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As a Utilize action, you can set a Hunting Trap, which is a sawtooth steel ring that snaps shut when a creature steps on a pressure plate in the center. The trap is affixed by a heavy chain to an
immobile object, such as a tree or a spike driven into the ground. A creature that steps on the plate must succeed on a DC 13 Dexterity saving throw or take 1d4 Piercing damage and have its Speed reduced
Monsters
Storm King's Thunder
Legendary Resistance. Once per day, when he fails a saving throw, he can choose to succeed instead.
Equipment. Harshnag wears plate, +3;+3 plate armor and wields Gurt's greataxe. The axe sheds light
human.
As an action, Harshnag can cast a version of the heat metal spell (save DC 13) that deals cold damage instead of fire damage. Once this power is used, it can’t be used again until the
Monsters
Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
Battle Command. As a bonus action, Zress Orlezziir targets one ally she can see within 30 feet of her. If the target can see or hear the drow, the target can use its reaction to make one melee attack
or to take the Dodge or Hide action.
Fey Ancestry. Zress Orlezziir has advantage on saving throws against being charmed, and magic can't put her to sleep.
Innate Spellcasting. Zress Orlezziir innate
Monsters
Monstrous Compendium Vol. 2: Dragonlance Creatures
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Legendary Resistance (5/Day). If Ember fails a saving throw, he can choose to succeed instead.
Special Equipment. In battle, Ember dons magical plate armor custom-forged for his use. While wearing the armor
one legendary action can be used at a time and only at the end of another creature’s turn. Ember regains spent legendary actions at the start of his turn.
Pursuit. Ember moves up to 40 feet in a
Monsters
Monstrous Compendium Vol. 2: Dragonlance Creatures
Equipment. Verminaard wears plate, +2;+2 plate armor and wields the mace Nightbringer, which grants him darkvision as well as immunity to fire damage and to the charmed and frightened conditions (included
, freedom of movement, greater restoration, hold monster, revivifyVerminaard can take 3 legendary actions, choosing from the options below. Only one legendary action can be used at a time and only at the
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
the size of a dinner plate. Its dorsal surface is soft and glossy, while its ventral surface is lined with bony hooks. The parasite uses its hooks to attach to a wall or ceiling until suitable prey
Magic Items
The Book of Many Things
This gleaming set of silver-and-gold plate armor never tarnishes.
While wearing this armor, you can use a bonus action to summon the spirit of a warrior to your aid. The spirit’s corporeal
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The spirit is an ally to you and your companions. In combat, the spirit shares your initiative count but takes its turn immediately after yours. The spirit obeys your commands (no action required
Monsters
Vecna: Eve of Ruin
, and the target’s speed is reduced by 10 feet until the serrated bolt is removed. A target’s speed can be reduced by only one serrated bolt at a time. A creature can use its action to
blighted region. Among the blades, Glaive is best known for her talent at self-modification. “Glaive” is etched onto the back of her neck-plate. It is the only name Glaive has ever known
Equipment
This suit of technologically advanced plate armor includes an under-suit that can fully seal, a helmet with a full face mask and crystal lenses in the eyeholes, and a set of gauntlets. The armor is
powered by an energy cell stored in a compartment on the thigh plate.
Placing a full energy cell in the armor gives the armor 24 charges. A suit of powered armor functions as a suit of normal plate
Magic Items
Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
creature can use an action to touch the closed lid of the chest and expend 1 of the chest’s charges while naming one or more nonmagical objects (including raw materials, foodstuffs, and liquids
plate of strawberries, a bowl of hot soup, a flagon of water, a stuffed animal, or a bag of twenty caltrops. Food and drink conjured by the chest are delicious, and they spoil if not consumed after
Monsters
Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus
, branding smite (at 4th level), revivify
1/day each: geas, raise dead
Special Equipment. Arkhan wields Fane-Eater and wears a suit of Obsidian Flint Dragon Plate. The armor gives Arkhan advantage on
with opposition, he orders the white abishai;abishai to attack. Arkhan can also use a bonus action to call forth Asojano, a chimera lairing in the depths of the colossal dragon skull.Fire, Poison; Bludgeoning, Piercing, and Slashing from Nonmagical Attacks
Monsters
Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
possession. While holding or wearing the object bearing the rune, the giant can use its Magma Wave action and Furnace Armor bonus action.
