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Player’s Handbook
until all its effects are dispelled.
Corridors. Fog fills all the warded corridors, making them Heavily Obscured. In addition, at each intersection or branching passage offering a choice of direction
area:
Dancing Lights in four corridors, with a simple program that the lights repeat as long as Guards and Wards lasts
Magic Mouth in two locations
Stinking Cloud in two locations (the vapors
Monsters
Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse
/day each: bane, dimension door, webRemnants are Dusters who sought undeath via rituals but failed. Liaisons and spies, these agents exist in a halfway point between life and death.NecroticPhase (2/Day
). The remnant becomes partially incorporeal for as long as it maintains concentration on the effect (as if concentrating on a spell). While partially incorporeal, the remnant has resistance to bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing damage.
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
":"Dagger", "rollDamageType":"poison"} poison damage.Copper, black, and topaz dragon eggs yield these sly and stealthy draconians, who often serve their creators as scouts and spies. They use the
paralytic venom of their saliva to coat their weapons, making them formidable assassins as well. Their wings allow them to turn a fall into a rough glide. When draconian infiltrators die, their bodies
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
their heightened intelligence for as long as the swarm persists. The swarm also awakens latent psionic abilities implanted within each cranium rat by its mind flayer creators, bestowing upon the swarm
creature, often referring to itself using the collective pronouns “we” and “us.”
Some mind flayer colonies use cranium rats as spies. The rats invade communities and act as
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
points or fewer, plus 22 (5d8);{"diceNotation":"5d8", "rollType":"damage", "rollAction":"Bites", "rollDamageType":"psychic"} psychic damage.
Spellcasting (Psionics). As long as it has more than half
constituents. The rats become smarter as a result, and retain their heightened intelligence for as long as the swarm persists. The swarm also awakens latent psionic abilities implanted within each cranium
Monsters
Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
Fey Ancestry. The drow has advantage on saving throws against being charmed, and magic can't put the drow to sleep.
Gunslinger. Being within 5 feet of a hostile creature or attacking at long range
doesn't impose disadvantage on the drow's ranged attack rolls with a pistol. In addition, the drow ignores half cover and three-quarters cover when making ranged attacks with a pistol.
Innate
Monsters
The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
Standing Leap. The harengon’s long jump is up to 20 feet and its high jump is up to 10 feet, with or without a running start.Club. Melee Weapon Attack: +2;{"diceNotation":"1d20+2", "rollType
target. Hit: 7 (1d8 + 3);{"diceNotation":"1d8+3", "rollType":"damage", "rollAction":"Light Crossbow", "rollDamageType":"piercing"} piercing damage. Hit or Miss: Immediately after making this attack, the
Monsters
Mythic Odysseys of Theros
"} piercing damage.Prized among Meletis's thaumaturges, anvilwrought raptors are often crafted in the form of a hawk or an owl. Most serve as messengers and spies, flying over the busy streets or high over
. While the two are bonded, the master can sense what the anvilwrought senses, as long as they are within 1 mile of each other.
Fire, Poison
Monsters
Monstrous Compendium Vol. 2: Dragonlance Creatures
reduced to 0 hit points or if the seeker uses an action to end the transformation.Irda seekers are skilled spies who use their magic to disguise themselves and gather intelligence for their allies. In
combat, irda seekers can momentarily cloak themselves as they dart around the battlefield.
Irda
The Dragon Queen created the irda long ago. While most irda embraced their wicked creator’s
Monsters
Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
Fey Ancestry. Soluun has advantage on saving throws against being charmed, and magic can't put the drow to sleep.
Gunslinger. Being within 5 feet of a hostile creature or attacking at long range
doesn't impose disadvantage on Soluun's ranged attack rolls with a pistol. In addition, Soluun ignores half cover and three-quarters cover when making ranged attacks with a pistol.
In addition to his
Monsters
Spelljammer: Adventures in Space
body is dotted with small eyes that can emit bright beams of light, which the creature uses to disorient predators before making its escape. Kindori communicate with one another over long distances
Monsters
Guildmasters’ Guide to Ravnica
","rollDamageType":"piercing"} piercing damage if used with two hands to make a melee attack.The kraul are an ascendant power group within the Golgari Swarm, long content to linger at the margins of
the undercity but now increasingly making their buzzing voices heard in the subterranean Golgari guildhall. These six-legged, insectile beings are hard-headed and literal-minded, with little grasp of
Monsters
Monstrous Compendium Vol. 1: Spelljammer Creatures
to the Great Cavern that forms the hollow heart of the dead god. There, the soul becomes housed in the body of a new, fully grown star lancer that rises magically from the cavern floor. As long as
the dead god and its Great Cavern remain intact, the number of star lancers in the multiverse is finite and never-changing.
