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Equipment
takes an extra 1d4 Poison damage. Once applied, the poison retains potency for 1 minute or until its damage is dealt, whichever comes first.
As a Bonus Action, you can use a vial of Basic Poison to coat one weapon or up to three pieces of ammunition. A creature that takes Piercing or Slashing damage from the poisoned weapon or ammunition
Equipment
As a Utilize action, you can spill Ball Bearings from their pouch. They spread to cover a level, 10-foot-square area within 10 feet of yourself. A creature that enters this area for the first time on
a turn must succeed on a DC 10 Dexterity saving throw or have the Prone condition. It takes 10 minutes to recover the Ball Bearings.
Equipment
As a Utilize action, you can spread Caltrops from their bag to cover a 5-foot-square area within 5 feet of yourself. A creature that enters this area for the first time on a turn must succeed on a DC
15 Dexterity saving throw or take 1 Piercing damage and have its Speed reduced to 0 until the start of its next turn. It takes 10 minutes to recover the Caltrops.
Equipment
stick after the first increases the damage by 1d6 (to a maximum of 10d6) and the effect’s radius by 5 feet (to a maximum of 20 feet).
It takes 1 minute to rig dynamite with a longer fuse so it explodes after a longer period of time, such as 1 minute or 10 minutes.
saving throw, taking 3d6 Force damage on a failed save or half as much damage on a successful one.
It takes 1 minute to bind two or more Dynamite Sticks together so they explode at the same time. Each
Monsters
Monster Manual
. Constitution Saving Throw: DC 11, each creature in a 15-foot Cone. First Failure: The target has the Incapacitated condition until the end of its next turn, at which point it repeats the save. Second Failure
: The target has the Unconscious condition for 1 minute. This effect ends for the target if it takes damage or a creature within 5 feet of it takes an action to wake it.Fire
Equipment
feet of the first that is also within your reach. On a hit, the second creature takes the weapon’s damage, but don’t add your ability modifier to that damage unless that modifier is negative. You can make this extra attack only once per turn.
Magic Items
Dungeon Master’s Guide (2024)
, you can move each sphere up to 30 feet, but no farther than 120 feet away from yourself. The first time the sphere comes within 5 feet of a creature other than you that isn’t behind Total
Cover, the sphere discharges lightning at that creature and disappears. That creature makes a DC 15 Dexterity saving throw. On a failed save, the creature takes Lightning damage based on the number of
Monsters
Monster Manual
expending extra movement to do so, and it can enter a creature’s space and stop there. The first time it enters a creature’s space on a turn, that creature takes 5 (1d10);{"diceNotation
Fire Aura. At the end of each of the elemental’s turns, each creature in a 10-foot Emanation originating from the elemental takes 5 (1d10);{"diceNotation":"1d10", "rollType":"damage
Equipment
feet of the first that is also within your reach. On a hit, the second creature takes the weapon’s damage, but don’t add your ability modifier to that damage unless that modifier is negative. You can make this extra attack only once per turn.
Magic Items
Dungeon Master’s Guide (2024)
to the blazing heart of a great volcano. With the aid of Moradin, a god of creation, he first crafted four mighty tools: the Starmetal Pick, the Earthheart Forge, the Anvil of Songs, and the Shaping
, and they threw back their enemies and enjoyed an era of prosperity. This young dwarf is remembered as the First King. When he became old, he passed the weapon, which had become his badge of office
Monsters
Monster Manual
", "rollAction":"Fire Breath", "rollDamageType":"Fire"} Fire damage. Success: Half damage.
Sleep Breath. Constitution Saving Throw: DC 14, each creature in a 30-foot Cone. First Failure: The target has
the Incapacitated condition until the end of its next turn, at which point it repeats the save. Second Failure: The target has the Unconscious condition for 1 minute. This effect ends for the target if it takes damage or a creature within 5 feet of it takes an action to wake it.Fire
Spells
Player’s Handbook
A beam of crackling energy lances toward a creature within range, forming a sustained arc of lightning between you and the target. Make a ranged spell attack against it. On a hit, the target takes
2d12 Lightning damage.
On each of your subsequent turns, you can take a Bonus Action to deal 1d12 Lightning damage to the target automatically, even if the first attack missed.
