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Programmed Illusion

Spells Player’s Handbook

You create an illusion of an object, a creature, or some other visible phenomenon within range that activates when a specific trigger occurs. The illusion is imperceptible until then. It must be no

occurs, the illusion springs into existence and performs in the manner you described. Once the illusion finishes performing, it disappears and remains dormant for 10 minutes, after which the illusion

Sending

Spells Player’s Handbook

sender if it knows you, and can answer in a like manner immediately. The spell enables targets to understand the meaning of your message. You can send the message across any distance and even to other

Imprisonment

Spells Player’s Handbook

and planar travel. The demiplane is your choice of a labyrinth, a cage, a tower, or the like. Minimus Containment. The target becomes 1 inch tall and is trapped inside an indestructible gemstone or a

true love, or defeating a specific monster. A Dispel Magic spell can end the spell only if it is cast with a level 9 spell slot, targeting either the prison or the component used to create it.

Deck of Illusions

Magic Items Dungeon Master’s Guide

This box contains a set of cards. A full deck has 34 cards: 32 depicting specific creatures and two with a mirrored surface. A deck found as treasure is usually missing 1d20 − 1 cards. The

illusion of a creature, determined by rolling on the Deck of Illusions table, forms over the thrown card and remains until dispelled. The illusory creature created by the card looks and behaves like a

Eye and Hand of Vecna

Magic Items Dungeon Master’s Guide

still seek to work Vecna’s will in the world. The Eye of Vecna and the Hand of Vecna are separate Artifacts that might be found together or separately. The eye looks like a bloodshot organ torn

your body, devours it, and then takes control of the body like a puppet. If that happens, you become an NPC under the DM’s control. Eye of Vecna Spells Spell Charge Cost

Prismatic Wall

Spells Player’s Handbook

, in order from red to violet, by means specific to each layer. If a layer is destroyed, it is gone for the duration. Antimagic Field has no effect on the wall, and Dispel Magic can affect only the

end of each of its turns. If it successfully saves three times, the condition ends. If it fails three times, it has the Petrified condition until it is freed by an effect like the Greater Restoration

Speaking Stones

Magic Items Stranger Things: Welcome to the Hellfire Club

other stone. That creature hears the message in its mind, recognizes you as the sender if it knows you, and can answer in a like manner immediately. The stones enable creatures to understand the meaning

Boggart

Species Lorwyn: First Light

Boggarts are Small, squat goblinoids found in the realm of Lorwyn-Shadowmoor. They possess bestial physical features, including horns and animal- like snouts. Beyond these commonalities, boggart

appearances vary widely. One boggart may look like a hedgehog, with spiky fur and beady eyes, while another might sport the snout and fleshy ears of a swine. Boggarts tend to love crafting potions and

Programmed Illusion Legacy

Spells Basic Rules (2014)

You create an illusion of an object, a creature, or some other visible phenomenon within range that activates when a specific condition occurs. The illusion is imperceptible until then. It must be no

specify occurs, the illusion springs into existence and performs in the manner you described. Once the illusion finishes performing, it disappears and remains dormant for 10 minutes. After this time, the

Sending Legacy

Spells Basic Rules (2014)

answer in a like manner immediately. The spell enables creatures with Intelligence scores of at least 1 to understand the meaning of your message. You can send the message across any distance and even to

Water Weird Legacy

Monsters Monster Manual (2014)

ends, the target is restrained, the water weird tries to drown it, and the water weird can’t constrict another target.A water weird is an elemental guardian bound to a specific water-filled

those its summoner declares as off limits. When slain, a water weird becomes an inanimate pool of water. Good and Evil Weirds. Like most elementals, a water weird has no concept of good or evil

Whistle-Stick

Equipment

The grung of One Grung Above are trained to use this new musical instrument. This is a hollow tube with holes cut throughout, much like a flute. You can play music with it for entertainment, but the

grung also swing it about by a sturdy cord (attached) to create a sound recognizable by other grung, so they know each other’s approximate location. Additionally, grung that know Thieves’ Cant can use a whistle stick in this manner to communicate over distance.

