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Animate Dead

Spells Player’s Handbook

creature again before the current 24-hour period ends. This use of the spell reasserts your control over up to four creatures you have animated with this spell rather than animating a new creature

Create Undead

Spells Player’s Handbook

this spell on the creature before the current 24-hour period ends. This use of the spell reasserts your control over up to three creatures you have animated with this spell rather than animating new ones

Manshoon

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

Spore Servant Octopus

Monsters Dragons of Stormwreck Isle

"} bludgeoning damage.Spore servants are dead creatures reanimated by the magical spores of a myconid leader. The final act of the myconid leader in Seagrow Caves before lapsing into its current comatose state

was creating a spore servant from a dead giant octopus to protect the caves while the leader could not. Unlike a living octopus, this guardian has only basic control over its tentacles. Rather than coiling around intruders to immobilize them, the spore servant simply bludgeons them.

Create Undead Legacy

Spells Basic Rules (2014)

hours, you must cast this spell on the creature before the current 24-hour period ends. This use of the spell reasserts your control over up to three creatures you have animated with this spell, rather

Vladimir Horngaard

Monsters Curse of Strahd

Order of the Silver Dragon at a young age and quickly earned the friendship of its founder, the silver dragon Argynvost. When he became a knight of the order, he traveled to distant lands to wage war

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

Animate Dead Legacy

Spells Basic Rules (2014)

for 24 hours, after which it stops obeying any command you've given it. To maintain control of the creature for another 24 hours, you must cast this spell on the creature again before the current 24

-hour period ends. This use of the spell reasserts your control over up to four creatures you have animated with this spell, rather than animating a new one. At Higher Levels. When you cast this spell

Goblin Legacy

races Volo's Guide to Monsters

lucky if their only punishment is demotion to the pariah caste. Sometimes another creature assumes control of a goblin tribe, by killing or subjugating the current boss and cowing most of the rest of

, smelting, forging, and religion. If the tribe has any spellcasters, this caste includes them. Lashers follow the lead of the tribe’s boss, and enforce their will on other goblins with whips

Yuan-ti Nightmare Speaker

Monsters Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse

. Nightmare speakers revel in torturing others, keeping their victims in a constant state of fear and dread. They prefer to terrify rather than kill their opponents. They manipulate communities for

. Any equipment it is wearing or carrying isn’t transformed. If it dies, it stays in its current form.

Skrapyard Sosig (Rare)

magic-items

Heliana's Guide to Monster Hunting: Part 2. For the duration, you gain the following benefits: Boss Meal. Your power of self-belief is so strong that, at the start of each of your turns, you gain a

to make other attacks. Use the tentacle’s Strength modifier (+2) instead of your own when grappling with it. Beast Your morphology changes to adapt to the current environment. You have

Tar-rasque Marrow Broth (Very Rare)

magic-items

Hunting. For the duration, you gain the following benefits: Boss Meal. If you take damage from a spell or other magical effect, you become empowered. The next attack you make within the next minute

temporary hit points (determined by rarity) at the start of each minute. Plant You are under the effects of the speak with plants spell. Undead Your maximum and current hit points increases

Isolde

Monsters Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft

archfey named Zybilna, who had forged secret pacts with some of the fiends Isolde and her companions had slain. Rather than be angry at Isolde, Zybilna was impressed by her. She enlisted a powerful fiend

comfort to Isolde and quelled her thirst for vengeance. Zybilna and Isolde enjoyed a strong partnership for years, but as time wore on, they grew distant until their relationship finally soured

Skrapyard Sosig (Legendary)

magic-items

Heliana's Guide to Monster Hunting: Part 2. For the duration, you gain the following benefits: Boss Meal. Your power of self-belief is so strong that, at the start of each of your turns, you gain a

to make other attacks. Use the tentacle’s Strength modifier (+0) instead of your own when grappling with it. Beast Your morphology changes to adapt to the current environment. You have

Skrapyard Sosig (Very Rare)

magic-items

Heliana's Guide to Monster Hunting: Part 2. For the duration, you gain the following benefits: Boss Meal. Your power of self-belief is so strong that, at the start of each of your turns, you gain a

to make other attacks. Use the tentacle’s Strength modifier (+4) instead of your own when grappling with it. Beast Your morphology changes to adapt to the current environment. You have

