black before dead construct region

Dragon Scale Mail

Magic Items Dungeon Master’s Guide

Dragon Scale Mail is made of the scales of one kind of dragon. Sometimes dragons collect their cast-off scales and gift them. Other times, hunters carefully preserve the hide of a dead dragon. In

Dragon Scale Mail (Black);Black Acid Dragon Scale Mail (Blue);Blue Lightning Dragon Scale Mail (Brass);Brass Fire Dragon Scale Mail (Bronze);Bronze Lightning Dragon Scale Mail

Beholder

Monsters Monster Manual

, such as manipulating a tool or opening a door or container. 7: Sleep Ray. Wisdom Saving Throw: DC 16 (the target succeeds automatically if it is a Construct or an Undead). Failure: The target has the

in the Underdark or in lairs created for them by their servants. The region containing a beholder’s lair is twisted by its presence, creating the following effects: Scopophobia. Creatures

Whelm

Magic Items Dungeon Master’s Guide

if the target is a Construct, an Elemental, or a Giant. Immediately after hitting or missing, the weapon flies back to your hand. Shock Wave. You can take a Magic action to strike the ground with

wielder doesn’t share this goal. Destroying Whelm. Whelm can be dissolved in the acidic bile of a recently slain ancient black dragon. It can also be melted down in the forges of the Mightyhammer dwarf clan, but only by the rightful leader of that clan.

Vampire Umbral Lord

Monsters Monster Manual

create sanctuaries apart from the living, whether hidden in cosmopolitan cities or sequestered in ruins where they dwelled in life. The region containing a vampire’s lair is warped by its presence

, one creature the vampire can see within 30 feet that isn’t a Construct or an Undead. Failure: 14 (4d6);{"diceNotation":"4d6", "rollType":"damage", "rollAction":"Sanguine Drain

Death Tyrant

Monsters Monster Manual

control on objects with this ray, such as manipulating a tool or opening a door or container. Sleep Ray. Wisdom Saving Throw: DC 17 (the target succeeds automatically if it is a Construct or an Undead

region containing a death tyrant’s lair is warped by its presence, creating the following effects: Negative Energy Suffusion. Whenever a creature within 1 mile of the lair regains Hit Points from

Blackrazor

Magic Items Dungeon Master’s Guide

Hidden in the dungeon of White Plume Mountain, Blackrazor shines like a piece of night sky filled with stars. Its black scabbard is decorated with pieces of cut obsidian. You gain a +3 bonus to

with a range of 30 feet. Devour Soul. Whenever you use Blackrazor to reduce a creature to 0 Hit Points, the sword slays the creature and devours its soul unless it is a Construct or an Undead. A

Wish

Spells Player’s Handbook

result of how you worded the wish. For example, wishing that a villain were dead might propel you forward in time to a period when that villain is no longer alive, effectively removing you from the

consequences for a whole community, region, or world, you are likely to attract powerful foes. If your wish would affect a god, the god’s divine servants might instantly intervene to prevent it or to

Karas Chembryl

Monsters Forgotten Realms: Adventures in Faerûn

Dead Three into the region she inhabits, creating the following effects: Creeping Dread. Terror runs rampant in Karas’s domain. Within 1 mile of the lair, creatures other than members of the

, Bhaal, and Myrkul has earned her the title Auspice of the Dead Three.Karas Chembryl’s Lair Karas operates from a hideout deep beneath the city of Baldur’s Gate. The hideout contains

Zlan

Monsters Forgotten Realms: Adventures in Faerûn

black crystal called chardalyn, fragments of the shattered Crystal Shard. Zlan has leveraged its connection with the shattered Artifact to psychically infest chardalyn, using the crystalline material to

rival and an equal. The Zlan Liches table gives a brief description of each component. Zlan Liches Name History Argent Black Emerged from the Negative Plane, fed on hate and

Crown of Horns

Magic Items Forgotten Realms: Adventures in Faerûn

The Crown of Horns contains the essence and intelligence of Myrkul, one of the Dead Three. This ghastly crown is a pale silver circlet with four curved bones set around its rim. On the crown's brow

is set a black diamond whose depths swirl with weird, malignant energy. Myrkul created the Crown of Horns at the height of his power. When Myrkul was slain by Mystra, he imbued the crown with his

Valindra Shadowmantle

Monsters Forgotten Realms: Adventures in Faerûn

, Prestidigitation 2/Day Each: Animate Dead, Plane Shift 1/Day Each: Cone of Cold (level 8 version), Finger of Death, Power Word Kill, ScryingProtective Magic. Valindra casts Counterspell or Shield in response

. 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

Thessalheart Construct

Monsters Infernal Machine Rebuild

unconscious while poisoned in this way.A thessalheart construct is created with a connection to the life energy of another creature, allowing that creature to regenerate back from the dead as long as the