Geonid

Monsters The Tortle Package

legs come out of a small opening in the bottom of its shell. A geonid can draw its limbs into its shell and close the opening. When it does so, the creature looks like a small boulder. In this state, the

vermin, as well as on cave lichen and moss. Geonids like to collect coins and gemstones, and they rarely confront creatures larger than themselves except to rob them or scare them away. Stone Tell

Mark of Shadow Elf

Species Eberron: Rising from the Last War

and established House Phiarlan in Khorvaire. These elves are expert entertainers, giving them access to all manner of places and secrets. Known to few, there has always been an elite force of spies and

assassins within House Phiarlan. Only special clients—nobles, merchant lords, and the like—have access to these spies. Toward the end of the Last War, a bitter feud broke out between the

Xill

Monsters Mordenkainen's Fiendish Folio Volume 1

, built for a specific purpose. Some are fortresses, designed to keep wanderers from the material world away. Others are far more sinister, dark realms where evil dreams take root and become ghastly

paralytic poison. When their the poison overwhelms their target, the xill snatches the victim and returns to the Ethereal. The ultimate fate of unfortunates carried off in this manner is not known, but

Quadrone Detention Drone

Monsters The Book of Many Things

Axiomatic Mind. The drone can’t be compelled to act in a manner contrary to its nature or its instructions. Disintegration. If the drone dies, its body disintegrates into dust, leaving behind

inside.Detention drones vary in size, strength, and shape, though most are shaped like some kind of mechanical animal or plant.

Zodar

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

each zodar has a specific mission and is relentless in its pursuit of the goal, but it reacts oddly to situations that don’t involve its mission because it doesn’t know what else to do

Guardian Portrait

Monsters Curse of Strahd

becomes inanimate and is too damaged to be of much use or value to anyone. A guardian portrait looks like a finely rendered and beautifully framed work of art, usually depicting someone important in a

realistic manner. The picture and its frame are bound with powerful magic and are inseparable. Living Image. The eyes of the figure depicted in the painting are imbued with darkvision, and they appear to

Boneless

Monsters Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft

them to death in their full-body grip. Boneless arise in a variety of forms. While the animate skins of specific creatures are the most common, foul spellcasters might create these horrors from the

. Whether through accident or depraved genius, some villains use one corpse to create two separate undead. Boneless might adorn the frames of other undead, like skeletons or zombies. The sight of a

Gazer

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

follows its creator like a devoted, aggressive puppy, and sometimes small packs of these creatures patrol their master’s lair for vermin to kill and lone creatures to harass. A gazer can’t

Frostmourn

Monsters Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants

manner—perhaps poisoned, stabbed in the back, or killed while sleeping—the slain giant can rise as a frostmourn. Driven by its desire for vengeance, the frostmourn can turn the living into

keep them roaming the wilds for years after their murderers are slain. A frostmourn looks like a desiccated corpse mummified by exposure to bitter cold. It carries the marks of its death on its body: a

Retriever

Monsters Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse

Faultless Tracker. The retriever is given a quarry by its master. The quarry can be a specific creature or object the master is personally acquainted with, or it can be a general type of creature or

for the spell), webThe retriever is a potent, spider-like Construct conceived and built by Underdark followers of Lolth for one original purpose—to prowl the Abyss and capture demons for these

Brain Breaker

Monsters Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk

one’s Intelligence score, but can’t sense anything else about it. A creature protected by a mind blank spell, a nondetection spell, or similar magic can’t be perceived in this manner

breakers look like giant brains with stout legs, and they wear steel armor made from interlocked links of Ilvaash’s runes (knots of tentacles, brains, and jagged lines reminiscent of jaws).Psychic

Duergar Stone Guard

Monsters Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse

regulars or organized into elite strike forces for specific missions. Duergar Duergar are dwarves of the deep reaches of the Underdark and other sunless realms. Their personalities and abilities have

inspires works of grand but melancholic beauty, while in others, it manifests as rage. Like many who dwell in the Underdark, duergar must constantly be on guard against the raids and plots of their