Suneater Steak and Eggs (Rare)

magic-items

Chapter 5 of Heliana's Guide to Monster Hunting: Part 1. For the duration, you gain the following benefits: Boss Meal. You regain 2d6 hit points at the end of each turn that you spend in sunlight

modifier (+2) instead of your own when grappling with it. Beast Your morphology changes to adapt to the current environment. You have advantage on saving throws against environmental effects of

Tar-rasque Marrow Broth (Rare)

magic-items

Hunting. For the duration, you gain the following benefits: Boss Meal. If you take damage from a spell or other magical effect, you become empowered. The next attack you make within the next minute

temporary hit points (determined by rarity) at the start of each minute. Plant You are under the effects of the speak with plants spell. Undead Your maximum and current hit points increases

Skrapyard Sosig

magic-items

Guide to Monster Hunting: Part 1. For the duration, you gain the following benefits: Boss Meal. Your power of self-belief is so strong that, at the start of each of your turns, you gain a number of

current environment. You have advantage on saving throws against environmental effects of the GM’s discretion. For example, if you are in a cold biome, you might grow fur and have advantage on

Suneater Steak and Eggs

magic-items

Chapter 5 of Heliana's Guide to Monster Hunting: Part 1. For the duration, you gain the following benefits: Boss Meal. You regain hit points at the end of each turn that you spend in sunlight (HP

not to make other attacks. Use the tentacle’s Strength modifier (determined by rarity) instead of your own when grappling with it. Beast Your morphology changes to adapt to the current

Tar-rasque Marrow Broth (Legendary)

magic-items

Hunting. For the duration, you gain the following benefits: Boss Meal. If you take damage from a spell or other magical effect, you become empowered. The next attack you make within the next minute

temporary hit points (determined by rarity) at the start of each minute. Plant You are under the effects of the speak with plants spell. Undead Your maximum and current hit points increases

Lizardfolk Legacy

races Volo's Guide to Monsters

pleasurable creatures and things are ones that allow lizardfolk to assess more situations as benign rather than fearsome. Cold and Calculating Most humanoids describe cold-blooded people as lacking in

emotion and empathy. The same label serves as an apt depiction of lizardfolk. Lacking any internal emotional reactions, lizardfolk behave in a distant manner. They don’t mourn fallen comrades or

Auril (Third Form)

Monsters Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden

invincible while underestimating her mortal enemies, even in her current weakened state. Auril’s Three Forms In her current weakened state, Auril can assume three different forms. To destroy her

. A stat block is given for each of Auril’s three forms. These descriptions do not reflect Auril at full power, but rather Auril as she is encountered in this adventure.Lair Actions Auril

Auril (First Form)

Monsters Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden

own flaws. It’s appropriate for Auril to act as though she’s invincible while underestimating her mortal enemies, even in her current weakened state. Auril’s Three Forms In her

current weakened state, Auril can assume three different forms. To destroy her, heroes must reduce each of her forms to 0 hit points one after another. After she’s defeated in her third and final

Tar-rasque Marrow Broth

magic-items

Hunting. For the duration, you gain the following benefits: Boss Meal. If you take damage from a spell or other magical effect, you become empowered. The next attack you make within the next minute

current hit points increases (determined by rarity). Random Elemental Cantrip d6 Cantrip 1 acid splash 2 concussion 3 fire bolt 4 ray of frost 5 shocking grasp 6 water whip

Skrapyard Sosig (Uncommon)

magic-items

Heliana's Guide to Monster Hunting: Part 2. For the duration, you gain the following benefits: Boss Meal. Your power of self-belief is so strong that, at the start of each of your turns, you gain a

make other attacks. Use the tentacle’s Strength modifier (+0) instead of your own when grappling with it. Beast Your morphology changes to adapt to the current environment. You have

