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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.
Magic Items
Dungeon Master’s Guide
remains with you only as long as you strive to work evil in the world. If you fail to perform at least one evil act within the span of 10 days, or if you willingly perform a good act, the book
disappears, your Attunement to it ends immediately, and you lose all benefits granted by it. If you die while attuned to the book, an entity of great evil claims your soul. You can’t be restored to life
Classes
Player’s Handbook
;Arcane Focus (Quarterstaff), Robe, Spellbook, Scholar's Pack, and 5 GP; or (B) 55 GP
Wizards are defined by their exhaustive study of magic’s inner workings. They cast spells of
used across the multiverse.
The closest a Wizard is likely to come to an ordinary life is working as a sage or lecturer. Other Wizards sell their services as advisers, serve in military forces, or
Classes
Forgotten Realms: Heroes of Faerûn
Unearth Secrets and Master the Mind
The Knowledge Domain values learning and understanding above all. Clerics who tap into this domain study esoteric lore, collect old tomes, delve into secret
places, and examine the processes of the mind. To them, knowledge is more valuable than material wealth, and learning is an act of worship. Libraries, universities, and other educational institutions also
Monsters
Forgotten Realms: Adventures in Faerûn
take one of the following actions. Valindra regains all expended uses at the start of each of her turns.
Disrupt Life. Constitution Saving Throw: DC 20, each creature that isn’t Undead in a 20
-foot Emanation originating from Valindra. Failure: 21 (6d6);{"diceNotation":"6d6", "rollType":"damage", "rollAction":"Disrupt Life", "rollDamageType":"Necrotic"} Necrotic damage. Success: Half damage
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.
Magic
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.
Magic
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.
History
Monsters
Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse
Axiomatic Mind. The septon can’t be compelled to act in a manner contrary to its nature or its instructions.
Combat Ready. The septon has advantage on initiative checks.
Disintegration. If
from evil and good, sendingSeptons are auditors of base modrons in Mechanus, recording the activities in each of the plane’s sectors to ensure operations are in perfect order. They are easily
Monsters
Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse
evil and goodWhen modrons act against the will of Primus, nonatons are charged with bringing those rogue units into line. These inspectors also interrogate captured trespassers of Mechanus. Nonatons
Axiomatic Mind. The nonaton can’t be compelled to act in a manner contrary to its nature or its instructions.
Combat Ready. The nonaton has advantage on initiative rolls.
Disintegration. If
Monsters
Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse
Axiomatic Mind. The octon can’t be compelled to act in a manner contrary to its nature or its instructions.
Combat Ready. The octon has advantage on initiative checks.
Disintegration. If the
)
1/day each: plane shift (self only), protection from evil and goodAt the head of Mechanus’s sectors are the octons, hierarch modrons that oversee daily governance. They provide data to other
Monsters
Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse
Axiomatic Mind. The decaton can’t be compelled to act in a manner contrary to its nature or its instructions.
Combat Ready. The decaton has advantage on initiative rolls.
Disintegration. If
electricity from each of its ten eyes, synchronizing them to deadly effect.
Modrons
Constructed on the plane of Mechanus, modrons are partially mechanical beings that belong to a strict hierarchy
Monsters
Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse
Axiomatic Mind. The hexton can’t be compelled to act in a manner contrary to its nature or its instructions.
Combat Ready. The hexton has advantage on initiative rolls.
Disintegration. If the
damage on a successful one.When the armies of Mechanus mobilize against the forces of chaos, hextons are the field generals who command modron troops. These hulking hierarchs lead groups of modrons in
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
", "rollAction":"Grim Harvest"} hit points.Necromancers study the interaction of life, death, and undeath. Some necromancers dig up or purchase corpses to create Undead servitors. A few instead use their
powers for good, hunting Undead.
Wizards
Wizards pursue magical power through the study of arcane texts. Some travel the world searching for esoteric tomes, while others train lesser wizards or
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
the d20 rolled for the attack roll, saving throw, or ability check.Diviners peer into the future and know that knowledge is power. They might act aloof and mysterious, hinting at omens and secrets, or
they might be know-it-alls, spilling insights to advance their own status.
Wizards
Wizards pursue magical power through the study of arcane texts. Some travel the world searching for esoteric tomes, while others train lesser wizards or collaborate with colleagues to create new spells.
Monsters
Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
fog and muck of the swamp, the students of Witherbloom College—first as apprentices and then as witherbloom pledgemage;pledgemages—study the cycle of life and death. Their magic is fueled
apprentice sees a creature within 30 feet of itself drop to 0 hit points, the apprentice channels the expended life essence and targets another creature it can see within 30 feet of itself. The
Monsters
Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
—study the cycle of life and death. Their magic is fueled by what they call life essence: the ubiquitous energy that runs through living things.
Witherbloom students learn how to concoct
ward, pass without trace, speak with plantsWither Burst. When the pledgemage sees a creature within 30 feet of itself drop to 0 hit points, the pledgemage channels the expended life essence and targets
Monsters
Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse
False Appearance. If the blight is motionless at the start of combat, it has advantage on its initiative roll. If a creature hasn’t observed the blight move or act, that creature must succeed
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
Monsters
Spelljammer: Adventures in Space
vampire’s but doesn’t use them to draw vital fluids from prey, which vampirates consider an unsavory act. Rather, a vampirate drains life energy from another creature by touching it or by
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
Ideals
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Your ideals are the things that you believe in most strongly, the fundamental moral and ethical principles that compel you to act as you do. Ideals encompass everything from your life goals to your
core belief system.
