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Spells
Player’s Handbook
Your body falls into a catatonic state as your soul leaves it and enters the container you used for the spell’s Material component. While your soul inhabits the container, you are aware of your
returning to your living body (and ending the spell) or attempting to possess a Humanoid’s body.
You can attempt to possess any Humanoid within 100 feet of you that you can see (creatures warded
Monsters
Curse of Strahd
Regeneration. Sir Godfrey Gwilym regains 10 hit points at the start of its turn. If he takes fire or radiant damage, this trait doesn’t function at the start of his next turn. His body is
destroyed only if it starts its turn with 0 hit points and doesn’t regenerate.
Rejuvenation. When Sir Godfrey Gwilym is destroyed, his soul lingers. After 24 hours, His soul inhabits and animates
Monsters
Curse of Strahd
destroyed only if he starts his turn with 0 hit points and doesn't regenerate.
Rejuvenation. When Vladimir body is destroyed, its soul lingers. After 24 hours, the soul inhabits and animates another corpse
Regeneration. Vladimir regains 10 hit points at the start of its turn. If Vladimir takes fire or radiant damage, this trait doesn't function at the start of Vladimir next turn. Vladimir body is
Magic Jar
Legacy
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Spells
Basic Rules (2014)
Your body falls into a catatonic state as your soul leaves it and enters the container you used for the spell's material component. While your soul inhabits the container, you are aware of your
living body (and ending the spell) or attempting to possess a humanoid's body.
You can attempt to possess any humanoid within 100 feet of you that you can see (creatures warded by a protection from evil
Revenant
Legacy
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Monsters
Monster Manual (2014)
turn. The revenant’s body is destroyed only if it starts its turn with 0 hit points and doesn’t regenerate.
Rejuvenation. When the revenant’s body is destroyed, its soul lingers
. After 24 hours, the soul inhabits and animates another humanoid corpse on the same plane of existence and regains all its hit points. While the soul is bodiless, a wish spell can be used to force the soul
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
a failed save — or if the creature chooses to forgo the save — the god’s spirit inhabits the creature’s body. The trickster gods can tell whether or not a creature is humanoid, and they have no
interest in possessing other types of creatures. While inhabiting a host body, a trickster god acts like an overbearing passenger. The host creature remains in control of its actions but inherits a flaw
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
Your body falls into a catatonic state as your soul leaves it and enters the container you used for the spell’s material component. While your soul inhabits the container, you are aware of your
living body (and ending the spell) or attempting to possess a humanoids body. You can attempt to possess any humanoid within 100 feet of you that you can see (creatures warded by a protection from evil and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules
Magic Jar Level 6 Necromancy (Wizard) Casting Time: 1 minute
Range: Self
Components: V, S, M (a gem, crystal, or reliquary worth 500+ GP)
Duration: Until dispelled
Your body falls into a
catatonic state as your soul leaves it and enters the container you used for the spell’s Material component. While your soul inhabits the container, you are aware of your surroundings as if you were in
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)
Your body falls into a catatonic state as your soul leaves it and enters the container you used for the spell’s material component. While your soul inhabits the container, you are aware of your
living body (and ending the spell) or attempting to possess a humanoids body. You can attempt to possess any humanoid within 100 feet of you that you can see (creatures warded by a protection from evil and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player’s Handbook
Magic Jar Level 6 Necromancy (Wizard) Casting Time: 1 minute
Range: Self
Components: V, S, M (a gem, crystal, or reliquary worth 500+ GP)
Duration: Until dispelled
Your body falls into a
catatonic state as your soul leaves it and enters the container you used for the spell’s Material component. While your soul inhabits the container, you are aware of your surroundings as if you were in
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
consequential, and not just a waste of time. One of four basic approaches can help you do that: A real monster inhabits a character’s dreams and poses a real threat to that character’s mind or body. The
from the rest and takes 3d6 psychic damage. If you want to establish more severe consequences, you can. A dreamer killed by a quori could be trapped in Dal Quor while the quori possesses their body, forcing their allies to try to rescue them from their nightmares.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
