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                                                     Magic Items
                                                    Dungeon Masterâs Guide
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                    A Figurine of Wondrous Power is a statuette small enough to fit in a pocket. If you take a Magic action to throw the figurine to a point on the ground within 60 feet of yourself, the figurine becomes
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     a living creature specified in the figurineâs description below. If the space where the creature would appear is occupied by other creatures or objects, or if there isnât enough space for
                                                
                                            
                                        
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                                                    Eberron: Rising from the Last War
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                     ground and through openings. The fog lasts for 10 minutes or until the living spellâs concentration ends (as if concentrating on a spell).PoisonBludgeoning, Piercing, and Slashing from Nonmagical Attacks
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                    Amorphous. The living spell can move through a space as narrow as 1 inch wide without squeezing.
Magic Resistance. The living spell has advantage on saving throws against spells and other magical
                                                
                                            
                                        
                                                     Monsters
                                                    Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                     creature.A duergar screamer uses sonic energy to grind rock into dust and to hurl invaders to the ground.
Duergar Constructs
Creative duergar engineers have built numerous war machines, including some
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     that can be fused with a duergar. Such a duergar-machine hybrid is fueled by the duergarâs psionic energy, and the duergar inside the machine can psychically channel pain into power when attacked
                                                
                                            
                                        
                                                     Monsters
                                                    Storm King's Thunder
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                     breathing
Thunderous Stomp (Recharge 6);{"diceNotation":"1d6","rollType":"recharge","rollAction":"Thunderous Stomp"}. The storm giant stomps the ground, triggering a thunderclap. All other creatures
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     range of 1,200 feet.Some adult storm giants can channel thunderous power through their bodies and release it with a deafening stomp.Lightning, ThunderCold
                                                
                                            
                                        
                                                     Monsters
                                                    Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                     its turn if it is in contact with the ground. If the wood woad takes fire damage, this trait doesnât function at the start of the wood woadâs next turn. The wood woad dies only if it
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     starts its turn with 0 hit points and doesnât regenerate.
Tree Stride. Once on each of its turns, the wood woad can use 10 feet of its movement to step magically into one living tree within 5 feet
                                                
                                            
                                        
                                                     Monsters
                                                    Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                    Amorphous. The mud hulk can move through a space as narrow as 1 inch without squeezing.
Sticky Mud. The ground within 15 feet of the mud hulk is difficult terrain for other creatures.Enveloping Slam
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     were hill giants who, living in isolation, ate everything within reach until they were forced to subsist on the earth itself. The giantsâ elemental nature asserted itself and transformed them into
                                                
                                            
                                        
                                                     Monsters
                                                    Monstrous Compendium Vol. 1: Spelljammer Creatures
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                     connected to one another.
False Appearance. If the yggdrasti is motionless and rooted in the ground at the start of combat, it looks just like a dead tree and has advantage on its initiative roll. Moreover
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     similar magic, someone might be able to convince an yggdrasti to break off its attack, but the monsterâs innate hatred of other living things is extremely difficult for it to suppress.
Yggdrasti
                                                
                                            
                                        
                                                     Monsters
                                                    Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                     ground below.
A piercer is the larval form of a roper, and the two creatures often attack in tandem. A rock-like shell encases a piercer's body, giving it the look and texture of a stalactite. That
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     from ordinary rock formations.
Patient Hunters. Piercers can see, but they can also respond to noise and heat, waiting for living creatures to pass beneath them, then falling to attack. A piercer
                                                
                                            
                                        
                                                     Magic Items
                                                    Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                     throw the feather into a Large unoccupied space on the ground within 5 feet of you, the feather becomes a living diatryma for up to 6 hours, after which it reverts to its feather form. It reverts to
                                                
                                            
                                        
                                                     Monsters
                                                    Adventure Atlas: The Mortuary
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                     apparitions and their ilk, exorcists channel the forces of death to preserve the living, commune with the dead, and drive evil spirits back to their graves. They can also fire versatile bolts of necrotic or
                                                
                                            
                                        
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                                                    Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                    -like tentacles.
Left undisturbed, a flail snail moves slowly along the ground. It consumes everything on the surface, including rocks, sand, and soil, and it stops periodically to relish crystal growths
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     panes. It can also be heated and spun into other glass objects. Some folk make a living from trailing flail snails to collect this glass.
Using the Shell of a Flail Snail
A flail snail shell weighs
                                                
                                            
                                        
                                                    Orcus
                                                    
    
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                                                    Out of the Abyss
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                     creatures whose combined average hit points donât exceed 500. These undead magically rise up from the ground or otherwise form in unoccupied spaces within 300 feet of Orcus and obey his commands
                                                
                                            
                                                
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A Taste of Undeath. Orcus casts chill touch (17th level).
Creeping Death (Costs 2 Actions). Orcus chooses a point on the ground that he can see within 100 feet of him. A cylinder of swirling
                                                
