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Spells
Player’s Handbook
You make yourself—including your clothing, armor, weapons, and other belongings on your person—look different until the spell ends. You can seem 1 foot shorter or taller and can appear
heavier or lighter. You must adopt a form that has the same basic arrangement of limbs as you have. Otherwise, the extent of the illusion is up to you.
The changes wrought by this spell fail to hold up
Magic Items
Dungeon Master’s Guide
book must spend 80 hours reading and studying it to digest its contents and use its Adjusted Ability Scores, Tireless Form, Spells, Vile Lore, and Vile Speech properties.
The Book of Vile Darkness
remains with you only as long as you strive to work evil in the world. If you fail to perform at least one evil act within the span of 10 days, or if you willingly perform a good act, the book
Backgrounds
Player’s Handbook
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.
Magic Items
Dungeon Master’s Guide
you fail to draw the chosen number, the remaining number of cards fly from the deck on their own and take effect all at once.
Once a card is drawn, it disappears. Unless the card is the Fool or
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Magic Items
Dungeon Master’s Guide
it longs to be more than mere reference material.
Abyssal Lore. You can reference the Demonomicon whenever you make an Intelligence check to discern information about demons or a Wisdom (Survival
successful save, the Fiend can’t try to possess you again for 7 days (but another Fiend trapped in the book can certainly try).
When the tome is discovered, it has 1d4 Fiends occupying its pages&mdash
Spells
Player’s Handbook
the wish, the greater the likelihood that something goes wrong. This spell might simply fail, the effect you desire might be achieved only in part, or you might suffer an unforeseen consequence as a
cast a spell until you finish a Long Rest, you take 1d10 Necrotic damage per level of that spell. This damage can’t be reduced or prevented in any way. In addition, your Strength score becomes 3
Magic Items
Candlekeep Mysteries
Unlike most scrolls, a Nether Scroll of Azumar is not a consumable magic item. It takes 30 days of concentrated study—at least 8 hours per day—to attempt to understand this scroll. After
study.
When you succeed on the check, you gain the following benefits:
Your Intelligence score increases by 2, to a maximum of 22. Once you gain this benefit, you can’t use this scroll to
Magic Items
Keys from the Golden Vault
the book’s contents, provided that those modifications advance evil and expand the lore already contained within.
Whenever a non-evil creature attunes to the Book of Vile Darkness, that creature
in the world. If you fail to perform at least one evil act within the span of 10 days, or if you willingly perform a good act, the book disappears. If you die while attuned to the book, an entity of
Magic Items
Keys from the Golden Vault
bonus to your spell attack rolls.
Enhanced Strength. Your Strength score increases by 4 while the shard is on your person. The shard can’t raise your Strength score above 22.
Curse. Attuning to
cut yourself with the shard and are poisoned until the next dawn.
2
You experience a vision of an ancient calamity—a beautiful city threatened by crumbling mountains and erupting volcanoes
Magic Items
Keys from the Golden Vault
, Constantori’s Portrait has quietly observed countless conversations and now possesses an unquantifiable amount of lore—everything from criminal conspiracies to secret passwords. The DM decides what
esteemed associates.
Sentience. Constantori’s Portrait is a sentient, lawful evil item with an Intelligence score of 14, a Wisdom score of 12, and a Charisma score of 8. It can hear within a range
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
., one target. Hit: 14 (2d10 + 3);{"diceNotation":"2d10+3","rollType":"damage","rollAction":"Bite","rollDamageType":"piercing"} piercing damage. If the target is a humanoid, its Charisma score is
see within 30 feet of it. The target is revived with all its hit points.When Doresain, the King of Ghouls, corrupted a society of elves, he created a new sort of demon—the maurezhi—to lead
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
Creature Sense. The neothelid is aware of the presence of creatures within 1 mile of it that have an Intelligence score of 4 or higher. It knows the distance and direction to each creature, as well
as each creature’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
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
, months, and sometimes years after their fateful encounter.
