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Returning 35 results for 'form necromancy'.
Monsters
Forgotten Realms: Adventures in Faerûn
. Cultists of Bhaal sometimes form cabals of assassins or mercenaries, but they perform their brutal slaughter for the perverse love of bloodshed and honor to their sinister god rather than for
follow their paths of tyranny, murder, and necromancy.
More than any other gods, the Dead Three directly influence Faerûn—and particularly the city of Baldur’s Gate—in malign
Monsters
Forgotten Realms: Adventures in Faerûn
until he is reduced to 0 Hit Points. If Sammaster is reduced to 0 Hit Points, his dracolich form dissolves to dust. After 1d10;{"diceNotation":"1d10", "rollType":"roll", "rollAction":"Soul Gem"} days
, he appears in an unoccupied space within 5 feet of his soul gem (so long as the gem still exists), using the Sammaster (Lich Form) stat block. The gem is a Tiny object that has AC 20; HP 50; and
Monsters
Forgotten Realms: Adventures in Faerûn
Resistance. Sammaster has Advantage on saving throws against spells and other magical effects.
Soul Gem. If Sammaster is reduced to 0 Hit Points while his magical soul gem exists, his lich form dissolves
to dust. After 1d10;{"diceNotation":"1d10", "rollType":"roll", "rollAction":"Soul Gem"} days, he appears in the space of his soul gem, using the Sammaster (Dracolich Form) stat block. The gem is a
Monsters
Vecna: Eve of Ruin
necromancy are prevalent.
To create a deathwolf, a necromancer reanimates the body of a powerful werewolf by conducting a profane ritual fueled by lunar magic. The result is an Undead abomination that
resembles a skeletal, shadowy werewolf in hybrid form. Deathwolves can’t shapeshift, but they can create dangerous illusions. A deathwolf’s bite makes its victims more susceptible to the
Monsters
Eberron: Rising from the Last War
. Illmarrow is a fiefdom on the isle of Farlnen — home to a community of elves exiled from Aerenal, who have practiced necromancy for centuries. But Lady Illmarrow’s roots extend far beyond her
island domain.
Long ago, it was revealed that the elven line of Vol — a house that practiced the art of necromancy and bore the Dragonmark of Death — was engaged in secret blood rites
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules
Chill Touch Necromancy — Eldritch Blast Evocation — Friends Enchantment C Mage Hand Conjuration — Mind Sliver Enchantment — Minor Illusion Illusion — Poison Spray Necromancy — Prestidigitation
Transmutation — Thunderclap Evocation — Toll the Dead Necromancy — True Strike Divination — Level 1 Warlock Spells Spell School Special Armor of Agathys Abjuration — Arms of Hadar Conjuration — Bane
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player’s Handbook
Chill Touch Necromancy — Eldritch Blast Evocation — Friends Enchantment C Mage Hand Conjuration — Mind Sliver Enchantment — Minor Illusion Illusion — Poison Spray Necromancy — Prestidigitation
Transmutation — Thunderclap Evocation — Toll the Dead Necromancy — True Strike Divination — Level 1 Warlock Spells Spell School Special Armor of Agathys Abjuration — Arms of Hadar Conjuration — Bane
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player’s Handbook
Divination C, M Counterspell Abjuration — Dispel Magic Abjuration — Fear Illusion C Feign Death Necromancy R Fireball Evocation — Fly Transmutation C Gaseous Form Transmutation C Glyph of Warding
— Blade Ward Abjuration C Chill Touch Necromancy — Dancing Lights Illusion C Elementalism Transmutation — Fire Bolt Evocation — Friends Enchantment C Light Evocation — Mage Hand Conjuration — Mending
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules
— Blade Ward Abjuration C Chill Touch Necromancy — Dancing Lights Illusion C Elementalism Transmutation — Fire Bolt Evocation — Friends Enchantment C Light Evocation — Mage Hand Conjuration — Mending
Transmutation — Message Transmutation — Mind Sliver Enchantment — Minor Illusion Illusion — Poison Spray Necromancy — Prestidigitation Transmutation — Ray of Frost Evocation — Shocking Grasp
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules
— Bestow Curse Necromancy C Blink Transmutation — Clairvoyance Divination C, M Counterspell Abjuration — Dispel Magic Abjuration — Fear Illusion C Fireball Evocation — Fly Transmutation C Gaseous Form
— Chill Touch Necromancy — Dancing Lights Illusion C Fire Bolt Evocation — Light Evocation — Mage Hand Conjuration — Mending Transmutation — Message Transmutation — Minor Illusion Illusion — Poison Spray
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player’s Handbook
— Blade Ward Abjuration C Chill Touch Necromancy — Dancing Lights Illusion C Elementalism Transmutation — Fire Bolt Evocation — Friends Enchantment C Light Evocation — Mage Hand Conjuration — Mending
Transmutation — Message Transmutation — Mind Sliver Enchantment — Minor Illusion Illusion — Poison Spray Necromancy — Prestidigitation Transmutation — Ray of Frost Evocation — Shocking Grasp
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player’s Handbook
Astral Projection Level 9 Necromancy (Cleric, Warlock, Wizard) Casting Time: 1 hour
Range: 10 feet
Components: V, S, M (for each of the spell’s targets, one jacinth worth 1,000+ GP and one silver
