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Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
;{"diceNotation":"1d8","rollType":"roll","rollAction":"Weapon Invention"}); the kobold can use each one no more than once per day:
Acid. The kobold hurls a flask of acid. Ranged Weapon Attack: S+4
swarm disperses.
A kobold inventor builds improvised weapons to gain an advantage in combat. These weapons last for only one or two attacks before they break and typically work only for the inventor, but
Monsters
Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
Voice from the Past (1/Day). The professor can cast the contact other plane spell to contact a long-dead spirit, using Intelligence as the spellcasting ability.Multiattack. The professor makes two
Intelligence as the spellcasting ability (spell save DC 15):
At will: comprehend languages, guidance, light
2/day each: dimension door, locate object, mage armor, stone shapeArcane Stasis (2/Day). When
Monsters
Storm King's Thunder
spells, requiring no material components:
At will: detect magic, fog cloud, light
3/day each: feather fall, fly, misty step, telekinesis
1/day each: control weather, gaseous formMultiattack. The giant
gains a +2 bonus to its AC against ranged weapon attacks, and all open flames within the aura are extinguished unless they are magical.Some adult cloud giants have the magical ability to create barriers
Monsters
Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
Detect Sentience. The brain can sense the presence and location of any creature within 300 feet of it that has an Intelligence of 3 or higher, regardless of interposing barriers, unless the creature
(spell save DC 14):
At will: detect thoughts, mage hand, zone of truth
3/day each: charm person, hold person
1/day each: compulsion, hold monster, sleep (3rd-level version), Tasha's hideous
Monsters
Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
):
At will: mage hand (the hand is invisible), minor illusion
1/day each: charm person, dissonant whispers, telekinesis
Synaptic Rend (Recharge 5–6);{"diceNotation":"1d6", "rollType":"recharge
of their psionic abilities, goblin psi commanders wield blades of pure psychic energy. They can throw barriers of mental force while toppling foes with a single, mind-splitting burst.
Psionic
Monsters
Candlekeep Mysteries
(1d10);{"diceNotation":"1d10","rollType":"damage","rollAction":"Incorporeal Movement","rollDamageType":"force"} force damage if she ends her turn inside an object.
Legendary Resistance (3/Day). If
ability (save DC 21) and requiring no material components:
At will: dancing lights, mage hand
3/day each: detect magic, detect thoughts, dispel magic, locate creature
1/day each: dispel evil and good
Monsters
The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
Boon of Immortality. Iggwilv is immune to any effect that would age her, and she can’t die from old age.
Legendary Resistance (3/Day). If Iggwilv fails a saving throw, she can choose to
):
At will: detect magic, disguise self, invisibility, light, mage hand, message, prestidigitation, Tasha's hideous laughter
3/day each: dispel magic, fly, polymorph
1/day each: maze, telekinesis
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
, disguise self, mage hand, prestidigitation
1/day each: dominate monster, globe of invulnerability, invisibility, modify memory, plane shift (self only), wall of forceNegate Spell (3/Day). The
that path is long and fraught with barriers. Alhoons are mind flayers who have used a shortcut to attain a lichlike state.
Elder brains forbid mind flayers from pursuing magic power aside from psionics
Monsters
Lost Laboratory of Kwalish
Detect Sentience. The brain in a jar can sense the presence and location of any creature within 300 feet of it that has an Intelligence of 3 or higher, regardless of interposing barriers, unless the
a jar's innate spellcasting ability is Intelligence (spell save DC 15). It can innately cast the following spells, requiring no components:
At will: detect thoughts, mage hand, zone of truth
3/day
Monsters
Infernal Machine Rebuild
Detect Sentience. The brain in a jar can sense the presence and location of any creature within 300 feet of it that has an Intelligence of 3 or higher, regardless of interposing barriers, unless the
a jar's innate spellcasting ability is Intelligence (spell save DC 15). It can innately cast the following spells, requiring no components:
At will: detect thoughts, mage hand, zone of truth
3/day
Backgrounds
Guildmasters’ Guide to Ravnica
5th
dominate person
Your magic often takes the form of blue or golden runes floating and glowing in the air in circular patterns or of shimmering azure barriers of magical energy. If you
Traits
d8
Trait
1
I try never to let my judgment become clouded by emotion.
