mechanical some with only all faint for life

Domestic Wonder

Monsters Forgotten Realms: Heroes of Faerûn

Dodge action and uses its movement to avoid danger. The domestic wonder is destroyed if it drops to 0 Hit Points. Mechanical Wonders Mechanical Wonder;Mechanical Wonders have revolutionized life

Mechanical Determination. If damage reduces the wonder to 0 Hit Points, it makes a Constitution saving throw with a DC of 5 plus the damage taken unless the damage is Lightning or from a Critical Hit

Domestic Wonder

Magic Items Forgotten Realms: Heroes of Faerûn

Mechanical Wonder;Mechanical Wonders have revolutionized life in Calimport. Imagine a wound-up machine that does your laundry, washes your dishes, and cleans your house—then fulfill this dream

Larva Legacy

Monsters Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)

","rollAction":"Bite","rollDamageType":"piercing"} piercing damage.A larva is a miserable fiend that retains the facial features of its previous form but has the body of a fat worm. A larva has only a few faint

memories of its previous life. Hades is crawling with larvae. Night hag;Night hags, lich;liches, and rakshasa;rakshasas harvest them for use in vile rituals. Other fiends like to feed on them.

Hellfire Engine

Monsters Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse

wish spell or killing the lemure and casting true resurrection on the creature’s original body can restore it to life. Constructs and devils are immune to this effect.Hellfire engines are

these magical-mechanical hybrids gets loose, driven berserk by its need to destroy. Hellfire engines take many forms, but all of them have one purpose: to mow down foes in waves. They are incapable of

Endelyn Moongrave

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

, part mechanical theater, the outfit makes her look frighteningly tall; without it, she is a hunched and withered bag of bones. She shrouds her wrinkled features behind a gauzy “theater curtain

Aberrant Mind Legacy

Classes Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything

manifestations of your might? As an Aberrant Mind sorcerer, you decide how you acquired your powers. Were you born with them? Or did an event later in life leave you shining with psionic awareness? Consult the

tentacle is now growing on you, but no one else can see it. 2 A psychic wind from the Astral Plane carried psionic energy to you. When you use your powers, faint motes of light sparkle around you

Wyrmskull Throne

Magic Items Storm King's Thunder

the ground and is a massive thing made of polished obsidian with oversized feet — the impaled skulls of four ancient blue dragons. Runes glisten in the carved obsidian, winking to life with blue

creature seated on the throne can hear faint whispers in Draconic — the whisperings of the four blue dragons whose skulls adorn the throne. Although powerless, these spirits try to influence the

Autognome

Species Spelljammer: Adventures in Space

Autognomes are mechanical beings built by rock gnomes. Sometimes, because of a malfunction or a unique circumstance, an autognome becomes separated from its creator and strikes out on its own. An

exception because of its Healing Machine trait.) Life Span The typical life span of a player character in the D&D multiverse is about a century, assuming the character doesn’t meet a violent end

Deck of Several Things

Magic Items Lost Laboratory of Kwalish

Kwalish’s lab in Daoine Gloine (area O7), whichever comes later in the adventure. Skull. You summon an avatar of death — a mechanical skeleton (use bone naga statistics) clad in a

drops to 0 hit points, whereupon it disappears. If anyone tries to help you, the helper summons its own avatar of death. A creature slain by an avatar of death can’t be restored to life. Star

Delerium Chip Legacy

Equipment

visible for 1 minute. When a creature within 60 feet is hit by an attack, a faint vision of the creature being killed by that attack appears. 7 Discordant music fills the mind of all creatures

attack or cast a spell. 13 Tendrils of life flow from the nearest creature to others. It must succeed on a DC 15 Constitution saving throw or take 8d8 necrotic damage, half on a success. The three

Delerium Geode Legacy

Equipment

visible for 1 minute. When a creature within 60 feet is hit by an attack, a faint vision of the creature being killed by that attack appears. 7 Discordant music fills the mind of all creatures

attack or cast a spell. 13 Tendrils of life flow from the nearest creature to others. It must succeed on a DC 15 Constitution saving throw or take 8d8 necrotic damage, half on a success. The three

Delerium Massive Cluster Legacy

Equipment

visible for 1 minute. When a creature within 60 feet is hit by an attack, a faint vision of the creature being killed by that attack appears. 7 Discordant music fills the mind of all creatures

attack or cast a spell. 13 Tendrils of life flow from the nearest creature to others. It must succeed on a DC 15 Constitution saving throw or take 8d8 necrotic damage, half on a success. The three

