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Prosthetic Limb

Magic Items Dungeon Master’s Guide

This magic item replaces a lost limb—a hand, an arm, a foot, a leg, or a similar body part. While the prosthetic is attached, it functions identically to the part it replaces. You can detach or reattach it as a Magic action, and it can’t be removed against your will while you are alive.

Ersatz Eye

Magic Items Dungeon Master’s Guide

or remove the Ersatz Eye as a Magic action, and it can’t be removed against your will while you are alive.

Magic Jar

Spells Player’s Handbook

by a Protection from Evil and Good or Magic Circle spell can’t be possession;possessed). The target makes a Charisma saving throw. On a failed save, your soul enters the target’s body, and

take a Magic action to return from the host body to the container if it is within 100 feet of you, returning the host creature’s soul to its body. If the host body dies while you’re in it

Wish

Spells Player’s Handbook

your choice: Object Creation. You create one object of up to 25,000 GP in value that isn’t a magic item. The object can be no more than 300 feet in any dimension, and it appears in an unoccupied

result of how you worded the wish. For example, wishing that a villain were dead might propel you forward in time to a period when that villain is no longer alive, effectively removing you from the

Blood Spear

Magic Items Curse of Strahd

Kavan was a ruthless chieftain whose tribe lived in the Balinok Mountains centuries before the arrival of Strahd von Zarovich. Although he was very much alive, Kavan had some traits in common with

that drains life from those it kills and transfers that life to its wielder, imbuing that individual with the stamina to keep fighting. When you hit with a melee attack using this magic spear and

Guardian Portrait

Monsters Curse of Strahd

Antimagic Susceptibility. The portrait is incapacitated while in the area of an antimagic field. If targeted by dispel magic, the portrait must succeed on a Constitution saving throw against the

is indistinguishable from a normal painting.Animated objects are crafted with potent magic to follow the commands of their creators. When not commanded, they follow the last order they received to the

Giant Ram

Monsters Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants

livestock among giants. The rams’ fleece stores magical energy by absorbing ambient magic and drawing power from spells. While a ram is alive and unshorn, it uses its fleece’s magic for self

Magic Resistance. The ram has advantage on saving throws against spells and other magical effects.Ram. Melee Weapon Attack: +6;{"diceNotation":"1d20+6", "rollType":"to hit", "rollAction":"Ram"} to

Strahd's Animated Armor

Monsters Curse of Strahd

Antimagic Susceptibility. The armor is incapacitated while in the area of an antimagic field. If targeted by dispel magic, the armor must succeed on a Constitution saving throw against the caster's

damage.Animated objects are crafted with potent magic to follow the commands of their creators. When not commanded, they follow the last order they received to the best of their ability, and can act independently

Failed Dragonpriest

Monsters Tales from the Yawning Portal

target. Hit: 11 (2d6 + 4);{"diceNotation":"2d6+4","rollType":"damage","rollAction":"Claw","rollDamageType":"slashing"} slashing damage.This dragonpriest delved into magic that the dragon cult deemed

profane — he permanently transformed himself from an elf into a troll. For this crime, the cult entombed him alive, though the honor of his station remained. The dragonpriest attacks his rescuers, his mind

Will-o'-Wisp (Variant)

Monsters The Wild Beyond the Witchlight

Consume Life. As a bonus action, the will-o’-wisp can target one creature it can see within 5 feet of it that has 0 hit points and is still alive. The target must succeed on a DC 10

Constitution saving throw against this magic or die. If the target dies, the will-o’-wisp regains 10 (3d6);{"diceNotation":"3d6","rollType":"heal","rollAction":"Consume Life"} hit points. Ephemeral. The

Selenelion Twin

Monsters The Wild Beyond the Witchlight

Fey Ancestry. The Selenelion twins, Gleam and Glister, have advantage on saving throws against being charmed, and magic can’t put them to sleep. Regeneration. A Selenelion twin regains 5 hit

points at the start of her turn as long as both twins are alive and within 60 feet of each other. A twin dies only if she starts her turn with 0 hit points and doesn’t regenerate. Twin Bond

Squirt the Oilcan

Monsters The Wild Beyond the Witchlight

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

was carried to the Feywild by dwarves hoping to harvest boggle oil. Though the expedition was a success, the dwarves were put to sleep by pixie magic. During a celebration that erupted around them, an

