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Monsters
Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
temporary hit points.
Unusual Nature. The swarm doesn’t require air, food, drink, or sleep.Multiattack. The swarm makes one Undead Mass attack and one Grasping Limbs attack.
Undead Mass. Melee
":"bludgeoning"} bludgeoning damage if the swarm has half of its hit points or fewer.
Grasping Limbs. Melee Weapon Attack: +4;{"diceNotation":"1d20+4","rollType":"to hit","rollAction":"Grasping Limbs"} to hit
Monsters
Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
Magic Resistance. The living spell has advantage on saving throws against spells and other magical effects.
Unusual Nature. The living spell doesn't require air, food, drink, or sleep.Force Fist
.
Grasping Hand. The living spell attempts to grab a Huge or smaller creature within 5 feet of it. The target must succeed on a DC 15 Dexterity saving throw or be grappled (escape DC 15). Until the
Monsters
Candlekeep Mysteries
Unusual Nature. The commoner doesn’t require air, food, drink, or sleep, and it gains no benefit from finishing a short or long rest. When it drops to 0 hit points, it becomes a lifeless
village a few days later. If the mannequin is disintegrated or reduced to ashes, it is not replaced and the population of the village permanently decreases by one.Poison
Monsters
Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
together, whereupon the soul shaker reforms and regains all its hit points.
Unusual Nature. The soul shaker doesn’t require air, food, drink, or sleep.Crushing Grasp. Melee Weapon Attack: +7
grasping mass of Humanoid limbs, a soul shaker is an obsessive claimer of corpses and collector of body parts. These nightmarish creatures arise from ghoulish collections of severed limbs exposed to
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
be revived except by a wish spell.
Unusual Nature. The nightwalker doesn’t require air, food, drink, or sleep.Multiattack. The nightwalker makes two Enervating Focus attacks, one of which can be
replaced by Finger of Doom, if available.
Enervating Focus. Melee Weapon Attack: +12;{"diceNotation":"1d20+12","rollType":"to hit","rollAction":"Enervating Focus"} to hit, reach 15 ft., one target
Monsters
Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
dismisses it (no action required).
Unusual Nature. The podling doesn’t require sleep.Slam. Melee Weapon Attack: +4;{"diceNotation":"1d20+4","rollType":"to hit","rollAction":"Slam"} to hit, reach 5
replaced by a podling can often tell something’s amiss. Roll on the Podling Behavior table to see what unusual habits a podling might demonstrate.
Podling Behavior
d6
Behavior
1
Monsters
Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
followed her fellow wizards to Icewind Dale. She caught up to them in Bryn Shander and made her presence known, claiming she was sent by her master to aid the expedition with her divinations. Egos and
cast spells that require material components, which limits its options. Its list of prepared spells shows only those spells it can cast. Although it has no 2nd-level spells available, the ghost can use
Monsters
Eberron: Rising from the Last War
Intelligence, Wisdom, and Charisma scores, as well as this action. Her statistics and capabilities are otherwise replaced by those of the new form, except any class features or legendary actions of that
powers they would wield if they were ever unleashed upon the world.
Immortal Nature. An overlord doesn't require air, food, drink or sleep. It also can't die permanently. Upon its death, it reforms
Monsters
Eberron: Rising from the Last War
, and Intelligence, Wisdom, and Charisma scores, as well as this action. His statistics and capabilities are otherwise replaced by those of the new form, except any class features or legendary actions
form. The stat blocks provided here reflect the powers they would wield if they were ever unleashed upon the world.
Immortal Nature. An overlord doesn't require air, food, drink or sleep. It also
Monsters
The Tortle Package
replaced with a leather bag that contains a live poisonous snake. The snake requires neither air nor sustenance, and it magically renders the topi’s claws venomous. When a topi dies, the snake
resistant to bludgeoning.
Undead Traits. A topi doesn’t require air, food, drink, or sleep.PoisonBludgeoning
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
figure out what magic she used to bewitch her way into a role.
2 A Phlegethan Hospital patient contacts the party, claiming to be the rightful Duke d’Honaire. He has a preternatural ability to bend
others to his will.
3 The party runs afoul of the city watch and learns that their captain has been replaced by a devil who’s transforming them into a brutal force.
4 People are being
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
If a creature dies after one of its vital organs is replaced by Valin’s organs, it can be returned to life by a wish spell or in one of the ways described below.
