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Monsters
Acquisitions Incorporated
telepathically speak to any creature he can see within 30 feet of him, provided the creature can understand at least one language.
Fey Ancestry. K'thriss has advantage on saving throws against being
largely indifferent elder entity from beyond reality. Tapped into this dark power, the “C” Team's hoardsperson sees all existence as a puzzle to unlock, and he is obsessed by the essential lack of meaning
Monsters
Monstrous Compendium Vol. 4: Eldraine Creatures
Speak with Rats. The ogre can verbally communicate simple concepts to ordinary rats and giant rats.Multiattack. The ogre makes two Club attacks, two Rat-Tail Whip attacks, or one of each.
Club
sense (rats only), druidcraft, entangle
1/day each: animal messenger (rats only), stinking cloudWhen ogres first moved into the wilds of Eldraine, they encountered all manner of unfamiliar creatures
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
speak any languages but can approximate words and sentences it hears, mimicking them in a high-pitched, mocking manner. Beholders find gazers amusing and tolerate their presence like spoiled pets. Some
Monsters
Spelljammer: Adventures in Space
exist or where they came from, but the most popular hypothesis is that they are the creations of some long-forgotten god. Zodars interact with other sapient creatures in a manner that goes beyond mere
struggling to find their new role.
A zodar can cause speech to issue from the air around it on three occasions in its lifetime. When it feels compelled to speak, it chooses its words wisely. It can
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
’t speak any languages but can approximate words and sentences it hears, mimicking them in a high-pitched, mocking manner. Beholders find gazers amusing and tolerate their presence like spoiled
Monsters
Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus
, dispel magic, hellish rebuke, invisibility, major image, speak with dead, suggestion
1/day each: banishment, demiplane, dominate person, fly, forcecage, geas, plane shift, true seeing
Magic Weapons
can be permanently slain. Mahadi acts as the eyes and ears of Asmodeus in Avernus. As a deal broker and moderator, he’s privy to all manner of dealings that might otherwise escape the attention
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
difference is the lack of a mind flayer’s ever-present mucus coating. Without that protection, an alhoon’s skin becomes dry and cracked, and its eyes might appear shriveled and sunken. Both of
periapt can speak telepathically with the holder. A creature carrying the periapt can’t prevent communication from alhoons but can silence trapped souls.PoisonCold, Lightning, Necrotic
Magic Items
The Book of Many Things
the transformation early. When you revert to your normal form, you return to the same state you were in when you initially transformed.
Book. You gain the ability to speak, read, and write 1d6 + 2
Speak with Plants without using a spell slot; you must finish a long rest before you can cast it this way again. If you have spell slots of 3rd level or higher, you can cast this spell using them. Use
Backgrounds
The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
through a fey crossing by chance during a twilight stroll in the woods. Perhaps you were kidnapped by evil Fey but escaped from their clutches. Whatever the manner of your disappearance, you gradually fell
understand, even if the Feywild visitor can’t speak that language normally.
Feywild Visitor
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Visitor
1
Awakened creature (a Beast or an ordinary plant that has had the awaken
Lizardfolk
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Species
Volo's Guide to Monsters
smooth-skins is far greater.
Despite their alien outlook, some lizardfolk make an effort to understand and, in their own manner, befriend people of other races. Such lizardfolk make faithful and
aggression toward creatures that they could defeat in a fight and that can’t be dealt with in some other manner. They are aggressive toward prey they want to eat, creatures that want to harm them, and
Modify Memory
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Spells
Basic Rules (2014)
details of the event, or create a memory of some other event.
You must speak to the target to describe how its memories are affected, and it must be able to understand your language for the modified
modified memory too nonsensical to affect a creature in a significant manner.
A remove curse or greater restoration spell cast on the target restores the creature's true memory.
At Higher Levels
Backgrounds
Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus
with opportunities for arcane study, although its masters are dispersed across individual wizards’ abodes and lack concentrated communities.
You spent years learning the lore of the multiverse
side of an argument before I make my own judgment.
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I … speak … slowly … when talking … to idiots, … which … almost … everyone … is
Kenku
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Species
Volo's Guide to Monsters
capable of flight, and similar objects provoke a great desire for the kenku to acquire the items for themselves.
Despite their lack of wings, kenku love dwelling in towers and other tall structures
. They seek out ruins that reach to the sky, though they lack the motivation and creativity to make repairs or fortify such places. Even so, their light weight and size allow them to dwell in rickety
Backgrounds
Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide
clothes, and a pouch containing 15 gp
Factions of the Sword Coast
The lack of large, centralized governments in the North and along the Sword Coast is likely directly responsible for the
, empathizing with them and always working toward peace.
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I see omens in every event and action. The gods try to speak to us, we just need to listen.
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Nothing can shake my optimistic
Backgrounds
Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide
artisan’s toolsLanguages: Dwarvish or one other of your choice if you already speak DwarvishEquipment: A set of artisan’s tools with which you are proficient, a maker’s mark chisel used
’m rude to people who lack my commitment to hard work and fair play.
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I like to talk at length about my profession.
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I don’t part with my money easily and will haggle
Tabaxi
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Species
Volo's Guide to Monsters
stories, artifacts, and lore. Those who survive this period of wanderlust return home in their elder years to share news of the outside world. In this manner, the tabaxi remain isolated but never ignorant
with, you speak quickly and never pause and others can’t understand you.
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You are a font of random trivia from the lore and stories you have discovered.
