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Player’s Handbook
Manipulate Forces of Life and Death
Warriors of Mercy manipulate the life force of others. These Monks are wandering physicians, but they bring a swift end to their enemies. They often wear masks, presenting themselves as faceless bringers of life and death.
Classes
Player’s Handbook
Preserve Life and Light in the World
The Oath of the Ancients is as old as the first elves. Paladins who swear this oath cherish the light; they love the beautiful and life-giving things of the
world more than any principles of honor, courage, and justice. They often adorn their armor and clothing with images of growing things—leaves, antlers, or flowers—to reflect their commitment
Magic Items
Dungeon Master’s Guide
creature whose soul has been devoured by Blackrazor can be restored to life only by a Wish spell.
When Blackrazor devours a soul that isn’t yours, you gain Temporary Hit Points equal to the slain
Blackrazor. Blackrazor can be destroyed by crushing it in the great gears of Mechanus. Primus, the creator of the modrons, also knows a series of musical tones that Blackrazor can’t stand to hear, causing the sword to shatter.
Monsters
Monster Manual
all expended uses at the start of each of its turns.
Chomp. The death tyrant makes two Bite attacks.
Glare. The death tyrant uses Eye Rays.Death Tyrant Lairs
Death tyrants often lurk deep in the
Underdark, in the tunnel-mazes they occupied in life or in the lairs of enemy beholders they conquered. These lairs are devoid of life, as death tyrants change their servants into Undead horrors.
The
Species
Player’s Handbook
stone and metal and for living underground. The god also made them resilient like the mountains, with a life span of about 350 years.
Squat and often bearded, the original dwarves carved cities and
subterranean horrors. Inspired by those tales, dwarves of any culture often sing of valorous deeds—especially of the little overcoming the mighty.
On some worlds in the multiverse, the first settlements
Magic Items
Dungeon Master’s Guide
Fates card can end this curse.
Fates. Reality’s fabric unravels and spins anew, allowing you to avoid or erase one event as if it never happened. You can use the card’s magic as soon as
ally with its attacks. You and your allies can each summon only one avatar as a consequence of this draw. A creature slain by an avatar can’t be restored to life.
Avatar of Death
Medium Undead
Classes
Player’s Handbook
.
Druids are concerned with the delicate ecological balance that sustains plant and animal life and with the need for people to live in harmony with nature. Druids often guard sacred sites or watch over
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
(no action required by you). If you don’t issue any, it takes the Dodge action and uses its movement to avoid danger. The domestic wonder is destroyed if it drops to 0 Hit Points.
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
Monsters
Lorwyn: First Light
others. At worst, giants might be wrathful toward smaller folk, seeing them as invasive pests to be squashed.
When a giant in the realm of Lorwyn-Shadowmoor sleeps, it often has vivid, dramatic dreams
uninterrupted.
Smart adventurers avoid these archways for fear of evoking the sleeping giant’s ire. Treasure hunters might search for the archways in hopes of finding the place abandoned but still
Monsters
Lorwyn: First Light
Lorwyn-Shadowmoor sleeps, it often has vivid, dramatic dreams. Giants see their dreams as powerful augurs or important messages that border on divine inspiration. These giants mark their resting spots
with enormous stone archways to ensure their respites go uninterrupted.
Smart adventurers avoid these archways for fear of evoking the sleeping giant’s ire. Treasure hunters might search for
Monsters
Astarion's Book of Hungers
":"Fiery Eruption", "rollDamageType":"Fire"} Fire damage.Effigy Animated by Hellish Magic
Fiendish icons are grotesque, sapient statues depicting fearsome fiends. These creatures gain life as a result
of sinister rituals. Fiendish icons can explode with hellfire to roast their foes, and they often pretend to be ordinary statues until they leap up to ambush invaders.
Roll on or choose a result
Backgrounds
Eberron: Forge of the Artificer
, Disguise Kit, Costume, Traveler's Clothes, 16 GP; or (B) 50 GP
Your aberrant dragonmark has made life challenging since it manifested. You might have hidden it successfully for most of your life
or managed to avoid notice. Alternatively, you might have encountered suspicion and fear, perhaps coupled with the outright antagonism of one or more dragonmarked houses. You might have formed an
Monsters
Forgotten Realms: Adventures in Faerûn
Legendary Resistance (3/Day). If Sammaster fails a saving throw, he can choose to succeed instead.
