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Tome of the Stilled Tongue

Magic Items Dungeon Master’s Guide (2024)

This book has a desiccated tongue pinned to its front cover. Five of these tomes exist, and it’s unknown which one is the original. The tongue on the first Tome of the Stilled Tongue belonged

to a treacherous former servant of the lich Vecna the Archlich;Vecna. The tongues pinned to the covers of the four copies came from other spellcasters who crossed Vecna. The first few pages of each

Chain Lightning

Spells Player’s Handbook

half as much damage on a successful one. Using a Higher-Level Spell Slot. One additional bolt leaps from the first target to another target for each spell slot level above 6.

the first target. A target can be a creature or an object and can be targeted by only one of the bolts. Each target makes a Dexterity saving throw, taking 10d8 Lightning damage on a failed save or

Witch Bolt

Spells Player’s Handbook

2d12 Lightning damage. On each of your subsequent turns, you can take a Bonus Action to deal 1d12 Lightning damage to the target automatically, even if the first attack missed. The spell ends if the

target is ever outside the spell’s range or if it has Total Cover from you. Using a Higher-Level Spell Slot. The initial damage increases by 1d12 for each spell slot level above 1.

Jallarzi's Storm of Radiance

Spells Player’s Handbook

damage on a failed save or half as much damage on a successful one. A creature also makes this save when it enters the spell’s area for the first time on a turn or ends its turn there. A

creature makes this save only once per turn. Using a Higher-Level Spell Slot. The Radiant and Thunder damage increase by 1d10 for each spell slot level above 5.

Cordon of Arrows

Spells Player’s Handbook

creature other than you enters a space within 30 feet of the ammunition for the first time on a turn or ends its turn there, one piece of ammunition flies up to strike it. The creature must succeed on a

can designate any creatures you choose, and the spell ignores them. Using a Higher-Level Spell Slot. The amount of ammunition that can be affected increases by two for each spell slot level above 2.

Insect Plague

Spells Player’s Handbook

the spell’s area for the first time on a turn or ends its turn there. A creature makes this save only once per turn. Using a Higher-Level Spell Slot. The damage increases by 1d10 for each spell slot level above 5.

Planar Binding

Spells Player’s Handbook

You attempt to bind a Celestial, an Elemental, a Fey, or a Fiend to your service. The creature must be within range for the entire casting of the spell. (Typically, the creature is first summoned

you are on a different plane, it returns to the place where you bound it and remains there until the spell ends. Using a Higher-Level Spell Slot. The duration increases with a spell slot of level 6 (10 days), 7 (30 days), 8 (180 days), and 9 (366 days).

Magic Circle

Spells Player’s Handbook

: The creature can’t willingly enter the Cylinder by nonmagical means. If the creature tries to use teleportation or interplanar travel to do so, it must first succeed on a Charisma saving throw

targets outside it. Using a Higher-Level Spell Slot. The duration increases by 1 hour for each spell slot level above 3.

Wall of Fire

Spells Player’s Handbook

creature takes the same damage when it enters the wall for the first time on a turn or ends its turn there. The other side of the wall deals no damage. Using a Higher-Level Spell Slot. The damage increases by 1d8 for each spell slot level above 4.

Wall of Thorns

Spells Player’s Handbook

creature moves through the wall, it must spend 4 feet of movement. Furthermore, the first time a creature enters a space in the wall on a turn or ends its turn there, the creature makes a Dexterity

saving throw, taking 7d8 Slashing damage on a failed save or half as much damage on a successful one. A creature makes this save only once per turn. Using a Higher-Level Spell Slot. Both types of damage increase by 1d8 for each spell slot level above 6.

Wall of Ice

Spells Player’s Handbook

. Reducing a 10-foot section of wall to 0 Hit Points destroys it and leaves behind a sheet of frigid air in the space the wall occupied. A creature moving through the sheet of frigid air for the first time

on a turn makes a Constitution saving throw, taking 5d6 Cold damage on a failed save or half as much damage on a successful one. Using a Higher-Level Spell Slot. The damage the wall deals when it

Demonomicon of Iggwilv

Magic Items Dungeon Master’s Guide (2024)

) check related to the Abyss. When you do so, you gain Advantage on the check. Containment. The first ten pages of the Demonomicon are blank. As a Magic action while holding the book, you can target a

, regardless of what level spell slot you used, if any. Additionally, the Fiend has Disadvantage on its saving throw against the spell. Fiendish Scourging. While carrying the book, when you make a damage

