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Magic Items
Dungeon Master’s Guide
take a Magic action to cause a bolt of lightning to leap from the staff’s tip in a Line that is 5 feet wide and 120 feet long. Each creature in that Line makes a DC 17 Dexterity saving throw
is used, it can’t be used again until the next dawn.
Lightning. When you hit with a melee attack using the staff, you can cause the target to take an extra 2d6 Lightning damage (no action
Feats
Player’s Handbook
Strength saving throw (DC 8 plus your Strength modifier and Proficiency Bonus). On a failed save, you either push the target 5 feet from you or cause it to have the Prone condition (your choice). You can
use this benefit only once on each of your turns.
Interpose Shield. If you’re subjected to an effect that allows you to make a Dexterity saving throw to take only half damage, you can take a Reaction to take no damage if you succeed on the saving throw and are holding a Shield.
Feats
Player’s Handbook
damage a creature that is concentrating, it has Disadvantage on the saving throw it makes to maintain Concentration.
Guarded Mind. If you fail an Intelligence, a Wisdom, or a Charisma saving throw
, you can cause yourself to succeed instead. Once you use this benefit, you can’t use it again until you finish a Short or Long Rest.
Magic Items
Dungeon Master’s Guide
Word. You expend 5 charges and cause the gem to flare with intense light in a 30-foot Cone. Each creature in the Cone makes a saving throw as if struck by the beam created with the second command word.
When all of the gem’s charges are expended, the gem becomes a nonmagical jewel worth 50 GP.
This prism has 50 charges. While you are holding it, you can take a Magic action and use one of three command words to cause one of the following effects:
First Command Word. The gem sheds Bright
Spells
Player’s Handbook
You cause psychic energy to erupt at a point within range. Each creature in a 20-foot-radius Sphere centered on that point makes an Intelligence saving throw, taking 8d6 Psychic damage on a failed
well as any Constitution saving throws to maintain Concentration. The target makes an Intelligence saving throw at the end of each of its turns, ending the effect on itself on a success.
Magic Items
Dungeon Master’s Guide
This robe has 3 charges, and it regains 1d3 expended charges daily at dawn. While you wear it, you can take a Magic action and expend 1 charge to cause the garment to display a shifting pattern of
on attack rolls against you. Any creature in the Bright Light that can see you when the robe’s power is activated must succeed on a DC 15 Wisdom saving throw or have the Stunned condition until the effect ends.
Spells
Player’s Handbook
Invoking Hadar, you cause tendrils to erupt from yourself. Each creature in a 10-foot Emanation originating from you makes a Strength saving throw. On a failed save, a target takes 2d6 Necrotic
Spells
Player’s Handbook
the spell and as a Bonus Action on your later turns, you can move the hand up to 60 feet and then cause one of the following effects:
Clenched Fist. The hand strikes a target within 5 feet of it
saving throw, or the hand pushes the target up to 5 feet plus a number of feet equal to five times your spellcasting ability modifier. The hand moves with the target, remaining within 5 feet of it
Magic Items
Dungeon Master’s Guide
saving throw, or its Concentration is broken. In addition, you can cause a 30-foot-deep, 10-foot-wide fissure to open up on the ground anywhere in the area. Any creature on a spot where the fissure
Strength saving throw or have the Prone condition. Nonmagical objects in the Cone that aren’t being worn or carried take 3d8 Thunder damage.
Earthquake. As a Magic action, you can strike the weapon
Spells
Player’s Handbook
Choose a manufactured metal object, such as a metal weapon or a suit of Heavy or Medium metal armor, that you can see within range. You cause the object to glow red-hot. Any creature in physical
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If a creature is holding or wearing the object and takes the damage from it, the creature must succeed on a Constitution saving throw or drop the object if it can. If it doesn’t drop the
Magic Items
Dungeon Master’s Guide
This wand has 7 charges. While holding it, you can take a Magic action to expend 1 charge to cause a thin blue ray to streak from the tip toward a creature you can see within 60 feet of yourself. The
target must succeed on a DC 15 Constitution saving throw or have the Paralyzed condition for 1 minute. At the end of each of the target’s turns, it repeats the save, ending the effect on itself
Spells
Player’s Handbook
repeat the same effect or choose a different one.
Flood. You cause the water level of all standing water in the area to rise by as much as 20 feet. If you choose an area in a large body of water, you
the normal water level is restored.
Redirect Flow. You cause flowing water in the area to move in a direction you choose, even if the water has to flow over obstacles, up walls, or in other unlikely
Spells
Player’s Handbook
Difficult Terrain.
