body before doesn checks retain

Astral Projection

Spells Player’s Handbook

behind in a state of suspended animation; it has the Unconscious condition, doesn’t need food or air, and doesn’t age. A target’s astral form resembles its body in almost every way

You and up to eight willing creatures within range project your astral bodies into the Astral Plane (the spell ends instantly if you are already on that plane). Each target’s body is left

Cloak of the Bat

Magic Items Dungeon Master’s Guide

While wearing this cloak, you have Advantage on Dexterity (Stealth) checks. In an area of Dim Light or Darkness, you can grip the edges of the cloak and use it to gain a Fly Speed of 40 feet. If you

Darkness, you can cast Polymorph on yourself, shape-shifting into a Bat. While in that form, you retain your Intelligence, Wisdom, and Charisma scores. The cloak can’t be used this way again until the next dawn.

Meld into Stone

Spells Player’s Handbook

You step into a stone object or surface large enough to fully contain your body, merging yourself and your equipment with the stone for the duration. You must touch the stone to do so. Nothing of

your presence remains visible or otherwise detectable by nonmagical senses. While merged with the stone, you can’t see what occurs outside it, and any Wisdom (Perception) checks you make to hear

Raise Dead

Spells Player’s Handbook

neutralizes any poisons that affected the creature at the time of death. This spell closes all mortal wounds, but it doesn’t restore missing body parts. If the creature is lacking body parts or organs

Speak with Dead

Spells Player’s Handbook

or it recognizes you as an enemy. This spell doesn’t return the creature’s soul to its body, only its animating spirit. Thus, the corpse can’t learn new information, doesn’t comprehend anything that has happened since it died, and can’t speculate about future events.

Shadow Demon

Monsters Monster Manual

Demonic Restoration. If the demon dies outside the Abyss, its body dissolves into ichor, and it gains a new body instantly, reviving with all its Hit Points somewhere in the Abyss. Incorporeal

", "rollDamageType":"Force"} Force damage if it ends its turn inside an object. Light Sensitivity. While in Bright Light, the demon has Disadvantage on ability checks and attack rolls.Umbral Claw. Melee

Heat Metal

Spells Player’s Handbook

. If a creature is holding or wearing the object and takes the damage from it, the creature must succeed on a Constitution saving throw or drop the object if it can. If it doesn’t drop the

object, it has Disadvantage on attack rolls and ability checks until the start of your next turn. Using a Higher-Level Spell Slot. The damage increases by 1d8 for each spell slot level above 2.

Revenant

Monsters Monster Manual

body is destroyed only if it starts its turn with 0 Hit Points and doesn’t regenerate. Undead Restoration. If the revenant dies, it revives 24 hours later in a different body unless Dispel Evil

Regeneration. The revenant regains 10 Hit Points at the start of each of its turns. If the revenant takes Fire or Radiant damage, this trait doesn’t function at the start of its next turn. Its

Kobold Warrior

Monsters Monster Manual

Pack Tactics. The kobold has Advantage on an attack roll against a creature if at least one of the kobold’s allies is within 5 feet of the creature and the ally doesn’t have the

Incapacitated condition. Sunlight Sensitivity. While in sunlight, the kobold has Disadvantage on ability checks and attack rolls.Dagger. Melee or Ranged Attack Roll: +4;{"diceNotation":"1d20+4", "rollType

Scrying

Spells Player’s Handbook

target and the sort of physical connection you have to it. The target doesn’t know what it is making the save against, only that it feels uneasy. Your Knowledge of the Target Is... Save

Picture or other likeness −2 Garment or other possession −4 Body part, lock of hair, or bit of nail −10 On a successful save, the target isn’t affected

Horned Devil

Monsters Monster Manual

Diabolical Restoration. If the devil dies outside the Nine Hells, its body disappears in sulfurous smoke, and it gains a new body instantly, reviving with all its Hit Points somewhere in the Nine

", "rollDamageType":"Necrotic"} Necrotic damage, and the target receives an infernal wound if it doesn’t have one. While wounded, the target loses 10 (3d6);{"diceNotation":"3d6", "rollType":"roll

Bestow Curse

Spells Player’s Handbook

one ability. The target has Disadvantage on ability checks and saving throws made with that ability. The target has Disadvantage on attack rolls against you. In combat, the target must succeed on a

spell doesn’t require Concentration, and the duration becomes 8 hours (level 5–6 slot) or 24 hours (level 7–8 slot). If you use a level 9 spell slot, the spell lasts until dispelled.

