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                        Returning 35 results for 'cosmic way realm'.
                    
                
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                                                    Player’s Handbook
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                    You beseech an otherworldly entity for aid. The being must be known to you: a god, a demon prince, or some other being of cosmic power. That entity sends a Celestial, an Elemental, or a Fiend loyal
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                    , though you might get a different creature anyway (DM’s choice).
When the creature appears, it is under no compulsion to behave a particular way. You can ask it to perform a service in
                                                
                                            
                                        
                                                     Monsters
                                                    Spelljammer: Adventures in Space
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                     sleep, drifting aimlessly until hunger or some other stimulus awakens it.
Cosmic horrors are among the most powerful creatures spawned by the Far Realm. No two of them have the same appearance, but
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     horrors are colossal, malevolent entities that occasionally slip the bonds of the Far Realm and find themselves adrift on the Astral Plane. Drawn to the light of distant stars, these creatures invade
                                                
                                            
                                        
                                                     Monsters
                                                    Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
                                                    
                                                
                                            
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Cosmological Study
Many amethyst dragons are fascinated by the existence of other worlds in the Material Plane, and especially the way individual dragons manifest unique echoes across those worlds. They
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     also prize understanding of the cosmic forces that emanate from the Outer Planes, studying the opposing tides of good and evil, chaos and order, so they can offer counsel to those with the wisdom to
                                                
                                            
                                        
                                                     Monsters
                                                    Mythic Odysseys of Theros
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                    Antimagic Cone. The woe strider's open mouth creates an area of antimagic, as in the antimagic field spell, in a 60-foot cone. At the start of each of its turns, the woe strider decides which way the
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     destiny. Over centuries, these cosmic blasphemers transform into hunched, long-limbed horrors. Sadistic things, woe striders seek ways to reweave themselves into the tapestry of destiny. This leads
                                                
                                            
                                        
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                                                    Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                     poisoned condition for 1 minute. While poisoned in this way, a creature can’t regain hit points.
Tail. Melee Weapon Attack: +8;{"diceNotation":"1d20+8", "rollType":"to hit", "rollAction":"Tail"} to
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     hit, reach 10 ft., one target. Hit: 13 (2d8 + 4);{"diceNotation":"2d8+4", "rollType":"damage", "rollAction":"Tail", "rollDamageType":"slashing"} slashing damage.The malign energy of the Far Realm
                                                
                                            
                                        
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                                                    Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                     other worlds in the Material Plane, and especially the way individual dragons manifest unique echoes across those worlds. They also prize understanding of the cosmic forces that emanate from the Outer
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     Far Realm into the Material Plane. They loathe the corruption that accompanies such intrusions into the world, making them fierce opponents of the Far Realm and any creatures warped by its touch
                                                
                                            
                                        
                                                     Monsters
                                                    Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                     amethyst dragons are fascinated by the existence of other worlds in the Material Plane, and especially the way individual dragons manifest unique echoes across those worlds. They also prize understanding
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     of the cosmic forces that emanate from the Outer Planes, studying the opposing tides of good and evil, chaos and order, so they can offer counsel to those with the wisdom to accept it.
Amethyst
                                                
                                            
                                        
                                                     Magic Items
                                                    Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                     the Hammock of Worlds on a solid surface, whereupon it creates a two-way portal to the Ghost Orchid Tepui in the Feywild or to the Drought Elder in the Far Realm (the user’s choice). You
                                                
                                            
                                        
                                                     Monsters
                                                    The Book of Many Things
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                     much damage on a successful one.Living portents are embodiments of prophecy sent by deities or other cosmic forces. These Celestials descend to Material Plane worlds in the form of falling stars. When
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     encounter.
Variant: Servants of Living Stars
Some stars in the sky are Elder Evils, alien beings of godlike power from the reality-defying Far Realm.
A living portent can be a fragment of these beings
                                                
                                            
                                        
                                                     Monsters
                                                    Spelljammer: Adventures in Space
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                     pockets in the neh-thalggu’s head. Once it has collected twelve brains in this fashion, it is overcome by an urge to return to the Far Realm and begins devoting all its energy to finding a way home
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     collectors, neh-thalggu consume the brains of Humanoids and use them as receptacles to enhance their magical abilities.
Neh-thalggu are born in the nightmarish Far Realm, but they spread across the
                                                
                                            
                                        
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                                                    Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
                                                    
                                                
                                            
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Cosmological Study
Many amethyst dragons are fascinated by the existence of other worlds in the Material Plane, and especially the way individual dragons manifest unique echoes across those worlds
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                    . They also prize understanding of the cosmic forces that emanate from the Outer Planes, studying the opposing tides of good and evil, chaos and order, so they can offer counsel to those with the
                                                
                                            
                                        
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                                                    Eberron: Rising from the Last War
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                     creature is charmed by the radiant idol. A creature charmed in this way can repeat the saving throw at the end of each of its turns, ending the effect on itself on a success. Once it succeeds on the
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                    ","rollDamageType":"radiant"} radiant damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one.A radiant idol was an angel that was banished from the celestial realm of Syrania and cast
                                                
