both before defeat cause release

Grasping Vine

Spells Player’s Handbook

save DC). The vine can grapple only one creature at a time, and you can cause the vine to release a Grappled creature (no action required). As a Bonus Action on your later turns, you can repeat the

Orb of Dragonkind

Magic Items Dungeon Master’s Guide

five Orbs of Dragonkind to help defeat the dragons. One orb was taken to each of the five towers, and there they were used to speed the war toward a victorious end. The wizards used the orbs to lure

action to cause the orb to issue a telepathic call that extends in all directions for 40 miles. Chromatic dragons in range feel compelled to come to the orb as soon as possible by the most direct

Norker

Monsters Mordenkainen's Fiendish Folio Volume 1

creature within 5 feet of the norker makes a melee attack against it, the norker can use its reaction to cause 4 piercing damage to it.Cruel, vicious, and lazy even by the standards of goblinoids

, as hobgoblins place the norkers at the bottom of the goblinoid ranks, yet the norkers' ferocity, tough hides, and sharp fangs allow them to rise up and defeat goblinoids that underestimate the norkers

Norker War Leader

Monsters Mordenkainen's Fiendish Folio Volume 1

make a single melee attack.Defensive Rebuke. If a creature within 5 feet of the norker makes a melee attack against it, the norker can use its reaction to cause 6 piercing damage to it.Cruel, vicious

defeat goblinoids that underestimate the norkers' strength and ferocity.. For this reason, norkers are likely encountered away from their brethren. Their natural armor and weapons make them dangerous

Speak with Plants Legacy

Spells Basic Rules (2014)

ability to influence it. This spell can cause the plants created by the entangle spell to release a restrained creature.

Eye of Fear and Flame

Monsters Infernal Machine Rebuild

remains unknown. Cruel Puppet Masters. An eye of fear and flame often chooses to appear during times of uncertainty, such as after a group's devastating defeat or when an individual contemplates some

combat, it targets not only its opponents but also innocent bystanders, seeking to cause the greatest amount of confusion and destruction. If the creature is destroyed, these gems can be recovered

The Celestial Legacy

Classes Xanathar's Guide to Everything

with that being allows you to experience the barest touch of the holy light that illuminates the multiverse. Being connected to such power can cause changes in your behavior and beliefs. You might

find yourself driven to annihilate the undead, to defeat fiends, and to protect the innocent. At times, your heart might also be filled with a longing for the celestial realm of your patron, and a

Fractine

Monsters Monstrous Compendium Vol. 1: Spelljammer Creatures

surfaces substituting for the mirror needed to cast certain divination spells. While being used in this way, the fractine siphons magical energy from the spellcaster—not enough to cause harm

. Bludgeoning, piercing, slashing, and thunder damage can cause a fractine to break into two smaller fractines, each one autonomous and capable of imprisoning creatures. When a fractine dies, it folds in on

College of Glamour Legacy

Classes Xanathar's Guide to Everything

are so eloquent that a speech or song that one of them performs can cause captors to release the bard unharmed and can lull a furious dragon into complacency. The same magic that allows them to quell

Orb of Dragonkind Legacy

Magic Items Basic Rules (2014)

(or Dragon Orbs) to help them defeat the dragons. One orb was taken to each of the five wizard towers, and there they were used to speed the war toward a victorious end. The wizards used the orbs to

the detect magic spell from the orb without using any charges. Call Dragons While you control the orb, you can use an action to cause the artifact to issue a telepathic call that extends in all

Zikzokrishka

Monsters Candlekeep Mysteries

Zikzokrishka hid her phylactery deep within the Scimitar Spires, a mountain range to the east of the necropolis of Azumar. If the characters defeat her, Zikzokrishka uses her phylactery to rematerialize

, Zikzokrishka can take a lair action to cause one of the following effects. She can’t use the same effect two rounds in a row: Part of the ceiling collapses above one creature that Zikzokrishka

Imprisonment Legacy

Spells Basic Rules (2014)

version of the spell consists of rare soporific herbs. Ending the Spell. During the casting of the spell, in any of its versions, you can specify a condition that will cause the spell to end and release

Ki-rin

Monsters Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse

working behind the scenes, or they might be champions of their master’s cause, out to defeat villainy wherever it is found. When viewed from the outside, a ki-rin’s lair is indistinguishable

Deck of Many Things Legacy

Magic Items Basic Rules (2014)

-handedly defeat the next hostile monster or group of monsters you encounter, you gain experience points enough to gain one level. Otherwise, this card has no effect. Donjon. You disappear and become

, discard this card, and draw from the deck again, counting both draws as one of your declared draws. If losing that much XP would cause you to lose a level, you instead lose an amount that leaves you

Special Purpose

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)

cooperative. Deviating from this course might cause conflict between the wielder and the item, and could even cause the item to prevent the use of its activated properties. You can pick a special

purpose or roll on the following table. d10 Purpose 1 Aligned: The item seeks to defeat or destroy those of a diametrically opposed alignment. (Such an item is never neutral.) 2 Bane: The item seeks

Conclusion

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Rise of Tiamat

Conclusion Great heroes rebound from losses to fight even harder for the cause they believe in. Thanks to raise dead, a lost battle is a setback, not a defeat. It’s a wake-up call to any players who

Conclusion

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tyranny of Dragons

Conclusion Great heroes rebound from losses to fight even harder for the cause they believe in. Thanks to raise dead, a lost battle is a setback, not a defeat. It’s a wake-up call to any players who

What Caused the Mourning?

