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Returning 35 results for 'cast of desperate'.
Monsters
Eberron: Rising from the Last War
Innate Spellcasting. The hag's spellcasting ability is Charisma (spell save DC 15). She can innately cast the following spells, requiring no material components:
At will: detect magic, disguise self
their dark magic allows them to influence the dreams of others, sending messages or inflicting nightmares with a touch. Tales talk of ambitious wizards, frantic monarchs, and desperate heroes
Monsters
The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
within 10 feet of Bavlorna uses at least 10 feet of movement to run in place counterclockwise, Bavlorna is overcome by a fit of sneezing and can’t cast spells until the end of her next turn. In
desperate individuals who seek her out do so to find a remedy for a nagging problem or anxiety. Though she despises unannounced visitors, a tragic tale of woe and misery puts her in a bargaining mood. If
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
rod, you can use an action to cast the spell associated with that piece, as listed on the Rod Pieces table. Once that piece of the rod has been used to cast a spell, it can’t be used that way
Monsters
Mythic Odysseys of Theros
spellcasting ability is Wisdom (spell save DC 18). The rider can innately cast the following spells, requiring no material components:
At will: command, compelled duel
1/day each: banishment, blade barrier
mortals make offerings in a desperate attempt to appease them, but the ashen riders aren't merciful, and they delight in reducing the paragons of the mortal world to ash.
The mysterious conquerors
Monsters
The Book of Many Things
’ll be found by mortals who are desperate for power and ripe for corruption.
Malaxxix seeks the Books of Keeping: ancient tomes that contain the true names of all yugoloths. To this end, it
can cast the Scrying spell on the cursed creature without material components or a spell slot. Malaxxix doesn’t need to be on the same plane of existence as the creature to use this ability, and
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
Amphibious. The dragon can breathe both air and water.
Fabricate (1/Day). The dragon can cast fabricate, requiring no spell components and using Intelligence as the spellcasting ability.
Legendary
who escaped the dragon’s clutches.
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A topaz dragon has developed a taste for merfolk, and the merfolk community near the dragon’s lair is desperate for help.
8
A topaz dragon is
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
Amphibious. The dragon can breathe both air and water.
Fabricate (1/Day). The dragon can cast fabricate, requiring no spell components and using Intelligence as the spellcasting ability.
Legendary
one treasure hunter who escaped the dragon’s clutches.
7
A topaz dragon has developed a taste for merfolk, and the merfolk community near the dragon’s lair is desperate for help
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
another creature’s turn. The dragon regains spent legendary actions at the start of its turn.
Tail. The dragon makes one Tail attack.
Cast a Spell (Costs 2 Actions). The dragon uses
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A wealthy and well-known artist’s muse—a moonstone dragon—has stopped appearing in their dreams. The artist is desperate
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
turn. The dragon regains spent legendary actions at the start of its turn.
Tail. The dragon makes one Tail attack.
Cast a Spell (Costs 2 Actions). The dragon uses Spellcasting.Ancient legends
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A wealthy and well-known artist’s muse—a moonstone dragon—has stopped appearing in their dreams. The artist is desperate to hire adventurers to
Monsters
Mordenkainen's Fiendish Folio Volume 1
Denizen of the Mist. During its turn, the fog giant ignores the effects of fog cloud spells cast by it or other allied fog giants.
Keen Smell. The giant has advantage on Wisdom (Perception) checks
that rely on smell.
Innate Spellcasting. The giant’s innate spellcasting ability is Charisma. It can innately cast the following spells, requiring no material components:
At will: detect magic
monsters
cast Bane.
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Grinning Sinner siphons his trapped patron’s cursed power and makes bargains of his own to snare the souls of the desperate and foolish.
Secret. The Grinning Sinner holds his prowess and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Eve of Ruin
Chapter 2: The Wizards Three Evyn Fong Alustriel and Tasha desperately cast a Wish spell to try to stop Vecna’s
evil plan. Mordenkainen, who is Kas in disguise, secretly sabotages the spell Time
. In this chapter, the characters become involved in three powerful wizards’ desperate bid to stop the remaking of existence at the hands of the lich-god Vecna. The characters are soon led to believe
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
oasis for the sick, the injured, and the desperate. It also draws clerics and healers of many traditions. Most come to serve those in need, but some seek to understand the magical properties of the place
itself. Magic is affected in the following ways in the House of Convalescence: Diamond Components. When the spells raise dead, resurrection, revivify, or true resurrection are cast in the House of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Eve of Ruin
Chapter 2: The Wizards Three Evyn Fong Alustriel and Tasha desperately cast a Wish spell to try to stop Vecna’s
evil plan. Mordenkainen, who is Kas in disguise, secretly sabotages the spell Time
. In this chapter, the characters become involved in three powerful wizards’ desperate bid to stop the remaking of existence at the hands of the lich-god Vecna. The characters are soon led to believe
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
oasis for the sick, the injured, and the desperate. It also draws clerics and healers of many traditions. Most come to serve those in need, but some seek to understand the magical properties of the place
itself. Magic is affected in the following ways in the House of Convalescence: Diamond Components. When the spells raise dead, resurrection, revivify, or true resurrection are cast in the House of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
head is a crystal helmet-like contraption with leather straps, copper coils, and flashing glass diodes attached to it that emits buzzing noises. Halaster cast a geas spell on the nothic to prevent it
”). Any other creature that dons the helmet becomes the new recipient of these messages. Halaster gets an average of one sending spell message per hour. Most of the messages are from desperate, deranged
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
lost and failed domains—among them, a tower like a blackened rose and a city of skulls—as well as timeless echoes of domains that yet exist. Those cast away amid this orderly apocalypse grow ever more desperate to defy the doomsday clock and the will of a hidden Darklord, the obsessed clockmaker named Klorr.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
head is a crystal helmet-like contraption with leather straps, copper coils, and flashing glass diodes attached to it that emits buzzing noises. Halaster cast a geas spell on the nothic to prevent it
”). Any other creature that dons the helmet becomes the new recipient of these messages. Halaster gets an average of one sending spell message per hour. Most of the messages are from desperate, deranged
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
lost and failed domains—among them, a tower like a blackened rose and a city of skulls—as well as timeless echoes of domains that yet exist. Those cast away amid this orderly apocalypse grow ever more desperate to defy the doomsday clock and the will of a hidden Darklord, the obsessed clockmaker named Klorr.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
studies regarding the nature of the Far Realm. The other notes are nonsensical ravings that hint at a fractured mind slowly coming undone. The bottom drawer is sealed with an arcane lock spell cast
fear of losing her mind and soul to the Far Realm. She seems desperate to use her writings in the journal as a touchstone to her own mind.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
Living Shadow The shadow you cast is animate and ever-present, even when lighting conditions would otherwise prevent it. Your shadow occasionally moves out of sync with you. Sometimes it appears to
holds weapons or bears wounds that don’t exist.
