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Oil of Etherealness

Magic Items Dungeon Master’s Guide

One vial of this oil can cover one Medium or smaller creature, along with the equipment it’s wearing and carrying (one additional vial is required for each size category above Medium). Applying

the oil takes 10 minutes. The affected creature then gains the effect of the Etherealness spell for 1 hour. Beads of this cloudy, gray oil form on the outside of its container and quickly evaporate.

Astral Projection

Spells Player’s Handbook

Astral Plane. The moment an astral form leaves that plane, the target’s body and possessions travel along the silver cord, causing the target to re-enter its body on the new plane. Any damage or

behind in a state of suspended animation; it has the Unconscious condition, doesn’t need food or air, and doesn’t age. A target’s astral form resembles its body in almost every way

Yochlol

Monsters Monster Manual

Advantage on saving throws against spells and other magical effects. Spider Climb. The yochlol can climb difficult surfaces, including along ceilings, without needing to make an ability check. Web

spellcasting ability (spell save DC 15): At Will: Detect Thoughts, Gaseous Form (self only), Web1/Day: Dominate PersonToxic Escape. Trigger: The yochlol is hit by an attack roll. Response: The yochlol

True Polymorph

Spells Player’s Handbook

on how you have treated it. Creature into Object. If you turn a creature into an object, it transforms along with whatever it is wearing and carrying into that form, as long as the object’s

creature into another kind of creature, the new form can be any kind you choose that has a Challenge Rating equal to or less than the target’s Challenge Rating or level. The target’s game

Black Pudding

Monsters Monster Manual

Amorphous. The pudding can move through a space as narrow as 1 inch without expending extra movement to do so. Corrosive Form. A creature that hits the pudding with a melee attack roll takes 4 (1d8

);{"diceNotation":"1d8", "rollType":"damage", "rollAction":"Corrosive Form", "rollDamageType":"Acid"} Acid damage. Nonmagical ammunition is destroyed immediately after hitting the pudding and dealing

Gaseous Form

Spells Player’s Handbook

A willing creature you touch shape-shifting;shape-shifts, along with everything it’s wearing and carrying, into a misty cloud for the duration. The spell ends on the target if it drops to 0 Hit

Points or if it takes a Magic action to end the spell on itself. While in this form, the target’s only method of movement is a Fly Speed of 10 feet, and it can hover. The target can enter and

Wind Wall

Spells Player’s Handbook

so long as it makes one continuous path along the ground. The wall lasts for the duration. When the wall appears, each creature in its area makes a Strength saving throw, taking 4d8 Bludgeoning

hurled by Giants or siege engines, and similar projectiles, are unaffected. Creatures in gaseous form can’t pass through it.

Vampire

Monsters Monster Manual

, 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

, and it must reach its resting place within 2 hours or be destroyed. Once in its resting place, it returns to its vampire form and has the Paralyzed condition until it regains any Hit Points, and it

Move Earth

Spells Player’s Handbook

’s elevation, create or fill in a trench, erect or flatten a wall, or form a pillar. The extent of any such changes can’t exceed half the area’s largest dimension. For example, if you

structures shift to accommodate the new terrain. If the way you shape the terrain would make a structure unstable, it might collapse. Similarly, this spell doesn’t directly affect plant growth. The moved earth carries any plants along with it.

Rod of Lordly Might

Magic Items Dungeon Master’s Guide

are set in a row along the haft. It has three other properties as well, detailed below. Buttons. You can press one of the following buttons as a Bonus Action; a button’s effect lasts until you

push a different button or until you push the same button again, which causes the rod to revert to its normal form: Button 1. A fiery blade sprouts from the end opposite the rod’s flanged head

Giant Insect

Spells Player’s Handbook

You summon a giant centipede, spider, or wasp (chosen when you cast the spell). It manifests in an unoccupied space you can see within range and uses the Giant Insect stat block. The form you choose

Languages Understands the languages you know CR None (XP 0; PB equals your Proficiency Bonus) Traits Spider Climb. The insect can climb difficult surfaces, including along ceilings, without needing to

Aranea

Monsters Forgotten Realms: Adventures in Faerûn

Spider Climb (Hybrid or Spider Form Only). The aranea can climb difficult surfaces, including along ceilings, without needing to make an ability check. Web Walker. The aranea ignores movement

