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                        Returning 35 results for 'life something'.
                    
                
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                                                    Dungeon Master’s Guide
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                     Guide), it is destroyed by some calamity beyond your control. Any documentation that proves you should own something lost to this card also disappears.
Sage. At any time you choose within one year of
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     ally with its attacks. You and your allies can each summon only one avatar as a consequence of this draw. A creature slain by an avatar can’t be restored to life.
Avatar of Death
Medium Undead
                                                
                                            
                                        
                                                     Monsters
                                                    Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                    Life Hunger. If a creature within 60 feet of the sorrowsworn regains hit points, the sorrowsworn gains two benefits until the end of its next turn: it has advantage on attack rolls, and its Bite
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     deals an extra 22 (4d10);{"diceNotation":"4d10", "rollType":"damage", "rollAction":"Life Hunger", "rollDamageType":"necrotic"} necrotic damage on a hit.Multiattack. The sorrowsworn makes one Bite attack
                                                
                                            
                                        
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                                                    Storm King's Thunder
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                     ran off and never returned.
Ideal: “The bigger the risk, the greater the reward.”
Bond: “I adore my colleague Alaestra, and I’d like to do something to impress her.”
Flaw: “I’ll risk life and limb to become a legend.”
                                                
                                            
                                        
                                                     Monsters
                                                    Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                    Semblance of Life. The podling is a physical copy of a creature digested by a bodytaker plant. The podling has the digested creature’s memories and behaves like that creature, but with
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     occasional lapses. An observer familiar with the digested creature can recognize the discrepancies with a successful DC 20 Wisdom (Insight) check, or automatically if the podling does something in direct
                                                
                                            
                                        
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                                                    Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                     using harmful magic while on campus.
University officials believe Murgaxor began his illicit experiments with life-draining magic shortly after he enrolled as a student.
 In his third year
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                    , Murgaxor was expelled for using life-draining magic when it resulted in another student’s death. Murgaxor fled before he could be handed over to authorities.
For a few years after his expulsion
                                                
                                            
                                        
                                                     Monsters
                                                    Spelljammer: Adventures in Space
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                    Disembodied Voice. Up to three times in its life, the zodar can cause a message of up to twenty-five words to issue from the air around it. It speaks only when it has something profoundly important
                                                
                                            
                                        
                                                     Monsters
                                                    Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                     accelerated their passage through life. No quickling lives longer than 15 years.
The mortal realm is a ponderous place to a quickling’s eye: a hurricane creeps gradually across the sky, a torrent of
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     constantly paces and shifts in place, as though it can’t wait to be off again.
Quicklings have a capricious nature and are always up to something. A quickling spends most of its time perpetrating
                                                
                                            
                                        
                                                     Monsters
                                                    Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                     that terrorize mortals on the Material Plane by possessing corpses and giving them a semblance of life, after which the demons use them to engage in a range of sordid activities.
In their natural form
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     Corpse. While Possess Corpse is active, the dybbuk makes the corpse do something unnatural, such as vomit blood, twist its head all the way around, or cause a quadruped to move as a biped. Any Beast
                                                
                                            
                                        
                                                     Monsters
                                                    Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                     relentless killers began life as innocents, any semblance of who they were is washed away in a tide of gore and rage. These killers’ grisly work swiftly becomes the stuff of legends,striking
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                    , unique monstrous slayers.
Relentless Origins
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Origin
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It was left for dead and granted new life to seek revenge.
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It was turned into a weapon of vengeance by a family member
                                                
                                            
                                        
                                                     Monsters
                                                    Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                    . Their bargains transform them into vicious butchers that exist only to indulge their endless bloodlust. While some who become relentless killers began life as innocents, any semblance of who they were
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     was left for dead and granted new life to seek revenge.
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It was turned into a weapon of vengeance by a family member’s bargain with sinister forces.
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It was marked by a fiend before
                                                
                                            
                                        
                                                     Monsters
                                                    Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                     remnant of celestial matter imbued with life-giving magic. The collision released a storm of chaotic energy and sent countless islands spinning away into the void. Within some of them, bits of the god&rsquo
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                    ;s petrified flesh came back to life as morkoths: tentacled monstrosities brimming with malice and greed.
Morkoths are driven by greed and selfishness mixed with a yearning for conflict. They hoard
                                                
                                            
                                        
                                                     Monsters
                                                    Curse of Strahd
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                     came knocking on Strahd's door, Rahadin could see that she intrigued Strahd, but Rahadin was suspicious of her motives. Patrina tried to seduce Strahd with the prospect of immortality—something Strahd
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     haunted by them if he could. The only thing he cares about is Strahd von Zarovich, for whom he would gladly give his life.
Rahadin's Traits
Ideal. “Loyalty is everything.”
Bond. “I am a son of King Barov
                                                
