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Dungeon Master’s Guide
within 10 feet of the wand is destroyed.
Any creature besides Orcus that tries to attune to the wand makes a DC 17 Constitution saving throw. On a successful save, the creature takes 10d6 Necrotic damage
Darkvision out to 120 feet.
The wand communicates telepathically with its wielder and speaks Abyssal and Common.
Personality. The wand’s purpose is to help satisfy Orcus’s desire to slay
Magic Items
Dungeon Master’s Guide
five Orbs of Dragonkind to help defeat the dragons. One orb was taken to each of the five towers, and there they were used to speed the war toward a victorious end. The wizards used the orbs to lure
, it can’t be used again for 1 hour.
Destroying an Orb. An Orb of Dragonkind has AC 20 and is destroyed if it takes damage from a Weapon, +3;+3 Weapon or a Disintegrate spell. Nothing else can harm it.
Magic Items
Dungeon Master’s Guide
blood. If the sword doesn’t taste blood on its blade within 1 minute of being drawn from its scabbard, its wielder makes a DC 15 Charisma saving throw. On a successful save, the wielder takes
bring ruin to Vecna. Killing Vecna’s worshipers, destroying the lich’s works, and foiling his machinations all help to fulfill this goal.
The Sword of Kas also seeks to destroy anyone
Monsters
Guildmasters’ Guide to Ravnica
Electrified Body. Any creature that touches the hybrid or hits it with a melee attack while within 5 feet of it takes 5 (1d10);{"diceNotation":"1d10","rollType":"damage","rollAction":"Electrified
grapple ends, the target takes 5 (1d10);{"diceNotation":"1d10","rollType":"damage","rollAction":"Tentacles","rollDamageType":"lightning"} lightning damage at the start of each of its turns, and the
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skin takes on a pale pallor, and the body wears out fairly quickly, lasting six to seven years.
Much like hermit crabs wear shells, mycelians inoculate corpses with microscopic spores, before growing
necromancer-hunters, the Sisters of Mercy began employing dogs, with their keen sense of smell, to help differentiate between innocent mycelians and undead artifice.
Ancestors and Aging
With each new
Monsters
Guildmasters’ Guide to Ravnica
critical hit.
Poisonous Skin. Any creature that touches the hybrid or hits it with a melee attack while within 5 feet of it takes 3 (1d6);{"diceNotation":"1d6","rollType":"damage","rollAction":"Poisonous
interguild conflict looms. Believing that the Simic must be prepared to fight for their lives when that conflict comes to a head, biomancers have created soldiers to help defend the guild. These hybrids (also
Monsters
Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
have a gift for finding things on campus, often popping up at the most inopportune times.PoisonNeed Directions? The guide takes the Help action.
of the guide. The target doesn’t move into obviously dangerous ground, such as a fire or a pit. Whenever the charmed target takes damage, it can repeat the saving throw, ending the effect on
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Dragons of Stormwreck Isle
Distress Spores. When the myconid takes damage, all other myconids within 240 feet of it can sense its pain.
Sun Sickness. While in sunlight, the myconid has disadvantage on ability checks, attack
adult;Adult myconids live and work together in colonies and practice a form of communal meditation called a meld, in which they seek to transcend mundane reality through shared hallucination.
Myconid leaders like Sinensa use their Hallucination Spores to help myconids create melds.
Monsters
Quests from the Infinite Staircase
Specialization"}): 1, aerialist; 2, diplomat; 3, diver; 4, duelist; 5, medic; 6, sentry. This design determines certain traits in this stat block.
Lightning Overload. When the android takes lightning
android has one or more upgrades to help it excel at its intended functions, but all androids are capable of defending themselves with concentrated bolts of force up close or from a distance.
Despite
Monsters
Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
takes radiant damage, this trait doesn’t function at the start of its next turn. The juggernaut dies only if it starts its turn with 0 hit points and doesn’t regenerate.
Unusual Nature
target takes 22 (5d8);{"diceNotation":"5d8","rollType":"damage","rollAction":"Flying Stone","rollDamageType":"bludgeoning"} bludgeoning damage and is incapacitated until the start of the juggernaut
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Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
creature takes 18 (4d8);{"diceNotation":"4d8", "rollType":"damage", "rollAction":"Infernal Orb", "rollDamageType":"fire"} fire damage and 18 (4d8);{"diceNotation":"4d8", "rollType":"damage
, hoping to learn tactics the devils have fine-tuned over millennia and to acquire magical gifts to help the giant rise in the ordning.
