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Dungeon Master’s Guide
Archlich;Vecna authored the Book of Vile Darkness. He recorded in its pages every horrid idea, every corrupt thought, and every example of foul magic he came across or devised.
Other practitioners of
cases, made notations and additions to existing text. There are places where pages are missing, torn, or covered so completely with ink, blood, and scratches that the original text can’t be
Book of Vile Darkness
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Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
even glimpse the scrawled pages invites madness.
Most believe the lich-god Vecna authored the Book of Vile Darkness. He recorded in its pages every diseased idea, every unhinged thought, and every
and additions to existing text. There are places where pages are missing, torn, or covered so completely with ink, blood, and scratches that the original text can’t be divined.
Nature can’t
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Mythic Odysseys of Theros
Acidic Blood. When the hydra takes piercing or slashing damage, each creature within 5 feet of the hydra takes 9 (2d8);{"diceNotation":"2d8","rollType":"damage","rollAction":"Acidic Blood
hibernation during which it continues to grow. When it awakens, it goes on a feeding rampage, so beginning the cycle once again. These rhythms of destruction sometimes become so ingrained in the minds and
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
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Named after a strange document found in the ancient observatory, the Venus fly rat can draw blood from an unwary beast without any sensation
where the first of their kind was found. They echo-locate in the darkness using their ears and sensitive pronged tails.
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Curse of Strahd
strong that he adopted the name of the Vistana who welcomed him into his clan, a man named Velikov. Although Velikov passed away more than a century ago, Kasimir continues to live among Velikov's
a return to the old ways.
Dreams of the Damned. Kasimir's sister, Patrina Velikovna, is sealed in the catacombs below Castle Ravenloft. Convinced that she was the concubine of the devil Strahd
Monsters
Mordenkainen's Fiendish Folio Volume 1
help a tired or lost traveler. Emerging from the shadows near the site of the deed, the creature takes to the road, wandering to seek out travelers who might have food it can sneak away with in return
its long nose. In return, it then uses its magic to enhance the travelers' comfort as they rest.
A Bitter Reproach. A killmoulis will follow after any party that has provided it with a tasty snack
Troglodyte
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Monster Manual (2014)
pictographs painted in blood or dung.
Perhaps the most loathsome of all humanoids, troglodytes eat anything they can stomach. They dwell in filth. The walls of their cavern homes are smeared with grime, oily
in the Abyss. Laogzed offers the troglodytes nothing in return except aspiration, for it is the dream of his troglodyte worshipers to become as well-fed and wearily content as he seems to be.
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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
Gynosphinx
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Basic Rules (2014)
following wizard spells prepared:
Cantrips (at will): mage hand, minor illusion, prestidigitation
1st level (4 slots): detect magic, identify, shield
2nd level (3 slots): darkness, locate object
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
Monsters
Guildmasters’ Guide to Ravnica
Blood Witch Dance. The witch can use a bonus action to control the movement of one creature cursed by its hex spell that it can see within 30 feet of it. The creature must succeed on a DC 15 Charisma
saving throw or use its reaction to move up to 30 feet in a direction of the witch's choice.
Devil's Sight. Magical darkness doesn't impede the witch's darkvision.
Innate Spellcasting. The witch's
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Locathah Rising
Amphibious. Fhenimore can breathe air and water.
Blood Frenzy. Fhenimore has advantage on melee attack rolls against any creature that doesn't have all its hit points.
Innate Spellcasting
spells, requiring no material components:
At will: command, create or destroy water3/day each: control water, darkness, water breathing, water walk1/day each: Evard's black tentacles, lightning
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Xanathar's Guide to Everything
throw if you say its true name. On a failed save, the demon continues to obey you. On a successful save, your control of the demon ends for the rest of the duration, and the demon spends its turns
rounds if it still has hit points.
