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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
you to seek out these creatures and slay them.
Snicker-Snack has a fickle personality. It ends its attunement to you if you miss on attack rolls with the weapon three times in a row. Each time you
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
, charmed, deafened, frightened, stunned, or knocked unconscious.
Regeneration. The giant regains 10 hit points at the start of its turn. If the giant takes acid or fire damage, this trait doesn’t
function at the start of its next turn. The giant dies only if it starts its turn with 0 hit points and doesn’t regenerate.Multiattack. The giant makes two Greataxe or Rock attacks.
Greataxe. Melee
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Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
damage.
Sudden Rush. Until the end of the turn, the gnoll’s speed increases by 60 feet and it doesn’t provoke opportunity attack;opportunity attacks.These gnolls eschew the use of ranged
hyenas transformed by magic. Many of them were then corrupted by the demon lord Yeenoghu. Whether in service to Yeenoghu or dedicated to the survival of their kin, gnoll war bands seek to soften up
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Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
until the end of its next turn.
Unusual Nature. The oblex doesn’t require sleep.Pseudopod. Melee Weapon Attack: +5;{"diceNotation":"1d20+5","rollType":"to hit","rollAction":"Pseudopod"} to hit
personality it has absorbed or else become uncontrolled and erratic. This act spawns a new oblex.
Newly formed oblexes lack the capabilities of their older kin. They seek only to feed on memories and
Monsters
Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
where it died 1d12 months later, unless the ground where it took root is sown with salt or soaked with poison.
Unusual Nature. The plant doesn’t require sleep.Multiattack. The plant makes three
Constitution saving throw or be stunned by the plant’s sapping enzymes until it is removed from the pod or the plant dies. The enveloped target doesn’t require air and gains 1 level of
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Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
.
Legendary Resistance (3/Day). If the archaic fails a saving throw, it can choose to succeed instead.
Unusual Nature. The archaic doesn’t require air, food, drink, or sleep.Multiattack. The
to warp the fabric of the world around them. Sages who seek out archaics for their knowledge receive confusing and often contradictory answers to questions. If a supplicant successfully unwinds the
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Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
viciously barbed heads. Even when a hunter doesn’t kill their target with their first shot, the arrow strike brings so much pain that the victim is hobbled in its attempt to run away.
Gnolls
bands seek to soften up foes with surprise attacks and to leave no survivors alive.Rampage. After the gnoll reduces a creature to 0 hit points with a melee attack on its turn, the gnoll moves up to half its speed and makes a Bite attack.
Monsters
The Book of Many Things
doesn’t function if Asteria has the incapacitated condition.
Legendary Resistance (3/Day). If Asteria fails a saving throw, she can choose to succeed instead.
Special Equipment. Asteria wears
moves up to her speed. This movement doesn’t provoke opportunity attack;opportunity attacks.
Cast a Spell (Costs 2 Actions). Asteria uses Spellcasting.Though she now travels alone, Asteria
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The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
on a DC 18 Intelligence (Investigation) check to discern that Squirt is animate.
Unusual Nature. Squirt doesn’t require air, food, drink, or sleep.Slam. Melee Weapon Attack: +4;{"diceNotation
elf used her magic to animate the oilcan in jest. Having come alive at a party, Squirt was imbued with the urge to seek out fun wherever it can be found.
Alignment. Chaotic neutral.
Personality
Vampiric Mist
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Tales from the Yawning Portal
the vampire’s hunger for blood. It exists only to seek out creatures and drain the life from them, and its insubstantial nature enables it to pursue prey through the tiniest of openings.
When
), several clouds of vampiric mist appear and attempt to engulf any who don’t escape the place quickly.
Undead Nature. A vampiric mist doesn’t require air or sleep.PoisonAcid, Cold, Lightning, Necrotic, Thunder; Bludgeoning, Piercing, and Slashing from Nonmagical Attacks
Monsters
Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
doesn’t require sleep.Multiattack. The boneless makes two Slam attacks. If both attacks hit a Large or smaller creature, the creature is grappled (escape DC 13), and the boneless can use
vengeance or at the whims of sinister masters. Slipping through cracks and under doors, these stealthy undead seek to adorn living frames once more, wrapping themselves around their victims and wringing
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Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
Devil’s Sight. Magical darkness doesn’t impede the yuan-ti’s darkvision.
