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Player’s Handbook
;luck of the halflings” in action. When a halfling is in mortal danger, an unseen force seems to intervene on the halfling’s behalf. Many halflings believe in the power of luck, and they
territorial mob of halflings like those in the Dark Sun setting.
Halflings who prefer to live underground are sometimes called strongheart halflings or stouts. Nomadic halflings, as well as those who
Magic Items
D&D Free Rules (2024)
regain 1d3 expended charges daily at dawn. If you play the pipes as a Magic action, you can take a Bonus Action to expend 1 to 3 charges, calling forth one Swarm of Rats with each expended charge if
enough rats are within half a mile of you to be called in this fashion (as determined by the DM). If there aren’t enough rats to form a swarm, the charge is wasted. Called swarms move toward the
Spells
Player’s Handbook
Choose a spell of level 5 or lower that you can cast, that has a casting time of an action, and that can target you. You cast that spell—called the contingent spell—as part of casting
Magic Items
Dungeon Master’s Guide (2024)
if the target is a Construct, an Elemental, or a Giant. Immediately after hitting or missing, the weapon flies back to your hand.
Shock Wave. You can take a Magic action to strike the ground with
. Whelm has ties to the dwarf clan that created it, called the Dankil or the Mightyhammer clan. It longs to be returned to that clan. Whelm’s purpose is to protect dwarves. Conflict arises if the
Monsters
Eberron: Rising from the Last War
Shifting (Recharges after a Short or Long Rest). As a bonus action, the shifter takes on a more bestial form for 1 minute or until it dies. The shifter gains 5 temporary hit points. It can make a
bite attack when it activates this trait and also as a bonus action on each of its turns while in its bestial form.Shortsword. Melee Weapon Attack: +5;{"diceNotation":"1d20+5","rollType":"to hit
Monsters
Thieves’ Gallery
child, and she guards her adoptive community with nature’s ferocity. The Circle of the Moon has taught her to heed her primal instincts, which rarely lead her astray. She can be brusque, but
reverts to her true form if she is incapacitated or dies. She can revert to her true form using a bonus action.
While Doric is transformed, her stat block is replaced by the stat block of that form
Monsters
Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse
see.The Upper and Lower Planes are fundamental manifestations of good and evil, law and chaos. In the most dire and fateful circumstances, these planes can manifest primal embodiments of their might
. These expressions of a plane’s power are called planar incarnates, and they appear as roiling energies with features distinct to the plane that created it. They protect their home from destructive
Monsters
Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse
Upper and Lower Planes are fundamental manifestations of good and evil, law and chaos. In the most dire and fateful circumstances, these planes can manifest primal embodiments of their might. These
expressions of a plane’s power are called planar incarnates, and they appear as roiling energies with features distinct to the plane that created it. They protect their home from destructive or
Magic Items
Vecna: Eve of Ruin
annihilation.
Desperate to save themselves and their allies, powerful elemental beings called the Wind Dukes of Aaqa rose against Miska. Committed to the concept of law, the Wind Dukes descended from a
people called the vaati, who once ruled many worlds. Seven Wind Dukes wove their power into an artifact called the Rod of Law. The dukes used the rod to imprison Miska on the plane of Pandemonium. As a
Monsters
Guildmasters’ Guide to Ravnica
Aggressive. As a bonus action, the anarch can move up to its speed toward a hostile creature it can see.
Siege Monster. The anarch deals double damage to objects and structures.Spiked Club. Melee
two hands.The rank-and-file members of the Gruul Clans, called anarchs, despise civilization and have sworn to tear down both its physical structures and its institutions.
Anarchs scavenge everything
Monsters
Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
, choosing from the options below. Only one legendary action option can be used at a time and only at the end of another creature’s turn. Galazeth regains spent legendary actions at the start of
, Galazeth can fly up to 20 feet without provoking opportunity attacks. These elementals disappear after 10 minutes, when Galazeth dies, or when he uses this action again.The dragon Galazeth Prismari
Monsters
The Book of Many Things
legendary action option can be used at a time and only at the end of another creature’s turn. Aurnozci regains spent legendary actions at the start of its turn.
Move. Aurnozci moves up to its speed
that’s both its fiefdom and its prison. It lairs within a grotesque hive dangling from a mountain-size tree of tar and flame called Gorewood.
