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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
Classes
Player’s Handbook
Manipulate Forces of Life and Death
Warriors of Mercy manipulate the life force of others. These Monks are wandering physicians, but they bring a swift end to their enemies. They often wear masks, presenting themselves as faceless bringers of life and death.
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
Classes
Player’s Handbook
Preserve Life and Light in the World
The Oath of the Ancients is as old as the first elves. Paladins who swear this oath cherish the light; they love the beautiful and life-giving things of the
world more than any principles of honor, courage, and justice. They often adorn their armor and clothing with images of growing things—leaves, antlers, or flowers—to reflect their commitment
Spells
Player’s Handbook
One creature that you can see within range must succeed on a Wisdom saving throw or have the Charmed condition for the duration. The creature succeeds automatically if it isn’t Humanoid.
A
spectral crown appears on the Charmed target's head, and it must use its action before moving on each of its turns to make a melee attack against a creature other than itself that you mentally choose
Spells
Player’s Handbook
For the duration, the spell enlarges or reduces a creature or an object you can see within range (see the chosen effect below). A targeted object must be neither worn nor carried. If the target is an
category—from Medium to Large, for example. The target also has Advantage on Strength checks and Strength saving throws. The target’s attacks with its enlarged weapons or Unarmed Strikes
Magic Items
Dungeon Master’s Guide
that is attuned to the book can release the clasp that holds it shut. Once the book is opened, the attuned creature must spend 80 hours reading and studying the book to digest its contents and gain its
last only as long as you strive to do good. If you fail to perform at least one act of kindness or generosity within the span of 10 days, or if you willingly perform an evil act, you lose all the
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
remains with you only as long as you strive to work evil in the world. If you fail to perform at least one evil act within the span of 10 days, or if you willingly perform a good act, the book
Spells
Player’s Handbook
the spell and as a Bonus Action on your later turns, you can move the hand up to 60 feet and then cause one of the following effects:
Clenched Fist. The hand strikes a target within 5 feet of it
. Make a melee spell attack. On a hit, the target takes 5d8 Force damage.
Forceful Hand. The hand attempts to push a Huge or smaller creature within 5 feet of it. The target must succeed on a Strength
Monsters
Monster Manual
all expended uses at the start of each of its turns.
Chomp. The death tyrant makes two Bite attacks.
Glare. The death tyrant uses Eye Rays.Death Tyrant Lairs
Death tyrants often lurk deep in the
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
):
1 minor beneficial property
1 major beneficial property
1 minor detrimental property
Attuning to the Eye. To attune to the eye, you must press it into your empty socket. The eye grafts itself
from the eye (save DC 18). The table indicates how many charges you must expend to cast the spell. Each time you cast a spell from the eye, there is a 5 percent chance that Vecna tears your soul from
Classes
Player’s Handbook
power. Different Monks conceptualize this power in various ways: as breath, energy, life force, essence, or self, for example. Whether channeled as a striking display of martial prowess or as a subtler
structured life of ascetic withdrawal helps them cultivate the physical and mental focus they need to harness their power. Other Monks believe that immersing themselves in the vibrant confusion of life helps
Spells
Player’s Handbook
object, it must be Large or smaller, and it can’t be held or carried by an unwilling creature.
The destination you choose must be known to you, and it must be on the same plane of existence as
six months, such as a book from a wizard’s library.
“Very familiar” is a place you have visited often, a place you have carefully studied, or a place you can see when you cast the
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
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
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
Magic Items
Dungeon Master’s Guide
Effect
01
5d4 toadstools sprout. If a creature eats a toadstool, roll any die. On an odd roll, the eater must succeed on a DC 15 Constitution saving throw or take 5d6 Poison damage and have the
disappears in a puff of bright-pink smoke.
61–70
A hungry Bulette burrows up and attacks.
71–80
A fruit tree grows. It has 1d10 + 20 fruit, 1d8 of which act as randomly
Classes
Player’s Handbook
definition, the life of a Paladin is an adventuring life, for every Paladin lives on the front lines of the cosmic struggle against annihilation. Fighters are rare enough among the ranks of a world&rsquo
+4
Abjure Foes
2
9
4
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10
+4
Aura of Courage
2
9
4
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2
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11
+4
Radiant Strikes
3
10
4
3
3
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12
+4
Ability Score
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
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
Classes
Player’s Handbook
prayers and rites that help them draw on power from the Outer Planes.
Not every member of a temple or shrine is a Cleric. Some priests are called to a simple life of temple service, carrying out their
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Subclass feature
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Blessed Strikes
3
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4
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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
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
Magic Items
Dungeon Master’s Guide
weapons disappear and the horns return when the goat reverts to figurine form. While you ride the goat, any Hostile creature that starts its turn within a 30-foot Emanation originating from the goat must
or portion thereof it spends in goat form costs 1 charge. While it has charges, you can use it as often as you wish. When it runs out of charges, it reverts to a figurine and can’t be used again
Classes
Player’s Handbook
.
Druids are concerned with the delicate ecological balance that sustains plant and animal life and with the need for people to live in harmony with nature. Druids often guard sacred sites or watch over
Species
Astarion's Book of Hungers
. 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
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
Monsters
Forgotten Realms: Adventures in Faerûn
: Mind Spike
1/Day Each: Dimension Door, MisleadCultists of Bhaal revel in bloodshed. They enjoy the act of murder, particularly when they can use inventive methods that instill fear among witnesses
ways. Cultists who receive orders from their patron god directly are often the most ambitious and most dangerous.
Monsters
Astarion's Book of Hungers
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Fiendish icons are grotesque, sapient statues depicting fearsome fiends. These creatures gain life as a result
of sinister rituals. Fiendish icons can explode with hellfire to roast their foes, and they often pretend to be ordinary statues until they leap up to ambush invaders.
Roll on or choose a result
Monsters
Forgotten Realms: Adventures in Faerûn
Legendary Resistance (3/Day). If Sammaster fails a saving throw, he can choose to succeed instead.
Life Suppression. Creatures within 60 feet of Sammaster can’t regain Hit Points.
Magic
dedicated to transforming living dragons into undead inheritors of a world blasted of life. Sammaster was slain centuries ago but now exists as a lich with his essence tied to a powerful dracolich form
Monsters
Forgotten Realms: Adventures in Faerûn
Legendary Resistance (3/Day). If Sammaster fails a saving throw, he can choose to succeed instead.
Life Suppression. Creatures within 60 feet of Sammaster can’t regain Hit Points.
Magic
transforming living dragons into undead inheritors of a world blasted of life. Sammaster was slain centuries ago but now exists as a lich with his essence tied to a powerful dracolich form.
History
Backgrounds
Lorwyn: First Light
. Regardless of where you tread, you keenly understand that friendship is a rare commodity. You believe that knowing who to trust and who to keep at arm’s length isn’t just practical— it’s often a matter of life or death.
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
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.
Monsters
Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
emulate them and are recognized by the giants as kin. These goliath giant-kin often act as liaisons between giant clans and other Humanoids.
Though they rarely stand more than 8 feet tall, goliaths can
giant-kin often revere the divine ancestors of the giants, with a particular affinity for Annam’s daughters: Diancastra, Hiatea, and Iallanis. They also tend to extol the same virtues as the giants
Monsters
Astarion's Book of Hungers
, 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
often believe their immortality will exempt them from any infernal claim to their souls. The archdevil Mephistopheles happily exploits such hubris and proves that even undead aren’t immune to the