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Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
Creating a Race or Subrace This section teaches you how to modify existing races, as well as create new ones. The most important step in customizing or designing races for your campaign is to start
trait. You regain the ability to do so when you finish a short or long rest. Creating a New Race When creating a race from scratch, begin with the story and proceed from there. Compare your creation
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sage Advice & Errata
Creating a New Race or Subrace (pg. 285) The third bullet has been removed. In the fifth bullet, “the race’s history and culture” is now “the race’s history.”
Spells
Player’s Handbook
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
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
Monsters
Monster Manual
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
":"Bludgeoning"} Bludgeoning damage. Hit or Miss: Earth explodes from the target’s space, creating the following effect. Dexterity Saving Throw: DC 16, each creature in a 10-foot Emanation
Monsters
Monster Manual
the gem is on the same plane of existence as it, the dracolich gains a new body in 1d20;{"diceNotation":"1d20", "rollType":"roll", "rollAction":"Soul Gem"} days, regaining all its Hit Points and
turn.Dracolich Lairs
A dracolich lurks in a corrupted version of the lair it had in life. The region containing a dracolich’s lair is warped by its presence, creating the following effects:
Sapping Mist
Monsters
Monster Manual
the gem is on the same plane of existence as it, the dracolich gains a new body in 1d20;{"diceNotation":"1d20", "rollType":"roll", "rollAction":"Soul Gem"} days, regaining all its Hit Points and
turn.Dracolich Lairs
A dracolich lurks in a corrupted version of the lair it had in life. The region containing a dracolich’s lair is warped by its presence, creating the following effects:
Sapping Mist
Monsters
Forgotten Realms: Adventures in Faerûn
liches, creating an amalgamated form.
Zlan is the foremost mind among the liches and controls the body, The other liches rage and scheme about being subsidiary to someone they once considered both a
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
Monsters
Forgotten Realms: Adventures in Faerûn
, forgotten ruins, preferring locations near subterranean bodies of water.
The region containing an adult or ancient deep dragon’s lair is changed by its presence, creating the following effects
fungi that flourish in the depths. As deep dragons age, their smooth, serpentine bodies become riddled with fungal rot, particularly around their faces, to imbue their breath with terror-inducing
Monsters
Forgotten Realms: Adventures in Faerûn
ruins, preferring locations near subterranean bodies of water.
The region containing an adult or ancient deep dragon’s lair is changed by its presence, creating the following effects
that flourish in the depths. As deep dragons age, their smooth, serpentine bodies become riddled with fungal rot, particularly around their faces, to imbue their breath with terror-inducing spores
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
Underdark. They are stealthy hunters with an affinity for lost lore and fungi that flourish in the depths. As deep dragons age, their smooth, serpentine bodies become riddled with fungal rot, particularly
Monsters
Forgotten Realms: Adventures in Faerûn
hunters with an affinity for lost lore and fungi that flourish in the depths. As deep dragons age, their smooth, serpentine bodies become riddled with fungal rot, particularly around their faces, to
-encrusted caverns of the Underdark or old, forgotten ruins, preferring locations near subterranean bodies of water.
The region containing an adult or ancient deep dragon’s lair is changed by its
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
.
The region containing Valindra’s lair is warped by her presence, creating the following effects:
All-Seeing. While in her lair, Valindra can cast Clairvoyance, requiring no spell components
Monsters
Astarion's Book of Hungers
containing an infernalist’s lair is warped by its presence, creating the following effects, all of which happen at the vampire’s discretion:
Diabolic Beasts. Animals in the vampire’s domain
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
Reincarnate
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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
Monsters
Eberron: Rising from the Last War
":"psychic"} psychic damage.The kalashtar have bonded with good-aligned quori spirits, which communicate with their hosts through dreams and visions. Descended from monks who offered their bodies as
Astral Projection
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Spells
Basic Rules (2014)
You and up to eight willing creatures within range project your astral bodies into the Astral Plane (the spell fails and the casting is wasted if you are already on that plane). The material body you
your body prematurely, your companions remain in their astral forms and must find their own way back to their bodies, usually by dropping to 0 hit points.
