monster shape with only advanced failed for life

Periapt of Wound Closure

Magic Items Dungeon Master’s Guide

While wearing this pendant, you gain the following benefits. Life Preservation. Whenever you make a Death Saving Throw, you can change a roll of 9 or lower to a 10, turning a failed save into a

Elf

Species Player’s Handbook

Created by the god Corellon, the first elves could change their forms at will. They lost this ability when Corellon cursed them for plotting with the deity Lolth, who tried and failed to usurp

to shape-shift at will, the elves retreated to the Feywild, where their sorrow was deepened by that plane’s influence. Over time, curiosity led many of them to explore other planes of existence

Colossus

Monsters Monster Manual

Immutable Form. The colossus can’t shape-shift. Legendary Resistance (4/Day). If the colossus fails a saving throw, it can choose to succeed instead. Magic Resistance. The colossus has

Advantage on saving throws against spells and other magical effects. Siege Monster. The colossus deals double damage to objects and structures.Multiattack. The colossus makes three attacks, using Slam or

Moonbeam

Spells Player’s Handbook

action on later turns to move the Cylinder up to 60 feet. When the Cylinder appears, each creature in it makes a Constitution saving throw. On a failed save, a creature takes 2d10 Radiant damage, and if

the creature is shape-shifting;shape-shifted (as a result of the Polymorph spell, for example), it reverts to its true form and can’t shape-shift until it leaves the Cylinder. On a successful

Forcecage

Spells Player’s Handbook

in the shape of a cage can be up to 20 feet on a side and is made from 1/2-inch diameter bars spaced 1/2 inch apart. A prison in the shape of a box can be up to 10 feet on a side, creating a solid

that magic to exit the cage. On a failed save, the creature doesn’t exit the cage and wastes the spell or effect. The cage also extends into the Ethereal Plane, blocking ethereal travel. This spell can’t be dispelled by Dispel Magic.

Halfling

Species Player’s Handbook

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

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

Bag of Beans

Magic Items Dungeon Master’s Guide

, makes a DC 15 Dexterity saving throw, taking 5d4 Force damage on a failed save or half as much damage on a successful one. If you remove a bean from the bag, plant it in dirt or sand, and then water

forth. Whenever a toad is touched, it transforms into a Large or smaller monster of the DM’s choice that acts in accordance with its alignment and nature. The monster remains for 1 minute, then

Staff of Power

Magic Items Dungeon Master’s Guide

must expend to cast the spell. Spell Charge Cost Cone of Cold 5 Fireball (level 5 version) 5 Globe of Invulnerability 6 Hold Monster 5 Levitate 2 Lightning

charges in the staff . Each other creature in the area makes a DC 17 Dexterity saving throw. On a failed save, a creature takes Force damage equal to 4 times the number of charges in the staff . On a successful save, a creature takes half as much damage.

Dream

Spells Player’s Handbook

. The messenger can also shape the dream’s environment, creating landscapes, objects, and other images. The messenger can emerge from the trance at any time, ending the spell. The target recalls

saving throw. On a failed save, the target gains no benefit from its rest, and it takes 3d6 Psychic damage when it wakes up.

Wind Wall

Spells Player’s Handbook

A wall of strong wind rises from the ground at a point you choose within range. You can make the wall up to 50 feet long, 15 feet high, and 1 foot thick. You can shape the wall in any way you choose

damage on a failed save or half as much damage on a successful one. The strong wind keeps fog, smoke, and other gases at bay. Small or smaller flying creatures or objects can’t pass through the wall

Sword of Kas

Magic Items Dungeon Master’s Guide

3d6 Psychic damage. On a failed save, the wielder is dominated by the sword, as if by the Dominate Monster spell, and the sword demands blood. The spell effect ends when the sword’s demand is met

Kas, provided the sword is within 30 feet of the spell’s caster. Upon casting Wish, the creature makes a DC 18 Charisma saving throw. On a failed save, nothing happens, and the Wish spell is wasted. On a successful save, the Sword of Kas is destroyed.

