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Player’s Handbook
turns, you can take a Bonus Action to mentally command any creature you made with this spell if the creature is within 60 feet of you (if you control multiple creatures, you can command any of them
at the same time, issuing the same command to each one). You decide what action the creature will take and where it will move on its next turn, or you can issue a general command, such as to guard a
Spells
Player’s Handbook
).
As a Bonus Action on each of your turns, you can mentally command any creature you animated with this spell if the creature is within 120 feet of you (if you control multiple creatures, you can
command any of them at the same time, issuing the same command to them). You decide what action the creature will take and where it will move on its next turn, or you can issue a general command, such as to
Magic Items
Dungeon Master’s Guide
command words, each requiring a Magic action to use:
First Command Word. The box unfolds into a Rowboat.
Second Command Word. The box unfolds into a Keelboat.
Third Command Word. The Folding Boat
folds back into a box if no creatures are aboard. Any objects in the vessel that can’t fit inside the box remain outside the box as it folds. Any objects in the vessel that can fit inside the box do
Monsters
Monster Manual
cursed. While cursed, the target gains no benefit from finishing a Short or Long Rest.
Baleful Command (Recharge 5–6);{"diceNotation":"1d6", "rollType":"recharge", "rollAction":"Baleful Command
"}. Wisdom Saving Throw: DC 18, each enemy in a 30-foot Emanation originating from the rakshasa. Failure: 28 (8d6);{"diceNotation":"8d6", "rollType":"damage", "rollAction":"Baleful Command", "rollDamageType
Spells
Player’s Handbook
creatures in its area.
Creatures and objects within the Emanation when you cast the spell can move through it freely. All other creatures and objects are barred from passing through it. Spells of level 3
the spell ends, you can command the interior to have Dim Light or Darkness (no action required). The Emanation is opaque from the outside and of any color you choose, but it’s transparent from the inside.
The spell ends early if you leave the Emanation or if you cast it again.
Spells
Player’s Handbook
Bonus Action to mentally command any creature you made with this spell if the creature is within 500 feet of you (if you control multiple creatures, you can command any of them at the same time, issuing
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
When this 4-foot-tall, 2-foot-wide mirror is viewed indirectly, its surface shows faint images of creatures. The mirror weighs 50 pounds, and it has AC 11, HP 10, Immunity to Poison and Psychic
Magic action and use a command word to activate it. It remains activated until you take a Magic action and repeat the command word to deactivate it.
Any creature other than you that sees its
Monsters
Monster Manual
magical effects.
Marshal Undead. Undead creatures of the death knight’s choice (excluding itself) in a 60-foot Emanation originating from it have Advantage on attack rolls and saving throws. It
following spells, requiring no Material components and using Charisma as the spellcasting ability (spell save DC 18):
At Will: Command, Phantom Steed2/Day Each: Destructive Wave (Necrotic), Dispel
Magic Items
Dungeon Master’s Guide
Held in the dungeon of White Plume Mountain, Wave is engraved with images of waves, shells, and sea creatures.
You gain a +3 bonus to attack rolls and damage rolls made with this magic weapon. When
Initiative rolls.
Underwater Adaptation. A bubble of air forms around your head while you are underwater, allowing you to breathe normally in that environment.
Aquatic Command. Wave has 3 charges and
Monsters
Monster Manual
of its turns.
Beguile. The vampire casts Command, requiring no spell components and using Charisma as the spellcasting ability (spell save DC 18). The vampire can’t take this action again until
and any creatures of its choice are unaffected by the fog.
