mechanics some with over alter focus for long

Quarterstaff of the Acrobat

Magic Items Dungeon Master’s Guide

after you roll Initiative, or you can extinguish the light as a Bonus Action. While holding this weapon, you can take a Bonus Action to alter its form, turning it into a 6-inch rod (for ease of storage

you. You can’t use this property again until you finish a Short or Long Rest. Ranged Weapon (Quarterstaff Form Only). This weapon has the Thrown property with a normal range of 30 feet and a

Dark Shard Amulet

Magic Items Dungeon Master’s Guide

This amulet is fashioned from a shard of resilient material originating from an otherworldly realm. While you are wearing it, you gain the following benefits. Spellcasting Focus. You can use the

amulet as a Spellcasting Focus for your Warlock spells. Unknown Spell. As a Magic action, you can try to cast a cantrip that you don’t know. The cantrip must be on the Warlock spell list and have

Hat of Wizardry

Magic Items Dungeon Master’s Guide

This cone-shaped hat is adorned with moons and stars. While you are wearing it, you gain the following benefits. Spellcasting Focus. You can use the hat as a Spellcasting Focus for your Wizard

Intelligence (Arcana) check. On a successful check, you cast the spell. On a failed check, the spell fails, and the action used to cast the spell is wasted. In either case, you can’t use this property again until you finish a Long Rest.

Cauldron of Rebirth

Magic Items Dungeon Master’s Guide

This Tiny pot bears relief scenes of heroes on its cast-iron sides. You can use the cauldron as a Spellcasting Focus for your spells, and it functions as a suitable component for the Scrying spell

. Brew Potion. When you finish a Long Rest, you can use the cauldron to create a Potion of Healing (greater), which takes 1 minute. The potion lasts for 24 hours, then loses its magic if not consumed

Arcanaloth

Monsters Monster Manual

Points or when the arcanaloth dies. If the tome is destroyed, the arcanaloth can create a new one when it finishes a Short or Long Rest.Multiattack. The arcanaloth makes three Fiendish Burst attacks

arcanaloth casts one of the following spells, requiring no Material components and using Intelligence as the spellcasting ability (spell save DC 17): At Will: Alter Self, Detect Magic, Identify, Mage

Hat of Many Spells

Magic Items Dungeon Master’s Guide

This pointed hat has the following properties. Spellcasting Focus. While holding the hat, you can use it as a Spellcasting Focus for your Wizard spells. Any spell you cast using the hat gains a

its normal casting time, and you can’t use this property again until you finish a Short or Long Rest. On a failed check, you fail to cast the spell and a random effect occurs instead

Wish

Spells Player’s Handbook

Wish is the mightiest spell a mortal can cast. By simply speaking aloud, you can alter reality itself. The basic use of this spell is to duplicate any other spell of level 8 or lower. If you use it

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

Nightwalker Legacy

Monsters Mordenkainen’s Tome of Foes

Enervating Focus twice, or it uses Enervating Focus and Finger of Doom, if available. Enervating Focus. Melee Weapon Attack: +12;{"diceNotation":"1d20+12","rollType":"to hit","rollAction":"Enervating Focus

"} to hit, reach 15 ft., one target. Hit: 28 (5d8 + 6);{"diceNotation":"5d8+6","rollType":"damage","rollAction":"Enervating Focus","rollDamageType":"necrotic"} necrotic damage. The target must succeed

Way of the Long Death

Classes Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide

Monks of the Way of the Long Death are obsessed with the meaning and mechanics of dying. They capture creatures and prepare elaborate experiments to capture, record, and understand the moments of

Way of the Long Death (SCAG)

Classes Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide

Monks of the Way of the Long Death are obsessed with the meaning and mechanics of dying. They capture creatures and prepare elaborate experiments to capture, record, and understand the moments of

Nightwalker

Monsters Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse

be revived except by a wish spell. Unusual Nature. The nightwalker doesn’t require air, food, drink, or sleep.Multiattack. The nightwalker makes two Enervating Focus attacks, one of which can be

replaced by Finger of Doom, if available. Enervating Focus. Melee Weapon Attack: +12;{"diceNotation":"1d20+12","rollType":"to hit","rollAction":"Enervating Focus"} to hit, reach 15 ft., one target

Major Image Legacy

Spells Basic Rules (2014)

thunder damage or deafen a creature, or a smell that might sicken a creature (like a troglodyte's stench). As long as you are within range of the illusion, you can use your action to cause the image to

move to any other spot within range. As the image changes location, you can alter its appearance so that its movements appear natural for the image. For example, if you create an image of a creature and

