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Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Xanathar's Guide to Everything
Variant Rules A shared campaign might use some variant rules to handle certain aspects of the game. The Adventurers League, for instance, has variant systems for gaining levels and acquiring treasure
. These “house rules,” presented below, serve as a sort of common language, ensuring that the rewards all characters receive are equivalent no matter what kind of adventure a character experienced.
Monsters
Monster Manual
components and using Wisdom as the spellcasting ability (spell save DC 13):
At Will: Animal Friendship (snakes only)2/Day: SuggestionPoisonShape-Shift. The yuan-ti shape-shifting;shape-shifts into a Medium
Monsters
Monster Manual
of the quasit’s next turn.
Invisibility. The quasit casts Invisibility on itself, requiring no spell components and using Charisma as the spellcasting ability.
Scare (1/Day). Wisdom Saving
minute, it succeeds automatically.
Shape-Shift. The quasit shape-shifting;shape-shifts to resemble a bat (Speed 10 ft., Fly 40 ft.), a centipede (40 ft., Climb 40 ft.), or a toad (40 ft., Swim 40 ft
Monsters
Monster Manual
Succubus Form. When the incubus finishes a Long Rest, it can shape-shifting;shape-shift into a Succubus, using that stat block instead of this one. Any equipment it’s wearing or carrying isn
Charisma as the spellcasting ability (spell save DC 15):
At Will: Disguise Self, Etherealness 1/Day Each: Dream, Hypnotic PatternCold, Fire, Poison, PsychicNightmare (Recharge 6);{"diceNotation":"1d6
Monsters
Monster Manual
components and using Charisma as the spellcasting ability (spell save DC 16):
At Will: Detect Magic, Detect Thoughts, Invisibility (self only), Mage Hand, Major Image1/Day Each: Cloudkill, Fly, Plane Shift
(self only), TonguesAcid, Cold, Fire, Lightning, ThunderShape-Shift. The slaad shape-shifting;shape-shifts into a Small or Medium Humanoid, or it returns to its true form. Other than its size
Monsters
Monster Manual
Thoughts, Mage Hand1/Day Each: Fireball, Invisibility (self only)Acid, Cold, Fire, Lightning, ThunderShape-Shift. The slaad shape-shifting;shape-shifts into a Small or Medium Humanoid, or it returns to
Monsters
Monster Manual
":"Nightmare Ray", "rollDamageType":"Psychic"} Psychic damage, and the target has the Frightened condition until the start of the oni’s next turn.
Shape-Shift. The oni shape-shifting;shape-shifts
;t transformed.
Spellcasting. The oni casts one of the following spells, requiring no Material components and using Charisma as the spellcasting ability (spell save DC 13):
1/Day Each: Charm
Monsters
Monster Manual
Only). The yuan-ti casts one of the following spells, requiring no Material components and using Wisdom as the spellcasting ability (spell save DC 13):
At Will: Animal Friendship (snakes only)2/Day
: SuggestionPoisonShape-Shift. The yuan-ti shape-shifting;shape-shifts into a Medium snake or returns to its true form. If it dies, it stays in its current form. The yuan-ti’s game statistics are
Monsters
Monster Manual
components and using Charisma as the spellcasting ability (spell save DC 16):
At Will: Detect Magic, Detect Thoughts, Invisibility (self only), Mage Hand, Major Image1/Day Each: Blight (level 8
version), Cloudkill (level 6 version), Fly, Plane Shift, TonguesAcid, Cold, Fire, Lightning, ThunderShape-Shift. The slaad shape-shifting;shape-shifts into a Small or Medium Humanoid, or it returns to its
Monsters
Monster Manual
using Wisdom as the spellcasting ability (spell save DC 13):
At Will: Animal Friendship (snakes only)2/Day: SuggestionPoisonShape-Shift. The yuan-ti shape-shifting;shape-shifts into a Medium snake or
Monsters
Monster Manual
spellcasting ability (spell save DC 15):
At Will: Detect Thoughts, Gaseous Form (self only), Web1/Day: Dominate PersonToxic Escape. Trigger: The yochlol is hit by an attack roll. Response: The yochlol
-Shift. The yochlol shape-shifting;shape-shifts into a Medium Humanoid or a Medium spider or back into its true form. Its game statistics are the same in each form. Any equipment it is wearing or carrying isn’t transformed.
