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Monsters
Monster Manual
with spell attacks):
At Will: Detect Magic, Hold Monster, Ice Knife, Shapechange (Beast or Humanoid form only, no Temporary Hit Points gained from the spell, and no Concentration or Temporary Hit
Points required to maintain the spell) 1/Day Each: Ice Storm (level 5 version), Zone of TruthLegendary Action Uses: 3 (4 in Lair). Immediately after another creature’s turn, the dragon can expend a
Monsters
Monster Manual
uses Spellcasting to cast Hold Monster. The dragon can’t take this action again until the start of its next turn.
Cold Gale. Dexterity Saving Throw: DC 23, each creature in a 60-foot-long, 10
":"Spellcasting"} to hit with spell attacks):
At Will: Detect Magic, Hold Monster, Ice Knife (level 2 version), Shapechange (Beast or Humanoid form only, no Temporary Hit Points gained from the spell, and
Spells
Player’s Handbook
heavier or lighter. You must adopt a form that has the same basic arrangement of limbs as you have. Otherwise, the extent of the illusion is up to you.
The changes wrought by this spell fail to hold up
, a creature must take the Study action to inspect your appearance and succeed on an Intelligence (Investigation) check against your spell save DC.
Spells
Player’s Handbook
You create a magical restraint to hold a creature that you can see within range. The target must make a Wisdom saving throw. On a successful save, the target is unaffected, and it is immune to this
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
Magic Items
Dungeon Master’s Guide
When you drink this potion, you gain the effect of the Gaseous Form spell for 1 hour (no Concentration required) or until you end the effect as a Bonus Action.
This potion’s container seems to hold fog that moves and pours like water.
Magic Items
Dungeon Master’s Guide
This iron rod has a button on one end. You can take a Utilize action to press the button, which causes the rod to become magically fixed in place. Until you or another creature takes a Utilize action
to push the button again, the rod doesn’t move, even if it defies gravity. The rod can hold up to 8,000 pounds of weight. More weight causes the rod to deactivate and fall. A creature can take
Spells
Player’s Handbook
lasts for the duration.
The changes wrought by this spell fail to hold up to physical inspection. For example, if you use this spell to add a hat to a creature’s outfit, objects pass through the
hat.
A creature that takes the Study action to examine a target can make an Intelligence (Investigation) check against your spell save DC. If it succeeds, it becomes aware that the target is disguised.
Monsters
Monster Manual
saving throw.
Creatures inside the cube have Total Cover, and the cube can hold one Large creature or up to four Medium or Small creatures inside itself at a time.
As an action, a creature within 5
taking an action to make a DC 12 Strength (Athletics) check. On a successful check, the target escapes and enters the nearest unoccupied space. Success: Half damage, and the target moves to an unoccupied space within 5 feet of the cube. If there is no unoccupied space, the target fails the save instead.Acid
Magic Items
Dungeon Master’s Guide
This ceramic jug appears to be able to hold a gallon of liquid and weighs 12 pounds whether full or empty. The jug sloshes when it is shaken, even if the jug is empty.
You can take a Magic action
and name one liquid from the Alchemy Jug Liquids table to cause the jug to produce the chosen liquid. Afterward, you can uncork the jug as a Utilize action and pour that liquid out, up to 2 gallons per
Magic Items
Dungeon Master’s Guide
leads. The portal remains open until a creature within 5 feet of it takes a Magic action to close it by taking hold of the edges of the cloth and folding it up.
Once the Well of Many Worlds has opened a portal, it can’t do so again for 1d8 hours.
This fine black cloth, soft as silk, is folded up to the dimensions of a handkerchief. It unfolds into a circular sheet 6 feet in diameter.
You can take a Magic action to unfold the Well of Many
Magic Items
Dungeon Master’s Guide
This backpack has a central pouch and two side pouches, each of which is an extradimensional space. Each side pouch can hold up to 200 pounds of material, not exceeding a volume of 25 cubic feet. The
central pouch can hold up to 500 pounds of material, not exceeding a volume of 64 cubic feet. The haversack always weighs 5 pounds, regardless of its contents.
Retrieving an item from the haversack
Magic Items
Dungeon Master’s Guide
someone reaches inside it, there is a 50 percent chance that the creature is pulled inside the bag. A creature inside the bag can take an action to try to escape, doing so with a successful DC 15
Strength (Athletics) check. Another creature can take an action to reach into the bag to pull a creature out, doing so with a successful DC 20 Strength (Athletics) check, provided the puller isn’t
Magic Items
Dungeon Master’s Guide
This bag has an interior space considerably larger than its outside dimensions—roughly 2 feet square and 4 feet deep on the inside. The bag can hold up to 500 pounds, not exceeding a volume of
64 cubic feet. The bag weighs 5 pounds, regardless of its contents. Retrieving an item from the bag requires a Utilize action.