Dragon Tortoise

Monsters Candlekeep Mysteries

","rollAction":"Sand Breath","rollDamageType":"slashing"} slashing damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one.Ogruhl has been trapped here for millennia, restrained by magic chains

water little by little to keep it alive. Over time, the chwingas and Ogruhl developed a symbiotic relationship—it defended them and provided a home for them, and they helped it to survive.Fire

Kansaldi Fire-Eyes

Monsters Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen

is alive. When she dies, a creature can remove the gem as an action. The gem then functions as a gem of seeing.Multiattack. Kansaldi makes two Pike attacks and uses Flame Burst. Pike. Melee Weapon

, thaumaturgy 1/day each: blade barrier, dispel magic, flame strike, lesser restoration, revivifyHigh Master Kansaldi Fire-Eyes leads the Red Dragon Army’s offensive in Solamnia. A fanatical adherent

Swarm of Maggots

Monsters Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft

next long rest. The disease lasts until it’s removed by magic or until the creature rolls the same random effect for the disease two long rests in a row.Base creatures are among the first to

whispered chanting 3 Skeletal visages, giant eyes, or the faces of nearby creatures appear in relief amid its mass 4 Occupies and animates a corpse or other debris as if it were alive Bludgeoning, Piercing, Slashing

Charmayne Daymore

Monsters Keys from the Golden Vault

magic to tear out Jhaeros’s heart while keeping it alive. She then used the still-beating heart as the focus of a ritual to destroy Ghalasine.Fire

Intelligence as the spellcasting ability (spell save DC 17): At will: dancing lights, mage hand 3/day: mage armor 1/day each: dispel magic, invisibility, polymorphCharmayne can take up to three

Baba Lysaga's Creeping Hut

Monsters Curse of Strahd

Antimagic Susceptibility. The hut is incapacitated while the magic gem that animates it is in the area of an antimagic field. If targeted by dispel magic, the hut must succeed on a Constitution

damage.Animated objects are crafted with potent magic to follow the commands of their creators. When not commanded, they follow the last order they received to the best of their ability, and can act independently

Chardalyn Berserker

Monsters Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden

, specifically ones suffused with demonic magic (see the sidebar on Chardalyn). This exposure has transformed them into fiends. They shed their heavier protective clothing and embrace the frigid cold, allowing

frostbite to ravage the exposed parts of their bodies, with only their faith in the Frostmaiden keeping them alive. Chardalyn Weapons. A chardalyn berserker wields one or more weapons made wholly or

Wastrilith

Monsters Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse

drinks the foul water as an action, it gains 11 (2d10);{"diceNotation":"2d10", "rollType":"roll", "rollAction":"Corrupt Water"} temporary hit points. Magic Resistance. The wastrilith has advantage on

wastrilith risk their very souls. Those who drink the poisonous liquid might wither away until they finally die, or they remain alive only to become thralls of chaos and evil. To represent this

Deep Scion

Monsters Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse

certain, but when it works, the magic transforms an air-breathing person into a shapeshifter that can take on an aquatic form. A deep scion emerges from the depths in service to their underwater master

;s desires. Sometimes a deep scion returns to their former home—unexpectedly found alive when all hope was lost. At other times the deep scion takes on a new identity. In any case, it is the

Baba Lysaga

Monsters Curse of Strahd

feet. Anything she is wearing transforms with her, but nothing she is carrying does. Blessing of Mother Night. Baba Lysaga is shielded against divination magic, as though protected by a nondetection

"} 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

Nagpa

Monsters Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse

. Spellcasting. The nagpa casts one of the following spells, using Intelligence as the spellcasting ability (spell save DC 20): At will: detect magic, mage hand, message, minor illusion 2/day each: fireball

to please and thereby escape further attention from her cold gaze. All the original thirteen remain alive, thanks to their cunning and their willingness to do whatever is necessary to survive

Zariel

Monsters Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse

Devil’s Sight. Magical darkness doesn’t impede Zariel’s darkvision. Legendary Resistance (3/Day). If Zariel fails a saving throw, she can choose to succeed instead. Magic

. Zariel prefers to create images of intruders’ loved ones being burned alive. Zariel doesn’t need to concentrate on the spells, which end on initiative count 20 of the next round. Each

Klauth

Monsters Storm King's Thunder

spellcasting ability (spell save DC 22): At will: comprehend languages, detect magic, mage hand, minor illusion, prestidigitation 2/day each: darkness, detect thoughts, ice storm 1/day each: banishment

beaked snout vents smoke at all times, and its eyes dance with flame when it is angry. Klauthen Vale is a narrow, winding valley in the mountains west of Mirabar. Thanks to ancient and powerful magic, the