Wall of Ice

Spells Player’s Handbook

You create a wall of ice on a solid surface within range. You can form it into a hemispherical dome or a globe with a radius of up to 10 feet, or you can shape a flat surface made up of ten 10-foot

, the creature is pushed to one side of the wall (you choose which side) and makes a Dexterity saving throw, taking 10d6 Cold damage on a failed save or half as much damage on a successful one. The wall

Rod of Lordly Might

Magic Items Dungeon Master’s Guide

height above it. Drain Life. When you hit a creature with a melee attack using the rod, you can force the target to make a DC 17 Constitution saving throw. On a failed save, the target takes an extra

with a melee attack using the rod, you can force the target to make a DC 17 Constitution saving throw. On a failed save, the target has the Paralyzed condition for 1 minute. The target repeats the

Call Lightning

Spells Player’s Handbook

A storm cloud appears at a point within range that you can see above yourself. It takes the shape of a Cylinder that is 10 feet tall with a 60-foot radius. When you cast the spell, choose a point

you can see under the cloud. A lightning bolt shoots from the cloud to that point. Each creature within 5 feet of that point makes a Dexterity saving throw, taking 3d10 Lightning damage on a failed save

Prismatic Wall

Spells Player’s Handbook

A shimmering, multicolored plane of light forms a vertical opaque wall—up to 90 feet long, 30 feet high, and 1 inch thick—centered on a point within range. Alternatively, you shape the

violet layer. Prismatic Layers Order Effects 1 Red. Failed Save: 12d6 Fire damage. Successful Save: Half as much damage. Additional Effects: Nonmagical ranged attacks can’t pass

Wand of Orcus

Magic Items Dungeon Master’s Guide

. On a failed save, the creature dies and, if it is a Humanoid, turns into a Zombie. Magic Weapon. You can wield the wand as a magic Mace that grants a +3 bonus to attack rolls and damage rolls made

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

Imprisonment

Spells Player’s Handbook

spell for the next 24 hours. On a failed save, the target is imprisoned. While imprisoned, the target doesn’t need to breathe, eat, or drink, and it doesn’t age. Divination spells can&rsquo

true love, or defeating a specific monster. A Dispel Magic spell can end the spell only if it is cast with a level 9 spell slot, targeting either the prison or the component used to create it.

Book of Vile Darkness

Magic Items Dungeon Master’s Guide

Charisma saving throw. On a failed save, the creature is magically transformed into a Larva under the DM’s control. Only a Wish spell can reverse this vile transformation. A creature attuned to the

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

Ring of Elemental Command

Magic Items Dungeon Master’s Guide

a DC 18 Wisdom saving throw. On a failed save, the Elemental has the Charmed condition until the start your next turn, and you determine what it does with its move and action on its next turn

(Air);Air Chain Lightning (3 charges), Feather Fall (0 charges), Gust of Wind (2 charges), Wind Wall (1 charge) Ring of Elemental Command (Earth);Earth Earthquake (5 charges), Stone Shape (2

Eye and Hand of Vecna

Magic Items Dungeon Master’s Guide

Clairvoyance 2 Crown of Madness 1 Disintegrate 4 Dominate Monster 5 Eyebite 4 X-ray Vision. You can take a Magic action to gain X-ray vision with a range of 30 feet for 1

damage on a failed save or half as much damage on a successful one. A creature reduced to 0 Hit Points by this damage is transformed into green slime (see chapter 3) that covers the ground in its

Barrowghast

Monsters Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants

Stench. Any creature that starts its turn within 10 feet of the barrowghast must make a DC 16 Constitution saving throw. On a failed save, the creature has the poisoned condition for 1 minute. While

attacks. It can replace one Slam attack with a Life Drain attack. Slam. Melee Weapon Attack: +8;{"diceNotation":"1d20+8", "rollType":"to hit", "rollAction":"Slam"} to hit, reach 10 ft., one target

Jiangshi

Monsters Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft

the initiative order. If this wight slays a Humanoid with its Life Drain, the wight transforms into a jiangshi 5 days later. Change Shape. The jiangshi polymorphs into a Beast, a Humanoid, or an Undead

":"Consume Energy","rollDamageType":"necrotic"} necrotic damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one. The jiangshi regains hit points equal to the amount of necrotic damage dealt

Clockwork Dragon

Monsters Acquisitions Incorporated

Breath","rollDamageType":"fire"} fire damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one.These intricately crafted constructs are typically made to reflect the forms of the metallic

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

Ssurran Defiler

Monsters Spelljammer: Adventures in Space

. Ssurran Ssurran are lizardfolk who have adapted to life in arid climates and in Wildspace. You can use the lizardfolk stat blocks in the Monster Manual to represent them, in addition to the variants described below.Necrotic

failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one. The ssurran regains 5 (1d10);{"diceNotation":"1d10","rollType":"heal","rollAction":"Defile (healing)"} hit points for each creature that fails

