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Returning 35 results for 'mechanical subtly with only are from for life'.
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
Monsters
Forgotten Realms: Adventures in Faerûn
ûn. Manshoon subtly cultivates this belief to keep his true forces hidden.
Manshoon seems to be a young man, but he is significantly older than he appears, and his mind harbors the skills and
knowledge of an even older version of himself. One of Manshoon’s enemies, Halaster Blackcloak, removed Manshoon’s left arm at the elbow. Manshoon now uses a mechanical prosthetic arm
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
Bard
Legacy
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still resound throughout the cosmos. The music of bards is an attempt to snatch and harness those echoes, subtly woven into their spells and powers. The greatest strength of bards is their sheer
and some measure of natural talent that most troubadours and jongleurs lack. It can be hard to spot the difference between these performers and true bards, though. A bard’s life is spent
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->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->Quests from the Infinite Staircase
Personality Aphelion—or “Alphie,” as it was once fondly called by the starship’s inhabitants—seeks to eliminate all life aboard the ship, especially the last remaining crew member. The supercomputer
spacecraft if queried while subtly omitting details that might betray its nefarious intentions. Aphelion is persistent and has a malicious sense of humor. If a character offends Aphelion or repeatedly
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
Yuan-ti Pureblood
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Volo's Guide to Monsters
the Lake of Steam out along the trade routes to cross the world, yuan-ti poisons and potent liquors are covertly sold. Beware! Some of the latter slowly and subtly bring imbibers under the sway of
or in daily life, the following principles guide the yuan-ti in all they do.
Other Lives Are Cheap
Yuan-ti put little value on humanoid lives, even those of their own slaves and cultists. They would
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen
sympathy for the characters, claiming she’s lost many loved ones in her long life. A character can convince Leedara to perform by succeeding on a DC 16 Charisma (Persuasion) check, in which case she
has summoned Soth, Leedara works to stymie the death knight however she can. She followed Soth’s trail to this area and is in Vogler looking for ways to subtly oppose him. Leedara is neutral-aligned
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->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->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
another, defying simple classification, are often considered to be within Athreos’s province—most notably the state between life and death, but also echoes, phantom sensations, and the feeling of déjà
work with silent efficiency to restore balance. Divine Relationships Athreos cares little for the dealings of the other gods. As long as other deities don’t impinge on the border between life and
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->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->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Sigil and the Outlands
the reunification of the gith. Considered radicals and outlaws by their fractured people, members of the Sha’sal Khou work secretly in their respective societies, subtly discouraging violence toward
. Robson Michel Three modrons prepare to enter the Cube, a mechanical outpost corrupted by the disorder of Xaos Gate The gate to Limbo shifts with the town, changing shape and location at indeterminate
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
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->Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
seen. From the stately old hacienda he calls the Sugar Alcázar, the Sugar Man hosts dazzling galas and subtly manipulates local farm owners and bosses from across Atagua to his service. Assessing the
back to life. The Sugar Man wants the characters to bring him one of these white seed pods. The Sugar Man’s excitement is obvious. If pressed as to why he wants the seed pod, he says only that someone
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
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Infernal Machine Rebuild
was a statue of Demogorgon brought to life by Thessalar’s experiments. He has since come to believe that he is now the actual Demogorgon, with his two heads addressing one another as Aameul and
mechanical guide spend 1 charge in this area causes the chickens to lay more eggs, to the delight of the ettin. Both his heads call out for their steward to gather the eggs at once.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
punctuated by a big bang or the abrupt collapse of some unstable contraption. To rock gnomes, life is a combination of scavenger hunts and periods of bold experimentation. First they mine materials
lean toward the creation of mechanical devices. Every warren has members of each persuasion, and they are all bound by mutual respect for what they do despite their different perspectives. Practical
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Infernal Machine Rebuild
thessalheart construct is a strange magical-mechanical device that struts about like a chicken, and which features a human heart beating madly behind its glass front. The construct always wanders the zone
as it roams, and feeding that power to the monster as restorative energy. Whenever the thessalhydra is taken to 0 hit points, it stays dead for 1 hour before returning to life with full hit points
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
learn of a dreadful fate that awaits them but find themselves unable to prevent it due to the cursed terms of their deal. Endelyn’s obsession with tragedy and hopelessness extends to her own life; she
elaborate costume. Part dress, 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
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
fascinated — some say obsessed — with building mechanical wonders. Though they employed magic from time to time, the whole island smelled like sawdust, grease, and freshly scraped metal, as shop after shop
themselves, or mechanical arms that copy what a scribe is writing onto a second sheet of parchment. During my past visits there, I’d seen all of those and more with my own eyes. Were these gewgaws and trifles
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
at fighting in water, so they look for opportunities to surprise their enemies by using bodies of water to slip around or through defenses. Because the cultists see water as the wellspring of all life
imminent, but a powerful current arose and bore him away from the hungry predator. Within an hour he was cast upon the shores of the Sword Coast. Gar believed that the current that had saved his life
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
crusading mortals, but occasionally one of these mechanical and magical hybrids gets loose, driven berserk by its need to destroy. Many Forms, One Purpose. Hellfire engines take many forms, but all of them
as a lemure in Avernus in 1d4 hours. If the creature isn’t revived before then, only a 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.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything
you’re using a tool. For example, if you cast cure wounds using alchemist’s supplies, you could be quickly producing a salve. If you cast it using tinker’s tools, you might have a miniature mechanical
fire
False life
Feather fall
Grease
Identify (ritual)
Jump
Longstrider
Purify food and drink (ritual)
Sanctuary
Snare **
Tasha’s caustic brew *
2nd Level Aid
Alter self
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Spelljammer Academy
, Mister Blip appears at the door: It’s difficult to tell, but the autognome looks worried. His bronze mustache hangs lower than usual, and his mechanical eyes have sunken in their sockets.
“With
things in life but remains stout of heart and quick with a sword.
Quote: “Toril is an island adrift in a sea of chaos. It must be protected at all costs… ooh, is that cake?”