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Compendium
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Body Horror Adventure Sites Body horror is exceptionally unnerving in juxtaposition with mundane settings, particularly in places where the characters are isolated from help, treatment, or
confirmation that their torment is real. Body Horror Adventure Sites d8 Adventure Site
1 A derelict ship, buried for mysterious reasons
2 A vine-covered, ostensibly abandoned prison
3 The
Monsters
Monster Manual
Detect Intelligence. The intellect devourer magically senses the location of any creature within 300 feet of itself that has an Intelligence score of 3 or higher, regardless of interposing
Stunned condition until the end of the intellect devourer’s next turn.
Steal Body. Intelligence Saving Throw: DC 12, one Small or Medium creature within 5 feet that has the Incapacitated
Spells
Player’s Handbook
Protective spirits flit around you in a 15-foot Emanation for the duration. If you are good or neutral, their spectral form appears angelic or fey (your choice). If you are evil, they appear fiendish
) or 3d8 Necrotic damage (if you are evil). On a successful save, the creature takes half as much damage. A creature makes this save only once per turn.
Using a Higher-Level Spell Slot. The damage increases by 1d8 for each spell slot level above 3.
Spells
Player’s Handbook
You brandish the weapon used to cast the spell and conjure similar spectral weapons (or ammunition appropriate to the weapon) that launch forward and then disappear. Each creature of your choice that
you can see in a 60-foot Cone makes a Dexterity saving throw, taking 5d8 Force damage on a failed save or half as much damage on a successful one.
Using a Higher-Level Spell Slot. The damage increases by 1d8 for each spell slot level above 3.
Spells
Player’s Handbook
You create a floating, spectral force that resembles a weapon of your choice and lasts for the duration. The force appears within range in a space of your choice, and you can immediately make one
, you can move the force up to 20 feet and repeat the attack against a creature within 5 feet of it.
Using a Higher-Level Spell Slot. The damage increases by 1d8 for every slot level above 2.
Spells
Player’s Handbook
commands to the best of its ability. You might command the creature to accompany you on an adventure, to guard a location, or to deliver a message. If the creature is Hostile, it strives to twist your
you are on a different plane, it returns to the place where you bound it and remains there until the spell ends.
Using a Higher-Level Spell Slot. The duration increases with a spell slot of level 6 (10 days), 7 (30 days), 8 (180 days), and 9 (366 days).
Spells
Player’s Handbook
You conjure nature spirits that appear as a Large pack of spectral, intangible animals in an unoccupied space you can see within range. The pack lasts for the duration, and you choose the spirits
ends its turn there, you can force that creature to make a Dexterity saving throw. On a failed save, the creature takes 3d10 Slashing damage. A creature makes this save only once per turn.
Using a Higher-Level Spell Slot. The damage increases by 1d10 for each spell slot level above 3.
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
, and you gain the following benefits:
Great Strength. Your Strength becomes 20 unless it is already 20 or higher.
Icy Touch. Any melee spell attack you make with the hand and any melee attack made
Spells
Player’s Handbook
damage on a failed save or half as much damage on a successful one.
If the globe strikes a body of water, it freezes the water to a depth of 6 inches over an area 30 feet square. This ice lasts for 1
impact, with the same effect as a normal casting of the spell. You can also set the globe down without shattering it. After 1 minute, if the globe hasn’t already shattered, it explodes.
Using a Higher-Level Spell Slot. The damage increases by 1d6 for each spell slot level above 6.
Magic Items
Dungeon Master’s Guide
. The avatar targets only you with its attacks, appearing as a ghostly skeleton clad in a tattered black robe and carrying a spectral scythe. The avatar disappears when it drops to 0 Hit Points or you
, 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
Spells
Player’s Handbook
. It obeys your verbal commands (no action required by you). If you don’t issue any, it takes the Dodge action and uses its movement to avoid danger.
Using a Higher-Level Spell Slot. Use the spell
you know
CR None (XP 0; PB equals your Proficiency Bonus)
Traits
Heated Body (Metal Only). A creature that hits the spirit with a melee attack or that starts its turn in a grapple with the spirit
Spells
Forgotten Realms: Heroes of Faerûn
A shimmering, spectral snake encircles your body for the duration. You gain 15 Temporary Hit Points; the spell ends early if you have no Temporary Hit Points left.
While the spell is active, you
feet. On a hit, the target takes 1d6 Force damage and has the Poisoned condition until the start of your next turn. While Poisoned, the target has the Incapacitated condition.
Using a Higher-Level
Monsters
Dungeon Masters: Ravenloft Play-Along Pack
damage dealt.
