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Shield

Equipment

Shields require the Utilize action to Don or Doff. You gain the Armor Class benefit of a Shield only if you have training with it.

Speak with Animals

Spells Player’s Handbook

For the duration, you can comprehend and verbally communicate with Beasts, and you can use any of the Influence action’s skill options with them. Most Beasts have little to say about topics

that don’t pertain to survival or companionship, but at minimum, a Beast can give you information about nearby locations and monsters, including whatever it has perceived within the past day.

Animated Shield

Magic Items Dungeon Master’s Guide

While holding this Shield, you can take a Bonus Action to cause it to animate. The Shield leaps into the air and hovers in your space to protect you as if you were wielding it, leaving your hands

free. The Shield remains animate for 1 minute, until you take a Bonus Action to end this effect, or until you die or have the Incapacitated condition, at which point the Shield falls to the ground or into your hand if you have one free.

Kuo-toa

Monsters Monster Manual

until the net is destroyed (AC 10; HP 5; Immunity to Bludgeoning, Poison, and Psychic damage). A creature can take an action to make a DC 10 Strength (Athletics) check to free itself or another creature

in a net within 5 feet, destroying the net on a success.Sticky Shield. Trigger: A creature misses the kuo-toa with a melee attack roll using a weapon. Response—Strength Saving Throw: DC 11, the

Shield of the Cavalier

Magic Items Dungeon Master’s Guide

while holding it. Forceful Bash. When you take the Attack action, you can make one of the attack rolls using the Shield against a target within 5 feet of yourself. Apply your Proficiency Bonus and

While holding this Shield, you have a +2 bonus to Armor Class. This bonus is in addition to the Shield’s normal bonus to AC. The Shield has the following additional properties that you can use

Unicorn

Monsters Monster Manual

":"3d6", "rollType":"roll", "rollAction":"Shimmering Shield"} Temporary Hit Points, and its AC increases by 2 until the end of the unicorn’s next turn. The unicorn can’t take this action

, Druidcraft1/Day Each: Calm Emotions, Dispel Evil and Good, Entangle, Pass without Trace, Word of RecallLegendary Action Uses: 3. Immediately after another creature’s turn, the unicorn can expend a use to

Jarund Elkhardt

Monsters Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden

. Shield. Melee Weapon Attack: +7;{"diceNotation":"1d20+7","rollType":"to hit","rollAction":"Shield"} to hit, reach 5 ft., one creature. Hit: 11 (2d6 + 4);{"diceNotation":"2d6+4","rollType":"damage

","rollAction":"Shield","rollDamageType":"bludgeoning"} bludgeoning damage, and Jarund pushes the target 5 feet away from him if it's Large or smaller. Jarund then enters the space vacated by the target. If

Shago

Monsters Tomb of Annihilation

","rollType":"damage","rollAction":"Spear","rollDamageType":"piercing"} piercing damage if used with two hands to make a melee attack. Shield Bash. Melee Weapon Attack: +7;{"diceNotation":"1d20+7

","rollType":"to hit","rollAction":"Shield Bash"} to hit, reach 5 ft., one creature. Hit: 9 (2d4 + 4);{"diceNotation":"2d4+4","rollType":"damage","rollAction":"Shield Bash","rollDamageType":"bludgeoning

Shield of the Hidden Lord

Magic Items Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus

telepathically with any creature it can sense within 120 feet of it. Its voice is a deep, hollow whisper. The shield has 3 charges. You can use an action to expend 1 charge to cast fireball or 2

The Shield of the Hidden Lord is of celestial origin and serves as a prison for the pit fiend Gargauth, whose mortal followers revere it as a god. Over time, Gargauth’s evil has warped the

Girallon

Monsters Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse

of several individuals and their offspring, usually led by a dominant adult that also tends to be the oldest member of the group. When on the hunt away from their lair, girallons use roars and body

out across the world. Numerous creatures have tried to tame, subjugate, or cooperate with the monsters. For instance, some forest-dwelling peoples capture girallons and train them to serve as sentinels

Sapphire Buckler

Magic Items Fizban's Treasury of Dragons

This crystalline blue shield is fashioned from a sapphire dragon’s scale and is created to aid in rooting out the influence of Aberrations. While wielding the shield, you have

resistance to psychic and thunder damage. Also, when you take damage from a creature that is within 5 feet of you, you can use your reaction to deal 2d6 thunder damage to that creature. As an action, you

Shield of the Blazing Dreadnought

Magic Items Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants

Modeled after the formidable spiked tower shields wielded by some fire giants, this iron shield emanates a constant warmth. You can use a bonus action to activate the shield, causing glowing lava to

flow through the shield’s grooves for 1 minute. While the shield is active, you gain the following benefits: Blazing Soul. You have immunity to fire damage. Cleansing Fire. As an action, you