                                            
                                        
                                                     Monsters
                                                    Quests from the Infinite Staircase
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                     favor.
The multiverse dictates that there must always be a noble djinni to preside over the Infinite Staircase. If slain, Nafas re-forms within days, coalescing from cosmic air. The only way to truly
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                    "} lightning or thunder damage (Nafas’s choice).
Create Vortex. A 10-foot-radius, 60-foot-tall cylinder of swirling cosmic dust forms on a point Nafas can see within 120 feet of him. The vortex
                                                
                                            
                                        
                                                     Monsters
                                                    Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                    ", "rollDamageType":"thunder"} thunder damage to each creature, other than the giant, within 30 feet of the target. The club can emit a burst this way only once per turn.
Boulder. Ranged Weapon Attack: +10
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     Earth. These giants view the surface world not as a realm of dream but as a nightmare worthy only of destruction, so they lend their strength to cults that plan to reduce the world to rubble
                                                
                                            
                                        
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                                                    Mythic Odysseys of Theros
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                     so blessed is that oreads go out of their way to leave such sites alone.
Tales of Fire. The followers of Purphoros regard oreads with special reverence, as myths tell of cagey smiths befriending these
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     mind the cycles of nature, the daily interplay of wild animals, or other cosmic forces. Occasionally, though, groups of the same kind of nymphs congregate in a place of natural power or beauty. In
                                                
                                            
                                        
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                                                    Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                     from faraway places.
Moonstone dragons can project themselves into the realm of dreams to communicate with the creatures that sleep near their lairs. In this way, they inspire artists and poets
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     realm suffused the eggs, which hatched into the first moonstone dragons. Their descendants are now found throughout the Feywild.
Moonstone dragons are graceful and elegant creatures with opalescent
                                                
                                            
                                        
                                                     Monsters
                                                    Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                    . While charmed in this way, the target’s thoughts are sluggish; it can’t take reactions, its speed is halved, and it takes 9 (2d8);{"diceNotation":"2d8", "rollType":"damage", "rollAction
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                    
When a Humanoid consumed by cruelty and rage dies in an area corrupted by the Far Realm, the creature sometimes rises as an ashenwight. The skin of these Undead horrors is desiccated, and their eyes often glow with otherworldly power.Necrotic, Poison, Psychic
                                                
                                            
                                        
                                                     Monsters
                                                    Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                    ", "rollAction":"Tentacles", "rollDamageType":"psychic"} psychic damage at the start of each of its turns until this grapple ends. The herald can have only one creature grappled this way at a time.
Trident
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                    : control water, control weather (as an action), sendingAncient and alien beings dwell or slumber in ocean depths, awaiting some cosmic circumstance that signals their time to rise. In their retreat
                                                
                                            
                                        
                                                     Monsters
                                                    Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                     into the realm of dreams to communicate with the creatures that sleep near their lairs. In this way, they inspire artists and poets, encourage great thinkers, and spur adventurers to heroic deeds
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     populate it with their Humanoid followers, a clever dragon fled to the Feywild to hide a clutch of eggs. The magic of that faerie realm suffused the eggs, which hatched into the first moonstone
                                                
                                            
                                        
                                                     Monsters
                                                    Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                     creature is charmed by the giant. A creature charmed in this way can repeat the saving throw at the end of each of its turns, ending the effect on itself on a success. Once it succeeds on the saving
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     realm to stone giant;stone giants: fluctuating, temporary, exposed to gusting wind and sudden rain. It is as wildly changeable as a dream, and that’s how they regard it—as a dream. Nothing
                                                
                                            
                                        
                                                     Magic Items
                                                    Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                    Not all lingering spirits are tragic souls, lost on their way to the hereafter. Some languish as prisoners, souls so wicked mortals dare not free them upon an unsuspecting afterlife.
Created by a
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     cases, Mother Luba managed to ensnare beings of pure evil amid the strands of fate, imprisoning them within her tarokka deck. There these foul spirits dwell still, trapped within a nether-realm hidden
                                                
                                            
                                        
                                                     Monsters
                                                    Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                     brain casts one of the following spells, requiring no spell components and using Intelligence as the spellcasting ability (spell save DC 17):
At will: detect thoughts, levitateThe Far Realm has tainted
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     with a successful DC 17 Charisma check. If the target breaks the link this way, the target takes 10 (3d6);{"diceNotation":"3d6", "rollType":"damage", "rollAction":"Psychic Link", "rollDamageType
                                                
                                            
                                        
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                                                    Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                     faraway places.
Moonstone dragons can project themselves into the realm of dreams to communicate with the creatures that sleep near their lairs. In this way, they inspire artists and poets, encourage
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     suggest that when the gods came to the First World and tried to populate it with their Humanoid followers, a clever dragon fled to the Feywild to hide a clutch of eggs. The magic of that faerie realm
                                                
                                            
                                        