2
I have infinite patience with the dolts and boors I’m forced to deal with every day
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Guildmasters' Guide to Ravnica
magic shiv (a prison knife). Reportedly, it could punch through force barriers. It isn’t known how Krenko obtained the weapon. Krenko’s notable associates include the mysterious Mr. Taz (no other
information provided) and a renegade Izzet weapons inventor named Falish (female human, seen around Tin Street). Both are also persons of interest to the Azorius.
Backgrounds
Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide
hundreds of miles of the Great Glacier and the Great Ice Sea. No one from your nation makes the effort to cross such colossal barriers without a convincing reason. You must fear something truly
strong code of honor or sense of propriety that others don’t comprehend.
4
I express affection or contempt in ways that are unfamiliar to others.
5
I begin or end my day with small
Magic Items
Lost Laboratory of Kwalish
(as above). The trapped creature can also attempt a DC 20 Charisma saving throw each day at dawn. On a successful save, the armor no longer controls the creature and can be safely donned by that
power from additional sources, or that energy cells can be recharged with the aid of a tinker, inventor, or artificer. It might also be possible for allies to connect to the armor through the use of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monsters of the Multiverse
Kobold Inventor A kobold inventor builds improvised weapons to gain an advantage in combat. These weapons last for only one or two attacks before they break and typically work only for the inventor
, but they might be surprisingly effective in the meantime. The weapons don’t have to be lethal—often one serves its purpose if it distracts, scares, or confuses a creature long enough for the inventor
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Infernal Machine Rebuild
)
Detect Sentience. The brain in a jar can sense the presence and location of any creature within 300 feet of it that has an Intelligence of 3 or higher, regardless of interposing barriers, unless the
/day each: charm person, command, hold person
1/day each: compulsion, hold monster, sleep (cast at 3rd level), Tasha’s hideous laughter
Actions
Mind Blast (Recharge 5-6). The brain in a jar
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Lost Laboratory of Kwalish
before the great magical statues can run amok. Alternatively, the grand parade of the Day of Wonders turns to deadly chaos when one of its inventive mechanical floats goes berserk and unleashes
of Dragons might discover that the keys needed to access it are lost. Rumors speak of another means of opening the vault — a secret known only to the lost inventor.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
Kobold Inventor Inventors. A kobold inventor captures bugs, scoops up exotic dungeon slimes, and uses the best stolen ingredients to make unlikely weapons that it can use in combat. Kobold Inventor
or choose one); the kobold can use each one no more than once per day:
Acid. The kobold hurls a flask of acid. Ranged Weapon Attack: +4 to hit, range 5/20 ft., one target. Hit: 7 (2d6) acid damage
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
psi commanders wield blades of pure psychic energy. They can throw barriers of mental force while toppling foes with a single, mind-splitting burst. Goblin Psi Commander Small Aberration (Goblinoid
components and using Intelligence as the spellcasting ability (spell save DC 13):
At will: mage hand (the hand is invisible), minor illusion
1/day each: charm person, dissonant whispers, telekinesis
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
Intelligence of 3 or higher, regardless of interposing barriers, unless the creature is protected by a mind blank spell.
Magic Resistance. The brain has advantage on saving throws against spells and other
3/day each: charm person, hold person
1/day each: compulsion, hold monster, sleep (3rd-level version), Tasha’s hideous laughter
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
/60 ft., one target. Hit: 4 (1d6 + 1) piercing damage, or 5 (1d8 + 1) piercing damage if used with two hands to make a melee attack.
Kobold Inventor A kobold inventor, crafty and with quick hands
, builds improvised weapons in the hope of gaining some new advantage in combat. An inventor captures bugs, scoops up exotic dungeon slimes, and claims the best stolen goods as ingredients in its
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
location of any creature within 300 feet of it that has an Intelligence of 3 or higher, regardless of interposing barriers, unless the creature is protected by a mind blank spell.
