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Player’s Handbook
precious few memories of life before you took up arms. Battle is in your blood. Sometimes you catch yourself reflexively performing the basic fighting exercises you learned first. Eventually, you put that training to use on the battlefield, protecting the realm by waging war.
Monsters
Monster Manual
. Constitution Saving Throw: DC 17. First Failure: The target has the Restrained condition and repeats the save at the end of its next turn if it is still Restrained, ending the effect on itself on a success
Underdark, in the tunnel-mazes they occupied in life or in the lairs of enemy beholders they conquered. These lairs are devoid of life, as death tyrants change their servants into Undead horrors.
The
Magic Items
Dungeon Master’s Guide
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
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
subterranean horrors. Inspired by those tales, dwarves of any culture often sing of valorous deeds—especially of the little overcoming the mighty.
On some worlds in the multiverse, the first settlements
Monsters
Mythic Odysseys of Theros
of life and joy. Although these demons can strike down most foes, they prefer to let terror and despair overtake their victims first, letting their victims marinate in fear before the fiend devours
them.
Twister of Wills. Being obsessed with wealth and dominating lesser beings, eaters of hope hoard treasure for the sole purpose of tempting and manipulating mortals. They revel in using creatures
Monsters
Mythic Odysseys of Theros
wonders and changing the world—but not always for the better. Doomwake giants arise from pernicious fears that infect a whole city or region. If enough mortals dread destruction for long enough, their
terror can manifest as one of these massive Nyxborn beings. Once unleashed, a doomwake giant goes on a rampage, fulfilling the prophecy mortals believed into being. After doing so, these terrors
Magic Items
Curse of Strahd
vampires: he slept during the day and hunted at night, he drank the blood of his prey, and he lived underground. In battle, he wielded a spear stained with blood. His was the first blood spear, a weapon
that drains life from those it kills and transfers that life to its wielder, imbuing that individual with the stamina to keep fighting.
When you hit with a melee attack using this magic spear and
Monsters
Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
appearance of the Humanoid it was in life, while retaining its game statistics. The assumed appearance ends if the haint is reduced to 0 hit points or uses an action to end it.Rising from the
sorrowful dead, haints are spirits that change their shape in tragic imitation of what they once were. A haint can shift from its spectral form to appear as the corporeal Humanoid it was in life, passing as
Monsters
Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
mortals. These fiends spread an affliction that leaches heat and life from the living, dispersing it upon winds that rattle like a gasp from a frozen body. Sunlight staves off the disease, but those affected rarely survive the dark of night.Cold, Poison
Monsters
Mythic Odysseys of Theros
minute or until the overlord loses concentration (as if concentrating on a spell), and its area is lightly obscured and difficult terrain.
Any creature that moves into the area for the first time on a
continue to flock around the demon, offering fealty and squabbling for scraps.
Some foul souls can't let go of the miserable lives they had. Having been despicable in life, these spirits fester in death
Monsters
Mythic Odysseys of Theros
been used as nimble scouts, always on alert for danger.
The first anvilwroughts were created by the god of the forge, Purphoros. He gave the secret of breathing life into these metal creatures to his
sable's allies is within 5 feet of the creature and the ally isn't incapacitated.
Surprise Attack. If the sable surprises a creature and hits it with an attack during the first round of combat, the
Monsters
Mythic Odysseys of Theros
of the dead. Such isn’t the case for mortals, though, and they eagerly set upon those who tread too close to the Underworld’s borders.
Feared by the living and the dead, cerberi patrol
both banks of the Tartyx River. These multiheaded hounds of the Underworld breathe gouts of molten rock that sear and imprison those who trespass upon the borders of life and death. Most cerberi have a
Monsters
Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
fog and muck of the swamp, the students of Witherbloom College—first as apprentices and then as witherbloom pledgemage;pledgemages—study the cycle of life and death. Their magic is fueled
apprentice sees a creature within 30 feet of itself drop to 0 hit points, the apprentice channels the expended life essence and targets another creature it can see within 30 feet of itself. The
Vampiric Mist
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Monsters
Tales from the Yawning Portal
Life Sense. The mist can sense the location of any creature within 60 feet of it, unless that creature’s type is construct or undead.
