monster sheds with only about form for layer

Prismatic Wall

Spells Player’s Handbook

without effect. The wall sheds Bright Light within 100 feet and Dim Light for an additional 100 feet. You and creatures you designate when you cast the spell can pass through and be near the wall without

. The wall consists of seven layers, each with a different color. When a creature reaches into or passes through the wall, it does so one layer at a time through all the layers. Each layer forces the

Fire Elemental

Monsters Monster Manual

":"1d10", "rollType":"damage", "rollAction":"Fire Form", "rollDamageType":"Fire"} Fire damage. Illumination. The elemental sheds Bright Light in a 30- foot radius and Dim Light for an additional 30 feet

", "rollAction":"Fire Aura", "rollDamageType":"Fire"} Fire damage. Creatures and flammable objects in the Emanation start burning. Fire Form. The elemental can move through a space as narrow as 1 inch without

Dancing Lights

Spells Player’s Handbook

Medium form that is vaguely humanlike. Whichever form you choose, each light sheds Dim Light in a 10-foot radius. As a Bonus Action, you can move the lights up to 60 feet to a space within range. A

Adult Silver Dragon

Monsters Monster Manual

with spell attacks): At Will: Detect Magic, Hold Monster, Ice Knife, Shapechange (Beast or Humanoid form only, no Temporary Hit Points gained from the spell, and no Concentration or Temporary Hit

use to take one of the following actions. The dragon regains all expended uses at the start of each of its turns. Chill. The dragon uses Spellcasting to cast Hold Monster. The dragon can’t take

Ancient Silver Dragon

Monsters Monster Manual

":"Spellcasting"} to hit with spell attacks): At Will: Detect Magic, Hold Monster, Ice Knife (level 2 version), Shapechange (Beast or Humanoid form only, no Temporary Hit Points gained from the spell, and

uses Spellcasting to cast Hold Monster. The dragon can’t take this action again until the start of its next turn. Cold Gale. Dexterity Saving Throw: DC 23, each creature in a 60-foot-long, 10

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

Wand of Orcus

Magic Items Dungeon Master’s Guide

). Call Undead. While holding the wand, you can take a Magic action to conjure 15 Skeleton;Skeletons and 15 Zombie;Zombies. These Undead magically rise up from the ground or otherwise form in

guarded. Bathing the wand in positive energy (such as that which permeates the Positive Plane) causes it to crack and explode, but unless the above conditions are met, the wand instantly re-forms on Orcus’s layer of the Abyss.

Book of Vile Darkness

Magic Items Dungeon Master’s Guide

book must spend 80 hours reading and studying it to digest its contents and use its Adjusted Ability Scores, Tireless Form, Spells, Vile Lore, and Vile Speech properties. The Book of Vile Darkness

a minimum of 3. The book can’t adjust your ability scores again. Tireless Form. While the book is on your person, you have Immunity to the Exhaustion condition. Random Properties. The Book of

Prismatic Wall Legacy

Spells Basic Rules (2014)

occupied by a creature, the spell fails, and your action and the spell slot are wasted. The wall sheds bright light out to a range of 100 feet and dim light for an additional 100 feet. You and creatures

through the wall, it does so one layer at a time through all the wall's layers. As it passes or reaches through each layer, the creature must make a Dexterity saving throw or be affected by that

Radiance

Magic Items Candlekeep Mysteries

While holding this wand, you gain a +1 bonus to spell attack rolls. In addition, you ignore half cover when making a spell attack. Radiance is in the form of an exquisite golden hand mirror. While

surrounded by darkness, it sheds dim light in a 5-foot radius. A creature that is attuned to Radiance can use a bonus action while holding the mirror to cast the enhance ability spell, choosing itself

Circle of the Moon Legacy

Classes Player’s Handbook (2014)

over the treetops as an eagle the next day, and crash through the undergrowth in bear form to drive off a trespassing monster. The wild is in the druid’s blood.