23. Light Ahead

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a3

23. Light Ahead As you peer down the corridor, a faint flickering light becomes visible. The light begins to move through the hallway away from you, sputtering and wavering just at the edge of your

perception. The bobbing light is a will-o’-wisp. It will attempt to lure the party into a trap, then use Consume Life on a victim. The creature will lead parties coming from the west toward and then

Gnomes

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes

Gnomes And then the whole thing exploded into a million jillion pieces! [gasp] I never saw anything like it in my life! — Griballix, gnome of Sigil Love of discovery is the force that drives the

life of a gnome, whether one is investigating the nature of magic or trying to invent a better back scratcher. Questions about the world fill a gnome’s head: how an insect flies, a fish swims, or a

11. Escape Room

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Infernal Machine Rebuild

11. Escape Room The sculptors have utilized this side chamber to plan their escape, though none of them are present when the characters first come here. The room is occupied by a life-sized sculpture

from the Temple of Moloch, where the other half still resides. If brought to life, the statue uses the stone golem stat block, and the sculptors use it to attack the tomb’s girallon guards and flee

Delerium Fragment Legacy

Equipment

visible for 1 minute. When a creature within 60 feet is hit by an attack, a faint vision of the creature being killed by that attack appears. 7 Discordant music fills the mind of all creatures

attack or cast a spell. 13 Tendrils of life flow from the nearest creature to others. It must succeed on a DC 15 Constitution saving throw or take 8d8 necrotic damage, half on a success. The three

Delerium Crystal Legacy

Equipment

visible for 1 minute. When a creature within 60 feet is hit by an attack, a faint vision of the creature being killed by that attack appears. 7 Discordant music fills the mind of all creatures

attack or cast a spell. 13 Tendrils of life flow from the nearest creature to others. It must succeed on a DC 15 Constitution saving throw or take 8d8 necrotic damage, half on a success. The three

Delerium Shard Legacy

Equipment

visible for 1 minute. When a creature within 60 feet is hit by an attack, a faint vision of the creature being killed by that attack appears. 7 Discordant music fills the mind of all creatures

attack or cast a spell. 13 Tendrils of life flow from the nearest creature to others. It must succeed on a DC 15 Constitution saving throw or take 8d8 necrotic damage, half on a success. The three

Clock Tower Bridge

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Infernal Machine Rebuild

life (hunting, worship, warfare, and so forth, with humanoid figures dressed in archaic styles of clothing). Graven lines (representing silver wires) are seen throughout the image. Any character who

follows the lines discovers that they converge at a huge central representation of a massive magical-mechanical device—the Infernal Machine.

The Enhanced Sphinx

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Lost Laboratory of Kwalish

toll. Restoring Old Debts. If the sphinx is slain, the mechanical items that circle around her (functioning as Ioun stones) might all be released. The life force they contain (in the form of

party to gain favor by returning the sphinx’s toll to some of those who have paid it. If Mary is with the party, she might seek to keep all the mechanical Ioun stones for herself — and might stop at nothing to get them back if the other characters seize them.

Hades

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)

. A larva is a miserable fiend that retains the facial features of its previous form but has the body of a fat worm. A larva has only a few faint memories of its previous life and the statistics in the

Perception 10 Languages understands the languages it knew in life but can’t speak Challenge 0 (10 XP) Actions Bite. Melee Weapon Attack: +1 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 1 (1d4 - 1) piercing damage.

6. Barracks

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Infernal Machine Rebuild

, showing areas 1 to 22. Manipulating Time Having a mechanical guide spend 1 charge in this area causes the guards to change shifts, leaving for areas 4 and 5. Spending 2 charges also brings the

prisoner back to life. Little Gadai is a lawful neutral human spy. He joins the characters if allowed to, seeking to rescue and rejoin the other thieves to complete their original mission. His knowledge of the temple is limited to areas 1 through 6.