The spell ends if the
Monsters
Monster Manual
Flame Aura. At the end of each of the gorgon’s turns, each creature in a 5-foot Emanation originating from the gorgon takes 13 (3d8);{"diceNotation":"3d8", "rollType":"damage", "rollAction
Medium or smaller creatures. Each time the gorgon enters a creature’s space for the first time during this move, that target is subjected to the following effect. Dexterity Saving Throw: DC 16
Monsters
Monster Manual
feet of the cube can pull a creature or an object out of the cube by succeeding on a DC 12 Strength (Athletics) check, and the puller takes 10 (3d6);{"diceNotation":"3d6", "rollType":"damage
the cube enters for the first time during this move. Failure: 10 (3d6);{"diceNotation":"3d6", "rollType":"damage", "rollAction":"Engulf", "rollDamageType":"Acid"} Acid damage, and the target is engulfed
Monsters
Monster Manual
Throw: DC 18, each creature in a 60-foot Cone. First Failure: The target has the Incapacitated condition until the end of its next turn, at which point it repeats the save. Second Failure: The target
has the Unconscious condition for 10 minutes. This effect ends for the target if it takes damage or a creature within 5 feet of it takes an action to wake it.
Spellcasting. The dragon casts one of
Spells
Player’s Handbook
effect immediately after the trigger occurs for the first time, whether or not you want it to, and then Contingency ends.
The contingent spell takes effect only on you, even if it can normally target
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
. Constitution Saving Throw: DC 21, each creature in a 90-foot Cone. First Failure: The target has the Incapacitated condition until the end of its next turn, at which point it repeats the save. Second
Failure: The target has the Unconscious condition for 10 minutes. This effect ends for the target if it takes damage or a creature within 5 feet of it takes an action to wake it.
Spellcasting. The
Spells
Player’s Handbook
following: Aberrations, Celestials, Elementals, Fey, Fiends, and Undead. When a creature of a chosen type enters the spell’s area for the first time on a turn or ends its turn there, the creature
takes 5d10 Radiant or Necrotic damage (your choice when you cast this spell).
You can designate a password when you cast the spell. A creature that speaks the password as it enters the area takes no
Monsters
Monster Manual
":"Slashing"} Slashing damage.
Roar (3/Day). The sphinx emits a magical roar. Whenever it roars, the roar has a different effect, as detailed below (the sequence resets when it takes a Long Rest):
First
Spells
Player’s Handbook
takes 2d8 Bludgeoning damage. On a successful save, the creature takes half as much damage. A creature can swim away from the whirlpool only if it first takes an action to pull away and succeeds on a Strength (Athletics) check against your spell save DC.
the whirlpool is pulled 10 feet toward it. When a creature enters the whirlpool for the first time on a turn or ends its turn there, it makes a Strength saving throw. On a failed save, the creature
Monsters
Monster Manual
moves up to its Speed and can move through the spaces of Huge or smaller creatures and objects. Strength Saving Throw: DC 23, each creature or object whose space the blob enters for the first time
. A nonmagical object is destroyed after spending 1 minute engulfed.
While engulfed, a creature takes 21 (6d6);{"diceNotation":"6d6", "rollType":"damage", "rollAction":"Engulfed Damage
Spells
Player’s Handbook
creature takes the same damage when it enters the wall for the first time on a turn or ends its turn there. The other side of the wall deals no damage.
Using a Higher-Level Spell Slot. The damage increases by 1d8 for each spell slot level above 4.
Monsters
Monster Manual
", "rollAction":"Charm Ray", "rollDamageType":"Psychic"} Psychic damage, and the target has the Charmed condition for 1 hour or until it takes damage. Success: Half damage only. 2: Paralyzing Ray. Constitution
Unconscious condition for 1 minute. The condition ends if the target takes damage or a creature within 5 feet of it takes an action to wake it. 8: Petrification Ray. Constitution Saving Throw: DC 16
Monsters
Monster Manual
":"damage", "rollAction":"Charm Ray", "rollDamageType":"Psychic"} Psychic damage, and the target has the Charmed condition for 1 hour or until it takes damage. Success: Half damage only.
Paralyzing Ray
). Failure: The target has the Unconscious condition for 1 minute. The condition ends if the target takes damage or a creature within 5 feet of it takes an action to wake it.
