must shifting with only above from for life

Nine Lives Stealer

Magic Items Dungeon Master’s Guide

this weapon and roll a 20 on the d20 for the attack roll, the creature must succeed on a DC 15 Constitution saving throw or be slain instantly as the sword tears its life force from its body. Constructs

You gain a +2 bonus to attack rolls and damage rolls made with this magic weapon. Life Stealing. The weapon has 1d8 + 1 charges. When you attack a creature that has fewer than 100 Hit Points with

Robe of Scintillating Colors

Magic Items Dungeon Master’s Guide

This robe has 3 charges, and it regains 1d3 expended charges daily at dawn. While you wear it, you can take a Magic action and expend 1 charge to cause the garment to display a shifting pattern of

on attack rolls against you. Any creature in the Bright Light that can see you when the robe’s power is activated must succeed on a DC 15 Wisdom saving throw or have the Stunned condition until the effect ends.

Speak with Dead

Spells Player’s Handbook

You grant the semblance of life to a corpse of your choice within range, allowing it to answer questions you pose. The corpse must have a mouth, and this spell fails if the deceased creature was

it knew in life, including the languages it knew. Answers are usually brief, cryptic, or repetitive, and the corpse is under no compulsion to offer a truthful answer if you are antagonistic toward it

Shapechange

Spells Player’s Handbook

You shape-shift into another creature for the duration or until you take a Magic action to shape-shift into a different eligible form. The new form must be of a creature that has a Challenge Rating

no higher than your level or Challenge Rating. You must have seen the sort of creature before, and it can’t be a Construct or an Undead. When you cast the spell, you gain a number of Temporary

Night Hag

Monsters Monster Manual

Intelligence as the spellcasting ability (spell save DC 14): Augury, Find Familiar, Identify, Locate Object, Scrying, or Unseen Servant. The hag must finish a Long Rest before using this trait to cast

Ethereal Plane, the hag casts Dream, using the same spellcasting ability as Spellcasting. Only the hag can serve as the spell’s messenger, and the target must be a creature the hag can see on the

Polymorph

Spells Player’s Handbook

You attempt to transform a creature that you can see within range into a Beast. The target must succeed on a Wisdom saving throw or shape-shifting;shape-shift into Beast form for the duration. That

True Polymorph

Spells Player’s Handbook

Choose one creature or nonmagical object that you can see within range. The creature shape-shifting;shape-shifts into a different creature or a nonmagical object, or the object shape-shifts into a

creature (the object must be neither worn nor carried). The transformation lasts for the duration or until the target dies or is destroyed, but if you maintain Concentration on this spell for the full

Dracolich

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

turn.Dracolich Lairs A dracolich lurks in a corrupted version of the lair it had in life. The region containing a dracolich’s lair is warped by its presence, creating the following effects: Sapping Mist

Dracolich (Gargantuan)

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

turn.Dracolich Lairs A dracolich lurks in a corrupted version of the lair it had in life. The region containing a dracolich’s lair is warped by its presence, creating the following effects: Sapping Mist

Wand of Orcus

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

from it (save DC 18). The table indicates how many charges you must expend to cast the spell. Spell Charge Cost Animate Dead 1 Blight 2 Circle of Death 3 Finger of

Vampire

Monsters Monster Manual

, 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

sunlight or running water, it shape-shifting;shape-shifts into a Tiny bat (Speed 5 ft., Fly Speed 30 ft.) or a Medium cloud of mist (Speed 5 ft., Fly Speed 20 ft. [hover]), or it returns to its vampire

Death Tyrant

Monsters Monster Manual

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

lair feel as if they’re being watched. Any creature (excluding the death tyrant and its allies) that finishes a Short Rest while within 1 mile of the lair must succeed on a DC 15 Wisdom saving

Blackrazor

Magic Items Dungeon Master’s Guide

creature whose soul has been devoured by Blackrazor can be restored to life only by a Wish spell. When Blackrazor devours a soul that isn’t yours, you gain Temporary Hit Points equal to the slain

. Blackrazor’s hunger for souls must be regularly fed. If the sword goes 3 days or more without consuming a soul, a conflict between it and its wielder occurs at the next sunset. Destroying

Vampire Umbral Lord

Monsters Monster Manual

create sanctuaries apart from the living, whether hidden in cosmopolitan cities or sequestered in ruins where they dwelled in life. The region containing a vampire’s lair is warped by its presence

mile of the lair must succeed on a DC 15 Wisdom saving throw or gain no benefit from that rest. Mists. The area within 1 mile of the lair is Lightly Obscured by a persistent, creeping fog. The vampire