If the vampire dies or moves its lair elsewhere, these effects end immediately.Cold, NecroticSanguine Drain. Constitution Saving Throw: DC 18
Magic Items
Dungeon Master’s Guide
a living creature specified in the figurine’s description below. If the space where the creature would appear is occupied by other creatures or objects, or if there isn’t enough space for
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
Monsters
Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse
", "rollAction":"Dictate"}. The captain verbally commands up to three creatures it can see within 60 feet of itself. This magical command must be to undertake an action or to refrain from taking actions (for
Aura of Command. Allies within 30 feet of the captain are immune to the charmed and frightened conditions. This aura is suppressed while the captain has the incapacitated condition.Multiattack. The
Magic Items
Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything
effects originating outside it. The controls within it allow creatures to see outside without obstruction.
While you are inside the servant, you can command it by using the controls. During your turn
crew compartment within, from which up to two Medium creatures can control it—and potentially execute a spree of unstoppable destruction.
Tales of the servant’s origins involve more
Monsters
Eberron: Rising from the Last War
must obey the knight's commands until the knight dies or until the knight releases it as a bonus action. The knight can command up to twelve undead at a time this way.
Master of the Pallid Banner. While
(4 slots): command, compelled duel, hellish rebuke, wrathful smite
2nd level (3 slots): branding smite, crown of madness, darkness, find steed, magic weaponMultiattack. The knight attacks twice with
Magic Items
Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything
target takes an extra 1d8 radiant damage.
As a bonus action, you can speak the command word to cause the flail to emanate a thin cloud of incense out to 10 feet for 1 minute. At the start of each of your
turns, you and any other creatures in the incense each regain 1d4 hit points. This property can’t be used again until the next dawn.
Magic Items
Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
While holding the dragonstaff of Ahghairon, you have advantage on saving throws against the spells and breath weapons of dragons, as well as the breath weapons of other creatures of the dragon type
command spell. If you target a dragon with this casting, the dragon has disadvantage on its saving throw. The staff regains 1d10 charges daily at dawn.
Monsters
Guildmasters’ Guide to Ravnica
. Aurelia regains spent legendary actions at the start of her turn.
Command Allies. Aurelia chooses up to three creatures she can see within 30 feet of her. If a chosen creature can see or hear
Actions). Aurelia targets up to five creatures she can see within 30 feet of her. Each target must succeed on a DC 25 Wisdom saving throw or be frightened of her until the end of her next turn. Any
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
damage plus 16 (3d10);{"diceNotation":"3d10", "rollType":"damage", "rollAction":"Taskmaster Whip", "rollDamageType":"force"} force damage.
Blinding Rot. The amnizu targets one or two creatures that
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
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
damage plus 16 (3d10);{"diceNotation":"3d10", "rollType":"damage", "rollAction":"Taskmaster Whip", "rollDamageType":"force"} force damage.
Blinding Rot. The amnizu targets one or two creatures that
, 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
Magic Items
Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
You can use an action to place this 1-inch-diameter granite sphere on the ground and speak its command word, which is “petrification” in Terran. The sphere rapidly grows into a stout
tower that remains until you use an action to touch the tower and speak the command word again, whereupon the tower shrinks back to a 1-inch-diameter granite sphere. The tower must be empty to shrink in
Magic Items
Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
Larger and more roughly hewn than typical figurine of wondrous power;figurines of wondrous power, these statuettes depict dinosaurs and related creatures from the earliest days of the world.
As an
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
Eberron: Rising from the Last War
personality — sadistic, bloodthirsty, and brutally dedicated to serving itself.
Small numbers of these creatures sometimes make their way to the surface, often under the command of dolgaunt;dolgaunts
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
;t command the demons, which simply accompany the war band and attack whatever creatures the gnolls fall upon.
Because maw demons are indiscriminate in their hunger, their stomachs contain all manner
Monsters
Monstrous Compendium Vol. 2: Dragonlance Creatures
after 3 (1d6);{"diceNotation":"1d6", "rollType":"roll", "rollAction":"Days"} days, with all its hit points restored.
