{"count":52,"next":null,"previous":"https://api-beta.open5e.com/v2/rulesets/?format=json&ordering=-rules","results":[{"name":"Monsters","key":"srd_monsters","document":{"name":"System Reference Document 5.1","key":"srd-2014","type":"SOURCE","display_name":"5e 2014 Rules","publisher":{"name":"Wizards of the Coast","key":"wizards-of-the-coast"},"gamesystem":{"name":"5th Edition 2014","key":"5e-2014"},"permalink":"https://dnd.wizards.com/resources/systems-reference-document"},"desc":"A monster’s statistics, sometimes referred to as its **stat block**, provide the essential information that you need to run the monster.","rules":[{"key":"srd_monsters_size","name":"Size","desc":"A monster can be Tiny, Small, Medium, Large, Huge, or Gargantuan. The Size Categories table shows how much space a creature of a particular size controls in combat. See the *Player’s Handbook* for more information on creature size and space.\n\n### Size Categories\n\n| Size | Space | Examples |\n|--------|----------|---------------|\n| Tiny | 2½ by 2½ ft. | Imp, sprite |\n| Small | 5 b 5 ft. | Giant rat, goblin |\n| Medium | 5 b 5 ft. | Orc, werewolf |\n| Large | 10 b 10 ft. | Hippogriff, ogre |\n| Huge | 15 b 15 ft. | Fire giant, treant |\n| Gargantuan | 20 b 20 ft. or larger | Kraken, purple worm ","index":1,"initialHeaderLevel":2,"document":"srd-2014","ruleset":"srd_monsters"},{"key":"srd_monsters_modifying-creatures","name":"Modifying Creatures","desc":"Despite the versatile collection of monsters in this book, you might be at a loss when it comes to finding the perfect creature for part of an adventure. Feel free to tweak an existing creature to make it into something more useful for you, perhaps by borrowing a trait or two from a different monster or by using a variant or template, such as the ones in this book. Keep in mind that modifying a monster, including when you apply a template to it, might change its challenge rating.","index":2,"initialHeaderLevel":4,"document":"srd-2014","ruleset":"srd_monsters"},{"key":"srd_monsters_type","name":"Type","desc":"A monster’s type speaks to its fundamental nature. Certain spells, magic items, class features, and other effects in the game interact in special ways with creatures of a particular type. For example, an *arrow of dragon slaying* deals extra damage not only to dragons but also other creatures of the dragon type, such as dragon turtles and wyverns.\n\nThe game includes the following monster types, which have no rules of their own.\n\n**Aberrations** are utterly alien beings. Many of them have innate magical abilities drawn from the creature’s alien mind rather than the mystical forces of the world. The quintessential aberrations are aboleths, beholders, mind flayers, and slaadi.\n\n**Beasts** are nonhumanoid creatures that are a natural part of the fantasy ecology. Some of them have magical powers, but most are unintelligent and lack any society or language. Beasts include all varieties of ordinary animals, dinosaurs, and giant versions of animals.\n\n**Celestials** are creatures native to the Upper Planes. Many of them are the servants of deities, employed as messengers or agents in the mortal realm and throughout the planes. Celestials are good by nature, so the exceptional celestial who strays from a good alignment is a horrifying rarity. Celestials include angels, couatls, and pegasi.\n\n**Constructs** are made, not born. Some are programmed by their creators to follow a simple set of instructions, while others are imbued with sentience and capable of independent thought. Golems are the iconic constructs. Many creatures native to the outer plane of Mechanus, such as modrons, are constructs shaped from the raw material of the plane by the will of more powerful creatures.\n\n**Dragons** are large reptilian creatures of ancient origin and tremendous power. True dragons, including the good metallic dragons and the evil chromatic dragons, are highly intelligent and have innate magic. Also in this category are creatures distantly related to true dragons, but less powerful, less intelligent, and less magical, such as wyverns and pseudodragons.