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Returning 35 results for 'declare innate are better'.
Monsters
Acquisitions Incorporated
Fey Ancestry. Môrgæn has advantage on saving throws against being charmed, and magic can't put her to sleep.
Innate Spellcasting. Môrgæn's spellcasting ability is Intelligence. She can innately cast
the person you've shot first is already dead? Still, when the situation calls for it, this protector of the woodlands is equally at home on missions of subterfuge and social interaction in the big city, provided her well-known love of ale, wine, and other intoxicants doesn't get the better of her.
Monsters
Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
away. Auril instantly reappears in her Auril (Second Form);second form, in an unoccupied space within 60 feet of where her first form disappeared. Her initiative count doesn’t change.
Innate
Spellcasting. Auril’s innate spellcasting ability is Charisma (spell save DC 21, +13;{"diceNotation":"1d20+13","rollType":"to hit","rollAction":"Innate Spellcasting"} to hit with spell attacks
Orcus
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Out of the Abyss
until they are destroyed or until he dismisses them as an action. Once this property of the wand is used, the property can’t be used again until the next dawn.
Innate Spellcasting. Orcus’s
spellcasting ability is Charisma (spell save DC 23, +15;{"diceNotation":"1d20+15","rollType":"to hit","rollAction":"Innate Spellcasting"} to hit with spell attacks). He can innately cast the following
Monsters
Divine Contention
Amphibious. Claugiyliamatar can breathe air and water.
Legendary Resistance (3/Day). If Claugiyliamatar fails a saving throw, it can choose to succeed instead.
Innate Spellcasting. Claugiyliamatar
underground city known as Southkrypt. For centuries, Kryptgarden Forest has been the home and hunting ground of the ancient female green dragon Claugiyliamatar, better known to many as Old Gnawbone. She
Yuan-ti Pureblood
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Species
Volo's Guide to Monsters
serpent gods began to demand more and more sacrifices, the yuan-ti stepped up their raids on bordering settlements to meet this need.
Calm long-view schemers, innate deceivers, and immune to poison
odds aren’t in their favor. A short retreat might be just the thing to reach a better tactical position, find allies, or to allow the yuan-ti the opportunity to study their opponents and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
do while we bring our missing family home.”
Voices in the crowd rise as they declare support for one prince or the other. Most of the folk wearing the grimy tunics of miners are impressed when Kirina
come directly from King Diara. Personality Trait. “I’m happiest when I’m working with my hands.” Ideal. “Though I might have more responsibility, I’m no better than anyone else who works in the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
grasslands and foothills. You can simply declare that the party makes the uneventful journey, or you can offer some reason why they would want to visit Triboar. The town is a good place for them to resupply
the characters to deliver a letter to Darathra Shendrel, the lord protector of Triboar. In the letter, Harbin demands that the lord protector do a better job of patrolling the territory between their
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
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Languages Common, Elvish, Sylvan
Challenge 10 (5,900 XP)
Fey Step (Recharge 4–6). As a bonus action, the eladrin can teleport up to 30 feet to an unoccupied space it can see.
Innate
Spellcasting. The eladrin’s innate spellcasting ability is Intelligence (spell save DC 16). It can innately cast the following spells, requiring no material components:
At will: fog cloud, gust of wind
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Goblin
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the foresight to declare a successor, often a child or other family member the boss has been able to trust. But such a declaration doesn’t always prevent a mad scramble for influence and allies
new leader can act as the real boss. If the creature brushes aside such manipulation, the tribe falls into line behind the new tyrant—better to abide the new rule than conspire against it and be
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
. Illig regards Gullop XIX as a witless buffoon unworthy of the crown and plans to declare himself the rightful king. He proudly shows off a drawing on the mud floor that depicts a crude image of Gullop XIX
the dagger. If Illig views the characters as coconspirators, he’s eager to hear what they think of his cunning plan. If they have a better one, he wants to hear it. If the characters try to leave
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
own lives much too highly to risk them when the odds aren’t in their favor. A short retreat might be just the thing to reach a better tactical position, find allies, or to allow the yuan-ti the
opportunity to study their opponents and implement better tactics. Any enemy who chases a group of fleeing yuan-ti might be on the victorious side of a rout or could be heading into a trap; if the enemy has
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
, wine, and other intoxicants doesn’t get the better of her. Môrgæn
Medium humanoid (elf), chaotic neutral
Armor Class 16 (studded leather)
Hit Points 66 (12d8 + 12)
Speed 30 ft.
