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Spells
Player’s Handbook
Flame-like radiance descends on a creature that you can see within range. The target must succeed on a Dexterity saving throw or take 1d8 Radiant damage. The target gains no benefit from Half Cover
or Three-Quarters Cover for this save.
Cantrip Upgrade. The damage increases by 1d8 when you reach levels 5 (2d8), 11 (3d8), and 17 (4d8).
Magic Items
Dungeon Master’s Guide
One vial of this oil can cover one Medium or smaller creature, along with the equipment it’s wearing and carrying (one additional vial is required for each size category above Medium). Applying
the oil takes 10 minutes. The affected creature then gains the effect of the Freedom of Movement spell for 8 hours.
Alternatively, the oil can be poured on the ground as a Magic action, where it
Spells
Player’s Handbook
You create 45 pounds of food and 30 gallons of fresh water on the ground or in containers within range—both useful in fending off the hazards of malnutrition and dehydration. The food is bland
but nourishing and looks like a food of your choice, and the water is clean. The food spoils after 24 hours if uneaten.
Spells
Player’s Handbook
You make terrain in an area up to 1 mile square look, sound, smell, and even feel like some other sort of terrain. Open fields or a road could be made to resemble a swamp, hill, crevasse, or some
other rough or impassable terrain. A pond can be made to seem like a grassy meadow, a precipice like a gentle slope, or a rock-strewn gully like a wide and smooth road.
Similarly, you can alter the
Spells
Player’s Handbook
This spell creates a circular, horizontal plane of force, 3 feet in diameter and 1 inch thick, that floats 3 feet above the ground in an unoccupied space of your choice that you can see within range
. The disk remains for the duration and can hold up to 500 pounds. If more weight is placed on it, the spell ends, and everything on the disk falls to the ground.
The disk is immobile while you are
Equipment
an Oil flask on level ground to cover a 5-foot-square area within 5 feet of yourself. If lit, the oil burns until the end of the turn 2 rounds from when the oil was lit (or 12 seconds) and deals 5 Fire
Monsters
Monster Manual
originating from a point on the ground within 150 feet. Failure: 18 (4d8);{"diceNotation":"4d8", "rollType":"damage", "rollAction":"Swallowing Earth", "rollDamageType":"Bludgeoning"} Bludgeoning damage plus 18
target has the Restrained condition, has Total Cover, and is suffocating. As an action, a buried creature or another creature within 5 feet of it can make a DC 18 Strength (Athletics) check. On a
Magic Items
Dungeon Master’s Guide
magic of the deck functions only if its cards are drawn at random. You can take a Magic action to draw a card at random from the deck and throw it to the ground at a point within 30 feet of yourself. An
illusion of a creature, determined by rolling on the Deck of Illusions table, forms over the thrown card and remains until dispelled. The illusory creature created by the card looks and behaves like a
Spells
Player’s Handbook
ground hold the target in place. The target has the Restrained condition and can’t be moved by any means.
Hedged Prison. The target is trapped in a demiplane that is warded against teleportation
and planar travel. The demiplane is your choice of a labyrinth, a cage, a tower, or the like.
Minimus Containment. The target becomes 1 inch tall and is trapped inside an indestructible gemstone or a
Magic Items
Dungeon Master’s Guide
This object looks like a feather. Different types of feather tokens exist, each with a different single-use effect. The DM chooses the kind of token or determines it randomly by rolling on the Quaal
. The token disappears, and a 50-foot-long, 20-foot-wide boat shaped like a swan takes its place. The boat is self-propelled and moves across water at a speed of 6 miles per hour. You can take a Magic
Magic Items
Dungeon Master’s Guide
still seek to work Vecna’s will in the world.
The Eye of Vecna and the Hand of Vecna are separate Artifacts that might be found together or separately. The eye looks like a bloodshot organ torn
your body, devours it, and then takes control of the body like a puppet. If that happens, you become an NPC under the DM’s control.
Eye of Vecna Spells
Spell
Charge Cost
Magic Items
Dungeon Master’s Guide
functions like a nonmagical weapon of its kind for anyone other than its chosen bearer.