Deck of Many Things

Magic Items Dungeon Master’s Guide

column of the Deck of Many Things table when randomly determining cards drawn from the deck. Before you draw a card, you must declare how many cards you intend to draw and then draw them randomly. Any

cards drawn in excess of this number have no effect. Otherwise, as soon as you draw a card from the deck, its magic takes effect. You must draw each card no more than 1 hour after the previous draw. If

Book of Vile Darkness

Magic Items Dungeon Master’s Guide

book must spend 80 hours reading and studying it to digest its contents and use its Adjusted Ability Scores, Tireless Form, Spells, Vile Lore, and Vile Speech properties. The Book of Vile Darkness

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

Dhampir

Species Astarion's Book of Hungers

Dhampirs are living people who possess vampiric prowess but are cursed with macabre hunger. Most dhampirs thirst for blood, but some gain sustenance from dreams, life energy, or other vital sources

. Dhampirs must choose whether to fight to control their hunger or give in to predatory urges. Dhampirs often arise from encounters with vampires; some are the descendants of a powerful vampire, while

Purple Dragon Squire

Backgrounds Forgotten Realms: Heroes of Faerûn

Tools, Fine Clothes, 9 GP; or (B) 50 GP You’ve pledged your life to the safety of Cormyr and sought admission to that realm’s order of elite warriors: the Purple Dragon Knights. But before

you have the chance to join the ranks officially, you must first serve as a knight’s squire. You’ve found a liege willing to take you on and teach you the order’s ways. Will you

Shadowmasters Exile

Backgrounds Forgotten Realms: Heroes of Faerûn

; Tools, Caltrops, Costume, Grappling Hook, Iron Spikes, Mirror, 2 Pouches, Rope, Traveler’s Clothes, 3 GP; or (B) 50 GP You trained your whole life to become a member of the Shadowmasters, the

ruthlessness to ensure the safety of the guild’s secrets. But one wrong move led to your expulsion from the order. Now you must walk your own path.

Robe of Scintillating Colors Legacy

Magic Items Basic Rules (2014)

This robe has 3 charges, and it regains 1d3 expended charges daily at dawn. While you wear it, you can use an action and expend 1 charge to cause the garment to display a shifting pattern of dazzling

rolls against you. In addition, any creature in the bright light that can see you when the robe's power is activated must succeed on a DC 15 Wisdom saving throw or become stunned until the effect ends.

Speak with Dead Legacy

Spells Basic Rules (2014)

You grant the semblance of life and intelligence to a corpse of your choice within range, allowing it to answer the questions you pose. The corpse must still have a mouth and can't be undead. The

spell fails if the corpse was the target of this spell within the last 10 days. Until the spell ends, you can ask the corpse up to five questions. The corpse knows only what it knew in life, including

Wight Legacy

Monsters Basic Rules (2014)

, reach 5 ft., one creature. Hit: 5 (1d6 + 2);{"diceNotation":"1d6+2","rollType":"damage","rollAction":"Life Drain","rollDamageType":"necrotic"} necrotic damage. The target must succeed on a DC 13

two longbow attacks. It can use its Life Drain in place of one longsword attack. Life Drain. Melee Weapon Attack: +4;{"diceNotation":"1d20+4","rollType":"to hit","rollAction":"Life Drain"} to hit

Fire Storm Legacy

Spells Basic Rules (2014)

A storm made up of sheets of roaring flame appears in a location you choose within range. The area of the storm consists of up to ten 10-foot cubes, which you can arrange as you wish. Each cube must

have at least one face adjacent to the face of another cube. Each creature in the area must make a Dexterity saving throw. It takes 7d10 fire damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a

Shifter

Species Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse

they can temporarily enhance their animalistic features by entering a state they call shifting. Shifters are similar to humans in height and build but are typically more lithe and flexible. Their

choose the kind of lycanthrope in your past, or you can determine it randomly by rolling on the Lycanthrope Ancestor table. The table also provides a suggestion for the Shifting option you might have

Staff of the Forgotten One

Magic Items Tomb of Annihilation

force tries to possess the staff wielder. The wielder must succeed on a DC 20 Charisma saving throw or be possessed, becoming an NPC under the DM’s control. If the intruding life force is targeted

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

Will-o'-Wisp Legacy

Monsters Basic Rules (2014)