Pendragon Beestinger

Monsters Acquisitions Incorporated

Echo Spell (1/day). Pendragon can cast the spell he cast on his last turn, whose casting time becomes 1 bonus action. This bonus casting uses a spell slot as normal. Spellcasting. Pendragon is a 4th

Brahma Lutier left the group. In fact, his first assignment was to assist in the team's attempts to apprehend the wandering bard. An adopted child of the “C” Team's Rosie Beestinger, Pendragon is his

Halaster Blackcloak

Monsters Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage

(save DC 16) without expending a spell slot. Halaster also wears a horned ring (a very rare magic item that requires attunement), which allows an attuned wearer to ignore Undermountain’s magical

with spell attacks). He can cast disguise self and invisibility at will. He can cast fly and lightning bolt once each without expending a spell slot, but can’t do so again until he finishes a

Baba Lysaga

Monsters Curse of Strahd

black tentacles, polymorph 5th level (2 slots): cloudkill, geas, scrying 6th level (1 slot): programmed illusion, true seeing 7th level (1 slot): finger of death, mirage arcane 8th level (1 slot

feet of Baba Lysaga and acts as her ally. It remains until it dies or until Baba Lysaga dismisses it as an action.Two women gave life to Strahd von Zarovich. The first was Queen Ravenovia van Roeyen

Absorb Elements

Spells Elemental Evil Player's Companion

turn. Also, the first time you hit with a melee attack on your next turn, the target takes an extra 1d6 damage of the triggering type, and the spell ends. At Higher Levels. When you cast this spell

using a spell slot of 2nd level or higher, the extra damage increases by 1d6 for each slot level above 1st.

Elemental Bane

Spells Elemental Evil Player's Companion

affected by the spell for its duration. The first time each turn the affected target takes damage of the chosen type, the target takes an extra 2d6 damage of that type. Moreover, the target loses any

resistance to that damage type until the spell ends. 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. The creatures must be within 30 feet of each other when you target them.

Sul Khatesh

Monsters Eberron: Rising from the Last War

creature within 30 feet of it. A creature that fails the saving throw but can't expend a spell slot is instead stunned until the end of its next turn.Overlords In the first days of the world, the

the Lords of Dust is the rakshasa Hektula, who serves as the librarian in the demonic citadel of Ashtakala. Known as the First Scribe, Hektula presides over an immense trove of arcane knowledge and artifacts.Poison; Bludgeoning, Piercing, and Slashing from Nonmagical AttacksCold, Fire, Lightning

Healing Spirit

Spells Xanathar's Guide to Everything

choice). Until the spell ends, whenever you or a creature you can see moves into the spirit’s space for the first time on a turn or starts its turn there, you can cause the spirit to restore 1d6

cast this spell using a spell slot of 3rd level or higher, the healing increases by 1d6 for each slot level above 2nd.

Malaxxix

Monsters The Book of Many Things

attack.Legends describe the dread being Malaxxix as the child of one of the night hags who created the first yugoloths. Malaxxix is often lumped in with such Fiends, perhaps because it too has a grand

can cast the Scrying spell on the cursed creature without material components or a spell slot. Malaxxix doesn’t need to be on the same plane of existence as the creature to use this ability, and

Ezmerelda d'Avenir

Monsters Curse of Strahd

): darkvision, knock, mirror image 3rd level (3 slots): clairvoyance, lightning bolt, magic circle 4th level (1 slot): greater invisibilityMultiattack. Ezmerelda makes three attacks: two with her +1 rapier

, a Vistana, is the protégé of Rudolph van Richten—despite the fact that her first encounter with the vampire hunter was anything but pleasant. Witness to Tragedy. When Ezmerelda

Valin Sarnaster

Monsters Candlekeep Mysteries

(2 slots): contagion, scrying 6th level (1 slot): harmMultiattack. Valin can use her Dreadful Glare and makes one attack with her rotting fist. Rotting Fist. Melee Weapon Attack: +9;{"diceNotation

become a powerful undead as the first step on her path to godhood, and is now a mummy lord. Valin can use her lair actions in any area of the tomb. Personality Trait. “I have seen the future

Morkoth

Monsters Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse

, oddities, and castoffs of the multiverse in a massive, ever-growing collection. The first morkoths arose in the Astral Plane when the petrified body of a deity of greed and strife collided with a

lair actions: Cast a Spell. The morkoth casts darkness, dispel magic, or misty step, using Intelligence as its spellcasting ability and without expending a spell slot. Hypnotize. The morkoth uses its

