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Dungeon Master’s Guide
to this effect if it has Immunity to Slashing damage, if it doesn’t have or need a head, or if the DM decides that the creature is too big for its head to be cut off with this weapon. Such a
creature instead takes an extra 30 Slashing damage from the hit. If the creature has Legendary Resistance, it can expend one daily use of that trait to avoid losing its head, taking the extra damage instead.
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Player’s Handbook
.
Instead of targeting a creature, you can target a location you have seen. When you do so, the sensor appears at that location and doesn’t move.
target and the sort of physical connection you have to it. The target doesn’t know what it is making the save against, only that it feels uneasy.
Your Knowledge of the Target Is...
Save
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Player’s Handbook
Fiend, the target doesn’t return if the spell lasts for 1 minute. The target is instead transported to a random location on a plane (DM’s choice) associated with its creature type.
Using a Higher-Level Spell Slot. You can target one additional creature for each spell slot level above 4.
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Player’s Handbook
one word, such as “yes,” “no,” “maybe,” “never,” “irrelevant,” or “unclear” (if the entity doesn’t know the answer to the
question). If a one-word answer would be misleading, the DM might instead offer a short phrase as an answer.
On a failed save, you take 6d6 Psychic damage and have the Incapacitated condition until you finish a Long Rest. A Greater Restoration spell cast on you ends this effect.
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Player’s Handbook
sapphire. The object instantly appears in your hand regardless of physical or planar distances, and the spell ends.
If another creature is holding or carrying the object, crushing the sapphire doesn
’t transport it, but instead you learn who that creature is and where that creature is currently located.
Monsters
Monster Manual
Flyby. The cockatrice doesn’t provoke an Opportunity Attack when it flies out of an enemy’s reach.Multiattack. The cockatrice makes one Petrifying Bite attack and two Talons attacks
condition instead of the Restrained condition.
Talons. Melee Attack Roll: +7;{"diceNotation":"1d20+7", "rollType":"to hit", "rollAction":"talons"}, reach 5 ft. Hit: 18 (4d6 + 4);{"diceNotation":"4d6+4
Monsters
Monster Manual
every 24 hours and doesn’t return to normal after finishing a Long Rest. If the curse reduces the target’s Hit Point maximum to 0, the curse ends, and instead of dying, the target
Spells
Player’s Handbook
Contingency, expending spell slots for both, but the contingent spell doesn’t come into effect. Instead, it takes effect when a certain trigger occurs. You describe that trigger when you cast the
Monsters
Monster Manual
Pack Tactics. The werewolf has Advantage on an attack roll against a creature if at least one of the werewolf’s allies is within 5 feet of the creature and the ally doesn’t have the
, it instead becomes a Werewolf under the DM’s control and has 10 Hit Points. Success: The target is immune to this werewolf’s curse for 24 hours.
Scratch. Melee Attack Roll: +5
Monsters
Monster Manual
Hells.
Fear Aura. The pit fiend emanates an aura in a 20-foot Emanation while it doesn’t have the Incapacitated condition. Wisdom Saving Throw: DC 21, any enemy that starts its turn in the
pit fiend fails a saving throw, it can choose to succeed instead.
Magic Resistance. The pit fiend has Advantage on saving throws against spells and other magical effects.Multiattack. The pit fiend
Magic Items
Dungeon Master’s Guide
blood. If the sword doesn’t taste blood on its blade within 1 minute of being drawn from its scabbard, its wielder makes a DC 15 Charisma saving throw. On a successful save, the wielder takes
Initiative rolls.
Blade of Defense. When you take an action to attack with the sword, you can transfer some or all of its attack bonus to your Armor Class instead. The adjusted bonuses remain in
Spells
Player’s Handbook
using magic, or a place you know through someone else’s description, perhaps from a map.
“False destination” is a place that doesn’t exist. Perhaps you tried to scry an enemy
’s sanctum but instead viewed an illusion, or you are attempting to teleport to a location that no longer exists.
Mishap. The spell’s unpredictable magic results in a difficult journey
Monsters
Monster Manual
Legendary Resistance (3/Day, or 4/Day in Lair). If the vampire fails a saving throw, it can choose to succeed instead.
Misty Escape. If the vampire drops to 0 Hit Points outside its resting place
of the vampire’s Bite, the damage of which doesn’t end the spell. When the spell ends, the target is unaware it was Charmed by the vampire.
