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Spells
Player’s Handbook
portal is open on only one side (you choose which). Anything entering the open side of a portal exits from the open side of the other portal as if the two were adjacent to each other. As a Bonus Action, you can change the facing of the open sides.
Magic Items
Dungeon Master’s Guide
linked to planes determined by the DM.
The cube has 3 charges and regains 1d3 expended charges daily at dawn. As a Magic action, you can expend 1 of the cube’s charges to cast one of the
following spells using the cube.
Gate. Pressing one side of the cube, you cast Gate, opening a portal to the plane of existence keyed to that side.
Plane Shift. Pressing one side of the cube twice, you cast Plane Shift, transporting the targets to the plane of existence keyed to that side.
Magic Items
Dungeon Master’s Guide
This gold coin has a creature embossed on each side. The two depicted creatures must be famous rivals or enemies of each other. For example, a Rival Coin might show Iggwilv the Witch Queen;Iggwilv on
one side and Mordenkainen on the other, or Venger on one side and Tiamat on the other. One of these figures is on the “heads” side of the coin, the other on the “tails” side
Spells
Player’s Handbook
The touch of your shadow-wreathed hand can siphon life force from others to heal your wounds. Make a melee spell attack against one creature within reach. On a hit, the target takes 3d6 Necrotic
damage, and you regain Hit Points equal to half the amount of Necrotic damage dealt.
Until the spell ends, you can make the attack again on each of your turns as a Magic action, targeting the same
Spells
Player’s Handbook
Until the spell ends, you control any water inside an area you choose that is a Cube up to 100 feet on a side, using one of the following effects. As a Magic action on your later turns, you can
instead create a 20-foot tall wave that travels from one side of the area to the other and then crashes. Any Huge or smaller vehicles in the wave’s path are carried with it to the other side. Any
Magic Items
Dungeon Master’s Guide
go underwater to a depth of 900 feet. Below that, the vehicle takes 2d6 Bludgeoning damage each minute from pressure.
A creature in the compartment can take a Utilize action to move as many as two of
unable to benefit from bonuses to speed.
2
Forward window shutter opens.
Forward window shutter closes.
3
Side window shutters open (two per side).
Side window shutters close (two per
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
;luck of the halflings” in action. When a halfling is in mortal danger, an unseen force seems to intervene on the halfling’s behalf. Many halflings believe in the power of luck, and they
Magic Items
Dungeon Master’s Guide
This backpack has a central pouch and two side pouches, each of which is an extradimensional space. Each side pouch can hold up to 200 pounds of material, not exceeding a volume of 25 cubic feet. The
requires a Utilize action or a Bonus Action (your choice). When you reach into the haversack for a specific item, the item is always magically on top.
If any of its pouches is overloaded, pierced, or
Magic Items
Dungeon Master’s Guide
a single door at ground level on the side facing you. The door opens only at your command, which you can issue as a Bonus Action. It is immune to the Knock spell and similar magic.
Magic prevents the
As a Magic action, you can place this 1-inch adamantine statuette on the ground and, using a command word, cause it to grow rapidly into a square adamantine tower. Repeating the command word causes
Monsters
Monster Manual
Legendary Resistance (3/Day, or 4/Day in Lair). If the dracolich fails a saving throw, it can choose to succeed instead.
Life Suppression. Creatures within 60 feet of the dracolich can’t
version) 1/Day Each: Create Undead (level 8 version), Finger of DeathLegendary Action Uses: 3 (4 in Lair). Immediately after another creature’s turn, the dracolich can expend a use to take one of
Magic Items
Dungeon Master’s Guide
.
Raise Dead. As a Magic action, you can cause the cauldron to grow large enough for a Medium creature to crouch within. You can revert the cauldron to its normal size as a Magic action, harmlessly
) for at least 8 hours, the salt is consumed and the creature returns to life as if by Raise Dead at the next dawn. Once used, this property can’t be used again for 7 days.
Monsters
Monster Manual
either an action or a Bonus Action on its turn, not both. Success: Half damage only.
Enervation Ray. Constitution Saving Throw: DC 17. Failure: 16 (3d10);{"diceNotation":"3d10", "rollType":"damage
). Failure: The target has the Unconscious condition for 1 minute. The condition ends if the target takes damage or a creature within 5 feet of it takes an action to wake it.
