melee some with only are foes for like

Is the intent that only Melee weapon attacks can knock foes Unconscious, or can melee spell attacks as well?

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Is the intent that only Melee weapon attacks can knock foes Unconscious, or can melee spell attacks as well? If you reduce a creature to 0 Hit Points with a melee attack, you can knock the creature

out. That melee attack isn’t restricted to weapons. Even a melee spell attack can be used to knock a creature out.

Thorn Whip

Spells Player’s Handbook

You create a vine-like whip covered in thorns that lashes out at your command toward a creature in range. Make a melee spell attack against the target. On a hit, the target takes 1d6 Piercing damage

Steel Wind Strike

Spells Player’s Handbook

You flourish the weapon used in the casting and then vanish to strike like the wind. Choose up to five creatures you can see within range. Make a melee spell attack against each target. On a hit, a

Conjure Fey

Spells Player’s Handbook

You conjure a Medium spirit from the Feywild in an unoccupied space you can see within range. The spirit lasts for the duration, and it looks like a Fey creature of your choice. When the spirit

appears, you can make one melee spell attack against a creature within 5 feet of it. On a hit, the target takes Psychic damage equal to 3d12 plus your spellcasting ability modifier, and the target has the

Eye and Hand of Vecna

Magic Items Dungeon Master’s Guide

still seek to work Vecna’s will in the world. The Eye of Vecna and the Hand of Vecna are separate Artifacts that might be found together or separately. The eye looks like a bloodshot organ torn

your body, devours it, and then takes control of the body like a puppet. If that happens, you become an NPC under the DM’s control. Eye of Vecna Spells Spell Charge Cost

Quaal's Feather Token

Magic Items Dungeon Master’s Guide

This object looks like a feather. Different types of feather tokens exist, each with a different single-use effect. The DM chooses the kind of token or determines it randomly by rolling on the Quaal

. The token disappears, and a 50-foot-long, 20-foot-wide boat shaped like a swan takes its place. The boat is self-propelled and moves across water at a speed of 6 miles per hour. You can take a Magic

Chuul

Monsters Monster Manual

Amphibious. The chuul can breathe air and water. Sense Magic. The chuul senses magic within 120 feet of itself. This trait otherwise works like the Detect Magic spell but isn’t itself

magical.Multiattack. The chuul makes two Pincer attacks and uses Paralyzing Tentacles. Pincer. Melee Attack Roll: +6;{"diceNotation":"1d20+6", "rollType":"to hit", "rollAction":"pincer"}, reach 10 ft. Hit: 9

Deck of Many Things

Magic Items Dungeon Master’s Guide

of your prison. You draw no more cards. Euryale. The card’s medusa-like visage curses you. You take a −2 penalty to saving throws while cursed in this way. Only a god or the magic of the

avatar makes a number of Reaping Scythe attacks equal to half the summoner’s Proficiency Bonus (rounded up). Reaping Scythe. Melee Attack Roll: Automatic hit, reach 5 ft. Hit: 7 (1d8 + 3

Bard

Classes Player’s Handbook

, disheartening foes, and creating illusions. Bards believe the multiverse was spoken into existence and that remnants of its Words of Creation still resound and glimmer on every plane of existence. Bardic

, including performing music, working magic, and making jests. A Bard’s life is spent traveling, gathering lore, telling stories, and living on the gratitude of audiences, much like any other entertainer

Blade of Disaster

Spells Forgotten Realms: Heroes of Faerûn

You create a 3-foot-long blade-shaped planar rift that lasts for the duration. The rift appears within range in a space of your choice, and you can immediately make up to two melee spell attacks

different ones. The blade can harmlessly pass through any barrier, including ones created by spells like Wall of Force.

Dreaming Dark Mindkiller

Monsters Eberron: Forge of the Artificer

Multiattack. The mindkiller makes two Nightmare Whisper attacks. Nightmare Whisper. Melee or Ranged Attack Roll: +9;{"diceNotation":"1d20+9", "rollType":"to hit", "rollAction

following on each of its turns: move, take an action, or take a Bonus Action. Success: Half damage only.Mindkillers are the assassins of the Dreaming Dark, sent to terrify their foes before striking

Needle Blight (Stranger Things)

Monsters Stranger Things: Welcome to the Hellfire Club

Claw. Melee Attack Roll: +3;{"diceNotation":"1d20+3", "rollType":"to hit", "rollAction":"Claw"}, reach 5 ft. Hit: 6 (2d4 + 1);{"diceNotation":"2d4+1", "rollType":"damage", "rollAction":"Claw

foes, needle blights attack using their thorn-covered claws or by rapidly growing and flinging volleys of serrated, needlelike projectiles.