Incorporeal Movement. The foresworn can move through other creatures and objects as
save DC 15):
2/day each: command, detect evil and good
1/day: wall of forceForesworn are the spirits of fallen Solamnic knights who attend to their duty long after death. Armed with spectral armor and
Monsters
Vecna: Eve of Ruin
", "rollType":"damage", "rollAction":"Web Bomb", "rollDamageType":"bludgeoning"} bludgeoning damage, and the target and all creatures within 10 feet of it must succeed on a DC 19 Dexterity saving throw or
Lolth’s followers breed spiders of all types and sizes, infusing the creatures with foul energy from the Demonweb Pits. Perhaps the most feared of such abominations is the citadel spider. The
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
suitable only to become nupperibos. These pitiful creatures shuffle across the landscape, driven to purposeful action only when the clouds of swarming vermin that surround them find them prey to destroy or
’ path and distracts them.
Nupperibos unthinkingly obey any command they receive telepathically from another devil. This blind loyalty makes them the easiest of infernal troops to lead into
Monsters
Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
Magic Resistance. The death knight has advantage on saving throws against spells and other magical effects.
Marshal Undead. Unless the death knight is incapacitated, it and undead creatures of its
save DC 18, +10;{"diceNotation":"1d20+10","rollType":"to hit","rollAction":"Spellcasting"} to hit with spell attacks). It has the following paladin spells prepared:
1st level (4 slots): command
Monsters
Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
iron golem's shape can be worked into any form, though most are fashioned to look like giant suits of armor. Its fist can destroy creatures with a single blow, and its clanging steps shake the earth
that drive them, and are susceptible only to weapons imbued with magic or the strength of adamantine.
Blind Obedience. When its creator or possessor is on hand to command it, a golem performs flawlessly
Monsters
Guildmasters’ Guide to Ravnica
sphinx has the following wizard spells prepared:
Cantrips (at will): friends, mage hand, message
1st level (4 slots): command, ensnaring strike, shield
2nd level (3 slots): calm emotions, hold person
within moves up to 10 years forward or backward (sphinx’s choice). Only the sphinx is immediately aware of the time change. A wish spell can return the caster and up to seven other creatures
Monsters
Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen
corpse of such a creatures within the cone, becomes a zombie (see the Monster Manual) under the dragon’s control. The zombie acts on the dragon’s initiative but immediately after the
dragon’s turn. Absent any other command, the zombie tries to kill any non-Undead creature it encounters.Most death dragons are pale imitations of their former selves. They remember flashes and
Monsters
Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
spells, requiring no material components:
3/day each: alter self, command, detect magic
1/day: plane shift (self only)
Magic Resistance Aura. While holding Nepenthe, Isolde creates an aura in a 10-foot
radius around her. While this aura is active, Isolde and all creatures friendly to her in the aura have advantage on saving throws against spells and other magical effects.Multiattack. Isolde makes
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
up to four other creatures within 60 feet of it that can see it. Until the start of the abishai’s next turn, each of those creatures makes attack rolls with advantage and can’t be
, abishais are fanatically loyal to Tiamat, ready to lay down their lives if needed.
Abishais stand outside the normal hierarchy of the Nine Hells, having their own chain of command and ultimately answering
Magic Items
Mythic Odysseys of Theros
Guide for details on randomly determined properties.
Command the Deep. The bident holds the power to command the waves and its creatures. As an action, you can change the condition of the sea
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
enough to stand up against them.
These nightmare creatures are native to Pandemonium, but they can be found on most of the Lower Planes, where they are trained as war hounds. Howlers can be domesticated
hesitation. Howler packs course over the battlefields of the Blood War and also serve evil mortals powerful and vicious enough to command their loyalty.
Howlers rely on speed, numbers, and their mind
Magic Items
Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus
in this way, the devil follows your orders to the best of its ability. If you command the devil to do something it perceives as suicidal, the effect ends and you can no longer use this power of the
sword against that devil.
Infernal Recall. As an action, you can use the sword to cast word of recall. Creatures transported by this spell appear in an unoccupied space within 30 feet of the current