Quandrix Professor of Theory

Monsters Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos

minds, probability, and the fabric of magic itself. Their equations shift perceptions in profound ways, alter probability, and interfere with the formation of other magic. In battle, the professors tweak

Scholars The scholars of Quandrix College focus on the mathematical principles that govern reality. Through these formulas, they can manipulate properties of matter and space, as well as abstract and conceptual space such as the mind, probability, and the flow of magic itself.Psychic

Helm of Telepathy Legacy

Magic Items Basic Rules (2014)

While wearing this helm, you can use an action to cast the detect thoughts spell (save DC 13) from it. As long as you maintain concentration on the spell, you can use a bonus action to send a

telepathic message to a creature you are focused on. It can reply--using a bonus action to do so--while your focus on it continues. While focusing on a creature with detect thoughts, you can use an action

Davil Starsong

Monsters Waterdeep: Dragon Heist

good at sniffing out lucrative business deals, and he makes friends easily. Like many sun elves, Davil has an affinity for magic and is gifted with the kind of patience that comes with a long life span

, even while drunk, and uses an elven lute as a spellcasting focus. Davil can put the characters in contact with other leaders of the Black Network's Waterdeep division, namely Istrid Horn (if they need

Duplicitous Manuscript

Magic Items Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything

To you, this book is a magical spellbook. To anyone else, the book appears to be a volume of verbose romance fiction. As an action, you can change the book’s appearance and alter the plot of

spellbook for you. While you are holding the book, you can use it as a spellcasting focus for your wizard spells. The book has 3 charges, and it regains 1d3 expended charges daily at dawn. You can use

Barovian Witch

Monsters Curse of Strahd

the shadows and can see in the dark. When traveling in the open, they use alter self spells to assume less conspicuous forms. They also use these spells to grow long, sharp claws with which they can

laughter 2nd level (2 slots): alter self, invisibilityClaws (Requires Alter Self). Melee Weapon Attack: +3;{"diceNotation":"1d20+3","rollType":"to hit","rollAction":"Claws"} to hit, reach 5 ft., one target

Warlock of the Fiend Legacy

Monsters Volo's Guide to Monsters

Innate Spellcasting. The warlock's innate spellcasting ability is Charisma. It can innately cast the following spells (spell save DC 15), requiring no material components: At will: alter self, false

long rest. It knows the following warlock spells: Cantrips (at will): eldritch blast, fire bolt, friends, mage hand, minor illusion, prestidigitation, shocking grasp 1st–5th level (4 5th-level slots

Hat of Wizardry Legacy

Magic Items Xanathar's Guide to Everything

This antiquated, cone-shaped hat is adorned with gold crescent moons and stars. While you are wearing it, you gain the following benefits: You can use the hat as a spellcasting focus for your

, you cast the spell. If the check fails, so does the spell, and the action used to cast the spell is wasted. In either case, you can’t use this property again until you finish a long rest.

Ruby Weave Gem

Magic Items Fizban's Treasury of Dragons

While you are holding this gem, you can use it as a spellcasting focus for your spells. The gem has 3 charges and regains all expended charges daily at dawn. When you cast a spell while holding this

gem, you can expend up to 3 charges to ignore the spell’s material components with a gold piece cost, up to 500 gp per charge expended. When you finish a long rest, choose a spell from any

Balm of Shifting Form

Equipment

This alchemical concoction was derived from research into the transmutation effects of olothec slime. When a creature uses an action to rub this balm onto their body, they can alter their superficial

form, but it can be used to alter appearance and apparent ancestry with ease. A creature using the balm adds double their proficiency bonus to any ability checks they make to create a visual disguise

Stone Juggernaut

Monsters Tomb of Annihilation

one. Immutable Form. The juggernaut is immune to any spell or effect that would alter its form. Regeneration. As long as it has 1 hit point left, the juggernaut magically regains all its hit points

Lorehold Professor of Chaos

Monsters Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos

Voice from the Past (1/Day). The professor can cast the contact other plane spell to contact a long-dead spirit, using Intelligence as the spellcasting ability.Multiattack. The professor makes two

effect on itself on a success.Professors of chaos wield magic inspired by the ebb and flow of chance. They study the course history has taken, looking for breaking points in the flow of events, and focus

Witherbloom Professor of Growth

Monsters Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos

restoration, mass cure wounds, pass without trace, plant growth, revivify Summon Nature’s Avatar (Recharges after a Short or Long Rest). The professor magically summons a Groff. The groff

conjured poisonous vines to avatars of nature’s wrath. These professors teach their students to focus on the growth side of the natural cycle of life and death and to avoid wasting resources. They

Githzerai Enlightened

Monsters Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse

it left or in an unoccupied space nearest to that space if it’s occupied.Slow Fall. When the githzerai falls, it reduces any falling damage it takes by 50.Some spiritual githzerai spend long

live apart from the rest of the cosmos, within the confines of fortresses floating through the chaos of Limbo. Instead of imposing their will on other peoples, they focus on controlling and manipulating their endlessly malleable home.

