Search Results
All Results
Characters
Compendium
Spells
Items
Monsters
Vehicles
Forums
Returning 35 results for 'death skin'.
Other Suggestions:
death skill
death sing
death seen
death sign
Magic Items
Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything
With covers made of skin and fittings of bone, this tome is cold to the touch, and it whispers faintly. When found, the book contains the following spells, which are wizard spells for you while you
are attuned to the book: animate dead, circle of death, false life, finger of death, speak with dead, summon undead (appears in this book), vampiric touch. It functions as a spellbook for you.
While
Magic Items
Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
This set of 1d4 + 2 small paint pots contains pigments mixed from crushed luminescent gemstones. This magical paint bestows temporary magical gifts on creatures with runes drawn on their skin with
terrain doesn’t cost the painted creature extra movement.
Life Rune. The painted creature gains 10 temporary hit points and has advantage on death saving throws.
Light Rune. The painted creature
Monsters
Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen
Death Throes. When Virruza is reduced to 0 hit points, he turns into a puddle of acid and splashes acid on those around him. Each creature within 5 feet of him must succeed on a DC 12 Dexterity
", "rollType":"damage", "rollAction":"Death Throes", "rollDamageType":"acid"} acid damage at the start of each of its turns.
Innate Spellcasting. Virruza’s innate spellcasting ability is Charisma
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
can see within 10 feet of it. The worm latches onto the target’s skin unless the target succeeds on a DC 11 Dexterity saving throw. The worm is a Tiny Undead with AC 6, 1 hit point, a 2 (&minus
;4) in every ability score, and a speed of 1 foot. While on the target’s skin, the worm can be killed by normal means or scraped off using an action (the spawn can use Burrowing Worm to launch a
Monsters
Mythic Odysseys of Theros
creatures whose gray, leathery skin is in stark contrast to the gleaming jewelry made of Underworld gold that they adorn themselves with. Their appetite for pain and death is eclipsed only by their greed
continue to flock around the demon, offering fealty and squabbling for scraps.
Some foul souls can't let go of the miserable lives they had. Having been despicable in life, these spirits fester in death
Monsters
Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
Petrified Death. A tomb tapper reduced to 0 hit points turns into a lifeless stone statue. Anything it's wearing or carrying is not transformed.
Sense Magic. The tomb tapper senses magic within 30
nonhuman spellcasting creatures. Tomb tappers can dig through earth and rock with their claws or use their metal sledgehammers to shatter rock when needed. They absorb water through their skin and crush rock
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
, finger of death, gaseous form, seeming
Wave of Weariness (Recharge 4–6);{"diceNotation":"1d6", "rollType":"recharge", "rollAction":"Wave of Weariness"}. The shadar-kai emits weariness in a 60-foot cube
bottomless well of tragedy.
Shadar-kai
In the gloom of the Shadowfell live shadar-kai, elves whose ancestors served the Raven Queen, a god of death and memory. They were brought to that realm in ages
Monsters
Guildmasters’ Guide to Ravnica
Death Link. If its specter rider is reduced to 0 hit points, the gloamwing is destroyed.
Flyby. The gloamwing doesn't provoke an opportunity attack when it flies out of an enemy's reach.
Sunlight
, and its leathery skin is stretched tight over its skull, where its eyes are empty sockets. Its body is mottled with bony plates, and great wings stretch from its shoulders.
Undead Nature. A Nightveil
Monsters
Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
Death Curse. When the fensir starts its turn with 0 hit points and doesn’t regenerate, it releases a curse on those around it. Each creature within 30 feet of the fensir when it dies must
, the creature must succeed on a DC 13 Charisma saving throw or take 11 (2d10);{"diceNotation":"2d10", "rollType":"damage", "rollAction":"Death Curse", "rollDamageType":"psychic"} psychic damage
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
the heart, causing those nearby to feel the approach of death. If detected, gloom weavers use their shadow magic to reduce enemies to ghastly corpses.
Shadar-kai
In the gloom of the Shadowfell live
shadar-kai, elves whose ancestors served the Raven Queen, a god of death and memory. They were brought to that realm in ages past, so long ago that they’re now adapted to its cheerless
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
, a god of death and memory. They were brought to that realm in ages past, so long ago that they’re now adapted to its cheerless environment, both physically and mentally.
Eons of exposure to
the influence of the Shadowfell has left shadar-kai often joyless and mournful. In that realm, they have pale hair, wrinkled gray skin, and swollen joints that give them a corpselike aspect. They appear
Monsters
Storm King's Thunder
face is worn smooth into a featureless mask. The deity is appeased by sacrifice, which its followers carry out by capturing Humanoids and putting them to death by fire (immolation), earth (live burial
communal creches once they are weaned, never to recognize them again. Yakfolk feel no loyalty to their families—only to their god and race.
