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Spells
Player’s Handbook
You suggest a course of activity—described in no more than 25 words—to one creature you can see within range that can hear and understand you. The suggestion must sound achievable and not
until you or your allies deal damage to the target. The Charmed target pursues the suggestion to the best of its ability. The suggested activity can continue for the entire duration, but if the suggested activity can be completed in a shorter time, the spell ends for the target upon completing it.
Spells
Player’s Handbook
existence. On your turn, you can use this link to issue commands to the target (no action required), such as “Attack that creature,” “Move over there,” or “Fetch that object
.” 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
One creature you can see within range must succeed on a Wisdom saving throw or have the Charmed condition for the duration. The target has Advantage on the save if you or your allies are fighting it
existence. On your turn, you can use this link to issue commands to the target (no action required), such as “Attack that creature,” “Move over there,” or “Fetch that object
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 attempt to bind a Celestial, an Elemental, a Fey, or a Fiend to your service. The creature must be within range for the entire casting of the spell. (Typically, the creature is first summoned
Spells
Player’s Handbook
existence. On your turn, you can use this link to issue commands to the target (no action required), such as “Attack that creature,” “Move over there,” or “Fetch that object
.” 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
Spells
Player’s Handbook
You summon an otherworldly being that appears as a loyal steed in an unoccupied space of your choice within range. This creature uses the Otherworldly Steed stat block. If you already have a steed
the steed’s creature type—Celestial, Fey, or Fiend—which determines certain traits in the stat block.
Combat. The steed is an ally to you and your allies. In combat, it shares your
Magic Items
Dungeon Master’s Guide
;Absorption (Very Rare). While this pale lavender ellipsoid orbits your head, you can take a Reaction to cancel a spell of level 4 or lower cast by a creature you can see. A canceled spell has no effect
Dexterity increases by 2, to a maximum of 20, while this deep-red sphere orbits your head.
Ioun Stone of Awareness;Awareness (Rare). While this dark-blue rhomboid orbits your head, you have Advantage on
Monsters
Eberron: Forge of the Artificer
StaticDreaming Dark Infiltrators are spies sent to gather intelligence. They plant psychic seeds in their minds of their foes that enhance the infiltrators’ combat prowess against those
enemies.PsychicMind Curse. Wisdom Saving Throw: DC 15, one creature hit by the infiltrator’s Mind Blade attack this turn. Failure: The target takes 14 (4d6) Psychic damage and is cursed
Monsters
Eberron: Forge of the Artificer
", "rollType":"damage", "rollAction":"Nightmare Whisper", "rollDamageType":"Psychic"} Psychic damage.
Primal Fear (1/Day). Wisdom Saving Throw: DC 17, each creature in a 30-foot-radius Sphere
following on each of its turns: move, take an action, or take a Bonus Action. Success: Half damage only.Mindkillers are the assassins of the Dreaming Dark, sent to terrify their foes before striking
Monsters
Lorwyn: First Light
"} Bludgeoning damage. If the target is a Large or smaller creature, it has the Prone condition.In Lorwyn, giants are curious colossi who roam vast plains, bathe in salty lagoons, and nap against
their homeland in search of wondrous things or simply a place to rest. They are deeply in tune with nature but care little for the smaller denizens around them. At best, this makes a giant aloof and
Monsters
Lorwyn: First Light
"} Bludgeoning damage. If the target is a Large or smaller creature, it has the Prone condition.
Wild Magic Cataclysm (Recharge 5–6);{"diceNotation":"1d6", "rollType":"recharge", "rollAction":"Wild Magic
Cataclysm"}. Dexterity Saving Throw: DC 15, each creature in a 20-foot-radius Sphere centered on a point within 120 feet. Failure: 28 (8d6) damage (roll 1d4;{"diceNotation":"1d4", "rollType":"roll
Monsters
Forgotten Realms: Adventures in Faerûn
plies the seas in the largest and best-defended ship in the Moonshaes, the prize of her armada, which she’s strengthened with rusty metal plates and filled with a crew of bloodthirsty Rusted
16, one creature Forfallen can see within 20 feet. The target has Disadvantage on this save if it has the Poisoned condition. First Failure: The target has the Restrained condition and repeats the
Monsters
Forgotten Realms: Adventures in Faerûn
saving throw, she can choose to succeed instead.
