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Instant Death
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Massive damage can kill you instantly. When damage reduces you to 0 hit points and there is damage remaining, you die if the remaining damage equals or exceeds your hit point maximum.
For example, a
Magic Items
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long rest.
Bead of Instant Karma
At rank 3, one of the beads on your occultant abacus channels the power of instant karma, turning the occultant abacus into a rare magic item. As a reaction, you can
death of a creature has unintended consequences. Within seven days of a creature’s death, you can use your occultant abacus to divine ways to reverse or mitigate events resulting from that death. As
Death Dog
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. Hate burns in a death dog's heart, and a taste for humanoid flesh drives it to attack travelers and explorers. Death dog saliva carries a foul disease that causes a victim's flesh to slowly rot off the bone.
failure. This reduction lasts until the disease is cured. The creature dies if the disease reduces its hit point maximum to 0.A death dog is an ugly two-headed hound that roams plains, and deserts
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Reality is a descent into chaos punctuated by brief flashes of order, whence we arose and so imagine it to be the norm rather than a distant outlier. That-Which-Endures held entropy back for a mere instant
who study this entity claim that it is clearly evil and destructive. Others call it simply a necessary part of the cycle of death and rebirth. In the end, though, That-Which-Endures shows precious
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
Dropping to 0 Hit Points When you drop to 0 hit points, you either die outright or fall unconscious, as explained in the following sections. Instant Death Massive damage can kill you instantly. When
death saving throw failure. If the damage is from a critical hit, you suffer two failures instead. If the damage equals or exceeds your hit point maximum, you suffer instant death. Stabilizing a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)
Dropping to 0 Hit Points When you drop to 0 hit points, you either die outright or fall unconscious, as explained in the following sections. Instant Death Massive damage can kill you instantly. When
maximum, you suffer instant death. Stabilizing a Creature The best way to save a creature with 0 hit points is to heal it. If healing is unavailable, the creature can at least be stabilized so that it
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
Healing Unless it results in death, damage isn't permanent. Even death is reversible through powerful magic. Rest can restore a creature's hit points, and magical methods such as a cure wounds spell
or a potion of healing can remove damage in an instant. When a creature receives healing of any kind, hit points regained are added to its current hit points. A creature's hit points can't exceed its
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)
Healing Unless it results in death, damage isn’t permanent. Even death is reversible through powerful magic. Rest can restore a creature’s hit points (as explained in chapter 8), and magical methods
such as a cure wounds spell or a potion of healing can remove damage in an instant. When a creature receives healing of any kind, hit points regained are added to its current hit points. A creature’s
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules
Dropping to 0 Hit Points When a creature drops to 0 Hit Points, it either dies outright or falls unconscious, as explained below. Instant Death Here are the main ways a creature can die instantly
. Monster Death. A monster dies the instant it drops to 0 Hit Points, although a Dungeon Master can ignore this rule for an individual monster and treat it like a character. Hit Point Maximum of 0. A
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player’s Handbook
Dropping to 0 Hit Points When a creature drops to 0 Hit Points, it either dies outright or falls unconscious, as explained below. Instant Death Here are the main ways a creature can die instantly
. Monster Death. A monster dies the instant it drops to 0 Hit Points, although a Dungeon Master can ignore this rule for an individual monster and treat it like a character. Hit Point Maximum of 0. A
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
Death Dog A death dog is an ugly two-headed hound that roams plains, deserts, and the Underdark. Hate burns in a death dog’s heart, and a taste for humanoid flesh drives it to attack travelers and
explorers. Death dog saliva carries a foul disease that causes a victim’s flesh to slowly rot off the bone. Death Dog
Medium monstrosity, neutral evil
Armor Class 12
Hit Points 39 (6d8 + 12
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual
Death Dog Two-Headed Spreader of Disease Habitat: Desert; Treasure: None Daren Bader ...and his sorrows will stalk your land like hungry dogs until the seas turn to sand and the sun burns to cinders
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—Tablet fragment from the Bright Desert
Death dogs are plagues on the arid lands they inhabit. These vicious, two-headed canines ambush creatures they perceive as weaker than themselves
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
