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Spells
Player’s Handbook
You touch a stone object of Medium size or smaller or a section of stone no more than 5 feet in any dimension and form it into any shape you like. For example, you could shape a large rock into a
weapon, statue, or coffer, or you could make a small passage through a wall that is 5 feet thick. You could also shape a stone door or its frame to seal the door shut. The object you create can have up to two hinges and a latch, but finer mechanical detail isn’t possible.
Spells
Player’s Handbook
of each of its turns. If it successfully saves three times, the condition ends. If it fails three times, it has the Petrified condition until it is freed by an effect like the Greater Restoration spell
Wisdom saving throw at the start of your next turn. On a successful save, the condition ends. On a failed save, the condition ends, and the creature teleports to another plane of existence (DM’s choice).
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Special. The target is struck by two rays. Roll twice, rerolling any 8.
Backgrounds
Forgotten Realms: Heroes of Faerûn
good. Like all Harpers, you understand the value of teamwork as well as when it’s best to go it alone. Harper veterans have taught you the order’s secrets—magical melodies, special
Monsters
Keys from the Golden Vault
. It looks like a mechanical, grapefruit-sized orb suspended under softly humming propeller blades. Embedded in the orb are keenly perceptive crystal eyes that enable the observer to see in multiple
mechanical shriek until the start of its next turn or until it drops to 0 hit points. This shriek can be heard within a range of 300 feet.A clockwork observer serves as an aerial spy for its creator
Monsters
The Book of Many Things
inside.Detention drones vary in size, strength, and shape, though most are shaped like some kind of mechanical animal or plant.
Monsters
The Book of Many Things
the creature inside.Detention drones vary in size, strength, and shape, though most are shaped like some kind of mechanical animal or plant.Poison, Psychic
Monsters
The Book of Many Things
mechanical animal or plant.
This Construct doesn’t have a control amulet and can’t be controlled like other shield guardian;shield guardians.Poison
creates a detention orb when it already has one active, the first orb disappears, freeing the creature inside.Detention drones vary in size, strength, and shape, though most are shaped like some kind of
Monsters
Spelljammer: Adventures in Space
vessels and feeding on the life energy of those unlucky enough to cross their path.
A vampirate appears as a gaunt figure with milky-white eyes and skin as dry as parchment. A vampirate has fangs like a
siphoning off its energy from a short distance away. As it feeds on the energy of other creatures, its appearance becomes more robust, although it never truly looks alive.
Vampirates eat, drink, and
Monsters
The Book of Many Things
already has one active, the first orb disappears, freeing the creature inside.Detention drones vary in size, strength, and shape, though most are shaped like some kind of mechanical animal or plant.Force, Necrotic, PoisonBludgeoning, Piercing, and Slashing from Nonmagical Attacks that aren't Adamantine
Monsters
Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen
Special Equipment. Kansaldi has a glowing ruby embedded in her left eye socket. The gem functions as her eye and grants her truesight (included above). The gem can’t be removed while Kansaldi
is alive. When she dies, a creature can remove the gem as an action. The gem then functions as a gem of seeing.Multiattack. Kansaldi makes two Pike attacks and uses Flame Burst.
Pike. Melee Weapon
Monsters
Curse of Strahd
becomes inanimate and is too damaged to be of much use or value to anyone.
A guardian portrait looks like a finely rendered and beautifully framed work of art, usually depicting someone important in a
follow creatures that move in front of them.
Innate Spells. When a guardian portrait attacks, the figure in the painting animates and moves as though alive (albeit in two dimensions). The guardian
Monsters
The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
points at the start of her turn as long as both twins are alive and within 60 feet of each other. A twin dies only if she starts her turn with 0 hit points and doesn’t regenerate.
Twin Bond
. While both Selenelion twins are alive and on the same plane of existence, each is aware of the other’s emotions.Dagger. Melee or Ranged Weapon Attack: +6;{"diceNotation":"1d20+6", "rollType":"to
Monsters
Spelljammer: Adventures in Space
alive.