(Hybrid or Spider Form Only). Melee Attack Roll: +5;{"diceNotation":"1d20+5", "rollType":"to hit", "rollAction":"Bite"}, reach 5 ft. Hit: 6 (1d6 + 3);{"diceNotation":"1d6+3", "rollType":"damage

Lords' Alliance Vassal

Backgrounds Forgotten Realms: Heroes of Faerûn

; Alliance. As an Alliance agent, you must uphold the tenets of the Alliance and seek to increase safety and prosperity along the Sword Coast. You’re sworn to bring honor and glory to your lord’s

house, whether that means securing trade roads for a merchant-lord of Waterdeep or vanquishing monsters upriver of Daggerford. You’ve trained in the arts of swordplay and statecraft and are as deft with a blade as you are with a quill.

Swanmay

Monsters Forgotten Realms: Adventures in Faerûn

Flyby (Swan Form Only). The swanmay doesn’t provoke an Opportunity Attack action when it flies out of an enemy’s reach.Multiattack. The swanmay makes two attacks, using Beak, Longbow, or

Scimitar in any combination. Beak (Swan Form Only). Melee Attack Roll: +6;{"diceNotation":"1d20+6", "rollType":"to hit", "rollAction":"Beak"}, reach 5 ft. Hit: 7 (1d6 + 4);{"diceNotation":"1d6+4

Vampire Infernalist

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

, and it must reach its resting place within 2 hours or be destroyed. Once in its resting place, it returns to its vampire form and has the Paralyzed condition until it regains any Hit Points, and it

Boggart

Species Lorwyn: First Light

commonly gravitate to specific areas of expertise. In Lorwyn Boggarts in Lorwyn are born into communal warrens where laws and hierarchies are considered suggestions. The oldest and most powerful

. These boggarts might become Warlocks, particularly leaning toward the Archfey Patron subclass; some might believe their patron is Isilu. Others prove to be Sorcerers and are especially likely to manifest their power in the form of the Wild Magic Sorcery subclass.

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

Kolyarut

Monsters Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse

Immutable Form. The kolyarut is immune to any spell or effect that would alter its form. Legendary Resistance (4/Day). If the kolyarut fails a saving throw, it can choose to succeed instead. Magic

: Monsters of the Multiverse) and punished in brutally decisive fashion. In cases where the terms of a contract or a foundational truth of an agreement come into question, the Kolyarut sends a component part

Tressym

Monsters Storm King's Thunder

experimentation on house cats, tressym are intelligent and have been known to form strong friendships with humanoids, particularly rangers and wizards. Tressym get along well with others of their kind

, but they rarely lair or hunt together. They peacefully ignore bats, faerie dragons, and the like, but they hate stirges and evil flying monsters such as manticores. They also enjoy teasing dogs

Fraternity of Order Law Bender

Monsters Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse

to be made with advantage or disadvantage.Members of the Fraternity of Order find and exploit loopholes in the laws of the multiverse. Law benders are magistrates who skirt the rules of probability

and space, moving freely and manipulating the outcomes of actions around them.Spatial Loophole. The law bender teleports, along with any equipment it is wearing or carrying, up to 30 feet to an unoccupied space it can see.

Scumweed

Equipment

is creeping further inland along sloughs and marshes that are affected by the encroaching Corruption. Scumweed is slimy and thick. Dried scumweed can even make hardy armor in a pinch and more than a few monsters and witches have been known to use it for precisely that purpose.

Gaseous Form Legacy

Spells Basic Rules (2014)

You transform a willing creature you touch, along with everything it's wearing and carrying, into a misty cloud for the duration. The spell ends if the creature drops to 0 hit points. An incorporeal

creature isn't affected. While in this form, the target's only method of movement is a flying speed of 10 feet. The target can enter and occupy the space of another creature. The target has

Simic Scientist

Backgrounds Guildmasters’ Guide to Ravnica

advancing civilization, nature needs some help from biomancers and terraformers. If, along the way, you happen to create super-soldiers and mutant monsters that can bolster the combine’s defenses

protection and durability 2 Fin Clade, focused on movement 3 Gyre Clade, focused on cyclical patterns and metamagic 4 Guardian Project, focused on creating guard monsters and super

