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                                                     Monsters
                                                    Monster Manual
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                    Resistances. See Living Shadow.
Legendary Resistance (3/Day, or 4/Day in Lair). If the dragon fails a saving throw, it can choose to succeed instead.
Living Shadow. While in Dim Light or Darkness
                                                
                                            
                                        
                                                     Monsters
                                                    Monster Manual
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                    Resistances. See Living Shadow.
Legendary Resistance (3/Day, or 4/Day in Lair). If the dragon fails a saving throw, it can choose to succeed instead.
Living Shadow. While in Dim Light or Darkness
                                                
                                            
                                        
                                                     Spells
                                                    Player’s Handbook
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                     object, it must be Large or smaller, and it can’t be held or carried by an unwilling creature.
The destination you choose must be known to you, and it must be on the same plane of existence as
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     Area. You and your group (or the target object) appear in a different area that’s visually or thematically similar to the target area. You appear in the closest similar place. If you are heading
                                                
                                            
                                        
                                                     Backgrounds
                                                    Player’s Handbook
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                    Ability Scores: Dexterity, Constitution, IntelligenceFeat: AlertSkill Proficiencies: Sleight of Hand and StealthTool Proficiency: Thieves’ ToolsEquipment: Choose A or B: (A) 2 Daggers, Thieves
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                    ’ Tools, Crowbar, 2 Pouches, Traveler’s Clothes, 16 GP; or (B) 50 GP
You eked out a living in dark alleyways, cutting purses or burgling shops. Perhaps you were part of a small gang of
                                                
                                            
                                        
                                                     Monsters
                                                    Monster Manual
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                    Legendary Resistance (3/Day, or 4/Day in Lair). If the vampire fails a saving throw, it can choose to succeed instead.
Shadow Escape. If the vampire drops to 0 Hit Points outside its resting place
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     create sanctuaries apart from the living, whether hidden in cosmopolitan cities or sequestered in ruins where they dwelled in life.
The region containing a vampire’s lair is warped by its presence
                                                
                                            
                                        
                                                     Backgrounds
                                                    Player’s Handbook
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                    Ability Scores: Constitution, Intelligence, CharismaFeat: LuckySkill Proficiencies: Animal Handling and PersuasionTool Proficiency: Navigator's ToolsEquipment: Choose A or B: (A
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     earned a living by buying and selling the raw materials artisans need to practice their craft or finished works from such crafters. You might have transported goods from one place to another (by ship, wagon, or caravan) or bought them from traveling traders and sold them in your own shop.
                                                
                                            
                                        
                                                     Monsters
                                                    Candlekeep Mysteries
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                    Legendary Resistance (2/Day). If Bak Mei fails a saving throw, he can choose to succeed instead.
Special Equipment. Bak Mei carries a staff of striking with 10 charges.
Unarmored Defense. While Bak
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     death, Bak Mei became obsessed with living an unending life. He began collecting texts on the subject, consulting with practitioners of the necromantic arts, and seeking audiences with dark forces.
The
                                                
                                            
                                        
                                                     Monsters
                                                    Guildmasters’ Guide to Ravnica
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                     fails a saving throw, she can choose to succeed instead.
Magic Resistance. Trostani has advantage on saving throws against spells and other magical effects.
Magic Weapons. Trostani’s weapon
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     step magically into one living tree within her reach and emerge from a second living tree within 60 feet of the first tree, appearing in an unoccupied space within 5 feet of the second tree. Both
                                                
                                            
                                        
                                                     Monsters
                                                    The Book of Many Things
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                     one world, one for each card in a Deck of Many Things. As a group, hierophants are sometimes called Sages, but each hierophant is also identified with a particular card. When a hierophant dies, the
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     remaining leaders choose an initiate to fill the position, preferring initiates from the oldest broods.
A new hierophant undergoes a rite similar to the rite of initiation, but only the other
                                                
                                            
                                        
                                                     Monsters
                                                    Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                     target must succeed on a DC 15 Intelligence saving throw or the spell fails and has no effect.According to The Saga of the Dragon Queller, told by giants on some worlds, a disparate group of giants
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     combined their efforts to protect their ancient empire from a particularly vicious dragon. Stone and hill giants hewed a mighty form from living stone. Cloud and frost giants gathered rare metals, and
                                                
                                            
                                        
                                                     Monsters
                                                    Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
                                                    
                                                
                                            
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Dzaan’s Demise. Dzaan’s trouble started after he broke away from his fellow wizards and hired adventurers to scour Icewind Dale for Netherese ruins. One group of them uncovered a buried
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                    . They generally favor undead servants and bodyguards, since they find that undead tend to be more obedient than the living. Dzaan’s bodyguard is a Thayan wight named Krintaas. When Dzaan
                                                
                                            
                                        
                                                     Monsters
                                                    Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                    Legendary Resistance (2/Day). When Ruxithid fails a saving throw, he can choose to succeed instead.
Mental Fortitude. Ruxithid has advantage on saving throws against the charmed and frightened
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     gemstone. Unknown to Ruxithid the Chosen, a new group of mind flayer fanatics that draw power from the Far Realm planted it for him to find. The gemstone lets Ruxithid telepathically communicate with the
                                                
