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Halfling

Species Player’s Handbook

territorial mob of halflings like those in the Dark Sun setting. Halflings who prefer to live underground are sometimes called strongheart halflings or stouts. Nomadic halflings, as well as those who

live among humans and other tall folk, are sometimes called lightfoot halflings or tallfellows. Halfling Traits Creature Type: HumanoidSize: Small (about 2–3 feet tall)Speed: 30 feet

Soldier

Backgrounds Player’s Handbook

precious few memories of life before you took up arms. Battle is in your blood. Sometimes you catch yourself reflexively performing the basic fighting exercises you learned first. Eventually, you put that training to use on the battlefield, protecting the realm by waging war.

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

Spirit Dragon Wyrmling

Monsters Forgotten Realms: Adventures in Faerûn

conditions, a spirit dragon wyrmling might hatch from the egg. Left to its own devices, a wyrmling wanders the ruins that the dragon originated from. Spirit Dragons Spirit dragons, sometimes called

over time. A spirit dragon’s primary motivation is to unearth and study the ruins of the ancient realm from which it arose. Spirit dragons share an innate intellectual curiosity, and many have

Young Spirit Dragon

Monsters Forgotten Realms: Adventures in Faerûn

understood ancient magic. Spirit Dragons Spirit dragons, sometimes called song dragons, are powerful dragons whose powers stem from the magic and history of fallen realms. They embody the spirit of

a bygone age, and so as they grow and mature, they develop an erratic control over time. A spirit dragon’s primary motivation is to unearth and study the ruins of the ancient realm from which

Ancient Spirit Dragon

Monsters Forgotten Realms: Adventures in Faerûn

spirit dragon’s personality and outlook are often indistinguishable from that fallen realm’s. Spirit Dragons Spirit dragons, sometimes called song dragons, are powerful dragons whose

primary motivation is to unearth and study the ruins of the ancient realm from which it arose. Spirit dragons share an innate intellectual curiosity, and many have a deep appreciation for the culture and

Adult Spirit Dragon

Monsters Forgotten Realms: Adventures in Faerûn

uses its magic to walk disguised among people. A dragon might hire adventurers to undertake quests into the ruins of its lost homeland. Spirit Dragons Spirit dragons, sometimes called song dragons

spirit dragon’s primary motivation is to unearth and study the ruins of the ancient realm from which it arose. Spirit dragons share an innate intellectual curiosity, and many have a deep

Blood of the Lycanthrope Antidote

Magic Items Infernal Machine Rebuild

This clear potion has dark red flecks within, resembling clotted blood. When you drink this potion, it removes the curse of lycanthropy from you if that curse was imposed by a lycanthrope’s bite or similar effect.

Encephalon Cluster

Monsters Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk

the attacker, it then makes one Slam attack against that attacker.An encephalon cluster pays no heed to an elder brain or its mind flayer progenitors. This grotesque creature shambles through dark

become a gorging menace that can overrun an entire mind flayer colony. Encephalons When an illithid colony lays its eggs dangerously close to a Far Realm rift, an egg sac has a chance to mutate into

Hazvongel

Monsters Vecna: Eve of Ruin

":"piercing"} piercing damage. Blood Barrage (Recharge 5–6);{"diceNotation":"1d6", "rollType":"recharge", "rollAction":"Blood Barrage"}. The hazvongel launches a spray of blood in a 90-foot cone. Each

creature in that area must make a DC 18 Dexterity saving throw, taking 27 (6d8);{"diceNotation":"6d8", "rollType":"damage", "rollAction":"Blood Barrage", "rollDamageType":"necrotic"} necrotic damage on

Blood-Toll Harpy

Monsters Mythic Odysseys of Theros

Blood Frenzy. The harpy has advantage on melee attack rolls against any creature that doesn't have all its hit points. Dark Devotion. The harpy has advantage on saving throws against being charmed or

to as a “blood toll.” Cruel, corpse-eating creatures, harpies endlessly seek their next meal, careless of whether it comes from the living or the dead. With equal zeal, these vicious scavengers set

Sahuagin Priestess Legacy

Monsters Monster Manual (2014)

trenches of the ocean, sahuagin view the entire aquatic realm as their kingdom and the creatures in it as blood sport for their hunting parties. The self-styled rulers of sahuagin ocean domains are

