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Spells
Player’s Handbook
You summon a giant centipede, spider, or wasp (chosen when you cast the spell). It manifests in an unoccupied space you can see within range and uses the Giant Insect stat block. The form you choose
its movement to avoid danger.
Using a Higher-Level Spell Slot. Use the spell slot’s level for the spell’s level in the stat block.
Giant Insect
Large Beast, Unaligned
AC 11 + the spell
Spells
Player’s Handbook
possess a creature’s body, you control it. Your Hit Points, Hit Point Dice, Strength, Dexterity, Constitution, Speed, and senses are replaced by the creature’s. You otherwise keep your
game statistics.
Meanwhile, the possessed creature’s soul can perceive from the container using its own senses, but it can’t move and it is Incapacitated.
While possessing a body, you can
Monsters
Monster Manual
Detect Intelligence. The intellect devourer magically senses the location of any creature within 300 feet of itself that has an Intelligence score of 3 or higher, regardless of interposing
Stunned condition until the end of the intellect devourer’s next turn.
Steal Body. Intelligence Saving Throw: DC 12, one Small or Medium creature within 5 feet that has the Incapacitated
Monsters
Monster Manual
other magical effects.
Undead Restoration. If destroyed, the mummy gains a new body in 24 hours if its heart is intact, reviving with all its Hit Points. The new body appears in an unoccupied space
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At Will: Dispel Magic, Thaumaturgy 1/Day Each: Animate Dead, Harm, Insect Plague (level 7 version)Whirlwind of
Spells
Player’s Handbook
You step into a stone object or surface large enough to fully contain your body, merging yourself and your equipment with the stone for the duration. You must touch the stone to do so. Nothing of
your presence remains visible or otherwise detectable by nonmagical senses.
While merged with the stone, you can’t see what occurs outside it, and any Wisdom (Perception) checks you make to hear
Spells
Player’s Handbook
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−3
Resistances Poison
Immunities Charmed, Exhaustion, Frightened, Paralyzed, Poisoned
Senses Darkvision 60 ft.; Passive Perception 10
Languages Understands the languages
you know
CR None (XP 0; PB equals your Proficiency Bonus)
Traits
Heated Body (Metal Only). A creature that hits the spirit with a melee attack or that starts its turn in a grapple with the spirit
Magic Items
Dungeon Master’s Guide
, Paralyzed, Petrified, Poisoned, Unconscious
Senses Truesight 60 ft.; Passive Perception 13
Languages All languages known to its summoner
CR None (XP 0; PB equals its summoner’s)
Traits
Incorporeal
, which must be cleared out before you can claim the keep as yours.
Void. Your soul is drawn from your body and contained in an object in a place of the DM’s choice. One or more powerful beings
Monsters
Forgotten Realms: Adventures in Faerûn
Chardalyn Sense. Zlan senses the emotions of anyone touching a piece of chardalyn within 100 miles of itself.
Legendary Resistance (3/Day). If Zlan fails a saving throw, it can choose to succeed
inches long, it re-forms from that piece of chardalyn in 1d10;{"diceNotation":"1d10", "rollType":"roll", "rollAction":"Next of the Seven"} days, regaining all its Hit Points. The new body appears in the
backgrounds
Forgotten Realms: Heroes of Faerûn
Dale. Catching knucklehead trout isn’t the most glorious trade in the North, but it’s an honest living. You’ve trained your senses for the slightest tug on the line, wrestled big
trout out of ice-covered lakes, and gutted enough knucklehead trout to feed your village many times over. These experiences have toughened your body and mind for a life of adventuring.
Magic Jar
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Spells
Basic Rules (2014)
Your body falls into a catatonic state as your soul leaves it and enters the container you used for the spell's material component. While your soul inhabits the container, you are aware of your
living body (and ending the spell) or attempting to possess a humanoid's body.
You can attempt to possess any humanoid within 100 feet of you that you can see (creatures warded by a protection from evil
Monsters
Quests from the Infinite Staircase
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Rejuvenation. When he is destroyed, Nafik gains a new body in 24 hours if his heart is intact, regaining all his hit points. The new body appears in an unoccupied space within 5 feet of Nafik’s
"} for every 24 hours that elapse. If the curse reduces the target’s hit point maximum to 0, the target dies and its body turns to dust. The curse lasts until removed by the Remove Curse spell or
Monsters
Lost Laboratory of Kwalish
treated as a Medium creature, moves independently on the construct's turn, and has a flying speed of 40 feet. The clockwork kraken's senses operate through its tentacles as well as its main body. Each
Magic Items
Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron
A docent is a small metal sphere, about 2 inches across, studded with dragonshards. To attune to a docent, you must embed the item somewhere on your body, such as your chest or your eye socket
.
