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Double-Bladed Scimitar

Equipment

The double-bladed scimitar is the signature weapon of Valenar elves. A haft of fine wood supports a long, curving blade on either end. Forged with techniques honed over centuries, these blades are

one. A Valenar blade in the hands of a non-elf is generally assumed to have been stolen or looted from a fallen foe, and a Valenar elf might feel entitled to demand its return or challenge the bearer

Clone

Spells Player’s Handbook

choose whether the finished clone is the same age as the creature or younger. The clone remains inert and endures indefinitely while its vessel remains undisturbed. If the original creature dies after

the clone finishes forming, the creature’s soul transfers to the clone if the soul is free and willing to return. The clone is physically identical to the original and has the same personality

Bard

Classes Player’s Handbook

Core Bard Traits Primary Ability Charisma Hit Point Die D8 per Bard level Saving Throw Proficiencies Dexterity and Charisma Skill Proficiencies Choose any 3 skills

Weapon Proficiencies Simple weapons Tool Proficiencies Choose 3 Musical Instruments Armor Training Light armor Starting Equipment Choose A or B: (A) Leather;Leather Armor, 2 Dagger

Arch-hag

Monsters Monster Manual

that spell again. Legendary Resistance (4/Day, or 5/Day in Lair). If the hag fails a saving throw, it can choose to succeed instead. Magic Resistance. The hag has Advantage on saving throws against

). Otherwise, the hag drops to 1 Hit Point and teleports to a harmless demiplane, and it can’t return to the plane it left for 2d6;{"diceNotation":"2d6", "rollType":"roll", "rollAction":"Spiteful

Vampire

Monsters Monster Manual

Legendary Resistance (3/Day, or 4/Day in Lair). If the vampire fails a saving throw, it can choose to succeed instead. Misty Escape. If the vampire drops to 0 Hit Points outside its resting place

, the vampire uses Shape-Shift to become mist (no action required). If it can’t use Shape-Shift, it is destroyed. While it has 0 Hit Points in mist form, it can’t return to its vampire form

Deck of Many Things

Magic Items Dungeon Master’s Guide

one of your ability scores by 2. You can’t decrease an ability that has a score of 5 or lower. Alternatively, you can choose not to adjust your ability scores, in which case this card has no

combat, you have Advantage on Death Saving Throws for 1 year. If someone else reduces your chosen foe to 0 Hit Points or you don’t choose a foe, this card has no effect. Donjon. You disappear

Vampire Infernalist

Monsters Astarion's Book of Hungers

Legendary Resistance (3/Day, or 4/Day in Lair). If the vampire fails a saving throw, it can choose to succeed instead. Misty Escape. If the vampire drops to 0 Hit Points outside its resting place

, the vampire uses Shape-Shift to become mist (no action required). If it can’t use Shape-Shift, it is destroyed. While it has 0 Hit Points in mist form, it can’t return to its vampire form

College of Whispers

Classes Xanathar's Guide to Everything

Most folk are happy to welcome a bard into their midst. Bards of the College of Whispers use this to their advantage. They appear to be like other bards, sharing news, singing songs, and telling

tales to the audiences they gather. In truth, the College of Whispers teaches its students that they are wolves among sheep. These bards use their knowledge and magic to uncover secrets and turn them

Kolyarut

Monsters Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse

Immutable Form. The kolyarut is immune to any spell or effect that would alter its form. Legendary Resistance (4/Day). If the kolyarut fails a saving throw, it can choose to succeed instead. Magic

: automatic hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 24 force damage plus one of the following effects (choose one or roll a d6;{"diceNotation":"1d6", "rollType":"roll", "rollAction":"Unerring Blade"}): 1&ndash

College of Swords

Classes Xanathar's Guide to Everything

Bards of the College of Swords are called blades, and they entertain through daring feats of weapon prowess. Blades perform stunts such as sword swallowing, knife throwing and juggling, and mock

combats. Though they use their weapons to entertain, they are also highly trained and skilled warriors in their own right. Their talent with weapons inspires many blades to lead double lives. One blade

College of Swords (XGtE)

Classes Xanathar's Guide to Everything

Bards of the College of Swords are called blades, and they entertain through daring feats of weapon prowess. Blades perform stunts such as sword swallowing, knife throwing and juggling, and mock

combats. Though they use their weapons to entertain, they are also highly trained and skilled warriors in their own right. Their talent with weapons inspires many blades to lead double lives. One blade

College of Whispers (XGtE)

