defends instead are bears

Glabbagool

Monsters Out of the Abyss

the Underdark has granted Glabbagool sentience and awareness. The ooze is genuinely curious about other creatures and wants to learn more about the world. It defends itself if attacked, but doesn't

otherwise try to harm the characters, instead asking who they are, where they come from, and why they have come to the temple.

Feather of Diatryma Summoning

Magic Items Waterdeep: Dragon Heist

’t be used again until 7 days have passed. The diatryma uses the statistics of an axe beak, except that its beak deals piercing damage instead of slashing damage. The creature is friendly to you

and your companions, and it can be used as a mount. It understands your languages and obeys your spoken commands. If you issue no commands, the diatryma defends itself but takes no other actions.

Guardian Emblem

Magic Items Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything

you can see within 30 feet of you suffers a critical hit while you’re wearing the armor or wielding the shield that bears the emblem, you can use your reaction to expend 1 charge to turn the critical hit into a normal hit instead. The emblem regains all expended charges daily at dawn.

Skitterwidget

Monsters Candlekeep Mysteries

Lightning Absorption. Whenever the skitterwidget is subjected to lightning damage, it takes no damage and instead regains a number of hit points equal to the lightning damage dealt. Unusual Nature

next turn.Good Parent. The skitterwidget imposes disadvantage on one attack roll made against a kiddywidget it can see within 5 feet of it.A skitterwidget is made of metal and bears a passing

Fool's Blade

Magic Items The Book of Many Things

This weapon appears ordinary, but it bears strong illusion magic that allows its wielder to skillfully deceive opponents. You have a +2 bonus to attack and damage rolls made with this magic weapon

you with an attack roll, you can use your reaction to require that creature to make a DC 15 Intelligence saving throw. On a failed save, the attack instead targets another creature of your choice that

Tomb Tapper

Monsters Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden

feet of it and can use an action to pinpoint the location of any creature, object, or area in that range that bears magic. This sense penetrates barriers but is blocked by a thin sheet of lead. Tunneler

they acquire, instead choosing to protect and venerate such items. Tappers spend their long lives in the search for the source of all magic, which they believe to be hidden deep in the Underdark. They

Nass Lantomir's Ghost

Monsters Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden

Zelennor, watches over the wizard’s frozen remains. It uses the weasel stat block in the Monster Manual but is a fey instead of a beast. If Zelennor is reduced to 0 hit points, Nass’s

. Nass’s personal sigil is inscribed on the spine, which also bears the title Lantomir’s Traveling Libram. The tome contains the following spells: clairvoyance, cloud of daggers, counterspell

Conjure Elemental Legacy

Spells Basic Rules (2014)

that you issue to it (no action required by you). If you don't issue any commands to the elemental, it defends itself from hostile creatures but otherwise takes no actions. If your concentration is

broken, the elemental doesn't disappear. Instead, you lose control of the elemental, it becomes hostile toward you and your companions, and it might attack. An uncontrolled elemental can't be dismissed by

Khargra

Monsters Mordenkainen's Fiendish Folio Volume 1

metal shield, the khargra attaches to that armor or shield. While attached, the khargra doesn't attack. Instead, at the start of each of the khargra's turns, roll a d20. On a 10 or higher, the armor or

khargras as couriers. Making use of these creatures' odd digestive systems, their masters sprinkle iron dust on a scroll or other organic item that bears a message. The khargra devours the missive

Conjure Fey Legacy

Spells Basic Rules (2014)

defends itself from hostile creatures but otherwise takes no actions. If your concentration is broken, the fey creature doesn't disappear. Instead, you lose control of the fey creature, it becomes

Animate Objects Legacy

Spells Basic Rules (2014)

particular chamber or corridor. If you issue no commands, the creature only defends itself against hostile creatures. Once given an order, the creature continues to follow it until its task is complete

appendages it can use for locomotion, it instead has a flying speed of 30 feet and can hover. If the object is securely attached to a surface or a larger object, such as a chain bolted to a wall, its

Ygorl, Lord of Entropy

Monsters Mordenkainen's Fiendish Folio Volume 1

","rollDamageType":"necrotic"} necrotic damage. Legendary Resistance (3/Day). If Ygorl fails a saving throw, it can choose to succeed instead. Magic Resistance. Ygorl has advantage on saving throws against

inscribed across the blade, which can reduce living creatures to ash. The lord of entropy also bears a set of obsidian tablets slung about its waist, upon which it inscribes destructive runes. Living

