before both dominate check resting

Vampire

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

, and it must reach its resting place within 2 hours or be destroyed. Once in its resting place, it returns to its vampire form and has the Paralyzed condition until it regains any Hit Points, and it

Yochlol

Monsters Monster Manual

Advantage on saving throws against spells and other magical effects. Spider Climb. The yochlol can climb difficult surfaces, including along ceilings, without needing to make an ability check. Web

Walker. The yochlol ignores movement restrictions caused by webs.Multiattack. The yochlol makes two Caustic Lash attacks, and it can use Spellcasting to cast Web or Dominate Person if available. Caustic

Book of Vile Darkness

Magic Items Dungeon Master’s Guide

attuned to the book, you can cast the following spells (save DC 18) from it: Animate Dead Circle of Death Dominate Monster Finger of Death Once you use the book to cast a spell, you can’t

cast that spell again from it until the next dawn. Vile Lore. You can reference the Book of Vile Darkness whenever you make an Intelligence check to recall information about some aspect of evil, such as

Mark of Handling

Feats Eberron: Forge of the Artificer

Handling) check, you can roll 1d4 and add the number rolled to the ability check. Primal Connection. You always have the Animal Friendship and Speak with Animals spells prepared. You can cast each

Handling Spells table are added to that feature’s spell list. Mark of Handling Spells Spell Level Spells 1 Command, Find Familiar 2 Beast Sense, Calm Emotions 3 Beacon of Hope, Conjure Animals 4 Aura of Life, Dominate Beast 5 Awaken

Vampire Spellcaster Legacy

Monsters Monster Manual (2014)

throw, it can choose to succeed instead. Misty Escape. When it drops to 0 hit points outside its resting place, the vampire transforms into a cloud of mist (as in the Shapechanger trait) instead of

reach its resting place within 2 hours or be destroyed. Once in its resting place, it reverts to its vampire form. It is then paralyzed until it regains at least 1 hit point. After spending 1 hour in

Vampire Warrior Legacy

Monsters Monster Manual (2014)

throw, it can choose to succeed instead. Misty Escape. When it drops to 0 hit points outside its resting place, the vampire transforms into a cloud of mist (as in the Shapechanger trait) instead of

reach its resting place within 2 hours or be destroyed. Once in its resting place, it reverts to its vampire form. It is then paralyzed until it regains at least 1 hit point. After spending 1 hour in

Vampire Legacy

Monsters Basic Rules (2014)

). If the vampire fails a saving throw, it can choose to succeed instead. Misty Escape. When it drops to 0 hit points outside its resting place, the vampire transforms into a cloud of mist (as in the

can’t revert to its vampire form, and it must reach its resting place within 2 hours or be destroyed. Once in its resting place, it reverts to its vampire form. It is then paralyzed until it

Zorak Lightdrinker

Monsters Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage

to succeed instead. Misty Escape. When he drops to 0 hit points outside his resting place, Zorak transforms into a cloud of mist (as in the Shapechanger trait) instead of falling unconscious

, provided that it isn't in sunlight or running water. If he can't transform, he is destroyed. While he has 0 hit points in mist form, he can't revert to his vampire form, and he must reach his resting place

Keresta Delvingstone

Monsters Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage

can choose to succeed instead. Misty Escape. When she drops to 0 hit points outside her resting place, Keresta transforms into a cloud of mist (as in the Shapechanger trait) instead of falling

her resting place within 2 hours or be destroyed. Once in her resting place, she reverts to her vampire form. She is then paralyzed until she regains at least 1 hit point. After spending 1 hour in

Vampire Spawn Legacy

Monsters Basic Rules (2014)

ability check. Vampire Weaknesses. The vampire has the following flaws: Forbiddance. The vampire can't enter a residence without an invitation from one of the occupants. Harmed by Running Water. The

its resting place. Sunlight Hypersensitivity. The vampire takes 20 radiant damage when it starts its turn in sunlight. While in sunlight, it has disadvantage on attack rolls and ability

Yochlol Legacy

Monsters Monster Manual (2014)

. Spider Climb. The yochlol can climb difficult surfaces, including upside down on ceilings, without needing to make an ability check. Innate Spellcasting. The yochlol’s spellcasting ability is

Charisma (spell save DC 14). The yochlol can innately cast the following spells, requiring no material components: At will: detect thoughts, web 1/day: dominate person Web Walker. The yochlol ignores

Yochlol (Summoner Variant) Legacy

Monsters Monster Manual (2014)

. Spider Climb. The yochlol can climb difficult surfaces, including upside down on ceilings, without needing to make an ability check. Innate Spellcasting. The yochlol’s spellcasting ability is

Charisma (spell save DC 14). The yochlol can innately cast the following spells, requiring no material components: At will: detect thoughts, web 1/day: dominate person Web Walker. The yochlol ignores

