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Magic Items
Dungeon Master’s Guide
This rod ends in three rubbery tentacles. While holding the rod, you can take a Magic action to direct the tentacles to stretch outward, each one attacking a creature you can see within 15 feet of
Spells
Player’s Handbook
Until the spell ends, one willing creature you touch has Immunity to Psychic damage and the Charmed condition. The target is also unaffected by anything that would sense its emotions or alignment
, 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.
Spells
Player’s Handbook
simultaneously, and you can direct them to hit one creature or several.
Using a Higher-Level Spell Slot. The spell creates one more dart for each spell slot level above 1.
You create three glowing darts of magical force. Each dart strikes a creature of your choice that you can see within range. A dart deals 1d4 + 1 Force damage to its target. The darts all strike
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
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
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
in the ring, you can telepathically communicate with any creature wearing it. A wearer can’t prevent this telepathic communication.
Feats
Player’s Handbook
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Energy Redirection. When you take damage of one of the types chosen for the Energy Resistances benefit, you can take a Reaction to direct damage of the same type toward another creature you can see
within 60 feet of yourself that isn’t behind Total Cover. If you do so, that creature must succeed on a Dexterity saving throw (DC 8 plus your Constitution modifier and Proficiency Bonus) or take damage equal to 2d12 plus your Constitution modifier.
Spells
Player’s Handbook
the creature.
This spell can’t locate a creature if any thickness of lead blocks a direct path between you and the creature.
Describe or name a creature that is familiar to you. You sense the direction to the creature’s location if that creature is within 1,000 feet of you. If the creature is moving, you know the
Magic Items
Dungeon Master’s Guide
Each Scroll of Protection works against creatures of a specific creature type chosen by the DM or determined by rolling on the following table.
1d100
Creature Type
01-10
Scroll of
(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
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
picks a suitable titan or determines it randomly by rolling on the table below (see the Monster Manual for the creature’s stat block).
The titan is Hostile toward all other creatures and
Spells
Player’s Handbook
of yourself that belong to creatures that know languages or are telepathic. You don’t read the thoughts, but you know that a thinking creature is present.
The spell is blocked by 1 foot of stone
, 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
Magic Items
Dungeon Master’s Guide
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
’s authors filled the pages with their own visions of true virtue, providing guidance for defeating evil.
The Book of Exalted Deeds rarely lingers in one place. As soon as the book is read, it
Spells
Player’s Handbook
You hurl a beam of crackling energy. Make a ranged spell attack against one creature or object in range. On a hit, the target takes 1d10 Force damage.
Cantrip Upgrade. The spell creates two beams at
level 5, three beams at level 11, and four beams at level 17. You can direct the beams at the same target or at different ones. Make a separate attack roll for each beam.
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.
Spells
Player’s Handbook
You speak a one-word command to a creature you can see within range. The target must succeed on a Wisdom saving throw or follow the command on its next turn. Choose the command from these options
:
Approach. The target moves toward you by the shortest and most direct route, ending its turn if it moves within 5 feet of you.
Drop. The target drops whatever it is holding and then ends its turn
Magic Items
Dungeon Master’s Guide
creature that can't use a manual of golems and attempts to read it takes 6d6 psychic damage.
d20
Golem
Time
Cost
1-5
Manual of Clay Golems
30 days
65,000 GP
6-17
Manual of
Spells
Player’s Handbook
the sphere into a creature’s space, that creature makes the save against the sphere, and the sphere stops moving for the turn.
When you move the sphere, you can direct it over barriers up to 5
You create a 5-foot-diameter sphere of fire in an unoccupied space on the ground within range. It lasts for the duration. Any creature that ends its turn within 5 feet of the sphere makes a Dexterity
Magic Items
Dungeon Master’s Guide
+9. On a hit, the target takes 1d6 + 5 Force damage.
As a Bonus Action, you can direct the whip to fly up to 20 feet and repeat the attack against a creature within 10 feet of the whip. The whip
yourself. The token disappears, and a floating whip takes its place. You can then take a Bonus Action to make a melee spell attack against a creature within 10 feet of the whip, with an attack bonus of
Spells
Player’s Handbook
directions. The water in the area moves as you direct it, but once it moves beyond the spell’s area, it resumes its flow based on the terrain. The water continues to move in the direction you
lasts until you choose a different effect or the spell ends. The whirlpool is 5 feet wide at the base, up to 50 feet wide at the top, and 25 feet tall. Any creature in the water and within 25 feet of
Spells
Forgotten Realms: Heroes of Faerûn
Action on your later turns, you can move the rift up to 60 feet and repeat the two attacks against a creature or an object within 5 feet of it. You can direct the attacks at the same target or at
, each one against a creature or object within 5 feet of the rift. On a hit, the target takes 10d6 Force damage. This attack scores a Critical Hit if the number on the d20 is 18 or higher.