Spell Scroll Legacy

Magic Items Basic Rules (2014)

A Spell Scroll bears the words of a single spell, written in a mystical cipher. If the spell is on your spell list, you can read the scroll and cast its spell without Material components. Otherwise

the spell. 2 The spell affects the caster or an ally (determined randomly) instead of the intended target, or it affects a rando m target nearby if the caster was the intended target. 3 The

13. Bear Laboratory

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Infernal Machine Rebuild

13. Bear Laboratory Whenever anyone enters this area, a low growling rises from the animals kept here. A number of large, sturdy cages house one pair each of black bears, brown bears, and polar bears

. In addition, shelves and cupboards throughout the room hold dried fish, dried berries, and grubs as food for the bears, along with tools and supplies. Any character who feeds the bears or succeeds

Ankylosaurus

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)

Ankylosaurus Thick armor plating covers the body of the plant-eating ankylosaurus, which defends itself against predators with a knobbed tail that delivers a devastating strike. Some varieties of

ankylosaurus have spiked tails that deal piercing damage instead of bludgeoning damage. Ankylosaurus Huge beast, unaligned Armor Class 15 (natural armor) Hit Points 68 (8d12 + 16) Speed 30 ft

Mechanical Wonder

magic-items

a successful save, the wonder drops to 1 Hit Point instead. Wind-Up Operation. The wonder has the Unconscious condition until another creature winds it with the wonder’s unique key for 1

bears any more than this, it deactivates. Eight spectral cords are mounted to the inside of the cargo bay. A creature riding in the gyrocopter wonder can take a Utilize action to attach itself to or

Guardian Emblem

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything

shield that bears the emblem, you can use your reaction to expend 1 charge to turn the critical hit into a normal hit instead. The emblem regains all expended charges daily at dawn.

Feather of Diatryma Summoning

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist

damage instead of slashing damage. The creature is friendly to you and your companions, and it can be used as a mount. It understands your languages and obeys your spoken commands. If you issue no commands, the diatryma defends itself but takes no other actions.

Conjure Fey

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)

action required by you), as long as they don’t violate its alignment. If you don’t issue any commands to the fey creature, it defends itself from hostile creatures but otherwise takes no actions. If

your concentration is broken, the fey creature doesn’t disappear. Instead, you lose control of the fey creature, it becomes hostile toward you and your companions, and it might attack. An uncontrolled

Conjure Fey

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)

action required by you), as long as they don’t violate its alignment. If you don’t issue any commands to the fey creature, it defends itself from hostile creatures but otherwise takes no actions. If

your concentration is broken, the fey creature doesn’t disappear. Instead, you lose control of the fey creature, it becomes hostile toward you and your companions, and it might attack. An uncontrolled

Shard of the Accursed

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Keys from the Golden Vault

Shard of the Accursed An Adventure for 8th-Level Characters A mysterious shard made of obsidian places a curse on everyone who bears it. When the shard comes into the characters’ possession, they

’ intrusion. This adventure isn’t a typical heist; rather, it’s a reverse heist. Instead of retrieving a valuable item, the characters are tasked with returning one to its proper place. An unearthed tomb holds the key to saving a nearby town, as adventurers are about to discover

Letters of Recommendation

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)

Letters of Recommendation Letter of Recommendation When gold is in short supply, the adventurers’ benefactor might provide them with a letter of recommendation instead of monetary payment. Such a

letter is usually enclosed in a handsome folio, case, or scroll tube for safe transport, and it usually bears the signature and seal of whoever wrote it. A letter of recommendation from a person of

A29. Secret Vault

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragon of Icespire Peak

A29. Secret Vault Against the south wall of this otherwise empty room rests a 80-pound iron chest with clawed feet. Its built-in lock bears a tiny circular indentation instead of a traditional

Conjure Elemental

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)

own turns. It obeys any verbal commands that you issue to it (no action required by you). If you don’t issue any commands to the elemental, it defends itself from hostile creatures but otherwise takes

no actions. If your concentration is broken, the elemental doesn’t disappear. Instead, you lose control of the elemental, it becomes hostile toward you and your companions, and it might attack. An