Aurnozci relies on demonic proxies and mortal
Monsters
Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
Illumination. Trenzia sheds either dim light in a 15-foot radius, or bright light in a 15-foot radius and dim light for an additional 15 feet. She can switch between the options as an action.
Magic
skull blasts foes with fiery rays from its eyes and dreadful spells called up from the dark recesses of its memory.Cold, Lightning, PoisonFire, Necrotic, Piercing
Monsters
Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse
magic, scrying (as an action)
Spit Acid. The kelubar spits acid in a line 60 feet long and 5 feet wide. Each creature in that area must make a DC 17 Dexterity saving throw, taking 27 (6d8
the kelubar dismisses it as an action.Kelubars, sometimes called slimy demodands, are the bureaucrats of Carceri, existing as intermediaries between farastu demodand;farastus and shator demodand
Monsters
Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse
of gods, believing the so-called deities are merely powerful spellcasters. To combat false gods, Athar nulls train to negate the powers of those with magic. Nulls work in the shadows, serving as
assassins and spies for the Athar.Defier’s Whim. The null takes the Dash, Disengage, or Use an Object action.
Shifter
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Species
Eberron: Rising from the Last War
animal’s tough hide. A sense of invincibility spread through him. For the moment at least, he felt unstoppable!
— Don Bassingthwaite, The Binding Stone
Shifters are sometimes called the
world around them. Do they embrace their primal instincts or the path of civilization?
The Beast Within
Early in childhood, a shifter forms a bond with a beast within, a totemic force that shapes their
Monsters
Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk
chance to mutate into what is known as an encephalon cluster—a ravenous, slimy, psionic, brain-shaped mass that spawns horrors called encephalon gemmules.PsychicLeech. The gemmule targets one
’t use Leech again until it detaches. It can detach itself by spending 5 feet of its movement. As an action, the target or a creature within 5 feet of the target can detach the gemmule by succeeding on a DC 15 Strength check.
Monsters
The Book of Many Things
legendary action at a time and only at the end of another creature’s turn. The medusa regains spent legendary actions at the start of its turn.
Move. The medusa moves up to its speed without
Euryale’s story and unwavering conviction.
These medusas are divinely empowered champions, drawing their power from a cosmic truth, the will of a deity, or the primal forces of nature. They
Monsters
Quests from the Infinite Staircase
evade foes and pelt them with slings from the cover of leafy foliage.
Vegepygmies
Also called mold folk, vegepygmies are fungal creatures that spring forth from the body of a Humanoid or Giant
indefinitely so long as the climate remains hospitable to their fungal bodies.
To learn more about vegepygmies, see Monsters of the Multiverse.Lightning, PiercingNimble Escape. The vegepygmy takes the Disengage or Hide action.
Magic Items
Legendary Magic Items
Resembling a small dragon’s horn, this arcane device glows with a hellish internal light when held. As an action while holding this horn, you can invoke a necromantic effect called the
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
stone
1/day: teleportBaphomet can take 3 legendary actions, choosing from the options below. Only one legendary action option can be used at a time and only at the end of another creature’s turn
civilization.
Baphomet wields a great glaive called Heartcleaver. He also charges his enemies and gores them with his horns, trampling his foes into the earth and rending them with his teeth like a
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
: teleportYeenoghu can take 3 legendary actions, choosing from the options below. Only one legendary action option can be used at a time and only at the end of another creature’s turn. Yeenoghu
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The Gnoll Lord is covered in matted fur and leathery hide, and his face resembles a grinning predator’s skull. He wields a triple-headed flail called the Butcher, which he can summon into his hand
Monsters
Domains of Delight: A Feywild Accessory
as the spellcasting ability (spell save DC 17):
At will: faerie fire, speak with animals
2/day each: animal friendship, create food and water, revivify
1/day each: awaken (as an action), pass
thicket by whistling a tune while walking backward.
Fablerise is a small Domain of Delight—roughly three square miles nestled in a forest called Thither, which is part of a much larger Domain of
Monsters
The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
","rollType":"recharge","rollAction":"Create Lornlings"}. Bavlorna creates one or two 1-foot-tall duplicates of herself, called lornlings (use the Quickling stat block in appendix C). Each lornling appears
as an action. Bavlorna can have no more than eight lornlings in existence at a time.
