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Spells
Player’s Handbook
time on a turn or starts its turn there makes a Charisma saving throw. On a failed save, a creature can’t speak a deliberate lie while in the radius. You know whether a creature succeeds or
fails on this save.
An affected creature is aware of the spell and can avoid answering questions to which it would normally respond with a lie. Such a creature can be evasive yet must be truthful.
Equipment
Ingested Poison
A creature subjected to Truth Serum must succeed on a DC 11 Constitution saving throw or have the Poisoned condition for 1 hour. The Poisoned creature can’t knowingly communicate a lie.
Magic Items
Dungeon Master’s Guide
As a Bonus Action, you can turn the head of this staff into that of an animate, venomous snake for 1 minute or revert the staff to its inanimate form.
When you take the Attack action, you can make
one of the attack rolls using the animated snake head, which has a reach of 5 feet. Apply your Proficiency Bonus and Wisdom modifier to the attack roll. On a hit, the target takes 1d6 Piercing damage
Magic Items
Dungeon Master’s Guide
has at least one head and roll a 20 on the d20 for the attack roll, you cut off one of the creature’s heads. The creature dies if it can’t survive without the lost head. A creature is immune
to this effect if it has Immunity to Slashing damage, if it doesn’t have or need a head, or if the DM decides that the creature is too big for its head to be cut off with this weapon. Such a
Monsters
Monster Manual
Divine Awareness. The planetar knows if it hears a lie.
Exalted Restoration. If the planetar dies outside Mount Celestia, its body disappears, and it gains a new body instantly, reviving with all
", "rollDamageType":"Radiant"} Radiant damage.
Holy Burst. Dexterity Saving Throw: DC 20, each enemy in a 20-foot-radius Sphere centered on a point the planetar can see within 120 feet. Failure: 24 (7d6
Magic Items
Dungeon Master’s Guide
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When you take a Magic action to toss an Ioun Stone into the air, the stone orbits your head at a distance of 1d3 feet, conferring its benefit to you while doing so. You can have up to three Ioun
its orbit to avoid collisions and thwarting all attempts by other creatures to attack or snatch it.
As a Utilize action, you can seize and stow any number of Ioun Stones orbiting your head. If your
Backgrounds
Player’s Handbook
from public house to watering hole, you learned to prey on unfortunates who were in the market for a comforting lie or two—perhaps a sham potion or forged ancestry records.
Ability Scores: Dexterity, Constitution, CharismaFeat: SkilledSkill Proficiencies: Deception and Sleight of HandTool Proficiency: Forgery KitEquipment: Choose A or B: (A) Forgery Kit
Monsters
Monster Manual
Hold Breath. The hydra can hold its breath for 1 hour.
Multiple Heads. The hydra has five heads. Whenever the hydra takes 25 damage or more on a single turn, one of its heads dies. The hydra dies if
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
Magic Items
Dungeon Master’s Guide
While wearing this cap underwater, you can take a Magic action to create a bubble of air around your head. This bubble allows you to breathe normally underwater. This bubble stays with you until the cap is removed or you are no longer underwater.
Magic Items
Dungeon Master’s Guide
whatever is beyond. Painting a pit creates a real pit, the entire depth of which must lie within the 20-foot Cube.
No object created by a pot of pigment can have a value greater than 25 GP, and the
This fine wooden box contains 1d4 pots of pigment and a brush (weighing 1 pound in total). Using the brush and expending 1 pot of pigment, you can paint any number of three-dimensional objects and
Magic Items
Dungeon Master’s Guide
This cloak has 3 charges and regains 1d3 expended charges daily at dawn. While wearing the cloak, you can take a Magic action to pull its hood over your head and expend 1 charge to give yourself the
Monsters
Monster Manual
Divine Awareness. The solar knows if it hears a lie.
Exalted Restoration. If the solar dies outside Mount Celestia, its body disappears, and it gains a new body instantly, reviving with all its Hit
Points somewhere in Mount Celestia.
Legendary Resistance (4/Day). If the solar fails a saving throw, it can choose to succeed instead.
Magic Resistance. The solar has Advantage on saving throws
Spells
Player’s Handbook
integral for its survival—its head, for instance—the spell automatically fails.
Coming back from the dead is an ordeal. The target takes a −4 penalty to D20 Test;D20 Tests. Every time the target finishes a Long Rest, the penalty is reduced by 1 until it becomes 0.
With a touch, you revive a dead creature if it has been dead no longer than 10 days and it wasn’t Undead when it died.