Skin Crawlers. A yakfolk’s most frightening
Monsters
Storm King's Thunder
a male Yikaria, but its face is worn smooth into a featureless mask. The deity is appeased by sacrifice, which its followers carry out by capturing Humanoids and putting them to death by fire
parents pack children off to communal creches once they are weaned, never to recognize them again. Yakfolk feel no loyalty to their families—only to their god and race.
Skin Crawlers. A yakfolk
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
wintry lands, favoring snowy mountains. These hags become more active during winter, using their ice and weather magic to make life miserable for nearby settlements.
A bheur hag’s skin has the
bluish hue of a person who has frozen to death. The hag’s hair is white, and the hag is emaciated, with pale eyes surrounded by bruise-colored flesh. A bheur hag carries a twisted gray wooden
Monsters
The Book of Many Things
, might have been the first person to draw the Skull card from a Deck of Many Things and be slain by the avatar of death. Even Jyn doesn’t know for sure, as that was so long ago that she’s
draconic beast with pale, leathery wings and emaciated skin; this mount uses the wyvern stat block, but it is an Undead instead of a Dragon. An eerie, hollow silence heralds the champion’s arrival
Monsters
Eberron: Rising from the Last War
to the amount of damage taken.Dusk hags resemble gnarled crones with shriveled orange skin, tangled gray hair, and eyes that burn like hot coals. They see visions of the future in their dreams, and
the golden key.”
6
“Beware the black horse.”
7
“The fish is your friend.”
8
“The stairs downward lead to that which you seek.”
9
“Look for two crossed swords. There your goal lies.”
10
“If you see two crows, turn back. Beyond is death.”
Monsters
Curse of Strahd
black tentacles, polymorph
5th level (2 slots): cloudkill, geas, scrying
6th level (1 slot): programmed illusion, true seeing
7th level (1 slot): finger of death, mirage arcane
8th level (1 slot
death upon her. Lysaga eventually got her wish, and after Strahd settled in the valley of Barovia, Lysaga moved as close to him as she dared to.
In the filth-ridden depths of her heart, Lysaga knows
Backgrounds
Guildmasters’ Guide to Ravnica
smear the blood of my enemies over my skin.
7
I was, in fact, raised by maaka.
8
HarrRRAAGGHH! [I rarely form a coherent sentence and prefer to express myself by breaking things
siblings or ancestors.]
Flaws
d6
Flaw
1
If you question my courage, I will never back down.
2
HrrrGGGAAAARRuuuh! [My anger in battle led to the death of a loved one
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
pursue arcane magic are exiled as deviants, and for them no everlasting communion with an elder brain is possible. The road to lichdom offers an alternative way to escape the permanency of death, but
minds are never accepted as part of the collective. For them, death means oblivion.
Lichdom offers salvation and the prospect of being able to pursue knowledge indefinitely. Yet learning the secret of
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
of their former selves. Coral encrusts them. Barnacles cling to their cold skin. Lungs that once filled with air can now breathe in water as well.
Tales provide myriad reasons for these strange
death.
Sea spawn come in a wide variety of forms. An individual might have a tentacle for an arm, the jaws of a shark, a sea urchin’s spines, a whale’s fin, octopus eyes, seaweed hair, or
Monsters
The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
submerged. As the hours pass between each immersion, her movements become more ponderous and her skin audibly cracks as she moves.
Bavlorna lives like a hermit. She is frazzled, impatient, paranoid
thoughts, dispel magic, finger of death, glibness, locate creature, mass suggestion.
Once a spell from this list has been cast, no member of the coven can cast that shared spell again until the next
Monsters
Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse
Gray Wastes of Hades. Their gray, desiccated skin stretches over their bones, and their heads resemble horned equine skulls with ember-like eyes. Sages endlessly debate the nature of baernaloths, and
hovering at death’s door.
The challenge rating of a baernaloth is 18 (20,000 XP) when it’s encountered in its lair.
Lair Actions
On initiative count 20 (losing initiative ties), a
Species
Acquisitions Incorporated
, and the Verdan emerged. I’m sorry, was that the question?
— K’thriss Drow’b
Created by Chaos
When the power of That-Which-Endures mutated the verdan, their skin was
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
Magic Items
The Book of Many Things
unconscious condition, and must begin making death saving throws. Spells and other magical effects that restore hit points have no effect on you until you are stabilized. If you fail three death saving throws
additional cards to keep, returning the other to the deck. The magic of the card you keep takes effect immediately thereafter.
