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Arcana Unleashed
Spell Imprint. As part of the darkenbeast’s creation, its creator can cast one spell of level 5 or lower with a casting time of an action. The spell has no effect but is stored within the
into fanged horrors with leathery wings. Most darkenbeasts have luminous bones that glow through their skin; they resemble eerie flying skeletons as they soar through the night sky. A darkenbeast is
Monsters
Dungeon Masters: Arcana Unleashed Play-Along Pack
Spell Imprint. As part of the darkenbeast’s creation, its creator can cast one spell of level 5 or lower with a casting time of an action. The spell has no effect but is stored within the
into fanged horrors with leathery wings. Most darkenbeasts have luminous bones that glow through their skin; they resemble eerie flying skeletons as they soar through the night sky. A darkenbeast is
Monsters
Quests from the Infinite Staircase
it, the pech can cast Wall of Stone. If at least seven other pechs are within 30 feet of it, it can cast Greater Restoration. Each other pech involved in casting the spell can’t have the
, and they find sunlight nauseating. Their skin displays a spectrum of color and texture as varied as that of clay, earth, and stone.
A single pech can draw on the magic of the Elemental Plane of
Green Hag (Coven Variant)
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Monsters
Monster Manual (2014)
, counterspell, lightning bolt
4th level (3 slots): phantasmal killer, polymorph
5th level (2 slots): contact other plane, scrying
6th level (1 slot): eyebite
For casting these spells, each hag is
inspection. For example, the hag could appear to have smooth skin, but someone touching her would feel her rough flesh. Otherwise, a creature must take an action to visually inspect the illusion and
Monsters
Candlekeep Mysteries
magic, glyph of warding, slow
4th level (3 slots): blight, polymorph
5th level (2 slots): dominate person, seeming
6th level (1 slot): Otto's irresistible dance
For casting these spells, each hag
inspection. For example, the hag could appear to have smooth skin, but someone touching her would feel her rough flesh. Otherwise, a creature must take an action to visually inspect the illusion and
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
alhoon targets one creature it can see within 60 feet of it that is casting a spell. If the spell is 3rd level or lower, the spell fails, but any spell slots or charges are not wasted.Mind flayers that
difference is the lack of a mind flayer’s ever-present mucus coating. Without that protection, an alhoon’s skin becomes dry and cracked, and its eyes might appear shriveled and sunken. Both of
Gnome
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Species
Basic Rules (2014)
Skinny and flaxen-haired, his skin walnut brown and his eyes a startling turquoise, Burgell stood half as tall as Aeron and had to climb up on a stool to look out the peephole. Like most
;s loupes, and jars of powdered and shredded ingredients for casting spells. A fat gray cat, the mage’s familiar, lay curled atop a grimoire. It opened its eyes, gave Aeron a disdainful yellow
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
Barkskin 2nd-level transmutation Casting Time: 1 action Range: Touch Components: V, S, M (a handful of oak bark) Duration: Concentration, up to 1 hour You touch a willing creature. Until the spell
ends, the target’s skin has a rough, bark-like appearance, and the target’s AC can’t be less than 16, regardless of what kind of armor it is wearing.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player’s Handbook
Barkskin Level 2 Transmutation (Druid, Ranger) Casting Time: Bonus Action
Range: Touch
Components: V, S, M (a handful of bark)
Duration: 1 hour
You touch a willing creature. Until the spell
ends, the target’s skin assumes a bark-like appearance, and the target has an Armor Class of 17 if its AC is lower than that.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules
Barkskin Level 2 Transmutation (Druid, Ranger) Casting Time: Bonus Action
Range: Touch
Components: V, S, M (a handful of bark)
Duration: 1 hour
You touch a willing creature. Until the spell
ends, the target’s skin assumes a bark-like appearance, and the target has an Armor Class of 17 if its AC is lower than that.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
Second Skin There is another side of you that most people never see. When you show this side of yourself, you might become another person entirely, a celestial-like avenger, or a walking nightmare
. Casting alter self in this way requires no spell slot, and you must finish a long rest before you can cast it this way again. Your spellcasting ability for this spell is Intelligence, Wisdom, or Charisma
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)
Banishment 4th-level abjuration Casting Time: 1 action Range: 60 feet Components: V, S, M (an item distasteful to the target) Duration: Concentration, up to 1 minute You attempt to send one creature
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At Higher Levels. When you cast this spell using a spell slot of 5th level or higher, you can target one additional creature for each slot level above 4th.