Dao

Monsters Monster Manual

Earth Glide. The dao can burrow through nonmagical, unworked earth and stone. While doing so, the dao doesn’t disturb the material it moves through. Elemental Restoration. If the dao dies

outside the Elemental Plane of Earth, its body dissolves into dirt, and it gains a new body in 1d4;{"diceNotation":"1d4", "rollType":"roll", "rollAction":"Elemental Restoration"} days, reviving with all

Pit Fiend

Monsters Monster Manual

Diabolical Restoration. If the pit fiend dies outside the Nine Hells, its body disappears in sulfurous smoke, and it gains a new body instantly, reviving with all its Hit Points somewhere in the Nine

Hells. Fear Aura. The pit fiend emanates an aura in a 20-foot Emanation while it doesn’t have the Incapacitated condition. Wisdom Saving Throw: DC 21, any enemy that starts its turn in the

Wight

Monsters Monster Manual

Sunlight Sensitivity. While in sunlight, the wight has Disadvantage on ability checks and attack rolls.Multiattack. The wight makes two attacks, using Necrotic Sword or Necrotic Bow in any

rises 24 hours later as a Zombie under the wight’s control, unless the Humanoid is restored to life or its body is destroyed. The wight can have no more than twelve zombies under its control at a time.PoisonNecrotic

Kuo-toa

Monsters Monster Manual

Amphibious. The kuo-toa can breathe air and water. Sunlight Sensitivity. While in sunlight, the kuo-toa has Disadvantage on ability checks and attack rolls.Spear. Melee or Ranged Attack Roll: +3

triggering creature. Failure: The attack’s weapon sticks to the kuo-toa’s shield. If the target doesn’t let go of the weapon, the target has the Grappled condition while the weapon is

Winged Kobold

Monsters Monster Manual

Pack Tactics. The kobold has Advantage on an attack roll against a creature if at least one of the kobold’s allies is within 5 feet of the creature and the ally doesn’t have the

Incapacitated condition. Sunlight Sensitivity. While in sunlight, the kobold has Disadvantage on ability checks and attack rolls.Dragon-Tooth Blade. Melee Attack Roll: +5;{"diceNotation":"1d20+5", "rollType

Gibbering Mouther

Monsters Monster Manual

Aberrant Ground. The ground in a 10-foot Emanation originating from the mouther is Difficult Terrain. Gibbering. The mouther babbles incoherently while it doesn’t have the Incapacitated

. If the target is a Medium or smaller creature, it has the Prone condition. The target dies if it is reduced to 0 Hit Points by this attack. Its body is then absorbed into the mouther, leaving only

Deck of Many Things

Magic Items Dungeon Master’s Guide

Disadvantage on D20 Tests for the next 72 hours. Draw another card; this draw doesn’t count as one of your declared draws. Gem. Twenty-five pieces of jewelry worth 2,000 GP each or fifty gems worth

, which must be cleared out before you can claim the keep as yours. Void. Your soul is drawn from your body and contained in an object in a place of the DM’s choice. One or more powerful beings

Arch-hag

Monsters Monster Manual

Escape"} days. When the hag teleports away, each creature within 60 feet of the space it left is cursed. Until the curse ends, a creature has Disadvantage on ability checks and saving throws, and the

, it also casts Confusion centered on itself. The spell uses the creature’s spellcasting ability and doesn’t require Concentration. If the arch-hag is destroyed or moves its lair elsewhere

Umbragen Shadow-Walker

Monsters Eberron: Forge of the Artificer

Fey Ancestry. Magic can’t put the shadow walker to sleep. Sunlight Sensitivity. While in sunlight, the shadow walker has Disadvantage on ability checks and attack rolls. Multiattack

surface in the wake of the giant empire’s fall, they retain a spiritual and physical connection to the darkness below. Umbragen shadow walkers weave shadow magic to confound foes.Radiant

Street Justice

Feats Forgotten Realms: Heroes of Faerûn

, Manacles, or Rope. Tough Talk. A creature’s Hostile attitude doesn’t impose Disadvantage on your Charisma (Intimidation) checks to influence that creature.

