many spies with only artistic from for longer

Rod of Absorption

Magic Items Dungeon Master’s Guide

by a spell that the rod can’t store, the rod has no effect on that spell. When you become attuned to the rod, you know how many levels of energy the rod has absorbed over the course of its

existence and how many levels of spell energy it currently has stored. If you are a spellcaster holding the rod, you can convert energy stored in it into spell slots to cast spells you have prepared or

Bag of Beans

Magic Items Dungeon Master’s Guide

This heavy cloth bag contains 3d4 dry beans when found. The bag weighs half a pound regardless of how many beans it contains and becomes a nonmagical item when it no longer contains any beans. If

Ioun Stone

Magic Items Dungeon Master’s Guide

Roughly marble sized, Ioun Stones are named after Ioun, a god of knowledge and prophecy revered on some worlds. Many types of Ioun Stones exist, each type a distinct combination of shape and color

, spell attack bonus, and spellcasting ability of the original caster but is otherwise treated as if you cast the spell. The spell cast from the stone is no longer stored in it, freeing up space. Ioun

Lorwyn-Shadowmoor Elf

Species Lorwyn: First Light

are long, wavy, and covered with a rough, thorny texture. Their pointed ears are usually longer than those of their Lorwyn counterparts. Like Lorwyn elves, Shadowmoor elves protect beauty, though a

Shadowmoor elf’s definition of “beautiful” can be abstract. Many of their kind believe beauty is gained or lost in accordance with one’s actions; in particular, they consider

Reigar

Monsters Spelljammer: Adventures in Space

land. When the endless battles there grew tiresome, some reigar ventured to the Astral Sea and Wildspace in search of glory. Many are driven by artistic pursuits, but each reigar has their own notion

of what constitutes art. For some, warfare is the highest form of artistic endeavor. Other reigar create art of a more benign nature. Reigar wander Wildspace and the Astral Sea in search of artistic

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

Mind Mage

Monsters Guildmasters’ Guide to Ravnica

Special Equipment. The mage wears a spies' murmur (see chapter 5). Innate Spellcasting (Psionics). The mage's spellcasting ability is Intelligence (spell save DC 16). It can innately cast the

the aura of mystery that shrouds them and their work. Their ability to read and alter memories commands respect from the other members of House Dimir and makes them useful in the full spectrum of the guild's activities. Many mind mages lead cells of their own.

Witchlight Hand (Small)

Monsters The Wild Beyond the Witchlight

individuals who operate many of the booths, make repairs, feed and exercise the animals, keep an eye out for thieves and other miscreants, and perform other miscellaneous tasks as Mister Witch dictates. A

few also work part-time as performers and attractions. Although they travel to many worlds throughout the Material Plane, Witchlight hands rarely leave the carnival grounds. The carnival is the only

Witchlight Hand

Monsters The Wild Beyond the Witchlight

individuals who operate many of the booths, make repairs, feed and exercise the animals, keep an eye out for thieves and other miscreants, and perform other miscellaneous tasks as Mister Witch dictates. A

few also work part-time as performers and attractions. Although they travel to many worlds throughout the Material Plane, Witchlight hands rarely leave the carnival grounds. The carnival is the only

Changeling Legacy

Species Eberron: Rising from the Last War

changelings use this gift as a form of artistic and emotional expression. It’s also an invaluable tool for grifters, spies, and others who wish to deceive. This leads many people to treat

be. And so it remains. Though the children are shunned by all, the gift of the Traveler protects them still. —Chance, changeling priest Changelings can shift their forms with a thought. Many

Mastermind

Classes Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide

Your focus is on people and on the influence and secrets they have. Many spies, courtiers, and schemers follow this archetype, leading lives of intrigue. Words are your weapons as often as knives or

Fog Giant

Monsters Mordenkainen's Fiendish Folio Volume 1

for a treasure or two. Bandit Kings. Forced to dwell in exile in the lands of the small folk, many fog giants develop an interest in those folk. Using a combination of threats and the promise of vast

roof of a merchant’s home, seizing what they seek, and stalking away before the town watch can rally. Intricate Networks. Clever, ambitious, and greedy, many fog giants build up whole networks of

