benefit beings diffusing class realm

Shield

Equipment

Shields require the Utilize action to Don or Doff. You gain the Armor Class benefit of a Shield only if you have training with it.

Ioun Stone

Magic Items Dungeon Master’s Guide

. When you take a Magic action to toss an Ioun Stone into the air, the stone orbits your head at a distance of 1d3 feet, conferring its benefit to you while doing so. You can have up to three Ioun

Stone of Protection;Protection (Rare). You gain a +1 bonus to Armor Class while this dusty-rose prism orbits your head. Ioun Stone of Regeneration;Regeneration (Legendary). You regain 15 Hit Points at

Incarnation of Vibrance

Monsters Lorwyn: First Light

of nature are beyond the ken of most mortal beings—untamable, primal, and awe inspiring. In the realm of Lorwyn-Shadowmoor, these beings take the forms of chimeric behemoths that combine the

Shadowmoor Giant

Monsters Lorwyn: First Light

wield this wild magic to devastating effect. Giants The giants of the realm of Lorwyn-Shadowmoor are wise, ancient beings wandering their homeland in search of wondrous things or simply a place to

others. At worst, giants might be wrathful toward smaller folk, seeing them as invasive pests to be squashed. When a giant in the realm of Lorwyn-Shadowmoor sleeps, it often has vivid, dramatic dreams

Lorwyn Giant

Monsters Lorwyn: First Light

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

disinterested in the squabbles of boggarts, kithkin, elves, and others. At worst, giants might be wrathful toward smaller folk, seeing them as invasive pests to be squashed. When a giant in the realm of

Incarnation of Transience

Monsters Lorwyn: First Light

—untamable, primal, and awe inspiring. In the realm of Lorwyn-Shadowmoor, these beings take the forms of chimeric behemoths that combine the features of three or more creatures. In Lorwyn

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

Mythal Touched

Feats Forgotten Realms: Heroes of Faerûn

the ability increased by this feat and your Proficiency Bonus. You can use this benefit a number of times equal to your Proficiency Bonus, and you regain all expended uses when you finish a Long Rest

failed save, the creature has the Stunned condition until the end of its next turn. 14-17 You gain a +2 bonus to Armor Class;AC for 1 minute, potentially turning the triggering spell into a miss

Leather Jerkin

magic-items

You have a bonus to Armor Class while you aren’t wearing armor and wearing this garment. This bonus is determined by its rarity. You can use a Shield and still gain the benefit of this magic item.

Leather Jerkin +2

magic-items

You have a +2 bonus to Armor Class while you aren’t wearing armor and wearing this garment. You can use a Shield and still gain the benefit of this magic item.

Nokumai's Frozen Breath

Equipment

Combat Utility Whimsy 0 0 20 High up beyond the snowline is a stark realm where many magical beings reside. One of them is the legendary snow dragon, Nokumai, whose icy

Leather Jerkin +1

magic-items

You have a +1 bonus to Armor Class while you aren’t wearing armor and wearing this garment. You can use a Shield and still gain the benefit of this magic item.

Knight Legacy

Monsters Basic Rules (2014)

creature can benefit from only one Leadership die at a time. This effect ends if the knight is incapacitated.Parry. The knight adds 2 to its AC against one melee attack that would hit it. To do so, the

a pledge is honored. Whether undertaking a quest or patrolling a realm, a knight often travels with an entourage that includes squires and hirelings who are commoners.

Leather Jerkin +3

magic-items

You have a +3 bonus to Armor Class while you aren’t wearing armor and wearing this garment. You can use a Shield and still gain the benefit of this magic item.

The Great Old One Legacy

Classes Player’s Handbook (2014)

Your patron is a mysterious entity whose nature is utterly foreign to the fabric of reality. It might come from the Far Realm, the space beyond reality, or it could be one of the elder gods known

Lurks; Tharizdun, the Chained God; Dendar, the Night Serpent; Zargon, the Returner; Great Cthulhu; and other unfathomable beings.

