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Eberron: Rising from the Last War
To attune to this symbiont, you must hold it against the skin behind your ear for the entire attunement period, whereupon it burrows into your head and bonds to your skull. While the earworm is
): detect thoughts (2 charges) or dissonant whispers (1 charge). Each time you use the earworm to cast the detect thoughts spell, it sends the information gleaned to the nearest daelkyr, or
Monsters
Tales from the Yawning Portal
Barkskin. Sharwyn’s AC can’t be lower than 16.
Special Equipment. Sharwyn has a spellbook that contains the spells listed in her Spellcasting trait, plus detect magic and silent image
finds herself enslaved deep inside the Sunless Citadel, an unwitting supplicant of the Gulthias Tree. The corrupting influence has turned her skin thick and rough, as though she were affected by a barkskin spell, and has turned the normally good-aligned Sharwyn into an evil adversary.
Monsters
Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen
(spell save DC 12). Virruza can innately cast the following spells, requiring no material components:
At will: detect magic, detect thoughts, mage hand
2/day each: fear, invisibility (self only)
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. The fire ignites flammable objects that aren’t being worn or carried.Changed by days of strange experiments involving draconian blood and exposure to the Spawning Shard, Virruza now looks like a tumescent draconian with warty green skin and an overly large mouth.Acid, Cold, Fire, Lightning, Thunder
Monsters
Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
of the following spells, requiring no spell components and using Intelligence as the spellcasting ability (spell save DC 16):
At will: detect magic, detect thoughts, levitate
1/day each: dominate
focus their innate psionic power.
Mind Flayers
Mind flayers, also known as illithids, feast on the brains of Humanoids across the multiverse. They are distinguished by their purple-toned skin and octopus-like heads, from which extend writhing tentacles.
Monsters
Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
: detect evil and good
2/day each: cure wounds (as a 6th-level spell), lesser restoration
1/day each: commune (as an action), dispel evil and goodA pari is an angelic harbinger gifted with foresight
. A visit from a pari is often a prophetic warning or portent of an event yet to come. Pari have pastel blue skin, wear robes and armor, and have two sets of wings with vivid red feathers sprouting from their back.Fire, Radiant; Bludgeoning, Piercing, and Slashing from Nonmagical Attacks
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
components and using Charisma as the spellcasting ability (spell save DC 11):
At will: detect magic, mage armor (self only), mage hand, minor illusion, prestidigitation
1/day each: burning hands
, greedy creatures spawned by a renegade demigod, Raxivort. They have blue skin, orange eyes, and receding hairlines, mirroring their creator’s appearance. They stand about 3 feet tall.
Raxivort
Monsters
Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
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Spellcasting (Psionics). The mind flayer casts one of the following spells, requiring no spell components and using Intelligence as the spellcasting ability (spell save DC 17):
At will: detect magic, detect
illithids, feast on the brains of Humanoids across the multiverse. They are distinguished by their purple-toned skin and octopus-like heads, from which extend writhing tentacles.Psychic
Monsters
Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
for 24 hours.
Spellcasting. The fensir casts one of the following spells, using Intelligence as the spellcasting ability:
1/day each: create or destroy water, detect magic, pass without traceFensir
. They retain prominent noses and a hint of green in their skin but otherwise resemble relatively small frost or stone giants. They use armor and weapons similar to what other combatants on Ysgard use
Monsters
Vecna: Eve of Ruin
only.
Spellcasting. Windfall casts one of the following spells, requiring no material components and using Charisma as the spellcasting ability (spell save DC 23):
At will: Detect Magic, Light
, Windfall has been granted phenomenal power by her master. Her skin glitters with patches of multicolored scales, and in combat, her blade sings with all five of the chromatic dragons’ elements
Monsters
Tales from the Yawning Portal
by any magic that cures disease. After 1 minute, the diseased creature's skin becomes translucent and slimy, the creature can't regain hit points unless it is underwater, and the disease can be removed
","rollDamageType":"acid"} acid damage every 10 minutes unless moisture is applied to the skin before 10 minutes have passed.