sword flares with blue light an instant before she sends lightning flashing forth to smite him. All of these heroes are fighters, perhaps the most diverse class of characters in the worlds of Dungeons
armor, and a thorough knowledge of the skills of combat. And they are well acquainted with death, both meting it out and staring it defiantly in the face.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)
sword flares with blue light an instant before she sends lightning flashing forth to smite him. All of these heroes are fighters, perhaps the most diverse class of characters in the worlds of Dungeons
armor, and a thorough knowledge of the skills of combat. And they are well acquainted with death, both meting it out and staring it defiantly in the face.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
19. Hall of Death Characters entering this hall for the first time feel as though they’ve crossed a planar threshold of some kind, but a successful DC 20 Intelligence (Arcana) check is needed to
confirm that this part of the dungeon resides in the Shadowfell. All color has been drained from this hall, which greets visitors with the stench of death (see “Into the Shadowfell”). The hall’s other
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
living and the dead Position Proficiency: In addition to the proficiencies noted below, you can add your proficiency bonus to an ability check to intimidate a creature close to death, assess what disease
2 Eldritch Occultant, Bring Out Your Dead
3 Bead of Instant Karma, Death’s Omen
4 Bead of Diverted Karma, Correct the Balance
Proficiencies and Starting Equipment As a rank 1
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)
advantage on any Charisma (Deception) check you make to avoid detection. Death Strike Starting at 17th level, you become a master of instant death. When you attack and hit a creature that is surprised, it
Assassin You focus your training on the grim art of death. Those who adhere to this archetype are diverse: hired killers, spies, bounty hunters, and even specially anointed priests trained to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual
resemble living creatures and are clad in contemporary garb. Many cloak themselves in illusions of their idealized mortal forms. Although liches don’t fear death, they’re not free from the ravages of time
into an insidious inferno that burns a mage hollow until only the desire for more magical power remains.
—Rudolph van Richten,
Van Richten’s Guide to Liches
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen
text: A violet star plummets from the sky and crashes nearby, throwing up a cloud of debris. A breathless screech rises from the black-lit dust. An instant later, blackened fangs and violet flame burst
forth in the form of a massive skeletal dragon.
This lesser death dragon (see appendix B) has come specifically for the characters. After its dramatic crash landing, it starts the battle with 160
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
as Mordenheim sought to glimpse the secrets hidden in the instant of death. One moonless night, Elise fell into a sleep from which she wouldn’t wake. Bringing Elise to her lab, Dr. Mordenheim worked
more than create life—she could defeat death! She wished to breathe sentience into dead flesh and produce sturdier shells than the bodies of fragile, temporary mortals. She added corpse theft to her
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
to the death. She carries the key to the manacles in area 13. The steamer consists of two iron chambers stacked on top of each other. Magical fire burns in the bottom chamber, heating water that pours
thrown into the arena (area 15a) without their weapons and forced to fight to the death against the nagas’ thralls. 15a. Arena The Ssethian Scourges sometimes have their thralls fight captives for their
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
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The characters must contend with Princess Ebonmire and Prince Livid (see the “Royal Oozes” sidebar). These dimly intelligent oozes defend their master to the death, blocking the characters from
telepathic bond, telekinesis, wall of stone
6th level: chain lightning, disintegrate, Drawmij’s instant summons, eyebite, flesh to stone, Otto’s irresistible dance, true seeing
7th level: forcecage
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
mortal covenant That only ends with death And so we’ll sing of Elturel Until our final breath. Any character who has been to Elturel or who succeeds on a DC 15 Intelligence (History) check knows
that “the Companion” referred to in the song is the name given to the artificial sun that burns over Elturel, protecting the city and its surrounding lands against undead. Characters who speak to Alan
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
Bodak A bodak is the undead remains of someone who revered Orcus. Devoid of life and soul, it exists only to cause death. Orcus can recall anything a bodak sees or hears. If he so chooses, he can
speak through a bodak to address his enemies and followers directly. Even nature despises bodaks. The sun burns away a bodak’s tainted flesh. The creature’s gaze lays waste to the living. Anyone a bodak
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
betrays and attacks them as Reggaryarva’s throne rises into the air. A winter wolf sent by the Frostmaiden joins the fray on Yselm’s side. Both villains fight to the death. When the full moon disappears
alphabet: Snatch a scale from a sleeping wyrm;
Against the blowing wind, stand firm.