Clockwork Soul

classes Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything

The cosmic force of order has suffused you with magic. That power arises from Mechanus or a realm like it—a plane of existence shaped entirely by clockwork efficiency. You, or someone from your

lineage, might have become entangled in the machinations of the modrons, the orderly beings who inhabit Mechanus. Perhaps your ancestor even took part in the Great Modron March. Whatever its origin

Living Portent

Monsters The Book of Many Things

encounter. Variant: Servants of Living Stars Some stars in the sky are Elder Evils, alien beings of godlike power from the reality-defying Far Realm. A living portent can be a fragment of these beings

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

Ashen Knight

Monsters Keys from the Golden Vault

can see within 30 feet of it makes an attack roll or a saving throw. The creature can add a d4 to its roll provided it can hear and understand the knight. A creature can benefit from only one

undertaking a quest or patrolling a realm, a knight often travels with an entourage that includes squires and hirelings who are commoners.Fire

Great Old One Patron

classes Player’s Handbook

Unearth Forbidden Lore of Ineffable Beings When you choose this subclass, you might bind yourself to an unspeakable being from the Far Realm or an elder god—a being such as Tharizdun, the

Chained God; Zargon, the Returner; Hadar, the Dark Hunger; or Great Cthulhu. Or you might invoke several entities without yoking yourself to one. The motives of these beings are incomprehensible, and the

Warlock

classes Player’s Handbook

multiverse. They often begin their search for magical power by delving into tomes of forbidden lore, dabbling in invocations meant to attract the power of extraplanar beings, or seeking places of power where

the influence of these beings can be felt. In no time, each Warlock is drawn into a binding pact with a powerful patron. Drawing on the ancient knowledge of beings such as angels, archfey, demons

Knight of the Mithral Shield

Monsters Storm King's Thunder

creature can add a d4;{"diceNotation":"1d4","rollType":"roll","rollAction":"Leadership"} to its roll provided it can hear and understand the knight. A creature can benefit from only one Leadership die at a

patrolling a realm, a knight often travels with an entourage that includes squires and hirelings who are commoners.

Archon of Boundaries

Monsters Monstrous Compendium Vol. 4: Eldraine Creatures

attacker.The archons of Eldraine are enigmatic beings who fly over the perimeter where the realm meets the wilds, marking the boundary between safety (for the people of the realm) and danger. The sight of an

celestial realms to watch over the boundary of the wilds and protect those who dare to cross it. Sometimes knights of the realm get the idea that they can expand the borders of their land and keep the

Magic Jar Legacy

Spells Basic Rules (2014)

are replaced by the statistics of the creature, though you retain your alignment and your Intelligence, Wisdom, and Charisma scores. You retain the benefit of your own class features. If the target

has any class levels, you can't use any of its class features. Meanwhile, the possessed creature's soul can perceive from the container using its own senses, but it can't move or take actions at all

Shapechange Legacy

Spells Basic Rules (2014)

hit points, you aren't knocked unconscious. You retain the benefit of any features from your class, race, or other source and can use them, provided that your new form is physically capable of doing

, and you must have seen the sort of creature at least once. You transform into an average example of that creature, one without any class levels or the Spellcasting trait. Your game statistics are

Clockwork Sorcery

classes Player’s Handbook

Channel Cosmic Forces of Order The cosmic force of order has suffused you with magic. That power arises from Mechanus or a realm like it—a plane of existence shaped entirely by clockwork

efficiency. You or someone from your lineage might have become entangled in the machinations of modrons, the orderly beings who inhabit Mechanus. Perhaps your ancestor even took part in the Great Modron

Stygian Shade

races

The River Styx winds through the Shadow Realm, full of mindless shades that live only to consume the memories of those they can drown. An unfortunate few of these shades bound to the plane retain

their mental faculties yet suffer daily to recall who they once were. Shades from the Shadow Realm are different from those of the mortal realms because they specifically lack most of their memories, and

