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Magic Items
D&D Free Rules (2024)
control and shares your Initiative count, taking its turn immediately after yours.
On your turn, you can mentally command the snake (no action required) if it is within 60 feet of you and you don
location. Absent commands from you, the snake defends itself.
As a Bonus Action, you can command the snake to revert to staff form in its current space, and you can’t use the staff's property again
Spells
Player’s Handbook
A Large spectral guardian appears and hovers for the duration in an unoccupied space that you can see within range. The guardian occupies that space and is invulnerable, and it appears in a form
appropriate for your deity or pantheon.
Any enemy that moves to a space within 10 feet of the guardian for the first time on a turn or starts its turn there makes a Dexterity saving throw, taking 20
Spells
Player’s Handbook
As your attack hits or misses the target, the weapon or ammunition you’re using transforms into a lightning bolt. Instead of taking any damage or other effects from the attack, the target takes
4d8 Lightning damage on a hit or half as much damage on a miss. Each creature within 10 feet of the target then makes a Dexterity saving throw, taking 2d8 Lightning damage on a failed save or half as
Spells
Player’s Handbook
You create a wall of ice on a solid surface within range. You can form it into a hemispherical dome or a globe with a radius of up to 10 feet, or you can shape a flat surface made up of ten 10-foot
-square panels. Each panel must be contiguous with another panel. In any form, the wall is 1 foot thick and lasts for the duration.
If the wall cuts through a creature’s space when it appears
Spells
Player’s Handbook
so long as it makes one continuous path along the ground. The wall lasts for the duration.
When the wall appears, each creature in its area makes a Strength saving throw, taking 4d8 Bludgeoning
hurled by Giants or siege engines, and similar projectiles, are unaffected. Creatures in gaseous form can’t pass through it.
Monsters
Monster Manual
within 60 feet of the berserk golem, can try to calm it by taking an action to make a DC 15 Charisma (Persuasion) check; the golem must be able to hear its creator. If this check succeeds, the golem ceases
being berserk until the start of its next turn, at which point it resumes rolling for the Berserk trait again if it is still Bloodied.
Immutable Form. The golem can’t shape-shift.
Lightning
Classes
Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
dramatically, taking on the appearance of an actual giant or a form similar to an Elemental, wreathed in fire, frost, or lightning.
Barbarians who walk the Path of the Giant draw strength from the same primal forces as giants. As they rage, these barbarians surge with elemental power and grow in size, taking on forms that evoke
Classes
Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
dramatically, taking on the appearance of an actual giant or a form similar to an Elemental, wreathed in fire, frost, or lightning.
Barbarians who walk the Path of the Giant draw strength from the same primal forces as giants. As they rage, these barbarians surge with elemental power and grow in size, taking on forms that evoke
Magic Items
Acquisitions Incorporated
Also at rank 2, you gain the use of an uncommon magic item taking the form of a pair of spectacles, a spyglass, a monocle, or any other device with one or two lenses. When you look through the
Monsters
Acquisitions Incorporated
saving throw, taking 5 (2d4);{"diceNotation":"2d4","rollType":"damage","rollAction":"Bite","rollDamageType":"poison"} poison damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful
one.K'thriss Drow'b;K'thriss's familiar, Ligotti, is a semisapient remnant of a tentacle attack, spawned by the warlock's intercessor patron god. Ligotti is entirely alien to the material plane (and often appears in the form of a staff).
Monsters
Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
. The jiangshi draws energy from a creature it can see within 30 feet of it. The target makes a DC 16 Constitution saving throw, taking 18 (4d8);{"diceNotation":"4d8","rollType":"damage","rollAction
that is Medium or Small or back into its true form. Its statistics, other than its size, are the same in each form. Any equipment it is wearing or carrying is absorbed or borne by the new form (the
Monsters
Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
Shapechanger. The mimic can use its action to polymorph into an object or back into its true, amorphous form. Its statistics are the same in each form. Any equipment it is wearing or carrying isn't
transformed. It reverts to its true form if it dies.
Adhesive (Object Form Only). The mimic adheres to anything that touches it. A Huge or smaller creature adhered to the mimic is also grappled by it
Monsters
Thieves’ Gallery
of herself, she magically engulfs the creature in flames. The creature must make a DC 15 Dexterity saving throw, taking 16 (3d10);{"diceNotation":"3d10", "rollType":"damage", "rollAction":"Fiery
owlbear (see the Monster Manual).
