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Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
call upon the spirits of dead creatures. Mages seeking longer-term assistance from ancient spirits have learned to house these spirits in statues, giving them a more permanent residence from which to
assist the living.
Some of these spirit statues bond with and mentor a specific mage, but most serve in a variety of roles for numerous individuals, ranging from research colleagues to martial
Monsters
Spelljammer: Adventures in Space
boss around smaller, weaker creatures can easily end up in positions of power, surrounded by loyal underlings, sycophants, and would-be usurpers. A plasmoid boss might be the master of a guild, the
leader of a criminal enterprise, the lord of a plasmoid community, or the captain of a spelljamming ship. Regardless of the roles they secure for themselves, plasmoid bosses need no small amount of charm
Monsters
The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
purified soil (stripped of things nourishing to fungi, of course). Eating salt is also a defense mechanism, because it makes the campestris taste salty and thus unpleasant to most creatures, though bullywugs consider them a delicacy.
creature can repeat the saving throw at the end of each of its turns, ending the effect on itself on a success.Campestris are happy-go-lucky mushroom-like creatures with few cares or worries. They
Monsters
Quests from the Infinite Staircase
condition (escape DC 15). The robot has two cargo tentacles, each of which can grapple one target.
Tractor Beam. The robot casts Telekinesis, targeting only creatures with the incapacitated condition
worker robots fill public-facing service roles. Antigravity technology and built-in tractor beams allow worker robots to effortlessly lift cargo and other heavy objects with their mechanical tentacles
Classes
Xanathar's Guide to Everything
You have dedicated yourself to hunting down creatures of the night and wielders of grim magic. A Monster Slayer seeks out vampires, dragons, evil fey, fiends, and other magical threats. Trained in
Slayer Magic, Hunter’s Sense, Slayer’s Prey
7th
Supernatural Defense
11th
Magic-User’s Nemesis
15th
Slayer’s Counter
Classes
Xanathar's Guide to Everything
You have dedicated yourself to hunting down creatures of the night and wielders of grim magic. A Monster Slayer seeks out vampires, dragons, evil fey, fiends, and other magical threats. Trained in
Slayer Magic, Hunter’s Sense, Slayer’s Prey
7th
Supernatural Defense
11th
Magic-User’s Nemesis
15th
Slayer’s Counter
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
early on the mount immediately after it attacks.Kavalrachni are duergar cavalry trained to fight while riding female steeder;female steeders or other Underdark creatures as mounts.
Duergar
Duergar
many who dwell in the Underdark, duergar must constantly be on guard against the raids and plots of their neighbors. To this end, duergar warriors fulfill a variety of combat roles, often marrying
Monsters
The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
, of course). Eating salt is also a defense mechanism, because it makes the campestris taste salty and thus unpleasant to most creatures, though bullywugs consider them a delicacy.Bludgeoning, Piercing, Slashing
of its turns, ending the effect on itself on a success.Campestris are happy-go-lucky mushroom-like creatures with few cares or worries. They are captivated by music, though they can’t
Monsters
Locathah Rising
expel an ink cloud in a 20-foot radius. The cloud spreads around corners, and that area is heavily obscured to creatures other than kraken priest;kraken priests or a kraken. Each creature other than a
Defense. Whymsee withdraws into her shell. Until she emerges, she gains a +4 bonus to AC and has advantage on Strength and Constitution saving throws. While in her shell, Whymsee is prone, her speed is 0
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
neighbors. To this end, duergar warriors fulfill a variety of combat roles, often marrying their fury in battle with their psionic abilities or training dangerous Underdark creatures as mounts.
Denigrated by
Magic Items
Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything
crew compartment within, from which up to two Medium creatures can control it—and potentially execute a spree of unstoppable destruction.
Tales of the servant’s origins involve more
Mad’s several times over granddaughter, Lum the Maestro, while she reconstructed the long disassembled Mighty Servant of Leuk-o.
Dangerous Attunement. Two creatures can be attuned to the servant
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
many who dwell in the Underdark, duergar must constantly be on guard against the raids and plots of their neighbors. To this end, duergar warriors fulfill a variety of combat roles, often marrying their
fury in battle with their psionic abilities or training dangerous Underdark creatures as mounts.