4: Blazing Boon. The priest has a Fly Speed of 30 feet and Immunity to Fire damage.
5: Spectral Boon. The priest has Resistance to Bludgeoning, Piercing, and Slashing damage, and it has
", "rollAction":"Spectral Boon", "rollDamageType":"Force"} Force damage if it ends its turn inside an object.
6: Deathly Boon. When the priest revives with this boon, all corpses of Small or Medium
Monsters
Ravenloft: The Horrors Within
damage dealt.
4: Blazing Boon. The priest has a Fly Speed of 30 feet and Immunity to Fire damage.
5: Spectral Boon. The priest has Resistance to Bludgeoning, Piercing, and Slashing damage, and it has
", "rollAction":"Spectral Boon", "rollDamageType":"Force"} Force damage if it ends its turn inside an object.
6: Deathly Boon. When the priest revives with this boon, all corpses of Small or Medium
Magic Items
Lost Laboratory of Kwalish
Gloine (area O7), whichever comes later in the adventure. While your soul is trapped in this way, your body is incapacitated. Divination, contact other plane, or a similar spell of 4th level or higher reveals the location of the machinery that holds your soul. You draw no more cards.
or at any other point during the adventure.
Flames. The Grand Master of the Monastery of the Distressed Body becomes your enemy. The bone devil seeks your ruin, savoring your suffering before
Monsters
Infernal Machine Rebuild
adventure). The brains' collective goal in seeking the missing components is to be able to transfer themselves into the ultimate mechanical body — the Infernal Machine of Lum the Mad.Necrotic, Poison, Psychic
Detect Sentience. The brain in a jar can sense the presence and location of any creature within 300 feet of it that has an Intelligence of 3 or higher, regardless of interposing barriers, unless the
Monsters
Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
Blurred Form. Attack rolls against the spectral cloud are made with disadvantage unless the attacker is within 15 feet of the spectral cloud or the spectral cloud is incapacitated.
Incorporeal
Movement. The spectral cloud can move through other creatures and objects as if they were difficult terrain. It takes 5 (1d10);{"diceNotation":"1d10", "rollType":"damage", "rollAction":"Incorporeal
Monsters
Vecna: Eve of Ruin
Vecna, Afterthought is a Dagger, +2;+2 Dagger.
Undying. If Vecna is slain, his soul refuses to accept its fate and lives on as a disembodied spirit that fashions a new body for itself after 1d100
;{"diceNotation":"1d100", "rollType":"roll", "rollAction":"Undying"} years. Vecna’s new body appears within 100 miles of where he was slain. When the new body is complete, Vecna regains all his hit
Berbalang
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Monsters
Mordenkainen’s Tome of Foes
Spectral Duplicate (Recharges after a Short or Long Rest). As a bonus action, the berbalang creates one spectral duplicate of itself in an unoccupied space it can see within 60 feet of it. While the
these creatures, thus preserving the information they gain.
Spectral Spy. The pursuit of knowledge drives everything berbalangs do. Although they mostly learn their secrets from the dead, they aren&rsquo
spells
Opportunity Attacks, streaking through a spectral trail, and make a single melee weapon attack.
Using a Higher-Level Spell Slot. The damage of your spectral duplicate increases by 2d8 for each spell slot level above 3.
You send forth three spectral duplicates of yourself to strike down enemies within 30 feet of you. You can order them to strike one target or several. Make a melee spell attack for each spectral
Armor of Agathys
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Spells
Player’s Handbook (2014)
A protective magical force surrounds you, manifesting as a spectral frost that covers you and your gear. You gain 5 temporary hit points for the duration. If a creature hits you with a melee attack
while you have these hit points, the creature takes 5 cold damage.
At Higher Levels. When you cast this spell using a spell slot of 2nd level or higher, both the temporary hit points and the cold damage increase by 5 for each slot.
Intellect Devourer
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Monsters
Monster Manual (2014)
Detect Sentience. The intellect devourer can sense the presence and location of any creature within 300 feet of it that has an Intelligence of 3 or higher, regardless of interposing barriers, unless
Intelligence.
Body Thief. The intellect devourer initiates an Intelligence contest with an incapacitated humanoid within 5 feet of it that isn’t protected by protection from evil and good. If it wins
spells
You send forth a spectral copy of yourself to strike down your foe. Make a melee spell attack against a creature within 20 feet of you. On a hit, the target takes 1d8 damage of your weapon’s
damage type.