As part of casting the spell, you can form a circle on the ground with the blood used as a material component. The circle is large enough to encompass your space
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
Wisdom as the spellcasting ability (spell save DC 11):
At will: darkness, dispel magic, fear, heat metal, levitate
Weakening Gaze. The babau targets one creature that it can see within 20 feet of it
Glasya against the screaming hordes of the demon lord Graz'zt. It is said that when Glasya wounded Graz’zt with her sword, the first babaus arose where his blood struck the ground. Their sudden
Monsters
Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
instinctual hunger that drives it to undertake bloodthirsty rampages along with swarms of emboldened, bloodsucking pests.
Strigoi drain the blood, marrow, and soft tissues from their victims, leaving behind
nothing but empty husks. Due to the horrifying nature of their deaths, those slain by strigoi occasionally reanimate as boneless.
Many strigoi seek ways to return to their former existence while being
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Eberron: Rising from the Last War
(4 slots): command, compelled duel, hellish rebuke, wrathful smite
2nd level (3 slots): branding smite, crown of madness, darkness, find steed, magic weaponMultiattack. The knight attacks twice with
sinister goals of Lady Illmarrow.
Karrnathi Patriots. Early in the Last War, Karrnath turned to the necromancers of the Blood of Vol to bolster the nation's army with undead forces. The skeletons and
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Lost Laboratory of Kwalish
following wizard spells prepared:
Cantrips (at will): mage hand, minor illusion, prestidigitation
1st level (4 slots): detect magic, identify, shield
2nd level (3 slots): darkness, locate object
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
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Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
hound in the Border Ethereal can return to the Material Plane as an action.
Telepathic Bond. While the yeth hound is on the same plane of existence as its master, it can magically convey what it senses
created by powerful Fey such as the Queen of Air and Darkness. Each pack’s master can telepathically communicate with their yeth hounds to give the pack commands from afar. If a pack’s
Monsters
Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
hours.When a gnoll’s ravenous hunger is so great that it craves flesh and blood even after death, it can rise as a vampire to continue its feeding frenzy.
A gnoll vampire is a savage predator
that feeds on the blood of the living. It cackles maniacally when it catches the scent of its prey and quickly moves in for the kill, tearing away flesh with its claws, gorging on meat and blood, and
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Keys from the Golden Vault
even glimpse the scrawled pages invites madness.
Most believe the lich-god Vecna authored the Book of Vile Darkness. He recorded in its pages every diseased idea, every unhinged thought, and every
and additions to existing text. There are places where pages are missing, torn, or covered so completely with ink, blood, and scratches that the original text can’t be divined.
Nature can’t
Monsters
Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse
Shadowy Form. While the darkweaver is in dim light or darkness, attack rolls against it are made with disadvantage unless the darkweaver has the incapacitated condition.
Spider Climb. The darkweaver
dark locales throughout the multiverse, including Undersigil and the windswept darkness of Pandemonium. A darkweaver lurks in the shadows of its lair, waiting for hapless prey to pass by. When a target
Monsters
Guildmasters’ Guide to Ravnica
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3/day each: charm person, hold person, mirror image, sleep
1/day each: gaseous form, major image
Shadow Stealth. While in dim light or darkness, the vampire can take the Hide action as a bonus
, with disadvantage if the vampire has previously consumed the target’s blood. On a failed save, the target takes 28 (8d6);{"diceNotation":"8d6","rollType":"damage","rollAction":"Mind Siphon
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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
period of hibernation during which it continues to grow. When it awakens, it goes on a feeding rampage, so beginning the cycle once again. These rhythms of destruction sometimes become so ingrained in
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Vecna: Eve of Ruin
ceremonial stake, which is plunged into the heart of a living sacrifice. The hulking form of the relentless impaler then emerges from the sacrifice’s pool of blood, spear in hand.
A relentless
impaler is bound to the creature that wielded the ceremonial stake in the ritual that birthed it. As long as the original stake remains lodged in the heart of the ritual victim, the impaler can return
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
components and using Charisma as the spellcasting ability (spell save DC 17):
At will: animal friendship (snakes only)
3/day each: darkness, entangle, fear, polymorph, suggestionAs part of their quest
requires the abomination to bathe in the blood of their enemies. The transformation is quick but painful.
