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Monsters
Monster Manual
", "rollAction":"Arcane Tentacles", "rollDamageType":"Psychic"} Psychic damage, and the mind flayer can teleport the target up to 30 feet to an unoccupied space the mind flayer can see on a surface or
: Half damage only.
Spellcasting. The mind flayer casts one of the following spells, requiring no spell components and using Intelligence as the spellcasting ability (spell save DC 17):
At Will: Detect
Magic Items
Dungeon Master’s Guide
When this 4-foot-tall, 2-foot-wide mirror is viewed indirectly, its surface shows faint images of creatures. The mirror weighs 50 pounds, and it has AC 11, HP 10, Immunity to Poison and Psychic
damage, and Vulnerability to Bludgeoning damage. It shatters and is destroyed when reduced to 0 Hit Points.
If the mirror is hanging on a vertical surface and you are within 5 feet of it, you can take a
Spells
Player’s Handbook
You inscribe a glyph that later unleashes a magical effect. You inscribe it either on a surface (such as a table or a section of floor) or within an object that can be closed (such as a book or chest
) to conceal the glyph. The glyph can cover an area no larger than 10 feet in diameter. If the surface or object is moved more than 10 feet from where you cast this spell, the glyph is broken, and the
Spells
Player’s Handbook
You create a wall of ice on a solid surface within range. You can form it into a hemispherical dome or a globe with a radius of up to 10 feet, or you can shape a flat surface made up of ten 10-foot
, the creature is pushed to one side of the wall (you choose which side) and makes a Dexterity saving throw, taking 10d6 Cold damage on a failed save or half as much damage on a successful one.
The wall
Spells
Player’s Handbook
You create a wall of tangled brush bristling with needle-sharp thorns. The wall appears within range on a solid surface and lasts for the duration. You choose to make the wall up to 60 feet long, 10
Dexterity saving throw, taking 7d8 Piercing damage on a failed save or half as much damage on a successful one.
A creature can move through the wall, albeit slowly and painfully. For every 1 foot a
Magic Items
Dungeon Master’s Guide
floats or rests near where the dust was sprinkled. The pellet’s weight is negligible. A creature can take a Utilize action to smash the pellet against a hard surface, causing the pellet to shatter
composed mostly of water (such as a Water Elemental or a Water Weird). Such a creature exposed to a pinch of the dust makes a DC 13 Constitution saving throw, taking 10d6 Necrotic damage on a failed save or half as much damage on a successful one.
Spells
Player’s Handbook
You conjure a vine that sprouts from a surface in an unoccupied space that you can see within range. The vine lasts for the duration.
Make a melee spell attack against a creature within 30 feet of
save DC). The vine can grapple only one creature at a time, and you can cause the vine to release a Grappled creature (no action required).
As a Bonus Action on your later turns, you can repeat the
Magic Items
Dungeon Master’s Guide
, using your spell save DC. The table indicates how many charges you must expend to cast the spell.
Spell
Charge Cost
Arcane Lock
0
Conjure Elemental
7
Detect Magic
0
or against a solid surface. The staff is destroyed and releases its magic in an explosion that fills a 30-foot Emanation originating from itself. You have a 50 percent chance to instantly travel to a
Spells
Player’s Handbook
turn. Webs layered over a flat surface have a depth of 5 feet.
The first time a creature enters the webs on a turn or starts its turn there, it must succeed on a Dexterity saving throw or have the
Restrained condition while in the webs or until it breaks free.
A creature Restrained by the webs can take an action to make a Strength (Athletics) check against your spell save DC. If it succeeds, it is
Magic Items
Dungeon Master’s Guide
throws, and spell attack rolls.
Spells. While holding the staff , you can cast one of the spells on the following table from it, using your spell save DC. The table indicates how many charges you
can take a Magic action to break the staff over your knee or against a solid surface. The staff is destroyed and releases its magic in an explosion that fills a 30-foot Emanation originating from itself
Magic Items
Dungeon Master’s Guide
the weapon against a hard surface to create a loud clap of thunder audible out to 300 feet. You also create a 30-foot Cone of thunderous energy. Each creature in the Cone must succeed on a DC 15
opens must make a DC 20 Dexterity saving throw, falling into the fissure on a failed save or moving with the fissure’s edge on a successful one. Any structure on a spot where the fissure opens collapses into the fissure. Once you use this property, it can’t be used again until the next dawn.