Wisdom (Perception) check, a character discerns that the entire floor of the corridor is a single pressure plate. The adamantine propeller has AC 20, 30 hit points, and immunity to all damage except force
creature that isn’t incapacitated can jam the mechanism with its body. When the propeller begins to turn, the creature must make a DC 20 Strength (Athletics) check. If the check succeeds, the propeller is
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
revenant’s body is destroyed, its soul lingers. After 24 hours, the soul inhabits and animates another humanoid corpse on the same plane of existence and regains all its hit points. While the soul is bodiless
its mortal body and superficially resembles a zombie. However, instead of lifeless eyes, a revenant’s eyes burn with resolve and flare in the presence of its adversary. If the revenant’s original body
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
Symbiotic Being A second being resides within your body along with you. It manifests physically somewhere on you and relies on you for its survival. At the same time, it offers you knowledge and
, it might strive to interfere with you. There is no way to be rid of the symbiote while you have this Dark Gift. Even if you go to drastic lengths, such as severing the part of your body where the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tyranny of Dragons
poison and the characters inside. He uses Earth Glide to sink into the boulder. With his body safe beneath the ground, his soul jumps into the tea kettle, and he monitors the characters’ escape
dangerous than steam. Plugging the kettle’s spout or extinguishing the fire reduces the saving throw DC to 8. Damaging the tea kettle forces the dao to return to the pagoda. When the dao’s soul inhabits the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Rise of Tiamat
), trapping the poison and the characters inside. He uses Earth Glide to sink into the boulder. With his body safe beneath the ground, his soul jumps into the tea kettle, and he monitors the characters
steam. Plugging the kettle’s spout or extinguishing the fire reduces the saving throw DC to 8. Damaging the tea kettle forces the dao to return to the pagoda. When the dao’s soul inhabits the kettle
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
. Dory, whose presence at the asylum struck the physician as both unsettling and odd. Jarme’s body was cremated and the ashes were dumped into the receding tide, so nothing remains to be questioned with
discerns a specific element hidden within the chaotic sketches. A character who has proficiency in Nature can add twice their proficiency bonus to the check. The specific elements include the following
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
atop it. Paintings on the chariot’s body show a tall bird with a long, sharp beak. On the south wall, a bronze shield bears the embossed image of a Chultan warrior carrying a spear, below an inscription
echoes through your mind: “You will do as I command!”
If the spirit successfully inhabits the character, give the player Papazotl’s card (see appendix F). If the attempt fails, the spirit returns to the amulet and waits for another character to touch it.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
Nine Trickster Gods"). When Shagambi’s spirit manifests, read: Six shadowy serpents slither out of the mandolin and coil around your body. You hear a purring voice in your mind say, “I am not your
enemy.”
If the spirit successfully inhabits the character, give the player Shagambi’s card (see appendix F). If the attempt fails, the spirit returns to the mandolin and waits for another character to touch it.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
Arveiaturace Arrives Arveiaturace, an ancient white dragon whose vision is hampered by cataracts, carries the body of her former master, the wizard Meltharond, in a saddle on her back (see
characters’ lives if they lend a helping hand. Someone who makes a successful Wisdom (Insight) check contested by the dragon’s Charisma (Deception) check discerns that she has no intention of keeping
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
pseudopods. A female voice echoes through the chamber: “I can help you. At least, I think that’s what I’m supposed to do.”
If the spirit successfully inhabits the character, give the player Unkh’s card
sarcophagus receives a supernatural gift from Acererak that varies based on the key’s color. The character becomes aware of the gift when Acererak’s arcane sigil appears somewhere on his or her body. The
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
order, and his body lies atop a floor tile bearing the “foot” hieroglyph. A search of the body yields some valuables (see “Treasure” below). Four torches light the room. As long as they remain in
in! We must stop Acererak!”
