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Returning 35 results for 'shape of the height life'.
Spells
Player’s Handbook
what you look like, including your height, weight, facial features, sound of your voice, hair length, coloration, and other distinguishing characteristics. You can make yourself appear as a member of
another species, though none of your statistics change. You can’t appear as a creature of a different size, and your basic shape stays the same; if you’re bipedal, you can’t use this
Species
Player’s Handbook
Cherished and guided by gods who value life, home, and hearth, halflings gravitate toward bucolic havens where family and community help shape their lives. That said, many halflings possess a brave
attribute their unusual gift to one or more of their benevolent gods, including Yondalla, Brandobaris, and Charmalaine. The same gift might contribute to their robust life spans (about 150 years
Magic Items
Dungeon Master’s Guide
height above it.
Drain Life. When you hit a creature with a melee attack using the rod, you can force the target to make a DC 17 Constitution saving throw. On a failed save, the target takes an extra
Monsters
Dungeon Masters: Ravenloft Play-Along Pack
the end of its next turn.Realistic humanoid sculptures come to life, waxworks seek to kill and replace those they’ve been crafted to resemble. These creatures typically believe they’re the
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.
Monsters
Astarion's Book of Hungers
":"Fiery Eruption", "rollDamageType":"Fire"} Fire damage.Effigy Animated by Hellish Magic
Fiendish icons are grotesque, sapient statues depicting fearsome fiends. These creatures gain life as a result
hand outstretched in welcome.
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Six crows perched atop each other in a roughly humanoid shape.
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A horned fiend that bears an uncanny resemblance to one of the characters.
The only
Species
Eberron: Forge of the Artificer
Shifters—sometimes called “weretouched”—descend from people who contracted full or partial lycanthropy. Humanoids with a bestial aspect, shifters can’t change shape
fully, but they can enhance their animalistic features temporarily in a process they call “shifting.”
Shifters resemble humans in height and build but are typically more lithe and flexible
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kills a Humanoid with its Life Drain action, the wight transforms into an independent Jiangshi 5 days later.When a soul becomes trapped within its corpse, its bitterness can reanimate its body
lurk within tombs or hidden ruins to avoid attention from the living. At night, they emerge to drain the life from those who dare wander in darkness. A Humanoid killed by a jiangshi rises as a life
Monsters
Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
facets of hard light. But arithmancers know that these fractals are actually living equations: artificial life forms created by extrapolating magic from the mathematical patterns in nature.
Because of
checks, and Dexterity saving throws with advantage. The fractal can become no smaller than 1 foot in height via this bonus action.
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the end of its next turn.Realistic humanoid sculptures come to life, waxworks seek to kill and replace those they’ve been crafted to resemble. These creatures typically believe they’re the
Shape-Shifting;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.
Monsters
Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
sorrowful dead, haints are spirits that change their shape in tragic imitation of what they once were. A haint can shift from its spectral form to appear as the corporeal Humanoid it was in life, passing as
creature. Hit: 21 (4d8 + 3);{"diceNotation":"4d8+3","rollType":"damage","rollAction":"Sorrowful Touch","rollDamageType":"force"} psychic damage.
Change Shape. The haint magically assumes the
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
Alter Self
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Spells
Basic Rules (2014)
underwater and gain a swimming speed equal to your walking speed.
Change Appearance. You transform your appearance. You decide what you look like, including your height, weight, facial features, sound of your
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
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
they can temporarily enhance their animalistic features by entering a state they call shifting.
Shifters are similar to humans in height and build but are typically more lithe and flexible. Their
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
, regardless of distance, so long as it and its master are in the same body of water.Deep scions began life as people who were stolen from shore or saved from sinking ships and offered a terrible bargain
deep scion’s duty to infiltrate the air-breathing world and report back to their master. When set to this task, a deep scion worms their way into the life of an unsuspecting enemy as a new friend
Monsters
Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
of 4 or lower, the fensir has no more boulders to throw.Some fensirs undergo a transformation after living in Ysgard for at least a thousand years. They grow rapidly to a height of 25 feet, fueled by
Ysgard: creatures slain on that plane return to life the next dawn. Thus, the giants’ incursion became a part of the eternal battle that rages across the plane. The trolls, whose fundamental
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ft. or range 30 ft. Hit: 14 (2d10 + 3);{"diceNotation":"2d10+3", "rollType":"damage", "rollAction":"Necrotic Burst", "rollDamageType":"Necrotic"} Necrotic damage.
Life Drain. Constitution Saving
Throw: DC 15, one creature Saidra can see within 30 feet. Failure: 28 (8d6);{"diceNotation":"8d6", "rollType":"damage", "rollAction":"Life Drain", "rollDamageType":"Necrotic"} Necrotic damage, and its
Monsters
Out of the Abyss
with spell attacks). The Pudding King knows the following sorcerer spells:
Cantrips (at will): acid splash, light, mage hand, poison spray, prestidigitation
1st level (4 slots): false life, mage armor
":"War Pick","rollDamageType":"piercing"} piercing damage.
Change Shape. The Pudding King magically transforms into an ooze, or back into his true form. He reverts to his true form if he dies. Any
Monsters
Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
":"piercing"} piercing damage plus 14 (3d8);{"diceNotation":"3d8","rollType":"damage","rollAction":"Talon (Poison)","rollDamageType":"poison"} poison damage.
