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Monster Manual
. Constitution Saving Throw: DC 17. First Failure: The target has the Restrained condition and repeats the save at the end of its next turn if it is still Restrained, ending the effect on itself on a success
Underdark, in the tunnel-mazes they occupied in life or in the lairs of enemy beholders they conquered. These lairs are devoid of life, as death tyrants change their servants into Undead horrors.
The
Magic Items
Dungeon Master’s Guide
creature whose soul has been devoured by Blackrazor can be restored to life only by a Wish spell.
When Blackrazor devours a soul that isn’t yours, you gain Temporary Hit Points equal to the slain
, as though accustomed to being obeyed.The sword’s purpose is to consume souls. It doesn’t care whose souls it eats, including the wielder’s. The sword believes that all matter and
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Curse of Strahd
feet of Baba Lysaga and acts as her ally. It remains until it dies or until Baba Lysaga dismisses it as an action.Two women gave life to Strahd von Zarovich. The first was Queen Ravenovia van Roeyen
Strahd’s true mother.
Other Mother. When Strahd was still a baby in his crib, Baba Lysaga cast protective spells on him and crept into his nursery on stormy nights to sing magical rhymes to him
Monsters
Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen
damage.Skeletal knights are powerful Undead that arise to serve even more wicked beings—often death knight;death knights. Those who become skeletal knights were typically virtuous in life but betrayed
blades deal lingering wounds that sap their victims’ life force and leave blackened scars even after magical healing.Poison
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
rot troll becomes unable to regenerate, though the troll still heals normally. The creature courses with necrotic energy; simply standing near a rot troll exposes other creatures to lethal emanations
trolls, and venom troll;venom trolls that follow are especially likely to arise when trolls regenerate in the presence of magical emanations, planar energy, disease, or death on a vast scale, or if
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Eberron: Rising from the Last War
steel, then magically imbued with life and sentience. The warforged were created to fight in the Last War, and in the aftermath of that conflict, they struggle to understand their place in the world.
Most
warforged soldiers still serve their former masters, often guarding dragonmarked houses or merchant caravans. Many warforged find it difficult to separate themselves from the soldiers they were made
Monsters
Acquisitions Incorporated
attacker.A product of life on a small-town farm, the rogue known as Viari carries fond memories of those childhood days and his loving family. (Well, except for that thing where his parents insist on
thinking of his older brother as the successful one.) But he can be quick to show self-consciousness when talking of where he came from, and he never speaks of the name he bore in that former life.
After
Monsters
The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
Consume Life. As a bonus action, the will-o’-wisp can target one creature it can see within 5 feet of it that has 0 hit points and is still alive. The target must succeed on a DC 10
Constitution saving throw against this magic or die. If the target dies, the will-o’-wisp regains 10 (3d6);{"diceNotation":"3d6","rollType":"heal","rollAction":"Consume Life"} hit points.
Ephemeral. The
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Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse
is missing any of its hit points), reach 10 ft., one target. Hit: 5 (1d6 + 2);{"diceNotation":"1d6+2", "rollType":"damage", "rollAction":"Claw", "rollDamageType":"slashing"} slashing damage.
Life
-Draining Vines (Recharge 6);{"diceNotation":"1d6", "rollType":"recharge", "rollAction":"Life-Draining Vines"}. Snaking vines erupt from the blight. Each creature within 10 feet of it must make a DC 12
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Candlekeep Mysteries
","rollType":"damage","rollAction":"Tail","rollDamageType":"lightning"} lightning damage.A skitterwidget that gives birth to a kiddywidget can’t procreate for 3d6 days afterward. Still, given that
skitterwidgets are constructs with no natural life span, there is no telling how many kiddywidgets a pair of skitterwidgets can produce.
Growth Cycle. It takes 3d6;{"diceNotation":"3d6","rollType
Monsters
Mythic Odysseys of Theros
wonders and changing the world—but not always for the better. Doomwake giants arise from pernicious fears that infect a whole city or region. If enough mortals dread destruction for long enough, their
typically roam to the edges of the world, where they either fade away over time or become legends that take on their own terrible life.
