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                                                     Magic Items
                                                    Dungeon Master’s Guide
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                     location. Absent commands from you, the snake defends itself.
As a Bonus Action, you can command the snake to revert to staff form in its current space, and you can’t use the staff's property again
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     control and shares your Initiative count, taking its turn immediately after yours.
On your turn, you can mentally command the snake (no action required) if it is within 60 feet of you and you don
                                                
                                            
                                        
                                                     Spells
                                                    Player’s Handbook
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                     the same command to each one). If you issue no commands, the creature takes the Dodge action and moves only to avoid harm. When the creature drops to 0 Hit Points, it reverts to its object form, and
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                    Objects animate at your command. Choose a number of nonmagical objects within range that aren’t being worn or carried, aren’t fixed to a surface, and aren’t Gargantuan. The maximum
                                                
                                            
                                        
                                                     Magic Items
                                                    Dungeon Master’s Guide
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                    As a Magic action, you can place this 1-inch adamantine statuette on the ground and, using a command word, cause it to grow rapidly into a square adamantine tower. Repeating the command word causes
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     the tower to revert to statuette form, which works only if the tower is empty. Each creature in the area where the tower appears is pushed to an unoccupied space outside but next to the tower. Objects
                                                
                                            
                                        
                                                     Magic Items
                                                    Dungeon Master’s Guide
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                     command word to render it inanimate.
On your turn, you can mentally command the animated broom if it is within 30 feet of you and you don’t have the Incapacitated condition (no action required
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                    ). You decide what action the broom takes and where it moves during its next turn, or you can issue it a general command, such as to attack your enemies or guard a location.
If the broom is reduced to 0
                                                
                                            
                                        
                                                     Monsters
                                                    Monster Manual
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                    , the vampire uses Shape-Shift to become mist (no action required). If it can’t use Shape-Shift, it is destroyed.
While it has 0 Hit Points in mist form, it can’t return to its vampire form
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                    , and it must reach its resting place within 2 hours or be destroyed. Once in its resting place, it returns to its vampire form and has the Paralyzed condition until it regains any Hit Points, and it
                                                
                                            
                                        
                                                     Magic Items
                                                    Dungeon Master’s Guide
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                     ignore your orders, including a command to revert to figurine form. If you mount the nightmare while it is ignoring your orders, you and the nightmare are instantly transported to a random location on
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     duration, the creature reverts to its figurine form. It reverts to a figurine early if its creature form drops to 0 Hit Points or if you take a Magic action while touching the creature to make it revert to
                                                
                                            
                                        
                                                     Magic Items
                                                    Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                    ’t be used this way again until the next dawn.
Gold Dragon Form. While you are missing half or more of your hit points, you can speak a different command word and the figurine becomes an
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     its figurine form. It reverts to a figurine early if it drops to 0 hit points or if you use an action to speak the command word again while touching it. When the creature becomes a figurine again
                                                
                                            
                                        
                                                     Magic Items
                                                    Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                     feather form early if it drops to 0 hit points or if you use an action to speak the command word again while touching the bird.
When the diatryma reverts to feather form, the magic of the feather can
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                    This bright plume is made from the feather of a diatryma (pronounced dee-ah-TRY-mah), a Large, colorful, flightless bird native to the Underdark. If you use an action to speak the command word and
                                                
                                            
                                        
                                                     Magic Items
                                                    Tales from the Yawning Portal
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                    This dark cloak is made of cured hell hound hide. As an action, you can command the cloak to transform you into a hell hound for up to 1 hour. The transformation otherwise functions as the polymorph
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     spell, but you can use a bonus action to revert to your normal form.
Curse. This cloak is cursed with the essence of a hell hound, and becoming attuned to it extends the curse to you. Until the curse
                                                
                                            
                                        
                                                     Magic Items
                                                    Guildmasters’ Guide to Ravnica
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                     specific to each keyrune. At the end of the duration, the creature reverts to its keyrune form. It reverts early if it drops to 0 hit points or if you use an action to speak the command word again
                                                
                                            
                                                
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When you use an action to speak the item’s command word and place the keyrune on the ground in an unoccupied space within 5 feet of you, the keyrune transforms into a creature. If there isn’t
                                                
                                            
                                        
                                                     Magic Items
                                                    Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                    ;t be used again until 14 days have passed.
Whenever you command the figurine while it’s in tyrannosaurus rex form (including commanding it to revert to figurine form), you must roll a d20. On
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     action, you can throw a prehistoric figurine of wondrous power to a point on the ground within 60 feet of yourself while speaking a command word, whereupon the figurine magically transforms into a
                                                
                                            
                                        
                                                     Monsters
                                                    Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                    Fire Absorption. Whenever the golem is subjected to fire damage, it takes no damage and instead regains a number of hit points equal to the fire damage dealt.
Immutable Form. The golem is immune to
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     any spell or effect that would alter its form.
Magic Resistance. The golem has advantage on saving throws against spells and other magical effects.
Magic Weapons. The golem's weapon attacks are magical
                                                
