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Player’s Handbook
You touch a dead Humanoid or a piece of one. If the creature has been dead no longer than 10 days, the spell forms a new body for it and calls the soul to enter that body. Roll 1d10 and consult the
table below to determine the body’s species, or the DM chooses another playable species.
1d10
Species
1
Aasimar
2
Dragonborn
3
Dwarf
4
Elf
5
Gnome
6
Monsters
Curse of Strahd
Legendary Resistance (3/Day). If Exethanter fails a saving throw, he 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":"Rejuvenation"} days, regaining all its hit points and becoming active again. The new body appears within 5 feet of the phylactery.
Spellcasting. Exethanter is an
Monsters
Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
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":"Rejuvenation"} 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
Monsters
Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
/Day). If Halaster fails a saving throw, he can choose to succeed instead.
Rejuvenation. If Halaster dies in Undermountain, he revives after 1d10 days, with all his hit points and any missing body
parts restored. His new body appears in a random safe location in Undermountain.
Spellcasting. Halaster is a 20th-level spellcaster. His spellcasting ability is Intelligence (spell save DC 22, +14 to hit
Monsters
Quests from the Infinite Staircase
Nafas drops to 0 hit points, his body disintegrates into a whirl of multiversal dust that surrounds one creature responsible for his demise. That creature then hears Nafas’s last wish: for the
retains its name, alignment, and personality. The creature also inherits Nafas’s palace and all it contains.
If the creature refuses, Nafas gains a new body in 1d10;{"diceNotation":"1d10", "rollType
Monsters
Eberron: Rising from the Last War
in combat, Rak Tulkhesh roars in rage as new weapons are spawned from his body, called forth by the Rage of War to slaughter all who dare stand before him.
Khyber Shards. Rak Tulkhesh's soul is
cities, the hatred against warforged and Cyran refugees, the calls for a return to war — all these things bear the mark of Rak Tulkhesh's malign influence.
Minions of Rak Tulkhesh. Any organization that
Reincarnate
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Spells
Basic Rules (2014)
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
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
Lich
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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
Valindra Shadowmantle
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Tomb of Annihilation
Legendary Resistance (3/Day). If Valindra fails a saving throw, it can choose to succeed instead.
Rejuvenation. If she still has a phylactery and is destroyed, Valindra gains a new body in 1d10
;{"diceNotation":"1d10","rollType":"roll","rollAction":"Rejuvenation"} days, regaining all its hit points and becoming active again. The new body appears within 5 feet of the phylactery.
Spellcasting
Monsters
Mordenkainen's Fiendish Folio Volume 1
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
inscribed across the blade, which can reduce living creatures to ash. The lord of entropy also bears a set of obsidian tablets slung about its waist, upon which it inscribes destructive runes. Living
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules
Humanoid or a piece of one. If the creature has been dead no longer than 10 days, the spell forms a new body for it and calls the soul to enter that body. Roll 1d10 and consult the table below to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player’s Handbook
Humanoid or a piece of one. If the creature has been dead no longer than 10 days, the spell forms a new body for it and calls the soul to enter that body. Roll 1d10 and consult the table below to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
soon as it sees intruders.
Pillars. The four pillars that buttress the ceiling are carved out of black crystal and inscribed with arcane runes.
Lynnorax fights without fear, knowing that its
phylactery (hidden in area 39) will preserve its life force if its skeletal body is destroyed. A detect magic spell reveals auras of abjuration magic around the crystal pillars, which grant the dracolich a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
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 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 DM rolls a d100 and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)
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 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 DM rolls a d100 and
Yuan-ti Pureblood
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Species
Volo's Guide to Monsters
body, thought, and emotion. Freed from the limitations of their human bodies, the yuan-ti used their new abilities to conquer new lands and expand their borders.
One Race, Many Forms
The bodies of all
of evil that calls for them to butcher or eradicate all who oppose them. In keeping with their goal of domination, the yuan-ti would rather capture potentially useful opponents than kill them. They use
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Turn of Fortune’s Wheel
evil being that calls itself the Scholar. It is curious about the characters and seeks to expose them to its corruptive ideas. Should a character converse with it, the Scholar speaks cryptically while
cleft surrounded by foul, bleeding runes. Inside is the Book of Vile Darkness. Secrets of Eternity If a character agrees to let the Scholar share a forbidden secret, the baernaloth requests that the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
the eastern group of tables. Standing on them are familiar faces, who look like they’re about to burst into song.
One of the characters’ peers rushes from the study area and calls out to the
characters: “That’s the other Mage Tower team! They’re trying to steal your fans!”
The opposing Mage Tower team challenges the characters to a singing contest to win over the student body. This event
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
. Behir The behir lies in wait in this 50-foot-high cavern, its muscled, serpentine body woven through the stalagmites. Scars are carved into its hide in the form of arcane runes, placed there by
Halaster. The runes grant the behir the ability to use the following legendary actions. Legendary Actions
The behir can take three legendary actions, choosing from the options below. It can take only one
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
if needed. Hanging on a stone peg that juts from the wall, the gold-plated shield is etched with arcane runes. A detect magic spell reveals an aura of necromancy magic radiating from the shield. A
character who examines the runes and succeeds on a DC 18 Intelligence (Arcana) check can ascertain that the runes give the shield the magical ability to trap creatures inside it. Any creature that
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
of these pillars, Trobriand recently transferred his spirit into the golem. Trobriand is looking forward to testing his new body and attacks intruders on sight, showing no mercy. Trobriand While his
one or more of the pillars, destroying the golem, or forcing the golem out of the room causes Trobriand’s spirit to vacate the golem and attempt to reunite with his normal body, which is hidden in area
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
secret door that leads to area 8b.)
