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Monsters
Monster Manual
Incubus Form. When the succubus finishes a Long Rest, it can shape-shifting;shape-shift into an Incubus, using that stat block instead of this one.Multiattack. The succubus makes one Fiendish Touch
);{"diceNotation":"3d8", "rollType":"damage", "rollAction":"Draining Kiss", "rollDamageType":"Psychic"} Psychic damage. Success: Half damage. Failure or Success: The target’s Hit Point maximum decreases by
Monsters
Monster Manual
.
Immutable Form. The golem can’t shape-shift.
Magic Resistance. The golem has Advantage on saving throws against spells and other magical effects.Multiattack. The golem makes two Slam attacks
", "rollDamageType":"Acid"} Acid damage, and the target’s Hit Point maximum decreases by an amount equal to the Acid damage taken.Acid, Poison, PsychicBludgeoning, Piercing, SlashingHasten (Recharge 5–6
Monsters
Monster Manual
spell, the target’s Hit Point maximum decreases by an amount equal to that damage. If the spell kills the target, its soul is trapped in the hag’s soul bag, and the target can’t be
DC 14):
At Will: Detect Magic, Etherealness, Magic Missile (level 4 version) 2/Day Each: Phantasmal Killer, Plane Shift (self only)Cold, FireShape-Shift. The hag shape-shifting;shape-shifts into a
Monsters
Monster Manual
, the vampire uses Shape-Shift to become mist (no action required). If it can’t use Shape-Shift, it is destroyed.
While it has 0 Hit Points in mist form, it can’t return to its vampire form
", "rollAction":"Bite", "rollDamageType":"Necrotic"} Necrotic damage. The target’s Hit Point maximum decreases by an amount equal to the Necrotic damage taken, and the vampire regains Hit Points
Monsters
Dungeon Masters: Ravenloft Play-Along Pack
Meltable. If the waxwork takes Fire damage, until the end of its next turn, its Speed decreases by 20 feet and it has Disadvantage on saving throws.Multiattack. The waxwork makes two Sculpting Knife
ft. Hit: 8 (2d4 + 3);{"diceNotation":"2d4+3", "rollType":"damage", "rollAction":"Wax Lob", "rollDamageType":"Bludgeoning"} Bludgeoning damage, and the target’s Speed decreases by 10 feet until
Monsters
Astarion's Book of Hungers
, the vampire uses Shape-Shift to become mist (no action required). If it can’t use Shape-Shift, it is destroyed.
While it has 0 Hit Points in mist form, it can’t return to its vampire form
(if any). The target’s Hit Point maximum decreases by an amount equal to the Necrotic damage taken, and the vampire regains Hit Points equal to that amount. A Humanoid reduced to 0 Hit Points by
monsters
Meltable. If the waxwork takes Fire damage, until the end of its next turn, its Speed decreases by 20 feet and it has Disadvantage on saving throws.Multiattack. The waxwork makes two Sculpting Knife
ft. Hit: 8 (2d4 + 3);{"diceNotation":"2d4+3", "rollType":"damage", "rollAction":"Wax Lob", "rollDamageType":"Bludgeoning"} Bludgeoning damage, and the target’s Speed decreases by 10 feet until
Monsters
Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse
condition. The target must succeed on a DC 12 Charisma saving throw or become cursed. The cursed target’s Charisma decreases by 1 after each hour, as its head takes on fiendish aspects, and its Charisma
disembodied Humanoid heads with wings. While most vargouilles roam the planes to curse Humanoids and create more vargouilles, a variant known as the vargouille reflection resides in Undersigil. When a
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
. These amphibians prefer shade and live in trees, but they maintain hatcheries for their offspring in well-guarded ground-level pools. About three months after hatching, a grung tadpole takes on the shape
secrete a substance that is harmless to them but poisonous to other creatures, and sometimes that substance has a special effect based on the grung’s color (see “Variant: Grung Poison&rdquo
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
takes on the shape of an adult, and after another six months, the grung reaches maturity.
