blade brain diffusing check removed

Vampire

Monsters Monster Manual

regains 1 Hit Point after spending 1 hour there. Spider Climb. The vampire can climb difficult surfaces, including along ceilings, without needing to make an ability check. Vampire Weakness. The

Paralyzed condition until the weapon is removed. Sunlight. The vampire takes 20 Radiant damage if it starts its turn in sunlight. While in sunlight, it has Disadvantage on attack rolls and ability

Demonomicon of Iggwilv

Magic Items Dungeon Master’s Guide

general chapters remain, ever revealing demonic secrets. Caged behind lines of script roils a secret piece of the Abyss itself, which keeps the book up-to-date, no matter how many pages are removed, and

it longs to be more than mere reference material. Abyssal Lore. You can reference the Demonomicon whenever you make an Intelligence check to discern information about demons or a Wisdom (Survival

Elder Brain Legacy

Monsters Volo's Guide to Monsters

that loom large in its mind (including things the target worries about, loves, or hates). The elder brain can also make a Charisma (Deception) check with advantage to deceive the target’s mind

into thinking it believes one idea or feels a particular emotion. The target contests this attempt with a Wisdom (Insight) check. If the elder brain succeeds, the mind believes the deception for 1 hour

Mind Flayer Arcanist Legacy

Monsters Monster Manual (2014)

":"Spellcasting"} to hit with spell attacks). The mind flayer arcanist has the following wizard spells prepared: Cantrips (at will): blade ward, dancing lights, mage hand, shocking grasp 1st level (4 slots

DC 15) and must succeed on a DC 15 Intelligence saving throw or be stunned until this grapple ends. Extract Brain. Melee Weapon Attack: +7;{"diceNotation":"1d20+7","rollType":"to hit","rollAction

Elder Brain

Monsters Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse

Creature Sense. The elder brain is aware of the presence of creatures within 5 miles of it that have an Intelligence score of 4 or higher. It knows the distance and direction to each creature, as

this manner. Legendary Resistance (3/Day). If the elder brain fails a saving throw, it can choose to succeed instead. Magic Resistance. The elder brain has advantage on saving throws against spells

Blue Slaad (control gem variant) Legacy

Monsters Monster Manual (2014)

point. Control Gem. Implanted in the slaad's brain is a magic control gem. The slaad must obey whoever possesses the gem and is immune to being charmed while so controlled. Certain spells can be used to

remove the gem from an incapacitated slaad. Each try requires 1 minute of uninterrupted work and a successful DC 20 Wisdom (Medicine) check. Each failed attempt deals 22 (4d10);{"diceNotation":"4d10

Gnome Ceremorph

Monsters Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden

grapple ends. Extract Brain. Melee Weapon Attack: +7;{"diceNotation":"1d20+7","rollType":"to hit","rollAction":"Extract Brain"} to hit, reach 5 ft., one incapacitated humanoid grappled by the

ceremorph. Hit: 55 (10d10);{"diceNotation":"10d10","rollType":"damage","rollAction":"Extract Brain","rollDamageType":"piercing"} piercing damage. If this damage reduces the target to 0 hit points, the

Infected Elder Brain

Monsters Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk

Creature Sense. The elder brain is aware of creatures within 1 mile of itself that have an Intelligence score of 4 or higher. It knows the distance and direction to each creature, as well as each one

. Magic Resistance. The elder brain has advantage on saving throws against spells and other magical effects. Telepathic Hub. The elder brain can use its telepathy to initiate and maintain telepathic

Brain Breaker

Monsters Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk

Creature Sense. The brain breaker is aware of creatures within 1 mile of itself that have an Intelligence score of 4 or higher. It knows the distance and direction to each creature, as well as each

. Magic Resistance. The brain breaker has advantage on saving throws against spells and other magical effects. Telepathic Hub. The brain breaker can use its telepathy to initiate and maintain

Gray Slaad (control gem variant) Legacy

Monsters Monster Manual (2014)

. Regeneration. The slaad regains 10 hit points at the start of its turn if it has at least 1 hit point. Control Gem. Implanted in the slaad’s brain is a magic control gem. The slaad must obey

uninterrupted work and a successful DC 20 Wisdom (Medicine) check. Each failed attempt deals 22 (4d10);{"diceNotation":"4d10","rollType":"damage","rollDamageType":"psychic"} psychic damage to the

Death Slaad (control gem variant) Legacy

Monsters Monster Manual (2014)

Gem. Implanted in the slaad's brain is a magic control gem. The slaad must obey whoever possesses the gem and is immune to being charmed while so controlled. Certain spells can be used to acquire the

from an incapacitated slaad. Each try requires 1 minute of uninterrupted work and a successful DC 20 Wisdom (Medicine) check. Each failed attempt deals 22 (4d10);{"diceNotation":"4d10","rollType

