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Dungeon Master’s Guide
with a range of 30 feet.
Devour Soul. Whenever you use Blackrazor to reduce a creature to 0 Hit Points, the sword slays the creature and devours its soul unless it is a Construct or an Undead. A
Blackrazor. Blackrazor can be destroyed by crushing it in the great gears of Mechanus. Primus, the creator of the modrons, also knows a series of musical tones that Blackrazor can’t stand to hear, causing the sword to shatter.
Magic Items
Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything
While holding this lyre, you can cast mending as an action. You can also play the lyre as a reaction when an object or a structure you can see within 300 feet of you takes damage, causing it to be
immune to that damage and any further damage of the same type until the start of your next turn.
In addition, you can play the lyre as an action to cast fabricate, move earth, passwall, or summon construct (appears in this book), and that spell can’t be cast from it again until the next dawn.
Monsters
Acquisitions Incorporated
Mechachimera. In addition to defeating the construct in combat, characters can pull out its charged disks to hinder its attacks. With a successful DC 12 Wisdom (Perception) check, any character
fighting the mechachimera notes that each of its heads features a slot from which a charged disk protrudes slightly. A character within 5 feet of the construct who succeeds on a DC 10 Dexterity (Sleight of
Monsters
The Book of Many Things
point maximum to 0.
Drink Breath. The breath drinker targets a creature that has the incapacitated condition or that the breath drinker is grappling and that isn’t a Construct or an Undead. The
causing the creatures to devour themselves.
Cunning stalkers, breath drinkers are usually solitary. Occasionally they serve powerful Far Realm entities or Elder Evils, consuming life and souls for their
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
the corpse flower or one of its zombie;zombies must make a DC 14 Constitution saving throw, unless the creature is a Construct or an Undead. On a failed save, the creature is poisoned until the start
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
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything
you can see within 300 feet of you takes damage, causing it to be immune to that damage and any further damage of the same type until the start of your next turn. In addition, you can play the lyre
as an action to cast fabricate, move earth, passwall, or summon construct (appears in this book), and that spell can’t be cast from it again until the next dawn.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
, but as a bodyguard for gnomes and other clockworks. Stone Defender
Medium construct, unaligned
Armor Class 16 (natural armor)
Hit Points 52 (7d8 + 21)
Speed 30 ft.
STR
19(+4)
DEX
that creature a +5 bonus to its AC against that attack, potentially causing a miss. To use this ability, the stone defender must be able to see the creature and the attacker.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Book of Many Things
and phase spiders in the keep, using the rules for encounter building in the Dungeon Master’s Guide to create an appropriate challenge. Weaker Construct. The stone golem in area 4 can be replaced with
a clay golem, a shield guardian, or another weaker Construct. Ghostly Allies. When the characters battle the behir, their ghostly allies harry and distract the creature, giving it disadvantage on
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
Fiendish Auger A fiendish auger is created when a wicked spirit enters an excavation drill, causing the hulking corkscrew bore to glow brightly with hellfire. Fueled by the fervent aggression of the
indiscriminately bores through creature and earth alike. Fiendish Auger Huge Construct, Typically Neutral Evil
Armor Class 15 (natural armor)
Hit Points 85 (9d12 + 27)
Speed 40 ft., burrow 30 ft
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
rocker is thick with moss. A rictus grin is painted on its face. Near a protruding root is a painted wooden box three feet on a side. A crank protrudes from one side of it, causing it to resemble an
correctly intuits that a horn once protruded from this depression. The rocking horse used to be a unicorn named Elidon until the hags of the Hourglass Coven turned it into an obedient Construct. If a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual
danger. When such a guardian is created, the magic that animates it is intertwined with a bonded command amulet. Any creature that has a shield guardian’s command amulet can control that Construct and, in
Carpenter
Shield Guardian Large Construct, Unaligned
AC 17 Initiative −1 (9)
HP 142 (15d10 + 60)
Speed 30 ft.
Ability Score Mod Save
Str 18 +4 +4
Dex 8 −1 −1
Con 18 +4
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
. Trobriand has a master ring that lets him override the commands of other ring wearers without causing a scaladar to shut down. Trobriand’s rings function only in Undermountain. Constructed Nature. A
scaladar doesn’t require air, food, drink, or sleep. Scaladar
Huge construct, unaligned
Armor Class 19 (natural armor)
Hit Points 94 (7d12 + 49)
Speed 30 ft., climb 20 ft.
