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Spells
Player’s Handbook
This spell puts you in contact with a god or a god’s servants. You ask one question about a specific goal, event, or activity to occur within 7 days. The DM offers a truthful reply, which might
be a short phrase or cryptic rhyme. The spell doesn’t account for circumstances that might change the answer, such as the casting of other spells.
If you cast the spell more than once before
Spells
Player’s Handbook
question.
Divine beings aren’t necessarily omniscient, so you might receive “unclear” as an answer if a question pertains to information that lies beyond the deity’s knowledge. In
a case where a one-word answer could be misleading or contrary to the deity’s interests, the DM might offer a short phrase as an answer instead.
If you cast the spell more than once before
Spells
Player’s Handbook
as other spells, that might change the results.
If you cast the spell more than once before finishing a Long Rest, there is a cumulative 25 percent chance for each casting after the first that you get no answer.
Spells
Player’s Handbook
You attempt to bind a Celestial, an Elemental, a Fey, or a Fiend to your service. The creature must be within range for the entire casting of the spell. (Typically, the creature is first summoned
commands to the best of its ability. You might command the creature to accompany you on an adventure, to guard a location, or to deliver a message. If the creature is Hostile, it strives to twist your
Spells
Player’s Handbook
two spells. For example, a Contingency cast with Water Breathing might stipulate that Water Breathing comes into effect when you are engulfed in water or a similar liquid.
The contingent spell takes
effect immediately after the trigger occurs for the first time, whether or not you want it to, and then Contingency ends.
The contingent spell takes effect only on you, even if it can normally target
Spells
Player’s Handbook
circles. Each circle includes a unique sigil sequence—a string of runes arranged in a particular pattern.
When you first gain the ability to cast this spell, you learn the sigil sequences for two
destinations on the Material Plane, determined by the DM. You might learn additional sigil sequences during your adventures. You can commit a new sigil sequence to memory after studying it for 1 minute
Spells
Player’s Handbook
like.
The wall is an object made of stone that can be damaged and thus breached. Each panel has AC 15 and 30 Hit Points per inch of thickness, and it has Immunity to Poison and Psychic damage. Reducing
a panel to 0 Hit Points destroys it and might cause connected panels to collapse at the DM’s discretion.
If you maintain your Concentration on this spell for its full duration, the wall becomes permanent and can’t be dispelled. Otherwise, the wall disappears when the spell ends.
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
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Charge Cost
Magic Items
Dungeon Master’s Guide
functions like a nonmagical weapon of its kind for anyone other than its chosen bearer.
A Moonblade has one rune on it for each bearer it has willingly served (typically 1d6 + 1). The first rune grants a
+1 bonus to attack rolls and damage rolls made with this magic weapon. Each rune beyond the first grants the Moonblade an additional property. The DM chooses each property or determines it randomly by
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
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
).
Halfling communities come in all varieties. For every sequestered shire tucked away in an unspoiled part of the world, there’s a crime syndicate like the Boromar Clan in the Eberron setting or a
Magic Items
Dungeon Master’s Guide
) check related to the Abyss. When you do so, you gain Advantage on the check.
Containment. The first ten pages of the Demonomicon are blank. As a Magic action while holding the book, you can target a
save, you are possessed by the creature, which controls you like a puppet. As a Magic action, the possessing creature can release you and appear in the closest unoccupied space to you. On a
Species
Player’s Handbook
multiverse with people created in their image. Another story claims that dragons created the first dragonborn without the gods’ blessings. Whatever their origin, dragonborn have made homes for
themselves on the Material Plane.
Dragonborn look like wingless, bipedal dragons— scaly, bright-eyed, and thick-boned with horns on their heads—and their coloration and other features are
Monsters
Acquisitions Incorporated
dragons. Plated in brass, bronze, copper, or faux gold and silver, they are often taken for fine draconic statues at first glance. A clockwork dragon makes a formidable guardian or defender, with its
advanced intellect allowing it to be programmed with a wide range of orders, as well as being capable of wholly independent reactions to potential threats.