Wishes. Biha Babir knows the Wish spell but can cast it only on behalf of a non-genie creature who communicates a wish in a way Biha Babir can
understand. If Biha Babir casts the spell for a creature, she suffers none of the spell’s stress. Once Biha Babir has cast it three times, she can’t do so again for 365 days.Multiattack. Biha
Monsters
Forgotten Realms: Adventures in Faerûn
"}. Constitution Saving Throw: DC 20, each creature in a 90-foot Cone. Failure: 52 (8d12) Acid;{"diceNotation":"8d12", "rollType":"damage", "rollAction":"Corroding Breath (Acid)", "rollDamageType":"Acid
, Speak with Dead
1/Day Each: Create Undead (level 8 version), Power Word KillLegendary Action Uses: 3. Immediately after another creature’s turn, Sammaster can expend a use to take one of the
Monsters
Forgotten Realms: Adventures in Faerûn
response to the spell’s trigger, using the same spellcasting ability as Spellcasting.Legendary Action Uses: 3. Immediately after another creature’s turn, Sammaster can expend a use to take one of
the following actions. Sammaster regains all expended uses at the start of each of his turns.
Deathly Teleport. Sammaster teleports up to 60 feet to an unoccupied space he can see, and each creature
Monsters
Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
Dark Devotion. The fanatic has advantage on saving throws against being charmed or frightened.
Spellcasting. The fanatic is a 4th-level spellcaster. Its spellcasting ability is Wisdom (spell save DC
Ranged Weapon Attack: +4;{"diceNotation":"1d20+4","rollType":"to hit","rollAction":"Dagger"} to hit, reach 5 ft. or range 20/60 ft., one creature. Hit: 4 (1d4 + 2);{"diceNotation":"1d4+2","rollType
Darkvision
Legacy
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Spells
Basic Rules (2014)
You touch a willing creature to grant it the ability to see in the dark. For the duration, that creature has darkvision out to a range of 60 feet.
Backgrounds
Spelljammer: Adventures in Space
recurring nightmare. Roll on the Close Encounter table to determine which creature nearly got the best of you. Creatures marked with an asterisk appear in Boo’s Astral Menagerie; the others are
gravity isn’t present, the following rules apply:
Impeded Melee. When making a melee attack with a weapon, a creature that doesn’t have a flying or swimming speed (either naturally or
Monsters
Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
City Guard. In that position, she watches over traffic that passes through the gate — and ensures that her associates in the Black Network can come and go freely.
Born to a well-off family in Calimshan
, Tashlyn has an unfettered sense of superiority. Quick to anger, she hates to back down from a fight. She respects anyone who can best her in melee combat.
Monsters
Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
Dark Devotion. The cultist has advantage on saving throws against being charmed or frightened.
Icy Doom. When the cultist dies, its corpse freezes for 9 days, during which time it can’t be
thawed, harmed by fire, animated, or raised from the dead.Scimitar. Melee Weapon Attack: +3;{"diceNotation":"1d20+3","rollType":"to hit","rollAction":"Scimitar"} to hit, reach 5 ft., one creature. Hit: 4
Monsters
Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
Pack Tactics. The kobold has advantage on an attack roll against a creature if at least one of the kobold’s allies is within 5 feet of the creature and the ally isn’t incapacitated
live in the mountains and hills of Icewind Dale are among the hardiest of their kind. Drawn to the north by a desire to find and serve white dragons, these kobolds adapted as best they can to the
Cultist
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Monsters
Basic Rules (2014)
"} to hit, reach 5 ft., one creature. Hit: 4 (1d6 + 1);{"diceNotation":"1d6+1","rollType":"damage","rollAction":"Scimitar","rollDamageType":"slashing"} slashing damage.Cultists swear allegiance to dark
Dark Devotion. The cultist has advantage on saving throws against being charmed or frightened.Scimitar. Melee Weapon Attack: +3;{"diceNotation":"1d20+3","rollType":"to hit","rollAction":"Scimitar
Monsters
Monstrous Compendium Vol. 4: Eldraine Creatures
Mounted Adept. While mounted and without the incapacitated condition, the rider has advantage on melee attack rolls against any unmounted creature smaller than its mount, the rider and its mount have
. Hit: 13 (2d8 + 4);{"diceNotation":"2d8+4", "rollType":"damage", "rollAction":"", "rollDamageType":"slashing"} slashing damage.