Vampirates eat, drink, and sleep because they like to, not because they must. They rest in wooden coffins or crates full of grave dirt. In the absence of such containers, they can treat their
vampirates conducts itself depends entirely on the mood and disposition of the captain. The crew of one ship might behave like a murderous mob, while another might abide by an ancient code of chivalry. One
Monsters
Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
Special Equipment. Victoro wears a ring of protection and glamoured studded leather disguised to look like fine clothing. He carries a rod of rulership shaped like a ruby-tipped cane.
Fey Ancestry
Monsters
Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
Behavior table to see how such swarms might manifest.
Swarm Behavior
d4
Behavior
1
Crawls on walls in a vaguely bipedal shape
2
Makes skittering noises that sound like
whispered chanting
3
Skeletal visages, giant eyes, or the faces of nearby creatures appear in relief amid its mass
4
Occupies and animates a corpse or other debris as if it were alive
Bludgeoning, Piercing, Slashing
Monsters
Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
manifest.
Swarm Behavior
d4
Behavior
1
Crawls on walls in a vaguely bipedal shape
2
Makes skittering noises that sound like whispered chanting
3
Skeletal visages, giant
eyes, or the faces of nearby creatures appear in relief amid its mass
4
Occupies and animates a corpse or other debris as if it were alive
Bludgeoning, Piercing, Slashing
Magic Items
Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything
Produced by a special needle, this magic tattoo contains a single spell of up to 5th level, wrought on your skin by a magic needle. To use the tattoo, you must hold the needle against your skin and
speak the command word. The needle turns into ink that becomes the tattoo, which appears on the skin in whatever design you like. Once the tattoo is there, you can cast its spell, requiring no material
Equipment
Combat
Utility
Whimsy
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This chunk of petrified tree sap is prized for its color and gem-like luster and is often used in jewelry. Some arcane jewelers claim that it has
special properties, especially if an ancient insect is trapped within it. Amber can be found in rocky areas where petrified wood is found, and it has been known to wash up on certain beaches.
Equipment
The traditional Obojiman instrument has gotten a second life as a swift club-like weapon commonly used by traveling performers. It is crafted from a special coral found all across the shallows, which
Monsters
Spelljammer: Adventures in Space
its acid-secreting tentacles.
Each esthetic is unique in appearance. One might be bilaterally symmetrical (two matching halves, like a humanoid body along its vertical axis), radially symmetrical
(like a starfish), or have no definable shape. From a distance, an esthetic is easily mistaken for a giant, space-dwelling jellyfish or cephalopod. Its outer shell is made of bioluminescent resin.
An
Monsters
Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
Cold Aura. While it's alive, the troll generates an aura of bitter cold that fills the area within 10 feet of it. At the start of the troll's turn, all nonmagical flames in the aura are extinguished
points and doesn’t regenerate.
If buried in the ground under a foot or more of earth, the heart melts away and summons a blizzard like that created by the control weather spell. It takes 10
Monsters
Spelljammer: Adventures in Space
short distance away. As it feeds on the energy of other creatures, its appearance becomes more robust, although it never truly looks alive.
Vampirates eat, drink, and sleep because they like to, not
energy of those unlucky enough to cross their path.
A vampirate appears as a gaunt figure with milky-white eyes and skin as dry as parchment. A vampirate has fangs like a vampire’s but doesn’t
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
will: mage hand, minor illusion
1/day: stinking cloudDuergar despots replace parts of their bodies with mechanical devices that they control through their psionic abilities.
Duergar
Duergar are
were infused with powerful psionic abilities but also a profound gloom. In some, this strain of sorrow inspires works of grand but melancholic beauty, while in others, it manifests as rage.
Like
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
it with a special poison. The toxin transforms the old neogi into a bloated mass of flesh. Younger neogi lay their eggs atop it, and when the hatchlings emerge, they devour the old neogi and one
, and each one starts its training by gaining mastery over an umber hulk.
