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Dungeon Master’s Guide
Dragon Scale Mail is made of the scales of one kind of dragon. Sometimes dragons collect their cast-off scales and gift them. Other times, hunters carefully preserve the hide of a dead dragon. In
either case, Dragon Scale Mail is highly valued.
While wearing this armor, you gain a +1 bonus to Armor Class, you have Advantage on saving throws against the breath weapons of Dragons, and you have
Spells
Player’s Handbook
surroundings as if you were in the container’s space. You can’t move or take Reactions. The only action you can take is to project your soul up to 100 feet out of the container, either
container is destroyed or the spell ends, your soul returns to your body. If your body is more than 100 feet away from you or if your body is dead, you die. If another creature’s soul is in the
Magic Items
Forgotten Realms: Adventures in Faerûn
cover. The Tome of the Dragon contains the secret ritual to transform a dragon or a dead dragon’s body into a dracolich.
To decipher and use the Tome of the Dragon, you must be either a
requirements to use the tome.
To create a dracolich using a Tome of the Dragon, you must have continuous access to the body of an adult or ancient dragon (either living or dead), as well as 80,000 GP worth of
Monsters
Forgotten Realms: Adventures in Faerûn
attack roll. Response: The cultist makes one Gauntlet or Oppressive Burst attack against the triggering creature.Cultists of Bane sow strife, either by directly bullying others or by abusing existing
their hands as a sign of devotion.
Cultists
The adventurers Bane, Bhaal, and Myrkul seized divinity but were slain for their hubris. All three have been reborn and are now known as the Dead Three
Magic Items
The Book of Many Things
While wearing this armor, you can use it to cast either Speak with Dead or Animate Dead. Once the armor has cast a spell in this way, it can’t cast either spell until the next dawn.
Your soul keeps this armor together. If you die while you are attuned to the armor, the armor is destroyed.
Monsters
Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus
":"damage","rollDamageType":"necrotic"} necrotic damage.Those who follow Myrkul are either wizards or those who seek to master the necromantic arts.
Delvers into Lore. Cultists of Myrkul study rituals
that allow them to force the souls of the dead into service, compelling them to answer questions and share forgotten lore. They seek out arcane secrets in ancient ruins, and attempt to steal
Monsters
Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus
spell slot of 2nd level or higher, the damage increases by 1d8;{"diceNotation":"1d8","rollType":"roll"} for each slot level above 1st.Those who follow Myrkul are either wizards or those who seek to
master the necromantic arts.
Delvers into Lore. Cultists of Myrkul study rituals that allow them to force the souls of the dead into service, compelling them to answer questions and share forgotten
Monsters
Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus
): darkness, misty step, scorching ray (see “Actions” below)
3rd level (2 slots): animate dead, fireballMultiattack. The master of souls attacks twice with its flail.
Silvered Skull Flail. Melee
","rollAction":"Scorching Ray","rollDamageType":"fire"} fire damage per ray.Those who follow Myrkul are either wizards or those who seek to master the necromantic arts.
Delvers into Lore. Cultists of
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Mythic Odysseys of Theros
Erebos wields Mastix, a whip capable of extending like an impossibly long shadow. In the hands of the god of the dead, the whip snares the reluctant dead and drags them into his realm. When Erebos
grants his weapon to a mortal follower, it’s typically to reclaim a powerful soul or to humiliate Heliod.
Whip of the Dead. Erebos’s whip seethes with the enervating energy of the
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Forgotten Realms: Heroes of Faerûn
Become a Gruesome Agent of Malice
A Scion of the Three draws power from a group of malevolent gods known in Baldur’s Gate as the Dead Three: Bane, a god of tyranny; Bhaal, a god of violence
and murder; and Myrkul, a god of death. While some Rogues of this subclass pledge themselves ardently to those three macabre gods, others are thrust on this path by a curse. Either way, a scion’s
Dragon Scale Mail
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a dead dragon. In either case, dragon scale mail is highly valued.