Mind's Eye Matter Smith

Monsters Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse

action)Members of the Mind’s Eye believe the power to transcend the multiverse lies in every individual. Matter smiths harness this innate power to reshape reality in Sigil’s Great Foundry

itself. The target must succeed on a DC 13 Dexterity saving throw or have the restrained condition until the end of its next turn. 3–4: Magic Shield. The matter smith conjures a floating, spectral

Euryale's Aegis

Magic Items The Book of Many Things

damage and are immune to the petrified condition. Petrifying Heraldry. As a bonus action, you can make the front of the shield flare with a medusa’s petrifying magic, causing the relief’s

, the restrained condition ends. Once this bonus action is used, it can’t be used again until the next dawn. Spellcasting. While wielding the shield, you can use an action to cast one of the

Orb of the Stein Rune

Magic Items Storm King's Thunder

properties, which work only while it’s on your person. Indomitable Stand. As an action, you can channel the orb’s magic to hold your ground. For the next minute or until you move any distance

saving throw or be unable to move any farther this turn. Stone Soul. You can’t be petrified. Earthen Step. You can cast meld into stone as a bonus action. Once you use this property, you can&rsquo

Shield of Expression

Magic Items Xanathar's Guide to Everything

The front of this Shield is shaped in the likeness of a face. While bearing the Shield, you can take a Bonus Action to alter the face’s expression.

Ingot of the Skold Rune

Magic Items Storm King's Thunder

following properties, which work only while it’s on your person. Runic Shield. You have a +1 bonus to AC. Shield Bond. As a bonus action, choose a creature that you can see within 30 feet of you

This appears to be a simple ingot of iron ore, about a foot long and a few inches across. Inspection of its surface reveals the faint, silvery outline of the skold (shield) rune. The ingot has the

Shadow Mastiff Alpha

Monsters Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse

is successful or the effect ends for it, the target is immune to any shadow mastiff’s Terrifying Howl for the next 24 hours.Each pack of shadow mastiff;shadow mastiffs is led by an alpha, the

darkness, the shadow mastiff becomes invisible, along with anything it is wearing or carrying. The invisibility lasts until the shadow mastiff uses a bonus action to end it or until the shadow mastiff attacks, is in bright light, or is incapacitated.

Shield Guardian Amulet

Magic Items Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden

attunes to this amulet knows the distance and direction of the shield guardian, provided the amulet and the guardian are on the same plane of existence. As an action, the amulet’s attuned wearer can

The amulet is a 4-inch-wide disk composed of silver-framed wood, with a rune carved into its face. A detect magic spell reveals a magical aura of enchantment around the amulet. Every shield

Grim Champion of Pestilence

Monsters The Book of Many Things

1/day each: Cloudkill, ContagionThe champion can take 3 legendary actions, choosing from the options below. Only one legendary action option can be used at a time and only at the end of another

. Aleron rides a warhorse skeleton with flies buzzing in its gaping eye sockets. The Grim Champions The Grim Harrow is led by three powerful entities with the title of grim champion. Each champion

Wretched Sorrowsworn

Monsters Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse

spending 5 feet of its movement on its turn. A creature, including the target, can use its action to detach the sorrowsworn.Horrid little monsters, wretched sorrowsworn—or the Wretched&mdash

Hobgoblin Iron Shadow

Monsters Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse

Unarmored Defense. While the hobgoblin is wearing no armor and wielding no shield, its AC includes its Wisdom modifier.Multiattack. The hobgoblin makes four attacks, each of which can be an Unarmed

monsters, both to conceal their identities and to strike fear into their foes. An iron shadow is usually recruited from the ranks of the Feywild’s hobgoblin armies or from among the hobgoblins who

Guardian Emblem

Magic Items Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything

This emblem is the symbol of a deity or a spiritual tradition. As an action, you can attach the emblem to a suit of armor or a shield or remove it. The emblem has 3 charges. When you or a creature

you can see within 30 feet of you suffers a critical hit while you’re wearing the armor or wielding the shield that bears the emblem, you can use your reaction to expend 1 charge to turn the critical hit into a normal hit instead. The emblem regains all expended charges daily at dawn.