Spitting Mimic

Monsters Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden

Shapechanger. The mimic can use its action to polymorph into an object or back into its true, amorphous form. Its statistics are the same in each form. Any equipment it is wearing or carrying isn't

transformed. It reverts to its true form if it dies. Adhesive (Object Form Only). The mimic adheres to anything that touches it. A Huge or smaller creature adhered to the mimic is also grappled by it

Astral Projection Legacy

Spells Basic Rules (2014)

leave behind is unconscious and in a state of suspended animation; it doesn't need food or air and doesn't age. Your astral body resembles your mortal form in almost every way, replicating your game

it does--your soul and body are separated, killing you instantly. Your astral form can freely travel through the Astral Plane and can pass through portals there leading to any other plane. If you

Verdan

Species Acquisitions Incorporated

turned the color of jade and their blood began to flow black. Their ears grew pointed, and they gained a limited form of telepathy — but at the cost of forgetting their history. The underground homes

the head with a single ring to keep them from flapping about. Changes in gender are also a known and accepted part of verdan life. These fluid aspects of form and identity are seen as blessings

True Polymorph Legacy

Spells Basic Rules (2014)

treated it. Creature into Object. If you turn a creature into an object, it transforms along with whatever it is wearing and carrying into that form, as long as the object’s size is no larger than

’t affected by this spell. Creature into Creature. If you turn a creature into another kind of creature, the new form can be any kind you choose whose challenge rating is equal to or less than

Vedalken

Species Guildmasters’ Guide to Ravnica

with ideas than with people. They form close friendships based on mutual interests or compelling disagreements, and their interactions dwell on their thoughts about those issues rather than their

affiliation, they put their intelligence to use in crafting and improving things, whether those things are laws, procedures, or magical sciences. Vedalken believe that the path toward the impossible

Halfling Legacy

Species Basic Rules (2014)

marauding monsters and clashing armies; a blazing fire and a generous meal; fine drink and fine conversation. Though some halflings live out their days in remote agricultural communities, others form

might be a wagon jostling along a dirt road or a raft floating downriver. Small and Practical The diminutive halflings survive in a world full of larger creatures by avoiding notice or, barring

Archon of the Triumvirate

Monsters Guildmasters’ Guide to Ravnica

Eye of the Law. As a bonus action, the archon can target a creature it can see within 120 feet of it and determine which laws that creature has broken in the last 24 hours. Innate Spellcasting. The

magically teleport onto the creature serving as its mount, provided the archon and its mount are on the same plane of existence. When it teleports, the archon appears astride the mount along with any

Aberrant Zealot

Monsters Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk

);{"diceNotation":"2d6", "rollType":"damage", "rollAction":"Aberrant Form", "rollDamageType":"psychic"} psychic damage. Weirdly Pliable. The zealot, along with any equipment it is wearing or carrying

Aberrant Form. The zealot exudes the chaos of the Far Realm. Any non-Aberration creature that starts its turn within 5 feet of the zealot must succeed on a DC 15 Wisdom saving throw or take 7 (2d6

Drakewarden

Classes Fizban's Treasury of Dragons

Your connection to the natural world takes the form of a draconic spirit, which can manifest in physical form as a drake. As your powers grow, your drake grows as well, blossoming from a small four

-legged companion to a majestic winged creature large and strong enough for you to ride. Along the way, you gain an increasing share of the awe-inspiring power of dragons. Consider the source of the

Sivak Draconian

Monsters Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen

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

Ancient Brass Dragon Legacy

Monsters Basic Rules (2014)

damage or someone uses an action to wake it. Change Shape. The dragon magically polymorphs into a humanoid or beast that has a challenge rating no higher than its own, or back into its true form. It

reverts to its true form if it dies. Any equipment it is wearing or carrying is absorbed or borne by the new form (the dragon's choice). In a new form, the dragon retains its alignment, hit points, Hit

Move Earth Legacy

Spells Basic Rules (2014)

’s elevation, create or fill in a trench, erect or flatten a wall, or form a pillar. The extent of any such changes can’t exceed half the area’s largest dimension. So, if you affect a 40

accommodate the new terrain. If the way you shape the terrain would make a structure unstable, it might collapse. Similarly, this spell doesn’t directly affect plant growth. The moved earth carries any plants along with it.

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