Wooden Donkeys. Standing around the room are five crude wooden constructs resembling donkeys. Each of these magic dummies has a body made of a wooden keg turned on
“Jhesiyra Kestellharp”). The first creature to pass through the gate triggers an elder rune (see “Elder Runes”). A creature that passes through the gate appears in area 13b on level 9, in the closest unoccupied space next to the identical gate located there.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
falls away, opening into a void filled with floating chunks of insectile parts. Hundreds of feet away, a similar opening gapes in the other half of the massive body. That segment ends at a wide, cave-like
mouth.
Part of the Drought Elder’s body has been shattered, reduced to a mass of broken chitin islands floating between the two halves of its body. Shattered Path. Five-foot-square chunks of chitin
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
of a massive mine track turntable that fills the junction, a body lies splayed on the rocky ground. Even at a distance, it’s clear this miner died not from falling rubble, but from terrible slashing
summons such creatures. Miner Body. The body on the ground is that of a missing miner named Enwa, who was killed by an aurumvorax attack. If a character casts the speak with dead spell on the corpse
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Uni and the Hunt for the Lost Horn
ability to drain Uni’s magic and temporarily detach her horn from her body. If the severed horn is brought within 5 feet of Uni, the horn is restored to her brow and Uni regains her magic.) Where Did
destroy the horn!” Willowbrush and Knock indicate that Kelek fled through the portal shown on map 1.1. Who Is Kelek? “He’s an evil spellcaster who serves an even eviler master, a wizard named Venger who calls himself the Force of Evil.”
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
and howls, you can see that a half-dozen bat-like creatures are attached to its body, with three more circling above it like flies. Everyone in the tavern reacts in fear except for the barkeep
himself. As he attacks, he calls on the characters to focus on slaying the stirges and then douse the troll with lamp oil and set it on fire when it falls. Yagra joins the fight if she’s conscious
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
ground trembles slightly, and a thunderous voice echoes against every wall.
“Gartokkar,” the voice calls as a reptilian behemoth comes into view, it scales the color of lava, its bright yellow eyes
glowing in the shadows of the cave before coming into the light. “You didn’t say I was having surfacers for dinner today.”
The dragon chuckles at his own wit. His massive body gives the distinct
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
48. Shagambi’s Tomb Each character who teleports into this tomb from area 47C appears atop a randomly determined teleportation rune (see “Teleportation Runes” below). Characters can also enter the
this area: Nervous Unkh suggests that her host leave the tomb at once using one of the teleportation runes, though she can’t decide which rune is best. Impulsive Wongo thinks it’s a good idea to shatter
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
Lower Level B10-B13 B10. Ossuary This dark, dead-end chamber holds a mound of charred bones, desiccated body parts, and skulls scattered across a linen sheet. Strange red-black runes mark the sheet’s
proficiency in the Arcana skill or who succeeds on a DC 15 Intelligence (Arcana) check can interpret the runes to realize that these remains are being collected to fuel a huge ritual at a later date—one
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
they present the box to her, she snatches it out of their hands and studies it closely. She takes similar interest in the Shield of the Hidden Lord (which she calls “the Shield of Gargauth”), but avoids
apart. Inside the box is a stack of nine chain-linked plates, each three inches on a side, cast of dark iron, and stamped with Infernal runes. Anyone who understands Infernal can translate the runes as
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
stone frame.
Statue. Standing in front of the mirror is an unfinished 8-foot-tall statue of a merfolk blowing a conch shell, its lower body replaced by a misshapen block of chiseled granite. (This
creature to pass through the gate triggers an elder rune (see “Elder Runes”). A creature that passes through the gate appears in area 14d on level 10, in the closest unoccupied space next to the identical
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sleeping Dragon’s Wake
character who searches her body, making a successful DC 10 Wisdom (Medicine) check finds the tip of a blade made of bone in a fatal wound in Manda’s stomach, and with a successful DC 18 Intelligence
watches the sea for shoals from a cliff and calls out to ships below in danger of beaching. Umberlee Shrine The door to the one-room shrine of Umberlee, goddess of the sea, is unlocked. Characters who
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
from a rudimentary, barely humanoid shape to a small, winged body so lifelike that it almost appears to be a real creature that is merely asleep. A character who makes a successful DC 13 Intelligence
, stone-walled room contains only a few objects. A five-foot-diameter circle of intricate runes covers the floor. There’s an empty wooden bookstand opposite the door and bronze braziers at the other
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Borderlands Quest: Goblin Trouble
corpses. Treasure. If the characters actively search the caverns, they find the desiccated husk of a former adventurer who was eaten by the spiders. Next to the body is a torn backpack. The backpack holds
lower roll.
As the DM, you decide when a creature is in a situation that calls for Advantage or Disadvantage. Certain places in the text or on the character sheets might also call out when Advantage or Disadvantage applies.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Heroes of the Borderlands
demon worshiper.” (Partially true; Xanthe is referring to Ivlis, the former priest)
Occult Ritual Eventually, you come across an eerie statue in a forest clearing. Strange runes are etched into
refuses.
Completing the Ritual. If the characters join the ritual—or observe it without drawing attention—the statue’s runes begin to glow with an eerie red light. After 10 minutes, the sky darkens






