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Magic Items
Dungeon Master’s Guide
You gain a +3 bonus to attack rolls and damage rolls made with this magic weapon.
The first time you attack with the weapon on each of your turns, you can transfer some or all of the weapon’s
bonus to your Armor Class. For example, you could reduce the bonus to your attack rolls and damage rolls to +1 and gain a +2 bonus to Armor Class. The adjusted bonuses remain in effect until the start of your next turn, although you must hold the weapon to gain a bonus to AC from it.
Classes
Player’s Handbook
Preserve Life and Light in the World
The Oath of the Ancients is as old as the first elves. Paladins who swear this oath cherish the light; they love the beautiful and life-giving things of the
world more than any principles of honor, courage, and justice. They often adorn their armor and clothing with images of growing things—leaves, antlers, or flowers—to reflect their commitment
Classes
Player’s Handbook
’s Tools or Musical Instrument
Armor Training
None
Starting Equipment
Choose A or B: (A) Spear, 5 Dagger;Daggers, Artisan’s Tools or Musical Instrument chosen for the tool
proficiency above, Explorer's Pack, and 11 GP; or (B) 50 GP
Monks use rigorous combat training and mental discipline to align themselves with the multiverse and focus their internal reservoirs of
Magic Items
Dungeon Master’s Guide
Armor Class while holding the wand.
Spells. The wand has 7 charges and regains 1d4 + 3 expended charges daily at dawn. While holding the wand, you can cast one of the spells on the following table
skull surmounts it. For this to happen, the long-lost hero must first be restored to life—no easy task, given the fact that Orcus has imprisoned the hero’s soul and keeps it hidden and well
Species
Lorwyn: First Light
Rimekin hail from both Lorwyn and Shadowmoor, though the first rimekin arose from flamekin during the Phyrexian invasion (see Lorwyn: First Light). These flamekin approached their problems with
rimekin touch. Any armor worn or weapons wielded by rimekin become coated in layers of spiky yet harmless hoarfrost.
Rimekin Traits
Creature Type: HumanoidSize: Medium (about 4–7 feet tall) or Small (about 2–4 feet tall), chosen when you select this speciesSpeed: 30 feet
Species
Lorwyn: First Light
slender.
In Lorwyn, elves value beauty above all, though what any given elf deems beautiful can seem arbitrary. Some Lorwyn elves assume authority over the land’s other peoples, using their
fallen empire to support their claims.
These elves blame the fall of their empire on outside threats, especially the Phyrexian invasion (see Lorwyn: First Light). Though the invasion was the empire
Backgrounds
Forgotten Realms: Heroes of Faerûn
of compulsory military service, you bristled at that authoritarian attempt to control your life. You forsook your nationhood, discarded your given name, and worked as a freebooter with the first ship
that would have you. Since then, you’ve traveled the Vilhon Reach. Though you’ve never sailed more than a few dozen leagues from land, you make up for it with deep local connections and the breadth of your experiences.
Classes
Forgotten Realms: Heroes of Faerûn
experiences in their life— a glorious dance accompanied by a singing blade.
Bladesinging is associated with the ancient elven societies that first mastered the art and coined the term. Even today
, most Bladesingers still hail from old elven realms, such as Myth Drannor, or from non-elven societies that share land and history with elves, such as the Silver Marches. Wherever they hail from
Monsters
Storm King's Thunder
spell attacks):
At will: fire bolt (1d10;{"diceNotation":"1d10","rollType":"damage","rollAction":"Fire Bolt","rollDamageType":"fire"} fire damage), light, mage hand
1/day each: mage armor, magic
temple-farm is adequately defended. At first she regarded the task as a punishment, but now she appreciates the peace and quiet.
Ideal: “There’s no problem that can’t be solved with
Magic Items
Descent into the Lost Caverns of Tsojcanth
This magic vehicle is a boat 10 feet wide and 30 feet long. It has four legs that propel it across land and water. It has a walking and swimming speed of 20 feet, but it can’t travel underwater
. The boat moves according to your spoken directions while you are riding it, and creatures of your choice gain a +1 bonus to their Armor Class while on the boat.
