monster spirit with only armor from for life

Rust Monster

Monsters Monster Manual

"} Piercing damage. Antennae. The rust monster targets one nonmagical metal object—armor or a weapon—worn or carried by a creature within 5 feet of itself. Dexterity Saving Throw: DC 11, the

is destroyed if its penalty reaches −5. The penalty can be removed by casting the Mending spell on the armor or weapon. Destroy Metal. The rust monster touches a nonmagical metal object within

Speak with Dead

Spells Player’s Handbook

You grant the semblance of life to a corpse of your choice within range, allowing it to answer questions you pose. The corpse must have a mouth, and this spell fails if the deceased creature was

it knew in life, including the languages it knew. Answers are usually brief, cryptic, or repetitive, and the corpse is under no compulsion to offer a truthful answer if you are antagonistic toward it

Wraith

Monsters Monster Manual

Drain. Melee Attack Roll: +6;{"diceNotation":"1d20+6", "rollType":"to hit", "rollAction":"Life Drain"}, reach 5 ft. Hit: 21 (4d8 + 3);{"diceNotation":"4d8+3", "rollType":"damage", "rollAction":"Life

Humanoid corpse within 10 feet of itself that has been dead for no longer than 1 minute. The target’s spirit rises as a Specter in the space of its corpse or in the nearest unoccupied space. The

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

and adventurous spirit that leads them on journeys of discovery, affording them the chance to explore a bigger world and make new friends along the way. Their size—similar to that of a human

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

cast a spell, you can’t cast that spell again from it until the next dawn. Spirit of Kas. While the sword is on your person, you gain the following benefits: Battle Hunger. You add 1d10 to your

Horn of Valhalla

Magic Items Dungeon Master’s Guide

You can take a Magic action to blow this horn. In response, warrior spirits from the plane of Ysgard appear in unoccupied spaces within 60 feet of you. Each spirit uses the Berserker stat block and

Medium armor 91–00 Horn of Valhalla (Iron);Iron 5 Proficiency with all Martial weapons

Staff of Power

Magic Items Dungeon Master’s Guide

This staff has 20 charges and can be wielded as a magic Quarterstaff that grants a +2 bonus to attack rolls and damage rolls made with it. While holding it, you gain a +2 bonus to Armor Class, saving

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

Orc Stone

Magic Items Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden

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)

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

Wand of Orcus

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

Book of Vile Darkness

Magic Items Dungeon Master’s Guide

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

attuned to the book, you can cast the following spells (save DC 18) from it: Animate Dead Circle of Death Dominate Monster Finger of Death Once you use the book to cast a spell, you can’t

Plate of Knight's Fellowship

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

Ashen Animated Armor

Monsters Keys from the Golden Vault

"} bludgeoning damage.This suit of magically animated plate armor clamors as it moves, banging and grinding like the vengeful spirit of a fallen knight.Fire, Poison, Psychic

Antimagic Susceptibility. The armor is incapacitated while in the area of an antimagic field. If targeted by dispel magic, the armor must succeed on a Constitution saving throw against the caster's

Phantom Warrior

Monsters Curse of Strahd

turn inside an object. Spectral Armor and Shield. The phantom warrior's AC accounts for its spectral armor and shield.Multiattack. The phantom warrior makes two attacks with its spectral longsword

phantom warrior isn't bound by a yearning to complete some unresolved goal. It can choose to end its undead existence at any time. Its spirit lingers willingly, either out of loyalty to its former

Deathlock Wight

Monsters Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse

require air, food, drink, or sleep.Multiattack. The deathlock makes two Life Drain or Grave Bolt attacks. Life Drain. Melee Weapon Attack: +4;{"diceNotation":"1d20+4", "rollType":"to hit", "rollAction

":"Life Drain"} to hit, reach 5 ft., one creature. Hit: 6 (1d8 + 2);{"diceNotation":"1d8+2", "rollType":"damage", "rollAction":"Life Drain", "rollDamageType":"necrotic"} necrotic damage. The target must

