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Returning 35 results for 'monster staff with only armor for for like'.
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
throws, and spell attack rolls.
Spells. While holding the staff , you can cast one of the spells on the following table from it, using your spell save DC. The table indicates how many charges you
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
Magic Items
Dungeon Master’s Guide
decide what it looks like—including color, style, and accessories—but the armor retains its normal bulk and weight. The illusory appearance lasts until you use this property again or doff the armor.
While wearing this armor, you gain a +1 bonus to Armor Class. You can also take a Bonus Action to cause the armor to assume the appearance of a normal set of clothing or some other kind of armor. You
Magic Items
Dungeon Master’s Guide
This staff has 10 charges.
Insect Cloud. While holding the staff , you can take a Magic action and expend 1 charge to cause a swarm of harmless flying insects to fill a 30-foot Emanation originating
from you. The insects remain for 10 minutes, making the area Heavily Obscured for creatures other than you. A strong wind (like that created by Gust of Wind) disperses the swarm and ends the effect
Spells
Player’s Handbook
You touch a willing creature. Until the spell ends, the target’s skin assumes a bark-like appearance, and the target has an Armor Class of 17 if its AC is lower than that.
Equipment
This armor consists of a coat and leggings (and perhaps a separate skirt) of leather covered with overlapping pieces of metal, much like the scales of a fish. The suit includes gauntlets.
Magic Items
Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
This slender, hollow staff is made of glass yet is as strong as oak. It weighs 3 pounds. While holding the staff, you have a +1 bonus to your Armor Class.
Spells. The staff has 10 charges. While
holding it, you can expend the requisite number of charges to cast one of the following spells from the staff: mage armor (1 charge) or shield (2 charges).
The staff regains 1d6 + 4 expended charges
Spells
Player’s Handbook
imperceptible.
Beyond the door is a magnificent foyer with numerous chambers beyond. The dwelling’s atmosphere is clean, fresh, and warm.
You can create any floor plan you like for the dwelling, but it
and other objects created by this spell dissipate into smoke if removed from it.
A staff of 100 near-transparent servants attends all who enter. You determine the appearance of these servants and
Spells
Player’s Handbook
and planar travel. The demiplane is your choice of a labyrinth, a cage, a tower, or the like.
Minimus Containment. The target becomes 1 inch tall and is trapped inside an indestructible gemstone or a
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.
Magic Items
Dungeon Master’s Guide
returns to Ysgard after 1 hour or when it drops to 0 Hit Points. The spirits look like living, breathing warriors, and they have Immunity to the Charmed and Frightened conditions. Once you use the horn
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Horn of Valhalla (Iron);Iron
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Proficiency with all Martial weapons
Magic Items
Dungeon Master’s Guide
served as the foundation of the Demonomicon of Iggwilv. The Tome of Zyx can be destroyed like any ordinary book. Once the staff emerges, the demon lord Fraz-Urb’luu knows instantly.
save, you are possessed by the creature, which controls you like a puppet. As a Magic action, the possessing creature can release you and appear in the closest unoccupied space to you. On a
Magic Items
Dungeon Master’s Guide
illusion of a creature, determined by rolling on the Deck of Illusions table, forms over the thrown card and remains until dispelled. The illusory creature created by the card looks and behaves like a
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Warrior Veteran
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Wyvern
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The card drawer
*Stat blocks for these creatures (except the card drawer) appear in the Monster Manual.
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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.
Eye of Vecna Spells
Spell
Charge Cost
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
Initiative rolls.
Blade of Defense. When you take an action to attack with the sword, you can transfer some or all of its attack bonus to your Armor Class instead. The adjusted bonuses remain in
Monsters
Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
, 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
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
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
Multiattack. The archdruid makes three Staff or Wildfire attacks. It can replace one attack with a use of Spellcasting.
Staff. Melee Weapon Attack: +6;{"diceNotation":"1d20+6", "rollType":"to hit
", "rollAction":"Staff"} to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 5 (1d6 + 2);{"diceNotation":"1d6+2", "rollType":"damage", "rollAction":"Staff", "rollDamageType":"bludgeoning"} bludgeoning damage plus 21
Monsters
Vecna: Eve of Ruin
Resistance (3/Day). If Alustriel fails a saving throw, she can choose to succeed instead.
