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Monster Manual
Legendary Resistance (3/Day). If the death knight fails a saving throw, it can choose to succeed instead.
Magic Resistance. The death knight has Advantage on saving throws against spells and other
three Dread Blade attacks.
Dread Blade. Melee Attack Roll: +11;{"diceNotation":"1d20+11", "rollType":"to hit", "rollAction":"Dread Blade"}, reach 5 ft. Hit: 12 (2d6 + 5);{"diceNotation":"2d6+5
Classes
Player’s Handbook
Unearth Forbidden Lore of Ineffable Beings
When you choose this subclass, you might bind yourself to an unspeakable being from the Far Realm or an elder god—a being such as Tharizdun, the
Chained God; Zargon, the Returner; Hadar, the Dark Hunger; or Great Cthulhu. Or you might invoke several entities without yoking yourself to one. The motives of these beings are incomprehensible, and the
Classes
Player’s Handbook
Core Warlock Traits
Primary Ability
Charisma
Hit Point Die
D8 per Warlock level
Saving Throw Proficiencies
Wisdom and Charisma
Skill Proficiencies
Choose 2: Arcana
, Deception, History, Intimidation, Investigation, Nature, or Religion
Weapon Proficiencies
Simple weapons
Armor Training
Light armor
Starting Equipment
Choose A or B: (A) Leather;Leather
Monsters
Monster Manual
Legendary Resistance (3/Day, or 4/Day in Lair). If the mummy fails a saving throw, it can choose to succeed instead.
Magic Resistance. The mummy has Advantage on saving throws against spells and
.
Dread Command. The mummy casts Command (level 2 version), using the same spellcasting ability as Spellcasting. The mummy can’t take this action again until the start of its next turn.
Glare. The
Magic Items
Dungeon Master’s Guide
one of your ability scores by 2. You can’t decrease an ability that has a score of 5 or lower. Alternatively, you can choose not to adjust your ability scores, in which case this card has no
combat, you have Advantage on Death Saving Throws for 1 year. If someone else reduces your chosen foe to 0 Hit Points or you don’t choose a foe, this card has no effect.
Donjon. You disappear
Monsters
Forgotten Realms: Adventures in Faerûn
if she fails. She can’t use this trait if she has the Incapacitated condition.
Legendary Resistance (3/Day or 4/Day in Lair). If Karas fails a saving throw, she can choose to succeed
instead.Multiattack. Karas makes two attacks using Dread Dagger or Tyrant’s Blade in any combination.
Dread Dagger. Melee or Ranged Attack Roll: +8;{"diceNotation":"1d20+8", "rollType":"to hit
Monsters
Forgotten Realms: Adventures in Faerûn
Legendary Resistance (4/Day, or 5/Day in Lair). If the dragon fails a saving throw, it can choose to succeed instead.Multiattack. The dragon makes three Rend attacks.
Rend. Melee Attack Roll: +12
Underdark societies, such as kuo-toa. Many deep dragons demand tribute from these groups in the form of food or treasure.
Underdark explorers have many reasons to brave deep dragon lairs beyond
Monsters
Forgotten Realms: Adventures in Faerûn
Legendary Resistance (3/Day, or 4/Day in Lair). If the dragon fails a saving throw, it can choose to succeed instead.Multiattack. The dragon makes three Rend attacks.
Rend. Melee Attack Roll: +9
often clash with aquatic Underdark societies, such as kuo-toa. Many deep dragons demand tribute from these groups in the form of food or treasure.
Underdark explorers have many reasons to brave deep
Species
Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
. Their reasons are often deeply personal. Some seek danger, imagining monsters as personifications of their own hungers. Others pursue revenge against whatever turned them into a dhampir. And still
restraint. In any case, temptation haunts dhampirs, and circumstances conspire to give them endless reasons to indulge.
While many dhampirs thirst for blood, your character might otherwise gain
Monsters
Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse
Immutable Form. The kolyarut is immune to any spell or effect that would alter its form.
Legendary Resistance (4/Day). If the kolyarut fails a saving throw, it can choose to succeed instead.
Magic
: automatic hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 24 force damage plus one of the following effects (choose one or roll a d6;{"diceNotation":"1d6", "rollType":"roll", "rollAction":"Unerring Blade"}):
1&ndash
Monsters
Mythic Odysseys of Theros
wonders and changing the world—but not always for the better. Doomwake giants arise from pernicious fears that infect a whole city or region. If enough mortals dread destruction for long enough, their
terror can manifest as one of these massive Nyxborn beings. Once unleashed, a doomwake giant goes on a rampage, fulfilling the prophecy mortals believed into being. After doing so, these terrors
Monsters
Vecna: Eve of Ruin
Legendary Resistance (3/Day). If Strahd fails a saving throw, he can choose to succeed instead.
