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Insect Plague Legacy

Spells Basic Rules (2014)

Swarming, biting locusts fill a 20-foot-radius sphere centered on a point you choose within range. The sphere spreads around corners. The sphere remains for the duration, and its area is lightly

damage on a successful one. A creature must also make this saving throw when it enters the spell's area for the first time on a turn or ends its turn there. At Higher Levels. When you cast this

True Polymorph Legacy

Spells Basic Rules (2014)

normal form to 0 hit points, it isn’t knocked unconscious. The creature is limited in the actions it can perform by the nature of its new form, and it can’t speak, cast spells, or take any

’s statistics and resolves all of its actions and movement. If the spell becomes permanent, you no longer control the creature. It might remain friendly to you, depending on how you have

Insect Plague

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

minutes Swarming, biting locusts fill a 20-foot-radius sphere centered on a point you choose within range. The sphere spreads around corners. The sphere remains for the duration, and its area is lightly

much damage on a successful one. A creature must also make this saving throw when it enters the spell’s area for the first time on a turn or ends its turn there. At Higher Levels. When you cast this

Inflict Wounds

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

3d10 necrotic damage. At Higher Levels. When you cast this spell using a spell slot of 2nd level or higher, the damage increases by 1d10 for each slot level above 1st. Insect Plague 5th-level

, biting locusts fill a 20-foot-radius sphere centered on a point you choose within range. The sphere spreads around corners. The sphere remains for the duration, and its area is lightly obscured. The

Delphi Mansion Features

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Keys from the Golden Vault

text states otherwise. Lighting. The mansion is illuminated by continual flame spells cast on candles that are mounted to the walls. Windows. Each window is under the effect of an arcane lock spell. The

room grow biting teeth. A creature that passes through a door or window in the room must succeed on a DC 13 Dexterity saving throw or take 5 (2d4) piercing damage. A creature can take this damage only

True Polymorph

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

knocked unconscious. The creature is limited in the actions it can perform by the nature of its new form, and it can’t speak, cast spells, or take any other action that requires hands or speech, unless its

companions. It acts on each of your turns. You decide what action it takes and how it moves. The DM has its statistics and resolves its actions and movement. If the spell becomes permanent, you no

True Polymorph

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

isn’t knocked unconscious. The creature is limited in the actions it can perform by the nature of its new form, and it can’t speak, cast spells, or take any other action that requires hands or speech

and your companions. It acts on each of your turns. You decide what action it takes and how it moves. The DM has its statistics and resolves its actions and movement. If the spell becomes permanent

Chwinga

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden

chwingas living in Icewind Dale or other cold regions can bestow using their Magical Gift action. Charm of Biting Cold. This charm has 3 charges. As a bonus action, you can expend 1 of the charm’s charges

to wreathe your weapon attacks with biting cold for 1 minute. Until this effect ends, you deal an extra 1d6 cold damage when you hit with a melee or ranged weapon attack. Once all its charges have

Traps

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

the locations marked T on the map. A teleport trap is a magical effect usually cast on a 10-foot-square section of floor, set to trigger whenever a creature enters the trap’s space. The trap extends

revealing the trap’s presence. A successful dispel magic spell (DC 18) cast on the trapped section of floor destroys the trap. A creature that enters the trap’s space is teleported along with any objects

Monsters

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sage Advice Compendium

attacks of ghouls and ghasts don’t appear to have proficiency bonus added in. Intentional or mistake? Intentional; it’s a ghoul/ghast thing. They’re exceptionally bad at biting, compared to their claw

mean it can cast a spell as an action or as a bonus action? If a monster has the ability to cast a spell at will, that spell is cast using its normal casting time. If a monster makes a melee attack that

Encounter Locations

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries

pulses with arcane and elemental energy, filling the room with whipping winds and biting cold. Standing next to the crystal is a water genasi with turquoise skin and blue robes. He is guarded by a

on the stairs. Now ready for action, he has cast mage armor, stoneskin, and mind blank on himself. He carries a handheld magic device that controls the elemental cannon. This device, shown in the

Areas of the Sanctum

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist

features: Set into the alabaster floor is a large symbol in black marble, depicting a winged snake biting a coin. Characters recognize this as the symbol of the Zhentarim. (The coin conceals an alarm

circle falls within an antimagic field, or if dispel magic (DC 17) is successfully cast on it. E7. Manshoon’s Simulacrum This room is extremely cold and contains the following features: Frigid air blows

The Afterlife

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide

souls, while others are transformed into squirming larvae and cast into the dust. The Faerûnian Pantheon Deity Alignment Domains Symbol Akadi, goddess of air N Tempest Cloud Amaunator, god of the

Hands bound at the wrist with red cord Istishia, god of water N Tempest Wave Jergal, scribe of the dead LN Knowledge, Death A skull biting a scroll Kelemvor, god of the dead LN Death Upright skeletal

Crushing Wave Cultists

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

there. In addition, if water can pass through a space, the serpent can do so without squeezing. Olhydra’s Armor (Human Form Only). The fathomer can cast mage armor at will, without expending material

genasi armed with a jovial manner and biting sense of humor, Shoalar Quanderil seems like the last person one would expect to be a cruel member of a destructive cult. Nevertheless, Shoalar is the captain

Supernatural Regions

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything

failure, the creature is deafened for 1 minute. 73–78 One character in the region gains the ability to cure afflictions for 1 hour. As an action, they can cast lesser restoration or greater restoration

creature gains insight as if it had cast the contact other plane spell. On a failure, the creature is affected as if it failed a saving throw against the confusion spell. This effect ends at the end of the

The Nine Hells

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)

layer of Avernus is the arrival point for visitors to the plane. Avernus is a rocky wasteland with rivers of blood and clouds of biting flies. Fiery comets occasionally fall from the darkened sky and

wind, choking smoke, and pyroclastic ash. Within the fire-filled caldera of Phlegethos’s largest volcano rises Abriymoch, a fortress city cast of obsidian and dark glass. With rivers of molten lava

Scab Locations

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

takes 5 minutes and exposes the character to the blood’s effects (see “Interior Features”). A cure wounds spell or similar magic cast on the wound closes it, stanching the blood flow. S5. Food Fight

chain has AC 19, 15 hit points, and immunity to cold, fire, poison, and psychic damage. The hyena skull at the end of each chain grips Alazub by one arm, biting into the devil’s flesh. A character

Blood Pens

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a5

of biting, stinging insects that emerge from the demonic faces. The creature takes 5 (2d4) piercing damage and 5 (2d4) poison damage, and must succeed on a DC 15 Dexterity saving throw or fall off the

wights to stand down. Aura. A detect magic spell cast on this area reveals an aura of transmutation magic around each hole, hinting at the presence of a magical effect. Blood Vines Trap. If a non-undead

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