\n\n**Elementals** are creatures native to the elemental planes. Some creatures of this type are little more than animate masses of their respective elements, including the creatures simply called elementals. Others have biological forms infused with elemental energy. The races of genies, including djinn and efreet, form the most important civilizations on the elemental planes. Other elemental creatures include azers and invisible stalkers.\n\n**Fey** are magical creatures closely tied to the forces of nature. They dwell in twilight groves and misty forests. In some worlds, they are closely tied to the Feywild, also called the Plane of Faerie. Some are also found in the Outer Planes, particularly the planes of Arborea and the Beastlands. Fey include dryads, pixies, and satyrs.\n\n**Fiends** are creatures of wickedness that are native to the Lower Planes. A few are the servants of deities, but many more labor under the leadership of archdevils and demon princes. Evil priests and mages sometimes summon fiends to the material world to do their bidding. If an evil celestial is a rarity, a good fiend is almost inconceivable. Fiends include demons, devils, hell hounds, rakshasas, and yugoloths.\n\n**Giants** tower over humans and their kind. They are humanlike in shape, though some have multiple heads (ettins) or deformities (fomorians). The six varieties of true giant are hill giants, stone giants, frost giants, fire giants, cloud giants, and storm giants. Besides these, creatures such as ogres and trolls are giants.\n\n**Humanoids** are the main peoples of a fantasy gaming world, both civilized and savage, including humans and a tremendous variety of other species. They have language and culture, few if any innate magical abilities (though most humanoids can learn spellcasting), and a bipedal form. The most common humanoid races are the ones most suitable as player characters: humans, dwarves, elves, and halflings. Almost as numerous but far more savage and brutal, and almost uniformly evil, are the races of goblinoids (goblins, hobgoblins, and bugbears), orcs, gnolls, lizardfolk, and kobolds.\n\n**Monstrosities** are monsters in the strictest sense—frightening creatures that are not ordinary, not truly natural, and almost never benign. Some are the results of magical experimentation gone awry (such as owlbears), and others are the product of terrible curses (including minotaurs and yuan-ti). They defy categorization, and in some sense serve as a catch-all category for creatures that don’t fit into any other type.\n\n**Oozes** are gelatinous creatures that rarely have a fixed shape. They are mostly subterranean, dwelling in caves and dungeons and feeding on refuse, carrion, or creatures unlucky enough to get in their way. Black puddings and gelatinous cubes are among the most recognizable oozes.\n\n**Plants** in this context are vegetable creatures, not ordinary flora. Most of them are ambulatory, and some are carnivorous. The quintessential plants are the shambling mound and the treant. Fungal creatures such as the gas spore and the myconid also fall into this category.\n\n**Undead** are once-living creatures brought to a horrifying state of undeath through the practice of necromantic magic or some unholy curse. Undead include walking corpses, such as vampires and zombies, as well as bodiless spirits, such as ghosts and specters.","index":2,"initialHeaderLevel":2,"document":"srd-2014","ruleset":"srd_monsters"},{"key":"srd_monsters_tags","name":"Tags","desc":"A monster might have one or more tags appended to its type, in parentheses. For example, an orc has the *humanoid (orc)* type. The parenthetical tags provide additional categorization for certain creatures. The tags have no rules of their own, but something in the game, such as a magic item, might refer to them. For instance, a spear that is especially effective at fighting demons would work against any monster that has the demon tag.","index":3,"initialHeaderLevel":3,"document":"srd-2014","ruleset":"srd_monsters"},{"key":"srd_monsters_alignment","name":"Alignment","desc":"A monster’s alignment provides a clue to its disposition and how it behaves in a roleplaying or combat situation. For example, a chaotic evil monster might be difficult to reason with and might attack characters on sight, whereas a neutral monster might be willing to negotiate. See the *Player’s Handbook* for descriptions of the different alignments.