Change Shape. The tlacatecolo magically
mortals. These fiends spread an affliction that leaches heat and life from the living, dispersing it upon winds that rattle like a gasp from a frozen body. Sunlight staves off the disease, but those affected rarely survive the dark of night.Cold, Poison
Jiangshi
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monsters
Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
the initiative order. If this wight slays a Humanoid with its Life Drain, the wight transforms into a jiangshi 5 days later.
Change Shape. The jiangshi polymorphs into a Beast, a Humanoid, or an Undead
their descendants and the communities they knew in life, sowing terror and taking retribution for the slights or neglected burial rites that led to their cursed resurrections. Rigor mortis notoriously
Monsters
Spelljammer: Adventures in Space
oozes that can alter their shape at will. Their amorphous bodies have a soft, malleable texture, and plasmoids can extrude up to five pseudopods, each one up to 5 feet long. They use their pseudopods
they absorb oxygen. Up to four times in its life, a plasmoid can reproduce by joining with another member of its species. After this merging, the two plasmoids separate, and one of them (determined
Monsters
Monstrous Compendium Vol. 4: Eldraine Creatures
":"bludgeoning"} bludgeoning damage.Gingerbread cookies baked in the wilds of Eldraine—or made from ingredients grown there—have a habit of developing a life of their own. Known as
the wilds where its ingredients originated. Many witches of Dunbarrow craft gingerbrutes intentionally, whipping them into shape (sometimes with actual whipped cream) as soldiers to defend their
Monsters
Spelljammer: Adventures in Space
alter their shape at will. Their amorphous bodies have a soft, malleable texture, and plasmoids can extrude up to five pseudopods, each one up to 5 feet long. They use their pseudopods for locomotion as
. Up to four times in its life, a plasmoid can reproduce by joining with another member of its species. After this merging, the two plasmoids separate, and one of them (determined randomly) divides in
Monsters
Candlekeep Mysteries
exhaustion. When the target finishes a short or long rest, the target loses every level of exhaustion gained from this attack.
Change Shape. The gingwatzim changes from its true form—a 3-foot
gingwatzim reverts to its true form and then vanishes.A gingwatzim is a peculiar form of life created by a spell or a ritual. The magic that brings it into being draws on spirit energy from the
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the end of its next turn.
Immutable Form. The monster can’t Shape-Shifting;shape-shift.
Magic Resistance. The monster has Advantage on saving throws against spells and other magical
remember in fractured memories. Still others believe that they are something new and greater than what they were before and seek to create a new life—whether on their own or at the expense of
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
one Spit Rock attack. It can use this option only if it is retracted in its shell.When a zaratan is summoned from the Elemental Plane of Earth, the ground rises up to take the shape of a hulking
might be buried; a creature within half the distance of the structure’s height must make a DC 25 Dexterity saving throw. On a failed save, the creature takes 17 (5d6);{"diceNotation":"5d6
Monsters
The Book of Many Things
were slain by monster hunters when he was young, and he traveled from town to town for most of his life, fleeing whenever townsfolk discovered his true nature.
Delour and Pyrite accepted Augustus in a
way he’d never experienced before. When the three of them created the Moonstalkers guild, Augustus relished his new life of crime. But over time, his passion has faded. The riches they gathered
Monsters
Spelljammer: Adventures in Space
and wit, in addition to their strength and size, to stay in power for long.
Plasmoids
Plasmoids are intelligent oozes that can alter their shape at will. Their amorphous bodies have a soft
nerves for a brain. Plasmoids don’t have internal organs as humans know them, but they have pores through which they absorb oxygen. Up to four times in its life, a plasmoid can reproduce by joining
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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
Species
Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
Construct type.
Life Span
The typical life span of a player character in D&D is about a century, assuming the character doesn’t meet a violent end on an adventure.
Height and Weight
Player
characters, including owlin, typically fall into the same ranges of height and weight that humans have in our world. If you’d like to determine your character’s height or weight randomly
Species
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
Water genasi descend from marids, aquatic genies from the Elemental Plane of Water. Water genasi are perfectly suited to life underwater and carry the power of the waves inside themselves.
Their
others were born to non-genasi parents who lived near a place suffused by a genie’s magic.
A typical genasi has a life span of 120 years.
Creating Your Character
At 1st level, you choose
Species
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
descendants of a genie, while others were born to non-genasi parents who lived near a place suffused by a genie’s magic.
A typical genasi has a life span of 120 years.
Creating Your Character
spell doesn’t work on a Construct or an Undead.
Life Span
The typical life span of a player character in the D&D multiverse is about a century, assuming the character doesn’t meet a
Monsters
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
true form if it dies.Kin to the common mimic described in the Monster Manual, hoard mimics are among the oldest and most cunning of their kind. A hoard mimic’s massive, amorphous form and shape
dragon’s lair to draw unwitting intruders away from the real riches—and into the mimic’s maw. If faced with unexpectedly fierce opposition, though, a hoard mimic might offer information about the true hoard in exchange for its life.
Rod of Lordly Might
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Basic Rules (2014)
your height above it.
Drain Life. When you hit a creature with a melee attack using the rod, you can force the target to make a DC 17 Constitution saving throw. On a failure, the target takes an extra
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
for centuries. Fairies and harengons, however, have a life span of about a century.
Height and Weight
Player characters, regardless of race, typically fall into the same ranges of height and weight
themselves, but some rules in the game affect creatures of certain types in different ways. For example, the cure wounds spell doesn’t work on a Construct or an Undead.
Life Span
The typical life span