Rite of Reclamation. A ritual known
as the rite of reclamation involves claiming some of the dust of Valin’s body after she has been reduced to 0 hit points. The ritual describes a process for mixing the dust with wax to create a magic
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
dragonshard dust in place of any spell component that has a cost, unless the DM says otherwise (the dust’s market value is the same as the replaced component). Eberron dragonshard dust is used in the
creation of some magic items, and many powerful tools — such as the lightning rail and elemental airships — require an ongoing expenditure of Eberron dragonshards to maintain their enchantments. Khyber
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation Supplement
Topi Topis are similar to zombies. Before a topi is animated, its corpse is shrunk until it stands only 2 feet tall, and its heart is cut out and replaced with a leather bag that contains a live
require air, food, drink, or sleep. Topi
Small undead, chaotic evil
Armor Class 13 (natural)
Hit Points 13 (3d6 + 3)
Speed 30 ft.
STR
7(−2)
DEX
15(+2)
CON
12(+1)
INT
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
fiddles with or occasionally breaks Tiny, nonmagical objects.
6 There’s a slight but noticeable delay between my movements and those of my shadow.
Grasping Shadow. You learn the mage hand
cantrip if you don’t already know it, and require no components to cast it. The hand created by the spell is shadowy but is not bound to your actual shadow. Your spellcasting ability for this spell is
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monsters of the Multiverse
unequal to the task. Those not destroyed outright are sometimes drawn inside the plane and replaced by nightwalkers—terrifying Undead creatures that devour all life they encounter. One can reach the
hit points by the nightwalker and can’t be revived except by a wish spell.
Unusual Nature. The nightwalker doesn’t require air, food, drink, or sleep.
Actions
Multiattack. The nightwalker makes
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
Languages —
Challenge 4 (1,100 XP)
Magic Resistance. The living spell has advantage on saving throws against spells and other magical effects.
Unusual Nature . The living spell doesn’t require
spell can move it up to 5 feet and move with it, without provoking opportunity attacks.
Grasping Hand. The living spell attempts to grab a Huge or smaller creature within 5 feet of it. The target must
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Lost Laboratory of Kwalish
humanoid commoners, most of which require healing in order to speak coherently or walk on their own. If the monks are dealt with, freed prisoners can fill the characters in on the layout of the
greataxe attack is replaced with a shackling chains attack, using the same modifiers but dealing bludgeoning damage. While in sunlight, an immured one has disadvantage on attack rolls, as well as on Wisdom (Perception) checks that rely on sight.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
. When circumstances require that it cast off its guise, a deva is a beautiful humanoid-like creature with silvery skin. Its hair and eyes gleam with an unearthly luster, and large feathery wings unfurl
retains its game statistics and ability to speak, but its AC, movement modes, Strength, Dexterity, and special senses are replaced by those of the new form, and it gains any statistics and capabilities (except class features, legendary actions, and lair actions) that the new form has but that it lacks.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
the mannequin is disintegrated or reduced to ashes, it is not replaced and the population of the village permanently decreases by one. Constructed Commoner Constructed Commoner
Medium construct
doesn’t require air, food, drink, or sleep, and it gains no benefit from finishing a short or long rest. When it drops to 0 hit points, it becomes a lifeless object.
Actions
Club. Melee Weapon Attack: +2 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 2 (1d4) bludgeoning damage.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
the place where it died 1d12 months later, unless the ground where it took root is sown with salt or soaked with poison.
Unusual Nature. The plant doesn’t require sleep.
Actions
Multiattack. The
sapping enzymes until it is removed from the pod or the plant dies. The enveloped target doesn’t require air and gains 1 level of exhaustion for each hour it spends in the pod. If the target dies
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
goal is to prevent the gold from falling into the hands of the bad guys. If all goes well, some of the gold will find its way into the characters’ pockets. Characters will have a hard time claiming it
or more of these lairs in the course of the adventure. Thwarting the villains doesn’t require the characters to invade their lairs or defeat them in combat, so it’s possible to complete the adventure
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
, when such individuals approach the midnight realm, they find they are unequal to the task. Those not destroyed outright are sometimes drawn inside the plane and replaced by nightwalkers, terrifying
. A nightwalker doesn’t require air, food, drink, or sleep. Nightwalker
Huge undead, chaotic evil
Armor Class 14
Hit Points 297 (22d12 + 154)
Speed 40 ft., fly 40 ft.
