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Dungeon Master’s Guide
an evil dragon, a presence that resents any attempt to coax magic from it. Those who try to wield an orb’s magic but lack sufficient force of personality might find themselves under the orb&rsquo
;s control.
An orb is an etched crystal globe about 10 inches in diameter. When used, it grows to about 20 inches in diameter, and mist swirls inside it.
While attuned to an orb, you can take a
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Dungeon Master’s Guide
apart, forming a ladder. The pole can bear up to 4,000 pounds. More weight or lack of solid anchoring causes the rod to revert to its normal form.
Button 5. The rod transforms into a handheld battering
are set in a row along the haft. It has three other properties as well, detailed below.
Buttons. You can press one of the following buttons as a Bonus Action; a button’s effect lasts until you
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Spelljammer: Adventures in Space
they can be trained to serve as mounts and beasts of burden. Gnomes have tried to build spelljamming ships powered by giant space hamster wheels, so far without success.
Space Hamsters
Space
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Spelljammer: Adventures in Space
","rollAction":"Malfunction"} to determine if it suffers a malfunction:
1–10: “All Fine Here!” No malfunction occurs.
11–12: “My Mind Is Going. I Can Feel It.” The autognome
is incapacitated for 1 minute.
13–14: “You’ve Disarmed Me!” One of the autognome’s arms falls off, reducing the number of Shock attacks it can make by 1 until a creature
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Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
Special Equipment. Nezznar has a fully charged spider staff (see appendix B).
Fey Ancestry. Nezznar has advantage on saving throws to avoid or end the charmed condition on himself, and magic can
, magic missile, suggestionThe Spider—a drow mastermind named Nezznar—is searching Wave Echo Cave for the Forge of Spells, a magical forge that was used by dwarves and gnomes in bygone days to
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Monstrous Compendium Vol. 2: Dragonlance Creatures
Always Thinking Ahead. The inventor has advantage on initiative rolls.Multiattack. The inventor makes two Flying Fangtrap attacks. It can replace one of these attacks with Thunderscream Gadget if it
one.Flash Powder. If the inventor is damaged by a creature it can see within 15 feet of itself, the inventor retaliates by flinging brilliantly explosive powder at the creature. The creature must succeed
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Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
Howdah. The ogre carries a compact fort on its back. Up to four Small creatures can ride in the fort without squeezing. To make a melee attack against a target within 5 feet of the ogre, they must
);deep gnomes (all three appear in the Monster Manual), but they might also transport other Small folk.
Ogres of War
Ogres love to rush headlong into battle, but with enough time and patience, some
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Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
Amorphous. The oblex can move through a space as narrow as 1 inch wide without squeezing.
Aversion to Fire. If the oblex takes fire damage, it has disadvantage on attack rolls and ability checks
personality it has absorbed or else become uncontrolled and erratic. This act spawns a new oblex.
Newly formed oblexes lack the capabilities of their older kin. They seek only to feed on memories and
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Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
environments abundant with life. They share apes’ adeptness at climbing, although few trees can support the weight of these half-ton creatures. The ruins of cities, especially those found in deep
forests and jungles, seem to attract girallons. They see a city’s buildings as a superior sort of forest whose uppermost “branches” can safely support them. The creatures can easily
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Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
clockwork with alchemical concoctions that can paralyze creatures and cloud the mind.
Clockworks
Gnomes’ tinkering with magic and mechanical devices has produced many failed Constructs but
":"roll", "rollAction":"Bite (Random Effect)"}):
1–2: Confusion. On its next turn, the target must use its action to make one weapon attack against a random creature it can see within 30 feet
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Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
Spider Climb. The dragon can climb difficult surfaces, including upside down on ceilings, without needing to make an ability check.
Tunneler. The dragon can burrow through solid rock at
half its burrowing speed and can leave a 5-foot-diameter tunnel in its wake.Bite. Melee Weapon Attack: +5;{"diceNotation":"1d20+5", "rollType":"to hit", "rollAction":"Bite"} to hit, reach 5 ft
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Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
a beholder, an oculorb can fire beams of energy from its eyes, but an oculorb’s eyes lack the more sophisticated magical nature of a beholder’s eyestalks. Instead, an oculorb unleashes powerful waves of energy charged with negative emotions, cowing its foes with despair and ire.
