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Monster Manual
Jumper. The cat's jump distance is determined using its Dexterity rather than its Strength.Scratch. Melee Attack Roll: +4;{"diceNotation":"1d20+4", "rollType":"to hit", "rollAction":"Scratch"}, reach 5 ft. Hit: 1 Slashing damage.
Species
Lorwyn: First Light
truly disguise themselves; rather, their transformations are purely surface level.
No matter their form, Lorwyn changelings keep their key traits: blue-green skin, tufts of tentacle-like fur, and bulbous
effect inexplicably charming.
Changelings from Lorwyn live in a vast, mystical cave called Velis Vel Grotto (see Lorwyn: First Light). Once per year, many changelings make a pilgrimage to the grotto
Species
Eberron: Forge of the Artificer
Kalashtar (pronounced kal-ASH-tar) are created from the union of humanity and renegade spirits called quori from the plane of dreams. Kalashtar appear human, but their spiritual connection affects
directly with their quori spirits. Rather, kalashtar might experience them as a source of instinct and inspiration, drawing on the spirits’ memories when the kalashtar sleep. This connection grants
Monsters
Forgotten Realms: Adventures in Faerûn
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Sammaster was a keenly intelligent wizard born centuries ago. A quick study throughout his itinerant apprenticeship, Sammaster primarily studied magic relating to dragons. After learning all
efficiently as he can. Sammaster personally checks in on the cult’s most important plots, often surprising his minions with his presence.
Rather than keep a soul jar as liches do, Sammaster keeps
Monsters
Forgotten Realms: Adventures in Faerûn
. That Manshoon is dead, and the current Manshoon is one of the original’s many clones. Being a magical copy rather than an original doesn’t make Manshoon any less of a threat, as he’s
one another in a devastating conflict called the Manshoon Wars. The original Manshoon and all but three of his clones were killed, and today only a single Manshoon is believed to be active in Faer
Monsters
Forgotten Realms: Adventures in Faerûn
Sammaster was a keenly intelligent wizard born centuries ago. A quick study throughout his itinerant apprenticeship, Sammaster primarily studied magic relating to dragons. After learning all he could from
can. Sammaster personally checks in on the cult’s most important plots, often surprising his minions with his presence.
Rather than keep a soul jar as liches do, Sammaster keeps a magical soul
Monsters
Candlekeep Mysteries
skitterwidgets that are created rather than born, kiddywidgets aren’t beholden to the wearer of a control ring, even after they grow to become skitterwidgets.Lightning, Poison
Spells
Guildmasters’ Guide to Ravnica
Putting a finger to your head, you pull a memory, an idea, or a message from your mind and transform it into a tangible string of glowing energy called a thought strand, which persists for the
memory), you can transform the thoughts or memories you read, rather than your own, into a thought strand.
Casting this spell while holding a thought strand allows you to instantly receive whatever
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
, stinking cloudDraconians born from the eggs of bronze, green, and emerald dragons have some ability to wield magic. They often lead small groups of draconian foot soldiers, using their magic to snipe
explode, sending a shower of magical splinters in all directions.
On the world of Krynn, draconian mages formed from bronze dragon eggs are called bozak draconians.
Draconians
Draconians are
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
flames, scorching everything around them.
On the world of Krynn, draconian dreadnoughts formed from silver dragon eggs are called sivak draconians.
Draconians
Draconians are bipedal monsters born
largest of the draconians are the dreadnoughts, who are born from the eggs of silver, blue, or sapphire dragons. They fly on mighty wings over the battlefield to wherever the fighting is the thickest
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
soldiers formed from brass dragon eggs are called baaz draconians.
Draconians
Draconians are bipedal monsters born from dragon eggs that have been corrupted or warped by powerful magic. Most often
draconians are the foot soldiers, who are born from brass, white, or crystal dragon eggs. They are the smallest of their kind, and their slight wings are incapable of flight— though they do afford the
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
Extraordinary Leap. The distance of the steeder’s long jumps is tripled; every foot of its walking speed that it spends on the jump allows it to move 3 feet.
Spider Climb. The steeder can
begins shortly after the steeder hatches. As it grows, its rider works with it to direct its predatory instincts.
Rather than spinning webs, steeders excrete a viscous substance from their legs. This goo allows them to creep along walls and ceilings and to grapple prey.
