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Guildmasters’ Guide to Ravnica
with the law, the guild can’t shield you from the repercussions.
Izzet Guild Spells
Prerequisite: Spellcasting or Pact Magic class feature
For you, the spells on the Izzet Guild Spells table
are added to the spell list of your spellcasting class. (If you are a multiclass character with multiple spell lists, these spells are added to all of them.)
Izzet Guild Spells
Spell Level
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Infernal Machine Rebuild
. Others are transformed as punishment, forced to endure endless contemplation with no way to interact with the world. Brain in a Jar
Medium undead, any alignment
Armor Class 11 (natural armor
Brain in a Jar A brain in a jar is the undead consciousness of a sapient creature, kept alive by magical means. Some brains in jars take up that state willingly to continue the work they did in life
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
design of their own diabolical creation. While disembodied, a brain in a jar weighs roughly 125 pounds. Brain in a Jar
Small Undead
Armor Class 11 (natural armor)
Hit Points 55 (10d6 + 20
Brain in a Jar Through 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
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
changes: A brain breaker has an Armor Class of 14 due to the strange ring mail it wears. A brain breaker has a speed of 30 feet and has a magical flying speed of 30 feet. It can hover. A brain
as squads of zealous mind flayer prophets (see appendix A) led by militant enforcers called brain breakers. Brain breakers look like giant brains with stout legs, and they wear steel armor made from
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
Brain in a Jar Through an eldritch ritual combining alchemy, necromancy, and grim surgical precision, the brain of a mortal being (willing or unwilling) is encased in a glass jar filled with
preserving fluids and the liquefied goop of their body’s flesh. The transformation renders the brain immortal and imbues it with psionic power, so that it can spend eternity plotting and executing its desires
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Morte’s Planar Parade
Eater of Knowledge David Auden Nash Originally created by the mind flayer god-brain Ilsensine and now produced by some of that god’s followers, eaters of knowledge are lumbering, bipedal masses of
squelching muscles and exposed brain matter. These rugose hulks collect information from others by devouring brains before returning to their masters with delicious secrets. Unlike illithids, which
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
the recipient’s body’s statistics, but don’t gain access to the recipient’s knowledge, class features, or proficiencies. Dr. Mordenheim can swap a donor’s brain or head back from the recipient’s body to
effect of Dr. Mordenheim’s experiments is the creation of reborn (see chapter 1). It takes her 1d4 days and the dead bodies of two Medium or Small Humanoids to create one reborn. Brain Swap. Dr
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Spelljammer: Adventures in Space->Boo’s Astral Menagerie
Neh-thalggu Known throughout the multiverse as brain collectors, neh-thalggu consume the brains of Humanoids and use them as receptacles to enhance their magical abilities. Neh-thalggu are born in
one containing a brain the neh-thalggu has consumed. After a neh-thalggu kills a victim, it uses its pincers to cut open the victim’s head and remove the brain. It then swallows the brain whole. The
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monsters of the Multiverse
akin to an afterlife. Elder Brain
Large Aberration (Mind Flayer), Typically Lawful Evil
Armor Class 10
Hit Points 210 (20d10 + 100)
Speed 5 ft., swim 10 ft.
STR
15 (+2)
DEX
10 (+0
Elder Brain The ultimate expression of mind flayer domination, an elder brain sprawls within a vat of viscous brine, cared for by mind flayer minions as it touches the thoughts of creatures near and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
other creatures to which it is linked. If the elder brain dies, these effects immediately end.
Elder Brain
Large aberration, lawful evil
Armor Class 10
Hit Points 210 (20d10 + 100)
Speed 5 ft
transformation of the area into a brine pool that surrounds an embryonic elder brain. Ulitharid
Large aberration, lawful evil
Armor Class 15 (breastplate)
Hit Points 127 (17d10 + 34)
Speed 30 ft.
STR
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
Intellect Devourer An intellect devourer resembles a walking brain protected by a crusty covering and set on bestial clawed legs. This foul aberration feeds on the intelligence of sentient creatures
devourer by taking the brain of a thrall and subjecting it to a horrible ritual. As it sprouts legs, the brain becomes an intelligent predator as twisted and evil as its masters. Deadly Puppet Masters. An
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
an elder brain. The staff serves no other purpose. Ulitharid
Large aberration, lawful evil
Armor Class 15 (breastplate)
Hit Points 127 (17d10 + 34)
Speed 30 ft.
