monsters start with only adopt faces for like

Fire Storm

Spells Player’s Handbook

A storm of fire appears within range. The area of the storm consists of up to ten 10-foot Cube;Cubes, which you arrange as you like. Each Cube must be contiguous with at least one other Cube. Each

creature in the area makes a Dexterity saving throw, taking 7d10 Fire damage on a failed save or half as much damage on a successful one. Flammable objects in the area that aren’t being worn or carried start burning.

Incendiary Cloud

Spells Player’s Handbook

A swirling cloud of embers and smoke fills a 20-foot-radius Sphere centered on a point within range. The cloud’s area is Heavily Obscured. It lasts for the duration or until a strong wind (like

successful one. A creature must also make this save when the Sphere moves into its space and when it enters the Sphere or ends its turn there. A creature makes this save only once per turn. The cloud moves 10 feet away from you in a direction you choose at the start of each of your turns.

Find Familiar

Spells Player’s Handbook

can see through the familiar’s eyes and hear what it hears until the start of your next turn, gaining the benefits of any special senses it has. Finally, when you cast a spell with a range of

the pocket dimension, it leaves behind in its space anything it was wearing or carrying. One Familiar Only. You can’t have more than one familiar at a time. If you cast this spell while you have a familiar, you instead cause it to adopt a new eligible form.

Conjure Fey

Spells Player’s Handbook

You conjure a Medium spirit from the Feywild in an unoccupied space you can see within range. The spirit lasts for the duration, and it looks like a Fey creature of your choice. When the spirit

Frightened condition until the start of your next turn, with both you and the spirit as the source of the fear. As a Bonus Action on your later turns, you can teleport the spirit to an unoccupied

Dwarf

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

Prismatic Spray

Spells Player’s Handbook

of each of its turns. If it successfully saves three times, the condition ends. If it fails three times, it has the Petrified condition until it is freed by an effect like the Greater Restoration spell

Wisdom saving throw at the start of your next turn. On a successful save, the condition ends. On a failed save, the condition ends, and the creature teleports to another plane of existence (DM’s choice). 8 Special. The target is struck by two rays. Roll twice, rerolling any 8.

Eye and Hand of Vecna

Magic Items 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

Blackrazor

Magic Items Dungeon Master’s Guide

Hidden in the dungeon of White Plume Mountain, Blackrazor shines like a piece of night sky filled with stars. Its black scabbard is decorated with pieces of cut obsidian. You gain a +3 bonus to

effect at the start of your turn. The spell lasts for 1 minute (no Concentration required) or until Blackrazor decides to end it, which it can do at the end of any of your turns. Sentience

Prismatic Wall

Spells Player’s Handbook

end of each of its turns. If it successfully saves three times, the condition ends. If it fails three times, it has the Petrified condition until it is freed by an effect like the Greater Restoration

is destroyed by Bright Light shed by the Daylight spell. 7 Violet. Failed Save: The target has the Blinded condition and makes a Wisdom saving throw at the start of your next turn. On a

Deck of Many Things

Magic Items Dungeon Master’s Guide

of your prison. You draw no more cards. Euryale. The card’s medusa-like visage curses you. You take a −2 penalty to saving throws while cursed in this way. Only a god or the magic of the

your choice of History, Insight, Intimidation, or Persuasion. In addition, you gain rightful ownership of a small keep somewhere in the world. However, the keep is currently home to one or more monsters

Winter Walker

Classes Forgotten Realms: Heroes of Faerûn

Withstand the Horrors of Frigid Wastelands Winter Walkers hone their craft in the bleak and frozen wilds of places like Icewind Dale. These ruthless, rimed Rangers hunt monsters that haunt arctic

wastelands, eventually becoming frigid terrors themselves. Winter Walkers are well versed in the phenomena of Icewind Dale, including the latent magic of fallen Netherese cities, endemic monsters like

Demogorgon Spawn

Monsters Stranger Things: Welcome to the Hellfire Club

regains 5 Hit Points at the start of each of its turns if it has at least 1 Hit Point. Running Leap. With a 10-foot running start, the spawn can Long Jump up to 30 feet.Multiattack. The spawn

, featureless heads. A Demogorgon spawn’s head opens like a flower in bloom, revealing a gaping maw and five or more fleshy petals lined with teeth. Light flickers in the presence of these resilient predators, foretelling their arrival. Demogorgon spawns relentlessly pursue their prey.PoisonCold, Lightning