\n\nThe alignment specified in a monster’s stat block is the default. Feel free to depart from it and change a monster’s alignment to suit the needs of your campaign. If you want a good-aligned green dragon or an evil storm giant, there’s nothing stopping you.\n\nSome creatures can have **any alignment**. In other words, you choose the monster’s alignment. Some monster’s alignment entry indicates a tendency or aversion toward law, chaos, good, or evil. For example, a berserker can be any chaotic alignment (chaotic good, chaotic neutral, or chaotic evil), as befits its wild nature.\n\nMany creatures of low intelligence have no comprehension of law or chaos, good or evil. They don’t make moral or ethical choices, but rather act on instinct. These creatures are **unaligned**, which means they don’t have an alignment.","index":4,"initialHeaderLevel":2,"document":"srd-2014","ruleset":"srd_monsters"},{"key":"srd_monsters_armor-class","name":"Armor Class","desc":"A monster that wears armor or carries a shield has an Armor Class (AC) that takes its armor, shield, and Dexterity into account. Otherwise, a monster’s AC is based on its Dexterity modifier and natural armor, if any. If a monster has natural armor, wears armor, or carries a shield, this is noted in parentheses after its AC value.","index":5,"initialHeaderLevel":2,"document":"srd-2014","ruleset":"srd_monsters"},{"key":"srd_monsters_hit-points","name":"Hit Points","desc":"A monster usually dies or is destroyed when it drops to 0 hit points. For more on hit points, see the *Player’s Handbook*.\n\nA monster’s hit points are presented both as a die expression and as an average number. For example, a monster with 2d8 hit points has 9 hit points on average (2 × 4½).\n\nA monster’s size determines the die used to calculate its hit points, as shown in the Hit Dice by Size table.","index":6,"initialHeaderLevel":2,"document":"srd-2014","ruleset":"srd_monsters"},{"key":"srd_monsters_hit-dice-by-size","name":"Hit Dice by Size","desc":"| Monster Size | Hit Die | Average HP per Die |\n|-------------------|-----------|----------------------------|\n| Tiny | d4 | 2½ |\n| Small | d6 | 3½ |\n| Medium | d8 | 4½ |\n| Large | d10 | 5½ |\n| Huge | d12 | 6½ |\n| Gargantuan | d20 | 10½ |\n\nA monster’s Constitution modifier also affects the number of hit points it has. Its Constitution modifier is multiplied by the number of Hit Dice it possesses, and the result is added to its hit points. For example, if a monster has a Constitution of 12 (+1 modifier) and 2d8 Hit Dice, it has 2d8 + 2 hit points (average 11).","index":7,"initialHeaderLevel":2,"document":"srd-2014","ruleset":"srd_monsters"},{"key":"srd_monsters_speed","name":"Speed","desc":"A monster’s speed tells you how far it can move on its turn. For more information on speed, see the *Player’s Handbook*.\n\nAll creatures have a walking speed, simply called the monster’s speed. Creatures that have no form of ground-based locomotion have a walking speed of 0 feet.\n\nSome creatures have one or more of the following additional movement modes.\n\n## Burrow\n\nA monster that has a burrowing speed can use that speed to move through sand, earth, mud, or ice. A monster can’t burrow through solid rock unless it has a special trait that allows it to do so.\n\n## Climb\n\nA monster that has a climbing speed can use all or part of its movement to move on vertical surfaces. The monster doesn’t need to spend extra movement to climb.\n\n## Fly\n\nA monster that has a flying speed can use all or part of its movement to fly. Some monsters have the ability to hover, which makes them hard to knock out of the air (as explained in the rules on flying in the *Player’s Handbook*). Such a monster stops hovering when it dies.