STR
19(+4
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
isn’t doing anything other than mixing harmless substances while muttering gobbledygook. The puppet is a Medium construct with AC 10, 8 hit points, a walking speed of 20 feet, immunity to poison and
points or if a successful dispel magic spell (DC 15) is cast on it. Hidden inside the puppet is a flask of alchemist’s fire that shatters as the puppet falls to pieces, causing its remnants to catch
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Quests from the Infinite Staircase
android’s critical faculties, causing it to behave erratically. Android Medium Construct, Typically Lawful Neutral
Armor Class 15 (natural armor)
Hit Points 91 (14d8 + 28)
Speed 30 ft., fly 30 ft
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
predator. Battle damage can cause this instinct to fail, however, causing the steel predator to linger in the area, hunting and killing other creatures that resemble its target, that fit the target’s
Large construct, lawful evil
Armor Class 20 (natural armor)
Hit Points 207 (18d10 + 108)
Speed 40 ft.
STR
24(+7)
DEX
17(+3)
CON
22(+6)
INT
4(−3)
WIS
14(+2
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
twist and reknit themselves depending on the magic involved.
Dispel Magic. Dispel magic unwinds and prematurely ends magic, unraveling whatever construct of the Weave was put in place.
Antimagic
an area of antimagic, the construct of the Weave unravels, but the threads snap back into place once the magic is outside the area.
Dead Magic. In rare areas of dead magic, the Weave is absent. Not
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
site. After doing so, the eidolon controls the construct as if it was its own body and uses its fists to drive back intruders, smashing and crushing anything it can reach. Undead Nature. An eidolon
disappear, causing the statue to become a creature under the eidolon’s control. The eidolon uses the sacred statue’s statistics in place of its own.
Turn Resistance. The eidolon has advantage on saving
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monsters of the Multiverse
can overwhelm the senses of nearby creatures, causing them to become nauseated. The stench, which serves as a defense mechanism, fades 2d4 days after the corpse flower dies. Corpse Flower
Large
DC 14 Constitution saving throw, unless the creature is a Construct or an Undead. On a failed save, the creature is poisoned until the start of its next turn. On a successful save, the creature is
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
creature and devours its soul unless it is a Construct or an Undead. A creature whose soul has been devoured by Blackrazor can be restored to life only by a Wish spell. When Blackrazor devours a soul
next sunset. Destroying Blackrazor. Blackrazor can be destroyed by crushing it in the great gears of Mechanus. Primus, the creator of the modrons, also knows a series of musical tones that Blackrazor can’t stand to hear, causing the sword to shatter.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
a stench of decay that can overwhelm the senses of nearby creatures, causing them to become nauseated. The stench, which serves as a defense mechanism, fades 2d4 days after the corpse flower dies
or one of its zombies must make a DC 14 Constitution saving throw, unless the creature is a construct or undead. On a failed save, the creature is incapacitated until the end of the turn. Creatures
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Spelljammer: Adventures in Space->Boo’s Astral Menagerie
battling a lunar dragon wyrmling, for instance, it would come to the wyrmling’s defense. Autognome
Small Construct, Any Alignment
Armor Class 16 (natural armor)
Hit Points 39 (6d6 + 18)
Speed 20
can make by 1 until a creature uses an action to reattach the arm.
15–16: “Who Turned Out the Lights?” The autognome’s head falls off and deactivates, causing the autognome to be blinded and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monsters of the Multiverse
segmented body remains buried. If detected, it sends electrical shocks through the ground toward pursuers while it retreats. Clockwork Bronze Scout
Medium Construct, Unaligned
Armor Class 13
Hit
its name implies: a metal snake with a poisonous bite. Gnomes load this clockwork with alchemical concoctions that can paralyze creatures and cloud the mind. Clockwork Iron Cobra
Medium Construct
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual
against that attack, possibly causing it to miss.
Taras Susak Homunculi are as varied as the
magic-users who create them
Homunculus Winged Servant Given Magical Life
Habitat: Any; Treasure
fleshy with beady eyes.
8 Woven and patchwork, like a well-loved toy.
Homunculus Tiny Construct, Neutral
AC 13 Initiative +2 (12)
HP 4 (1d4 + 2)
Speed 20 ft., Fly 40 ft
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
. The goblin riding the worg is Snubsuk, the courtyard warden. His job is to lock and unlock the main gate at area K2. The worg charges toward intruders, causing Snubsuk to tumble off the worg’s back and
ridges on either side of it by wooden bridges. Hanging off it are a pair of empty iron cages, and dangling underneath the tower’s raised platform is a nine-foot-tall, golem-like construct with a helm
Magic Items
Infernal Machine Rebuild
, causing those creatures to recall their saddest memories.
