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Heat Metal

Spells Player’s Handbook

Choose a manufactured metal object, such as a metal weapon or a suit of Heavy or Medium metal armor, that you can see within range. You cause the object to glow red-hot. Any creature in physical

. If a creature is holding or wearing the object and takes the damage from it, the creature must succeed on a Constitution saving throw or drop the object if it can. If it doesn’t drop the

Sword of Kas

Magic Items Dungeon Master’s Guide (2024)

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

Cleric

Classes Player’s Handbook

, Medicine, Persuasion, or Religion Weapon Proficiencies Simple weapons Armor Training Light and Medium armor and Shields Starting Equipment Choose A or B: (A) Chain Shirt, Shield

associate themselves with temples dedicated to the deity or other immortal force that unlocked their magic. Harnessing divine magic doesn’t rely on specific training, yet Clerics might learn

Sorcerer

Classes Player’s Handbook

: Arcana, Deception, Insight, Intimidation, Persuasion, or Religion Weapon Proficiencies Simple weapons Armor Training None Starting Equipment Choose A or B: (A) Spear, 2 Dagger;Daggers

talents of sorcery appear as a fluke. People who have this magical power soon discover that it doesn’t like to stay quiet. A Sorcerer’s magic wants to be wielded. Becoming a Sorcerer... As a

Demon Skin

Magic Items Descent into the Lost Caverns of Tsojcanth

. While wearing the armor, you have resistance to poison damage. The armor also doesn’t impose disadvantage on Dexterity (Stealth) checks.

This magic armor appears as a pot of bubbling black ichor. When you attune to it, the ichor adheres to and contours to your skin, and the pot disappears. The armor can be worn under normal clothes

Thri-kreen Gladiator

Monsters Spelljammer: Adventures in Space

eschew armor. Although thri-kreen don’t need to sleep, they do require periods of inactivity to revitalize themselves. The Thri-kreen language doesn’t employ words in the usual sense. To

demonstrate emotion and reaction, thri-kreen clack their mandibles and wave their antennae, indicating to other thri-kreen what they are thinking and feeling. Other creatures find this method of

Molten Bronze Skin

Magic Items Mythic Odysseys of Theros

This magical armor appears as a jug of molten bronze. When you attune to it, the bronze adheres and contours to your skin. The armor can be worn under normal clothes, but it doesn’t impede

bodily functions. Once you put it on, it can’t be removed unless you choose to do so. While wearing the armor, you have resistance to fire damage. The armor also doesn’t impose disadvantage on Dexterity (Stealth) checks.

Thri-kreen Hunter

Monsters Spelljammer: Adventures in Space

two pairs of arms. Because their bodies are encased in protective chitin, they tend to eschew armor. Although thri-kreen don’t need to sleep, they do require periods of inactivity to revitalize

themselves. The Thri-kreen language doesn’t employ words in the usual sense. To demonstrate emotion and reaction, thri-kreen clack their mandibles and wave their antennae, indicating to other

Thri-kreen Mystic

Monsters Spelljammer: Adventures in Space

features and two pairs of arms. Because their bodies are encased in protective chitin, they tend to eschew armor. Although thri-kreen don’t need to sleep, they do require periods of inactivity to

revitalize themselves. The Thri-kreen language doesn’t employ words in the usual sense. To demonstrate emotion and reaction, thri-kreen clack their mandibles and wave their antennae

Scorpion Armor

Magic Items Tomb of Annihilation

initiative as long as you aren’t incapacitated. The armor doesn’t impose disadvantage on your Dexterity (Stealth) checks. The armor doesn’t impose disadvantage on saving throws made

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

Swashbuckler

Classes Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide

You focus your training on the art of the blade, relying on speed, elegance, and charm in equal parts. While some warriors are brutes clad in heavy armor, your method of fighting looks almost like a

Armor of Safeguarding

Magic Items Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants

the Rune. As an action, you can invoke the armor’s rune to cast the beacon of hope spell with it; the spell has a duration of 1 minute and doesn’t require concentration. Once the rune has been invoked, it can’t be invoked again until the next dawn.

