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Returning 35 results for 'shape of increase being'.
Feats
Forgotten Realms: Heroes of Faerûn
and shape to fit the new form while you’re in it.
Once you use this benefit, you can’t do so again until you finish a Long Rest.
Hardy Transformation. When you gain Temporary Hit Points when you shape-shift, increase that number of Temporary Hit Points by 20.
Epic Boon Feat (Prerequisite: Level 19+)
You gain the following benefits.
Ability Score Increase. Increase your Intelligence, Wisdom, or Charisma score by 1, to a maximum of 30.
Shapechanger. You
Feats
Eberron: Forge of the Artificer
General Feat (Prerequisite: Level 4+, Mark of Shadow Feat)
You gain the following benefits.
Ability Score Increase. Increase one ability score of your choice by 1, to a maximum of 20.
Improved
Intuition. When you use the Cunning Intuition benefit of your Mark of Shadow feat, you can roll 1d6 instead of 1d4.
Improved Shadow. When you use the Shape Shadows benefit of your Mark of Shadow feat to cast Invisibility without a spell slot, you cast the spell as its level 3 version.
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
with the serpent god Sseth, the Sibilant Death. They use their abilities to convert others to their faith, increase their personal power, and befuddle the minds of their enemies.
Mind whisperers are
for being self-important, sneaky, and prone to flee at the first sign of trouble.PoisonChange Shape. The yuan-ti transforms into a Medium snake or back into its true form. Its statistics are the same
feats
General Feat (Prerequisite: Level 4+, Wisdom 12+)
Ability Score Increase. Increase your Wisdom by 1, to a maximum of 20.
Stone Whisper. You can cast the Stone Shape spell once per day without
Changeling
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Species
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
changelings today—even in those changelings who have never set foot in the fey realm. Each changeling decides how to use their shape-shifting ability, channeling either the peril or the joy of the
, their features almost devoid of detail. It is rare to see a changeling in that form, for a typical changeling changes their shape the way others might change clothes. A casual shape—one created
Monsters
The Book of Many Things
willing creature the living portent can see within 30 feet of itself. The target’s hit point maximum and current hit points increase by 7 (1d8 + 3);{"diceNotation":"1d8+3", "rollType":"roll
power to defy death.
RadiantChange Shape. The living portent magically transforms into a Humanoid while retaining its game statistics (other than its size and Brilliance trait). The transformation ends if the living portent is reduced to 0 hit points or uses a bonus action to end it.
feats
General Feat (Prerequisite: Level 4+, Changeling)
You gain the following benefits.
Ability Score Increase. Increase your Constitution or Dexterity score by 1, to a maximum of 20.
Hardened Skin
. You gain a +1 bonus to Armor Class.
Metamorphosis. When you use your Shape-Shifter trait, you may choose one of the following options. You gain the benefits of the chosen option until you use your
Shifter
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Species
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
Shifters are sometimes called weretouched, as they are descendants of people who contracted full or partial lycanthropy. Humanoids with a bestial aspect, shifters can’t fully change shape, but
scores, increase one score by 2 and increase a different score by 1, or increase three different scores by 1. Follow this rule regardless of the method you use to determine the scores, such as rolling or
Species
Spelljammer: Adventures in Space
Plasmoids are amorphous beings with no typical shape. In the presence of other folk, they often adopt a similar shape, but there’s little chance of mistaking a plasmoid for anything else. They
vibrations. Plasmoids can stiffen the outer layers of their bodies to maintain a humanlike shape, so they can wear clothing and accessories. They speak by forcing air out of tubular cavities that
Species
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
their mental powers within the endless chaos of Limbo have imbued githzerai with the ability to shape psionic energy to protect themselves and probe minds.
