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Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
material components and using Intelligence as the spellcasting ability:
At will: speak with dead
1/day: plane shift (self only)Berbalangs creep across the petrified remains of dead gods adrift on the
life.
Berbalangs prefer to speak only to dead things, and specifically only to the spirits they call forth in the hope of learning secrets. They record their stories on the bones that once belonged
Berbalang
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Monsters
Mordenkainen’s Tome of Foes
Spectral Duplicate (Recharges after a Short or Long Rest). As a bonus action, the berbalang creates one spectral duplicate of itself in an unoccupied space it can see within 60 feet of it. While the
duplicate exists, the berbalang is unconscious. A berbalang can have only one duplicate at a time. The duplicate disappears when it or the berbalang drops to 0 hit points or when the berbalang
Magic Items
Eberron: Rising from the Last War
When a suit of shiftweave is created, up to five different outfits can be embedded into the cloth. While wearing the clothing, you can speak its command word as a bonus action to transform your
outfit into your choice of one of the other designs contained within it. Regardless of its appearance, the outfit can’t be anything but clothing. Although it can duplicate the look of other magical clothing, it doesn’t gain their magical properties.
Monsters
Adventure Atlas: The Mortuary
dead (as an action), dispel magic, speak with dead
1/day each: finger of death, plane shift (self only), project imageSkall can take up to three reactions per round but only one per turn.
Baleful
flesh, Skall often delegates his bureaucratic responsibilities to Undead proxies or—on rare occasions—appears as an illusory duplicate. Subtle social cues are lost on the factol, whose
monsters
. The plant drags prey into an attached pod where the captive is dissolved over the course of hours. After the process is complete, a duplicate of the captive emerges as a subservient podling. Nothing
, and the plant has no qualms about sacrificing podlings or using them as shields in battle. While bodytaker plants can communicate telepathically, most do so only in desperate cases, preferring to speak
races
Spelljammer: Adventures in Space
speak by clacking their mandibles and waving their antennae, indicating to other thri-kreen what they are thinking and feeling. Other creatures find this method of communication difficult to interpret and
impossible to duplicate. To interact with other folk, thri-kreen rely on a form of telepathy.
Creating Your Character
When you create your D&D character, you decide whether your character is a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
, they call forth the spirits of the dead and force them to divulge what they learned in life. Berbalangs prefer to speak only to dead things, and specifically only to the spirits they call forth in
do. Although they mostly learn their secrets from the dead, they aren’t above spying on the living to take knowledge from them as well. A berbalang can create a spectral duplicate of itself and send
Magic Items
Infernal Machine Rebuild
150 feet but lose all other movement.
You are blinded.
02
You can cast the speak with animals spell at will, but can use it to speak with only one animal of your choice.
All animals despise
.
07
You can cast the speak with animals spell at will, but can use it to communicate only with insects.
Disturbing whispers on the edge of hearing haunt all creatures within 30 feet of you
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron
Shiftweave Wondrous item, common When a suit of shiftweave is created, up to five different outfits can be embedded into the cloth. While wearing the clothing, you can speak its command word as a
bonus action to transform your outfit into your choice of one of the other designs contained within it. Regardless of its appearance, the outfit can’t be anything but clothing. Although it can duplicate the look of other magical clothing, it doesn’t gain their magical properties.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
Shiftweave Wondrous item, common When a suit of shiftweave is created, up to five different outfits can be embedded into the cloth. While wearing the clothing, you can speak its command word as a
bonus action to transform your outfit into your choice of one of the other designs contained within it. Regardless of its appearance, the outfit can’t be anything but clothing. Although it can duplicate the look of other magical clothing, it doesn’t gain their magical properties.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Spelljammer: Adventures in Space->Astral Adventurer’s Guide
surroundings. Although thri-kreen don’t sleep, they do require periods of inactivity to revitalize themselves. During these periods, they are fully aware of what’s happening around them. Thri-kreen speak
by clacking their mandibles and waving their antennae, indicating to other thri-kreen what they are thinking and feeling. Other creatures find this method of communication difficult to interpret and impossible to duplicate. To interact with other folk, thri-kreen rely on a form of telepathy.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
, they call forth the spirits of the dead and force them to divulge what they learned in life. Speakers of the Dead. Berbalangs prefer to speak only to dead things, and specifically only to the spirits