A spectrum of giants claims territory across Theros, drawing
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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
she doesn't understand, even as it grants her occasional memories of others still trapped there and an awareness of faraway places. In combat, she manifests an instinctive knowledge of events before
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Eberron: Rising from the Last War
donning it, each bone knight understood that their former life was over.
The Fall of the Emerald Claw. During the Last War, many bone knights took service with the Order of the Emerald Claw, helping
, Kaius sealed most of Karrnath's undead in deep vaults, and the Order of the Emerald Claw was disbanded. A few bone knights remained in service to the crown, but most were cast aside — still bound to
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Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
creature still moves and attacks with teeth and claws as ever—but now the troll strikes at victims’ minds.
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 trolls, and venom troll;venom trolls that follow are especially likely to arise when
Monsters
Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen
dragons arise when a dragon meets its end in a way that torments its soul and consumes it with a need for vengeance. Regardless of how it arose, a death dragon retains a shadow of its former
unleash in a horrific mockery of the breath weapon it possessed in life. The breath snuffs out life force and infuses undeath into corpses it touches. These zombie;zombies burn with Cataclysmic fire
Monsters
Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
Podling Link. The plant can see through and communicate telepathically with any of its podling;podlings within 10 miles of it.
Rejuvenation. When the plant dies, it returns to life in the place
sprouting from hidden depths, the malicious vegetation known as bodytaker plants seek to become the dominant form of life wherever they appear. These invasive organisms subvert whole societies by
Monsters
Mythic Odysseys of Theros
Sunlight Weakness; see the Monster Manual) arise in unoccupied spaces within 20 feet of the shepherd. The shadows act right after the shepherd on the same initiative count and fight until they’re
miserable lives they had. Having been despicable in life, these spirits fester in death. The worst of these hateful dead, through ages of bitterness, gradually transform into fiends, the tormentors of
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Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
Life Sense. The mist can sense the location of any creature within 60 feet of it, unless that creature’s type is Construct or Undead.
Forbiddance. The mist can’t enter a residence
), or it takes 10 (2d6 + 3);{"diceNotation":"2d6+3", "rollType":"damage", "rollAction":"Life Drain", "rollDamageType":"necrotic"} necrotic damage, the mist regains 10 hit points, and the target’s
Monsters
Mythic Odysseys of Theros
the mortal world or waiting, still as a statue, for what could be decades before reanimating to carry out their mysterious purpose.
The first anvilwroughts were created by the god of the forge
, Purphoros. He gave the secret of breathing life into these metal creatures to his most devoted followers so they could mimic his works and invent new forms at their own forges.
Some anvilwroughts are
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Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen
life. In battle, they are deadly foes, channeling the Cataclysmic fire that limns their bones and fuels their breath. They take cruel delight in snatching foes in their jaws, rushing into the air, then
magic. Rarely, death dragons arise when a dragon meets its end in a way that torments its soul and consumes it with a need for vengeance. Regardless of how it arose, a death dragon retains a shadow
Monsters
Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
. The swap is also undone if the controlled body takes damage from the carrionette’s Silver Needle.Carrionettes arise from innocent intentions. Heartfelt wishes breathe life into a beloved toy and
Monsters
Mythic Odysseys of Theros
places where they’ll be left in peace, such as lonely tombs or the necropoleis of Asphodel and Odunos. There they go through half-hearted parodies of life, impeded by distraction and ennui
approximately 100 gp, based on its composition and craftsmanship. However, selling a Returned mask isn’t a simple matter of cashing it in for coin. Most people on Theros know the tales of the
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Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
there is permanent, so nothing there is real. What happens on the surface doesn’t matter. Promises and bargains made there needn’t be honored. Life and even art hold less value there
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Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
remnant of celestial matter imbued with life-giving magic. The collision released a storm of chaotic energy and sent countless islands spinning away into the void. Within some of them, bits of the god&rsquo
;s petrified flesh came back to life as morkoths: tentacled monstrosities brimming with malice and greed.
