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Spells
Player’s Handbook
creature again before the current 24-hour period ends. This use of the spell reasserts your control over up to four creatures you have animated with this spell rather than animating a new creature
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Using a Higher-Level Spell Slot. You animate or reassert control over two additional Undead creatures for each spell slot level above 3. Each of the creatures must come from a different corpse or pile of bones.
Monsters
Spelljammer: Adventures in Space
they can be trained to serve as mounts and beasts of burden. Gnomes have tried to build spelljamming ships powered by giant space hamster wheels, so far without success.
Space Hamsters
Space
hamsters resemble their terrestrial kin, both in their appearance and general demeanor, and they come in a variety of colors.
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
Lightning Blood. A creature within 5 feet of the death kiss takes 5 (1d10);{"diceNotation":"1d10", "rollType":"damage", "rollAction":"Lightning Blood", "rollDamageType":"lightning"} lightning damage
Blood Drain—one replacement per tentacle grappling a creature.
Tentacle. Melee Weapon Attack: +8;{"diceNotation":"1d20+8", "rollType":"to hit", "rollAction":"Tentacle"} to hit, reach 20 ft., one
Monsters
Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
;{"diceNotation":"1d10","rollType":"roll","rollAction":"Nosferatu Bite"} days.
Blood Disgorge (Recharge 5–6);{"diceNotation":"1d6","rollType":"recharge","rollAction":"Blood Disgorge"}. The nosferatu vomits blood
in a 15-foot cone. Each creature in that area must make a DC 16 Constitution saving throw. On a failed save, a creature takes 18 (4d8);{"diceNotation":"4d8","rollType":"damage","rollAction":"Blood
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
choker is a subterranean predator far more dangerous than its small size and spindly, rubbery limbs would suggest.
Chokers have cartilage rather than a bony skeleton. This flexible internal structure
corpse serves to entice other curious folk—explorers from the surface world, drow, duergar, or the choker’s favorite prey, goblins—to come within reach.
When a target presents itself
Monsters
Spelljammer: Adventures in Space
are 6 feet long and travel in packs. The scent of blood sends them into a feeding frenzy, but wounding one usually weakens it enough to make it break off its attack.
Scavvers
Scavvers are shark
—brown and gray—rarely rise above the level of nuisances. The larger varieties are more formidable, in part because they often don’t wait for their meals to come to them.
A scavver
Vampiric Mist
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Monsters
Tales from the Yawning Portal
without squeezing. Each foot of movement in water costs it 2 extra feet, rather than 1 extra foot. The mist can’t manipulate objects in any way that requires fingers or manual dexterity.
Sunlight
the vampire’s hunger for blood. It exists only to seek out creatures and drain the life from them, and its insubstantial nature enables it to pursue prey through the tiniest of openings.
When
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Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
without squeezing. Each foot of movement in water costs it 2 extra feet, rather than 1 extra foot. The mist can’t manipulate objects in any way that requires fingers or manual dexterity.
Sunlight
, 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
Monsters
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
they hunt unwary creatures that come for a drink or swim.
What krakens are to the sea and dragons are to the sky, hydras are to the lands of Theros. Various hydras dwell at the fringes of civilization
Monsters
Thieves’ Gallery
relies on charisma first—rather than magic or muscle—to escape trouble. Once a member of the Harpers, a spy organization dedicated to protecting Faerûn’s common folk, Edgin has
confidence and rakish demeanor make him a natural leader. With carefully chosen words, he inspires the members of his thieves’ crew to greatness. But when his past mistakes come calling, Edgin must
Monsters
Eberron: Rising from the Last War
Lady Illmarrow believe that she’s a champion of their faith, but they don’t worship or serve her. And the powers of priests of the Blood of Vol don’t come from Lady Illmarrow.
Necrotic, Poison; Bludgeoning, Piercing, and Slashing from Nonmagical AttacksCold, Lightning
Emerald Claw, but her motives for founding the order are buried in her past. Lady Illmarrow has no interest in ruling the living. Rather, she seeks to become Queen of the Dead.