Though most clockwork dragons have a breath weapon
Species
Player’s Handbook
Towering over most folk, goliaths are distant descendants of giants. Each goliath bears the favors of the first giants—favors that manifest in various supernatural boons, including the ability
goliaths look like stone giants, while others resemble fire giants. Whatever giants they count as kin, goliaths have forged their own path in the multiverse—unencumbered by the internecine
Magic Items
Guildmasters’ Guide to Ravnica
Soldiers of the Boros Legion consider it an honor to bear this shield, even knowing that it might be the last honor they receive. The front of the shield is sculpted to depict a grieving human face
.
You gain a +1 bonus to AC for every two allies within 5 feet of you (up to a maximum of +3) while you wield this shield. This bonus is in addition to the shield’s normal bonus to AC.
When a
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
"} to hit, range 60/240 ft., one target. Hit: 30 (4d10 + 8);{"diceNotation":"4d10+8","rollType":"damage","rollAction":"Rock","rollDamageType":"bludgeoning"} bludgeoning damage.
Shield Charge (Recharge 5
–6);{"diceNotation":"1d6","rollType":"recharge","rollAction":"Shield Charge"}. The giant moves up to 30 feet in a straight line and can move through the space of any creature smaller than Huge. The
Monsters
The Book of Many Things
creates a detention orb when it already has one active, the first orb disappears, freeing the creature inside.Detention drones vary in size, strength, and shape, though most are shaped like some kind of
mechanical animal or plant.
This Construct doesn’t have a control amulet and can’t be controlled like other shield guardian;shield guardians.Poison
Magic Items
Storm King's Thunder
you a +1 bonus to AC, and the first time after each of your long rests that damage reduces you to 0 hit points, you are instead reduced to 1 hit point. You must be wielding the shield to gain these
This appears to be a simple ingot of iron ore, about a foot long and a few inches across. Inspection of its surface reveals the faint, silvery outline of the skold (shield) rune. The ingot has the
Monsters
Mythic Odysseys of Theros
Blessings of the Gods. While the oracle is wearing no armor and wielding no shield, its AC includes its Wisdom modifier. In addition, a creature that hits the oracle with a melee attack while within
—mortals communicate with a single god, interpreting their intentions for the wider world. Others aren’t aligned with a god and observe the night sky, reading Nyx like a vast, cryptic scroll
Monsters
Acquisitions Incorporated
light or darkness. She then has advantage on the first melee attack she makes before the end of the turn.
Innate Spellcasting. Rosie's innate spellcasting ability is Wisdom (spell save DC 12). She can
enough to hold in one hand and she has a hand free.Weighing in at just under 30 pounds and with a grandmotherly demeanor befitting her advanced age, Rosie Beestinger is easily mistaken for someone on the
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
seeking to transform stolen eggs into a draconian army. A single corrupted egg yields several draconians of the same kind. A draconian might be taken for a dragonborn at first glance, though most kinds
creatures within 15 feet of the first. Each creature must make a DC 14 Dexterity saving throw. On a failed save, the creature takes 9 (2d8);{"diceNotation":"2d8", "rollType":"damage", "rollAction
Monsters
Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse
shield that grants the matter smith a +5 bonus to its AC until the shield disappears at the start of the matter smith’s next turn. The first time a creature misses a melee attack roll against
itself. The target must succeed on a DC 13 Dexterity saving throw or have the restrained condition until the end of its next turn.
3–4: Magic Shield. The matter smith conjures a floating, spectral
Monsters
Tomb of Annihilation
must see the attacker and be wielding a melee weapon.A golem-like creature with a bronze spear in one hand and a wooden shield in the other.Poison
","rollDamageType":"piercing"} piercing damage if used with two hands to make a melee attack.
