master scores with only away for for lower

Animal Shapes

Spells Player’s Handbook

Choose any number of willing creatures that you can see within range. Each target shape-shifting;shape-shifts into a Large or smaller Beast of your choice that has a Challenge Rating of 4 or lower

statistics, but the target retains its creature type; Hit Points; Hit Point Dice; alignment; ability to communicate; and Intelligence, Wisdom, and Charisma scores. The target’s actions are

Merchant

Backgrounds Player’s Handbook

Ability Scores: Constitution, Intelligence, CharismaFeat: LuckySkill Proficiencies: Animal Handling and PersuasionTool Proficiency: Navigator's ToolsEquipment: Choose A or B: (A

) Navigator's Tools, 2 Pouches, Traveler's Clothes, 22 GP; or (B) 50 GP You were apprenticed to a trader, caravan master, or shopkeeper, learning the fundamentals of commerce. You traveled broadly, and you

Deck of Many Things

Magic Items Dungeon Master’s Guide

one of your ability scores by 2. You can’t decrease an ability that has a score of 5 or lower. Alternatively, you can choose not to adjust your ability scores, in which case this card has no

97–00 97–00 Void Each card’s effect is described below. Balance. You can increase one of your ability scores by 2, to a maximum of 22, provided you also decrease another

Sage

Backgrounds Player’s Handbook

Ability Scores: Constitution, Intelligence, WisdomFeat: Magic Initiate (Wizard)Skill Proficiencies: Arcana and HistoryTool Proficiency: Calligrapher's SuppliesEquipment: Choose A or B

odd jobs and services in exchange for access to their libraries. You whiled away many a long evening studying books and scrolls, learning the lore of the multiverse—even the rudiments of magic—and your mind yearns for more.

Sir Jared

Monsters The Book of Many Things

":"Longsword", "rollDamageType":"radiant"} radiant damage. On a roll of 19 or 20, Jared scores a critical hit.Protect Ally. When a creature Jared can see attacks a target other than Jared that is within 5

Hilarion with helping him change his ways and use his skills for good instead of gold, but he feels unworthy of the organization and has grown lonely after so long away from the Solar Bastion.

Boneclaw

Monsters Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse

sincerely turns away from the path of evil, the boneclaw is destroyed. Otherwise, a boneclaw can’t be destroyed while its master lives. No matter what happens to the boneclaw’s body, it

Rejuvenation. While its master lives, a destroyed boneclaw gains a new body in 1d10;{"diceNotation":"1d10", "rollType":"roll", "rollAction":"Hours"} hours, with all its hit points. The new body

Staff of Fate

Magic Items Candlekeep Mysteries

roll, or saving throw it makes before the start of your next turn. If this extra die is not used before then, it is lost. If you expend the staff's last charge, roll a d20. On a roll of 9 or lower, the

staff becomes a nonmagical quarterstaff that breaks the first time it scores a hit and deals damage. On a roll of 10 or higher, the staff regains 1d6 of its expended charges.

Ember

Monsters Monstrous Compendium Vol. 2: Dragonlance Creatures

, Ember adds his Charisma modifier to his weapon damage rolls (included in the attack descriptions), and his AC can’t be lower than 20.Multiattack. Ember makes one Bite attack and two Claw

", "rollAction":"Firestorm Breath", "rollDamageType":"fire"} fire damage and is pushed up to 30 feet away from Ember and knocked prone. On a successful save, a creature takes half as much damage with no other

Gazer

Monsters Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse

creature that is Medium or smaller, it must succeed on a DC 12 Strength saving throw or be moved up to 30 feet directly away from the gazer. If the target is an object weighing 10 pounds or less that

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

Hydroloth

Monsters Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse

of creatures they attack, stealing away thoughts for delivery to whatever master they happen to serve. Hydroloths also savor finding lost things, especially those that have been swallowed up in the

proficiencies; it can’t cast spells; it can’t understand language; and if its Intelligence and Charisma scores are higher than 5, they become 5. Each time the target finishes a long rest

Yeth Hound

Monsters Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse

Deep Ethereal. After sunset, it returns to the Border Ethereal at the same spot, whereupon it typically sets out to find its pack or its master. The hound is visible on the Material Plane while it is in

the Border Ethereal, and vice versa, but it can’t affect or be affected by anything on the other plane. Once it is adjacent to its master or a pack mate that is on the Material Plane, a yeth

Chwinga Astronaut

Monsters Spelljammer: Adventures in Space

within 5 feet of itself. The target gains a supernatural charm of the DM’s choice. See the Dungeon Master’s Guide for more information on supernatural charms. Natural Shelter. The chwinga

spellcasting ability: At will: druidcraft, guidance, pass without trace, resistanceChwingas that live in Wildspace usually dwell on habitable moons and asteroids, though they occasionally stow away on