Suneater Steak and Eggs (Legendary)

magic-items

Chapter 5 of Heliana's Guide to Monster Hunting: Part 1. For the duration, you gain the following benefits: Boss Meal. You regain 4d6 hit points at the end of each turn that you spend in sunlight

modifier (+6) instead of your own when grappling with it. Beast Your morphology changes to adapt to the current environment. You have advantage on saving throws against environmental effects of

Suneater Steak and Eggs (Uncommon)

magic-items

Chapter 5 of Heliana's Guide to Monster Hunting: Part 1. For the duration, you gain the following benefits: Boss Meal. You regain 1d6 hit points at the end of each turn that you spend in sunlight

modifier (+0) instead of your own when grappling with it. Beast Your morphology changes to adapt to the current environment. You have advantage on saving throws against environmental effects of

Suneater Steak and Eggs (Very Rare)

magic-items

Chapter 5 of Heliana's Guide to Monster Hunting: Part 1. For the duration, you gain the following benefits: Boss Meal. You regain 3d6 hit points at the end of each turn that you spend in sunlight

modifier (+4) instead of your own when grappling with it. Beast Your morphology changes to adapt to the current environment. You have advantage on saving throws against environmental effects of

Tar-rasque Marrow Broth (Uncommon)

magic-items

Hunting. For the duration, you gain the following benefits: Boss Meal. If you take damage from a spell or other magical effect, you become empowered. The next attack you make within the next minute

temporary hit points (determined by rarity) at the start of each minute. Plant You are under the effects of the speak with plants spell. Undead Your maximum and current hit points increases

Auril (Second Form)

Monsters Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden

her current weakened state. Auril’s Three Forms In her current weakened state, Auril can assume three different forms. To destroy her, heroes must reduce each of her forms to 0 hit points one

forms. These descriptions do not reflect Auril at full power, but rather Auril as she is encountered in this adventure.Lair Actions Auril dwells on Solstice, a frozen island hidden among the titanic

Tabaxi Legacy

races Volo's Guide to Monsters

lazy, but when Linene came around looking for a missing broach, she was out the door before I could blink an eye. — Toblen Stonehill, innkeeper Hailing from a strange and distant land

tabaxi rarely stay in one place for long. Their innate nature pushes them to leave no secrets uncovered, no treasures or legends lost. Wandering Outcasts Most tabaxi remain in their distant

Far Traveler

Backgrounds Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide

few miles from where they were born. You aren’t one of those folk. You are from a distant place, one so remote that few of the common folk in the North realize that it exists, and chances are

discussed here are all sufficiently distant from the North and the Sword Coast to justify the use of this background. Evermeet. The fabled elven islands far to the west are home to elves who have never

Nafas

Monsters Quests from the Infinite Staircase

this role, Nafas sends adventurers to distant worlds to fulfill the wishes of creatures beyond his reach. Adventurers who return to Nafas successful receive gifts as rewards. As a noble genie, Nafas

: Downdraft. Nafas targets one creature he can see within 120 feet of himself. A downward current of air surrounds the target, reducing its flying speed (if any) to 0 feet until the end of its next turn

Courtier

Backgrounds Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide

In your earlier days, you were a personage of some significance in a noble court or a bureaucratic organization. You might or might not come from an upper-class family; your talents, rather than the

gain access to the records and inner workings of any noble court or government you encounter. You know who the movers and shakers are, whom to go to for the favors you seek, and what the current

Human Legacy

races Basic Rules (2014)

pages were tales of bold heroes, strange and fierce animals, mighty primitive gods, and a magic that was part and fabric of that distant land. — Elaine Cunningham, Daughter of the Drow In the

, humans champion causes rather than territories or groups. Human Names and Ethnicities Having so much more variety than other cultures, humans as a whole have no typical names. Some human parents

Action-Oriented Creatures

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Flee, Mortals! Rule Primer

Action-Oriented Creatures The solo and leader creatures presented in this book are designed to be bosses: enemies who can take on an entire party by themselves or with a handful of underlings. Rather

dominate the battlefield. These actions make the boss creatures dynamic and formidable. Whether fought as an exciting solo challenge or alongside a few easy-to-run underlings, action-oriented creatures challenge the characters with dramatic and powerful actions in combat.

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