Magic Resistance. The
save DC 14):
At will: detect thoughts, mage hand, zone of truth
3/day each: charm person, hold person
1/day each: compulsion, hold monster, sleep (3rd-level version), Tasha’s hideous laughter
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
as advisors. The hags waited patiently for the opportunity to overthrow Iggwilv. That day came when the League of Malevolence arrived at the palace. For years, the evil sorcerer Kelek had coveted the
began when she was adopted by the mother of all witches, Baba Yaga, who named her Natasha. On the worlds of the Material Plane, she was better known as Tasha, the inventor of Tasha’s hideous laughter
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Lost Laboratory of Kwalish
his lost expedition are more difficult to come by. But for each day spent talking to knowledgeable travelers, a character can attempt a DC 12 Charisma (Persuasion) check. If the check succeeds, roll
keep a brain alive long after a creature’s death. 46–50 Kwalish never really existed. The inventor who went by that name was really a construct, created by Ioun to walk among mortals and study our
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
possibly against the dangers they perceive from the city’s less-well-off districts, which all lie outside the main wall. The walls are impressive barriers of massive, fitted stone. Like other structures
carnivores or undead. A volunteer citizens’ brigade keeps watch for approaching danger. When residents of the outer wards hear the long blast of warning horns, day or night, they scramble for the safety
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
overlords. Under the teachings of Zerthimon, who called on his people to abandon the warlike ambitions of Gith, the githzerai focused their mental energy on creating physical and psychic barriers to
Spellcasting (Psionics). The githzerai’s innate spellcasting ability is Wisdom. It can innately cast the following spells, requiring no components:
At will: mage hand (the hand is invisible)
3/day
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
one of the following spells, requiring no material components and using Intelligence as the spellcasting ability (spell save DC 12):
At will: guidance, light
1/day each: comprehend languages, locate
object, mage armor
Reactions
Learn from the Past (2/Day). When another creature within 60 feet of the apprentice misses a target with an attack roll, the apprentice magically enables the attacker
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monsters of the Multiverse
alternative way to escape the permanency of death, but that path is long and fraught with barriers. Alhoons are mind flayers who have used a shortcut to attain a lich-like state. Elder brains forbid mind
amethyst. The process requires at least three mind flayer arcanists and the sacrifice of an equal number of souls from living victims in a three-day-long ritual of spellcasting and psionic communion
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Sigil and the Outlands
gatekeeper, Bedlam’s distant ruler. Day and night, shrieking winds erupt from six arched pores at the tower’s base—the blastgates—which render conversation impossible in the town’s lowest district. Bedlam’s
rambunctious inventor named Professor Orbys Bumblewing (chaotic good, gnome mage), the facility is a hub of aeolian research and invention. Within the domed observatory, Bumblewing and her colleagues aim to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Lost Laboratory of Kwalish
that has an Intelligence of 3 or higher, regardless of interposing barriers, unless the creature is protected by a mind blank spell.
Magic Resistance. The brain in a jar has advantage on saving
spells, requiring no components:
At will: detect thoughts, mage hand, zone of truth
3/day each: charm person, command, hold person
1/day each: compulsion, hold monster, sleep (cast at 3rd level
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen
finished a pit trap just inside the mouth of the cave. She has been hiding all day in a crevasse near the top of the cave’s mouth, waiting to see if any draconians fall into it. Pit Trap. The pit trap is
and her hair in a long braid. Grasha is an accomplished inventor who’s fascinated by the rare minerals she’s found around Bluemaw Cave. Personality Trait. “If being a mother’s taught me anything, it’s
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
later when passersby noticed that one of the statue’s hands had risen to shade its eyes. Scholars immediately began studying the statue, learning that at sunrise on the first day of each new year, the
into crypts and catacombs, drawn by the scent of decaying flesh. Wights hide in their tombs by day, while ghosts and wraiths terrorize unsuspecting mortals. Putting down such threats before they can
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur’s Gate Gazetteer
that at sunrise on the first day of each new year, the statue flickers, changing its position in an eyeblink. Though it always looks west, the precise line of its gaze can change by up to thirty
spontaneously out of their graves, while ghouls and ghasts burrow into crypts and catacombs, drawn by the scent of decaying flesh. Wights hide in their tombs by day, while ghosts and wraiths terrorize
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Spelljammer: Adventures in Space->Light of Xaryxis
Vocath’s Base The three-day trip from Aruun to Vocath is uneventful, and Commodore Krux spends much of the time catching up with his good friend, Warwyck. Characters who observe the two giff notice
of Force. Transparent, soundproof walls of force separate areas 1, area 2, and area 3. Vocath can pass through these magical barriers, as can creatures that are tattooed with his personal sigil
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
wield effectively. The greatclub is considered a magic weapon that deals an extra 2d8 bludgeoning damage whenever it hits a dragon (including any creature of the dragon type). Suggested Encounter (Day
learn about the theft 1d4 days later. After that time, there is a cumulative 5 percent chance per day that the Black Ravens locate the characters (or a subset of them, if the party splits up






