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Monsters
Tomb of Annihilation
magic item that improves its AC, it must make a DC 11 Dexterity saving throw. On a failed save, one such item worn or carried by the creature (the target’s choice) magically deteriorates, taking
a permanent and cumulative −1 penalty to the AC it offers, and the zorbo gains a +1 bonus to AC until the start of its next turn. Armor reduced to an AC of 10 or a shield or magic item that drops to a 0 AC increase is destroyed.
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
, Sofina conceals her affiliations and coldly rebuffs any who seek her friendship. A canny operator, she has patiently moved her pieces into place, and her grand designs now begin to take
Magic Items
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
Weapon (Wakened);Wakened (Very Rare) . The Wakened weapon has the Slumbering property, and it improves on the Stirring property. The bonus to attack and damage rolls increases to +2, and the extra damage
.
Dragon's Wrath Weapon (Ascendant );Ascendant (Legendary). The Ascendant weapon has the Slumbering property, and it improves on the Stirring and Wakened properties. The bonus to attack and damage
Magic Items
Eberron: Rising from the Last War
When a suit of shiftweave is created, up to five different outfits can be embedded into the cloth. While wearing the clothing, you can speak its command word as a bonus action to transform your
outfit into your choice of one of the other designs contained within it. Regardless of its appearance, the outfit can’t be anything but clothing. Although it can duplicate the look of other magical clothing, it doesn’t gain their magical properties.
Magic Items
Tomb of Annihilation
This suit of plate armor is fashioned from giant scorpion chitin. While wearing this armor, you gain the following benefits:
The armor improves your combat readiness, granting you a +5 bonus to
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
ferry their victims to isolated spots and then leave the hapless souls to the designs of whatever horrors lurk there.
Any creatures meazels draw through the shadows are cursed by the meazels&rsquo
; baleful magic. The curse acts as a beacon; sorrowsworn, Undead, and other terrors sense where they are located and descend on the stranded victims to tear them apart.Shadow Stealth. While in dim light or darkness, the meazel can take the Hide action as a bonus action.
Magic Items
The Book of Many Things
The backs of the cards in this deck are decorated with intricate designs representing different planes of existence. The deck has 6 charges. While holding it, you can expend 1 or more of its charges
to use the following properties:
Marked Card. As a bonus action, you can expend 1 charge to draw a card from the deck and place it in an unoccupied space within 5 feet of you. The card then becomes
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
attack roll, the clockwork gives that creature a +5 bonus to its AC against that attack, potentially causing a miss. To use this ability, the clockwork must be able to see the creature and the
.
Individual Designs
Gnome artisans prefer unique clockworks over perfectly functioning ones that copy too much from other creations. A clockwork can be customized by adding one of the following
Magic Items
Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus
shield’s appearance, so that its celestial motif and designs have become twisted into a fiendish face that subtly moves in disturbing ways.
While holding this shield, you gain a +2 bonus to AC and
Magic Items
Infernal Machine Rebuild
surroundings to appear reflected in the blade as if in a state of decay.
You gain a +2 bonus to attack and damage rolls made with this magic weapon. When you hit an undead creature with it, the attack
to it, Ruinblade also understands every language you know.
Personality. Ruinblade speaks either with a dolorous or frenetic tone, depending on its mood. That mood improves when the sword is actively
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player’s Handbook
Level Advancement CHRIS SEAMAN Adventuring equipment improves as a character progresses through the tiers of play While going on adventures, your character gains experience, represented by
advance to a level and the Proficiency Bonus for a character of that level. When your XP total equals or exceeds a number in the Experience Points column, you reach the corresponding level. Character
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
bonus action to transform your outfit into your choice of one of the other designs contained within it. Regardless of its appearance, the outfit can’t be anything but clothing. Although it can duplicate the look of other magical clothing, it doesn’t gain their magical properties.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron
bonus action to transform your outfit into your choice of one of the other designs contained within it. Regardless of its appearance, the outfit can’t be anything but clothing. Although it can duplicate the look of other magical clothing, it doesn’t gain their magical properties.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
improves your combat readiness, granting you a +5 bonus to initiative as long as you aren’t incapacitated. The armor doesn’t impose disadvantage on your Dexterity (Stealth) checks. The armor doesn’t impose
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Book of Many Things
Deck of Dimensions Wondrous Item, Very Rare (Requires Attunement) The backs of the cards in this deck are decorated with intricate designs representing different planes of existence. The deck has 6
charges. While holding it, you can expend 1 or more of its charges to use the following properties: Robson Michel Deck of Dimensions Marked Card. As a bonus action, you can expend 1 charge to draw a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Thieves’ Gallery
designs now begin to take shape. Sofina Medium Humanoid (Wizard), Neutral Evil
Armor Class 14 (magic robe; 17 with mage armor)
Hit Points 161 (19d8 + 76)
Speed 30 ft.
