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Spells
Player’s Handbook
You exert control over the elements, creating one of the following effects within range.
Beckon Air. You create a breeze strong enough to ripple cloth, stir dust, rustle leaves, and close open doors
that lightly dampens creatures and objects in a 5-foot Cube. Alternatively, you create 1 cup of clean water either in an open container or on a surface, and the water evaporates in 1 minute.
Sculpt
Spells
Player’s Handbook
in the shape of a cage can be up to 20 feet on a side and is made from 1/2-inch diameter bars spaced 1/2 inch apart. A prison in the shape of a box can be up to 10 feet on a side, creating a solid
trapped. Creatures only partially within the area, or those too large to fit inside it, are pushed away from the center of the area until they are completely outside it.
A creature inside the cage can
Monsters
Monster Manual
’s lair is twisted by its presence, creating the following effects:
Negative Energy Suffusion. Whenever a creature within 1 mile of the lair regains Hit Points from a spell, it subtracts 1d10
Bright Light instead create Dim Light, and creatures there have Advantage on Dexterity (Stealth) checks.
If the dragon dies or moves its lair elsewhere, these effects end immediately.NecroticShadow Stealth. While in Dim Light or Darkness, the dragon takes the Hide action.
Monsters
Monster Manual
’s lair is twisted by its presence, creating the following effects:
Negative Energy Suffusion. Whenever a creature within 1 mile of the lair regains Hit Points from a spell, it subtracts 1d10
Bright Light instead create Dim Light, and creatures there have Advantage on Dexterity (Stealth) checks.
If the dragon dies or moves its lair elsewhere, these effects end immediately.NecroticShadow Stealth. While in Dim Light or Darkness, the dragon takes the Hide action.
Monsters
Monster Manual
Legendary Resistance (3/Day, or 4/Day in Lair). If the dracolich fails a saving throw, it can choose to succeed instead.
Life Suppression. Creatures within 60 feet of the dracolich can’t
turn.Dracolich Lairs
A dracolich lurks in a corrupted version of the lair it had in life. The region containing a dracolich’s lair is warped by its presence, creating the following effects:
Sapping Mist
Monsters
Monster Manual
presence, creating the following effects:
Enervating Domain. Whenever a creature other than the demilich or one of its allies finishes a Long Rest within 1 mile of the lair, the creature must succeed on a
finishes a Long Rest outside that area.
Travel Ward. Creatures can’t use teleportation or planar travel to enter or exit the lair.
If the demilich dies or moves its lair elsewhere, these effects end immediately.Necrotic, Poison, PsychicBludgeoning, Piercing, Slashing
Monsters
Monster Manual
region containing a death tyrant’s lair is warped by its presence, creating the following effects:
Negative Energy Suffusion. Whenever a creature within 1 mile of the lair regains Hit Points from
a spell, it subtracts 1d10;{"diceNotation":"1d10", "rollType":"roll", "rollAction":"Negative energy suffusion"} from the number of Hit Points regained.
Scopophobia. Creatures within 1 mile of the
Spells
Player’s Handbook
triggers include opening that object or seeing the glyph. Once a glyph is triggered, this spell ends.
You can refine the trigger so that only creatures of certain types activate it (for example, the
glyph could be set to affect Aberrations). You can also set conditions for creatures that don’t trigger the glyph, such as those who say a certain password.
Explosive Rune. When triggered, the
Monsters
Monster Manual
lairs frequently change or exhibit bewildering features.
The region containing an arch-hag’s lair is altered by its presence, creating the following effects:
Lapsus Linguae. Creatures
Monsters
Monster Manual
in the Underdark or in lairs created for them by their servants.
The region containing a beholder’s lair is twisted by its presence, creating the following effects:
Scopophobia. Creatures
Monsters
Monster Manual
, creating the following effects:
Children of the Night. The vampire exerts influence over the animals in its domain. From dusk until dawn, Medium or smaller Beasts have the Charmed condition while
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
Monsters
Dragons of Stormwreck Isle
"} bludgeoning damage.Spore servants are dead creatures reanimated by the magical spores of a myconid leader. The final act of the myconid leader in Seagrow Caves before lapsing into its current comatose state
was creating a spore servant from a dead giant octopus to protect the caves while the leader could not. Unlike a living octopus, this guardian has only basic control over its tentacles. Rather than coiling around intruders to immobilize them, the spore servant simply bludgeons them.
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
from the Elemental Planes to shape their breath weapons into bipedal form, creating Elemental creatures called animated breaths. Chromatic dragons often use these creatures as guardians for their hoards
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
magic from the Elemental Planes to shape their breath weapons into bipedal form, creating Elemental creatures called animated breaths. Chromatic dragons often use these creatures as guardians for their
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
manifestation of the energy that suffuses the dragon. With sufficient practice, dragons can learn to draw on magic from the Elemental Planes to shape their breath weapons into bipedal form, creating
Elemental creatures called animated breaths. Chromatic dragons often use these creatures as guardians for their hoards or send them out to gather treasure from the territory around their lairs.
An
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
magic from the Elemental Planes to shape their breath weapons into bipedal form, creating Elemental creatures called animated breaths. Chromatic dragons often use these creatures as guardians for
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
magic from the Elemental Planes to shape their breath weapons into bipedal form, creating Elemental creatures called animated breaths. Chromatic dragons often use these creatures as guardians for
Monsters
Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
creatures that enter into pacts with fiends or other nefarious entities. Their bargains transform them into vicious butchers that exist only to indulge their endless bloodlust. While some who become
fear into innocents across lands and over ages.
Creating a Relentless Killer
Relentless killers come into being and undertake their terrifying sprees for a spectrum of reasons. When creating a
Monsters
Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
a certain area its territory and visits destruction upon all trespassers.