Petrification Ray
Magic Items
Dungeon Master’s Guide
This robe has cloth patches of various shapes and colors covering it. While wearing the robe, you can take a Magic action to detach one of the patches, causing it to become the object or creature it
100 GP
09–15
Silver coffer (1 foot long, 6 inches wide and deep) worth 500 GP
16–22
Iron door (up to 10 feet wide and 10 feet high, barred on one side of your choice), which
Monsters
Monster Manual
Action Uses: 3 (4 in Lair). Immediately after another creature’s turn, the vampire can expend a use to take one of the following actions. The vampire regains all expended uses at the start of each
of its turns.
Beguile. The vampire casts Command, requiring no spell components and using Charisma as the spellcasting ability (spell save DC 18). The vampire can’t take this action again until
Magic Items
Dungeon Master’s Guide
).
Call Undead. While holding the wand, you can take a Magic action to conjure 15 Skeleton;Skeletons and 15 Zombie;Zombies. These Undead magically rise up from the ground or otherwise form in
skull surmounts it. For this to happen, the long-lost hero must first be restored to life—no easy task, given the fact that Orcus has imprisoned the hero’s soul and keeps it hidden and well
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
height above it.
Drain Life. When you hit a creature with a melee attack using the rod, you can force the target to make a DC 17 Constitution saving throw. On a failed save, the target takes an extra
Magic Items
Dungeon Master’s Guide
disappears, your Attunement to it ends immediately, and you lose all benefits granted by it. If you die while attuned to the book, an entity of great evil claims your soul. You can’t be restored to life
person, you can take a Magic action to recite words from its pages in a foul, dead language. Each time you do so, you take 1d12 Psychic damage, and each creature within 15 feet of you takes 3d6 Psychic
Monsters
Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
their foes. In battle, they steal the essence of their enemies to heal their own wounds and create spears of sickly green life-draining energy.
Witherbloom teachers who espouse the decaying side of the
until the start of the professor’s next turn.
Essence Pulse (Recharge 5–6);{"diceNotation":"1d6","rollType":"recharge","rollAction":"Essence Pulse"}. The professor creates a life-draining
Monsters
Acquisitions Incorporated
for the previous life in a karmic-ledger kind of way. His current incarnation embraces the good side. Mostly. Except for that occasional toxic bitterness. Oh, and the misanthropy. Actually, if you end up hating this guy, it's probably not your fault.
different person with each of his reincarnations, flipping between neutral good and neutral evil. His memories of past lives have been fractured by his many deaths, but he spends each new life accounting
Monsters
Curse of Strahd
furnishings have been bolted to the floor, since the hut lurches from side to side when it walks.
Heart of the Hut. The gemstone that has given life to Baba Lysaga's hut was previously buried in the
with a semblance of life. When she wills it to do so, the hut pulls its gigantic roots free of the earth and shambles around like a spidery behemoth, shaking the ground with every step. The hut
Monsters
Mythic Odysseys of Theros
Aggressive. As a bonus action, the cerberus can move up to its speed toward a hostile creature that it can see.
Multiheaded. The cerberus can’t be surprised, and it has advantage on saving
as an action, freeing itself or a creature within reach from the rock on a success. The rock has AC 17 and 10 hit points, and it is immune to fire, poison, and psychic damage.Thought to be a lesser
Monsters
The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
Nimble Escape. Jingle Jangle can take the Disengage or Hide action as a bonus action on each of her turns.Flail of Locks. Melee Weapon Attack: +5;{"diceNotation":"1d20+5","rollType":"to hit
undo what she thought was a terrible curse: wherever Jingle Jangle went, she felt a tormenting fear of being caught on the wrong side of a locked door. When she appealed to Bavlorna for aid, the hag
Monsters
Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
conjured poisonous vines to avatars of nature’s wrath.
These professors teach their students to focus on the growth side of the natural cycle of life and death and to avoid wasting resources. They
nature through their magic. They brew infusions of plants, fungi, and insects or other minuscule creatures that thrum with the essence of life, using these infusions to fuel their magic instead of using
Monsters
Spelljammer: Adventures in Space
ship, gliding under the keel, and appearing on the opposite side of the ship from where it leapt off.Nimble Escape. The hadozee takes the Disengage or Hide action.
ability comes in handy, as does their ability to glide. A hadozee accustomed to space travel knows how to use a ship’s gravity plane to its advantage in combat, by diving off one side of the
Monsters
Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus
means of freeing Tiamat from her prison in the Nine Hells, but only if the hand doesn't kill him first. The hand is slowly corrupting Arkhan's flesh and decomposing his body on one side.
