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Great Old One might be indifferent to your existence. But the secrets you’ve learned nevertheless allow you to draw strange magic from it.
Unearth Forbidden Lore of Ineffable Beings
When you choose this subclass, you might bind yourself to an unspeakable being from the Far Realm or an elder god—a being such as Tharizdun, the
Magic Items
Dungeon Master’s Guide
lore about demons. When you do so, you have Advantage on that check.
At the DM’s discretion, the book might reveal secrets no mortal should know, such as the true names of powerful Fiends
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
Soothe the Hurts of the World
The Life Domain focuses on the positive energy that helps sustain all life in the multiverse. Clerics who tap into this domain are masters of healing, using that life
force to cure many hurts.
Existence itself relies on the positive energy associated with this domain, so a Cleric of almost any religious tradition might choose it. This domain is particularly
Species
Player’s Handbook
attribute their unusual gift to one or more of their benevolent gods, including Yondalla, Brandobaris, and Charmalaine. The same gift might contribute to their robust life spans (about 150 years
Cherished and guided by gods who value life, home, and hearth, halflings gravitate toward bucolic havens where family and community help shape their lives. That said, many halflings possess a brave
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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
Wizards believe that their counterparts in ancient civilizations knew secrets of magic that have been lost to the ages, and discovering those secrets could unlock the path to a power greater than any
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, 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
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associate themselves with temples dedicated to the deity or other immortal force that unlocked their magic. Harnessing divine magic doesn’t rely on specific training, yet Clerics might learn
prayers and rites that help them draw on power from the Outer Planes.
Not every member of a temple or shrine is a Cleric. Some priests are called to a simple life of temple service, carrying out their
Monsters
Ravenloft: The Horrors Within
grudges and usually shares her secrets only with those who do her a favor first. Whatever she discovers might soon also be known by Barovia’s Darklord, with whom she shares age-old ties.Evil Eye (2/Day). Madam Eva casts Hold Person, using the same spellcasting ability as Spellcasting.
appears to be in her seventies, she is much older. She sets herself apart from any group, guarding the secrets of her origins and centuries-spanning agendas.
Madam Eva is a legendary figure known across
Will-o'-Wisp
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Basic Rules (2014)
Consume Life. As a bonus action, the will-o'-wisp can target one creature it can see within 5 feet of it that has 0 hit points and is still alive. The target must succeed on a DC 10 Constitution
saving throw against this magic or die. If the target dies, the will-o'-wisp regains 10 (3d6);{"diceNotation":"3d6","rollType":"roll","rollAction":"Consume Life"} hit points.
Ephemeral. The will-o'-wisp
Monsters
Ravenloft: The Horrors Within
Semblance of Life. The podling is a physical copy of a creature digested by a Bodytaker Plant. The podling has Advantage on Charisma (Deception) checks made to pass as the digested creature. The
bodytaker plant.
Bodytaker podlings frequently exhibit behaviors that suggest their true nature. Most often, they miss the nuances of social interactions. Some might talk in a stilted, jerky cadence
Monsters
Dungeon Masters: Ravenloft Play-Along Pack
Semblance of Life. The podling is a physical copy of a creature digested by a Bodytaker Plant. The podling has Advantage on Charisma (Deception) checks made to pass as the digested creature. The
bodytaker plant.
Bodytaker podlings frequently exhibit behaviors that suggest their true nature. Most often, they miss the nuances of social interactions. Some might talk in a stilted, jerky cadence
Monsters
Ravenloft: The Horrors Within
kills a Humanoid with its Life Drain action, the wight transforms into an independent Jiangshi 5 days later.When a soul becomes trapped within its corpse, its bitterness can reanimate its body
lurk within tombs or hidden ruins to avoid attention from the living. At night, they emerge to drain the life from those who dare wander in darkness. A Humanoid killed by a jiangshi rises as a life
Monsters
Dungeon Masters: Ravenloft Play-Along Pack
the end of its next turn.Realistic humanoid sculptures come to life, waxworks seek to kill and replace those they’ve been crafted to resemble. These creatures typically believe they’re the
original living beings rather than duplicates. Any waxwork confronted with evidence of its true nature flies into a rage until it or its double is destroyed.
In rare cases, a waxwork might live as if
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Ravenloft: The Horrors Within
the death’s head’s next turn.A death’s head that arises from an aberrant monster, such as a nothic or mind flayer, might retain a measure of the mind-warping power it had in life
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Ravenloft: The Horrors Within
the end of its next turn.Realistic humanoid sculptures come to life, waxworks seek to kill and replace those they’ve been crafted to resemble. These creatures typically believe they’re the
original living beings rather than duplicates. Any waxwork confronted with evidence of its true nature flies into a rage until it or its double is destroyed.
In rare cases, a waxwork might live as if
Monsters
Dungeon Masters: Ravenloft Play-Along Pack
the death’s head’s next turn.A death’s head that arises from an aberrant monster, such as a nothic or mind flayer, might retain a measure of the mind-warping power it had in life
Classes
Ravenloft: The Horrors Within
Defy Death for Profane Power
You’ve made a pact with a creature that defies the cycle of life and death: a powerful lich, a vampire, or another entity of undeath. Having once been mortal
, these ancient patrons know firsthand the paths of ambition and the routes past the doors of death. They eagerly share this profane knowledge and other secrets with those who work their will among the living.
