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Dungeon Masterâs Guide
When you attack a creature with this magic weapon and roll a 20 on the d20 for the attack roll, that target takes an extra 15 Necrotic damage if it isnât a Construct or an Undead, and you gain
Sword of Life Stealing
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Basic Rules (2014)
When you attack a creature with this magic weapon and roll a 20 on the attack roll, that target takes an extra 10 necrotic damage if it isn't a construct or an undead. You also gain 10 temporary hit
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Masterâs Guide (2014)
Sword of Life Stealing Weapon (any sword), rare (requires attunement) When you attack a creature with this magic weapon and roll a 20 on the attack roll, that target takes an extra 10 necrotic damage
if it isnât a construct or an undead. You also gain 10 temporary hit points. Sword of Life Stealing and Sword of Sharpness
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
Sword of Life Stealing Weapon (any sword), rare (requires attunement) When you attack a creature with this magic weapon and roll a 20 on the attack roll, that target takes an extra 10 necrotic damage if it isn't a construct or an undead. You also gain 10 temporary hit points.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Masterâs Guide
Sword of Life Stealing Weapon (Glaive, Greatsword, Longsword, Rapier, Scimitar, or Shortsword), Rare (Requires Attunement) When you attack a creature with this magic weapon and roll a 20 on the d20
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules
Sword of Life Stealing Weapon (Glaive, Greatsword, Longsword, Rapier, Scimitar, or Shortsword), Rare (Requires Attunement) When you attack a creature with this magic weapon and roll a 20 on the d20
Magic Items
Dungeon Masterâs Guide
You gain a +2 bonus to attack rolls and damage rolls made with this magic weapon.
Life Stealing. The weapon has 1d8 + 1 charges. When you attack a creature that has fewer than 100 Hit Points with
this weapon and roll a 20 on the d20 for the attack roll, the creature must succeed on a DC 15 Constitution saving throw or be slain instantly as the sword tears its life force from its body. Constructs
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
Soul"} damage on a hit. The nabassu retains these benefits for 6 days. A creature devoured by a nabassu can be restored to life only by a wish spell.
Magic Resistance. The nabassu has advantage on
saving throws against spells and other magical effects.Multiattack. The nabassu makes one Bite attack and one Claw attack, and it uses Soul-Stealing Gaze.
Bite. Melee Weapon Attack: +11;{"diceNotation
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 quicklingâs eye: a hurricane creeps gradually across the sky, a torrent of
looking.
Tricks of that sort are hardly the limit of their artful malice, however. They donât commit outright murder, but quicklings can ruin lives in plenty of other ways, such as by stealing an important letter, swiping coins collected for the poor, or planting a stolen item in someoneâs bag.
Monsters
Van Richtenâs Guide to Ravenloft
. The swap is also undone if the controlled body takes damage from the carrionetteâs Silver Needle.Carrionettes arise from innocent intentions. Heartfelt wishes breathe life into a beloved toy and
with the victim, stealing the victimâs body while trapping the victimâs soul in its own doll-like frame. The carrionette then imprisons its old body, keeping the animate doll hidden while it
Nabassu
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Monsters
Mordenkainenâs Tome of Foes
creature devoured by a nabassu can be restored to life only by a wish spell.
Magic Resistance. The nabassu has advantage on saving throws against spells and other magical effects.
Magic Weapons
. The nabassuâs weapon attacks are magical.Multiattack. The nabassu uses its Soul-Stealing Gaze and makes two attacks: one with its claws and one with its bite.
Claws. Melee Weapon Attack: +11
Urchin
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Playerâs Handbook (2014)
securely for at least ten days. How did you come by that money? What allowed you to break free of your desperate circumstances and embark on a better life?
Skill Proficiencies: Sleight of
shaped by lives of desperate poverty, for good and for ill. They tend to be driven either by a commitment to the people with whom they shared life on the street or by a burning desire to find a better
Backgrounds
Baldurâs Gate: Descent into Avernus
circumstances and embark on a better life?
