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Monsters
Monster Manual
", "rollType":"damage", "rollAction":"Holy Word", "rollDamageType":"Radiant"} Radiant damage, and the target has the Stunned condition until the end of the archpriest’s next turn. Success: Half damage
Each: Flame Strike (level 6 version), Greater Restoration, Raise Dead, Zone of TruthDivine Aid (3/Day). The priest casts Bless, Dispel Magic, Healing Word, or Lesser Restoration, using the same spellcasting ability as Spellcasting.
Monsters
Monster Manual
: Half damage.
Spellcasting. The dragon casts one of the following spells, requiring no Material components and using Charisma as the spellcasting ability (spell save DC 17, +9;{"diceNotation":"1d20+9
", "rollType":"to hit", "rollAction":"Spellcasting"} to hit with spell attacks):
At Will: Detect Magic, Fear, Melf's Acid Arrow (level 3 version)
1/Day Each: Speak with Dead, Vitriolic
Monsters
Monster Manual
Hand, Prestidigitation 2/Day Each: Animate Dead, Dimension Door, Plane Shift 1/Day Each: Chain Lightning, Finger of Death, Power Word Kill, ScryingProtective Magic. The lich casts Counterspell or Shield
", "rollAction":"Disrupt Life", "rollDamageType":"Necrotic"} Necrotic damage. Success: Half damage. Failure or Success: The lich can’t take this action again until the start of its next turn
Monsters
Forgotten Realms: Adventures in Faerûn
Evasion. If Karas is subjected to an effect that allows her to make a Dexterity saving throw to take only half damage, Karas instead takes no damage if she succeeds on the save and only half damage
, Bhaal, and Myrkul has earned her the title Auspice of the Dead Three.Karas Chembryl’s Lair
Karas operates from a hideout deep beneath the city of Baldur’s Gate. The hideout contains
Magic Items
Forgotten Realms: Adventures in Faerûn
The Crown of Horns contains the essence and intelligence of Myrkul, one of the Dead Three. This ghastly crown is a pale silver circlet with four curved bones set around its rim. On the crown's brow
dying essence. Myrkul has since returned to become one of the Dead Three, and the Crown of Horns continues to further his gruesome will by seeking out mortal agents and gradually transforming them into
Monsters
Forgotten Realms: Adventures in Faerûn
, Prestidigitation
2/Day Each: Animate Dead, Plane Shift
1/Day Each: Cone of Cold (level 8 version), Finger of Death, Power Word Kill, ScryingProtective Magic. Valindra casts Counterspell or Shield in response
-foot Emanation originating from Valindra. Failure: 21 (6d6);{"diceNotation":"6d6", "rollType":"damage", "rollAction":"Disrupt Life", "rollDamageType":"Necrotic"} Necrotic damage. Success: Half damage
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Forgotten Realms: Adventures in Faerûn
"} or Necrotic;{"diceNotation":"8d12", "rollType":"damage", "rollAction":"Corroding Breath (Necrotic)", "rollDamageType":"Necrotic"} damage (Sammaster’s choice). Success: Half damage.
Spellcasting
, Speak with Dead
1/Day Each: Create Undead (level 8 version), Power Word KillLegendary Action Uses: 3. Immediately after another creature’s turn, Sammaster can expend a use to take one of the
Wyvern Poison (Injury)
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This poison must be harvested from a dead or incapacitated wyvern. A creature subjected to this poison must make a DC 15 Constitution saving throw, taking 24 (7d6) poison damage on a failed save, or
half as much damage on a successful one.
Injury. Injury poison can be applied to weapons, ammunition, trap components, and other objects that deal piercing or slashing damage and remains potent until
Reincarnate
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You touch a dead humanoid or a piece of a dead humanoid. Provided that the creature has been dead no longer than 10 days, the spell forms a new adult body for it and then calls the soul to enter that
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Dwarf, mountain
22-25
Elf, dark
26-34
Elf, high
35-42
Elf, wood
43-46
Gnome, forest
47-52
Gnome, rock
53-56
Half-elf
57-60
Half-orc
61-68
Purple Worm Poison (Injury)
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This poison must be harvested from a dead or incapacitated purple worm. A creature subjected to this poison must make a DC 19 Constitution saving throw, taking 42 (12d6) poison damage on a failed
save, or half as much damage on a successful one.