Climb a mountain with a stone in your shoe;
On little feet, death comes for you.
Be the arrow that starts the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
. Judging by the numerous scorch marks and acid burns on the furniture, the laboratory was the scene of several spectacular failures. Four clay figures rest on a table in the middle of the room. They range
empty container once held the mimic found in area M8. Gravely injured when it was captured, it feigned death until it could recover and escape into the upper levels of the mansion. The four severed hands
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
collapses in on itself and ceases to exist the instant before it can shuffle off to some horrible afterlife. When this occurs, the spirit becomes a soulless wraith — a malevolent void trapped on the
humanoid creature that has recently suffered a violent death. Such a fragment of woe becomes a specter, spiteful of all that lives.
Wraiths sometimes rule the legions of the dead, plotting the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
Monster. A giant two-headed rat (use death dog statistics) is trapped here. This rodent is the size of a human and is hostile toward all intruders.
Meat Chute. In the ceiling near the north wall is a
finish his meal in peace. A successful dispel magic spell (DC 19) cast on Guffaw rids him of his unique magical malady. Treasure. The instant he is cured of his malady, Guffaw coughs up two diamonds
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player’s Handbook
Conjuration C Chain Lightning Evocation — Circle of Death Necromancy M Contingency Abjuration M Create Undead Necromancy M Disintegrate Transmutation — Drawmij’s Instant Summons Conjuration R, M
Divination C, M Counterspell Abjuration — Dispel Magic Abjuration — Fear Illusion C Feign Death Necromancy R Fireball Evocation — Fly Transmutation C Gaseous Form Transmutation C Glyph of Warding
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
Bodak A bodak is the undead remains of someone who revered Orcus. Devoid of life and soul, it exists only to cause death. Marked by Orcus. A worshiper of Orcus can take ritual vows while carving the
, then unleashed to spread death in Orcus’s name. Orcus created the first bodaks in the Abyss from seven devotees, called the Hierophants of Annihilation. These figures, as mighty as balors, have free
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
and sate that hunger by drinking the blood of the living. Vampires abhor sunlight, for its touch burns them. They never cast shadows or reflections, and any vampire wishing to move unnoticed among the
such as torture devices or trophies from creatures they have killed. Born from Death. Most of a vampire’s victims become vampire spawn — ravenous creatures with a vampire’s hunger for blood, but under
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen
troops it encounters along the way. O4: Salon A fire burns in the marble fireplace of this large salon. The room’s tall windows have been boarded over, and its rotted furnishings have been shoved aside
long ago. The door at the east end of the hall opens into a collapsed room also filled with rubble. O6: Kitchen Next to a small pantry door, a fire burns in the kitchen’s hearth. Above it, several large
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
silver cord — a strike against such an enemy has a chance of severing the silver cord, causing instant death. Knights and their silver swords are inseparable, and a knight will fight to the death to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
time, as though something was trying to siphon it all away. The demiplane expelled Iriolarthas in that instant, trapping the lich in Ythryn, and became a living demiplane (see appendix C). Iriolarthas
handful of apprentices who had used their spells in ingenious ways to escape death. Some of those inside tried to flee Ythryn, but glacial ice blocked all conventional routes of escape, and attempts to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Divine Contention
the floor and a fire burns in a brazier in the center of the room. There is one necromancer in here, plus one ghast and one priest for every character in the party, including sidekicks. The characters
ruinstone from Leilon, Ularan Mortus wields it in battle here (see the “Using the Ruinstone” sidebar). Treasure. The death priest’s backpack contains 700 gp, 35 pp, eyes of minute seeing, and the following