Morkoths are driven by greed and selfishness mixed with a yearning for conflict. They hoard
Monsters
The Book of Many Things
still draws much of her power from her bond with Euryale. Asteria is foremost a protector and warrior, traveling the multiverse to uproot injustice, defend innocents, and inspire hope. She believes
the first Deck of Many Things. She doesn’t know why this is but surmises her life is tied to that deck; so long as it continues to exist, so will she. She has no way to prove this hypothesis
Monsters
Quests from the Infinite Staircase
. Some botanists theorize these plants are an invasive species from a faraway world. When still, horrid plants resemble ordinary (if vibrant) foliage.
Horrid Plant Varieties
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these tendrils to drain the moisture and life force from their prey.
Purple Blossom
The purple blossom is a treelike plant with cup-shaped purple flowers. Tubules within the plant’s branches
Monsters
Spelljammer: Adventures in Space
none of its class features or other abilities. The transformation is permanent and can be undone only by a wish spell. Despite appearances, the psurlon ringer is still an Aberration, and other psurlons
strongholds, invade Wildspace systems, and indulge in a seven-year-long ceremony called the Feast of Worlds, during which they consume as many sentient life-forms as they can before returning to the Astral
Monsters
The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
deal.
Endelyn’s obsession with tragedy and hopelessness extends to her own life; she has foreseen her own demise during a solar eclipse. In the depths of her castle, a lightning-powered device
wrest the domain from her clutches. They waited until Iggwilv was lured away on an important matter to imbue Iggwilv's Cauldron with the ability to freeze time. When their sister returned, the hags used
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Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
for my hoard.
3
No matter how old I get, I always delight in harmless pranks and tricks.
4
I’ve always been mature for my age, and I can’t wait for the day I can retire to my
in even the simplest things if you look hard enough. (Good)
5
Inspiration. Great are history’s artists and creators. But greater still are those who inspire them. (Any)
6
Power
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Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
, vegepygmies can absorb nutrients from soil and many sorts of organic matter, so they rarely go hungry. A vegepygmy can hiss and make other noises by forcing air through its mouth, but it can’t
mold and vegepygmies in a peculiar metal dungeon full of strange life. Another story says that explorers found russet mold in a crater left by a falling star, with vegepygmies infesting the forest nearby
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Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
nutrients from soil and many sorts of organic matter, so they rarely go hungry. A vegepygmy can hiss and make other noises by forcing air through its mouth, but it can’t speak in a conventional sense
peculiar metal dungeon full of strange life. Another story says that explorers found russet mold in a crater left by a falling star, with vegepygmies infesting the forest nearby.
The mold is found only
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Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
fungi (all appear in the Monster Manual).
Although they prefer to eat fresh meat, bone, and blood, vegepygmies can absorb nutrients from soil and many sorts of organic matter, so they rarely go
russet mold came from. One historical account tells of adventurers in a mountain range discovering russet mold and vegepygmies in a peculiar metal dungeon full of strange life. Another story says that
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Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
to throw caution to the wind when in pursuit of new items for my hoard.
3
No matter how old I get, I always delight in harmless pranks and tricks.
4
I’ve always been mature for my
greater still are those who inspire them. (Any)
6
Power. Creatures are at their most vulnerable in their dreams, and I am the master of dreams. (Evil)
Moonstone Dragon Adventures
The
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Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
their own safety. Once they taste freedom from the colony, some prize their privacy, others seek to commune with similar minds, and still others seek to dominate a colony by elevating themselves to the
lasts only so long as the life of the living victim selected. Thus an alhoon who sacrificed a 200-year-old elf looks forward to a much longer existence than one that sacrificed a 35-year-old person
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
life, crystal dragons enjoy an innate psionic connection to the Positive Plane that suffuses their bodies as well as their personalities with light. Though they prefer to live in desolate, frigid regions
. (Neutral)
4
Determinism. Our destinies may already be written, but the way we achieve them still matters. (Any)
5
Fun and Games. Play is learning, but without the boredom. (Chaotic