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Monsters
Monster Manual
Underdark, in the tunnel-mazes they occupied in life or in the lairs of enemy beholders they conquered. These lairs are devoid of life, as death tyrants change their servants into Undead horrors.
The
imperceptible, magical wave of negative energy in a 150-foot Cone. Creatures in that area can’t regain Hit Points until the start of the death tyrant’s next turn. An intact Humanoid corpse
Monsters
Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
if it fails.
Light Sensitivity. While in bright light, the mutate has disadvantage on attack rolls.Multiattack. The mutate makes one Corpse Swipe attack and two Tail attacks, or it makes four Tail
attacks.
Corpse Swipe. Melee Weapon Attack: +8;{"diceNotation":"1d20+8", "rollType":"to hit", "rollAction":"Corpse Swipe"} to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 20 (3d10 + 4);{"diceNotation":"3d10+4
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
providing it with a caustic breath weapon. Its body is in a constant state of growth and change, allowing it to quickly heal from its wounds.
These creatures are most often found in abandoned dragon
lingers in a draconic corpse.
While most would-be grafters wind up hideously scarred or dead, a few survive as wretched horrors. Their minds become twisted by magical malevolence, with only a shadow of
Monsters
Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
the initiative order. If this wight slays a Humanoid with its Life Drain, the wight transforms into a jiangshi 5 days later.
Change Shape. The jiangshi polymorphs into a Beast, a Humanoid, or an Undead
jiangshi’s choice). It reverts to its true form if it dies.When a soul becomes trapped within its corpse, its bitterness can reanimate its body, creating a jiangshi. These vengeful dead stalk
Monsters
Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
successful one. A humanoid reduced to 0 hit points by this damage dies, and an undead shadow rises from its corpse and acts immediately after Umbraxakar in the initiative count. The shadow is under
creature is pushed 60 feet away from the dragon.
Change Shape. The dragon magically polymorphs into a humanoid or beast that has a challenge rating no higher than its own, or back into its true form. It
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
that rely on sight.
New Action: Bite. If the dragon deals acid, cold, fire, lightning, or poison damage with its bite, change that damage type to necrotic.
New Action: Shadow Breath. Any damage
corpse and acts immediately after the dragon in the initiative count. The shadow is under the dragon’s control.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual
Revenant Revenants possess the bodies they had in life, using them to hunt down their killers. If their bodies are destroyed, they take control of new bodies that gradually change to resemble the
Hit Points and doesn’t regenerate.
Undead Restoration. If the revenant dies, it revives 24 hours later in a different body unless Dispel Evil and Good is cast on its corpse. If it revives, it animates
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monsters of the Multiverse
Feeding. The barghest can feed on the corpse of a Fey or Humanoid it killed within the past 10 minutes. This feeding takes at least 1 minute, and it destroys the corpse. The victim’s soul is trapped in
, pass without trace
1/day each: charm person, dimension door, suggestion
Bonus Actions
Change Shape. The barghest transforms into a Small goblin or back into its true form. Other than its size and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything
Circle of Spores I’m an avid collector of spores, molds, and fungi—my most prized find being a sapiens zuggtmata from the depths of Mount Zogon. I wouldn’t want it steering a corpse around and
strange, life. These druids believe that life and death are parts of a grand cycle, with one leading to the other and then back again. Death isn’t the end of life, but instead a change of state that sees
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
undulate and bulge, as though the stone were amorphous. (The effect is unnerving but harmless.)
Statue. A deep alcove in the north wall contains a life-size statue whose human features seems to change
another dragon corpse and rise again. The gem is destroyed if subjected to the fiery breath of an ancient red or gold dragon; it is otherwise impervious to damage. The statue containing the gemstone
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
beginning a mass migration away from the lair. Winds of Change. The weather within 6 miles of the lair changes dramatically. Withering Burst. Ordinary vegetation within 1 mile of the dragon’s lair blackens
lay a claw on the recipient or bequeath a piece of treasure as an embodiment of the transferred power. Body and Blood. When a dragon dies a violent death, the dragon’s power might linger in the corpse
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
Jiangshi When a soul becomes trapped within its corpse, its bitterness can reanimate its body, creating a jiangshi. These vengeful dead stalk their descendants and the communities they knew in life
Drain, the wight transforms into a jiangshi 5 days later.