Monsters
The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
Consume Life. As a bonus action, the will-o’-wisp can target one creature it can see within 5 feet of it that has 0 hit points and is still alive. The target must succeed on a DC 10
Constitution saving throw against this magic or die. If the target dies, the will-o’-wisp regains 10 (3d6);{"diceNotation":"3d6","rollType":"heal","rollAction":"Consume Life"} hit points.
Ephemeral. The
Monsters
Forgotten Realms: Adventures in Faerûn
conditions, a spirit dragon wyrmling might hatch from the egg. Left to its own devices, a wyrmling wanders the ruins that the dragon originated from.
Spirit Dragons
Spirit dragons, sometimes called
legendary city of magic.
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Netheril, an empire of arcane secrets.
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Ostoria, the first kingdom of the giants.
Spirit Dragon Lairs
Spirit dragons haunt the ruined cities and buried monuments
Feats
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Entwined Existence. The symbiote can’t be targeted. If you die, so does your symbiote. If you are returned to life, your symbiote also revives.
Second Mind. You gain proficiency in one of the
repeat this save, ending the effect on a success.
At the DM’s discretion, you might make this saving throw whenever you act contrary to the symbiote’s agenda.
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Forgotten Realms: Heroes of Faerûn
; Tools, Caltrops, Costume, Grappling Hook, Iron Spikes, Mirror, 2 Pouches, Rope, Traveler’s Clothes, 3 GP; or (B) 50 GP
You trained your whole life to become a member of the Shadowmasters, the
ruthlessness to ensure the safety of the guild’s secrets. But one wrong move led to your expulsion from the order. Now you must walk your own path.
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of the curse of vampirism. These ravenous, graceless predators stalk the night, desperately seeking blood and barely remembered comforts of life.
Nosferatu feed on anything with blood. Heaps of
mutilated rats, stables turned into slaughterhouses, and fields covered in massacred livestock might mark a nosferatu’s presence. Nosferatu lurk in forgotten places scoured of the living, such as
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Ravenloft: The Horrors Within
obeyed by the living and the dead. When he first appeared before his people, he adopted an illusion of the form he possessed in life: that of a middle-aged human man with dark hair and a superior
sensor in any Undead in Darkon with an Intelligence of 6 or less, even if it is beyond 1 mile of Azalin. In addition, Azalin can speak through the Undead he placed the sensor in.
No Secrets. Whenever a
Monsters
Forgotten Realms: Adventures in Faerûn
uses its magic to walk disguised among people. A dragon might hire adventurers to undertake quests into the ruins of its lost homeland.
Spirit Dragons
Spirit dragons, sometimes called song dragons
magic.
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Netheril, an empire of arcane secrets.
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Ostoria, the first kingdom of the giants.
Spirit Dragon Lairs
Spirit dragons haunt the ruined cities and buried monuments of ancient
Classes
Ravenloft: The Horrors Within
Embrace Death and Wield Ghostly Power
Some Rogues traverse the veil between life and death, shepherding opponents to the grave and slipping through the world as undetectable as a spirit. In these
pursuits, a Rogue might discover a mystical connection to death itself. Such an individual becomes immersed in negative energy, infusing their strikes with deathly energy and stealing knowledge from
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
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parts are reanimated into striking, mighty, thinking beings with wills of their own. While some might be convinced to serve their creator, others seek to recover some semblance of the lives they
remember in fractured memories. Still others believe that they are something new and greater than what they were before and seek to create a new life—whether on their own or at the expense of
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pursue that power as an artist or performer, always alert for secrets even as you regale the world with story, song, acrobatics, or art. Or you might foster ties to the secretive espionage arm of your house: the Serpentine Table.
Clothes, 10 GP; or (B) 50 GP
Though you have seen wealth, fame, and beauty as a child of House Phiarlan, you consider knowledge (and the power it brings) the greatest treasure of all. You might
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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
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Dungeon Masters: Ravenloft Play-Along Pack
perpetually closed. Only those who rouse him to activity or invade Nedragaard Keep might convince him to let them escape. This risks provoking the mighty death knight’s wrath, but Soth still thinks
of himself as a true knight—he might assist those who present themselves as honorable warriors or show knowledge of his home.
Lord Soth’s Tale
Lord Soth was given a quest to save the
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Ravenloft: The Horrors Within
reduced to 0 Hit Points by this damage rises the following night as a Vampire Spawn under Strahd’s control, unless the Humanoid is restored to life or its body is destroyed.
Spellcasting. Strahd
. During his unnaturally long existence, he has learned many occult secrets and mysteries of the Domains of Dread. Strahd’s dignified bearing crumbles when someone breaks his laws or denies him what
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possibly prolong his life. He became a devotee of the Dark Powers and tapped into their immortal malice to fuel his apotheosis. As his power grew, he shared his secrets with disciples who wished to defy
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Dungeon Masters: Ravenloft Play-Along Pack
possibly prolong his life. He became a devotee of the Dark Powers and tapped into their immortal malice to fuel his apotheosis. As his power grew, he shared his secrets with disciples who wished to defy
Species
Ravenloft: The Horrors Within
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
others are partially transformed by a vampire’s bite. All manner of macabre bargains and necromantic influences might also give rise to a dhampir. Regardless of their origins, dhampirs exhibit
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Astarion's Book of Hungers
Gate. You spent countless evenings in taverns, playhouses, parlors, and gambling dens, savoring all the city had to offer. You’re a natural at interacting with people to learn their secrets
, whether over a high-stakes game or at a high-class soiree. You might have been thrown out of an establishment or ten, but only by people who don’t know how to party.