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Player’s Handbook
Channel Cosmic Forces of Order
The cosmic force of order has suffused you with magic. That power arises from Mechanus or a realm like it—a plane of existence shaped entirely by clockwork
efficiency. You or someone from your lineage might have become entangled in the machinations of modrons, the orderly beings who inhabit Mechanus. Perhaps your ancestor even took part in the Great Modron
Classes
Player’s Handbook
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
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.
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Player’s Handbook
power, while others trace it to strange events in their personal or family history. The blessing of a dragon or a dryad at a baby’s birth or the strike of lightning from a clear sky might spark a
Sorcerer’s gift. So too might the gift of a deity, exposure to the strange magic of another plane of existence, or a glimpse into the inner workings of reality. Whatever the origin, the result is
Magic Items
Dungeon Master’s Guide
Hidden in the dungeon of White Plume Mountain, Blackrazor shines like a piece of night sky filled with stars. Its black scabbard is decorated with pieces of cut obsidian.
You gain a +3 bonus to
energy sprang from a void of negative energy and will one day return to it. Blackrazor is meant to hurry that process along.
Despite its nihilism, Blackrazor feels a strange kinship to Wave and Whelm
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
Monsters
Ravenloft: The Horrors Within
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
or refer to themselves in the third person. Close friends and family members of those replaced by a podling might realize that their loved one has changed, but few imagine the cause behind such a
Monsters
Dungeon Masters: Ravenloft Play-Along Pack
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
or refer to themselves in the third person. Close friends and family members of those replaced by a podling might realize that their loved one has changed, but few imagine the cause behind such a
Monsters
Ravenloft: The Horrors Within
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At Will: Charm Person, Detect Thoughts, Mage Hand
1/Day Each: Compulsion, Hold Person (level 3 version)A brain in a jar is the gray matter of one who cheated death through magic or strange surgeries
. It now forces its will on those around it.
Some brains in jars are the result of strange experiments, bizarre punishments, or the aberrant preservation methods of creatures and mi-go (detailed in
Monsters
Lorwyn: First Light
":"Befuddling Ray"} from the next saving throw it makes before the end of the noggle's next turn.Some noggles have a powerful connection to the strange magic that suffuses the realm of Lorwyn-Shadowmoor
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
Monsters
Ravenloft: The Horrors Within
, constricting and smothering victims using their elastic bodies. Alternatively, necromancers might create boneless to serve as stealthy assassins.
Vile magic-users might order a boneless to hang like a
animate skins of crushed or flensed humanoids. They rise from the corpses of those who suffered brutal ends such as flaying, crushing, or cannibalism. These hateful skins might seek vengeance
Monsters
Stranger Things: Welcome to the Hellfire Club
interpretations of ancient prophecies. They might worship supernatural patrons—deities, otherworldly creatures, manipulative alien minds, or stranger forces.
Some cultists devote themselves to
strike fear into those they aim to subjugate. Like the demon lord they worship, cultists of Demogorgon revel in chaos, domination, and destruction.
Monsters
Lorwyn: First Light
/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
that wanders from Lorwyn to Shadowmoor or vice versa retains its core identity but might transform physically. An incarnation of hope in Lorwyn, for example, might resemble a giant dove with a lizard
Monsters
Ravenloft: The Horrors Within
, infesting bodies with their maggot-like young. While stalkers can survive off corpses, they’re attracted to movement and ambush any who disturb them. The foul parasites attach to their prey
crawlers won’t devour bodies infested by carrion stalkers, but they might pick up stalker larvae as they root among filth. The crawlers then spread these young, infecting sewers or graveyards with
Monsters
Forgotten Realms: Adventures in Faerûn
, ending the effect on itself on a success. After 1 minute, it succeeds automatically. Failure or Success: The dragon can’t take this action again until the start of its next turn.The strange
ferocious might, cunning ambushes, or fungal poisons. Some adult deep dragons plunder the surface for treasures and lore.
Deep Dragons
Deep dragons slither through the wet and lightless places of the
Monsters
Dungeon Masters: Arcana Unleashed Play-Along Pack
loyal to its creators, who can extract the magic used to transform it in a dramatic display that’s fatal to the darkenbeast.
Darkenbeasts might have vestigial characteristics of the animals they
, giving it long ears and a skittish demeanor.
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Turtle, giving it a blunt snout and shell-like carapace.
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Wolf, so it emits eerie howls.
Shadow Stalker. While in Dim Light or Darkness, the darkenbeast takes the Disengage or Hide action.
Monsters
Ravenloft: The Horrors Within
.
Star Spawn Emissary Lairs
A star spawn emissary’s lair takes on macabre bodily features. A ruined watchtower might become a spire of pulsating flesh, or an abandoned mineshaft might transform
is transformed into a mockery of flesh with unsettling features like thick veins, lolling tongues, and pulsating orifices. Creatures of the emissary’s choice within 1 mile of the lair have
Monsters
Ravenloft: The Horrors Within
macabre bodily features. A ruined watchtower might become a spire of pulsating flesh, or an abandoned mineshaft might transform into a maze of sticky, muscular innards.
The region containing a star
in a 10- foot Emanation originating from the shape-shifter take 10 (3d6) Force damage.
Terrifying Topography. Terrain in the lair is transformed into a mockery of flesh with unsettling features like
Monsters
Dungeon Masters: Ravenloft Play-Along Pack
torpor in his fortress in Sithicus.