Necromancer Wizard

Monsters Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse

, dimension door, mage armor, web 1/day: circle of deathGrim Harvest. When the necromancer kills a creature with necrotic damage, the necromancer regains 9 (2d8);{"diceNotation":"2d8", "rollType":"heal

", "rollAction":"Grim Harvest"} hit points.Necromancers study the interaction of life, death, and undeath. Some necromancers dig up or purchase corpses to create Undead servitors. A few instead use their

Staff of the Forgotten One

Magic Items Tomb of Annihilation

staff’s skull protects Acererak from this spirit’s vengeance. Each time a creature other than Acererak expends any of the staff’s charges, there is a 50 percent chance that the life

, remove curse, or similar spell ends the curse on the target. The Forgotten One. The bodiless life force of a dead archmage empowers the staff and is imprisoned within it. The rune carved into the

Sofina

Monsters Thieves’ Gallery

shape.NecroticSummon Wraith (1/Day). Sofina magically summons the spirit of a Thayan assassin, which appears as a wraith (see the Monster Manual). The summoned wraith appears in an unoccupied space within 60 feet of

spellcasting ability (spell save DC 18): At will: mage hand, message, prestidigitation 2/day each: bestow curse, Bigby's hand, dimension door, mage armor, Otiluke's resilient sphere, thunderwave 1/day

Fiendish Auger

Monsters Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk

Siege Monster. The auger deals double damage to objects and structures. Tunneler. The auger can burrow through solid rock at half its burrow speed and leaves a 10-foot-diameter tunnel in its

auger is created when a wicked spirit enters an excavation drill, causing the hulking corkscrew bore to glow brightly with hellfire. Fueled by the fervent aggression of the evil spirit within, fiendish

Obzedat Ghost

Monsters Guildmasters’ Guide to Ravnica

regains hit points equal to half the amount of damage the target takes) 1/day each: sanctuary, spirit guardians (at 4th level) Legendary Resistance (1/Day). If the ghost fails a saving throw, it

can choose to succeed instead.Life Drain. Melee Weapon Attack: +8;{"diceNotation":"1d20+8","rollType":"to hit","rollAction":"Life Drain"} to hit, reach 5 ft., one creature. Hit: 18 (4d8);{"diceNotation

Narth Tezrin

Monsters Storm King's Thunder

adventurous spirit. The Lionshield Coster pays him well, but he longs to make a name for himself. At the same time, he runs a business with his partner Alaestra and knows she wouldn’t forgive him if he

ran off and never returned. Ideal: “The bigger the risk, the greater the reward.” Bond: “I adore my colleague Alaestra, and I’d like to do something to impress her.” Flaw: “I’ll risk life and limb to become a legend.”

Deathlock Wight Legacy

Monsters Tales from the Yawning Portal

magic, disguise self, mage armor 1/day each: fear, hold person, misty step Sunlight Sensitivity. While in sunlight, the wight has disadvantage on attack rolls, as well as on Wisdom (Perception) checks

., one target. Hit: 7 (1d8 + 3);{"diceNotation":"1d8+3","rollType":"damage","rollAction":"Grave Bolt","rollDamageType":"necrotic"} necrotic damage. Life Drain. Melee Weapon Attack: +4;{"diceNotation

Thri-kreen Mystic

Monsters Spelljammer: Adventures in Space

navigate difficult terrain in Wildspace, turn invisible, and drain life from their prey. They often serve as spelljammers aboard thri-kreen ships. Thri-kreen Thri-kreen are carnivores with insectile

features and two pairs of arms. Because their bodies are encased in protective chitin, they tend to eschew armor. Although thri-kreen don’t need to sleep, they do require periods of inactivity to

Krull

Monsters Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus

prepared: Cantrips (at will): chill touch, mending, resistance, sacred flame, spare the dying, thaumaturgy 1st level (4 slots): cure wounds, detect evil and good, false life, inflict wounds, ray of

sickness 2nd level (3 slots): blindness/deafness, gentle repose, hold person, ray of enfeeblement, spiritual weapon 3rd level (3 slots): animate dead, magic circle, speak with dead, spirit guardians