Shield Bash. Melee Weapon Attack: +7;{"diceNotation":"1d20+7","rollType":"to hit","rollAction":"Shield Bash"} to
Monsters
Acquisitions Incorporated
servant of Waukeen and a soft-spoken sort. Really soft. Like, he talks so infrequently that even he might not recognize his own voice. Phoenix comes from the streets, where he grew up a fighter until a job
Divine Display (1/day). As a bonus action, Phoenix causes his shield to flare with divine light. Each creature of his choice within 30 feet of him must succeed on a DC 13 Wisdom saving throw or be
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
of each of its turns, ending the effect on itself on a success.A neogi lives about a century. When an individual is rendered weak by advanced age, the other neogi in the group overpower it and inject
, and each one starts its training by gaining mastery over an umber hulk.
Neogi
A neogi looks like an outsize spider with an eel’s neck and head. It can poison the body and the mind of its
Monsters
Spelljammer: Adventures in Space
turns, ending the effect on itself on a success.A neogi lives about a century. When an individual is rendered weak by advanced age, the other neogi in the group overpower it and inject it with a special
few of the strongest newborns are left. Sometimes the newborns, united by a singular evil purpose, coalesce into a skittering swarm instead.
Neogi
A neogi looks like an outsize spider with an eel
Monsters
The Book of Many Things
the first Deck of Many Things. She doesn’t know why this is but surmises her life is tied to that deck; so long as it continues to exist, so will she. She has no way to prove this hypothesis
, but she nevertheless opposes groups like the Grim Harrow (see chapter 19) that seek to destroy the Deck of Many Things.PoisonEmpowering Aegis (Recharge 4–6);{"diceNotation":"1d6","rollType":"recharge
Monsters
Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus
. At first, new redcaps look like tiny, bloodstained mushrooms just pushing their caps out of the soil. When moonlight shines on one of these caps, a creature that looks like a wizened and undersized
. Although small, redcaps have formidable strength.
In the Feywild, or in places where that plane touches another plane at a fey crossing, one or more redcaps might appear where fresh blood soaks the ground
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
. Long ago, the cult of Lolth first subjected elf prisoners to horrible rituals that transformed them into creatures with both elven and spider traits, which their creators dubbed chitines. The intention
was to create servile warriors dedicated first to the cult and then, only by association with it, to Lolth. The goddess found this arrangement unacceptable.
As punishment, the Spider Queen twisted
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
roots. After three days, a sprout emerges from the ground at the base of the tree and swiftly grows into a bipedal form.
This new body, armored in tough bark and bearing a gnarled club and shield, is
, and when not called on to take action, they root themselves in the earth and silently take sustenance from it.
Like trees, wood woads need only sunlight, air, and nutrients from the earth to go on
Monsters
Mythic Odysseys of Theros
sable's allies is within 5 feet of the creature and the ally isn't incapacitated.
Surprise Attack. If the sable surprises a creature and hits it with an attack during the first round of combat, the
":"piercing"} piercing damage.The first bronze sables were presented to Karametra as a gift by Purphoros to serve primarily as guardians in Karametra's temples. But as others have been created, some have
Monsters
Spelljammer: Adventures in Space
vampirates conducts itself depends entirely on the mood and disposition of the captain. The crew of one ship might behave like a murderous mob, while another might abide by an ancient code of chivalry. One
captain might allow the crew of a plundered ship to live, while another might leave only flotsam and jetsam in the pirates’ wake.
The captain is often accompanied by an undying companion, such
Magic Items
Storm King's Thunder
used as part of rituals to resolve disputes. The gavel has the following properties.
Arbiter’s Shield. At the start of every combat, attack rolls against you have disadvantage before the start of
your first turn, provided that the gavel is on your person.
Bond of Amity. As an action, you can use the gavel to strike a point on a hard surface. The first time in the next minute that a creature
Monsters
Spelljammer: Adventures in Space
heads. They wear simple garb and like to hurl heavy rocks. A b’rohg can wield a weapon with each of its four arms, but it prefers to pound enemies with its fists and rip smaller creatures apart with
first puzzled by the effort, then wary. If this kindness is sufficient to earn the creature’s trust, the b’rohg will try to repay the stranger, perhaps by carrying their gear or helping them