Born in a wide range of colors, grungs most often appear in shades of green, blue, purple, red, orange, and
gold. All grungs secrete a substance that is harmless to them but poisonous to other creatures, and sometimes that substance has a special effect based on the grung’s color (see “Variant
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
-level pools. About three months after hatching, a grung tadpole takes on the shape of an adult, and after another six months, the grung reaches maturity.
Born in a wide range of colors, grungs most often
effect based on the grung’s color (see “Variant: Grung Poison”). They also use this venom to poison their weapons.
Variant: Grung Poison
A creature poisoned by a grung can suffer an
Monsters
Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
damage on a successful one.Mimics are shape-shifting monsters described in the Monster Manual. The variant presented here is a particularly large and voracious specimen—the result of Netherese experiments on ordinary mimics—that spits acid.Acid
Alter Self
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Spells
Basic Rules (2014)
voice, hair length, coloration, and distinguishing characteristics, if any. You can make yourself appear as a member of another race, though none of your statistics change. You also can't appear as a
creature of a different size than you, and your basic shape stays the same; if you're bipedal, you can't use this spell to become quadrupedal, for instance. At any time for the duration of the spell
Monsters
Eberron: Rising from the Last War
guide the quori race, and the Devourer of Dreams — the personal emissary of the Dreaming Dark — is of this order. Although the kalaraqs never fight one another overtly, each has its own agenda, and
Inspired (Kalaraq variant);Inspired.Cold, Necrotic, Poison, Psychic; Bludgeoning, Piercing, and Slashing from Nonmagical Attacks
Monsters
Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
blinded until it finishes a long rest.
3–4. The creature’s hit point maximum decreases by 5 (2d4);{"diceNotation":"2d4","rollType":"roll","rollAction":"Infestation"}, and the reduction
Behavior table to see how such swarms might manifest.
Swarm Behavior
d4
Behavior
1
Crawls on walls in a vaguely bipedal shape
2
Makes skittering noises that sound like
Shapechange
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hit points, you aren't knocked unconscious.
You retain the benefit of any features from your class, race, or other source and can use them, provided that your new form is physically capable of doing
of equipment, based on the creature's shape and size. Your equipment doesn't change shape or size to match the new form, and any equipment that the new form can't wear must either fall to the ground
Monsters
Candlekeep Mysteries
like another creature of her general size and humanoid shape. The illusion ends if the hag takes a bonus action to end it or if she dies.
The changes wrought by this effect fail to hold up to physical
with her.Three Green Hag (Coven Variant);green hags named Dread Morgan, Vile Sazha, and Auntie Greenbones were once rivals who dwelled in an area of the Feywild coterminous with the High Forest. A
Monsters
The Book of Many Things
encounter.
Variant: Servants of Living Stars
Some stars in the sky are Elder Evils, alien beings of godlike power from the reality-defying Far Realm.
A living portent can be a fragment of these beings
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.
Changeling
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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
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Resistance (3/Day, or 4/Day in Domain). If Strahd fails a saving throw, he can choose to succeed instead.
Misty Escape. If Strahd drops to 0 Hit Points outside his resting place, he uses Shape-Shift
to become mist (no action required). If he can’t use Shape-Shift, he is destroyed. While Strahd has 0 Hit Points in mist form, he can’t return to his vampire form, and he must reach his
monsters
Hit Point maximum decreases by an amount equal to the damage taken. Success: Half damage only.
Truth or Die (1/Day). Saidra asks a creature she can see within 60 feet to identify itself and casts
Restoration trait).Necrotic, PoisonAcid, Bludgeoning, Cold, Fire, Piercing, SlashingShape-Shift. Saidra Shape-Shifting;shape-shifts into the Red Death, or she returns to her true form as the duchess. Her
Monsters
Eberron: Rising from the Last War
range of simple shapes. A point of blue light suspended within its tendrils serves as the hashalaq's sensory organ, which can be moved around to suit the creature's current shape.
The Power of Pleasure
. Hashalaq quori have studied their mortal prey for centuries. Inhabiting human bodies as Inspired (Hashalaq variant);Inspired has granted the hashalaq a deep understanding of the hedonistic urges of
Shifter
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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
race or of a fantastical race. If you select a fantastical race, follow these additional rules during character creation.
