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Monster Manual
triggering creature. Failure: The attack’s weapon sticks to the kuo-toa’s shield. If the target doesn’t let go of the weapon, the target has the Grappled condition while the weapon is
in a net within 5 feet, destroying the net on a success.Sticky Shield. Trigger: A creature misses the kuo-toa with a melee attack roll using a weapon. Response—Strength Saving Throw: DC 11, the
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Forgotten Realms: Adventures in Faerûn
, Wall of Force
1/Day Each: Befuddlement, Clone, Finger of Death, Mind Blank (cast before combat), SimulacrumProtective Magic. Manshoon casts Counterspell or Shield in response to the spell’s
. That Manshoon is dead, and the current Manshoon is one of the original’s many clones. Being a magical copy rather than an original doesn’t make Manshoon any less of a threat, as he’s
Monsters
Forgotten Realms: Adventures in Faerûn
, Prestidigitation
2/Day Each: Animate Dead, Plane Shift
1/Day Each: Cone of Cold (level 8 version), Finger of Death, Power Word Kill, ScryingProtective Magic. Valindra casts Counterspell or Shield in response
pallor common to liches, she prefers to maintain a magical disguise that allows her to appear as the high elf she was in life. Ever the schemer, Valindra doesn’t use this disguise out of nostalgia
Magic Items
Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus
difficult for Gargauth to escape its prison, such as leaving the shield in a place where others are unlikely to find it.
Gargauth doesn’t know how to escape from the shield. The pit fiend believes
The Shield of the Hidden Lord is of celestial origin and serves as a prison for the pit fiend Gargauth, whose mortal followers revere it as a god. Over time, Gargauth’s evil has warped the
feats
weapon with the Reach property against a creature wielding a Shield, that creature doesn’t benefit from the Shield’s Armor Class bonus.
Reaching Defense. While wielding a weapon with reach, you have a +1 bonus to your Armor Class.
General Feat (Prerequisite: Level 4+)
You gain the following benefits.
Ability Score Increase. Increase your Strength score by 1, to a maximum of 20.
Bypass Shield. When you make an attack with a
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
Devil’s Sight. Magical darkness doesn’t impede the drow’s darkvision.
Fey Ancestry. The drow has advantage on saving throws against being charmed, and magic can’t put the
-forming in the Abyss, siphoning its essence into themselves.
drow shadowblade (summoner variant);Variant: Demon Summoning
Some drow shadowblades have an action that allows them to summon a demon
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Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
Devil’s Sight. Magical darkness doesn’t impede the amnizu’s darkvision.
Magic Resistance. The amnizu has advantage on saving throws against spells and other magical
them into legions.
Amnizu (Summoner Variant);Variant: Devil Summoning
Some amnizus have an action that allows them to summon other devils:
Summon Devil (1/Day). The amnizu summons 2d4
Magic Items
Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
Set in the center of this armor’s chest is a citrine engraved with the shield rune.
While wearing this armor, your hit point maximum increases by an amount equal to 10 + your level.
Invoking
the Rune. As an action, you can invoke the armor’s rune to cast the beacon of hope spell with it; the spell has a duration of 1 minute and doesn’t require concentration. Once the rune has been invoked, it can’t be invoked again until the next dawn.
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The Book of Many Things
mechanical animal or plant.
This Construct doesn’t have a control amulet and can’t be controlled like other shield guardian;shield guardians.Poison
enough to contain the creature. While encased, the creature doesn’t need to breathe, eat, or drink, and it doesn’t age. Nothing can pass through the orb, nor can any creature teleport or use
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Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
that doesn’t affect the weapon’s capabilities.
Molydeus (Summoner Variant);Variant: Demon Summoning
You can give a molydeus the ability to summon other demons.
Summon Demon (1/Day
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The Book of Many Things
doesn’t function if Asteria has the incapacitated condition.
Legendary Resistance (3/Day). If Asteria fails a saving throw, she can choose to succeed instead.
Special Equipment. Asteria wears
moves up to her speed. This movement doesn’t provoke opportunity attack;opportunity attacks.
Cast a Spell (Costs 2 Actions). Asteria uses Spellcasting.Though she now travels alone, Asteria
Monsters
Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus
Iron Boots. While moving, the madcap has disadvantage on Dexterity (Stealth) checks.