Sample Traps

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)

Sample Traps The magical and mechanical traps presented here vary in deadliness and are presented in alphabetical order. Collapsing Roof Mechanical trap This trap uses a trip wire to collapse the

of the area is filled with rubble and becomes difficult terrain. Falling Net Mechanical trap This trap uses a trip wire to release a net suspended from the ceiling. The trip wire is 3 inches off the

Arborea

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide

; sometimes it originates from groups of elf musicians, but just as often the faint tune is merely the wind curling through the boles of the great trees. Layers of Arborea Layer Description

Arvandor Towering trees, colorful wildflowers, abundant grain, and delicious fruit create a lush environment. Aquallor An eternal ocean fed by the River Oceanus is home to teeming sea life and mighty storms

Wraith

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)

more than faint impressions, fleeting as half-remembered dreams. A wraith might pause to stare at something that fascinated it in life, or it might curb its wrath in acknowledgment of a past

Wraith A wraith is malice incarnate, concentrated into an incorporeal form that seeks to quench all life. The creature is suffused with negative energy, and its mere passage through the world leaves

Thessalar

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Infernal Machine Rebuild

ranks before eventually taking over the temple as a working laboratory. Most of his experiments have involved the pursuit of new forms of life, resulting in such creatures as the thessalhydra and the

owlbear. In recent years, he has also researched the prolonging of life—namely his own. Thessalar hopes that by becoming a lich, his research and experiments can continue indefinitely. Over time

Mirror of Life Trapping

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)

Mirror of Life Trapping Wondrous item, very rare When this 4-foot-tall mirror is viewed indirectly, its surface shows faint images of creatures. The mirror weighs 50 pounds, and it has AC 11, 10 hit

speak a second command word and free one creature trapped in the mirror. The freed creature appears, along with its possessions, in the unoccupied space nearest to the mirror and facing away from it. Medallion of Thoughts Mirror of Life Trapping

Autognome Traits

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Spelljammer: Adventures in Space->Astral Adventurer’s Guide

the roll plus your Constitution modifier (minimum of 1 hit point). In addition, your creator designed you to benefit from several spells that preserve life but that normally don’t affect Constructs

: cure wounds, healing word, mass cure wounds, mass healing word, and spare the dying. Mechanical Nature. You have resistance to poison damage and immunity to disease, and you have advantage on saving

Brains in Jars

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Lost Laboratory of Kwalish

New Body Problem. Every brain in a jar is desperate for a new body, and a brain immediately agrees to aid the characters any way it can if they promise to restore it to life. Any number of possible

, or a mechanical entity such as Ctenmiir’s coffin or Gearbox. This process requires a successful DC 14 Wisdom (Medicine) check or Dexterity check with thieves’ tools or tinker’s tools. However, on a

Will-o'-Wisp

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)

feed on their misery. Agents of Evil. Will-o’-wisps rarely speak, but when they do, their voices sound like faint or distant whispers. In the miserable domains they haunt, will-o’-wisps sometimes form

creatures, the wisps hover above them, drinking the agony of a last breath and savoring the sensation as the light of life goes out in a creature’s eyes. Undead Nature. A will-o’-wisp doesn’t require air

Gnome Adventurers

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes

is almost always curiosity — an insatiable need to seek out and experience what the world has to offer. Sometimes the adventuring life is the natural outgrowth of a gnome’s research project or

of a rare metal, willing to travel the world high and low in search of it. Even a deep gnome might be born with an irrepressible urge to leave the Underdark and join a group to pursue a life of shared

Super-Secret Basement

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated

mechanical creations to sit dormant. The hallways and rooms are dusty, showing few signs of life or movement. Except where otherwise noted, all areas of the super-secret basement have the following

Super-Secret Basement The kindly old wizard who built the lighthouse and its underground laboratory went by many names over his long life. By the point at which he decided it was time to slow down a

Mirror of Life Trapping

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)

Mirror of Life Trapping Wondrous item, very rare When this 4-foot-tall mirror is viewed indirectly, its surface shows faint images of creatures. The mirror weighs 50 pounds, and it has AC 11, 10 hit

Lost Tomb of Khaem

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss

death as a wraith, served by specters who were once her loyal retainers. Brysis yearns to accumulate enough life force to leave the confines of her tomb, to which her spirit is bound. The adventurers

feminine voice sounds out in your mind suddenly, faint and distant. “Hello? Is someone there … ? Oh please, I need your help! I have been trapped in the dark for so long … so very long. Please, won’t you

45. Gargoyle Guardians

Compendium - Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation

45. Gargoyle Guardians At the bottom of the grand staircase, a resonant mechanical rumbling emanates from a dark shaft opening up in the middle of this chamber’s floor. Four cylindrical stone

sufficient coin, any cheated gargoyles spring to life and attack the cheapskate. A gargoyle also springs to life and attacks if it or its pedestal is damaged in any way. The metallic tiles atop the

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