Slarkrethel

Monsters Storm King's Thunder

’s lair. Each creature within 60 feet of the kraken must succeed on a DC 23 Strength saving throw or be pushed up to 60 feet away from the kraken. On a success, the creature is pushed 10 feet away

weather spell. Water elementals coalesce within 6 miles of the lair. These elementals can’t leave the water and have Intelligence and Charisma scores of 1 (−5). Aquatic creatures within 6

Gazer (Familiar Variant)

Monsters Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse

Familiar. The gazer can serve another creature as a familiar, forming a telepathic bond with its willing master, provided that the master is at least a 3rd-level spellcaster. While the two are bonded

, the master can sense what the gazer senses as long as they are within 1 mile of each other. If its master causes it physical harm, the gazer will end its service as a familiar, breaking the

Amrik Vanthampur

Monsters Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus

","rollAction":"Dagger","rollDamageType":"piercing"} piercing damage. Smoke Bomb (1/Day). Amrik hurls a smoke bomb up to 20 feet away. The bomb explodes on impact, creating a cloud of black smoke that fills a 10

torpor (ingested);torpor (see "Poisons" in chapter 8 of the Dungeon Master’s Guide), which the kenku bartender can use to spike drinks when Amrik gives the signal.

Silverquill Pledgemage

Monsters Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos

ruthlessly and master the art of insults and discouragement (and in some cases, petty trash talk). Regardless, nearly all members of Silverquill College carry themselves with a fearsome, never-second

any hit the pledgemage scores against the creature is a critical hit. The target can repeat the saving throw at the end of each of its turns, ending the effect on itself on a success.

Professor Orb

Magic Items Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage

. The orb is sentient and has the personality of a scholar. Its alignment is determined by rolling on the alignment table in the “Sentient Magic Items” section in the Dungeon Master’s

Guide. Regardless of its alignment, the orb has an Intelligence of 18, and Wisdom and Charisma scores determined by rolling 3d6 for each ability. The orb speaks, reads, and understands four languages

Juvenile Kraken

Monsters Ghosts of Saltmarsh

through the kraken’s lair. Each creature within 60 feet of the kraken must succeed on a DC 23 Strength saving throw or be pushed up to 60 feet away from the kraken. On a success, the creature is

pushed 10 feet away from the kraken. Creatures in the water within 60 feet of the kraken have vulnerability to lightning damage until initiative count 20 on the next round. The water in the kraken

Ssurran Poisoner

Monsters Spelljammer: Adventures in Space

. Poison Bomb. The ssurran throws a tangerine-sized bomb at a point up to 60 feet away, where it explodes, releasing a 10-foot-radius sphere of poisonous gas that disperses quickly. Each creature in the

half as much damage on a successful one. After the ssurran throws a bomb, roll a d6;{"diceNotation":"1d6","rollType":"roll","rollAction":"Poison Bomb"}; on a roll of 4 or lower, the ssurran has no more

Hands of Havoc Fire Starter

Monsters Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse

":"1d6", "rollType":"roll", "rollAction":"Havoc Flask"}; on a 3 or lower, the fire starter has no more flasks to throw.The pyromaniacal agents known as fire starters burn away oppressive systems through chaos and flame. They wield hammers that emit magical flames—perfect for smashing and burning.Fire

Leucrotta

Monsters Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse

":"piercing"} piercing damage. If the leucrotta scores a critical hit, it rolls the damage dice three times, instead of twice. Hooves. Melee Weapon Attack: +6;{"diceNotation":"1d20+6","rollType":"to

that can crush bones and lacerate flesh. These plates are so tough that a leucrotta can use them to peel plate armor away from the body of a slain knight. A leucrotta’s stench would normally warn

Sul Khatesh

Monsters Eberron: Rising from the Last War

throw, she can choose to succeed instead. Magic Resistance. Sul Khatesh has advantage on saving throws against spells and other magical effects. Master of Magic. Sul Khatesh has advantage on

Intelligence, Wisdom, and Charisma scores, as well as this action. Her statistics and capabilities are otherwise replaced by those of the new form, except any class features or legendary actions of that

Vargouille

Monsters Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse

or a dretch, fears vargouilles only if they appear in great numbers. In the Lower Planes, vargouilles rarely get the chance to eat live prey other than vermin. More often, they lap up the ichor left

behind when one Fiend kills another. Because of their hunger for living prey, vargouilles are eager to escape the Lower Planes. On rare occasions, summoning a demon to another plane can bring a