STR
12 (+1)
DEX
Resistances necrotic
Senses passive Perception 12
Languages Abyssal, Common, Draconic, Infernal, Thayan
Challenge 15 (13,000 XP) Proficiency Bonus +5
Special Equipment. Sofina wears a magic robe that
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sage Advice Compendium
quadruple the duration of a spell by spending 2 sorcery points on Extended Spell. Elemental Affinity improves one damage roll of a spell, not multiple rolls? So with scorching ray, I don’t add my
improves one of the rays of a scorching ray spell or one of the beams of an eldritch blast spell. Can Empowered Spell affect all the rays of a scorching ray spell, or just one? A sorcerer’s Empowered
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
breath weapon. Wakened (Very Rare). The Wakened weapon has the Slumbering property, and it improves on the Stirring property. The bonus to attack and damage rolls increases to +2, and the extra
(Legendary). The Ascendant weapon has the Slumbering property, and it improves on the Stirring and Wakened properties. The bonus to attack and damage rolls increases to +3, and the extra damage dealt
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Quests from the Infinite Staircase
tattooed with magical ink that designates their status in the hierarchy. Pupil sages have simple designs patterned after individual stars and minor constellations, while the elder sage’s arms depict a
12
Languages Common plus any three languages
Challenge 1 (200 XP) Proficiency Bonus +2
Actions
Multiattack. The tower sage makes two Arcane Burst attacks and can use Starry Radiance if
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Quests from the Infinite Staircase
Perception 17
Languages Common plus the languages spoken by its creator
Challenge 5 (1,800 XP) Proficiency Bonus +3
Design Specialization. When the android is created, it gains one of six possible
designs suited for its role (choose or roll a d6): 1, aerialist; 2, diplomat; 3, diver; 4, duelist; 5, medic; 6, sentry. This design determines certain traits in this stat block.
Lightning Overload. When
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual
Death Slaad Slaad lords create death slaadi by infusing gray slaadi with a portion of their chaotic energy. When groups of slaadi act deliberately, death slaadi are often behind their designs. Death
), Cloudkill (level 6 version), Fly, Plane Shift, Tongues
Bonus Actions
Shape-Shift. The slaad shape-shifts into a Small or Medium Humanoid, or it returns to its true form. Other than its size, its game
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monsters of the Multiverse
around the throat with their strangling cords and then step away; other times they ferry their victims to isolated spots and then leave the hapless souls to the designs of whatever horrors lurk there
Common
Challenge 1 (200 XP) Proficiency Bonus +2
Actions
Garrote. Melee Weapon Attack: +5 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target of the meazel’s size or smaller. Hit: 6 (1d6 + 3) bludgeoning damage
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Infernal Machine Rebuild
blade always appears ruined and rusting, and causes its surroundings to appear reflected in the blade as if in a state of decay. You gain a +2 bonus to attack and damage rolls made with this magic
mood improves when the sword is actively engaged in acts of destruction, but worsens if the blade is left inactive too long. The weapon’s purpose is to ruin and unmake existing objects, so that its
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
tasked with carving abstract designs into the roof of this empty cave. To reach the ceiling, Obsidia rides on her brother’s broad shoulders. She is using a chisel to smooth out some of the rough spots
Speleosa, the invisible faerie dragon flies into the cavern, becomes visible momentarily as it casts the hallucinatory terrain spell, and turns invisible again as a bonus action. Characters who have
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
followers revere it as a god. Over time, Gargauth’s evil has warped the shield’s appearance, so that its celestial motif and designs have become twisted into a fiendish face that subtly moves in disturbing
ways.