If the bag is overloaded, pierced, or torn, it is destroyed, and its
Magic Items
Dungeon Master’s Guide
talisman.
Holy Symbol. You can use the talisman as a Holy Symbol. You gain a +2 bonus to spell attack rolls while you wear or hold it.
Pure Rebuke. The talisman has 7 charges. While wearing or holding
the talisman, you can take a Magic action to expend 1 charge and target one creature you can see on the ground within 120 feet of yourself. A flaming fissure opens under the target, and the target
Magic Items
Dungeon Master’s Guide
can’t be used to create open passages. Any creature inside an open Portable Hole can exit the hole by climbing out of it.
You can take a Magic action to close a Portable Hole by taking hold of
This fine black cloth, soft as silk, is folded up to the dimensions of a handkerchief. It unfolds into a circular sheet 6 feet in diameter.
You can take a Magic action to unfold a Portable Hole and
Magic Items
Dungeon Master’s Guide
This 60-foot length of rope can hold up to 3,000 pounds. While holding one end of the rope, you can take a Magic action to command the other end of the rope to animate and move toward a destination
Magic Items
Dungeon Master’s Guide
holding or carrying the talisman.
Holy Symbol. You can use the talisman as a Holy Symbol. You gain a +2 bonus to spell attack rolls while you wear or hold it.
Ultimate End. The talisman has 6 charges
. While wearing or holding the talisman, you can take a Magic action to expend 1 charge and target one creature you can see on the ground within 120 feet of yourself. A flaming fissure opens under the
Magic Items
Dungeon Master’s Guide
must expend to cast the spell.
Spell
Charge Cost
Cone of Cold
5
Fireball (level 5 version)
5
Globe of Invulnerability
6
Hold Monster
5
Levitate
2
Lightning
can take a Magic action to break the staff over your knee or against a solid surface. The staff is destroyed and releases its magic in an explosion that fills a 30-foot Emanation originating from itself
Magic Items
Dungeon Master’s Guide
While holding this brass-stoppered iron flask, you can take a Magic action to target a creature that you can see within 60 feet of yourself. If the flask is empty and the target is native to a plane
on the save. Once trapped, a creature remains in the flask until released. The flask can hold only one creature at a time. A creature trapped in the flask doesn’t age and doesn’t need to
Magic Items
Dungeon Master’s Guide
This staff has 50 charges and can be wielded as a magic Quarterstaff that grants a +2 bonus to attack rolls and damage rolls made with it. While you hold it, you gain a +2 bonus to spell attack rolls
expended charges daily at dawn. If you expend the last charge, roll 1d20. On a 20, the staff regains 1d12 + 1 charges.
Retributive Strike. You can take a Magic action to break the staff over your knee
Magic Items
Dungeon Master’s Guide
.
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
Magic Items
Stranger Things: Welcome to the Hellfire Club
This backpack has a central pouch and two side pouches, each of which is an extradimensional space. Each side pouch can hold up to 200 pounds of material, not exceeding a volume of 25 cubic feet. The
central pouch can hold up to 500 pounds of material, not exceeding a volume of 64 cubic feet. The haversack always weighs 5 pounds, regardless of its contents.
Retrieving an item from the haversack
Magic Items
Forgotten Realms: Adventures in Faerûn
it, the orb shrinks to the size of a grape.
Properties of the Orb. While attuned to the orb, you gain the following benefits:
Dragon’s Breath. You can take a Magic action to exhale a 15-foot
Incapacitated condition. You can take a Magic action to disable or enable this aura. Any enemy that starts its turn in the aura must succeed on a DC 18 Wisdom saving throw or have the Frightened condition until
Grappler
Legacy
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Feats
Basic Rules (2014)
You’ve developed the skills necessary to hold your own in close-quarters grappling. You gain the following benefits:
You have advantage on attack rolls against a creature you are grappling
.
You can use your action to try to pin a creature grappled by you. To do so, make another grapple check. If you succeed, you and the creature are both restrained until the grapple ends.
Tortle Druid
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Monsters
The Tortle Package
Hold Breath. The tortle can hold its breath for 1 hour.