The boat can transport up to 1,000
Summon Beast
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Spells
Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything
armor)
Hit Points 20 (Air only) or 30 (Land and Water only) + 5 for each spell level above 2nd
Speed 30 ft.; climb 30 ft. (Land only); fly 60 ft. (Air only); swim 30 ft. (Water only)
STR
18
environment: Air, Land, or Water. The creature resembles an animal of your choice that is native to the chosen environment, which determines certain traits in its stat block. The creature disappears when it
Monsters
Candlekeep Mysteries
Unarmored Defense. While Steel Crane is wearing no armor and wielding no shield, his AC includes his Wisdom modifier.Multiattack. Steel Crane makes three attacks.
Force Strike. Melee Weapon Attack
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Flaw. “The monks of my old temple know my shameful history. I can never return.”Poison, Psychic
Magic Items
Storm King's Thunder
following properties, which work only while it’s on your person.
Wind Step. As an action, you fly up to 20 feet. If you don’t land at the end of this flight, you fall unless you have
’t use it again until you finish a short or long rest.
Gift of Wind. You can transfer the pennant’s magic to a nonmagical item — a suit of armor, a pair of boots, or a cloak &mdash
Monsters
Mythic Odysseys of Theros
, requiring no material components:
1/day each: banishment, detect evil and good
Unarmored Defense. While the leonin is wearing no armor and wielding no shield, its AC includes its Wisdom
the leonin prides.
Prides of leonin roam the plains of Oreskos, protecting the land and its creatures from interlopers, both mortal and immortal. As many leonin suffered at the hands of archon tyrants
Cloudkill
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Spells
Basic Rules (2014)
the fog, ending the spell. Its area is heavily obscured.
When a creature enters the spell's area for the first time on a turn or starts its turn there, that creature must make a Constitution saving
10 feet away from you at the start of each of your turns, rolling along the surface of the ground. The vapors, being heavier than air, sink to the lowest level of the land, even pouring down openings
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
Unarmored Defense. While the adept is wearing no armor and wielding no shield, its AC includes its Wisdom modifier.Multiattack. The adept makes three Unarmed Strike attacks or five Dart attacks
damage is reduced to 0, the adept catches the missile if it’s small enough to hold in one hand and the adept has a hand free.Martial arts adepts are disciplined monks with extensive training in
Magic Items
The Book of Many Things
This gleaming set of silver-and-gold plate armor never tarnishes.
While wearing this armor, you can use a bonus action to summon the spirit of a warrior to your aid. The spirit’s corporeal
form manifests in an unoccupied space of your choice within 30 feet of you, and it uses the knight stat block. The spirit disappears when it drops to 0 hit points or after 1 minute, whichever comes first
Monk
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Basic Rules (2014)
, knocking their blows aside and sending them reeling, until at last she stands alone. Taking a deep breath, a human covered in tattoos settles into a battle stance. As the first charging orcs reach him, he
. Whatever their discipline, monks are united in their ability to magically harness the energy that flows in their bodies. Whether channeled as a striking display of combat prowess or a subtler focus of
Defender
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Basic Rules (2014)
You gain a +3 bonus to attack and damage rolls made with this magic weapon.
The first time you attack with the sword on each of your turns, you can transfer some or all of the sword’s bonus to
your Armor Class, instead of using the bonus on any attacks that turn. For example, you could reduce the bonus to your attack and damage rolls to +1 and gain a +2 bonus to AC. The adjusted bonuses
Monsters
Spelljammer: Adventures in Space
Glide. If it isn’t incapacitated or wearing heavy armor, the hadozee can extend its skin membranes to move up to 5 feet horizontally for every 1 foot it descends in the air.Multiattack. The
damage.Safe Descent. When it would take damage from a fall, the hadozee extends its skin membranes to reduce the fall’s damage to 0, provided it isn’t wearing heavy armor.
Uncanny Dodge. The
Monsters
Spelljammer: Adventures in Space
Glide. If it isn’t incapacitated or wearing heavy armor, the hadozee can extend its skin membranes to move up to 5 feet horizontally for every 1 foot it descends in the air.Dagger. Melee or
. When stretched taut between outstretched limbs, these membranes enable a hadozee to glide.
On Yazir, their home world, hadozees lived high up in the trees to avoid large predators that walk on land
Magic Items
Lost Laboratory of Kwalish
), but doesn’t gain access to the user’s knowledge, features, or proficiencies.
Freeing a creature trapped inside the armor first requires defeating the armor’s automatic defenses
. Freeing the user first requires defeating the armor’s automatic defenses (as above). A creature in stasis does not make Charisma saving throws to break the armor’s control.
