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Mind Blank

Spells Player’s Handbook

, read its thoughts, or magically detect its location, and no spell—not even Wish—can gather information about the target, observe it remotely, or control its mind.

Couatl

Monsters Monster Manual

Shielded Mind. The couatl’s thoughts can’t be read by any means, and other creatures can communicate with it telepathically only if it allows them.Bite. Melee Attack Roll: +7

, and the target has the Poisoned condition until the end of the couatl’s next turn. Constrict. Strength Saving Throw: DC 15, one Medium or smaller creature the couatl can see within 5 feet

Flumph

Monsters Monster Manual

’s thoughts can’t be read by any means, and magic can’t detect its location or observe it remotely.Tentacle. Melee Attack Roll: +4;{"diceNotation":"1d20+4", "rollType":"to hit

Throw: DC 10, one creature the flumph can see within 15 feet. Failure: The target is coated in a foul-smelling liquid, exudes a stench for 1d4;{"diceNotation":"1d4", "rollType":"roll", "rollAction

Doppelganger

Monsters Monster Manual

. Read Thoughts. The doppelganger casts Detect Thoughts, requiring no spell components and using Charisma as the spellcasting ability (spell save DC 12). Unsettling Visage (Recharge 6);{"diceNotation

":"1d6", "rollType":"recharge", "rollAction":"Unsettling Visage"}. Wisdom Saving Throw: DC 12, each creature in a 15-foot Emanation originating from the doppelganger that can see the doppelganger. Failure

Detect Thoughts

Spells Player’s Handbook

, dirt, or wood; 1 inch of metal; or a thin sheet of lead. Read Thoughts. Target one creature you can see within 30 feet of yourself or one creature within 30 feet of yourself that you detected with

You activate one of the effects below. Until the spell ends, you can activate either effect as a Magic action on your later turns. Sense Thoughts. You sense the presence of thoughts within 30 feet

Illusory Script

Spells Player’s Handbook

script that is unintelligible. Alternatively, the illusion can alter the meaning, handwriting, and language of the text, though the language must be one you know. If the spell is dispelled, the original script and the illusion both disappear. A creature that has Truesight can read the hidden message.

Ring of Mind Shielding

Magic Items Dungeon Master’s Guide

While wearing this ring, you are immune to magic that allows other creatures to read your thoughts, determine whether you are lying, know your alignment, or know your creature type. Creatures can

telepathically communicate with you only if you allow it. You can take a Magic action to cause the ring to become imperceptible until you take another Magic action to make it perceptible, until you

Scroll of Titan Summoning

Magic Items Dungeon Master’s Guide

When you take a Magic action to read this scroll, a particular titan named in the scroll appears in an unoccupied space on the ground or in water that you can see within 1 mile of yourself. The DM

Book of Exalted Deeds

Magic Items Dungeon Master’s Guide

benefits. Other creatures that peruse the book’s open pages can read the text but glean no deeper meaning and reap no benefits. A Fiend, an Undead, or a servant of a god from the Lower Planes

that tries to read from the book takes 24d6 Radiant damage. This damage ignores Resistance and Immunity, and it can’t be reduced or avoided by any means. A creature reduced to 0 Hit Points by

Tome of the Stilled Tongue

Magic Items Dungeon Master’s Guide

again until the next dawn. Only you can remove the tongue from the book’s cover. If you do so, all spells written in the book are permanently erased. Vecna watches anyone using this tome and can write cryptic messages in it. These messages typically fade away after they are read.

tome are filled with indecipherable scrawls. The remaining pages are blank. While attuned to this item, you can use it as a Spellbook and an Arcane Focus. In addition, while holding the tome, you can

Spell Scroll of Fireball

Magic Items Dungeon Master’s Guide

This Spell Scroll bears the words of the Fireball spell, written in a mystical cipher. If Fireball is on your spell list, you can read the scroll and cast it without Material components. Otherwise

;t lost. If Fireball is on your spell list but of a higher level than you can normally cast, you make a DC 13 ability check using your spellcasting ability to determine whether you cast the spell. On

Scroll of Protection

Magic Items Dungeon Master’s Guide

(Oozes);Oozes 86-90 Scroll of Protection (Plants);Plants 91-00 Scroll of Protection (Undead);Undead Using a Magic action to read the scroll creates a 5-foot Emanation originating

from you. For 5 minutes, creatures of the specified type can’t enter or affect anything in the area. However, if you move in such a way that a creature of the specified type would be inside the