Over time, the giant is corrupted, becoming a Fiend in its own right
Monsters
Spelljammer: Adventures in Space
difficult terrain. It takes 5 (1d10);{"diceNotation":"1d10","rollType":"damage","rollAction":"Incorporeal Movement","rollDamageType":"force"} force damage if it ends its turn inside an object.
Unusual
ghost. While a ghost is doomed to haunt the place where it died until some promise or goal it couldn’t achieve in life is fulfilled, the goal of a starlight apparition is to help someone else
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Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
other Aberrations, which help them transform in return for their service as shock troops. Regardless, the result is the same: a goblin with unnatural and barely contained psychic power.
Psionic goblins
Escape. The goblin takes the Disengage or Hide action.
Telekinetic Shove. The goblin targets one creature it can see within 30 feet of itself with a thrust of telekinetic force. The target must succeed on a DC 13 Strength saving throw or have the prone condition.
Monsters
Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
(Recharges after a Short or Long Rest). When the werebear takes damage, it reduces the damage taken by 10 (1d12 + 4);{"diceNotation":"1d12+4","rollType":"roll","rollAction":"Stone"}.Goliath legends speak of
, Oyaminartok is not a monster but a force of good in the region, and she passes her curse only to goliaths whose hearts are pure.
Oyaminartok and others of her kind try to help creatures they come across, for
Monsters
The Book of Many Things
throw. On a failed save, a creature takes 22 (4d10);{"diceNotation":"4d10", "rollType":"damage", "rollAction":"Solar Flare", "rollDamageType":"radiant"} radiant damage and has the blinded condition until
the end of its next turn. On a successful save, a creature takes half as much damage only. For the next minute, the affected area is filled with bright light that is sunlight.
Spellcasting. The
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Volo's Guide to Monsters
relics, magical items, and other rare objects. Aside from the power such items might confer, a tabaxi takes great joy in unraveling the stories behind their creation and the history of their use
tables to customize your character in addition to the trait, ideal, bond, and flaw from your background.
The Tabaxi Obsession table can help hone your character’s goals. For extra fun, roll a new
Monsters
Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen
saving throw or be covered in acid for 1 minute. A creature covered in the acid takes 7 (2d6);{"diceNotation":"2d6", "rollType":"damage", "rollAction":"Death Throes", "rollDamageType":"acid"} acid
, making them formidable assassins as well. Their small wings don’t allow kapaks to fly, but they do help the draconians turn a fall into a rough glide. When they die, kapaks dissolve into acid
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Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen
saving throw or be covered in acid for 1 minute. A creature covered in the acid takes 7 (2d6);{"diceNotation":"2d6", "rollType":"damage", "rollAction":"Death Throes", "rollDamageType":"acid"} acid
weapons with their paralytic saliva, making them formidable assassins as well. Their small wings don’t allow kapaks to fly, but they do help the draconians turn a fall into a rough glide. When they
Wand of Orcus
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saving throw. On a successful save, the creature takes 10d6 necrotic damage. On a failed save, the creature dies and rises as a zombie.
In the hands of one who is attuned to it, the wand can be wielded
to a range of 120 feet.
The wand communicates telepathically with its wielder and can speak, read, and understand Abyssal and Common.
Personality. The wand’s purpose is to help satisfy Orcus
Monsters
Keys from the Golden Vault
Whispers of Azzagrat. Each creature in a 15-foot cube originating from Sythian must make a DC 14 Wisdom saving throw. On a failed save, a creature takes 18 (4d8);{"diceNotation":"4d8", "rollType":"damage
", "rollAction":"Whispers of Azzagrat", "rollDamageType":"psychic"} psychic damage and is incapacitated until the end of its next turn. On a successful save, the creature takes half as much damage and
Monsters
Eberron: Rising from the Last War
, while a blacksmith uses mending to perform minor repairs and guidance to help inspire their work. Those who work minor magic into their labors are called magewrights.
Far more limited in magical power
this way. Most magewright rituals take 10 minutes to perform, but certain complex rituals can take up to 1 hour. However long the ritual takes, it requires extra material components, usually in the
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
Burning Fury. When the salamander takes fire damage, its Freezing Breath automatically recharges.Multiattack. The salamander makes one Bite attack and four Claw attacks.