\n\n## Swim\n\nA monster that has a swimming speed doesn’t need to spend extra movement to swim.","index":8,"initialHeaderLevel":2,"document":"srd-2014","ruleset":"srd_monsters"},{"key":"srd_monsters_ability-scores","name":"Ability Score","desc":"Every monster has six ability scores (Strength, Dexterity, Constitution, Intelligence, Wisdom, and Charisma) and corresponding modifiers. For more information on ability scores and how they’re used in play, see the *Player’s Handbook*.","index":9,"initialHeaderLevel":2,"document":"srd-2014","ruleset":"srd_monsters"},{"key":"srd_monsters_saving-throws","name":"Saving Throws","desc":"The Saving Throws entry is reserved for creatures that are adept at resisting certain kinds of effects. For example, a creature that isn’t easily charmed or frightened might gain a bonus on its Wisdom saving throws. Most creatures don’t have special saving throw bonuses, in which case this section is absent.\n\nA saving throw bonus is the sum of a monster’s relevant ability modifier and its proficiency bonus, which is determined by the monster’s challenge rating (as shown in the Proficiency Bonus by Challenge Rating table).","index":10,"initialHeaderLevel":2,"document":"srd-2014","ruleset":"srd_monsters"},{"key":"srd_monsters_prof-bonus-by-cr","name":"Proficiency Bonus by Challenge Rating","desc":"| Challenge | Proficiency Bonus |\n|---------------|--------------------------|\n| 0 | +2 |\n| ⅛ | +2 |\n| ¼ | +2 |\n| ½ |+2 |\n| 1 | +2 |\n| 2 | +2 |\n| 3 | +2 |\n| 4 | +2 |\n| 5 | +3 |\n| 6 | +3 |\n| 7 | +3 |\n| 8 | +3 |\n| 9 | +4 |\n| 10 | +4 |\n| 11 | +4 |\n| 12 | +4 |\n| 13 | +5 |\n| 14 | +5 |\n| 15 | +5 |\n| 16 | +5 |\n| 17 | +6 |\n| 18 | +6 |\n| 19 | +6 |\n| 20 | +6 |\n| 21 | +7 |\n| 22 | +7 |\n| 23 | +7 |\n| 24 | +7 |\n| 25 | +8 |\n| 26 | +8 |\n| 27 | +8 |\n| 28 | +8 |\n| 29 | +9 |\n| 30 | +9 |\n\n","index":11,"initialHeaderLevel":2,"document":"srd-2014","ruleset":"srd_monsters"},{"key":"srd_monsters_skills","name":"Skills","desc":"The Skills entry is reserved for monsters that are proficient in one or more skills. For example, a monster that is very perceptive and stealthy might have bonuses to Wisdom (Perception) and Dexterity (Stealth) checks.\n\nA skill bonus is the sum of a monster’s relevant ability modifier and its proficiency bonus, which is determined by the monster’s challenge rating (as shown in the Proficiency Bonus by Challenge Rating table). Other modifiers might apply. For instance, a monster might have a larger-than-expected bonus (usually double its proficiency bonus) to account for its heightened expertise.","index":12,"initialHeaderLevel":2,"document":"srd-2014","ruleset":"srd_monsters"},{"key":"srd_monsters_armor-weapon-tool-proficiencies","name":"Armor, Weapon and Tool Proficiency","desc":"Assume that a creature is proficient with its armor, weapons, and tools. If you swap them out, you decide whether the creature is proficient with its new equipment.\n\nFor example, a hill giant typically wears hide armor and wields a greatclub. You could equip a hill giant with chain mail and a greataxe instead, and assume the giant is proficient with both, one or the other, or neither.\n\nSee the *Player’s Handbook* for rules on using armor or weapons without proficiency.","index":13,"initialHeaderLevel":3,"document":"srd-2014","ruleset":"srd_monsters"},{"key":"srd_monsters_vulnerabilities-resistances-immunities","name":"Vulnerabilities, Resistances, and Immunities","desc":"Some creatures have vulnerability, resistance, or immunity to certain types of damage. Particular creatures are even resistant or immune to damage from nonmagical attacks (a magical attack is an attack delivered by a spell, a magic item, or another magical source). In addition, some creatures are immune to certain conditions.","index":14,"initialHeaderLevel":2,"document":"srd-2014","ruleset":"srd_monsters"},{"key":"srd_monsters_senses","name":"Senses","desc":"The Senses entry notes a monster’s passive Wisdom (Perception) score, as well as any special senses the monster might have. Special senses are described below.