Shield of the Hidden Lord
While holding this shield, you gain a +2 bonus to AC and resistance to fire damage. Sentience. The Shield of the Hidden Lord is sentient as long as it imprisons
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual
are typically constructed of steel, stone, and wood in the shape of watchful soldiers. More fanciful designs exist, reflecting the tastes of their creators. Given their resilience, it’s common for
. Trigger: An attack roll hits the wearer of the guardian’s amulet while the wearer is within 5 feet of the guardian. Response: The wearer gains a +5 bonus to AC, including against the triggering attack and possibly causing it to miss, until the start of the guardian’s next turn.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monstrous Compendium Volume Two
Ember Emperor Ariakas,
Glory to the Dragon Queen’s name! Our designs on Abanasinia unfold according to your plans. This is no thanks to the so-called “adviser” I’ve been saddled with, the dragon
Abyssal, Common, Draconic
Challenge 22 (41,000 XP) Proficiency Bonus +7
Calescent Aura. At the start of Ember’s turn, Ember can force any number of creatures of his choice within 10 feet of himself
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
victims to isolated spots and then leave the hapless souls to the designs of whatever horrors lurk there. Creatures that are drawn through the shadows by meazels are cursed by the meazels’ baleful magic
, Stealth +5
Senses darkvision 120 ft., passive Perception 13
Languages Common
Challenge 1 (200 XP)
Shadow Stealth. While in dim light or darkness, the meazel can take the Hide action as a bonus
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monsters of the Multiverse
language of its creator but can’t speak
Challenge 1 (200 XP) Proficiency Bonus +2
Earth Armor. The clockwork doesn’t provoke opportunity attacks when it burrows.
Magic Resistance. The clockwork
understands one language of its creator but can’t speak
Challenge 4 (1,100 XP) Proficiency Bonus +2
Magic Resistance. The clockwork has advantage on saving throws against spells and other magical
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
accompanying adventurers in the guise of an intelligent magic item and steering them to fulfill the dragon’s designs. A draconic shard is difficult to destroy. Destroying the shard’s spectral form or an object
, prone
Senses blindsight 60 ft., darkvision 120 ft., passive Perception 26
Languages Common, Draconic, telepathy 120 ft.
Challenge 17 (18,000 XP) Proficiency Bonus +6
Deflection. The shard’s
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
neutral alignment. Each child has a Strength score of 14 (+2). They speak Giant, though their vocabulary is limited. They wield wooden toys as clubs, gaining a +4 bonus to hit on their melee weapon
chessboard. The chess pieces are all human-sized and look like decorative suits of armor, their helms sporting designs that differentiate them; for example, the kings and queens wear crowns for helms
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Xanathar's Guide to Everything
also improves when you become an 18th-level fighter. Magic Arrow At 7th level, you gain the ability to infuse arrows with magic. Whenever you fire a nonmagical arrow from a shortbow or longbow, you
7th level, you learn how to direct an errant arrow toward a new target. When you make an attack roll with a magic arrow and miss, you can use a bonus action to reroll the attack roll against a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
is swept away. The flooding destroys crops and might trigger mudslides, depending on the terrain. Seeker Dart Weapon (dart), uncommon This small dart is decorated with designs like windy spirals that
. A suit of wingwear has 3 charges. While you wear the suit, you can use a bonus action and expend 1 charge to gain a flying speed of 30 feet until you land. At the end of each of your turns, your
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Xanathar's Guide to Everything
improves your ability to create fake historical documents or to tell if an old document is authentic. Investigation. When you examine objects, proficiency with a forgery kit is useful for determining how
an area overgrown with plants, your proficiency can help you pick out details and clues that others might miss. Medicine. Your mastery of herbalism improves your ability to treat illnesses and wounds
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
Perception 9
Languages understands Dwarvish but can’t speak
Challenge 1/2 (100 XP) Proficiency Bonus +2
Sure-Footed. The skeleton has advantage on Strength and Dexterity saving throws made
door. Pressing the carving of a gemstone on the wall causes the door to swing open. P17: Architect’s Tomb Architectural designs are carved into the walls of this room, showing the chambers and






