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Spells
Player’s Handbook
time on a turn or starts its turn there makes a Charisma saving throw. On a failed save, a creature can’t speak a deliberate lie while in the radius. You know whether a creature succeeds or
fails on this save.
An affected creature is aware of the spell and can avoid answering questions to which it would normally respond with a lie. Such a creature can be evasive yet must be truthful.
Spells
Player’s Handbook
another creature. Then speak the message, which must be 25 words or fewer, though it can be delivered over as long as 10 minutes. Finally, determine the circumstance that will trigger the spell to deliver
that looks like a mouth (for example, the mouth of a statue), the magical mouth appears there, so the words appear to come from the object’s mouth. When you cast this spell, you can have the
Spells
Player’s Handbook
looks and sounds like you, but it is intangible. If the illusion takes any damage, it disappears, and the spell ends.
You can see through the illusion’s eyes and hear through its ears as if you
were in its space. As a Magic action, you can move it up to 60 feet and make it gesture, speak, and behave in whatever way you choose. It mimics your mannerisms perfectly.
Physical interaction with the
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
Fates card can end this curse.
Fates. Reality’s fabric unravels and spins anew, allowing you to avoid or erase one event as if it never happened. You can use the card’s magic as soon as
Monsters
Spelljammer: Adventures in Space
, animated dolls with mask-like faces, spindly limbs, and wild hair. They don’t have names and can’t speak.
Chwingas normally avoid other creatures, but they find the trappings of civilization
glittering spores, a statuette resembling its former self, a chunk of ice, or a sponge shaped like a dodecahedron (DM’s choice).Magical Gift (1/Day). The chwinga targets a Humanoid it can see
Magic Items
Acquisitions Incorporated
wilderness or into a lake. But it has no knowledge of or ability to help you avoid monsters, enemies, traps, locked doors, and the like.
The timepiece is of no use for reaching locations that are
location, a disembodied voice heard only by you provides directions to the location by the safest, most direct route. The voice knows to avoid natural hazards, so that it does not send you through trackless
Monsters
Monstrous Compendium Vol. 4: Eldraine Creatures
Can’t Catch Me. The gingerbrute has advantage on any ability checks or saving throws it makes to avoid or end the grappled or the restrained condition on itself.
Sweet Victory. Once the
wicked cauldrons.
The same magic that animates a gingerbrute also makes it extra scrumptious. Those who have eaten a gingerbrute report feeling a burst of energy like a long-lasting sugar rush.
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Monsters
The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
Speak with Beasts and Plants. Amidor can communicate with Beasts and Plants as if it shared a language with them.Rapier. Melee Weapon Attack: +4;{"diceNotation":"1d20+4","rollType":"to hit
tears as faeries collect morning dew. Let me lift your spirits like a seed on the breeze!”
Ideal. “The pursuit of true love compels me! Never shall I wilt if I have such a cause to champion
Monsters
Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
attacks). They have the following druid spells prepared:
Cantrips (at will): druidcraft, produce flame, shillelagh
1st level (4 slots): entangle, longstrider, speak with animals, thunderwave
2nd level
hair. Like the elven god Corellon Larethian, Fala is neither male nor female. If referred to as “he” or “she,” Fala gently requests to be addressed by name or as “they.”
Monsters
Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
the creature’s next turn.
A creature can avert its eyes to avoid the saving throw at the start of its turn. If the creature does so, it can’t see the golem until the start of its next
on itself on a success.Crystal golems found throughout the Crystal Labyrinth look like 10-foot-tall githyanki warriors. Like other golems, they are nearly impervious to spells and ordinary weapons.Poison, Psychic; Bludgeoning, Piercing, and Slashing from Nonmagical Attacks that aren't Adamantine
Magic Items
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
This magic flail is made in the image of Tiamat, with five jagged heads shaped like the heads of five different chromatic dragons. You gain a +3 bonus to attack and damage rolls made with this flail
, you can use an action and speak a command word to cause the heads to breathe multicolored flames in a 90-foot cone. Each creature in that area must make a DC 18 Dexterity saving throw. On a failed
Monsters
Storm King's Thunder
talking. When he does speak outside of combat, he comes across as surprisingly calm and soft-spoken. While swinging his axe in battle, however, he bellows and laughs like a berserker.