Neogi
A neogi looks like an outsize spider with an eel’s neck and head. It can poison the body and the mind of its
Monsters
Acquisitions Incorporated
you get taken prisoner by a group of sociopathic adventurers who end up letting you die after you save their sorry lives. One minute, you’re a dead goblin named Splug. And then you’re alive
again, and it seems like a really good idea to play up the drama of resurrection with a cool new name — and a master plan for cold, cold revenge against those who betrayed you.
Every once in a
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
for the spell), webThe retriever is a potent, spider-like Construct conceived and built by Underdark followers of Lolth for one original purpose—to prowl the Abyss and capture demons for these
, they are sometimes dispatched when a powerful devotee of Lolth needs some creature or object captured and brought back alive and intact. Only under the rarest of circumstances is a retriever handed
Monsters
Monstrous Compendium Vol. 2: Dragonlance Creatures
):
Chattergrab. Parts of this gadget look like gnashing metal teeth. This gadget hurtles toward a creature the mastermind can see within 60 feet of itself. The creature must succeed on a DC 16 Dexterity saving
appendages, or both.
Nevermind Gnomes
Mount Nevermind is a hollow, dormant volcano on the island of Sancrist in Krynn. Within the mountain, a vibrant community of rock gnome tinkerers and other inventors relentlessly study various scientific pursuits to create mechanical marvels.
Monsters
The Book of Many Things
a +2 bonus to the wearer’s AC if the drone is within 5 feet of the wearer.Detention drones vary in size, strength, and shape, though most are shaped like some kind of mechanical animal or plant.Poison
Urchin
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Backgrounds
Player’s Handbook (2014)
are like in the gutters. (Evil)
5
People. I help the people who help me — that’s what keeps us alive. (Neutral)
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Aspiration. I’m going to prove that I’m worthy of a
of questions.
3
I like to squeeze into small places where no one else can get to me.
4
I sleep with my back to a wall or tree, with everything I own wrapped in a bundle in my arms.
5
Monsters
Spelljammer: Adventures in Space
turns, ending the effect on itself on a success.A neogi lives about a century. When an individual is rendered weak by advanced age, the other neogi in the group overpower it and inject it with a special
few of the strongest newborns are left. Sometimes the newborns, united by a singular evil purpose, coalesce into a skittering swarm instead.
Neogi
A neogi looks like an outsize spider with an eel
Monsters
The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
Special Equipment. Warduke wears a dread helm (see appendix A) and wields a flame tongue longsword.Multiattack. Warduke makes three Flame Tongue or Dagger attacks.
Flame Tongue. Melee Weapon Attack
time to time. He isn’t terribly bright, which is why he leaves the plotting and scheming to others.
What does Warduke look like under his dread helm? No one knows. He never removes his helmet to
Magic Items
Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything
Produced by a special needle, this magic tattoo features beautiful calligraphy, images of writing implements, and the like.
Tattoo Attunement. To attune to this item, you hold the needle to your
Centaur
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Species
Guildmasters’ Guide to Ravnica
In the sprawling city of Ravnica, where “open road” seems like a contradiction and “open plain” is sheer nonsense, centaurs nevertheless retain a love of wide spaces and the
coloration — from various shades of chestnut or bay to dappled or even zebra-like striped patterns. Most centaurs style their hair and their tails in a similar way. Selesnya centaurs favor long, flowing
Monsters
Curse of Strahd
with a semblance of life. When she wills it to do so, the hut pulls its gigantic roots free of the earth and shambles around like a spidery behemoth, shaking the ground with every step. The hut
floorboards are out of the way, a creature can reach into the cavity and snatch the gem. But if someone attempts this while the hut is alive, the cavity sprouts wooden teeth, becoming a mouth that bites
spells
Eberron: Forge of the Artificer
You summon a special homunculus in an unoccupied space within range. This creature uses the Homunculus Servant stat block. If you already have a homunculus from this spell, the homunculus is replaced
by the new one. You determine the homunculus’s appearance, such as a mechanical-looking bird, winged vial, or miniature animate cauldron.
Combat. The homunculus is an ally to you and your