Life Suppression. Creatures within 60 feet of Sammaster can’t regain Hit Points.
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dedicated to transforming living dragons into undead inheritors of a world blasted of life. Sammaster was slain centuries ago but now exists as a lich with his essence tied to a powerful dracolich form
Monsters
Forgotten Realms: Adventures in Faerûn
Legendary Resistance (3/Day). If Sammaster fails a saving throw, he can choose to succeed instead.
Life Suppression. Creatures within 60 feet of Sammaster can’t regain Hit Points.
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transforming living dragons into undead inheritors of a world blasted of life. Sammaster was slain centuries ago but now exists as a lich with his essence tied to a powerful dracolich form.
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Backgrounds
Lorwyn: First Light
. Regardless of where you tread, you keenly understand that friendship is a rare commodity. You believe that knowing who to trust and who to keep at arm’s length isn’t just practical— it’s often a matter of life or death.
Monsters
Forgotten Realms: Adventures in Faerûn
spirit dragon’s personality and outlook are often indistinguishable from that fallen realm’s.
Spirit Dragons
Spirit dragons, sometimes called song dragons, are powerful dragons whose
(Performance) checks that involve singing or playing music. Creatures other than the dragon and its allies in that area have Disadvantage on saving throws to avoid or end the Charmed condition.
Time
Species
Astarion's Book of Hungers
Dhampirs are living people who possess vampiric prowess but are cursed with macabre hunger. Most dhampirs thirst for blood, but some gain sustenance from dreams, life energy, or other vital sources
. Dhampirs must choose whether to fight to control their hunger or give in to predatory urges.
Dhampirs often arise from encounters with vampires; some are the descendants of a powerful vampire, while
Monsters
Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
kills the larvae.A carrion stalker begins life as a pale larva that infests a corpse. Over the course of weeks, this grub burrows, feeds, and grows, ultimately developing into a chitinous mass of pincers
and tentacles. When an adult carrion stalker detects movement, it bursts from its corpse-cradle to attack, intent on implanting its young into the living and starting its species’ life cycle
Bandit
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Monsters
Basic Rules (2014)
sometimes led by thugs, veterans, or spellcasters. Not all bandits are evil. Oppression, drought, disease, or famine can often drive otherwise honest folk to a life of banditry. Pirates are bandits of the
Monsters
Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
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
nature through their magic. They brew infusions of plants, fungi, and insects or other minuscule creatures that thrum with the essence of life, using these infusions to fuel their magic instead of using
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
);{"diceNotation":"1d4+3","rollType":"damage","rollAction":"Spike","rollDamageType":"piercing"} piercing damage.It takes six months of steady eating for a young kruthik to reach adult size. The natural life
lairs as close to such locations as possible. As they burrow through the earth, they leave behind tunnels—evidence that is often the first clue to the nearby presence of a kruthik hive
Classes
Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything
death. But these druids believe that the natural cycle is healthiest when each segment of it is vibrant and changing. Undead that seek to replace all life with undeath, or that try to avoid passing to a
Druids of the Circle of Spores find beauty in decay. They see within mold and other fungi the ability to transform lifeless material into abundant, albeit somewhat strange, life.
These druids
Monsters
Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse
is missing any of its hit points), reach 10 ft., one target. Hit: 5 (1d6 + 2);{"diceNotation":"1d6+2", "rollType":"damage", "rollAction":"Claw", "rollDamageType":"slashing"} slashing damage.
Life
-Draining Vines (Recharge 6);{"diceNotation":"1d6", "rollType":"recharge", "rollAction":"Life-Draining Vines"}. Snaking vines erupt from the blight. Each creature within 10 feet of it must make a DC 12
Monsters
Spelljammer: Adventures in Space
warriors often adopt colorful names, such as the Soaring Hadozees, the Jammin’ Wingbats, and the Night Howlers.
