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Magic Items
Dungeon Master’s Guide
This musical instrument has 3 charges and regains all expended charges daily at dawn. While you are playing it, you can take a Magic action to expend 1 charge and write a magical message on a
words and make the message glow faintly, allowing it to be seen in nonmagical Darkness. Casting the Dispel Magic spell on the message erases it. Otherwise, the message fades away after 24 hours.
Spells
Player’s Handbook
Guided by a flash of magical insight, you make one attack with the weapon used in the spell’s casting. The attack uses your spellcasting ability for the attack and damage rolls instead of using
Strength or Dexterity. If the attack deals damage, it can be Radiant damage or the weapon’s normal damage type (your choice).
Cantrip Upgrade. Whether you deal Radiant damage or the weapon
Spells
Player’s Handbook
You touch an object throughout the spell’s casting. If the object is a magic item or some other magical object, you learn its properties and how to use them, whether it requires Attunement, and
touch a creature throughout the casting, you learn which ongoing spells, if any, are currently affecting it.
Monsters
Monster Manual
Magic Resistance. The pixie has Advantage on saving throws against spells and other magical effects.Faerie Dust. Melee or Ranged Attack Roll: +4;{"diceNotation":"1d20+4", "rollType":"to hit
", "rollAction":"Faerie Dust"}, reach 5 ft. or range 60 ft. Hit: 1 Radiant damage, and the target has the Charmed or Poisoned condition (pixie’s choice) until the start of the pixie’s next turn
Spells
Player’s Handbook
You create three glowing darts of magical force. Each dart strikes a creature of your choice that you can see within range. A dart deals 1d4 + 1 Force damage to its target. The darts all strike
Monsters
Monster Manual
Coven Magic. While within 30 feet 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
that spell again.
Magic Resistance. The hag has Advantage on saving throws against spells and other magical effects.
Soul Bag. The hag has a soul bag. While holding or carrying the bag, the hag can
Monsters
Monster Manual
Magic Resistance. The pixie has Advantage on saving throws against spells and other magical effects.Multiattack. The pixie makes two Faerie Dust attacks.
Faerie Dust. Melee or Ranged Attack Roll: +7
", "rollDamageType":"Radiant"} Radiant damage, and the target has the Charmed or Poisoned condition (pixie’s choice) until the start of the pixie’s next turn.
Spellcasting. The pixie casts
Monsters
Monster Manual
":"Incorporeal Movement", "rollDamageType":"Force"} Force damage if it ends its turn inside an object.
Magic Resistance. The empyrean has Advantage on saving throws against spells and other magical
(Radiant)", "rollDamageType":"Radiant"} damage (empyrean’s choice).
Spellcasting. The empyrean casts one of the following spells, requiring no Material components and using Wisdom as the
Monsters
Monster Manual
":"Incorporeal Movement", "rollDamageType":"Force"} Force damage if it ends its turn inside an object.
Magic Resistance. The empyrean has Advantage on saving throws against spells and other magical
(Radiant)", "rollDamageType":"Radiant"} damage (empyrean’s choice).
Spellcasting. The empyrean casts one of the following spells, requiring no Material components and using Wisdom as the
Spells
Player’s Handbook
Up to five creatures of your choice who remain within range for the spell’s entire casting gain the benefits of a Short Rest and also regain 2d8 Hit Points. A creature can’t be affected
Spells
Player’s Handbook
You spend the casting time tracing magical pathways within a precious gemstone, and then touch the target. The target must be either a Beast or Plant creature with an Intelligence of 3 or less or a
Spells
Player’s Handbook
You create a ward against magical travel that protects up to 40,000 square feet of floor space to a height of 30 feet above the floor. For the duration, creatures can’t teleport into the area
takes 5d10 Radiant or Necrotic damage (your choice when you cast this spell).
You can designate a password when you cast the spell. A creature that speaks the password as it enters the area takes no
Spells
Player’s Handbook
, made of wood or stone (your choice).
When the spell ends, the door vanishes, and any objects inside the demiplane remain there. Any creatures inside also remain unless they opt to be shunted
the shadowy door to a demiplane you created with a previous casting of this spell. Additionally, if you know the nature and contents of a demiplane created by a casting of this spell by another creature, you can connect the shadowy door to that demiplane instead.