The object bearing the rune has AC 15; 40 hit points; and immunity to
restrained condition. As an action, a creature can make a DC 19 Strength (Athletics) check, freeing itself or a creature within its reach from the rock on a success. The rock restraining each creature
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
that can crush bones and lacerate flesh. These plates are so tough that a leucrotta can use them to peel plate armor away from the body of a slain knight.
A leucrotta’s stench would normally warn
are confused or unaware of the actual threat.Kicking Retreat. Immediately after the leucrotta makes a Hooves attack, it takes the Disengage action.
Hunting Trap
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Equipment
When you use your action to set it, this trap forms a saw-toothed steel ring that snaps shut when a creature steps on a pressure plate in the center. The trap is affixed by a heavy chain to an
immobile object, such as a tree or a spike driven into the ground. A creature that steps on the plate must succeed on a DC 13 Dexterity saving throw or take 1d4 piercing damage and stop moving. Thereafter
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A human in clanging plate armor holds her shield before her as she runs toward the massed goblins. An elf behind her, clad in studded leather armor, peppers the goblins with arrows loosed from his
Features 1st +2 Fighting Style, Second Wind 2nd +2 Action Surge (one use) 3rd +2 Martial Archetype 4th +2 Ability Score
Magic Items
Lost Laboratory of Kwalish
Powered armor resembles a suit of unusual plate armor, with finely articulated joints connected by an oily, black, leather-like material. The armor has been worked to create the appearance of a
heavily muscled warrior, and its great helm is unusual in that it has no openings — only a broad glass plate in the front with a second piece of glass above it. Strange plates, tubing, and large
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
Plate Armor of Etherealness Armor (Half Plate Armor or Plate Armor), Legendary (Requires Attunement) While you’re wearing this armor, you can take a Magic action and use a command word to gain the
effect of the Etherealness spell. The spell ends immediately if you remove the armor or take a Magic action to repeat the command word. This property of the armor can’t be used again until the next dawn.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules
Plate Armor of Etherealness Armor (Half Plate Armor or Plate Armor), Legendary (Requires Attunement) While you’re wearing this armor, you can take a Magic action and use a command word to gain the
effect of the Etherealness spell. The spell ends immediately if you remove the armor or take a Magic action to repeat the command word. This property of the armor can’t be used again until the next dawn.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
Plate Armor of Etherealness Armor (Half Plate Armor or Plate Armor), Legendary (Requires Attunement) While you’re wearing this armor, you can take a Magic action and use a command word to gain the
effect of the Etherealness spell. The spell ends immediately if you remove the armor or take a Magic action to repeat the command word. This property of the armor can’t be used again until the next dawn.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules
Plate Armor of Etherealness Armor (Half Plate Armor or Plate Armor), Legendary (Requires Attunement) While you’re wearing this armor, you can take a Magic action and use a command word to gain the
effect of the Etherealness spell. The spell ends immediately if you remove the armor or take a Magic action to repeat the command word. This property of the armor can’t be used again until the next dawn.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
Plate Armor of Etherealness Armor (plate), legendary (requires attunement) While you’re wearing this armor, you can speak its command word as an action to gain the effect of the etherealness spell
, which last for 10 minutes or until you remove the armor or use an action to speak the command word again. This property of the armor can’t be used again until the next dawn.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
Plate Armor of Etherealness Armor (plate), legendary (requires attunement) While you’re wearing this armor, you can speak its command word as an action to gain the effect of the etherealness spell
, which last for 10 minutes or until you remove the armor or use an action to speak the command word again. This property of the armor can’t be used again until the next dawn.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
Plate Armor of Etherealness Armor (plate), legendary (requires attunement) While you’re wearing this armor, you can speak its command word as an action to gain the effect of the etherealness spell
, which last for 10 minutes or until you remove the armor or use an action to speak the command word again. This property of the armor can’t be used again until the next dawn.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
Plate Armor of Etherealness Armor (plate), legendary (requires attunement) While you’re wearing this armor, you can speak its command word as an action to gain the effect of the etherealness spell