Spells
Player’s Handbook
You create a wall of fire on a solid surface within range. You can make the wall up to 60 feet long, 20 feet high, and 1 foot thick, or a ringed wall up to 20 feet in diameter, 20 feet high, and 1
foot thick. The wall is opaque and lasts for the duration.
When the wall appears, each creature in its area makes a Dexterity saving throw, taking 5d8 Fire damage on a failed save or half as much
Spells
Player’s Handbook
Passwall spell, or another spell of equal or greater level that can open a portal on a solid surface, destroys this layer.
5
Blue. Failed Save: 12d6 Cold damage. Successful Save: Half as much
violet layer.
Prismatic Layers
Order
Effects
1
Red. Failed Save: 12d6 Fire damage. Successful Save: Half as much damage. Additional Effects: Nonmagical ranged attacks can’t pass
Spells
Player’s Handbook
You inscribe a harmful glyph either on a surface (such as a section of floor or wall) or within an object that can be closed (such as a book or chest). The glyph can cover an area no larger than 10
.
The glyph is nearly imperceptible and requires a successful Wisdom (Perception) check against your spell save DC to notice.
When you inscribe the glyph, you set its trigger and choose which effect the
Spells
Player’s Handbook
damage on failed save or half as much damage on a successful one.
If the globe strikes a body of water, it freezes the water to a depth of 6 inches over an area 30 feet square. This ice lasts for 1
minute. Creatures that were swimming on the surface of frozen water are trapped in the ice and have the Restrained condition. A trapped creature can take an action to make a Strength (Athletics) check
Spells
Player’s Handbook
Objects animate at your command. Choose a number of nonmagical objects within range that aren’t being worn or carried, aren’t fixed to a surface, and aren’t Gargantuan. The maximum
level above 5.
Animated Object
Huge or Smaller Construct, Unaligned
AC 15
HP 10 (Medium or smaller), 20 (Large), 40 (Huge)
Speed 30 ft.
Mod
Save
STR
16
+3
Monsters
Mythic Odysseys of Theros
Amphibious. The triton can breathe air and water.
Innate Spellcasting. The triton's spellcasting ability is Wisdom (spell save DC 12). It can innately cast the following spells, requiring no material
"} poison damage.Some insults don't wash away with the tides. When surface dwellers threaten the safety of triton communities, impede upon Thassa's holiest depths, or steal the treasures of the deep
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
Dreamwalker’s Charm. An enemy that starts its turn within 30 feet of the giant must make a DC 13 Charisma saving throw, provided that the giant isn’t incapacitated. On a failed save, the
knocked prone.
Petrifying Touch. The giant touches one Medium or smaller creature within 10 feet of it that is charmed by it. The target must make a DC 17 Constitution saving throw. On a failed save
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
, taking 42 (12d6);{"diceNotation":"12d6","rollType":"damage","rollAction":"Steam Breath","rollDamageType":"fire"} fire damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one. Being
dragon turtles for solid ground.
Ancient dragon turtles might sleep for years or decades while floating along the surface of the ocean, enjoying the warmth of the sun and letting vegetation take root on
Monsters
Vecna: Eve of Ruin
False Appearance. If the mirror shade is within 5 feet of a reflective surface—such as a mirror, glass pane, or still water—it has advantage on its initiative roll. If a creature hasn
.
Mirror Movement. The mirror shade can move along the surface of reflective or translucent objects, such as mirrors, without provoking opportunity attack;opportunity attacks. It can move through
Monsters
Monstrous Compendium Vol. 1: Spelljammer Creatures
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
, PoisonRadiantSuggestion (Psionics; 1/Day). The parasite casts the suggestion spell, requiring no spell components and using Intelligence as the spellcasting ability (spell save DC 13).