Monsters
Monster Manual
save DC 15):
At Will: Animal Friendship (snakes only)3/Day: SuggestionPoisonShape-Shift. The yuan-ti shape-shifting;shape-shifts into a Large snake or returns to its true form. If it dies, it stays in
Monsters
Monster Manual
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
5 ft. Hit: 13 (2d8 + 4);{"diceNotation":"2d8+4", "rollType":"damage", "rollAction":"Claw", "rollDamageType":"Slashing"} Slashing damage.
Nightmare Haunting (1/Day; Requires Soul Bag). While on the
Monsters
Monster Manual
Legendary Resistance (3/Day, or 4/Day in Lair). If the vampire fails a saving throw, it can choose to succeed instead.
Misty Escape. If the vampire drops to 0 Hit Points outside its resting place
sunlight or running water, it shape-shifting;shape-shifts into a Tiny bat (Speed 5 ft., Fly Speed 30 ft.) or a Medium cloud of mist (Speed 5 ft., Fly Speed 20 ft. [hover]), or it returns to its vampire
Monsters
Forgotten Realms: Adventures in Faerûn
;{"diceNotation":"1d4", "rollType":"roll", "rollAction":"Elemental Restoration"} days, reviving with all her Hit Points somewhere on the Plane of Water.
Legendary Resistance (3/Day). If Biha Babir fails a
components and using Charisma as the spellcasting ability (spell save DC 17):
At Will: Create or Destroy Water, Detect Magic, Major Image
2/Day Each: Control Water (Flood, Part Water, or Redirect Flow
Monsters
Forgotten Realms: Adventures in Faerûn
Material components and using Wisdom as the spellcasting ability (spell save DC 13):
At Will: Druidcraft, Speak with Animals (swan form only)
1/Day Each: Animal Friendship, Beast Sense, Spike
-Shifting;shape-shifts into a Small swan, or it returns to its true humanoid form. Its game statistics are the same in each form, except where noted. Any equipment it is wearing or carrying isn’t transformed.
Monsters
Forgotten Realms: Adventures in Faerûn
Legendary Resistance (3/Day, or 4/Day in Lair). If the dragon fails a saving throw, it can choose to succeed instead.Multiattack. The dragon makes three Rend attacks.
Rend. Melee Attack Roll: +9
versatile shape-shifting of metallic dragons, deep dragons can assume the form of animals or humanoids and often masquerade as snakes or dragonborn.
Adult deep dragons eliminate challengers with
Monsters
Forgotten Realms: Adventures in Faerûn
components and using Charisma as the spellcasting ability (spell save DC 12):
At Will: Friends, Silent Image
1/Day: Hold PersonAraneas are reclusive shape-shifters. An aranea’s natural form resembles
from medicinal herbs.
5
Silks with intricate web patterns.
6
Stories with cleverly concealed morals.
Shape-Shift. The aranea Shape-Shifting;shape-shifts into a humanoid form, into a
Monsters
Forgotten Realms: Adventures in Faerûn
", "rollType":"roll", "rollAction":"Divine Immortality"} days, reviving with all its Hit Points in a place of Malar’s choosing.
Legendary Resistance (3/Day). If the beast fails a saving throw, it can
ferocity.Recuperative Shape-Shift. The beast Shape-Shifting;shape-shifts into its land form, sea form, or sky form and regains 9 (2d8) Hit Points. Its game statistics are the same in each form, except where noted. Any equipment it is wearing or carrying isn’t transformed.
Monsters
Forgotten Realms: Adventures in Faerûn
Legendary Resistance (4/Day, or 5/Day in Lair). If the dragon fails a saving throw, it can choose to succeed instead.Multiattack. The dragon makes three Rend attacks.
