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Returning 35 results for 'both before dead cast response'.
Monsters
Monster Manual
Multiattack. The aarakocra makes two Wind Staff attacks, and it can use Spellcasting to cast Gust of Wind.
Wind Staff. Melee or Ranged Attack Roll: +5;{"diceNotation":"1d20+5", "rollType":"to hit
aarakocra casts Feather Fall in response to that spell’s trigger, using the same spellcasting ability as Spellcasting.
Spells
Player’s Handbook
creature that has been dead for 365 days or longer taxes you. Until you finish a Long Rest, you can’t cast spells again, and you have Disadvantage on D20 Tests.
With a touch, you revive a dead creature that has been dead for no more than a century, didn’t die of old age, and wasn’t Undead when it died.
The creature returns to life with all its
Monsters
Monster Manual
version), Mind Blank (cast before combat), Scrying, TeleportProtective Magic (3/Day). The archmage casts Counterspell or Shield in response to the spell’s trigger, using the same spellcasting
Monsters
Monster Manual
Hand, Prestidigitation 2/Day Each: Animate Dead, Dimension Door, Plane Shift 1/Day Each: Chain Lightning, Finger of Death, Power Word Kill, ScryingProtective Magic. The lich casts Counterspell or Shield
in response to the spell’s trigger, using the same spellcasting ability as Spellcasting.Legendary Action Uses: 3 (4 in Lair). Immediately after another creature’s turn, the lich can
Magic Items
Dungeon Master’s Guide
cast the spell. As you cast the spell, you call on the spirits of the dead to help guide the planchette across the board’s surface, answering your questions by pointing to the letters or words on the board.
Spell
Charge Cost
Augury
1
Commune
3
and regains 1 expended charge daily at dawn. While touching the planchette, you can take 1 minute to cast one of the spells on the table below. The table indicates how many charges you must expend to
Monsters
Monster Manual
cause the guardian to store one spell of level 4 or lower. To do so, the wearer must cast the spell on the guardian while within 5 feet of it. The spell has no effect but is stored within the guardian
. Any previously stored spell is lost when a new spell is stored. The guardian can cast the spell stored with any parameters set by the original caster, requiring no spell components and using the
Magic Items
Dungeon Master’s Guide
This Tiny pot bears relief scenes of heroes on its cast-iron sides.
You can use the cauldron as a Spellcasting Focus for your spells, and it functions as a suitable component for the Scrying spell
.
Raise Dead. As a Magic action, you can cause the cauldron to grow large enough for a Medium creature to crouch within. You can revert the cauldron to its normal size as a Magic action, harmlessly
Monsters
Monster Manual
Walker. The yochlol ignores movement restrictions caused by webs.Multiattack. The yochlol makes two Caustic Lash attacks, and it can use Spellcasting to cast Web or Dominate Person if available.
Caustic
spellcasting ability (spell save DC 15):
At Will: Detect Thoughts, Gaseous Form (self only), Web1/Day: Dominate PersonToxic Escape. Trigger: The yochlol is hit by an attack roll. Response: The yochlol
Spells
Player’s Handbook
You mentally contact a demigod, the spirit of a long-dead sage, or some other knowledgeable entity from another plane. Contacting this otherworldly intelligence can break your mind. When you cast
question). If a one-word answer would be misleading, the DM might instead offer a short phrase as an answer.
On a failed save, you take 6d6 Psychic damage and have the Incapacitated condition until you finish a Long Rest. A Greater Restoration spell cast on you ends this effect.
Monsters
Monster Manual
Coven Magic. While within 30 feet of at least two hag allies, the hag can cast one of the following spells, requiring no Material components, using the spell’s normal casting time, and using
Intelligence as the spellcasting ability (spell save DC 14): Augury, Find Familiar, Identify, Locate Object, Scrying, or Unseen Servant. The hag must finish a Long Rest before using this trait to cast
Monsters
Monster Manual
three Rend attacks. It can replace one attack with a use of Spellcasting to cast Melf's Acid Arrow (level 3 version).
Rend. Melee Attack Roll: +11;{"diceNotation":"1d20+11", "rollType":"to hit
", "rollType":"to hit", "rollAction":"Spellcasting"} to hit with spell attacks):
At Will: Detect Magic, Fear, Melf's Acid Arrow (level 3 version)
1/Day Each: Speak with Dead, Vitriolic
Monsters
Monster Manual
three Rend attacks. It can replace one attack with a use of Spellcasting to cast Melf's Acid Arrow (level 4 version).