A Moonblade has one rune on it for each bearer it has willingly served (typically 1d6 + 1). The first rune grants a
cause the Moonblade to flash brightly. Each other creature that is within 30 feet of you and not behind Total Cover must succeed on a DC 15 Constitution saving throw or have the Blinded condition for 1
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
creatures, or eight Tiny creatures. A creature inside a cavity has three-quarters cover against attacks and other effects that originate outside the cavity. The yggdrasti’s cavities aren’t
Monsters
Monstrous Compendium Vol. 4: Eldraine Creatures
":"recharge", "rollAction":"Tendrils of Slumber"}. The nightmare haunt creates spectral tendrils that cover the ground in a 20-foot square that it can see within 30 feet of itself for 1 minute or until it
or take 11 (2d10);{"diceNotation":"2d10", "rollType":"damage", "rollAction":"Tendrils of Slumber", "rollDamageType":"necrotic"} necrotic damage and have the restrained condition. The affected ground
Monsters
Storm King's Thunder
bolts.Duck and Cover. Beldora adds 2 to her AC against one ranged attack that would hit her. To do so, Beldora must see the attacker and can’t be grappled or restrained.
Roleplaying Information
Beldora is a member of the Harpers who survives using her wits and wiles. She looks like a homeless waif, but she’s a survivor who shies away from material wealth.
Ideal: “We should all
Monsters
Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
titanic sauropod often likened to a walking mountain, with craggy spines, patterns of elemental energy that glow in its hide like streams of lava, and eight massive legs the size of ancient trees. It
creates gullies where its tail drags along the ground. Clouds often seem to gather around its head, which can reach as high as 150 feet off the ground.
Dinosaurs
When Annam’s children first
Magic Items
Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything
This silver implement is shaped like a tree branch and is strung with small golden bells. The branch is a spellcasting focus for your spells while you hold it.
The branch has 3 charges, and it
, constructs, elementals, fey, fiends, or undead within 60 feet of you. If such creatures are present and don’t have total cover from you, the bells ring softly, their tone indicating the creature types present.
As an action, you can expend 1 charge to cast protection from evil and good.
Monsters
The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
Crossbow. Ranged Weapon Attack: +5;{"diceNotation":"1d20+5", "rollType":"to hit", "rollAction":"Light Crossbow"} to hit (the target gains no benefit from less than total cover), range 320 ft., one
, ready to pick off targets from a safe distance.
These snipers are so adept with their crossbows that their targets gain no benefit from less than total cover against ranged attacks the harengons make
Monsters
Keys from the Golden Vault
spell save DC or fall unconscious for 1 minute.
Ashen Creature. When the armor drops to 0 hit points, it is reduced to a pile of ash, and any equipment it was wearing or carrying falls to the ground
"} bludgeoning damage.This suit of magically animated plate armor clamors as it moves, banging and grinding like the vengeful spirit of a fallen knight.Fire, Poison, Psychic
Monsters
Keys from the Golden Vault
spell save DC or fall unconscious for 1 minute.
Ashen Creature. When the sword drops to 0 hit points, it is reduced to a pile of ash, and any equipment it was wearing or carrying falls to the ground
animated flying sword dances through the air, fighting like a warrior that can’t be injured.Fire, Poison, Psychic
Monsters
Storm King's Thunder
the giant, the giant can, with a successful DC 10 Dexterity saving throw, catch the missile and take no bludgeoning damage from it.Some adult stone giants like to grab enemies and fling them through the air. They can also roll boulders across the ground, striking multiple enemies in a line.
.
Rolling Rock. The giant sends a rock tumbling along the ground in a 30-foot line that is 5 feet wide. Each creature in that line must make a DC 17 Dexterity saving throw, taking 22 (3d10 + 6);{"diceNotation
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
shell protects a soft, slug-like upper body that lets the piercer move across cavern walls and ceilings to position itself for prey. With its eye and mouth closed, the piercer is difficult to distinguish
Magic Items
Mythic Odysseys of Theros
the creatures pulling them work like controlled mounts, as described in the mounted combat rules in the Player’s Handbook, but with the following differences:
Mounting or dismounting a chariot
costs you 5 feet of movement, rather than a number of feet equal to half your speed.
