body based diffusing clearly race

Control Water

Spells Player’s Handbook

repeat the same effect or choose a different one. Flood. You cause the water level of all standing water in the area to rise by as much as 20 feet. If you choose an area in a large body of water, you

directions. The water in the area moves as you direct it, but once it moves beyond the spell’s area, it resumes its flow based on the terrain. The water continues to move in the direction you

Reincarnate Legacy

Spells Basic Rules (2014)

body. If the target's soul isn't free or willing to do so, the spell fails. The magic fashions a new body for the creature to inhabit, which likely causes the creature's race to change. The GM rolls

You touch a dead humanoid or a piece of a dead humanoid. Provided that the creature has been dead no longer than 10 days, the spell forms a new adult body for it and then calls the soul to enter that

Monastery of the Distressed Body, Monk

Monsters Lost Laboratory of Kwalish

Dark Devotion. The monk has advantage on saving throws against being charmed or frightened.Hooked Polearm. Melee Weapon Attack: +3;{"diceNotation":"1d20+3","rollType":"to hit","rollAction":"Hooked

Guardian of Nature

Spells Xanathar's Guide to Everything

Tree. Primal Beast. Bestial fur covers your body, your facial features become feral, and you gain the following benefits: Your walking speed increases by 10 feet. You gain darkvision with a range

of 120 feet. You make Strength-based attack rolls with advantage. Your melee weapon attacks deal an extra 1d6 force damage on a hit. Great Tree. Your skin appears barky, leaves sprout from your

Monastery of the Distressed Body, Elder Monk

Monsters Lost Laboratory of Kwalish

Dark Devotion. The elder monk has advantage on saving throws against being charmed or frightened. Spellcasting. The elder monk is a 4th-level spellcaster. Its spellcasting ability is Wisdom (spell

Investiture of Flame

Spells Elemental Evil Player's Companion

Flames race across your body, shedding bright light in a 30-foot radius and dim light for an additional 30 feet for the spell’s duration. The flames don’t harm you. Until the spell ends

Yuan-ti Broodguard

Monsters Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse

not only a subject’s body but also their mind, making them instinctively obey any yuan-ti and filling them with a seething rage at the sight of non-reptilian creatures. Although broodguards can

no longer think as clearly as before their transformation, they are able to perform simple yet important tasks in the community, such as guarding eggs or patrolling for intruders. Yuan-ti refer to

Alter Self Legacy

Spells Basic Rules (2014)

action to gain the benefits of a different one. Aquatic Adaptation. You adapt your body to an aquatic environment, sprouting gills and growing webbing between your fingers. You can breathe

voice, hair length, coloration, and distinguishing characteristics, if any. You can make yourself appear as a member of another race, though none of your statistics change. You also can't appear as a

Ruinbound

races

chapter 4. When making a Ruinbound character, work with your DM to determine the appearance of your Personal Symbiont. It is organic and clearly alien, and when you cast a cantrip with this trait, it

should be obvious that the symbiont is the source. A symbiont that casts Mage Hand could be a thin tentacle or an ectoplasmic insect that emerges from your body and performs the action. An eyestalk

Yakfolk Warrior

Monsters Storm King's Thunder

, the target is incapacitated, loses control of its body, and is unaware of its surroundings. The yakfolk now controls the body and can’t be targeted by any attack, spell, or other effect, and it

, feats, and proficiencies. The possession lasts until either the body drops to 0 hit points, the yakfolk ends the possession as an action, or the yakfolk is forced out of the body by an effect such as the

Yakfolk Priest

Monsters Storm King's Thunder

, the target is incapacitated, loses control of its body, and is unaware of its surroundings. The yakfolk now controls the body and can’t be targeted by any attack, spell, or other effect, and it

, feats, and proficiencies. The possession lasts until either the body drops to 0 hit points, the yakfolk ends the possession as an action, or the yakfolk is forced out of the body by an effect such as the

Kalaraq Quori

Monsters Eberron: Rising from the Last War

incapacitated and loses control of its body. The quori now controls the body but doesn't deprive the target of awareness. The quori can't be targeted by any attack, spell, or other effect, and it retains its

features, or proficiencies. The possession lasts until the body drops to 0 hit points, the quori ends it as a bonus action, or the quori is forced out by an effect like the dispel evil and good spell