The creature returns to life with 1 Hit Point. This spell also
Magic Items
Dungeon Master’s Guide
, whereupon the rod’s head sheds Bright Light in a 60-foot radius and Dim Light for an additional 60 feet. While in that Bright Light, you and your allies gain a +1 bonus to Armor Class and saving
throws and can sense the location of any Invisible creature that is also in the Bright Light.
The rod’s head stops glowing and the effect ends after 10 minutes or when a creature takes a Magic
Spells
Player’s Handbook
spectral crown appears on the Charmed target's head, and it must use its action before moving on each of its turns to make a melee attack against a creature other than itself that you mentally choose
One creature that you can see within range must succeed on a Wisdom saving throw or have the Charmed condition for the duration. The creature succeeds automatically if it isn’t Humanoid.
A
Magic Items
Dungeon Master’s Guide
This rod has a flanged head, and it functions as a magic Mace that grants a +3 bonus to attack rolls and damage rolls made with it. The rod has properties associated with six different buttons that
push a different button or until you push the same button again, which causes the rod to revert to its normal form:
Button 1. A fiery blade sprouts from the end opposite the rod’s flanged head
Species
Player’s Handbook
big eyes and pointed ears, who live around 425 years. Many gnomes like the feeling of a roof over their head, even if that “roof” is nothing more than a hat.
Gnome Traits
Creature Type: HumanoidSize: Small (about 3–4 feet tall)Speed: 30 feet
Magic Items
Dungeon Master’s Guide
you can see within 60 feet of yourself. The ring produces a spectral ram’s head and makes its attack roll with a +7 bonus. On a hit, for each charge you spend, the target takes 2d10 Force
This ring has 3 charges and regains 1d3 expended charges daily at dawn. While wearing the ring, you can take a Magic action to expend 1 to 3 charges to make a ranged spell attack against one creature
Magic Items
Dungeon Master’s Guide
Initiative rolls.
Underwater Adaptation. A bubble of air forms around your head while you are underwater, allowing you to breathe normally in that environment.
Aquatic Command. Wave has 3 charges and
Held in the dungeon of White Plume Mountain, Wave is engraved with images of waves, shells, and sea creatures.
You gain a +3 bonus to attack rolls and damage rolls made with this magic weapon. When
Spells
Player’s Handbook
for a moment; she shakes her head, and your wish fails.
The stress of casting Wish to produce any effect other than duplicating another spell weakens you. After enduring that stress, each time you
Wish is the mightiest spell a mortal can cast. By simply speaking aloud, you can alter reality itself.
The basic use of this spell is to duplicate any other spell of level 8 or lower. If you use it
Magic Items
Dungeon Master’s Guide
Vecna the Archlich;Vecna was a mighty wizard who, through magic and conquest, forged a terrible empire. For all his power, however, Vecna feared death and took steps to prevent his demise by becoming
a lich.
A treacherous lieutenant named Kas the Betrayer;Kas brought Vecna’s rule to an end in a terrible battle. Of Vecna, all that remained were one hand and one eye, grisly Artifacts that
Monsters
Ravenloft: The Horrors Within
;{"diceNotation":"2d6", "rollType":"roll", "rollAction":"Unholy Regrowth", "rollDamageType":""} Death’s Head Trees regrow around the same place in 365 days unless the tree is killed by a creature under
Throw: DC 14, each creature in a 10-foot-radius Sphere centered on a point the tree can see within 120 feet. Failure: 10 (3d6);{"diceNotation":"3d6", "rollType":"damage", "rollAction":"Exploding Head
Monsters
Ravenloft: The Horrors Within
. Second Failure: The target has the Petrified condition instead of the Restrained condition for 10 minutes, after which the effect ends on the target.A death’s head animated from the head of a
Features table to inspire the features of a death’s head.
Death’s Head Features
1d10
The Head Is That Of …
With …
1
A bear
Bloodshot eyes
2
A burned
Monsters
Ravenloft: The Horrors Within
", "rollType":"damage", "rollAction":"Bite", "rollDamageType":"Necrotic"} Necrotic damage.The most common type of death’s head arises from a person or animal, perhaps the victim of an unjust execution or
a headhunting terror such as a dullahan (detailed in Ravenloft: The Horrors Within). Flying and biting, a death’s head harries its victims until destroyed.
Death’s Heads
Death’s
Monsters
Ravenloft: The Horrors Within
the death’s head’s next turn.A death’s head that arises from an aberrant monster, such as a nothic or mind flayer, might retain a measure of the mind-warping power it had in life
related to the beings they once were. Roll twice on or choose results from the Death’s Head Features table to inspire the features of a death’s head.