Rictavio

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

looking for him. He taught her many of his monster-hunting techniques, but she doesn’t know all of his tricks and disguises. So far, their paths haven’t crossed. In the event that van

Oath of the Watchers (TCoE)

Classes Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything

The Oath of the Watchers binds paladins to protect mortal realms from the predations of extraplanar creatures, many of which can lay waste to mortal soldiers. Thus, the Watchers hone their minds

network of spies and informants to gather information on suspected cults. To a Watcher, keeping a healthy suspicion and awareness about one’s surroundings is as natural as wearing armor in

Quickling

Monsters Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse

Air and Darkness, the dread ruler of the Gloaming Court. Once lazy, egotistical folk, the creatures that would become the quicklings were late in answering the queen’s summons one time too many

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

Runic Colossus

Monsters Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants

DC 22 Strength check. On a successful check, the affected creature relocates to an unoccupied space of its choice within 5 feet of the colossus and is no longer restrained. Arcane Beam (Recharge 5–6

colossus is lost to modern giants, but many tales suggest the instructions might be buried deep in ruins from ancient giants’ empires.Poison, Psychic; Bludgeoning, Piercing, and Slashing from Nonmagical AttacksAcid, Cold, Fire, Lightning

Mastermind (SCAG)

Classes Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide

Your focus is on people and on the influence and secrets they have. Many spies, courtiers, and schemers follow this archetype, leading lives of intrigue. Words are your weapons as often as knives or

Beanstalk Wurm

Monsters Monstrous Compendium Vol. 4: Eldraine Creatures

condition. If the wurm dies, a swallowed creature no longer has the restrained condition and can escape from the corpse by using 10 feet of movement, exiting with the prone condition.Wurms are

enormous creatures that resemble limbless, wingless dragons, though they lack a dragon’s breath weapons and keen intelligence. On the world of Eldraine, many wurms have adapted to life among the world

Adult Silver Dragon Legacy

Monsters Basic Rules (2014)

flying speed.A Silver Dragon’s Lair Silver dragons dwell among the clouds, making their lairs on secluded cold mountain peaks. Though many are comfortable in natural cavern complexes or abandoned

its allies. Such creatures descend at a rate of 60 feet per round and take no falling damage. Given days or longer to work, the dragon can make clouds and fog within its lair as solid as stone, forming

Witchlight Hand

Backgrounds The Wild Beyond the Witchlight

party hard. The carnival has borne you to many fantastic worlds, circling back around to your home world once every eight years, but you know almost nothing about these worlds because you spend all

;re older, carnival life has lost some of its appeal. The daily routine has grown tedious, the cyclical nature of the carnival’s journey monotonous. The carnival no longer fills your heart with

Leucrotta

Monsters Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse

cover up the stink of death. The first leucrottas came into being alongside some gnolls during the rampages of Yeenoghu on the Material Plane. While many of the hyenas that ate Yeenoghu’s

like doing their own killing, since leucrottas are meticulous in their cruelty and able to draw out kills for better and longer sport. And when there are no victims to be had, a leucrotta can mimic the

Half-Elf Legacy

Species Basic Rules (2014)

, inventiveness, and ambition tempered by the refined senses, love of nature, and artistic tastes of the elves. Some half-elves live among humans, set apart by their emotional and physical differences, watching

children. Many half-elves, unable to fit into either society, choose lives of solitary wandering or join with other misfits and outcasts in the adventuring life. Of Two Worlds To humans, half-elves look

Soulknife Legacy

Classes Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything

Most assassins strike with physical weapons, and many burglars and spies use thieves’ tools to infiltrate secure locations. In contrast, a Soulknife strikes and infiltrates with the mind

Ancient Silver Dragon Legacy

Monsters Basic Rules (2014)

its flying speed.A Silver Dragon’s Lair Silver dragons dwell among the clouds, making their lairs on secluded cold mountain peaks. Though many are comfortable in natural cavern complexes or