You can then spend your action to move up to 20 feet in a straight line towards the target, streaking through a spectral trail, and take the Attack action against it. To use this action
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
spying on the living to take knowledge from them as well. A berbalang can create a spectral duplicate of itself and send the duplicate out to gather information on other planes by watching places where
the gods and their servants gather. When a berbalang is perceiving its environment through its duplicate, its actual body is unconscious and can’t protect itself. Thus, a berbalang typically
Monsters
Infernal Machine Rebuild
body is destroyed only if she starts her turn with 0 hit points and doesn't regenerate.
Turn Immunity. Lynx is immune to effects that turn undead.Multiattack. Lynx makes two shortsword attacks
) have been granted to them by their diabolical masters, and are not meant to be claimed as treasure. If either agent is killed in the course of the adventure, their special equipment vanishes, returning to Bel or Zariel.
PoisonNecrotic, Psychic
Monsters
Spelljammer: Adventures in Space
Charisma saving throw or be possessed by the apparition; the apparition then disappears, and the target is incapacitated and loses control of its body. The apparition now controls the body but doesn&rsquo
until the body drops to 0 hit points, the apparition ends it as a bonus action, the body leaves the Astral Plane, or the apparition is forced out by an effect like the dispel evil and good spell. When
Spells
The Book of Many Things
You spray a 15-foot cone of spectral cards. Each creature in that area must make a Dexterity saving throw. On a failed save, a creature takes 2d10 force damage and has the blinded condition until the
end of its next turn. On a successful save, a creature takes half as much damage only.
At Higher Levels. When you cast this spell using a spell slot of 3rd level or higher, the damage increases by 1d10 for each slot level above 2nd.
Monsters
Spelljammer: Adventures in Space
lunar dragon can become incorporeal, but not to the extent that it can pass through other creatures or solid objects. In this semi-incorporeal state, roughly half of the dragon’s body has a dark
, indistinctly spectral form.ColdPhase (2/Day). The dragon becomes partially incorporeal for as long as it maintains concentration on the effect (as if concentrating on a spell). While partially incorporeal, the dragon has resistance to bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing damage.
Deep Dragon Wyrmling
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Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
wings are attached to their front legs and can fold in close to the body, allowing deep dragons to easily maneuver through relatively narrow tunnels.
Deep dragons often hoard secrets, delighting in
Dragon Adventures
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Deep Dragon Adventure Hooks
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Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
could lay eggs that birthed more chitines (and the rare choldrith) and could direct the chitines in their work. But the devotees soon realized their mistake—choldriths belonged to Lolth, body
violent, action.Spectral Dagger (Recharges after a Short or Long Rest). The choldrith conjures a floating, spectral dagger within 60 feet of itself. The choldrith can make a melee spell attack (+4
Monsters
Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse
. If the spell is 6th level or higher, Shemeshka makes an Intelligence check (DC 10 + the spell’s level). On a success, the spell fails and has no effect. Whatever the spell’s level, the
Wheel, she manipulates secrets and fates across the planes. Shemeshka and her plots are further detailed in the adventure Turn of Fortune’s Wheel.Acid, PoisonCold, Fire, Lightning; Bludgeoning
Brain in a Jar
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Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
Detect Sentience. The brain can sense the presence and location of any creature within 300 feet of it that has an Intelligence of 3 or higher, regardless of interposing barriers, unless the creature
laughterThrough rituals combining alchemy, necromancy, and grim surgical precision, the brain of a mortal being is encased in a glass jar filled with preserving fluids and the liquefied goop of their body&rsquo
Death Tyrant
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Monster Manual (2014)
place in the initiative order and animates at the start of its next turn, provided that its body hasn’t been completely destroyed.Bite. Melee Weapon Attack: +5;{"diceNotation":"1d20+5
creature to 0 hit points, its body becomes a pile of fine gray dust.
If the target is a Large or smaller nonmagical object or creation of magical force, it is disintegrated without a saving throw. If
Spirit Guardians
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Spells
Basic Rules (2014)
You call forth spirits to protect you. They flit around you to a distance of 15 feet for the duration. If you are good or neutral, their spectral form appears angelic or fey (your choice). If you are
) or 3d8 necrotic damage (if you are evil). On a successful save, the creature takes half as much damage.
At Higher Levels. When you cast this spell using a spell slot of 4th level or higher, the damage increases by 1d8 for each slot level above 3rd.
Spells
Spelljammer: Adventures in Space
You create a spectral globe around the head of a willing creature you can see within range. The globe is filled with fresh air that lasts until the spell ends. If the creature has more than one head
, the globe of air appears around only one of its heads (which is all the creature needs to avoid suffocating;suffocation, assuming that all its heads share the same respiratory system).
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