, which last for 10 minutes or until you remove the armor or use an action to speak the command word again. This property of the armor can’t be used again until the next dawn.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Quests from the Infinite Staircase
normal plate armor, even when it has 0 charges remaining. Activating the Armor. As an action, you can expend any number of the armor’s charges to activate it; the armor remains active for 1 hour per
Powered Armor This suit of technologically advanced plate armor includes an under-suit that can fully seal, a helmet with a full face mask and crystal lenses in the eyeholes, and a set of gauntlets
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Quests from the Infinite Staircase
normal plate armor, even when it has 0 charges remaining. Activating the Armor. As an action, you can expend any number of the armor’s charges to activate it; the armor remains active for 1 hour per
Powered Armor This suit of technologically advanced plate armor includes an under-suit that can fully seal, a helmet with a full face mask and crystal lenses in the eyeholes, and a set of gauntlets
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragon of Icespire Peak
D5. Narrow Tunnel This tunnel is only 2 feet wide. At the halfway point, a 5-foot-long pressure plate is hidden under a 2-inch-thick layer of earth. A character prodding ahead with a pole or similar
tool can detect the plate with a successful DC 10 Wisdom (Perception) check. The first character to step on the plate causes the walls of the tunnel to collapse inward, burying all creatures in the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragon of Icespire Peak
D5. Narrow Tunnel This tunnel is only 2 feet wide. At the halfway point, a 5-foot-long pressure plate is hidden under a 2-inch-thick layer of earth. A character prodding ahead with a pole or similar
tool can detect the plate with a successful DC 10 Wisdom (Perception) check. The first character to step on the plate causes the walls of the tunnel to collapse inward, burying all creatures in the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
Armor of Invulnerability Armor (plate), legendary (requires attunement) You have resistance to nonmagical damage while you wear this armor. Additionally, you can use an action to make yourself immune
to nonmagical damage for 10 minutes or until you are no longer wearing the armor. Once this special action is used, it can’t be used again until the next dawn. Armor of Cold Resistance and
Armor of Invulnerability
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
Armor of Invulnerability Armor (plate), legendary (requires attunement) You have resistance to nonmagical damage while you wear this armor. Additionally, you can use an action to make yourself immune
to nonmagical damage for 10 minutes or until you are no longer wearing the armor. Once this special action is used, it can’t be used again until the next dawn.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
Armor of Invulnerability Armor (plate), legendary (requires attunement) You have resistance to nonmagical damage while you wear this armor. Additionally, you can use an action to make yourself immune
to nonmagical damage for 10 minutes or until you are no longer wearing the armor. Once this special action is used, it can’t be used again until the next dawn.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
Armor of Gleaming Armor (Any Light, Medium, or Heavy), Common This armor never gets dirty. Armor of Invulnerability Armor (Plate Armor), Legendary (Requires Attunement)
You have Resistance to
Bludgeoning, Piercing, and Slashing damage while you wear this armor.
Metal Shell. You can take a Magic action to give yourself Immunity to Bludgeoning, Piercing, and Slashing damage for 10 minutes or
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
Armor of Invulnerability Armor (plate), legendary (requires attunement) You have resistance to nonmagical damage while you wear this armor. Additionally, you can use an action to make yourself immune
to nonmagical damage for 10 minutes or until you are no longer wearing the armor. Once this special action is used, it can’t be used again until the next dawn. Armor of Cold Resistance and
Armor of Invulnerability
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
Armor of Gleaming Armor (Any Light, Medium, or Heavy), Common This armor never gets dirty. Armor of Invulnerability Armor (Plate Armor), Legendary (Requires Attunement)
You have Resistance to
Bludgeoning, Piercing, and Slashing damage while you wear this armor.
Metal Shell. You can take a Magic action to give yourself Immunity to Bludgeoning, Piercing, and Slashing damage for 10 minutes or
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tyranny of Dragons
restrained (frozen in place) for 1 minute. The creature may use an action on its turn to make a DC 15 Strength check, ending the effect on itself on a success. Each suit of plate armor is mounted on a
5. Small Hall This central hallway has stairs, large wooden doors, and a set of fine plate armor. Flanking the main entrance are two freestanding suits of elven plate armor, both coated in chipped