beings both down creature release

Mace of Terror

Magic Items Dungeon Master’s Guide

This magic weapon has 3 charges and regains 1d3 expended charges daily at dawn. While holding the weapon, you can take a Magic action and expend 1 charge to release a wave of terror from it. Each

creature of your choice within 30 feet of you must succeed on a DC 15 Wisdom saving throw or have the Frightened condition for 1 minute. While Frightened in this way, a creature must spend its turns

Erinyes

Monsters Monster Manual

":"Necrotic"} Necrotic damage. Entangling Rope (Requires Magic Rope). Strength Saving Throw: DC 16, one creature the erinyes can see within 120 feet. Failure: 14 (4d6);{"diceNotation":"4d6", "rollType

":"damage", "rollAction":"Entangling Rope", "rollDamageType":"Force"} Force damage, and the target has the Restrained condition until the rope is destroyed, the erinyes uses a Bonus Action to release

Dust of Dryness

Magic Items Dungeon Master’s Guide

floats or rests near where the dust was sprinkled. The pellet’s weight is negligible. A creature can take a Utilize action to smash the pellet against a hard surface, causing the pellet to shatter

and release the water the dust absorbed. Doing so destroys the pellet and ends its magic. As a Utilize action, you can sprinkle a pinch of the dust on an Elemental within 5 feet of yourself that is

Grasping Vine

Spells Player’s Handbook

save DC). The vine can grapple only one creature at a time, and you can cause the vine to release a Grappled creature (no action required). As a Bonus Action on your later turns, you can repeat the

You conjure a vine that sprouts from a surface in an unoccupied space that you can see within range. The vine lasts for the duration. Make a melee spell attack against a creature within 30 feet of

Tentacle Rod

Magic Items Dungeon Master’s Guide

This rod ends in three rubbery tentacles. While holding the rod, you can take a Magic action to direct the tentacles to stretch outward, each one attacking a creature you can see within 15 feet of

15 Dexterity saving throw or have the Restrained condition until you have the Incapacitated condition, until you take a Bonus Action to release the target, or until the target is no longer within 15

Rope of Entanglement

Magic Items Dungeon Master’s Guide

This rope is 30 feet long. While holding one end of the rope, you can take a Magic action to command the other end to dart forward and entangle one creature you can see within 20 feet of yourself

. The target must succeed on a DC 15 Dexterity saving throw or have the Restrained condition. You can release the target by letting go of your end of the rope (causing the rope to coil up in the target

Iron Flask

Magic Items Dungeon Master’s Guide

breathe, eat, or drink. You can take a Magic action to remove the flask’s stopper and release the creature in the flask. The creature then obeys your commands for 1 hour, understanding those

While holding this brass-stoppered iron flask, you can take a Magic action to target a creature that you can see within 60 feet of yourself. If the flask is empty and the target is native to a plane

Book of Exalted Deeds

Magic Items Dungeon Master’s Guide

that is attuned to the book can release the clasp that holds it shut. Once the book is opened, the attuned creature must spend 80 hours reading and studying the book to digest its contents and gain its

magical nature or translate the benefits it offers to those pure of heart and firm of purpose. A heavy clasp, wrought to look like angel wings, keeps the book’s contents secure. Only a creature

Book of Vile Darkness

Magic Items Dungeon Master’s Guide

stone cracks and turns to powder if the book rests on it long enough. Whenever a creature that isn’t a Fiend or an Undead attunes to the Book of Vile Darkness, that creature makes a DC 17

Charisma saving throw. On a failed save, the creature is magically transformed into a Larva under the DM’s control. Only a Wish spell can reverse this vile transformation. A creature attuned to the

Demonomicon of Iggwilv

Magic Items Dungeon Master’s Guide

save, you are possessed by the creature, which controls you like a puppet. As a Magic action, the possessing creature can release you and appear in the closest unoccupied space to you. On a

’s blank pages, which fills with writing detailing the trapped creature’s widely known name and depravities. Once used, this action can’t be used again until the next dawn. When you

Deck of Many Things

Magic Items Dungeon Master’s Guide

ally with its attacks. You and your allies can each summon only one avatar as a consequence of this draw. A creature slain by an avatar can’t be restored to life. Avatar of Death Medium Undead

, 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

Incarnation of Vibrance

Monsters Lorwyn: First Light

Grappled condition (escape DC 15) from one of two vines. Radiant Blast. Constitution Saving Throw: DC 17, each creature of the incarnation’s choice in a 20-foot Emanation originating from the

incarnation. Failure: The creature takes 14 (2d8 + 5);{"diceNotation":"2d8+5", "rollType":"damage", "rollAction":"Radiant Blast", "rollDamageType":"Radiant"} Radiant damage. Success: Half damage