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You have a +1 bonus to Wisdom (Insight checks) involving creatures you can see.
Your body is ghostly and translucent except for your
seriously, imposing disadvantage on Charisma (Deception and Persuasion) checks, and causing you to automatically fail Charisma (Intimidation) checks.
22
You can cast the gaseous form spell on
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
) check can pull out a charged disk from the slot, causing the buzz saw to power down. This charged disk is identical to the disks that power the replica modrons. A character can topple the buzz saw over
door’s five slots, the door automatically opens into this area and activates the creatures in the next room. 4. Mechachimera This chamber holds a construct chimera, Screve’s crowning achievement before he
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monsters of the Multiverse
Animation (Recharge 5–6). When the eidolon moves into a space occupied by a sacred statue, the eidolon can disappear, causing the statue to become a creature under the eidolon’s control. The eidolon uses
target’s saving throw is successful or the effect ends for it, the target is immune to any eidolon’s Divine Dread for the next 24 hours.
Sacred Statue
Large Construct, As the Eidolon’s Alignment
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Adventure Atlas: The Mortuary
animated coffin* lurches along, carrying a reverently laid corpse to its crypt. The Construct approaches the characters and silently petitions them to escort it to its destination. 7 1d4 zombies
characters interrupt or otherwise ruin the tune, 1d4 irascible specters emerge from the walls and attack, causing the bards to flee. 10 Three skeleton farmers quietly tend to corpse-white grave
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
, and it’s a bit self-conscious about its replacement head: a hollow gourd that now sits askew on its shoulders. Eight copper coins are sealed inside the gourd, causing the head to rattle whenever
matter. Appendix D has additional roleplaying notes for Clapperclaw. Clapperclaw the Scarecrow
Small Construct, Lawful Neutral
Armor Class 12 (natural armor)
Hit Points 14 (4d6)
Speed 25 ft
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
light that shot from their mouths. This rampage was cut short on the Day of Mourning. The arcane cataclysm that engulfed Cyre destroyed most of the warforged colossi, causing them to collapse into
colossus might serve as an adventure location. Warforged Colossus
Gargantuan construct, unaligned
Armor Class 23 (natural armor)
Hit Points 410 (20d20 + 200)
Speed 60 ft.
STR
30 (+10
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monstrous Compendium Volume One: Spelljammer Creatures
, magic item, or magical effect without causing harm to anyone or anything. A fractine that doesn’t consume light or magical energy for ten days begins to flicker. A day later, it folds in on itself and
Construct, Typically Neutral
Armor Class 14 (natural armor)
Hit Points 110 (13d10 + 39)
Speed 0 ft., fly 60 ft. (hover)
STR
1 (−5)
DEX
13 (+1)
CON
16 (+3
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
to be standing near its actual location, causing attack rolls against it to have disadvantage. If it is hit by an attack, this trait is disrupted until the end of its next turn. This trait is also
for duplicates. Oilcan. The oilcan is an animated Construct named Squirt (see the accompanying stat block). Squirt’s excesses and self-indulgences have left it feeling literally empty inside, and it
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything
soft music, causing the creature to gain temporary hit points equal to the number rolled on the Bardic Inspiration die plus your Charisma modifier (minimum of 1 temporary hit point). Performance of
dancing item from this feature, the first one immediately becomes inanimate. Dancing Item
Large or smaller construct
Armor Class 16 (natural armor)
Hit Points 10 + five times your bard level
Speed
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Scions of Elemental Evil
) Radiant damage.
Reactions
Parry. Trigger: The knight is hit by a melee attack roll while holding a weapon. Response: The knight adds 2 to its AC against that attack, possibly causing it to miss
turn.
Reactions
Riposte. Trigger: The pirate is hit by a melee attack roll while holding a weapon. Response: The pirate adds 3 to its AC against that attack, possibly causing it to miss. On a miss
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
the door without a key or anyone not of Cassalanter blood who opens Victoro’s desk. The Cassalanter children know about this construct and warn friendly characters about it. Desk. Victoro’s desk is
,” causing ten knives to magically rise from the counters and attack. These knives are flying swords that deal 4 (1d6 + 1) piercing damage on a hit. Founders’ Day. Jandar isn’t here. Instead, he’s