Rend. Melee Attack Roll: +15;{"diceNotation":"1d20+15", "rollType":"to hit
":"1d20+13", "rollType":"to hit", "rollAction":"Spellcasting"} to hit with spell attacks):
At Will: Detect Magic, Fear, Melf's Acid Arrow (level 4 version) 1/Day Each: Create Undead, Speak with Dead
Monsters
Monster Manual
":"1d20+9", "rollType":"to hit", "rollAction":"Spellcasting"} to hit with spell attacks):
At Will: Dispel Magic, Thaumaturgy 1/Day Each: Animate Dead, Harm, Insect Plague (level 7 version)Whirlwind of
Sand. Trigger: The mummy is hit by an attack roll. Response: The mummy adds 2 to its AC against the attack, possibly causing the attack to miss, and the mummy teleports up to 60 feet to an unoccupied
Magic Items
Dungeon Master’s Guide
Dragon Scale Mail is made of the scales of one kind of dragon. Sometimes dragons collect their cast-off scales and gift them. Other times, hunters carefully preserve the hide of a dead dragon. In
Magic Items
Dungeon Master’s Guide
from it (save DC 18). The table indicates how many charges you must expend to cast the spell.
Spell
Charge Cost
Animate Dead
1
Blight
2
Circle of Death
3
Finger of
Death
3
Power Word Kill
4
Speak with Dead
1
While attuned to the wand, Orcus or a follower blessed by him can cast each of the wand’s spells using 2 fewer charges (minimum of 0
Monsters
Monster Manual
Coven Magic. While within 30 feet of at least two hag allies, the hag can cast one of the following spells, requiring no Material components, using the spell’s normal casting time, and using
Intelligence as the spellcasting ability (spell save DC 19): Augury, Find Familiar, Identify,Locate Object, Scrying, or Unseen Servant. The hag must finish a Long Rest before using this trait to cast
Monsters
Monster Manual
MagicParry. Trigger: The death knight is hit by a melee attack roll while holding a weapon. Response: The death knight adds 6 to its AC against that attack, possibly causing it to miss.Legendary Action
turns.
Dread Authority. The death knight uses Spellcasting to cast Command. The death knight can’t take this action again until the start of its next turn.
Fell Word. Constitution Saving Throw
Magic Items
Dungeon Master’s Guide
attuned to the book, you can cast the following spells (save DC 18) from it:
Animate Dead
Circle of Death
Dominate Monster
Finger of Death
Once you use the book to cast a spell, you can’t
cast that spell again from it until the next dawn.
Vile Lore. You can reference the Book of Vile Darkness whenever you make an Intelligence check to recall information about some aspect of evil, such as
Spells
Player’s Handbook
You call forth the spirit of a Construct. It manifests in an unoccupied space that you can see within range and uses the Construct Spirit stat block. When you cast the spell, choose a material: Clay
spell’s level Bludgeoning damage.
Reactions
Berserk Lashing (Clay Only). Trigger: The spirit takes damage from a creature. Response: The spirit makes a Slam attack against that creature if
Spells
Player’s Handbook
Wish is the mightiest spell a mortal can cast. By simply speaking aloud, you can alter reality itself.
The basic use of this spell is to duplicate any other spell of level 8 or lower. If you use it
this way, you don’t need to meet any requirements to cast that spell, including costly components. The spell simply takes effect.
Alternatively, you can create one of the following effects of
Monsters
Forgotten Realms: Adventures in Faerûn
Oppressive Burst in any combination. It can replace one attack with a use of Spellcasting to cast Dominate Person, if available.
Gauntlet. Melee Attack Roll: +8;{"diceNotation":"1d20+8", "rollType
attack roll. Response: The cultist makes one Gauntlet or Oppressive Burst attack against the triggering creature.Cultists of Bane sow strife, either by directly bullying others or by abusing existing
Monsters
Netheril’s Fall
(A) a Vicious Stinger attack or (B) a use of Spellcasting to cast Command (level 3 version).
Mind Lash. Melee or Ranged Attack Roll: +9;{"diceNotation":"1d20+9", "rollType":"to hit", "rollAction
focuses on a magic item it can see within 10 feet. When it does, the phaerimm drains the magic item of any charges. Regardless of whether charges are drained, the phaerimm can cast Clairvoyance, Geas
Monsters
Forgotten Realms: Adventures in Faerûn
, Wall of Force
1/Day Each: Befuddlement, Clone, Finger of Death, Mind Blank (cast before combat), SimulacrumProtective Magic. Manshoon casts Counterspell or Shield in response to the spell’s
. 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
Monsters
Forgotten Realms: Adventures in Faerûn
, Prestidigitation
2/Day Each: Animate Dead, Plane Shift
1/Day Each: Cone of Cold (level 8 version), Finger of Death, Power Word Kill, ScryingProtective Magic. Valindra casts Counterspell or Shield in response
three attacks, using Eldritch Burst or Paralyzing Touch in any combination. She can replace two attacks with a use of Spellcasting to cast Lightning Bolt (level 5 version).