Incarnation of Transience

Monsters Lorwyn: First Light

Stampede. The incarnation moves up to 80 feet in a straight line. Each creature whose space the incarnation enters is targeted once by the following effect. Dexterity Saving Throw: DC 16. Failure: 18

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

Warforged

Species Eberron: Forge of the Artificer

Warforged are mechanical beings built as weapons to fight in the Last War. An unexpected breakthrough produced sentient beings made from wood and metal that nevertheless can feel pain and emotion

look of their face, limbs, and plating. Warforged Traits Creature Type: ConstructSize: Medium (about 6–8 feet tall) or Small (about 3–4 feet tall), chosen when you select this speciesSpeed: 30 feet

Songal's Elemental Suffusion

Spells Forgotten Realms: Heroes of Faerûn

: Acid, Cold, Fire, Lightning, or Thunder. You have Resistance to the chosen damage type. Elemental Pulse. When you cast this spell and at the start of each of your subsequent turns, you release a burst

of elemental energy in a 15-foot Emanation originating from yourself. Each creature of your choice in that area makes a Dexterity saving throw. On a failed save, a creature takes 2d6 Acid, Cold, Fire

Shadowmoor Giant

Monsters Lorwyn: First Light

"} Bludgeoning damage. If the target is a Large or smaller creature, it has the Prone condition. Wild Magic Cataclysm (Recharge 5–6);{"diceNotation":"1d6", "rollType":"recharge", "rollAction":"Wild Magic

Cataclysm"}. Dexterity Saving Throw: DC 15, each creature in a 20-foot-radius Sphere centered on a point within 120 feet. Failure: 28 (8d6) damage (roll 1d4;{"diceNotation":"1d4", "rollType":"roll

Lorwyn Giant

Monsters Lorwyn: First Light

"} Bludgeoning damage. If the target is a Large or smaller creature, it has the Prone condition.In Lorwyn, giants are curious colossi who roam vast plains, bathe in salty lagoons, and nap against

mountains. They sometimes lend their brawn to smaller species who have something interesting to offer in return. Giants The giants of the realm of Lorwyn-Shadowmoor are wise, ancient beings wandering

Zlan

Monsters Forgotten Realms: Adventures in Faerûn

, using the same spellcasting ability as Spellcasting.Legendary Action Uses: 3. Immediately after another creature’s turn, Zlan can expend a use to take one of the following actions. Zlan regains

all expended uses at the start of each of its turns. Retaliation. Zlan makes one Slam or Bewildering Bolt attack. Stoke Paranoia. Wisdom Saving Throw: DC 19, one creature Zlan can see within 30 feet

Rakdos Riteknife

Magic Items Guildmasters’ Guide to Ravnica

. Annihilation. If the dagger holds five souls, you can use this property: As a reaction immediately after you hit a creature with the dagger and deal damage to that target, you can release all five souls. If the

You gain a +1 bonus to attack and damage rolls made with this magic weapon. Its blade is cruelly serrated, and its hilt resembles a demonic head and wings. Whenever you slay a creature with an attack

Flayer Slayer

Magic Items Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk

extra 1d12 slashing damage. If the Aberration is currently grappling a creature, the Aberration must succeed on a DC 15 Strength saving throw or release each creature it is grappling.

The Archfey Legacy

Classes Player’s Handbook (2014)

Your patron is a lord or lady of the fey, a creature of legend who holds secrets that were forgotten before the mortal races were born. This being’s motivations are often inscrutable, and

sometimes whimsical, and might involve a striving for greater magical power or the settling of age-old grudges. Beings of this sort include the Prince of Frost; the Queen of Air and Darkness, ruler of the

Hederan

races

Hederans are living embodiments of alpine trees, sentient beings of bark and leaf whose bodies host moss, holly and fungi. Their outer skin is made of thick bark that toughens with age, and beneath

its body release pollen and a single silver seed forms upon its back. The seed must be planted within a week, or it will wither away, but from it a new hederan sapling will grow. Once planted by their

Rope of Entanglement Legacy

Magic Items Basic Rules (2014)

feet of you. The target must succeed on a DC 15 Dexterity saving throw or become restrained. You can release the creature by using a bonus action to speak a second command word. A target restrained by

This rope is 30 feet long and weighs 3 pounds. If you hold one end of the rope and use an action to speak its command word, the other end darts forward to entangle a creature you can see within 20

The Undead (VRGtR)

Classes Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft

You’ve made a pact with a deathless being, a creature that defies the cycle and life and death, forsaking its mortal shell so it might eternally pursue its unfathomable ambitions. For such

beings, time and morality are fleeting things, the concerns of those for whom grains of sand still rush through life’s hourglass. Having once been mortal themselves, these ancient undead know