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
cloud of spores in a 15-foot cone. Each creature in that area must make a DC 11 Wisdom saving throw. On a failed save, the creature takes 5 (1d10);{"diceNotation":"1d10", "rollType":"damage
", "rollAction":"Nightmare Breath", "rollDamageType":"psychic"} psychic damage, and it is frightened of the dragon for 1 minute. On a successful save, the creature takes half as much damage with no additional
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
smaller creature grappled by the cave fisher’s Adhesive Filament must make a DC 13 Strength saving throw. On a failed save, the target is pulled into an unoccupied space within 5 feet of the
then climbs to a hiding spot and adheres itself to the surface to rest and wait. When prey blunders into the filament, the cave fisher reels in its meal. A group of cave fishers might work together to
Monsters
Out of the Abyss
Spellcasting. Shedrak is a 9th-level spellcaster. His spellcasting ability is Intelligence (spell save DC 14, +6;{"diceNotation":"1d20+6","rollType":"to hit","rollAction":"Spellcasting"} to hit with
damage.Formerly an adventurer from the surface world, Shedrak and his companions delved too deeply into the Wormwrithings. His companions became Karazikar's playthings for a time, but Shedrak alone
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
","rollAction":"Steam Breath","rollDamageType":"fire"} fire damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one. Being underwater doesn't grant resistance against this damage.Dragon
sleep for years or decades while floating along the surface of the ocean, enjoying the warmth of the sun and letting vegetation take root on their shells. An angry ancient dragon turtle is terrible to
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
the surface world were a mistake of creation. I will correct that error. (Evil)
Dragon Turtle Spellcasting
Age
Spell Save DC
Spells Known
Ancient Dragon Turtle;Ancient
, taking 67 (15d8);{"diceNotation":"15d8","rollType":"damage","rollAction":"Steam Breath","rollDamageType":"fire"} fire damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one. Being
Monsters
Tales from the Yawning Portal
object held or creature grappled by the kraken's tentacles is thrown up to 60 feet in a random direction and knocked prone. If a thrown target strikes a solid surface, the target takes 3 (1d6
"} lightning damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one.LightningBludgeoning, Piercing, and Slashing from Nonmagical Attacks
Monsters
Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
Spells. The staff has 10 charges. As an action, it can expend 1 or more of its charges to cast one of the following spells (save DC 12):
cone of cold (5 charges)
fog cloud (1 charge)
ice storm (4
solid surface, doing so with a successful DC 17 Strength (Athletics) check. Breaking the staff in this manner destroys it.Melee Attack. Melee Weapon Attack: +5;{"diceNotation":"1d20+5","rollType":"to
Monsters
Monstrous Compendium Vol. 1: Spelljammer Creatures
":"1d12","rollType":"damage","rollAction":"Scintillating Eye","rollDamageType":"psychic"} psychic damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one.A goon balloon looks like a 5-foot
-diameter beach ball with clawed feet. Unblinking eyes on the outer surface of its spherical air sac enable the creature to see in all directions at once. These eyes can produce kaleidoscopic light that
Monsters
Monstrous Compendium Vol. 1: Spelljammer Creatures
a failed save, the creature takes 24 (8d6);{"diceNotation":"8d6","rollType":"damage","rollAction":"Mirrored Damage","rollDamageType":"force"} force damage. On a successful save, the creature takes
. A fractine can also imprison a creature inside a demiplane contained within its two-dimensional form, the prisoner’s distorted reflection visible in the fractine’s glassy surface
Monsters
Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
innate spellcasting ability is Wisdom (spell save DC 13). She can innately cast the following spells, requiring no material components:
At will: druidcraft, mending, poison spray (see “Actions” below)
3
he conquers Icewind Dale, he wants the Muzgardts to control the ale trade throughout his sunless surface kingdom.
Grandolpha, for her part, is too canny and jaded to fall for Xardorok's blunt attempt
Monsters
Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
Innate Spellcasting (Psionics). The squidling’s innate spellcasting ability is Intelligence (spell save DC 7). It can innately cast levitate at will, requiring no components.
Magic Resistance
propel it along whatever surface it’s floating above. Most mind flayers destroy squidlings on sight, so it’s rare to see one or more of these creatures.
Squidlings eat brains for sustenance, just like other mind flayers do, and they don’t care where the brains come from.
Monsters
The Book of Many Things
successful save, the creature chooses the side. The wall disappears when the medusa uses this lair action again or when the medusa dies.
Undulating Surface. Solid surfaces within the lair ripple like a snake
.
Spellcasting. The medusa casts one of the following spells, requiring no material components and using Wisdom as the spellcasting ability (spell save DC 20):
At will: Light, Spare the Dying, Thaumaturgy
Spells
Elemental Evil Player's Companion
, stopping early if it impacts against a solid surface. If the object would strike a creature, that creature must make a Dexterity saving throw. On a failed save, the object strikes the target and
Spells
Elemental Evil Player's Companion
surface, the meteor explodes. Each creature within 5 feet of the point where the meteor explodes must make a Dexterity saving throw. A creature takes 2d6 fire damage on a failed save, or half as much