Eldritch Burst. Melee or
Magic Items
Forgotten Realms: Adventures in Faerûn
The Crown of Horns contains the essence and intelligence of Myrkul, one of the Dead Three. This ghastly crown is a pale silver circlet with four curved bones set around its rim. On the crown's brow
dying essence. Myrkul has since returned to become one of the Dead Three, and the Crown of Horns continues to further his gruesome will by seeking out mortal agents and gradually transforming them into
Monsters
Forgotten Realms: Adventures in Faerûn
, Prestidigitation
2/Day Each: Speak with Dead, Wall of Force
1/Day Each: Create Undead (level 8 version), Disintegrate, Power Word KillProtective Magic. Sammaster casts Counterspell or Shield in
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
Monsters
Forgotten Realms: Adventures in Faerûn
attacks. He can replace one attack with a use of Spellcasting to cast Blight or Ray of Sickness (level 6 version).
Rend. Melee Attack Roll: +14;{"diceNotation":"1d20+14", "rollType":"to hit
, 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
Magic Items
Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
creature had cast augury. Once a creature has asked its question and received a response, it can never activate the statuette again.
This gold statuette of an elf is worth 100 gp, and is imbued with divination magic. A non-evil creature grasping the statue can ask it a question and receive a telepathic response, as though the
Magic Items
The Book of Many Things
While wearing this armor, you can use it to cast either Speak with Dead or Animate Dead. Once the armor has cast a spell in this way, it can’t cast either spell until the next dawn.
Your soul keeps this armor together. If you die while you are attuned to the armor, the armor is destroyed.
Monsters
Storm King's Thunder
: dancing lights, mage hand, message, thaumaturgy
1/day each: augury (cast as 1 action), bestow curse, cordon of arrows, detect magic, speak with dead, spirit guardiansThe Uthgardt are suspicious and
with one foot in the land of the living and the other in the land of the dead. Those who walk the shadowed path between two lands do so because the spirits of the dead compel them. Other Uthgardt fear
Berbalang
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Monsters
Mordenkainen’s Tome of Foes
duplicate’s attacks is psychic damage.
Innate Spellcasting. The berbalang’s innate spellcasting ability is Intelligence (spell save DC 13). The berbalang can innately cast the following spells
, requiring no material components:
At will: speak with dead
1/day: plane shift (self only)Multiattack. The berbalang makes two attacks: one with its bite and one with its claws.
Bite. Melee Weapon
Orcus
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Monsters
Out of the Abyss
Wand of Orcus. The wand has 7 charges, and any of its properties that require a saving throw have a save DC of 18. While holding it, Orcus can use an action to cast animate dead, blight, or speak
with dead. Alternatively, he can expend 1 or more of the wand’s charges to cast one of the following spells from it: circle of death (1 charge), finger of death (1 charge), or power word kill (2
Resurrection
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Spells
Basic Rules (2014)
spell to restore life to a creature that has been dead for one year or longer taxes you greatly. Until you finish a long rest, you can't cast spells again, and you have disadvantage on all attack rolls, ability checks, and saving throws.
You touch a dead creature that has been dead for no more than a century, that didn't die of old age, and that isn't undead. If its soul is free and willing, the target returns to life with all its
Hutijin
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Monsters
Mordenkainen’s Tome of Foes
DC 22). He can innately cast the following spells, requiring no material components:
At will: alter self (can become Medium when changing his appearance), animate dead, detect magic, hold monster
);{"diceNotation":"1d6","rollType":"recharge","rollAction":"Fearful Voice"}. In response to taking damage, Hutijin utters a dreadful word of power. Each creature within 30 feet of him that isn't a devil must succeed
Contact Other Plane
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Spells
Basic Rules (2014)
You mentally contact a demigod, the spirit of a long- dead sage, or some other mysterious entity from another plane. Contacting this extraplanar intelligence can strain or even break your mind. When
you cast this spell, make a DC 15 Intelligence saving throw. On a failure, you take 6d6 psychic damage and are insane until you finish a long rest. While insane, you can't take actions, can't