Magic Resistance. The oculorb has advantage on saving throws against spells and other magical effects.
Watchful Eyes. The oculorb has advantage on initiative rolls and can’t be surprise
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Acquisitions Incorporated
Special Equipment. K'thriss wears a robe of stars (accounted for in his statistics). The robe allows him to cast the following spells:
6/day: magic missile (7 missiles)
Awakened Mind. K'thriss can
telepathically speak to any creature he can see within 30 feet of him, provided the creature can understand at least one language.
Fey Ancestry. K'thriss has advantage on saving throws against being
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The Book of Many Things
Card Sense. The riffler can smell the presence of magical cards, including Deck of Many Things;Decks of Many Things and other magical decks, within 1 mile of itself. It knows the direction to any
such cards in that range. Effects that protect a target from divination magic block this sense.
Riffling Step. The riffler can burrow through any nonmagical material that isn’t iron, shuffling the
Monsters
Monstrous Compendium Vol. 4: Eldraine Creatures
/Day). If the wurm fails a saving throw, it can choose to succeed instead.
Regeneration. The wurm regains 20 hit points at the start of its turn if it has at least 1 hit point. If the wurm takes fire or
wurm’s turns from thorns in the wurm’s gullet.
The wurm’s stomach can hold up to two creatures at a time. If the wurm takes 30 damage or more on a single turn from a creature inside it
Monsters
Mythic Odysseys of Theros
Petrifying Gaze. When a creature that can see the medusa's eyes starts its turn within 30 feet of the medusa, the medusa can force it to make a DC 14 Constitution saving throw if the medusa isn't
incapacitated and can see the creature. If the saving throw fails by 5 or more, the creature is instantly petrified. Otherwise, a creature that fails the save begins to turn to stone and is restrained
Monsters
Monstrous Compendium Vol. 2: Dragonlance Creatures
creature can use its action to scrape the sludge off itself or another creature within 5 feet of itself.Multiattack. The draconian makes two Claw attacks.
Claw. Melee Weapon Attack: +8;{"diceNotation
its speed. The draconian can enter creatures’ spaces during this move. During this movement, when the draconian enters a creature’s space, the creature must make a DC 14 Dexterity saving
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Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
previous existence.
For reasons unknown, ceremorphosis can go awry when an illithid tadpole is implanted in the brain of a gnome. This deviation might be due to the quasi-magical nature of gnomes, or
Innate Spellcasting (Psionics). The ceremorph’s innate spellcasting ability is Intelligence (spell save DC 15). It can innately cast the following spells, requiring no components:
At will
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Out of the Abyss
, the gem can’t be imbued again until the next dawn.
Deep gnomes created these magic gemstones and keep the creation process a secret.
A spell gem can contain one spell from any class’s spell list. You become aware of the spell when you learn the gem’s properties. While holding the gem, you can cast the spell from it as
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Monstrous Compendium Vol. 2: Dragonlance Creatures
Always Thinking Ahead. The mastermind has advantage on initiative rolls.
Spider Climb. The mastermind can climb difficult surfaces, including upside down on ceilings, without needing to make an
ability check. This trait doesn’t function if the mastermind is grappling creatures in both of its clockwork claws.Multiattack. The mastermind makes two Clockwork Claw attacks. The mastermind can
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Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
beneath the earth can easily find themselves at odds with a sapphire dragon if they cross into the dragon’s territory. But sapphire dragons sometimes forge peaceful relationships with rock gnomes
Spider Climb. The dragon can climb difficult surfaces, including upside down on ceilings, without needing to make an ability check.
Tunneler. The dragon can burrow through solid rock at half its
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Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
protect that creature. Great strength and a ferocious nature make gray renders fierce guardians, but they lack a shred of cunning.
Gray renders reproduce by forming nodules on their bodies that, on
ship’s hull, attack out of jealousy, or worse.
The Gray Render Quirks table presents possible quirks for gray renders that can be generated randomly or selected as desired.
Gray Render Quirks
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Out of the Abyss
gem can’t be imbued again until the next dawn.