Soth traveled from Krynn to Sithicus and is destined to return. If he leaves Sithicus, the domain might be destroyed, or a villain like Inza Kulchevich might take
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
Monsters
Ravenloft: The Horrors Within
of the original creature remains, though its noncompostable gear might be recovered after the bodytaker plant is slain.
A bodytaker plant’s podlings are extensions of the plant’s will
through their podlings—potentially speaking through several at once.
A bodytaker plant grows where its seed fell from space, or it might later have its podlings relocate it to a hidden
Monsters
Dungeon Masters: Ravenloft Play-Along Pack
of the original creature remains, though its noncompostable gear might be recovered after the bodytaker plant is slain.
A bodytaker plant’s podlings are extensions of the plant’s will
through their podlings—potentially speaking through several at once.
A bodytaker plant grows where its seed fell from space, or it might later have its podlings relocate it to a hidden
Monsters
Ravenloft: The Horrors Within
sockets.
Lorinda seeks new ways to create a permanent family. This might involve great sacrifices, stolen fey magic, strange adoptions, or all manner of supernatural bargains.
Mother Lorinda’s
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Ravenloft: The Horrors Within
artist who declines the offer to become his protégé often earns his obsession. The Darklord might go to any extreme to claim such performers’ talents as his own.
Harkon’s
close or open the borders to Kartakass at will. While the borders are closed, a strange melody fills the Mists surrounding Kartakass. A creature that enters the Mists for the first time on a turn or
Species
Eberron: Forge of the Artificer
. Their facial features have a bestial cast, often with large eyes and pointed ears; most shifters also possess prominent canine teeth. They grow fur-like hair on nearly every part of their bodies. While
a shifter’s appearance might remind an onlooker of an animal, the shifter remains clearly identifiable as a Humanoid even when at their most feral.
Shifter Traits
Creature Type: HumanoidSize
Backgrounds
Eberron: Forge of the Artificer
, Fine Clothes, Healer's Kit, 25 GP; or (B) 50 GP
House Jorasco teaches that illness and injury stalk the living like ghosts, robbing people of health and longevity. You’ve been taught ways to
service, ensuring the health and longevity of House Jorasco. You might be a kindly healer with no stomach for combat or a dispassionate specialist who knows exactly how to incapacitate or kill an enemy with precise strikes.
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
Species
Lorwyn: First Light
appearances vary widely. One boggart may look like a hedgehog, with spiky fur and beady eyes, while another might sport the snout and fleshy ears of a swine. Boggarts tend to love crafting potions and
Boggarts are Small, squat goblinoids found in the realm of Lorwyn-Shadowmoor. They possess bestial physical features, including horns and animal- like snouts. Beyond these commonalities, boggart
Species
Eberron: Forge of the Artificer
With ever-changing appearances, changelings reside in many societies undetected. Each changeling can supernaturally adopt any face they like. For some changelings, a new face may reveal an aspect of
might change clothes. However, many changelings develop identities with more depth, crafting a persona complete with history and beliefs to go with each shape. A changeling adventurer might have
Monsters
Mordenkainen's Fiendish Folio Volume 1
+ 2);{"diceNotation":"1d8+2","rollType":"damage","rollAction":"Claw","rollDamageType":"slashing"} slashing damage.Heralded by the ominous, deep rumbling of their strange song, great packs of dire
predictable patterns of movement like migrating birds. They strip a region bare of the lichens, fungus, and vermin that comprise their diet before moving on to a fresh feeding ground. Underdark
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have a transformative effect on it. Leaves might grow in a different shape or color, or a dazzling new fruit might emerge. However, every tree inhabited by a spirit produces yugi sap. This sticky
substance is often used as a sweetener. However, some canny craftspeople know the secret to making strong glass-like vessels from it.
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Acquisitions Incorporated
people have a responsibility to their community. A practical sort who prefers to do things on her own, she doesn't like to fuss with prayer if she doesn't need to, as if bothering Tymora with trifles might seem rude.
strange creature that had seized his sister, then created a false Auspicia in her stead. Having long attempted to simply make her peace with the loss, she was overwhelmed by the real Auspicia's dramatic
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Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything
now its psionic power is yours. When you use it, your flesh shines with a strange mucus.
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As a child, you had an imaginary friend that looked like a flumph or a strange platypus-like creature
energy of the multiverse. Will this power shine from you as a hopeful beacon to others? Or will you be a source of terror to those who feel the stab of your mind and witness the strange
Clockwork Soul
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Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything
The cosmic force of order has suffused you with magic. That power arises from Mechanus or a realm like it—a plane of existence shaped entirely by clockwork efficiency. You, or someone from your
lineage, might have become entangled in the machinations of the modrons, the orderly beings who inhabit Mechanus. Perhaps your ancestor even took part in the Great Modron March. Whatever its origin
Monsters
Mordenkainen's Fiendish Folio Volume 1
creature experiences strange dreams the next time it sleeps, then sleepwalks to the nearest tree or other large plant, digs a small hole, screams into the depression, and refills the hole. When it awakes the
might be set at the top of a flight of stairs to send creatures crashing down. Locks might be jammed with debris, gems replaced with fakes, and prized treasures stolen away. Mites aim to kill only if