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Dungeon Master’s Guide
from it (save DC 18). The table indicates how many charges you must expend to cast the spell.
Spell
Charge Cost
Animate Dead
1
Blight
2
Circle of Death
3
Finger of
Death
3
Power Word Kill
4
Speak with Dead
1
While attuned to the wand, Orcus or a follower blessed by him can cast each of the wand’s spells using 2 fewer charges (minimum of 0
Spells
Player’s Handbook
None (XP 0; PB equals your Proficiency Bonus)
Traits
Death Throes (Demon Only). When the spirit drops to 0 Hit Points or the spell ends, the spirit explodes. Dexterity Saving Throw: DC equals your
attack hits or misses, the spirit can teleport up to 30 feet to an unoccupied space it can see.
Fiery Strike (Devil Only). Melee or Ranged Attack Roll: Bonus equals your spell attack modifier, reach 5 ft. or range 150 ft. Hit: 2d6 + 3 + the spell’s level Fire damage.
classes
Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
The Death domain is concerned with the forces that cause death, as well as the negative energy that gives rise to undead creatures. Deities such as Chemosh, Myrkul, and Wee Jas are patrons of
necromancers, death knights, liches, mummy lords, and vampires. Gods of the Death domain also embody murder (Anubis, Bhaal, and Pyremius), pain (Iuz or Loviatar), disease or poison (Incabulos, Talona, or
classes
Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
The Death domain is concerned with the forces that cause death, as well as the negative energy that gives rise to undead creatures. Deities such as Chemosh, Myrkul, and Wee Jas are patrons of
necromancers, death knights, liches, mummy lords, and vampires. Gods of the Death domain also embody murder (Anubis, Bhaal, and Pyremius), pain (Iuz or Loviatar), disease or poison (Incabulos, Talona, or
Monsters
Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
instead.Preemptive Strike. The living spell makes a melee attack against a creature that starts its turn within 5 feet of the living spell.A living blade of disaster is a blade of disaster spell (see
by powerful eldritch forces can give rise to spell effects that become living beings. These so-called living spells haunt the places where they were created, subsisting on ambient magical energy.Poison; Bludgeoning, Piercing, and Slashing from Nonmagical Attacks
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takes 20 Radiant damage if he starts his turn in sunlight. While in sunlight, he has Disadvantage on attack rolls and ability checks.Multiattack. Strahd makes two Death Strike attacks. He can replace
one of these attacks with a use of (A) Bite or (B) Spellcasting to cast Fireball if available.
Death Strike. Melee Attack Roll: +9;{"diceNotation":"1d20+9", "rollType":"to hit", "rollAction":"Death
Monsters
Candlekeep Mysteries
Mei is wearing no armor and wielding no shield, his AC includes his Wisdom modifier.Multiattack. Bak Mei attacks three times: twice with Thunder Strike and once with his staff of striking.
Thunder
Strike. Melee Weapon Attack: +9;{"diceNotation":"1d20+9","rollType":"to hit","rollAction":"Thunder Strike"} to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 15 (2d10 + 4);{"diceNotation":"2d10+4","rollType
Monsters
Vecna: Eve of Ruin
, Strahd takes 20 radiant damage at the start of his turn, has disadvantage on attack rolls and ability checks, and can’t use his Change Shape bonus action.Multiattack. Strahd makes two Death Strike
attacks. He can replace one of these attacks with Blighted Fire if available.
Death Strike. Melee Weapon Attack: +9;{"diceNotation":"1d20+9", "rollType":"to hit", "rollAction":"Death Strike"} to hit
Monsters
Thieves’ Gallery
Special Equipment. Sofina wears a magic robe that grants her a +2 bonus to AC and a +1 bonus to saving throws (included above).Multiattack. Sofina makes three Necrotic Strike attacks.
Necrotic
Strike. Melee or Ranged Spell Attack: +10;{"diceNotation":"1d20+10", "rollType":"spell", "rollAction":"Necrotic Strike"} to hit, reach 5 ft. or range 120 ft., one target. Hit: 32 (5d10 + 5);{"diceNotation
Monsters
Tyranny of Dragons
wounds
2nd level (3 slots): blindness/deafness, lesser restoration, spiritual weapon (spear)
3rd level (3 slots): dispel magic, mass healing word, sending
4th level (3 slots): death ward, freedom
of movement
5th level (1 slot): insect plague
Winter Strike (3/Day). Once per turn, when Talis hits with a melee attack, she can expend a use of this trait to deal an extra 9 (2d8);{"diceNotation
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
creatures whose combined average hit points don’t exceed 500. These creatures magically rise up from the ground or otherwise form in unoccupied spaces within 300 feet of Orcus and obey his commands
will: animate dead (as an action), blight, speak with dead
1 charge each: circle of death, finger of death
2 charges: power word killOrcus can take 3 legendary actions, choosing from the options
Monsters
Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
Multiattack. The professor makes three Cinder Strike attacks.