STR
15(+2)
DEX
12
authority. In others, the elder brain perceives the ulitharid as a potential rival, manipulating or quashing the ulitharid’s ambitions accordingly. When an ulitharid finds sharing leadership with an
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Infernal Machine Rebuild
construct for all time as punishment. A brain in iron uses the brain in a jar stat block with the following changes: It is lawful neutral. It has the construct type. Its size is Large. It has Armor Class
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
victims and transform them into mind flayers, allowing the elder brain dragon to grow its own roving colony. Elder Brain Dragon
Gargantuan Aberration, Typically Lawful Evil
Armor Class 17 (natural
Elder Brain Dragon One of the few consolations available to those who must contend with a mind flayer colony is the limit of its reach, which spreads only as far as the influence of the colony’s
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
“us.” Spies for an Elder Brain. Mind flayer colonies use cranium rats as spies. The rats invade surface communities and act as eyes and ears for the elder brain, transmitting their thoughts when they
swarm and are within range of the elder brain’s telepathy. Cranium rats occasionally spread beyond the elder brain’s range of influence. Whatever these rats do is of no concern to the elder brain, and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
. Solitary mind flayers are likely rogues and outcasts. Most illithids belong to a colony of sibling mind flayers devoted to an elder brain — a massive brain-like being that resides in a briny pool
near the center of a mind flayer community. From its pool, an elder brain telepathically dictates its desires to each individual mind flayer within 5 miles of it, for it is able to hold multiple mental
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
Mind Flayers Mind flayers, which are described in the Monster Manual, are created through ceremorphosis, a process that begins with the implantation of an illithid tadpole in the brain of a humanoid
unknown, ceremorphosis can go awry when an illithid tadpole is implanted in the brain of a gnome. This deviation might be due to the quasi-magical nature of gnomes, or simply a facet of how their minds
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
Ettin Ceremorph Mind flayers, which are described in the Monster Manual, are created through ceremorphosis, a process that begins with the implantation of an illithid tadpole in the brain of a
the ettin’s body, creating an ettin ceremorph. As part of the transformation process, one of the ettin’s heads sinks into the body, with that brain focused on controlling the body. The other head
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
inherit his dying father’s factory in Ludendorf. Instead, Udo Schaller paid assassins to murder his son and had his brain transplanted into Ruprekt’s young body, with the help of Dr. Mordenheim. Udo’s
the party, asking them to recover the body of a “relative” from the Haifisch, a shipwreck impaled on a spire of ice.
9 The Sleeping Beast is experiencing an increasing number of earthquakes
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Lost Laboratory of Kwalish
.
Brain in a Jar
Medium undead, any alignment
Armor Class 11 (natural armor)
Hit Points 58 (9d8 + 18)
Speed 0 ft.
STR
1(−5)
DEX
1(−5)
CON
15(+2)
INT
19(+4
Monsters B - E Bandit Captain
Medium humanoid (any race), any non-lawful alignment
Armor Class 15 (studded leather)
Hit Points 65 (10d8 + 20)
Speed 30 ft.
STR
15(+2)
DEX
16(+3
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
psionic power. Mind Flayer Prophet Medium Aberration, Typically Lawful Evil
Armor Class 17 (natural armor)
Hit Points 97 (15d8 + 30)
Speed 30 ft.
STR
15 (+2)
DEX
14 (+2)
CON
14 (+2)
INT
or have the stunned condition until the grapple ends.
Extract Brain. Melee Weapon Attack: +8 to hit, reach 5 ft., one Humanoid grappled by the mind flayer. Hit: 55 (10d10) piercing damage. If this
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
realm’s starless depths and been subsequently rewarded with extraordinary powers. Instead of heeding an elder brain, a mind flayer clairvoyant listens to the whispers and whims of the voices of the
Aberration, Typically Lawful Evil
Armor Class 15 (breastplate)
Hit Points 156 (24d8 + 48)
Speed 30 ft., fly 60 ft. (hover)
STR
11 (+0)
DEX
12 (+1)
CON
15 (+2)
INT
21 (+5)
WIS
17
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
following: This goblinoid figure is taller and broader than the other goblins you’ve encountered, and a gnarled crystal has split his skull open to reveal his brain. He turns, eyes and veins glowing an
Chosen Medium Aberration (Goblinoid), Neutral Evil
Armor Class 15 (chain shirt)
Hit Points 88 (16d8 + 16)
Speed 30 ft., fly 30 ft. (hover)
STR
14 (+2)
DEX
19 (+4)
CON
12 (+1)
INT
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
quickened mind crystal and the other two are extended mind crystals (see appendix B for both). Infected Elder Brain Large Aberration (Mind Flayer), Lawful Evil
Armor Class 10
Hit Points 189 (18d10
. It opens as described in the “Illithinoch Features” section. Once the characters open this door and trigger its jarring mental pulse, the infected elder brain in area X15 takes notice of their
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monsters of the Multiverse
Rat Cranium Rat
Tiny Aberration, Unaligned
Armor Class 12
Hit Points 2 (1d4)
Speed 30 ft.