Doric can remain in that form for up to 2 hours. She can choose whether her equipment falls to the ground, melds with her new form, or is worn by the new form. Doric
Monsters
Tomb of Annihilation
, taking 55 (10d10);{"diceNotation":"10d10","rollType":"damage","rollAction":"Devastating Roll","rollDamageType":"bludgeoning"} bludgeoning damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful
one.
Immutable Form. The juggernaut is immune to any spell or effect that would alter its form.
Regeneration. As long as it has 1 hit point left, the juggernaut magically regains all its hit points
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
by a use of Spellcasting.
Bite (Spider Form Only). Melee Weapon Attack: +8;{"diceNotation":"1d20+8", "rollType":"to hit", "rollAction":"Bite"} to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 12 (2d8 + 3
);{"diceNotation":"2d8+3", "rollType":"damage", "rollAction":"Bite", "rollDamageType":"piercing"} piercing damage, and the target must make a DC 15 Constitution saving throw, taking 31 (7d8);{"diceNotation
Monsters
Mythic Odysseys of Theros
throw, taking 22 (4d10);{"diceNotation":"4d10","rollType":"damage","rollAction":"Crumbling Destruction","rollDamageType":"bludgeoning"} bludgeoning damage and 22 (4d10);{"diceNotation":"4d10","rollType
fire damage, it takes no damage and instead regains a number of hit points equal to the fire damage dealt.
Immutable Form. The colossus is immune to any spell or effect that would alter its form.
Magic
Monsters
Guildmasters’ Guide to Ravnica
releases energy in an explosion. Each creature within 30 feet of the weird must make a DC 12 Dexterity saving throw, taking 28 (8d6);{"diceNotation":"8d6","rollType":"damage","rollDamageType":"fire
"} fire damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one. The explosion ignites flammable objects in the area that aren't being worn or carried. The weird's size then becomes Medium.
Form
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
-ti Form Only). Melee Weapon Attack: +5;{"diceNotation":"1d20+5", "rollType":"to hit", "rollAction":"Scimitar"} to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 6 (1d6 + 3);{"diceNotation":"1d6+3", "rollType
spell), which lasts for up to 1 minute and can’t be harmed. The target can repeat the saving throw at the end of each of its turns, ending the illusion on a success or taking 11 (2d10
Monsters
Guildmasters’ Guide to Ravnica
radius and dim light for an additional 15 feet.
Lightning Form. The arclight phoenix can move through a space as narrow as 1 inch wide without squeezing. A creature that touches the phoenix or hits it
with a melee attack while within 5 feet of it takes 9 (2d8);{"diceNotation":"2d8","rollType":"damage","rollAction":"Lightning Form","rollDamageType":"lightning"} lightning damage. In addition, the
Monsters
Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
23 Dexterity saving throw, taking 55 (10d10);{"diceNotation":"10d10","rollType":"damage","rollAction":"Unearthly Bile","rollDamageType":"acid"} acid damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on
that area.An emissary’s greater form sheds all pretense of being part of a plane’s reality and openly mocks it. A destructive titan, this form rises in a 25-foot-tall pillar of violent flesh
Monsters
Ghosts of Saltmarsh
Immutable Form. The statue is immune to any spell or effect that would alter its form.Multiattack. The statue makes two attacks: one with its blade and one with its hammer.
Blade. Melee Weapon Attack
the waist, targeting creatures of its choice within 10 feet of it. Each target must make a DC 13 Dexterity saving throw, taking 19 (3d10 + 3);{"diceNotation":"3d10+3","rollType":"damage","rollAction
Monsters
Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
Divine Being. Auril can’t be surprised and can’t be changed into another form against her will.
Divine Rejuvenation. When Auril drops to 0 hit points, her body collapses into shards of
ice, whereupon Auril instantly reappears in her Auril (Third Form);third form, in an unoccupied space within 60 feet of where her second form was destroyed. Her initiative count doesn’t change
Monsters
Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
, taking 22 (4d10);{"diceNotation":"4d10","rollType":"damage","rollAction":"Crumbling Colossus","rollDamageType":"bludgeoning"} bludgeoning damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful
one.
Immutable Form. The statue is immune to any spell or effect that would alter its form.
Magic Resistance. The statue has advantage on saving throws against spells and other magical effects
Monsters
Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
Formed by the Mists. When created, the horror’s body composition takes one of four forms: Aberrant Armor, Loathsome Limbs, Malleable Mass, or Oozing Organs. This form determines certain traits
Constitution saving throw, taking 45 (7d12);{"diceNotation":"7d12","rollType":"damage","rollAction":"Hex Blast","rollDamageType":"necrotic"} necrotic damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a
Monsters
Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
Immutable Form. The colossus is immune to any spell or effect that would alter its form.
