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Spells
Player’s Handbook
Until the spell ends, one willing creature you touch has Immunity to Psychic damage and the Charmed condition. The target is also unaffected by anything that would sense its emotions or alignment
, read its thoughts, or magically detect its location, and no spell—not even Wish—can gather information about the target, observe it remotely, or control its mind.
Monsters
Monster Manual
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Read Thoughts. The doppelganger casts Detect Thoughts, requiring no spell components and using Charisma as the spellcasting ability (spell save DC 12).
Unsettling Visage (Recharge 6);{"diceNotation
":"1d6", "rollType":"recharge", "rollAction":"Unsettling Visage"}. Wisdom Saving Throw: DC 12, each creature in a 15-foot Emanation originating from the doppelganger that can see the doppelganger. Failure
Monsters
Monster Manual
Shielded Mind. The couatl’s thoughts can’t be read by any means, and other creatures can communicate with it telepathically only if it allows them.Bite. Melee Attack Roll: +7
, and the target has the Poisoned condition until the end of the couatl’s next turn.
Constrict. Strength Saving Throw: DC 15, one Medium or smaller creature the couatl can see within 5 feet
Monsters
Monster Manual
’s thoughts can’t be read by any means, and magic can’t detect its location or observe it remotely.Tentacle. Melee Attack Roll: +4;{"diceNotation":"1d20+4", "rollType":"to hit
Throw: DC 10, one creature the flumph can see within 15 feet. Failure: The target is coated in a foul-smelling liquid, exudes a stench for 1d4;{"diceNotation":"1d4", "rollType":"roll", "rollAction
Magic Items
Dungeon Master’s Guide (2024)
While wearing this ring, you are immune to magic that allows other creatures to read your thoughts, determine whether you are lying, know your alignment, or know your creature type. Creatures can
in the ring, you can telepathically communicate with any creature wearing it. A wearer can’t prevent this telepathic communication.
Spells
Player’s Handbook
of yourself that belong to creatures that know languages or are telepathic. You don’t read the thoughts, but you know that a thinking creature is present.
The spell is blocked by 1 foot of stone
, dirt, or wood; 1 inch of metal; or a thin sheet of lead.
Read Thoughts. Target one creature you can see within 30 feet of yourself or one creature within 30 feet of yourself that you detected with
Magic Items
Dungeon Master’s Guide (2024)
that tries to read from the book takes 24d6 Radiant damage. This damage ignores Resistance and Immunity, and it can’t be reduced or avoided by any means. A creature reduced to 0 Hit Points by
’s authors filled the pages with their own visions of true virtue, providing guidance for defeating evil.
The Book of Exalted Deeds rarely lingers in one place. As soon as the book is read, it
Magic Items
Dungeon Master’s Guide (2024)
When you take a Magic action to read this scroll, a particular titan named in the scroll appears in an unoccupied space on the ground or in water that you can see within 1 mile of yourself. The DM
picks a suitable titan or determines it randomly by rolling on the table below (see the Monster Manual for the creature’s stat block).
The titan is Hostile toward all other creatures and
Magic Items
Dungeon Master’s Guide (2024)
Each Scroll of Protection works against creatures of a specific creature type chosen by the DM or determined by rolling on the following table.
1d100
Creature Type
01-10
Scroll of
(Oozes);Oozes
86-90
Scroll of Protection (Plants);Plants
91-00
Scroll of Protection (Undead);Undead
Using a Magic action to read the scroll creates a 5-foot Emanation originating
Spells
Player’s Handbook
script that is unintelligible. Alternatively, the illusion can alter the meaning, handwriting, and language of the text, though the language must be one you know.
If the spell is dispelled, the original script and the illusion both disappear.
A creature that has Truesight can read the hidden message.
Magic Items
D&D Free Rules (2024)
creature that can't use a manual of golems and attempts to read it takes 6d6 psychic damage.
d20
Golem
Time
Cost
1-5
Manual of Clay Golems
30 days
65,000 GP
6-17
Manual of
Magic Items
Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
Using an action to read the scroll causes the tarrasque (see the creature’s entry in the Monster Manual) to appear in an unoccupied space you can see within 1 mile of you. The tarrasque disappears when it drops to 0 hit points and is hostile toward all creatures other than itself.
Monsters
Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse
Shared Telepathy. Any creature touching the cranium rat can use the rat’s telepathy if the rat allows it. If the creature knows any language, the creature can use the telepathy to communicate
words and emotions.