’s or its allies. Such creatures descend at a rate of 60 feet per round and take no falling damage. Given days or longer to work, the dragon can make clouds and fog within its lair as solid as stone

Hellfire Engine

Monsters Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse

":"bludgeoning"} bludgeoning damage. If the hellfire engine remains in the prone creature’s space, the creature is also restrained until it’s no longer in the same space as the hellfire engine

feet of the hellfire engine and is no longer restrained. Hellfire Weapons. The hellfire engine uses one of the following options (choose one or roll a d6;{"diceNotation":"1d6","rollType":"roll

Returned Sentry

Monsters Mythic Odysseys of Theros

tirelessness, which makes them exceptional guards. In the necropoleis, this sees many Returned employed as sentries, though they might also be messengers or laborers. If threatened, groups of these Returned

mouths. These blank surfaces they cover with distinctive golden masks. Returned reenter the world blank and undead. No longer possessing the ability to form long-term memories, they generally can

Nightmare Haunt

Monsters Monstrous Compendium Vol. 4: Eldraine Creatures

unconscious creature remains asleep until it is no longer in the area with tendrils, takes any damage, or is targeted by a remove curse spell or similar magic.Nightmare haunts are terrors from the

invasion, many nightmare haunts take the shape of those terrifying invaders, having multiple limbs and inhuman visages. Smoky purplish energy wafts from their forms, suggesting their connection to the Wicked

Deck of Many More Things

Magic Items The Book of Many Things

Over the centuries since the first Deck of Many Things was created, many have sought and failed to replicate it. But some have created new cards. These forty-four additional cards are known

collectively as the Deck of Many More Things. (More information on creating new cards for this deck appears in chapter 2.) Like the Deck of Many Things, the Deck of Many More Things manifests differently on

Duergar Mind Master

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

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 neighbors. To

Phantom

Classes Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything

spies. Many shadar-kai of the Shadowfell are masters of these macabre techniques, and some are willing to teach this path. In places like Thay in the Forgotten Realms and Karrnath in Eberron, where many

Many rogues walk a fine line between life and death, risking their own lives and taking the lives of others. While adventuring on that line, some rogues discover a mystical connection to death itself

Phantom (TCoE)

Classes Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything

spies. Many shadar-kai of the Shadowfell are masters of these macabre techniques, and some are willing to teach this path. In places like Thay in the Forgotten Realms and Karrnath in Eberron, where many

Many rogues walk a fine line between life and death, risking their own lives and taking the lives of others. While adventuring on that line, some rogues discover a mystical connection to death itself

Teleport Legacy

Spells Basic Rules (2014)

an enemy's sanctum but instead viewed an illusion, or you are attempting to teleport to a familiar location that no longer exists. On Target. You and your group (or the target object) appear where

area. If you are heading for your home laboratory, for example, you might wind up in another wizard's laboratory or in an alchemical supply shop that has many of the same tools and implements as your

Interesting Things About Thronehold

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War

Cyre no longer has a peacekeeping force on the island, many Cyrans find work here as spies and agents for other nations.

Interesting Things About Thronehold Representatives (and spies) of the Five Nations gather in the town of Throneport, where it’s impossible to tell friend from foe and alliances shift daily. Although

Red Greatwyrm

Monsters Fizban's Treasury of Dragons

many of his echoes before withdrawing to a planar lair in the Outlands. The red greatwyrm Ashardalon worked with a balor to ritually drain the power of his echoes, then infused their power into himself

their scales, and elemental forces rage around them when they exert their wrath. They no longer need to eat or drink, as their vast hoards magically sustain them. And their power can raze a city to

White Greatwyrm

Monsters Fizban's Treasury of Dragons

many of his echoes before withdrawing to a planar lair in the Outlands. The red greatwyrm Ashardalon worked with a balor to ritually drain the power of his echoes, then infused their power into himself

their scales, and elemental forces rage around them when they exert their wrath. They no longer need to eat or drink, as their vast hoards magically sustain them. And their power can raze a city to

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