A star lancer resembles a shark, albeit one that has four wings and a long
Monsters
Tales from the Yawning Portal
becomes 0, it can't benefit from any bonus to its speed, and it moves with the target.
A creature can detach the darkmantle by making a successful DC 11 Strength check as an action. On its turn, the
corners. The darkness lasts as long as the darkmantle maintains concentration, up to 10 minutes (as if concentrating on a spell). Darkvision can't penetrate this darkness, and no natural light can
Monsters
Acquisitions Incorporated
Auspicia Dran had her life torn apart as a child when she was seized by a mysterious creature called the Wandering Crypt. Having spent long years in a kind of dark dream within the crypt, she was
they happen, often making use of this ability to bring a fight to a standstill that encourages parley. But she has only just begun to explore her full precognitive potential.
Monsters
Guildmasters’ Guide to Ravnica
","rollType":"damage","rollAction":"Quarterstaff","rollDamageType":"bludgeoning"} bludgeoning damage if used with two hands.The kraul are an ascendant power group within the Golgari Swarm, long content to
linger at the margins of the undercity but now increasingly making their buzzing voices heard in the subterranean Golgari guildhall. These six-legged, insectile beings are hard-headed and literal-minded
Monsters
Monstrous Compendium Vol. 4: Eldraine Creatures
immediately make a DC 16 Strength saving throw as beanstalks coil around it in its space. On a failed save, the creature has the grappled condition (escape DC 16) and has the restrained condition as long
as it is grappled. The beanstalks vanish after 1 minute, if the hart has the incapacitated condition, or when the hart dies.
Lightning Call. In response to making a saving throw, the hart calls down a
Monsters
Quests from the Infinite Staircase
, and its long jump is up to 30 feet. The barkburr’s jumps can exceed its speed if its speed isn’t 0.Multiattack. The barkburr makes two Poison Barb attacks and uses Lignify if able.
Poison
making a successful DC 13 Strength (Athletics) check.
Lignify. The barkburr targets the creature it is attached to, and the target must make a DC 13 Constitution saving throw. On a failed save, the
Monsters
Quests from the Infinite Staircase
buildings, objects, and raw materials, making them phenomenal excavators—and, if the occasion calls for it, sappers and saboteurs. Pechs enjoy sculpting and carving vast networks of tunnels and warrens
, where they live in clans and mine precious metals and gems.
Small and lithe, pechs have long, thin limbs and broad feet. Their large, pupilless eyes are sensitive to bright light, which they avoid
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
":"Tentacle"}. This reduction lasts until the target finishes a short or long rest. The target dies if its hit point maximum is reduced to 0.
Possess Corpse (Recharge 6);{"diceNotation":"1d6
, dybbuks appear as translucent flying jellyfish, trailing long tentacles as they move through the air. They rarely travel in this fashion, however. Instead, a dybbuk possesses a suitable corpse as a
Magic Items
The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
finish a long rest after that happens, you can attempt to regain the sword’s trust by making a contested Charisma check against Snicker-Snack. If you win the contest, your attunement to the weapon is instantly restored. Your attunement to the weapon can’t be restored in any other way.
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
with a beholder that has moved into the dragon’s domain.
5
Xorn serve as lookouts and spies for an adult amethyst dragon who rewards them with gems.
6
To repay a favor long owed to a
vibrant and translucent. When the dragon is fully mature, their scales resemble rich purple amethyst crystals, refracting light to take on an inner glow. Their pupils fade with age, making the eyes of
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
Antimagic Shell. The snail has advantage on saving throws against spells, and any creature making a spell attack against the snail has disadvantage on the attack roll.
If the snail succeeds on its
":"bludgeoning"} bludgeoning damage.
