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Dungeon Master’s Guide
damage. Crafting an amulet requires 1 week and costs 1,000 gp in components.
A shield guardian’s solitary focus is to protect the amulet’s wearer. The amulet’s wearer can command the
guardian to attack its enemies or to guard the wielder against attack. If an attack threatens to injure the wearer, the construct can magically absorb the blow into its own body, even at a distance.
Magic Items
Dungeon Master’s Guide
after flying its maximum distance for a day or if it drops to 0 Hit Points. You can dismiss the bird as a Magic action.
Fan (Uncommon). If you are on a boat or ship, you can take a Magic action to
action while on the boat to command it to move or to turn up to 90 degrees. The boat remains for 24 hours and then disappears. You can dismiss the boat as a Magic action.
Tree (Uncommon). You must be
Command
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You speak a one-word command to a creature you can see within range. The target must succeed on a Wisdom saving throw or follow the command on its next turn. The spell has no effect if the target is
undead, if it doesn't understand your language, or if your command is directly harmful to it.
Some typical commands and their effects follow. You might issue a command other than one described here
Wand of Enemy Detection
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This wand has 7 charges. While holding it, you can use an action and expend 1 charge to speak its command word. For the next minute, you know the direction of the nearest creature hostile to you
within 60 feet, but not its distance from you. The wand can sense the presence of hostile creatures that are ethereal, invisible, disguised, or hidden, as well as those in plain sight. The effect ends if
Swarm of Cranium Rats
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Monsters
Volo's Guide to Monsters
than half of its hit points remaining, the swarm can innately cast the following spells, requiring no components:
At will: command, comprehend languages, detect thoughts
1/day each: confusion
temporary hit points.
Telepathic Shroud. The swarm is immune to any effect that would sense its emotions or read its thoughts, as well as to all divination spells.Bites. Melee Weapon Attack: +5
Animate Objects
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Objects come to life at your command. Choose up to ten nonmagical objects within range that are not being worn or carried. Medium targets count as two objects, Large targets count as four objects
.
As a bonus action, you can mentally command any creature you made with this spell if the creature is within 500 feet of you (if you control multiple creatures, you can command any or all of them at
Magic Items
Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
amulet requires 1 week and costs 1,000 gp in components.
A shield guardian’s solitary focus is to protect the amulet’s wearer. The amulet’s wearer can command the guardian to attack
its enemies or to guard the wielder against attack. If an attack threatens to injure the wearer, the construct can magically absorb the blow into its own body, even at a distance.
A humanoid that
Monsters
Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse
effect that would sense its emotions or read its thoughts, as well as to divination spells.Bites. Melee Weapon Attack: +5;{"diceNotation":"1d20+5", "rollType":"to hit", "rollAction":"Bites"} to hit
the spellcasting ability (spell save DC 13):
At will: command,* detect thoughts,* sending*
1/day each: confusion,* dominate monster*
*To cast this spell, the swarm must have more than half its hit
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
temporary hit points.
Telepathic Shroud. The swarm is immune to any effect that would sense its emotions or read its thoughts, as well as to all divination spells.Bites. Melee Weapon Attack: +5
of its hit points remaining, the swarm casts one of the following spells, requiring no spell components and using Intelligence as the spellcasting ability (spell save DC 13):
At will: command
Monsters
Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
, calm emotions, detect magic, detect thoughts, dispel magic, sending, suggestion
1/day each: mass suggestion, modify memory
Inquisitor’s Command (Recharge 5–6);{"diceNotation":"1d6","rollType
":"recharge","rollAction":"Inquisitor's Command"}. Each creature of the inquisitor’s choice that it can see within 60 feet of it must succeed on a DC 15 Wisdom saving throw or be charmed until
Monsters
The Book of Many Things
spellcasting ability (spell save DC 13):
At will: Prestidigitation, Speak with Animals
1/day each: Bestow Curse, Command, Crown of MadnessBaphomet’s Blessing. When Brusipha reduces a hostile
distance and direction to the target if it is on the same plane of existence. The link ends if Brusipha has the incapacitated condition or uses this ability on a different target.
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Mythic Odysseys of Theros
exploits precede you and might open doors or loosen tongues.
Whether in one of the poleis, between them, or among the nonhuman peoples of Theros, physical contests and those who pursue them command
excel.
