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Dungeon Masterâs Guide
When you take a Magic action to read this scroll, a particular titan named in the scroll appears in an unoccupied space on the ground or in water that you can see within 1 mile of yourself. The DM
disappears when it drops to 0 Hit Points. If the titan is summoned into a space that isnât large enough to contain it, the summoning fails, and the scroll is wasted.
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Titan
01-15
Spells
Playerâs Handbook
You hide a chest and all its contents on the Ethereal Plane. You must touch the chest and the miniature replica that serve as Material components for the spell. The chest can contain up to 12 cubic
unoccupied space on the ground within 5 feet of you. You can send the chest back to the Ethereal Plane by taking a Magic action to touch the chest and the replica.
After 60 days, there is a cumulative 5
Spells
Playerâs Handbook
is entombed beneath the earth in a hollow globe of magical force that is just large enough to contain the target. Nothing can pass into or out of the globe.
Chaining. Chains firmly rooted in the
ground hold the target in place. The target has the Restrained condition and canât be moved by any means.
Hedged Prison. The target is trapped in a demiplane that is warded against teleportation
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
Monsters
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
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
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
contains ample space for food, as well as one or more hidden chambers where the dragon keeps its treasure. Depending on the composition and features of the moon, the lair might contain natural springs
Monsters
Spelljammer: Adventures in Space
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
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
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
Van Richtenâs Guide to Ravenloft
each of its turns, detaching from the necrichor and forcing it to move into the nearest unoccupied space on a success.A necrichor is a being of living blood, formed from the ichor of evil gods or the
, though, the knowledge of what these prisons contain and where some lie have been lost. And every imprisoned necrichor understands that its captivity might be lengthy, but time is of little consequence to the ageless.Acid, Necrotic
Monsters
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
.
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
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
damage and isnât knocked prone. The water spreads out across the ground in all directions, extinguishing unprotected flames in its area and within 250 feet of it, and then it vanishes.The leviathan
gigantic serpent.
Usually found only on the Elemental Plane of Water, a leviathan sometimes swims through a portal to another world, where tritons, sea elves, and other aquatic folk attempt to contain it
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
Monsters
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
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
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
The Book of Many Things
âll be found by mortals who are desperate for power and ripe for corruption.
Malaxxix seeks the Books of Keeping: ancient tomes that contain the true names of all yugoloths. To this end, it
palanquin. The target gains 19 (3d12);{"diceNotation":"3d12", "rollType":"roll", "rollAction":"Reassemble"} temporary hit points.
Slam. Malaxxix commands the palanquin to slam the ground. Each creature
Monsters
Storm King's Thunder
contain numerous caves, two of them large enough for Klauth to shelter in. He keeps his legendary hoard in tunnels beneath one cavern, which can be entered only by lifting or pushing aside a massive slab of
lair action to cause one of the following effects; the dragon canât use the same effect two rounds in a row:
Magma erupts from a point on the ground the dragon can see within 120 feet of it
Monsters
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
Monsters
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
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
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
, which can contain ancient relics of immense power.
Creating a Sapphire Dragon
Use the Sapphire Dragon Personality Traits and Sapphire Dragon Ideals tables to inspire your portrayal of distinctive
become a young sapphire dragon;young sapphire dragon's feeding ground.
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A young sapphire dragon and a hobgoblin warlord have become friends. The hobgoblin visits regularly to trade war stories
Monsters
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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