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Returning 26 results for 'swirling shape'.
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Monsters
Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
ability (spell save DC 15):
At will: minor illusion
2/day each: control water, create or destroy water, mage armor, stone shape
1/day: wall of iceProfessors of perfection combine elemental magic
with precise, forceful physical motion. Their sweeping gestures and dance-like steps gather the power of crashing waves, conjure the protection of unyielding stone, and shape great structures of ice
Monsters
Eberron: Rising from the Last War
affected only once. The area of each arcane burst then acts as an antimagic field for 1 hour. Sul Khatesh and spells she casts are unaffected by these fields.
Change Shape. Sul Khatesh magically
empowers warlocks and whispers secrets into the minds of wizards and artificers, helping them master spells and create relics they could never shape on their own. But few of those inspired by Sul
Monsters
Princes of the Apocalypse
damage and is deafened until the start of Yan-C-Bin’s next turn.
Change Shape. Yan-C-Bin polymorphs into a Medium humanoid. While in polymorphed form, a swirling breeze surrounds him, his eyes are
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Xanathar's Guide to Everything
Maelstrom 5th-level evocation Casting Time: 1 action Range: 120 feet Components: V, S, M (paper or leaf in the shape of a funnel) Duration: Concentration, up to 1 minute A swirling mass of 5-foot
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a3
of dust and ash swirling into the air, and these clouds form into shapes.
First, from the ash, a dusty phantom assumes the shape of a woman. Her face is forlorn and tear-streaked. She throws up her
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm Lord’s Wrath
the shape of three swirling lightning bolts. The town council sees this strange phenomenon and becomes concerned. Earlier that morning a group of settlers left to pick up supplies at the inn. The
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Spelljammer: Adventures in Space->Astral Adventurer’s Guide
worlds of the Material Plane. Every D&D world—whether round, flat, or some other shape—exists in an airless void known as Wildspace. A world might be solitary, or it might have neighbors: one or more
petrified hulks of dead gods and swirling pools of color that serve as portals to other planes of existence. (For more information about color pools, see the Dungeon Master’s Guide.) Much in the way that
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
four air elementals that deal extra damage because of the gold coins swirling inside them at high velocity. Each slam attack deals 18 (3d8 + 5) bludgeoning damage, and the elementals’ whirlwind attack
on the check. Treasure Each air elemental has 2,500 gp swirling inside it. The six sarcophagi held the mummies of dead Netherese priests, until Iymrith devoured their remains to make room for her
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
.
Change Shape. Yan-C-Bin polymorphs into a Medium humanoid. While in polymorphed form, a swirling breeze surrounds him, his eyes are pale and cloudy, and he loses the Air Form trait. He can remain in
princes, Yan-C-Bin operates unseen, studying his enemies from afar, ambushing them swiftly, and vanishing before his foes can retaliate. His natural form is an invisible vortex of howling, swirling air 30
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
columns of swirling sand. A dao isn’t happy unless it is the envy of other dao. All That Glitters. The dao dwell in complexes of twisting tunnels and glittering ore-veined caverns on the Elemental Plane
can innately cast the following spells, requiring no material components:
At will: detect evil and good, detect magic, stone shape
3/day each: passwall, move earth, tongues
1/day each: conjure
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Eve of Ruin
own. It sensed the characters when they first entered Landro and has watched them curiously. When the characters arrive in this room, the graymatter engine manifests a swirling mass of animated
graymatter fluid. The animated fluid takes the shape of a tall, lithe humanoid and introduces itself as Landro. This neutral-aligned being uses the water elemental stat block, except it has telepathy out to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Sigil and the Outlands
to accommodate a frost giant longship, the watery gate reverses its tide twice each day, allowing boats to voyage to the chaotic plane and back again. Though the swirling portal allows Glorium to
, glimpsing where the threads of destiny begin and end. Occasionally, the hags prophesize catastrophes yet to come, calling on heroes to rise and shape the future. Serpent’s Rise Named for the stone
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Eberron: Rising from the Last War
damage.
Change Shape. Rak Tulkhesh magically polymorphs into a humanoid, beast, or giant that has a challenge rating no higher than his own, or back into his true form. He reverts to his true form
and whispers secrets into the minds of wizards and artificers, helping them master spells and create relics they could never shape on their own. But few of those inspired by Sul Khatesh understand
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
water, mage armor, stone shape
1/day: wall of ice
Bonus Actions
Rushing Wave. The professor is momentarily surrounded by a swirling wave of water and moves up to 30 feet. When the professor
stone, and shape great structures of ice. Binding and channeling these natural elements allow the professors to mold their environment to their needs, both for breathtaking performances and to control the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Turn of Fortune’s Wheel
passes overhead. A massive shape settles atop a nearby ruin. It’s a gigantic, ancient-looking time dragon with huge, branching horns that pulse with opalescent energy. A voice like a whisper reaches
you: “Call, and I’ll be there.”