Fell Glare. The rider gazes at a creature within 30 feet of itself
Equipment
A dark blue oil can be extracted from the rare fruit of the willowshade plant. A creature can use its action to apply the oil to another creature that has been petrified for less than 1 minute
, causing the petrified condition on that creature to end at the start of what would be that creature’s next turn.
Monsters
Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
Dark Devotion. The fanatic has advantage on saving throws against being charmed or frightened.
Spellcasting. The fanatic is a 4th-level spellcaster. Its spellcasting ability is Wisdom (spell save DC
":"1d20+4","rollType":"to hit","rollAction":"Dagger"} to hit, reach 5 ft. or range 20/60 ft., one creature. Hit: 4 (1d4 + 2);{"diceNotation":"1d4+2","rollType":"damage","rollAction":"Dagger
races
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
creature in D&D, including each player character, has a special tag in the rules that identifies the type of creature they are. Most player characters are of the Humanoid type. A race tells you what
descendants of a genie, while others were born to non-genasi parents who lived near a place suffused by a genie’s magic.
A typical genasi has a life span of 120 years.
Creating Your Character
The Archfey
Legacy
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Classes
Player’s Handbook (2014)
Your patron is a lord or lady of the fey, a creature of legend who holds secrets that were forgotten before the mortal races were born. This being’s motivations are often inscrutable, and
Aasimar
Legacy
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races
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
in D&D, including each player character, has a special tag in the rules that identifies the type of creature they are. Most player characters are of the Humanoid type. A race tells you what your
dark eyes
3
Starkly colored hair
4
An unusual hue tinting your shadow
5
A ghostly halo crowning your head
6
Rainbows gleaming on your skin
Creating Your Character
At
classes
Xanathar's Guide to Everything
You are a creature of shadow, for your innate magic comes from the Shadowfell itself. You might trace your lineage to an entity from that place, or perhaps you were exposed to its fell energy and
transformed by it.
The power of shadow magic casts a strange pall over your physical presence. The spark of life that sustains you is muffled, as if it struggles to remain viable against the dark energy
races
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
player character, has a special tag in the rules that identifies the type of creature they are. Most player characters are of the Humanoid type. A race tells you what your character’s creature
others were born to non-genasi parents who lived near a place suffused by a genie’s magic.
A typical genasi has a life span of 120 years.
Creating Your Character
At 1st level, you choose
Arms of Hadar
Legacy
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Spells
Player’s Handbook (2014)
You invoke the power of Hadar, the Dark Hunger. Tendrils of dark energy erupt from you and batter all creatures within 10 feet of you. Each creature in that area must make a Strength saving throw. On
a failed save, a target takes 2d6 necrotic damage and can’t take reactions until its next turn. On a successful save, the creature takes half damage, but suffers no other effect.
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Equipment
This tarry substance harvested from the dark boughs of the death’s head willow is a powerful intoxicant. It can be smoked as a concentrate or injected directly into the bloodstream. A creature
subjected to a dose of black sap cannot be charmed or frightened for 1d6 hours.
For each dose of black sap consumed, a creature must succeed on a DC 15 Constitution saving throw or become poisoned for 2d4 hours—an effect that is cumulative with multiple doses.
Monsters
Mordenkainen's Fiendish Folio Volume 1
next morning, the creature feels strangely refreshed. Then on the night of the next new moon, the dug-up earth stirs and a pack of mites emerges. Born of frustration and anger, these creatures exist
Vexing Presence. While within 30 feet of a mite that can see it, a non-fey creature has disadvantage on Dexterity checks and Dexterity saving throws.Dagger. Melee or Ranged weapon attack: +4
Monsters
Lost Laboratory of Kwalish
Medium or smaller creature, it is grappled (escape DC 10). Until this grapple ends, the monk cannot use its polearm on another target.Cultists swear allegiance to dark powers such as elemental princes
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
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
Pack Tactics. The kruthik has advantage on an attack roll against a creature if at least one of the kruthik’s allies is within 5 feet of the creature and the ally isn’t incapacitated
":"Acid Spray"}. The kruthik sprays acid in a 15-foot cone. Each creature in that area must make a DC 14 Dexterity saving throw, taking 22 (4d10);{"diceNotation":"4d10","rollType":"damage","rollAction