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Monster Manual
be submerged at least once every 4 hours to avoid suffocating outside water.
Shark Telepathy. The sahuagin can magically control sharks within 120 feet of itself, using a special
Invisible condition, its Speed decreases by 10 feet, and all Fiends within 120 feet of the target can sense its location regardless of interposing obstacles.Acid, Cold
Magic Items
Dungeon Master’s Guide
). You decide what action the broom takes and where it moves during its next turn, or you can issue it a general command, such as to attack your enemies or guard a location.
If the broom is reduced to 0
Spells
Player’s Handbook
, it automatically succeeds). You specify a location you have visited and a recipient who matches a general description, such as “a person dressed in the uniform of the town guard” or &ldquo
;a red-haired dwarf wearing a pointed hat.” You also communicate a message of up to twenty-five words. The Beast travels for the duration toward the specified location, covering about 25 miles
Magic Items
Dungeon Master’s Guide
’t have the Incapacitated condition. You decide what action the snake takes and where it moves during its turn, or you can issue it a general command, such as to attack your enemies or guard a
location. Absent commands from you, the snake defends itself.
As a Bonus Action, you can command the snake to revert to staff form in its current space, and you can’t use the staff's property again
Spells
Player’s Handbook
commands to the best of its ability. You might command the creature to accompany you on an adventure, to guard a location, or to deliver a message. If the creature is Hostile, it strives to twist your
Spells
Player’s Handbook
You conjure a portal linking an unoccupied space you can see within range to a precise location on a different plane of existence. The portal is a circular opening, which you can make 5 to 20 feet in
transports it to the nearest unoccupied space on your side of the portal. You gain no special power over the creature, and it is free to act as the DM deems appropriate. It might leave, attack you, or help you.
Magic Items
Dungeon Master’s Guide
guard the place. While your soul is trapped in this way, your body is inert, ceases aging, and requires no food, air, or water. A Wish spell can’t return your soul to your body, but the spell reveals the location of the object that holds your soul. You draw no more cards.
you occupied when you disappeared. You remain imprisoned until you are found and removed from the sphere. You can’t be located by any Divination magic, but a Wish spell can reveal the location
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
chromatic dragon’s scales creates a guard drake that resembles a wingless, stunted version of that type of dragon, with unique abilities related to that type. Each has the special features described
Multiattack. The guard drake makes one Bite attack and one Tail attack.
Bite. Melee Weapon Attack: +5;{"diceNotation":"1d20+5","rollType":"to hit","rollAction":"Bite"} to hit, reach 5 ft., one
Monsters
Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
ring becomes nonmagical.The Griffon Cavalry is a special branch of the City Guard whose members are veteran soldiers trained to fly griffon mounts.
Magic Items
Curse of Strahd
The Sunsword is a unique blade once possessed by Strahd’s brother, Sergei von Zarovich. In its original form, it had a platinum hilt and guard, and a thin crystal blade as strong as steel
hearing and normal vision out to a range of 60 feet. The weapon communicates by transmitting emotions to the creature carrying or wielding it.
Personality. The Sunsword’s special purpose is to
Monsters
Vecna: Eve of Ruin
, without needing to make an ability check.
Web Sense. When in contact with a web, the phisarazu knows the exact location of any other creature in contact with the same web.
Web Walker. The phisarazu
sprouting beneath their wolf heads. They are resentful and suspicious of all other creatures, which makes them useful for corralling kakkuu spyder-fiend;kakkuus or standing guard.
Phisarazus can
Monsters
Mythic Odysseys of Theros
Lampads guard the shadowed paths of the world, depths typically trod by souls destined for the Underworld. These rarely seen nymphs assist Athreos in guiding the dead, moving among the spirits that
of special need, deities tied to facets of nature might employ nymphs as messengers, guardians, or scouts.
Immortal Nature. A nymph doesn't require food, drink, or sleep.