Spell Scroll

Magic Items Dungeon Master’s Guide

A Spell Scroll bears the words of a single spell, written in a mystical cipher. If the spell is on your spell list, you can read the scroll and cast its spell without Material components. Otherwise

, the scroll isn’t lost. If the spell is on your spell list but of a higher level than you can normally cast, you make an ability check using your spellcasting ability to determine whether you

Figurine of Wondrous Power

Magic Items Dungeon Master’s Guide

to 24 hours. The nightmare fights only to defend itself. Once it has been used, it can’t be used again until 5 days have passed. The figurine has a 10 percent chance each time you use it to

figurine form. When the creature becomes a figurine again, its property can’t be used again until a certain amount of time has passed, as specified in the figurine’s description. Figurine

Scarecrow (Stranger Things)

Monsters Stranger Things: Welcome to the Hellfire Club

: DC 11, one creature the scarecrow can see within 30 feet. Failure: The target has the Frightened condition until the end of the scarecrow’s next turn. While Frightened, the target has the

work left undone. Scarecrows might serve those who created them or might defend a place, family, or community from threats—whether physical or to their way of life.PoisonFire

Pipes of Pestilence

Magic Items Stranger Things: Welcome to the Hellfire Club

continue to play the pipes each round as a Magic action. While Friendly, the swarm is under your control, obeys your commands, and takes no action other than to defend itself if you issue it no commands

. Once your control ends, the swarm vanishes, and the pipes can’t be used again until the next dawn.

Drow of Lolth

Monsters Forgotten Realms: Adventures in Faerûn

Fey Ancestry. The drow has Advantage on saving throws it makes to avoid or end the Charmed condition, and magic can’t put the drow to sleep. Sunlight Sensitivity. While in sunlight, the drow

and using Charisma as the spellcasting ability (spell save DC 11): At Will: Dancing Lights 1/Day: Faerie FireDrow of Lolth defend cities in the Underdark and raid the surface in the name of the

Young Deep Dragon

Monsters Forgotten Realms: Adventures in Faerûn

’s next turn. Success: Half damage only.Young deep dragons establish lairs in familiar hunting grounds and defend their lairs with twisting passages and traps such as deadfalls. They dominate the

local environment, consuming vast quantities of fish and pale crabs and cultivating fungal growths. They bully nearby communities when they can or enter into cautious arrangements with powerful

Encode Thoughts

Spells Guildmasters’ Guide to Ravnica

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

duration or until you cast this spell again. The thought strand appears in an unoccupied space within 5 feet of you as a Tiny, weightless, semisolid object that can be held and carried like a ribbon. It is

Cranium Rat Legacy

Monsters Volo's Guide to Monsters

Illumination. As a bonus action, the cranium rat can shed dim light from its brain in a 5-foot radius or extinguish the light. Telepathic Shroud. The cranium rat is immune to any effect that would

sense its emotions or read its thoughts, as well as to all divination spells.Bite. Melee Weapon Attack: +4;{"diceNotation":"1d20+4","rollType":"to hit","rollAction":"Bite"} to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 1 piercing damage.

Returned Drifter

Monsters Mythic Odysseys of Theros

Turn Resistance. The Returned has advantage on saving throws against any effect that turns undead. Unreadable Face. The Returned is immune to any effect that would sense its emotions or read its

. Despite this, even the most languorous Returned defend themselves if threatened and might be pressed into the service of their more willful brethren. Returned have escaped the Underworld and dwell among

Autognome

Monsters Spelljammer: Adventures in Space

","rollAction":"Malfunction"} to determine if it suffers a malfunction: 1–10: “All Fine Here!” No malfunction occurs. 11–12: “My Mind Is Going. I Can Feel It.” The autognome

is incapacitated for 1 minute. 13–14: “You’ve Disarmed Me!” One of the autognome’s arms falls off, reducing the number of Shock attacks it can make by 1 until a creature

Hybrid Spy

Monsters Guildmasters’ Guide to Ravnica

Chameleon Skin. The hybrid has advantage on Dexterity (Stealth) checks made to hide. Spider Climb. The hybrid can climb difficult surfaces, including upside down on ceilings, without needing to make

soldiers to help defend the guild. These hybrids (also called guardians, after the name of the project) are created from human, vedalken, and elf guild members who volunteer to be transformed.