The Mark of Death
Monsters
Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
Build (Humanoid Form Only). The werebear counts as one size larger when determining its carrying capacity and the weight it can push, drag, or lift.
Shapechanger. The werebear can use its action to
, Oyaminartok is not a monster but a force of good in the region, and she passes her curse only to goliaths whose hearts are pure.
Oyaminartok and others of her kind try to help creatures they come across, for
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
tlincalli parents come to investigate.
Tlincallis eat what they kill, whether their hunt nets desert animals or a caravan, but when they have new mouths to feed, they are careful to take some of their prey
powerful hunter, such as a blue dragon, they carefully weigh whether to serve the superior hunter, move on, or fight to the death to remove it as competition.
Tlincallis rarely build cities, make
Monsters
Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
Celestial. If it hears words of Celestial spoken, the vampire must try to attack the source of those spoken words on its next turn. If these words come from multiple sources and from opposite directions, the
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
Monsters
Curse of Strahd
witnessing Strahd himself slay Vladimir's beloved, his fellow knight Sir Godfrey Gwilym. With the battle won, Strahd surrounded Argynvostholt. Rather than cower in his lair, Argynvost emerged and
feelings fueled the spirits of many of his fellow knights—including Godfrey—to come back as revenants as well. Vladimir continued to wage the hopeless war, even as Strahd tightened his grip on the valley
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
by feelings of goodwill. In this aspect, they defuse conflicts and alleviate suffering by using their magic to relieve any ailments that afflict the people who come to them for aid. They tolerate no
violence in their presence and move quickly to settle disputes, to ensure that peace continues to reign.
If an autumn eladrin invites you over for dinner, come with an empty stomach. Their goodwill
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
exchange for power in the mortal world. These priests receive nightmarish visions from Dendar that they interpret as prophecies, and they then use their magic and influence to make these visions come true
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Nightmare speakers revel in torturing others, keeping their victims in a constant state of fear and dread. They prefer to terrify rather than kill their opponents. They manipulate communities for
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
dinner, come with an empty stomach. Their goodwill extends to heaping portions.
Note to self: send some of my spring eladrin friends to visit Mordenkainen. That’ll teach him to lighten up.
TASHA
they aren’t incapacitated. When the eladrin makes this change, they use the stat block of the new season rather than their old stat block. Any damage the eladrin sustained in their previous form
Monsters
Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
with their jaws to extract mineral sustenance. They can also digest iron from blood and marrow, if mineral-rich rock is unavailable.
The Netherese sent the thaluud into the Underdark to exterminate
are in awe of earth elementals, believing that they come directly from this source, and are reluctant to attack them.Cold, FireLightning
Monsters
Curse of Strahd
in her seventies, but she is, in fact, much older.
Royal Blood. Madam Eva is Strahd’s half-sister, though Strahd is unaware of this fact. Her real name is Katarina, and she is the daughter of a
Vistani woman whom King Barov, Strahd’s father, took to his bed during one of his many crusades. Madam Eva knows she is Strahd’s half-sister but has told no one of the royal blood flowing
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
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
speak in a conventional sense. Among themselves, vegepygmies communicate by hissing, gestures, and tapping. Vegepygmies build and craft little; any gear they have is acquired from other creatures or built
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
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, vegepygmies can absorb
. Among themselves, vegepygmies communicate by hissing, gestures, and tapping. Vegepygmies build and craft little; any gear they have is acquired from other creatures or built by copying simple
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Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
fungi (all appear in the Monster Manual).
Although they prefer to eat fresh meat, bone, and blood, vegepygmies can absorb nutrients from soil and many sorts of organic matter, so they rarely go
tapping. Vegepygmies build and craft little; any gear they have is acquired from other creatures or built by copying simple construction they have witnessed.