Wood Woad

Monsters Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse

, and when not called on to take action, they root themselves in the earth and silently take sustenance from it. Like trees, wood woads need only sunlight, air, and nutrients from the earth to go on

might die. If it is freed from its specific duties, a wood woad might roam to find another place of natural beauty or fey influence to watch over. Wood woads are drawn to creatures that have close ties

Ythryn Mythallar

Magic Items Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden

A mythallar looks like an enormous crystal ball held in an ornate cradle. The globe sheds bright light in a 300-foot radius and dim light for an additional 300 feet. The globe draws magic from the

all its expended charges or uses. A magic item recharged in this manner can’t be recharged by the Ythryn mythallar again until after the item regains expended charges or uses on its own. You

Kolyarut

Monsters Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse

of itself into the planes to seek the truth. Also known as kolyaruts, these manifestations of the great machine function as multiversal investigators and pursue answers to specific quandaries. Once

their questions have been satisfied, they report back to their creator, allowing the Kolyarut to impose accurate judgments. Kolyaruts are four-armed beings of magic and machinery. Like maruts, they

Carrionette

Monsters Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft

with the victim, stealing the victim’s body while trapping the victim’s soul in its own doll-like frame. The carrionette then imprisons its old body, keeping the animate doll hidden while it

porcelain dolls are the most common, all manner of deadly stuffed animals, crawling jack-in-the-boxes, bloodthirsty poppets, murderous jewelry box ballerinas, and so forth might be carrionettes. These

Sending Stone

Magic Items Acquisitions Incorporated

Also at rank 1, you are given use of an Acquisitions Incorporated sending stone, an uncommon magic item that resembles a gemstone in a bold setting. It functions like a normal sending stones;sending

stone, except that it has no matching stone and allows communication with Head Office, specific secretarians you know, and the secretarian nearest your location. You must succeed on a DC 15

Star Spawn Grue

Monsters Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse

that cult, including star spawn. The following powers are unique to specific cults; typically a creature has only one. Cult of Atropus, the World Born Dead Gaze of Corruption (Recharge 6

transforms into a Tiny, slug-like being and teleports onto the shoulder of a Humanoid that it can see within 30 feet of it. The targeted Humanoid must succeed on a DC 15 Charisma saving throw or be charmed by

Mercion

Monsters The Wild Beyond the Witchlight

natural leader and a protective caregiver. She has a direct manner that reassures and inspires those around her. Mercion does not worship a deity, but rather an ideal: that truth gives life to artistry

coming for you.” Flaw. “My friends would say I’m inflexible. The truth is, I like things done a certain way.” Combat Notes Mercion counts on her armor to protect her as she

Dire Troll

Monsters Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse

, claws, and organs that dire trolls tear from their victims and graft onto themselves in this manner. Trolls Trolls that are nearly obliterated but survive and regenerate from mere scraps of flesh can

display bizarre features. Radically transformed trolls like the rot troll;rot trolls, spirit troll;spirit trolls, and venom troll;venom trolls that follow are especially likely to arise when trolls

Star Map of Creation

Equipment

This scroll displays what the night sky looked like at the creation of the Mundane World. If you have proficiency with the Arcana or Nature skill, you can spend 1 minute holding and studying the map

and search it for an omen about the results of a specific course of action that you plan to take within the next 30 minutes. The GM chooses from the following possible outcomes: Good omen Bad omen

Star Spawn Mangler

Monsters Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse

Disciples of certain Elder Evils can bestow supernatural gifts on those who serve that cult, including star spawn. The following powers are unique to specific cults; typically a creature has only one

of Haask, the Voice of Hargut Haask’s Presence (1/Day). The cultist transforms into a Tiny, slug-like being and teleports onto the shoulder of a Humanoid that it can see within 30 feet of it

Dullahan

Monsters Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft

a specific location their battlefield. This gives rise to stories of haunted battlegrounds, ruins, roads, river crossings and other strategic locations where a dullahan continues a terrifying

campaign against the living. In death, dullahans are often rejoined by those who followed them in life, either in the form of lesser undead, like skeleton;skeletons or wight;wights, or terrifying mounts

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