                                            
                                        
                                                     Monsters
                                                    The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                     inheritor of the Umbrage estate and legacy, and he did everything in his power to make life miserable for everyone around him, especially his parents. He seemed bereft of ambition and spent much of
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     over the carnival’s Big Top, he sparkles like a disco ball.
Alignment. Chaotic good.
Personality Trait. “There’s always something for me to smile about.”
Ideal. &ldquo
                                                
                                            
                                        
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                                                    Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                     life, crystal dragons enjoy an innate psionic connection to the Positive Plane that suffuses their bodies as well as their personalities with light. Though they prefer to live in desolate, frigid regions
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                    
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Ideal
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Exploration. Yesterday is already known. Today is for something new. (Chaotic)
2
Empathy. It’s a
                                                
                                            
                                        
                                                     Monsters
                                                    Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                     Intelligence as the spellcasting ability (spell save DC 14):
At will: dancing lights, guidance
1/day each: hypnotic pattern, lesser restorationShimmering with radiant energy and brimming with life
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     Dragon Ideals
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Ideal
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Exploration. Yesterday is already known. Today is for something new. (Chaotic)
2
Empathy
                                                
                                            
                                        
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                                                    Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                     brimming with life, crystal dragons enjoy an innate psionic connection to the Positive Plane that suffuses their bodies as well as their personalities with light. Though they prefer to live in desolate
                                                
                                            
                                                
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Crystal Dragon Ideals
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Ideal
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Exploration. Yesterday is already known. Today is for something new
                                                
                                            
                                        
                                                     Monsters
                                                    Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                     energy and brimming with life, crystal dragons enjoy an innate psionic connection to the Positive Plane that suffuses their bodies as well as their personalities with light. Though they prefer to live
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     something new. (Chaotic)
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Empathy. It’s a gift to share in another’s joy, even if sometimes you must bear their pain, too. (Good)
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Hospitality. We all live beautiful lives—it
                                                
                                            
                                        
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                                                     could make yourself and all your companions immune to a lich's life drain attack.
You undo a single recent event by forcing a reroll of any roll made within the last round (including your last turn
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     be made with advantage or disadvantage, and you can choose whether to use the reroll or the original roll.
 You might be able to achieve something beyond the scope of the above examples
                                                
                                            
                                        
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                                                    Mordenkainen’s Tome of Foes
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                     other magical effects.
Violate Corpse. The dybbuk can use a bonus action while it is possessing a corpse to make it do something unnatural, such as vomit blood, twist its head all the way around, or
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     life.
While possessing the corpse, the dybbuk retains its hit points, alignment, Intelligence, Wisdom, Charisma, telepathy, and immunity to poison damage, exhaustion, and being charmed and frightened
                                                
                                            
                                        
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A moonblade passes down from parent to child. The sword chooses its bearer and remains bonded to that person for life. If the bearer dies, another heir can claim the blade. If no worthy heir exists
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     transmitting emotions, sending a tingling sensation through the wielder’s hand when it wants to communicate something it has sensed. It can communicate more explicitly, through visions or dreams, when the
                                                
                                            
                                        
                                                    Deck of Many Things
                                                    
    
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                                                     becomes your enemy. The devil seeks your ruin and plagues your life, savoring your suffering before attempting to slay you. This enmity lasts until either you or the devil dies.
Fool. You lose 10,000 XP
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     property vanishes. Businesses, buildings, and land you own are lost in a way that alters reality the least. Any documentation that proves you should own something lost to this card also disappears
                                                
                                            
                                        
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                                                    Lost Laboratory of Kwalish
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                     advantage on death saving throws.
The armor has further capabilities that can be powered either by energy cells or by your own life energy. You can use a bonus action to draw power from an energy cell
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     Power. Powered armor originally required energy cells to fuel it, but was adapted by Kwalish to be fueled by the life energy of the creature wearing it. You might decide that the armor can also draw
                                                
                                            
                                        
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                                                     foreign house. The sword at his back was the same, though, the one he had carried since even before he had found the twins left in swaddling at the gates of Arush Vayem.
For all her life, Farideh had
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     calling in life.
Proud Dragon Kin
Dragonborn look very much like dragons standing erect in humanoid form, though they lack wings or a tail. The first dragonborn had scales of vibrant hues matching the
                                                
                                            
                                        