Rend. Melee Attack Roll: +12
eats this enhanced vegetation.
If the dragon dies or moves its lair elsewhere, these effects end immediately.Poison, PsychicShape-Shift. The dragon Shape-Shifting;shape-shifts into a Small or Medium
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
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
, requiring no material components and using Intelligence as the spellcasting ability (spell save DC 19):
At will: command
3/day: dominate monster
1/day: feeblemindInstinctive Charm. When a creature
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
.
Variant: Demon Summoning
Drow Inquisitor (Summoner Variant);Variant: Demon Summoning
Some drow inquisitors have an action that allows them to summon a yochlol.
Summon Demon (1/Day). The drow
(spell save DC 18):
At will: dancing lights, detect magic, message, thaumaturgy
1/day each: clairvoyance, darkness, detect thoughts, dispel magic, faerie fire, levitate (self only), silence, suggestion
Shifter
Legacy
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Species
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
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
choose the kind of lycanthrope in your past, or you can determine it randomly by rolling on the Lycanthrope Ancestor table. The table also provides a suggestion for the Shifting option you might have
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
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
immersed in water for at least 1 hour during a day, it suffers 1 level of exhaustion at the end of that day. The grung can recover from this exhaustion only through magic or by immersing itself in water for
":"poison"} poison damage.
Spellcasting. The grung casts one of the following spells, using Wisdom as the spellcasting ability (spell save DC 12):
At will: druidcraft
3/day each: cure wounds, spike
Monsters
Quests from the Infinite Staircase
", "rollDamageType":"force"} force damage. If the target is a creature, its speed is halved until the start of the leprechaun’s next turn.
Gift of Luck (1/Day). The leprechaun touches a creature and
the following spells, requiring no material components and using Charisma as the spellcasting ability (spell save DC 14):
At will: Mending (as an action), Prestidigitation
2/day each: Invisibility
Variant Human
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Species
Basic Rules (2014)
If your campaign uses the optional feat rules from the Player’s Handbook, your Dungeon Master might allow these variant traits, all of which replace the human’s Ability Score Increase trait.
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
will: dancing lights, darkness
1/day each: faerie fire, levitate (self only)Drow shadowblades steal down the dim passages of the Underdark, bound on errands of mayhem. They protect enclaves and
-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
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
immersed in water for at least 1 hour during a day, it suffers 1 level of exhaustion at the end of that day. The grung can recover from this exhaustion only through magic or by immersing itself in water for
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
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
Legendary Resistance (3/Day). If the molydeus fails a saving throw, it can choose to succeed instead.
Magic Resistance. The molydeus has advantage on saving throws against spells and other magical
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
immersed in water for at least 1 hour during a day, it suffers 1 level of exhaustion at the end of that day. The grung can recover from this exhaustion only through magic or by immersing itself in water for
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
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
explicitly include dragon turtles in the variant rules for making a dragon a spellcaster, you can apply those rules to these aquatic dragons.)
Dragon Turtle Personality Traits
d8
Monsters
Monstrous Compendium Vol. 4: Eldraine Creatures
DC 19 Wisdom saving throw or have the charmed condition until the start of its next turn. While charmed, the creature also has the incapacitated condition.
Legendary Resistance (3/Day). If the high
, prestidigitation, suggestion
1/day each: major image, zone of truthThe high fae can take up to three reactions per round but only one per turn.
Capricious Step. Immediately after taking damage, the
Monsters
Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse
armor, mage hand, prestidigitationProbability Loophole (3/Day). When the law bender or a creature it can see makes an attack roll, a saving throw, or an ability check, the law bender can cause the roll
to be made with advantage or disadvantage.Members of the Fraternity of Order find and exploit loopholes in the laws of the multiverse. Law benders are magistrates who skirt the rules of probability
Monsters
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
making a dragon a spellcaster, you can apply those rules to these aquatic dragons.)
Dragon Turtle Personality Traits
d8;{"diceNotation":"1d8","rollType":"roll","rollAction":"Trait"}
Trait