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Spells
Player’s Handbook
the words are written. It takes about 1 minute to read one page of text. This spell doesn’t decode symbols or secret messages.
Spells
Player’s Handbook
settings, the radius is limited to 300 feet. The spell doesn’t function where nature has been replaced by construction, such as in castles and settlements.
Choose three of the following facts
choice) that is a Celestial, an Elemental, a Fey, a Fiend, or an Undead
The most prevalent kind of plant, mineral, or Beast (you choose which to learn)
Locations of bodies of water
For example
Magic Items
Dungeon Master’s Guide
creature that can't use a manual of golems and attempts to read it takes 6d6 psychic damage.
d20
Golem
Time
Cost
1-5
Manual of Clay Golems
30 days
65,000 GP
6-17
Manual of
table, working without interruption with the manual at hand and resting no more than 8 hours per day. You must also pay the specified cost to purchase supplies.
Once you finish creating the golem
Spells
Player’s Handbook
of yourself that belong to creatures that know languages or are telepathic. You don’t read the thoughts, but you know that a thinking creature is present.
The spell is blocked by 1 foot of stone
, dirt, or wood; 1 inch of metal; or a thin sheet of lead.
Read Thoughts. Target one creature you can see within 30 feet of yourself or one creature within 30 feet of yourself that you detected with
Spells
Player’s Handbook
You and up to eight willing creatures within range project your astral bodies into the Astral Plane (the spell ends instantly if you are already on that plane). Each target’s body is left
behind in a state of suspended animation; it has the Unconscious condition, doesn’t need food or air, and doesn’t age.
A target’s astral form resembles its body in almost every way
Spells
Player’s Handbook
in the shape of a cage can be up to 20 feet on a side and is made from 1/2-inch diameter bars spaced 1/2 inch apart. A prison in the shape of a box can be up to 10 feet on a side, creating a solid
that magic to exit the cage. On a failed save, the creature doesn’t exit the cage and wastes the spell or effect. The cage also extends into the Ethereal Plane, blocking ethereal travel.
This spell can’t be dispelled by Dispel Magic.
Monsters
Monster Manual
Earth Glide. The dao can burrow through nonmagical, unworked earth and stone. While doing so, the dao doesn’t disturb the material it moves through.
Elemental Restoration. If the dao dies
":"Bludgeoning"} Bludgeoning damage. Hit or Miss: Earth explodes from the target’s space, creating the following effect. Dexterity Saving Throw: DC 16, each creature in a 10-foot Emanation
Monsters
Monster Manual
lairs frequently change or exhibit bewildering features.
The region containing an arch-hag’s lair is altered by its presence, creating the following effects:
Lapsus Linguae. Creatures
, it also casts Confusion centered on itself. The spell uses the creature’s spellcasting ability and doesn’t require Concentration.
If the arch-hag is destroyed or moves its lair elsewhere
Magic Items
Dungeon Master’s Guide
Disadvantage on D20 Tests for the next 72 hours. Draw another card; this draw doesn’t count as one of your declared draws.
Gem. Twenty-five pieces of jewelry worth 2,000 GP each or fifty gems worth
, which must be cleared out before you can claim the keep as yours.
Void. Your soul is drawn from your body and contained in an object in a place of the DM’s choice. One or more powerful beings
Monsters
Forgotten Realms: Adventures in Faerûn
, forgotten ruins, preferring locations near subterranean bodies of water.
The region containing an adult or ancient deep dragon’s lair is changed by its presence, creating the following effects
fungi that flourish in the depths. As deep dragons age, their smooth, serpentine bodies become riddled with fungal rot, particularly around their faces, to imbue their breath with terror-inducing
Monsters
Forgotten Realms: Adventures in Faerûn
ruins, preferring locations near subterranean bodies of water.
