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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
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
Vampiric Mist
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Monsters
Tales from the Yawning Portal
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
":"damage","rollAction":"Life Drain","rollDamageType":"necrotic"} necrotic damage, the mist regains 10 hit points, and the target’s hit point maximum is reduced by an amount equal to the necrotic
Monsters
Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
Semblance of Life. The podling is a physical copy of a creature digested by a bodytaker plant. The podling has the digested creature’s memories and behaves like that creature, but with
relishes exposing its skin to the sun. It resents clothing and hair.
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The podling often reacts as if some unseen force is speaking to it, staring into the distance or nodding.
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The
Monsters
The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
carries his magic pocket watch.
Alignment. Chaotic good.
Personality Trait. “I carefully consider my words before speaking them aloud.”
Ideal. “Caution. Thoughtless decisions lead
to reckless acts.”
Bond. “This carnival is our opportunity for a new life, far away from the gloomy world we came from.”
Flaw. “I’m too confident in my own authority to
Monsters
Mordenkainen's Fiendish Folio Volume 1
by this attack dies, with its body and everything it is wearing and carrying, except magic items, exploding into a cloud of ash. The creature can be restored to life only by means of a wish spell
attempt to unmake life, taking 42 (12d6);{"diceNotation":"12d6","rollType":"damage","rollDamageType":"necrotic"} necrotic damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one. Ygorl then
Wish
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Spells
Basic Rules (2014)
Wish is the mightiest spell a mortal creature can cast. By simply speaking aloud, you can alter the very foundations of reality in accord with your desires.
The basic use of this spell is to
could make yourself and all your companions immune to a lich's life drain attack.
You undo a single recent event by forcing a reroll of any roll made within the last round (including your last turn
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
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
Backgrounds
Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus
You’ve always been fascinated by the glitter and glamor of city life, so different from the slow pace of life in your homeland. Now you’re here, ready to make your mark in the world, but
unsure how to begin.
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War, plague, famine, or a marauding monster ravaged your home, forcing you to flee for your life. You don’t even know how many of your people survived or where to find
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
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
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Spelljammer Academy
Hollow Deck Havoc Describe the Hollow Deck as follows: This deck is one large, bowl-shaped chamber containing several large piles of mechanical parts, with many more parts strewn across the floor
automatons menace you with rotating saws that extend from their forelimbs. They appear to speak to each other using clicking noises that seem oddly familiar.
The clockwork horrors are speaking Thri-kreen
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
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
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.
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.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
of life under the water.
Kuo-toa names are a long series of gargling syllables, and their voices have a bubbly, gargling quality. However, the kuo-toa communicate as much through gesture as speech
. They have difficulty standing still, and are prone to quick, darting movements. They pace constantly, walking in circles around creatures talking to them. A kuo-toa priest speaking to a group of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur’s Gate Gazetteer
fascinated by the glitter and glamor of city life, so different from the slow pace of life in your homeland. Now you’re here, ready to make your mark in the world, but unsure how to begin. 3 War
, plague, famine, or a marauding monster ravaged your home, forcing you to flee for your life. You don’t even know how many of your people survived or where to find them. Alone or accompanied by a handful of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
always been fascinated by the glitter and glamor of city life, so different from the slow pace of life in your homeland. Now you’re here, ready to make your mark in the world, but unsure how to begin
.
3 War, plague, famine, or a marauding monster ravaged your home, forcing you to flee for your life. You don’t even know how many of your people survived or where to find them. Alone or
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Netheril’s Fall: Tales of Terror, Treasure, and Time Travel
sword, or start a fire without magic. Some couldn’t write or read altogether, relying on enchanted quills and speaking parchment instead. Society High Netherese society was full of beautiful people
gilded with glamour, all concealing their true faces, forms, and agendas via magic. The life of a High Netherese mage was one of politics, danger, hedonism, and fierce competition. Most High Netherese
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.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
50. Mirror of Life Trapping Any creature teleported here from area 48 appears in a random spot near the center of the room and facing west, much to its peril. This dusty room is fifteen feet square
and empty except for an ornate, rectangular mirror mounted on the wall opposite the room’s only exit.
Attached to the west wall with sovereign glue is a mirror of life trapping. Any creature within
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
laugh or feel emotionally engaged and to incorporate those things into your roleplaying. Being the NPC Imagine how a character or monster you bring to life would react to the adventurers. Consider what it
distinctive speech patterns from real life, the movies, or television is a good place to start. Practice different voices and impersonations of famous people, then use those voices to bring your NPCs to
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
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
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
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Xanathar's Guide to Everything
nature, speaking the truth that is too subtle for the general populace to hear. Many who become druids find that they naturally gravitate toward nature; its forces, cycles, and movements fill their
embody these natural forces, producing magical phenomena that link them to the spirit of nature and the flow of life. Because of their strange and mysterious power, druids are often revered, shunned
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Book of Many Things
whispers advice to you in dreams or visitations, taking on different guises and speaking through others. Skull You were returned to life through resurrection magic, divine intervention, or a mysterious
choice. Flames A powerful figure opposed to your beliefs vexes your life; even your triumphs seem to serve this being’s ends. Fool What could have been one of the happiest moments in your life turned
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
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Infernal Machine Rebuild
he wants to learn as much about his rival’s machinations as he can. See appendix B for his stat block.
Thessalar
Grand Experiments If the characters poke around the room while speaking with
, the characters’ mechanical guide can use its teleportation ability to take them to the tomb. If the characters have already caused trouble in the temple, or if Thessalar suspects they will, he might
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
. The cauldron’s lid is held shut by an arcane lock spell, the password for which is “spittlespew.” If anyone tries to remove the lid without first speaking the password, the cauldron scuttles away; it
magmin dives under the coals and disappears. Animated Coals. If the characters attack the magmin, eight of the coals from the bed spring to life and come to the magmin’s defense. See the “Animated
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal
Vampiric Mist In a loose manner of speaking, the vampiric mist is the embodiment of the vampire’s hunger for blood. It exists only to seek out creatures and drain the life from them, and its
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Infernal Machine Rebuild
the mouth of the great green devil face in this area when the Tomb of Horrors is complete. Manipulating Time Having a mechanical guide spend 1 charge in this area reverts Tarnhem to an earlier period before so much of his life force was drained, awakening him if he is unconscious.
controlled as normal while within the tomb, but it cannot leave. If Tarnhem is not freed, the balor is eventually drained away to become part of a horrible monument. His life force fuels the black sphere in
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