Spells
Player’s Handbook
A frigid globe streaks from you to a point of your choice within range, where it explodes in a 60-foot-radius Sphere. Each creature in that area makes a Constitution saving throw, taking 10d6 Cold
against your spell save DC to break free.
You can refrain from firing the globe after completing the spell’s casting. If you do so, a globe about the size of a sling bullet, cool to the touch
Monsters
Monster Manual
":"1d6", "rollType":"recharge", "rollAction":"Hunger of Yeenoghu"}. The gnoll conjures a 30-foot Cube of magical Darkness originating from a point it can see within 60 feet, which lasts for 1 minute
turn. Failure: 28 (8d6);{"diceNotation":"8d6", "rollType":"damage", "rollAction":"Hunger of Yeenoghu", "rollDamageType":"Necrotic"} Necrotic damage, and the gnoll or a creature of its choice it can see
Magic Items
Dungeon Master’s Guide
interior is divided into two floors, with a ladder, staircase, or ramp (your choice) connecting them. This ladder, staircase, or ramp ends at a trapdoor leading to the roof. When created, the tower has
Resistance to all other damage. Shrinking the tower back down to statuette form doesn’t repair damage to the tower. Only a Wish spell can repair the tower (this use of the spell counts as replicating a spell of level 8 or lower). Each casting of Wish causes the tower to regain all its Hit Points.
Spells
Player’s Handbook
For the duration, your eyes become an inky void. One creature of your choice within 60 feet of you that you can see must succeed on a Wisdom saving throw or be affected by one of the following
effects of your choice for the duration.
On each of your turns until the spell ends, you can take a Magic action to target another creature but can’t target a creature again if it has succeeded on a
Monsters
Monster Manual
Magic Resistance. The aspirant has Advantage on saving throws against spells and other magical effects.
Marshal Undead. Undead creatures of the aspirant’s choice (excluding itself) in a 60
Monsters
Monster Manual
Magic Resistance. The worg has Advantage on saving throws against spells and other magical effects.Multiattack. The worg makes three Bite attacks.
Bite. Melee Attack Roll: +10;{"diceNotation":"1d20
the Frightened condition until the start of the worg’s next turn. Success: Half damage only.Warp Step. The worg teleports, along with a willing creature of its choice within 5 feet of it, up to 30 feet to an unoccupied space it can see.
Monsters
Monster Manual
Fire Aura. At the end of each of the salamander’s turns, each creature of the salamander’s choice in a 10-foot Emanation originating from the salamander takes 10 (3d6);{"diceNotation
":"3d6", "rollType":"damage", "rollAction":"Fire Aura", "rollDamageType":"Fire"} Fire damage.
Magic Resistance. The salamander has Advantage on saving throws against spells and other magical
Spells
Player’s Handbook
hit, the target takes 3d8 damage of the chosen type.
If you roll the same number on two or more of the d8s, the orb leaps to a different target of your choice within 30 feet of the target. Make an
increases by 1d8 for each spell slot level above 1. The orb can leap a maximum number of times equal to the level of the slot expended, and a creature can be targeted only once by each casting of this spell.
Spells
Player’s Handbook
.
Darkness. Darkness fills the area. Normal light, as well as magical light created by spells of a level lower than this spell, can’t illuminate the area.
Daylight. Bright light fills the area
. Magical Darkness created by spells of a level lower than this spell can’t extinguish the light.
Peaceful Rest. Dead bodies interred in the area can’t be turned into Undead.
Extradimensional
Spells
Player’s Handbook
is Difficult Terrain, and it is filled with strange whispers and slurping noises, which can be heard up to 30 feet away. No light, magical or otherwise, can illuminate the area, and creatures fully
damage from otherworldly tentacles.
Using a Higher-Level Spell Slot. The Cold or Acid damage (your choice) increases by 1d6 for each spell slot level above 3.
Monsters
Monster Manual
Legendary Resistance (4/Day). If the empyrean fails a saving throw, it can choose to succeed instead.