\n\n## Blindsight\n\nA monster with blindsight can perceive its surroundings without relying on sight, within a specific radius.\n\nCreatures without eyes, such as grimlocks and gray oozes, typically have this special sense, as do creatures with echolocation or heightened senses, such as bats and true dragons.\n\nIf a monster is naturally blind, it has a parenthetical note to this effect, indicating that the radius of its blindsight defines the maximum range of its perception.\n\n## Darkvision\n\nA monster with darkvision can see in the dark within a specific radius. The monster can see in dim light within the radius as if it were bright light, and in darkness as if it were dim light. The monster can’t discern color in darkness, only shades of gray. Many creatures that live underground have this special sense.\n\n### Tremorsense\n\nA monster with tremorsense can detect and pinpoint the origin of vibrations within a specific radius, provided that the monster and the source of the vibrations are in contact with the same ground or substance. Tremorsense can’t be used to detect flying or incorporeal creatures. Many burrowing creatures, such as ankhegs and umber hulks, have this special sense.\n\n## Truesight\n\nA monster with truesight can, out to a specific range, see in normal and magical darkness, see invisible creatures and objects, automatically detect visual illusions and succeed on saving throws against them, and perceive the original form of a shapechanger or a creature that is transformed by magic. Furthermore, the monster can see into the Ethereal Plane within the same range.","index":15,"initialHeaderLevel":2,"document":"srd-2014","ruleset":"srd_monsters"},{"key":"srd_monsters_languages","name":"Languages","desc":"The languages that a monster can speak are listed in alphabetical order. Sometimes a monster can understand a language but can’t speak it, and this is noted in its entry. A \"—\" indicates that a creature neither speaks nor understands any language.","index":16,"initialHeaderLevel":2,"document":"srd-2014","ruleset":"srd_monsters"},{"key":"srd_monsters_telepathy","name":"Telepathy","desc":"Telepathy is a magical ability that allows a monster to communicate mentally with another creature within a specified range. The contacted creature doesn’t need to share a language with the monster to communicate in this way with it, but it must be able to understand at least one language. A creature without telepathy can receive and respond to telepathic messages but can’t initiate or terminate a telepathic conversation.\n\nA telepathic monster doesn’t need to see a contacted creature and can end the telepathic contact at any time. The contact is broken as soon as the two creatures are no longer within range of each other or if the telepathic monster contacts a different creature within range. A telepathic monster can initiate or terminate a telepathic conversation without using an action, but while the monster is incapacitated, it can’t initiate telepathic contact, and any current contact is terminated.\n\nA creature within the area of an *antimagic field* or in any other location where magic doesn’t function can’t send or receive telepathic messages.","index":17,"initialHeaderLevel":3,"document":"srd-2014","ruleset":"srd_monsters"},{"key":"srd_monsters_challenge","name":"Challenge","desc":"A monster’s **challenge rating** tells you how great a threat the monster is. An appropriately equipped and well-rested party of four adventurers should be able to defeat a monster that has a challenge rating equal to its level without suffering any deaths. For example, a party of four 3rd-level characters should find a monster with a challenge rating of 3 to be a worthy challenge, but not a deadly one.\n\nMonsters that are significantly weaker than 1st-level characters have a challenge rating lower than 1. Monsters with a challenge rating of 0 are insignificant except in large numbers; those with no effective attacks are worth no experience points, while those that have attacks are worth 10 XP each.