                                            
                                        
                                                     Monsters
                                                    Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                     creatures whose combined average hit points donât exceed 500. These creatures magically rise up from the ground or otherwise form in unoccupied spaces within 300 feet of Orcus and obey his commands
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     Tail or Necrotic Bolt attack.
Creeping Death (Costs 2 Actions). Orcus chooses a point on the ground that he can see within 100 feet of him. A cylinder of swirling necrotic energy 60 feet tall and
                                                
                                            
                                        
                                                     Magic Items
                                                    Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                    This gold statuette is carved in the likeness of a canary and is small enough to fit in a pocket. If you use an action to speak the command word and throw the figurine to a point on the ground within
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     60 feet of you, the figurine becomes a living creature in one of two forms (you choose). If there isnât enough space for the creature where it would appear, the figurine doesnât become a
                                                
                                            
                                        
                                                     Monsters
                                                    Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                     opportunity attack;opportunity attacks when it flies out of an enemyâs reach.
Legendary Resistance (3/Day). If the tempest fails a saving throw, it can choose to succeed instead.
Living Storm. The
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     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
                                                
                                            
                                        
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                                                    Storm King's Thunder
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                     properties, which work only while itâs on your person.
Indomitable Stand. As an action, you can channel the orbâs magic to hold your ground. For the next minute or until you move any distance
                                                
                                            
                                        
                                                     Monsters
                                                    Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                     cradle defies all their expectations. Like a living volcano, the cradle hurls balls of magma at intruders, exhales fiery gases, and causes molten stone to erupt from the ground around it.
If the
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                    -Shaking Movement. The scion moves up to its speed and then sends a shock wave through the ground in a 60-foot-radius circle centered on itself. Each creature on the ground in that area that is
                                                
                                            
                                        
                                                     Monsters
                                                    Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                    Contamination. The sibriex emits an aura of corruption 30 feet in every direction. Vegetation withers in the aura, and the ground in the aura is difficult terrain for other creatures. Any creature
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     6 levels of exhaustion, it dies and instantly transforms into a living manes (see the Monster Manual) under the sibriexâs control. The transformation of the body can be undone only by a wish
                                                
                                            
                                        
                                                     Monsters
                                                    Van Richtenâs Guide to Ravenloft
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                     where it died 1d12 months later, unless the ground where it took root is sown with salt or soaked with poison.
Unusual Nature. The plant doesnât require sleep.Multiattack. The plant makes three
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     exhaustion for each hour it spends in the pod. If the target dies while enveloped, it immediately emerges from the pod as a living podling, wearing or carrying all of the original creatureâs equipment
                                                
                                            
                                        
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                                                    Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                    ;s volcano, or misguided fire cultists offer sacrifices meant to appease or awaken the volcano, and the awakened cradle defies all their expectations. Like a living volcano, the cradle hurls balls of
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     magma at intruders, exhales fiery gases, and causes molten stone to erupt from the ground around it.
If the cradle is destroyed, the scion of Surtur inside it awakens. Standing 60 feet tall, the scion
                                                
                                            
                                        
                                                     Monsters
                                                    Spelljammer: Adventures in Space
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                     spent legendary actions at the start of its turn.
Tail Attack. The dragon makes one Tail attack.
Treacherous Ice. Magical ice covers the ground in a 20-foot radius centered on a point the dragon can
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     and heat vents, wild gardens, crystal formations, magical phenomena, or an ecosystem of lesser life forms that have adapted to living with the dragon.
Regional Effects
The region containing an
                                                
                                            
                                        
                                                     Monsters
                                                    Spelljammer: Adventures in Space
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                     spent legendary actions at the start of its turn.
Tail Attack. The dragon makes one Tail attack.
Treacherous Ice. Magical ice covers the ground in a 20-foot radius centered on a point the dragon
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     contain natural springs and heat vents, wild gardens, crystal formations, magical phenomena, or an ecosystem of lesser life forms that have adapted to living with the dragon.
Regional Effects
The region
                                                
                                            
                                        
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                                                    Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                    , seeking to mold and shape stone into beautiful elegance. If it needs more raw materials, the scion can transform a living creature in its palm into stone.
Regional Effects
The region surrounding a scion
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     a shock wave through the ground in a 60-footradius circle centered on itself. Each creature on the ground in that area that is concentrating must succeed on a DC 24 Constitution saving throw or lose concentration.
                                                
                                            
                                        
                                                     Monsters
                                                    Van Richtenâs Guide to Ravenloft
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                     until the target finishes a long rest. The target dies if its hit point maximum is reduced to 0. A Humanoid slain in this way and then buried in the ground rises as a nosferatu after 1d10
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     their lairâs comfort. Rather than retiring to crypts, they seek filthy or inaccessible fissures, places any living soul would avoid.
For a few moments after feeding, nosferatu are lucid and
                                                
