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Dungeon Master’s Guide
guardian to attack its enemies or to guard the wielder against attack. If an attack threatens to injure the wearer, the construct can magically absorb the blow into its own body, even at a distance.
Spells
Player’s Handbook
You call forth the spirit of a Construct. It manifests in an unoccupied space that you can see within range and uses the Construct Spirit stat block. When you cast the spell, choose a material: Clay
slot’s level for the spell’s level in the stat block.
Construct Spirit
Medium Construct, Neutral
AC 13 + the spell’s level
HP 40 + 15 for each spell level above 4
Speed 30 ft
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
Monsters
Forgotten Realms: Adventures in Faerûn
Amphibious. Biha Babir can breathe air and water.
Elemental Restoration. If Biha Babir dies outside the Elemental Plane of Water, her body dissolves into brine, and she gains a new body in 1d4
again until the start of her next turn.Scheming Marid Ruler
The calculating Biha Babir rules the pelagic city of Maran Saya in Calimshan. Though her physical form is as fluid as the ocean itself, she
Monsters
Astarion's Book of Hungers
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Running Water. The vampire takes 20 Acid damage if it ends its turn in running water.
Stake to the Heart. If a weapon that deals Piercing damage is driven into the vampire’s heart while the
sap the body and mind. Creatures (excluding the vampire and its allies) that finish a Short or Long Rest while within 1 mile of the lair make a DC 15 Wisdom saving throw. On a failed save, a creature
magic-items
Ingredients: construct (koboldzilla) tubing (flesh), egg (any)
This magical meal takes 10 minutes to consume and digest, and is large enough to feed one Large creature or up to four Medium or
smaller creatures. The effects last 8 hours, until dispelled by dispel magic or similar magic, or you consume another magical meal. Rules for cooking magical meals can be found in Chapter 5 of Heliana's
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number of temporary hit points equal to 2 + your Charisma modifier (minimum 1).
Construct Flesh. The first attack you make each turn that hits deals 4 bonus lightning damage.
Egg (Any). Your body
Ingredients: construct (koboldzilla) tubing (flesh), egg (any)
This magical meal takes 10 minutes to consume and digest, and is large enough to feed one Large creature or up to four Medium or
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number of temporary hit points equal to 2 + your Charisma modifier (minimum 1).
Construct Flesh. The first attack you make each turn that hits deals 3 bonus lightning damage.
Egg (Any). Your body
Ingredients: construct (koboldzilla) tubing (flesh), egg (any)
This magical meal takes 10 minutes to consume and digest, and is large enough to feed one Large creature or up to four Medium or
Monsters
Mordenkainen's Fiendish Folio Volume 1
Entropic Aura. Each creature that is not a construct or undead that ends its turn within 15 feet of Ygorl takes 14 (4d6);{"diceNotation":"4d6","rollType":"damage","rollAction":"Entropic Aura
by this attack dies, with its body and everything it is wearing and carrying, except magic items, exploding into a cloud of ash. The creature can be restored to life only by means of a wish spell
spells
Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything
You call forth the spirit of a construct. It manifests in an unoccupied space that you can see within range. This corporeal form uses the Construct Spirit stat block. When you cast the spell, choose
spell using a spell slot of 4th level or higher, use the higher level wherever the spell’s level appears in the stat block.
CONSTRUCT Spirit
Medium construct
Armor Class 13 + the level of the
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number of temporary hit points equal to 2 + your Charisma modifier (minimum 1).
Construct Flesh. The first attack you make each turn that hits deals 2 bonus lightning damage.
Egg (Any). Your body
Ingredients: construct (koboldzilla) tubing (flesh), egg (any)
This magical meal takes 10 minutes to consume and digest, and is large enough to feed one Large creature or up to four Medium or
magic-items
number of temporary hit points equal to your Charisma modifier (minimum 1).
Construct Flesh. The first attack you make each turn that hits deals 1 bonus lightning damage.
Egg (Any). Your body undergoes
Ingredients: construct (koboldzilla) tubing (flesh), egg (any)
This magical meal takes 10 minutes to consume and digest, and is large enough to feed one Large creature or up to four Medium or
Monsters
Monstrous Compendium Vol. 4: Eldraine Creatures
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
Shapechange
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Spells
Basic Rules (2014)
You assume the form of a different creature for the duration. The new form can be of any creature with a challenge rating equal to your level or lower. The creature can't be a construct or an undead
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
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
Nabassu
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Monsters
Mordenkainen’s Tome of Foes
Demonic Shadows. The nabassu darkens the area around its body in a 10-foot radius. Nonmagical light can’t illuminate this area of dim light.
Devour Soul. A nabassu can eat the soul of a
creature it has killed within the last hour, provided that creature is neither a construct nor an undead. The devouring requires the nabassu to be within 5 feet of the corpse for at least 10 minutes, after
Monsters
Lost Laboratory of Kwalish
treated as a Medium creature, moves independently on the construct's turn, and has a flying speed of 40 feet. The clockwork kraken's senses operate through its tentacles as well as its main body. Each
tentacle can be attacked independently, with damage dealt to tentacles applied to the clockwork kraken's hit point total. A tentacle is destroyed if it takes more than 20 damage.
Reducing the construct to
races
’s creature types in alphabetical order: Aberration, Beast, Celestial, Construct, Dragon, Elemental, Fey, Fiend, Giant, Humanoid, Monstrosity, Ooze, Plant, Undead. These types don’t have rules
themselves, but some rules in the game affect creatures of certain types in different ways. For example, the text of the cure wounds spell specifies that the spell doesn’t work on a creature of the Construct type.