                                            
                                        
                                                     Magic Items
                                                    Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                     60 feet of you, the figurine becomes a living creature in one of two forms (you choose). If there isn’t enough space for the creature where it would appear, the figurine doesn’t become a
                                                
                                            
                                        
                                                     Monsters
                                                    The Book of Many Things
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                     fails a saving throw, it can choose to succeed instead.Multiattack. The champion makes two Blight Staff attacks, two Plague Bolt attacks, or one of each.
Blight Staff. Melee Weapon Attack: +9
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                    ;rival Jyn for power and together can oppose her. The fact that the three champions rarely agree on anything is a major check on the group’s power. Instead of the Grim Harrow acting as a unified
                                                
                                            
                                        
                                                     Monsters
                                                    Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                     opportunity attack;opportunity attacks when it flies out of an enemy’s 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
                                                    Vecna: Eve of Ruin
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                     Resistance (3/Day). If the impaler fails a saving throw, it can choose to succeed instead.Multiattack. The impaler makes one Spike attack and two Wicked Spear attacks.
Spike. Melee Weapon Attack: +11
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                    ", "rollDamageType":"necrotic"} necrotic damage.In the Domains of Dread, practitioners of foul magic perform a profane ritual that turns living creatures into fiendish killers. This ritual necessitates the use of a
                                                
                                            
                                        
                                                     Monsters
                                                    Mythic Odysseys of Theros
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                    Legendary Resistance (2/Day). If Aphemia fails a saving throw, she can choose to succeed instead.
Magic Resistance. Aphemia has advantage on saving throws against spells and other magical
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     travelers and settlements.
Cruel, corpse-eating creatures, harpies endlessly seek their next meal, careless of whether it comes from the living or the dead. With equal zeal, these vicious scavengers set
                                                
                                            
                                        
                                                     Monsters
                                                    Monstrous Compendium Vol. 4: Eldraine Creatures
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                    Legendary Resistance (3/Day). If the hart fails a saving throw, it can choose to succeed instead.Multiattack. The hart makes a Lightning Antlers attack and a Thunder Hooves attack.
Lightning Antlers
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     enormous creatures dwell in these wilds, with the tempest hart being among the most majestic.
A colossal elk with antlers made of living lightning, a tempest hart has a long mane of fine hair that
                                                
                                            
                                        
                                                     Monsters
                                                    Eberron: Rising from the Last War
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                     creature can repeat the saving throw at the end of each of its turns, ending the effect on itself on a success.
Legendary Resistance (3/Day). If Dyrrn fails a saving throw, it can choose to succeed
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                    ;s an illithid parasite living in my brain!”
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“I can feel myself evolving into an aberration.”
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“Aberrations are the only natural things.”
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“A
                                                
                                            
                                        
                                                     Monsters
                                                    Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                     reality, a group of nine mind flayer arcanists used their arcane magic and psionics to weave a new truth. These nine called themselves the Alhoon, and those who follow in their footsteps are referred to by
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     amethyst. The process requires at least three mind flayer arcanists and the sacrifice of an equal number of souls from living victims in a three-day-long ritual of spellcasting and psionic communion. Upon
                                                
                                            
                                        
                                                     Monsters
                                                    Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                    Legendary Resistance (2/Day). If the necrichor fails a saving throw, it can choose to succeed instead.
Rejuvenation. Unless its lifeless remains are splashed with Holy Water (flask);holy water or
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     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
                                                
                                            
                                        
                                                     Monsters
                                                    Storm King's Thunder
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                     resentful of most kinds of magic. Seldom do they choose to become shamans. Instead, the role is thrust upon those who are born with a strong connection to the spirit world. To be a shaman is to stand
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     with one foot in the land of the living and the other in the land of the dead. Those who walk the shadowed path between two lands do so because the spirits of the dead compel them. Other Uthgardt fear
                                                
                                            
                                        
                                                     Monsters
                                                    Curse of Strahd
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                     soldier or knight who perished on the battlefield or died performing its sworn duty. It appears like a translucent version of its living self.
Task Driven. Although one is often mistaken for a ghost, a
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     phantom warrior isn't bound by a yearning to complete some unresolved goal. It can choose to end its undead existence at any time. Its spirit lingers willingly, either out of loyalty to its former
                                                
                                            
                                        
                                                     Monsters
                                                    Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                    Amphibious. The sea serpent can breathe air and water.
Legendary Resistance (2/Day). If the sea serpent fails a saving throw, it can choose to succeed instead.
Siege Monster. The sea serpent deals
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                    . Some can be appeased by offerings of treasure, but most demand that a ship’s crew sacrifice one or more of their own.
Living amid the wreckage of sunken ships or in deep sea caves, sea serpents
                                                
                                            
                                        
                                                     Monsters
                                                    The Book of Many Things
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                     object.
Legendary Resistance (3/Day). If Gremorly fails a saving throw, he can choose to succeed instead.Multiattack. Gremorly makes three Withering Strike attacks.
Withering Strike. Melee Spell Attack
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                    ’s Keep. Gremorly was a necromancer and misanthrope who had little patience for the living; he resolved to use the keep to create and house a ghostly army he would use to seize power. Gremorly
                                                