Outsize Strength. While grappling, the madcap is considered to be Medium. Also, wielding a heavy weapon doesn
been. A redcap’s desire to slay is rooted in its will to survive.
VARIANT: MADCAPS
A madcap is a redcap that soaks its hat in demon ichor instead of blood. Contact with demon ichor makes the
Monsters
Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse
can’t increase. The curse doesn’t advance while the target is in sunlight or the area of a daylight spell. When the cursed target’s Charisma becomes 2, the target dies, and its head
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
Guildmasters’ Guide to Ravnica
following spells, requiring no components other than its Izzet gear, which doesn’t function for others:
3/day each: scorching ray, shield, thunderwave
2/day: fireball
Tides of Chaos (1/Day
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.
Regeneration. Geryon regains 20 hit points at the start of his turn. If he takes radiant damage, this trait doesn’t function at the start of his next turn. Geryon dies only if he starts his turn
with 0 hit points and doesn’t regenerate.Multiattack. Geryon makes one Claw attack and one Stinger attack.
Claws. Melee Weapon Attack: +16;{"diceNotation":"1d20+16","rollType":"to hit
Magic Items
The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
next dawn.
The shadow (variant);detached shadow is rooted to the spot where it was snipped until you use a bonus action to cause it to behave in one of the following ways, either of which is possible
vertical surfaces), provided it remains within your sight at all times. The shadow is harmless and unable to be harmed, and it is invisible in darkness. It can’t speak, and it doesn’t require
Noble
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authority that title carries. A noble title doesn’t stand on its own—it’s connected to an entire family, and whatever title you hold, you will pass it down to your own children. Not only do
.
Variant Noble: Knight
A knighthood is among the lowest noble titles in most societies, but it can be a path to higher status. If you wish to be a knight, choose the Retainers feature (see the sidebar
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Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
characters, and use the Dragon Turtle Spellcasting table to help select spells for a spellcasting dragon. (Though the Monster Manual doesn’t explicitly include dragon turtles in the variant rules for
shield the dragon turtle and strike at foes.
Creating a Dragon Turtle
Use the Dragon Turtle Personality Traits and Dragon Turtle Ideals tables to inspire your portrayal of distinctive dragon turtle
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Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
dragon turtle’s defenses, magical storms manifest to shield the dragon turtle and strike at foes.
Creating a Dragon Turtle
Use the Dragon Turtle Personality Traits and Dragon Turtle Ideals tables
to inspire your portrayal of distinctive dragon turtle characters, and use the Dragon Turtle Spellcasting table to help select spells for a spellcasting dragon. (Though the Monster Manual doesn’t
Magic Items
Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
terrain doesn’t cost the painted creature extra movement.
Life Rune. The painted creature gains 10 temporary hit points and has advantage on death saving throws.
Light Rune. The painted creature
immune to being knocked prone and has advantage on Strength and Constitution saving throws.
Shield Rune. The painted creature has advantage on Dexterity saving throws against effects that deal damage.
A
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Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus
authority that title carries. A noble title doesn’t stand on its own—it’s connected to an entire family, and whatever title you hold, you will pass it down to your own children. Not only do
; without question, and any corruption among guards or government officials tends to work in your favor, not against you—at least until you make some effort to expose it.
Variant Noble: Knight
A
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Mythic Odysseys of Theros
reduced by 10 feet until the start of the triton’s next turn.Frigid Shield. When a creature the triton can see targets the triton with an attack, the triton gains 10 temporary hit points. If the
attack hits and reduces the temporary hit points to 0, each creature within 5 feet of the triton takes 9 (2d8);{"diceNotation":"2d8","rollType":"damage","rollAction":"Frigid Shield","rollDamageType
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Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
its turn if it is in contact with the ground. If the wood woad takes fire damage, this trait doesn’t function at the start of the wood woad’s next turn. The wood woad dies only if it
starts its turn with 0 hit points and doesn’t regenerate.
Tree Stride. Once on each of its turns, the wood woad can use 10 feet of its movement to step magically into one living tree within 5 feet
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Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
gains 1 level of exhaustion. On a successful save, the creature takes half as much damage, doesn’t gain exhaustion, and is immune to all draconians’ Noxious Breath for 24 hours.
