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Magic Items
Dungeon Master’s Guide
While wearing this cloak, you have Advantage on Dexterity (Stealth) checks. In an area of Dim Light or Darkness, you can grip the edges of the cloak and use it to gain a Fly Speed of 40 feet. If you
ever fail to grip the cloak’s edges while flying in this way, or if you are no longer in Dim Light or Darkness, you lose this Fly Speed.
While wearing the cloak in an area of Dim Light or
Spells
Player’s Handbook
You evoke a fiery blade in your free hand. The blade is similar in size and shape to a scimitar, and it lasts for the duration. If you let go of the blade, it disappears, but you can evoke it again
blade sheds Bright Light in a 10-foot radius and Dim Light for an additional 10 feet.
Using a Higher-Level Spell Slot. The damage increases by 1d6 for each spell slot level above 2.
Spells
Player’s Handbook
A silvery beam of pale light shines down in a 5-foot-radius, 40-foot-high Cylinder centered on a point within range. Until the spell ends, Dim Light fills the Cylinder, and you can take a Magic
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
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
Species
Player’s Handbook
to bring light, healing, and heavenly fury.
Aasimar can arise among any population of mortals. They resemble their parents, but they live for up to 160 years and have features that hint at their
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
live among humans and other tall folk, are sometimes called lightfoot halflings or tallfellows.
Halfling Traits
Creature Type: HumanoidSize: Small (about 2–3 feet tall)Speed: 30 feet
Species
Player’s Handbook
stone and metal and for living underground. The god also made them resilient like the mountains, with a life span of about 350 years.
Squat and often bearded, the original dwarves carved cities and
strongholds into mountainsides and under the earth. Their oldest legends tell of conflicts with the monsters of mountaintops and the Underdark, whether those monsters were towering giants or
Spells
Player’s Handbook
-foot Cube. You choose the color and scent, and the embers can light candles, torches, or lamps in that area. The smoke’s scent lingers for 1 minute.
Beckon Water. You create a spray of cool mist
Element. You cause dirt, sand, fire, smoke, mist, or water that can fit in a 1-foot Cube to assume a crude shape (such as that of a creature) for 1 hour.
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
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
Classes
Player’s Handbook
, Arcana, Insight, Medicine, Nature, Perception, Religion, or Survival
Weapon Proficiencies
Simple weapons
Tool Proficiencies
Herbalism Kit
Armor Training
Light armor and Shields
.
Druids are concerned with the delicate ecological balance that sustains plant and animal life and with the need for people to live in harmony with nature. Druids often guard sacred sites or watch over
Magic Items
Dungeon Master’s Guide
becomes 120 feet when cast from the wand. If an effect has multiple possible subjects, the DM determines randomly which among them are affected.
Regaining Charges. The wand regains 1d6 + 1 expended
are picked off, the leaves turn brown and fall off after 24 hours.
78–82
Nothing happens at the chosen point of origin. Instead, a burst of colorful, shimmering light extends from you in a
Classes
Player’s Handbook
: Acrobatics, Athletics, History, Insight, Religion, or Stealth
Weapon Proficiencies
Simple weapons and Martial weapons that have the Light property
Tool Proficiencies
Choose one type of Artisan
slaying monsters and plundering treasure; they strive to turn themselves into living weapons.
Becoming a Monk...
As a Level 1 Character
Gain all the traits in the Core Monk Traits table.
Gain
Classes
Player’s Handbook
: Animal Handling, Athletics, Insight, Investigation, Nature, Perception, Stealth, or Survival
Weapon Proficiencies
Simple and Martial weapons
Armor Training
Light and Medium armor and
wilderness. A Ranger’s talents and magic are honed with deadly focus to protect the world from the ravages of monsters and tyrants.
Becoming a Ranger...
As a Level 1 Character
Gain all the
Classes
Player’s Handbook
: Athletics, Insight, Intimidation, Medicine, Persuasion, or Religion
Weapon Proficiencies
Simple and Martial weapons
Armor Training
Light, Medium, and Heavy armor and Shields
Starting
definition, the life of a Paladin is an adventuring life, for every Paladin lives on the front lines of the cosmic struggle against annihilation. Fighters are rare enough among the ranks of a world&rsquo
Classes
Player’s Handbook
, Deception, History, Intimidation, Investigation, Nature, or Religion
Weapon Proficiencies
Simple weapons
Armor Training
Light armor
Starting Equipment
Choose A or B: (A) Leather;Leather
multiverse. They often begin their search for magical power by delving into tomes of forbidden lore, dabbling in invocations meant to attract the power of extraplanar beings, or seeking places of power where
Classes
Player’s Handbook
: Animal Handling, Athletics, Intimidation, Nature, Perception, or Survival
Weapon Proficiencies
Simple and Martial weapons
Armor Training
Light and Medium armor and Shields
Starting
deepest self. For every Barbarian, their Rage is a power that fuels not just battle prowess, but also uncanny reflexes and heightened senses.
Barbarians often serve as protectors and leaders in their
Species
Lorwyn: First Light
Known for their mischief, faeries resemble insects with humanoid features. Their size and shape may vary, but all have antennae, black eyes, chitinous skin, and insectoid legs and wings. Every faerie
Shadowmoor. (See Lorwyn: First Light for more information.)
Shadowmoor faeries have Darkvision with a range of 120 feet.