Platinum Scarf

Magic Items Fizban's Treasury of Dragons

effects: Breath of Life. The scale disappears, and you or a creature you touch regains 10d4 hit points. Platinum Shield. For 1 hour or until you dismiss it (no action required), the scale becomes a

shield, +1; +1 shield, which you or another creature can use. A creature wielding the shield has immunity to radiant damage. Radiant Hammer. For 1 hour or until you dismiss it (no action required), the

Vegepygmy Scavenger

Monsters Quests from the Infinite Staircase

indefinitely so long as the climate remains hospitable to their fungal bodies. To learn more about vegepygmies, see Monsters of the Multiverse.Lightning, PiercingNimble Escape. The vegepygmy takes the Disengage or Hide action.

Sivak Draconian

Monsters Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen

illusion to look and feel like that creature while retaining the draconian’s game statistics (other than its size). This transformation lasts until the draconian dies or uses a bonus action to end

killed, their crumbling bodies mimic the form of their killers and shriek in agony. Draconians Draconians are bipedal monsters born from metallic dragon eggs that have been corrupted by a

Draconian Mastermind

Monsters Fizban's Treasury of Dragons

: dimension door, disguise self, sendingMagic Shield (3/Day). When the draconian is hit by an attack roll, it can create an invisible barrier of magical force around itself, granting it a +5 bonus to its

. Draconians Draconians are bipedal monsters born from dragon eggs that have been corrupted or warped by powerful magic. Most often, this corruption is a deliberate act, the work of an aspiring tyrant

Drannin Splithelm

Monsters Princes of the Apocalypse

Action Surge (Recharges after a Short or Long Rest). Drannin takes an additional action on his turn. Brute. A melee weapon deals one extra die of its damage when Drannin hits with it (included in

the new roll. Second Wind (Recharges after a Short or Long Rest). Drannin can use a bonus action to regain 16 (1d10 + 11);{"diceNotation":"1d10+11","rollType":"roll","rollAction":"Second Wind"} hit

Black Viper

Monsters Waterdeep: Dragon Heist

Cunning Action. On each of her turns, the Black Viper can use a bonus action to take the Dash, Disengage, or Hide action. Evasion. If the Black Viper is subjected to an effect that allows her to make

of her station. In her younger days, Esvele openly rebelled, but that behavior led to locked doors at night and house guards watching her every move during the day. So she taught herself how to pick

Flail Snail

Monsters Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse

snail withdraws into its shell. Until it emerges, it gains a +4 bonus to its AC and is restrained. It can emerge from its shell as a bonus action on its turn.A flail snail is a creature of elemental

month, each shield gives its wielder the snail’s Antimagic Shell trait. When the shield’s magic fades, it becomes an exotic shield that is the perfect item from which to make a spellguard

Xandala

Monsters Tomb of Annihilation

spell attacks). Xandala has the following sorcerer spells prepared: Cantrips (at will): acid splash, fire bolt, light, mage hand, ray of frost 1st level (4 slots): chromatic orb, feather fall, shield 2nd

spell that has a casting time of 1 action, Xandala changes the casting time to 1 bonus action for that casting.Quarterstaff. Melee Weapon Attack: +3;{"diceNotation":"1d20+3","rollType":"to hit

Halaster Blackcloak

Monsters Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage

attunement). It can be used as an arcane focus. Whoever is attuned to the blast scepter gains resistance to fire and lightning damage and can, as an action, use it to cast thunderwave as a 4th-level spell

, shield, silent image 2nd level (3 slots): arcane lock, cloud of daggers, darkvision, knock 3rd level (3 slots): counterspell, dispel magic, fireball 4th level (3 slots): confusion, hallucinatory

Dralmorrer Borngray

Monsters Tyranny of Dragons

wizard spell list: Cantrips (at will): fire bolt, prestidigitation, shocking grasp 1st level (4 slots): longstrider, magic missile, shield, thunderwave 2nd level (2 slots): magic weapon, misty

step War Magic. When Dralmorrer uses his action to cast a cantrip, he can also take a bonus action to make one weapon attack. Weapon Bond. Provided his longsword is on the same plane, Dralmorrer can

Advanced Detention Drone

Monsters The Book of Many Things

planar travel to enter or exit the orb. As a bonus action, the drone can move the orb and its contents up to 30 feet in any direction. A successful casting of the Dispel Magic spell on the orb (DC 15

) destroys it. The orb otherwise remains intact until the drone spends an action to end the effect or the drone is destroyed. A drone can have only one detention orb active at a time; if the drone

Asteria

Monsters The Book of Many Things

Guardian Aura. Whenever a creature of Asteria’s choice within 30 feet of her makes a saving throw, Asteria can give the creature advantage on the saving throw (no action required). This trait

, Greater Restoration, Plane Shift (self only), Protection from Evil and Good, RevivifyAsteria can take 3 legendary actions, choosing from the options below. Only one legendary action can be used at a time

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