Tail. Melee Weapon Attack: +7;{"diceNotation":"1d20+7","rollType":"to hit
Monsters
Eberron: Rising from the Last War
Innate Spellcasting. The hag's spellcasting ability is Charisma (spell save DC 15). She can innately cast the following spells, requiring no material components:
At will: detect magic, disguise self
to the amount of damage taken.Dusk hags resemble gnarled crones with shriveled orange skin, tangled gray hair, and eyes that burn like hot coals. They see visions of the future in their dreams, and
Monsters
The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
as the spellcasting ability (spell save DC 14):
At will: detect magic
2/day each: create food and water, polymorph, remove curse
1/day: plane shift (self only)Younger than Skabatha and older than
submerged. As the hours pass between each immersion, her movements become more ponderous and her skin audibly cracks as she moves.
Bavlorna lives like a hermit. She is frazzled, impatient, paranoid
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
alhoon casts one of the following spells, requiring no material components and using Intelligence as the spellcasting ability (spell save DC 16):
At will: dancing lights, detect magic, detect thoughts
difference is the lack of a mind flayer’s ever-present mucus coating. Without that protection, an alhoon’s skin becomes dry and cracked, and its eyes might appear shriveled and sunken. Both of
Monsters
Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse
save DC 20):
At will: detect thoughts, phantasmal force, suggestion
1/day each: cloudkill, plane shift (self only), scrying (as an action)
Summon Yugoloth (1/Day). The baernaloth has a 50 percent
Gray Wastes of Hades. Their gray, desiccated skin stretches over their bones, and their heads resemble horned equine skulls with ember-like eyes. Sages endlessly debate the nature of baernaloths, and
Monsters
Curse of Strahd
"} to hit with spell attacks). Baba Lysaga has the following wizard spells prepared:
Cantrips (at will): acid splash, fire bolt, light, mage hand, prestidigitation
1st level (4 slots): detect magic
Lysaga as rewards for her ceaseless devotion to Strahd. Her skin has the resilience of stone, she is resistant to harmful magic, and she is shielded against divination magic. Mother Night has also
Aboleth
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skin becomes translucent and slimy, the creature can’t regain hit points unless it is underwater, and the disease can be removed only by heal or another disease-curing spell of 6th level or higher
moisture is applied to the skin before 10 minutes have passed.
Tail. Melee Weapon Attack: +9;{"diceNotation":"1d20+9","rollType":"to hit","rollAction":"Tail"} to hit, reach 10 ft. one target. Hit: 15 (3d6
Wand of Wonder
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cast gust of wind.
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You cast detect thoughts on the target you chose. If you didn't target a creature, you instead take 1d6 psychic damage.
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You cast stinking cloud.
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success.
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The target's skin turns bright blue for 1d10 days. If you chose a point in space, the creature nearest to that point is affected.
98-00
If you targeted a creature, it must make a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
Earworm Wondrous item, uncommon (requires attunement) To attune to this symbiont, you must hold it against the skin behind your ear for the entire attunement period, whereupon it burrows into your
necessary number of charges (spell save DC 15): detect thoughts (2 charges) or dissonant whispers (1 charge). Each time you use the earworm to cast the detect thoughts spell, it sends the information
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
Mr. Dory One of the four councillors who rule the Styes, Mr. Dory hides his cursed nature in plain sight. His rare, liquid-sensitive “skin condition” is actually a form of the same aboleth affliction
components:
At will: detect magic, detect thoughts, invisibility (self only)
2/day each: fear, fireball, fly
1/day each: cloudkill, etherealness
Magic Resistance. Mr. Dory has advantage on saving
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal
. The corrupting influence has turned her skin thick and rough, as though she were affected by a barkskin spell, and has turned the normally good-aligned Sharwyn into an evil adversary. Sharwyn
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Special Equipment. Sharwyn has a spellbook that contains the spells listed in her Spellcasting trait, plus detect magic and silent image.
Spellcasting. Sharwyn is a 1st-level spellcaster. Her
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
plague to devour crops. A planetar’s celestial ears detect every falsehood, and its radiant eyes see through every deception. Planetars are muscular and hairless and have opalescent green skin and
material components:
At will: detect evil and good, invisibility (self only)
3/day each: blade barrier, dispel evil and good, flame strike, raise dead
1/day each: commune, control weather
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a reflection, and the feeling gnaws at the back of their minds forevermore.
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The skin, flesh, and hair sloughs off all living humanoid creatures within a 30-foot-radius in a horrific
display of gore, leaving behind only their skeletons and equipment. This doesn’t kill or otherwise harm the affected creatures or change their game statistics. Their flesh, skin, and hair
Equipment
reflection, and the feeling gnaws at the back of their minds forevermore.
