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Monster Manual
Stunned condition until the end of the intellect devourer’s next turn.
Steal Body. Intelligence Saving Throw: DC 12, one Small or Medium creature within 5 feet that has the Incapacitated
can voluntarily leave the body, teleporting to the nearest unoccupied space within 5 feet of it. The body then dies unless its brain is restored before the end of the intellect devourer’s next turn.Psychic
Magic Items
Forgotten Realms: Adventures in Faerûn
DM’s control. The type of chromatic dragon depends on your alignment and personality and is left to the DM to decide. The transformation is permanent, but if the dragon is slain, its body
reverts to its original form and the orb reappears outside its body.
Destroying the Orb. If an Ancient Gold Dragon willingly swallows the orb, the orb and the dragon are both destroyed.
Intellect Devourer
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Monsters
Monster Manual (2014)
Intelligence.
Body Thief. The intellect devourer initiates an Intelligence contest with an incapacitated humanoid within 5 feet of it that isn’t protected by protection from evil and good. If it wins
the contest, the intellect devourer magically consumes the target’s brain, teleports into the target’s skull, and takes control of the target’s body. While inside a creature, the
Alter Self
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Spells
Basic Rules (2014)
action to gain the benefits of a different one.
Aquatic Adaptation. You adapt your body to an aquatic environment, sprouting gills and growing webbing between your fingers. You can breathe
underwater and gain a swimming speed equal to your walking speed.
Change Appearance. You transform your appearance. You decide what you look like, including your height, weight, facial features, sound of your
Monsters
Acquisitions Incorporated
Customizable Storage. A keg robot can hold up to three types of liquid payload totaling 12 gallons within its hollow, barrel-shaped body. A full keg robot can make one liquid attack per gallon before
a body. These constructs are another achievement of the Heuristic Arcane Research and Development (HARD) department of Acquisitions Incorporated. These devices have a number of practical purposes
Monsters
Princes of the Apocalypse
Earthen Defeat. When Marlos drops to 0 hit points, his body transforms into mud and collapses into a pool. Anything he is wearing or carrying is left behind.
Earth Passage. Marlos can move in
, a creature can avert its eyes to avoid the saving throw at the start of its turn. If the creature does so, it can’t see Marlos until the start of its next turn, when it can decide to avert its
Backgrounds
Guildmasters’ Guide to Ravnica
Armed with an inventive intellect, a love of magical technology, and an unquenchable energy, you are an enthusiastic participant in the research work of the Izzet League. Though you’re likely
sparkles.
If you use an arcane focus, it probably takes the form of an intricate device that could include metal gauntlets, glass canisters, copper tubing, and leather straps attaching it to your body
Monsters
Spelljammer: Adventures in Space
end of its body, and a superior intellect. Other psurlons look to the two-headed ones for leadership.
Psurlons
Psurlons are malevolent, wormlike creatures that were ejected from the Far Realm long
Backgrounds
Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide
your adventuring career, you can decide whether to tell your companions about your inheritance right away. Rather than attracting attention to yourself, you might want to keep your inheritance a secret
trinket
4
An article of clothing
5
A piece of jewelry
6
An arcane book or formulary
7
A written story, song, poem, or secret
8
A tattoo or other body marking
Sorcerer
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Classes
Basic Rules (2014)
chooses the sorcerer. Raw Magic Magic is a part of every sorcerer, suffusing body, mind, and spirit with a latent power that waits to be tapped. Some sorcerers wield magic that springs from an ancient
;ll choose an origin that ties to a draconic bloodline or the influence of wild magic, but the exact source of your power is up to you to decide. Is it a family curse, passed down to you from distant
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
, taking over a victim’s body on behalf of its mind flayer masters. Illithid Creations. Mind flayers breed intellect devourers to serve as roaming hunters of the Underdark, creating an intellect
intellect devourer consumes a creature’s mind and memories, then turns the host body into a puppet under its control. An intellect devourer typically uses its puppet host to lure others into the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual
Intellect Devourer Brain-Eating Body Thief Habitat: Underdark; Treasure: None Intellect devourers serve their mind flayer creators by consuming other creatures’ brains and puppetizing the mindless
, and the target has the Stunned condition until the end of the intellect devourer’s next turn.