Dancing Lights Legacy

Spells Basic Rules (2014)

glowing vaguely humanoid form of Medium size. Whichever form you choose, each light sheds dim light in a 10-foot radius. As a bonus action on your turn, you can move the lights up to 60 feet to a new

Fire Elemental Legacy

Monsters Basic Rules (2014)

Fire Form. The elemental can move through a space as narrow as 1 inch wide without squeezing. A creature that touches the elemental or hits it with a melee attack while within 5 feet of it takes 5

(1d10);{"diceNotation":"1d10","rollType":"damage","rollAction":"Fire Form","rollDamageType":"fire"} fire damage. In addition, the elemental can enter a hostile creature's space and stop there. The first

Phoenix

Monsters Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse

is immune to all damage, and after 1d6;{"diceNotation":"1d6", "rollType":"roll", "rollAction":"Days"} days, it hatches a new phoenix. Fire Form. The phoenix can move through a space as narrow as 1

":"Fire Form", "rollDamageType":"fire"} fire damage. In addition, the phoenix can enter a hostile creature’s space and stop there. The first time it enters a creature’s space on a turn, that

Flail Snail

Monsters Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse

and other large mineral deposits. It leaves behind a shimmering trail that quickly solidifies into a thin and nearly transparent layer. This glassy residue can be harvested and cut to form window

. During this time, the shell sheds bright light in a 30-foot radius and dim light for an additional 30 feet, and creatures that can see the snail have disadvantage on attack rolls against it. In addition

Murder Comet

Monsters Spelljammer: Adventures in Space

opportunity attack;opportunity attacks when it flies out of an enemy’s reach. Illumination. The comet sheds bright light in a 30-foot radius and dim light for an additional 30 feet. Siege Monster

, and other unsuspecting targets to destroy. A murder comet’s creator can bind their spirit to the comet. In this form, the comet’s creator becomes ageless and immortal, free to race across

Cranium Rat

Monsters Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse

rats come together to form a swarm, they merge their minds into a single intelligence with the accumulated memories of all the swarm’s constituents. The rats become smarter as a result, and retain

eyes and ears for the colony’s elder brain, transmitting their thoughts when they swarm and are within range of the elder brain’s telepathy.Illumination. The cranium rat sheds dim light from its exposed brain in a 5-foot radius or extinguishes the light.

Phoenix Legacy

Monsters Mordenkainen’s Tome of Foes

phoenix. Fire Form. The phoenix can move through a space as narrow as 1 inch wide without squeezing. Any creature that touches the phoenix or hits it with a melee attack while within 5 feet of it takes 5

(1d10);{"diceNotation":"1d10","rollType":"damage","rollAction":"Fire Form","rollDamageType":"fire"} fire damage. In addition, the phoenix can enter a hostile creature’s space and stop there

Blood of the Lycanthrope (Injury)

Equipment

This poison is created from blood harvested from a dead or incapacitated lycanthrope in its animal or hybrid form. A creature subjected to this poison must succeed on a DC 12 Constitution saving

throw or be cursed with lycanthropy (see the Monster Manual). The curse lasts until removed by the remove curse spell or similar magic. The type of lycanthropy depends on the lycanthrope used to create

Maurezhi

Monsters Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse

Assume Form. The maurezhi can assume the appearance of any Medium Humanoid it eats. It remains in this form for 1d6;{"diceNotation":"1d6","rollType":"roll","rollAction":"Assume Form"} days, during

which time the form gradually decays until, when the effect ends, the form sloughs from the demon’s body. Magic Resistance. The maurezhi has advantage on saving throws against spells and other

Greater Star Spawn Emissary

Monsters Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft

that area.An emissary’s greater form sheds all pretense of being part of a plane’s reality and openly mocks it. A destructive titan, this form rises in a 25-foot-tall pillar of violent flesh

a successful one. For each creature that fails the saving throw, a gibbering mouther (see its entry in the Monster Manual) appears in an unoccupied space on a surface that can support it within 30

Aurnozci

Monsters The Book of Many Things

, or half as much damage on a successful one.The demon lord Aurnozci is a wormlike horror of fiery flesh and toxic seepage. In its present form, Aurnozci can’t leave Xulregg, the Abyssal layer

leader, a masked archmage called the Eye of Aurnozci. Aurnozci’s followers believe the demon lord’s imprisonment is coming to an end, and soon the Caged Worm will shed its current form and

Cranium Rat Squeaker Swarm

Monsters Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse

the spellcasting ability (spell save DC 13): At will: command,* detect thoughts,* sending* 1/day each: confusion,* dominate monster* *To cast this spell, the swarm must have more than half its hit

psionic abilities and the accumulated memories of its constituents.Bludgeoning, Piercing, SlashingIllumination. The swarm sheds dim light from its brains in a 5-foot radius, increases the illumination to

Merregon

Monsters Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse

indicate the only elements of the wearer’s identity that matter: the commander it serves and the layer of the Nine Hells it protects. Because of their unshakable loyalty, merregons form the

Find Greater Steed

Spells Xanathar's Guide to Everything

wolf, a rhinoceros, or a saber-toothed tiger. The creature has the statistics provided in the Monster Manual for the chosen form, though it is a celestial, a fey, or a fiend (your choice) instead of its