Change Shape. The jiangshi polymorphs into a Beast, a Humanoid, or an Undead that is Medium or Small or back into its true form. Its
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Book of Many Things
demise.
Khirad, the Star of Secrets. A blue-white star whose gifts grant insight but also reveal terrible truths.
Zhudun, the Corpse Star. A dead star that whispers of the power to defy death
as the spellcasting ability:
2/day: Cure Wounds
1/day each: Divination, Greater Restoration
Bonus Actions
Change Shape. The living portent magically transforms into a Humanoid while retaining
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
is a treasure that a beholder cherishes as evidence of its power, or serves as a remembrance of victory over its enemies, or evokes another sort of positive reaction from it. The preserved corpse of a
treat it as clutter. Circumstances might change the role of a piece of treasure — a staff of the python used to prop up a stone block trap might be given as a gift if the beholder acquires a minion who can attune the item.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
worth 1,200 gp and a quickened mind crystal (see appendix B). F4: Food Source Three shallow pools in this room contain burbling fluid. The corpse of a spiky creature floats face-down in each pool
disturb any of the nothics or touch the sludge, the grells in the Feeder Trenches immediately notice the change in taste. Any grells remaining in area F3 come here to investigate. The grells in area F2
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a3
of jade with cowrie-shell eyes and obsidian pupils. About the corpse’s neck is a jade pendant carved with the face of a humanlike bat.
Creature. The corpse is the body of Tloques-Popolocas, a
about. This part of the regeneration process requires 2 rounds, during which time the corpse has AC 12 and 27 hit points. (If they have not been removed, the corpse benefits from the bracers of defense
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Spelljammer: Adventures in Space->Light of Xaryxis
total of 23 gp and 117 sp in loose change and a bloodstone ring (50 gp). 17: Cellblock The rotting corpse of a headless mind flayer lies amid the hacked-up corpses of three hulking creatures with
, glowing maggots crawl over the chair’s current occupant: a headless mind flayer corpse.
A githyanki knight beheaded the nautiloid’s captain and took the head as a trophy, leaving the rest of the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
. They’re written in Deep Speech and change constantly. A creature who reads them realizes they recount terrifying ends for Atagua and Chimagua, and that creature must make a DC 20 Wisdom saving throw. On a
success, the creature shakes off the horror. On a failure, the creature is stunned, and the words change to name that creature. The stunned target can repeat the saving throw at the end of each of its
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
cultist dies, its corpse freezes for 9 days, during which time it can’t be thawed, harmed by fire, animated, or raised from the dead. Cult Behavior The Knights of the Black Sword take orders from Levistus
roleplay the new alignment. A lawful evil character craves power and tries to exert control over others, by being either cruel or manipulative.
The alignment change can be undone by any magic that ends
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual
death tyrants change their servants into Undead horrors. The region containing a death tyrant’s lair is warped by its presence, creating the following effects: Negative Energy Suffusion. Whenever a
area can’t regain Hit Points until the start of the death tyrant’s next turn. An intact Humanoid corpse there instantly rises as a Zombie under the death tyrant’s control and takes its turn immediately
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monsters of the Multiverse
return to the sea they think of as home. Ironically, however, a deep scion that is killed when in their piscine form is stripped of the magic that enabled them to transform, leaving behind the corpse of
its master are in the same body of water.
Bonus Actions
Change Shape. The deep scion transforms into a hybrid form (humanoid-piscine) or back into its true form, which is humanlike. Its statistics
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Quests from the Infinite Staircase
stands open, its stone slab held ajar by the decaying body of a hobgoblin. A crossbow bolt protrudes from the corpse’s chest.
The corpse is that of an explorer who reached the ziggurat several weeks ago
room.