Telepathic Bond. While the construct is on the same plane of existence as its master, it can magically convey what it senses to its master, and the two can communicate telepathically.Claws. Melee

Uthgardt Shaman

Monsters Storm King's Thunder

: dancing lights, mage hand, message, thaumaturgy 1/day each: augury (cast as 1 action), bestow curse, cordon of arrows, detect magic, speak with dead, spirit guardiansThe Uthgardt are suspicious and

with one foot in the land of the living and the other in the land of the dead. Those who walk the shadowed path between two lands do so because the spirits of the dead compel them. Other Uthgardt fear

Corpse Flower Legacy

Monsters Mordenkainen’s Tome of Foes

up to nine dead humanoids. These remains have total cover against attacks and other effects outside the corpse flower. If the corpse flower dies, the corpses within it can be pulled free. While it has

space. The corpse flower animates one dead humanoid in its body, turning it into a zombie. The zombie appears in an unoccupied space within 5 feet of the corpse flower and acts immediately after it in

Human Legacy

Species Basic Rules (2014)

. Human skin shades range from nearly black to very pale, and hair colors from black to blond (curly, kinky, or straight); males might sport facial hair that is sparse or thick. A lot of humans have a

give their children names from other languages, such as Dwarvish or Elvish (pronounced more or less correctly), but most parents give names that are linked to their region’s culture or to the

Dragon Scale Mail Legacy

Magic Items Basic Rules (2014)

a dead dragon. In either case, dragon scale mail is highly valued. While wearing this armor, you gain a +1 bonus to AC, you have advantage on saving throws against the Frightful Presence and breath

Resistance Dragon Scale Mail (Black);Black Acid Dragon Scale Mail (Blue);Blue Lightning Dragon Scale Mail (Brass);Brass Fire Dragon Scale Mail (Bronze);Bronze Lightning

Necromancer Legacy

Monsters Volo's Guide to Monsters

, ray of sickness* 2nd level (3 slots): blindness/deafness,* ray of enfeeblement,* web 3rd level (3 slots): animate dead,* bestow curse,* vampiric touch* 4th level (3 slots): blight,* dimension door

neither a construct nor undead with a spell of 1st level or higher, the necromancer regains hit points equal to twice the spell’s level, or three times if it is a necromancy spell.Withering

Granite Juggernaut

Monsters Vecna: Eve of Ruin

you’re close enough to see the expression carved onto a granite juggernaut’s face, you’re as good as dead.” —Teythorn, Oerthian Adventurer A granite juggernaut is a

lumbering Construct that can be found trundling across battlefields and down dungeon corridors. Granite juggernauts have dense, boxy bodies atop massive rollers they use for locomotion. Their fronts

Lorehold Pledgemage

Monsters Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos

":"damage", "rollAction":"Reduce to Memory", "rollDamageType":"thunder"} thunder damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one. A Construct has disadvantage on the saving throw

each: comprehend languages, locate object 1/day each: mage armor, speak with dead, stone shapeLearn from the Past (2/Day). When another creature within 60 feet of the pledgemage misses a target with an

Nightmare Shepherd

Monsters Mythic Odysseys of Theros

Aura of Nightmares. Undead creatures within 30 feet of the shepherd gain a +5 bonus to attack and damage rolls. When any other creature that isn’t undead or a construct starts its turn within

dead that it torments and occasionally feeds upon. Overseers of the Underworld. Nightmare shepherds are Nyxborn, drawn from the god-energy of Erebos to be guides of the dead, shepherding them to one of

Lich Legacy

Monsters Basic Rules (2014)

haunts the abode it favored in life, such as a lonely tower, a haunted ruin, or an academy of black magic. Alternatively, some liches construct secret tombs filled with powerful guardians and traps

, detect thoughts, invisibility, mirror image 3rd level (3 slots): animate dead, counterspell, dispel magic, fireball 4th level (3 slots): blight, dimension door 5th level (3 slots): cloudkill, scrying

Vampiric Mist Legacy

Monsters Tales from the Yawning Portal

Life Sense. The mist can sense the location of any creature within 60 feet of it, unless that creature’s type is construct or undead. Forbiddance. The mist can’t enter a residence

first encountered, a vampiric mist appears as a billowing mass of light clouds. As the creature feeds, its coloration darkens to a deep crimson. In the Temple of Blood inside the Doomvault (Dead in Thay

Orcus Legacy

Monsters Out of the Abyss

Wand of Orcus. The wand has 7 charges, and any of its properties that require a saving throw have a save DC of 18. While holding it, Orcus can use an action to cast animate dead, blight, or speak

with dead. Alternatively, he can expend 1 or more of the wand’s charges to cast one of the following spells from it: circle of death (1 charge), finger of death (1 charge), or power word kill (2