Special Equipment. Alustriel carries a magic staff known as the Staff of Silverymoon. In the hands of anyone other
than Alustriel, the Staff of Silverymoon is a Staff of Power.Multiattack. Alustriel makes three Staff of Silverymoon attacks or two Reproving Ray attacks.
Staff of Silverymoon. Melee Weapon Attack
Monsters
The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
Special Equipment. Kelek wears bracers of defense and carries a staff of striking with 10 charges. The staff regains 1d6 + 4;{"diceNotation":"1d6+4","rollType":"roll","rollAction":"Regain expended
charges"} expended charges daily at dawn. If its last charge is expended, roll a d20;{"diceNotation":"1d20","rollType":"roll","rollAction":"Last charge expended"}; on a 1, the staff becomes a nonmagical
Magic Items
Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
personality among them. Like Khelben, the staff is extremely devious and manipulative. It prefers to counsel its owner without exerting outright control. The staff’s primary goal is to protect
The Blackstaff is a sentient, rune-carved staff set with thin silver veins. It is the symbol of office for the Blackstaff, the highest-ranking wizard in Waterdeep. As the rightful owner of the
Monsters
Storm King's Thunder
Staff. Melee Weapon Attack: +1;{"diceNotation":"1d20+1","rollType":"to hit","rollAction":"Staff"} to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 2 (1d6 – 1);{"diceNotation":"1d6-1","rollType":"roll
","rollAction":"Staff"} bludgeoning damage, or 3 (1d8 - 1);{"diceNotation":"1d8-1","rollType":"damage","rollAction":"Staff","rollDamageType":"bludgeoning"} bludgeoning damage if used with two hands
Magic Items
Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
The top of this magic quarterstaff is shaped like a spider. It deals an extra 1d6 poison damage on a hit when used to make a weapon attack.
Spells. The staff has 10 charges. While holding it, you
can expend the requisite number of charges to cast one of the following spells from the staff: spider climb (1 charge) or web (2 charges; spell save DC 15).
The staff regains 1d6 + 4 expended charges
Monsters
Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
Special Equipment. Glasstaff wields a staff of defense (see appendix B). With the staff in hand, he can use an action to cast the mage armor spell and use his reaction to cast the shield
Monsters
Princes of the Apocalypse
):
Cantrips (at will): acid splash, blade ward, friends, light, message, mold earth*
1st level (4 slots): chromatic orb, mage armor, magic missile
2nd level (3 slots): Maximilian's earthen grasp,* shatter
Attack: +4;{"diceNotation":"1d20+4","rollType":"to hit","rollAction":"Staff"} to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 4 (1d6 + 1);{"diceNotation":"1d6+1","rollType":"damage","rollAction":"Staff
Monsters
Candlekeep Mysteries
spell attacks). The wood elf has the following wizard spells prepared:
Cantrips (at will): mage hand, minor illusion, poison spray, ray of frost
1st level (4 slots): mage armor, magic missile, shield
): cloudkillStaff. Melee Weapon Attack: +2;{"diceNotation":"1d20+2","rollType":"to hit","rollAction":"Staff"} to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 2 (1d6 - 1);{"diceNotation":"1d6-1","rollType":"damage
Monsters
Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
13 unless otherwise noted):
At will: dancing lights, mage hand, spider climb (from spider staff), web (from spider staff; save DC 15)
1/day each: darkness, faerie fire, invisibility, mage armor
Special Equipment. Nezznar has a fully charged spider staff (see appendix B).
Fey Ancestry. Nezznar has advantage on saving throws to avoid or end the charmed condition on himself, and magic can
Monsters
Spelljammer: Adventures in Space
Multiattack. The githyanki makes three Staff attacks, three Telekinetic Bolt attacks, or a combination thereof.
Staff. Melee Weapon Attack: +6;{"diceNotation":"1d20+6","rollType":"to hit
","rollAction":"Staff"} to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 5 (1d6 + 2);{"diceNotation":"1d6+2","rollType":"damage","rollAction":"Staff (one-handed)","rollDamageType":"bludgeoning"} bludgeoning damage, or 6
Monsters
Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen
least 1 hit point.Multiattack. Virruza makes three attacks: one with his bite and two with his claws or staff. Alternatively, he uses his Hurl Flame twice.