Hybrid Brute

Monsters Guildmasters’ Guide to Ravnica

Amphibious. The hybrid can breathe air and water.Multiattack. The hybrid makes two claw attacks. Claw. Melee Weapon Attack: +6;{"diceNotation":"1d20+6","rollType":"to hit","rollAction":"Claw"} to hit

created soldiers to help defend the guild. These hybrids (also called guardians, after the name of the project) are created from human, vedalken, and elf guild members who volunteer to be transformed.

Book of Exalted Deeds Legacy

Magic Items Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)

is read, it vanishes to some other corner of the multiverse where its moral guidance can bring light to a darkened world. Although attempts have been made to copy the work, efforts to do so fail to

digest its contents and gain its benefits. Other creatures that peruse the book’s open pages can read the text but glean no deeper meaning and reap no benefits. An evil creature that tries to read

Flumph Legacy

Monsters Monster Manual (2014)

Advanced Telepathy. The flumph can perceive the content of any telepathic communication used within 60 feet of it, and it can’t be surprised by creatures with any form of telepathy. Prone

Deficiency. If the flumph is knocked prone, roll a die. On an odd result, the flumph lands upside-down and is incapacitated. At the end of each of its turns, the flumph can make a DC 10 Dexterity saving

Doppelganger Legacy

Monsters Basic Rules (2014)

Shapechanger. The doppelganger can use its action to polymorph into a Small or Medium humanoid it has seen, or back into its true form. Its statistics, other than its size, are the same in each form

"} to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 7 (1d6 + 4);{"diceNotation":"1d6+4","rollType":"damage","rollAction":"Slam","rollDamageType":"bludgeoning"} bludgeoning damage. Read Thoughts. The doppelganger

Satyr Thornbearer

Monsters Mythic Odysseys of Theros

lives of pure whimsy. When forced to defend their friends and homes, satyr thornbearers are quick to take up their bows and strike against danger. Particularly amid the dense trees of the Skola Vale

neither naive nor defenseless. Some satyrs delightedly torment stuffy individuals or pull pranks on the unwary, pastimes that can predictably lead to scuffles. If a satyr can't talk their way out of a

Contact Other Plane Legacy

Spells Basic Rules (2014)

understand what other creatures say, can't read, and speak only in gibberish. A greater restoration spell cast on you ends this effect. On a successful save, you can ask the entity up to five questions. You

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

Illusory Script Legacy

Spells Basic Rules (2014)

know. Should the spell be dispelled, the original script and the illusion both disappear. A creature with truesight can read the hidden message.

script that is unintelligible. Alternatively, you can cause the writing to appear to be an entirely different message, written in a different hand and language, though the language must be one you

Detect Thoughts Legacy

Spells Basic Rules (2014)

For the duration, you can read the thoughts of certain creatures. When you cast the spell and as your action on each turn until the spell ends, you can focus your mind on any one creature that you

detect the presence of a creature in this way, you can read its thoughts for the rest of the duration as described above, even if you can’t see it, but it must still be within range.

Archer

Monsters Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse

":"piercing"} piercing damage.Archers defend castles, hunt wild game on the fringes of civilization, serve as artillery in military units, and occasionally make good coin as brigands or caravan guards. Some

Dryad leaf vanes 11 Drake scale vanes 12 Stirge wing vanes Archer’s Eye (3/Day). Immediately after making an attack roll or a damage roll with a ranged weapon, the archer can

Swarm of Cranium Rats Legacy

Monsters Volo's Guide to Monsters

Illumination. As a bonus action, the swarm can shed dim light from its brains in a 5-foot radius, increase the illumination to bright light in a 5- to 20-foot radius (and dim light for an additional

than half of its hit points remaining, the swarm can innately cast the following spells, requiring no components: At will: command, comprehend languages, detect thoughts 1/day each: confusion

Couatl Legacy

Monsters Basic Rules (2014)

Innate Spellcasting. The couatl's spellcasting ability is Charisma (spell save DC 14). It can innately cast the following spells, requiring only verbal components: At will: detect evil and good

Weapons. The couatl's weapon attacks are magical. Shielded Mind. The couatl is immune to scrying and to any effect that would sense its emotions, read its thoughts, or detect its location.Bite

Wynling

Monsters Journeys through the Radiant Citadel

misses the wynling with an attack roll, the wynling can move up to 30 feet. This movement doesn’t provoke opportunity attack;opportunity attacks.Playful and mischievous, wynlings defend

magically turns invisible, along with any equipment it is wearing or carrying, for 1 minute or until it makes an attack roll.Trickster’s Flight. Immediately after a creature the wynling can see