Creating Your Character
At 1st level, you
Increases
When determining your character’s ability scores, increase one score by 2 and increase a different score by 1, or increase three different scores by 1. Follow this rule regardless of the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
made of sparkling, crystalline sand and lasts for 1 hour. For every 5 by which the creature exceeds the DC, the creature can either shape an additional 5-foot cube or increase the duration by 1 hour
Singing Sands Magic The Singing Sands don’t just make music; creatures can use music to shape the sand to their will. As an action, a creature can sing or play music to magically shape the Singing
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron
Mark of Making Traits If your human character has the Mark of Making, the following traits replace the human’s Ability Score Increase trait in the Player’s Handbook. Ability Score Increase. Your
added to the spell list of your spellcasting class. Mark of Making Spells Spell Level Spells
1st identify, Tenser’s floating disk
2nd continual flame, magic weapon
3rd conjure barrage, elemental weapon
4th fabricate, stone shape
5th creation
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
Elf Subrace: Mark of Shadow If you’re an elf with the Mark of Shadow, you have this subrace, with the following traits. Ability Score Increase. Your Charisma score increases by 1. Cunning Intuition
. When you make a Charisma (Performance) or Dexterity (Stealth) check, you can roll a d4 and add the number rolled to the ability check. Shape Shadows. You know the minor illusion cantrip. Starting at
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
Variant Human: Mark of Making If your human character has the Mark of Making, the following traits replace the human’s Ability Score Increase trait in the Player’s Handbook. Ability Score Increase
table are added to the spell list of your spellcasting class. Mark of Making Spells Spell Level Spells 1st identify, Tenser’s floating disk 2nd continual flame, magic weapon 3rd conjure barrage, elemental weapon 4th fabricate, stone shape 5th creation
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron
Mark of Shadow Traits If you’re an elf with the Mark of Shadow, you have this subrace, with the following traits. Ability Score Increase. Your Charisma score increases by 1. Cunning Intuition. When
you make a Charisma (Performance) or Dexterity (Stealth) check, you can roll a d4 and add the number rolled to the ability check. Shape Shadows. You know the minor illusion cantrip. Starting at 3rd
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Forge of the Artificer
Increase. Increase your Constitution score by 1, to a maximum of 20. Improved Fortitude. When you use the Aberrant Fortitude benefit of your Aberrant Dragonmark feat, you can roll 1d6 instead of 1d4. You
of Detection General Feat (Prerequisite: Level 4+, Mark of Detection Feat) You gain the following benefits. Ability Score Increase. Increase one ability score of your choice by 1, to a maximum of 20
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation Supplement
Tortle Traits Your tortle character gains traits that enable it to cope with the perils of a savage world. Ability Score Increase. Your Strength score increases by 2, and your Wisdom score increases
underwater for some time before needing to come up for air. Natural Armor. Due to your shell and the shape of your body, you are ill-suited to wearing armor. Your shell provides ample protection
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
determine how many monsters are affected by the Wizard’s Fireball spell or some other area of effect? The Targets in Area of Effect table offers a guideline. To use the table, find the column for the shape of
number by 1d3. If they’re bunched up, you can increase the number by 1d3. Of course, an area can’t encompass more creatures than are present in an encounter. Your judgment always outweighs these
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
trait. Chameleon Skin Troglodyte — Change Shape Ancient brass dragon — Charge Centaur Increase the monster’s damage on one attack by the amount noted in the trait. Charm Vampire — Constrict Constrictor
potentially increase its challenge rating. The Monster Features table lists various features that you can plunder from the Monster Manual. The table notes which features increase a monster’s effective
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
Salamander As salamanders age, they increase in size and status, rising to positions of power as cruel nobles among their kind. Nobles rule wandering bands of salamanders, which move across the
soften and shape iron and steel with their bare hands. Although not as meticulous as azers, salamanders number among the greatest metalsmiths in all the planes. Powerful creatures summon them as warriors
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
Dragonborn Traits Your draconic heritage manifests in a variety of traits you share with other dragonborn. Ability Score Increase. Your Strength score increases by 2, and your Charisma score
ancestry determines the size, shape, and damage type of the exhalation. When you use your breath weapon, each creature in the area of the exhalation must make a saving throw, the type of which is
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules
of your Wild Shape and choose a point within 60 feet of yourself. Vitality-giving flowers and life-draining thorns appear for a moment in a 10-foot-radius Sphere centered on that point. Each creature
your choice in that area regains 2d6 Hit Points. The damage and healing increase by 1d6 when you reach Druid levels 10 (3d6) and 14 (4d6). Level 6: Natural Recovery You can cast one of the level 1
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
Druid My plan for creating an intern tier consisting of nothing but giant ants should allow us to increase productivity by 37 percent. Who’s with me? At first glance, druids might not seem the best
? Running Wild Branding is everything. Whenever you take on a wild shape form, you do so with a unique bit of personal style that lets folks know you’re a beast to be reckoned with. Distinguishing Features
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
, increase their personal power, and befuddle the minds of their enemies. Mind whisperers are elusive, manipulative, unpredictable, and willing to cheat or kill comrades and rivals alike if doing so
: detect thoughts, hypnotic pattern
Bonus Actions
Change Shape. The yuan-ti transforms into a Medium snake or back into its true form. Its statistics are the same in each form. Any equipment it is wearing or carrying isn’t transformed. If it dies, it stays in its current form.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player’s Handbook
a Magic action, you can expend a use of your Wild Shape and choose a point within 60 feet of yourself. Vitality-giving flowers and life-draining thorns appear for a moment in a 10-foot-radius Sphere
on a successful one. One creature of your choice in that area regains 2d6 Hit Points. The damage and healing increase by 1d6 when you reach Druid levels 10 (3d6) and 14 (4d6). Level 6: Natural
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Book of Many Things
flower to increase your speed by 30 feet until the start of your next turn. The flower is then destroyed. The flower loses its magic 1d6 days after being plucked.