Barkskin 2nd-level transmutation
Casting
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Xanathar's Guide to Everything
Guardian of Nature 4th-level transmutation Casting Time: 1 bonus action Range: Self Components: V Duration: Concentration, up to 1 minute A nature spirit answers your call and transforms you into a
. Your melee weapon attacks deal an extra 1d6 force damage on a hit. Great Tree. Your skin appears barky, leaves sprout from your hair, and you gain the following benefits: You gain 10 temporary hit
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
Gnome Skinny and flaxen-haired, his skin walnut brown and his eyes a startling turquoise, Burgell stood half as tall as Aeron and had to climb up on a stool to look out the peephole. Like most
, jeweler’s loupes, and jars of powdered and shredded ingredients for casting spells. A fat gray cat, the mage’s familiar, lay curled atop a grimoire. It opened its eyes, gave Aeron a disdainful yellow stare
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)
Gnome Skinny and flaxen-haired, his skin walnut brown and his eyes a startling turquoise, Burgell stood half as tall as Aeron and had to climb up on a stool to look out the peephole. Like most
, jeweler’s loupes, and jars of powdered and shredded ingredients for casting spells. A fat gray cat, the mage’s familiar, lay curled atop a grimoire. It opened its eyes, gave Aeron a disdainful yellow stare
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
him to give her the ring, then escape using her fly spell. Xandala’s magic traces back to a draconic bloodline, and parts of her skin are covered by a thin sheen of protective scales. She has
Quickened Spell (3/Day). When she casts a spell that has a casting time of 1 action, Xandala changes the casting time to 1 bonus action for that casting.
Actions
Quarterstaff. Melee Weapon Attack: +3
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Masters: Arcana Unleashed Play-Along Pack
. Regardless of darkenbeasts’ original forms, the magic used to create them twists them into fanged horrors with leathery wings. Most darkenbeasts have luminous bones that glow through their skin; they
features. Darkenbeast Origin 1d6 The Darkenbeast Was Once A … 1 Cobra, so it has a flared neck and scaly skin. 2 Fox, giving it reddish fur and vulpine features. 3 Panther, so it has sharp claws
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Arcana Unleashed
skin; they resemble eerie flying skeletons as they soar through the night sky. A darkenbeast is loyal to its creators, who can extract the magic used to transform it in a dramatic display that’s
these cosmetic features. Darkenbeast Origin 1d6 The Darkenbeast Was Once A… 1 Cobra, so it has a flared neck and scaly skin. 2 Fox, giving it reddish fur and vulpine features. 3 Panther, so it
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
players when their characters reach the lowest level of Bel’s fortress: A wrought iron spiral staircase descends into a cavernous forge. Channels of bubbling lava wind through the complex, casting fiery
light over huge anvils. Chained giants with coal-black skin and fiery orange hair hammer out weapons under the malignant gaze of a pit fiend seated in a flying throne. Throughout the forge, sparks
Magic Items
The Book of Many Things
by casting the Resurrection spell on you. Once the entity has answered your call for divine intervention or resurrected you, the entity is no longer bound to aid you.
Tomb. At any time you choose
additional cards to keep, returning the other to the deck. The magic of the card you keep takes effect immediately thereafter.
Tree. Your skin immediately becomes rough, like tree bark. Your base AC now
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Descent into the Lost Caverns of Tsojcanth
, pechs have long, thin limbs and broad feet. Their large, pupilless eyes are sensitive to bright light, which they avoid, and they find sunlight nauseating. Their skin displays a spectrum of color and
other pechs are within 30 feet of it, the pech can cast Wall of Stone. If at least seven other pechs are within 30 feet of it, it can cast Greater Restoration. Each other pech involved in casting the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Quests from the Infinite Staircase
, pechs have long, thin limbs and broad feet. Their large, pupilless eyes are sensitive to bright light, which they avoid, and they find sunlight nauseating. Their skin displays a spectrum of color and
involved in casting the spell can’t have the incapacitated condition and must have at least one use of Communal Spellcasting remaining, which it must immediately expend to participate (no action
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Infernal Machine Rebuild
occupied by a female genasi, her skin encrusted with patches of faceted crystals. The project she’s working on is a silver skull with jeweled teeth.