The region containing an adult or ancient deep dragon’s lair is changed by its presence, creating the following effects
that flourish in the depths. As deep dragons age, their smooth, serpentine bodies become riddled with fungal rot, particularly around their faces, to imbue their breath with terror-inducing spores
Monsters
Lorwyn: First Light
Ephemeral Movement. The incarnation can move through other creatures and objects as if they were Difficult Terrain, and its movement doesn’t provoke Opportunity Attack;Opportunity Attacks. It
condition. Success: Half damage only.The incarnations of transience represent all that is fleeting or ephemeral. Despite their apparent bulk, these incarnations are actually ephemeral beings with only a
Monsters
Forgotten Realms: Adventures in Faerûn
damage and the target has the Charmed condition for 1 minute or until Zlan dies. While Charmed, the target doesn’t act as an ally to any creature. Success: Half damage only. Failure or Success: Zlan
Crenshinibon, better known as the Crystal Shard. Zlan Clervish was one of those seven liches, and that lich’s will predominates in the fused entity. All seven bodies are frozen together with ice and
Monsters
Forgotten Realms: Adventures in Faerûn
hunters with an affinity for lost lore and fungi that flourish in the depths. As deep dragons age, their smooth, serpentine bodies become riddled with fungal rot, particularly around their faces, to
-encrusted caverns of the Underdark or old, forgotten ruins, preferring locations near subterranean bodies of water.
The region containing an adult or ancient deep dragon’s lair is changed by its
Monsters
Forgotten Realms: Adventures in Faerûn
Underdark. They are stealthy hunters with an affinity for lost lore and fungi that flourish in the depths. As deep dragons age, their smooth, serpentine bodies become riddled with fungal rot, particularly
dragons lair in fungus-encrusted caverns of the Underdark or old, forgotten ruins, preferring locations near subterranean bodies of water.
The region containing an adult or ancient deep dragon&rsquo
Monsters
Astarion's Book of Hungers
containing an infernalist’s lair is warped by its presence, creating the following effects, all of which happen at the vampire’s discretion:
Diabolic Beasts. Animals in the vampire’s domain
can’t spend Hit Point Dice at the end of the rest and doesn’t regain Hit Points, Hit Point Dice, or spell slots at the end of the rest.
Tenacious Lore. Within 1 mile of the lair, flame
Monsters
Forgotten Realms: Adventures in Faerûn
pallor common to liches, she prefers to maintain a magical disguise that allows her to appear as the high elf she was in life. Ever the schemer, Valindra doesn’t use this disguise out of nostalgia
.
The region containing Valindra’s lair is warped by her presence, creating the following effects:
All-Seeing. While in her lair, Valindra can cast Clairvoyance, requiring no spell components
Monsters
The Tortle Package
inside it dies too. The process of creating a topi is known only to a handful of evil priests and necromancers.
Topis are more difficult to turn than ordinary zombies, and their spongy bodies make them
resistant to bludgeoning.
Undead Traits. A topi doesn’t require air, food, drink, or sleep.PoisonBludgeoning
Species
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
taper to sharp talons. Feathers cover their bodies—usually red, orange, yellow, brown, or gray. Their heads are also avian, often resembling those of parrots or eagles.
Creating Your Character
A winged people who originated on the Elemental Plane of Air, aarakocra soar through the sky wherever they wander. The first aarakocra served the Wind Dukes of Aaqa—mighty beings of air&mdash
Monsters
The Book of Many Things
the living portents impact the earth, they carve great craters, yet miraculously, none who live in the impact zone are harmed. These beings of light then assume Humanoid forms to blend in with the
inhabitants of the world.
Living portents seek out beings who will play a part in the prophecies they serve, and as the living portents search, they relate fragments of the prophecies to those they
Species
Spelljammer: Adventures in Space
divine beings who created giff have likewise been forgotten. Their titanic petrified bodies drift on the Astral Sea, isolated and unrecognizable in their current forms.
Although they don’t realize
Giff are tall, broad-shouldered folk with hippo-like features. Some have smooth skin, while others have short bristles on their faces and the tops of their heads. As beings of impressive size and
Monsters
Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
Legendary Resistance (1/Day). If the slasher fails a saving throw, it can choose to succeed instead.
Shrouded Presence. The slasher is immune to any effect that would sense its emotions or read its
fear into innocents across lands and over ages.
Creating a Relentless Killer
Relentless killers come into being and undertake their terrifying sprees for a spectrum of reasons. When creating a
Detect Thoughts
Legacy
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Spells
Basic Rules (2014)
For the duration, you can read the thoughts of certain creatures. When you cast the spell and as your action on each turn until the spell ends, you can focus your mind on any one creature that you
can see within 30 feet of you. If the creature you choose has an Intelligence of 3 or lower or doesn’t speak any language, the creature is unaffected.