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Magic Items
Lost Laboratory of Kwalish
A number of Kwalish’s experiments were attempts to research the works of the legendary mage Heward, who first crafted what he named hireling armor. While wearing this armor, you gain a +1
bonus to AC. In addition, the armor’s animated straps can assist with the drawing and sheathing of weapons, such that you can draw or stow two one-handed weapons when you would normally be able
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
live by.
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I am always the first to offer a compliment.
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Get off my snowfield, you immature bipeds! When I was a wyrmling, people respected their elders!
Crystal Dragon Ideals
—if only they would stop trying to kill the dragon’s guests.
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A crystal dragon wyrmling is placed in a monastery to learn the teachings of the monks before returning home in three years. The monks don’t appreciate the wyrmling’s pranks.
Cold, Radiant
Monsters
Mythic Odysseys of Theros
the land while carrying or seeking vital information for their masters.The first anvilwroughts were created by the god of the forge, Purphoros. He gave the secret of breathing life into these metal
Monsters
Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
next long rest.
The disease lasts until it’s removed by magic or until the creature rolls the same random effect for the disease two long rests in a row.Base creatures are among the first to
respond to sinister forces at work in a land. As nefarious powers grip an area, populations of maggots, scarabs, and similar scavenging insects explode and become aggressive predators. Roll on the Swarm
Monsters
Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
the appropriate type to the target. A creature reduced to 0 hit points by the swarm’s piercing damage dies.Base creatures are among the first to respond to sinister forces at work in a land. As
Magic Items
Curse of Strahd
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Strahd employed a powerful wizard named Khazan to destroy the weapon after Sergei’s death. The first part of the process required the hilt and the blade to be separated, which Khazan accomplished
destroy Strahd, not so much because it wants to free the land of Barovia from evil but because it wants revenge for the loss of its crystal blade. The weapon secretly fears its own destruction.
Monsters
Mythic Odysseys of Theros
the first corpse, appearing in an unoccupied space within 5 feet of the second corpse. Both corpses must be Medium or bigger.
Innate Spellcasting. The lampad's spellcasting ability is Charisma (+6
the magic of Nyx. Some are benevolent and aid those who live off the land, while others embody violent aspects of nature. In either case, nymphs generally avoid other sapient creatures, preferring to
Monsters
Spelljammer: Adventures in Space
Glide. If it isn’t incapacitated or wearing heavy armor, the hadozee can extend its skin membranes to move up to 5 feet horizontally for every 1 foot it descends in the air.Multiattack. The
the trees to avoid large predators that walk on land. Today, Wildspace is where most of them feel at home. Hadozees are often hired as mercenary crews by other spacefaring folk. Their natural climbing
Dragonborn
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Her father stood on the first of the three stairs that led down from the portal, unmoving. The scales of his face had grown paler around the edges, but Clanless Mehen still looked as if he could
wrestle down a dire bear himself. His familiar well-worn armor was gone, replaced by violet-tinted scale armor with bright silvery tracings. There was a blazon on his arm as well, the mark of some
Monsters
Eberron: Rising from the Last War
the Order of the Emerald Claw. Clad in distinctive bonecraft armor — heavy armor adorned with the bones of fallen enemies — these fearsome warriors command squads of undead soldiers as they pursue the
zombies created by the necromancers were mindless creatures that required guidance. The first bone knights were appointed to provide this control.
Devoted paladins of the Blood of Vol were fused into
Adult Blue Dragon
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, and narrow tubes lined with glassy sand ventilate the lair, all the while avoiding the deadly sinkholes that are the dragon’s first line of defense.
A blue dragon will collapse the caverns
’s magic, which creates one or more of the following effects:
Thunderstorms rage within 6 miles of the lair.
Dust devils scour the land within 6 miles of the lair. A dust devil has the
Ancient Blue Dragon
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lair, and narrow tubes lined with glassy sand ventilate the lair, all the while avoiding the deadly sinkholes that are the dragon’s first line of defense.
A blue dragon will collapse the caverns
dragon’s magic, which creates one or more of the following effects:
Thunderstorms rage within 6 miles of the lair.
Dust devils scour the land within 6 miles of the lair. A dust devil has the
Fighter
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A human in clanging plate armor holds her shield before her as she runs toward the massed goblins. An elf behind her, clad in studded leather armor, peppers the goblins with arrows loosed from his
and his companion, knocking the deadly blow aside. His companion, a half-elf in scale armor, swings two scimitars in a blinding whirl as she circles the ogre, looking for a blind spot in its defenses