spectral duplicate of itself and send the duplicate out to gather information on other planes by watching places where the gods and their servants gather. When a berbalang is perceiving its
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
illusions that can’t be dispelled. These illusions begin 30 feet above ground and create the impression of open sky where high walls and ceilings should be. The illusions flawlessly duplicate the sun
, the moon, the stars, and clouds, though there is no wind or breeze to speak of. During the day, the warmth of the sun can be felt, and at night the temperature drops as one would expect. Despite
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
is 30 feet. Expert Forgery. You can duplicate other creatures’ handwriting and craftwork. You have advantage on all checks made to produce forgeries or duplicates of existing objects. Kenku Training
hears the sounds you make can tell they are imitations with a successful Wisdom (Insight) check opposed by your Charisma (Deception) check. Languages. You can read and write Common and Auran, but you can speak only by using your Mimicry trait.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron
much that your size changes. You can make yourself appear as a member of another race, though none of your game statistics change. You can’t duplicate the appearance of a creature you’ve never seen
revert to your true form or until you die. Changeling Instincts. You gain proficiency with two of the following skills of your choice: Deception, Insight, Intimidation, and Persuasion. Languages. You can speak, read, and write Common and two other languages of your choice.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ravenloft: The Horrors Within
swarm of duplicate gremishkas. Gremishka Tiny Monstrosity, Chaotic Evil
AC 14 Initiative +2 (12)
HP 31 (7d4 + 14)
Speed 30 ft.
Mod Save
STR 12 +1 +1
DEX 14 +2 +2
) Charmed, Frightened, Grappled, Paralyzed, Petrified, Prone, Restrained, Stunned
Senses Darkvision 30 ft.; Passive Perception 12
Languages Understands Common but can’t speak
Challenge 2 (XP 450
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Masters: Ravenloft Play-Along Pack
duplicate gremishkas. Gremishka Tiny Monstrosity, Chaotic Evil
AC 14 Initiative +2 (12)
HP 31 (7d4 + 14)
Speed 30 ft.
Mod Save
STR 12 +1 +1
DEX 14 +2 +2
CON 15 +2 +2
, Frightened, Grappled, Paralyzed, Petrified, Prone, Restrained, Stunned
Senses Darkvision 30 ft.; Passive Perception 12
Languages Understands Common but can’t speak
Challenge 2 (XP 450; PB +2)
Traits
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
duplicate the appearance of a creature you’ve never seen, and you must adopt a form that has the same basic arrangement of limbs that you have. Your clothing and equipment aren’t changed by this trait. You
, Insight, Intimidation, and Persuasion. Languages. You can speak, read, and write Common and two other languages of your choice.
Kenku
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Volo's Guide to Monsters
. Flock leaders enforce discipline and minimize conflicts, but they fail at effective planning or crafting long-term schemes.
Although unable to speak in their own voices, kenku can perfectly mimic any
might sound like fun, but it can prove distracting and could slow down the game.
Kenku Names
Given that kenku can duplicate any sound, their names are drawn from a staggering variety of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ravenloft: The Horrors Within
farmhouses. Regularly, these underground paths open into vast cavities, many with their own strange environments, weather, and celestial bodies. What lies among the Vaults? Cultists speak of the
-haunted hotel called the Wharf leans precariously toward the sea. Wrecks of the Shrike The wreck of the Shrike lies beneath the waves, inexplicably encased in black ice. Nearby, a duplicate of the ship shows evidence of a great fire, and another duplicate lies crushed.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
regional effects within 1 mile of her lair: Illusory duplicates of the hag appear in random places at random times (but never more than one in any given location). An illusory duplicate has no
substance, but it looks, sounds, and moves like the hag. The hag can sense when one or more creatures are within 60 feet of her duplicate and can interact with them as if she were present and standing in the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
duplicate, the hag can move it a distance equal to her walking speed as well as make the illusion speak on her turn (no action required). The illusion has the same statistics as the hag but can’t take
the next round. A powerful green hag might have the following additional lair action: The hag creates an illusory duplicate of herself, which appears in its own space. As long as she can see her
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Rrakkma
Area Information Dimensions & Terrain This area appears to duplicate the same space as the cathedral the adventures just left (forty-five feet by one-hundred-ten feet). The main difference is the
the adventurers. That said, if they would like to speak with the creature on their turn, they get back a gibberish reply and their next saving throw against confusion is made with disadvantage.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
target. Hit: 14 (2d10 + 3) fire damage.