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron

What Caused the Mourning? There will never be an official answer to the cause of the Mourning. As a DM in Eberron, we want you to decide the cause of this tragedy… or if you prefer, to leave it as a

mystery that will never be solved. With that said, people in Eberron itself have many theories about the cause of the Mourning; it’s up to you to decide if any of them are correct. The Mourning was

Lords of Dust Campaign Themes

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War

, and his minions are always eager to cause strife. The servants of Sul Khatesh entice cruel and selfish people to become warlocks, drawing mystical powers from their mistress. These activities won’t

release an overlord, but they help to sustain it. To release an overlord, the Lords of Dust must ensure that the Prophecy unfolds along a specific path. Often, following this path requires specific

Mogis's Champions

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros

between the poleis, hoping to ignite an all-out war. In part, he wants to cause so much carnage that his brother eventually has no choice but to face him in a duel to the death. The Mogis’s Quests table

Triumph in a contest of strength or endurance to prove Mogis’s superiority over other gods. 6 Defeat a champion of another god (most likely Iroas, Heliod, or Ephara). A Mogis Campaign A campaign

A Rotten Way to Die

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm Lord’s Wrath

and the party. Defeating one rot troll is a good start, but in order to peacefully release the prisoners, the lizardfolk insist that the characters defeat a total of three rot trolls. They can

Adventure Overview

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos

defeat him. The characters are called on to help track the villain to his lair and stop his wicked ritual before he siphons the life energy from everyone on campus. A Standalone Adventure If you’re

student who was expelled 200 years ago, he has artificially extended his life and seeks true immortality. He corrupted eldritch balm to cause magical mishaps, schemed to attack students at a Mage Tower

Speak with Plants

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)

creature is in the area, you can communicate with it as if you shared a common language, but you gain no magical ability to influence it. This spell can cause the plants created by the entangle spell to release a restrained creature.

Grasping Vine

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player’s Handbook

creature at a time, and you can cause the vine to release a Grappled creature (no action required). As a Bonus Action on your later turns, you can repeat the attack against a creature within 30 feet of the

Tyrant's Escape

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft

described in area 5a. If the party doesn’t release him, he breaks free himself after an hour. Dranzorg torments the party and rampages through the house, calling for Mara to face him. Once freed, he

can help them defeat Dranzorg. Eternal Rivals. Dranzorg focuses his attacks on the character wearing Mara’s armor. If a character wearing Mara’s armor is reduced to fewer than half their hit points

Facing Xanathar

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist

demands that they accompany it to the Vault of Dragons and help it defeat the vault’s draconic guardian. Not fully trusting the characters to keep their part of the bargain, Xanathar brings along its

character makes. On a failure, Xanathar demands that the character release Sylgar at once or be disintegrated (and makes good on its threat).

Speak with Plants

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)

creature is in the area, you can communicate with it as if you shared a common language, but you gain no magical ability to influence it. This spell can cause the plants created by the entangle spell to release a restrained creature.

Lliira

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide

Lliira Our Lady of Joy, Joybringer, the Mistress of Revels Lliira is a beloved goddess, a deity of contentment, release, joy, happiness, dance, and freedom. As the patron of festivals, she is

cause her to withhold her favor. Her priests and priestesses, known as joybringers, take it as their mission to make other people happy, even if just for a moment. Her faithful always wear at least one

Serving an Immortal

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War

out another part of your patron’s plan. 5 Plant a magical seed in a remote location to ensure it grows into a mighty tree and bears fruit that will give power to future heroes. 6 Defeat a dragon-blooded

imprisoned rakshasa—and that will, unknown to the inventor, lead to the rakshasa’s release. 8 Protect a kalashtar monk who is being targeted by Dreaming Dark assassins as she studies a path that might eventually prevent the quori from projecting themselves into the Material Plane.

Master

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Xanathar's Guide to Everything

you had to defeat in single combat to complete your instruction. 2 Your master was kindly and taught you to pursue the cause of peace. 3 Your master was merciless in pushing you to your limits. You

Orcus

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes

that mortals must suffer and die at the whims of these entities. In Orcus, they see the promise of release from pain without the demand of obedience. In the state of undeath that Orcus offers, they will

cause are admitted to the cult. Those who have second thoughts and attempt to decline are destroyed, their souls condemned to the Outer Planes while their bodies are animated as skeletons and zombies.

Dragon in Chains

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder

action on its turn to magically release the four chains by speaking a command word (“uvenfetter”) while within 60 feet of the dragon. Only Storvald and Nilraun know the command word. A knock spell or a

try to free him). Once he is freed, he reunites with his mate, and the two of them try to reclaim Svardborg as their lair. Cryovain doesn’t gain lair actions and can’t cause regional effects in the vicinity of his lair.

Beyond Death

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros

warlord that now rests with the villain’s misera. 16 Discover from a woe strider (see chapter 6) how to escape the bonds of destiny. 17 Defeat a host of legendary villains in Agonas’s Stadium

their release. 20 Seek out Klothys’s domain and learn from her oracles how you’re destined to escape the Underworld.

Goristro Raid

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Eve of Ruin

palanquin to defeat the demons within while the characters slay the goristro. The goristro defends itself. If the vrocks see that the goristro is losing, they join the fight. The three erinyes easily dispatch

with powerful infernal war leaders. The unicorn desperately wishes to be freed and says as much in Celestial and Elvish. Characters who try to convince the erinyes to release the unicorn must make a DC

Lords of Dust

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Forge of the Artificer

the world. The Lords of Dust are servitors of those lords—lesser (but still terrifying) Fiends who seek to sustain the overlords and release them from their prisons in Khyber. Goals of the Lords of Dust

To sustain the overlords, the Lords of Dust encourage activities that strengthen these lords’ influence. For example, because the overlord Rak Tulkhesh embodies war, his minions work to cause strife

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