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Octopus

Monsters Monster Manual

while underwater. Response: The octopus releases ink that fills a 5-foot Cube centered on itself, and the octopus moves up to its Swim Speed. The Cube is Heavily Obscured for 1 minute or until a strong current or similar effect disperses the ink.

Giant Octopus

Monsters Monster Manual

while underwater. Response: The octopus releases ink that fills a 10-foot Cube centered on itself, and the octopus moves up to its Swim Speed. The Cube is Heavily Obscured for 1 minute or until a strong current or similar effect disperses the ink.

Giant Squid

Monsters Monster Manual

straight toward itself.Ink Cloud (1/Day). Trigger: The squid takes damage while underwater. Response: The squid releases ink that fills a 15-foot Cube centered on itself, and the squid moves up to its Swim

Speed. The Cube is Heavily Obscured for 1 minute or until a strong current or similar effect disperses the ink.

Animate Dead

Spells Player’s Handbook

Choose a pile of bones or a corpse of a Medium or Small Humanoid within range. The target becomes an Undead creature: a Skeleton if you chose bones or a Zombie if you chose a corpse. On each of your

creature again before the current 24-hour period ends. This use of the spell reasserts your control over up to four creatures you have animated with this spell rather than animating a new creature

Wand of Orcus

Magic Items Dungeon Master’s Guide

unoccupied spaces within 300 feet of you and obey your commands until they are destroyed or until the next dawn, when they collapse into inanimate piles of bones and rotting corpses. Once you use this

everything in the multiverse. The wand is cruel, nihilistic, and bereft of humor. To further Orcus’s goals, the wand feigns devotion to its current user and makes grandiose promises that it has no

Animate Dead Legacy

Spells Basic Rules (2014)

This spell creates an undead servant. Choose a pile of bones or a corpse of a Medium or Small humanoid within range. Your spell imbues the target with a foul mimicry of life, raising it as an undead

creature. The target becomes a skeleton if you chose bones or a zombie if you chose a corpse (the GM has the creature's game statistics). On each of your turns, you can use a bonus action to mentally

Gargoyle Powder

Equipment

Combat Utility Whimsy 15 16 13 Gargoyle powder comes from ground-up dragon eggs that have been encased in ash from ancient eruptions. Grinding up these eggs releases the

magic within their bones and is often used in petrification spells, hence the name. Gargoyle powder can be bought or traded only with merchants and wizards who specifically deal with such materials

Bone Knight

Monsters Eberron: Rising from the Last War

Commander of Bones. As a bonus action, the knight can target one skeleton or zombie it can see within 30 feet of it. The target must make a DC 14 Wisdom saving throw. On a failed save, the target

must obey the knight's commands until the knight dies or until the knight releases it as a bonus action. The knight can command up to twelve undead at a time this way. Master of the Pallid Banner. While

Demilich (Variant) Legacy

Monsters Monster Manual (2014)

exist. If the demilich drops to 0 hit points, it is destroyed and turns to powder, leaving behind its gems. Crushing a gem releases any soul trapped within, at which point the target’s body re

disturb their lairs. Demilich The immortality granted to a lich lasts only as long as it feeds mortal souls to its phylactery. If it falters or fails in that task, its bones turn to dust until only

Wand of Orcus Legacy

Magic Items Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)

. Made from bones as hard as iron, the wand is topped with a magically enlarged skull that once belonged to a human hero slain by Orcus. The wand can magically change in size to better conform to the

until they are destroyed or until dawn of the next day, when they collapse into inanimate piles of bones and rotting corpses. Once you use this property of the wand, you can’t use it again

Baernaloth

Monsters Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse

Gray Wastes of Hades. Their gray, desiccated skin stretches over their bones, and their heads resemble horned equine skulls with ember-like eyes. Sages endlessly debate the nature of baernaloths, and

primal evil power before other yugoloths or that they come from an epoch before the current manifestation of the planes. Baernaloths refuse to say, but most obsess over secrets and obscene lore regarding

Animate Dead

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player’s Handbook

Choose a pile of bones or a corpse of a Medium or Small Humanoid within range. The target becomes an Undead creature: a Skeleton if you chose bones or a Zombie if you chose a corpse (see appendix B

, you must cast this spell on the creature again before the current 24-hour period ends. This use of the spell reasserts your control over up to four creatures you have animated with this spell rather