Master of the House. When Strahd is reduced to 0 hit points, he dissolves into mist and immediately
his speed without provoking opportunity attack;opportunity attacks.
Strike (Costs 2 Actions). Strahd makes one Death Strike attack.Strahd von Zarovich is the Darklord of Barovia, a Domain of Dread
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
Air and Darkness, the dread ruler of the Gloaming Court. Once lazy, egotistical folk, the creatures that would become the quicklings were late in answering the queen’s summons one time too many
squeal. Only when a quickling deliberately slows down, which it prefers not to do, can other beings properly see, hear, and comprehend it. Never truly at rest, a “stationary” quickling
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
consort with Fiends and Undead, and they reject many of the goodly things from their former lives.
Blackguards often adorn their armor and weapons with dread accoutrements or are marked by eerie
phenomena. You may choose a blackguard’s accoutrement or roll on the Blackguard Accoutrements table to determine it.
Blackguard Accoutrements
d8;{"diceNotation":"1d8", "rollType":"roll
Classes
Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide
lifetimes pass like the seasons, like the flicker of endless days and nights. It has the secrets of the ages to share, secrets of life and death. Beings of this sort include Vecna, Lord of the Hand and
the Eye; the dread Iuz; the lich-queen Vol; the Undying Court of Aerenal; Vlaakith, lich-queen of the githyanki; and the deathless wizard Fistandantalus.
In the Realms, Undying patrons include
Classes
Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide
lifetimes pass like the seasons, like the flicker of endless days and nights. It has the secrets of the ages to share, secrets of life and death. Beings of this sort include Vecna, Lord of the Hand and
the Eye; the dread Iuz; the lich-queen Vol; the Undying Court of Aerenal; Vlaakith, lich-queen of the githyanki; and the deathless wizard Fistandantalus.
In the Realms, Undying patrons include
Monsters
Vecna: Eve of Ruin
Legendary Resistance (5/Day). If Vecna fails a saving throw, he can choose to succeed instead.
Special Equipment. Vecna carries a magic dagger named Afterthought. In the hands of anyone other than
reactions per round but only one per turn.
Dread Counterspell. Vecna utters a dread word to interrupt a creature he can see that is casting a spell. If the spell is 4th level or lower, it fails and
Species
Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
veins making it clear that they’ve been touched by death. Other reborn are marvels of magic or science, being stitched together from disparate beings or bearing mysterious minds in manufactured
itchy straw stuffing inside you.
Reborn in the Domains of Dread
When creating a reborn, consult with your DM to see if it’s appropriate to tie your origins to one of the following Domains
Monsters
Tales from the Yawning Portal
can choose to succeed instead.
Rejuvenation. If Var is destroyed but his phylactery remains intact, Var gains a new body in 1d10;{"diceNotation":"1d10","rollType":"roll","rollAction":"Rejuvenation
, ending the effect on itself on a success.
Benign Transportation. Var teleports up to 30 feet to an unoccupied space that he can see. Alternatively, he can choose a space within range that is
Magic Items
Vecna: Eve of Ruin
After betraying and nearly destroying the lich Vecna, the warrior Kas found himself trapped in the Shadowfell, imprisoned in a Domain of Dread called Tovag. There, he languished as a vampire. In time
, the Dark Powers of the Domain of Dread lured Kas to a hidden forge, where he found the Crown of Lies. Once Kas vowed to deliver Vecna into the Dark Powers’ clutches and donned the crown, the
Monsters
Vecna: Eve of Ruin
Legendary Resistance (3/Day). If the false lich fails a saving throw, it can choose to succeed instead.
Magic Resistance. The false lich has advantage on saving throws against spells and magical
nefarious magical copies of themselves to fool enemies, to guard treasure, or for other inscrutable reasons.
To create a false lich, a lich binds a shred of its life force to a corpse in a profane
Species
Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
or choose an option from the Hexblood Origins table to determine how your character gained their lineage.
Hexblood Origins
d6
Origin
1
Seeking a child, your parent made a bargain
changed you and forced you from your home.
6
A slighted druid transformed you and bound you to live only so long as a sacred tree bears fruit.
Hexbloods in the Domains of Dread
When
Monsters
Spelljammer: Adventures in Space
citadels.