Being mounted on a chariot grants you half cover.
A chariot’s speed is equal to the speed of the slowest
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
cover most of their bodies. Because they carry their homes on their backs, tortles feel little need to stay put for long.
Most tortles like to see how other folk live. A tortle can spend decades away
action it can take is a bonus action to emerge.The tortle here represents a warrior, especially the sort who travels far and wide.
Tortles
Tortles are omnivorous, turtle-like bipeds with shells that
Magic Items
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
This potion looks like liquid gold, with a single scale from a chromatic, gem, or metallic dragon suspended in it. When you drink this potion, you transform into an adult dragon of the same kind as
the dragon the scale came from. The transformation lasts for 1 hour. Any equipment you are wearing or carrying melds into your new form or falls to the ground (your choice). For the duration, you use
Monsters
Dragon of Icespire Peak
Archer. A longbow or shortbow deals one extra die of its damage when Falcon hits with it (included in his longbow attack).
Sharpshooter. Falcon's ranged weapon attacks ignore half cover and three
trimmed beard. Falcon moves with the casual confidence of one who fears nothing, and he greets every concern with nonplussed indifference. He loves good wine and treats other people as he would like to be
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
creatures whose combined average hit points don’t 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
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
around them.
Tortles
Tortles are omnivorous, turtle-like bipeds with shells that cover most of their bodies. Because they carry their homes on their backs, tortles feel little need to stay put for
long.
Most tortles like to see how other folk live. A tortle can spend decades away from their native land without feeling homesick, often viewing their current companions as their family.
Monsters
Guildmasters’ Guide to Ravnica
anchored to the ground that comes within 30 feet of the moving wurm for the first time on a turn takes 10 (3d6);{"diceNotation":"3d6","rollType":"damage","rollAction":"Earth Tremors","rollDamageType
. A swallowed creature is blinded and restrained, has total cover against attacks and other effects outside the wurm, and takes 17 (5d6);{"diceNotation":"5d6","rollType":"damage","rollAction":"Bite
Monsters
Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus
. Although small, redcaps have formidable strength.
In the Feywild, or in places where that plane touches another plane at a fey crossing, one or more redcaps might appear where fresh blood soaks the ground
. At first, new redcaps look like tiny, bloodstained mushrooms just pushing their caps out of the soil. When moonlight shines on one of these caps, a creature that looks like a wizened and undersized
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
Filament.A cave fisher is a subterranean arachnid with a long snout that houses spinnerets, enabling the creature to produce sticky filaments, much like the strands of a spider;spider's webbing
cover a large area with filaments, but as soon as one captures potential food, every cave fisher in the area competes for the prize. If a victim escapes from the initial ambush, a cave fisher can
Monsters
Candlekeep Mysteries
strong ties to the Inner Planes and the blood of genies flowing through their veins. Like the marids of the Elemental Plane of Water, Zikran is turbulent and unpredictable.
He carries a handheld magic
device that controls the elemental cannon. This device, shown in the accompanying illustration, looks like a metal rod with a tip shaped like a bird’s head.Elemental Cannon. On initiative count 20
Monsters
Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
still thrums through their being and manifests in colorful, scar-like lines on their towering bodies. Some of these ancient dinosaurs persist in timeless jungles, hidden enclaves, and other lands
the regisaur. Hit: The regisaur swallows the target, and the grapple ends. A swallowed creature has the blinded and restrained conditions, it has total cover against attacks and other effects outside
Magic Items
Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
click whenever the die is cast.
The dodecahedron can be hurled up to 60 feet as an action. A random magical effect occurs when the die comes to rest after rolling across the ground for at least
cover against the attack.
7–8
The dodecahedron casts shocking grasp (+5 to hit) on the next creature that touches it.
9–10
The dodecahedron casts
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
shield.
A flail snail shell can also be used to make a robe of scintillating colors. The shell is ground and added to the dye applied to the fabric. The powder is also a material component of the ritual that enchants the robe.Fire, Poison