Scintillating Shell (Recharges after a Short or Long Rest). The snail’s shell emits dazzling, colored light until the end of the snail’s next turn
Monsters
Eberron: Rising from the Last War
it finishes a long rest.Dream Eater. When an unconscious creature the hag can see within 30 feet of her regains consciousness, the hag can force the creature to make a DC 15 Wisdom saving throw
undertaking quests or making bargains with a dusk hag in exchange for its prophecies and visions of the future. But the information gained from a dusk hag often has a way of causing more pain than joy. Like
Monsters
Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
hair and flame tongue longsword, in any combination. She can cast one of her cantrips or 1st-level spells before or after making these attacks.
Silver Hair. Melee Weapon Attack: +11;{"diceNotation
":"fire"} fire damage when used with two hands.
Spellfire (Recharges after a Long Rest). Magical, heatless, silver fire harmlessly erupts from Laeral and surrounds her until she is incapacitated or
Monsters
Curse of Strahd
":"1d8+4","rollType":"damage","rollAction":"Quarterstaff","rollDamageType":"bludgeoning"} bludgeoning damage if wielded with two hands.
Summon Swarms of Insects (Recharges after a Short or Long Rest
witches, Lysaga recently uncovered a potential threat to Strahd: a secret society of wereravens called the Keepers of the Feather, a group that uses ordinary ravens as their spies.
Strahd doesn’t
Monsters
Curse of Strahd
;while trying not to expose the secret society to their mutual enemy. He thinks the wereravens might prove helpful when the time comes. Van Richten also wants to take out as many of Strahd’s spies
, he will do so.
Van Richten works alone. A curse placed on him long ago by a Vistani seer brings doom to those he befriends. Furthermore, he believes too much is at stake to risk exposure. Consequently
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
further use of these elemental weapons, or when the giant dies, the weapons disappear.
A storm giant quintessent can revert to their true giant form temporarily and can maintain that form long enough
spreads around corners, and its area is heavily obscured. The fog lasts until the giant disperses it (no action required), and it can’t be dispersed by wind.
Gale. The giant creates a 60-foot-long
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
clarity that bend and refract light, sometimes making them difficult to see clearly.
The radiant energy of the Positive Plane shimmers in crystal dragons’ scales. It glows like starlight between
)
6
Control. Everyone is welcome, as long as they follow my rules. (Lawful)
Crystal Dragon Adventures
The Crystal Dragon Adventure Hooks table offers suggestions for stories and adventures
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
effect.Wearing fearsome masks, duergar mind masters usually operate as spies, both inside and beyond a duergar stronghold. Their psionically augmented abilities enable them to see through illusions with ease
the materials used and honest about their purpose.PoisonReduce (Recharges after a Short or Long Rest). For 1 minute, the duergar magically decreases in size, along with anything it is wearing or
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
maximum is reduced by an amount equal to the damage taken. This reduction lasts until the target finishes a long rest. The target dies if its hit point maximum is reduced to 0.
Gaze. Demogorgon turns his
sight.
3–4: Confusing Gaze. The target suffers the effect of the confusion spell without making a saving throw. The effect lasts until the start of Demogorgon’s next turn. Demogorgon doesn
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
repays the instigator with a long and agonizing death.
Mephistopheles forbids Hutijin from making too many forays into the Material Plane, since the duke’s absence leaves him vulnerable to his
rivals. Other archdevils know how much Hutijin despises mortals and have secretly disseminated the means to call him from the Nine Hells in the hope of distracting the archdevil long enough for them to
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
and translucent. When the dragon is fully mature, their scales resemble rich purple amethyst crystals, refracting light to take on an inner glow. Their pupils fade with age, making the eyes of an
accept it.
Amethyst dragons pay particular attention to intrusions of the Far Realm into the Material Plane. They loathe the corruption that accompanies such intrusions into the world, making them
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
crystal dragons have scales of perfect clarity that bend and refract light, sometimes making them difficult to see clearly.
The radiant energy of the Positive Plane shimmers in crystal dragons&rsquo
without the boredom. (Chaotic)
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Control. Everyone is welcome, as long as they follow my rules. (Lawful)
Crystal Dragon Adventures
The Crystal Dragon Adventure Hooks table offers
Monsters
Mythic Odysseys of Theros
Armor of Spiders (Mythic Trait; Recharges after a Short or Long Rest). If Arasta is reduced to 0 hit points, she doesn’t die or fall unconscious. Instead, she regains 200 hit points. In
those who enter her domain unbidden almost never go unnoticed, for Arasta can sense the slightest vibration along her web hair, and her children act as spies on her behalf.
Lair Actions
On initiative