Shape-Shift. If the vampire isn’t in
Monsters
Monster Manual
that spell again.
Legendary Resistance (4/Day, or 5/Day in Lair). If the hag fails a saving throw, it can choose to succeed instead.
Magic Resistance. The hag has Advantage on saving throws against
, it also casts Confusion centered on itself. The spell uses the creature’s spellcasting ability and doesn’t require Concentration.
If the arch-hag is destroyed or moves its lair elsewhere
Monsters
Monster Manual
Earth Glide. The cataclysm can burrow through nonmagical, unworked earth and stone. While doing so, the cataclysm doesn’t disturb the material it moves through.
Legendary Resistance (4/Day
). If the cataclysm fails a saving throw, it can choose to succeed instead.
Siege Monster. The cataclysm deals double damage to objects and structures.Multiattack. The cataclysm makes two Elemental Burst
Magic Items
Dungeon Master’s Guide
Disadvantage on D20 Tests for the next 72 hours. Draw another card; this draw doesn’t count as one of your declared draws.
Gem. Twenty-five pieces of jewelry worth 2,000 GP each or fifty gems worth
Temporary Hit Points daily at dawn until you die.
Talons. Every magic item you wear or carry disintegrates. Artifacts in your possession vanish instead.
Throne. You gain proficiency and Expertise in
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
this manner.
Legendary Resistance (3/Day). If the elder brain fails a saving throw, it can choose to succeed instead.
Magic Resistance. The elder brain has advantage on saving throws against spells
Creature Sense. The elder brain is aware of the presence of creatures within 5 miles of it that have an Intelligence score of 4 or higher. It knows the distance and direction to each creature, as
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
the colony.
This process doesn’t work on the brain of an ulitharid that dies a natural death, as such brains are too decrepit to be used. Instead, each ulitharid carries a psionically enhanced
in this manner.
Magic Resistance. The ulitharid has advantage on saving throws against spells and other magical effects.
Psionic Hub. If an elder brain establishes a psychic link with the ulitharid
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Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
is protected by a mind blank spell.
Magic Resistance. The brain has advantage on saving throws against spells and other magical effects.
Unusual Nature. The brain doesn’t require air, food
Detect Sentience. The brain can sense the presence and location of any creature within 300 feet of it that has an Intelligence of 3 or higher, regardless of interposing barriers, unless the creature
Monsters
Spelljammer: Adventures in Space
Brain Dump. Whenever the neh-thalggu consumes a brain, it gains the magical ability to speak and understand languages known by the brain’s previous owner.
Unusual Nature. The neh-thalggu doesn
damage.
Extract Brain. Melee Weapon Attack: +4;{"diceNotation":"1d20+4","rollType":"to hit","rollAction":"Extract Brain"} to hit, reach 5 ft., one incapacitated Humanoid. Hit: 35 (10d6
Monsters
Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
Legendary Resistance (3/Day). If the cluster fails a saving throw, it can choose to succeed instead.
Magic Resistance. The cluster has advantage on saving throws against spells and other magical
hit by an attack, the cluster moves up to its speed toward the attacker. This movement doesn’t provoke opportunity attack;opportunity attacks. If the cluster ends this movement within 5 feet of
Monsters
Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
Legendary Resistance (2/Day). When Ruxithid fails a saving throw, he can choose to succeed instead.
Mental Fortitude. Ruxithid has advantage on saving throws against the charmed and frightened
mind flayers, who he believes are gods.PsychicBrain Tendrils (Recharge 5–6);{"diceNotation":"1d6", "rollType":"recharge", "rollAction":"Brain Tendrils"}. Ruxithid unleashes a flurry of crystalline
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Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
Awareness. The mind flayer has advantage on initiative rolls and can’t be surprise;surprised as long as it doesn’t have the incapacitated condition.
Magic Resistance. The mind flayer has
grappled condition (escape DC 16) and must succeed on a DC 16 Intelligence saving throw or have the stunned condition until the grapple ends.
Extract Brain. Melee Weapon Attack: +8;{"diceNotation":"1d20+8
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Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
Legendary Resistance (4/Day). If the dragon fails a saving throw, it can choose to succeed instead.
Siege Monster. The dragon deals double damage to objects and structures.