                                            
                                        
                                                     Monsters
                                                    Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                    ’zt can transform himself at will, appearing in any humanlike form that pleases him or his onlookers, all equally tempting in their own ways. In every form, though, a subtle wrongness pervades
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     pageantry.
Lair Actions
On initiative count 20 (losing initiative ties), Graz’zt can take one of the following lair actions; he can’t take the same lair action two rounds in a row:
Command
                                                
                                            
                                        
                                                     Monsters
                                                    Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                     spellcasting ability (spell save DC 19):
At will: command
3/day: dominate monster
1/day: feeblemindInstinctive Charm. When a creature within 60 feet of the amnizu makes an attack roll against it, and
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     24 hours.Amnizus lead infernal legions into battle and command guardians at the gateways to the Hells. Amnizus are arrogant, bullying, and ruthless, but they’re also highly intelligent
                                                
                                            
                                        
                                                     Magic Items
                                                    Quests from the Infinite Staircase
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                     location.
If you use a bonus action to speak the command word again, or if the snake is reduced to 0 hit points, the snake reverts to staff form in its current space.
Thunderclap. You point the
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     snake is under your control and shares your initiative count, but it takes its turn immediately after yours.
On your turn, you can mentally command the snake if it is within 60 feet of you and you
                                                
                                            
                                        
                                                     Monsters
                                                    Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                    , requiring no material components and using Intelligence as the spellcasting ability (spell save DC 19):
At will: command
3/day: dominate monster
1/day: feeblemindInstinctive Charm. When a creature
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                    , the attacker is immune to the amnizu’s Instinctive Charm for 24 hours.Amnizus lead infernal legions into battle and command guardians at the gateways to the Hells. Amnizus are arrogant, bullying
                                                
                                            
                                        
                                                     Monsters
                                                    Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                    Shapechanger. If Keresta isn't in sunlight or running water, she can use her action to polymorph into a Tiny bat or a Medium cloud of mist, or back into her true form.
While in bat form, Keresta
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     is carrying does. She reverts to her true form if she dies.
While in mist form, Keresta can't take any actions, speak, or manipulate objects. It is weightless, has a flying speed of 20 feet, can hover
                                                
                                            
                                        
                                                     Monsters
                                                    Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                    Stirge Telepathy. The strigoi can magically command any stirge within 120 feet of it, using a limited form of telepathy.Multiattack. The strigoi makes one Claw attack and makes one Proboscis attack
                                                
                                            
                                        
                                                     Monsters
                                                    Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                     of its hit points remaining, the swarm casts one of the following spells, requiring no spell components and using Intelligence as the spellcasting ability (spell save DC 13):
At will: command
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     ordinary rats and behave as such. If enough cranium rats come together to form a swarm, they merge their minds into a single intelligence with the accumulated memories of all the swarm’s
                                                
                                            
                                        
                                                     Monsters
                                                    The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
                                                    
                                                
                                            
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Spellcasting. Zargash casts one of the following spells, using Wisdom as the spellcasting ability (spell save DC 13):
At will: light, thaumaturgy
1/day each: command, gaseous form, hold person, silence, speak
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     defeat seems inevitable, he casts gaseous form on himself and flees, leaving his allies to fend for themselves.
League of Malevolence
The League of Malevolence is an odious assemblage of villains
                                                
                                            
                                        
                                                     Monsters
                                                    Candlekeep Mysteries
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                    Immutable Form. The golem is immune to any spell or effect that would alter its form.
Magic Resistance. The golem has advantage on saving throws against spells and other magical effects.
Magic
                                                
                                            
                                                
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The disk can be removed to reveal the glowing sapphire only when the golem receives a command to use its power from someone whose commands it obeys. Otherwise, the sapphire remains hidden. The
                                                
                                            
                                        
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                                                     Monsters
                                                    Out of the Abyss
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                    Shapechanger. Graz’zt can use his action to polymorph into a form that resembles a Medium humanoid, or back into his true form. Aside from his size, his statistics are the same in each form
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     foot. Graz’zt can also transform himself at will, appearing in any humanoid form that pleases him, or his onlookers, all equally tempting in their own ways.
Graz’zt surrounds himself with
                                                
                                            
                                        
                                                     Monsters
                                                    Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                     attacks). He has the following paladin spells prepared:
1st level (4 slots): command, protection from evil and good, thunderous smite
2nd level (3 slots): branding smite, find steed
3rd level (2
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     hulking shadow that glares from its perch, rains down death in the form of long black arrows, and slinks off without so much as a whisper. Where he comes from — if he even has a home — remains a mystery, as
                                                
                                            
                                        
                                                     Monsters
                                                    Princes of the Apocalypse
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                    Air Form. Yan-C-Bin can enter a hostile creature’s space and stop there. He can move through a space as narrow as 1 inch wide without squeezing if air could pass through that space.
Empowered
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     damage and is deafened until the start of Yan-C-Bin’s next turn.
Change Shape. Yan-C-Bin polymorphs into a Medium humanoid. While in polymorphed form, a swirling breeze surrounds him, his eyes are
                                                