Skill Proficiencies: Sleight of Hand, StealthTool Proficiencies: Disguise kit, thievesâ toolsEquipment: A small knife, a map of the city you grew up
of desperate poverty, for good and for ill. They tend to be driven either by a commitment to the people with whom they shared life on the street or by a burning desire to find a better life &mdash
Backgrounds
Tomb of Annihilation
, and a pouch containing 25 gp
Dust Digger
Prior to becoming an adventurer, you spent most of your young life crawling around in the dust, pilfering relics of questionable value from crypts
no qualms about stealing from the dead.
5
Iâm happier in a dusty old tomb than I am in the centers of civilization.
6
Traps donât make me nervous. Idiots who trigger traps make
Tabaxi
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Volo's Guide to Monsters
homeland, content to dwell in small, tight clans. These tabaxi hunt for food, craft goods, and largely keep to themselves.
However, not all tabaxi are satisfied with such a life. The Cat Lord, the divine
for passage on a ship or a weekâs lodging after stealing it. The tabaxi might take extensive notes or memorize every facet of the gem before passing it on, but the gem holds no more allure once
Goblin
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Volo's Guide to Monsters
â for goblins, life is short.
Goblins seek to trap and enslave any creatures they encounter, but they flee from opposition that seems too daunting. For miles around their lair, they employ pit
the fringes of a society first test its defenses by stealing objects, and if these crimes go unpunished, they begin stealing people.
Enslaved creatures receive the worst treatment the goblins can dish
Firbolg
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Volo's Guide to Monsters
heart of the world and monuments to the durability of life.
In their role as caretakers, firbolgs live off the land while striving to remain in balance with nature. Their methods reflect common
an unappealing place to explore by temporarily diverting springs, driving away game, stealing critical tools, and altering trails to leave hunting or lumber parties hopelessly lost. The firbolgs
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules
Nine Lives Stealer Weapon (Any Simple or Martial), Very Rare (Requires Attunement) You gain a +2 bonus to attack rolls and damage rolls made with this magic weapon. Life Stealing. The weapon has 1d8
or be slain instantly as the sword tears its life force from its body. Constructs and Undead succeed on the save automatically. The weapon loses 1 charge if the creature is slain. When the weapon has no charges remaining, it loses this property.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Masterâs Guide
Nine Lives Stealer Weapon (Any Simple or Martial), Very Rare (Requires Attunement) You gain a +2 bonus to attack rolls and damage rolls made with this magic weapon. Life Stealing. The weapon has 1d8
or be slain instantly as the sword tears its life force from its body. Constructs and Undead succeed on the save automatically. The weapon loses 1 charge if the creature is slain. When the weapon has no charges remaining, it loses this property.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Nest of the Eldritch Eye
Creeping Hand Supernatural Gift (Charm) Once per turn, when you hit a creature with an attack roll using a weapon or an unarmed strike, you can infuse your strike with life-stealing energy. Your attack then
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richtenâs Guide to Ravenloft
Villain
1 A medium who feeds victims to spirits in exchange for power over them
2 The spirit of a long-dead murderer who stalks the same types of victims in death as in life
3 The
rider who sweeps through the village, stealing victims who disbelieve her legend
6 An unbound spirit that repeatedly manifests in victimsâ nightmares
7 The capricious phantasm of an amoral
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
lifetime by stealing it from another newspaper. Now that paper tries to undermine you at every turn. 6 Innocent Victim. You rashly published the name of a person you incorrectly thought was connected to a scandal, ruining their life.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richtenâs Guide to Ravenloft
Learn whoâs organizing the local dinner parties before more epicureans die of autophagia.
2 Stop whatever is stealing the livers from the townâs guard.
3 Find out what is causing the
children of the city to transform into misshapen statues.