Spellcasting. The firbolg casts one of the following spells, using Wisdom as the spellcasting ability (spell save DC 13):
At will: entangle, speak with
animals, speak with plants
1/day each: commune with nature (as an action), detect magic, disguise self
Bonus Actions
Hidden Step (2/Day). The firbolg magically turns invisible until the start of its
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
an unstable relationship with magic. Spells cast near a gremishka might rebound onto those nearby or cause the monster to explode, its scaly chunks rapidly reforming into duplicate gremishkas. These
Languages understands Common but can’t speak
Challenge 1/8 (25 XP) Proficiency Bonus +2
Actions
Bite. Melee Weapon Attack: +4 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 3 (1d4 + 2) piercing damage plus
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
little reason to pay attention to what is spoken there. Gods can speak directly to their oracles. They can appear in the dreams of mortals or manipulate natural phenomena to create omens. They can
also create Nyxborn creatures to serve as messengers or emissaries. Gods grant their clerics the ability to cast spells, and they can effortlessly duplicate the effect of any spell they could grant (any
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Infernal Machine Rebuild
(Insight) check or a speak with animals spell, but the torturer speaks to the characters only in bold threats. In combat, Andras uses weapons coated in blood of the lycanthrope poison (see appendix C
). He uses the assassin stat block with the following changes: He is neutral evil, and can speak and understand Common and Giant Owl. Andras has advantage on Wisdom (Perception) checks that rely on
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
random, roll a d8 three times (rerolling duplicate results) to determine which three wires shut down that particular psipod, then roll a d8 for each wire that is disconnected to see if it’s one of the
familiar NPCs act, or pick up on minor details that the ulitharid has gotten wrong or can’t reasonably duplicate: slight changes in decor, books that are blank between the covers, foul-tasting elven wine
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Adventure Atlas: The Mortuary
. Notorious among the factols of Sigil but rarely seen in the flesh, Skall often delegates his bureaucratic responsibilities to Undead proxies or—on rare occasions—appears as an illusory duplicate
: animate dead (as an action), dispel magic, speak with dead
1/day each: finger of death, plane shift (self only), project image
Reactions
Skall can take up to three reactions per round but only one
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything
reflections. Creatures, objects, and energy reflect, refract, duplicate, or are transported elsewhere. Such locations arise from the intrusion of a theorized Plane of Mirrors upon the Material Plane, or
benefit of the mirror image spell. The images created sometimes move or speak of their own volition. 41–46 For the next 24 hours, certain wounds caused in the region attract spectral slivers of glass
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ravenloft: The Horrors Within
duplicate of the captive emerges as a subservient podling. Nothing of the original creature remains, though its noncompostable gear might be recovered after the bodytaker plant is slain. A bodytaker
do so only in desperate cases, preferring to speak through their podlings—potentially speaking through several at once. A bodytaker plant grows where its seed fell from space, or it might later have
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
requires powdered diamond worth 5,000 gp as an additional material component. The powdered diamond, like the powdered ruby also needed to cast the spell, must be sprinkled over the duplicate and is
neutral alignment. Each child has a Strength score of 14 (+2). They speak Giant, though their vocabulary is limited. They wield wooden toys as clubs, gaining a +4 bonus to hit on their melee weapon
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Turn of Fortune’s Wheel
overlooking the path taken by the modrons trapped in Tyrant’s Spiral. The arch here is a duplicate of the portal the characters used to reach Tyrant’s Spiral and connects to where they came from. A 50-foot
can speak Common and Infernal, and it can communicate with any creature within 10 feet of itself telepathically. Its voice is a hissing whisper. It reveals that it can communicate only to a single
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Book of Many Things
invisible condition and creates an illusory duplicate of itself in its space, then teleports, along with any equipment it is wearing or carrying, to an unoccupied space within 15 feet of itself. The
Wisdom saving throw or be unable to speak until the start of the corrupter’s next turn.
Debilitating Touch. The corrupter’s squirming tentacle lashes out at a creature the corrupter can see within 30
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
secret evil order whose members call themselves the Knights of the Shield, and who are the self-appointed guardians of the Shield of the Hidden Lord. Satiir doesn’t speak of the shield. Instead, she
unlit, half-melted red candles surround the circle.
The cultists use this chamber to perform diabolical rituals that duplicate the effect of a divination spell, except that the spell’s contact is a