Cinder Strike. Melee Spell Attack: +7;{"diceNotation":"1d20+7", "rollType":"to hit", "rollAction":"Cinder Strike"} to hit, reach 15 ft
., one target. Hit: 13 (2d8 + 4);{"diceNotation":"2d8+4", "rollType":"damage", "rollAction":"Cinder Strike", "rollDamageType":"fire"} fire damage.
Lightning Flourish (Recharge 6);{"diceNotation":"1d6
Orcus
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Out of the Abyss
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
creatures whose combined average hit points don’t exceed 500. These undead magically rise up from the ground or otherwise form in unoccupied spaces within 300 feet of Orcus and obey his commands
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
effects.Multiattack. The abishai makes three Bite or Lightning Strike attacks.
Bite. Melee Weapon Attack: +8;{"diceNotation":"1d20+8", "rollType":"to hit", "rollAction":"Bite"} to hit, reach 5 ft., one target
":"Bite", "rollDamageType":"lightning"} lightning damage.
Lightning Strike. Ranged Spell Attack: +12;{"diceNotation":"1d20+12", "rollType":"to hit", "rollAction":"Lightning Strike"} to hit, range 120
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are swirling maelstroms of restless spirits. They rise from sites of mass tragedies or pointless yet bloody battles. Gallows speakers rage endlessly with the weapons and death screams of the souls
classes
Xanathar's Guide to Everything
Spirit (10 temp. hp)
15th
Rapid Strike, Fighting Spirit (15 temp. hp)
18th
Strength before Death
Monsters
Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
exclusion of all other tasks, retreating into a spacious cavern and blocking out all distractions. Creating a masterwork can become such a driving obsession that death can’t stop it: a giant who dies
while creating art might rise as a cairnwight and continue the work. Once the artwork is completed, the cairnwight remains as its undying guardian.
A cairnwight looks much like an emaciated stone
Monsters
Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
, hoping to learn tactics the devils have fine-tuned over millennia and to acquire magical gifts to help the giant rise in the ordning.
Over time, the giant is corrupted, becoming a Fiend in its own right
this way, the devil stands to gain a constant supply of souls from the giant’s enemies, as well as the promise that the giant will serve the devil as a smith in the Nine Hells after death.
The
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turn, Ankhtepot can expend a use to take one of the following actions. Ankhtepot regains all expended uses at the start of each of his turns.
Death Strike. Ankhtepot makes one Negative Energy Burst
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
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
to strike at its rivals when the draegloth is fully grown. These plans use the draegloth in a significant role, because its abilities can turn the tide in a battle against a house that doesn’t
have a draegloth of its own.
Although draegloths plays an important part in the plans of Lolth’s cult, a draegloth can’t rise above the status of a favored servant to a priest in that cult
Monsters
The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
folly, but Zargash is twisted beyond any hope of redemption. His hobbies include slaying the living and animating the dead.
Alignment. Chaotic evil.
Personality Trait. “I do not fear death
;
Bond. “Praise Orcus! May he give me the power to spread death, decay, and undeath in his name!”
Flaw. “I see living people as the corpses they are doomed to become and t reat them
Warlock of the Fiend
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Volo's Guide to Monsters
life, levitate (self only), mage armor (self only), silent image
1/day each: feeblemind, finger of death, plane shift
Spellcasting. The warlock is a 17th-level spellcaster. Its spellcasting ability is
): banishment, burning hands, flame strike, hellish rebuke, magic circle, scorching ray, scrying, stinking cloud, suggestion, wall of fire
Dark One's Own Luck (Recharges after a Short or Long Rest). When
Monsters
The Book of Many Things
Brilliance (True Form Only). The living portent sheds bright light for 30 feet and dim light for an additional 30 feet.Multiattack. The living portent makes two Radiant Strike attacks.
Radiant
Strike. Melee or Ranged Spell Attack: +5;{"diceNotation":"1d20+5", "rollType":"spell", "rollAction":"Radiant Strike"} to hit, reach 5 ft. or range 120 ft., one target. Hit: 9 (1d12 + 3);{"diceNotation
Boneless
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Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
rise from the bodies of those who’ve suffered brutal ends, such as deliberate skinning or crushing. Deathless malice infuses what remains, their husks flopping and slithering in pursuit of
them to death in their full-body grip.