Classes Xanathar's Guide to Everything

Most folk are happy to welcome a bard into their midst. Bards of the College of Whispers use this to their advantage. They appear to be like other bards, sharing news, singing songs, and telling

tales to the audiences they gather. In truth, the College of Whispers teaches its students that they are wolves among sheep. These bards use their knowledge and magic to uncover secrets and turn them

Astral Projection Legacy

Spells Basic Rules (2014)

statistics and possessions. The principal difference is the addition of a silvery cord that extends from between your shoulder blades and trails behind you, fading to invisibility after 1 foot. This

enter a new plane or return to the plane you were on when casting this spell, your body and possessions are transported along the silver cord, allowing you to re-enter your body as you enter the new

Gynosphinx Legacy

Monsters Basic Rules (2014)

finishes a short or long rest: The flow of time is altered such that every creature in the lair must reroll initiative. The sphinx can choose not to reroll. The effects of time are altered such

moves up to 10 years forward or backward (sphinx’s choice). Only the sphinx is immediately aware of the time change. A wish spell can return the caster and up to seven other creatures designated by

Silverquill Apprentice

Monsters Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos

pledgemage;pledgemages—cut imposing figures on campus. Dressed in smartly trimmed black-and-white uniforms, these budding mages practice bolstering speeches and wield inky blades. Some Silverquill

students prefer the benevolent side of language, using their words to uplift their friends and illuminate harsh truths about those in power. Others, though, choose to wield words more ruthlessly and

Crystal Dragon Wyrmling

Monsters Fizban's Treasury of Dragons

quartz that was once the abode of an ancient crystal dragon is found deserted, with no clue as to whether its master will return or whether some other creature has claimed it. 2 Prismatic shards

rain from the sky in a beautiful but dangerous display. Rumors quickly spread that a crystal dragon is responsible. 3 A crystal dragon invites the greatest bards and philosophers to partake in

Silverquill Pledgemage

Monsters Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos

;apprentices and then as pledgemages—cut imposing figures on campus. Dressed in smartly trimmed black-and-white uniforms, these budding mages practice bolstering speeches and wield inky blades

. Some Silverquill students prefer the benevolent side of language, using their words to uplift their friends and illuminate harsh truths about those in power. Others, though, choose to wield words more

Bard Legacy

Classes Basic Rules (2014)

of song, speech, and the magic they contain. Bards say that the multiverse was spoken into existence, that the words of the gods gave it shape, and that echoes of these primordial Words of Creation

still resound throughout the cosmos. The music of bards is an attempt to snatch and harness those echoes, subtly woven into their spells and powers. The greatest strength of bards is their sheer

Goblin Psi Commander

Monsters Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk

of their psionic abilities, goblin psi commanders wield blades of pure psychic energy. They can throw barriers of mental force while toppling foes with a single, mind-splitting burst. Psionic

with other Aberrations, which help them transform in return for their service as shock troops. Regardless, the result is the same: a goblin with unnatural and barely contained psychic power. Psionic

Enhanced Sphinx

Monsters Lost Laboratory of Kwalish

. The sphinx can choose not to reroll. The effects of time are altered such that every creature in the lair must succeed on a DC 15 Constitution saving throw or become 1d20;{"diceNotation":"1d20

spell can return the caster and up to seven other creatures designated by the caster to their normal time. The sphinx shifts itself and up to seven other creatures it can see within in its lair to

Clone Legacy

Spells Basic Rules (2014)

120 days; you can also choose to have the clone be a younger version of the same creature. It remains inert and endures indefinitely, as long as its vessel remains undisturbed. At any time after the

clone matures, if the original creature dies, its soul transfers to the clone, provided that the soul is free and willing to return. The clone is physically identical to the original and has the same

Cradle of the Storm Scion

Monsters Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants

occupied and uses the cradle’s initiative count. Legendary Resistance (5/Day). If the cradle fails a saving throw, it can choose to succeed instead. Magic Resistance. The cradle has advantage on

causes mighty storms or fierce maelstroms. A scion’s slumber is filled with dreams ranging from inspiring visions of Annam’s return to melancholy prophecies of inevitable decline, from

Divine Word Legacy

Spells Basic Rules (2014)

You utter a divine word, imbued with the power that shaped the world at the dawn of creation. Choose any number of creatures you can see within range. Each creature that can hear you must make a

fiend that fails its save is forced back to its plane of origin (if it isn't there already) and can't return to your current plane for 24 hours by any means short of a wish spell.