Merrow Doublespeaker

Monsters Lorwyn: First Light

Wisdom (Insight) check.Multiattack. The merrow makes three Spined Tail attacks. It can replace one of these attacks with a use of Spellcasting to cast Command. Spined Tail. Melee or Ranged Attack Roll

; doublespeakers can use them to stab or throw at foes. Merrow Merrow are primarily water-dwelling people who exploit the realm of Lorwyn-Shadowmoor’s land-dwelling species. They resemble

Dreaming Dark Infiltrator

Monsters Eberron: Forge of the Artificer

Multiattack. The infiltrator makes three Mind Blade attacks. Mind Blade. Melee or Ranged Attack Roll: +7;{"diceNotation":"1d20+7", "rollType":"to hit", "rollAction":"Mind Blade

StaticDreaming Dark Infiltrators are spies sent to gather intelligence. They plant psychic seeds in their minds of their foes that enhance the infiltrators’ combat prowess against those

Vine Blight Tangler

Monsters Stranger Things: Welcome to the Hellfire Club

Constricting Vine. Melee Attack Roll: +4;{"diceNotation":"1d20+4", "rollType":"to hit", "rollAction":"Constricting Vine"}, reach 10 ft. Hit: 1d10 + 2;{"diceNotation":"1d10 + 2", "rollType":"roll

lash out at non-Plant creatures. Vine blights resemble humans wrapped in vines common to the areas in which they grow, from hairy ivy vines to flowering kudzu. They can cause plants to burst from the ground around themselves and entangle nearby foes.

Fiendish Icon

Monsters Astarion's Book of Hungers

Magic Resistance. The icon has Advantage on saving throws against spells and other magical effects.Multiattack. The icon makes two Slam attacks and uses Fiery Eruption. Slam. Melee Attack Roll: +4

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

Demodog

Monsters Stranger Things: Welcome to the Hellfire Club

Incapacitated condition.Bite. Melee Attack Roll: +5;{"diceNotation":"1d20+5", "rollType":"to hit", "rollAction":"Bite"}, reach 5 ft. Hit: 8 (1d10 + 3);{"diceNotation":"1d10+3", "rollType":"damage

predators that spawn from limacine larvae. From a distance, they loosely resemble hairless dogs with tough, wrinkled hides and faceless, flower-like heads. When a demodog attacks, its head parts to reveal

Aranea

Monsters Forgotten Realms: Adventures in Faerûn

(Hybrid or Spider Form Only). Melee Attack Roll: +5;{"diceNotation":"1d20+5", "rollType":"to hit", "rollAction":"Bite"}, reach 5 ft. Hit: 6 (1d6 + 3);{"diceNotation":"1d6+3", "rollType":"damage

", "rollAction":"Bite", "rollDamageType":"Piercing"} Piercing damage plus 2 (1d4);{"diceNotation":"1d4", "rollType":"damage", "rollAction":"Bite", "rollDamageType":"Poison"} Poison damage. Slam. Melee Attack

Shadowmoor Giant

Monsters Lorwyn: First Light

Multiattack. The giant makes three attacks, using Tree Club or Boulder in any combination. Tree Club. Melee Attack Roll: +9;{"diceNotation":"1d20+9", "rollType":"to hit", "rollAction":"Tree Club

stocked with a giant’s valuable relics. Such treasure hunters do well to tread carefully, for when angered, these giants can unleash the might of mountains and crush foes with the force of an avalanche.

Lorwyn Giant

Monsters Lorwyn: First Light

Multiattack. The giant makes two attacks, using Stone Sword or Boulder in any combination. Stone Sword. Melee Attack Roll: +8;{"diceNotation":"1d20+8", "rollType":"to hit", "rollAction":"Stone Sword

the might of mountains and crush foes with the force of an avalanche.Name Sleep (Recharge 5–6);{"diceNotation":"1d6", "rollType":"recharge", "rollAction":"Name Sleep"}. The giant falls into a deep

Cultist of Demogorgon

Monsters Stranger Things: Welcome to the Hellfire Club

Ritual Sickle. Melee Attack Roll: +4;{"diceNotation":"1d20+4", "rollType":"to hit", "rollAction":"Ritual Sickle"}, reach 5 ft. Hit: 1d4 + 2;{"diceNotation":"1d4 + 2", "rollType":"roll", "rollAction

strike fear into those they aim to subjugate. Like the demon lord they worship, cultists of Demogorgon revel in chaos, domination, and destruction.

Demogorgon Spawn

Monsters Stranger Things: Welcome to the Hellfire Club

makes two Claw attacks. Claw. Melee Attack Roll: +5;{"diceNotation":"1d20+5", "rollType":"to hit", "rollAction":"Claw"}, reach 10 ft. Hit: 6 (1d6 + 3);{"diceNotation":"1d6+3", "rollType":"damage

", "rollAction":"Claw", "rollDamageType":"Slashing"} Slashing damage. Bite. Melee Attack Roll: +5;{"diceNotation":"1d20+5", "rollType":"to hit", "rollAction":"Bite"}, reach 5 ft. Hit: 5 (1d4 + 3

Bearded Devil (Stranger Things)