When you cast this spell and at the end of each of your turns for the duration, each creature on the ground in the area makes a Dexterity saving throw. On a failed save, a creature has
the Prone condition, and its Concentration is broken.
You can also cause the effects below.
Fissures. A total of 1d6 fissures open in the spell’s area at the end of the turn you cast it. You
Magic Items
Dungeon Master’s Guide
to cause one weapon you are holding to burst into flames. The flames emit Bright Light in a 10-foot radius and Dim Light for an additional 10 feet. The flames are harmless to you and the weapon. When
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Taking Fire Damage. Roll 1d20 if you are wearing the helm and take Fire damage as a result of failing a saving throw against a spell. On a roll of 1, the helm emits beams of light from its remaining gems
Spells
Player’s Handbook
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The creature can’t willingly enter the Cylinder by nonmagical means. If the creature tries to use teleportation or interplanar travel to do so, it must first succeed on a Charisma saving throw
from the creature.
Each time you cast this spell, you can cause its magic to operate in the reverse direction, preventing a creature of the specified type from leaving the Cylinder and protecting
Magic Items
Dungeon Master’s Guide
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
succeed on a DC 19 Dexterity saving throw or be touched by it, taking 8d10 Force damage. A creature reduced to 0 Hit Points by this damage is obliterated, leaving its possessions behind but no other
Spells
Player’s Handbook
one side of the wall (you choose which side). If a creature would be surrounded on all sides by the wall (or the wall and another solid surface), that creature can make a Dexterity saving throw. On a
a panel to 0 Hit Points destroys it and might cause connected panels to collapse at the DM’s discretion.
If you maintain your Concentration on this spell for its full duration, the wall becomes permanent and can’t be dispelled. Otherwise, the wall disappears when the spell ends.
Magic Items
Dungeon Master’s Guide
Magic action to peer into the orb’s depths. You must then make a DC 15 Charisma saving throw. On a successful save, you control the orb for as long as you remain attuned to it. On a failed save, the
action to cause the orb to issue a telepathic call that extends in all directions for 40 miles. Chromatic dragons in range feel compelled to come to the orb as soon as possible by the most direct
Magic Items
Dungeon Master’s Guide
cause the Moonblade to flash brightly. Each other creature that is within 30 feet of you and not behind Total Cover must succeed on a DC 15 Constitution saving throw or have the Blinded condition for 1
Monsters
Stranger Things: Welcome to the Hellfire Club
":"1d8+2", "rollType":"damage", "rollAction":"Hayfork", "rollDamageType":"Piercing"} Piercing damage.
G’wan, Git! (1/Day). Wisdom Saving Throw: DC 11, one creature Rilly June can see within 60
to suffer from a mysterious blight, she was determined to investigate the cause. Rilly June is stern and tough, but she’s got a soft spot for animals and the other people who work her family’s land or look out for the common folk.
Magic Items
Eberron: Forge of the Artificer
This magic weapon grants a +1 bonus to attack and damage rolls made with it. While holding it, you can take a Bonus Action to cause it to shed Bright Light in a 30-foot radius and Dim Light for an
charges and force the attacker to make a DC 15 Constitution saving throw. On a failed save, the attacker has the Blinded condition until the end of its next turn. The weapon regains 1d4 expended charges daily at dawn.
Magic Items
Stranger Things: Welcome to the Hellfire Club
Strength modifier.
Spike Salvo. As a Magic action, you can cause spikes to erupt from the Shield in a 30-foot Cone. Each creature in the Cone makes a DC 13 Dexterity saving throw, taking 3d6 Piercing
Monsters
Dungeon Masters: Living Spells Play-Along Pack
Amorphous. The living spell can move through a space as narrow as 1 inch without expending extra movement to do so.
Magic Resistance. The living spell has Advantage on saving throws against spells
"}. Constitution Saving Throw: DC 13, each creature in a 15-foot cone. Failure: (3d6);{"diceNotation":"3d6","rollType":"damage","rollAction":"Spell Mimicry","rollDamageType":"fire"} Fire damage. Success
Monsters
Dungeon Masters: Living Spells Play-Along Pack
Amorphous. The living spell can move through a space as narrow as 1 inch without expending extra movement to do so.
