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What happens to your soul when it get trapped in a Lich's phylactery?
All Liches have a phylactery that they use to trap souls so they can live forever. What exactly happens to those souls when they are trapped? Are they gone forever or just trapped in some magical ...
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How can you revive a character who was killed by a Night Hag's Nightmare Haunting?
The Night Hag has an ability that can reduce a character's hit point maximum via nightmares provided they are evil. It then proceeds to state:
If this effect reduces the target's hit point maximum to ...
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How can you undo a Slaad infection?
Both the Red Slaad and the Blue Slaad's Claw attacks have an ability that, if they hit and the target is a humanoid that fails a Constitution saving throw, infects the target with a disease.
For ...
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If a player's character is absorbed by a gibbering mouther, do they make death saving throws as normal, or are they instantly killed?
I am a DM for the Tomb of Annihilation published adventure. My group will be exploring an abandoned mine near Fort Beluarian, so I wanted to create a level mini-dungeon for a party of five people.
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How can victims of a Devourer / Spawn of Kyuss be restored?
In 5e, there are some monsters which can kill and transform / disintegrate PCs. While disassembling the published monsters, I made the following interesting observation:
Some of these state that only ...
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Do non-native outsiders die of old age?
Outsiders are described so:
Unlike most other living creatures, an outsider does not have a dual nature—its soul and body form one unit.
The bond between Outsiders and their Home Planes is strong, ...
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What happens if a Vargouille victim dies before turning? [duplicate]
Title says it all, a humanoid gets the Vargouille curse, but dies before they turn.
What happens, does the curse break, or just pause like in daylight, or do they still turn in the same rate, or do ...
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Is there any published lore that shows Mind Flayers can extract and farm brains?
I was doing some research on Mind Flayers and read/heard that Mind Flayers will occasionally extract a brain and use it to research the effects of Psionics, and that they enjoyed the mad thoughts they ...
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Will revivify work on a creature killed by Extract Brain?
Mind flayers (Monster Manual, p. 222) have the Extract Brain action:
Extract Brain. Melee Weapon Attack: +7 to hit, reach 5 ft., one incapacitated humanoid grappled by the mind flayer. Hit: The ...
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What happens if a Modron dies in Barovia?
My edition to edition knowledge is vague and varied, but as I understand it:
When a modron dies, another one, or maybe its the same one, appears in Mechanus at the spawning pool.
Consequently, if ...
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How to determine when opponents attack unconscious player characters?
As a GM, how can I tell what monsters will keep attacking unconscious PCs?
I am especially wondering what happens if a party all become unconscious during combat (that is, their HP all got reduced to ...
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Does a soul consumed by a lich's phylactery avoid the afterlife?
Per the Lich's Soul Sacrifice description, both the body and soul of the imprisonment spell's target are trapped inside the phylactery. The description also states that this imprisoned "creature" is ...
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Is a character that had their brain devoured by an Intellect devourer dead? Can they be raised?
Inspired by this answer.
Is a character that is currently the host of a brain devourer, body thief style, dead? Can they be raised, resurrected?
If yes, do I have to kill the intellect devourer ...
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When is a character (whether PC, NPC, or Monster) knocked out as opposed to Dead?
In Castles and Crusades I can't find anything that dictates when an NPC or Monster is dead and have always just assumed that once they get to 0 HP they are dead. I came across something, I can't ...
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