Petrification Ray
Spells
Player’s Handbook
minutes, after which time the spell ends. Each creature in the Sphere when the glyph activates is targeted by its effect, as is a creature that enters the Sphere for the first time on a turn or ends
on a Wisdom saving throw or have the Unconscious condition for 10 minutes. A creature awakens if it takes damage or if someone takes an action to shake it awake.
Stunning. Each target must succeed on a Wisdom saving throw or have the Stunned condition for 1 minute.
Magic Items
Storm King's Thunder
your first turn, provided that the gavel is on your person.
Bond of Amity. As an action, you can use the gavel to strike a point on a hard surface. The first time in the next minute that a creature
within 60 feet of that point deals damage to another creature with an attack that hits, the attacker takes psychic damage equal to half the damage it dealt to the target. Once you use this property
Magic Items
The Book of Many Things
form manifests in an unoccupied space of your choice within 30 feet of you, and it uses the knight stat block. The spirit disappears when it drops to 0 hit points or after 1 minute, whichever comes first
.
The spirit is an ally to you and your companions. In combat, the spirit shares your initiative count but takes its turn immediately after yours. The spirit obeys your commands (no action required
Monsters
The Book of Many Things
area for the first time on a turn takes 10 (4d4);{"diceNotation":"4d4", "rollType":"damage", "rollAction":"Cloud of Cards", "rollDamageType":"slashing"} slashing damage.
Spellcasting. Oddlewin casts
Fortune Teller. Oddlewin can cast the Augury spell as a ritual, using cards as the material component.
Nilbogism. Any creature that attempts to damage Oddlewin must first succeed on a DC 12 Charisma
Monsters
Mythic Odysseys of Theros
sable's allies is within 5 feet of the creature and the ally isn't incapacitated.
Surprise Attack. If the sable surprises a creature and hits it with an attack during the first round of combat, the
target takes an extra 10 (3d6);{"diceNotation":"3d6","rollType":"roll","rollAction":"Surprise Attack"} damage from the attack.Multiattack. The sable makes two bite attacks.
Bite. Melee Weapon Attack: +5
Magic Items
Eberron: Rising from the Last War
concentration (as if concentrating on a spell) and takes the same amount of time it takes you to read and write normally. Thinking of a particular phrase or topic draws you to the first section in the shard
Monsters
Vecna: Eve of Ruin
.
Radiant Absorption. Whenever the guardian is subjected to radiant damage, it takes no damage and instead regains a number of hit points equal to the radiant damage.Multiattack. The guardian makes
save. On a failed save, a creature takes 22 (5d8);{"diceNotation":"5d8", "rollType":"damage", "rollAction":"Moonlight Blast", "rollDamageType":"radiant"} radiant damage, and if it isn’t in its
Backgrounds
Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus
the bottomless depths. Your first love is the distant line of the horizon, but the time has come to try your hand at something new.
Discuss the nature of the ship you previously sailed with your
with all hands?
What were your duties on board—boatswain, captain, navigator, cook, or some other position? Who were the captain and first mate? Did you leave your ship on good terms with your
Magic Items
Storm King's Thunder
, other than yourself. Until the end of your next turn, any damage the target takes is reduced to 1, but you take half the damage prevented in this way. The damage you take can’t be reduced in
a two-handed melee weapon — by tracing the skold rune there with your finger. The transfer takes 8 hours of work that requires the two items to be within 5 feet of each other. At the end, the
Monsters
Guildmasters’ Guide to Ravnica
arclight phoenix can enter a hostile creature's space and stop there. The first time it enters a creature's space on a turn, that creature takes 9 (2d8);{"diceNotation":"2d8","rollType":"damage
Flyby. The arclight phoenix doesn't provoke an opportunity attack when it flies out of an enemy's reach.
Grounded Lightning. The first time on a turn that the arclight phoenix touches the ground, it
Monsters
Guildmasters’ Guide to Ravnica
anchored to the ground that comes within 30 feet of the moving wurm for the first time on a turn takes 10 (3d6);{"diceNotation":"3d6","rollType":"damage","rollAction":"Earth Tremors","rollDamageType
Earth Tremors. The wurm creates earth tremors as it moves overland or underground. Any creature that comes within 30 feet of the moving wurm for the first time on a turn must succeed on a DC 20