                                            
                                        
                                                     Monsters
                                                    Ghosts of Saltmarsh
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                     needs to be submerged at least once every 4 hours to avoid suffocating.
Shark Telepathy. The wave shaper can magically command any shark within 120 feet of it, using a limited telepathy.
Innate
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     at least 50 feet square and 25 feet deep, causing a whirlpool to form in the center of the area. The whirlpool forms a vortex that is 5 feet wide at the base, up to 50 feet wide at the top, 25 feet
                                                
                                            
                                        
                                                     Monsters
                                                    Candlekeep Mysteries
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                     spells prepared:
Cantrips (at will): sacred flame, thaumaturgy
1st level (4 slots): command, guiding bolt, shield of faith
2nd level (3 slots): hold person, silence, spiritual weapon
3rd level (3
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     normal form. While in whirlwind form, the fungal servant is immune to all damage, and it can’t be grappled, petrified, knocked prone, restrained, or stunned. Equipment worn or carried by the
                                                
                                            
                                        
                                                     Monsters
                                                    Princes of the Apocalypse
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                     instead.
Magic Resistance. Olhydra has advantage on saving throws against spells and other magical effects.
Water Form. Olhydra can enter a hostile creature’s space and stop there. She can move
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     she is in her elemental domain or temporarily occupying a water node, Olhydra commands the waters around her and can shape them to her will.
Lair Actions
Olhydra can command the waters around herself
                                                
                                            
                                        
                                                     Monsters
                                                    Candlekeep Mysteries
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                    ","rollType":"spell","rollAction":"Spellcasting"} to hit with spell attacks). Valin has the following cleric spells prepared:
Cantrips (at will): sacred flame, thaumaturgy
1st level (4 slots): command
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                    ). Valin magically transforms into a whirlwind of sand, moves up to 60 feet, and reverts to her normal form. While in whirlwind form, Valin is immune to all damage, and she can’t be grappled
                                                
                                            
                                        
                                                     Monsters
                                                    Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                     (at will): sacred flame, thaumaturgy
1st level (4 slots): command, guiding bolt, shield of faith
2nd level (3 slots): hold person, silence, spiritual weapon
3rd level (3 slots): animate dead
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     form. While in whirlwind form, the mummy lord is immune to all damage, and it can't be grappled, petrified, knocked prone, restrained, or stunned. Equipment worn or carried by the mummy lord remain in
                                                
                                            
                                        
                                                     Monsters
                                                    Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                     save, or half as much damage on a successful one.Politics in the Nine Hells are anything but predictable. Alliances form all the time, but most wind up unraveling due to treachery. Nevertheless, for
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     command, Hutijin can easily crush any rival who gets in his way while also defending Mephistopheles against armies seeking to contest his dominion. Hutijin has amassed enough power to challenge the
                                                
                                            
                                        
                                                     Monsters
                                                    Storm King's Thunder
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                    ":"spell", "rollAction":"Spellcasting"} to hit with spell attacks):
At will: light, sacred flame, thaumaturgy
1/day each: augury (cast as 1 action), bane, banishment, bestow curse, command, cure wounds
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     apart.
Servants of the Forgotten God. Yakfolk are the creations of a malevolent deity they call the Forgotten God. The worship of this nameless deity directs their lives. The deity takes the form of
                                                
                                            
                                        
                                                     Monsters
                                                    Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                     multiverse form the centerpiece of an amethyst dragon’s hoard.
Creating an Amethyst Dragon
Use the Amethyst Dragon Personality Traits and Amethyst Dragon Ideals tables to inspire your portrayal of
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     experience a thing is to truly understand it. Direct and personal experience is the most valuable form of knowledge.
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I see a far more kaleidoscopic reality than you do … or than any of
                                                
                                            
                                        
                                                     Monsters
                                                    Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                     examining the nature of the multiverse form the centerpiece of an amethyst dragon’s hoard.
Creating an Amethyst Dragon
Use the Amethyst Dragon Personality Traits and Amethyst Dragon Ideals
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     foundations of creation.
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To experience a thing is to truly understand it. Direct and personal experience is the most valuable form of knowledge.
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I see a far more kaleidoscopic reality than
                                                
                                            
                                        
                                                     Monsters
                                                    Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                     each: command, divination, hypnotic pattern, lesser restorationThe dragon can take 3 legendary actions, choosing from the options below. Only one legendary action option can be used at a time and only at
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     dragon until initiative count 20 on the next round. A creature charmed in this way obeys to the best of its ability any command the dragon issues that isn’t directly harmful to the creature.
Ice
                                                
                                            
                                        
                                                     Monsters
                                                    Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                    : command, divination, greater restoration, hypnotic pattern, invisibilityThe dragon can take 3 legendary actions, choosing from the options below. Only one legendary action option can be used at a
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     must succeed on a DC 15 Wisdom saving throw or be charmed by the dragon until initiative count 20 on the next round. A creature charmed in this way obeys to the best of its ability any command the
                                                
                                            
                                        