4 Stop whatever is killing the sea life and transforming them into monsters.
5 End the curse that is leaving the beasts of forests dead
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
, mitigating loss of life. Lately though, more and more eruptions evade detection. Ameyali, one of Etizalanâs leaders, believes the gods have grown angry and seeks to placate them. She has collected
. The salamanders allied with him are stealing offerings meant for the gods and plan to offer them to sleeping tlexolotls to rouse the creatures. If large enough offerings are made, the tlexolotls are sure to awaken, unleashing volcanic devastation.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Masterâs Guide
either case, the fissure then closes, leaving no trace of its existence. When you expend the last charge, the talisman disperses into motes of golden light and is destroyed. Conceptopolis Sword of Life
Stealing (Longsword), Sword of Sharpness (Greatsword),
Sylvan Talon (Scimitar), Talisman of the Sphere, Talisman of Ultimate Evil
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
power merchants gain from access to it isnât something they want to share. Normally, life in Mantol-Derith is regulated by three simple covenants: no stealing of goods from fellow merchants, no
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
deal an extra 3 (1d6) damage on a hit. The nabassu retains these benefits for 6 days. A creature devoured by a nabassu can be restored to life only by a wish spell.
Magic Resistance. The nabassu
has advantage on saving throws against spells and other magical effects.
Magic Weapons. The nabassuâs weapon attacks are magical.
Actions
Multiattack. The nabassu uses its Soul-Stealing Gaze and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
the war years and the killing years wore down my soul as the wind wears down stone into sand.â
â Count Strahd von Zarovich
Awakened to an endless night, vampires hunger for the life they have lost
living keeps to the darkness and far from reflective surfaces. Dark Desires. Whether or not a vampire retains any memories from its former life, its emotional attachments wither as once-pure
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monsters of the Multiverse
this way, its attacks deal an extra 3 (1d6) damage on a hit. The nabassu retains these benefits for 6 days. A creature devoured by a nabassu can be restored to life only by a wish spell.
Magic
Resistance. The nabassu has advantage on saving throws against spells and other magical effects.
Actions
Multiattack. The nabassu makes one Bite attack and one Claw attack, and it uses Soul-Stealing
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richtenâs Guide to Ravenloft
moral qualms. She pursued medicine solely to satiate her burning intellectual curiosity, never to aid her patients. She perceived magic as stealing the powers of otherworldly beings and cheating the
more than create lifeâshe could defeat death! She wished to breathe sentience into dead flesh and produce sturdier shells than the bodies of fragile, temporary mortals. She added corpse theft to her
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
Ugly, Unpredictable, and Old Hags are mysterious, unfathomable, and dangerous, especially from the viewpoint of mortals. One day a hag might be stealing and eating children that wander into the woods
life span greater than that of even dragons and elves. The oldest, wisest, and most powerful hags are called âgrandmothersâ by other hags. Some grandmothers are nearly as powerful as some of the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
have disrupted recent burials.
4 Investigate an alchemist who claims to have transmuted lead into goldâbut who might somehow be stealing it from the Underworld.
5 Refute the claim of a
there, they might be drawn into helping Erebos maintain the line between life and death by fighting against Returned raiders. Champions of Erebos who want to maintain a moral code separate from that of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
and living a life of utmost virtue and chastity. Yawn. In the world of Acquisitions Incorporated, at least some small part of a paladinâs dedication is focused on the code of business. Morals and
to the point of discomfort!
â Donaar Blitâzen
THE PALADIN AS FIXER
Personnel Bodyguard All life is sacred. Well, some lives are sacred. Okay, fine. The people you protect are sacred. On
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
as a sword of life stealing from the Abyssal Forest of Khar made of jagged, blackened steel. Shadows trail the blade, and it issues a hungry moan any time it draws blood. Trinkets from Khyber d10
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monsters of the Multiverse
and teach them to mind her will, the queen sped up their internal clocks and shrank them. Her curse gave quicklings amazing speed but also accelerated their passage through lifeâno quickling lives
that sort are hardly the limit of quicklingsâ artful malice, however. They donât commit outright murder, but they can ruin lives in plenty of other ways: stealing an important letter, swiping coins