                                            
                                        
                                                     Monsters
                                                    Mythic Odysseys of Theros
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                     destroyed.
Legendary Resistance (3/Day). If Tromokratis fails a saving throw, it can choose to succeed instead.
Magic Weapons. Tromokratis’s weapon attacks are magical.
Siege Monster. Tromokratis
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     buried it under a stone near the palace of Erebos.
Tromokratis as a Mythic Encounter
Tromokratis numbers among the most powerful creatures a group of adventurers might face. If you wish to make an
                                                
                                            
                                        
                                                     Monsters
                                                    The Book of Many Things
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                    Legendary Resistance (3/Day). If the champion fails a saving throw, it can choose to succeed instead.Multiattack. The champion makes four Blazing Morningstar attacks. It can replace one of these
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     the group’s power. Instead of the Grim Harrow acting as a unified force, each of the three champions usually pursues their own interests, seldom cooperating or sharing intelligence or resources.PoisonCold, Necrotic; Bludgeoning, Piercing, and Slashing from Nonmagical Attacks
                                                
                                            
                                        
                                                     Monsters
                                                    Monstrous Compendium Vol. 1: Spelljammer Creatures
                                                    
                                                
                                            
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Legendary Resistance (3/Day). If the spider fails a saving throw, it can choose to succeed instead.
Unusual Nature. The spider doesn’t require air.Multiattack. The spider makes two Web Strand attacks
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     living brain functions like a spelljamming helm, allowing the spider to travel through Wildspace without a ship. It often haunts asteroid belts, lurking among normal asteroids until a spelljamming ship
                                                
                                            
                                        
                                                     Monsters
                                                    Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                    Legendary Resistance (3/Day). If Velomachus fails a saving throw, she can choose to succeed instead.Multiattack. Velomachus makes one Bite attack and two Claw attacks.
Bite. Melee Weapon Attack: +18
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     exploration and discovery through the lens of creating a direct conduit to the past.
She founded Lorehold College to ensure mortals would never forget the lessons of the past. After living for centuries
                                                
                                            
                                        
                                                     Monsters
                                                    Monstrous Compendium Vol. 1: Spelljammer Creatures
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                    Legendary Resistance (2/Day). If the beast fails a saving throw, it can choose to succeed instead.
Siege Monster. The beast deals double damage to objects and structures.Multiattack. The beast makes
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     gore them with its tusks, but its most devastating attack is its magical ability to disintegrate foes with its terrible gaze.
Powerful spellcasters create nightmare beasts to serve as living siege
                                                
                                            
                                        
                                                     Monsters
                                                    The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                     extraordinarily long, spindly limbs. She must submerge herself in a briny concoction for an hour each day, or her body will dry out until it locks up in a kind of living rictus, and she remains that way until
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     within 10 feet of Bavlorna cause her to lapse into a fit of sneezing. See the stat block for more details.
Hourglass Coven
The Hourglass Coven is a group of three hags, each one bound to an aspect of
                                                
                                            
                                        
                                                     Monsters
                                                    Guildmasters’ Guide to Ravnica
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                     can choose to succeed instead.Life Drain. Melee Weapon Attack: +8;{"diceNotation":"1d20+8","rollType":"to hit","rollAction":"Life Drain"} to hit, reach 5 ft., one creature. Hit: 18 (4d8);{"diceNotation
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     his will.
Grandfather Karlov. The head of the council, who gives final approval to its decisions and breaks ties within the group, is Karlov, known as Grandfather. In life, Karlov was the greediest of
                                                
                                            
                                        
                                                     Monsters
                                                    The Book of Many Things
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                    Legendary Resistance (3/Day). If the champion fails a saving throw, it can choose to succeed instead.Multiattack. The champion makes two Leeching Blade attacks and uses Hollow Void.
Leeching Blade
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     champions rarely agree on anything is a major check on the group’s power. Instead of the Grim Harrow acting as a unified force, each of the three champions usually pursues their own interests, seldom
                                                
                                            
                                        
                                                     Monsters
                                                    Quests from the Infinite Staircase
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                    , he can choose to succeed instead.
Magic Resistance. Nafas has advantage on saving throws against spells and other magical effects.
Noble Genie. Nafas doesn’t suffer any of the penalties that
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     circumstance, Nafas relies on adventurers—whom he considers the living manifestations of a wish granted—to respond to these calls.
To friendly adventurers and weary travelers along the
                                                
                                            
                                        
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                                                     Monsters
                                                    Out of the Abyss
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                     saving throw, he can choose to succeed instead.
Magic Resistance. Orcus has advantage on saving throws against spells and other magical effects.
Magic Weapons. Orcus’s weapon attacks are magical
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     Prince of Undeath, known as the Blood Lord. He takes some pleasure in the sufferings of the living, but far prefers the company and service of the undead. His desire is to see all life quenched and the
                                                
                                            
                                        