Animate Dead

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules

Choose a pile of bones or a corpse of a Medium or Small Humanoid within range. The target becomes an Undead creature: a Skeleton if you chose bones or a Zombie if you chose a corpse (see “Creature

24 hours, you must cast this spell on the creature again before the current 24-hour period ends. This use of the spell reasserts your control over up to four creatures you have animated with this

Animate Dead

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)

undead servant. Choose a pile of bones or a corpse of a Medium or Small humanoid within range. Your spell imbues the target with a foul mimicry of life, raising it as an undead creature. The target

becomes a skeleton if you chose bones or a zombie if you chose a corpse (the DM has the creature’s game statistics). On each of your turns, you can use a bonus action to mentally command any creature

Animate Dead

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)

undead servant. Choose a pile of bones or a corpse of a Medium or Small humanoid within range. Your spell imbues the target with a foul mimicry of life, raising it as an undead creature. The target

becomes a skeleton if you chose bones or a zombie if you chose a corpse (the DM has the creature’s game statistics). On each of your turns, you can use a bonus action to mentally command any creature

22. Sinkhole

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Rise of Tiamat

22. Sinkhole This portion of the caldera collapsed into an underground cavity ages ago to form a large sinkhole. The only current member of the Cult of the Dragon who is aware that a branch of a lava

rock that’s easy to climb. Dragon bones cover the bottom of the pit to a depth of 5 feet, making the floor of the pit difficult terrain. Cultists never come to the sinkhole; the only creatures that might spot infiltrators in this area are flying dragons.

22. Sinkhole

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tyranny of Dragons

22. Sinkhole This portion of the caldera collapsed into an underground cavity ages ago to form a large sinkhole. The only current member of the Cult of the Dragon who is aware that a branch of a lava

rock that’s easy to climb. Dragon bones cover the bottom of the pit to a depth of 5 feet, making the floor of the pit difficult terrain. Cultists never come to the sinkhole; the only creatures that might spot infiltrators in this area are flying dragons.

Goblin Legacy

Species Volo's Guide to Monsters

lucky if their only punishment is demotion to the pariah caste. Sometimes another creature assumes control of a goblin tribe, by killing or subjugating the current boss and cowing most of the rest of

might display more than one of these items. Status Symbols d20 Status Symbol 1 Earrings and notches in an ear 2 Rib bones tied into hair 3 A belt made from raccoon pelts

4. Armory

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation

25 Strength (Athletics) check. When the characters peer inside, read: Gleaming scimitars, serpent helms, and suits of scale armor cram the racks of this vault. Large bones and horned skulls litter

creatures who fail to speak the correct passphrase. The current passphrase is “black mask.” Characters are given three chances to utter the correct phrase before Ukurlahmu attacks. Before it attacks, the

Bone Knight

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

Bone Knight Bone knights are the champions of the Order of the Emerald Claw. Clad in distinctive bonecraft armor—heavy armor adorned with the bones of fallen enemies—these fearsome warriors command

+6, Intimidation +6 Damage Resistances necrotic, poison Senses passive Perception 12 Languages any one language (usually Common) Challenge 5 (1,800 XP) Commander of Bones. As a bonus action

Dealing with Tarina

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus

Dealing with Tarina Tarina is a chaotic evil human bandit with a conniving mind. She plays regular games of Baldur’s Bones (see the “Taverns in Baldur’s Gate” sidebar) with a coterie of local dimwits

described in “With Friends Like These”). Characters who loiter in the tavern can overhear patrons talking about the current happenings in Baldur’s Gate and the rumors from Elturel: “I’ll bet my last copper

Meeting Atiba-Pa

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel

former Lightsea Lancer and Djaynai’s current regent. He is known not only for his falcon-eyed shrewdness but also for his compassion and kindness. Those close to him know he suffers bleak moods, during

honor to serve my homeland. I will not pass beyond our borders for any reason.” Flaw. “I can’t let them see me when I’m like this. The melancholy in my bones is mine alone to bear.”

Bryn Shander

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder

streets. Merchants from the south trade dyes, hardwood, dried herbs and spices, textiles, fruits, wines, and other commodities for scrimshaw and other items made from the bones of the knucklehead

. The current speaker of Bryn Shander is Duvessa Shane. She has appointed Markham Southwell as her sheriff, making him responsible for training the town’s militia and keeping the peace.