You summon a spirit that assumes the form of a loyal, majestic mount. Appearing in an unoccupied space within range, the spirit takes on a form you choose: a griffon, a pegasus, a peryton, a dire

Fire Elemental Myrmidon

Monsters Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse

Illumination. The myrmidon sheds bright light in a 20-foot radius and dim light in a 40-foot radius. Water Susceptibility. For every 5 feet the myrmidon moves in 1 foot or more of water, it takes 2

ritually created suits of plate armor. In this form, they possess no recollection of their former existence as free Elementals. They exist only to follow the commands of their creators.Fire, PoisonBludgeoning, Piercing, and Slashing from Nonmagical Attacks

Gold Canary Figurine of Wondrous Power

Magic Items Fizban's Treasury of Dragons

creature. The two forms are as follows: Giant Canary Form. The figurine becomes a giant canary for up to 8 hours and can be ridden as a mount. Once the figurine has become a giant canary, it can

’t be used this way again until the next dawn. Gold Dragon Form. While you are missing half or more of your hit points, you can speak a different command word and the figurine becomes an

Arclight Phoenix

Monsters Guildmasters’ Guide to Ravnica

takes 11 (2d10);{"diceNotation":"2d10","rollType":"damage","rollAction":"Grounded Lightning","rollDamageType":"force"} force damage. Illumination. The arclight phoenix sheds bright light in a 15-foot

radius and dim light for an additional 15 feet. Lightning Form. The arclight phoenix can move through a space as narrow as 1 inch wide without squeezing. A creature that touches the phoenix or hits it

Lightning Hulk

Monsters Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants

Illumination. The lightning hulk sheds bright light in a 20-foot radius and dim light for an additional 20 feet. Lightning Form. The lightning hulk can enter a hostile creature’s space and

":"damage", "rollAction":"Lightning Form", "rollDamageType":"lightning"} lightning damage. The hulk can also move through a space as narrow as 1 inch without squeezing. A creature that touches the

Wereraven

Monsters Curse of Strahd

doesn’t function at the start of the wereraven’s next turn. The wereraven dies only if it starts its turn with 0 hit points and doesn’t regenerate.Multiattack (Human or Hybrid Form

Only). The wereraven makes two weapon attacks, one of which can be with its hand crossbow. Beak (Raven or Hybrid Form Only). Melee Weapon Attack: +4;{"diceNotation":"1d20+4","rollType":"to hit

Blistercoil Weird

Monsters Guildmasters’ Guide to Ravnica

"} fire damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one. The explosion ignites flammable objects in the area that aren't being worn or carried. The weird's size then becomes Medium. Form

enters another creature's space on a turn, that creature takes 5 (1d10);{"diceNotation":"1d10","rollType":"damage","rollAction":"Form of Fire and Water","rollDamageType":"fire"} fire damage and

Fire Hellion

Monsters Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants

soul rises as a lemure (see the Monster Manual) on Avernus, one of the Nine Hells, in 1d4;{"diceNotation":"1d4", "rollType":"roll", "rollAction":"Hours"} hours. If the creature isn’t revived

. The devil teaches the giant how to forge with infernal iron and hellfire, enabling the giant to craft weapons that can funnel the souls of the slain to Avernus, the first layer of the Nine Hells. In

Drow Arachnomancer Legacy

Monsters Mordenkainen’s Tome of Foes

Change Shape (Recharges after a Short or Long Rest). The drow can use a bonus action to magically polymorph into a giant spider, remaining in that form for up to 1 hour. It can revert to its true

form as a bonus action. Its statistics, other than its size, are the same in each form. It can speak and cast spells while in giant spider form. Any equipment it is wearing or carrying in humanoid form

Bel

Monsters Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus

spellcasting ability is Charisma (spell save DC 23). Bel can innately cast the following spells, requiring no material components: At will: detect magic, fireball 3/day each: dispel magic, hold monster

);ice devil with an ice spear (as described in the ice devil’s entry in the Monster Manual). The ice devil appears in an unoccupied space within 60 feet of Bel, acts as Bel’s ally, and can

Goliath Werebear

Monsters Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden

Build (Humanoid Form Only). The werebear counts as one size larger when determining its carrying capacity and the weight it can push, drag, or lift. Shapechanger. The werebear can use its action to

polymorph into a Large bear–humanoid hybrid or into a Large polar bear, or back into its goliath form. Its statistics, other than its size and AC, are the same in each form. Any equipment it is

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