Boneless arise in a variety of forms. While the animate skins of specific creatures are the most common, foul spellcasters might create these horrors from the
Monsters
Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus
cause terrible pain and bleeding.
Killers from the Shadows. Bhaal’s followers are cunning murderers who kill to strike fear and thrive on sowing terror in the cities they inhabit. They can call
rank are the death’s heads, who can take on the skull-faced guise of their deity to terrify their prey. In combat, they intimidate foes by shrugging off the deadliest attacks with ease, showing that resisting Bhaal’s schemes is futile.
Monsters
Quests from the Infinite Staircase
fellow warriors to strike with decisive fury.
Warriors of Madarua
Members of the Warriors of Madarua wear bronze masks that depict the determined the face of Madarua, an ancient Cynidicean god of birth
, death, and the seasons. Each member bears a small tattoo of a sickle on the inside of their left wrist.
Warriors of Madarua recognize and respect the ever-changing complexity of life. In combat
Monsters
Storm King's Thunder
Strike (Recharge 5–6);{"diceNotation":"1d6","rollType":"recharge","rollAction":"Lightning Strike"}. Serissa hurls a magical lightning bolt at a point she can see within 500 feet of her. Each creature
within 10 feet of that point must make a DC 17 Dexterity saving throw, taking 54 (12d8);{"diceNotation":"12d8","rollType":"damage","rollAction":"Lightning Strike","rollDamageType":"lightning"} lightning
Monsters
Acquisitions Incorporated
Divine Strike. Once on each of his turns when he hits a creature with a weapon attack, Omin can cause the attack to deal an extra 4 (1d8);{"diceNotation":"1d8","rollType":"roll","rollAction":"Divine
Strike"} damage of the same type dealt by the weapon.
Fey Ancestry. Omin has advantage on saving throws against being charmed, and magic can't put him to sleep.
Spellcasting. Omin is a 9th-level
Monsters
Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
manner—perhaps poisoned, stabbed in the back, or killed while sleeping—the slain giant can rise as a frostmourn. Driven by its desire for vengeance, the frostmourn can turn the living into
keep them roaming the wilds for years after their murderers are slain.
A frostmourn looks like a desiccated corpse mummified by exposure to bitter cold. It carries the marks of its death on its body: a
classes
Xanathar's Guide to Everything
Spirit (10 temp. hp)
15th
Rapid Strike, Fighting Spirit (15 temp. hp)
18th
Strength before Death
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
Unarmed Strike attacks and one Piscine Anatomy attack.
Unarmed Strike. Melee Weapon Attack: +4;{"diceNotation":"1d20+4", "rollType":"to hit", "rollAction":"Unarmed Strike"} to hit, reach 5 ft., one
target. Hit: 4 (1d4 + 2);{"diceNotation":"1d4+2", "rollType":"damage", "rollAction":"Unarmed Strike", "rollDamageType":"bludgeoning"} bludgeoning damage.
Piscine Anatomy. The sea spawn uses one of the
Dullahan
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Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
a specific location their battlefield. This gives rise to stories of haunted battlegrounds, ruins, roads, river crossings and other strategic locations where a dullahan continues a terrifying
campaign against the living. In death, dullahans are often rejoined by those who followed them in life, either in the form of lesser undead, like skeleton;skeletons or wight;wights, or terrifying mounts
Magic Items
Guildmasters’ Guide to Ravnica
acid arrow
5
scorching ray
6
shatter
3rd-Level Spells
d6
Spell
1
fear
2
feign death
3
fireball
4
gaseous form
5
sleet storm
6
stinking cloud
4th-Level Spells
d4
Spell
1
confusion
2
conjure minor elementals
3
Evard's black tentacles
4
ice storm
5th-Level Spells
d4
Spell
1
animate objects
2
cloudkill
3
cone of cold
4
flame strike
Monsters
Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
invisibility, polymorph
5th level (2 slots): animate objects, wall of force
6th level (1 slot): create undead, flesh to stone
7th level (1 slot): finger of death
Legendary Resistance (3/Day). If Muiral fails
longsword attack that has a reach of 10 feet.
Retreating Strike (Costs 3 Actions). Muiral moves up to his speed without provoking opportunity attacks. Before the move, he can make one longsword attack.
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
action.Expert assassins and infiltrators, black abishais can weave shadows to mask their presence, allowing them to reach a location where they can deliver a fatal strike to their targets.
Abishais
Each
abishai was once a mortal who somehow won Tiamat’s favor before death and, as a reward, found its soul transformed into a draconic devil to serve at her pleasure in the Nine Hells. Each type of