Green Slaad (control gem variant) Legacy

Monsters Monster Manual (2014)

slaad's brain is a magic control gem. The slaad must obey whoever possesses the gem and is immune to being charmed while so controlled. Certain spells can be used to acquire the gem. If the slaad

slaad. Each try requires 1 minute of uninterrupted work and a successful DC 20 Wisdom (Medicine) check. Each failed attempt deals 22 (4d10);{"diceNotation":"4d10","rollType":"damage","rollDamageType

Red Slaad (control gem variant) Legacy

Monsters Monster Manual (2014)

point. Control Gem. Implanted in the slaad's brain is a magic control gem. The slaad must obey whoever possesses the gem and is immune to being charmed while so controlled. Certain spells can be used to

remove the gem from an incapacitated slaad. Each try requires 1 minute of uninterrupted work and a successful DC 20 Wisdom (Medicine) check. Each failed attempt deals 22 (4d10);{"diceNotation":"4d10

Concealed Blade

Equipment

A Concealed Blade is a dagger built into a mechanism hidden within a bracer or gauntlet. When you roll Initiative, you can make a Dexterity (Deception) check opposed by others’ Wisdom

(Perception) checks. You have Advantage on the first attack made in the first round of combat against any enemy who failed their check.

Envoy Specialist

feats

. You have a working model of this tool integrated into your body, which can’t be removed. As long as you have a hand free, you can make use of the integrated tool. Innate Talent. When you make

an ability check with the integrated tool, you can roll 1d4 and add the number rolled to the ability check.

Garret Levistusson

Monsters Lost Laboratory of Kwalish

Special Equipment. Garret wears a ring of warmth (included in his statistics) and wields a gambler's blade longsword (see appendix D). Bardic Inspiration (3/day). As a bonus action, Garret can give

add the number rolled to one ability check, attack roll, or saving throw it makes. The creature can use the inspiration die after the roll is made but before the DM says whether it succeeds or fails

Agdon Longscarf

Monsters The Wild Beyond the Witchlight

way. The brand disappears after 24 hours, or it can be removed from a creature or object by any spell that ends a curse. Dagger. Melee or Ranged Weapon Attack: +7;{"diceNotation":"1d20+7","rollType

can see and makes a Dexterity (Sleight of Hand) check, with a DC equal to 1 + the target’s passive Wisdom (Perception) score. On a successful check, Agdon pilfers one object weighing 1 pound or less that the target has in its possession but not in its grasp, without the target noticing the theft.

Vampiric Mind Flayer

Monsters Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft

Spider Climb. The mind flayer can climb difficult surfaces, including upside down on ceilings, without needing to make an ability check. Sunlight Sensitivity. While in sunlight, the mind flayer has

psychic damage dies.When the mind flayers of Bluetspur (see chapter 3) could find no cure for their overlord’s affliction, their degenerating elder brain turned to radical methods to stave off

Living Gloves

Magic Items Eberron: Rising from the Last War

check, instead of your normal proficiency bonus. Symbiotic Nature. The gloves can’t be removed from you while you’re attuned to them, and you can’t voluntarily end your attunement to

of artisan’s tools of your choice One kind of musical instrument of your choice When you make an ability check using the chosen proficiency, you add double your proficiency bonus to the

Scion of Surtur

Monsters Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants

. Siege Monster. The scion deals double damage to objects and structures.Multiattack. The scion makes one attack using Lava Blade or Lava Ball, as well as two Slam attacks. Lava Blade. Melee Weapon

Attack: +18;{"diceNotation":"1d20+18", "rollType":"to hit", "rollAction":"Lava Blade"} to hit, reach 30 ft., one target. Hit: 32 (4d10 + 10);{"diceNotation":"4d10+10", "rollType":"damage", "rollAction

Dyrrn

Monsters Eberron: Rising from the Last War

teleport up to 30 feet to an unoccupied space it can see.Multiattack. Dyrrn makes one Tentacle Whip attack and uses its Corruption once. Dyrrn can replace its Tentacle Whip attack with Extract Brain if it

flesh twists in alien ways. The creature has disadvantage on attack rolls, its speed is reduced by half, and if it tries to cast a spell, it must first succeed on a DC 15 Intelligence check or the spell

Kansaldi Fire-Eyes

Monsters Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen

Special Equipment. Kansaldi has a glowing ruby embedded in her left eye socket. The gem functions as her eye and grants her truesight (included above). The gem can’t be removed while Kansaldi

, thaumaturgy 1/day each: blade barrier, dispel magic, flame strike, lesser restoration, revivifyHigh Master Kansaldi Fire-Eyes leads the Red Dragon Army’s offensive in Solamnia. A fanatical adherent

Encephalon Gemmule

Monsters Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk

chance to mutate into what is known as an encephalon cluster—a ravenous, slimy, psionic, brain-shaped mass that spawns horrors called encephalon gemmules.PsychicLeech. The gemmule targets one

’t use Leech again until it detaches. It can detach itself by spending 5 feet of its movement. As an action, the target or a creature within 5 feet of the target can detach the gemmule by succeeding on a DC 15 Strength check.