Anathemas consider themselves demigods on the path to greater divinity. They demand obeisance
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Spelljammer: Adventures in Space
brains to cast the spell, as indicated:
1/day each: arms of Hadar (1 brain), detect magic (2 brains), magic missile (3 brains), Tenser's floating disk (4 brains), darkness (5 brains), hold person (6
pockets in the neh-thalggu’s head. Once it has collected twelve brains in this fashion, it is overcome by an urge to return to the Far Realm and begins devoting all its energy to finding a way home
Orc
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Volo's Guide to Monsters
created the orcs and continues to direct their destiny. He is aided and abetted by the other warrior deities, Bahgtru and Ilneval, who bring strength and cunning to the battlefield. The followers of all
gather and celebrate, dwell the followers of Yurtrus, the god of disease and death, and Shargaas, the god of darkness and the unknown. Orcs too weak for battle (because of bodily weakness, malformation
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Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
experience as similar to fighting a living darkness. Every dim alcove and darkened nook is a place the lithe and acrobatic shadow dancers can emerge from to ambush their prey. Using this tactic, they attack
, particularly anything colorful and lively to gaze at after they return to the gloom of the Shadowfell.
Shadar-kai
In the gloom of the Shadowfell live shadar-kai, elves whose ancestors served the Raven Queen
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Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron
his flail flashed in the firelight. The chain wrapped around Caerys’ blade but she twisted away. The flail flew into the darkness. She spun forward, her double blade weaving a circle of fire as
she danced toward the chieftain. In a moment the song of steel was over.
Caerys watched as the warlord fell to the ground. With a contemptuous snap of her wrist, she flicked the blood from her blade
Monsters
Curse of Strahd
his father’s footsteps, it was the latter who sensed a potential for greatness and darkness in Strahd surpassing that of any other mortal. Lysaga believed then, as she believes now, that she is
imparted to Lysaga the secret of longevity, which requires her to bathe in the blood of beasts on nights of the new moon. Failure to do so causes Lysaga to age rapidly, becoming mere dust and bones in a
Monsters
Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus
Devil’s Sight. Magical darkness doesn’t impede Zariel’s darkvision.
Fiery Weapons. Zariel’s weapon attacks are magical. When she hits with any weapon, the weapon deals an
with watching the tides of the Blood War, Zariel succumbed to the corrupting influence of the Nine Hells and fell from grace. Asmodeus admired Zariel’s passion for war and offered her rulership of
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Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron
his flail flashed in the firelight. The chain wrapped around Caerys’ blade but she twisted away. The flail flew into the darkness. She spun forward, her double blade weaving a circle of fire as
she danced toward the chieftain. In a moment the song of steel was over.
Caerys watched as the warlord fell to the ground. With a contemptuous snap of her wrist, she flicked the blood from her blade
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Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron
his flail flashed in the firelight. The chain wrapped around Caerys’ blade but she twisted away. The flail flew into the darkness. She spun forward, her double blade weaving a circle of fire as
she danced toward the chieftain. In a moment the song of steel was over.
Caerys watched as the warlord fell to the ground. With a contemptuous snap of her wrist, she flicked the blood from her blade
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Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron
his flail flashed in the firelight. The chain wrapped around Caerys’ blade but she twisted away. The flail flew into the darkness. She spun forward, her double blade weaving a circle of fire as
she danced toward the chieftain. In a moment the song of steel was over.
Caerys watched as the warlord fell to the ground. With a contemptuous snap of her wrist, she flicked the blood from her blade
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his flail flashed in the firelight. The chain wrapped around Caerys’ blade but she twisted away. The flail flew into the darkness. She spun forward, her double blade weaving a circle of fire as
she danced toward the chieftain. In a moment the song of steel was over.
Caerys watched as the warlord fell to the ground. With a contemptuous snap of her wrist, she flicked the blood from her blade