Set in the center of this armor’s chest is a citrine engraved with the shield rune. While wearing this armor, your hit point maximum increases by an amount equal to 10 + your level. Invoking

Powered Armor

Equipment

expended. You can use a bonus action to deactivate the armor early, but doing so doesn’t recover any expended charges. While the armor is active, you gain the following benefits: Augmented

This suit of technologically advanced plate armor includes an under-suit that can fully seal, a helmet with a full face mask and crystal lenses in the eyeholes, and a set of gauntlets. The armor is

Voidwalker Armor

Magic Items The Book of Many Things

This black studded leather armor bears a red sheen. While wearing this armor, you can use a bonus action to summon a projection of yourself in an unoccupied space within 30 feet of yourself. The

. The projection disappears at the end of your turn. Once you use this bonus action, it can’t be used again until the next dawn. Curse. This armor is cursed, and attuning to it extends the

Relentless Juggernaut

Monsters Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft

. 6 The killer appears to be an ordinary person who doesn’t realize it turns into a killer when enraged. Relentless Methods d8 Method 1 Artist. The killer turns its

takes radiant damage, this trait doesn’t function at the start of its next turn. The juggernaut dies only if it starts its turn with 0 hit points and doesn’t regenerate. Unusual Nature

White Maw

Monsters Tales from the Yawning Portal

"} bludgeoning damage plus 9 (2d8);{"diceNotation":"2d8","rollType":"damage","rollAction":"Pseudopod","rollDamageType":"acid"} acid damage. If the target is wearing nonmagical metal armor, its armor is partly

corroded and takes a permanent and cumulative −1 penalty to the AC it offers. The armor is destroyed if the penalty reduces its AC to 10.In their laboratories inside the Doomvault (Dead in Thay

Category 1 Krasis

Monsters Guildmasters’ Guide to Ravnica

method to create novel life forms. They coax new morphologies from existing creatures or combine traits from multiple organisms into one, producing the creatures known as krasis. Some krasis are unique

(1d12);{"diceNotation":"1d12","rollType":"damage","rollAction":"Acidic Skin","damageType":"acid"} acid damage (category 3). 2 Armored Hide. The krasis has better natural armor afforded by a shell or

Category 2 Krasis

Monsters Guildmasters’ Guide to Ravnica

"} slashing damage. In the deep sinkholes that serve as laboratories and guildhalls for the Simic Combine, biomancers employ a combination of magic and scientific method to create novel life

","rollType":"damage","rollAction":"Acidic Skin","damageType":"acid"} acid damage (category 3). 2 Armored Hide. The krasis has better natural armor afforded by a shell or thick scales, increasing

Category 3 Krasis

Monsters Guildmasters’ Guide to Ravnica

method to create novel life forms. They coax new morphologies from existing creatures or combine traits from multiple organisms into one, producing the creatures known as krasis. Some krasis are unique

(1d12);{"diceNotation":"1d12","rollType":"damage","rollAction":"Acidic Skin","damageType":"acid"} acid damage (category 3). 2 Armored Hide. The krasis has better natural armor afforded by a shell

Galvan Magen

Monsters Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden

throws against spells and other magical effects. Unusual Nature. The magen doesn’t require air, food, drink, or sleep.Multiattack. The magen makes two Shocking Touch attacks. Shocking Touch

armor made of metal). Hit: 7 (1d6 + 4);{"diceNotation":"1d6+4","rollType":"damage","rollAction":"Shocking Touch","rollDamageType":"lightning"} lightning damage. Static Discharge (Recharge 5–6

Harmonium Peacekeeper

Monsters Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse

Pack Tactics. The peacekeeper has advantage on an attack roll against a creature if at least one of the peacekeeper’s allies is within 5 feet of the creature and the ally doesn’t have the

+3", "rollType":"damage", "rollAction":"Electrified Mancatcher", "rollDamageType":"lightning"} lightning damage at the start of each of its turns.Peacekeepers wear distinctive red plate armor and wield

Othovir

Monsters Storm King's Thunder

"} fire damage), prestidigitation 1/day each: mage armor, thunderwave, witch boltParry. Othovir adds 2 to his AC against one melee attack that would hit him. To do so, Othovir must see the attacker and

be wielding a melee weapon. Roleplaying Information Othovir is a gifted harness-maker who doesn’t talk about his family or where he came from. He cares about his business, his clients, and his

Cadaver Collector

Monsters Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse

Magic Resistance. The collector has advantage on saving throws against spells and other magical effects. Unusual Nature. The collector doesn’t require air, food, drink, or sleep.Multiattack

great battle—either where one is in progress, where one is imminent, or where one once took place. They encase themselves in the armor and weapons of fallen warriors and impale the corpses of those