Grim Champion of Desolation

Monsters The Book of Many Things

Legendary Resistance (3/Day). If the champion fails a saving throw, it can choose to succeed instead.Multiattack. The champion makes two Leeching Blade attacks and uses Hollow Void. Leeching Blade

. Melee Weapon Attack: +14;{"diceNotation":"1d20+14", "rollType":"to hit", "rollAction":"Leeching Blade"} to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 13 (2d6 + 6);{"diceNotation":"2d6+6", "rollType":"damage

Grim Champion of Bloodshed

Monsters The Book of Many Things

attacks with Blade Storm, if available. Blazing Morningstar. Melee Weapon Attack: +12;{"diceNotation":"1d20+12", "rollType":"to hit", "rollAction":"Blazing Morningstar"} to hit, reach 5 ft., one target

", "rollAction":"Blazing Morningstar", "rollDamageType":"fire"} fire damage. Blade Storm (Recharge 5–6);{"diceNotation":"1d6", "rollType":"recharge", "rollAction":"Blade Storm"}. The champion

Aboleth Legacy

Monsters Basic Rules (2014)

succeed on a DC 14 Constitution saving throw or become diseased. The disease has no effect for 1 minute and can be removed by any magic that cures disease. After 1 minute, the diseased creature’s

skin becomes translucent and slimy, the creature can’t regain hit points unless it is underwater, and the disease can be removed only by heal or another disease-curing spell of 6th level or higher

Monastery of the Distressed Body, Grand Master

Monsters Lost Laboratory of Kwalish

of a Vorpal Sword. Shards of a vorpal sword once broken against the devil replace its claws. A successful DC 12 Intelligence (Arcana) or Wisdom (Perception) check identifies them as such. When the

decide that the target is too large for its head to be cut off by the devil’s claws. If removed, the shards lose their magical powers. Local Teleportation-Field Bracelets. Local teleportation

Bodytaker Plant

Monsters Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft

Constitution saving throw or be stunned by the plant’s sapping enzymes until it is removed from the pod or the plant dies. The enveloped target doesn’t require air and gains 1 level of

. As an action, a creature within 5 feet of the bodytaker plant that is outside the pod can open the pod and pull the target free with a successful DC 15 Strength check. If the plant dies, the target

Reduced-threat Aboleth

Monsters Tales from the Yawning Portal

","rollDamageType":"bludgeoning"} bludgeoning damage. If the target is a creature, it must succeed on a DC 12 Constitution saving throw or become diseased. The disease has no effect for 1 minute and can be removed

by any magic that cures disease. After 1 minute, the diseased creature's skin becomes translucent and slimy, the creature can't regain hit points unless it is underwater, and the disease can be removed

Asteroid Spider

Monsters Monstrous Compendium Vol. 1: Spelljammer Creatures

creature hasn’t observed the spider move or act, that creature must succeed on a DC 18 Intelligence (Investigation) check to discern that the spider is anything other than an asteroid

living brain functions like a spelljamming helm, allowing the spider to travel through Wildspace without a ship. It often haunts asteroid belts, lurking among normal asteroids until a spelljamming ship

Tearulai

Magic Items Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage

The longsword, Tearulai, is a sentient, neutral good longsword of sharpness;sword of sharpness with an emerald-colored blade and precious gemstones embedded in its hilt and pommel. The sword’s

magical properties are suppressed until it is removed from Valdemar’s skull. When you attack an object with this magic sword and hit, maximize your weapon damage dice against the target. When

Vampire Warrior Legacy

Monsters Monster Manual (2014)

, including upside down on ceilings, without needing to make an ability check. Vampire Weaknesses. The vampire has the following flaws: Forbiddance. The vampire can't enter a residence without an invitation

vampire's heart while the vampire is incapacitated in its resting place, the vampire is paralyzed until the stake is removed. Sunlight Hypersensitivity. The vampire takes 20 radiant damage when it starts

Vampire Legacy

Monsters Basic Rules (2014)

next turn. Spider Climb. The vampire can climb difficult surfaces, including upside down on ceilings, without needing to make an ability check. Vampire Weaknesses. The vampire has the following flaws

removed. Sunlight Hypersensitivity. The vampire takes 20 radiant damage when it starts its turn in sunlight. While in sunlight, it has disadvantage on attack rolls and ability checks.Multiattack

Vampire Spellcaster Legacy

Monsters Monster Manual (2014)

, including upside down on ceilings, without needing to make an ability check. Vampire Weaknesses. The vampire has the following flaws: Forbiddance. The vampire can't enter a residence without an invitation

vampire's heart while the vampire is incapacitated in its resting place, the vampire is paralyzed until the stake is removed. Sunlight Hypersensitivity. The vampire takes 20 radiant damage when it starts

Keeper's Fang

magic-items

Fangs were created by the Shaarat’khesh assassins of the Empire of Dhakaan. Rather than ascribing the blade’s power to the Keeper--whose existence the Dhakaani reject--they believe these

slain and its soul removed. A creature whose soul has been stolen in this way can be restored to life only by means of a Wish spell.

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