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Magic Items
The Book of Many Things
While wearing this skull-shaped helm, you have resistance to cold, poison, and necrotic damage.
Additionally, while wearing the helm, you can cast Spirit of Death from it without requiring material
Skull Lord
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Mordenkainen’s Tome of Foes
Legendary Resistance (3/Day). If the skull lord fails a saving throw, it can choose to succeed instead.
Master of the Grave. While within 30 feet of the skull lord, any undead ally of the skull lord
skull lord is subjected to an effect that allows it to make a Dexterity saving throw to take only half the damage, the skull lord instead takes no damage if it succeeds on the saving throw, and only
Monsters
Storm Lord’s Wrath
Sting. Melee Weapon Attack: +4;{"diceNotation":"1d20+4","rollType":"to hit","rollAction":"Sting"} to hit, reach 5 ft., one creature. Hit: 5 (1d6 + 2);{"diceNotation":"1d6+2","rollType":"damage
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
Evasion. If the skull lord is subjected to an effect that allows it to make a Dexterity saving throw to take only half the damage, the skull lord instead takes no damage if it succeeds on the saving
throw and only half damage if it fails, provided it isn’t incapacitated.
Legendary Resistance (3/Day). If the skull lord fails a saving throw, it can choose to succeed instead.
Master of the
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This humanoid skull is infested by a parasitic purple plant from an unknown plane. The longer you stare, the more you could swear that the petals sway in response to an unseen wind.
The skull
contains 7 petals. While holding it, you can use an action to pluck a petal to cast the guiding bolt spell (+5 to hit), dealing necrotic damage instead of radiant. The skull regrows 1d4 plucked petals daily
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This humanoid skull is infested by a parasitic purple plant from an unknown plane. The longer you stare, the more you could swear that the petals sway in response to an unseen wind.
The skull
contains 7 petals. While holding it, you can use an action to pluck a petal to cast the guiding bolt spell (+5 to hit), dealing necrotic damage instead of radiant. The skull regrows 1d4 plucked petals daily
Monsters
Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus
Spellcasting. The skull lasher is a 3rd-level spellcaster. Its spellcasting ability is Wisdom (spell save DC 13, +5;{"diceNotation":"1d20+5","rollType":"to hit"} to hit with spell attacks). It has
” below), shield
2nd level (2 slots): darkness, misty stepMultiattack. The skull lasher makes two attacks with its flail.
Iron Skull Flail. Melee Weapon Attack: +2;{"diceNotation":"1d20+2
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This humanoid skull is infested by a parasitic purple plant from an unknown plane. The longer you stare, the more you could swear that the petals sway in response to an unseen wind.
The skull
contains 7 petals. While holding it, you can use an action to pluck a petal to cast the blight spell (save DC 16), dealing necrotic damage instead of radiant. The skull regrows 1d4 plucked petals daily at
Magic Items
Tomb of Annihilation
This amulet is carved from obsidian and shaped like a screaming humanoid skull, with ruby eyes and emeralds for teeth. It hangs from an iron chain necklace.
The amulet has 6 charges and regains 1d6
make a DC 16 Constitution saving throw each time you use the amulet to teleport. On a failed saving throw, the black skull cackles as you are transformed in transit. The transformation takes effect
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
Skull Lord The skull lords have claimed vast regions of the Shadowfell as their dominion. From these blighted lands, they wage war against their rivals, commanding hordes of undead in a bid to
establish dominance. Yet skull lords always prove to be their own worst enemies; as a combined being born from three hateful individuals, they constantly plot against themselves. Creatures of Betrayal
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Book of Many Things
Chapter 19: Skull This chapter details the Grim Harrow, doomed Undead that seek the Deck of Many Things in all its forms so they can destroy it and end their own existence. But as the Deck of Many
dreadful demiplane that serves as the creatures’ home. Stat blocks for several members of the Grim Harrow appear at the end of the chapter.
The Grim Harrow When the Skull card is drawn from a Deck of Many
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
Skull Lord Skull lords have claimed vast regions of the Shadowfell as their dominion. From these blighted lands, they wage war against their rivals, commanding hordes of the undying in a bid to
establish dominance. Yet skull lords always prove to be their own worst enemies; each is a combined being born from three hateful individuals, and they constantly plot against themselves. Infighting and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm Lord’s Wrath
Skull Flier Skull Flier
Medium construct, unaligned
Armor Class 16 (natural armor)
Hit Points 24 (3d8)
Speed 10 ft., fly 50 ft.
STR
10(+0)
DEX
14(+2)
CON
10(+0
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
13. Stone Skull A giant stone skull crusted with moss juts out from the end of the passageway. A flame flickers within each of its eye sockets, and a view into a chamber beyond can be seen through
its open jaws.
Any character who peers through the skull can see into area 14 (see the description below). The skull’s jaws are opened wide enough to allow a Medium or smaller creature to climb though
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
Exploring Skull Island All location descriptions for Skull Island are keyed to map 24. The island’s features are as follows: The island sits in the middle of a vast cavern with a roughly dome-shaped
topped with battlements, ballistae, and flame cannons (see the “Skull Island Weaponry” sidebar). A natural column of rock rises from the heart of the fortress and merges with the cavern ceiling. (See
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
Event 3: Singing Skull The remains of Yowen Pilt, the book seller who brought the book and its curse to Candlekeep, are hidden in a secret compartment in area F4. This event begins when his skull
skull continues to sing unless it’s destroyed or Shemshime is trapped in Shemshime’s Bedtime Rhyme. The skull is a Tiny object with AC 15, 4 hit points, and immunity to poison damage.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