                                            
                                        
                                                     Monsters
                                                    Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                    , animating the statue and turning it into a useful guardian.
Stone cursed possess a malevolent drive to slay the living, yet they are utterly loyal to whoever performed the ritual to animate them, and
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     while the stone cursed is active, but when it is slain, the statue shatters and the skull clatters to the ground. Because it is the nexus for the alchemy used to create these horrors, a faint echo of the
                                                
                                            
                                        
                                                     Monsters
                                                    Tyranny of Dragons
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                    -undead creature within 10 feet of him that can hear the magical utterance must succeed on a DC 16 Constitution saving throw or be stunned until the end of his next turn.
Channel Negative Energy
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                    ; the mummy lord canât use the same effect two rounds in a row.
Each undead creature in the lair can pinpoint the location of each living creature within 120 feet of it until initiative count 20
                                                
                                            
                                        
                                                     Monsters
                                                    Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                     ooze, a noxious creature that doesnât care about the plots and schemes of others of its kind. It exists only to consume, digesting and transforming living matter into more of itself.
A true
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     Juiblex chooses within the lair. The slime disintegrates after 1 hour.
Slippery Slime. Juiblex slimes a square area of ground it can see within the lair. The area can be up to 10 feet on a side. When
                                                
                                            
                                        
                                                     Monsters
                                                    Candlekeep Mysteries
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                     magical utterance must succeed on a DC 16 Constitution saving throw or be stunned until the end of Valinâs next turn.
Channel Negative Energy (Costs 2 Actions). Valin magically unleashes negative
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     effects; Valin canât use the same effect two rounds in a row.
Each undead creature in the lair can pinpoint the location of each living creature within 120 feet of it until initiative count 20
                                                
                                            
                                        
                                                     Monsters
                                                    Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                    -undead creature within 10 feet of the mummy lord that can hear the magical utterance must succeed on a DC 16 Constitution saving throw or be stunned until the end of the mummy lord's next turn.
Channel
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     living creature within 120 feet of it until initiative count 20 on the next round.
Each undead in the lair has advantage on saving throws against effects that turn undead until initiative count 20 on the
                                                
                                            
                                        
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                                                    Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                     scion continues to pursue the art that ornamented its dreams, seeking to mold and shape stone into beautiful elegance. If it needs more raw materials, the scion can transform a living creature in its
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                    . The cradle causes the ground in a 20-foot square within 90 feet of itself to sprout crystal spikes until the start of its next turn. The area becomes difficult terrain for the duration. A creature
                                                
                                            
                                        
                                                     Magic Items
                                                    Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                     action, you can throw a prehistoric figurine of wondrous power to a point on the ground within 60 feet of yourself while speaking a command word, whereupon the figurine magically transforms into a
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     living creature. If the space where the creature would appear is occupied by other creatures or objects, or if there isnât enough space for the creature, the figurine doesnât become a creature
                                                
                                            
                                        
                                                    Juiblex
                                                    
    
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                                                    Out of the Abyss
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                     others of its kind. It exists only to consume, digesting and transforming living matter into more of itself.
A true horror, Juiblex is a mass of bubbling slime, swirling black and green, with glaring
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     initiative ties), Juiblex can take a lair action to cause one of the following effects; it canât use the same effect two rounds in a row:
Juiblex slimes a square area of ground it can see within the
                                                
                                            
                                        
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                                                    Princes of the Apocalypse
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                    Amphibious. The dragon can breathe air and water.
Legendary Resistance (3/Day). If the dragon fails a saving throw, it can choose to succeed instead.
Living Shadow. While in dim light or darkness
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     following effects; the dragon canât use the same effect two rounds in a row:
Pools of water that the dragon can see within 120 feet of it surge outward in a grasping tide. Any creature on the ground
                                                
                                            
                                        
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                                                    Eberron: Rising from the Last War
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                     canât use the same effect two rounds in a row:
Dyrrn uses its Corruption action.
A 30-foot-square area of ground within 120 feet of Dyrrn sprouts tentacles until initiative count 20 on the
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                    ;s an illithid parasite living in my brain!â
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âI can feel myself evolving into an aberration.â
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âAberrations are the only natural things.â
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âA
                                                
                                            
                                        
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                                                    Quests from the Infinite Staircase
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                    , sacrificing their own to appease their so-called god. Appeased by these living offerings, Zargon returned to the tunnels beneath Cynidicea, where its cult grew.Zargonâs Lair
Zargonâs lair
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     lower affecting the targets end.
Sucking Slime. Zargon creates a 20-foot-radius puddle of slime on the ground centered on a point within the lair. The slime is difficult terrain, and each creature in
                                                
                                            
                                        