Consume Life. As a bonus action, the will-o'-wisp can target one creature it can see within 5 feet of it that has 0 hit points and is still alive. The target must succeed on a DC 10 Constitution

saving throw against this magic or die. If the target dies, the will-o'-wisp regains 10 (3d6);{"diceNotation":"3d6","rollType":"roll","rollAction":"Consume Life"} hit points. Ephemeral. The will-o'-wisp

Mirror Image Legacy

Spells Basic Rules (2014)

Three illusory duplicates of yourself appear in your space. Until the spell ends, the duplicates move with you and mimic your actions, shifting position so it's impossible to track which image is

one of your duplicates. If you have three duplicates, you must roll a 6 or higher to change the attack's target to a duplicate. With two duplicates, you must roll an 8 or higher. With one duplicate

Hoard Mimic

Monsters Fizban's Treasury of Dragons

, that creature must succeed on a DC 18 Intelligence (Investigation) check to discern that the mimic is animate.Multiattack. The mimic makes one Bite attack and two Pseudopod attacks. Bite. Melee Weapon

mist of acid in a 30-foot cone. Each creature in that area must make a DC 14 Dexterity saving throw. On a failed save, the creature takes 27 (6d8);{"diceNotation":"6d8", "rollType":"damage", "rollAction

Specter Legacy

Monsters Basic Rules (2014)

);{"diceNotation":"3d6","rollType":"damage","rollAction":"Life Drain","rollDamageType":"necrotic"} necrotic damage. The target must succeed on a DC 10 Constitution saving throw or its hit point maximum is

(Perception) checks that rely on sight.Life Drain. Melee Spell Attack: +4;{"diceNotation":"1d20+4","rollType":"to hit","rollAction":"Life Drain"} to hit, reach 5 ft., one creature. Hit: 10 (3d6

True Resurrection Legacy

Spells Basic Rules (2014)

You touch a creature that has been dead for no longer than 200 years and that died for any reason except old age. If the creature's soul is free and willing, the creature is restored to life with all

limbs. If the creature was undead, it is restored to its non-undead form. The spell can even provide a new body if the original no longer exists, in which case you must speak the creature's name. The creature then appears in an unoccupied space you choose within 10 feet of you.

Oath of Redemption (XGtE)

Classes Xanathar's Guide to Everything

. Violence is a weapon of last resort. Diplomacy and understanding are the paths to long-lasting peace. Innocence. All people begin life in an innocent state, and it is their environment or

;Change takes time. Those who have walked the path of the wicked must be given reminders to keep them honest and true. Once you have planted the seed of righteousness in a creature, you must work day

Cloaker Legacy

Monsters Basic Rules (2014)

feet of the cloaker that can hear its moan and that isn't an aberration must succeed on a DC 13 Wisdom saving throw or become frightened until the end of the cloaker's next turn. If a creature's saving

itself if it isn't in bright light. The duplicates move with it and mimic its actions, shifting position so as to make it impossible to track which cloaker is the real one. If the cloaker is ever in

Animated Breath (Poison Form)

Monsters Fizban's Treasury of Dragons

Putrid Aura (Acid and Poison Forms Only). A creature that starts its turn within 5 feet of the animated breath must succeed on a DC 15 Constitution saving throw or be poisoned until the start of its

animated lightning breath is a constantly shifting form of crackling lightning, and it can suddenly vanish from one place to reappear in another, striking like a bolt from the blue.Poison

Wraith Legacy

Monsters Basic Rules (2014)

);{"diceNotation":"4d8+3","rollType":"damage","rollAction":"Life Drain","rollDamageType":"necrotic"} necrotic damage. The target must succeed on a DC 14 Constitution saving throw or its hit point maximum is

(Perception) checks that rely on sight.Life Drain. Melee Weapon Attack: +6;{"diceNotation":"1d20+6","rollType":"to hit","rollAction":"Life Drain"} to hit, reach 5 ft., one creature. Hit: 21 (4d8 + 3

Barrowghast

Monsters Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants

Stench. Any creature that starts its turn within 10 feet of the barrowghast must make a DC 16 Constitution saving throw. On a failed save, the creature has the poisoned condition for 1 minute. While

attacks. It can replace one Slam attack with a Life Drain attack. Slam. Melee Weapon Attack: +8;{"diceNotation":"1d20+8", "rollType":"to hit", "rollAction":"Slam"} to hit, reach 10 ft., one target

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