STR
saving throws against being charmed, and magic can’t put her to sleep.
Innate Spellcasting. Môrgæn’s spellcasting ability is Intelligence. She can innately cast the following spells, requiring no
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
14 (+2)
CHA
10 (+0)
Saving Throws Str +3, Dex +4, Int +3, Wis +4
Skills Insight +4, Perception +4
Senses passive Perception 14
Languages Gith
Challenge 2 (450 XP)
Innate
Spellcasting (Psionics). The githzerai’s innate spellcasting ability is Wisdom. It can innately cast the following spells, requiring no components:
At will: mage hand (the hand is invisible)
3/day
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
, or on the solid clouds that once held their fiefs. Still gracing the skies on occasion, these magic clouds are a lasting remnant of the giants’ lost empires.
Better spellcasters than most other
Languages Common, Giant
Challenge 9 (5,000 XP)
Keen Smell. The giant has advantage on Wisdom (Perception) checks that rely on smell.
Innate Spellcasting. The giant’s innate spellcasting ability is
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
Lulu the Hollyphant Lulu is a hollyphant (see Appendix C for her stat block) who has lost most of her memories, as well as her Innate Spellcasting trait. (This has no effect on her challenge rating
.) She regains her Innate Spellcasting trait gradually over the course of the adventure, as follows: In chapter 2, Lulu regains the at-will ability to cast light when she arrives in Elturel for the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
of better understanding the workings of the multiverse. A Gnome’s Role Gnomes are valuable members of an adventuring party for a number of reasons, derived from both their innate abilities and their
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
but become aggressive when they feel insulted or are annoyed by the sounds of mining. Stone Sympathy. No one knows the ways of stone and earth better than a korred. Korreds can seemingly smell veins of
. If the rope drops to 0 hit points, it is destroyed.
Innate Spellcasting. The korred's innate spellcasting ability is Wisdom (save DC 13). It can innately cast the following spells, requiring no
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
bounty off your head. It’s also an opportunity to establish an element that can be part of a character moving forward. If you’re trying to reclaim a magic item from a pawnshop, you declare that your
settle things with House Tharashk, you’d better keep an eye out for bounty hunters. 9 You have an opportunity to join an influential secret society. But you’ve got only one month to raise the membership
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
declare their status and ornament themselves with claws and small bones taken from defeated opponents. While intensely territorial, the Ironmanes sometimes offer their services as guards or guides
the grasslands for countless generations. They know the way of Oreskos’s beasts and seasons better than any. Both mystical and knowledgeable, the Sun Guides read the messages in plant growth and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
. Innate Spells. When a guardian portrait attacks, the figure in the painting animates and moves as though alive (albeit in two dimensions). The guardian portrait has no effective melee attacks, but it has
a repertoire of innate spells that it can cast. When it casts a spell, the figure painted on the canvas makes all the appropriate somatic gestures and verbal incantations for the spell. Guardian
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
. They lack the physical equipment to reproduce, as well as the inclination to do so. They are greedy, conniving, and obsessed with the acquisition of valuables — the more ornate or bizarre, the better
. They know they are flawed, and this minor amount of self-awareness only magnifies their other deficiencies. They hate almost any creature they perceive as better than they are, which includes almost
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
their way to avoid interacting with other intelligent creatures. However, their interest in history and culture occasionally gets the better of them, prompting them to seek some engagement with the
has spent the past century collecting magic items that he hopes will enable him to survive the coming conflict.
Raulothim’s drive to amass magic and his innate mistrust of anyone powerful enough to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Hoard of the Dragon Queen
group knows better than to interfere in his one-on-one matches. If the characters gang up on Cyanwrath or one of his guards, or try to leave the chamber, the guards attack. If none of the characters
succeed on a DC 10 Constitution saving throw or take an extra 2d8 acid damage. Players who declare immediately that their characters are covering their faces and getting out of the chamber as quickly as
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tyranny of Dragons
intervene, Cyanwrath’s group knows better than to interfere in his one-on-one matches. If the characters gang up on Cyanwrath or one of his guards, or try to leave the chamber, the guards attack. If none of
. Everyone must also succeed on a DC 10 Constitution saving throw or take an extra 2d8 acid damage. Players who declare immediately that their characters are covering their faces and getting out of the chamber
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
–40 “I am compelled to make the weak suffer.” 41–60 “I have no compunction against tampering with the dead in my search to better understand death.” 61–80 “I want to achieve the everlasting existence
next dawn.