Magic Resistance. The colossus has advantage on saving throws against spells and other magical effects
creature in that area must make a DC 22 Dexterity saving throw, taking 58 (9d12);{"diceNotation":"9d12", "rollType":"damage", "rollAction":"Arcane Beam", "rollDamageType":"force"} force damage on a
Monsters
Spelljammer: Adventures in Space
Dexterity saving throw, taking 10 (3d6);{"diceNotation":"3d6","rollType":"damage","rollAction":"Dying Burst","rollDamageType":"acid"} acid damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful
one.
Squeakers. The clown wears shoes that squeak when it walks. The squeaking can be heard out to a range of 30 feet. The squeaking is silenced while the clown’s Phantasmal Form is in
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
Air Form. The tempest can enter a hostile creature’s space and stop there. It can move through a space as narrow as 1 inch wide without squeezing.
Flyby. The tempest doesn’t provoke
tempest is always at the center of a storm 1d6 + 4;{"diceNotation":"1d6+4","rollType":"roll","rollAction":"Living Storm"} miles in diameter. Heavy precipitation in the form of either rain or snow
Monsters
Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
Formed by the Mists. When created, the horror’s body composition takes one of four forms: Aberrant Armor, Loathsome Limbs, Malleable Mass, or Oozing Organs. This form determines certain traits
a 30-foot cone. Each creature in that area must make a DC 15 Constitution saving throw, taking 45 (7d12);{"diceNotation":"7d12","rollType":"damage","rollAction":"Hex Blast","rollDamageType":"necrotic
Monsters
Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
Formed by the Mists. When created, the horror’s body composition takes one of four forms: Aberrant Armor, Loathsome Limbs, Malleable Mass, or Oozing Organs. This form determines certain traits
make a DC 15 Constitution saving throw, taking 45 (7d12);{"diceNotation":"7d12","rollType":"damage","rollAction":"Hex Blast","rollDamageType":"necrotic"} necrotic damage on a failed save, or half as
Monsters
Tyranny of Dragons
Discorporation. When Tiamat drops to 0 hit points or dies, her body is destroyed but her essence travels back to her domain in the Nine Hells, and she is unable to take physical form for a time
).
Black Dragon Head: Acid Breath (Costs 2 Actions). Tiamat exhales acid in a 120-foot line that is 10 feet wide. Each creature in that line must make a DC 27 Dexterity saving throw, taking 67 (15d8
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
Fiery Death and Rebirth. If the phoenix dies, it explodes. Each creature in 60-foot-radius sphere centered on the phoenix must make a DC 20 Dexterity saving throw, taking 22 (4d10);{"diceNotation
is immune to all damage, and after 1d6;{"diceNotation":"1d6", "rollType":"roll", "rollAction":"Days"} days, it hatches a new phoenix.
Fire Form. The phoenix can move through a space as narrow as 1
Monsters
Thieves’ Gallery
Daggersword Flourish with Cleansing Touch if it’s available.
Daggersword. Choose the attack that corresponds to the daggersword’s current form (see Daggersword Shift below):
Longsword. Melee
.
Daggersword Flourish. Choose the option that corresponds to the daggersword’s current form (see Daggersword Shift below):
Longsword. Xenk magically detaches the longsword’s blade from its
Monsters
Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
horrors of the Far Realm rip at the minds of individuals, some of those wayward shreds of thought conglomerate to form an intellect snare. An intellect snare appears as a writhing ball of tentacles
intellect snare targets one creature it is grappling. The target must make a DC 17 Intelligence saving throw, taking 21 (6d6);{"diceNotation":"6d6", "rollType":"damage", "rollAction":"Siphon Thoughts
Monsters
Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
Fire Absorption. Whenever the golem is subjected to fire damage, it takes no damage and instead regains a number of hit points equal to the fire damage dealt.
Immutable Form. The golem is immune to
any spell or effect that would alter its form.
Magic Resistance. The golem has advantage on saving throws against spells and other magical effects.
Magic Weapons. The golem's weapon attacks are magical
Monsters
The Book of Many Things
. Each creature in that cone must make a DC 20 Dexterity saving throw, taking 42 (12d6);{"diceNotation":"12d6", "rollType":"damage", "rollAction":"Mucus Spray", "rollDamageType":"acid"} acid damage on a
feet of Aurnozci must make a DC 20 Dexterity saving throw, taking 18 (4d8);{"diceNotation":"4d8", "rollType":"damage", "rollAction":"Conflagration", "rollDamageType":"fire"} fire damage on a failed save