STR
22(+6
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Domains of Delight: A Feywild Accessory
are magically replaced by a pair of soft, fuzzy donkey ears. Moreover, when you try to speak, you instead bray. 2 You gain 1d3 levels of exhaustion. Until the curse ends, these levels of exhaustion
looks like you. Your statistics are the same, but you are a Construct with vulnerability to fire damage, and you don’t require air, food, or drink. Items worn or carried by you are unaffected. 8
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
. Otherwise, the hireling is arrested and taken away. If this loss leaves one of your facilities without any hirelings, that facility can’t be used on your next Bastion turn. The hireling is then replaced at
The guest is a mercenary, giving you one additional Bastion Defender. The guest doesn’t require a facility to house them, and they stay until you send them away or they’re killed. 4 The guest is a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
canny monsters seek to exploit. Intelligent creatures in a dungeon have goals, whether as simple as short-term survival or as ambitious as claiming the entire dungeon as the first step in founding an
— or even doors that require hands to open — can restrict the movement of some creatures. If all the doors in a dungeon are closed, the players might wonder how the carrion crawlers or stirges they
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
removing, and that the substitute class features contribute to the class’s effectiveness at social interaction, exploration, or combat just as well as those being replaced. Ultimately, a class exists
. Clerics choose a divine domain, fighters choose a martial archetype, wizards choose an arcane tradition, and so forth. Creating a new option doesn’t require you to remove anything from the class, but
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
its endless rest by undoing the transgression that caused it to rise. A sacred idol might be replaced in its niche, a stolen treasure could be returned to its tomb, or a temple might be purified of
mummy doesn’t require air, food, drink, or sleep.
Mummy
Medium undead, lawful evil
Armor Class 11 (natural armor)
Hit Points 58 (9d8 + 18)
Speed 20 ft.
STR
16 (+3)
DEX
8
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
left, but distorted and often sinister. A mountain on the Material Plane might be replaced in the Shadowfell by a skull-shaped rock outcropping, a heap of rubble, or the crumbling ruin of a once
once per day, you can require a character not from the Shadowfell to make a DC 10 Wisdom saving throw. On a failed save, the character is affected by despair. Roll on the Shadowfell Despair table to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
attack any creatures they come into contact with, lashing out indiscriminately with their corrupted magic. Constructed Nature. A living spell doesn’t require air, food, drink, or sleep. Customizing a
, use spell save DC from the replaced spell, and if the spell involves an attack roll, use the attack bonus from the living spell’s Magical Strike. For example, if you turn fireball (a 3rd-level spell
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monsters of the Multiverse
master and speaks with his voice, a turn of events that leads some to whisper that either Titivilus is Dispater in disguise or Titivilus has removed the archduke and replaced him altogether
the eyes of his master. Titivilus finds adventurers well suited to the tasks he needs performed and recruits them directly or through intermediaries, expending them later as his plans require
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Sigil and the Outlands
lobby is hardly recognizable. The bank’s original tellers are gone, replaced by profiteers who skim a few coins off every transaction. They don’t keep their ill-gotten gains for long, however. The
characters to collect the debt and “rough him up a little bit.” She fails to mention the buyer is a cloud giant. 2 A death tyrant claiming to be the deceased founder of the Xanathar’s Guild on Toril hires
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
(which they assume includes anyone trying to steal the component). However, they are not automatically friendly to those claiming other intent. The creatures were created to guard this vault and its
be moved or manipulated by magic. When any creature attempts to physically seize the component, it reveals itself as an illusion. As the illusion dissolves, it is replaced by a small (real) leather
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
events that leads some to whisper that either Titivilus is Dispater in disguise, or that Titivilus has removed the archduke and replaced him altogether. Titivilus recognizes the inherent precariousness of
. Titivilus finds adventurers well suited to the tasks he needs performed and recruits them directly or through intermediaries, expending them later as his plans require. I actually admire Titivilus. If he
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
goats.
The two goats are harmless and will eat just about anything. The cook, a human named Karou Salafan (neutral good human commoner), was not replaced by the cultists because he knows fifty
crimes. He has little to say about his captors, since they don’t share information with him: His captors arrived under false pretenses, claiming to be neutral arbiters employed by the Council of Speakers