Deep gnomes created these magic gemstones and keep the creation process a secret.
A spell gem can contain one spell from any class’s spell list. You become aware of the spell when you learn the gem’s properties. While holding the gem, you can cast the spell from it as
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Out of the Abyss
, the gem can’t be imbued again until the next dawn.
Deep gnomes created these magic gemstones and keep the creation process a secret.
A spell gem can contain one spell from any class’s spell list. You become aware of the spell when you learn the gem’s properties. While holding the gem, you can cast the spell from it as
Magic Items
Out of the Abyss
A spell gem can contain one spell from any class’s spell list. You become aware of the spell when you learn the gem’s properties. While holding the gem, you can cast the spell from it as
the gem.
If the spell is of a higher level than you can normally cast, you must make an ability check using your spellcasting ability to determine whether you cast it successfully. The DC equals 10
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Out of the Abyss
spell, the gem can’t be imbued again until the next dawn.
Deep gnomes created these magic gemstones and keep the creation process a secret.
A spell gem can contain one spell from any class’s spell list. You become aware of the spell when you learn the gem’s properties. While holding the gem, you can cast the spell from it as
Magic Items
Out of the Abyss
, the gem can’t be imbued again until the next dawn.
Deep gnomes created these magic gemstones and keep the creation process a secret.
A spell gem can contain one spell from any class’s spell list. You become aware of the spell when you learn the gem’s properties. While holding the gem, you can cast the spell from it as
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Out of the Abyss
, the gem can’t be imbued again until the next dawn.
Deep gnomes created these magic gemstones and keep the creation process a secret.
A spell gem can contain one spell from any class’s spell list. You become aware of the spell when you learn the gem’s properties. While holding the gem, you can cast the spell from it as
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Out of the Abyss
can’t be imbued again until the next dawn.
Deep gnomes created these magic gemstones and keep the creation process a secret.
A spell gem can contain one spell from any class’s spell list. You become aware of the spell when you learn the gem’s properties. While holding the gem, you can cast the spell from it as
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Out of the Abyss
spell, the gem can’t be imbued again until the next dawn.
Deep gnomes created these magic gemstones and keep the creation process a secret.
A spell gem can contain one spell from any class’s spell list. You become aware of the spell when you learn the gem’s properties. While holding the gem, you can cast the spell from it as
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Out of the Abyss
spell, the gem can’t be imbued again until the next dawn.
Deep gnomes created these magic gemstones and keep the creation process a secret.
A spell gem can contain one spell from any class’s spell list. You become aware of the spell when you learn the gem’s properties. While holding the gem, you can cast the spell from it as
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Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
;t reduced, but it can move only in directions that bring it closer to the clockwork. A creature takes 5 (1d10);{"diceNotation":"1d10", "rollType":"damage", "rollAction":"Harpoon", "rollDamageType
":"slashing"} slashing damage if it escapes from the grapple or if it tries and fails. The clockwork can grapple only one creature at a time with its harpoon.
Explosive Bolt (Recharge 5–6);{"diceNotation
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attacker.The thick plates of stone riveted onto a stone defender give it substantial protection. Its chief role is as a bodyguard.
Clockworks
Gnomes’ tinkering with magic and mechanical devices has
.
Individual Designs
Gnome artisans prefer unique clockworks over perfectly functioning ones that copy too much from other creations. A clockwork can be customized by adding one of the following
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Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
. If detected, it sends electrical shocks through the ground toward pursuers while it retreats.
Clockworks
Gnomes’ tinkering with magic and mechanical devices has produced many failed
artisans prefer unique clockworks over perfectly functioning ones that copy too much from other creations. A clockwork can be customized by adding one of the following enhancements and one potential
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Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
succeeds on this saving throw automatically if Bael wishes it or if he is incapacitated.
Legendary Resistance (3/Day). If Bael fails a saving throw, he can choose to succeed instead.
Magic Resistance
", "rollDamageType":"necrotic"} necrotic damage.
Infernal Command. Each of Bael’s allies within 60 feet of him can’t be charmed or frightened until the end of his next turn.
Spellcasting. Bael casts