Harshnag knows the
occasion. Believed to be hundreds of years old, Harshnag wanders the wilderness with greataxe in hand, seeking to lay low his evil giant brethren.
Harshnag looks like a typical frost giant except
Monsters
Candlekeep Mysteries
by the nature of its wolf form, and it can’t speak, cast spells, or take any other action that requires hands or speech. The target’s gear melds into the new form, and it can’t
activate, use, wield, or otherwise benefit from any of its equipment.In normal circumstances, the avatar of Lurue is a breathtaking sight; her silver, stardust-like mane, her shimmering hooves, and her
Monsters
Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
keep them roaming the wilds for years after their murderers are slain.
A frostmourn looks like a desiccated corpse mummified by exposure to bitter cold. It carries the marks of its death on its body: a
wound that seeps frosty vapor or vibrant, purple veins showing the ravages of poison. It can momentarily dissolve its body into a swirling blizzard to avoid harm, reforming at a distance to continue its assault.Cold, PoisonFire
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
DC 12):
At will: druidcraft, guidance
2/day each: cure wounds, hold person, speak with animals, thunderwaveMany tortles view the world as a place of wonder. They live for the chance to hear a soft
around them.
Tortles
Tortles are omnivorous, turtle-like bipeds with shells that cover most of their bodies. Because they carry their homes on their backs, tortles feel little need to stay put for
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
damage on a successful one.Frost salamanders are natives of the Plane of Ice, also called the Frostfell, which rests between the Plane of Air and the Plane of Water. Frost salamanders especially like to
them to attack expeditions and settlements that other predators would avoid, as they often mistake the fire of a forge or a campfire for a large, tasty meal. azer;Azers (see the Monster Manual) use this
Monsters
Storm King's Thunder
: “Make fun of me all you like, but don’t speak ill of my inn or my employees!”
Flaw: “When something upsets me, I have a tendency to fly into a rage.”
Magic Items
The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
11, and a Charisma of 15. It can see and hear out to a range of 60 feet. The sword can speak, read, and understand Common and Draconic. It frets over your well-being while you are attuned to it, and it doesn’t like to back down from a fight.
Magic Items
Tales from the Yawning Portal
Intelligence of 12, a Wisdom of 2, and a Charisma of 14. It has hearing and darkvision out to a range of 120 feet.
The weapon can speak and understand Giant and Common, and it can communicate telepathically
with its wielder.
Personality. This sword believes in freedom and allowing others to live as they see fit. It is protective of its friends, and wants to be friends with a like-minded wielder. (It takes
Magic Items
Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything
speak the command word. The needle turns into ink that becomes the tattoo, which appears on the skin in whatever design you like. Once the tattoo is there, you can cast its spell, requiring no material
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
guarding its young.
A catoblepas’s stink, like the stench of death mixed with swamp gas and skunk musk, gives it away as being much more ghastly than its appearance suggests. When it is on the
. Degenerate creatures are likely to take up residence near a catoblepas’s territory, as are those seeking to avoid notice.
Catoblepases in Folklore
Ordinary folk rarely see a catoblepas, but
Magic Items
Princes of the Apocalypse
A war pick forged from a single piece of iron, Ironfang has a fang-like head inscribed with ancient runes. The pick is heavy in the hand, but when the wielder swings the pick in anger, the weapon
Ironfang:
You can speak Terran fluently.
You have resistance to acid damage.
You have tremorsense out to a range of 60 feet.
You can sense the presence of precious metals and stones within 60 feet of
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
(3d10);{"diceNotation":"3d10", "rollType":"damage", "rollAction":"Death Gaze", "rollDamageType":"psychic"} psychic damage on a failed save.
Unless surprised, a creature can avert its eyes to avoid
recall anything a bodak sees or hears. If he so chooses, he can speak through a bodak to address his enemies and followers directly.
A bodak retains vague impressions of its past life. It seeks out its
Monsters
Thieves’ Gallery
Fey Ancestry. Simon has advantage on saving throws he makes to avoid or end the charmed condition on himself, and magic can’t put him to sleep.