Spellcasting
: dimension door, disguise self, sendingMagic Shield (3/Day). When the draconian is hit by an attack roll, it can create an invisible barrier of magical force around itself, granting it a +5 bonus to its
Monsters
Tales from the Yawning Portal
bolt, mage hand, minor illusion, prestidigitation, ray of frost
1st level (4 slots): detect magic, magic missile, shield, unseen servant*
2nd level (3 slots): detect thoughts, flaming sphere
lich doesn’t require air, food, drink, or sleep.PoisonCold, Lightning, Necrotic; Bludgeoning, Piercing, and Slashing from Nonmagical Attacks
Githzerai Anarch
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Mordenkainen’s Tome of Foes
hit with spell attacks). It can innately cast the following spells, requiring no components:
At will: mage hand (the hand is invisible)
3/day each: feather fall, jump, see invisibility, shield
, telekinesis
1/day each: globe of invulnerability, plane shift, teleportation circle, wall of force
Psychic Defense. While the anarch is wearing no armor and wielding no shield, its AC includes its Wisdom
Monsters
Spelljammer: Adventures in Space
Flyby. The dragon doesn’t provoke opportunity attack;opportunity attacks when it flies out of an enemy’s reach.
Legendary Resistance (3/Day). If the dragon fails a saving throw, it can
structures.
Unusual Nature. The dragon doesn’t require air.Multiattack. The dragon makes one Bite attack and one Tail attack.
Bite. Melee Weapon Attack: +16;{"diceNotation":"1d20+16","rollType
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Spelljammer: Adventures in Space
Flyby. The dragon doesn’t provoke opportunity attack;opportunity attacks when it flies out of an enemy’s reach.
Legendary Resistance (2/Day). If the dragon fails a saving throw, it can
structures.
Unusual Nature. The dragon doesn’t require air.Multiattack. The dragon makes one Bite attack and one Tail attack.
Bite. Melee Weapon Attack: +12;{"diceNotation":"1d20+12","rollType
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Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
table to help select spells for a spellcasting dragon. (Though the Monster Manual doesn’t explicitly include dragon turtles in the variant rules for making a dragon a spellcaster, you can apply
the surrounding water—and any creatures in it. And even if an enemy wears down the dragon turtle’s defenses, magical storms manifest to shield the dragon turtle and strike at foes
Backgrounds
Guildmasters’ Guide to Ravnica
proven to be a danger to them. The members of the enclave will shield you from the law or anyone else searching for you, though they will not risk their lives in this effort.
In addition, as a guild
.
3
I enjoy comfort and quiet, and prefer to avoid extra effort.
4
I have a fierce temper that doesn’t reflect the inner calm I seek.
5
I’m convinced that everyone else in the
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Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
, fireball, fly
4th level (3 slots): banishment, fire shield
5th level (2 slots): Bigby's hand, Rary's telepathic bondFire Bolt (Cantrip). Ranged Spell Attack: +6;{"diceNotation":"1d20+6","rollType":"to
around their necks. These self-styled Knights of the Black Sword offered her sanctuary in the keep of Caer-Dineval, where they are based. Although she doesn’t trust the cultists, they treat her
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
Armor 1 minute 1 minute Medium Armor 5 minutes 1 minute Heavy Armor 10 minutes 5 minutes Shield 1 action 1 action VARIANT: EQUIPMENT SIZES
In most campaigns, you can use or wear any equipment that
Getting Into and Out of Armor The time it takes to don or doff a type of armor or a shield is shown in the Donning and Doffing Armor table. Don. This is the time it takes to put on the item. You
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Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
Legendary Resistance (3/Day). If the githzerai fails a saving throw, it can choose to succeed instead.
Psychic Defense. While the githzerai is wearing no armor and wielding no shield, its AC
fire or lightning, it doesn’t ignite flammable objects.
Regional Effects. The region containing an anarch’s lair is warped by its presence, which creates one or more of the following effects
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Variant Human: Mark of Sentinel If your human character has the Mark of Sentinel, the following traits replace the human’s Ability Score Increase trait in the Player’s Handbook. Ability Score
number rolled to the ability check. Guardian’s Shield. You can cast the shield spell once with this trait, and you regain the ability to cast it after you finish a long rest. Wisdom is your spellcasting
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One at a Time A creature can wear only one suit of armor at a time and wield only one Shield at a time. Variant: Equipment Sizes
In most campaigns, you can use or wear any equipment that you find
adventurer tries to wear it as a disguise.
Using this variant, when adventurers find armor, clothing, and similar items that are made to be worn, they might need to visit a smith, a tailor, a leatherworker