Conjure Elemental

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)

own turns. It obeys any verbal commands that you issue to it (no action required by you). If you don’t issue any commands to the elemental, it defends itself from hostile creatures but otherwise takes

no actions. If your concentration is broken, the elemental doesn’t disappear. Instead, you lose control of the elemental, it becomes hostile toward you and your companions, and it might attack. An

3. Glabbagool

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss

sentience and awareness. The ooze is genuinely curious about other creatures and wants to learn more about the world. It defends itself if attacked, but doesn’t otherwise try to harm the characters

, instead asking who they are, where they come from, and why they have come to the temple. Other oozes won’t attack Glabbagool, so it can block a passageway to help the adventurers fend them off. However

Orc Legacy

Species Volo's Guide to Monsters

, 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

fraught with tests of strength, fierce competition and nothing in the way of maternal or paternal love. From the time a child can wield a stick or a crude knife, it asserts itself and defends itself

Spell Scrolls

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Book of Many Things

Spell Scrolls A table bears an assortment of little jars filled with tiny scrolls. A pixie no bigger than a human hand sits on a cushion beside the jars, using a small quill and inkwell to write on a

voiceless character tries to speak or vocalize, they burp tiny bubbles instead. Lavender can mimic that character’s voice perfectly for the duration of the effect, and she delights in doing so. A Remove Curse spell or similar magic ends this effect.

Werebear

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual

Werebear Changed by the Might of the Bear Habitat: Arctic, Forest, Hill; Treasure: Relics When threatened or compelled by magic, werebears shape-shift from their humanoid forms into mighty bears or

. Werebears take the shape of bears common to the regions in which they dwell, with brown and polar bear forms being common. Werebear Medium or Small Monstrosity (Lycanthrope), Neutral Good AC 15

Goristro Raid

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Eve of Ruin

Goristro Raid This encounter occurs only if the characters teamed up with the erinyes in the previous encounter. If the characters instead defeated the erinyes and claimed the Venatrix for themselves

palanquin to defeat the demons within while the characters slay the goristro. The goristro defends itself. If the vrocks see that the goristro is losing, they join the fight. The three erinyes easily dispatch

City of the Dead

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist

all. Long ago, Waterdavians largely abandoned the practice of burying their dead, instead entombing them in mausoleums. For centuries, the major mausoleums here have each been connected to an

griffon rider spears a skeletal knight whose breastplate bears the symbol of Myrkul, god of the dead. But this statue is also a fountain, and the wounds on these combatants gush water! Don’t try to

Basilisk

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual

Animals like bats, bears, deer, or goats. 3 A climber clinging to a stalactite. 4 Itself using a large mirror or shiny surface. 5 A mimic disguised as a chest full of treasure. 6 A monster such as an

Failure: The target has the Restrained condition and repeats the save at the end of its next turn if it is still Restrained, ending the effect on itself on a success. Second Failure: The target has the Petrified condition instead of the Restrained condition.

Weretiger

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual

importance. Roll on or choose a result from the Weretiger Wards table to inspire what a weretiger defends. Weretiger Wards 1d4 The Weretiger Protects A... 1 Legendary weapon or symbol of

following effect. Constitution Saving Throw: DC 13. Failure: The target is cursed. If the cursed target drops to 0 Hit Points, it instead becomes a Weretiger under the DM’s control and has 10 Hit Points

Animate Objects

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)

creature only defends itself against hostile creatures. Once given an order, the creature continues to follow it until its task is complete. Animated Object Statistics Size HP AC Attack Str Dex Tiny 20

Charisma is 1. Its speed is 30 feet; if the object lacks legs or other appendages it can use for locomotion, it instead has a flying speed of 30 feet and can hover. If the object is securely attached to a

Sphinx of Valor

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual

their duty above mortal life. If threatened, a sphinx of valor defends its charge with its supernaturally empowered roar and fierce strikes. Sphinx of Valor Large Celestial, Lawful Neutral AC 17

, it can choose to succeed instead. Actions Multiattack. The sphinx makes two Claw attacks and uses Roar. Claw. Melee Attack Roll: +12, reach 5 ft. Hit: 20 (4d6 + 6) Slashing damage. Roar (3

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