Favored Event
d8
Favored Event
1
Marathon
2
Long-distance running
3
Wrestling
4
Boxing
5
Chariot or horse race
6
Pankration (mixed
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
howler. Even at a distance, listeners’ minds cringe at the sound and fill with horror at the realization that the noise is drawing closer. When howlers go on the prowl, courage isn’t
hesitation. Howler packs course over the battlefields of the Blood War and also serve evil mortals powerful and vicious enough to command their loyalty.
Howlers rely on speed, numbers, and their mind
Symbol
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stepping on the glyph, removing another object covering it, approaching within a certain distance of it, or manipulating the object that holds it. For glyphs inscribed within an object, the most
common triggers are opening the object, approaching within a certain distance of it, or seeing or reading the glyph.
You can further refine the trigger so the spell is activated only under certain
Monsters
Guildmasters’ Guide to Ravnica
Inscrutable. The sphinx is immune to any effect that would sense its emotions or read its thoughts, as well as any divination spell that it refuses. Wisdom (Insight) checks made to ascertain the
sphinx has the following wizard spells prepared:
Cantrips (at will): friends, mage hand, message
1st level (4 slots): command, ensnaring strike, shield
2nd level (3 slots): calm emotions, hold person
Monsters
Guildmasters’ Guide to Ravnica
. Isperia is immune to any effect that would sense her emotions or read her thoughts, as well as any divination spell that she refuses. Wisdom (Insight) checks made to ascertain her intentions or
":"Spellcasting"} to hit with spell attacks). Isperia has the following cleric spells prepared:
Cantrips (at will): guidance, light, resistance, sacred flame, thaumaturgy
1st level (4 slots): command
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
);{"diceNotation":"5d10", "rollType":"damage", "rollAction":"Psychic Orb", "rollDamageType":"psychic"} psychic damage.
Collapse Distance (Recharge 6);{"diceNotation":"1d6", "rollType":"recharge
", "rollAction":"Collapse Distance"}. The seer warps space around one creature it can see within 30 feet of it. That creature must make a DC 19 Wisdom saving throw. On a failed save, the target, along with
Androsphinx
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Inscrutable. The sphinx is immune to any effect that would sense its emotions or read its thoughts, as well as any divination spell that it refuses. Wisdom (Insight) checks made to ascertain the
following cleric spells prepared:
Cantrips (at will): sacred flame, spare the dying, thaumaturgy
1st level (4 slots): command, detect evil and good, detect magic
2nd level (3 slots): lesser restoration
Monsters
Curse of Strahd
Immunity. Sir Godfrey Gwilym is immune to effects that turn undead.
Vengeful Tracker. Sir Godfrey Gwilym knows the distance to and direction of any creature against which it seeks revenge, even if
spellcasting ability is Wisdom (spell save DC 14). Sir Godfrey has the following paladin spells prepared:
1st level (4 slots): command, divine favor, thunderous smite
2nd level (3 slots): branding
Wave
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Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
equal to half its hit point maximum.
The weapon also functions as a trident of fish command and a weapon of warning. It can confer the benefit of a cap of water breathing while you hold it, and you can
, and a Charisma of 18. It has hearing and darkvision out to a range of 120 feet.
The weapon communicates telepathically with its wielder and can speak, read, and understand Aquan. It can also speak
Species
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
;and were imbued with a measure of their masters’ power over winds. Their descendants still command echoes of that power.
From below, aarakocra look like large birds and thus are sometimes called
increase. You can follow those suggestions or ignore them, but you can’t raise any of your scores above 20.
Languages
Your character can speak, read, and write Common and one other language that you
Magic Items
Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
limbs, with the effect of such loss determined by the GM. If the creature has no limb to sever, you lop off a portion of its body instead.
In addition, you can speak the sword’s command word to
cause the blade to shed bright light in a 10-foot radius and dim light for an additional 10 feet. Speaking the command word again or sheathing the sword puts out the light.
Evil creatures can’t
Magic Items
Acquisitions Incorporated
Head office grants you the use of a unique item known as an occultant abacus (sometimes just referred to as an occultant), whose beads resemble tiny skulls.
Read the Kill
Also at rank 1, your
finish a long rest.
Ways to Read the Kill
d6
Reading
1
Using a tiny bellows to pump one last breath into a corpse.