Zakya Rakshasa

Monsters Eberron: Rising from the Last War

: detect thoughts, disguise self 1/day: shield Limited Magic Immunity. The rakshasa can’t be affected or detected by spells of 1st level or lower unless it wishes to be. It has advantage on

saving throw. On a failure, the rakshasa can push the creature up to 10 feet away from it, knock the creature prone, or make the creature drop one item it is holding of the rakshasa’s

Gold-Forged Sentinel

Monsters Mythic Odysseys of Theros

sentinel has advantage on saving throws against any spell that targets only the sentinel (not an area). If the sentinel’s saving throw succeeds and the spell is of 4th level or lower, the spell has

sentinels is a mystery, and of all Purphoros’s original anvilwroughts, this construct is the most difficult to control. A sentinel often operates without a master, stalking the high places of

Archaic

Monsters Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos

the target is pulled up to 10 feet toward the archaic or pushed 10 feet away from it, as the archaic chooses. Gravity Shift (Recharge 5–6);{"diceNotation":"1d6", "rollType":"recharge", "rollAction

teleports to an unoccupied space that it can see within 120 feet of itself.Spell Mimicry (1/Day). Immediately after a creature the archaic can see casts a spell of 5th level or lower, that creature

Devastation Orb

Magic Items Princes of the Apocalypse

Dungeon Master’s Guide. Earth Orb. When this orb detonates, it subjects the area to the effects of the earthquake spell for 1 minute (spell save DC 18). For the purpose of the spell’s

apply, as detailed in chapter 5 of the Dungeon Master’s Guide. At the end of each hour, there is a ten percent chance that the heat wave starts a wildfire in a random location within the area of

Gargantua

Monsters Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants

away from the gargantua, and has the prone condition. Spell Mimicry (1/Day). Immediately after a creature the gargantua can see casts a spell of 5th level or lower, the gargantua tries to copy the

. Immediately after the gargantua takes damage from a Large or smaller creature it can see within 20 feet of itself, it attempts to flick the creature away. The target must succeed on a DC 23 Strength

Giff Shock Trooper

Monsters Spelljammer: Adventures in Space

bomb and throws it at a point up to 60 feet away, where it explodes. Each creature within a 10-foot-radius sphere centered on that point must make a DC 15 Dexterity saving throw, taking 18 (4d8

bomb, roll a d6;{"diceNotation":"1d6","rollType":"roll","rollAction":"Thunder Bomb"}; on a roll of 4 or lower, the giff has no more bombs to throw.A giff shock trooper is trained to mount assaults on

Ephixis, Bow of Nylea

Magic Items Mythic Odysseys of Theros

. You gain a +3 bonus to attack and damage rolls made with this bow, and you suffer no disadvantage when attacking at the weapon’s long range. Additionally, Ephixis scores a critical hit on a d20

. See “Artifacts” in chapter 7 of the Dungeon Master’s Guide for details on randomly determined properties. Arrows of the Seasons. The four arrows—each associated with a season

Wastrilith

Monsters Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse

lightly obscured;lightly obscures the area until a current clears it away. Water in containers remains corrupted until it evaporates. A creature that consumes this foul water or swims in it must make a

wastrilith risk their very souls. Those who drink the poisonous liquid might wither away until they finally die, or they remain alive only to become thralls of chaos and evil. To represent this

Steel Crane

Monsters Candlekeep Mysteries

’s role in the theft. Personality Trait. “The technique of the Immortal Lotus is beautiful and powerful. I will succeed Master Bak Mei.” Ideal. “The ancient traditions and secret

martial arts must be preserved and learned. Hiding them away in libraries dishonors our teachers.” Bond. “The Immortal Lotus is my new family. Bak Mei will lead me to a brighter future

Bard

Monsters Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse

", "rollDamageType":"thunder"} thunder damage and is pushed up to 10 feet away from the bard. On a successful save, a creature takes half as much damage and isn’t pushed. Spellcasting. The bard casts

patrons. Each bard is a master of at least one type of performance. You may choose a bard’s main type, or you may roll on the Bard Performance Types table to determine it. Bard Performance

Orcus Legacy

Monsters Out of the Abyss

, emulating their dread master. Orcus is a bestial creature of corruption with a diseased, decaying look. He has the lower torso of a goat, and a humanoid upper body with a corpulent belly swollen with rot

. Master of Undeath. When Orcus casts animate dead or create undead, he chooses the level at which the spell is cast, and the creatures created by the spells remain under his control indefinitely

Demogorgon Legacy

Monsters Out of the Abyss

"} necrotic damage. Maddening Gaze. Demogorgon uses his Gaze action, and must choose either the Beguiling Gaze or the Insanity Gaze effect.Prince of Demons, the Sibilant Beast, and Master of the

infinite depths of the Abyss. The demon lord is a meld of different forms, with a saurian lower body and clawed, webbed feet, as well as suckered tentacles sprouting from the shoulders of a great

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