Iron Bands of Binding Legacy

Magic Items Basic Rules (2014)

This rusty iron sphere measures 3 inches in diameter and weighs 1 pound. You can use an action to speak the command word and throw the sphere at a Huge or smaller creature you can see within 60 feet

hit, the target is restrained until you take a bonus action to speak the command word again to release it. Doing so, or missing with the attack, causes the bands to contract and become a sphere once

The Undead

Classes Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft

You’ve made a pact with a deathless being, a creature that defies the cycle and life and death, forsaking its mortal shell so it might eternally pursue its unfathomable ambitions. For such

beings, time and morality are fleeting things, the concerns of those for whom grains of sand still rush through life’s hourglass. Having once been mortal themselves, these ancient undead know

Kolyarut

Monsters Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse

":"Edict of Blades"}. The kolyarut moves up to its speed without provoking opportunity attack;opportunity attacks and can make one Unerring Blade attack against each creature it moves past. Whenever it

hits a creature with an Unerring Blade attack during this movement, each spell of 5th level or lower on the creature ends, and the creature has the incapacitated condition until the end of the kolyarut

Living Portent

Monsters The Book of Many Things

willing creature the living portent can see within 30 feet of itself. The target’s hit point maximum and current hit points increase by 7 (1d8 + 3);{"diceNotation":"1d8+3", "rollType":"roll

", "rollAction":"Prophetic Blessing"}, and it gains a prophecy die, a d8. Once during each of the creature’s turns, when it fails an ability check or saving throw or misses an attack roll, it can

Yellow Musk Creeper

Monsters Tomb of Annihilation

regenerate.Touch. Melee Weapon Attack: +3;{"diceNotation":"1d20+3","rollType":"to hit","rollAction":"Touch"} to hit, reach 5 ft., one creature. Hit: 13 (3d8);{"diceNotation":"3d8","rollType":"damage

. Unless the bulb is destroyed, the corpse animates as a yellow musk zombie after being dead for 24 hours. The bulb is destroyed if the creature is raised from the dead before it can transform into a yellow

Korred Legacy

Monsters Volo's Guide to Monsters

or smaller creature that the korred can see. The target must succeed on a DC 13 Dexterity saving throw or become grappled by the rope (escape DC 13). Until this grapple ends, the target is restrained

. The korred can use a bonus action to release the target, which is also freed if the korred dies or becomes incapacitated. A rope of korred hair has AC 20 and 20 hit points. It regains 1 hit point

Storm Giant (Variant)

Monsters Storm King's Thunder

lightning bolt at a point it can see within 500 feet of it. Each creature within 10 feet of that point must make a DC 17 Dexterity saving throw, taking 54 (12d8);{"diceNotation":"12d8","rollType":"damage

"} thunder damage and be deafened until the start of the giant’s next turn. On a successful save, a creature takes half as much damage and isn’t deafened. The thunderclap can be heard out to a

Iron Bands of Bilarro Legacy

Magic Items Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)

This rusty iron sphere measures 3 inches in diameter and weighs 1 pound. You can use an action to speak the command word and throw the sphere at a Huge or smaller creature you can see within 60 feet

hit, the target is restrained until you take a bonus action to speak the command word again to release it. Doing so, or missing with the attack, causes the bands to contract and become a sphere once

Ssurran Poisoner

Monsters Spelljammer: Adventures in Space

. Poison Bomb. The ssurran throws a tangerine-sized bomb at a point up to 60 feet away, where it explodes, releasing a 10-foot-radius sphere of poisonous gas that disperses quickly. Each creature in the

bombs to throw.Ssurran poisoners coat their weapons with toxin and hurl bombs that release poisonous gas. Ssurran Ssurran are lizardfolk who have adapted to life in arid climates and in Wildspace

Mace of Terror Legacy

Magic Items Basic Rules (2014)

This magic weapon has 3 charges. While holding it, you can use an action and expend 1 charge to release a wave of terror. Each creature of your choice in a 30-foot radius extending from you must

succeed on a DC 15 Wisdom saving throw or become frightened of you for 1 minute. While it is frightened in this way, a creature must spend its turns trying to move as far away from you as it can, and it

Steel Crane

Monsters Candlekeep Mysteries

it to grapple a creature. Anytime on his turn, he can release a creature grappled by the whip (no action required). Heal Self (Recharges after a Long Rest). Steel Crane regains 2d8 + 4

","rollDamageType":"force"} force damage, and if the target is a creature, it must succeed on a DC 15 Constitution saving throw or be stunned until the start of Steel Crane’s next turn. Whip

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