Injury. Injury poison can be applied to weapons, ammunition, trap components, and other objects that deal piercing or slashing damage and remains potent
Magic Items
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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makes a successful DC 12 Intelligence (Arcana) check recognizes this usefulness upon seeing the dead scalathrax’s body. By spending 10 minutes and succeeding on a DC 15 Intelligence check using
Alchemist’s Supplies, a character can extract 5 pounds of scalathrax oil worth 100 GP from a recently killed scalathrax. If scalathrax oil is used as at least half the raw materials cost to craft
Serpent Venom (Injury)
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This poison must be harvested from a dead or incapacitated giant poisonous snake. A creature subjected to this poison must succeed on a DC 11 Constitution saving throw, taking 10 (3d6) poison damage
on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one.
Injury. Injury poison can be applied to weapons, ammunition, trap components, and other objects that deal piercing or slashing damage and
Monsters
Dragons of Stormwreck Isle
save, or half as much damage on a successful one.Fume drakes are mischievous creatures that arise from the lingering magical energy of a dead dragon. They resemble small, legless dragons formed from clouds of greenish smoke. They delight in causing pain and confusion in other creatures.Fire, Poison
Monsters
Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
":"damage", "rollAction":"Reduce to Memory", "rollDamageType":"thunder"} thunder damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one. A Construct has disadvantage on the saving throw
each: comprehend languages, locate object
1/day each: mage armor, speak with dead, stone shapeLearn from the Past (2/Day). When another creature within 60 feet of the pledgemage misses a target with an
Monsters
Mythic Odysseys of Theros
"} fire damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one. On a failed save, a creature is also restrained by the hardening rock. A creature can make a DC 12 Strength (Athletics) check
of the dead. Such isn’t the case for mortals, though, and they eagerly set upon those who tread too close to the Underworld’s borders.
Feared by the living and the dead, cerberi patrol
Monsters
Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
Essence Transfer (1/Day). The professor can cast the animate dead spell, using Wisdom as the spellcasting ability.Multiattack. The professor makes two Mortality Spear attacks. It can replace one of
);{"diceNotation":"5d8","rollType":"damage","rollAction":"Essence Pulse","rollDamageType":"necrotic"} necrotic damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one. The professor then regains 10
monsters
Monster Manual
", "rollDamageType":"Necrotic"} Necrotic damage.
Spellcasting. The cultist casts one of the following spells, using Wisdom as the spellcasting ability (spell save DC 14):
At Will: Speak with Dead
. Failure: 14 (4d6);{"diceNotation":"4d6", "rollType":"damage", "rollAction":"Spirit Wail", "rollDamageType":"Psychic"} Psychic damage, and the target has the Frightened condition until the end of its next turn. Success: Half damage only.
Monsters
Adventure Atlas: The Mortuary
its own. On a successful save, the target takes half as much damage only. An incapacitated target can repeat the saving throw at the end of each of its turns, ending the effect on itself on a success
, speak with dead
1/day each: banishment, dispel evil and goodDauntless in the face of death, exorcists in the Heralds of Dust cleanse hapless creatures and resting places haunted by ghost;ghosts, specter
Monsters
Mythic Odysseys of Theros
damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one. On a failed save, a creature is also restrained by the hardening rock. A creature can make a DC 15 Strength (Athletics) check as an
the dead. Three-headed cerberi commonly serve demons, but if left to their own devices, they often herd wily souls into labyrinthine Underworld wildernesses, then hunt them for sport.
Feared by the
Monsters
Vecna: Eve of Ruin
you’re close enough to see the expression carved onto a granite juggernaut’s face, you’re as good as dead.”
—Teythorn, Oerthian Adventurer
A granite juggernaut is a
55 (10d10);{"diceNotation":"10d10", "rollType":"damage", "rollAction":"Devastating Roll", "rollDamageType":"bludgeoning"} bludgeoning damage on a failed save or half as much damage on a successful one.
Monsters
Monstrous Compendium Vol. 1: Spelljammer Creatures
connected to one another.
False Appearance. If the yggdrasti is motionless and rooted in the ground at the start of combat, it looks just like a dead tree and has advantage on its initiative roll. Moreover
","rollAction":"Lightning Discharge","rollDamageType":"lightning"} lightning damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one.Thought to be cast-off splinters of Yggdrasil, the World
Monsters
The Book of Many Things
DC 13 Constitution saving throw, taking 10 (3d6);{"diceNotation":"3d6", "rollType":"damage", "rollAction":"Price of Defiance", "rollDamageType":"radiant"} radiant damage on a failed save, or half as
;s choice). Their spells might also be different. Some known Elder Evils include the following:
Acamar. A dead star that consumes other stars or sidereal bodies it encounters.
Caiphon, the Dream
Monsters
Storm King's Thunder
","rollAction":"Lightning Strike","rollDamageType":"lightning"} lightning damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one.