Mind Flayer Prophet

Monsters Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk

Awareness. The mind flayer has advantage on initiative rolls and can’t be surprise;surprised as long as it doesn’t have the incapacitated condition. Magic Resistance. The mind flayer has

focus their innate psionic power. Mind Flayers Mind flayers, also known as illithids, feast on the brains of Humanoids across the multiverse. They are distinguished by their purple-toned skin and octopus-like heads, from which extend writhing tentacles.

Marut Legacy

Monsters Mordenkainen’s Tome of Foes

Immutable Form. The marut is immune to any spell or effect that would alter its form. Innate Spellcasting. The marut’s innate spellcasting ability is Intelligence (spell save DC 20). The marut

target is teleported in this way, the marut teleports with it to the circle. After teleporting in this way, the marut can’t use this action again until it finishes a short or long rest.PoisonThunder; Bludgeoning, Piercing, and Slashing from Nonmagical Attacks

Transmuter Wizard

Monsters Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse

each long rest: Darkvision. The transmuter has darkvision out to a range of 60 feet. Resilience. The transmuter has proficiency in Constitution saving throws. Resistance. The transmuter has

4–6);{"diceNotation":"1d6", "rollType":"recharge", "rollAction":"Transmute"}. The transmuter casts alter self or changes the benefit of Transmuter’s Stone if bearing the stone.

Jijibisha Manivarshi

Monsters Journeys through the Radiant Citadel

Innate Spellcasting. Jijibisha’s innate spellcasting ability is Charisma (spell save DC 17). Jijibisha can innately cast the following spells, requiring no material components: At will: alter

see.Jijibisha Manivarshi, a vicious soul from the land’s past, lurks in the nearby forest. Long ago she made a deal with wicked otherworldly forces that gave her longevity and fiendish powers, a

Plasmoid Explorer

Monsters Spelljammer: Adventures in Space

oozes that can alter their shape at will. Their amorphous bodies have a soft, malleable texture, and plasmoids can extrude up to five pseudopods, each one up to 5 feet long. They use their pseudopods

Mighty Servant of Leuk-o

Monsters Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything

Immutable Existence. The servant is immune to any spell or effect that would alter its form or send it to another plane of existence. Magic Resistant Construction. The servant has advantage on

’s long jump is up to 50 feet and its high jump is up to 25 feet, with or without a running start. Unusual Nature. The servant doesn’t require air, food, drink, or sleep.Destructive Fist

Dark Shard Amulet Legacy

Magic Items Xanathar's Guide to Everything

use the amulet as a spellcasting focus for your warlock spells. You can try to cast a cantrip that you don’t know. The cantrip must be on the warlock spell list, and you must make a DC 10

Intelligence (Arcana) check. If the check succeeds, you cast the spell. If the check fails, so does the spell, and the action used to cast the spell is wasted. In either case, you can’t use this property again until you finish a long rest.

Plasmoid Boss

Monsters Spelljammer: Adventures in Space

and wit, in addition to their strength and size, to stay in power for long. Plasmoids Plasmoids are intelligent oozes that can alter their shape at will. Their amorphous bodies have a soft

, malleable texture, and plasmoids can extrude up to five pseudopods, each one up to 5 feet long. They use their pseudopods for locomotion as well as for manipulating objects. Every plasmoid has a mass of

Grung

Species One Grung Above

THIS IS NONCORE D&D MATERIAL These game mechanics are usable in your campaign if your DM allows them but not refined by final game design and editing. Grungs are aggressive froglike

lethargic and compliant. A creature afflicted in this way over a long period of time becomes a shell of its former self and can be restored to normalcy only by magic.

Fraz-Urb'luu Legacy

Monsters Out of the Abyss

will: alter self (can become Medium-sized when changing his appearance), detect magic, dispel magic, phantasmal force 3/day each: confusion, dream, mislead, programmed illusion, seeming 1/day each

that of a great gargoyle, some 12 feet tall, with an extended, muscular neck and a smiling face framed by long, pointed ears and lank, dark hair, and bat-like wings are furled against his powerful

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