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Spells
Player’s Handbook
You mentally contact a demigod, the spirit of a long-dead sage, or some other knowledgeable entity from another plane. Contacting this otherworldly intelligence can break your mind. When you cast
question). If a one-word answer would be misleading, the DM might instead offer a short phrase as an answer.
On a failed save, you take 6d6 Psychic damage and have the Incapacitated condition until you finish a Long Rest. A Greater Restoration spell cast on you ends this effect.
Spells
Player’s Handbook
. Magical Darkness created by spells of a level lower than this spell can’t extinguish the light.
Peaceful Rest. Dead bodies interred in the area can’t be turned into Undead.
Extradimensional
Spells
Player’s Handbook
You and up to eight willing creatures within range project your astral bodies into the Astral Plane (the spell ends instantly if you are already on that plane). Each target’s body is left
spell ends for all the targets if you take a Magic action to dismiss it.
When the spell ends for a target who isn’t dead, the target reappears in its body and exits the state of suspended animation.
Monsters
Monster Manual
Legendary Resistance (3/Day, or 4/Day in Lair). If the mummy fails a saving throw, it can choose to succeed instead.
Magic Resistance. The mummy has Advantage on saving throws against spells and
":"1d20+9", "rollType":"to hit", "rollAction":"Spellcasting"} to hit with spell attacks):
At Will: Dispel Magic, Thaumaturgy 1/Day Each: Animate Dead, Harm, Insect Plague (level 7 version)Whirlwind of
Monsters
Monstrous Compendium Vol. 1: Spelljammer Creatures
invisible for the duration of the Invisibility Cloak.Drifting in the Astral Sea are the petrified husks of dead gods, their colossal bodies riddled with natural tunnels and caverns. While exploring the
innards of one of these dead gods, githyanki xenomancers found a vast cavern containing scores of winged creatures they had never encountered before. The cavern’s denizens used telepathy to question
Monsters
Mythic Odysseys of Theros
Legendary Resistance (2/Day). If Aphemia fails a saving throw, she can choose to succeed instead.
Magic Resistance. Aphemia has advantage on saving throws against spells and other magical
travelers and settlements.
Cruel, corpse-eating creatures, harpies endlessly seek their next meal, careless of whether it comes from the living or the dead. With equal zeal, these vicious scavengers set
Monsters
Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
success, the zombie drops to 1 hit point instead.
Unusual Nature. The zombie doesn't require air, food, drink, or sleep.Javelin. Melee Weapon Attack: +1;{"diceNotation":"1d20+1","rollType":"to hit
Vellynne Harpell has Icewind kobold guides in her employ, including a pair that died and were turned into zombies using animate dead spells. The cold climate helps to preserve their dead flesh.Poison
Monsters
The Book of Many Things
;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
’ will. These living portents are Aberrations instead of Celestials and are typically chaotic evil. They replace any radiant damage in their stat block with necrotic or psychic damage (DM&rsquo
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
baubles.
Dragonflesh Grafters
Dragonflesh grafters practice forbidden rituals and risky experiments on themselves, modifying their bodies and minds to emulate the dragons they revere. They
, implant, or ingest these dragon parts, attempting to incorporate them into their own bodies and absorb the latent magic that lingers in a draconic corpse.
While most would-be grafters wind up hideously
Monsters
Mythic Odysseys of Theros
to as a “blood toll.”
Cruel, corpse-eating creatures, harpies endlessly seek their next meal, careless of whether it comes from the living or the dead. With equal zeal, these vicious scavengers set
upon travelers or claw open fresh graves, stripping bodies of riches and flesh. Then they carry back any treasures or appealing bones they find to reeking nests situated in cramped caves or rotten trees.
Monsters
Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
; subjects. The professors use the gathered essence to feed their magic, snuffing the life and decaying the bodies of the living, entreating and commanding the dead and Undead, and twisting curses around
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
Monsters
Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
from a critical hit. On a success, the zombie drops to 1 hit point instead.