Insidious Lore
An allip might attempt to share its lore to escape its curse and enter the afterlife. It can transfer knowledge from its
contain. If the allip succeeds, it passes from the world—and its terrible secret hides somewhere in the scholar’s text, waiting to be discovered by its next victim.Cold, Necrotic, PoisonAcid, Fire, Lightning, Thunder; Bludgeoning, Piercing, and Slashing from Nonmagical Attacks
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
have resided in the Material Plane for centuries. A candidate for admission undergoes a series of tests designed to reveal any potential for treachery. Those who fail are slain, while those who pass
peoples—goblin;goblins, hobgoblin;hobgoblins, and bugbear;bugbears—first appeared in the Feywild millennia ago, and they resided there until the god Maglubiyet conquered them. They then spread
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
. They then revel in the grand devastation their plotting brought about—looting libraries, plundering vaults, and prying secrets of arcane lore and power from the wreckage.Corruption. The nagpa
helped avert a war between the gods. She transformed them into the scabrous, birdlike creatures known as nagpas and rendered them able to acquire new lore and magical power only from the ruins of
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
ago, the god Maglubiyet—conqueror and then lord of early goblinoids—bargained with the General of Gehenna for aid. The General provided yugoloths, which then died in service to Maglubiyet
opportunity arises, until they reach adulthood and are capable of seeking out stronger prey. A barghest avoids contact with large, open fires.
Any conflagration larger than its body acts as a gateway to
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
Mechanus, the ingenious modron was lauded for its invention—until it turned these creations against its superiors. Steel predators wreaked havoc against the modron hierarchy until the rogue
can be used in another steel predator. Battle damage can cause this instinct to fail, however, in which case the steel predator lingers in the area, hunting and killing other creatures that resemble
Monsters
Spelljammer: Adventures in Space
to say, and the message can be understood by any creature that has an Intelligence score of 2 or higher.
Legendary Resistance (3/Day). If the zodar fails a saving throw, it can choose to succeed
also warp the fabric of the multiverse to cast the wish spell as its final act—it is destroyed once the spell is cast.Acid, Fire, Poison
Monsters
Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
are otherwise humanlike in appearance. From the waist down, they can manifest either humanlike legs or churning gouts of water. A riverine’s personality reflects the nature of the river it arises
from—some are lethargic while others are wild and reckless.A Riverine’s Lair
Some riverines enjoy reverence akin to worship. Their likenesses are cast as statues and housed in temples
Monsters
Candlekeep Mysteries
like another creature of her general size and humanoid shape. The illusion ends if the hag takes a bonus action to end it or if she dies.
The changes wrought by this effect fail to hold up to physical
decade ago, during a time when the boundaries between the planes thinned, the hags became aware of the magic spring controlled by Sylvarie—and decided to control and corrupt it for their own purposes
Monsters
The Book of Many Things
Legendary Resistance (2/Day). If the hag fails a saving throw, it can choose to succeed instead.
Trace the Threads (1/Day). The hag can cast the Legend Lore spell, requiring no material components
attuned depends on the plane where the hag dwells—hopeful and prosperous in the Feywild or dire and doomed in the Shadowfell.
Fate hags carry gleaming magical shears they use to snip strands of
Magic Items
Acquisitions Incorporated
Also at rank 1, you are the beneficiary of a whisper jar — a common magic item resembling an ether-filled jar with a long tap hose. The jar is used to record others’ stories and your own
, which you play back liberally
Whispered Encyclopedia
At rank 2, your whisper jar becomes an uncommon magic item that can tap into the broader lore of Acquisitions Incorporated. As a bonus action
Monsters
Candlekeep Mysteries
see.Well over 1,500 years ago, the silver dragon Miirym broke into Candlekeep, intent on adding its riches to her hoard. She devoured scholars and destroyed a score of irreplaceable books before she was
. The spectral dragon—what’s left of her— dwells in the catacombs and caves under the library. Those who have visited the depths describe Miirym as a set of immense spectral jaws whose
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
Creature Sense. The elder brain is aware of the presence of creatures within 5 miles of it that have an Intelligence score of 4 or higher. It knows the distance and direction to each creature, as
well as each 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
Magic Items
The Book of Many Things
takes effect. You must draw each card you declared no more than 1 hour after the previous draw. Unless a card states otherwise, if you fail to draw the chosen number, the remaining number of cards fly
feet.