Orc Stone

Magic Items Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden

I saved the life of an orc, who gave me a stone with the symbol of the Many-Arrows tribe (a humanoid skull pierced by three arrows) carved into it. The stone is an uncommon magic item that requires

the Monster Manual and disappears after 10 minutes or when reduced to 0 hit points. The spirit understands any language I speak and obeys my commands. After the stone is used three times, it turns to dust. (See Appendix B of Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden)

Devourer

Monsters Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse

5 Hit Dice, it becomes a ghoul. Otherwise, it becomes a wight. (All three appear in the Monster Manual.) A devourer can imprison only one creature at a time. Soul Rend (Recharge 6);{"diceNotation

":"1d6", "rollType":"recharge", "rollAction":"Soul Rend"}. The devourer creates a vortex of life-draining energy in a 20-foot radius centered on itself. Each creature in that area must make a DC 18

Hoard Mimic

Monsters Fizban's Treasury of Dragons

true form if it dies.Kin to the common mimic described in the Monster Manual, hoard mimics are among the oldest and most cunning of their kind. A hoard mimic’s massive, amorphous form and shape

mist of acid in a 30-foot cone. Each creature in that area must make a DC 14 Dexterity saving throw. On a failed save, the creature takes 27 (6d8);{"diceNotation":"6d8", "rollType":"damage", "rollAction

Haint

Monsters Journeys through the Radiant Citadel

sorrowful dead, haints are spirits that change their shape in tragic imitation of what they once were. A haint can shift from its spectral form to appear as the corporeal Humanoid it was in life, passing as

creature. Hit: 21 (4d8 + 3);{"diceNotation":"4d8+3","rollType":"damage","rollAction":"Sorrowful Touch","rollDamageType":"force"} psychic damage. Change Shape. The haint magically assumes the

Bag of Bounty

Magic Items Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron

the bag. You shape this meal with your thoughts. You can create the standard bland fare without requiring any sort of check, but you can attempt to create finer food by making a Charisma check; if you

’re proficient with cook’s utensils, add your bonus to this check. A failed check results in a sour and squalid meal. Food Quality Difficulty Poor No roll required

Doomguard Doom Lord

Monsters Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse

":"Aura of Doom", "rollDamageType":"necrotic"} necrotic damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one. If the doom lord doesn’t have the incapacitated condition, it can

suppress or resume this aura at the start of its turn (no action required). Siege Monster. The doom lord deals double damage to objects and structures.Multiattack. The doom lord makes two Entropic

Dragonflesh Abomination

Monsters Fizban's Treasury of Dragons

vestiges of its previous life. It sprouts a tail and clumsy wings and grows to enormous size, barely retaining a bipedal shape. Its stomach churns with acid, causing noxious fumes to waft from its mouth and

, taking 28 (8d6);{"diceNotation":"8d6", "rollType":"damage", "rollAction":"Acid Belch", "rollDamageType":"acid"} acid damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one.A dragonflesh

Bracelet of Rock Magic

Magic Items Tales from the Yawning Portal

bracelet can no longer cast it. Thereafter, you can cast stone shape as an action. After you have done this thirteen times, the bracelet loses its magic and turns from gold to lead. Curse. The bracelet

against flesh to stone cast from the bracelet. If such a creature’s save is successful, the bracelet breaks your attunement to it and casts the spell on you. You make your saving throw with disadvantage, and on a failed save you are petrified instantly.

Ssurran Poisoner

Monsters Spelljammer: Adventures in Space

sphere must make a DC 11 Constitution saving throw, taking 10 (3d6);{"diceNotation":"3d6","rollType":"damage","rollAction":"Poison Bomb","rollDamageType":"poison"} poison damage on a failed save, or

bombs to throw.Ssurran poisoners coat their weapons with toxin and hurl bombs that release poisonous gas. Ssurran Ssurran are lizardfolk who have adapted to life in arid climates and in Wildspace

Dust of Corrosion

Magic Items The Wild Beyond the Witchlight

dust, becoming useless and unsalvageable. Any creature in the area that is made wholly or partly out of ferrous metal must make a DC 13 Constitution saving throw, taking 4d8 necrotic damage on a failed

save, or half as much damage on a successful one. Found in a small packet, this dust is made from finely ground rust monster antennae. There is enough dust in each packet for one use.

Zuggtmoy Legacy

Monsters Out of the Abyss

infected by these spores for 24 hours. On a failed save, the creature is infected with a disease called the spores of Zuggtmoy and also gains a random form of madness (determined by rolling on the Madness

every 24 hours, ending the infection on a success. On a failure, the infected creature’s body is slowly taken over by fungal growth, and after three such failed saves, the creature dies and is

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