Zorak Lightdrinker

Monsters Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage

saving throw against this magic or be charmed by Zorak. The charmed target regards Zorak as a trusted friend to be heeded and protected. Although the target isn't under Zorak's control, it takes

stems and branches become twisted and thorny. Shadows cast within 500 feet of the lair seem abnormally gaunt and sometimes move as though alive. A creeping fog clings to the ground within 500 feet of the

Gnoll Vampire

Monsters Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden

target must succeed on a DC 15 Constitution saving throw against this magic or be poisoned for 24 hours. A creature whose saving throw is successful is immune to this vampire’s Sickening Gaze for 24

gnolls found an icy cleft on the edge of the Reghed Glacier and hid there for the winter. To keep their leader alive, the other gnolls allowed Tekeli-li to eat them one by one, yet his hunger would not

Baernaloth

Monsters Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse

Legendary Resistance (4/Day). If the baernaloth fails a saving throw, it can choose to succeed instead. Magic Resistance. The baernaloth has advantage on saving throws against spells and other

wounded foes alive, sometimes indefinitely, to prolong their suffering. Even striking against a baernaloth brings misery—they can cause an attacker’s old wounds to painfully reopen. All the

Deck of Many More Things

Magic Items The Book of Many Things

they are alive and any conditions they have. If you named an object, you know if it is broken or not. If you named a magic item that has charges, you know how many charges it has remaining. Maze. You

cards you intend to draw and then draw them randomly. Unless a card allows you to draw additional cards, any cards drawn exceeding this number have no effect. As soon as you draw a card, its magic

Will-o'-Wisp Legacy

Monsters Basic Rules (2014)

Consume Life. As a bonus action, the will-o'-wisp can target one creature it can see within 5 feet of it that has 0 hit points and is still alive. The target must succeed on a DC 10 Constitution

saving throw against this magic or die. If the target dies, the will-o'-wisp regains 10 (3d6);{"diceNotation":"3d6","rollType":"roll","rollAction":"Consume Life"} hit points. Ephemeral. The will-o'-wisp

Derghodaemon

monsters

Magic Resistance. The derghodaemon has Advantage on saving throws against spells and other magical effects. Tearing Rend. If the derghodaemon hits the same creature with two or more claws on

(spell save DC 15): At Will: Detect Evil and Good (Celestial and Fiends only), Insect Plague, See Invisibility 2/Day Each: Dimension Door, Dispel Magic 1/Day: ConfusionDerghodaemons represent

Mi-Go

monsters

Magic Resistance. The mi-go has Advantage on saving throws against spells and other magical effects. Space Traveler. The mi-go does not need to breathe air.Multiattack. The mi-go makes two Claw

mining operations. They use their magic, along with promises of magical power and support, to draw humans and other folk into serving them. The mi-go tend to worship Mythos entities, and they recruit

Unicorn Legacy

Monsters Basic Rules (2014)

without trace 1/day each: calm emotions, dispel evil and good, entangle Magic Resistance. The unicorn has advantage on saving throws against spells and other magical effects. Magic Weapons. The

surrounded by mighty oaks, a flower-covered hilltop alive with butterflies, or some other serene woodland location. Regional Effects Transformed by the creature’s celestial presence, the domain of

Magic Jar Legacy

Spells Basic Rules (2014)

and good or magic circle spell can't be possessed). The target must make a Charisma saving throw. On a failure, your soul moves into the target's body, and the target's soul becomes trapped in the

return to it, you die. If another creature's soul is in the container when it is destroyed, the creature's soul returns to its body if the body is alive and within 100 feet. Otherwise, that creature dies. When the spell ends, the container is destroyed.

Wish Legacy

Spells Basic Rules (2014)

were dead might propel you forward in time to a period when that villain is no longer alive, effectively removing you from the game. Similarly, wishing for a legendary magic item or artifact might

following effects of your choice: You create one object of up to 25,000 gp in value that isn't a magic item. The object can be no more than 300 feet in any dimension, and it appears in an unoccupied

Formless Spawn

monsters

Amorphous. The formless spawn can move through a space as narrow as 1 inch without expending extra movement to do so. Magic Resistance The formless spawn has Advantage on saving throws against

, and those who escaped alive sealed the passage. —H.P. Lovecraft and Zealia Bishop, The Mound These black, protean beings change shape in an instant, from toad-like lumps to elongated things

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