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Iron Flask

Magic Items Dungeon Master’s Guide

on the save. Once trapped, a creature remains in the flask until released. The flask can hold only one creature at a time. A creature trapped in the flask doesn’t age and doesn’t need to

commands even if it doesn’t know the language in which the commands are given. If you issue no commands or give the creature a command that is likely to result in its death or imprisonment, it

Water Weird Legacy

Monsters Monster Manual (2014)

those its summoner declares as off limits. When slain, a water weird becomes an inanimate pool of water. Good and Evil Weirds. Like most elementals, a water weird has no concept of good or evil

with a purify food and drink spell. Elemental Nature. A water weird doesn’t require air, food, drink, or sleep.PoisonFire; Bludgeoning, Piercing, and Slashing from Nonmagical Attacks

Fractine

Monsters Monstrous Compendium Vol. 1: Spelljammer Creatures

"} force damage if it ends its turn inside an object. Unusual Nature. The fractine doesn’t require air, drink, or sleep.Extradimensional Touch. Melee Spell Attack: +5;{"diceNotation":"1d20+5

creature trapped in its demiplane, that creature is released when the fractine splits, reappearing in an unoccupied space as close to the new fractines as possible.A fractine is a bizarre, two

Nightwalker

Monsters Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse

be revived except by a wish spell. Unusual Nature. The nightwalker doesn’t require air, food, drink, or sleep.Multiattack. The nightwalker makes two Enervating Focus attacks, one of which can be

as they arrived. Worse, for each creature that enters the plane, a nightwalker is released to take its place. In order for a trapped creature to escape, the released nightwalker must be lured back

Barghest

Monsters Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse

trapped in the barghest for 24 hours, after which time it is digested and the person is incapable of being revived. If the barghest dies before the soul is digested, the soul is released. While a soul

day when it can complete its mission, return to Gehenna, and serve the General directly in his yugoloth legions, but it doesn’t kill goblinoids indiscriminately. By devouring the souls of

Shield of the Hidden Lord

Magic Items Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus

released from the shield, the pit fiend honors the terms of whatever bargain it struck to facilitate its escape. While trapped in the shield, Gargauth carefully steers the shield’s current owner

difficult for Gargauth to escape its prison, such as leaving the shield in a place where others are unlikely to find it. Gargauth doesn’t know how to escape from the shield. The pit fiend believes

Tar-rasque Hatchling

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miles of the tar-rasque’s lair (i.e. the tar flats) has the following properties: Earthquakes. The ground shakes at irregular intervals, occasionally bringing with it hostile tar elementals

. Fossils. The rocks in the area abound with the fossils of extinct species, dinosaur bones, and even fossilised eggs. Rotten Eggs. Millenia of slow decomposition is released to the surface in wafts of

Astral Dreadnought

Monsters Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse

. The cone doesn’t function while the eye is closed or while the dreadnought is blinded. Astral Entity. The dreadnought can’t leave the Astral Plane, nor can it be banished or otherwise

silver cord instead of dealing damage. Unusual Nature. The dreadnought doesn’t require air, food, drink, or sleep.Multiattack. The dreadnought makes one Bite attack and two Claw attacks. Bite

Harengon

races Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse

Harengons originated in the Feywild, where they spoke Sylvan and embodied the spirit of freedom and travel. In time, these rabbitfolk hopped into other worlds, bringing the fey realm’s

themselves, but some rules in the game affect creatures of certain types in different ways. For example, the cure wounds spell doesn’t work on a Construct or an Undead. Life Span The typical life span

Tar-rasque Brittlebone

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-rasque’s lair (i.e. the tar flats) has the following properties: Earthquakes. The ground shakes at irregular intervals, occasionally bringing with it hostile tar elementals. Fossils. The rocks

in the area abound with the fossils of extinct species, dinosaur bones, and even fossilised eggs. Rotten Eggs. Millenia of slow decomposition is released to the surface in wafts of sulphurous gas

Rod of Seven Parts

Magic Items Vecna: Eve of Ruin

annihilation. Desperate to save themselves and their allies, powerful elemental beings called the Wind Dukes of Aaqa rose against Miska. Committed to the concept of law, the Wind Dukes descended from a

assembled into one piece or disassembled again, each requiring an action, although a partially complete rod doesn’t gain any other abilities. Additionally, while holding one piece of the broken

Gar Shatterkeel (Noncore)

Monsters Locathah Rising

action to cause one of the following effects; Gar can’t use the same effect two rounds in a row. Gar may teleport anywhere within the coral mountain, bringing up to five willing creatures with

), and doesn’t require Gar to maintain concentration. Gar Shatterkeel and any creatures he designates are immune to this effect. Up to five corpses that Gar can see within 60 feet rise up as drowned blade;drowned blades and attack anyone Gar directs them to on his turn. Cold

Tar-rasque

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The area within 6 miles of the tar-rasque’s lair (i.e. the tar flats) has the following properties: Earthquakes. The ground shakes at irregular intervals, occasionally bringing with it

hostile tar elementals. Fossils. The rocks in the area abound with the fossils of extinct species, dinosaur bones, and even fossilised eggs. Rotten Eggs. Millenia of slow decomposition is released to

Morkoth

Monsters Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse

remnant of celestial matter imbued with life-giving magic. The collision released a storm of chaotic energy and sent countless islands spinning away into the void. Within some of them, bits of the god&rsquo

Hypnosis action, originating at a point within 120 feet of itself. It doesn’t need to see the effect’s point of origin. Regional Effects The island surrounding a morkoth’s lair is

Staff of the Forgotten One

Magic Items Tomb of Annihilation

successful one. When the staff is destroyed, the life force of the Forgotten One is released to the afterlife. Where it goes is anyone’s guess. Casting the staff into a sphere of annihilation

destroys both the staff and the life force trapped within it. The staff doesn’t explode if destroyed in this manner, but its destruction causes the sphere to be destroyed as well.

Reborn

races

alongside complex designs for clockwork organs. 6 You were released after being petrified for generations. Your memories have faded, though, and your body isn’t what it once was. 7

themselves, but some rules in the game affect creatures of certain types in different ways. For example, the text of the cure wounds spell specifies that the spell doesn’t work on a creature of the Construct type. Reborn Traits

Feral Tiefling

races Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide

reflect their fiendish heritage. And some younger tieflings, striving to find a place in the world, adopt a name that signifies a virtue or other concept and then try to embody that concept. For some

watch might follow a tiefling around for a while, and demagogues blame tieflings for strange happenings. The reality, though, is that a tiefling’s bloodline doesn’t affect his or her

Tiefling Legacy

races Basic Rules (2014)

reflect their fiendish heritage. And some younger tieflings, striving to find a place in the world, adopt a name that signifies a virtue or other concept and then try to embody that concept. For some

tieflings, assuming that their infernal heritage has left its mark on their personality and morality, not just their appearance. The reality is that a tiefling’s bloodline doesn’t affect their personality. They are gifted with magic from the infernal realms but chart their own course in life.

Appendix E: Concept Gallery

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Hoard of the Dragon Queen

Appendix E: Concept Gallery Just as most adventurers don’t walk into a dragon’s lair without a plan, neither were D&D’s iconic monsters developed without considerable forethought. This gallery