Merfolk Stormcaller

monsters

or whales. Wardens of the Water. Most stormcallers seek to maintain balance within their realm. Like the Wardens of the Wood, they strive to protect their region from outside threats, but also to

they have high expectations of such beings. A stormcaller may ask a foreign druid to help with an unnatural threat or to serve as a mediator in a local dispute.Cold

Kelek

Monsters The Wild Beyond the Witchlight

Defense to bolster his low Armor Class whenever possible, and his challenge rating is a reflection of the likelihood that he will use Fiery Explosion as often as he can. If one or more of his allies

sorcerer Kelek, expects his confederates to work together for their mutual benefit, but he also encourages them to pursue their own evil schemes.

Barrier Tattoo

Magic Items Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything

the skin. If your attunement to the tattoo ends, the tattoo vanishes, and the needle reappears in your space. Protection. While you aren’t wearing armor, the tattoo grants you an Armor Class

depending on the tattoo’s rarity, as shown below. You can use a shield and still gain this benefit. RARITY AC Barrier Tattoo Uncommon;Uncommon 12 + your Dexterity modifier

Chitine

Monsters Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse

, attracting spiders and other beings that serve her. Anywhere chitines set up a colony quickly becomes a webshrouded, gloomy, and treacherous place. Chitines resemble spiders, but they behave more like

floors, walls, structures, objects, and traps that benefit the colony. A warrior might be responsible for crafting web armor (which is as tough as hide or leather), while a group of workers might be

Gith Legacy

races Mordenkainen’s Tome of Foes

to plunder the Material Plane and other worlds, bringing treasures and slaves back to their ageless realm. At the same time, they hunt down and kill mind flayers whenever possible, as recompense for

can manipulate the stuff of chaos and use it to their benefit; thus, they have carved out a stronghold for themselves on the plane of Limbo that is virtually impervious. Though the githzerai are

Psurlon Ringer

Monsters Spelljammer: Adventures in Space

none of its class features or other abilities. The transformation is permanent and can be undone only by a wish spell. Despite appearances, the psurlon ringer is still an Aberration, and other psurlons

recognize it for what it is. Psurlons Psurlons are malevolent, wormlike creatures that were ejected from the Far Realm long ago. They now live on the Astral Plane. They have legs that end in

Luba's Tarokka of Souls

Magic Items Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything

cases, Mother Luba managed to ensnare beings of pure evil amid the strands of fate, imprisoning them within her tarokka deck. There these foul spirits dwell still, trapped within a nether-realm hidden

random location within 10d10 miles of you and terrorizes the living. Until the released soul is destroyed, it gains the benefit of a weal from the deck’s Twist of Fate property, and both you and the

Quickling

Monsters Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse

accelerated their passage through life. No quickling lives longer than 15 years. The mortal realm is a ponderous place to a quickling’s eye: a hurricane creeps gradually across the sky, a torrent of

squeal. Only when a quickling deliberately slows down, which it prefers not to do, can other beings properly see, hear, and comprehend it. Never truly at rest, a “stationary” quickling

Apparatus of Kwalish Legacy

Magic Items Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)

up or down. When certain levers are used, the apparatus transforms to resemble a giant lobster. The apparatus of Kwalish is a Large object with the following statistics: Armor Class: 20 Hit Points

it unable to benefit from bonuses to speed. 2 Forward window shutter opens. Forward window shutter closes. 3 Side window shutters open (two per side). Side window shutters close (two

Swarmkeeper

classes Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything

. Other Swarmkeepers enjoy building vibrant communities that work for the mutual benefit of all those they consider part of their swarm. A Swarmkeeper’s swarm and spells are reflections of the

an exciting opportunity to explore your character’s narrative through their class abilities. For more guidance on customizing spells, see the “Personalizing Spells” section in

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