Magic Resistance. The yuan-ti has advantage on saving throws against spells and other magical
, mage hand, message
3/day: suggestion
2/day each: hold person, invisibilityWith snakes for arms, pit masters are yuan-ti malison priests who have made a pact with the god Merrshaulk and seek to rouse
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Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
. Spawned from deep rancor, the firegaunt seeks out living creatures to destroy. Like a specter, it doesn’t seek redemption; it just hopes to cause as much destruction as possible before attaining
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Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
creature must succeed on a DC 15 Wisdom (Perception) check to discern that the carrionette is animate.
Unusual Nature. The carrionette doesn’t require air, food, drink, or sleep.Silver Needle. Melee
otherwise uses the controlled body’s statistics, but doesn’t gain access to the target’s knowledge, class features, or proficiencies.
If the carrionette’s body is destroyed, both the
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Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
Regeneration. The nosferatu regains 10 hit points at the start of each of its turns if it has at least 1 hit point and isn’t in sunlight. If the nosferatu takes radiant damage, this trait doesn
. The nosferatu doesn’t require air.Multiattack. The nosferatu makes two Claw attacks followed by one Bite attack. If both Claw attacks hit the same creature, the Bite attack is made with
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Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
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
. The juggernaut doesn’t require air, food, drink, or sleep.Multiattack. The juggernaut makes two attacks. It can replace one attack with Deadly Shaping if it is ready.
Executioner’s Pick
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Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
; attentiveness to unusual events makes them particularly useful to their sapphire dragon cousins, who hunt down Aberrations and seek evidence of Far Realm incursions into the Material Plane. These gem
from legend.
6
I studiously mimic the mannerisms of my guests.
7
I prefer to get others talking, then fade into the background. Sometimes literally.
8
I seek out audiences and like to
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Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
ability check.
Unusual Nature. The necrichor doesn’t require air, food, drink, or sleep.Multiattack. The necrichor makes two attacks.
Pseudopod. Melee Weapon Attack: +5;{"diceNotation":"1d20+5
involves regaining a body. To do this, they seek servants to exact their will, coercing even the most stubborn potential minions by turning their own blood against them.
Necrichors prove exceptionally
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Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
ceilings, without making an ability check.
Unusual Nature. The alkilith doesn’t require air, food, drink, or sleep.Multiattack. The alkilith makes three Tentacle attacks.
Tentacle. Melee Weapon
self-aware and seek to find their way onto the Material Plane. Since most cultists consider them too risky to summon—they can, after all, create portals to the Abyss—alkiliths must find
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Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
energy and doesn’t disperse into the elements. Rather, it absorbs the elemental energy around it, and its lower body becomes a storm cloud. The resulting tempest spirit is similar in appearance
to a djinni and is sometimes mistaken for one by adventurers.
Some tempest spirits cannot accept their new form and seek to undo the transformation in solitude. Others are overcome with rage and hew a
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Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
Headless Summoning (Recharges after a Short or Long Rest). If the dullahan is reduced to 0 hit points, it doesn’t die or fall unconscious. Instead, it regains 97 hit points. In addition, it
the dullahan after it uses Headless Summoning.
Legendary Resistance (2/Day). If the dullahan fails a saving throw, it can choose to succeed instead.
Unusual Nature. The dullahan doesn’t require
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Mythic Odysseys of Theros
personality.
Aquatic Collectors. Curious by nature, naiads often seek out what the seas and rivers claim. As a result, they might be found among sunken ruins and shipwrecks, sifting through the remains
facets of nature might employ nymphs as messengers, guardians, or scouts.
Immortal Nature. A nymph doesn’t require food, drink, or sleep.
PoisonPsychic
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Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
mutate’s next turn.Defensive Flight. Immediately after taking damage, the mutate flies up to its speed. This movement doesn’t provoke opportunity attack;opportunity attacks.When the
as smooth as a salamander’s.