Death’s Head Features
Monsters
Dungeon Masters: Ravenloft Play-Along Pack
the death’s head’s next turn.A death’s head that arises from an aberrant monster, such as a nothic or mind flayer, might retain a measure of the mind-warping power it had in life
related to the beings they once were. Roll twice on or choose results from the Death’s Head Features table to inspire the features of a death’s head.
Death’s Head Features
Monsters
Dungeon Masters: Ravenloft Play-Along Pack
;{"diceNotation":"2d6", "rollType":"roll", "rollAction":"Unholy Regrowth"} Death’s Head Trees regrow around the same place in 365 days unless the tree is killed by a creature under the effect of a
creature in a 10-foot-radius Sphere centered on a point the tree can see within 120 feet. Failure: 10 (3d6);{"diceNotation":"3d6", "rollType":"damage", "rollAction":"Exploding Head", "rollDamageType
Monsters
Ravenloft: The Horrors Within
", "rollAction":"Beheading Blade", "rollDamageType":"Necrotic"} Necrotic damage. If the target is reduced to 0 Hit Points by this attack, it dies and its head is lopped off. The head rises as a Death's
Head in the space of the target’s corpse or in the nearest unoccupied space. The head is under the dullahan’s control. The dullahan can control no more than seven heads at a time.
Fiery
Monsters
Dungeon Masters: Ravenloft Play-Along Pack
", "rollAction":"Beheading Blade", "rollDamageType":"Necrotic"} Necrotic damage. If the target is reduced to 0 Hit Points by this attack, it dies and its head is lopped off. The head rises as a Death
’s Head in the space of the target’s corpse or in the nearest unoccupied space. The head is under the dullahan’s control. The dullahan can control no more than seven heads at a time
Monsters
Ravenloft: The Horrors Within
Movement", "rollDamageType":"Force"} Force damage if she ends her turn inside an object.
Lie Detector. Saidra knows whether she hears a lie.
Legendary Resistance (3/Day, or 4/Day in Domain). If Saidra
fails a saving throw, she can choose to succeed instead.
Sunlight Sensitivity. While in sunlight, Saidra has Disadvantage on ability checks and attack rollsMultiattack. Saidra makes three Necrotic Burst
Monsters
Ravenloft: The Horrors Within
incredible heights. Those who have escaped nightgaunts describe the touch of their razor-like claws as “tickling” in a way that causes every sense to scream.
A nightgaunt’s head is a smooth
, horned polyp. Before a nightgaunt kills, its head splits apart, revealing an otherworldly glow deep within.Lightning, Poison, PsychicTickle. Wisdom Saving Throw: DC 16, one creature Grappled by the
Monsters
Stranger Things: Welcome to the Hellfire Club
writhing tails, monstrous wings, and two hideous heads. Initially, each bulbous head appears featureless—a disturbing, preternatural bud yet to bloom. When threatened, however, each unfurls to reveal
a flower-like arrangement of glistening flesh and teeth around two crushing jaws.
Though the head of the dragon from which the demodragon spawned is long gone, its breath remains. Without warning
Monsters
Stranger Things: Welcome to the Hellfire Club
predators that spawn from limacine larvae. From a distance, they loosely resemble hairless dogs with tough, wrinkled hides and faceless, flower-like heads. When a demodog attacks, its head parts to reveal
Pack Tactics. The demodog has Advantage on an attack roll against a creature if at least one of the demodog’s allies is within 5 feet of the creature and the ally doesn’t have the
Monsters
Stranger Things: Welcome to the Hellfire Club
tentacles.Strangling, Otherworldly Pest
Demobats are slimy, winged pests endemic to demonic realms. A demobat has four serrated tentacles, which trail behind it during flight, and its eyeless head
Bite. Melee Attack Roll: +5 (with Advantage if the target is Grappled by a Demobat), reach 5 ft. Hit: 10 (2d6 + 3);{"diceNotation":"2d6+3", "rollType":"damage", "rollAction":"Bite", "rollDamageType
Monsters
Stranger Things: Welcome to the Hellfire Club
, featureless heads. A Demogorgon spawn’s head opens like a flower in bloom, revealing a gaping maw and five or more fleshy petals lined with teeth.
Light flickers in the presence of these resilient predators, foretelling their arrival. Demogorgon spawns relentlessly pursue their prey.PoisonCold, Lightning
Baleful Presence. Sources of light in a 60-foot Emanation originating from the spawn flicker wildly. Nonmagical sources of Bright Light in that area instead shed Dim Light.
Regeneration. The spawn