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Monster Manual
all its heads are dead. At the end of each of its turns when it has at least one living head, the hydra grows two heads for each of its heads that died since its last turn, unless it has taken Fire
damage since its last turn. The hydra regains 20 Hit Points when it grows new heads.
Reactive Heads. For each head the hydra has beyond one, it gets an extra Reaction that can be used only for
Species
Player’s Handbook
Dwarves were raised from the earth in the elder days by a deity of the forge. Called by various names on different worlds—Moradin, Reorx, and others—that god gave dwarves an affinity for
stone and metal and for living underground. The god also made them resilient like the mountains, with a life span of about 350 years.
Squat and often bearded, the original dwarves carved cities and
Monsters
Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
by powerful eldritch forces can give rise to spell effects that become living beings. These so-called living spells haunt the places where they were created, subsisting on ambient magical energy.Poison; Bludgeoning, Piercing, and Slashing from Nonmagical Attacks
Magic Resistance. The living spell has advantage on saving throws against spells and other magical effects.
Unfettered. The living spell can move through any barrier, even a wall of magical force
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Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
starts its turn with 0 hit points and doesn’t 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
of it and emerge from a second living tree within 60 feet of it that it can see, appearing in an unoccupied space within 5 feet of the second tree. Both trees must be Large or bigger.Multiattack. The
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Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
effects that become living beings. These so-called living spells haunt the places where they were created, subsisting on ambient magical energy.Poison
Magic Resistance. The living spell has advantage on saving throws against spells and other magical effects.
Unusual Nature. The living spell doesn't require air, food, drink, or sleep.Force Fist
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Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
that become living beings. These so-called living spells haunt the places where they were created, subsisting on ambient magical energy.Poison
Dimensional Form. The living spell can enter another creature's space and vice versa, and it can move through a space as narrow as 1 inch wide without squeezing. The living spell can't detach from a
Monsters
Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
encephalon gemmule.
When spawned, a gemmule appears as a misshapen, spindly legged, pyramid-shaped nugget of soft, fleshy matter. If left to its own devices, an encephalon gemmule grows into an
chance to mutate into what is known as an encephalon cluster—a ravenous, slimy, psionic, brain-shaped mass that spawns horrors called encephalon gemmules.PsychicLeech. The gemmule targets one
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Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
result is a ravenous monster called a maw of Yeenoghu, which is wholly devoted to the demon lord.
A maw of Yeenoghu grows a mane of hair and hunches over like a gnoll. Its jaw grows and widens, and
Monsters
Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
kills the larvae.A carrion stalker begins life as a pale larva that infests a corpse. Over the course of weeks, this grub burrows, feeds, and grows, ultimately developing into a chitinous mass of pincers
and tentacles. When an adult carrion stalker detects movement, it bursts from its corpse-cradle to attack, intent on implanting its young into the living and starting its species’ life cycle
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Monstrous Compendium Vol. 4: Eldraine Creatures
Queen, who rules from a castle called Dynnistan. It isn’t known whether these legends are based on any true experience or are simply the result of imagination trying to account for a terrifying and
called lich-knights or fell horsemen.
In stark contrast to the knights of Eldraine, the deathless riders are without virtue of any kind. They are few in number—unless many more lurk in the dark
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Out of the Abyss
Fungus Stride. Once on its turn, the bridesmaid can use 10 feet of its movement to step magically into one living mushroom or fungus patch within 5 feet and emerge from another within 60 feet of the
saving throw. On a successful save, the creature can’t be infected by these spores for 24 hours. On a failed save, the creature is infected with a disease called the spores of Zuggtmoy and also
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Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
6 levels of exhaustion, it dies and instantly transforms into a living manes (see the Monster Manual) under the sibriex’s control. The transformation of the body can be undone only by a wish
target’s hands grow claws, which can be used as dagger;daggers.
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One of the target’s legs grows longer than the other, reducing its walking speed by 10 feet.
21&ndash
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Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
necromancer or the remains of powerful Undead creatures. Unless it is uprooted and burned while it is still a seedling, the corpse flower grows to enormous size over several weeks, then tears itself free
malevolent bent and despises the living.
With or without corpses nested in its body, a corpse flower exudes a stench of decay that can overwhelm the senses of nearby creatures, causing them to become
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Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
ages, it grows tougher and develops spore clusters on its body. Other vegepygmies defer to these so-called chiefs. A chief can expel its spores in a burst, infecting nearby creatures. If a creature
spores by which they reproduce. Also called mold folk or moldies, vegepygmies inhabit dark, moist areas, so they’re most commonly found underground or in forests where little sunlight penetrates
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Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
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 creature’s equipment
consuming individuals and replacing them with duplicates called podling;podlings. Bodytaker plants view themselves as perfect organisms and seek to dominate the lands where they grow. To their minds, a
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The Book of Many Things
, Prestidigitation
2/day each: Bestow Curse, Dispel Magic
1/day: SlowYears ago, a wizard named Gremorly drew the Throne card from a Deck of Many Things, gaining ownership of a small castle called Sovereign
’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
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Guildmasters’ Guide to Ravnica
medusas of Ravnica, often called gorgons, are a monstrous race of creatures that appear superficially similar to human women. In place of hair, a gorgon has a writhing mass of black, serpentine
cables, and its hands are scaly claws.