\n\nSome monsters present a greater challenge than even a typical 20th-level party can handle. These monsters have a challenge rating of 21 or higher and are specifically designed to test player skill.","index":18,"initialHeaderLevel":2,"document":"srd-2014","ruleset":"srd_monsters"},{"key":"srd_monsters_experience-points","name":"Experience Points","desc":"The number of experience points (XP) a monster is worth is based on its challenge rating. Typically, XP is awarded for defeating the monster, although the GM may also award XP for neutralizing the threat posed by the monster in some other manner.\n\nUnless something tells you otherwise, a monster summoned by a spell or other magical ability is worth the XP noted in its stat block.","index":19,"initialHeaderLevel":3,"document":"srd-2014","ruleset":"srd_monsters"},{"key":"srd_monsters_experience-points-by-cr","name":"Experience Points by Challenge Rating","desc":"| Challenge | XP |\n|---------------|------|\n| 0 | 0 or 10 |\n| ⅛ | 25 |\n| ¼ | 50 |\n| ½ |100 |\n| 1 | 200 |\n| 2 | 450 |\n| 3 | 700 |\n| 4 | 1,100 |\n| 5 | 1,800 |\n| 6 | 2,300 |\n| 7 | 2,900 |\n| 8 | 3,900 |\n| 9 | 5,000 |\n| 10 | 5,900 |\n| 11 | 7,200 |\n| 12 | 8,400 |\n| 13 | 10,000 |\n| 14 | 11,500 |\n| 15 | 13,000 |\n| 16 | 15,000 |\n| 17 | 18,000 |\n| 18 | 20,000 |\n| 19 | 22,000 |\n| 20 | 25,000 |\n| 21 | 33,000 |\n| 22 | 41,000 |\n| 23 | 50,000 |\n| 24 | 62,000 |\n| 25 | 75,000 |\n| 26 | 90,000 |\n| 27 | 105,000 |\n| 28 | 120,000 |\n| 29 | 135,000 |\n| 30 | 155,000 |","index":20,"initialHeaderLevel":4,"document":"srd-2014","ruleset":"srd_monsters"},{"key":"srd_monsters_special-traits","name":"Special Traits","desc":"Special traits (which appear after a monster’s challenge rating but before any actions or reactions) are characteristics that are likely to be relevant in a combat encounter and that require some explanation.","index":21,"initialHeaderLevel":2,"document":"srd-2014","ruleset":"srd_monsters"},{"key":"srd_monsters_innate-spellcasting","name":"Innate Spellcasting","desc":"A monster with the innate ability to cast spells has the Innate Spellcasting special trait. Unless noted otherwise, an innate spell of 1st level or higher is always cast at its lowest possible level and can’t be cast at a higher level. If a monster has a cantrip where its level matters and no level is given, use the monster’s challenge rating.\n\nAn innate spell can have special rules or restrictions. For example, a drow mage can innately cast the *levitate* spell, but the spell has a “self only” restriction, which means that the spell affects only the drow mage.\n\nA monster’s innate spells can’t be swapped out with other spells. If a monster’s innate spells don’t require attack rolls, no attack bonus is given for them.","index":22,"initialHeaderLevel":3,"document":"srd-2014","ruleset":"srd_monsters"},{"key":"srd_monsters_spellcasting","name":"Spellcasting","desc":"A monster with the Spellcasting special trait has a spellcaster level and spell slots, which it uses to cast its spells of 1st level and higher (as explained in the *Player’s Handbook*). The spellcaster level is also used for any cantrips included in the feature.\n\nThe monster has a list of spells known or prepared from a specific class. The list might also include spells from a feature in that class, such as the Divine Domain feature of the cleric or the Druid Circle feature of the druid. The monster is considered a member of that class when attuning to or using a magic item that requires membership in the class or access to its spell list.\n\nA monster can cast a spell from its list at a higher level if it has the spell slot to do so. For example, a drow mage with the 3rd-level *lightning bolt* spell can cast it as a 5th-level spell by using one of its 5th-level spell slots.