If the spirit successfully inhabits the character, give the player I’jin’s card (see appendix F). If the attempt fails, the spirit returns to the horn and waits for
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
down to a depth of 1,500 feet. Ogrorlo went here to be alone when it was tired of being worshiped. A chuul, an ancient guardian and servant of Ogrorlo, still inhabits the bottom of the gorge. It
Talnad’s Charisma (Deception) check discerns that she isn’t telling the whole truth. If the characters follow the merfolk into the gorge, Talnad and Valas lead the group to Allero and then attack. If the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything
existence defies mortal understanding; the being simply is. It could be a primordial force of nature awakened to self-awareness that now inhabits the landscape or an alien intellect that whispers through
ordinary person. You patron might posses the body of a stranger or a party member to converse with you. Ancient Being Operatives Consider the overarching goals of your group’s ancient being patron
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
corpse and succeeds on a DC 15 Wisdom (Perception) check notices tremors coursing through the body that warn of its imminent rise. Even before it animates, the corpse registers as undead to spells and
success, the character discerns that the runes are connected to a ritual that could open a rift to the Far Realm. The dead humanoids were likely victims sacrificed to power the ritual. Something went
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Quests from the Infinite Staircase
scintillating fish with gemlike scales inhabits this streamlet and its pool. The fish use the swarm of quippers stat block but shed dim light in a 10-foot radius. The fish are indifferent toward the
verge.
A ten-foot-wide bridge extends over the lake to an islet enclosure covered with lush foliage. Battered robots litter the edge of the lake near the structure.
This body of water was formerly
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a5
warding glyphs that discharge lightning. If the check fails, the character discerns the false runes but doesn’t notice the glyphs. The trap activates 3 rounds after a creature enters the room. (Tarul
15 Intelligence (Arcana) check discerns the connection. If a character who can cast spells then succeeds on three consecutive DC 15 Intelligence (Arcana) checks while continually touching the wall, the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Descent into the Lost Caverns of Tsojcanth
on a DC 18 Intelligence (Investigation) check or who makes physical contact with one of them discerns their false nature. Crushing Ceiling Trap. A 20-foot-wide section of the ceiling over the skeleton
overtaking the cave. The cloaked figure is the corpse of an elf adventurer who died here, trapped by the green slime. His body has been partially calcified by the mineral-rich water dripping from the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Quests from the Infinite Staircase
designed to lure greedy intruders to their doom. A character who inspects the sacks and succeeds on a DC 18 Intelligence (Investigation) check or who makes physical contact with one of them discerns their
. His body has been partially calcified by the mineral-rich water dripping from the ceiling. Green Slime. Six patches of green slime (see the Dungeon Master’s Guide) cling to the ceiling near the fallen
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Eve of Ruin
with a passive Wisdom (Perception) score of 17 or higher discerns the spirit lights whispering and overhears one of the following remarks: Dawn Carlos +3 Wand of the War Mage “The next challenge is
, with six arms and a gleaming curved sword in each hand; from the waist down, the statue’s body is serpentine. Two statues depicting large cobras with jade scales sit in alcoves to the east.
If one or
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a5
) check discerns how these shrines and the black gates in this sector work together to shield the Phylactery Vault. The character understands that if the black gates in the Temples of Extraction can be
her as well as one piece of lore. If Eira drops to 0 hit points, she disintegrates, her body turning to ash. 107. Temple of Winter A blast of freezing air comes through the open doors to this chamber
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Quests from the Infinite Staircase
. Spiritual Inhabitation. A character who touches the robe must make a DC 16 Charisma saving throw. On a failed save, Demetrius’s spirit inhabits the character’s body, and the robe stops glowing. On a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
remembers that concealing the door required great skill. He describes where the room is and how to access it. Healing Elmo. Elmo’s body and spirit have suffered terribly. Spells, potions, and medicine ease
14 Wisdom (Medicine) check discerns that the remains are those of a female human and a male half-elf. 17. Large Storeroom This room contains neat piles of hammers, chisels, mining picks, sledgehammers
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragon Delves
any of the prince’s treasure must succeed on a DC 15 Wisdom saving throw or be altered into a candy creature (see “Candy Creatures”). In this form, the character has a translucent gummy body. Fake
crystals, and deceptively crafted cakes with painted fondant. A character who takes the Study action to examine the treasure discerns it is fake. Gummy Pillow. Inside the sarcophagus is a life-size
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
with an intricate puzzle lock, requiring the body and lid of the jar to be moved at the exact right place and angle to open. A character can open the lock by succeeding on a DC 15 Intelligence
mutate accidentally swallowed while feasting on the corpse of a goblin. The magic item can be easily retrieved from the otyugh mutate’s body once it has been slain. Z17: Shrine to Ilsensine This