Unusual Nature. The zombie doesn’t require air, food, drink, or sleep.Multiattack. The zombie makes two Slam attacks
":"Flesh Entomb","rollDamageType":"bludgeoning"} bludgeoning damage, and if the target is a Large or smaller creature, it becomes entombed in dead flesh.
A creature entombed in the dead flesh is
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
lumbering Construct that can be found trundling across battlefields and down dungeon corridors. Granite juggernauts have dense, boxy bodies atop massive rollers they use for locomotion. Their fronts
Monsters
Princes of the Apocalypse
Oreioth dies, he can use an action on his next turn to cast animate dead on that humanoid’s corpse, instead of using the spell’s normal casting time.Dagger. Melee Weapon Attack: +3
(3 slots): crown of madness, misty step
3rd level (3 slots): animate dead, vampiric touch
Swift Animation (Recharges after a Long Rest). When a living Medium or Small humanoid within 30 feet of
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
draconian army. A single corrupted egg yields several draconians of the same kind. A draconian might be taken for a dragonborn at first glance, though most kinds of draconians have wings.
When draconians die, they do not go quietly. Instead, their lifeless bodies unleash a last act of magical violence.
. Their magical ability to change their appearance to mimic those they’ve slain allows them to sow confusion and despair among their enemies. When dreadnoughts are killed, their bodies burst into
Monsters
Eberron: Rising from the Last War
Evasion. If the dolgaunt is subjected to an effect that allows it to make a Dexterity saving throw to take only half damage, the dolgaunt instead takes no damage if it succeeds on the saving throw
. Writhing cilia cover their bodies, with longer tendrils around their heads and two wiry tentacles protruding from their bare shoulders. A dolgaunt is blind but can perceive its surroundings through the
Monsters
Curse of Strahd
trouble killing them and disposing of their bodies. He was eventually caught in the act and brought to the burgomaster. Instead of punishing the boy for his crimes, Baron Vallakovich pardoned Izek and
parents succumbed to their grief, leaving him an orphan. He became a sociopath. Other children ruthlessly mocked him because of his dead family and his missing arm, but he was a large boy and had no
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
corrupted egg yields several draconians of the same kind. A draconian might be taken for a dragonborn at first glance, though most kinds of draconians have wings.
When draconians die, they do not go quietly. Instead, their lifeless bodies unleash a last act of magical violence.Poison
paralytic venom of their saliva to coat their weapons, making them formidable assassins as well. Their wings allow them to turn a fall into a rough glide. When draconian infiltrators die, their bodies
Monsters
Dragon of Icespire Peak
Brave. Don-Jon has advantage on saving throws against being frightened.
Not Dead Yet (Recharges after a Long Rest). If damage reduces Don-Jon to 0 hit points, he drops to 1 hit point instead and
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
their bodies and minds to emulate the dragons they revere. They collect dragon parts—scales, teeth, skin, flesh, wings, and bones—that they scavenge from around dragon lairs, take from
dragon corpses, or buy from merchants and adventurers. They stitch on, implant, or ingest these dragon parts, attempting to incorporate them into their own bodies and absorb the latent magic that
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
Legendary Resistance (3/Day). If Orcus fails a saving throw, he can choose to succeed instead.
Magic Resistance. Orcus has advantage on saving throws against spells and other magical effects
.
Master of Undeath. Orcus can cast animate dead (at will) and create undead (3/day). He chooses the level at which the spells are cast, and the creatures created by them remain under his control
Monsters
Storm King's Thunder
: dancing lights, mage hand, message, thaumaturgy
1/day each: augury (cast as 1 action), bestow curse, cordon of arrows, detect magic, speak with dead, spirit guardiansThe Uthgardt are suspicious and
resentful of most kinds of magic. Seldom do they choose to become shamans. Instead, the role is thrust upon those who are born with a strong connection to the spirit world. To be a shaman is to stand
Monsters
Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
, barely maintaining a cohesive form. When a dust hulk dies, it disperses into a cloud of dust.