Innate Spellcasting. Orcus’s spellcasting ability is Charisma (spell save DC 23, +15 to hit with spell attacks). He can innately cast the following spells, requiring no material components
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
state of life.” 21–40 “I am compelled to make the weak suffer.” 41–60 “I have no compunction against tampering with the dead in my search to better understand death.” 61–80 “I want to achieve the
again until the next dawn.
Innate Spellcasting. Orcus’s spellcasting ability is Charisma (spell save DC 23, +15 to hit with spell attacks). He can innately cast the following spells, requiring no
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
supposed subtleties and ruses. Often it’s better put the target to the torch, then sift through the ashes afterward. Eternal Flame Guardian Eternal Flame guardians are dullards fascinated by the power
9 (−1)
CHA
18 (+4)
Skills Arcana +3, Deception +7
Damage Resistances fire
Senses darkvision 60 ft., passive Perception 9
Languages Common, Ignan
Challenge 8 (3,900 XP)
Innate
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
dragon’s eggs, but once every few years a kobold hatches with an innate version of the dragonshield’s abilities. Accomplished at hand-to-hand combat, it bears many scars from desperate fights and carries a
experiments. Its creations are sometimes comical in appearance, but — like kobolds’ traps — they work a lot better than their materials would suggest. Good While They Last. An inventor’s new weapons last
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
: Ingeloakastimizilian, Imvaernarhro, K’rshinthintl, Claugiyliamatar. Commonly known as “Old Gnawbone,”
Claugiyliamatar is often seen with a
mangled corpse hanging from her mouth Many dragons are better
proficiencies, particularly if the dragon spends time in Humanoid form. Spells. The Monster Manual’s variant rule about making dragons innate spellcasters is an easy way to add variety to dragons
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
absorbed overwhelmed Selvetarm’s innate goodness and weakened him enough that the Spider Queen could bound his will tightly to her own. Enraged by Lolth’s duplicity, Selvetarm is an engine of destruction
heresy, when it is expressed openly, is liable to be savagely crushed by the priestesses of Lolth. So most of Vhaeraun’s male followers honor him simply by trying to carve out better lives for themselves
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
can harm her. Auril’s worshipers know better than to disturb her self-imposed isolation. Terrible blizzards have cut off Icewind Dale from the rest of the world, and a shroud of mist conceals her
.
Innate Spellcasting. Auril’s innate spellcasting ability is Charisma (spell save DC 21, +13 to hit with spell attacks). She can innately cast the following spells, requiring no material components:
At
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
, and slashing. For such a strange monster, reduce its effective hit points by half. Or even better, eliminate the vulnerabilities and give the brittle monster fewer hit points. Effective Hit Points
complex (and harder to run) the monster becomes. Innate Spellcasting and Spellcasting. The impact that the Innate Spellcasting and Spellcasting special traits have on a monster’s challenge rating
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
taken lightly, and that a good laugh will serve them better than a grim attitude. When Garl cavorts with mischief on his mind, Moradin’s beard might end up woven with giggling flowers, and Gruumsh’s axe
their innate magical abilities to Baravar, and all gnomes get their natural defense against magic from her shrewdness. Callarduran Smoothhands Callarduran became the patron of the deep gnomes when he
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
know better than to enter the palace without an invitation. Badger Minstrels. Each of these four badgers received one of Skabatha Nightshade’s awaken spells, which granted it an Intelligence of 10 and
declare their allegiance to the hags, saying, “What fine ladies they are. Their names should be Sweetness, Kindness, and Charity, for all the good they do!” (The badgers aren’t evil, just misguided
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
the foresight to declare a successor, often a child or other family member the boss has been able to trust. But such a declaration doesn’t always prevent a mad scramble for influence and allies, or
new leader can act as the real boss. If the creature brushes aside such manipulation, the tribe falls into line behind the new tyrant — better to abide the new rule than conspire against it and be