Bearded Devil (Stranger Things)

Monsters Stranger Things: Welcome to the Hellfire Club

", "rollDamageType":"Piercing"} Piercing damage, and the target has the Poisoned condition until the start of the devil’s next turn. Until this poison ends, the target can’t regain Hit Points. Infernal

Saving Throw: DC 12. Failure: The target receives an infernal wound. While wounded, the target loses 5 (1d10) Hit Points at the start of each of its turns. The wound closes after 1 minute, after a

Adult Deep Dragon

Monsters Forgotten Realms: Adventures in Faerûn

). Immediately after another creature’s turn, the dragon can expend a use to take one of the following actions. The dragon regains all expended uses at the start of each of its turns. Pounce. The

, ending the effect on itself on a success. After 1 minute, it succeeds automatically. Failure or Success: The dragon can’t take this action again until the start of its next turn.The strange

Demodragon

Monsters Stranger Things: Welcome to the Hellfire Club

demodragon regains 10 Hit Points at the start of each of its turns if it has at least 1 Hit PointMultiattack. The demodragon makes two Bite attacks. Bite. Melee Attack Roll: +7;{"diceNotation":"1d20

a flower-like arrangement of glistening flesh and teeth around two crushing jaws. Though the head of the dragon from which the demodragon spawned is long gone, its breath remains. Without warning

Ancient Deep Dragon

Monsters Forgotten Realms: Adventures in Faerûn

Lair). Immediately after another creature’s turn, the dragon can expend a use to take one of the following actions. The dragon regains all expended uses at the start of each of its turns. Pounce

turns, ending the effect on itself on a success. After 1 minute, it succeeds automatically. Failure or Success: The dragon can’t take this action again until the start of its next turn.Ancient

Changeling

Species Eberron: Forge of the Artificer

With ever-changing appearances, changelings reside in many societies undetected. Each changeling can supernaturally adopt any face they like. For some changelings, a new face may reveal an aspect of

Biha Babir

Monsters Forgotten Realms: Adventures in Faerûn

following actions. Biha Babir regains all expended uses at the start of each of her turns. Misty Burst. Biha Babir teleports to an unoccupied space she can see within 30 feet of herself and makes one

again until the start of her next turn.Scheming Marid Ruler The calculating Biha Babir rules the pelagic city of Maran Saya in Calimshan. Though her physical form is as fluid as the ocean itself, she

Werewyvern

Monsters Forgotten Realms: Adventures in Faerûn

":"Stinger", "rollDamageType":"Poison"} Poison damage, and the target has the Poisoned condition until the start of the werewyvern’s next turn. If the target is a Humanoid, it is subjected to the

possible. Werewyverns like to keep their wyvern form a secret until they need an upper hand in a fight or an aerial escape. Werewyverns transmit lycanthropy through their potent venom. The curse&rsquo

Orb of Damara

Magic Items Forgotten Realms: Adventures in Faerûn

away. The Orb of Damara is about 6 inches in diameter and is made of a glassy, iridescent material that's like obsidian but incredibly hard. If held to one's own lips with the intention of consuming

the start of its next turn. A creature that succeeds on this save is immune to the aura’s effects for 24 hours. Flight. You have a Fly Speed of 60 feet and can hover. Random Properties. The

Giant Strider

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

adopt them whenever possible. They provide for stables of these creatures in their lairs, and in return, the giant striders voluntarily serve as mounts for firenewt warrior;firenewt warriors.Fire

Changeling

Monsters Eberron: Rising from the Last War

their true identities behind false faces. Their gifts of mimicry allow them to appear as members of any humanoid culture, playing the part of a dwarf one day and a dragonborn the next. Although

changelings can adopt any guise, most rely on a few established personas, each with a developed history and a network of friends and acquaintances.