Dust hulks retain their ancestors’ passion for artistry, but instead of carving stone, they view
their bodies as living works of art. As they fly, coursing along wind currents or blowing through underground tunnels like living sandstorms, they create mesmerizing dances with their ever-shifting forms.Poison
Monsters
Mythic Odysseys of Theros
Returned palamnites. These Returned led violent lives, existences filled with such pain and hatred that violence now suffuses their deathless bodies. Such makes them exceptionally dangerous to the
relationships or establish new lives. Instead, most experience fleeting emotions and follow hollow routines, their existences reduced to shadow plays without weight or substance.
Returned Masks. Adventurers
Magic Items
The Book of Many Things
This enormous telescope allows you to view distant celestial objects, including stars, Wildspace systems, and Astral Sea phenomena like the cities of deities or the petrified husks of dead gods
at the intended destination. On a failed check, a mishap occurs instead. The DM rolls on the Telescope Travel Mishaps table to determine the mishap or chooses a mishap that’s good for the
Orcus
Legacy
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Monsters
Out of the Abyss
Wand of Orcus. The wand has 7 charges, and any of its properties that require a saving throw have a save DC of 18. While holding it, Orcus can use an action to cast animate dead, blight, or speak
with dead. Alternatively, he can expend 1 or more of the wand’s charges to cast one of the following spells from it: circle of death (1 charge), finger of death (1 charge), or power word kill (2
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
Conduit. If the yggdrasti is subjected to lightning damage, it is unhurt, and the lightning damage is instead divided evenly among all creatures it is grappling. In addition, the yggdrasti regains one
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
draconian might be taken for a dragonborn at first glance, though most kinds of draconians have wings.
When draconians die, they do not go quietly. Instead, their lifeless bodies unleash a last act of magical violence.
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
opportunity attack;opportunity attacks when it flies out of an enemy’s reach.
Legendary Resistance (3/Day). If the tempest fails a saving throw, it can choose to succeed instead.
Living Storm. The
":"damage","rollDamageType":"bludgeoning"} bludgeoning damage for every 10 feet it was thrown before impact. If the target would collide with another creature instead, that other creature must succeed on a
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
, instead of a bipedal vegepygmy. Thornies are less intelligent than other vegepygmies, but they are larger and more ferocious and have thorn-covered bodies.
Vegepygmies
Vegepygmies are fungus creatures
the infestation. A creature reduced to 0 hit points by the mold dies. If the dead creature is a Beast, a Giant, or a Humanoid, one or more vegepygmies emerge from its body 24 hours later: one from a
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
.
When draconians die, they do not go quietly. Instead, their lifeless bodies unleash a last act of magical violence.
Monsters
Mythic Odysseys of Theros
saving throw to take only half damage, the eidolon instead takes no damage if it succeeds on the saving throw, and only half damage if it fails. It can’t use this trait if it’s incapacitated
death. They care nothing for morbid reunions with their lost bodies or Returned remnants.
Of the various types of eidolons, flitterstep eidolons are the most common and wander without purpose.
Undead
Monsters
Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
Fire Absorption. Whenever the golem is subjected to fire damage, it takes no damage and instead regains a number of hit points equal to the fire damage dealt.
Immutable Form. The golem is immune to
golems bear weaknesses inherent in their materials or the power of the elemental spirit bound within them, iron golems were designed to be nearly invulnerable. Their iron bodies imprison the spirits
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
adhered to the giant unless the giant is dead, in which case the magic works normally, freeing the petrified creature as well as ending the petrified condition on it.The surface of the world is an alien
consequences, dreamwalkers act as they please, becoming forces of chaos. As they travel the world, they collect objects and creatures that seem especially significant to them. Over time, the collected things accrete to their bodies, becoming encased in stone.
Monsters
Spelljammer: Adventures in Space
configurations to create star moth;star moths (see the Astral Adventurer’s Guide) and other vessels. The elves also reshape the petrified bodies of dead gods found adrift in the Silver Void, transforming