Footprints of several humanoids are visible in the dust, stopping in front of the center cylinder. Shortly after all characters enter the chamber, the corpse (or anything propping the door open
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
dangles from the tower’s peak. Characters on the roof of the tower can look down into the basket and see the corpse of Wigglewog, the balloon’s bullywug pilot, who died in the crash. At the bottom of
their speed. Characters can converse with the snakes using a speak with animals spell or similar magic. In the course of any such conversation, a character can try to change the snakes’ attitude from
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
. Spawned by a God. Long ago, a deity of greed and strife perished in the battles among the immortals. Its body drifted through the Astral Plane, eventually becoming a petrified husk. This corpse
action required), the morkoth can initiate a change in the water within its lair that takes effect 1 minute later. The water can be as breathable and clear as air, or it can be normal water (ranging in clarity from murky to clear). If the morkoth dies, these regional effects end immediately.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
: Ingeloakastimizilian, Imvaernarhro, K’rshinthintl, Claugiyliamatar. Commonly known as “Old Gnawbone,”
Claugiyliamatar is often seen with a
mangled corpse hanging from her mouth Many dragons are better
. Consider these examples: Change Shape. You can decide that a dragon acquires this action at a younger age than usual, particularly if you want to feature a dragon in Humanoid form in your campaign. The
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
the cavern is in no immediate danger of collapsing. See the “Cave-In!” section for details on how that might change. Elevator. The elevator is rusted in place, and the shaft it once traversed is
health to avoid the threat of disease that comes from working with the dead. H3: Corpse Disposal The stench here is horrendous. Hundreds of humanoid and animal bones fill the chamber in charnel heaps
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
Perception 10
Languages Common, Draconic, Infernal, Orc, Yeti
Challenge 7 (2,900 XP)
Icy Doom. When Avarice dies, her corpse freezes for 9 days, during which time it can’t be thawed, harmed by fire
. The sunken Netherese tower contains a special room that can transform the simulacrum into a real person—or any magical illusion into the real thing, for that matter. If this change occurs, the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
Antiophes’s wrath. The lampad attacks, using his Corpse Stride ability to teleport between locations in the tomb—particularly areas 4, 5, 7, and 8. If seriously wounded, Antiophes teleports to area 8
measure of Orestes’s oracular gifts. If blood is spilled on the lid, it turns black if the blood’s owner is destined to become a Returned. Most of the time, spilled blood doesn’t change color. If a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sage Advice & Errata
spell Animate Dead harnesses magical energy to turn a corpse or a pile of bones into an Undead creature. That necromantic magic is present for an instant and is then gone. The resulting creature now
enhanced with Shillelagh just as it is for a normal one. Do the effects of Storm of Vengeance stack? Or do the effects change each turn? In the spell Storm of Vengeance, each new effect replaces the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sage Advice Compendium
Specific Spells Can I cast animate dead on the humanoid-shaped corpse of an undead creature such as a zombie or a ghast? When animate dead targets a corpse, the body must have belonged to a creature
instantaneous spell animate dead harnesses magical energy to turn a corpse or a pile of bones into an undead creature. That necromantic magic is present for an instant and is then gone. The resulting
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Turn of Fortune’s Wheel
system known as Tyrant’s Spiral. These gas-filled caverns change constantly, trapping the modrons in an ever-contorting circle that exposes them to the same grim visions over and over again. Tyrant’s
depicting sites along the modrons’ endless march. The distance between areas varies from yards to miles. Feel free to add additional encounters between areas, to change their order, or to have the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a2
Charisma (Persuasion) check. The characters can change her attitude to indifferent, reducing the check DC to 10, with a suitable bribe (at least 100 gp). Ghared can share any of the following information if
corpse of a dwarf warrior in plate armor. Bones lie heaped around the altar’s base, and at its foot crouches the desiccated body of an orc in studded leather.
Creatures. The orc champion is now a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragon Delves
various faiths Framed painting (worth 7,500 GP) of a silver-haired, golden-eyed aasimar whose facial expression, attire, and hairstyle magically change daily at dawn Eight music boxes (worth 250 GP
12 Wisdom (Medicine) check. On a success, the character confirms that the gnome was battered to death roughly ten days ago. Characters who cast Speak with Dead on the corpse can learn the following
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Sigil and the Outlands
change, they set fire to outdated and oppressive institutions, letting the ashes pave the way for something new. Wreakers vehemently oppose rigid laws, especially those that serve bureaucracies more
Havoc and others who defy authority. Heralds of Dust Who Believe Everyone Is Already Dead Factol: Skall Headquarters: Mortuary Aligned Plane: Hades Members: Corpse collectors, the grief stricken, Undead
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
patriars, and started Baldur’s Mouth as a way to empower the city’s poor via what he saw as the greatest weapon of social change: information. In the beginning, he simply paid local lantern bearers
Arrangements For as long as anyone can remember, the moon elves of the Candulhallow family have managed the city’s small fleet of corpse carts. Though family members rarely push carts themselves