2
Reading the entrails with special reading-the-entrails
Feather Token
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flying its maximum distance for a day or if it drops to 0 hit points. You can dismiss the bird as an action.
Feather Token (Fan);Fan. If you are on a boat or ship, you can use an action to toss the
while on the boat to command it to move or to turn up to 90 degrees. The boat can carry up to thirty-two Medium or smaller creatures. A Large creature counts as four Medium creatures, while a Huge
Quaal's Feather Token
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Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
flying its maximum distance for a day or if it drops to 0 hit points. You can dismiss the bird as an action.
Feather Token (Fan);Fan. If you are on a boat or ship, you can use an action to toss the
while on the boat to command it to move or to turn up to 90 degrees. The boat can carry up to thirty-two Medium or smaller creatures. A Large creature counts as four Medium creatures, while a Huge
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Guildmasters’ Guide to Ravnica
) into a thought strand that others can potentially read, share, or steal. These thought strands are treated as valuable currency among the Dimir.
Suggested Characteristics
Skilled at infiltration
.
Dimir Contacts
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Contact
1
I know a Dimir courier who relays messages to me from someone higher up the chain of command.
2
I get orders from a shapeshifter I recognize only
Ki-rin
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Volo's Guide to Monsters
(at will): light, mending, sacred flame, spare the dying, thaumaturgy
1st level (4 slots): command, cure wounds, detect evil and good, protection from evil and good, sanctuary
2nd level (3 slots
idealized form. Such creatures are rarely aggressive toward others that aren't normally prey. Evil creatures can't tolerate the holy atmosphere within the same distance, and usually choose to live much
Magic Items
Keys from the Golden Vault
the painting knows and what it doesn’t.
While attuned to the painting, you can take an action to telepathically contact it over any distance, provided you and the painting are on the same plane
Portrait. While you are attuned to the painting, you can command it to guard its location against one or more creatures you identify as the painting’s enemies. The painting performs this function
Monsters
Mythic Odysseys of Theros
settlements. Whether it acts at the command of the god Thassa or to sate its own hunger, Tromokratis numbers among the most feared threats in the sea, having no fixed lair and wandering where it will
its hearts are exposed, Tromokratis can choose one of its mythic actions when it uses a legendary action.
Read or paraphrase the following text when Tromokratis uses its Hearts of the Kraken trait
Monsters
Eberron: Rising from the Last War
Alien Mind. If a creature tries to read Belashyrra’s thoughts or deals psychic damage to it, that creature must succeed on a DC 22 Intelligence saving throw or be stunned for 1 minute. The
perception. Each creature of Belashyrra’s choice in the lair must make a DC 22 Wisdom saving throw. On a failure, the affected creature perceives objects and creatures a short distance from their
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
each: command, divination, hypnotic pattern, lesser restorationThe 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 signs written in starlight. They read these signs as omens, giving them glimpses of what is to come, and they eagerly examine the potential futures of any creatures who come to them in peace
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
: command, divination, greater restoration, hypnotic pattern, invisibilityThe dragon can take 3 legendary actions, choosing from the options below. Only one legendary action option can be used at a
sky and tracking the signs written in starlight. They read these signs as omens, giving them glimpses of what is to come, and they eagerly examine the potential futures of any creatures who come to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)
Command 1st-level enchantment Casting Time: 1 action Range: 60 feet Components: V Duration: 1 round You speak a one-word command to a creature you can see within range. The target must succeed on a
Wisdom saving throw or follow the command on its next turn. The spell has no effect if the target is undead, if it doesn’t understand your language, or if your command is directly harmful to it. Some
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
Command 1st-level enchantment Casting Time: 1 action Range: 60 feet Components: V Duration: 1 round You speak a one-word command to a creature you can see within range. The target must succeed on a
Wisdom saving throw or follow the command on its next turn. The spell has no effect if the target is undead, if it doesn’t understand your language, or if your command is directly harmful to it. Some
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Eve of Ruin
reality of Oerth, where Vecna has captured and imprisoned his archrival, Kas the Betrayer. Read the following to describe the scene: Your feet sink into the mucky basin of a sprawling wasteland. The
shattered remains of trees, roads, and whole mountain ranges dot the barren landscape. In the distance, a lone castle is silhouetted against the crimson horizon. Two hulking figures wander around the