Spellcasting. Bavlorna casts one of the following spells, requiring no material components and using Intelligence
Magic Items
Princes of the Apocalypse
.
Shatter. Ironfang has 3 charges. You can use your action to expend 1 charge and cast the 2nd-level version of shatter (DC 17). Ironfang regains 1d3 expended charges daily at dawn.
The Rumbling. While
inside an earth node, you can perform a ritual called the Rumbling, using Ironfang to create a devastation orb of earth (see the devastation orb description for the time and cost of the ritual). Once you
Yeenoghu
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Out of the Abyss
. When Yeenoghu reduces a creature to 0 hit points with a melee attack on his turn, Yeenoghu can take a bonus action to move up to half his speed and make a bite attack.Multiattack. Yeenoghu makes three
);{"diceNotation":"1d10+9","rollType":"damage","rollAction":"Bite","rollDamageType":"piercing"} piercing damage.Yeenoghu can take 3 legendary actions, choosing from the options below. Only one legendary action
Species
Guildmasters’ Guide to Ravnica
The humanoid elephants called loxodons are often oases of calm in the busy streets of Ravnica. They hum or chant in sonorous tones and move slowly or sit in perfect stillness. If provoked to action
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
Dexterity saving throw or be covered in acid for 1 minute. A creature can use its action to scrape or wash the acid off itself or another creature. A creature covered in the acid takes 7 (2d6
dissolve into pools of acid.
On the world of Krynn, draconian infiltrators formed from copper dragon eggs are called kapak draconians.
Draconians
Draconians are bipedal monsters born from dragon eggs
Monsters
Out of the Abyss
. On a successful save, the creature can’t be infected by these spores for 24 hours. On a failed save, the creature is infected with a disease called the spores of Zuggtmoy and also gains a
take 2 legendary actions, choosing from the options below. Only one legendary action option can be used at a time and only at the end of another creature’s turn. Yestabrod regains spent
Monsters
Acquisitions Incorporated
Divine Eminence. As a bonus action, Prophetess can expend a spell slot to cause her melee weapon attacks to magically deal an extra 10 (3d6);{"diceNotation":"3d6","rollType":"damage","rollAction
Dran clan, Prophetess is a retired paladin of Tymora who now runs the inn known as the Dran & Courtier. Formerly owned by her parents (and once called the Omindran), the inn has been a central
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
magically transform itself to look and feel like that creature while retaining its game statistics (other than its size). This transformation lasts until the draconian dies or uses an action to end it.The
flames, scorching everything around them.
On the world of Krynn, draconian dreadnoughts formed from silver dragon eggs are called sivak draconians.
Draconians
Draconians are bipedal monsters born
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
one. When the dragonborn uses this action, it can choose up to three creatures in the cone. These creatures take no damage from the radiance and instead regain 22 (4d10);{"diceNotation":"4d10
","rollType":"heal","rollAction":"Radiant Breath"} hit points each.Often called platinum knights, dragonborn champions of Bahamut might belong to an order that exists to protect the world from evil—and
Monsters
Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse
save DC 20):
At will: detect thoughts, phantasmal force, suggestion
1/day each: cloudkill, plane shift (self only), scrying (as an action)
Summon Yugoloth (1/Day). The baernaloth has a 50 percent
as an ally of the baernaloth, and can’t summon other yugoloths. It remains for 1 minute, until it or the baernaloth dies, or until the baernaloth dismisses it as an action.
Teleport. The
Monsters
Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
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As an action, a creature within 5 feet of the bodytaker plant that is outside the pod can open the pod and pull the target free with a successful DC 15 Strength check. If the plant dies, the target
consuming individuals and replacing them with duplicates called podling;podlings. Bodytaker plants view themselves as perfect organisms and seek to dominate the lands where they grow. To their minds, a
Monsters
The Book of Many Things
, class features, or proficiencies.
The possession lasts until the target drops to 0 hit points, Gremorly ends it as a bonus action, or Gremorly is turned or forced out by an effect like the Dispel Evil
, Prestidigitation
2/day each: Bestow Curse, Dispel Magic
1/day: SlowYears ago, a wizard named Gremorly drew the Throne card from a Deck of Many Things, gaining ownership of a small castle called Sovereign