astral form resembles its body in almost every way, replicating its game statistics and possessions. The principal difference is the addition of a silvery cord that trails from between the shoulder
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules
Astral Projection Level 9 Necromancy (Cleric, Warlock, Wizard) Casting Time: 1 hour
Range: 10 feet
Components: V, S, M (for each of the spell’s targets, one jacinth worth 1,000+ GP and one silver
astral form resembles its body in almost every way, replicating its game statistics and possessions. The principal difference is the addition of a silvery cord that trails from between the shoulder
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
True Resurrection 9th-level necromancy Casting Time: 1 hour Range: Touch Components: V, S, M (a sprinkle of holy water and diamonds worth at least 25,000 gp, which the spell consumes) Duration
organs and limbs. If the creature was undead, it is restored to its non-undead form. The spell can even provide a new body if the original no longer exists, in which case you must speak the creature’s name. The creature then appears in an unoccupied space you choose within 10 feet of you.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player’s Handbook
Reincarnate Level 5 Necromancy (Druid) Casting Time: 1 hour
Range: Touch
Components: V, S, M (rare oils worth 1,000+ GP, which the spell consumes)
Duration: Instantaneous
You touch a dead
creature makes any choices that a species’ description offers, and the creature recalls its former life. It retains the capabilities it had in its original form, except it loses the traits of its previous species and gains the traits of its new one.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player’s Handbook
True Resurrection Level 9 Necromancy (Cleric, Druid) Casting Time: 1 hour
Range: Touch
Components: V, S, M (diamonds worth 25,000+ GP, which the spell consumes)
Duration: Instantaneous
You
its non-Undead form. The spell can provide a new body if the original no longer exists, in which case you must speak the creature’s name. The creature then appears in an unoccupied space you choose within 10 feet of you.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules
True Resurrection Level 9 Necromancy (Cleric, Druid) Casting Time: 1 hour
Range: Touch
Components: V, S, M (diamonds worth 25,000+ GP, which the spell consumes)
Duration: Instantaneous
You
its non-Undead form. The spell can provide a new body if the original no longer exists, in which case you must speak the creature’s name. The creature then appears in an unoccupied space you choose within 10 feet of you.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)
True Resurrection 9th-level necromancy Casting Time: 1 hour Range: Touch Components: V, S, M (a sprinkle of holy water and diamonds worth at least 25,000 gp, which the spell consumes) Duration
organs and limbs. If the creature was undead, it is restored to its non-undead form. The spell can even provide a new body if the original no longer exists, in which case you must speak the creature’s name. The creature then appears in an unoccupied space you choose within 10 feet of you.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules
Reincarnate Level 5 Necromancy (Druid) Casting Time: 1 hour
Range: Touch
Components: V, S, M (rare oils worth 1,000+ GP, which the spell consumes)
Duration: Instantaneous
You touch a dead
creature makes any choices that a species’ description offers, and the creature recalls its former life. It retains the capabilities it had in its original form, except it loses the traits of its previous species and gains the traits of its new one.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)
Astral Projection 9th-level necromancy Casting Time: 1 hour Range: 10 feet Components: V, S, M (for each creature you affect with this spell, you must provide one jacinth worth at least 1,000 gp and
air and doesn’t age. Your astral body resembles your mortal form in almost every way, replicating your game statistics and possessions. The principal difference is the addition of a silvery cord that
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
Astral Projection 9th-level necromancy Casting Time: 1 hour Range: 10 feet Components: V, S, M (for each creature you affect with this spell, you must provide one jacinth worth at least 1,000 gp and
air and doesn’t age. Your astral body resembles your mortal form in almost every way, replicating your game statistics and possessions. The principal difference is the addition of a silvery cord that
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
7. Teleportation Pillars Eight black marble pillars form a circle in this 20-foot-high room. Carved into each pillar is a symbol representing one of the eight schools of magic (Abjuration
, Conjuration, Divination, Enchantment, Evocation, Illusion, Necromancy, and Transmutation). The first time a character enters the circle of pillars, a magic mouth spell activates on the floor and speaks the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
reveal information, whether in the form of secrets long forgotten, glimpses of the future, the locations of hidden things, the truth behind illusions, or visions of distant people or places.