Flux Blastseeker

Monsters Guildmasters’ Guide to Ravnica

","rollAction":"Innate Spellcasting"} to hit with spell attacks). The blastseeker can innately cast the following spells, requiring no components other than its Izzet gear, which doesn’t function for

others: 3/day each: mage armor (self only), scorching ray 1/day each: banishment, cone of cold, dimension door, fireball, ice stormQuarterstaff. Melee Weapon Attack: +3;{"diceNotation":"1d20+3

Firenewt Warlock of Imix

Monsters Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse

Amphibious. The firenewt can breathe air and water. Devil’s Sight. Magical darkness doesn’t impede the firenewt’s darkvision. Imix’s Blessing. When the firenewt reduces an

): At will: guidance, light, mage armor, mage hand, prestidigitationFirenewts who serve Imix, Prince of Evil Fire, live in militaristic theocracies that revere elemental fire in its most destructive

Fensir Devourer

Monsters Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants

Death Curse. When the fensir starts its turn with 0 hit points and doesn’t regenerate, it releases a curse on those around it. Each creature within 30 feet of the fensir when it dies must

. Regeneration. The fensir regains 10 hit points at the start of its turn if it isn’t in sunlight. If the fensir takes acid or fire damage, this trait doesn’t function at the start of the fensir

Deathlock Mastermind

Monsters Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse

Devil’s Sight. Magical darkness doesn’t impede the deathlock’s darkvision. Turn Resistance. The deathlock has advantage on saving throws against any effect that turns Undead

. Unusual Nature. The deathlock doesn’t require air, food, drink, or sleep.Multiattack. The deathlock makes two Deathly Claw or Grave Bolt attacks. Deathly Claw. Melee Weapon Attack: +6

Fensir Skirmisher

Monsters Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants

Regeneration. The fensir regains 10 hit points at the start of its turn if it isn’t in sunlight. If the fensir takes acid or fire damage, this trait doesn’t function at the start of the

fensir’s next turn. The fensir dies only if it starts its turn with 0 hit points and doesn’t regenerate. Sunlight Hypersensitivity. When the fensir starts its turn in sunlight, it must

Pari

Monsters Journeys through the Radiant Citadel

Magic Resistance. The pari has advantage on saving throws against spells and other magical effects. Unusual Nature. The pari doesn’t require food, drink, or sleep.Multiattack. The

. 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

Summon Beast Legacy

Spells Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything

spell slot of 3rd level or higher, use the higher level wherever the spell’s level appears in the stat block. Bestial Spirit Small beast Armor Class 11 + the level of the spell (natural

armor) Hit Points 20 (Air only) or 30 (Land and Water only) + 5 for each spell level above 2nd Speed 30 ft.; climb 30 ft. (Land only); fly 60 ft. (Air only); swim 30 ft. (Water only) STR 18

Relentless Slasher

Monsters Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft

into a monster. 5 The killer used its body to contain an evil entity. 6 The killer appears to be an ordinary person who doesn’t realize it turns into a killer when enraged

. Relentless Methods d8 Method 1 Artist. The killer turns its victims into works of art, perhaps creating grisly tableaus or using their blood in the forging of new weapons. 2

Demos Magen

Monsters Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden

throws against spells and other magical effects. Unusual Nature. The magen doesn’t require air, food, drink, or sleep.Multiattack. The magen makes two melee attacks. Greatsword. Melee Weapon

. Hit: 6 (1d8 + 2);{"diceNotation":"1d8+2","rollType":"damage","rollAction":"Light Crossbow","rollDamageType":"piercing"} piercing damage.Demos magen wear armor, wield weapons, and typically serve as

Silverquill Professor of Shadow

Monsters Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos

Devil’s Sight. Magical darkness doesn’t impede the professor’s darkvision.Multiattack. The professor makes two Ink Lance attacks. The professor can replace one of the attacks with a

save DC 15): At will: dancing lights, friends 2/day each: bane, command, darkness, mage armor 1/day each: tonguesProfessors of shadow wield the linguistic magic of Silverquill College through slicing

Counterflux Blastseeker

Monsters Guildmasters’ Guide to Ravnica

). The blastseeker can innately cast the following spells, requiring no components other than its Izzet gear, which doesn’t function for others: 3/day each: enlarge/reduce, mage armor (self only

Summon Fiend Legacy

Spells Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything

higher level wherever the spell’s level appears in the stat block. Fiendish Spirit Large fiend Armor Class 12 + the level of the spell (natural armor) Hit Points 50 (Demon only) or 40 (Devil

one. Devil’s Sight (Devil Only). Magical darkness doesn’t impede the fiend’s darkvision. Magic Resistance. The fiend has advantage on saving throws against spells and other magical

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