Hadozees
Hadozees are slender, highly adaptive Humanoids with simian features
. When stretched taut between outstretched limbs, these membranes enable a hadozee to glide.
On Yazir, their home world, hadozees lived high up in the trees to avoid large predators that walk on land
Monsters
Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
similar to the dungeon scavengers described in the Monster Manual. As their name suggests, though, these creatures are most often found in the bags carried by giants, where they feed on whatever
scrupulously clean to avoid attracting bag jellies, but others actually use these scavengers to hinder thieves. Many would-be thieves who rummage through a sleeping giant’s bag find themselves stuck
Monsters
Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
the barrowghast a noxious stench.
Barrowghasts no longer hunger for physical food and instead crave life energy drained from living creatures. They often target former family members and allies, but
attacks. It can replace one Slam attack with a Life Drain attack.
Slam. Melee Weapon Attack: +8;{"diceNotation":"1d20+8", "rollType":"to hit", "rollAction":"Slam"} to hit, reach 10 ft., one target
Monsters
Monstrous Compendium Vol. 4: Eldraine Creatures
Can’t Catch Me. The gingerbrute has advantage on any ability checks or saving throws it makes to avoid or end the grappled or the restrained condition on itself.
Sweet Victory. Once the
":"bludgeoning"} bludgeoning damage.Gingerbread cookies baked in the wilds of Eldraine—or made from ingredients grown there—have a habit of developing a life of their own. Known as
Monsters
Mythic Odysseys of Theros
than other nymphs. Farmers are grateful for the presence of alseids on their lands and often leave them offerings of mead, honey, flowers, and dates in return for protecting their flocks and making
benevolent and aid those who live off the land, while others embody violent aspects of nature. In either case, nymphs generally avoid other sapient creatures, preferring to mind the cycles of nature, the
Monsters
Spelljammer: Adventures in Space
Multiattack. The megapede makes one Bite attack and uses either Life Drain or Psychic Bomb.
Bite. Melee Weapon Attack: +10;{"diceNotation":"1d20+10","rollType":"to hit","rollAction":"Bite"} to hit
":"damage","rollAction":"Bite (poison)","rollDamageType":"poison"} poison damage.
Life Drain. The megapede magically drains life energy from other creatures nearby. Each creature within 15 feet of
Classes
Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything
death. But these druids believe that the natural cycle is healthiest when each segment of it is vibrant and changing. Undead that seek to replace all life with undeath, or that try to avoid passing to a
Druids of the Circle of Spores find beauty in decay. They see within mold and other fungi the ability to transform lifeless material into abundant, albeit somewhat strange, life.
These druids
Monsters
Mythic Odysseys of Theros
target.Medusas (often called gorgons on Theros) are closely associated with Pharika, the god of poison and medicine. Pharika has charged her favored servants with guarding secrets of life, health, and
by the greater restoration spell or other magic.
Unless surprised, a creature can avert its eyes to avoid the saving throw at the start of its turn. If the creature does so, it can't see the medusa
Monsters
Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
creature, it has disadvantage on the next attack roll it makes before the end of its next turn.Feral ashenwights retain a fragment of the spark they had in life. However, they are devoid of memories
creature sometimes rises as an ashenwight. The skin of these Undead horrors is desiccated, and their eyes often glow with otherworldly power.Necrotic, Poison
Monsters
Spelljammer: Adventures in Space
the trees to avoid large predators that walk on land. Today, Wildspace is where most of them feel at home. Hadozees are often hired as mercenary crews by other spacefaring folk. Their natural climbing
systems for riches and adventure. They often serve as navigators aboard spelljamming ships. To them, the Astral Plane is a mostly uncharted expanse worthy of further exploration.
Hadozees
Hadozees are
Monsters
Spelljammer: Adventures in Space
. When stretched taut between outstretched limbs, these membranes enable a hadozee to glide.
On Yazir, their home world, hadozees lived high up in the trees to avoid large predators that walk on land
. Today, Wildspace is where most of them feel at home. Hadozees are often hired as mercenary crews by other spacefaring folk. Their natural climbing ability comes in handy, as does their ability to