Spellcasting. The tortle is a 4th-level spellcaster. Its spellcasting ability is Wisdom (spell save DC 12, +4;{"diceNotation":"1d20+4
friendship, cure wounds, speak with animals, thunderwave
2nd level (3 slots): darkvision, hold personClaws. Melee Weapon Attack: +4;{"diceNotation":"1d20+4","rollType":"to hit","rollAction":"Claws"} to
Octopus
Legacy
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Monsters
Basic Rules (2014)
Hold Breath. While out of water, the octopus can hold its breath for 30 minutes.
Underwater Camouflage. The octopus has advantage on Dexterity (Stealth) checks made while underwater.
Water
cloud of ink extends all around the octopus if it is underwater. The area is heavily obscured for 1 minute, although a significant current can disperse the ink. After releasing the ink, the octopus can use the Dash action as a bonus action.
Monsters
Princes of the Apocalypse
Guiding Wind (Recharges after a Short or Long Rest). As a bonus action, the initiate gains advantage on the next ranged attack roll it makes before the end of its next turn.
Hold Breath. The
initiate can hold its breath for 30 minutes.Dagger. Melee or Ranged Weapon Attack: +4;{"diceNotation":"1d20+4","rollType":"to hit","rollAction":"Dagger"} to hit, reach 5 ft. or range 20/60 ft., one target
Gladiator
Legacy
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Backgrounds
Player’s Handbook (2014)
to be able to capture and hold an audience’s attention, so they tend to have flamboyant or forceful personalities. They’re inclined toward the romantic and often cling to high-minded
Tradition. The stories, legends, and songs of the past must never be forgotten, for they teach us who we are. (Lawful)
3
Creativity. The world is in need of new ideas and bold action. (Chaotic)
4
Giant Octopus
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Monsters
Basic Rules (2014)
Hold Breath. While out of water, the octopus can hold its breath for 1 hour.
Underwater Camouflage. The octopus has advantage on Dexterity (Stealth) checks made while underwater.
Water Breathing
if it is underwater. The area is heavily obscured for 1 minute, although a significant current can disperse the ink. After releasing the ink, the octopus can use the Dash action as a bonus action.
Monsters
Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus
Hold Breath. Krull can hold his breath for 1 hour.
Inescapable Destruction. Necrotic damage dealt by Krull's spells ignores resistance to necrotic damage.
Spellcasting. Krull is a 14th-level
sickness
2nd level (3 slots): blindness/deafness, gentle repose, hold person, ray of enfeeblement, spiritual weapon
3rd level (3 slots): animate dead, magic circle, speak with dead, spirit guardians
Tortle
Legacy
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Monsters
The Tortle Package
Hold Breath. The tortle can hold its breath for 1 hour.Claws. Melee Weapon Attack: +4;{"diceNotation":"1d20+4","rollType":"to hit","rollAction":"Claws"} to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 4 (1d4
throws. While in its shell, the tortle is prone, its speed is 0 and can't increase, it has disadvantage on Dexterity saving throws, it can't take reactions, and the only action it can take is a bonus action to emerge.
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
Hold Breath. The tortle can hold its breath for 1 hour.Claw. Melee Weapon Attack: +4;{"diceNotation":"1d20+4", "rollType":"to hit", "rollAction":"Claw"} to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 4 (1d4
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
Seeming
Legacy
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Spells
Basic Rules (2014)
illusion is up to you. The spell lasts for the duration, unless you use your action to dismiss it sooner.
The changes wrought by this spell fail to hold up to physical inspection. For example, if you
appear thinner than you are, the hand of someone who reaches out to touch you would bump into you while it was seemingly still in midair.
A creature can use its action to inspect a target and make an
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
Hold Breath. The tortle can hold its breath for 1 hour.Multiattack. The tortle makes four Claw attacks or two Nature’s Wrath attacks.
Claw. Melee Weapon Attack: +4;{"diceNotation":"1d20+4
’t take reactions, and the only action it can take is a bonus action to emerge.
Spellcasting. The tortle casts one of the following spells, using Wisdom as the spellcasting ability (spell save
Monsters
Locathah Rising
visible outside it.
The sphere vanishes at the end of the rest or when Amble leaves the sphere.
Hold Breath. Amble can hold their breath for up to 1 hour at a time.
Spellcasting. Amble is a 12th-level
druid spells prepared:
Cantrips (at will): guidance, mending, shape water, shillelagh1st level (4 slots): absorb elements, cure wounds, entangle, speak with animals2nd level (3 slots): darkvision, hold