Sentience. A docent is a sentient item of any alignment with an Intelligence of 16, a Wisdom of 14, and a Charisma of 14. It perceives the world through your senses. It communicates telepathically with
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
malevolent bent and despises the living.
With or without corpses nested in its body, a corpse flower exudes a stench of decay that can overwhelm the senses of nearby creatures, causing them to become
of the earth and begins scavenging Humanoid corpses from battlefields and graveyards. Using its fibrous tentacles, it stuffs the remains into its body to sustain and repair itself. The plant has a
Monsters
The Book of Many Things
intruders in sight with reckless abandon.
Cultists of Aurnozci
Aurnozci grants its cultists the following trait:
Burning Corpse. When the creature dies, its body is reduced to a pile of smoldering
apart the cocoon, ending the cocoon’s effect with a successful DC 23 Strength (Athletics) check.
Insect Swarm. Aurnozci creates a 30-foot-radius sphere of stinging wasps centered on a point
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
magic, etherealness, faerie fire, fly, insect plague, invisibilityDrow spellcasters who seek to devote themselves wholly to Lolth, the Spider Queen, sometimes walk the sinister path of the arachnomancer
. By offering up body and soul to Lolth, they gain tremendous power and a supernatural connection to the ancient spiders of the Demonweb Pits, channeling magic from that dread place.PoisonChange Shape
Monsters
Candlekeep Mysteries
Magic Resistance. The fungal servant has advantage on saving throws against spells and other magical effects.
Rejuvenation. A destroyed fungal servant gains a new body in 24 hours if its heart is
intact, regaining all its hit points and becoming active again. The new body appears within 5 feet of the fungal servant’s heart.
Spellcasting. The fungal servant is a 10th-level spellcaster. Its
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
are so-called among non-illithids because they act as the central communication hub for an entire mind flayer colony, just as a brain does for a living body. Linked to the elder brain, the colony acts
tempered by its relative immobility. Although its telepathic senses can reach for miles, moving anywhere is always a dangerous proposition. If forced outside its brine pool, an elder brain swiftly expires
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
container.A gazer is a tiny manifestation of the dreams of a beholder. It resembles the beholder who dreamed it into existence, but its body is only 8 inches wide and it has only four eyestalks. It
familiar, forming a telepathic bond with its willing master, provided that the master is at least a 3rd-level spellcaster. While the two are bonded, the master can sense what the gazer senses as long as
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
, the master can sense what the gazer senses as long as they are within 1 mile of each other. If its master causes it physical harm, the gazer will end its service as a familiar, breaking the
opening a container.A gazer is a tiny manifestation of the dreams of a beholder. It resembles the beholder who dreamed it into existence, but its body is only 8 inches wide and it has only four
Meld into Stone
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Spells
Basic Rules (2014)
You step into a stone object or surface large enough to fully contain your body, melding yourself and all the equipment you carry with the stone for the duration. Using your movement, you step into
the stone at a point you can touch. Nothing of your presence remains visible or otherwise detectable by nonmagical senses.
While merged with the stone, you can't see what occurs outside it, and any
Mummy Lord
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Monsters
Basic Rules (2014)
Magic Resistance. The mummy lord has advantage on saving throws against spells and other magical effects.
Rejuvenation. A destroyed mummy lord gains a new body in 24 hours if its heart is intact
, regaining all its hit points and becoming active again. The new body appears within 5 feet of the mummy lord's heart.
Spellcasting. The mummy lord is a 10th-level spellcaster. Its spellcasting ability
Monsters
Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
Magic Resistance. The mummy lord has advantage on saving throws against spells and other magical effects.
Rejuvenation. A destroyed mummy lord gains a new body in 24 hours if its heart is intact
, regaining all its hit points and becoming active again. The new body appears within 5 feet of the mummy lord's heart.