Bite. Melee Weapon Attack
but. Frost salamanders greedily devour any prey foolhardy enough to try sleeping in their lairs. On rare occasions, frost giant;frost giants (see the Monster Manual) capture and tame these creatures, using them to burrow into the ice to help create outposts and fortresses.ColdFire
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Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
Intelligence saving throw. On a failed save, a creature takes 14 (4d6);{"diceNotation":"4d6", "rollType":"damage", "rollAction":"Synaptic Rend", "rollDamageType":"psychic"} psychic damage and has the
incapacitated condition until the end of the goblin’s next turn. On a successful save, a creature takes half as much damage only.Nimble Escape. The goblin takes the Disengage or Hide action
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Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus
. Each creature in the cone must make a DC 14 Constitution saving throw. On a failed save, a creature takes 17 (5d6);{"diceNotation":"5d6","rollType":"damage","rollAction":"Trumpet of Blasting
","rollDamageType":"thunder"} thunder damage and is deafened for 1 minute. On a successful save, a creature takes half as much damage and isn't deafened. Nonmagical objects in the cone that aren't being held
Monsters
Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
saving throw. On a failed save, a creature takes 33 (6d10);{"diceNotation":"6d10", "rollType":"damage", "rollAction":"Paradoxy", "rollDamageType":"force"} force damage and is pulled up to 15 feet in a
straight line toward the center of the sphere. On a successful save, the creature takes half as much damage and isn’t pulled. A creature caught in the area of multiple warps is affected by only one
Monsters
Monstrous Compendium Vol. 2: Dragonlance Creatures
throw. On a failed save, the creature takes 22 (4d10);{"diceNotation":"4d10", "rollType":"damage", "rollAction":"Flaming Carnage", "rollDamageType":"fire"} fire damage and is knocked prone. On a
successful save, the creature takes half as much damage and is pushed to the nearest space out of the draconian’s path. A creature can be affected by this draconian’s Flaming Carnage only once
Monsters
Curse of Strahd
spell, or similar magic. When the curse ends, Madam Eva takes 5d6;{"diceNotation":"5d6","rollType":"damage","rollAction":"Curse","rollDamageType":"psychic"} psychic damage.
Evil Eye (Recharges after a
power of magical foresight. In the guise of Madam Eva, she uses this ability to help Strahd. She can send her Vistani out in their wagons to visit other worlds and bring adventurers to Strahd’s
Monsters
Mordenkainen's Fiendish Folio Volume 1
help a tired or lost traveler. Emerging from the shadows near the site of the deed, the creature takes to the road, wandering to seek out travelers who might have food it can sneak away with in return
Monsters
The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
, invisibility, mage armorEldritch Escape. When Skylla takes damage, she can expend 3 charges of her eldritch staff to turn invisible and teleport, along with any equipment she’s wearing or carrying, up
warlock’s pact with Baba Yaga. It is from this powerful archfey that Skylla draws her magic.
Skylla is spiteful and treacherous, as likely to betray her allies as to help them. She talked Kelek
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
);{"diceNotation":"1d4+3","rollType":"damage","rollAction":"Spike","rollDamageType":"piercing"} piercing damage.It takes six months of steady eating for a young kruthik to reach adult size. The natural life
more lethal.
Kruthiks abide the presence of Constructs, Elementals, Oozes, and Undead, and they use such creatures to help guard their hive. They are smart enough to barricade some tunnels and dig new ones that keep their neighbors away from their eggs.
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Curse of Strahd
. The curse lasts until ended with a greater restoration spell, a remove curse spell, or similar magic. When the curse ends, Ezmerelda takes 3d6;{"diceNotation":"3d6","rollType":"damage","rollAction
threatened to spill her blood. Ezmerelda convinced him that she genuinely wanted to help him find his missing son, whereupon van Richten told her the saddest of tales. He had found his son, who had been
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Vecna: Eve of Ruin
hit point. If he takes radiant damage, this trait doesn’t function at the start of his next turn.
Special Equipment. Kas wears the Crown of Lies (see the Introduction of Vecna: Eve of Ruin
;s home world.
Sunlight Hypersensitivity. While in sunlight, Kas takes 20 radiant damage at the start of his turn, has disadvantage on attack rolls and ability checks, and can’t use his Change
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
saving throw or be grappled (escape DC 13). Until the grapple ends, the target takes 13 (3d6 + 3);{"diceNotation":"3d6+3", "rollType":"damage", "rollAction":"Smother", "rollDamageType":"bludgeoning
change the color and texture of its tough, outward-facing side to help it blend in with its surroundings, while its soft, inward-facing side clings to the floor, wall, or ceiling in its hunting
Backgrounds
Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide
that I can help people in need. (Good)
4
Greed. I will do whatever it takes to become wealthy. (Evil)
5
People. I’m loyal to my friends, not to any ideals, and everyone else can
areas to help you succeed.
You might be a cunning thief-catcher, prowling the rooftops to catch one of the myriad burglars of the city. Perhaps you are someone who has your ear to the street, aware of
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be broken, as are those who would forge them. (Chaotic)
3
Charity. I steal from the wealthy so that I can help people in need. (Good)
4
Greed. I will do whatever it takes to become wealthy