17. Skull Square Empty buildings surround this square, which is festooned with iron gibbets dangling from wooden masts.
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
The Skull Dunes The Skull Dunes (see map 5.2) lie beyond a beach of coarse brown sand at the southern end of the island. The dunes are desolate; only an occasional bit of scraggly grass grows here
with skeletons that awaken and attack when anything treads on the sand above them. Map 5.2: Skull Dunes View Player Version Encounter Procedure Use the following rules to play out the Skull Dunes
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
Amulet of the Black Skull Wondrous item, very rare (requires attunement) This amulet is carved from obsidian and shaped like a screaming humanoid skull, with ruby eyes and emeralds for teeth. It
enter and exit the tomb. If you aren’t undead, you must make a DC 16 Constitution saving throw each time you use the amulet to teleport. On a failed saving throw, the black skull cackles as you are
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
40. Curse of the Golden Skull A golden skull rests on a pedestal in the middle of this small, dusty room.
This cursed human skull plated in gold is the remains of a fool named Yaka — an entertainer
who once amused the royal family of Omu. If any character touches it, the skull levitates into the air and begins to follow that character everywhere. The skull never strays more than a few feet away
Monsters
Monster Manual
condition, is a Humanoid or Beast, and has 10 Hit Points or fewer. Failure: The intellect devourer possesses the target, consumes its brain, and teleports inside its skull. While there, the intellect
Magic Items
Dungeon Master’s Guide
some fell goal.
The wand is topped with a skull that once belonged to a human hero slain by Orcus. The wand can magically change in size to better conform to the grip of its user. All Holy Water
skull surmounts it. For this to happen, the long-lost hero must first be restored to life—no easy task, given the fact that Orcus has imprisoned the hero’s soul and keeps it hidden and well
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drawing this card, you can ask a question in meditation and mentally receive a truthful answer to that question.
Skull. An Avatar of Death appears in an unoccupied space as close to you as possible
Avatar of Death
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Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
(1d8);{"diceNotation":"1d8","rollType":"damage","rollAction":"Reaping Scythe","rollDamageType":"necrotic"} necrotic damage.Summoned by drawing the Skull card from a Deck of Many Things.
Refer to the Deck of Many Things for further information on this monster.Necrotic, Poison
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
transforms those slashed by the claws into statues.
As part of the ritual used to create a stone cursed, a fist-sized obsidian skull forms within the creature’s torso. The skull isn’t visible
while the stone cursed is active, but when it is slain, the statue shatters and the skull clatters to the ground. Because it is the nexus for the alchemy used to create these horrors, a faint echo of the
magic-items
This magic Longbow is adorned with a bear skull and claws. The bow can have up to 4 charges and gains 1 charge whenever you reduce a Small or larger creature to 0 Hit Points with it. For each charge
the bow has, a small, etched line appears on the bear skull adorning the weapon. An etched line vanishes from the skull when its charge is expended.
When you hit a creature with a ranged attack roll
Monsters
Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus
Skull Flail. Melee Weapon Attack: +2;{"diceNotation":"1d20+2","rollType":"to hit"} to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 4 (1d8);{"diceNotation":"1d8","rollType":"damage","rollDamageType
spellbooks and other tomes from wizards outside of the cult.
Cult Ranks. A follower of Myrkul wields a flail that has a skull replacing the normal flail’s striking head. Necromite of Myrkul;Necromites
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Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus
): darkness, misty step, scorching ray (see “Actions” below)
3rd level (2 slots): animate dead, fireballMultiattack. The master of souls attacks twice with its flail.
Silvered Skull Flail. Melee
Weapon Attack: +2;{"diceNotation":"1d20+2","rollType":"to hit","rollAction":"Silvered Skull Flail"} to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 4 (1d8);{"diceNotation":"1d8","rollType":"damage","rollAction
Demilich (Variant)
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Monster Manual (2014)
gemstones into his skull’s eye sockets and teeth. Each of these soul gems possessed the power to capture the souls on which his phylactery would feed.
Acererak abandoned his physical body
, accepting that it would molder and dissolve to dust while he traveled the planes as a disembodied consciousness. If the skull that was his last physical remains was ever disturbed, its gems would claim the
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Infernal Machine Rebuild
statue of Moloch without damaging them. With the gems in hand, Seodra would have been able to craft the jeweled skull of a demilich for Acererak. Unfortunately, she was captured along with the rest of the thieves, and is now forced to work for Thessalar—crafting the same jeweled skull for his own use.
Monsters
Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse
", "rollAction":"Bite", "rollDamageType":"piercing"} piercing damage.The talking skull Morte is a curmudgeonly interplanar traveler plucked from his eternal punishment in the Nine Hells. Tormented by the lies
Monsters
Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
Death Rune. The giant has a death rune inscribed on a giant’s skull in its possession. While holding or wearing the skull bearing the rune, the giant can use its Reaping Scythe action and
Shroud of Souls bonus action.
The skull bearing the death rune has AC 18; 35 hit points; and immunity to necrotic, poison, and psychic damage. The skull regains all its hit points at the end of every turn
Flameskull
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skull blasts foes with fiery rays from its eyes and dreadful spells called up from the dark recesses of its memory.Cold, Fire, PoisonLightning, Necrotic, Piercing
magic-items
Part of a set of three signets decorated with the carving of a skull and a pair of skeletal hands. This ring covers its eyes. Each ring has 1 charge, which it regains daily at dawn. If you are
Monsters
Tomb of Annihilation
When reduced to 0 hit points, a skeleton key falls apart, though its skull and bones remain intact.
A skeleton key does not trigger any trap placed in a room or on a door of the tomb.Multiattack. The