You initially learn the surface thoughts of
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
life, crystal dragons enjoy an innate psionic connection to the Positive Plane that suffuses their bodies as well as their personalities with light. Though they prefer to live in desolate, frigid regions
their bodies and the spines and horns that hover close to their heads and backs. These horns shift with the dragon’s mood: bristling with anger, lying back with fear or suspicion, and rippling
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
DC 19 Dexterity saving throw or take the same damage and be knocked prone.Terrifying storms manifest in the bodies of elder tempests. Beings carved from clouds, wind, rain, and lightning, elder
Air Form. The tempest can enter a hostile creature’s space and stop there. It can move through a space as narrow as 1 inch wide without squeezing.
Flyby. The tempest doesn’t provoke
Magic Items
The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
11, and a Charisma of 15. It can see and hear out to a range of 60 feet. The sword can speak, read, and understand Common and Draconic. It frets over your well-being while you are attuned to it, and it doesn’t like to back down from a fight.
Monsters
Quests from the Infinite Staircase
Pack Tactics. The vegepygmy has advantage on attack rolls against a creature if at least one of the vegepygmy’s allies is within 5 feet of the creature and the ally doesn’t have the
points at the start of its turn. If it takes cold, fire, or necrotic damage, this trait doesn’t function at the start of the vegepygmy’s next turn. The vegepygmy dies only if it starts its
Species
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
facial features have a bestial cast, often with large eyes and pointed ears; most shifters also have prominent canine teeth. They grow fur-like hair on nearly every part of their bodies. While a shifter
Weretiger
Swiftstride
5
Werewolf (wolflike)
Longtooth
6
Werewolf (doglike)
Wildhunt
Creating Your Character
At 1st level, you choose whether your character is a member of the human
Monsters
Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
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Unusual Nature. The living spell doesn’t require air, food, drink, or sleep.Force Blade. Melee Spell Attack: +6;{"diceNotation":"1d20+6","rollType":"to hit","rollAction":"Force Blade"} to hit
by powerful eldritch forces can give rise to spell effects that become living beings. These so-called living spells haunt the places where they were created, subsisting on ambient magical energy.Poison; Bludgeoning, Piercing, and Slashing from Nonmagical Attacks
Monsters
Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse
have wormlike bodies studded with nine mechanical arms.
Modrons
Constructed on the plane of Mechanus, modrons are partially mechanical beings that belong to a strict hierarchy. Each modron
Monsters
Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse
. This movement doesn’t provoke opportunity attack;opportunity attacks.Mustevals are small, mousy guardinals skilled at evading danger. Their speed, stealthy nature, and illusion magic make them
, the gate-town to Elysium, and in Faunel, the gate-town to the Beastlands.
While guardinals are usually friendly and slow to anger, their supernatural virtue puts them at odds with the evil beings of
Monsters
Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
takes radiant damage, this trait doesn’t function at the start of its next turn. The juggernaut dies only if it starts its turn with 0 hit points and doesn’t regenerate.
Unusual Nature
. The juggernaut doesn’t require air, food, drink, or sleep.Multiattack. The juggernaut makes two attacks. It can replace one attack with Deadly Shaping if it is ready.
Executioner’s Pick
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
, crystal dragons enjoy an innate psionic connection to the Positive Plane that suffuses their bodies as well as their personalities with light. Though they prefer to live in desolate, frigid regions, many
starlight between their bodies and the spines and horns that hover close to their heads and backs. These horns shift with the dragon’s mood: bristling with anger, lying back with fear or
Monsters
Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse
only), protection from evil and goodThe least of the hierarchs, decatons monitor the physical well-being of base modrons. Two stubby legs support their spherical bodies, and ten mechanical tentacles
electricity from each of its ten eyes, synchronizing them to deadly effect.
Modrons
Constructed on the plane of Mechanus, modrons are partially mechanical beings that belong to a strict hierarchy
Monsters
Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen
critical hit. On a success, the skeletal knight drops to 1 hit point instead.
Unusual Nature. The skeletal knight doesn’t require air, food, drink, or sleep.Multiattack. The skeletal knight makes
damage.Skeletal knights are powerful Undead that arise to serve even more wicked beings—often death knight;death knights. Those who become skeletal knights were typically virtuous in life but betrayed






