Search Results
All Results
Characters
Compendium
Spells
Items
Monsters
Vehicles
Forums
Returning 35 results for 'book before damage constructs receive'.
Other Suggestions:
body before damage construct receive
block before damage construct receive
body before damage constructs receive
both before damage construct receive
block before damage constructs receive
Magic Items
Dungeon Master’s Guide
that tries to read from the book takes 24d6 Radiant damage. This damage ignores Resistance and Immunity, and it can’t be reduced or avoided by any means. A creature reduced to 0 Hit Points by
this damage disappears in a flash and is destroyed, leaving its possessions behind. The book then vanishes, and the creature’s Attunement to it ends.
Benefits granted by the Book of Exalted Deeds
Magic Items
Dungeon Master’s Guide
damage unless the creature is a Fiend or an Undead.
Destroying the Book. The Book of Vile Darkness allows pages to be torn from it, but any evil lore contained on those pages finds its way back into the
Archlich;Vecna authored the Book of Vile Darkness. He recorded in its pages every horrid idea, every corrupt thought, and every example of foul magic he came across or devised.
Other practitioners of
Magic Items
Dungeon Master’s Guide
This magic ammunition is meant to slay creatures of a particular type, which the DM chooses or determines randomly by rolling on the table below. If a creature of that type takes damage from the
ammunition, the creature makes a DC 17 Constitution saving throw, taking an extra 6d10 Force damage on a failed save or half as much extra damage on a successful one.
After dealing its extra damage to a
Magic Items
Dungeon Master’s Guide
You gain a +2 bonus to attack rolls and damage rolls made with this magic weapon.
Life Stealing. The weapon has 1d8 + 1 charges. When you attack a creature that has fewer than 100 Hit Points with
this weapon and roll a 20 on the d20 for the attack roll, the creature must succeed on a DC 15 Constitution saving throw or be slain instantly as the sword tears its life force from its body. Constructs
Magic Items
Dungeon Master’s Guide
, regardless of what level spell slot you used, if any. Additionally, the Fiend has Disadvantage on its saving throw against the spell.
Fiendish Scourging. While carrying the book, when you make a damage
. The tome recounts both the oldest and most current profanities of the Abyss and demons. Demons have attempted to censor the text, and while sections have been ripped from the book’s spine, the
Monsters
Monster Manual
Pacifying Spores.
Slam. Melee Attack Roll: +3;{"diceNotation":"1d20+3", "rollType":"to hit", "rollAction":"Slam"}, reach 5 ft. Hit: 6 (2d4 + 1);{"diceNotation":"2d4+1", "rollType":"damage
", "rollAction":"Slam", "rollDamageType":"Bludgeoning"} Bludgeoning damage plus 5 (2d4);{"diceNotation":"2d4", "rollType":"damage", "rollAction":"Slam", "rollDamageType":"Poison"} Poison damage.
Animating
Monsters
Monster Manual
Detect Life. The banshee magically senses the direction of creatures up to 1 mile away that aren’t Constructs or Undead.
Incorporeal Movement. The banshee can move through other creatures and
objects as if they were Difficult Terrain. It takes 5 (1d10);{"diceNotation":"1d10", "rollType":"damage", "rollAction":"Incorporeal Movement", "rollDamageType":"Force"} Force damage if it ends its
Monsters
Monster Manual
", "rollType":"to hit", "rollAction":"Slam"}, reach 5 ft. Hit: 4 (1d8);{"diceNotation":"1d8", "rollType":"damage", "rollAction":"Slam", "rollDamageType":"Bludgeoning"} Bludgeoning damage plus 3 (1d6
);{"diceNotation":"1d6", "rollType":"damage", "rollAction":"Slam", "rollDamageType":"Poison"} Poison damage.