Blood Frenzy. The sahuagin has advantage on melee attack rolls against any creature that doesn't have all its hit points. Limited Amphibiousness. The sahuagin can breathe air and water, but she needs

Sahuagin Baron Legacy

Monsters Monster Manual (2014)

shallows and shore. Though they dwell in the deepest trenches of the ocean, sahuagin view the entire aquatic realm as their kingdom and the creatures in it as blood sport for their hunting parties. The

Blood Frenzy. The sahuagin has advantage on melee attack rolls against any creature that doesn’t have all its hit points. Limited Amphibiousness. The sahuagin can breathe air and water, but he

Flameskull Legacy

Monsters Basic Rules (2014)

skull blasts foes with fiery rays from its eyes and dreadful spells called up from the dark recesses of its memory.Cold, Fire, PoisonLightning, Necrotic, Piercing

Encephalon Gemmule

Monsters Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk

Far Realm, the eggs within an encephalon cluster no longer hatch into illithid tadpoles. Instead, when one of an encephalon cluster’s eggs reaches maturity, it is ejected from the mass as an

encephalon cluster in a matter of days, at which point it begins producing its own gemmules. Encephalons When an illithid colony lays its eggs dangerously close to a Far Realm rift, an egg sac has a

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

might be unaware of your existence or entirely indifferent to you, but the secrets you have learned allow you to draw your magic from it. Entities of this type include Ghaunadar, called That Which

Thorny Vegepygmy

Monsters Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse

that live in simple bands, hunting for sustenance and spreading the spores by which they reproduce. Also called mold folk or moldies, vegepygmies inhabit dark, moist areas, so they’re most

+1", "rollType":"damage", "rollAction":"Bite", "rollDamageType":"piercing"} piercing damage.If a Beast such as a dog or a bear dies from russet mold, the result is a bestial moldy called a thorny

Vegepygmy Chief

Monsters Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse

spores by which they reproduce. Also called mold folk or moldies, vegepygmies inhabit dark, moist areas, so they’re most commonly found underground or in forests where little sunlight penetrates

ages, it grows tougher and develops spore clusters on its body. Other vegepygmies defer to these so-called chiefs. A chief can expel its spores in a burst, infecting nearby creatures. If a creature

Create Homunculus

Spells Xanathar's Guide to Everything

While speaking an intricate incantation, you cut yourself with a jewel-encrusted dagger, taking 2d4 piercing damage that can’t be reduced in any way. You then drip your blood on the spell&rsquo

;s other components and touch them, transforming them into a special construct called a homunculus. The statistics of the homunculus are in the Monster Manual. It is your faithful companion, and it

Trenzia

Monsters Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage

skull blasts foes with fiery rays from its eyes and dreadful spells called up from the dark recesses of its memory.Cold, Lightning, PoisonFire, Necrotic, Piercing

Vampiric Mist

Monsters Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse

undetected to bleed their victims dry. Vampiric mists, sometimes called crimson mists, are all that remain of vampires who couldn’t return to their burial places after being defeated or suffering

, insatiable thirst for blood remains. Indistinguishable from fog aside from the charnel reek it exudes, a vampiric mist descends on a creature and causes the blood in the creature’s body to ooze

Ruxithid the Chosen

Monsters Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk

);{"diceNotation":"2d6", "rollType":"damage", "rollAction":"Psi-Charged Scimitar", "rollDamageType":"psychic"} psychic damage.Centuries ago, an abandoned duergar mining outpost called Zorzula’s Rest was

, but the goblins remained, sequestered from the rest of the world until recently when the mind flayer fanatics called on them. Some of these goblins’ descendants possess psionic powers, as

Fomorian Warlock of the Dark

Monsters Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants

Blood Rune. The fomorian has a blood rune inscribed on an effigy or some other object in its possession. While holding or wearing the object bearing the rune, the giant can use its Corrupting Hex

action and Poisoning Rebuke reaction. The object bearing the blood rune has AC 15; 30 hit points; and immunity to necrotic, poison, and psychic damage. The object regains all its hit points at the end

Windvane

Magic Items Princes of the Apocalypse

A silver spear, Windvane has dark sapphires on the filigreed surface of its polished head. Held by its shining haft, the weapon feels insubstantial, as if clutching a cool, gently flowing breeze. The

air node, you can perform a ritual called the Song of the Four Winds, using Windvane to create a devastation orb of air (see the devastation orb description for the time and cost of the ritual). Once