Spellcasting. The mummy lord is a 10th-level spellcaster. Its spellcasting ability
Half-Elf
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Species
Basic Rules (2014)
marked by an easy grace—an elvish grace, Flint would have said; yet the man’s body had the thickness and tight muscles of a human, while the facial hair was definitely humankind’s. All
, inventiveness, and ambition tempered by the refined senses, love of nature, and artistic tastes of the elves. Some half-elves live among humans, set apart by their emotional and physical differences, watching
Hexblood
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Species
Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
shades, long hair that regrows if cut, and an irremovable living crown. Along with these marks, hexbloods manifest hag-like traits, such as darkvision and a variety of magical methods to beguile the senses
unusual crown, often called an eldercross or a witch’s turn. This living, garland-like part of a hexblood’s body extends from their temples and wraps behind the head, serving as a visible
Summon Construct
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Spells
Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything
11 (+0)
CHA
5 (-3)
Damage Resistances poison
Condition Immunities charmed, exhaustion, frightened, incapacitated, paralyzed, petrified, poisoned
Senses
darkvision 60 ft., passive Perception 10
Languages understands the languages you speak
Challenge — Proficiency Bonus equals your bonus
Heated Body (Metal Only). A creature that
Monsters
Curse of Strahd
Abbot retains its game statistics and ability to speak, but its AC, movement modes, Strength, Dexterity, and special senses are replaced by those of the new form, and it gains any statistics and
in reuniting Strahd with his lost love and, in so doing, ending Barovia's curse. The Abbot has recently completed work on a flesh golem bride made from the body parts of dead women. While the Belviews
Shifter
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Species
Eberron: Rising from the Last War
heightened senses. Geth’s gift from his lycanthrope ancestors was sheer toughness. Strength seeped into his bones and flooded his flesh. His skin hardened, and his hair became coarse like an
body and mind. Some shifters believe that these spirits are independent entities, and they may speak of Bear or Wolf as ancestors or guides. Most just see the beast within as a formidable expression
Deck of Many Things
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Magic Items
Basic Rules (2014)
Immunities charmed, frightened, paralyzed, petrified, poisoned, unconscious
Senses darkvision 60 ft., truesight 60 ft., passive Perception 13
Languages all languages known to its summoner
apply it.
The Void. This black card spells disaster. Your soul is drawn from your body and contained in an object in a place of the GM's choice. One or more powerful beings guard the place. While your
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player’s Handbook
Giant Insect Level 4 Conjuration (Druid) Casting Time: Action
Range: 60 feet
Components: V, S
Duration: Concentration, up to 10 minutes
You summon a giant centipede, spider, or wasp (chosen
when you cast the spell). It manifests in an unoccupied space you can see within range and uses the Giant Insect stat block. The form you choose determines certain details in its stat block. The
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules
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Senses Darkvision 60 ft., Passive Perception 12
Languages Understands the languages you know
CR None (XP 0; PB equals your Proficiency Bonus)
Traits
Spider Climb. The insect can
Giant Insect Level 4 Conjuration (Druid) Casting Time: Action
Range: 60 feet
Components: V, S
Duration: Concentration, up to 10 minutes
You summon a giant centipede, spider, or wasp (chosen
Monsters
Mythic Odysseys of Theros
addition, Arasta’s children immediately swarm over her body to protect her, granting her 100 temporary hit points.
Legendary Resistance (3/Day). If Arasta fails a saving throw, she can choose to
, where they consider home, and what brought them to her web.
Arasta casts the giant insect spell (spiders only). It lasts until she uses this lair action again or until she dies.
Regional Effects
Magic Items
Guildmasters’ Guide to Ravnica
own senses.
Boros Keyrune (Rare). Carved from red sandstone with white granite elements to resemble a member of the Boros Legion, this keyrune can become a veteran (human) for up to 8 hours. In
over someone’s body, either to impersonate that person for a brief time or to extract secrets from their mind. When the mission is complete, the creature returns to you, reports its success
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Infernal Machine Rebuild
, prone, restrained, stunned
Senses blindsight 10 ft., passive Perception 8
Languages —
Challenge 1/2 (100 XP)
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 insect. The swarm can’t regain hit points or gain temporary hit points.
Actions
Bites. Melee Weapon Attack: +3 to hit, reach 0 ft., one target in
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
to the jungles and marshes of Chult carry this disease, shivering sickness. The easiest protection against it is a coating of insect-repelling salve on all exposed skin (for the cost of insect
repellent, see “Buying a Special Item”). A giant or humanoid that takes damage from insect swarms or from giant centipedes, giant scorpions, or giant wasps is exposed to the disease at the end of the