Pacifying Spores (1/Day). Constitution Saving Throw: DC 11, one creature the myconid can see
Monsters
Monster Manual
", "rollType":"to hit", "rollAction":"Slam"}, reach 5 ft. Hit: 1 (1d4 − 1);{"diceNotation":"1d4 − 1", "rollType":"damage", "rollAction":"Slam", "rollDamageType":"Bludgeoning"} Bludgeoning damage plus 2
(1d4);{"diceNotation":"1d4", "rollType":"damage", "rollAction":"Slam", "rollDamageType":"Poison"} Poison damage.
Rapport Spores. The myconid expels spores in a 30-foot Emanation originating from itself
Monsters
Monster Manual
feet (Constructs and Undead succeed automatically). Failure: The target has the Unconscious condition for 10 minutes or until it takes damage or a creature within 5 feet of it takes an action to wake
":"Rend"}, reach 5 ft. Hit: 5 (1d6 + 2);{"diceNotation":"1d6+2", "rollType":"damage", "rollAction":"Rend", "rollDamageType":"Piercing"} Piercing damage.
Slam (Human or Hybrid Form Only). Melee Attack
Spells
Player’s Handbook
. Whenever the target takes damage, it repeats the save, ending the spell on itself on a success.
You have a telepathic link with the Charmed target while the two of you are on the same plane of
.” The target does its best to obey on its turn. If it completes an order and doesn’t receive further direction from you, it acts and moves as it likes, focusing on protecting itself.
You
Magic Items
Dungeon Master’s Guide
creature that can't use a manual of golems and attempts to read it takes 6d6 psychic damage.
d20
Golem
Time
Cost
1-5
Manual of Clay Golems
30 days
65,000 GP
6-17
Manual of
, the book is consumed in eldritch flames. The golem becomes animate when the ashes of the manual are sprinkled on it. It is under your control, and it understands and obeys your spoken commands.
Spells
Player’s Handbook
. Whenever the target takes damage, it repeats the save, ending the spell on itself on a success.
You have a telepathic link with the Charmed target while the two of you are on the same plane of
.” The target does its best to obey on its turn. If it completes an order and doesn’t receive further direction from you, it acts and moves as it likes, focusing on protecting itself.
You
Spells
Player’s Handbook
. Whenever the target takes damage, it repeats the save, ending the spell on itself on a success.
You have a telepathic link with the Charmed target while the two of you are on the same plane of
.” The target does its best to obey on its turn. If it completes an order and doesn’t receive further direction from you, it acts and moves as it likes, focusing on protecting itself.
You can
Magic Items
Dungeon Master’s Guide
damage, and Vulnerability to Bludgeoning damage. It shatters and is destroyed when reduced to 0 Hit Points.
If the mirror is hanging on a vertical surface and you are within 5 feet of it, you can take a
twelve extradimensional cells. A creature that knows the mirror’s nature makes the save with Advantage, and Constructs succeed on the save automatically.
An extradimensional cell is an infinite
Spells
Player’s Handbook
You inscribe a glyph that later unleashes a magical effect. You inscribe it either on a surface (such as a table or a section of floor) or within an object that can be closed (such as a book or chest
Thunder damage (your choice when you create the glyph) on a failed save or half as much damage on a successful one.
Spell Glyph. You can store a prepared spell of level 3 or lower in the glyph by casting
Spells
Player’s Handbook
You inscribe a harmful glyph either on a surface (such as a section of floor or wall) or within an object that can be closed (such as a book or chest). The glyph can cover an area no larger than 10
its turn there. A creature is targeted only once per turn.
Death. Each target makes a Constitution saving throw, taking 10d10 Necrotic damage on a failed save or half as much damage on a successful
Spells
Player’s Handbook
six months, such as a book from a wizard’s library.
“Very familiar” is a place you have visited often, a place you have carefully studied, or a place you can see when you cast the
. Each teleporting creature (or the target object) takes 3d10 Force damage, and the DM rerolls on the table to see where you wind up (multiple mishaps can occur, dealing damage each time).