Although the Silver Void is their home, astral elves often venture into Wildspace systems and place their ships and citadels in orbit around stars. Astral elves do this for several reasons
, their longevity gives astral elves a perspective on time that few other kinds of creatures can appreciate. Whether they choose to live in quiet contemplation or strike out to explore the far reaches
Monsters
Spelljammer: Adventures in Space
do this for several reasons. Proximity to a star allows the astral elves to forge pacts with solar dragons and to collect starlight, which the elves use to grow crystals and repair their ships. Most
. Whatever their disposition, their longevity gives astral elves a perspective on time that few other kinds of creatures can appreciate. Whether they choose to live in quiet contemplation or strike
Monsters
Spelljammer: Adventures in Space
to say, and the message can be understood by any creature that has an Intelligence score of 2 or higher.
Legendary Resistance (3/Day). If the zodar fails a saving throw, it can choose to succeed
aloofness. They simply hover in silence. When a zodar finally performs some significant action, the reasons for that action aren’t always clear.
One interpretation of this behavior posits that
Warlock
Legacy
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Basic Rules (2014)
pacts made with mysterious beings of supernatural power, warlocks unlock magical effects both subtle and spectacular. Drawing on the ancient knowledge of beings such as fey nobles, demons, devils
relationship between warlock and patron is like that of a cleric and a deity, though the beings that serve as patrons for warlocks are not gods. A warlock might lead a cult dedicated to a demon
Monsters
The Book of Many Things
object.
Legendary Resistance (3/Day). If Gremorly fails a saving throw, he can choose to succeed instead.Multiattack. Gremorly makes three Withering Strike attacks.
Withering Strike. Melee Spell Attack
Gremorly, who became a victim of his own ritual.
Gremorly is now one of the many ghosts that haunt the keep. Locals have renamed the keep Harrowhall, as they dread the spectral figures moving through the
Monsters
Vecna: Eve of Ruin
Resistance (3/Day). If the impaler fails a saving throw, it can choose to succeed instead.Multiattack. The impaler makes one Spike attack and two Wicked Spear attacks.
Spike. Melee Weapon Attack: +11
", "rollDamageType":"necrotic"} necrotic damage.In the Domains of Dread, practitioners of foul magic perform a profane ritual that turns living creatures into fiendish killers. This ritual necessitates the use of a
Monsters
Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
Legendary Resistance (3/Day). If the juggernaut fails a saving throw, it can choose to succeed instead.
Regeneration. The juggernaut regains 20 hit points at the start of its turn. If the juggernaut
Relentless killers come into being and undertake their terrifying sprees for a spectrum of reasons. When creating a relentless killer, consider what circumstances led to their transformation and
Monsters
Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
Legendary Resistance (1/Day). If the slasher fails a saving throw, it can choose to succeed instead.
Shrouded Presence. The slasher is immune to any effect that would sense its emotions or read its
fear into innocents across lands and over ages.
Creating a Relentless Killer
Relentless killers come into being and undertake their terrifying sprees for a spectrum of reasons. When creating a
Monsters
Spelljammer: Adventures in Space
the Silver Void is their home, astral elves often venture into Wildspace systems and place their ships and citadels in orbit around stars. Astral elves do this for several reasons. Proximity to a
gives astral elves a perspective on time that few other kinds of creatures can appreciate. Whether they choose to live in quiet contemplation or strike out to explore the far reaches of the multiverse
monsters
", "rollDamageType":"piercing"} piercing damage.
Legendary Resistance (3/Day, or 4/Day in Lair). If the drake fails a saving throw, it can choose to succeed instead.Multiattack. The drake makes three Rend
replenish their forest’s soil and promote the growth of their beloved fir trees. Over the centuries, villagers and townsfolk have learned to live in peace with these largely benevolent beings
Species
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
Shadar-kai are the elves of the Shadowfell, originally drawn to that dread realm by the Raven Queen. Over the centuries, some of them have continued to serve her, while others have ventured into the
, shadar-kai can live to be over 750 years old.
Creating Your Character
At 1st level, you choose whether your character is a member of the human race or of a fantastical race. If you select a fantastical
Backgrounds
Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide
number of reasons, and the departure from his or her homeland could have been voluntary or involuntary. To determine why you are so far from home, roll on the table below or choose from the options
good that even if some people you meet have heard of your homeland, they know merely the name and perhaps a few outrageous stories. You have come to this part of Faerûn for your own reasons, which
Monsters
Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse
hexton dies, its body disintegrates into dust, leaving behind anything it was carrying.
Legendary Resistance (4/Day). If the hexton fails a saving throw, it can choose to succeed instead.Multiattack
which end in powerful pincers.
Modrons
Constructed on the plane of Mechanus, modrons are partially mechanical beings that belong to a strict hierarchy. Each modron dutifully obeys commands from the