Vegepygmy Thorny Hunter

Monsters Quests from the Infinite Staircase

points at the start of its turn. If it takes cold, fire, or necrotic damage, this trait doesn’t function at the start of the vegepygmy’s next turn. The vegepygmy dies only if it starts its

turn with 0 hit points and doesn’t regenerate. Thorny Body. At the start of its turn, the vegepygmy deals 2 (1d4);{"diceNotation":"1d4", "rollType":"damage", "rollAction":"Thorny Body

Guardian Portrait

Monsters Curse of Strahd

best of their ability, and can act independently to fulfill simple instructions. Some animated objects might converse fluently or adopt a persona, but most are simple automatons. Constructed Nature

becomes inanimate and is too damaged to be of much use or value to anyone. A guardian portrait looks like a finely rendered and beautifully framed work of art, usually depicting someone important in a

Nathair's Mischief

Spells Fizban's Treasury of Dragons

Dexterity saving throw or be blinded until the start of your next turn as the flowers spray water in their faces. 3 Each creature in the cube must succeed on a Wisdom saving throw or begin giggling

You fill a 20-foot cube you can see within range with fey and draconic magic. Roll on the Mischievous Surge table to determine the magical effect produced, and roll again at the start of each of your

Potion of Poison Legacy

Magic Items Basic Rules (2014)

This concoction looks, smells, and tastes like a potion of healing or other beneficial potion. However, it is actually poison masked by illusion magic. An identify spell reveals its true nature. If

you drink it, you take 3d6 poison damage, and you must succeed on a DC 13 Constitution saving throw or be poisoned. At the start of each of your turns while you are poisoned in this way, you take 3d6

Broom of Animated Attack

Monsters Curse of Strahd

simple instructions. Some animated objects might converse fluently or adopt a persona, but most are simple automatons. Constructed Nature. An animated object doesn't require air, food, drink, or sleep

creators to ride them, in which case they behave like typical brooms of flying. A broom of animated attack, however, can carry only half the weight that a broom of flying can.Poison, Psychic

Verbeeg Marauder

Monsters Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden

used to make a ranged attack or used with two hands to make a melee attack.Verbeeg are giants that resemble oversized humans with gangly limbs and elongated faces. Some have other features that give them

themselves like brigands, robbing people they come across in the wild. If food is scarce, they kill those same people and eat them. They prefer to dwell in forlorn places, often sharing territory with

Swarm of Scarabs

Monsters Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft

","rollDamageType":"piercing"} piercing damage at the start of each of its turns. Any creature can use an action to kill or remove the scarabs with fire or a weapon that deals piercing damage, causing 1 damage of

manifest. Swarm Behavior d4 Behavior 1 Crawls on walls in a vaguely bipedal shape 2 Makes skittering noises that sound like whispered chanting 3 Skeletal visages, giant

Catoblepas

Monsters Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse

Stench. Any creature other than a catoblepas that starts its turn within 10 feet of the catoblepas must succeed on a DC 16 Constitution saving throw or be poisoned until the start of the creature

succeed on a DC 16 Constitution saving throw or be stunned until the start of the catoblepas’s next turn. Death Ray (Recharge 5–6);{"diceNotation":"1d6", "rollType":"recharge", "rollAction

Halfling Legacy

Species Basic Rules (2014)

a while?” Elves. “They’re so beautiful! Their faces, their music, their grace and all. It’s like they stepped out of a wonderful dream. But there’s no telling what&rsquo

;s going on behind their smiling faces—surely more than they ever let on.” Humans. “Humans are a lot like us, really. At least some of them are. Step out of the castles and keeps

Dire Corby

Monsters Mordenkainen's Fiendish Folio Volume 1

unable to use the Dash action, cannot climb, or cast spells other than cantrips until the start of its next turn. Keen Hearing. The dire corby has advantage on Wisdom (Perception) checks that rely on

predictable patterns of movement like migrating birds. They strip a region bare of the lichens, fungus, and vermin that comprise their diet before moving on to a fresh feeding ground. Underdark

Thanoi Hunter

Monsters Monstrous Compendium Vol. 2: Dragonlance Creatures

", "rollAction":"Tusk"} to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 6 (1d4 + 4);{"diceNotation":"1d4+4", "rollType":"damage", "rollAction":"Tusk", "rollDamageType":"slashing"} slashing damage.Thanoi are walrus-like

together to take down monsters far larger than themselves, including remorhaz;remorhazes and white dragons.Cold

Eliphas Adulare

Monsters Keys from the Golden Vault

that rely on smell.Multiattack. In bear form, Eliphas makes two claw attacks. In humanoid form, he makes two greataxe attacks. In hybrid form, he can attack like a bear or a humanoid. Bite (Bear or

werebear who can adopt the form of a polar bear.Bludgeoning, Piercing, and Slashing from Nonmagical Attacks that aren't Silvered

Bronze Sable

Monsters Mythic Odysseys of Theros

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 guardians. A few

are guarded by ancient monsters. Constructed Nature. An anvilwrought doesn't require air, food, drink, or sleep.Fire, Poison

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