before burning don creating remains

Gentle Repose

Spells Player’s Handbook

You touch a corpse or other remains. For the duration, the target is protected from decay and can’t become Undead. The spell also effectively extends the time limit on raising the target from

the dead, since days spent under the influence of this spell don’t count against the time limit of spells such as Raise Dead.

Dream

Spells Player’s Handbook

Incapacitated and has a Speed of 0. If the target is asleep, the messenger appears in the target’s dreams and can converse with the target as long as it remains asleep, through the spell’s duration

. The messenger can also shape the dream’s environment, creating landscapes, objects, and other images. The messenger can emerge from the trance at any time, ending the spell. The target recalls

Baba Yaga's Dancing Broom

Magic Items Dungeon Master’s Guide

. The broom then moves into an unoccupied space as close to you as possible. The broom acts immediately after you on your Initiative count and remains animate until you take a Bonus Action and use a

command word to render it inanimate. On your turn, you can mentally command the animated broom if it is within 30 feet of you and you don’t have the Incapacitated condition (no action required

Mirror of Life Trapping

Magic Items Dungeon Master’s Guide

Magic action and use a command word to activate it. It remains activated until you take a Magic action and repeat the command word to deactivate it. Any creature other than you that sees its

expanse filled with thick fog that reduces visibility to 10 feet. Creatures trapped in the mirror’s cells don’t age, and they don’t need to eat, drink, or sleep. A creature trapped

Glyph of Warding

Spells Player’s Handbook

glyph could be set to affect Aberrations). You can also set conditions for creatures that don’t trigger the glyph, such as those who say a certain password. Explosive Rune. When triggered, the

it as part of creating the glyph. The spell must target a single creature or an area. The spell being stored has no immediate effect when cast in this way. When the glyph is triggered, the stored

Hat of Many Spells

Magic Items Dungeon Master’s Guide

special Somatic component: you must reach into the hat and “pull” the spell out of it. Unknown Spell. While holding the hat, you can try to cast a level 1+ spell you don’t know. The

, and attacks you. 91–95 A vertical, 10-foot-diameter, two-way portal to another plane of existence opens in an unoccupied space within 30 feet of you and remains open until the end of your

Moonblade

Magic Items Dungeon Master’s Guide

The Moonblade has the properties of a Ring of Spell Storing. 100 You can take a Magic action to conjure a spectral entity that resembles a shadowy elf if you don’t already have one

. You control this entity, deciding how it acts and moves. It remains until it drops to 0 Hit Points or you dismiss it as a Magic action.

Eye and Hand of Vecna

Magic Items Dungeon Master’s Guide

to your head and remains there until you die. If the eye is ever removed, you die. Properties of the Eye. While you are attuned to the eye, your alignment is Neutral Evil, and you gain the following

minute. To you, solid objects within that radius appear transparent and don’t prevent light from passing through themselves. The vision can penetrate 1 foot of stone, 1 inch of common metal, or up to

Mechanical Wonder

Magic Items Forgotten Realms: Heroes of Faerûn

Utilize action each turn. Once wound, a Mechanical Wonder remains activated for the duration specified in the wonder’s description below. Domestic Wonder (Uncommon). This bipedal wonder is

and your allies. In combat, the wonder shares your Initiative count, but it takes its turn immediately after yours. It obeys your verbal commands (no action required by you). If you don’t issue

Zlan

Monsters Forgotten Realms: Adventures in Faerûn

the Crystal Shard was destroyed, its fragments, called chardalyn, still echoed with its creators’ malevolent minds. Fragments of ice and chardalyn drew together around the remains of the seven

liches, creating an amalgamated form. Zlan is the foremost mind among the liches and controls the body, The other liches rage and scheme about being subsidiary to someone they once considered both a

Hellfire Engine Legacy

Monsters Mordenkainen’s Tome of Foes

prone and takes 28 (8d6);{"diceNotation":"8d6","rollType":"damage","rollAction":"Flesh","rollDamageType":"bludgeoning"} bludgeoning damage. If the hellfire engine remains in the prone creature's space

the saving throw are drenched in burning acid and take 5 (1d10);{"diceNotation":"1d10","rollType":"damage","rollDamageType":"fire"} fire damage plus 9 (2d8);{"diceNotation":"2d8","rollType":"damage

Irda Seeker

Monsters Monstrous Compendium Vol. 2: Dragonlance Creatures

Humanoid it has seen. Any equipment the seeker is wearing or carrying isn’t transformed, and the seeker’s statistics don’t change. The seeker reverts to its true form if the seeker is

teachings, some of them adopted the philosophies of other deities. Those irda who don’t serve the Dragon Queen live in hidden communities across Krynn, avoiding the eyes of their creator and her