Magic Resistance. The empyrean has Advantage on saving throws against spells and other magical
;ean’s choice).
Spellcasting. The empyrean casts one of the following spells, requiring no Material components and using Charisma as the spellcasting ability (spell save DC 23):
At Will: Calm
Monsters
Monster Manual
Animal Lordship. An animal lord represents a Forager (DM’s choice), which determines certain traits in this stat block.
Legendary Resistance (4/Day). If the animal lord fails a saving throw
animal lord has Advantage on saving throws against spells and other magical effects.Multiattack. The animal lord makes two attacks, using Rend or Radiant Ray in any combination, and uses Animal Spirit
Monsters
Monster Manual
Legendary Resistance (4/Day). If the empyrean fails a saving throw, it can choose to succeed instead.
Magic Resistance. The empyrean has Advantage on saving throws against spells and other magical
;ean’s choice).
Spellcasting. The empyrean casts one of the following spells, requiring no Material components and using Charisma as the spellcasting ability (spell save DC 23):
At Will: Calm
Monsters
Monster Manual
Coven Magic. While within 30 feet 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
spells and other magical effects.
Spiteful Escape. When the hag drops to 0 Hit Points, it dies only if it is within 30 feet of its anathema (a thing the DM chooses as the hag’s most hated thing
Spells
Player’s Handbook
As you cast the spell, you draw a 5-foot-radius circle on the ground inscribed with sigils that link your location to a permanent teleportation circle of your choice whose sigil sequence you know and
.
You can create a permanent teleportation circle by casting this spell in the same location every day for 365 days.
Monsters
Monster Manual
Animal Lordship. An animal lord represents a Hunter (DM’s choice), which determines certain traits in this stat block.
Legendary Resistance (4/Day). If the animal lord fails a saving throw, it
other magical effects.Multiattack. The animal lord makes two attacks, using Rend or Radiant Ray in any combination, and uses Animal Spirit.
Rend. Melee Attack Roll: +13;{"diceNotation":"1d20+13
Magic Items
Dungeon Master’s Guide
This 2-foot-diameter black sphere is a hole in the multiverse, hovering in space and stabilized by a magical field surrounding it.
The sphere obliterates all matter it passes through and all matter
Bonus Action to cause it to move in one direction of your choice, up to a number of feet equal to 5 times your Intelligence modifier (minimum 5 feet). Any creature whose space the sphere enters must
Spells
Player’s Handbook
You create a magical restraint to hold a creature that you can see within range. The target must make a Wisdom saving throw. On a successful save, the target is unaffected, and it is immune to this
;t locate or perceive the imprisoned target, and the target can’t teleport.
Until the spell ends, the target is also affected by one of the following effects of your choice:
Burial. The target
Spells
Player’s Handbook
Thunder damage (your choice when you create the glyph) on a failed save or half as much damage on a successful one.
Spell Glyph. You can store a prepared spell of level 3 or lower in the glyph by casting
You inscribe a glyph that later unleashes a magical effect. You inscribe it either on a surface (such as a table or a section of floor) or within an object that can be closed (such as a book or chest
Monsters
Monster Manual
other magical effects.
Undead Restoration. If destroyed, the mummy gains a new body in 24 hours if its heart is intact, reviving with all its Hit Points. The new body appears in an unoccupied space
space it can see. Each creature of its choice that it can see within 5 feet of its destination space has the Blinded condition until the end of the mummy’s next turn.Legendary Action Uses: 3 (4
Monsters
Monster Manual
Animal Lordship. An animal lord represents a Animal Lord (Forager);Forager, Animal Lord (Hunter);Hunter, or Animal Lord (Sage);Sage (DM’s choice), which determines certain traits in this stat
other magical effects.Multiattack. The animal lord makes two attacks, using Rend or Radiant Ray in any combination, and uses Animal Spirit.
Rend. Melee Attack Roll: +13;{"diceNotation":"1d20+13
Monsters
Monster Manual
magical effects.
Marshal Undead. Undead creatures of the death knight’s choice (excluding itself) in a 60-foot Emanation originating from it have Advantage on attack rolls and saving throws. It