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Dungeon Master’s Guide
from it (save DC 18). The table indicates how many charges you must expend to cast the spell.
Spell
Charge Cost
Animate Dead
1
Blight
2
Circle of Death
3
Finger of
Death
3
Power Word Kill
4
Speak with Dead
1
While attuned to the wand, Orcus or a follower blessed by him can cast each of the wand’s spells using 2 fewer charges (minimum of 0
Spells
Player’s Handbook
result of how you worded the wish. For example, wishing that a villain were dead might propel you forward in time to a period when that villain is no longer alive, effectively removing you from the
game. Similarly, wishing for a Legendary magic item or an Artifact might instantly transport you to the presence of the item’s current owner. If your wish is granted and its effects have
Monsters
Forgotten Realms: Adventures in Faerûn
Myrkul and gained a portion of malevolent divine power from each. A scion of the Dead Three might have seized this power in a sinister ritual or had it thrust on them by an evil Artifact or a god’s
malevolent will. In any case, they possess cruelty, bloodlust, and necromantic power in equal measure and serve the Dead Three with their soul.
A Dead Three scion leads cults to Bane, Bhaal, or Myrkul
Monsters
Forgotten Realms: Adventures in Faerûn
rival and an equal. The Zlan Liches table gives a brief description of each component.
Zlan Liches
Name
History
Argent Black
Emerged from the Negative Plane, fed on hate and
prove useful.
Zlan’s current plan is to heat Icewind Dale from below, warming the Underdark to melt its ice and release aberrant terrors from frozen stasis. This melting also exposes ancient sites containing power Zlan needs to enforce its wicked will on the region.Cold, PoisonLightning, Necrotic
Monsters
Forgotten Realms: Adventures in Faerûn
. That Manshoon is dead, and the current Manshoon is one of the original’s many clones. Being a magical copy rather than an original doesn’t make Manshoon any less of a threat, as he’s
someone else in disguise, which is just as Manshoon prefers.
Manshoon seeks power and is checked only by the many enemies who want to see him dead. He recently failed to seize control of Waterdeep in a
Monsters
Forgotten Realms: Adventures in Faerûn
, 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
. His Cult of the Dragon devotes itself to helping evil dragons become dracoliches to bring this evil new age to fruition.
Sammaster was killed in battle, but had prepared contingencies for his demise
Monsters
Forgotten Realms: Adventures in Faerûn
, Speak with Dead
1/Day Each: Create Undead (level 8 version), Power Word KillLegendary Action Uses: 3. Immediately after another creature’s turn, Sammaster can expend a use to take one of the
rule Faerûn. His Cult of the Dragon devotes itself to helping evil dragons become dracoliches to bring this evil new age to fruition.
Sammaster was killed in battle, but had prepared contingencies
Dimension Door
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Spells
Basic Rules (2014)
You teleport yourself from your current location to any other spot within range. You arrive at exactly the spot desired. It can be a place you can see, one you can visualize, or one you can describe
by stating distance and direction, such as "200 feet straight downward" or "upward to the northwest at a 45- degree angle, 300 feet."
You can bring along objects as long as their weight doesn't
Monsters
Dragons of Stormwreck Isle
"} bludgeoning damage.Spore servants are dead creatures reanimated by the magical spores of a myconid leader. The final act of the myconid leader in Seagrow Caves before lapsing into its current comatose state
was creating a spore servant from a dead giant octopus to protect the caves while the leader could not. Unlike a living octopus, this guardian has only basic control over its tentacles. Rather than coiling around intruders to immobilize them, the spore servant simply bludgeons them.
Monsters
Storm King's Thunder
":"piercing"} piercing damage. Baric carries twenty crossbow bolts.
Roleplaying Information
As a knight of the Order of the Gauntlet, Sir Baric has sworn oaths to catch evildoers and bring them to justice
. His current quarry is a dwarf brigand, Worvil “the Weevil” Forkbeard, who is rumored to be hiding in Icewind Dale. In addition to his gear, Sir Baric has an unarmored warhorse, Henry
Species
Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron
ground and faced your ancestors, and twenty fell before his singing blades. You are no Dhakaani of old, and a mere twenty of you will bring no honor to the Taeri.”
The warlord hissed in fury, and
particular rival who channels the same ancestor, or one who channels a rival of your ancestor?
It’s also important to think about why you are traveling with a group of player characters
Monsters
Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
can't be thawed, harmed by fire, animated, or raised from the dead.