Forbiddance. The mist can’t enter a residence
":"damage","rollAction":"Life Drain","rollDamageType":"necrotic"} necrotic damage, the mist regains 10 hit points, and the target’s hit point maximum is reduced by an amount equal to the necrotic
Monsters
Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
ward, pass without trace, speak with plantsWither Burst. When the pledgemage sees a creature within 30 feet of itself drop to 0 hit points, the pledgemage channels the expended life essence and targets
its turns, ending the effect on itself on a success.Deep in the fog and muck of the swamp, the students of Witherbloom College—first as witherbloom apprentice;apprentices and then as pledgemages
Monsters
Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
away. Auril instantly reappears in her Auril (Second Form);second form, in an unoccupied space within 60 feet of where her first form disappeared. Her initiative count doesn’t change.
Innate
Frost.First Form
In her first form, Auril appears as a hunched, 7-foot-tall biped with the head of a snowy owl, black talons, cloven hooves, and grayish-white wolf fur covering her body from the neck down
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
;some say by choice. But others claim that she is imprisoned there to punish her for the evils she perpetrated when the gods sought to colonize the First World with their followers.
Mortals who hunger
the end of its next turn.The five-headed progenitor of chromatic dragons, Tiamat embodies the vices of evil dragons. Since the destruction of the First World, she has dwelled in the Nine Hells&mdash
Monsters
The Book of Many Things
reduces the target’s Charisma to 0, the target dies. Until the breath drinker dies, the dead target can’t be returned to life by any means short of divine intervention. On a successful save
causing the creatures to devour themselves.
Cunning stalkers, breath drinkers are usually solitary. Occasionally they serve powerful Far Realm entities or Elder Evils, consuming life and souls for their
Monsters
Mythic Odysseys of Theros
, their minds filled with tales of how life's splendor continues to develop.
The first anvilwroughts were created by the god of the forge, Purphoros. He gave the secret of breathing life into these
":"Hooves","rollDamageType":"fire"} fire damage.Among the first anvilwroughts to be forged by Purphoros, elegant burnished harts wander the mortal realm in search of new sights to bring back to the god of
Monsters
Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
founded the Ulmist Inquisition, an order of psionic inquisitors that seeks to discover the wickedness hiding in people’s souls.
In the days before Count Strahd von Zarovich became the first
to thwart the work of malevolent cults, otherworldly horrors, and the malice of mortals. The zeal of the inquisitors in this work has caused them to be a source of terror in many communities, where
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
that terrorize mortals on the Material Plane by possessing corpses and giving them a semblance of life, after which the demons use them to engage in a range of sordid activities.
In their natural form
Magic Items
Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
terrain doesn’t cost the painted creature extra movement.
Life Rune. The painted creature gains 10 temporary hit points and has advantage on death saving throws.
Light Rune. The painted creature
creature can benefit from only one painted rune at a time, so a new rune painted on a creature has no effect unless the old one is removed first. The rune’s benefits last for 8 hours or until the painted creature uses its action to wipe away the rune.
Monsters
Mythic Odysseys of Theros
miserable lives they had. Having been despicable in life, these spirits fester in death. The worst of these hateful dead, through ages of bitterness, gradually transform into fiends, the tormentors of
distant nightmarish planes. A pit fiend might be interpreted by Theros’s mortals as one of the Underworld’s countless demonic denizens, while a balor meeting a Theros demon on some other
Monsters
Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
she uses this action again.Velomachus Lorehold was the first dragon of Strixhaven to master the magic of order and chaos, the flow and prediction of events through time. Her magic encourages
exploration and discovery through the lens of creating a direct conduit to the past.
