both before drives create response

Merfolk Wavebender

Monsters Monster Manual

spellcasting ability (spell save DC 15): At Will: Elementalism, Light 1/Day Each: Control Water, Create or Destroy WaterWatery Rebuke. Trigger: An enemy the merfolk can see enters a space within 5 feet of the

merfolk. Response—Strength Saving Throw: DC 15, the triggering enemy. Failure: 14 (4d6);{"diceNotation":"4d6", "rollType":"damage", "rollAction":"Watery Rebuke", "rollDamageType":"Cold"} Cold

Arcanaloth

Monsters Monster Manual

Points or when the arcanaloth dies. If the tome is destroyed, the arcanaloth can create a new one when it finishes a Short or Long Rest.Multiattack. The arcanaloth makes three Fiendish Burst attacks

Hand, Prestidigitation 1/Day Each: Contact Other Plane, Detect Thoughts, Dimension Door, Mind BlankCounterspell. The arcanaloth casts Counterspell in response to that spell’s trigger, using the

Cultist of Bane

Monsters Forgotten Realms: Adventures in Faerûn

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

power structures to create division and oppression. Although many cultists of Bane are tyrants capable of influencing large groups of lackeys, other cultists prefer to operate from the shadows. These

Zlan

Monsters Forgotten Realms: Adventures in Faerûn

Thoughts, Dispel Magic, Mage Hand, Message 2/Day Each: Dimension Door, Fly, Scrying 1/Day Each: Befuddlement, DisintegrateCounterspell. Zlan casts Counterspell in response to the spell’s trigger

observe enemies and warp minds. History Seven powerful liches from other worlds came together to create the Crystal Shard millennia ago. Although the liches were jealous and suspicious of each

Vampire Warden

Monsters Astarion's Book of Hungers

).Resilient Flesh. Trigger: The vampire is hit by a melee attack roll from an attacker the vampire can see. Response: The vampire reduces the damage it takes from the attack by 11 (2d6 + 4);{"diceNotation

don’t live for long and are inattentive while sleeping or simpering. Monstrous servants are often too unpredictable or simply unreliable. To keep their lairs safe, some vampires create more

Sammaster (Lich Form)

Monsters Forgotten Realms: Adventures in Faerûn

. If the gem is destroyed, Sammaster can create a new one by completing an 8-hour ritual using a gem worth 1,000+ GP, which the ritual consumes, and by expending 5,000 GP.Multiattack. Sammaster makes

, 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

Strigoi

Monsters Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft

instinctual hunger that drives it to undertake bloodthirsty rampages along with swarms of emboldened, bloodsucking pests. Strigoi drain the blood, marrow, and soft tissues from their victims, leaving behind

compelled to drain living victims. Others, though, embrace their new forms and mimic vampires. These would-be bloodsucker aristocrats create stirge courts amid scabrous husk-decorated villas and drain the life from any who balk at their grotesque gentility.Necrotic

Berbalang Legacy

Monsters Mordenkainen’s Tome of Foes

these creatures, thus preserving the information they gain. Spectral Spy. The pursuit of knowledge drives everything berbalangs do. Although they mostly learn their secrets from the dead, they aren&rsquo

;t above spying on the living to take knowledge from them as well. A berbalang can create a spectral duplicate of itself and send the duplicate out to gather information on other planes by watching

White Maw

Monsters Tales from the Yawning Portal

dealing damage. White Maw can eat through 2-inch-thick, nonmagical metal in 1 round. False Appearance. While White Maw remains motionless, it is indistinguishable from white stone. Killer Response

), the Red Wizards experiment with a process to create sentient oozes. The creature they call White Maw is one of their early achievements—a gray ooze of enormous size that has intelligence and

Berbalang

Monsters Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse

to these creatures, thus preserving the information they gain. Pursuit of knowledge drives everything berbalangs do. Although they mostly learn their secrets from the dead, they aren’t above

spying on the living to take knowledge from them as well. A berbalang can create a spectral duplicate of itself and send the duplicate out to gather information on other planes by watching places where

Swarm of Gremishkas

Monsters Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft

the swarm has half of its hit points or fewer, plus 7 (2d6);{"diceNotation":"2d6","rollType":"damage","rollAction":"Bite","rollDamageType":"force"} force damage.Spell Redirection. In response to a

by novice spellcasters seeking to create life. The results are cat-sized, magically unstable creatures with a taste for the trappings of magic—particularly spellbooks, spell components