Beast of Malar

Monsters Forgotten Realms: Adventures in Faerûn

Amphibious (Sea Form Only). The beast breathes air and water. Divine Immortality. If the beast dies, its body dissolves into black goo, and it gains a new body after 1d10;{"diceNotation":"1d10

start of its turn. If the beast takes Radiant damage or damage from a Critical Hit, this trait doesn’t function at the start of the beast’s next turn. The beast dies only if it starts its

Enclave Magic

Feats Forgotten Realms: Heroes of Faerûn

maximum of 20. Friend to Animals. You have Advantage on ability checks when taking the Influence action with Beasts. Two Hearts, One Mind. You always have the Beast Sense spell prepared. You can cast it

once without a spell slot, and you regain the ability to cast it in that way when you finish a Long Rest. When you cast it without a spell slot using this feature, it doesn’t require

Valindra Shadowmantle

Monsters Forgotten Realms: Adventures in Faerûn

", "rollType":"roll", "rollAction":"Spirit Gem"} days if her spirit gem is intact, reviving with all her Hit Points. The new body appears in an unoccupied space within her lair.Multiattack. Valindra makes

pallor common to liches, she prefers to maintain a magical disguise that allows her to appear as the high elf she was in life. Ever the schemer, Valindra doesn’t use this disguise out of nostalgia

Zlan

Monsters Forgotten Realms: Adventures in Faerûn

inches long, it re-forms from that piece of chardalyn in 1d10;{"diceNotation":"1d10", "rollType":"roll", "rollAction":"Next of the Seven"} days, regaining all its Hit Points. The new body appears in the

unoccupied space nearest to the piece of chardalyn, and another lich’s mind in the body seizes psychic control of the body.Multiattack. Zlan makes three attacks, using Slam or Bewildering Bolt

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

a cunning mind. Biha Babir is politically savvy and prefers to outsmart her opponents rather than battle them, though she doesn’t shy from combat if necessary. Biha Babir covets opulence, but

Vampire Warden

Monsters Astarion's Book of Hungers

damage if it starts its turn in sunlight. While in sunlight, it has Disadvantage on attack rolls and ability checks. Immobile Restoration. If the vampire drops to 0 Hit Points while it doesn’t

Vampire Infernalist

Monsters Astarion's Book of Hungers

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

can’t spend Hit Point Dice at the end of the rest and doesn’t regain Hit Points, Hit Point Dice, or spell slots at the end of the rest. Tenacious Lore. Within 1 mile of the lair, flame

Adult Deep Dragon

Monsters Forgotten Realms: Adventures in Faerûn

magic pervading the Underdark twists deep dragons as they grow, so few adult deep dragons look alike. Their skin is usually pitted by fungal growths that spread across the body. Although lacking the

creature doesn’t reduce its Exhaustion level as a result of finishing that Long Rest. Creatures with Immunity to the Poisoned condition are immune to this effect. Verdant Growth. Vegetation and

Magic Jar Legacy

Spells Basic Rules (2014)

Your body falls into a catatonic state as your soul leaves it and enters the container you used for the spell's material component. While your soul inhabits the container, you are aware of your

living body (and ending the spell) or attempting to possess a humanoid's body. You can attempt to possess any humanoid within 100 feet of you that you can see (creatures warded by a protection from evil

Darkling Legacy

Monsters Volo's Guide to Monsters

Death Flash. When the darkling dies, nonmagical light flashes out from it in a 10-foot radius as its body and possessions, other than metal or magic objects, burn to ash. Any creature in that area

disadvantage on attack rolls, as well as on Wisdom (Perception) checks that rely on sight.Dagger. Melee or Ranged Weapon Attack: +5;{"diceNotation":"1d20+5","rollType":"to hit","rollAction":"Dagger"} to

Staggering Smite Legacy

Spells Player’s Handbook (2014)

The next time you hit a creature with a melee weapon attack during this spell’s duration, your weapon pierces both body and mind, and the attack deals an extra 4d6 psychic damage to the target

. The target must make a Wisdom saving throw. On a failed save, it has disadvantage on attack rolls and ability checks, and can’t take reactions, until the end of its next turn.

Contagion Legacy

Spells Basic Rules (2014)

Wisdom checks and Wisdom saving throws and is blinded. Filth Fever. A raging fever sweeps through the creature’s body. The creature has disadvantage on Strength checks, Strength saving throws

, and attack rolls that use Strength. Flesh Rot. The creature’s flesh decays. The creature has disadvantage on Charisma checks and vulnerability to all damage. Mindfire. The creature’s

Vegepygmy Thorny Hunter

Monsters Quests from the Infinite Staircase

turn with 0 hit points and doesn’t regenerate. Thorny Body. At the start of its turn, the vegepygmy deals 2 (1d4);{"diceNotation":"1d4", "rollType":"damage", "rollAction":"Thorny Body

Pack Tactics. The vegepygmy has advantage on attack rolls against a creature if at least one of the vegepygmy’s allies is within 5 feet of the creature and the ally doesn’t have the

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