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
Extraordinary Leap. The distance of the steeder’s long jumps is tripled; every foot of its walking speed that it spends on the jump allows it to jump 3 feet.
Spider Climb. The steeder can
begins shortly after the steeder hatches. As it grows, its rider works with it to direct its predatory instincts.
Rather than spinning webs, steeders excrete a viscous substance from their legs. This goo allows them to creep along walls and ceilings and to grapple prey.
Monsters
Mythic Odysseys of Theros
doom than peace and bounty. Some leonin, known as iconoclasts, devote themselves to thwarting the gods by hunting down their followers and all things born of Nyx that impede on Oreskos and the safety of
warrior;tribal warriors, but those who hunt the servants of the gods rather than game are known as leonin iconoclasts.
School of Abjuration
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The School of Abjuration emphasizes magic that blocks, banishes, or protects. Detractors of this school say that its tradition is about denial, negation rather than positive assertion. You understand
, however, that ending harmful effects, protecting the weak, and banishing evil influences is anything but a philosophical void. It is a proud and respected vocation.
Called abjurers, members of this
Monsters
Spelljammer: Adventures in Space
vampire’s but doesn’t use them to draw vital fluids from prey, which vampirates consider an unsavory act. Rather, a vampirate drains life energy from another creature by touching it or by
siphoning off its energy from a short distance away. As it feeds on the energy of other creatures, its appearance becomes more robust, although it never truly looks alive.
Vampirates eat, drink, and
Monsters
Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse
farastu minions—rather than fight directly.
Demodands
Demodands, also called gehreleths, are Fiends from the Tarterian Depths of Carceri. Cast into the prison plane long ago for forgotten
the kelubar dismisses it as an action.Kelubars, sometimes called slimy demodands, are the bureaucrats of Carceri, existing as intermediaries between farastu demodand;farastus and shator demodand
Monsters
Curse of Strahd
. Vladimir is immune to effects that turn undead.
Vengeful Tracker. Vladimir knows the distance to and direction of any creature against which it seeks revenge, even if the creature and Vladimir are on
witnessing Strahd himself slay Vladimir's beloved, his fellow knight Sir Godfrey Gwilym. With the battle won, Strahd surrounded Argynvostholt. Rather than cower in his lair, Argynvost emerged and
Blue Slaad (control gem variant)
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Monster Manual (2014)
":"damage","rollAction":"Claw","rollDamageType":"slashing"} slashing damage. If the target is a humanoid, it must succeed on a DC 15 Constitution saving throw or be infected with a disease called chaos
possesses its gem. If a slaad's gem is destroyed, the slaad can no longer be controlled in this way.
A slaad born from something other than the Spawning Stone has no gem in its brain, but it gains one if it
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
dissolve into pools of acid.
On the world of Krynn, draconian infiltrators formed from copper dragon eggs are called kapak draconians.
Draconians
Draconians are bipedal monsters born from dragon eggs
Monsters
Spelljammer: Adventures in Space
use them to draw vital fluids from prey, which vampirates consider an unsavory act. Rather, a vampirate drains life energy from another creature by touching it or by siphoning off its energy from a
short distance away. As it feeds on the energy of other creatures, its appearance becomes more robust, although it never truly looks alive.
Vampirates eat, drink, and sleep because they like to, not
Monsters
Spelljammer: Adventures in Space
parchment. A vampirate has fangs like a vampire’s but doesn’t use them to draw vital fluids from prey, which vampirates consider an unsavory act. Rather, a vampirate drains life energy from
another creature by touching it or by siphoning off its energy from a short distance away. As it feeds on the energy of other creatures, its appearance becomes more robust, although it never truly looks
Monsters
Candlekeep Mysteries
","rollAction":"Shortbow","rollDamageType":"piercing"} piercing damage if the grippli had advantage on the attack roll.At first glance or from a distance, a grippli looks like a large frog. Its head and
are raised by the community rather than by a single set of parents, and all of a community’s eggs are kept in freshwater pools until they mature. Protecting their eggs is a major concern for
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
, as their magical essence coalesces as a ball of lightning that arcs out at those nearby.
On the world of Krynn, draconian masterminds formed from gold dragon eggs are called aurak draconians
.