                                                     Monsters
                                                    The Book of Many Things
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                     chapter 20 for details about this realm.
The challenge rating of Aurnozci is 23 (50,000 XP) when it’s encountered in its lair.
Lair Actions
On initiative count 20 (losing initiative ties
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     restrained in this way takes 9 (2d8);{"diceNotation":"2d8", "rollType":"damage", "rollAction":"Cocoon", "rollDamageType":"bludgeoning"} bludgeoning damage. A creature can use its action to try to tear
                                                
                                            
                                        
                                                     Monsters
                                                    Mythic Odysseys of Theros
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                     after regaining hit points, and is paralyzed while poisoned in this way.
Claws. Melee Weapon Attack: +14;{"diceNotation":"1d20+14","rollType":"to hit","rollAction":"Claws"} to hit, reach 5 ft., one
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     features made monstrous by cruel magic and ages of hatred. Webs fill her lair deep in the Nessian Wood, sticky strands made not of silk but of her own endless hair. In her darkened realm, Arasta broods on
                                                
                                            
                                        
                                                     Magic Items
                                                    Acquisitions Incorporated
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                     planes. Eventually, it would impress upon its owner a desire to open portals into the most cursed and dangerous worlds, including the Far Realm.
To prevent the orrery from ever being so used, Lottie
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     scattered the components that powered it, secreting them across the world. But the orrery’s instinct for survival is strong, and its components have a way of inexorably coming together over
                                                
                                            
                                        
                                                     Monsters
                                                    Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                    ;especially travelers from faraway places.
Moonstone dragons can project themselves into the realm of dreams to communicate with the creatures that sleep near their lairs. In this way, they inspire
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     of that faerie realm suffused the eggs, which hatched into the first moonstone dragons. Their descendants are now found throughout the Feywild.
Moonstone dragons are graceful and elegant creatures
                                                
                                            
                                        
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                                                    Mythic Odysseys of Theros
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                     since its last turn, unless it has taken 40 or more fire damage since its last turn. Polukranos regains 20 hit points for each head regrown in this way.
Reactive Heads. For each head Polukranos has
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     remains. A new incarnation of the World Eater is a fearsome omen, as the monster only appears when the pillars of the world tremble and terrible things are afoot in the realm of the gods. Its rampages
                                                
                                            
                                        
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                                                    Vecna: Eve of Ruin
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                     control, but it takes Strahd’s requests and actions in the most favorable way.
Each time Strahd or his companions deal damage to the target, it can repeat the saving throw, ending the effect on
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                    . He had become a vampire, and Barovia became a Domain of Dread.
Now the Dark Powers keep Strahd trapped in his realm, tormenting him with his inability to escape for all eternity. He spends his days
                                                
                                            
                                        
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                                                    Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
                                                    
                                                
                                            
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Sapphire dragons watch for signs of Aberrations and other creatures corrupted by the Far Realm. They frequently ally with emerald dragons, drawing on their kin’s knowledge of occult phenomena to
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     track the influence of the Far Realm. Armed with that knowledge, sapphire dragons stamp out alien influence before it spreads.
People who dwell or delve deep beneath the earth can easily find
                                                
                                            
                                        
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                                                    Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                    ’s goal is to tap into vast energy sources and perform the dire rites that will extend a bridge between the Material Plane and the squirming chaos of an Elder Evil’s realm.
An entity that
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     find any way out.
The creatures known as star spawn are the heralds, servants, and soldiers of the Elder Evils, capable of taking on forms that can journey to the Material Plane. They arrive most
                                                
                                            
                                        
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                                                    Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                    ; attentiveness to unusual events makes them particularly useful to their sapphire dragon cousins, who hunt down Aberrations and seek evidence of Far Realm incursions into the Material Plane. These gem
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     go out of their way to avoid interacting with other intelligent creatures. However, their interest in history and culture occasionally gets the better of them, prompting them to seek some engagement
                                                
                                            
                                        
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                                                    The Book of Many Things
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                     Euryale’s story and unwavering conviction.
These medusas are divinely empowered champions, drawing their power from a cosmic truth, the will of a deity, or the primal forces of nature. They
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     a surface such as a ceiling with no way to remain there (for example, sufficient handholds), it falls at the end of this movement.
Regional Effects
The region containing a medusa’s lair is
                                                
                                            
                                        
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                                                    Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                     action to land on a ceiling to attack targets flying near it.
Seal the Way. Baphomet seals one doorway or other entryway within the lair. The opening must be unoccupied. It is filled with solid stone
                                                
                                            
                                                
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Beguiling Realm. Within 6 miles of the lair, all Charisma (Persuasion) and Charisma (Performance) checks have disadvantage, and all Charisma (Deception) and Charisma (Intimidation) checks have advantage
                                                
                                            
                                        
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                                                    Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                     Aberrations and other creatures corrupted by the Far Realm. They frequently ally with emerald dragons, drawing on their kin’s knowledge of occult phenomena to track the influence of the Far Realm
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     trespassers who do find their way inside must then contend with a maze of corridors, dead ends, and steep inclines.
Sapphire Dragon Lair Features
The sapphire dragon lair shown in map 5.12 is a series
                                                
                                            
                                        