Steal Body. Intelligence Saving Throw: DC 12, one Small or Medium creature within 5 feet that has the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sage Advice & Errata
Intellect Devourer (p. 191) Body thief: Appended this to the first sentence: “… that isn’t protected by protection from evil and good.” Later, “the host body drops to 0 hit points” is now “the host body dies.”
Backgrounds
Guildmasters’ Guide to Ravnica
interfere with the conclusions of logic. (Lawful)
6
Superiority. My vast intellect and strength are directed toward increasing my sway over others. (Evil)
Bonds
d6
Bond
make a nice sideshow act.
9
I left the Selesnya — and a lover — behind when I joined the Simic.
10
Roll an additional Simic contact; you can decide if the contact is an ally or a rival.
Magic Items
Acquisitions Incorporated
glasses.
3
Burning a small piece of the body and looking for shapes in the smoke.
4
A cautious, reasoned, professional guesstimate.
5
Careful measurements. The distance between nostrils
. The difference between the index finger and the middle finger. The elasticity of the ear lobe.
6
You take a long, careful look, and then decide based on which fellow franchisee has been nice to
Magic Items
Guildmasters’ Guide to Ravnica
it is an artificial human.
Dimir Keyrune (Very Rare). This keyrune, carved from black stone accented with steel, resembles a stylized horror. On command, it transforms into an intellect devourer that
over someone’s body, either to impersonate that person for a brief time or to extract secrets from their mind. When the mission is complete, the creature returns to you, reports its success
Yuan-ti Pureblood
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Species
Volo's Guide to Monsters
body, thought, and emotion. Freed from the limitations of their human bodies, the yuan-ti used their new abilities to conquer new lands and expand their borders.
One Race, Many Forms
The bodies of all
keen intellect and magic to discover the secrets of making steel. Its military shattered rival tribes and developed advanced tactics for fighting in forests and open plains.
The civilization grew into a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
remains of a fire pit. Three bugbear corpses and an intellect devourer’s body are heaped in the northeast corner. Searching the corpses reveals a scrap of parchment with the following phrase written
Magic Items
Lost Laboratory of Kwalish
possessed by the armor. While possessed, the user is incapacitated and loses control of its body but retains its awareness. The armor uses the possessed user’s statistics (as adjusted by the armor
Power. Powered armor originally required energy cells to fuel it, but was adapted by Kwalish to be fueled by the life energy of the creature wearing it. You might decide that the armor can also draw
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Lost Laboratory of Kwalish
. However, you might decide that if this is done, the priest’s still-potent magical power allows her to merge with the great ooze and control it — effectively using that titanic creature as the new body she seeks.
High Priest In the ooze-flooded city of Daoine Gloine, the high priest in area O5 might negotiate with the characters for a new physical body. She readily agrees to deactivate the clockwork kraken if
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Infernal Machine Rebuild
Andras and Stolos One of Thessalar’s most loyal assistants, Andrastolos was the subject of many of the artificer’s early magical trials. In a grand experiment, Andrastolos’s body and mind were split
with the head of a giant snowy owl. Though he retains his full intellect, his speech is hindered, resembling the hoots and clicks of an owl. Cruel and sadistic, Andras has been installed as the temple’s
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Keys from the Golden Vault
It Came from the Far Realm What happens to the Far Realm entity is for you to decide. As a thing of pure thought, it might corrupt creatures in its vicinity, transforming them into horrible
Aberrations or zealous Far Realm cultists. Conversely, it might find solace in the body of some creature powerful enough to serve as its new host.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
Mayastan Sadaar Word of Mayastan Sadaar’s death hits the scholars of Candlekeep hard. At your discretion, the characters can return the scholar’s body to Candlekeep so that she can be returned to
life (perhaps with the characters performing the rites). Alternatively, you might decide that the nature of Valin’s ritual prevents Mayastan from being restored to life even with a resurrection spell
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
moldering hay and the rotting body of a giant toad. Unless it has been drawn elsewhere, Kuketh the death slaad lounges on the hay in bullywug form.