Shard of the Ise Rune

Magic Items Storm King's Thunder

. Frigid Touch. As an action, you can touch a body of water and freeze the water in a 10-foot-radius sphere around the spot you touched. Once you use this property, you can’t use it again until you

based on its form: Cloak. The cloak is now a rare magic item that requires attunement. While wearing it, you have resistance to fire damage, and you have advantage on Dexterity (Stealth) checks made

Yuan-ti Malison (Type 3) Legacy

Monsters Monster Manual (2014)

spells and other magical effects. Malison Type. The yuan-ti malison (type 3) has a Human head and upper body with a serpentine lower body instead of legs.Multiattack (Yuan-ti Form Only). The yuan-ti makes

their race, allowing them to shed their frail humanity like dead skin. Those that did not transform eventually became slaves or food for the blessed of the serpent gods. The yuan-ti empires withered

Shapechange Legacy

Spells Basic Rules (2014)

hit points, you aren't knocked unconscious. You retain the benefit of any features from your class, race, or other source and can use them, provided that your new form is physically capable of doing

of equipment, based on the creature's shape and size. Your equipment doesn't change shape or size to match the new form, and any equipment that the new form can't wear must either fall to the ground

Young Solar Dragon

Monsters Spelljammer: Adventures in Space

between patrolling its territory and hunting for food. The dragon has a serpentine body, a pair of ventral limbs ending in long fins, nebulous wings that give off light, and gleaming, multicolored scales

. It can see clearly even in intensely bright light. Solar dragons are fond of treasure just as all dragons are, but in the airless void of Wildspace, they value food even more. Solar dragons

Immured One

Monsters Lost Laboratory of Kwalish

Reckless. At the start of its turn, the immured one can gain advantage on all melee weapon attack rolls during that turn, but attack rolls against it have advantage until the start of its next turn

Solar Dragon Wyrmling

Monsters Spelljammer: Adventures in Space

between patrolling its territory and hunting for food. The dragon has a serpentine body, a pair of ventral limbs ending in long fins, nebulous wings that give off light, and gleaming, multicolored scales

. It can see clearly even in intensely bright light. Solar dragons are fond of treasure just as all dragons are, but in the airless void of Wildspace, they value food even more. Solar dragons typically

Freezing Sphere Legacy

Spells Basic Rules (2014)

saving throw. On a failed save, a creature takes 10d6 cold damage. On a successful save, it takes half as much damage. If the globe strikes a body of water or a liquid that is principally water (not

including water-based creatures), it freezes the liquid to a depth of 6 inches over an area 30 feet square. This ice lasts for 1 minute. Creatures that were swimming on the surface of frozen water

Otiluke's Freezing Sphere Legacy

Spells Player’s Handbook (2014)

saving throw. On a failed save, a creature takes 10d6 cold damage. On a successful save, it takes half as much damage. If the globe strikes a body of water or a liquid that is principally water (not

including water-based creatures), it freezes the liquid to a depth of 6 inches over an area 30 feet square. This ice lasts for 1 minute. Creatures that were swimming on the surface of frozen water

Deformed Duergar

Monsters Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage

. While enlarged, the duergar is Large, doubles its damage dice on Strength-based weapon attacks (included in the attacks), and makes Strength checks and Strength saving throws with advantage. If the

ears, three eyes, two noses, and two mouths. It has a third arm on the right side of its body, and its left leg splits into two at the knee, giving it three feet. The transformation drove the poor creature insane, and it regards all other creatures as threats that must be destroyed.Poison

Avarice

Monsters Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden

challenge, even when the odds are clearly stacked against her. Seeing other wizards as a threat, paranoia rules her life. Avarice has been a member of the Arcane Brotherhood for almost two years. She

around their necks. These self-styled Knights of the Black Sword offered her sanctuary in the keep of Caer-Dineval, where they are based. Although she doesn’t trust the cultists, they treat her

Snowborn

races

”. Beyond that, little is known about their creation, though elemental magic was clearly involved. New snowborn have appeared and vanished over the years since their origin, yet the pattern of

their life and rebirth remains a mystery even to them. Each fleeting snowborn lives for up to 20 years. A snowborn’s body is formed of compacted snow. They have a small sphere for a head, branch