Cartographer's Map Case

Magic Items Acquisitions Incorporated

shortcut. You can use your action to make a DC 15 Wisdom (Perception) check, with a success revealing a map buried in your cartographer’s map case noting a relevant shortcut . Your travel time is

reduced by half while you follow that route. If you succeed at the check by 5 or more, the map includes notes on the terrain, granting you advantage on the next ability check you make to travel

Drow Arachnomancer Legacy

Monsters Mordenkainen’s Tome of Foes

madness, dimension door, dispel magic, fear, fly, giant insect, hold monster, insect plague, invisibility, vampiric touch, web, witch bolt 1/day each: dominate monster, etherealness, eyebite Spider Climb

. The drow can climb difficult surfaces, including upside down on ceilings, without needing to make an ability check. Sunlight Sensitivity. While in sunlight, the drow has disadvantage on attack rolls

Hag of the Fetid Gaze

Monsters Candlekeep Mysteries

imitations with a successful DC 14 Wisdom (Insight) check. Shared Spellcasting. While all three members of the Fetid Gaze are within 30 feet of one another, they can each cast the following spells from

magic, glyph of warding, slow 4th level (3 slots): blight, polymorph 5th level (2 slots): dominate person, seeming 6th level (1 slot): Otto's irresistible dance For casting these spells, each hag

Tloques-Popolocas

Monsters Tales from the Yawning Portal

needing to make an ability check. Shapechanger. If Tloques-Popolocas isn't in sunlight or running water, it can use its action to polymorph into a Tiny bat, or back into its true form. While in bat

heart while it is incapacitated in his resting place. Sunlight Hypersensitivity. Tloques-Popolocas takes 20 radiant damage when he starts his turn in sunlight. While in sunlight, he has disadvantage on

Bridle of Capturing

Magic Items Infernal Machine Rebuild

your command as if subjected to the dominate beast spell. Once the targeted is affected, you do not need to hold the other end of the bridle to command it. With a successful saving throw, the target

can make a DC 17 Charisma check each day at dawn. On a success, the creature is no longer affected by the bridle.

Elder Brain Legacy

Monsters Volo's Guide to Monsters

: At will: detect thoughts, levitate 1/day each: dominate monster, plane shift (self only) Legendary Resistance (3/Day). If the elder brain fails a saving throw, it can choose to succeed instead

that loom large in its mind (including things the target worries about, loves, or hates). The elder brain can also make a Charisma (Deception) check with advantage to deceive the target’s mind

Scion of Surtur

Monsters Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants

being embedded in hardening rock. A creature can make a DC 25 Strength (Athletics) check as an action, freeing itself or a creature within reach from the rock on a success. The rock has AC 17 and 40 hit

all in Surtur’s name—the volcano rumbles and spews molten rage. If intruders disturb its resting place, the Cradle of the Fire Scion;fire scion's cradle rises as a bipedal juggernaut of

Miska the Wolf-Spider

Monsters Vecna: Eve of Ruin

Climb. Miska can climb difficult surfaces, including upside down on ceilings, without needing to make an ability check. Web Sense. When in contact with a web, Miska knows the exact location of any other

, Minor Illusion, Web 2/day each: Dominate Monster, Mass Suggestion, Mirror Image, Telekinesis, TeleportMiska can take 3 legendary actions, choosing from the options below. Only one legendary action can

Sword of Kas Legacy

Magic Items Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)

dominated by the sword, as if by the dominate monster spell, and the sword demands that it be bathed in blood. The spell effect ends when the sword’s demand is met. Random Properties. The Sword of Kas

Kas. The creature must cast the wish spell and make a Charisma check contested by the Charisma check of the sword. The sword must be within 30 feet of the creature, or the spell fails. If the sword

Bodytaker Plant

Monsters Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft

. As an action, a creature within 5 feet of the bodytaker plant that is outside the pod can open the pod and pull the target free with a successful DC 15 Strength check. If the plant dies, the target

consuming individuals and replacing them with duplicates called podling;podlings. Bodytaker plants view themselves as perfect organisms and seek to dominate the lands where they grow. To their minds, a

Raklupis Spyder-Fiend

Monsters Vecna: Eve of Ruin

, without needing to make an ability check. Web Sense. When in contact with a web, the raklupis knows the exact location of any other creature in contact with the same web. Web Walker. The raklupis

will: Disguise Self, Invisibility (self only), Mage Hand, Minor Illusion 2/day each: Darkness, Dominate Monster, Mass Suggestion, Telekinesis, TeleportRaklupis spyder-fiends have hard, smooth shells