While wearing this armor, you gain a +1 bonus to AC, you have advantage on saving throws against the Frightful Presence and breath
Monsters
Mythic Odysseys of Theros
Lampads guard the shadowed paths of the world, depths typically trod by souls destined for the Underworld. These rarely seen nymphs assist Athreos in guiding the dead, moving among the spirits that
the magic of Nyx. Some are benevolent and aid those who live off the land, while others embody violent aspects of nature. In either case, nymphs generally avoid other sapient creatures, preferring to
Monsters
Monstrous Compendium Vol. 4: Eldraine Creatures
unexplained phenomenon.
In either case, deathless riders are undeniably real. They are undead knights, once human, who ride undead steeds through the remotest parts of the wilds. They are sometimes
the wilds? Beware the dead riders who serve the Shadow Queen.”
—Scalan, Edgewall innkeeper
PoisonNecrotic
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subjected to the following effect. Constitution Saving Throw: DC 18. Failure: The target dies, and its soul is trapped in the angel’s scythe. The target can’t be raised from the dead until
harvest the soul of its intended target, it pursues that target until the target is dead or the angel of death is defeated.
An angel of death is a six-foot-tall bipedal creature with a skull for a
Cadaver Collector
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Mordenkainen’s Tome of Foes
back to Acheron, but if a summoner comes to a bad end, a cadaver collector might wander the Material Plane for centuries, collecting corpses while searching for a way to return home.
Sweeping the Dead
. Cadaver collectors respond to a summons from a mortal only when they are called to the scene of a great battle — either where one is in progress, where one is imminent, or where one once took place
Monsters
Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
components and using Intelligence as the spellcasting ability:
1/day each: contact other plane (as an action, contacting a long-dead spirit), divination, move earth, wall of forceVelomachus can take 3
, Velomachus has grown tired of watching the same mistakes repeated continually. She hopes her college’s teachings will foster the skills to either predict future pitfalls by taking lessons from those
Magic Items
The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
cauldron from one form to another (by using an action to touch it), which either can do without being attuned to the item. In its first form, the cauldron is made of solid gold and embossed on the outside
—eight of each animal. In either form, the cauldron is roughly 3 feet in diameter and has a 2-foot-wide mouth, a round lid with a molded handle at the top, and eight clawed feet for stability. The
Backgrounds
Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus
souls who manage to find isolation amid its tumult.
You lived in seclusion — either in a sheltered community such as a monastery, or entirely alone—for a formative part of your life. In your
a frivolous lark. You’ve maintained a solitary vigil outside the cavern entrance ever since.
2
You crossed the Guild in a bad way. Fortunately, its members think you’re dead. Less
Monsters
Curse of Strahd
conquer them. The elf kingdom's royal line was obliterated, the dusk elves hunted like rabbits. The few that survived were either subjugated or forced to live among the Vistani. So pleased was Barov with
elves. Rahadin slew the female elves so that the males couldn't breed. He also sliced off the ears of Patrina's brother, Kasimir, who had orchestrated the stoning.
Screams of the Dead. So dreadful a
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
","rollType":"recharge","rollAction":"Flurry of Claws"}. The mangler makes six Claw attacks. Either before or after these attacks, it can move up to its speed without provoking opportunity attack;opportunity
.
Cult of Atropus, the World Born Dead
Gaze of Corruption (Recharge 6);{"diceNotation":"1d6", "rollType":"recharge", "rollAction":"Gaze of Corruption"}. The cultist targets one creature it can see
Magic Items
Acquisitions Incorporated
within 5 feet of a creature killed within the past 24 hours, you can cast the augury spell. The course of action you inquire about with the spell does not need to have any connection to the dead creature
. This property of the occultant abacus can’t be used again until the next dawn.
Bring Out Your Dead
Also at rank 2, you regain the use of your Read the Kill feature after you finish a short or
Monsters
Storm King's Thunder
, feats, and proficiencies.
The possession lasts until either the body drops to 0 hit points, the yakfolk ends the possession as an action, or the yakfolk is forced out of the body by an effect such as the
evil overlords. Yakfolk care for their hapless prisoners only to the extent that a live one is more useful than a dead one, and putting a prisoner to work is easier than laboring oneself. It’s not
Monsters
Storm King's Thunder
, feats, and proficiencies.