Beast. You immediately transform into a random Beast with a CR of 5 or lower. Your game statistics—including your ability scores, hit points, and possible actions—are replaced by the
Monsters
Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse
the Books of Keeping—ancient tomes detailing the true names of the first yugoloths—report no mention of baernaloths within. Some posit that these enigmatic yugoloths were created by a
primal evil power before other yugoloths or that they come from an epoch before the current manifestation of the planes. Baernaloths refuse to say, but most obsess over secrets and obscene lore regarding
Monsters
Mythic Odysseys of Theros
living, as these aimless killers know only suffering and seek to spread it whenever the opportunity arises. While palamnites might wander the world as dangerous, lone murderers, many gravitate to Odunos
expected—not that they remember what it was they expected. As a result of having followed the Path of Phenax (see chapter 4), the Returned lose their identities, which manifest as separate beings
Monsters
Tyranny of Dragons
drinks are spoiled — wine turning to vinegar, for instance.
Divination spells cast within the lair by creatures other than the mummy lord have a 25 percent chance to provide misleading results
, as determined by the DM. If a divination spell already has a chance to fail or become unreliable when cast multiple times, that chance increases by 25 percent.
A creature that takes treasure from the
Monsters
Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
, message, prestidigitation, ray of frost
1st level (4 slots): detect magic, thunderwave
2nd level (3 slots): —
3rd level (3 slots): counterspellWithering Touch. Melee Weapon Attack: +6
and headed toward the Sea of Moving Ice, hoping to find a tome called The Codicil of White, a book of magic and lore composed by servants of Auril the Frostmaiden. The Arcane Brotherhood believes that
Monsters
Candlekeep Mysteries
and water instantly evaporates when brought into the lair. Other nonmagical drinks are spoiled — wine turning to vinegar, for instance.
Divination spells cast within the lair by creatures other
already has a chance to fail or become unreliable when cast multiple times, that chance increases by 25 percent.
A creature that takes treasure from the lair is cursed until the treasure is returned. The
Monsters
Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
"} necrotic damage.Dullahans are headless undead warriors—the remains of villains who let vengeance consume them. These decapitated hunters haunt the areas where they were slain, butchering innocents in
failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one. If one or more creatures fail the saving throw, the dullahan gains 10 temporary hit points.
Magic Items
Guildmasters’ Guide to Ravnica
access to privileged places in its guild’s headquarters and outposts. At the DM’s discretion, a character might be given a keyrune upon attaining a renown score of 25 in their guild
enough space for the creature, the keyrune doesn’t transform. See the Monster Manual for the creature’s stat block — the name of which is given in bold in the keyrune’s
Monsters
Princes of the Apocalypse
— bad weather, strong tides, and increasing aggression from dangerous sea life.
Violent downpours become frequent within 10 miles of the lair. A downpour occurs once every 2d12;{"diceNotation
an Intelligence score of 2 or lower within 1 mile of the lair must succeed on a DC 15 Wisdom saving throw when they enter the area. If the saving throw succeeds, the creature is frightened and
Monsters
Quests from the Infinite Staircase
ability (spell save DC 21):
At will: Detect Evil and Good, Detect Magic, Thaumaturgy
3/day each: Create Food and Water (the food is always tasty), Dispel Magic, Invisibility, Legend Lore (as an action
circumstance, Nafas relies on adventurers—whom he considers the living manifestations of a wish granted—to respond to these calls.
To friendly adventurers and weary travelers along the
Monsters
Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
following ways by the creature’s dark presence:
Food instantly molders and water instantly evaporates when brought into the lair. Other nonmagical drinks are spoiled — wine turning to
spell already has a chance to fail or become unreliable when cast multiple times, that chance increases by 25 percent.
A creature that takes treasure from the lair is cursed until the treasure is