Monsters Stranger Things: Welcome to the Hellfire Club

. Melee Attack Roll: +5;{"diceNotation":"1d20+5", "rollType":"to hit", "rollAction":"Beard"}, reach 5 ft. Hit: 7 (1d8 + 3);{"diceNotation":"1d8+3", "rollType":"damage", "rollAction":"Beard

Glaive. Melee Attack Roll: +5;{"diceNotation":"1d20+5", "rollType":"to hit", "rollAction":"Infernal Glaive"}, reach 10 ft. Hit: 8 (1d10 + 3);{"diceNotation":"1d10+3", "rollType":"damage", "rollAction

Noggle Ransacker

Monsters Lorwyn: First Light

Siege Monster. The noggle deals double damage to objects and structures.Sabotaging Swipe. Melee Attack Roll: +4;{"diceNotation":"1d20+4", "rollType":"to hit", "rollAction":"Sabotaging Swipe"}, reach

-like Fey that delight in thievery and mischief. They enjoy stealing from other creatures not out of necessity, but out of principle. This principle can be summarized by a common Sylvan expression that

Noggle Wild Mage

Monsters Lorwyn: First Light

or Befuddling Ray in any combination. Noggling Stick. Melee Attack Roll: +5;{"diceNotation":"1d20+5", "rollType":"to hit", "rollAction":"Noggling Stick"}, reach 5 ft. Hit: 5 (1d4 + 3);{"diceNotation

are bipedal, donkey-like Fey that delight in thievery and mischief. They enjoy stealing from other creatures not out of necessity, but out of principle. This principle can be summarized by a common

Demodragon

Monsters Stranger Things: Welcome to the Hellfire Club

demodragon regains 10 Hit Points at the start of each of its turns if it has at least 1 Hit PointMultiattack. The demodragon makes two Bite attacks. Bite. Melee Attack Roll: +7;{"diceNotation":"1d20

a flower-like arrangement of glistening flesh and teeth around two crushing jaws. Though the head of the dragon from which the demodragon spawned is long gone, its breath remains. Without warning

Incarnation of Vibrance

Monsters Lorwyn: First Light

one vine attack with a use of Spellcasting to cast Blindness/Deafness if available. Vine. Melee Attack Roll: +9;{"diceNotation":"1d20+9", "rollType":"to hit", "rollAction":"Vine"}, reach 20 ft. Hit: 18

/DeafnessThe incarnations of vibrance each resemble a titanic canine with a body of colorful foliage and horns like the branches of a blossoming cherry tree. When vibrance incarnations are in Lorwyn

Biha Babir

Monsters Forgotten Realms: Adventures in Faerûn

Babir makes two Marine Burst attacks. She can replace one of these attacks with a Tail attack. Marine Burst. Melee or Ranged Attack Roll: +10;{"diceNotation":"1d20+10", "rollType":"to hit", "rollAction

Only). Melee Attack Roll: +10;{"diceNotation":"1d20+10", "rollType":"to hit", "rollAction":"Tail"}, reach 15 ft. Hit: 13 (2d6 + 6);{"diceNotation":"2d6+6", "rollType":"damage", "rollAction":"Tail

Eldritch Eddy

Monsters Netheril’s Fall

. Searing Swipe. Melee Attack Roll: +6;{"diceNotation":"1d20+6", "rollType":"to hit", "rollAction":"Searing Swipe"}, reach 10 ft. Hit: 13 (3d6 + 3) Fire;{"diceNotation":"3d6+3", "rollType":"damage

happens right before an eldritch eddy arises. Eldritch Eddy Manifestations 1d6 Right Before an Eddy Manifests … 1 Brightly colored sparks fly through the air like fireworks

Werewyvern

Monsters Forgotten Realms: Adventures in Faerûn

, using Javelin or Rend in any combination. It can replace one of these attacks with one Stinger attack. Javelin (Humanoid or Hybrid Form Only). Melee or Ranged Attack Roll: +7;{"diceNotation":"1d20+7

"} Piercing damage. Rend. Melee Attack Roll: +7;{"diceNotation":"1d20+7", "rollType":"to hit", "rollAction":"Rend"}, reach 5 ft. Hit: 18 (4d6 + 4);{"diceNotation":"4d6+4", "rollType":"damage", "rollAction

Arrow, Brutal (5)

Equipment

Designed to open wide wounds, such as with a broad-bladed arrowhead, Brutal ammunition works like a Brutal Melee weapon.

Sling Bullet, Brutal

Equipment

Designed to open wide wounds, such as with a broad-bladed arrowhead, Brutal ammunition works like a Brutal Melee weapon.

Arrow, Armor-Piercing

Equipment

This ammunition works like an Armor-Piercing Melee weapon, but you fire the ammunition as a projectile from a Ranged weapon.

Paper Cartridge Bullet, Armor-Piercing

Equipment

This ammunition works like an Armor-Piercing Melee weapon, but you fire the ammunition as a projectile from a Ranged weapon.

Bolt, Brutal (5)

Equipment

Designed to open wide wounds, such as with a broad-bladed arrowhead, Brutal ammunition works like a Brutal Melee weapon.

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