PoisonNecrotic
Monsters
Monstrous Compendium Vol. 2: Dragonlance Creatures
Duty-Bound. The foresworn is bound to enacting a singular duty it pledged itself to in life. While this duty is incomplete, whenever the foresworn is destroyed, it re-forms at its previous location
refuse to abandon their undead state until the duty they had in life is fulfilled. For example, a foresworn might be pledged to protect a family’s bloodline from harm or guard a dangerous artifact
Magic Items
Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus
addition, you know the exact location and type of all devils within 1,000 feet of you. You can telepathically communicate with a devil within range, or you can broadcast your thoughts to all devils
within range. The devils receiving your broadcasted thoughts have no special means of replying to them.
The helm has 3 charges. As an action, you can expend 1 charge to cast dominate monster (save DC 21
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
":"poison"} poison damage.The grung stat block represents a typical grung warrior or hunter, met either in a grung community or traveling elsewhere as a mercenary, game warden, guard, or bandit
appear in shades of green, blue, purple, red, orange, and gold. All grungs secrete a substance that is harmless to them but poisonous to other creatures, and sometimes that substance has a special
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
. Any hollow or crook will do, but often a special cavity is carved out of the trunk. The tree is bathed and watered with the blood of the sacrificed victim, and the body is buried among the tree’s
living. Because they are undying, some wood woads outlive their original purpose. The site a wood woad guards might lose its power or significance over time, or those whom it was assigned to guard
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
hive abandon their lair and search for a new one. When a suitable location is found, the largest kruthik in the hive undergoes a metamorphosis, forming a cocoon around itself and emerging several weeks
a single foe, they become frenzied and even more lethal.
Kruthiks abide the presence of Constructs, Elementals, Oozes, and Undead, and they use such creatures to help guard their hive. They are smart enough to barricade some tunnels and dig new ones that keep their neighbors away from their eggs.
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
Underdark might lair in caves near Underdark passages and guard the ways in and out of its keepers’ enclave.
Lair Actions
On initiative count 20 (losing initiative ties), a balhannoth can take
location sought by one Humanoid whose desires the balhannoth has sensed (see Regional Effects below). The transformation affects nonliving material only and can’t create anything with moving
Magic Items
Divine Contention
the grenade shine with a rainbow of color when held up in the light.
As a bonus action, a creature can turn a special key to arm the grenade. Once armed, the grenade explodes in a matter of seconds
extradimensional space or teleports while in possession of it. The effects of the explosion will be felt at both the origin and terminus of the teleportation, but only affecting all creatures within 30 feet of either location.
*Found in the Dungeon Master’s Guide.
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Quests from the Infinite Staircase
don’t have the incapacitated condition. You decide what action the snake takes and where it moves during its turn, or you can issue it a general command, such as to attack your enemies or guard a
location.
If you use a bonus action to speak the command word again, or if the snake is reduced to 0 hit points, the snake reverts to staff form in its current space.
Thunderclap. You point the
Monsters
Tomb of Annihilation
Special Equipment. Artus wears the Ring of Winter. He and the ring can't be targeted by divination magic or percieved through magical scrying sensors. While attuned to and wearing the ring, Artus
divine its location and that of its wearer. On his fingers above the knuckles, Artus has tattooed the names of his dearly departed animal companions — a pair of talking wombats named Byrt and
Monsters
Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
Special Equipment. Halaster wears a robe of eyes that lets him see in all directions, gives him darkvision out to a range of 120 feet, grants advantage on Wisdom (Perception) checks that rely on
parts restored. His new body appears in a random safe location in Undermountain.
Spellcasting. Halaster is a 20th-level spellcaster. His spellcasting ability is Intelligence (spell save DC 22, +14 to hit
Monsters
Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
an overwhelming compulsion to leave an offering worth at least 5 gp stashed in an out-of-the-way place. Cloud giants within 6 miles of the cradle or scion immediately sense the location of this gift
seclusion. On other worlds, the scions guard their birthplaces (which are rich in elemental magic) or hold the substance of the world together. (See “Giants of Myth” in chapter 3 for additional
Monsters
Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants
leave an offering worth at least 5 gp stashed in an out-of-the-way place. Cloud giants within 6 miles of the cradle or scion immediately sense the location of this gift. A creature can be affected only
guard their birthplaces (which are rich in elemental magic) or hold the substance of the world together. (See “Giants of Myth” in chapter 3 for additional inspiration.)