As a Bonus
Monsters
Forgotten Realms: Adventures in Faerûn
, using the same spellcasting ability as Spellcasting.Legendary Action Uses: 3. Immediately after another creature’s turn, Zlan can expend a use to take one of the following actions. Zlan regains
all expended uses at the start of each of its turns.
Retaliation. Zlan makes one Slam or Bewildering Bolt attack.
Stoke Paranoia. Wisdom Saving Throw: DC 19, one creature Zlan can see within 30 feet
Grasping Vine
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Spells
Player’s Handbook (2014)
You conjure a vine that sprouts from the ground in an unoccupied space of your choice that you can see within range. When you cast this spell, you can direct the vine to lash out at a creature within
30 feet of it that you can see. That creature must succeed on a Dexterity saving throw or be pulled 20 feet directly toward the vine.Until the spell ends, you can direct the vine to lash out at the same creature or another one as a bonus action on each of your turns.
Grung
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Monsters
Volo's Guide to Monsters
Amphibious. The grung can breathe air and water.
Poisonous Skin. Any creature that grapples the grung or otherwise comes into direct contact with the grung’s skin must succeed on a DC 12
Constitution saving throw or become poisoned for 1 minute. A poisoned creature no longer in direct contact with the grung can repeat the saving throw at the end of each of its turns, ending the effect on
Mind Blank
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Until the spell ends, one willing creature you touch is immune to psychic damage, any effect that would sense its emotions or read its thoughts, divination spells, and the charmed condition. The
Grung Wildling
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Volo's Guide to Monsters
Amphibious. The grung can breathe air and water.
Poisonous Skin. Any creature that grapples the grung or otherwise comes into direct contact with the grung’s skin must succeed on a DC 12
Constitution saving throw or become poisoned for 1 minute. A poisoned creature no longer in direct contact with the grung can repeat the saving throw at the end of each of its turns, ending the effect on
Tentacle Rod
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Magic Items
Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
Made by the drow, this rod is a magic weapon that ends in three rubbery tentacles. While holding the rod, you can use an action to direct each tentacle to attack a creature you can see within 15 feet
Monsters
Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
level of exhaustion. If the creature is in direct sunlight when it makes this saving throw, it automatically succeeds on the save.
If the creature is targeted by magic that ends a poison or disease
, such as lesser restoration, while the creature isn’t in direct sunlight, the effect does not end.Appearing as plague-stricken, bipedal owls, tlacatecolo sow sickness and feed on the suffering of
Book of Exalted Deeds
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Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
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
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
Grung Elite Warrior
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Monsters
Volo's Guide to Monsters
Amphibious. The grung can breathe air and water.
Poisonous Skin. Any creature that grapples the grung or otherwise comes into direct contact with the grung’s skin must succeed on a DC 12
Constitution saving throw or become poisoned for 1 minute. A poisoned creature no longer in direct contact with the grung can repeat the saving throw at the end of each of its turns, ending the effect on
Scroll of Protection
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Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
Each scroll of protection works against a specific type of creature chosen by the DM or determined randomly by rolling on the following table.
d100
Creature Type
01-10
Aberrations
11-20
Beasts
21-30
Celestials
31-40
Elementals
41-50
Fey
51-75
Fiends
76-80
Plants
81-00
Undead
Using an action to read the scroll encloses
Magic Missile
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Basic Rules (2014)
simultaneously, and you can direct them to hit one creature or several.
At Higher Levels. When you cast this spell using a spell slot of 2nd level or higher, the spell creates one more dart for each slot level above 1st.
You create three glowing darts of magical force. Each dart hits a creature of your choice that you can see within range. A dart deals 1d4 + 1 force damage to its target. The darts all strike
Myconid Adult
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Monsters
Monster Manual (2014)
rolls, and saving throws. The myconid dies if it spends more than 1 hour in direct sunlight.Fist. Melee Weapon Attack: +2;{"diceNotation":"1d20+2","rollType":"to hit","rollAction":"Fist"} to hit, reach
","rollAction":"Fist","rollDamageType":"poison"} poison damage.
Pacifying Spores (3/Day). The myconid ejects spores at one creature it can see within 5 feet of it. The target must succeed on a DC 11
Eldritch Blast
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A beam of crackling energy streaks toward a creature within range. Make a ranged spell attack against the target. On a hit, the target takes 1d10 force damage.
The spell creates more than one beam
when you reach higher levels: two beams at 5th level, three beams at 11th level, and four beams at 17th level. You can direct the beams at the same target or at different ones. Make a separate attack roll for each beam.
Flumph
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Monsters
Monster Manual (2014)
throw, righting itself and ending the incapacitated condition if it succeeds.
Telepathic Shroud. The flumph is immune to any effect that would sense its emotions or read its thoughts, as well as all
divination spells.Tendrils. Melee Weapon Attack: +4;{"diceNotation":"1d20+4","rollType":"to hit","rollAction":"Tendrils"} to hit, reach 5 ft., one creature. Hit: 4 (1d4 + 2);{"diceNotation":"1d4+2