                                                    Folk Hero
                                                    
    
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                                                     profession among the peasantry, perhaps as a farmer, miner, servant, shepherd, woodcutter, or gravedigger. But something happened that set you on a different path and marked you for greater things. Choose or
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     lend help.
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When I set my mind to something, I follow through no matter what gets in my way.
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I have a strong sense of fair play and always try to find the most equitable solution to
                                                
                                            
                                        
                                                     Species
                                                    Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                     bodies. Whatever their origins, reborn know a new life and seek experiences and answers all their own.
Faded Memories
Reborn suffer from some manner of discontinuity, an interruption of their lives or
                                                
                                            
                                                
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A memory brings with it the voice of someone once close to you. How do they advise you?
5
You recall enjoying something that you can’t stand doing now. What is it? Why don’t
                                                
                                            
                                        
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                                                     shorter lives that they strive to achieve as much as they can in the years they are given. Or maybe they feel they have something to prove to the elder races, and that’s why they build their mighty
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     build cities to last for the ages, and great kingdoms that can persist for long centuries. An individual human might have a relatively short life span, but a human nation or culture preserves
                                                
                                            
                                        
                                                    Deep Dragon Wyrmling
                                                    
    
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                                                    Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
                                                    
                                                
                                            
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While the petty squabbles of other creatures bore and irritate me, I might hear out those who demonstrate an appreciation for the finer things in life by bringing me delicacies like clams or
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     servants of my power. (Evil)
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Patience. All creatures might teach me something, and I’m willing to wait and find out what that might be rather than acting in haste. (Good)
Deep
                                                
                                            
                                        
                                                    Criminal / Spy
                                                    
    
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                                                    . Even criminals who operate outside of such organizations have strong preferences for certain kinds of crimes over others. Choose the role you played in your criminal life, or roll on the table below
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     who seem the fairest often have the most to hide.
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I don’t pay attention to the risks in a situation. Never tell me the odds.
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The best way to get me to do something is to tell me
                                                
                                            
                                        
                                                    Young Deep Dragon
                                                    
    
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                                                     things in life by bringing me delicacies like clams or aboleth flesh.
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I might be willing to exert myself to take out a mind flayer. Those disgusting creatures must be stopped.
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I dream of
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     creatures cannot be trusted, so I constantly remind my servants of my power. (Evil)
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Patience. All creatures might teach me something, and I’m willing to wait and find out what that might be
                                                
                                            
                                        
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While their spontaneity and whimsy sometimes put them at odds with more stoic peoples, satyrs rarely let the moodiness of others hinder their own happiness.
Life is a blessing from the gods, after
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     longer below the knees. Short, soft hair grows down their neck and spine, along their shoulders, and on their forearms.
Embracing Life
Most satyrs believe that the other peoples of Theros are woefully
                                                
                                            
                                        
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                                                    Spelljammer: Adventures in Space
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                     early years on the crew of a spelljamming ship, performing helpful chores such as swabbing the deck, loading and offloading cargo, and scraping barnacles off the hull.
Whatever your history, life in
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     pouch containing 10 gp
Close Encounter
You had a harrowing encounter with one of Wildspace’s many terrors. You escaped with your life, but the encounter left you with a scar or two, or perhaps a
                                                
                                            
                                        
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                                                    Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                     the patron ancestors formed a bond with you. Now it is your duty to follow in the footsteps of your patron, living your life as they lived theirs, allowing this champion to live on through you. This
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     or clever? Whatever their nature, it’s your duty to follow their example. Is this something you proudly embrace, or do you resist it? Each patron ancestor is tied to many Valenar: do you have a
                                                
                                            
                                        
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                                                    Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                    You are the heir to something of great value — not mere coin or wealth, but an object that has been entrusted to you and you alone. Your inheritance might have come directly to you from a
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                     member of your family, by right of birth, or it could have been left to you by a friend, a mentor, a teacher, or someone else important in your life. The revelation of your inheritance changed your life
                                                
                                            
                                        
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                                                    Curse of Strahd: Character Options
                                                    
                                                
                                            
                                                    You are haunted by something so terrible that you dare not speak of it. You’ve tried to bury it and run away from it, to no avail. Whatever this thing is that haunts you can’t be slain
                                                
                                            
                                                
                                                    , common;set of common clothes, and 1 sp.
Harrowing Event
Prior to becoming an adventurer, your path in life was defined by one dark moment, one fateful decision, or one tragedy. Now you feel a darkness
                                                
                                            
                                        
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                                                     anger. Your music raises their spirits or captures their sorrow. Your dance steps captivate, your humor cuts to the quick. Whatever techniques you use, your art is your life.
 
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                                                     establishment), as long as you perform each night. In addition, your performance makes you something of a local figure. When strangers recognize you in a town where you have performed, they typically take a
                                                
                                            
                                        