About the Tavern

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus

one can predict when it will sing again. Alan Alyth, the tavern’s current owner and proprietor, is a neutral half-elf commoner with darkvision out to a range of 60 feet. Alan recently turned seventy

harbor. Baldur’s Bones. Baldur’s Bones is a popular dice game in the taverns of Baldur’s Gate. Each player requires several six-sided dice. The rules are as follows: Each player puts the agreed ante

Griffon

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)

, preparing themselves for the bloody fight that inevitably follows. A griffon ignores a horse’s rider when possible, and a rider that abandons its mount, or a herder that releases one or two horses, can

aeries, building their nests from sticks, leaves, and the bones of their prey. Once griffons establish a territory, they remain in that area until the food supply has been exhausted. Aggressive and

Gruul Clans

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Guildmasters' Guide to Ravnica

Gruul Clans KEV WALKER Jace had never seen, or for that matter smelled, a Gruul war party at all. Their armor was made from animal hides and bones, and their weaponry was heavy pieces of scavenged

sorties into civilized areas to secure goods — and to wreak havoc. The first leader of the Gruul was Cisarzim, a cyclops who was purportedly the ancestor of Borborygmos, the current guildmaster. Cisarzim

Black Dragon Treasures

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Fizban's Treasury of Dragons

. Black dragons versed in magic often record notes and rituals on bones, shells, and metal plates instead of paper or parchment. These unusual works are art in their own right, each featuring rows of

embossed silver hilt and a blade of amber 6 A lavishly illustrated genealogy kept in a magically sealed container that disputes a current monarch’s right to the throne 7 Heretical religious

50. Mirror of Life Trapping

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation

or carrying. Constructs automatically succeed on the saving throw. The mirror currently has three vacant cells. If the mirror traps a creature when its twelve cells are already occupied, it releases

one trapped creature at random to accommodate the new prisoner. The Prisoners of the Mirror table lists the mirror’s current prisoners and summarizes how they react if set free or spoken to. Otherwise

Ramya's Powers and Dominion

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft

. Although an illusion disguises her deathless state, Ramya constantly feels the chill in her bones and her own crumbling flesh. Her existence has becomes one of constant struggle, doubt, and defeat as her

Kalakeri’s borders as detailed in “The Mists” at the start of this chapter, but she can do so only while she controls the Sapphire Throne. If her faction is driven out of Jadurai, the domain’s borders remain in their current state until she regains control.

Dreadnaught Locations

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Divine Contention

search through the bones strewn throughout the nest discover a battered helm of telepathy and five black pearls worth 500 gp each. D3. Hellfire Orb The iron brazier mounted on the mainmast contains an

underfoot is littered with humanoid bones to a depth of 1 foot. Two large, unmanned drums are positioned to the rear of the deck. A rowing crew of fifty skeletons pull the oars in here. Two skeleton drummers

10. Arcane Display

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

creature in its reflective outer surface. The shield can trap only one creature at a time. Whenever it traps a new creature, the shield releases its current prisoner, which appears in an unoccupied space as

K84. Catacombs

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

the treasure automatically. Crypt 6 Saint Markovia: Dead for all time The 10-foot-square section of floor in front of this crypt is a pressure plate that releases four poison darts hidden in tiny holes

skull, some bones, and a few bits of rusted armor lie atop a marble slab with a leering stone gargoyle squatting at each end. The epitaph on the door reads “Endorovich (Endorovich the Terrible): What the

15. Mecha-Halaster

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

Mecha-Halaster to destroy the city’s walking statues. Without its head and the immense magic needed to power it, the iron construct is nothing more than a giant boondoggle. In its current state, it is

or combined Strength of 18. The sarcophagus contains nothing but dust, bones, and Lulz’s bronzed skull. Removing Lulz’s skull from the sarcophagus causes mechanisms in the surrounding walls to grind

23. Fazrian's Court

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

blessing is permanent if its receiver is a worshiper of Torm; otherwise, the blessing lasts for 10 days. Torm’s blessing is not bestowed on any character who releases one or both mariliths that are trapped

command word. The current command word is “Yuraj,” but Halaster changes it every few days. The rules of this gate are as follows: The gate opens for 1 minute if a creature speaks the proper command word

History

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse

bones.” Most locals have no idea of how right they are. While some truly ancient ruins in this area go back to the days of the first great elf kingdoms, none of these figure into the story of this

. Their strongholds crumbled into ruin and became known in later years as the Haunted Keeps. Eventually, no one remembered who built them or why. The current wave of settlement in and around the Dessarin

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