Backgrounds
Eberron: Forge of the Artificer
influence House Sivis has had on the shape of the modern age—just as few know how often a royal adviser holds more power than the actual ruler. While the other dragonmarked houses fight for fame and
Monsters
Forgotten Realms: Adventures in Faerûn
;s transmission is unpredictable and often as much a surprise to the werewyvern as it is to the victim.Shape-Shift. The werewyvern Shape-Shifting;shape-shifts into a Medium wyvern-humanoid hybrid or a
draconic-humanoid hybrids. Most werewyverns possess a draconic greed and ferocity and thus often find work as bandits, mercenaries, or assassins. They are opportunistic warriors and prefer ambushes when
Monsters
Forgotten Realms: Adventures in Faerûn
deep dragons often spend years sequestered among individualized libraries, fungal gardens, or collections of esoterica. When these venerable terrors venture forth to hunt, they can remake Underdark
forms. Many deep dragons collect forgotten tomes or works of art and bully, cajole, or steal collections from drow or duergar sages.
Deep dragons are excellent swimmers. They often clash with aquatic
Monsters
Forgotten Realms: Adventures in Faerûn
: Mind Spike
1/Day Each: Dimension Door, MisleadCultists of Bhaal revel in bloodshed. They enjoy the act of murder, particularly when they can use inventive methods that instill fear among witnesses
ways. Cultists who receive orders from their patron god directly are often the most ambitious and most dangerous.
Monsters
Forgotten Realms: Adventures in Faerûn
versatile shape-shifting of metallic dragons, deep dragons can assume the form of animals or humanoids and often masquerade as snakes or dragonborn.
Adult deep dragons eliminate challengers with
often clash with aquatic Underdark societies, such as kuo-toa. Many deep dragons demand tribute from these groups in the form of food or treasure.
Underdark explorers have many reasons to brave deep
Monsters
Astarion's Book of Hungers
of sinister rituals. Fiendish icons can explode with hellfire to roast their foes, and they often pretend to be ordinary statues until they leap up to ambush invaders.
Roll on or choose a result
hand outstretched in welcome.
5
Six crows perched atop each other in a roughly humanoid shape.
6
A horned fiend that bears an uncanny resemblance to one of the characters.
The only
Monsters
Astarion's Book of Hungers
creatures that resemble tieflings. Also known as falxugons among the ranks of the Nine Hells, harvester devils have short horns and expressive tails. Most harvester devils dress in flattering finery. They
promise wealth or influence to corruptible mortals, often securing a deal with a contract they produce in a flash of brimstone. This contract binds the mortal signatory’s soul to the Nine Hells
Monsters
Astarion's Book of Hungers
, the vampire uses Shape-Shift to become mist (no action required). If it can’t use Shape-Shift, it is destroyed.
While it has 0 Hit Points in mist form, it can’t return to its vampire form
often believe their immortality will exempt them from any infernal claim to their souls. The archdevil Mephistopheles happily exploits such hubris and proves that even undead aren’t immune to the
Species
Lorwyn: First Light
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
heroism and self-sacrifice the highest forms of beauty.
Bloomseekers are Shadowmoor elves who study and explore Lorwyn. Each one carries a Reliquary of Twilight (see Lorwyn: First Light). Alongside
Species
Eberron: Forge of the Artificer
Shifters—sometimes called “weretouched”—descend from people who contracted full or partial lycanthropy. Humanoids with a bestial aspect, shifters can’t change shape
. Their facial features have a bestial cast, often with large eyes and pointed ears; most shifters also possess prominent canine teeth. They grow fur-like hair on nearly every part of their bodies. While
Species
Lorwyn: First Light
temporarily or even permanently for a variety of reasons, often due to trauma suffered during the Phyrexian invasion (see Lorwyn: First Light). Regardless, kithkin typically believe that betraying their own is
Book of Kith and Kin. They also often entertain many superstitions, particularly related to Lorwyn’s incarnations of nature.
In Shadowmoor
Shadowmoor kithkin are more insular and xenophobic
Classes
Forgotten Realms: Heroes of Faerûn
mortals before ascending to godhood. Underground cults to Bane, Bhaal, and Myrkul often count Scions of the Three among their most useful agents. Outside Baldur’s Gate, secular thieves’ guilds
Monsters
Mythic Odysseys of Theros
"} piercing damage.Prized among Meletis's thaumaturges, anvilwrought raptors are often crafted in the form of a hawk or an owl. Most serve as messengers and spies, flying over the busy streets or high over
messengers, and a few were created to emulate beauty found among the animals of the mortal world. Each exhibits abilities suited to its role, with some behaving like companionable creatures or stoic
Monsters
Mythic Odysseys of Theros
sentinels is a mystery, and of all Purphoros’s original anvilwroughts, this construct is the most difficult to control. A sentinel often operates without a master, stalking the high places of
vigilant guardians at holy shrines, others serve as familiars and messengers, and a few were created to emulate beauty found among the animals of the mortal world. Each exhibits abilities suited to its
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
. Their magical ability to change their appearance to mimic those they’ve slain allows them to sow confusion and despair among their enemies. When dreadnoughts are killed, their bodies burst into
flames, scorching everything around them.
On the world of Krynn, draconian dreadnoughts formed from silver dragon eggs are called sivak draconians.
Draconians
Draconians are bipedal monsters born
Equipment
often keep globules of green slime tucked in their cheeks. The substance green slime is cultivated from larger, living omnivorous monsters of the same name.
Monsters
Mordenkainen's Fiendish Folio Volume 1
monsters fall upon them.
Strange Escort. Certain Underdark explorers—judged inventive by some and lunatics by others—have learned to travel among the dire corbies. After blocking their ears to
travelers prize accurate charts illustrating the movements of these flocks, since trailing a day behind them all but guarantees that the dire corbies will have cleared out many monsters and other threats
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
or carried.These fierce and majestic monsters exhibit attributes of both birds and reptiles, but are truly neither. Giant striders have a supernatural affinity to fire and can spit gouts of flame at
distant enemies. They are most often found in tropical, volcanically active areas or regions that similarly provide sources of both water and extreme heat.
Firenewts prize giant striders and seek to