\n\nYou can change the spells that a monster knows or has prepared, replacing any spell on its spell list with a spell of the same level and from the same class list. If you do so, you might cause the monster to be a greater or lesser threat than suggested by its challenge rating.","index":23,"initialHeaderLevel":3,"document":"srd-2014","ruleset":"srd_monsters"},{"key":"srd_monsters_psionics","name":"Psionics","desc":"A monster that casts spells using only the power of its mind has the psionics tag added to its Spellcasting or Innate Spellcasting special trait. This tag carries no special rules of its own, but other parts of the game might refer to it. A monster that has this tag typically doesn’t require any components to cast its spells.","index":24,"initialHeaderLevel":3,"document":"srd-2014","ruleset":"srd_monsters"},{"key":"srd_monsters_actions","name":"Actions","desc":"When a monster takes its action, it can choose from the options in the Actions section of its stat block or use one of the actions available to all creatures, such as the Dash or Hide action, as described in the *Player’s Handbook*.","index":25,"initialHeaderLevel":2,"document":"srd-2014","ruleset":"srd_monsters"},{"key":"srd_monsters_melee-and-ranged-attacks","name":"Melee and Ranged Attacks","desc":"The most common actions that a monster will take in combat are melee and ranged attacks. These can be spell attacks or weapon attacks, where the “weapon” might be a manufactured item or a natural weapon, such as a claw or tail spike. For more information on different kinds of attacks, see the *Player’s Handbook*.\n\n***Creature vs. Target.*** The target of a melee or ranged attack is usually either one creature or one target, the difference being that a “target” can be a creature or an object.\n\n***Hit.*** Any damage dealt or other effects that occur as a result of an attack hitting a target are described after the \"*Hit*\" notation. You have the option of taking average damage or rolling the damage; for this reason, both the average damage and the die expression are presented.\n\n***Miss.*** If an attack has an effect that occurs on a miss, that information is presented after the \"*Miss:*\" notation.","index":26,"initialHeaderLevel":3,"document":"srd-2014","ruleset":"srd_monsters"},{"key":"srd_monsters_multiattack","name":"Multiattack","desc":"A creature that can make multiple attacks on its turn has the Multiattack action. A creature can’t use Multiattack when making an opportunity attack, which must be a single melee attack.","index":27,"initialHeaderLevel":3,"document":"srd-2014","ruleset":"srd_monsters"},{"key":"srd_monsters_ammunition","name":"Ammunition","desc":"A monster carries enough ammunition to make its ranged attacks. You can assume that a monster has 2d4 pieces of ammunition for a thrown weapon attack, and 2d10 pieces of ammunition for a projectile weapon such as a bow or crossbow.","index":28,"initialHeaderLevel":3,"document":"srd-2014","ruleset":"srd_monsters"},{"key":"srd_monsters_reactions","name":"Ammunition","desc":"If a monster can do something special with its reaction, that information is contained here. If a creature has no special reaction, this section is absent.","index":29,"initialHeaderLevel":2,"document":"srd-2014","ruleset":"srd_monsters"},{"key":"srd_monsters_limited-usage","name":"Limited Usage","desc":"Some special abilities have restrictions on the number of times they can be used.\n\n***X/Day.*** The notation \"X/Day\" means a special ability can be used X number of times and that a monster must finish a long rest to regain expended uses. For example, \"1/Day\" means a special ability can be used once and that the monster must finish a long rest to use it again.\n\n***Recharge X–Y.*** The notation \"Recharge X–Y\" means a monster can use a special ability once and that the ability then has a random chance of recharging during each subsequent round of combat. At the start of each of the monster’s turns, roll a d6. If the roll is one of the numbers in the recharge notation, the monster regains the use of the special ability. The ability also recharges when the monster finishes a short or long rest.\n\nFor example, \"Recharge 5–6\" means a monster can use the special ability once. Then, at the start of the monster’s turn, it regains the use of that ability if it rolls a 5 or 6 on a d6.\n\n***Recharge after a Short or Long Rest.