Monk Legacy

Classes Basic Rules (2014)

training. Many entered the monastery as children, sent to live there when their parents died, when food couldn’t be found to support them, or in return for some kindness that the monks had performed

enter this secluded life to hide from a crime you committed? Or did you choose the monastic life for yourself? Consider why you left. Did the head of your monastery choose you for a particularly

Scion of Stronmaus

Monsters Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants

choose to succeed instead. Magic Resistance. The scion has advantage on saving throws against spells and other magical effects. Siege Monster. The scion deals double damage to objects and

is filled with dreams ranging from inspiring visions of Annam’s return to melancholy prophecies of inevitable decline, from joyful glimpses of an idyllic past to horrific nightmares of torment

Androsphinx Legacy

Monsters Basic Rules (2014)

creature in the lair must reroll initiative. The sphinx can choose not to reroll. The effects of time are altered such that every creature in the lair must succeed on a DC 15 Constitution saving throw or

immediately aware of the time change. A wish spell can return the caster and up to seven other creatures designated by the caster to their normal time. The sphinx shifts itself and up to seven other

Sphinx of Judgment

Monsters Guildmasters’ Guide to Ravnica

finishes a short or long rest: The flow of time is altered such that every creature in the lair must reroll initiative. The sphinx can choose not to reroll. The effects of time are altered such that

within moves up to 10 years forward or backward (sphinx’s choice). Only the sphinx is immediately aware of the time change. A wish spell can return the caster and up to seven other creatures

Young Crystal Dragon

Monsters Fizban's Treasury of Dragons

palace of ice and quartz that was once the abode of an ancient crystal dragon is found deserted, with no clue as to whether its master will return or whether some other creature has claimed it. 2

Prismatic shards rain from the sky in a beautiful but dangerous display. Rumors quickly spread that a crystal dragon is responsible. 3 A crystal dragon invites the greatest bards and philosophers

Rod of Lordly Might Legacy

Magic Items Basic Rules (2014)

opposite the rod's flanged head (you choose the type of sword). If you press button 2, the rod's flanged head folds down and two crescent-shaped blades spring out, transforming the rod into a magic

Sea Spawn

Monsters Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse

following options (choose one or roll a d6;{"diceNotation":"1d6", "rollType":"roll", "rollAction":"Piscine Anatomy"}): 1–2: Bite. Melee Weapon Attack: +4;{"diceNotation":"1d20+4", "rollType":"to

by a kraken (see the Monster Manual) named Slarkrethel. The experience transforms the children into fanatics dedicated to the kraken. They return from the sea as humans, but when they reach old age

Phantom Warrior

Monsters Curse of Strahd

phantom warrior isn't bound by a yearning to complete some unresolved goal. It can choose to end its undead existence at any time. Its spirit lingers willingly, either out of loyalty to its former

master or because it believes it must perform a task to satisfy its honor or sense of duty. For example, a guard who dies defending a wall might return as a phantom warrior and continue guarding the

Oracle of Strixhaven

Monsters Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos

Legendary Resistance (3/Day). If the Oracle fails a saving throw, she can choose to succeed instead.Multiattack. The Oracle makes two Magic Flare attacks. She can also use Paradoxy, if available

. The current Oracle is an elderly human named Jadzi. A graduate of Quandrix College, Jadzi has since expanded her studies to encompass all disciplines of spellcasting, tempering the mathematical abstractions she wielded at Strixhaven with benevolent divination and a return to the basics of magic itself.

Moloch

Monsters Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse

Legendary Resistance (3/Day). If Moloch fails a saving throw, he can choose to succeed instead. Magic Resistance. Moloch has advantage on saving throws against spells and other magical effects

time in preparing for his return. He amassed an army of devils and monsters and left them to make final preparations for invading the Nine Hells, while he ventured to the Material Plane in search of an

Relentless Juggernaut

Monsters Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft

Legendary Resistance (3/Day). If the juggernaut fails a saving throw, it can choose to succeed instead. Regeneration. The juggernaut regains 20 hit points at the start of its turn. If the juggernaut

weapons with which they can slaughter prey. Sharp iron fences, crushing stalagmites and blades of glass all conveniently appear in order to aid a juggernaut’s brutality. Every juggernaut considers

Amble

Monsters Locathah Rising

, mass cure wounds6th level (1 slot): conjure feyBalm of the Summer Court (12d6). (As a Bonus Action) Amble can choose one creature they can see within 120 feet of them and spend up to 6d6

assume the beast's hit points and Hit Dice. When Amble reverts to their normal form, they return to the number of hit points they had before they transformed. However, if Amble reverts as a result of

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