2 When I’m distracted, my shadow panics and tries to get other people’s attention, as if it’s desperate to escape me.
3 When it’s not being
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
studies regarding the nature of the Far Realm. The other notes are nonsensical ravings that hint at a fractured mind slowly coming undone. The bottom drawer is sealed with an arcane lock spell cast
fear of losing her mind and soul to the Far Realm. She seems desperate to use her writings in the journal as a touchstone to her own mind.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
Living Shadow The shadow you cast is animate and ever-present, even when lighting conditions would otherwise prevent it. Your shadow occasionally moves out of sync with you. Sometimes it appears to
holds weapons or bears wounds that don’t exist.
2 When I’m distracted, my shadow panics and tries to get other people’s attention, as if it’s desperate to escape me.
3 When it’s not being
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
bizarre of punishments. In that time long past, Baalzebul believed that he could cast Asmodeus as incompetent and amass a force to replace him before Asmodeus’s allies could act, but his calculations
within. The Price of Redemption Baalzebul and his agents recruit mortals that are desperate for redemption of some sort, perhaps the restoration of lost status or the recovery of resources that were
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
bizarre of punishments. In that time long past, Baalzebul believed that he could cast Asmodeus as incompetent and amass a force to replace him before Asmodeus’s allies could act, but his calculations
within. The Price of Redemption Baalzebul and his agents recruit mortals that are desperate for redemption of some sort, perhaps the restoration of lost status or the recovery of resources that were
compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Grim Hollow: Player’s Guide
Bards live to tell tales of other heroes or seek to create their own. Stories of great deeds, of desperate cunning, of magical anomalies, or of godly might fuel these Bards.
Level 3: Talented Adventurer
can cast the Polymorph spell without expending a spell slot. When you cast the Polymorph spell with this talent, you can target yourself only and the maximum Challenge Rating of the Beast you can
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
. Who’s been particularly nice to you lately? Divination Seers and soothsayers abound in the world, but most ply their trade only to take advantage of the credulous and the desperate. You possess the true
extractions. And sure, working on the credulous and the desperate is sometimes part of the plan. But when you do it, it’s done with professional flare. Enchantment Trust. Community outreach. Social
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
. Who’s been particularly nice to you lately? Divination Seers and soothsayers abound in the world, but most ply their trade only to take advantage of the credulous and the desperate. You possess the true
extractions. And sure, working on the credulous and the desperate is sometimes part of the plan. But when you do it, it’s done with professional flare. Enchantment Trust. Community outreach. Social
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual
they force their targets to desperate limits, night hags claim their victims’ tormented spirits, capturing them in sinister traps called soul bags. The hags then slip between planes of existence to
of at least two hag allies, the hag can cast one of the following spells, requiring no Material components, using the spell’s normal casting time, and using Intelligence as the spellcasting ability
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual
they force their targets to desperate limits, night hags claim their victims’ tormented spirits, capturing them in sinister traps called soul bags. The hags then slip between planes of existence to
of at least two hag allies, the hag can cast one of the following spells, requiring no Material components, using the spell’s normal casting time, and using Intelligence as the spellcasting ability
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
guard four imprisoned Phandalin townspeople. The shield guardians lurk just inside the dome, and they attack any intruders who enter it. The shield guardians each store a magic missile spell (cast at
3rd level), which they cast when the spell could affect more than one character. Pinhole. This pinhole is the passage to and from the Briny Pool. A creature touching it is transferred to the bottom
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
guard four imprisoned Phandalin townspeople. The shield guardians lurk just inside the dome, and they attack any intruders who enter it. The shield guardians each store a magic missile spell (cast at
3rd level), which they cast when the spell could affect more than one character. Pinhole. This pinhole is the passage to and from the Briny Pool. A creature touching it is transferred to the bottom
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
think or feel as others do, finding emotions messy and confusing.
3 In a brazen or desperate moment, you dared death to take you—and in a way, it has.
4 You sent a Returned back to the
already have Athreos’s Devotee Piety 3+ Athreos trait Your life is intertwined with the fate of the dead. You can cast gentle repose with this trait, requiring no material components, a number of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
think or feel as others do, finding emotions messy and confusing.
3 In a brazen or desperate moment, you dared death to take you—and in a way, it has.
4 You sent a Returned back to the
already have Athreos’s Devotee Piety 3+ Athreos trait Your life is intertwined with the fate of the dead. You can cast gentle repose with this trait, requiring no material components, a number of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->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
, you can use an action to cast the spell associated with that piece, as listed on the Rod Pieces table. Once that piece of the rod has been used to cast a spell, it can’t be used that way again until the