Scions of giants
Monsters
Tomb of Annihilation
Special Equipment. Acererak carries the Staff of the Forgotten One. He wears a talisman of the sphere and has a sphere of annihilation under his control.
Legendary Resistance (3/Day). If Acererak
phylactery, the location of which is hidden.
Spellcasting. Acererak is a 20th-level spellcaster. His spellcasting ability is Intelligence (spell save DC 23, +15;{"diceNotation":"1d20+15","rollType":"to hit
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
, taking a group of mind flayers with it, and moves to another location to form a new colony. After the death of the ulitharid’s body, a special process transforms its brain into a new elder brain for
Monsters
Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
Icy Doom. When Avarice dies, her corpse freezes for 9 days, during which time it can’t be thawed, harmed by fire, animated, or raised from the dead.
Special Equipment. Avarice wields a staff
with more respect than anyone else does, and the keep is a safer location than most other places in Ten-Towns.
Companions. Avarice has a pair of loyal gargoyle;gargoyles named Gargle and Gurgle who
Magic Items
Keys from the Golden Vault
Portrait. While you are attuned to the painting, you can command it to guard its location against one or more creatures you identify as the painting’s enemies. The painting performs this function
Magic Items
Princes of the Apocalypse
example, an air node creates a devastation orb of air. The ritual takes 1 hour to complete and requires 2,000 gp worth of special components, which are consumed.
A devastation orb measures 12 inches in
. Reducing it to 0 hit points causes it to explode instantly.
A special container can be crafted to contain a devastation orb and prevent it from detonating. The container must be inscribed with symbols
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
around him. Given enough time in a single location, Graz’zt can twist it with his power.
Graz’zt’s lair is a den of ostentation and hedonism. It is adorned with finery and decorations
;{"diceNotation":"1d10","rollType":"roll"} days.
Cultists of Graz’zt
Graz’zt grants his cultists special abilities. His cultists can gain the Joy from Pain trait, while his cult leaders
Monsters
The Book of Many Things
that attunes to one of Malaxxix’s cursed items becomes afflicted with the curse of Malaxxix. The curse enables Malaxxix to interact with the cursed creature in special ways:
Scrying. Malaxxix
60 feet of the cursed creature, regardless of the creature’s location in the multiverse.
The curse of Malaxxix lasts until ended with a Remove Curse spell, a Greater Restoration spell, or
Monsters
Curse of Strahd
the reach of melee combatants and spellcasters, or he flies away (using summoned wolf;wolves or swarm of bats;swarms of bats or swarm of rats;rats to guard his retreat).
Strahd observes the characters
to see who among them are most easily swayed, then tries to charm characters who have low Wisdom scores and use them as thralls. At the very least, he can order a charmed character to guard him
Magic Items
Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything
random location within 10d10 miles of you and terrorizes the living. Until the released soul is destroyed, it gains the benefit of a weal from the deck’s Twist of Fate property, and both you and the
vanishes and the deck becomes a normal tarokka deck, with no special properties, but it includes a new card of the DM’s design.
Mother Luba and the Vistani
The creator of the Tarokka of Souls
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Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
moonstone dragon has partnered with an androsphinx to guard a precious treasure, taking the place of the sphinx’s slain gynosphinx partner.
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An ancient moonstone dragon is summoned to mediate a
dragon.
Moonstone Dragon Lairs
Often, a moonstone dragon’s lair is not a single location, but rather a collection of personally significant places spread out across multiple planes of
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attack your enemies or guard a location.
If the snake is reduced to 0 hit points, it dies and reverts to its staff form. The staff then shatters and is destroyed. If the snake reverts to staff form before losing all its hit points, it regains all of them.