Russet Mold
Few know for sure where
Monsters
Curse of Strahd
return the courtesy, the duchess commissioned the legendary toymaker Fritz von Weerg to build a clockwork effigy of Pidlwick as a gift for Strahd's family. Although the duchess's heart was in the right
, instead assuming that the guests had died in their sleep.
But Strahd was not fooled. He came to realize fairly quickly that the clockwork effigy had begun to display a murderous nature. Rather than have
Monsters
Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
archfey named Zybilna, who had forged secret pacts with some of the fiends Isolde and her companions had slain. Rather than be angry at Isolde, Zybilna was impressed by her. She enlisted a powerful fiend
than blood. Choose well who you share the road with, lest you carry them forever.”
Flaw. “For my victories and scars, I deserve more than a nursemaid’s duty.”Cold, Fire, Lightning, Poison; Bludgeoning, Piercing, and Slashing from Nonmagical Attacks
Monsters
Curse of Strahd
that Strahd would never accept her as his true mother, nor could she bear his rejection. As a result, she has never confronted him. She would rather exist in perpetual denial, whiling away the days
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
Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
fear into innocents across lands and over ages.
Creating a Relentless Killer
Relentless killers come into being and undertake their terrifying sprees for a spectrum of reasons. When creating a
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Relentless Methods
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Method
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Artist. The killer turns its victims into works of art, perhaps creating grisly tableaus or using their blood in the forging of new weapons.
2
Monsters
Vecna: Eve of Ruin
blood to sow terror rather than for sustenance. If destroyed, Kas revives in 1d100;{"diceNotation":"1d100", "rollType":"roll", "rollAction":"Strength of the Night"} nights in an unoccupied space in
Monsters
Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
Relentless killers come into being and undertake their terrifying sprees for a spectrum of reasons. When creating a relentless killer, consider what circumstances led to their transformation and
victims into works of art, perhaps creating grisly tableaus or using their blood in the forging of new weapons.
2
Author. The killer leaves messages, poems, song lyrics, or parts of its creative
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
… oh my goodness, is that circlet made of silver?
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I find the waking world tedious and mundane and would much rather spend my time asleep, in the realm of dreams.
8
I find the
1
A young moonstone dragon on the cusp of adulthood refuses to settle down and build a lair. To protect the local populace from the dragon’s chaotic activities, a minor deity sends a deva
Monsters
The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
Trait. “I detest chores and would rather have other creatures do them for me.”
Ideal. “I don’t care about the past or the future. I live in the present. What I do now, this very
moment, is all that matters.”
Bond. “I’m safe in my cottage. Why should I leave it when I can make others come to me?"
Flaw. “Watching someone run widdershins makes me sneeze
Monsters
Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
overheard her master talking to another wizard about a covert expedition to Icewind Dale being undertaken to seek out long-lost magic from a bygone empire. Rather than carry out her original plan, Nass
who come upon Nass’s frozen remains also find her spellbook and the orb she stole from Vellynne.
Familiar. Nass’s magical familiar, a white arctic weasel acclimated to cold weather named
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Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
the signs written in starlight. They read these signs as omens, giving them glimpses of what is to come, and they eagerly examine the potential futures of any creatures who come to them in peace
above to build their lairs. Then, like gem cutters seeking the perfect diamond, they spend much of their lives refining, polishing, and enhancing the beauty of their lairs.
Crystal dragons&rsquo
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Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
sky and tracking the signs written in starlight. They read these signs as omens, giving them glimpses of what is to come, and they eagerly examine the potential futures of any creatures who come to
seek out frigid, picturesque locations with clear views of the sky above to build their lairs. Then, like gem cutters seeking the perfect diamond, they spend much of their lives refining, polishing
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
often difficult because I’m so easily distr… oh my goodness, is that circlet made of silver?
7
I find the waking world tedious and mundane and would much rather spend my time asleep
is not a single location, but rather a collection of personally significant places spread out across multiple planes of existence and connected through portals under the dragon’s control. A lair