Similar
Magic Items
Dungeon Master’s Guide
drawing this card, you can ask a question in meditation and mentally receive a truthful answer to that question.
Skull. An Avatar of Death appears in an unoccupied space as close to you as possible
die. If an ally of yours deals damage to the avatar, that ally summons another Avatar of Death. The new avatar appears in an unoccupied space as close to that ally as possible and targets only that
Spells
Forgotten Realms: Heroes of Faerûn
You hurl a disorienting magical force toward one creature within range. The target makes a Constitution saving throw; Constructs and Undead automatically succeed on this save.
On a failed save, the
target takes 2d4 Force damage, its Speed is halved until the start of your next turn, and on its next turn, it can take only an action or a Bonus Action (but not both). On a successful save, the
Monsters
Eberron: Forge of the Artificer
20/60 ft. Hit: 10 (2d4 + 5);{"diceNotation":"2d4+5", "rollType":"damage", "rollAction":"Shadow Knife", "rollDamageType":"Piercing"} Piercing damage plus 14 (4d6);{"diceNotation":"4d6", "rollType
":"damage", "rollAction":"Shadow Knife", "rollDamageType":"Necrotic"} Necrotic damage, and the target’s Speed is reduced by 10 feet until the end of its next turn.
Spellcasting. The agent casts one
Monsters
Forgotten Realms: Adventures in Faerûn
), reach 5 ft. or range 20/80 ft. Hit: 14 (3d6 + 4);{"diceNotation":"3d6+4", "rollType":"damage", "rollAction":"Cursed Blade", "rollDamageType":"Slashing"} Slashing damage. Hit or Miss: The blade magically
ways. Cultists who receive orders from their patron god directly are often the most ambitious and most dangerous.
Monsters
Stranger Things: Welcome to the Hellfire Club
", "rollType":"to hit", "rollAction":"Slam"}, reach 5 ft. Hit: 4 (1d8);{"diceNotation":"1d8", "rollType":"damage", "rollAction":"Slam", "rollDamageType":"Bludgeoning"} Bludgeoning damage plus 3 (1d6
);{"diceNotation":"1d6", "rollType":"damage", "rollAction":"Slam", "rollDamageType":"Poison"} Poison damage.
Pacifying Spores (1/Day). Constitution Saving Throw: DC 11, one creature the myconid can see
Monsters
Forgotten Realms: Adventures in Faerûn
Attack Roll: +9;{"diceNotation":"1d20+9", "rollType":"to hit", "rollAction":"Necrotic Burst"}, reach 5 ft. or range 120 ft. Hit: 27 (5d10);{"diceNotation":"5d10", "rollType":"damage", "rollAction
":"Necrotic Burst", "rollDamageType":"Necrotic"} Necrotic damage and the target can’t regain Hit Points until the end of the cultist’s next turn.
Spellcasting. The cultist casts one of the
Monsters
Forgotten Realms: Adventures in Faerûn
":"to hit", "rollAction":"Gauntlet"}, reach 5 ft. Hit: 17 (3d8 + 4);{"diceNotation":"3d8+4", "rollType":"damage", "rollAction":"Gauntlet", "rollDamageType":"Bludgeoning"} Bludgeoning damage.
Oppressive
Burst. Ranged Attack Roll: +8;{"diceNotation":"1d20+8", "rollType":"to hit", "rollAction":"Oppressive Burst"}, range 120 ft. Hit: 16 (2d10 + 5);{"diceNotation":"2d10+5", "rollType":"damage
Spells
Forgotten Realms: Heroes of Faerûn
You conjure a group of intangible, orderly spirits that appear as a Medium group of modrons or other Constructs in an unoccupied space you can see within range. The spirits last for the duration
effects:
Clockwork Force. The target makes a Dexterity saving throw, taking 3d6 Force damage on a failed save or half as much damage on a successful one.