Telepathic Shroud. The cranium rat is immune to any effect that would sense its emotions or read its thoughts, as well as to divination spells.Bite. Melee Weapon Attack: +4
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
Telepathic Shroud. The cranium rat is immune to any effect that would sense its emotions or read its thoughts, as well as to all divination spells.Bite. Melee Weapon Attack: +4;{"diceNotation":"1d20
creature, often referring to itself using the collective pronouns “we” and “us.”
Some mind flayer colonies use cranium rats as spies. The rats invade communities and act as
Classes
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
-legged companion to a majestic winged creature large and strong enough for you to ride. Along the way, you gain an increasing share of the awe-inspiring power of dragons.
Consider the source of the
power.
5
An ancient Draconic inscription on a standing stone empowered you when you read it aloud.
6
You had a vivid dream of a mysterious figure accompanied by seven yellow canaries, who warned you of impending doom. When you awoke, your drake was there, watching you.
Magic Items
Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
By using an action to read the scroll, you cause a comet to fall from the sky and crash to the ground at a point you can see up to 1 mile away from you. You must be outdoors when you use the scroll
, or nothing happens and the scroll is wasted.
The comet creates a 50-foot-deep, 500-foot-radius crater on impact. Any creature in that radius must make a DC 20 Dexterity saving throw, taking 30d10
Classes
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
-legged companion to a majestic winged creature large and strong enough for you to ride. Along the way, you gain an increasing share of the awe-inspiring power of dragons.
Consider the source of the
power.
5
An ancient Draconic inscription on a standing stone empowered you when you read it aloud.
6
You had a vivid dream of a mysterious figure accompanied by seven yellow canaries, who warned you of impending doom. When you awoke, your drake was there, watching you.
Monsters
Acquisitions Incorporated
Auspicia Dran had her life torn apart as a child when she was seized by a mysterious creature called the Wandering Crypt. Having spent long years in a kind of dark dream within the crypt, she was
of psionic power. She can't help but read others' minds, but finds that wearing a diamond earring helps tamp that unwitting ability down. This magic has also left her connected to the crypt in a way
Monsters
Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus
attacks are magical.
Secure Memory. Crokek'toeck is immune to the waters of the River Styx as well as any effect that would steal or modify its memories or detect or read its thoughts.
Standing Leap
Allies"} dretch;dretches, or 1d3;{"diceNotation":"1d3","rollType":"roll","rollAction":"Disgorge Allies"} vrock;vrocks. Each creature it disgorges appears in an unoccupied space within 30 feet of
Monsters
Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse
Psychic Messenger. The swarm can use its sending spell to target someone familiar to a creature in telepathic contact with the swarm.
Swarm. The swarm can occupy another creature’s space and
effect that would sense its emotions or read its thoughts, as well as to divination spells.Bites. Melee Weapon Attack: +5;{"diceNotation":"1d20+5", "rollType":"to hit", "rollAction":"Bites"} to hit
Monsters
Spelljammer: Adventures in Space
finger-like appendages hang over its mouth. A gaj can try to read the thoughts of another creature by wrapping its antennae around the creature’s head. Regardless of whether the attempt succeeds, this mental probe is painful and takes a toll on the victim’s well-being.
":"Mandibles"} to hit, reach 5 ft., one creature. Hit: 10 (2d6 + 3);{"diceNotation":"2d6+3","rollType":"damage","rollAction":"Mandibles","rollDamageType":"slashing"} slashing damage, and the target is
Magic Items
Out of the Abyss
the blade to disappear. Dawnbringer has all the properties of a sun blade.
While holding the weapon, you can use an action to touch a creature with the blade and cast lesser restoration on that
creature. Once used, this ability can’t be used again until the next dawn.
Sentience. Dawnbringer is a sentient neutral good weapon with an Intelligence of 12, a Wisdom of 15, and a Charisma of 14
Magic Items
Acquisitions Incorporated
Head office grants you the use of a unique item known as an occultant abacus (sometimes just referred to as an occultant), whose beads resemble tiny skulls.
Read the Kill
Also at rank 1, your
occultant abacus not only tracks your franchise’s kills, it helps you determine the impact of those kills on the franchise’s fate. Over a period of 1 minute, you can study a creature killed by
Monsters
Guildmasters’ Guide to Ravnica
equipment he is wearing or carrying isn't transformed.