Ability Score Increases
When determining your character’s ability
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
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron
Creating a Dragonmarked Character Dragonmarks are associated with race, depicted by a combination of variant races and subraces. For humans and half-orcs, a dragonmark is a variant race that replaces
normal traits associated with those races. For half-elves, a dragonmark is a variant race. You keep some of the standard half-elf traits and replace others with the traits associated with your mark
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
Creating a Dragonmarked Character Dragonmarks manifest on certain members of a few species, represented in the rules by variant race options: For humans and half-orcs, a dragonmark is a variant race
that replaces traits associated with those races. For half-elves, a dragonmark is a variant race that lets you keep some half-elf traits and replace others with the traits associated with your mark
Monsters
Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
, dispel magic
4th level (3 slots): stone shape, guardian of faith
5th level (2 slots): contagion, insect plague
6th level (1 slot): harmMultiattack. The mummy can use its Dreadful Glare and makes one
, and its hit point maximum decreases by 10 (3d6);{"diceNotation":"3d6","rollType":"roll","rollAction":"Rotting Fist"} for every 24 hours that elapse. If the curse reduces the target's hit point maximum
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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
choose whether your character is a member of the human race or of a fantastical race. If you select a fantastical race, follow these additional rules during character creation.
Ability Score
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
can dramatically shape adventurers’ lives. The following sections present a variety of options for creating characters with a tie to dragons: “Draconic Races” presents variant dragonborn race options to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
section offers three variant dragonborn race options that can be used to create a character with clear connections to a specific draconic ancestry. When you’re making a new character using one of these races, use the rules under “Creating Your Character” to fill out the details.
dragonborn race in the Player’s Handbook is the most direct way to reflect a character with dragons somewhere far back in their ancestry. But for players who want to try a more nuanced approach, this
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Masters: Ravenloft Play-Along Pack
Fire damage, until the end of its next turn, its Speed decreases by 20 feet and it has Disadvantage on saving throws.
Actions
Multiattack. The waxwork makes two Sculpting Knife attacks.
Sculpting
Knife. Melee Attack Roll: +5, reach 5 ft. Hit: 10 (2d6 + 3) Slashing damage.
Wax Lob. Ranged Attack Roll: +5, range 20/60 ft. Hit: 8 (2d4 + 3) Bludgeoning damage, and the target’s Speed decreases
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ravenloft: The Horrors Within
decreases by 10 feet until the end of its next turn.
Bonus Actions
Shape-Shift. The waxwork shape-shifts into a humanoid of its size, or it returns to its true form. Its game statistics are the same in each form. Any equipment it is wearing or carrying isn’t transformed.
waxwork takes Fire damage, until the end of its next turn, its Speed decreases by 20 feet and it has Disadvantage on saving throws.
Actions
Multiattack. The waxwork makes two Sculpting Knife attacks
Shifter
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Eberron: Rising from the Last War
weretouched, as many believe they are the descendants of humans and lycanthropes. Whatever their origins, shifters have evolved into a unique race. They are humanoids with a bestial aspect; while they
can’t fully change shape, they can temporarily enhance their animalistic features — a state they call shifting. Each shifter walks on the knife’s edge between the wilds and the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
A Culture of Fugitives Despite all their unique and overwhelming abilities, the mind flayers are a race on the edge of extinction. Thousands of years ago, the illithids were the dominant power of the
mind flayers relied on a slave race, the gith, to provide physical labor and sustenance when other sources of food grew thin. Eventually, the gith revolted. Whether the mind flayers became decadent or
Yuan-ti Pureblood
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Volo's Guide to Monsters
body, thought, and emotion. Freed from the limitations of their human bodies, the yuan-ti used their new abilities to conquer new lands and expand their borders.
One Race, Many Forms
The bodies of all
that the yuan-ti have prepared a special ambush at the end of the pursuit.
Capture, Not Kill
The objective of the yuan-ti as a race is to conquer and enslave others; they don’t espouse the sort