Auspicia Dran

Monsters Acquisitions Incorporated

Auspicia Dran had her life torn apart as a child when she was seized by a mysterious creature called the Wandering Crypt. Having spent long years in a kind of dark dream within the crypt, she was

Knight of Eldraine

Monsters Monstrous Compendium Vol. 4: Eldraine Creatures

embodiment of one of the five virtues the knights of the realm hold as standards of excellence. The recent invasion of nightmarish creatures called Phyrexians devastated the courts, with much of the

"} piercing damage plus 9 (2d8);{"diceNotation":"2d8", "rollType":"damage", "rollAction":"Heavy Crossbow", "rollDamageType":"radiant"} radiant damage.The realm of Eldraine once consisted of five knightly courts

Polukranos

Monsters Mythic Odysseys of Theros

Acidic Blood. When Polukranos takes piercing or slashing damage, each creature within 5 feet of Polukranos takes 10 (3d6);{"diceNotation":"3d6","rollType":"damage","rollAction":"Acidic Blood

can make a stomp attack against that creature.Polukranos, called the World Eater, is the mortal manifestation of the eternal ideal of a hydra. In its first incarnation, it fell from Nyx to the mortal

Deathless Rider

Monsters Monstrous Compendium Vol. 4: Eldraine Creatures

called lich-knights or fell horsemen. In stark contrast to the knights of Eldraine, the deathless riders are without virtue of any kind. They are few in number—unless many more lurk in the dark

Queen, who rules from a castle called Dynnistan. It isn’t known whether these legends are based on any true experience or are simply the result of imagination trying to account for a terrifying and

Vegepygmy

Monsters Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse

Vegepygmies are fungus creatures that live in simple bands, hunting for sustenance and spreading the spores by which they reproduce. Also called mold folk or moldies, vegepygmies inhabit dark, moist areas

with creatures such as myconid adult;myconid adults, shrieker;shriekers, and violet fungus;violet fungi (all appear in the Monster Manual). Although they prefer to eat fresh meat, bone, and blood

Stout Halfling Legacy

Species Basic Rules (2014)

As a stout halfling, you’re hardier than average and have some resistance to poison. Some say that stouts have dwarven blood. In the Forgotten Realms, these halflings are called stronghearts, and they’re most common in the south.

Night Blade

Monsters Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus

victims vulnerable to their long-bladed knives. When Bhaal’s magic works its power, stab wounds erupt in terrible gouts of blood. Seemingly minor wounds plunge deep into a victim’s body and

upon their god’s power to blend into the shadows with ease, or even turn invisible for a crucial moment. Cult Ranks. Low-ranking cultists of Bhaal are called night blade;night blades, whom Bhaal

Xill

Monsters Mordenkainen's Fiendish Folio Volume 1

damage.Deep within the Ethereal Plane are the demiplanes, miniatures worlds built by powerful archmages and other mighty entities to serve as a private domain. Each demiplane is a designed realm

, built for a specific purpose. Some are fortresses, designed to keep wanderers from the material world away. Others are far more sinister, dark realms where evil dreams take root and become ghastly

Troll Mutate

Monsters Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants

as much damage on a successful one.When exposed to corrupting alien energy, such as that found near a gate to the Far Realm or the strange magic that emanates through the Underdark, a regenerating

injured and his blood spilled on the ground. The saga further claims that trolls were born similarly when Vaprak’s blood was spilled. Whatever the truth of their origin, trolls embody life&rsquo

K'thriss Drow'b

Monsters Acquisitions Incorporated

largely indifferent elder entity from beyond reality. Tapped into this dark power, the “C” Team's hoardsperson sees all existence as a puzzle to unlock, and he is obsessed by the essential lack of meaning

and purpose in the structures of so-called “reality.” Still, all things considered, he is most often polite and affable. Because after a long adventuring career, he understands that he can't afford

Aurnozci

Monsters The Book of Many Things

that’s both its fiefdom and its prison. It lairs within a grotesque hive dangling from a mountain-size tree of tar and flame called Gorewood. Aurnozci relies on demonic proxies and mortal

leader, a masked archmage called the Eye of Aurnozci. Aurnozci’s followers believe the demon lord’s imprisonment is coming to an end, and soon the Caged Worm will shed its current form and

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