When not bossing around its subjects, Kuketh
door. Treasure. The vault holds treasure collected by the bullywugs, including 56 pp, 2,417 gp, 540 sp, a platinum holy symbol of Sseth (a flying snake with bared fangs) worth 150 gp, and a headband of intellect.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Lost Laboratory of Kwalish
Appendix A: Random Encounters Characters undertaking this adventure will spend a significant amount of game time on the journey to the Monastery of the Distressed Body and the lost city of Daoine
Gloine. You can help bring those weeks of exploration to life with random encounters — some of which might increase or decrease the length of the characters’ journey, as you decide. Chapter 2 of
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
Responsibility. Having knowledge and power gives one a responsibility to those who have less of either. (Lawful)
5
Noble Obligation. My superior experience, intellect, and insight give me a duty to
miles of the lair is a conduit for the dragon’s psionic presence. As an action, the dragon can cast the clairvoyance spell, requiring no spell components and targeting any body of water in that
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
surviving members of the order who will try to avenge Bak Mei’s death? The last breaths (souls) of three individuals—one of great intellect, one of strong body, and one of a pure heart—are required to
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
power gives one a responsibility to those who have less of either. (Lawful)
5
Noble Obligation. My superior experience, intellect, and insight give me a duty to mediate disputes when I can. (Good
, requiring no spell components and targeting any body of water in that region.
If the dragon dies, the populations of aquatic life near the lair return to normal levels over the course of 1d10
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Lost Laboratory of Kwalish
New Body Problem. Every brain in a jar is desperate for a new body, and a brain immediately agrees to aid the characters any way it can if they promise to restore it to life. Any number of possible
options might be available to characters wanting to achieve this end. Most easily, the brains can guide characters through the process of transferring their intellect into a host such as a slain monk
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
stole or used in a terrible crime becomes part of their body—perhaps a sizable jewel, emblem of rulership, or suit of armor.
3 The Darklord’s eyes distend from their sockets like a slug’s tentacles
idealized form, though it’s made of an inorganic material or others react as if it were terrifying.
6 The Darklord’s body disintegrates, leaving only an animate heart, hand, gory ooze, or nervous
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
Resolving Outcomes You decide when a player makes a D20 Test based on what the character is trying to do. Players shouldn’t just roll ability checks without context; they should tell you what their
you decide: Is a D20 Test Warranted? If the task is trivial or impossible, don’t bother with a D20 Test. A character can move across an empty room or drink from a flask without making a Dexterity check
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Lost Laboratory of Kwalish
knowledge from outlaws crossing into the monastery, asking about good-aligned topics might negate its advantage on the Intelligence check it makes to answer. Alternatively, you might decide that the dock
advanced intellect and a unique perspective on the world. She might strike a deal with the characters if they agree to find the brains and bring her one, allowing them to summon the ferry without paying her
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sage Advice Compendium
Adventuring Is there a hard limit on how many short rests characters can take in a day, or is this purely up to the DM to decide? The only hard limit on the number of short rests you can take is the
Intelligence back, such as after an intellect devourer zeroes it? The greater restoration spell can remove the reduction to an ability score. What happens after 20th level? Is there a cap to character
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
decide whether to be outside the Nematode or inside its closed mouth. There is no light in the cave once it shuts unless the characters have light sources with them. When the mouth closes, two intellect
snares (see appendix A) emerge from the throat and attack. Swallowed by the Nematode several days ago, they are eager to feed. The intellect snares focus their attacks on different creatures when
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
attack. Luna, Thalen, Sigil, and Whiskey are hosts for four intellect devourers, having been overcome by those creatures’ Body Thief action. Speaking to any of them and succeeding on a DC 12 Wisdom
stat blocks). When a host is reduced to 0 hit points, the intellect devourer emerges and attempts to use its claws and Devour Intellect action to gain a character as a new host. A character can regain