The gaze of a medusa's glowing eyes causes living tissue to petrify. The transformation is rapid, leaving the victim as a stone statue, usually frozen in a position
Monsters
Mythic Odysseys of Theros
Returned, called kakomanteis, use their magical prowess to control the energy that suffuses the Underworld.
Returned have escaped the Underworld and dwell among the living once more, but their second
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Vecna: Eve of Ruin
great evil and is unable to forgive itself, the dryad might transform into a wicked Fey monster called a deadbark dryad. Such dryads relinquish any compassion they once felt for living beings and
Baphomet
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Out of the Abyss
. Although filled with bestial bloodlust, there lies within a cruel and cunning intellect devoted to subverting all of civilization.
Baphomet wields a great glaive called Heartcleaver. He sometimes
’s lair is his palace, the Lyktion, which is on the layer of the Abyss called the Endless Maze. Nestled within the twisting passages of the plane-wide labyrinth, the Lyktion is immaculately
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Mythic Odysseys of Theros
living, as these aimless killers know only suffering and seek to spread it whenever the opportunity arises. While palamnites might wander the world as dangerous, lone murderers, many gravitate to Odunos
, where they serve the vicious will of Tymaret the Murder King (see chapter 3).
Returned have escaped the Underworld and dwell among the living once more, but their second lives are rarely what they
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The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
","rollType":"recharge","rollAction":"Create Lornlings"}. Bavlorna creates one or two 1-foot-tall duplicates of herself, called lornlings (use the Quickling stat block in appendix C). Each lornling appears
Endelyn, Bavlorna is called Slack-jawed Lorna because her wide mouth is prone to hang agape. Flies flit in and out of it. She is the hag of the present, the here and now, the moment to moment. Those
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Eberron: Rising from the Last War
and reclaim the world above.
As long as the overlords are bound by the Silver Flame, they can't physically manifest in the world. But each overlord embodies a particular aspect of evil, which grows in
can't die permanently. Upon its death, it reforms elsewhere in the multiverse and becomes active again at a time set by the DM.
Rak Tulkhesh
Called the Rage of War, Rak Tulkhesh is the incarnation of
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Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
civilization.
Baphomet wields a great glaive called Heartcleaver. He also charges his enemies and gores them with his horns, trampling his foes into the earth and rending them with his teeth like a
beast.Baphomet’s Lair
Baphomet’s lair is his palace, the Lyktion, which is on the layer of the Abyss called the Endless Maze. Nestled within the twisting passages of the planewide labyrinth
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Mythic Odysseys of Theros
.
Whenever Polukranos takes 40 or more damage in a single turn, one of its heads dies. If all its heads die, Polukranos dies.
At the end of its turn, it grows two heads for each of its heads that died
can make a stomp attack against that creature.Polukranos, called the World Eater, is the mortal manifestation of the eternal ideal of a hydra. In its first incarnation, it fell from Nyx to the mortal
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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
, each scion is enclosed in stasis inside a powerful Elemental called a cradle. The cradle protects the slumbering scion and follows its subconscious wishes, including driving off intruders. But if the
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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
, they slumber and have become part of the landscape. In this case, each scion is enclosed in stasis inside a powerful Elemental called a cradle. The cradle protects the slumbering scion and follows
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Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
Queen of Fungi, Lady of Rot and Decay, Zuggtmoy is an alien creature whose only desire is to infect the living with spores, transforming them into her mindless servants and, eventually, into
infected with a disease called the spores of Zuggtmoy, which lasts until the creature is cured of the disease or dies. While infected in this way, the creature can’t be reinfected, and it must
Zuggtmoy
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infected by these spores for 24 hours. On a failed save, the creature is infected with a disease called the spores of Zuggtmoy and also gains a random form of madness (determined by rolling on the Madness
save, the creature is infected with a disease called the influence of Zuggtmoy for 24 hours. While infected, the creature is charmed by her and can’t be reinfected by these spores.Protective
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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
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Curse of Strahd
desired above all. She told him of a vault of forbidden lore called the Amber Temple, where the secret of gaining immortality was hidden. While Strahd was off exploring the temple, Rahadin handled
these women were lavished with jewels and fine clothes, and made comfortable during their stay in Ravenloft.
Executioner. Patrina Velikovna and her people were living among the Vistani when they heard of
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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
enclosed in stasis inside a powerful Elemental called a cradle. The cradle protects the slumbering scion and follows its subconscious wishes, including driving off intruders. But if the cradle dies, 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
, they slumber and have become part of the landscape. In this case, each scion is enclosed in stasis inside a powerful Elemental called a cradle. The cradle protects the slumbering scion and follows its
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Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse
).
Liquefaction Ritual. The shator can perform a 1-minute ritual that turns all willing farastu demodand;farastus and kelubar demodand;kelubars of its choice within 60 feet of itself into a living liquid form. Each
Carceri’s waiting chains.
Demodands
Demodands, also called gehreleths, are Fiends from the Tarterian Depths of Carceri. Cast into the prison plane long ago for forgotten transgressions
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Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
are so-called among non-illithids because they act as the central communication hub for an entire mind flayer colony, just as a brain does for a living body. Linked to the elder brain, the colony acts