Orcus

Monsters Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse

of the following effects: Charnel Realm. The air is filled with the stench of rotting flesh, and buzzing flies grow thick within the region. Undead Beasts. Dead Beasts periodically animate as

. Master of Undeath. Orcus can cast animate dead (at will) and create undead (3/day). He chooses the level at which the spells are cast, and the creatures created by them remain under his control

Mark of Healing Halfling

Species Eberron: Rising from the Last War

cure. When equipped with dragonshard focus items, the mark can even draw the dead back from the depths of Dolurrh. House Jorasco Leader: Ulara d’Jorasco Headquarters: Vedkyar Enclave (Vedykar

beloved in northwestern Khorvaire for her instrumental role in combating an epidemic in that region a decade ago, and Jorasco medics served in every nation’s army during the war. The guild runs

Avarice

Monsters Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden

Icy Doom. When Avarice dies, her corpse freezes for 9 days, during which time it can’t be thawed, harmed by fire, animated, or raised from the dead. Special Equipment. Avarice wields a staff

urged her to seek out the Black Sword. Avarice didn’t know who or what the Black Sword was until she was approached by cultists of Levistus bearing swordlike shards of chardalyn worn as pendants

Ancient Black Dragon Legacy

Monsters Basic Rules (2014)

Effects The region containing a legendary black dragon’s lair is warped by the dragon’s magic, which creates one or more of the following effects: The land within 6 miles of the lair

on the frayed edges of civilization. A black dragon’s lair is a dismal cave, grotto, or ruin that is at least partially flooded, providing pools where the dragon rests, and where its victims can

Valindra Shadowmantle Legacy

Monsters Tomb of Annihilation

a lonely tower, a haunted ruin, or an academy of black magic. Alternatively, some liches construct secret tombs filled with powerful guardians and traps. Everything about a lich’s lair

3rd level (3 slots): animate dead, counterspell, dispel magic, fireball 4th level (3 slots): blight, dimension door 5th level (3 slots): cloudkill, scrying 6th level (1 slot): disintegrate, globe

Lorehold Apprentice

Monsters Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos

":"thunder"} thunder damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one. A Construct has disadvantage on the saving throw. Spellcasting. The apprentice casts one of the following spells

arcane artifacts and speaking with long-dead adventurers to uncover secrets lost to time. Though many Lorehold students bury themselves in old tomes, others take a more cavalier approach to their

Shauth Blade

Equipment

These strange, curved blades are jagged and deadly weapons made of alchemically strengthened teeth of dead urdefhans. They are typically named for the urdefhan whose teeth were forged into the weapon

and are often carried (and revered) by that urdefhan’s descendants. If you score a Critical Hit against a creature that isn’t a Construct or Undead while using this weapon, you deal an

Adult Black Dragon Legacy

Monsters Basic Rules (2014)

Effects The region containing a legendary black dragon’s lair is warped by the dragon’s magic, which creates one or more of the following effects: The land within 6 miles of the lair

swamps on the frayed edges of civilization. A black dragon’s lair is a dismal cave, grotto, or ruin that is at least partially flooded, providing pools where the dragon rests, and where its victims

Devkarin Lich

Monsters Guildmasters’ Guide to Ravnica

, ray of sickness 2nd level (3 slots): Melf's acid arrow, ray of enfeeblement, spider climb, web 3rd level (3 slots): animate dead, bestow curse, fear, vampiric touch 4th level (3 slots): blight

, Evard's black tentacles 5th level (2 slots): cloudkill, insect plague 6th level (1 slot): circle of death, create undead 7th level (1 slot): finger of death Turn Resistance. The lich has advantage on

Fazrian

Monsters Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage

and good, flame strike, raise dead 1/day each: commune, control weather, insect plague Magic Resistance. The planetar has advantage on saving throws against spells and other magical

initiative count 20 on the next round. No creature within 120 feet of the planetar can regain hit points until the effect ends. Fazrian's eyes become smoldering black voids until initiative count 20

Jade Tigress

Monsters Candlekeep Mysteries

, with jet-black hair, hazel eyes, and a long, thin scar running across her right cheek. She matches the description of one of the thieves who infiltrated Candlekeep. Personality Trait. “Nothing

for dead.” Flaw. “My pride won’t let me back down from a challenge or forgive any insult.”PoisonNimble Escape. Jade Tigress takes the Disengage or Hide action.

Adult Lunar Dragon

Monsters Spelljammer: Adventures in Space

and heat vents, wild gardens, crystal formations, magical phenomena, or an ecosystem of lesser life forms that have adapted to living with the dragon. Regional Effects The region containing an

ancient or adult lunar dragon’s lair is warped by the dragon’s magic, which produces one or more of the following effects: Black Frost. A thin layer of black frost covers the ground

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