Orderly Ward. The target gains Temporary Hit
Monsters
Forgotten Realms: Adventures in Faerûn
":"4d6", "rollType":"damage", "rollAction":"Radiant Ray", "rollDamageType":"Radiant"} Radiant damage.Nimblewright hulks are massive guards or sentinels. These four-armed Constructs often have thick steel
Evasion. If the nimblewright is subjected to an effect that allows it to make a Dexterity saving throw to take only half damage, it instead takes no damage if it succeeds on the save and only half
Monsters
Candlekeep Mysteries
":"to hit","rollAction":"Chained Book"} to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 6 (1d8 + 2);{"diceNotation":"1d8+2","rollType":"damage","rollAction":"Chained Book","rollDamageType":"bludgeoning
succeed on a DC 15 Wisdom (Perception) check to discern that the library is animate.Multiattack. The library makes two attacks.
Chained Book. Melee Weapon Attack: +4;{"diceNotation":"1d20+4","rollType
Book of Exalted Deeds
Legacy
This doesn't reflect the latest rules and lore.
Learn More
Magic Items
Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
from the book takes 24d6 radiant damage. This damage ignores resistance and immunity, and can’t be reduced or avoided by any means. A creature reduced to 0 hit points by this damage disappears
The definitive treatise on all that is good in the multiverse, the fabled Book of Exalted Deeds figures prominently in many religions. Rather than being a scripture devoted to a particular faith, the
Monsters
Candlekeep Mysteries
","rollType":"to hit","rollAction":"Book Club"} to hit, reach 0 ft., one target in the swarm’s space. Hit: 6 (2d4 + 1);{"diceNotation":"2d4+1","rollType":"damage","rollAction":"Book Club","rollDamageType
":"bludgeoning"} bludgeoning damage, or 3 (1d4 + 1);{"diceNotation":"1d4+1","rollType":"damage","rollAction":"Book Club","rollDamageType":"bludgeoning"} bludgeoning damage if the swarm has half its hit points or fewer.Poison, PsychicFire
Book of Vile Darkness
Legacy
This doesn't reflect the latest rules and lore.
Learn More
Magic Items
Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
even glimpse the scrawled pages invites madness.
Most believe the lich-god Vecna authored the Book of Vile Darkness. He recorded in its pages every diseased idea, every unhinged thought, and every
example of blackest magic he came across or devised. Vecna covered every vile topic he could, making the book a gruesome catalog of all mortal wrongs.
Other practitioners of evil have held the book and
Magic Items
Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything
expend 1 charge to replace one of your prepared wizard spells with a different spell in the book. The new spell must be of the evocation school.
When one creature you can see takes damage from an
This thick, scorched spellbook reeks of smoke and ozone, and sparks of energy crackles along the edges of its pages. When found, the book contains the following spells: contingency, fireball, gust of
Magic Items
Keys from the Golden Vault
foul language known as Dark Speech. Each time you do so, you take 1d12 psychic damage, and each non-evil creature within 15 feet of you takes 3d6 psychic damage.
Destroying the Book. The Book of
even glimpse the scrawled pages invites madness.
Most believe the lich-god Vecna authored the Book of Vile Darkness. He recorded in its pages every diseased idea, every unhinged thought, and every
Magic Items
Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything
With covers made of skin and fittings of bone, this tome is cold to the touch, and it whispers faintly. When found, the book contains the following spells, which are wizard spells for you while you
are attuned to the book: animate dead, circle of death, false life, finger of death, speak with dead, summon undead (appears in this book), vampiric touch. It functions as a spellbook for you.
While
Monsters
Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
they were difficult terrain. It takes 5 (1d10);{"diceNotation":"1d10","rollType":"damage","rollAction":"Incorporeal Movement","rollDamageType":"force"} force damage if it ends its turn inside an
;{"diceNotation":"1d20+6","rollType":"to hit","rollAction":"Withering Touch"} to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 17 (4d6 + 3);{"diceNotation":"4d6+3","rollType":"damage","rollAction":"Withering Touch