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You can’t help but pocket interesting objects you come across.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
, lizardfolk behave in a distant manner. They don’t mourn fallen comrades or rage against their enemies. They simply observe and react as a situation warrants. Lizardfolk lack meaningful emotional ties
, over time, learn to respect other creatures’ emotions. The lizardfolk doesn’t share those feelings, but instead assesses them in the same clinical manner. Yes, the fallen dwarf might be most useful
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
of Skullport would like to fix it, but they lack the mutual trust and cooperation required for such a project to succeed. The absence of the hoist hasn’t stopped all manner of nefarious sorts from using their own ropes to haul rowboats and other small craft over the barrier wall.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
-third of the populace, and some in the city claim to have a touch of Celestial ancestry. Languages. The primary language is Zabaani. Although all citizens also speak Common, the lack of visitors to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Quests from the Infinite Staircase
Sentience Aphelion is a sentient artificial intelligence programmed with an affable personality, a straightforward voice, and an obliging manner. It has an Intelligence of 20, a Wisdom of 10, and a
Charisma of 16. Aphelion can speak and read all languages. It appears as a shifting, face-like arrangement of complex, technological shapes. Aphelion has extensive knowledge of astronomy, spacefaring
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
greater punishment. If the characters approach her in a friendly manner, Violence tells them to leave before the headmaster returns, and recommends that they speak to Turbulence, her sister, who’s in the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
storm giant king is being held by casting a speak with dead spell on Lord Drylund’s corpse. If that option is unavailable to them, they can raise Lord Drylund from the dead. If they lack the means to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
Hopeless Plagiarists As a result of their lack of creativity, kenku function comfortably as minions of a powerful master. Flock leaders enforce discipline and minimize conflicts, but they fail at
effective planning or crafting long-term schemes. Although unable to speak in their own voices, kenku can perfectly mimic any sound they hear, from a halfling’s voice to the noise of rocks clattering
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
a friendly manner. If the characters ask for directions, one of the bullywugs tries to be helpful while the others gaze about listlessly. If the characters require any further assistance or
information, the helpful bullywug suggests that they speak to King Gullop XIX and points the way to his Royal Majesty (area D6). Each lily pad can hold up to 250 pounds without sinking. Bavlorna’s Cottage. The
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sage Advice Compendium
natural materials that aren’t the worked metal that is associated with civilization. Druids don’t lack the ability to wear metal armor. They choose not to wear it. This choice is part of their identity as a
Monster Manual , not creature types or subtypes. Elemental Wild Shape allows you to transform into one of those creatures. Can a Circle of the Moon druid speak the languages it knows while in the form of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen
scale coloration and general shape. They are cruel and selfish creatures trained by the Dragon Armies to serve as mounts for trusted officers. While they lack a red dragon’s destructive breath, these
Resistances fire
Senses blindsight 30 ft., darkvision 120 ft., passive Perception 13
Languages understands Common and Draconic but can’t speak
Challenge 3 (700 XP) Proficiency Bonus +2
Flyby. The
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Domains of Delight: A Feywild Accessory
Appendix: Stagefright’s Lines Did you speak? I thought ’twas the braying of an ass.
You dare speak of this, rascal?
Not even otyughs would dine on this.
On the contrary, I acknowledge all your
bumps to come!
What manner of ghoul is this I see before me?
I feel I have inherited much from this meeting.
Knaves, footpads, and liars. I am in good company!
Stop saying that! Are you a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
Speaker’s Quest If the characters lack incentive to confront Xardorok in his fortress, either because they didn’t encounter his sons in chapter 1 or because the duergar threat hasn’t impacted them
map of Icewind Dale. If the characters ask to speak with the captured duergar, the speaker informs them that the duergar was put to death following the interrogation, to keep him escaping and warning
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
rest, you can reroll the die and must use the new roll. Limited Telepathy. You can telepathically speak to any creature you can see within 30 feet of you. You don’t need to share a language with the
simple ideas and straightforward concepts. Persuasive. Your people’s lack of history makes you trustworthy and humble. You have proficiency in the Persuasion skill. Telepathic Insight. Your mind’s
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Guildmasters' Guide to Ravnica
barbed devils or horned devils, except that they are demons. (They are chaotic evil, they speak Abyssal and not Infernal, and they lack Devil’s Sight.)
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
poorly to changing circumstances. They can’t read, speak, emote, or communicate in any way except to nod, shake their heads, or point. Still, skeletons are able to accomplish a variety of relatively
careful instructions explaining how such tasks are accomplished.
Although they lack the intellect they possessed in life, skeletons aren’t mindless. Rather than break its limbs attempting to batter its
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
Appendix E: Stagefright’s Lines Did you speak? I thought ’twas the braying of an ass.
You dare speak of this, rascal?
Not even otyughs would dine on this.
On the contrary, I acknowledge all
more bumps to come!
What manner of ghoul is this I see before me?
I feel I have inherited much from this meeting.
Knaves, footpads, and liars. I am in good company!
Stop saying that! Are you a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
capacity and the weight you can push, drag, or lift. Speech of Beast and Leaf. You have the ability to communicate in a limited manner with beasts and plants. They can understand the meaning of your
words, though you have no special ability to understand them in return. You have advantage on all Charisma checks you make to influence them. Languages. You can speak, read, and write Common, Elvish, and Giant.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Locathah Rising
forward that we might speak in a more companionable manner.”
With that, the man gestures with his left hand and the coral in the chamber grows a seat for each of you to perch upon, should you so
and speak with Gar, he’s happy to hear them out, listening intently, with no show of defensiveness or remorse for any accusations they might direct his way. Nor does he offer an apology or reparations
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
only way to free him is for Zikran to end the enchantment willingly or for Zikran to be killed. Repeatedly and desperately, yet still with a noble manner, Gazre-Azam asks for the characters’ aid. In
magical abilities, but he can speak freely to the party and provide valuable information. Once members of the Avowed learn that a creature is trapped in the tome, they will allow the characters to