In battle
many allies as possible. Should one or more of his comrades fall in battle, Arkhan uses revivify and raise dead spells to bring them back to life as soon as possible.
If Arkhan finds himself overwhelmed
Monsters
Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
the spellcasting ability (spell save DC 15):
At will: guidance, mage hand, mending (as an action)
1/day each: creation (as an action), dimension door, mage armor, plant growth, polymorphAvoidant
it is wearing or carrying, up to 30 feet to an unoccupied space it can see.Professors of substance specialize in the concrete side of Quandrix philosophy, manipulating physical dimensions and
Monsters
Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
inside the cube can be seen but have total cover.
A creature within 5 feet of the cube can take an action to pull a creature or object out of the cube. Doing so requires a successful DC 12 Strength
creature must make a DC 12 Dexterity saving throw.
On a successful save, the creature can choose to be pushed 5 feet back or to the side of the cube. A creature that chooses not to be pushed suffers
Monsters
Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
duergar lacks the room to become Large, it attains the maximum size possible in the space available.
Multiattack. As a bonus action, it can make an attack with its javelin. This is in addition to a normal
action.
War Pick. Melee Weapon Attack: +4;{"diceNotation":"1d20+4","rollType":"to hit","rollAction":"War Pick"} to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 6 (1d8 + 2);{"diceNotation":"1d8+2","rollType
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
must succeed on a DC 11 Strength saving throw or be restrained. On its turn, a creature can use an action to try to extricate itself from the sticky puddle, ending the effect and moving into the nearest
uses this bonus action again:
Slippery Oil. The boggle has advantage on Dexterity (Acrobatics) checks made to escape bonds and end grapples, and it can move through openings large enough for a Tiny
Monsters
Tales from the Yawning Portal
Amphibious. The nereid can breathe air and water.
Aquatic Invisibility. If immersed in water, the nereid can make itself invisible as a bonus action. It remains invisible until it leaves the water
, ends the invisibility as a bonus action, or dies.
Mantle Dependent. The nereid wears a mantle of silky cloth the color of sea foam, which holds the creature’s spirit. The mantle has an AC and
Monsters
Out of the Abyss
inside the cube can be seen but have total cover.
A creature within 5 feet of the cube can take an action to pull a creature or object out of the cube. Doing so requires a successful DC 12 Strength
choose to be pushed 5 feet back or to the side of the cube. A creature that chooses not to be pushed suffers the consequences of a failed saving throw.
On a failed save, the cube enters the creature's
Monsters
Monstrous Compendium Vol. 1: Spelljammer Creatures
’t make Cling attacks. The parasite can detach itself by spending 5 feet of its movement. As an action, a creature within reach of the parasite can try to detach it, doing so with a successful
DC 14 Strength check.
Consume Life. The parasite deals 12 (3d6 + 2);{"diceNotation":"3d6+2","rollType":"damage","rollAction":"Consume Life","rollDamageType":"necrotic"} necrotic damage to one creature
Magic Items
Tomb of Annihilation
regains 1d4 + 3 expended charges daily at dawn. While holding the staff, you can use an action to expend 1 charge and target one creature you can see within 60 feet of you. The target must succeed on
, remove curse, or similar spell ends the curse on the target.
The Forgotten One. The bodiless life force of a dead archmage empowers the staff and is imprisoned within it. The rune carved into the
Monsters
The Book of Many Things
successful save, the creature chooses the side. The wall disappears when the medusa uses this lair action again or when the medusa dies.
Undulating Surface. Solid surfaces within the lair ripple like a snake
legendary action at a time and only at the end of another creature’s turn. The medusa regains spent legendary actions at the start of its turn.
Move. The medusa moves up to its speed without
Monsters
Curse of Strahd
Shapechanger. Baba Lysaga can use an action to polymorph into a swarm of insects (flies), or back into her true form. While in swarm form, she has a walking speed of 5 feet and a flying speed of 30
feet of Baba Lysaga and acts as her ally. It remains until it dies or until Baba Lysaga dismisses it as an action.Two women gave life to Strahd von Zarovich. The first was Queen Ravenovia van Roeyen






