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Spells
Player’s Handbook
Flame-like radiance descends on a creature that you can see within range. The target must succeed on a Dexterity saving throw or take 1d8 Radiant damage. The target gains no benefit from Half Cover
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.
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
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
Monsters
Monster Manual
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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
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
Spells
Player’s Handbook
a Magic action followed by a 1-minute transformation.
If a target is in cloud form and flying when the effect ends, the target descends 60 feet per round for 1 minute until it lands, which it does safely. If it can’t land after 1 minute, it falls the remaining distance.
can hover; it has Immunity to the Prone condition; and it has Resistance to Bludgeoning, Piercing, and Slashing damage. The only actions a target can take in this form are the Dash action or a Magic
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.
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
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
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
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
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
Magic Items
Dungeon Master’s Guide
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Scroll of Protection (Plants);Plants
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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
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
Magic Items
Forgotten Realms: Heroes of Faerûn
. The Windskiff hovers a few inches above whatever surface it's on and can glide; it moves 5 feet horizontally for every 1 foot it descends in the air. A Windskiff and its riders take no damage from falling.
piece of jewelry has 3 charges and regains all expended charges daily at dawn. While you are holding it, you can take a Magic action to expend 1 charge, which causes the jewelry to transform into a
Magic Items
Forgotten Realms: Adventures in Faerûn
active, the gyrocopter can be used as a vehicle; it requires one pilot.
The gyrocopter wonder is a Huge object that weighs 500 pounds and has the following statistics: AC 14, HP 50, Speed 5 ft., and
Fly Speed 20 ft. The gyrocopter can bear up to 2,000 pounds of cargo; if it bears any more than this, it deactivates.
Eight spectral cords are mounted to the inside of the cargo bay. A creature riding
Magic Items
Forgotten Realms: Adventures in Faerûn
gyrocopter can be used as a vehicle; it requires one pilot.
The gyrocopter wonder is a Huge object that weighs 500 pounds and has the following statistics: AC 14, HP 50, Speed 5 ft., and Fly Speed 20
ft. The gyrocopter can bear up to 2,000 pounds of cargo; if it bears any more than this, it deactivates.
Eight spectral cords are mounted to the inside of the cargo bay. A creature riding in the
Magic Items
Forgotten Realms: Heroes of Faerûn
detach itself from one of these cords. A creature attached to a cord can leap from the gyrocopter wonder and glide, moving up to 5 feet horizontally for every 1 foot it descends in the air. If a
Wis
8
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-1
Cha
1
-5
-5
Immunities Poison; Exhaustion, Poisoned
Senses Passive Perception 9
Languages Understands Common but can’t speak
CR 0 (XP 0; PB +2)
Traits
Monsters
Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus
(Cantrip). Flame-like radiance descends on one creature Thurstwell can see within 60 feet of him. The target must succeed on a DC 13 Dexterity saving throw or take 4 (1d8);{"diceNotation":"1d8
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
Sacred Flame
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Basic Rules (2014)
Flame-like radiance descends on a creature that you can see within range. The target must succeed on a Dexterity saving throw or take 1d8 radiant damage. The target gains no benefit from cover for
Spells
Elemental Evil Player's Companion
Choose one creature you can see within range. Yellow strips of magical energy loop around the creature. The target must succeed on a Strength saving throw, or its flying speed (if any) is reduced to
0 feet for the spell’s duration. An airborne creature affected by this spell safely descends at 60 feet per round until it reaches the ground or the spell ends.
Cranium Rat
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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.
Monsters
Spelljammer: Adventures in Space
Glide. If it isn’t incapacitated or wearing heavy armor, the hadozee can extend its skin membranes to move up to 5 feet horizontally for every 1 foot it descends in the air.Dagger. Melee or
Monsters
The Book of Many Things
Inviolate Presence. The veiled presence can’t be targeted by divination magic or by features that would read its mind or determine its creature type.
Legendary Resistance (3/Day). If the
veiled presence fails a saving throw, it can choose to succeed instead.Multiattack. The veiled presence makes two Blade of Judgment attacks and can use Revelation.
Blade of Judgment. Melee or Ranged
Book of Exalted Deeds
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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
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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
Wind Walk
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Spells
Basic Rules (2014)
You and up to ten willing creatures you can see within range assume a gaseous form for the duration, appearing as wisps of cloud. While in this cloud form, a creature has a flying speed of 300 feet
and has resistance to damage from nonmagical weapons. The only actions a creature can take in this form are the Dash action or to revert to its normal form. Reverting takes 1 minute, during which time
Doppelganger
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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
Contact Other Plane
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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
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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
Monsters
Spelljammer: Adventures in Space
Glide. If it isn’t incapacitated or wearing heavy armor, the hadozee can extend its skin membranes to move up to 5 feet horizontally for every 1 foot it descends in the air.Multiattack. The
Detect Thoughts
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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.
Swarm of Cranium Rats
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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