Barrowghast

Monsters Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants

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

. Hit: 18 (2d12 + 5);{"diceNotation":"2d12+5", "rollType":"damage", "rollAction":"Slam", "rollDamageType":"bludgeoning"} bludgeoning damage. Life Drain. Melee Weapon Attack: +8;{"diceNotation":"1d20+8

Anarch

Monsters Guildmasters’ Guide to Ravnica

Aggressive. As a bonus action, the anarch can move up to its speed toward a hostile creature it can see. Siege Monster. The anarch deals double damage to objects and structures.Spiked Club. Melee

, from the hide armor they wear to the weapons they wield. As they pick through the refuse of the rubblebelts, they sometimes come across magic items and other valuable treasures.

Caradoc

Monsters Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen

Bound Haunting. Caradoc’s spirit is bound to Dargaard Keep. At the start of his turn, if he’s outside the keep’s walls and not possessing a creature using his Possession action, he

at his core, the seneschal didn’t return as a skeletal knight but rather as an intangible spirit. Caradoc’s Undead form suits him well, allowing him to possess the living and use unwilling

Narzugon

Monsters Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse

creature with a soul, the soul rises from the River Styx as a lemure (see the Monster Manual) in Avernus in 1d4;{"diceNotation":"1d4","rollType":"roll","rollAction":"Hellfire Lance"} hours. If the

creature isn’t revived before then, only a wish spell or killing the lemure and casting true resurrection on the creature’s original body can restore it to life. Constructs and devils are immune

Aurumvorax

Monsters Journeys through the Radiant Citadel

","rollType":"damage","rollAction":"Bite","rollDamageType":"piercing"} piercing damage. If the target is a creature wearing armor of any type, the aurumvorax regains 4 (1d6 + 1);{"diceNotation":"1d6+1

halved.Early in life, aurumvoraxes cooperate with siblings and their den leader parents, digging tunnels in search of metal and other burrowing prey. As they grow to adulthood, aurumvoraxes hunt on their

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

Heralds of Dust Remnant

Monsters Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse

remnant casts one of the following spells, requiring no material components and using Intelligence as the spellcasting ability (spell save DC 13): At will: mage armor, mage hand, prestidigitation 1

/day each: bane, dimension door, webRemnants are Dusters who sought undeath via rituals but failed. Liaisons and spies, these agents exist in a halfway point between life and death.NecroticPhase (2/Day

Maurezhi

Monsters Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse

24 hours later as a ghoul (see the Monster Manual), unless it has been revived or its corpse has been destroyed. Claws. Melee Weapon Attack: +6;{"diceNotation":"1d20+6","rollType":"to hit

itself on a success. Raise Ghoul (Recharge 5–6);{"diceNotation":"1d6","rollType":"recharge","rollAction":"Raise Ghoul"}. The maurezhi targets one dead ghoul or ghast (see the Monster Manual) it can

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

hand is invisible) 1/day: invisibility (self only)Ssurran defilers can lay waste to the plant life around them and draw vital energy at the same time from other creatures that are caught in the area

Cassiok Shadowdusk

Monsters Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage

the following wizard spells prepared: Cantrips (at will): fire bolt, light, mage hand, prestidigitation, shocking grasp 1st level (4 slots): detect magic, identify, mage armor, magic missile 2nd level

, stoneskin and mage armor spells on itself before combat.Staff of Power. He wields a staff of power, with 20 charges, that grants him a +2 bonus to Armor Class, spell attack rolls, and saving throws. His

Gingwatzim

Monsters Candlekeep Mysteries

gingwatzim reverts to its true form and then vanishes.A gingwatzim is a peculiar form of life created by a spell or a ritual. The magic that brings it into being draws on spirit energy from the

Frost Giant Ice Shaper

Monsters Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants

action and Ice Armor reaction. The object bearing the rune has AC 16; 40 hit points; and immunity to necrotic, poison, and psychic damage. The object regains all its hit points at the end of every turn

;{"diceNotation":"1d4", "rollType":"roll", "rollAction":"Ice Wolves"} wolves made of ice (use the winter wolf stat block in the Monster Manual to represent them, but they are Elementals instead of

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