She founded Lorehold College to ensure mortals would never forget the lessons of the past. After living for centuries
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
the remains back to a semblance of life in the form of a gnoll witherling.
Witherlings travel with their comrades and try to kill anything in their path. They don’t eat and aren’t motivated
by hunger, leaving more flesh for the rest of the war band.
Gnolls
The first gnolls were hyenas transformed by magic. Many of them were then corrupted by the demon lord Yeenoghu. Whether in
Monsters
Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
days before Count Strahd von Zarovich became the first vampire, Strahd thundered across the lands with Ulmed. Their mission was clear: to destroy the infernal powers that had corrupted the world and to
inquisition sends its members throughout the multiverse, seeking to thwart the work of malevolent cults, otherworldly horrors, and the malice of mortals. The zeal of the inquisitors in this work has caused
Magic Items
Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus
. A creature carrying the coin can use its action to expend 1 charge from a soul coin and use it to do one of the following:
Drain Life. You siphon away some of the soul’s essence and gain 1d10
temporary hit points.
Query. You telepathically ask the soul a question and receive a brief telepathic response, which you can understand. The soul knows only what it knew in life, but it must
Monsters
Mythic Odysseys of Theros
the land while carrying or seeking vital information for their masters.The first anvilwroughts were created by the god of the forge, Purphoros. He gave the secret of breathing life into these metal
Monsters
Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
traveled to the Shadowfell in search of a way to preserve their collapsing empire. Desperate to save themselves and their way of life, they collectively made a bet with the Raven Queen, a mysterious
complexions took on a deep-purple hue. They became the first death giants, and their descendants haunt the Shadowfell to this day, searching both that plane and the Material Plane for souls that might please
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
":"1d6", "rollType":"recharge", "rollAction":"Soul Rend"}. The devourer creates a vortex of life-draining energy in a 20-foot radius centered on itself. Each creature in that area must make a DC 18
replacing all life with everlasting death.
A lesser demon that proves itself to Orcus might be granted the privilege of becoming a devourer. The Prince of Undeath transforms such a demon into an 8-foot
Monsters
Acquisitions Incorporated
trust Omin Dran. Wait, that’s two pieces of advice. You owe me.
Sometimes a goblin can’t catch a break. First, you fall in with a cult that works for the release of a death god. Then
. But as the point goblin for the group known as the Six (see “Factions and Rivals” in chapter 3), he’s made vengeance against Acq Inc and Omin Dran his life’s work. And then the work of his next life. And the one after that.
Monsters
Quests from the Infinite Staircase
webs lie in ambush draped over plant life, wrapped around corpses, or stuck to ossuaries in dark catacombs.
Memory webs feed on memories and require daily sustenance. When a memory web’s prey
draws close, the web springs at the creature and wraps it in sticky, cord-like fibers. The web then drains its victim’s memories, sapping the creature’s life force in the process. A memory web
Monsters
Eberron: Rising from the Last War
roll.Overlords
In the first days of the world, the children of Khyber rose from the darkness to reign over Eberron. The greatest among them were the overlords, who held dominion over a world of fear, war, and
strength as their servants — the fiends known as the Lords of Dust — scheme to unleash their ancient masters. The overlords gain strength when mortals embrace the dark paths laid down for them. And
Monsters
Adventure Atlas: The Mortuary
Aura of Death. Creatures within 30 feet of Skall have disadvantage on death saving throws.
Cosmic Annihilation. A creature killed by Skall can be restored to life only by means of a true
be dispersed by wind. It does not move with him.
Each creature that enters the fog for the first time on a turn or starts its turn there must make a DC 19 Constitution saving throw, taking 28 (8d6
Monsters
Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
before then, it can be restored to life only by a wish spell or by killing the lemure and casting true resurrection on the creature’s original body.Multiattack. The hellion makes two Morningstar
. The devil teaches the giant how to forge with infernal iron and hellfire, enabling the giant to craft weapons that can funnel the souls of the slain to Avernus, the first layer of the Nine Hells. In