body before destroy continues race

Marid

Monsters Monster Manual

Amphibious. The marid can breathe air and water. Elemental Restoration. If the marid dies outside the Elemental Plane of Water, its body dissolves into brine, and it gains a new body in 1d4

one of the following spells, requiring no Material components and using Charisma as the spellcasting ability (spell save DC 16): At Will: Create or Destroy Water, Detect Evil and Good, Detect Magic

Eye and Hand of Vecna

Magic Items Dungeon Master’s Guide

your body, devours it, and then takes control of the body like a puppet. If that happens, you become an NPC under the DM’s control. Eye of Vecna Spells Spell Charge Cost

the Sword of Kas, both the eye and the hand burst into flame, turn to ash, and are destroyed. Any other attempt to destroy the eye or hand seems to work, but the Artifact reappears in one of Vecna

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

Biha Babir

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

components and using Charisma as the spellcasting ability (spell save DC 17): At Will: Create or Destroy Water, Detect Magic, Major Image 2/Day Each: Control Water (Flood, Part Water, or Redirect Flow

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

Headless Iron Golem

Monsters Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden

iron golem's shape can be worked into any form, though most are fashioned to look like giant suits of armor. Its fist can destroy creatures with a single blow, and its clanging steps shake the earth

beneath its feet. Iron golems wield enormous blades to extend their reach, and all can belch clouds of deadly poison. An iron golem's body is smelted with rare tinctures and admixtures. Though other

Rubble From A Rubble Golem

Equipment

Combat Utility Whimsy 16 11 15 When the animus of a rubble golem falls silent, some amount of magic continues to radiate from the chunks of debris that its body was formed

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

Murder Comet

Monsters Spelljammer: Adventures in Space

, and other unsuspecting targets to destroy. A murder comet’s creator can bind their spirit to the comet. In this form, the comet’s creator becomes ageless and immortal, free to race across

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

Flesh Golem Legacy

Monsters Basic Rules (2014)

. Once the golem goes berserk, it continues to do so until it is destroyed or regains all its hit points. The golem's creator, if within 60 feet of the berserk golem, can try to calm it by speaking

body parts stitched and bolted together into a muscled brute imbued with formidable strength. Powerful enchantments protect it, deflecting spells and all but the most potent weapons.Lightning, Poison; Bludgeoning, Piercing, and Slashing from Nonmagical Attacks that aren't Adamantine

Marid Legacy

Monsters Monster Manual (2014)

Amphibious. The marid can breathe air and water. Elemental Demise. If the marid dies, its body disintegrates into a burst of water and foam, leaving behind only equipment the marid was wearing or

with spell attacks). It can innately cast the following spells, requiring no material components: At will: create or destroy water, detect evil and good, detect magic, fog cloud, purify food and drink

Eigeron's Spirit

Monsters Storm King's Thunder

object. If it is destroyed, it re-forms after 24 hours. To truly destroy the ghost, characters must lay Eigeron's spirit to rest by killing Blagothkus.Withering Touch. Melee Weapon Attack: +5

its body. The ghost now controls the body but doesn't deprive the target of awareness. The ghost can't be targeted by any attack, spell, or other effect, except ones that turn undead, and it retains its

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

Oread

Monsters Mythic Odysseys of Theros

volcanoes, where they caper among the forces of dissolution and rebirth. During avalanches and volcanic eruptions, groups of oreads might race ahead of the destruction, dancing, singing, and doing what

they can to maximize the impending devastation. Honor Among Fey. Hearkening back to some ages-old conflict, oreads refuse to knowingly destroy any land inhabited by another nymph. While they won't work

Burnished Hart

Monsters Mythic Odysseys of Theros

":"damage","rollAction":"Charge","rollDamageType":"fire"} fire damage. If the target is a creature, it must succeed on a DC 13 Strength saving throw or be knocked prone. Heated Body. A creature that touches

the hart or hits it with a melee attack while within 5 feet of it takes 5 (1d10);{"diceNotation":"1d10","rollType":"damage","rollAction":"Heated Body","rollDamageType":"fire"} fire damage. Sure-Footed

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

Asteria

Monsters The Book of Many Things

the first Deck of Many Things. She doesn’t know why this is but surmises her life is tied to that deck; so long as it continues to exist, so will she. She has no way to prove this hypothesis

, but she nevertheless opposes groups like the Grim Harrow (see chapter 19) that seek to destroy the Deck of Many Things.PoisonEmpowering Aegis (Recharge 4–6);{"diceNotation":"1d6","rollType":"recharge