Unusual Nature. The walker doesn't require air, food, drink, or sleep.Multiattack. The walker makes two attacks.
Slam. Melee Weapon
winter create coldlight walkers as embodiments of winter's wrath. These hateful spirits that were denied passage to the afterlife are preserved in their current forms to remind the living how fragile
Monsters
Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus
many allies as possible. Should one or more of his comrades fall in battle, Arkhan uses revivify and raise dead spells to bring them back to life as soon as possible.
If Arkhan finds himself overwhelmed
teleport (3 charges).
Innate Spellcasting. Arkhan's spellcasting ability is Charisma (spell save DC 17). He can cast the following spells, requiring no material components:
3/day each: animate dead
Backgrounds
Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron
you may encounter one of them when you interact with a house business. The degree to which such acquaintances are willing to help you depends on your current standing in your house..
Suggested
function, and its prosperity will help everyone. (Good)
2
Tradition. I uphold traditions of my house and bring honor to my family. (Lawful)
3
Innovation. Abandon old traditions and
Backgrounds
Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron
may encounter one of them when you interact with a house business. The degree to which such acquaintances are willing to help you depends on your current standing in your house..
Suggested
, and its prosperity will help everyone. (Good)
2
Tradition. I uphold traditions of my house and bring honor to my family. (Lawful)
3
Innovation. Abandon old traditions and find
Monsters
Curse of Strahd
spells, requiring only verbal components:
At will: detect evil and good
1/day each: commune, raise dead
Magic Resistance. The Abbot has advantage on saving throws against spells and other magical
hundred years ago, the deva was sent from the Upper Planes to honor the legacy of Saint Markovia. He reopened the abbey and began tending to the physically and mentally ill. In so doing, he hoped to bring
Species
Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron
ground and faced your ancestors, and twenty fell before his singing blades. You are no Dhakaani of old, and a mere twenty of you will bring no honor to the Taeri.”
The warlord hissed in fury, and
particular rival who channels the same ancestor, or one who channels a rival of your ancestor?
It’s also important to think about why you are traveling with a group of player characters
Backgrounds
Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron
encounter one of them when you interact with a house business. The degree to which such acquaintances are willing to help you depends on your current standing in your house..
Suggested Characteristics
its prosperity will help everyone. (Good)
2
Tradition. I uphold traditions of my house and bring honor to my family. (Lawful)
3
Innovation. Abandon old traditions and find better
Monsters
The Book of Many Things
willing creature the living portent can see within 30 feet of itself. The target’s hit point maximum and current hit points increase by 7 (1d8 + 3);{"diceNotation":"1d8+3", "rollType":"roll
;s choice). Their spells might also be different. Some known Elder Evils include the following:
Acamar. A dead star that consumes other stars or sidereal bodies it encounters.
Caiphon, the Dream
Monsters
Guildmasters’ Guide to Ravnica
: animate dead, blight, vampiric touch
Pack Tactics. The kraul has advantage on an attack roll against a creature if at least one of the kraul's allies is within 5 feet of the creature and the ally
crippling necromantic magic, and the presence of death seems to fortify them. They draw power from the defeat of their enemies and channel it to their followers, ensuring the continuation of the cycle.
The current leader of the kraul is a death priest named Mazirek.
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Guildmasters’ Guide to Ravnica
Golgari, no fear of death or taboo about the dead, just a fierce affirmation of the cycle.
Skill Proficiencies: Nature, Survival
Tool Proficiencies: Poisoner’s kit
Languages
animate dead, plant growth
4th
giant insect, grasping vine
5th
cloudkill, insect plague
Golgari magic is often accompanied by a sickly green glow and a rotting
Monsters
Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
her divine spark vanishes. She is dead until the next winter solstice, when she reappears at full health in a cold, remote location of her choosing.
Frigid Aura. So long as Auril has at least 1 hit
heart of the diamond.
If Auril is killed in her third and final form, she is dead until the next winter solstice. While she is dead, her mortal worshipers lose their god-granted spells and abilities
Lizardfolk
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Species
Volo's Guide to Monsters
rage against their enemies. They simply observe and react as a situation warrants.