Special Equipment. Simon carries a bag of
Handbook. On a roll of 2 or higher, Simon casts one of the following spells, using Charisma as the spellcasting ability (spell save DC 14):
At will: mage hand, minor illusion, prestidigitation, speak
Monsters
Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse
portals and paths connected to goodly realms. They have powerfully built, bipedal bodies with the heads of great bears and eyes like pools of silvery light. When warden archons speak, glimmering
safeguard those threatened by wicked forces. Archons are skilled communicators, able to speak all the languages of the multiverse. When pushed into combat, they prefer to subdue foes. However, against Fiends
Monsters
The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
time to time. He isn’t terribly bright, which is why he leaves the plotting and scheming to others.
What does Warduke look like under his dread helm? No one knows. He never removes his helmet to
reveal his face to others, but the visage beneath is that of a grim, hideously scarred gladiator.
Alignment. Chaotic evil.
Personality Trait. “I speak with the flames and razor-sharp edges of
Monsters
Mythic Odysseys of Theros
—mortals communicate with a single god, interpreting their intentions for the wider world. Others aren’t aligned with a god and observe the night sky, reading Nyx like a vast, cryptic scroll
for insights.
Divine Influence. Just as oracles seek insights from interpreting the divine, so too do gods occasionally seek to manipulate the world through oracles. Sometimes a god might speak
Magic Items
Guildmasters’ Guide to Ravnica
.
When you use an action to speak the item’s command word and place the keyrune on the ground in an unoccupied space within 5 feet of you, the keyrune transforms into a creature. If there isn’t
hostile to you). It understands your languages and obeys your spoken commands. If you issue no commands, the creature takes the Dodge action and moves to avoid danger.
The creature exists for a duration
Monsters
Spelljammer: Adventures in Space
Fey Ancestry. The elf has advantage on saving throws it makes to avoid or end the charmed condition on itself, and magic can’t put it to sleep.
Unusual Nature. The elf doesn’t require
are fashioned from crystals harvested from Wildspace systems and bound together with an organic, plant-based material that hardens like ceramic. The elves sculpt these substances in various
Monsters
Monstrous Compendium Vol. 1: Spelljammer Creatures
connected to one another.
False Appearance. If the yggdrasti is motionless and rooted in the ground at the start of combat, it looks just like a dead tree and has advantage on its initiative roll. Moreover
Tree, yggdrasti look like gigantic, dead trees covered with barnacles. They fly through Wildspace and the Astral Sea with their topmost branches leading the way and their withered roots trailing behind
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
speak any languages but can approximate words and sentences it hears, mimicking them in a high-pitched, mocking manner. Beholders find gazers amusing and tolerate their presence like spoiled pets. Some
follows its creator like a devoted, aggressive puppy, and sometimes small packs of these creatures patrol their master’s lair for vermin to kill and lone creatures to harass.
A gazer can’t
Monsters
Spelljammer: Adventures in Space
"} radiant damage.
Spellcasting (Psionics). The aartuk casts one of the following spells, requiring no spell components and using Wisdom as the spellcasting ability:
1/day each: revivify, speak
found throughout Wildspace, including aboard spelljamming ships whose former crews were either murdered or forcibly ejected by a band of aartuks.
An aartuk’s body is shaped like a five-pointed
Magic Items
Tyranny of Dragons
This horned mask of glossy ebony has horns and a skull-like mien. The mask reshapes to fit the face and head of a wearer attuned to it. While you are wearing the mask and attuned to it, you gain the
. You can speak and understand Draconic. You also have advantage on any Charisma check you make against black dragons.
Legendary Resistance (1/Day). If you fail a saving throw, you can choose to succeed instead.
Water Breathing. You can breathe underwater.
Magic Items
Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything
Produced by a special needle, this magic tattoo features beautiful calligraphy, images of writing implements, and the like.
Tattoo Attunement. To attune to this item, you hold the needle to your
fingertip as if it were an ink pen that never runs out of ink.
As an action, you can touch a piece of writing up to one page in length and speak a creature’s name. The writing becomes invisible to
Monsters
Candlekeep Mysteries
"} to hit with spell attacks). K’Tulah has the following druid spells prepared:
Cantrips (at will): druidcraft, produce flame, shillelagh
1st level (4 slots): entangle, longstrider, speak with
collected painstakingly over the past decade is my pride and joy.”
Flaw. “I don’t like feeling trapped.”