Tomb Guardian

Monsters Tomb of Annihilation

. Once the golem goes berserk, it continues to do so until it is destroyed or regains all its hit points. The golem's creator, if within 60 feet of the berserk golem, can try to calm it by speaking

);{"diceNotation":"2d6","rollType":"damage","rollAction":"Spiked Gauntlets","rollDamageType":"piercing"} piercing damage.A flesh golem is a grisly assortment of humanoid body parts stitched and bolted

Dolgrim

Monsters Eberron: Rising from the Last War

":"piercing"} piercing damage.Dolgrims are squat, deformed things. Warped by the daelkyr, a dolgrim is essentially two goblins crushed into one creature, their misshapen body boasting four arms and a pair of

, and undertaking missions advancing the inscrutable schemes of their malevolent masters. But great hordes of dolgrims remain clustered in Khyber with the daelkyr, dreaming of the day when they will be released into Eberron to feast and destroy.

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

Reduced-threat Flesh Golem

Monsters Tales from the Yawning Portal

. Once the golem goes berserk, it continues to do so until it is destroyed or regains all its hit points. The golem's creator, if within 60 feet of the berserk golem, can try to calm it by speaking

","rollDamageType":"bludgeoning"} bludgeoning damage.A flesh golem is a grisly assortment of humanoid body parts stitched and bolted together into a muscled brute imbued with formidable strength. Powerful

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

Fiendish Flesh Golem

Monsters Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus

. Once the golem goes berserk, it continues to do so until it is destroyed or regains all its hit points. If the golem’s creator is within 60 feet of the berserk golem, the creator can try to

","rollDamageType":"bludgeoning"} bludgeoning damage.A fiendish flesh golem is a particularly big flesh golem made of stitched-together body parts from devils, demons, yugoloths, and other fiends. As these parts

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

Gnome Squidling

Monsters Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden

, the result is a gnome squidling—a deformed mind flayer with weak, spindly limbs and oversized tentacles. It relies on levitation to keep its body aloft and uses its tentacles like legs, to

propel it along whatever surface it’s floating above. Most mind flayers destroy squidlings on sight, so it’s rare to see one or more of these creatures. Squidlings eat brains for sustenance, just like other mind flayers do, and they don’t care where the brains come from.

Lich Legacy

Monsters Basic Rules (2014)

Legendary Resistance (3/Day). If the lich fails a saving throw, it can choose to succeed instead. Rejuvenation. If it has a phylactery, a destroyed lich gains a new body in 1d10;{"diceNotation

":"1d10","rollType":"roll","rollAction":"Days"} days, regaining all its hit points and becoming active again. The new body appears within 5 feet of the phylactery. Spellcasting. The lich is an 18th-level

Kraken Priest

Monsters Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse

save DC 13): At will: command, create or destroy water 3/day each: control water, darkness, water breathing, water walk 1/day each: Evard's black tentacles Voice of the Kraken (Recharges after a

one differs in how their reverence is displayed. One kraken priest might have ink-black eyes and a suckered tentacle for a tongue, while another has a featureless face and a body covered in eyes and

Eye and Hand of Vecna Legacy

Magic Items Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)

would allow him to live on as a lich. Beyond death, he became the greatest of all liches. Even though his body gradually withered and decayed, Vecna continued to expand his evil dominion. So formidable

from your body, devours it, and then takes control of the body like a puppet. If that happens, you become an NPC under the DM’s control. Properties of the Hand. Your alignment changes to

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

Draconic Shard

Monsters Fizban's Treasury of Dragons

. In this vessel, a draconic shard continues to pursue the interests and struggles that drove the dragon, perhaps even accompanying adventurers in the guise of an intelligent magic item and steering

them to fulfill the dragon’s designs. A draconic shard is difficult to destroy. Destroying the shard’s spectral form or an object the shard inhabits forces the spirit into the form of a

Gith Legacy

Species Mordenkainen’s Tome of Foes

The story of the gith is rooted in a cruel twist of cosmic fate. Inspired by the great leader for whom the race is named, the gith rose up to overthrow the mind flayers that held them in

pacifists by nature, they share the githyanki’s racial hatred for mind flayers, and from time to time they send out squads to destroy illithid outposts. If the two races were ever to team up

Demilich (Variant) Legacy

Monsters Monster Manual (2014)

;s body and all the equipment it is carrying cease to exist. On a successful save, the target takes 24 (7d6);{"diceNotation":"7d6", "rollType":"damage", "rollAction":"Trap Soul", "rollDamageType

exist. If the demilich drops to 0 hit points, it is destroyed and turns to powder, leaving behind its gems. Crushing a gem releases any soul trapped within, at which point the target’s body re

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