Denigrated by some as joyless, duergar are in fact deeply passionate in all that they do—even if
Monsters
Monstrous Compendium Vol. 2: Dragonlance Creatures
Calescent Aura. At the start of Ember’s turn, Ember can force any number of creatures of his choice within 10 feet of himself to make a DC 22 Constitution saving throw. On a failed save, a
who serves the Dragon Queen Takhisis. In his service to the Dragon Queen, Ember has taken on many roles at her behest—including that of a black-robed human member of the Mages of High Sorcery
Monsters
Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse
Psychic Defense. While the githzerai is wearing no armor and wielding no shield, its AC includes its Wisdom modifier.Multiattack. The githzerai makes three Unarmed Strike attacks.
Unarmed Strike
within 15 feet of the githzerai is difficult terrain for other creatures while the flowers and vines are present.
5–6: Retaliating Light. Multicolored lights surround the githzerai until the start
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
Fist attacks against one random creature within reach. If no creatures are within reach, the giant flies into a rage and gains advantage on all attack rolls until the end of its next turn.
4–5
: The giant makes one Fist attack against each creature within reach. If no creatures are within reach, the giant makes one Fist attack against itself.
6–7: The giant makes one Bite attack
Monsters
Monstrous Compendium Vol. 4: Eldraine Creatures
succeed on a DC 18 Intelligence (Investigation) check to discern that the wurm is animate.
Leafy Handholds. Creatures have advantage on ability checks made to climb the wurm.
Legendary Resistance (3
wurm’s turns from thorns in the wurm’s gullet.
The wurm’s stomach can hold up to two creatures at a time. If the wurm takes 30 damage or more on a single turn from a creature inside it
Monsters
Spelljammer: Adventures in Space
umber. It takes them days to digest a meal, during which time they attack only in self-defense.
A brown scavver likes to swallow its prey whole. The creature’s stomach is filled with poisonous
always aggressive; often they trail behind larger creatures as well as ships and asteroids, living off droppings and discarded refuse. They can enter the air envelopes of these bodies, so that as
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
summon these creatures to serve as guards and assassins, two roles at which they excel.
Star Spawn
The Material Plane represents only one small part of the multiverse. Beyond the best-known planes
: entities that are ever hungering, searching, warring, and sometimes dreaming. These Elder Evils are far older than most of the mortal peoples and always inimical to such creatures’ minds.
However
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
Underdark, duergar must constantly be on guard against the raids and plots of their neighbors. To this end, duergar warriors fulfill a variety of combat roles, often marrying their fury in battle with
their psionic abilities or training dangerous Underdark creatures as mounts.
Denigrated by some as joyless, duergar are in fact deeply passionate in all that they do—even if that passion rarely
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
guard against the raids and plots of their neighbors. To this end, duergar warriors fulfill a variety of combat roles, often marrying their fury in battle with their psionic abilities or training
dangerous Underdark creatures as mounts.
Denigrated by some as joyless, duergar are in fact deeply passionate in all that they do—even if that passion rarely manifests as mirth. They bring an
races
One Grung Above
humanoids found in rain forests and tropical jungles. They are fiercely territorial and see themselves as superior to most other creatures.
Tree-Dwelling Amphibians. Grungs live in trees and prefer shade. A
, and blue grungs work as artisans and in other domestic roles. Supervising and guiding both groups are the purple grungs, which serve as administrators and commanders.
Red grungs are the tribe&rsquo
Monsters
Eberron: Rising from the Last War
, and only half damage if it fails. It can't use this trait if it's incapacitated.
Unarmored Defense. While the dolgaunt is wearing no armor and wielding no shield, its AC includes its Wisdom
Xoriat to conquer Khorvaire, they captured and transformed that land's indigenous creatures to create armies of hideous warriors. Dyrrn the Corruptor shaped dolgaunts from hobgoblin stock, turning them
Monsters
Mythic Odysseys of Theros
, requiring no material components:
1/day each: banishment, detect evil and good
Unarmored Defense. While the leonin is wearing no armor and wielding no shield, its AC includes its Wisdom
the leonin prides.
Prides of leonin roam the plains of Oreskos, protecting the land and its creatures from interlopers, both mortal and immortal. As many leonin suffered at the hands of archon tyrants
Monsters
Quests from the Infinite Staircase
of bark and wood indistinguishable from ordinary tree burls. Barkburrs often act in defense of a grove or forest.