Unusual Nature. The
dragon doesn’t require air or sleep.Multiattack. The dragon makes one Bite attack, two Claw attacks, and one Tentacle attack.
Bite. Melee Weapon Attack: +15;{"diceNotation":"1d20+15","rollType":"to
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Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
starless depths and been subsequently rewarded with extraordinary powers.
Instead of heeding an elder brain, a mind flayer clairvoyant listens to the whispers and whims of the voices of the Far Realm. In
Legendary Resistance (3/Day). If the mind flayer fails a saving throw, it can choose to succeed instead.
Magic Resistance. The mind flayer has advantage on saving throws against spells and other
Monsters
Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
disadvantage on attack rolls, as well as on Wisdom (Perception) checks that rely on sight.
Unusual Nature. The mind flayer doesn’t require air, food, or sleep.Multiattack. The mind flayer makes
psychic damage dies.When the mind flayers of Bluetspur (see chapter 3) could find no cure for their overlord’s affliction, their degenerating elder brain turned to radical methods to stave off
Monsters
Eberron: Rising from the Last War
instead.
Magic Resistance. Dyrrn has advantage on saving throws against spells and other magical effects.
Regeneration. Dyrrn regains 20 hit points at the start of its turn. If Dyrrn takes radiant
damage, this trait doesn’t function at the start of its next turn. Dyrrn dies only if it starts its turn with 0 hit points and doesn’t regenerate.
Teleport. As a bonus action, Dyrrn can
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Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
":"Incorporeal Movement", "rollDamageType":"force"} force damage if it ends its turn inside an object.
Legendary Resistance (5/Day). If the refraction fails a saving throw, it can choose to succeed instead
-Brain. When Ilsensine left the Far Realm to establish a divine domain elsewhere, pieces of the God-Brain sloughed away and awoke to sentience. This is Ilvaash, the Dissonant Psyche.
The refraction of
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Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
, or radiant damage, this trait doesn’t function at the start of the spawn’s next turn. The spawn is destroyed only if it starts its turn with 0 hit points and doesn’t regenerate
worms jump onto nearby Humanoids and burrow into their flesh. A worm that penetrates a Humanoid body makes its way to the creature’s brain. Once inside the brain, the worm kills its host and
Monsters
Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
Far Realm, the eggs within an encephalon cluster no longer hatch into illithid tadpoles. Instead, when one of an encephalon cluster’s eggs reaches maturity, it is ejected from the mass as an
chance to mutate into what is known as an encephalon cluster—a ravenous, slimy, psionic, brain-shaped mass that spawns horrors called encephalon gemmules.PsychicLeech. The gemmule targets one
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Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
like those of other liches.
Unlike a true lich;lich's phylactery, the periapt of mind trapping doesn’t restore the alhoons to undeath if they are destroyed. Instead, a destroyed alhoon’s
pursue arcane magic are exiled as deviants, and for them no everlasting communion with an elder brain is possible. The road to lichdom offers an alternative way to escape the permanency of death, but
Magic Items
Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
This magic weapon is a triple-barreled bronze musket. You gain a +1 bonus to attack and damage rolls made with it. It requires no ammunition, its damage is radiant instead of piercing, and it doesn
Monsters
Monstrous Compendium Vol. 1: Spelljammer Creatures
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Legendary Resistance (3/Day). If the spider fails a saving throw, it can choose to succeed instead.
Unusual Nature. The spider doesn’t require air.Multiattack. The spider makes two Web Strand attacks
living brain functions like a spelljamming helm, allowing the spider to travel through Wildspace without a ship. It often haunts asteroid belts, lurking among normal asteroids until a spelljamming ship
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The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
effect if it is immune to slashing damage, it doesn’t have or need a head, it has legendary actions, or the DM decides that the creature is too big for its head to be cut off with this weapon. Such
a creature instead takes an extra 6d8 slashing damage from the hit.
While attuned to Snicker-Snack, you have proficiency with greatswords, and you can use your Charisma modifier instead of your
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Out of the Abyss
an action if you know the spell or if the spell is on your class’s spell list. Doing so doesn’t require any components and doesn’t require attunement. The spell then disappears from
is stored in the gem instead of having any effect. Casting the spell must require either 1 action or 1 minute or longer, and the spell’s level must be no higher than the gem’s maximum. If