15–17 Drowsing Lavender. This
orchard. The gardens’ produce is nonmagical and tastes excellent, and Euryale uses it for cooking. Four couatls watch over the food gardens; they often adopt the shape of friendly mastiffs. Guesthouse
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a4
forming a sort of elastic skin. The shape of the corridor is not square in cross-section, but rather semicircular, as if a series of hoops were supporting the ceiling. The protective skin is soft
, which increase its challenge rating to 8 (3,900 XP): It has 161 (14d12 + 70) hit points. Its Strength and Constitution are 20 (+5). On one of its claws it wears a rune-covered copper band that makes it
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)
Dragonborn Traits Your draconic heritage manifests in a variety of traits you share with other dragonborn. Ability Score Increase. Your Strength score increases by 2, and your Charisma score
the dragon type, as shown in the table. Breath Weapon. You can use your action to exhale destructive energy. Your draconic ancestry determines the size, shape, and damage type of the exhalation. When
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Book of Many Things
within 30 feet of itself. The target’s hit point maximum and current hit points increase by 7 (1d8 + 3), and it gains a prophecy die, a d8. Once during each of the creature’s turns, when it fails an
as the spellcasting ability:
2/day: Cure Wounds
1/day each: Divination, Greater Restoration
Bonus Actions
Change Shape. The living portent magically transforms into a Humanoid while retaining
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
stronghold bereft of warmth or charm juts out of a hillside in a rough crescent shape. Only part of its construction is visible; the rest is buried in the stone.
A large double door of stone serves as the
, these duergar use their Enlarge trait to increase their size. If a duergar is caught alone by a group of foes, it calls out for help before turning invisible. When backup arrives, it uses its Enlarge
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a5
Szass Tam is siphoning the power of members of the Chosen, mortals who have been invested with the power of the gods so as to help shape the Realms to match the will of their divine benefactors. The
an undead god.
Greyhawk. Perhaps Rary the Traitor found the Doomvault — yet another vestige of ancient Sulm — under the Bright Desert. Rary takes any chance to increase his power, even as he claims
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
Elemental energy matching the dragon’s breath weapon, seeping out between the scales
Dragons of the same kind can vary widely in shape, size, color, and ornamentation Dragon Mannerisms d20 Mannerism
druid spells feels different from one who casts warlock spells. You can also give a dragon spells of a higher level than the variant rule allows, but such a tweak might increase the dragon’s
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
her seeming invincibility, Vlaakith finds herself in an awkward situation that — in her paranoid mind — has no easy resolution. If she keeps her people busy more often by ordering an increase in
, and every such endeavor they undertake ends in this manner. A Blade Kept Sharp Despite the decadent lifestyle the githyanki indulge in, they remain in fighting shape. All are required to attend
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
of such groups to life as described in chapter 4, fleshing out their personalities, goals, and ideals. Then use those elements to shape a response to the arrival of adventurers in their territory
repeatedly encounter manage to survive. Encounter Difficulty You might be inclined to increase the encounter difficulty as the adventurers descend deeper into the dungeon, as a way to keep the dungeon
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
goliath character has the following traits. Ability Score Increase. Your Strength score increases by 2, and your Constitution score increases by 1. Age. Goliaths have life spans comparable to humans. They
Werebear Goliath legends speak of a creature that prowls the far reaches of Icewind Dale, known as Oyaminartok the Winter Walker. She can take the form of either a polar bear or a hulking, bipedal shape