Some barkburrs cling to the trees from which they sprouted, while others slowly wander
until they encounter creatures that threaten the forest’s natural order. When a barkburr identifies such a creature, the barkburr leaps at the invader and injects it with a poisonous sap that quickly and painfully transforms the creature into a tree.Psychic
Monsters
Mordenkainen's Fiendish Folio Volume 1
Needle Defense. Each time a creature makes a melee attack against a needle lord, it takes 2 piercing damage. A creature can choose to make an attack with disadvantage to avoid this damage.Multiattack
by needle lords—hulking plant creatures that hail from fey domains wracked by wanton violence. When a needle lord enters a worldly forest, it spreads seed pods wherever it roams. A pod remains
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
Unarmored Defense. While the adept is wearing no armor and wielding no shield, its AC includes its Wisdom modifier.Multiattack. The adept makes three Unarmed Strike attacks or five Dart attacks
the arms that make them look as though they were made of marble or granite
2
Colorful dragon scales
3
Collage of playful Elemental or Fey creatures
4
Constellations on the palm of
Monsters
Monstrous Compendium Vol. 4: Eldraine Creatures
", "rollAction":"Bite"} to hit, reach 10 ft., one target. Hit: 14 (2d8 + 5);{"diceNotation":"2d8+5", "rollType":"damage", "rollAction":"Bite", "rollDamageType":"piercing"} piercing damage.
Shell Defense
shorelines where the wilds meet the ocean. These monstrous creatures are aptly named; their bites are known to snap giants’ arms cleanly in half.
Snapping hydras have naturally long life spans and
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
necromancer or the remains of powerful Undead creatures. Unless it is uprooted and burned while it is still a seedling, the corpse flower grows to enormous size over several weeks, then tears itself free
malevolent bent and despises the living.
With or without corpses nested in its body, a corpse flower exudes a stench of decay that can overwhelm the senses of nearby creatures, causing them to become
Magic Items
Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
defense against the axe, which passes through that spell’s barrier of magical force.
When you hit a fiend or an undead with the axe, cold blue flames erupt from its blade and deal an extra 2d6
-lawful creatures within 120 feet of it.
Personality. Azuredge is sworn to protect Waterdeep, and it desires to be wielded by a law-abiding person willing to dedicate everything to the city’s
Bard
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Basic Rules (2014)
, decipher old tomes, travel to strange places, or encounter exotic creatures. Bards love to accompany heroes to witness their deeds firsthand. A bard who can tell an awe-inspiring story from personal
experience earns renown among other bards. Indeed, after telling so many stories about heroes accomplishing mighty deeds, many bards take these themes to heart and assume heroic roles themselves
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
this end, duergar warriors fulfill a variety of combat roles, often marrying their fury in battle with their psionic abilities or training dangerous Underdark creatures as mounts.
Denigrated by some
make one weapon attack against another creature the duergar can see or to move up to 10 feet in a direction of the duergar’s choice. Creatures that can’t be charmed are immune to this
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Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
. During this time, the shell sheds bright light in a 30-foot radius and dim light for an additional 30 feet, and creatures that can see the snail have disadvantage on attack rolls against it. In addition
, any creature within the bright light and able to see the snail when this power is activated must succeed on a DC 15 Wisdom saving throw or be stunned until the light ends.
Shell Defense. The flail
Flail Snail
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Volo's Guide to Monsters
and dim light for an additional 30 feet, and creatures that can see the snail have disadvantage on attack rolls against it. In addition, any creature within the bright light and able to see the snail
when this power is activated must succeed on a DC 15 Wisdom saving throw or be stunned until the light ends.
Shell Defense. The flail snail withdraws into its shell, gaining a +4 bonus to AC until it emerges. It can emerge from its shell as a bonus action on its turn.Fire, Poison
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
Army Arcana. When the hobgoblin casts a spell that causes damage or that forces other creatures to make a saving throw, it can choose itself and any number of allies to be immune to the damage caused
spellcasters who call down fireballs and other destructive magic in the defense of the court they serve, whether that court is in the Feywild or the Material Plane. A hobgoblin devastator on the
Monsters
Mordenkainen's Fiendish Folio Volume 1
of druids (possibly in service to Malar or Talos) who cultivated the first of these creatures. However, it remains unknown whether their intent was to create a benign means of breaking down monstrous
continue their horrid life cycle.
An Unnatural Plague. Whole settlements along the frontier have been wiped out by plagues of assassin bugs. Without a quickly organized defense, even a single bug can