Spellcasting. Orlekto casts one of the following spells
breathing
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Orlekto is in love with Princess Mirran and wants to see her become Queen of the Wyrmskull Throne. (If Mirran is dead, Orlekto aims to avenge her.) If the opportunity
monsters
Monster Manual
. Success: Half damage.
Spellcasting. The dragon casts one of the following spells, requiring no Material components and using Charisma as the spellcasting ability (spell save DC 21, +13;{"diceNotation
":"1d20+13", "rollType":"to hit", "rollAction":"Spellcasting"} to hit with spell attacks):
At Will: Detect Magic, Fear, Melf's Acid Arrow (level 4 version) 1/Day Each: Create Undead, Speak with Dead
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one of these attacks with a use of Possess Dead if available.
Darkflame Slash. Melee or Ranged Attack Roll: +9;{"diceNotation":"1d20+9", "rollType":"to hit", "rollAction":"Darkflame Slash"}, reach 5
", "rollType":"damage", "rollAction":"Darkflame Slash", "rollDamageType":"Necrotic"} Necrotic damage.
Possess Dead (Recharge 5–6);{"diceNotation":"1d6", "rollType":"recharge", "rollAction":"Possess Dead
Magic Items
Tomb of Annihilation
, remove curse, or similar spell ends the curse on the target.
The Forgotten One. The bodiless life force of a dead archmage empowers the staff and is imprisoned within it. The rune carved into the
by magic such as a dispel evil and good spell, it becomes trapped in the staff once more. Once it takes control of another creature, the spirit of the dead archmage attempts to destroy the staff
Monsters
Guildmasters’ Guide to Ravnica
, ray of sickness
2nd level (3 slots): Melf's acid arrow, ray of enfeeblement, spider climb, web
3rd level (3 slots): animate dead, bestow curse, fear, vampiric touch
4th level (3 slots): blight
failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one.PoisonNecrotic; Bludgeoning, Piercing, and Slashing from Nonmagical Attacks
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Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
cloud, magic missile, shield
2nd level (3 slots): darkness, knock, see invisibility, spider climb
3rd level (3 slots): animate dead, counterspell, lightning bolt
4th level (3 slots): greater
damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one.Muiral can take 3 legendary actions, choosing from the options below. Only one legendary action option can be used at a time and only
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. Success: Half damage. Failure or Success: The jiangshi regains Hit Points equal to the Necrotic damage taken, the jiangshi’s Fly Speed increases to 20 feet until the end of its next turn, and it
, creating a jiangshi. These vengeful dead stalk their descendants, sowing terror and taking retribution for the slights or neglected burial rites that led to their cursed resurrections. Rigor mortis
Swarm of Zombie Limbs
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Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
":"bludgeoning"} bludgeoning damage if the swarm has half of its hit points or fewer.
Grasping Limbs. Melee Weapon Attack: +4;{"diceNotation":"1d20+4","rollType":"to hit","rollAction":"Grasping Limbs"} to hit
, or the swarm dies.Among the undead, a lone zombie ranks far from the most menacing. The horror of the shambling dead lies not in their individual menace, though, but their numbers, their persistence
Zombie Plague Spreader
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Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
":"poison"} poison damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one. A Humanoid reduced to 0 hit points by this damage dies and rises as a zombie (see its stat block in the Monster
Manual) 1 minute later. The zombie acts immediately after the plague spreader in the initiative count.Among the undead, a lone zombie ranks far from the most menacing. The horror of the shambling dead lies
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spellcasting ability (spell save DC 19):
At Will: Dispel Magic, Divination, Mage Hand (hand is Invisible), Power Word Stun
1/Day Each: Animate Dead, Sunburst
Touch of Death (Recharge 6
of Fate", "rollDamageType":"Force"} Force damage, and the target is pushed or pulled up to 20 feet straight away or toward Ankhtepot. Success: Half damage only. Failure or Success: Ankhtepot can
Monsters
Curse of Strahd
Special Equipment. In addition to his sword cane, Rictavio wears a hat of disguise and a ring of mind shielding, and he carries a spell scroll of raise dead.
Spellcasting. Rictavio is a 9th-level
): augury, lesser restoration, protection from poison
3rd level (3 slots): magic circle, remove curse, speak with dead
4th level (3 slots): death ward, freedom of movement
5th level (1 slot): dispel
Madam Eva
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Curse of Strahd
from evil and good
2nd level (3 slots): lesser restoration, protection from poison, spiritual weapon
3rd level (3 slots): create food and water, speak with dead, spirit guardians
4th level (3 slots
): divination, freedom of movement, guardian of faith
5th level (2 slots): greater restoration, raise dead
6th level (1 slot): find the path, harm, true seeing
7th level (1 slot): fire storm