Monsters
Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
the blinded condition until the end of its next turn. On a successful save, the creature takes half as much damage only.Dust hulks are descended from enclaves of stone giants who lived in extreme
their bodies as living works of art. As they fly, coursing along wind currents or blowing through underground tunnels like living sandstorms, they create mesmerizing dances with their ever-shifting forms.Poison
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
Monsters
Eberron: Rising from the Last War
. Writhing cilia cover their bodies, with longer tendrils around their heads and two wiry tentacles protruding from their bare shoulders. A dolgaunt is blind but can perceive its surroundings through the
into intelligent, cold, and efficient killers.
When the daelkyr were defeated, the dolgaunts descended into the depths of Khyber with their masters. There, they study in cavernous monasteries, forging
Monsters
Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
cursed for 1 hour. While cursed this way, the target can’t stand up and end the prone condition on itself.Deep crawlers are fomorians whose bodies are adapted to crawling through the tunnels of
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Fomorians
Descended from Annam’s son Karontor, fomorians once occupied a place in the giants’ ordning between hill and stone giants. In ancient times, they were scholars of magic
Way of the Four Elements
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Classes
Player’s Handbook (2014)
them as an extension of your body. Some members of this tradition dedicate themselves to a single element, but others weave the elements together.
Many monks of this tradition tattoo their bodies with
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
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
Monk
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. Whatever their discipline, monks are united in their ability to magically harness the energy that flows in their bodies. Whether channeled as a striking display of combat prowess or a subtler focus of
the magic that suffuses the multiverse—specifically, the element that flows through living bodies. Monks harness this power within themselves to create magical effects and exceed their bodies
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
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
Monsters
Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
Awakening of the Scion. The cradle is a container for the scion of Thrym. When the cradle drops to 0 hit points, its body shatters into shards of ice. The scion instantly appears in the space the
frigid air to freeze foes in place.
If the cradle is destroyed, its icy body shatters to reveal the awakened scion of Thrym inside it. Forming a double-bladed axe in its hand, the 70-foot-tall scion
Monsters
Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
to survey the world they left. With angular features and apparently ageless faces, these fomorians resemble gigantic elves.
Fomorians
Descended from Annam’s son Karontor, fomorians once
failed, the fomorians were banished to the Underdark and their god was consigned to a subterranean prison. Subjected to the strange magic of the Underdark, the fomorians’ bodies and souls twisted
Monsters
Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
carrionette and the target die. A protection from evil and good spell cast on the controlled body drives the carrionette out and returns the consciousness of both creatures to their original bodies
spell, it must succeed on a DC 12 Charisma saving throw or have its consciousness swapped with the carrionette. The carrionette gains control of the target’s body, and the target is unconscious
Monsters
The Tortle Package
inside it dies too. The process of creating a topi is known only to a handful of evil priests and necromancers.
Topis are more difficult to turn than ordinary zombies, and their spongy bodies make them
Species
Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
bodies. Whatever their origins, reborn know a new life and seek experiences and answers all their own.
Faded Memories
Reborn suffer from some manner of discontinuity, an interruption of their lives or
Memories table to inspire its details.
Lost Memories
d6
Memory
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You recall a physically painful moment. What mark or scar on your body does it relate to?
2
A memory brings
Alter Self
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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
Monsters
Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
Awakening of the Scion. The cradle is a container for the scion of Memnor. When the cradle drops to 0 hit points, its body dissipates into cloud wisps. The scion instantly appears in the space the
have the deafened condition for 1 minute.A slumbering scion of Memnor appears as a dense, slowly drifting tower of clouds that never dissipates. Often, this cloud lingers over a remote valley, creating
Dream
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messenger can also shape the environment of the dream, creating landscapes, objects, and other images. The messenger can emerge from the trance at any time, ending the effect of the spell early. The
target from gaining any benefit from that rest. In addition, when the target wakes up, it takes 3d6 psychic damage.
If you have a body part, lock of hair, clipping from a nail, or similar portion of the target's body, the target makes its saving throw with disadvantage.
Monsters
Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
, its icy body shatters to reveal the awakened scion of Thrym inside it. Forming a double-bladed axe in its hand, the 70-foot-tall scion rushes at any foe that dares to challenge it. Emulating sagas of
Thrym, the scion can achieve a tremendous feat of strength: creating a glacier in the ground and hurling it skyward, along with any creatures standing on it.
Regional Effects
The region surrounding a