Relentless killers are hateful, revenge-obsessed creatures that enter into pacts with fiends or other nefarious entities
is washed away in a tide of gore and rage. These killers’ grisly work swiftly becomes the stuff of legends,striking fear into innocents across lands and over ages.
Creating a Relentless Killer
Monsters
Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus
creatures or objects within it, even if the spell is cast using a higher level spell slot. Such a spell can target creatures and objects within the barrier, but the spell has no effect on them. Similarly
, creating a trumpet sound that can be heard out to a range of 600 feet. The trumpet also creates a 30-foot cone of energy that has one of the following effects, chosen by the hollyphant:
Trumpet of Blasting
Monsters
Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
; 10 feet away from the vortex in a random direction.Thunderclap. Immediately after taking damage, the cradle unleashes a thunderclap in a 30-foot-radius sphere centered on itself. All other creatures
have the deafened condition for 1 minute.A slumbering scion of Memnor appears as a dense, slowly drifting tower of clouds that never dissipates. Often, this cloud lingers over a remote valley, creating
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
within 1 mile of you, creating strong winds and heavy rain that cause violent waves (see “Weather at Sea” in chapter 5 of the Dungeon Master’s Guide) or calming a storm. In either
Monsters
Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
turn.A slumbering scion of Memnor appears as a dense, slowly drifting tower of clouds that never dissipates. Often, this cloud lingers over a remote valley, creating a constantly overcast sky. Sapient
creatures who live beneath this cloud often display superstitious and duplicitous behavior, almost unconsciously leaving gifts for “rain spirits” while playing mischievous pranks on each
Monsters
Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
properties of growth. Their magic alters and replaces the equations that describe the natural world, including creatures, space, and substance. Through these manipulations, the professors change their size
merely intellectual concepts, but that they exist physically in all things. Professors of substance teach their students to wield magic practically, creating tangible change in the world around them
Monsters
Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
creatures of living mud.
A mud hulk vaguely resembles its ancestors, but its body consists of wet mud that constantly sloughs off around it, creating thick pools of the stuff everywhere the creature
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
lesser creatures to help them carry out their missions, becoming the masterminds behind vast conspiracies and intrigues that culminate in the accomplishment of great acts of evil.
Deathlocks
The
the wicked methods of creating a deathlock and then subjugate it, acting as the deathlock’s patron.PoisonNecrotic; Bludgeoning, Piercing, and Slashing from Nonmagical Attacks that aren't Silvered
Monsters
Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
creatures standing on it.
Regional Effects
The region surrounding a scion of Thrym is altered by the giant’s magic, creating one or more of the following effects:
Biting Chill. Extreme cold
rushes at any foe that dares to challenge it. Emulating sagas of Thrym, the scion can achieve a tremendous feat of strength: creating a glacier in the ground and hurling it skyward, along with any
Monsters
Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
Thrym, the scion can achieve a tremendous feat of strength: creating a glacier in the ground and hurling it skyward, along with any creatures standing on it.
Regional Effects
The region surrounding a
scion of Thrym is altered by the giant’s magic, creating one or more of the following effects:
Biting Chill. Extreme cold envelops the land within 6 miles of the scion (see the Dungeon Master
Monsters
Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
", "rollAction":"Weight of History"}. The professor magically compresses time around up to six creatures of its choice that it can see within 30 feet of itself. Each target must succeed on a DC 15 Wisdom
their magic into creating breaks that are to their advantage. Whether those breaks are in a series of events, in obstacles, or in enemies depends on the needs in the moment. They crush enemies&rsquo
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
the Elemental Planes of Air and Water, creating flash glaciation that encroaches upon inhabited lands.
Connected Creatures
Crystal dragons are among the most social and hospitable of dragons
. They read these signs as omens, giving them glimpses of what is to come, and they eagerly examine the potential futures of any creatures who come to them in peace.
Crystal dragons’ connection to
Monsters
The Book of Many Things
a villain’s lair is warped by their presence, creating one or more of the following effects:
Corruption Abounds. While within 3 miles of the lair, creatures that aren’t members of the
dissolves into a shifting mass of flesh, tentacles, eyes, claws, and mouths. Up to two creatures the corrupter can see within 20 feet of itself must make a DC 20 Intelligence saving throw, taking 18
Monsters
Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse
on a successful one. If at least one of the creatures that failed this save isn’t a Construct or an Undead, the blight regains 9 hit points.Travelers of Sigil and the Lower Planes take care to
dangerous, in Sigil they sometimes mimic the behaviors of the city’s other inhabitants—for better or worse. At least one blight, known as Patch, spreads copies of itself across the city, creating a spy network of copies with mysterious goals.
Monsters
Mythic Odysseys of Theros
oreads number among the most dangerous nymphs, as they embody the wild might of flames, volcanism, and the hidden forces of the earth. These creatures typically dwell in remote mountain crags and near
nymphs and convincing them to aid in creating phenomenal works. In some tales, a smith finds an oread and allows it to relish in the destruction of a novel or remarkable item. In recompense, the
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
their breath weapons into bipedal form, creating Elemental creatures called animated breaths. Chromatic dragons often use these creatures as guardians for their hoards or send them out to gather
Monsters
Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
creatures grappled this way at a time.
Elemental Breath (Recharge 5–6);{"diceNotation":"1d6", "rollType":"recharge", "rollAction":"Elemental Breath"}. The colossus exhales a cloud swirling with
, creatures inside the colossus’s chest cavity take 40 (9d8);{"diceNotation":"9d8", "rollType":"damage", "rollAction":"Elemental Breath", "rollDamageType":"force"} force damage from churning elemental