Enchantment
. Some illusions create phantom images that any creature can see, but the most insidious illusions plant an image directly in the mind of a creature.
Necromancy spells manipulate the energies of life
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
, which include biology and necromancy. Brewing strange concoctions with medicinal properties, exploring the anatomies of monsters, and cataloging swamp flora are the kinds of studies you might pursue at
of swamp animals or plants might form amid your spell effects. Building a Witherbloom Character Druids and warlocks make up most of Witherbloom’s student body. A few wizards (mostly those who study the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything
Summon Undead 3rd-level necromancy Casting Time: 1 action Range: 90 feet Components: V, S, M (a gilded skull worth at least 300 gp) Duration: Concentration, up to 1 hour You call forth an undead
spirit. It manifests in an unoccupied space that you can see within range. This corporeal form uses the Undead Spirit stat block. When you cast the spell, choose the creature’s form: Ghostly, Putrid, or
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
strike, cursing the characters as he does so. Morphing Statue A detect magic spell cast on the statue reveals an aura of transmutation magic surrounding it and a powerful source of necromancy magic deep
inside it. Without significantly changing its mass, the statue shifts form every few seconds, becoming various members of the Shadowdusk family and, every so often, depicting Halaster Blackcloak or
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)
form of secrets long forgotten, glimpses of the future, the locations of hidden things, the truth behind illusions, or visions of distant people or places.
Enchantment spells affect the minds of
images that any creature can see, but the most insidious illusions plant an image directly in the mind of a creature.
Necromancy spells manipulate the energies of life and death. Such spells can grant
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
Brain in a Jar Through an eldritch ritual combining alchemy, necromancy, and grim surgical precision, the brain of a mortal being (willing or unwilling) is encased in a glass jar filled with
body can tax the mind, and the longer a brain in a jar exists, the more likely some form of insanity will take hold of it. A brain in a jar is particularly susceptible to dementia, schizophrenia, and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Eve of Ruin
locations where lycanthropy and necromancy are prevalent. Brian Valeza To create a deathwolf, a necromancer reanimates the body of a powerful werewolf by conducting a profane ritual fueled by lunar magic
. The result is an Undead abomination that resembles a skeletal, shadowy werewolf in hybrid form. Deathwolves can’t shapeshift, but they can create dangerous illusions. A deathwolf’s bite makes its
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a5
gargoyles even if no one is present. Body. Sprawled in front of one alcove, in a location where the characters see it only after entering the room, is the red-robed form of a male human. Vorja, a Red
descriptions of the Hall of Obedience and the Hall of Necromancy. He knows nothing about this zone. If he is given a glyph key and taken to the black gate, he escapes the Doomvault and joins Syranna’s
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player’s Handbook
Undead Level 3 Necromancy (Warlock, Wizard)
Casting Time: Action
Range: 90 feet
Components: V, S, M (a gilded skull worth 300+ GP)
Duration: Concentration, up to 1 hour
You call forth an
Undead spirit. It manifests in an unoccupied space that you can see within range and uses the Undead Spirit stat block. When you cast the spell, choose the creature’s form: Ghostly, Putrid, or
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
. Spite has an oni companion that assumes the form of a female half-ogre named Dumara. The oni’s real name is Kumar, and it has been in Spite’s company most of its life. It treats Spite like an older
another. Any object or creature able to fit in a tube (including characters in gaseous form) can be transported from one end to the other in a matter of seconds. If timing becomes important, assume that
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
secretly being driven to war by the machinations of a black dragon, who hopes to revel in the resulting carnage.
4 When swamplands shrink due to a prolonged drought, two black dragons form a temporary
traps designed by a restless adult black dragon.
4 The appearance of a spirit naga in the domain of an adult black dragon encourages the dragon to study necromancy.
5 An adult black dragon
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a7
in a wave of searing radiation and flames. The gem remains as a noisome mass of stinking purplish mold which bubbles and chuckles. In one week the mass will again re-form as a glowing orange gem. Ebony
of abjuration magic, and the silver end of the scepter has an aura of necromancy magic. Crown and Scepter. The crown negates the pillars’ levitation effect for anyone who dons it and enables the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen
form. She explains that, in life, she was one of the elven priestess Isolde’s attendants and was among those who distracted Soth from his quest to prevent the Cataclysm. For her deeds, she’s cursed to
necromancy around the altar. The altar can be used to commune with the dead. If a corpse’s skull is placed on the altar, a creature wearing or holding a holy symbol of Chemosh can ask the skull five