Elder Oblex Legacy

Monsters Mordenkainen’s Tome of Foes

components: At will: charm person (as 5th-level spell), detect thoughts, hold person 3/day each: confusion, dimension door, dominate person, fear, hallucinatory terrain, hold monster, hypnotic pattern

undead succeed on the save automatically. While memory drained, the target must roll a d4 and subtract the number rolled from any ability check or attack roll it makes. Each time the target is memory

Vecna the Archlich

Monsters Vecna: Eve of Ruin

, Mage Hand, Prestidigitation 2/day each: Dimension Door, Invisibility, Scrying (as an action) 1/day each: Dominate Monster, Globe of Invulnerability, Plane Shift (self only)Vecna can take up to three

has no effect. If the spell is 5th level or higher, Vecna makes an Intelligence check (DC 10 plus the spell’s level). On a successful check, the spell fails and has no effect. Whatever the spell

Graz'zt

Monsters Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse

spells, requiring no material components and using Charisma as the spellcasting ability (spell save DC 23): At will: charm person, detect magic, dispel magic 3/day each: darkness, dominate person

, telekinesis, teleport 1/day each: dominate monster, greater invisibility Teleport. Graz’zt magically teleports, along with any equipment he is wearing or carrying, up to 120 feet to an

Book of Vile Darkness Legacy

Magic Items Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)

made to interact with non-evil creatures. Command Evil. While you are attuned to the book and holding it, you can use an action to cast the dominate monster spell on an evil target (save DC 18). You

can’t use this property again until the next dawn. Dark Lore. You can reference the Book of Vile Darkness whenever you make an Intelligence check to recall information about some aspect of evil

Gar Shatterkeel (Noncore)

Monsters Locathah Rising

, control water*, dominate beast, freedom of movement*, watery sphere5th level (2 slot): conjure elemental*, maelstrom,scrying*, tree stride6th level (1 slot): heal7th level (1 slot): plane shift

can take an action on their turn to make a DC 18 Strength (Athletics) or Dexterity (Acrobatics) check to free themselves. This effect lasts for 1 minute unless dispelled (it counts as a 6th level spell

Young Sapphire Dragon

Monsters Fizban's Treasury of Dragons

Spider Climb. The dragon can climb difficult surfaces, including upside down on ceilings, without needing to make an ability check. Tunneler. The dragon can burrow through solid rock at half its

population, but the galeb duhr are causing trouble for local miners. 4 Two Lolth cultist;cultists seek a magical relic that attracts giant spider;giant spiders, but the relic’s resting place has

Elder Brain

Monsters Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse

1/day each: dominate monster, plane shift (self only)The elder brain can take 3 legendary actions, choosing from the options below. It can take only one legendary action at a time and only at the end

friendly creature it can sense within 120 feet of it. The target has a flash of inspiration and gains advantage on one attack roll, ability check, or saving throw it makes before the end of its next

Book of Vile Darkness (Variant)

Magic Items Keys from the Golden Vault

-evil creatures. Command Evil. While you are attuned to the book and holding it, you can use an action to cast the dominate monster spell on an evil target (save DC 18). You can’t use this

property again until the next dawn. Dark Lore. You can reference the Book of Vile Darkness whenever you make an Intelligence check to recall information about some aspect of evil, such as lore about

W5. Veranda

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd

W5. Veranda Resting on a flagstone veranda are three five-foot-diameter wooden tubs, their insides stained with grape juice. Each tub has a short ladder bolted to its side and a catch basin tucked

grapes from the vineyard are crushed into juice. The sliding wooden doors are chained shut from the inside, and the smaller door is barred shut from the inside. Breaking through either requires a successful DC 20 Strength check.

13. Vampire Dens

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage

ceiling in the northeast corner of this otherwise empty room, muttering to himself. He believes intruders to be figments of his imagination until they attack. 13b. Resting Spawn The floor of this room

, littered with scores of wooden coffins, is difficult terrain. Some of the coffins are intact, while others have fallen apart with age. Most are empty, but three of the coffins contain resting vampire

Variant Human: Mark of Handling

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

Increase. Your Wisdom score increases by 2, and one other ability score of your choice increases by 1. Wild Intuition. When you make a Wisdom (Animal Handling) or Intelligence (Nature) check, you can roll a

d4 and add the number rolled to the ability check. Primal Connection. You can cast the animal friendship and speak with animals spells with this trait, requiring no material component. Once you cast

6. Shrine to Lolth

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss

-foot-high sculpted spider at its head. The carving is so lifelike that anyone initially entering the chamber and seeing it in dim light must succeed on a DC 12 Wisdom (Perception) check to recognize

, resting 3–4 Asha and 1d4 drow are engaged in worship 5–6 The shrine is empty The back half of the chamber, behind the altar, is piled with a semicircle of pillows and cushions. Resting among these

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