Stone Cursed

Monsters Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse

transforms those slashed by the claws into statues. As part of the ritual used to create a stone cursed, a fist-sized obsidian skull forms within the creature’s torso. The skull isn’t visible

while the stone cursed is active, but when it is slain, the statue shatters and the skull clatters to the ground. Because it is the nexus for the alchemy used to create these horrors, a faint echo of the

Triton Legacy

Species Volo's Guide to Monsters

the world above. Aquatic Crusaders Centuries ago, tritons entered the world in response to the growing threat of evil elementals. Tritons waged many wars against their enemies on the Plane of Water

extended their stewardship over the sea floor from their initial settlements and built outposts to create trade with other races. Despite this expansion, few folk know of them. Their settlements are so

Satyr Legacy

Species Mythic Odysseys of Theros

all, and the proper response to such a gift, as far as most satyrs are concerned, is to accept it with relish. Born of the Wild In their physical forms, satyrs embody a fusion of humanoid

eccentricities. Some people spend too much time worrying over why satyrs behave as they do. But satyrs themselves simply are as they are, feeling no need to understand what drives them, much less explain it

Kender

Species Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen

diminutive Humanoids who look like humans with pointed ears and diverse appearances. Kender have a supernatural curiosity that drives them to adventure. Due to this inquisitiveness, many kender find

others might become professional thieves. Creating Your Character If you create a kender character, follow these additional rules during character creation. Ability Score Increases When

Nafas

Monsters Quests from the Infinite Staircase

normally follow casting the Wish spell to produce an effect other than duplicating another spell.Multiattack. Nafas makes three Storm Shamshir attacks and uses Create Vortex. Storm Shamshir. Melee

"} lightning or thunder damage (Nafas’s choice). Create Vortex. A 10-foot-radius, 60-foot-tall cylinder of swirling cosmic dust forms on a point Nafas can see within 120 feet of him. The vortex

Yeenoghu Legacy

Monsters Out of the Abyss

flail attacks. If an attack hits, he can cause it to create an additional effect of his choice or at random (each effect can be used only once per Multiattack): 1. The attack deals an extra 13 (2d12

, hunched over, and filing their teeth down to points. Yeenoghu wants nothing more than slaughter and senseless destruction. The gnoll;gnolls are his instruments, and he drives them to ever-greater

Rogue Legacy

Classes Basic Rules (2014)

treasure. Creating a Rogue As you create your rogue character, consider the character’s relationship to the law. Do you have a criminal past—or present? Are you on the run from the law or from

an angry thieves’ guild master? Or did you leave your guild in search of bigger risks and bigger rewards? Is it greed that drives you in your adventures, or some other desire or ideal? What

Titivilus

Monsters Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse

plots are being hatched against him and that Asmodeus himself seeks to remove Dispater from power. In response, Dispater has withdrawn to his palace and left day-to-day decisions to Titivilus, even

devils, to insulate him against criticism, and, above all, to create complications that he can solve so as to reinforce his value in the eyes of his master. Titivilus finds adventurers well suited

Adult Time Dragon

Monsters Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse

succeeds on three of these saves.The dragon can take up to three reactions per round but only one per turn. Reactive Rend. After using Legendary Resistance or in response to being hit by an attack

the flow of time, their horns grow with branching, rainbow-hued veins suggestive of time’s paths and possibilities. Ancient time dragon;Ancient time dragons can create temporal gates connected

Priest of Osybus (Deathly)

Monsters Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft

Deathly Boon. It can cast animate dead and create undead once per day each, using Intelligence as the spellcasting ability. Tattoo of Osybus. If the priest drops to 0 hit points, roll on the Boons

cheat death and become undead horrors. The threat posed by Osybus and his disciples raised alarms far and wide. In response, the Ulmist Inquisition and the then-mortal Count Strahd von Zarovich

Ancient Time Dragon

Monsters Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse

Legendary Resistance or in response to being hit by an attack roll, the dragon makes one Rend attack. Slow Time. Immediately after a creature the dragon can see ends its turn, the dragon targets a creature

dragons can create temporal gates connected to specific times and places in the multiverse. Using these, they and allied creatures can travel anywhere in time to affect fate-determining moments or to banish

9. Bat Cave

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss

spend most of their time clinging to the cavern’s 60-foot-high ceiling, but the noise of the purple worms drives them into a shrieking, flapping frenzy. Whenever a purple worm enters the area 8 (whether

as a random encounter or in response to an alarm from area 5, or as noted in the “Worm Nursery: General Features” sidebar), a swarm of bats flies out of the cave 1 minute before the worm appears. Roll

Priest of Osybus (Dread)