Magic Resistance. The living spell has Advantage on saving throws against spells
"}. Constitution Saving Throw: DC 13, each creature in a 10-foot-radius Sphere centered on a point the living spell can sense within 60 feet. Failure: 13 (3d8);{"diceNotation":"3d8","rollType":"damage
Monsters
Lorwyn: First Light
":"Befuddling Ray"} from the next saving throw it makes before the end of the noggle's next turn.Some noggles have a powerful connection to the strange magic that suffuses the realm of Lorwyn-Shadowmoor
Sylvan expression that roughly translates to “that's mine!” Noggles are found only in Shadowmoor, where they roam and cause chaos.
Monsters
Dungeon Masters: Living Spells Play-Along Pack
Amorphous. The living spell can move through a space as narrow as 1 inch without expending extra movement to do so.
Magic Resistance. The living spell has Advantage on saving throws against spells
Saving Throw: DC 13, one creature the living spell can sense within 60 feet. Failure: The target is pushed 15 feet straight away from the living spell.Magical energies unleashed during
Monsters
Lorwyn: First Light
the following effect. Dexterity Saving Throw: DC 12. Failure: The armor takes a -1 penalty to the AC it offers. The target can take an action to remove the penalty from its armor.Noggles don’t
roughly translates to “that’s mine!” Noggles are found only in Shadowmoor, where they roam and cause chaos.Nimble Escape. The noggle takes the Disengage or Hide action.
Monsters
Dungeon Masters: Living Spells Play-Along Pack
Amorphous. The living spell can move through a space as narrow as 1 inch without expending extra movement to do so.
Magic Resistance. The living spell has Advantage on saving throws against spells
arrow splashes the target with acid for half as much of the initial damage only.Magical energies unleashed during cataclysmic battles or catastrophic experiments can cause spell effects to come to
Monsters
Stranger Things: Welcome to the Hellfire Club
choice within 60 feet of it. Each target must succeed on a DC 12 Strength saving throw or have the Restrained condition until the start of the blight’s next turn.Plant Sprouted from Evil
Blights
lash out at non-Plant creatures.
Vine blights resemble humans wrapped in vines common to the areas in which they grow, from hairy ivy vines to flowering kudzu. They can cause plants to burst from the ground around themselves and entangle nearby foes.
Monsters
Dungeon Masters: Living Spells Play-Along Pack
Amorphous. The living spell can move through a space as narrow as 1 inch without expending extra movement to do so.
Magic Resistance. The living spell has Advantage on saving throws against spells
makes a Dexterity saving throw. Failure: 7 (2d6);{"diceNotation":"2d6","rollType":"damage","rollAction":"Spell Mimicry","rollDamageType":"fire"} Fire damage. Success: Half damage only. The sphere ignites
Monsters
Dungeon Masters: Living Spells Play-Along Pack
Amorphous. The living spell can move through a space as narrow as 1 inch without expending extra movement to do so.
Magic Resistance. The living spell has Advantage on saving throws against spells
again.Magical energies unleashed during cataclysmic battles or catastrophic experiments can cause spell effects to come to life as living spells. These beings’ magical energy is persistent, and
Feats
Forgotten Realms: Heroes of Faerûn
target must succeed on a Wisdom saving throw (DC 8 plus your Wisdom modifier and Proficiency Bonus) or have the Frightened condition until the end of your next turn. If the target succeeds on the save or
when the effect ends for a target, the target is immune to this effect for 24 hours.
Inspired by Fear. When you cause a creature to have the Frightened condition and you are the source of its fear
Monsters
Forgotten Realms: Adventures in Faerûn
Saving Throw: DC 15, each creature in a 30-foot Cone. Failure: 36 (8d8);{"diceNotation":"8d8", "rollType":"damage", "rollAction":"Ruinous Breath", "rollDamageType":"Necrotic"} Necrotic damage. Success
: Half damage.
Time-Warping Breath. Wisdom Saving Throw: DC 15, each creature that isn’t currently affected by this breath in a 30-foot Cone. Failure: The target’s Speed is halved, it can
Gunpowder, Keg
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fire to a container full of gunpowder can cause it to explode, dealing fire damage to creatures within 10 feet of it (3d6 for a powder horn, 7d6 for a keg). A successful DC 12 Dexterity saving throw
Staff of Thunder and Lightning
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a melee attack using the staff, you can cause the staff to emit a crack of thunder, audible out to 300 feet. The target you hit must succeed on a DC 17 Constitution saving throw or become stunned
line must make a DC 17 Dexterity saving throw, taking 9d6 lightning damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one.
Thunderclap. You can use an action to cause the staff to issue