theran chimera as described, while results on the Breath Weapons, Head Attacks

Gauth

Monsters Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse

Constructs and Undead.A gauth is a hungry, tyrannical creature similar to a beholder that eats magic and tries to exact tribute from anything weaker than itself. Its body is about 4 feet in diameter, with

magic items it is expected to guard. A beholder (see the Monster Manual) usually drives away or kills any gauths that enter its territory, but it might choose to force them to serve it as lieutenants

Grim Champion of Desolation

Monsters The Book of Many Things

its body crumbles to dust.The champion 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

forgotten almost everything about her former life. Jyn’s existence over so many centuries has left her in tortured misery, and now nihilism is all that drives her. More than any other member of the

Snowborn

races

”. Beyond that, little is known about their creation, though elemental magic was clearly involved. New snowborn have appeared and vanished over the years since their origin, yet the pattern of

their life and rebirth remains a mystery even to them. Each fleeting snowborn lives for up to 20 years. A snowborn’s body is formed of compacted snow. They have a small sphere for a head, branch

Ygorl, Lord of Entropy

Monsters Mordenkainen's Fiendish Folio Volume 1

by this attack dies, with its body and everything it is wearing and carrying, except magic items, exploding into a cloud of ash. The creature can be restored to life only by means of a wish spell

of eternity. It has no sense of empathy or compassion, driven only to unmake so that the resulting base elements of reality can fuel the multiverse’s endless cycles of creation and destruction

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