Not bothering to look at you, the genasi says, “Your
. Manipulating Time Having a mechanical guide spend 1 charge in this area taps into the ritual magic Seodra is using to craft the demilich’s skull, causing a random character to age by one year. This effect can be reversed by casting a remove curse spell using a 6th-level spell slot.
Magic Items
Infernal Machine Rebuild
any text.
You lose the ability to speak any language. This has no effect on casting spells with verbal components.
31
You can cast the speak with plants spell three times.
Your skin turns
whenever you’re not looking—stealing things, mocking you behind your back, taunting opponents or friends, and so on.
36
Your skin is covered by slime. You automatically succeed on
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual
no spell components and using Intelligence as the spellcasting ability (spell save DC 16). When casting the spell this way, the spell’s range is 1 mile, and the aboleth can use its telepathy as if it
of the aboleth’s turn. Failure: The target is cursed. Until the curse ends, the target’s skin becomes slimy, the target can breathe air and water, and it can’t regain Hit Points unless it is underwater
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Locathah Rising
the altar.
A male humanoid with aqua skin, large black eyes, and gauzy robes stands in front of the altar. He makes stabbing motions with his hands, apparently arguing with nobody as he peers directly
already under the effect of the mage armor spell when the characters arrive. He begins combat by casting lightning bolt, affecting as many characters as possible. He’s likely to follow up with watery
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
include clammy skin, hair loss, and myopia (nearsightedness). A player character infected with the arcane blight gains the following flaw: “I don’t trust anyone.” This flaw, which supersedes any
ritual was designed to test visitors’ magical aptitude but can be performed without casting spells. For example, an adventurer could light a handful of lamp oil to “summon a flame” (taking 1 fire damage
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)
1 again whenever you gain a level in this class. Additionally, parts of your skin are covered by a thin sheen of dragon-like scales. When you aren’t wearing armor, your AC equals 13 + your Dexterity
power and exude an aura of awe or fear (your choice) to a distance of 60 feet. For 1 minute or until you lose your concentration (as if you were casting a concentration spell), each hostile creature that
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
again whenever you gain a level in this class. Additionally, parts of your skin are covered by a thin sheen of dragon-like scales. When you aren’t wearing armor, your AC equals 13 + your Dexterity
and exude an aura of awe or fear (your choice) to a distance of 60 feet. For 1 minute or until you lose your concentration (as if you were casting a concentration spell), each hostile creature that
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Curse of Strahd
vat neutralizes the poison, but it also spoils the taste of the wine. Casting a purify food and drink spell on a vat neutralizes the poison without spoiling the wine. In addition to her animal skin
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything
, lavender, nutmeg, or another comforting herb or spice. 4 Your shadow dances while no one is looking directly at it. 5 Horns or antlers sprout from your head. 6 Your skin and hair change color to match the
to do so when you finish a long rest. Whenever you start casting the spell, you can modify it so that it doesn’t require concentration. If you do so, the spell’s duration becomes 1 minute for that
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Domains of Delight: A Feywild Accessory
otter, a fawn, a sugar glider, a wombat, or a beautiful butterfly. 2 Ancient. This archfey appears to be eons old. They might have gnarled skin like teakwood and long, gray hair that looks like
Floral. Flowers bloom from the archfey’s fingertips, and their skin is covered in petals. Their body might have thorns, or they could have vine-like hair covered in sweet-smelling blossoms. 5 Fluid. The
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
of wonders. Stand on the steps of the Grand Temple and look down upon the High Street and you’ll see fountains of light casting shadows across buildings that have stood for over ten thousand years
never know when you’ll feel the tingle of spectral fingers against your skin or hear the whisper of an elf who’s older than human civilization. There are many wonders in Aerenal… just don’t get buried
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
combat, the following creatures are training here: a 7-foot-tall, powerfully built woman with shaggy black hair and pale skin named Nadia the Unbent (NE female Illuskan berserker), five human thugs
and casting undesirable ones onto the floor. The other two are fighting over a rusty shield embossed with a symbol resembling a stylized goblin skull. The room contains dozens of suits of plate armor
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
game statistics. You don’t need to do this if you don’t expect the NPC to engage in combat or use any special abilities (such as casting spells). You can customize the stat block using the guidelines
describe the NPC’s most distinctive physical features. You can start with the basics—skin, hair, and eye colors, as well as the NPC’s species. The NPC Appearance table can also help you identify one or two