With that, a portal of swirling colors opens around mighty dragon. The great wyrm fades into it, then the portal vanishes.
The dragon is Renesnuprah as an ancient
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a5
can ignore the effect for 10 minutes. Creatures. Shadows swirling around a pillar coalesce into a wraith after a door other than a secret door is opened in this area. Another wraith emerges from
the floor, a creature that moves across the ground at greater than half its normal speed must succeed on a DC 10 Dexterity saving throw or fall prone. Creatures. The vapor swirling around two of the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
about eight inches in diameter. The sphere seems to contain swirling smoke. Battered armor, damaged weapons, and tattered clothing are strewn around the chamber, but the floor within ten feet of the
before entering it. A bronze torch glowing with a magical light lies next to the corpse of a bare-chested man with a shield in the shape of a crab shell and a broken shark-toothed sword. Several
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Book of Many Things
enters, the weight is on the east side of the room. Any weight on the west side of the beam causes it to lower, depressing the pressure plate that activates the metal walls. 9: Star A swirling starlight
human man dressed in rich robes sits in an overstuffed chair, reading a book.
The reader is Avalion, a glabrezu in human shape. He greets the characters amiably and offers the hospitality of his study
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
thick mud gushes from a fissure in one wall, running a short way before gathering into a swirling pool. Standing next to the pool is an earth elemental encased in armor and several small creatures
mud. A creature that ends its turn in the swirling pool must succeed on a DC 15 Strength saving throw or be sucked down into the Elemental Plane of Earth and lost. A creature tethered by a rope can be
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
Swirling smoke forms macabre shapes.
Omens of Heliod d8 d100 Omen of Heliod
1 21 A brilliant pattern appears around the sun.
2 22 A shaft of sunlight breaks through cloud
starts bleeding, their blood pooling in a bull shape.
2 60 Normally harmless animals turn aggressive—the smaller, the angrier.
3 61 Water (a stream, pool, rain, or a liquid in a container
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a3
painstaking process in the narrow space takes 5 minutes, and if the check fails by 5 or more, the sphere breaks at the end of the attempt. Sleep Gas. If the glass sphere breaks, it releases green, swirling
wrappings. The weapon detects as magical. It casts an ominous shadow in the shape of what appears to be a withered arm. Those who approach within reach of it feel a cold chill run up and down their spine
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
surface of the mirror while speaking the command word, “bandersnatch,” causes the surface to become a swirling vortex of mist. A creature that steps into this vortex is instantly transported to the
Hall of Illusions in the Witchlight Carnival (see chapter 1). In the Hall of Illusions, the portal resembles an oval doorway of swirling mist that remains active for 1 minute. While the portal is active
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
wall of the middle passage, near where the razerblast stands watch. It has an indentation in the shape of a human hand. When pressed, the plate causes basalt pillars to rise from the lava, creating
a great orb of fire and light — a miniature sun with motes of fire swirling around it. The ceiling is another twenty feet up, at least one hundred feet overhead.
If Vanifer has been defeated
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a6
illusions, the whole place is illuminated by a strange, swirling light that seems to be part of the very air. Eddies of luminosity drift here and there, causing the whole scene to be difficult to perceive
triangle with a Y shape enclosed in it and touching the triangle’s sides. Hanging beneath this symbol, suspended on chains from the ceiling, is a black metal triangle and cylinder. The floor of the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
successful DC 15 Intelligence (Investigation) check. When a creature steps into the area, the runes conjure up a swirling cloud of green dye that covers each creature in the area that fails a DC 15
. Five web cocoons hang down from the larger mass, their bottoms dangling ten feet above the cavern floor. Two cocoons — one larger and one smaller — have a suspiciously humanoid shape.
Creature
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
, or who succeeds on a DC 20 Wisdom (Medicine) check, recognizes that the shape of the rock resembles a pancreas, which shows signs of being hacked nearly in half before it petrified. A character who
slowly at the apex of the room, motes of light swirling behind it.
The door into area T9 opens automatically whenever any creature moves within 10 feet of it. Valin Sarnaster T9. Observatory of