Reborn Traits
Equipment
Grievous Wound while wearing a Prosthetic that replaces the lost or wounded body part.
Some Prosthetics can be enchanted with magic, giving them even further powers. Rules for Magical Prosthetics can be found in the Grim Hollow Campaign Guide.
Monsters
Infernal Machine Rebuild
operate a new mechanical body. The brains share insights and knowledge with one another, and have typically been taken from creatures that desired to prolong their consciousness — or that were tasked
with controlling a construct for all time as punishment.
If this adventure is played as a sequel to Lost Laboratory of Kwalish, this creature began as the Brain in a jar;brains in jars encountered in the
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A delicate winged creature, this homunculus was designed to facilitate communication between warforged soldiers during the Last War. A Final Messenger is a Tiny Construct with an AC of 20, 6 Hit
take a Magic action to integrate a Final Messenger into your body. While it is part of your body, the messenger cannot be targeted by any attack. You can only have one messenger attached to your body
Monsters
Spelljammer: Adventures in Space
object.
Crew of the Last Breath. The following rules apply to Agony the ghost:
As long as the Last Breath has at least 1 hit point, the ghost can’t be permanently slain. If the ghost is reduced
ghost can see within 5 feet of it must succeed on a DC 13 Charisma saving throw or be possessed by the ghost; the ghost then disappears, and the target is incapacitated and loses control of its body
Corpse Flower
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Monsters
Mordenkainen’s Tome of Foes
at least one humanoid corpse in its body, the corpse flower can use a bonus action to do one of the following:
The corpse flower digests one humanoid corpse in its body and instantly regains 11 (2d10
);{"diceNotation":"2d10","rollType":"healing","rollAction":"Digest Humanoid"} hit points. Nothing of the digested body remains. Any equipment on the corpse is expelled from the corpse flower in its
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
have no personalities or memories; they’re driven only by the desire to commit evil. The amnizus that patrol here drill the rules of the Nine Hells into the new arrivals’ minds and marshal
Shield Guardian Amulet
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Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
its enemies or to guard the wielder against attack. If an attack threatens to injure the wearer, the construct can magically absorb the blow into its own body, even at a distance.
A humanoid that
races
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
in alphabetical order: Aberration, Beast, Celestial, Construct, Dragon, Elemental, Fey, Fiend, Giant, Humanoid, Monstrosity, Ooze, Plant, Undead. These types don’t have rules themselves, but
some rules in the game affect creatures of certain types in different ways. For example, the cure wounds spell doesn’t work on a Construct or an Undead.
Life Span
The typical life span of a
Monsters
Quests from the Infinite Staircase
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Rejuvenation. When he is destroyed, Nafik gains a new body in 24 hours if his heart is intact, regaining all his hit points. The new body appears in an unoccupied space within 5 feet of Nafik’s
"} for every 24 hours that elapse. If the curse reduces the target’s hit point maximum to 0, the target dies and its body turns to dust. The curse lasts until removed by the Remove Curse spell or
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
, where it flows through Dis and Stygia. They collect the souls arriving in the form of lemure;lemures (see the Monster Manual). Lemures have no personalities or memories; they’re driven only by the
desire to commit evil. The amnizus that patrol here drill the rules of the Nine Hells into the new arrivals’ minds and marshal them into legions.Fire, PoisonCold; Bludgeoning, Piercing, and Slashing from Nonmagical Attacks that aren't Silvered
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smaller creatures. The effects last 8 hours, until dispelled by dispel magic or similar magic, or you consume another magical meal. Rules for cooking magical meals can be found in the Cooking chapter of
occurs before resistance is calculated.
Creature Type
Damage Type
Aberration
Psychic
Beast
Cold
Celestial
Radiant
Construct
Lightning
Dragon
Meta; the same as the
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smaller creatures. The effects last 8 hours, until dispelled by dispel magic or similar magic, or you consume another magical meal. Rules for cooking magical meals can be found in the Cooking chapter of
occurs before resistance is calculated.
Creature Type
Damage Type
Aberration
Psychic
Beast
Cold
Celestial
Radiant
Construct
Lightning
Dragon
Meta; the same as the
Monsters
Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
manner—perhaps poisoned, stabbed in the back, or killed while sleeping—the slain giant can rise as a frostmourn. Driven by its desire for vengeance, the frostmourn can turn the living into
keep them roaming the wilds for years after their murderers are slain.
A frostmourn looks like a desiccated corpse mummified by exposure to bitter cold. It carries the marks of its death on its body: a
Monsters
Spelljammer: Adventures in Space
duplicate that looks just like the reigar. The duplicate obeys the reigar’s commands and uses the reigar’s statistics, except it is an unaligned Construct that doesn’t have a talarith of its
land. When the endless battles there grew tiresome, some reigar ventured to the Astral Sea and Wildspace in search of glory. Many are driven by artistic pursuits, but each reigar has their own notion
Magic Items
Storm King's Thunder
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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
Monsters
Curse of Strahd
, modestly give money to charity. They take steps to keep magic items out of evil hands by stashing them in secret hiding places.
Characters as Wereravens. The Monster Manual has rules for characters
already higher. Attack and damage rolls for the wereraven’s bite are based on whichever is higher of the character’s Strength and Dexterity. The bite of a wereraven in raven form deals 1
races
unusual crown, often called an eldercross or a witch’s turn. This living, garland-like part of a hexblood’s body extends from their temples and wraps behind the head, serving as a visible
player, unless the DM rules otherwise.
Creating Your Character
At 1st level, you choose whether your character is a member of the human race or of one of the game’s fantastical races