Lizardfolk lack meaningful emotional ties to the past. They assess situations based on their current and future
utility and importance. Nowhere does this come through as strongly as when lizardfolk deal with the dead. To a lizardfolk, a comrade who dies becomes a potential source of food. That companion might have
Monsters
Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
laughter
2nd level (3 slots): darkvision, hold person, ray of enfeeblement
3rd level (3 slots): animate dead, Leomund's tiny hut, vampiric touch (see “Actions” below)
4th level (2 slots
by Vellynne’s rival, Nass Lantomir), but Vellynne animated their corpses, turning them into zombies.
If she is wounded, Vellynne can cast vampiric touch and use the spell to regain hit points
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Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron
encounter one of them when you interact with a house business. The degree to which such acquaintances are willing to help you depends on your current standing in your house..
Suggested
, and its prosperity will help everyone. (Good)
2
Tradition. I uphold traditions of my house and bring honor to my family. (Lawful)
3
Innovation. Abandon old traditions and find
Backgrounds
Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron
one of them when you interact with a house business. The degree to which such acquaintances are willing to help you depends on your current standing in your house..
Suggested Characteristics
House
prosperity will help everyone. (Good)
2
Tradition. I uphold traditions of my house and bring honor to my family. (Lawful)
3
Innovation. Abandon old traditions and find better ways
Monsters
Curse of Strahd
from evil and good
2nd level (3 slots): lesser restoration, protection from poison, spiritual weapon
3rd level (3 slots): create food and water, speak with dead, spirit guardians
4th level (3 slots
): divination, freedom of movement, guardian of faith
5th level (2 slots): greater restoration, raise dead
6th level (1 slot): find the path, harm, true seeing
7th level (1 slot): fire storm
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
material components and using Charisma as the spellcasting ability (spell save DC 22):
At will: alter self (can become Medium when changing his appearance), animate dead, detect magic, hold monster
command, Hutijin can easily crush any rival who gets in his way while also defending Mephistopheles against armies seeking to contest his dominion. Hutijin has amassed enough power to challenge the
Backgrounds
Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron
encounter one of them when you interact with a house business. The degree to which such acquaintances are willing to help you depends on your current standing in your house..
Suggested Characteristics
House
prosperity will help everyone. (Good)
2
Tradition. I uphold traditions of my house and bring honor to my family. (Lawful)
3
Innovation. Abandon old traditions and find better ways
Backgrounds
Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron
you may encounter one of them when you interact with a house business. The degree to which such acquaintances are willing to help you depends on your current standing in your house..
Suggested
function, and its prosperity will help everyone. (Good)
2
Tradition. I uphold traditions of my house and bring honor to my family. (Lawful)
3
Innovation. Abandon old traditions and
Backgrounds
Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron
encounter one of them when you interact with a house business. The degree to which such acquaintances are willing to help you depends on your current standing in your house..
Suggested Characteristics
its prosperity will help everyone. (Good)
2
Tradition. I uphold traditions of my house and bring honor to my family. (Lawful)
3
Innovation. Abandon old traditions and find better
Backgrounds
Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron
, and you may encounter one of them when you interact with a house business. The degree to which such acquaintances are willing to help you depends on your current standing in your house..
Suggested
function, and its prosperity will help everyone. (Good)
2
Tradition. I uphold traditions of my house and bring honor to my family. (Lawful)
3
Innovation. Abandon old traditions
Wand of Orcus
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Magic Items
Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
or more of its charges to cast one of the following spells (save DC 18) from it: animate dead (1 charge), blight (2 charges), circle of death (3 charges), finger of death (3 charges), power word kill
(4 charges), or speak with dead (1 charge). The wand regains 1d4 + 3 expended charges daily at dawn.
While attuned to the wand, Orcus or a follower blessed by him can cast each of the wand’s
Monsters
Adventure Atlas: The Mortuary
dead (as an action), dispel magic, speak with dead
1/day each: finger of death, plane shift (self only), project imageSkall can take up to three reactions per round but only one per turn.
Baleful
being hit by an attack, Skall teleports, along with any equipment he is wearing or carrying, up to 30 feet to an unoccupied space he can see.Skall is the current factol of the Heralds of Dust and the
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Tomb of Annihilation
no qualms about stealing from the dead.
5
I’m happier in a dusty old tomb than I am in the centers of civilization.
6
Traps don’t make me nervous. Idiots who trigger traps make
exhilarating than a narrow escape from the jaws of death. (Chaotic)
4
Dignity. The dead and their belongings deserve to be treated with respect. (Lawful)
5
Immortality. All my