Some intelligent Humanoid mutates retain their personalities from before they were exposed to the Far Realm. Some, driven by the allure of otherworldly powers, seek
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Vecna: Eve of Ruin
good. She has traveled far and established safe houses across the planes—such as her sanctum in the city of Sigil. Alustriel doesn’t seek personal glory or wealth; her style of influencing
Weave favors those who act with mercy and compassion, seeks to deliver lives of security for all, and bolsters people’s efforts when they seek to right wrongs and combat evil.
Nowhere are
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Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
’ attentiveness to unusual events makes them particularly useful to their sapphire dragon cousins, who hunt down Aberrations and seek evidence of Far Realm incursions into the Material Plane
characters from legend.
6
I studiously mimic the mannerisms of my guests.
7
I prefer to get others talking, then fade into the background. Sometimes literally.
8
I seek out audiences and
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Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
affect them. They defy gravity with flight that doesn’t rely solely upon their great wings, and gravitational force empowers both their devastating breath weapon and the exploding amethyst
… or than any of your selves do, really.
7
It is not my place to interfere. I merely seek to observe, learn, and understand.
8
With a true understanding of metaphysics, anything is
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Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
, unique monstrous slayers.
Relentless Origins
d6
Origin
1
It was left for dead and granted new life to seek revenge.
2
It was turned into a weapon of vengeance by a family member
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
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their own safety. Once they taste freedom from the colony, some prize their privacy, others seek to commune with similar minds, and still others seek to dominate a colony by elevating themselves to the
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
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The Book of Many Things
medusa’s lair.
3
Maintain a planar crossing from which great power flows while also curtailing the effects of that power as it infuses the world.
4
Seek out a new generation of
entrance to a slumbering titan’s tomb for any sign the titan might awaken, and repel the forces that seek to break the tomb’s seal.
A Medusa’s Lair
A medusa’s lair is
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Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
greatwyrm doesn’t require food or drink.Multiattack. The greatwyrm makes one Bite attack and two Claw attacks.
Bite. Melee Weapon Attack: +17;{"diceNotation":"1d20+17","rollType":"to hit","rollAction
doing so, they are taking steps toward reuniting the shattered consciousness of Sardior the Ruby Dragon, and they pursue this awakening as an act of near-religious devotion. Others seek to exploit
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Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
saving throw or be possessed by the ghost; the ghost then disappears, and the target is incapacitated and loses control of its body. The ghost now controls the body but doesn’t deprive the target
charmed and frightened. It otherwise uses the possessed target’s statistics, but doesn’t gain access to the target’s knowledge, class features, or proficiencies. The possession lasts
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Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
greatwyrm doesn’t require food or drink.Multiattack. The greatwyrm makes one Bite attack and two Claw attacks.
Bite. Melee Weapon Attack: +17;{"diceNotation":"1d20+17","rollType":"to hit","rollAction
doing so, they are taking steps toward reuniting the shattered consciousness of Sardior the Ruby Dragon, and they pursue this awakening as an act of near-religious devotion. Others seek to exploit
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Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
greatwyrm doesn’t require food or drink.Multiattack. The greatwyrm makes one Bite attack and two Claw attacks.
Bite. Melee Weapon Attack: +17;{"diceNotation":"1d20+17","rollType":"to hit","rollAction
doing so, they are taking steps toward reuniting the shattered consciousness of Sardior the Ruby Dragon, and they pursue this awakening as an act of near-religious devotion. Others seek to exploit
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Curse of Strahd
the master of Ravenloft, but she has all the power she desires and doesn’t seek to supplant him. She would rather help Strahd find someone else to succeed him, although she has grave doubts about
Monsters
Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
urged her to seek out the Black Sword. Avarice didn’t know who or what the Black Sword was until she was approached by cultists of Levistus bearing swordlike shards of chardalyn worn as pendants
around their necks. These self-styled Knights of the Black Sword offered her sanctuary in the keep of Caer-Dineval, where they are based. Although she doesn’t trust the cultists, they treat her