Demonomicon of Iggwilv Legacy

Magic Items Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything

targeting a fiend, the spell is cast at 9th level, regardless of what level spell slot you used, if any. Additionally, the fiend has disadvantage on its saving throw against the spell. Containment. The

first 10 pages of the Demonomicon are blank. As an action while holding the book, you can target a fiend that you can see that is trapped within a magic circle. The fiend must succeed on a DC 20 Charisma

Deck of Many More Things

Magic Items The Book of Many Things

Over the centuries since the first Deck of Many Things was created, many have sought and failed to replicate it. But some have created new cards. These forty-four additional cards are known

Speak with Plants without using a spell slot; you must finish a long rest before you can cast it this way again. If you have spell slots of 3rd level or higher, you can cast this spell using them. Use

Electric Charge Ring

magic-items

animus of an elemental. When you cast a spell using a spell slot that deals Lightning damage, choose one target that failed its first saving throw against that spell. That creature is Shocked until the

Chain Lightning Legacy

Spells Basic Rules (2014)

damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one. At Higher Levels. When you cast this spell using a spell slot of 7th level or higher, one additional bolt leaps from the first target to another target for each slot level above 6th.

within 30 feet of the first target. A target can be a creature or an object and can be targeted by only one of the bolts. A target must make a Dexterity saving throw. The target takes 10d8 lightning

Cloud of Daggers Legacy

Spells Player’s Handbook (2014)

first time on a turn or starts its turn there. At Higher Levels. When you cast this spell using a spell slot of 3rd level or higher, the damage increases by 2d4 for each slot level above 2nd.

Candle of Invocation Legacy

Magic Items Basic Rules (2014)

druid in the light whose alignment matches the candle's can cast 1st- level spells he or she has prepared without expending spell slots, though the spell's effect is as if cast with a 1st-level slot

. Alternatively, when you light the candle for the first time, you can cast the gate spell with it. Doing so destroys the candle.

Androsphinx Legacy

Monsters Basic Rules (2014)

, zone of truth 3rd level (3 slots): dispel magic, tongues 4th level (3 slots): banishment, freedom of movement 5th level (2 slots): flame strike, greater restoration 6th level (1 slot): heroes

long rest, the roar is louder and the effect is different, as detailed below. Each creature within 500 feet of the sphinx and able to hear the roar must make a saving throw. First Roar. Each creature

Ghostglass Golem

monsters

creature that enters the area for the first time on a turn or starts its there is subjected to the following effect. Constitution Saving Throw: DC 15. Failure: The target has the Blinded condition

against a DC equal to the result of the triggering attack roll. On a success, the spell targets the caster instead of the golem, using the spell slot level, spell save DC, attack bonus, and spellcasting

Spirit Guardians Legacy

Spells Basic Rules (2014)

creature enters the area for the first time on a turn or starts its turn there, it must make a Wisdom saving throw. On a failed save, the creature takes 3d8 radiant damage (if you are good or neutral

) or 3d8 necrotic damage (if you are evil). On a successful save, the creature takes half as much damage. At Higher Levels. When you cast this spell using a spell slot of 4th level or higher, the damage increases by 1d8 for each slot level above 3rd.

Cordon of Arrows Legacy

Spells Player’s Handbook (2014)

creature other than you comes within 30 feet of the ammunition for the first time on a turn or ends its turn there, one piece of ammunition flies up to strike it. The creature must succeed on a Dexterity

the spell ignores them. At Higher Levels. When you cast this spell using a spell slot of 3rd level or higher, the amount of ammunition that can be affected increases by two for each slot level above 2nd.

Insect Plague Legacy

Spells Basic Rules (2014)

damage on a successful one. A creature must also make this saving throw when it enters the spell's area for the first time on a turn or ends its turn there. At Higher Levels. When you cast this

spell using a spell slot of 6th level or higher, the damage increases by 1d10 for each slot level above 5th.

Field of Reaping

spells

for the first time on a turn or ends its turn there, is cursed until the end of its next turn. While cursed, the first time the creature takes damage during a turn, it takes an extra 1d6 Necrotic

damage, and a creature of your choice within the field that isn’t cursed by it regains a number of Hit Points equal to the Necrotic damage taken. Using a Higher-Level Spell Slot. The damage increases by 1d6 for each spell slot level above 5.

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