The possession lasts until either the body drops to 0 hit points, the yakfolk ends the possession as an action, or the yakfolk is forced out of the body by an effect such as the
culture, they are enormously evil overlords. Yakfolk care for their hapless prisoners only to the extent that a live one is more useful than a dead one, and putting a prisoner to work is easier than
Magic Jar
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surroundings as if you were in the container's space. You can't move or use reactions. The only action you can take is to project your soul up to 100 feet out of the container, either returning to your
, you die.
If the container is destroyed or the spell ends, your soul immediately returns to your body. If your body is more than 100 feet away from you or if your body is dead when you attempt to
Monsters
Eberron: Rising from the Last War
missile, shield, sleep
2nd level (3 slots): blur, detect thoughts, mirror image
3rd level (3 slots): animate dead, counterspell, fireball, fly, lightning bolt
4th level (3 slots): blight, confusion
Emerald Claw, but her motives for founding the order are buried in her past. Lady Illmarrow has no interest in ruling the living. Rather, she seeks to become Queen of the Dead.
The Mark of Death
Monsters
The Book of Many Things
with advantage.Sometimes deeply devout people, usually either Humanoids or medusas, dedicate themselves to a cause and are transformed by a deity or magic into hierophant medusas—beings with
martyrs’ remains until the martyrs are called back to life to oppose a world-changing foe.
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Gather the lost shards of a dead god’s petrified body, and reunite them on the altar in the
Death Tyrant
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Monster Manual (2014)
and whether the cone is active.
Any creature in that area can’t regain hit points. Any humanoid that dies there becomes a zombie under the tyrant’s command. The dead humanoid retains its
minute. In addition, the creature can’t take reactions, and it can take either an action or a bonus action on its turn, not both. The creature can repeat the saving throw at the end of each of its
Monsters
Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
Blazing Boon. All fire damage it deals becomes necrotic damage.
Illumination. The priest sheds either dim light in a 15-foot radius, or bright light in a 15-foot radius and dim light for an
visage becomes bone white, and its challenge rating increases by 1. It can cast animate dead and create undead once per day each, using Intelligence as the spellcasting ability, and it gains the
Magic Items
Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything
. Roll on the Teeth of Dahlver-Nar table to determine which tooth you draw, and you can either sow the tooth or implant it (both of which are described later).
If you don’t sow or implant the
, while others act as their tales dictate. In either case, the tooth is gone forever.
Teeth of Dahlver-Nar
1d20
Tale and Tooth
Creatures Summoned
Implanted Effect
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The Staring
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
once mummified their dead atop the stone block, which has shelves built into its sides. The funeral wrappings and embalming fluids once held here have either turned to dust or been destroyed. Each
limestone urn is sealed with wax. An urn contains the desiccated internal organs of a dead dwarf, removed during mummification.
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
Resurrection Madness In Barovia, the souls of the dead are as trapped as the souls of the living. They become caught in the mists and can’t travel to the afterlife. When a humanoid who has been dead
for at least 24 hours returns to life, either by way of a spell or some supernatural means, it gains a random form of indefinite madness brought on by the realization that its spirit is trapped in
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
16. Web-Filled Cave This 10-foot-high cave is filled with web cables. Tucked in the northernmost alcove, not visible from either cave entrance, is a rotting quaggoth that choked to death on a vrock demon’s poison spores (see area 17). The dead quaggoth has no treasure.
Kobold
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Species
Volo's Guide to Monsters
religious significance. Most kobold sorcerers are of the draconic bloodline origin and specialize in either damaging magic (which can also be used in mining), augmentation (of materials or allies), or
lay up to six eggs per year, and an egg matures for two to three months before it hatches.
Kobolds don’t engage in funeral ceremonies; a dead kobold’s body is burned or disposed of in
Orc
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Volo's Guide to Monsters
authority and cause the tribe to collapse into chaos, with the survivors scattering either to join new tribes or to strike out on their own. At the other extreme, warriors that return home with a heavily
orcs can be dominated by evil creatures of immense power, and they accept this subservient role either because they are forced to or because it offers them a measure of security while they engage in
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
hold the dead, and there is some measure of truth to that — many of the hillocks are indeed barrows, raised to house the fallen dead of one faction or nation on either side of a war. I have seen more
than one such barrow, either broken open from the outside by those seeking lost treasures, or somehow broken from within. The Fields of the Dead is a vast, rolling plain of windswept grasses that