Ideals might answer any of these questions: What are the principles that you will never betray? What would prompt you to make sacrifices? What drives you to act and guides your goals and ambitions? What is the single most important thing you strive for?
Monsters
Curse of Strahd
damage.Animated objects are crafted with potent magic to follow the commands of their creators. When not commanded, they follow the last order they received to the best of their ability, and can act independently
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
Way of Mercy
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Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything
Monks of the Way of Mercy learn to manipulate the life force of others to bring aid to those in need. They are wandering physicians to the poor and hurt. However, to those beyond their help, they
bring a swift end as an act of mercy.
Those who follow the Way of Mercy might be members of a religious order, administering to the needy and making grim choices rooted in reality rather than idealism
Monsters
Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
Detect Life. The banshee can magically sense the presence of creatures up to 5 miles away that aren't undead or constructs. She knows the general direction they're in but not their exact locations
a selfish, evil act. It wields a spectral longbow that shoots phantom arrows. There is only one banshee haunting the forest. If it's destroyed, it re-forms after 24 hours in a random location in the
Sage
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Basic Rules (2014)
Characteristics
Sages are defined by their extensive studies, and their characteristics reflect this life of study. Devoted to scholarly pursuits, a sage values knowledge highly—sometimes in its own right
infinite possibility inherent in all existence. (Chaotic)
5
Power. Knowledge is the path to power and domination. (Evil)
6
Self-Improvement. The goal of a life of study is the betterment
Monsters
Eberron: Rising from the Last War
sensitive cilia that cover its skin. It can also absorb life through its tentacles, allowing it to drain the vitality out of any creature it touches.
Warped by Chaos. When the daelkyr emerged from
into intelligent, cold, and efficient killers.
When the daelkyr were defeated, the dolgaunts descended into the depths of Khyber with their masters. There, they study in cavernous monasteries, forging
Monsters
Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
before then, it can be restored to life only by a wish spell or by killing the lemure and casting true resurrection on the creature’s original body.Multiattack. The hellion makes two Morningstar
", "rollAction":"Infernal Orb", "rollDamageType":"necrotic"} necrotic damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one.Fire giants study war in its many forms across the multiverse, which
Monsters
Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
can see within 30 feet of it. The stirges are under the strigoi’s control and act immediately after the strigoi in the initiative order. The stirges disappear after 1 hour, when the strigoi dies
compelled to drain living victims. Others, though, embrace their new forms and mimic vampires. These would-be bloodsucker aristocrats create stirge courts amid scabrous husk-decorated villas and drain the life from any who balk at their grotesque gentility.Necrotic
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
act, that creature must succeed on a DC 18 Intelligence (Investigation) check to discern that the slithering tracker isn’t a puddle.
Liquid Form. The slithering tracker can enter an enemy
);{"diceNotation":"1d10+3", "rollType":"damage", "rollAction":"Slam", "rollDamageType":"bludgeoning"} bludgeoning damage.
Life Leech. One Large or smaller creature that the slithering tracker can see
Monsters
Spelljammer: Adventures in Space
parchment. A vampirate has fangs like a vampire’s but doesn’t use them to draw vital fluids from prey, which vampirates consider an unsavory act. Rather, a vampirate drains life energy from
ships, plundering unsuspecting 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
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
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
archdukes of the Nine Hells. These narzugons act as horrific perversions of knights errant, carrying out their masters’ will.
Narzugons wield hell-forged lances that shunt the souls of any they
Monsters
Spelljammer: Adventures in Space
use them to draw vital fluids from prey, which vampirates consider an unsavory act. Rather, a vampirate drains life energy from another creature by touching it or by siphoning off its energy from a
Vampirates are the walking, talking husks of dead pirates who refused to go quietly into the afterlife. They ply the void in their ships, plundering unsuspecting vessels and feeding on the life
Monsters
Quests from the Infinite Staircase
memory web is motionless at the start of combat, it has advantage on its initiative roll. Moreover, if a creature hasn’t observed the memory web move or act, that creature must succeed on a DC
webs lie in ambush draped over plant life, wrapped around corpses, or stuck to ossuaries in dark catacombs.
Memory webs feed on memories and require daily sustenance. When a memory web’s prey
Acolyte
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You have spent your life in the service of a temple to a specific god or pantheon of gods. You act as an intermediary between the realm of the holy and the mortal world, performing sacred rites and
Characteristics
Acolytes are shaped by their experience in temples or other religious communities. Their study of the history and tenets of their faith and their relationships to temples, shrines, or hierarchies
Book of Vile Darkness
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Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
in the world. If you fail to perform at least one evil act within the span of 10 days, or if you willingly perform a good act, the book disappears. If you die while attuned to the book, an entity of
great evil claims your soul. You can’t be restored to life by any means while your soul remains imprisoned.
Random Properties. The Book of Vile Darkness has the following random properties:
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Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide
path to power and domination. (Evil)
6
Self-Improvement. The goal of a life of study is the betterment of oneself. (Any)
d6
Bond
1
It is my duty to protect my students
your cloister, a writing kit (small pouch with a quill, ink, folded parchment, and a small penknife), a borrowed book on the subject of your current study, and a pouch containing 10 gp
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Magic Items
Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus
. A creature carrying the coin can use its action to expend 1 charge from a soul coin and use it to do one of the following:
Drain Life. You siphon away some of the soul’s essence and gain 1d10
temporary hit points.
Query. You telepathically ask the soul a question and receive a brief telepathic response, which you can understand. The soul knows only what it knew in life, but it must