STR
2 (-4)
DEX
14 (+2)
CON
10 (+0)
INT
4 (-3)
WIS
11
.
Bonus Actions
Illumination. The cranium rat sheds dim light from its exposed brain in a 5-foot radius or extinguishes the light.
A single cranium rat uses its natural telepathy to communicate hunger
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
an external assault, and the elder brain is killed. When that happens, the colony’s tadpoles are suddenly freed from their fate. They no longer serve as food, and in turn are no longer fed by their
strongest taboos in illithid society is the idea of allowing a mature tadpole to survive without implanting it into a donor brain. Under normal circumstances, any tadpole that grows larger than a few
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
recover the rods from the wrecked flying fortress. Abyssal Wretch
Medium fiend (demon), chaotic evil
Armor Class 11
Hit Points 18 (4d8)
Speed 20 ft.
STR
9 (−1)
DEX
12 (+1
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
Vampiric Mind Flayer When the mind flayers of Bluetspur (see chapter 3) could find no cure for their overlord’s affliction, their degenerating elder brain turned to radical methods to stave off
the cerebral fluids from sapient minds. After doing so, they return to the Elder Brain of Bluetspur, which liquefies them into its pool and releases their stolen essences amid a hormone brine. This
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monsters of the Multiverse
assault, and the elder brain (appears in this book) is killed, the colony’s tadpoles are suddenly freed from their fate. They no longer serve as food—and are no longer fed by their caretakers. Driven by
without being implanted in a brain so they can’t become such threats. Neothelids are not intelligent enough for elder brains to detect, so mind flayers are always alert for signs of their presence
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Infernal Machine Rebuild
Grell A grell resembles a bulbous floating brain with a wide, sharp beak. It prefers to ambush lone creatures or stragglers, hovering silently near the ceiling of a passage or cavern until a suitable
, neutral evil
Armor Class 12
Hit Points 55 (10d8 + 10)
Speed 10 ft., fly 30 ft. (hover)
STR
15(+2)
DEX
14(+2)
CON
13(+1)
INT
12(+1)
WIS
11(+0)
CHA
9(−1
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monsters of the Multiverse
green worms crawling in and out of it become visible. These worms jump onto nearby Humanoids and burrow into their flesh. A worm that penetrates a Humanoid body makes its way to the creature’s brain
. Once inside the brain, the worm kills its host and animates the corpse, transforming it into a spawn of Kyuss, which breeds more worms. Spawn of Kyuss are expressions of Orcus’s intent to replace all
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monsters of the Multiverse
Alhoon Mind flayers that pursue arcane magic are exiled as deviants, and for them no everlasting communion with an elder brain (appears in this book) is possible. The road to lichdom offers an
thinking. For a time, the study of such forbidden texts can be hidden from other illithids and even from an elder brain. Yet eventually, mind flayer arcanists determined to pursue wizardry must flee
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monsters of the Multiverse
Alignment
Armor Class 12
Hit Points 11 (2d6 + 4)
Speed 25 ft., climb 25 ft.
STR
7 (−2)
DEX
14 (+2)
CON
15 (+2)
INT
10 (+0)
WIS
11 (+0)
CHA
10
Dependency. If the grung isn’t immersed in water for at least 1 hour during a day, it suffers 1 level of exhaustion at the end of that day. The grung can recover from this exhaustion only through magic or by
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player’s Handbook
Step 5: Fill In Details Now fill in the rest of your character sheet. Record Class Features Look at your class’s feature table in chapter 3, and write down the level 1 features. The class features
are detailed in that same chapter. Some class features offer choices. Make sure to read all your features and make any offered choices. Fill In Numbers Note these numbers on your character sheet. Saving
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules
Step 5: Fill In Details Now fill in the rest of your character sheet. Record Class Features Look at your class’s feature table in “Character Classes”, and write down the level 1 features. The class
features are detailed in that same chapter. Some class features offer choices. Make sure to read all your features and make any offered choices. Fill In Numbers Note these numbers on your character