Draconians
Draconians are bipedal monsters born from dragon eggs that have been corrupted or warped by powerful magic. Most often, this corruption is a deliberate act, the work of an aspiring tyrant
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
without squeezing. Each foot of movement in water costs it 2 extra feet, rather than 1 extra foot. The mist can’t manipulate objects in any way that requires fingers or manual dexterity.
Sunlight
undetected to bleed their victims dry.
Vampiric mists, sometimes called crimson mists, are all that remain of vampires who couldn’t return to their burial places after being defeated or suffering
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
);{"diceNotation":"5d10", "rollType":"damage", "rollAction":"Psychic Orb", "rollDamageType":"psychic"} psychic damage.
Collapse Distance (Recharge 6);{"diceNotation":"1d6", "rollType":"recharge
", "rollAction":"Collapse Distance"}. The seer warps space around one creature it can see within 30 feet of it. That creature must make a DC 19 Wisdom saving throw. On a failed save, the target, along with
Monsters
Vecna: Eve of Ruin
great evil and is unable to forgive itself, the dryad might transform into a wicked Fey monster called a deadbark dryad. Such dryads relinquish any compassion they once felt for living beings and
, it becomes stronger and more violent, and it typically gains a renewed dedication to protecting its now-fetid domain. Most deadbark dryads would rather fight to the death than allow any intrusion into
Monsters
The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
","rollType":"recharge","rollAction":"Create Lornlings"}. Bavlorna creates one or two 1-foot-tall duplicates of herself, called lornlings (use the Quickling stat block in appendix C). Each lornling appears
Endelyn, Bavlorna is called Slack-jawed Lorna because her wide mouth is prone to hang agape. Flies flit in and out of it. She is the hag of the present, the here and now, the moment to moment. Those
Monsters
The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
.)
Gleam and Glister were born during such an event, and they are blessed with magical abilities tied to moonlight (Gleam) and sunlight (Glister), respectively. The twins are easily distinguished by
moonlight. She wears a crescent moon mask and is one-half of an acrobatic duo called the Selenelion twins, alongside Glister, her sunny twin. Gleam wants to reunite with her twin and return to the
Backgrounds
Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide
City of Skilled Hands.
Even if you’re not city-born or city-bred, this background can describe your early years as a member of law enforcement. Most settlements of any size have their own
easily pick out the dens of criminal activity in a community, although you’re more likely to be welcome in the former locations rather than the latter.
Variant: Investigator
Rarer
Backgrounds
Tomb of Annihilation
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Suggested Characteristics
Anthropologists leave behind the societies into which they were born to discover what life is like in other parts of the world. They seek to see how other races and civilizations
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I’m a stickler when it comes to observing proper etiquette and local customs.
3
I would rather observe than meddle.
4
By living among violent people, I have become
Monsters
Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
feet tall and wields a morningstar made from magically dense clouds.
It tends to regard other creatures as toys rather than serious threats, and it uses its illusion magic to manipulate creatures into
this case, each scion is enclosed in stasis inside a powerful Elemental called a cradle. The cradle protects the slumbering scion and follows its subconscious wishes, including driving off intruders
Monsters
Storm King's Thunder
a secret yet widespread organization called the Kraken Society. Using information given to them by the evil storm giant sisters, Kraken Society operatives ambushed and killed Queen Neri. Iymrith then
a safe distance with a successful DC 20 Wisdom (Perception) check. Otherwise, the first creature to step on the thin crust covering the sinkhole must succeed on a DC 15 Dexterity saving throw or fall
Monsters
Eberron: Rising from the Last War
Emerald Claw, but her motives for founding the order are buried in her past. Lady Illmarrow has no interest in ruling the living. Rather, she seeks to become Queen of the Dead.
The Mark of Death
child born of dragon and elf could become a godlike avatar of death.
Illmarrow Rises. Even as dragons and elves fought to destroy the line of Vol, a child was born to the house: Erandis. A scion of elf
Monsters
Mythic Odysseys of Theros
can make a stomp attack against that creature.Polukranos, called the World Eater, is the mortal manifestation of the eternal ideal of a hydra. In its first incarnation, it fell from Nyx to the mortal
, from the bog-dwelling hydras known across the multiverse to massive ironscale hydra;ironscale hydras that lurk in deep wildernesses. Beyond even these exist serpentine horrors born of the whims of foul