Half-Elf Legacy

Species Basic Rules (2014)

marked by an easy grace—an elvish grace, Flint would have said; yet the man’s body had the thickness and tight muscles of a human, while the facial hair was definitely humankind’s. All

coloration and features lie somewhere between their human and elf parents, and thus show a variety even more pronounced than that found among either race. They tend to have the eyes of their elven

Warforged Legacy

Species Eberron: Rising from the Last War

and crystal eyes embedded beneath a reinforced brow ridge. Beyond these common elements of warforged design, the precise materials and build of a warforged vary based on the purpose for which it was

. Warforged Personality The warforged were built to serve and to fight. For most of their existence, warforged had a clearly defined function and were encouraged to focus purely on that role. The Treaty

Grung

Monsters Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse

effect based on the grung’s color (see “Variant: Grung Poison”). They also use this venom to poison their weapons. Variant: Grung Poison A creature poisoned by a grung can suffer an

feels a desperate need to soak itself in liquid or mud. It can’t take actions or move except to do so or to reach a body of liquid or mud. Red Grung. The poisoned creature must use its action to eat if food is within reach.Poison

Control Water Legacy

Spells Basic Rules (2014)

includes a shore, the flooding water spills over onto dry land. If you choose an area in a large body of water, you instead create a 20-foot tall wave that travels from one side of the area to the other

beyond the spell's area, it resumes its flow based on the terrain conditions. The water continues to move in the direction you chose until the spell ends or you choose a different effect. Whirlpool

Du'ulora Quori

monsters

by the quori; the quori disappears and the target has the Incapacitated condition and loses control of its body. The quori now controls the body, but the target retains awareness. The quori can&rsquo

, as well as the target’s Strength, Dexterity, and Constitution modifiers. The possession lasts until the body drops to 0 Hit Points or the quori leaves as a Bonus Action. When the possession

Grippli Warrior

Monsters Candlekeep Mysteries

body are indeed those of a frog, but its front extremities end in hands with fingers that enable it to manipulate weapons and other objects, and its rear legs have similar digits that it can use for

. Grippli religion is based in animism and nature spirits; the frogfolk do not pay reverence to a single deity, but they might beseech a particular nature spirit for aid from time to time.

Elkhorn

Monsters The Wild Beyond the Witchlight

destruction of evil in all its forms. He’s not especially bright, so he fights with his heart rather than his wits. Age has drained much of the strength from Elkhorn’s body. Strongheart

dead.” Combat Notes Elkhorn’s challenge rating is based on him using Feint to improve his rather weak sword attack. Having been trained in his youth to fight ogres and trolls, he&rsquo

Grung Elite Warrior

Monsters Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse

secrete a substance that is harmless to them but poisonous to other creatures, and sometimes that substance has a special effect based on the grung’s color (see “Variant: Grung Poison&rdquo

actions or move except to do so or to reach a body of liquid or mud. Red Grung. The poisoned creature must use its action to eat if food is within reach.Poison

Grung Wildling

Monsters Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse

gold. All grungs secrete a substance that is harmless to them but poisonous to other creatures, and sometimes that substance has a special effect based on the grung’s color (see “Variant

can’t take actions or move except to do so or to reach a body of liquid or mud. Red Grung. The poisoned creature must use its action to eat if food is within reach.Poison

Shifter Legacy

races Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse

’s appearance might remind an onlooker of an animal, they remain clearly identifiable as shifters even when at their most feral. Most shifters resemble a particular kind of lycanthrope. You can

race or of a fantastical race. If you select a fantastical race, follow these additional rules during character creation. Ability Score Increases When determining your character’s ability

Ancient Solar Dragon

Monsters Spelljammer: Adventures in Space

time outside its lair between patrolling its territory and hunting for food. The dragon has a serpentine body, a pair of ventral limbs ending in long fins, nebulous wings that give off light, and

gleaming, multicolored scales. It can see clearly even in intensely bright light. Solar dragons are fond of treasure just as all dragons are, but in the airless void of Wildspace, they value food even more

Verdan

Species Acquisitions Incorporated

, particularly those based on physical characteristics such as gender, race, or appearance. Wide-Eyed and Curious Verdan are hungry to undertake new challenges and absorb new experiences. When they meet

then passing through the shadow of That-Which-Endures changed them forever. Now the newest race to call Faerûn home, the verdan do their best to find their way in an unfamiliar world

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