Monsters Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft

response, the Ulmist Inquisition and the then-mortal Count Strahd von Zarovich faced the lich in battle. Their bravery would have been for naught if Osybus’s disciples hadn’t betrayed him

can cast animate dead and create undead once per day each, using Intelligence as the spellcasting ability, and it gains the following action: Circle of Death (Spell; Recharge 5–6;{"diceNotation":"1d6

Priest of Osybus

Monsters Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft

master did and to cheat death and become undead horrors. The threat posed by Osybus and his disciples raised alarms far and wide. In response, the Ulmist Inquisition and the then-mortal Count Strahd

. 6 Priest of Osybus (Deathly);Deathly. The priest’s visage becomes bone white, and its challenge rating increases by 1. It can cast animate dead and create undead once per day each, using

Salamanders

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual

Salamanders Serpentine Artists of the Inferno Habitat: Planar (Elemental Plane of Fire), Underdark; Treasure: Armaments Brian Valenzuela A salamander inferno master drives its salamander and fire

typically content to dwell on the Elemental Plane of Fire, creating strange, temporary art amid the flames. Some travel to other planes of existence and worlds to experience the flames of other realms or create conflagrations of unprecedented scale.

Priest of Osybus (Blazing)

Monsters Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft

threat posed by Osybus and his disciples raised alarms far and wide. In response, the Ulmist Inquisition and the then-mortal Count Strahd von Zarovich faced the lich in battle. Their bravery would have

visage becomes bone white, and its challenge rating increases by 1. It can cast animate dead and create undead once per day each, using Intelligence as the spellcasting ability, and it gains the

Characters from Akharin Sangar

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel

Characters from Akharin Sangar If players want to create characters native to Akharin Sangar, consider asking them the following questions during character creation: How have you been affected by the

angel Atash’s rule? What changes have you or your loved ones made in response to Atash’s edicts? How has this theocracy benefited or harmed you? Do you worship the Sunweaver? If not, do you make that

Priest of Osybus (Ectoplasmic)

Monsters Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft

raised alarms far and wide. In response, the Ulmist Inquisition and the then-mortal Count Strahd von Zarovich faced the lich in battle. Their bravery would have been for naught if Osybus’s

challenge rating increases by 1. It can cast animate dead and create undead once per day each, using Intelligence as the spellcasting ability, and it gains the following action: Circle of Death (Spell

Priest of Osybus (Spectral)

Monsters Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft

wide. In response, the Ulmist Inquisition and the then-mortal Count Strahd von Zarovich faced the lich in battle. Their bravery would have been for naught if Osybus’s disciples hadn’t

1. It can cast animate dead and create undead once per day each, using Intelligence as the spellcasting ability, and it gains the following action: Circle of Death (Spell; Recharge 5–6

Priest of Osybus (Vampiric)

Monsters Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft

as their master did and to cheat death and become undead horrors. The threat posed by Osybus and his disciples raised alarms far and wide. In response, the Ulmist Inquisition and the then-mortal Count

object. 6 Priest of Osybus (Deathly);Deathly. The priest’s visage becomes bone white, and its challenge rating increases by 1. It can cast animate dead and create undead once per day each

Tiers of Play

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

or the prior trouble transforms into a new threat in response to the characters’ actions. Events need to grow in magnitude and scope, increasing the stakes and drama as the characters become

increasingly powerful. This approach also allows you to break your design work down into smaller pieces. Create material such as adventures, NPCs, maps, and so on for one tier at a time. You only need to worry

Creating a Rogue

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

Creating a Rogue As you create your rogue character, consider the character’s relationship to the law. Do you have a criminal past — or present? Are you on the run from the law or from an angry

thieves’ guild master? Or did you leave your guild in search of bigger risks and bigger rewards? Is it greed that drives you in your adventures, or some other desire or ideal? What was the trigger that led

Psychic Gray Ooze

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual

Psychic Gray Ooze Psychic gray oozes exhibit violent psionic abilities. These oozes sometimes result from failed attempts to summon or create creatures linked to the Elemental Plane of Earth, like

damage. Reactions Mind Corrosion. Trigger: The ooze fails a saving throw against a spell or another magical effect created by a creature. Response: The triggering creature takes 3 (1d6) Psychic damage.

Aquatic Crusaders

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters

Aquatic Crusaders Centuries ago, tritons entered the world in response to the growing threat of evil elementals. Tritons waged many wars against their enemies on the Plane of Water, driving them

stewardship over the sea floor from their initial settlements and built outposts to create trade with other races. Despite this expansion, few folk know of them. Their settlements are so remote even merfolk and sea elves rarely encounter them.

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