Bite. Melee Weapon Attack: +7;{"diceNotation
":"damage","rollAction":"Claw","rollDamageType":"slashing"} slashing damage.
Staff. Melee Weapon Attack: +7;{"diceNotation":"1d20+7","rollType":"to hit","rollAction":"Staff"} to hit, reach 5 ft., one target
Monsters
Candlekeep Mysteries
Mei is wearing no armor and wielding no shield, his AC includes his Wisdom modifier.Multiattack. Bak Mei attacks three times: twice with Thunder Strike and once with his staff of striking.
Thunder
Legendary Resistance (2/Day). If Bak Mei fails a saving throw, he can choose to succeed instead.
Special Equipment. Bak Mei carries a staff of striking with 10 charges.
Unarmored Defense. While Bak
Monsters
Tomb of Annihilation
Special Equipment. Acererak carries the Staff of the Forgotten One. He wears a talisman of the sphere and has a sphere of annihilation under his control.
Legendary Resistance (3/Day). If Acererak
, hold monster, wall of force
6th level (3 slots): chain lightning, circle of death, disintegrate
7th level (3 slots): finger of death, plane shift, teleport
8th level (2 slots): maze, mind blank
9th
Monsters
Guildmasters’ Guide to Ravnica
vine staff, its longbow, or both.
Vine Staff. Melee Weapon Attack: +9;{"diceNotation":"1d20+9","rollType":"to hit","rollAction":"Vine Staff"} to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 12 (2d6 + 5
);{"diceNotation":"2d6+5","rollType":"damage","rollAction":"Vine Staff","rollDamageType":"bludgeoning"} bludgeoning damage. If the target is a creature, it must succeed on a DC 17 Dexterity saving throw or
Monsters
The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
Special Equipment. Ringlerun wields a staff of power. It has 20 charges when fully charged and regains 2d8 + 4;{"diceNotation":"2d8+4","rollType":"roll","rollAction":"Regain charges"} expended
charges daily at dawn. If its last charge is expended, roll a d20;{"diceNotation":"1d20","rollType":"roll","rollAction":"Last Charge Expended"}. On a 1, the staff retains its +2 bonus to attack and damage
Monsters
Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
Icy Doom. When Avarice dies, her corpse freezes for 9 days, during which time it can’t be thawed, harmed by fire, animated, or raised from the dead.
Special Equipment. Avarice wields a staff
, message, minor illusion, prestidigitation
1st level (4 slots): detect magic, mage armor, magic missile
2nd level (3 slots): flaming sphere, knock, scorching ray
3rd level (3 slots): counterspell
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
":"Master of the Grave"} hit points whenever it starts its turn there.
Unusual Nature. The skull lord doesn’t require air, food, drink, or sleep.Multiattack. The skull lord makes three Bone Staff or
Deathly Ray attacks.
Bone Staff. Melee Weapon Attack: +8;{"diceNotation":"1d20+8", "rollType":"to hit", "rollAction":"Bone Staff"} to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 7 (1d8 + 3);{"diceNotation
Monsters
Mythic Odysseys of Theros
attacks: one with its claws and one with its staff.
Claws. Melee Weapon Attack: +8;{"diceNotation":"1d20+8","rollType":"to hit","rollAction":"Claws"} to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 13 (2d8 + 4
","rollDamageType":"necrotic"} necrotic damage.
Staff. Melee Weapon Attack: +8;{"diceNotation":"1d20+8","rollType":"to hit","rollAction":"Staff"} to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 11 (2d6 + 4);{"diceNotation
Monsters
The Book of Many Things
fails a saving throw, it can choose to succeed instead.Multiattack. The champion makes two Blight Staff attacks, two Plague Bolt attacks, or one of each.
Blight Staff. Melee Weapon Attack: +9
;{"diceNotation":"1d20+9", "rollType":"to hit", "rollAction":"Blight Staff"} to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 8 (1d8 + 4);{"diceNotation":"1d8+4", "rollType":"damage", "rollAction":"Blight Staff