45–46
The skin, flesh, and hair sloughs off all living humanoid creatures within a 30-foot-radius in a horrific
display of gore, leaving behind only their skeletons and equipment. This doesn’t kill or otherwise harm the affected creatures or change their game statistics. Their flesh, skin, and hair regrow
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual
humans with hair ranging from silver to blue and with skin in cloudlike shades from stark white to twilight hues. Curved canines grow in their upper jaws, extending past their lower lips. In battle, they
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Spellcasting. The giant casts one of the following spells, requiring no Material components and using Charisma as the spellcasting ability (spell save DC 15):
At Will: Detect Magic, Fog Cloud
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
within a field of oversized toadstools.
If the characters follow the music to its source, read: A slender elf with pale blue skin and black hair sits curled in the shadow of a gray, six-foot-tall
heart. When Octavian regains his true heart, the goat’s heart appears at his feet as a dead, desiccated lump of tissue. A detect magic spell reveals an aura of abjuration magic around the goat’s heart
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
. When circumstances require that it cast off its guise, a deva is a beautiful humanoid-like creature with silvery skin. Its hair and eyes gleam with an unearthly luster, and large feathery wings unfurl
spellcasting ability is Charisma (spell save DC 17). The deva can innately cast the following spells, requiring only verbal components:
At will: detect evil and good
1/day each: commune, raise
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
unoccupied space next to the identical gate located there. Treasure The dwarf that was once Falkir Gravelfist wears a steel helm shaped like the head of a boar. A detect magic spell reveals a faint aura of
swallowed a gemstone called the Eye of the Spider. If the characters pierce the skin clinging to his bones and root through his chest cavity, they find the stone in what was once his stomach. Returning
Equipment
within 30 feet of the triggering creature (but not the triggering creature) gain the benefit of Detect Thoughts spell for 1 minute.
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The triggering creature begins melting. Their skin
reflection, and the feeling gnaws at the back of their minds forevermore.
45–46
The skin, flesh, and hair sloughs off all living humanoid creatures within a 30-foot-radius in a horrific
Equipment
simply a reflection, and the feeling gnaws at the back of their minds forevermore.
45–46
The skin, flesh, and hair sloughs off all living humanoid creatures within a 30-foot-radius in a
horrific display of gore, leaving behind only their skeletons and equipment. This doesn’t kill or otherwise harm the affected creatures or change their game statistics. Their flesh, skin, and hair
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reflection, and the feeling gnaws at the back of their minds forevermore.
45–46
The skin, flesh, and hair sloughs off all living humanoid creatures within a 30-foot-radius in a horrific
display of gore, leaving behind only their skeletons and equipment. This doesn’t kill or otherwise harm the affected creatures or change their game statistics. Their flesh, skin, and hair regrow
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or simply a reflection, and the feeling gnaws at the back of their minds forevermore.
45–46
The skin, flesh, and hair sloughs off all living humanoid creatures within a 30-foot-radius in
a horrific display of gore, leaving behind only their skeletons and equipment. This doesn’t kill or otherwise harm the affected creatures or change their game statistics. Their flesh, skin, and
Magic Items
Infernal Machine Rebuild
any text.
You lose the ability to speak any language. This has no effect on casting spells with verbal components.
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You can cast the speak with plants spell three times.
Your skin turns
whenever you’re not looking—stealing things, mocking you behind your back, taunting opponents or friends, and so on.
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Your skin is covered by slime. You automatically succeed on
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
is an ebony-framed box fitted with panes of black glass. The box has a hinged lid and radiates an aura of transmutation magic under the scrutiny of a detect magic spell. When a Tiny beast small
removed skin of a doppelganger. Other items on the table include a jar of cockatrice tongues, a block of soft clay (the material component for the stone shape spell) wrapped in moist cloth, and a wooden
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
to alcoves in the north, west, and south walls. At the back of each alcove is a wooden statue with coins piled around its base.
Altar and Extradimensional Rift A detect magic spell reveals auras of
is a cloak of the bat. Piled around the base are 13,700 sp. South Statue. This wooden statue, 10 feet tall, depicts Umbraxakar in humanoid form, appearing as a muscular man with charcoal-colored skin
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
from discarded shields and breastplates held together by chains and decorated by the flayed skin of his fiercest foes. His face is like a grinning predator’s skull. When Yeenoghu hunted across the
spell attacks). He can innately cast the following spells, requiring no material components:
At will: detect magic
3/day each: dispel magic, fear, invisibility
1/day: teleport
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