Tree. Your skin immediately becomes rough, like tree bark. Your base AC now
Equipment
creature in the tank:
Bone Spikes. Bony protrusions sprout from the creature’s skin. The creature gains a +1 bonus to the attack and damage rolls of unarmed strikes and natural weapon attacks
.
Chromatophores. The creature’s skin gains the camouflaging qualities of a squid. As an action, the creature can make themself invisible for 10 minutes or until they attack, cast a spell, or
Human
Legacy
This doesn't reflect the latest rules and lore.
Learn More
Species
Basic Rules (2014)
. Human skin shades range from nearly black to very pale, and hair colors from black to blond (curly, kinky, or straight); males might sport facial hair that is sparse or thick. A lot of humans have a
(except for those few who seek undeath or divine ascension to escape death’s clutches) they achieve it by ensuring that they will be remembered when they are gone.
Although some humans can be
races
At the conclusion of the Gods’ End, a thousand souls fell to Etharis like burning stars from the sky. The downcast had once been part of the celestial legions, but the death of the gods sent
unblemished skin. Others have been marked by their shift in morality, manifesting cracked skin or devilish horns.
Downcast Traits
Creature Type: HumanoidSize: Medium (5 — 6 feet tall)Speed: 30
races
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
Material Plane to forge their own destinies.
Once shadar-kai were Fey like the rest of their elven kin; now they exist in a state between life and death, thanks to being transformed by the Shadowfell
’s grim energy.
Shadar-kai have ashen skin tones, and while they’re in the Shadowfell, they also become wizened, reflecting the somber nature of that gloomy plane.
Like other elves
Orc
Legacy
This doesn't reflect the latest rules and lore.
Learn More
Species
Volo's Guide to Monsters
gather and celebrate, dwell the followers of Yurtrus, the god of disease and death, and Shargaas, the god of darkness and the unknown. Orcs too weak for battle (because of bodily weakness, malformation
, injury, or age) often join these cults instead of facing daily humiliation, exile, or death.
Serving as the bridge between the two parts of the tribe are the priestesses of Luthic, the orc goddess who
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
Death in Prismeer Whenever a creature—including a player character—dies in Prismeer, its death has a chance of triggering one of several magical effects put in place by Zybilna. The effect is
determined by rolling a d8 and referring to the Death Effects table. Death Effects d8 Effect 1 The creature’s corpse turns to stone. 2 The creature’s corpse decays at an accelerated rate, becoming
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
Death in Prismeer Whenever a creature—including a player character—dies in Prismeer, its death has a chance of triggering one of several magical effects put in place by Zybilna. The effect is
determined by rolling a d8 and referring to the Death Effects table. Death Effects d8 Effect 1 The creature’s corpse turns to stone. 2 The creature’s corpse decays at an accelerated rate, becoming
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
his skin while two strong, bare-chested human men with spears look on.
The oval stone is 8 feet tall and made of porous rock. Situated atop a volcanic vent, it transfers heat evenly throughout the
skin supple and to ease the shedding of their skin. The ointment is not valuable. Unless they have been fought and defeated elsewhere, two enslaved men (NE male Chultan human gladiators) watch Yahru
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
his skin while two strong, bare-chested human men with spears look on.
The oval stone is 8 feet tall and made of porous rock. Situated atop a volcanic vent, it transfers heat evenly throughout the
skin supple and to ease the shedding of their skin. The ointment is not valuable. Unless they have been fought and defeated elsewhere, two enslaved men (NE male Chultan human gladiators) watch Yahru
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monsters of the Multiverse
ventured into the Material Plane to forge their own destinies. Once shadar-kai were Fey like the rest of their elven kin; now they exist in a state between life and death, thanks to being transformed by the
Shadowfell’s grim energy. Shadar-kai have ashen skin tones, and while they’re in the Shadowfell, they also become wizened, reflecting the somber nature of that gloomy plane. Like other elves, shadar-kai can live to be over 750 years old.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monsters of the Multiverse
ventured into the Material Plane to forge their own destinies. Once shadar-kai were Fey like the rest of their elven kin; now they exist in a state between life and death, thanks to being transformed by the
Shadowfell’s grim energy. Shadar-kai have ashen skin tones, and while they’re in the Shadowfell, they also become wizened, reflecting the somber nature of that gloomy plane. Like other elves, shadar-kai can live to be over 750 years old.