Psychic Defenses. Unless Lazav is incapacitated, he is immune to magic that allows other creatures to read his thoughts, determine whether he is
lying, know his alignment, or know his creature type. Creatures can telepathically communicate with Lazav only if he allows it.Multiattack. Lazav makes three shortsword attacks.
Shortsword. Melee
Monsters
Spelljammer: Adventures in Space
, righting itself and ending the incapacitated condition if it succeeds.
Telepathic Shroud. Flapjack is immune to any effect that would sense its emotions or read its thoughts, as well as all divination
spells.Tendrils. Melee Weapon Attack: +4;{"diceNotation":"1d20+4","rollType":"to hit","rollAction":"Tendrils"} to hit, reach 5 ft., one creature. Hit: 4 (1d4 + 2);{"diceNotation":"1d4+2","rollType
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
Swarm. The swarm can occupy another creature’s space and vice versa, and the swarm can move through any opening large enough for a Tiny rat. The swarm can’t regain hit points or gain
temporary hit points.
Telepathic Shroud. The swarm is immune to any effect that would sense its emotions or read its thoughts, as well as to all divination spells.Bites. Melee Weapon Attack: +5
Magic Items
The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
You gain a +3 bonus to attack and damage rolls made with this magic vorpal sword. In addition, the weapon ignores resistance to slashing damage. When you use this weapon to attack a creature that has
at least one head and roll a 20 on the attack roll, you cut off one of the creature’s heads. The creature dies if it can’t survive without the lost head. A creature is immune to this
Magic Items
Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
, and a Charisma of 16, as well as hearing and darkvision out to a range of 30 feet.
The orb can speak, read, and understand Common, and it can communicate telepathically with any creature touching it
.
At any time during your turn, the orb can cast the suggestion spell (save DC 17), targeting you or one other creature that touched the orb within the last 24 hours. This isn’t a power of the
Magic Items
Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
altered to sound genderless, and you are immune to magic that allows other creatures to read your thoughts, to determine whether you are lying, to know your alignment, or to know your creature type
Monsters
Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
Enigmatic Mind. The archaic’s mind can’t be read, creatures can communicate telepathically with the archaic only if it allows, and magic can’t determine whether the archaic is lying
":"Gravity Shift"}. The archaic reverses gravity for one creature it can see within 100 feet of itself. The creature must succeed on a DC 22 Wisdom saving throw or fall 100 feet upward. If the falling
Monsters
The Book of Many Things
and other magical effects.
Thought Shield. The hierophant’s thoughts can’t be read by any means unless the hierophant allows it.Multiattack. The hierophant makes two Herald’s Axe
centered on a point the hierophant can see within 60 feet of itself. Each creature within the sphere has the blinded and deafened conditions. Each creature that enters the sphere for the first time on a
Magic Items
Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
You gain a +3 bonus to attack and damage rolls made with this magic weapon. When you hit a fiend or an undead with it, that creature takes an extra 2d10 radiant damage.
While you hold the drawn
has hearing and darkvision out to a range of 60 feet. It can read and understand Elvish. It can also speak Elvish, but only through the voice of its wielder, with whom the sword can communicate
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
’t read, and speaks only in gibberish. A creature can repeat the saving throw at the end of each of its turns, ending the effect on itself on a success. If a creature’s saving throw is
next turn.
Horrific Feast. The hag feeds on the corpse of one enemy within reach that died within the past minute. Each creature of the hag’s choice that is within 60 feet and able to see the
Monsters
Spelljammer: Adventures in Space
Aberrant Mind. Magic can’t read the psurlon’s thoughts or put the psurlon to sleep.
Two Heads. The psurlon has advantage on saving throws it makes to avoid or end the frightened, stunned
Pacify (if available) or Psychic Crush.
Bite. Melee Weapon Attack: +6;{"diceNotation":"1d20+6","rollType":"to hit","rollAction":"Bite"} to hit, reach 5 ft., one creature. Hit: 7 (1d8 + 3
Monsters
Guildmasters’ Guide to Ravnica
Inscrutable. The sphinx is immune to any effect that would sense its emotions or read its thoughts, as well as any divination spell that it refuses. Wisdom (Insight) checks made to ascertain the
finishes a short or long rest:
The flow of time is altered such that every creature in the lair must reroll initiative. The sphinx can choose not to reroll.
The effects of time are altered such that