Gnoll Witherling

Monsters Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse

the remains back to a semblance of life in the form of a gnoll witherling. Witherlings travel with their comrades and try to kill anything in their path. They don’t eat and aren’t motivated

Oread

Monsters Mythic Odysseys of Theros

can innately cast the following spells, requiring no material components: At will: fire bolt (see “Actions” below) 3/day: burning hands 1/day each: hellish rebuke (see “Reactions” below), scorching

nymphs and convincing them to aid in creating phenomenal works. In some tales, a smith finds an oread and allows it to relish in the destruction of a novel or remarkable item. In recompense, the

Darkmantle Legacy

Monsters Basic Rules (2014)

Echolocation. The darkmantle can’t use its blindsight while deafened. False Appearance. While the darkmantle remains motionless, it is indistinguishable from a cave formation such as a

maintains concentration, up to 10 minutes (as if concentrating on a spell). Darkvision can’t penetrate this darkness, and no natural light can illuminate it. If any of the darkness overlaps with an area of light created by a spell of 2nd level or lower, the spell creating the light is dispelled.

Amrik Vanthampur

Monsters Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus

","rollAction":"Dagger","rollDamageType":"piercing"} piercing damage. Smoke Bomb (1/Day). Amrik hurls a smoke bomb up to 20 feet away. The bomb explodes on impact, creating a cloud of black smoke that fills a 10

-foot-radius sphere. The area within the cloud is heavily obscured. A strong wind disperses the cloud, which otherwise remains until the end of Amrik’s next turn.Second son of Duke Thalamra

Juiblex Legacy

Monsters Out of the Abyss

remains in the slimy area or until it breaks free. The restrained creature, or another creature who can reach it, can use its action to try to break free and must succeed on a DC 21 Strength check

. If the slime is set on fire, it burns away after 1 round. Any creature that starts its turn in the burning slime takes 22 (4d10);{"diceNotation":"4d10","rollType":"damage","rollAction":"Burning Slime

Boneless

Monsters Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft

DC 13 Strength check. When the boneless dies, it detaches from any creature it is attached to.Not all animate corpses shamble from their graves. Boneless are undead remains devoid of skeletons. Most

rise from the bodies of those who’ve suffered brutal ends, such as deliberate skinning or crushing. Deathless malice infuses what remains, their husks flopping and slithering in pursuit of

Maw Demon

Monsters Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse

Lord of Savagery’s gullet. Maw demons appear among gnoll war bands that worship Yeenoghu, usually summoned as part of ritual offerings of freshly slain Humanoids made to him. The gnolls don&rsquo

of oddities in addition to the remains of their recent prey. You may choose one or more items appropriate for your campaign for a maw demon to contain, or roll on the Maw Demon’s Stomach

Horizon Puzzle Cube

Magic Items Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants

of Horizon’s Edge. The portal is two-way and remains open for 10 minutes or until a creature uses an action to change the puzzle’s configuration. Puzzle cubes don’t function while on

Cairnwight

Monsters Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants

while creating art might rise as a cairnwight and continue the work. Once the artwork is completed, the cairnwight remains as its undying guardian. A cairnwight looks much like an emaciated stone

exclusion of all other tasks, retreating into a spacious cavern and blocking out all distractions. Creating a masterwork can become such a driving obsession that death can’t stop it: a giant who dies

Deathlock

Monsters Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse

that don’t please its patron fall away as its master’s desires become the purpose that drives it. The deathlock immediately resumes work on its patron’s behalf. Whatever the goal

, a foul Undead driven to serve its otherworldly patron. An powerful necromancer might also discover the wicked methods of creating a deathlock and then subjugate it, acting as the deathlock’s patron.PoisonNecrotic; Bludgeoning, Piercing, and Slashing from Nonmagical Attacks that aren't Silvered

Aurnozci

Monsters The Book of Many Things

down mortal souls for violent ritual sacrifice to their god. Roleplaying Aurnozci Aurnozci is a being of mindless destruction, and the Caged Worm has few dealings with mortals that don’t end

intruders in sight with reckless abandon. Cultists of Aurnozci Aurnozci grants its cultists the following trait: Burning Corpse. When the creature dies, its body is reduced to a pile of smoldering

Juiblex

Monsters Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse

after 1 round. Any creature that starts its turn in the burning slime takes 22 (4d10);{"diceNotation":"4d10","rollType":"damage","rollAction":"Slippery Slime","rollDamageType":"fire"} fire damage. Sticky

as it remains in the slimy area or until it breaks free. The restrained creature, or another creature that can reach it, can use its action to try to break free and must succeed on a DC 21 Strength

Reduced-threat Darkmantle

Monsters Tales from the Yawning Portal

Echolocation. The darkmantle can't use its blindsight while deafened. False Appearance. While the darkmantle remains motionless, it is indistinguishable from a cave formation such as a stalactite or

illuminate it. If any of the darkness overlaps with an area of light created by a spell of 2nd level or lower, the spell creating the light is dispelled.

Dream Legacy

Spells Basic Rules (2014)

take actions or move. If the target is asleep, the messenger appears in the target's dreams and can converse with the target as long as it remains asleep, through the duration of the spell. The

messenger can also shape the environment of the dream, creating landscapes, objects, and other images. The messenger can emerge from the trance at any time, ending the effect of the spell early. The

Psurlon Leader

Monsters Spelljammer: Adventures in Space

many sentient life-forms as they can before returning to the Astral Plane. Psurlons prefer the flesh of humans and halflings but don’t mind feasting on other folk. They use their spellcasting

producing a Tiny worm. For the next seven days, the worms feed on the corpse and on each other until only one remains. This worm crawls out of the putrescent remains of its dead host as an adult psurlon.Psychic

Psurlon Ringer

Monsters Spelljammer: Adventures in Space

Plane. Psurlons prefer the flesh of humans and halflings but don’t mind feasting on other folk. They use their spellcasting abilities to infiltrate the settlements of their intended victims. On

corpse and on each other until only one remains. This worm crawls out of the putrescent remains of its dead host as an adult psurlon.Psychic

Psurlon

Monsters Spelljammer: Adventures in Space

returning to the Astral Plane. Psurlons prefer the flesh of humans and halflings but don’t mind feasting on other folk. They use their spellcasting abilities to infiltrate the settlements of their

worms feed on the corpse and on each other until only one remains. This worm crawls out of the putrescent remains of its dead host as an adult psurlon.Psychic

Ice Troll

Monsters Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden

trolls. Their hearts radiate extreme cold, to the detriment of other nearby creatures. Ice Troll Hearts. An ice troll's heart remains cold even after the troll's destruction. As long as the troll

can't regenerate, its heart can be safely removed from its remains, handled, and kept. An ice troll's heart, once removed, becomes a harmless Tiny object with AC 13, 4 hit points, and immunity to all

Derro

Monsters Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse

themselves. Most dwarves don’t recognize derro as kin, but the legends that derro tell about their people and the story that duergar believe share a grain of truth. According to the histories of

varies, depending on whatever foe the savants want to lead their people against, yet the essence of the story remains the same: a lesson of survival at any price and an example of how deceitfulness and cruelty can be virtues.

Hellfire Engine

Monsters Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse

":"bludgeoning"} bludgeoning damage. If the hellfire engine remains in the prone creature’s space, the creature is also restrained until it’s no longer in the same space as the hellfire engine

half as much damage on a successful one. Creatures that fail the saving throw are drenched in burning acid and take 5 (1d10);{"diceNotation":"1d10","rollType":"damage","rollDamageType":"fire"} fire

Glyph of Warding Legacy

Spells Basic Rules (2014)

or drow), or alignment. You can also set conditions for creatures that don’t trigger the glyph, such as those who say a certain password. When you inscribe the glyph, choose explosive

much damage on a successful one. Spell Glyph. You can store a prepared spell of 3rd level or lower in the glyph by casting it as part of creating the glyph. The spell must target a single

War Oil

Equipment

point, such as the ground or a wall, and on an attack roll against AC 10, cause the War Oil to spill out of the ammunition, creating a circular patch of the viscous substance with a 10-foot radius. War

additional 2d4 Fire damage to any creature that ends its turn while in contact with it. An ignited creature can douse the flames by using an action. After burning for two rounds, being doused, or remaining unlit for 1 minute, War Oil dries up and ceases to be slippery or flammable.

Derro Savant

Monsters Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse

, even among themselves. Most dwarves don’t recognize derro as kin, but the legends that derro tell about their people and the story that duergar believe share a grain of truth. According to the

this legend varies, depending on whatever foe the savants want to lead their people against, yet the essence of the story remains the same: a lesson of survival at any price and an example of how deceitfulness and cruelty can be virtues.

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