*** This notation means that a monster can use a special ability once and then must finish a short or long rest to use it again.","index":30,"initialHeaderLevel":2,"document":"srd-2014","ruleset":"srd_monsters"},{"key":"srd_monsters_grapple-rules","name":"Grapple Rules for Monsters","desc":"Many monsters have special attacks that allow them to quickly grapple prey. When a monster hits with such an attack, it doesn’t need to make an additional ability check to determine whether the grapple succeeds, unless the attack says otherwise.\n\nA creature grappled by the monster can use its action to try to escape. To do so, it must succeed on a Strength (Athletics) or Dexterity (Acrobatics) check against the escape DC in the monster’s stat block. If no escape DC is given, assume the DC is 10 + the monster’s Strength (Athletics) modifier.","index":31,"initialHeaderLevel":3,"document":"srd-2014","ruleset":"srd_monsters"},{"key":"srd_monsters_equipment","name":"Equipment","desc":"A stat block rarely refers to equipment, other than armor or weapons used by a monster. A creature that customarily wears clothes, such as a humanoid, is assumed to be dressed appropriately.\n\nYou can equip monsters with additional gear and trinkets however you like, and you decide how much of a monster’s equipment is recoverable after the creature is slain and whether any of that equipment is still usable. A battered suit of armor made for a monster is rarely usable by someone else, for instance.\n\nIf a spellcasting monster needs material components to cast its spells, assume that it has the material components it needs to cast the spells in its stat block.","index":32,"initialHeaderLevel":3,"document":"srd-2014","ruleset":"srd_monsters"},{"key":"srd_monsters_legendary-creatures","name":"Legendary Creature","desc":"A legendary creature can do things that ordinary creatures can’t. It can take special actions outside its turn, and it might exert magical influence for miles around.\n\nIf a creature assumes the form of a legendary creature, such as through a spell, it doesn’t gain that form’s legendary actions, lair actions, or regional effects.","index":33,"initialHeaderLevel":2,"document":"srd-2014","ruleset":"srd_monsters"},{"key":"srd_monsters_legendary-actions","name":"Legendary Actions","desc":"A legendary creature can take a certain number of special actions—called legendary actions—outside its turn. Only one legendary action option can be used at a time and only at the end of another creature’s turn. A creature regains its spent legendary actions at the start of its turn. It can forgo using them, and it can’t use them while incapacitated or otherwise unable to take actions. If surprised, it can’t use them until after its first turn in the combat.","index":34,"initialHeaderLevel":3,"document":"srd-2014","ruleset":"srd_monsters"},{"key":"srd_monsters_legendary-creatures-lair","name":"Legendary Creature’s Lair","desc":"A legendary creature might have a section describing its lair and the special effects it can create while there, either by act of will or simply by being present. Such a section applies only to a legendary creature that spends a great deal of time in its lair.","index":35,"initialHeaderLevel":3,"document":"srd-2014","ruleset":"srd_monsters"},{"key":"srd_monsters_lair-actions","name":"Lair Actions","desc":"If a legendary creature has lair actions, it can use them to harness the ambient magic in its lair. On initiative count 20 (losing all initiative ties), it can use one of its lair action options. It can’t do so while incapacitated or otherwise unable to take actions. If surprised, it can’t use one until after its first turn in the combat.","index":36,"initialHeaderLevel":3,"document":"srd-2014","ruleset":"srd_monsters"},{"key":"srd_monsters_regional-effects","name":"Regional Effects","desc":"The mere presence of a legendary creature can have strange and wondrous effects on its environment, as noted in this section. Regional effects end abruptly or dissipate over time when the legendary creature dies.","index":37,"initialHeaderLevel":3,"document":"srd-2014","ruleset":"srd_monsters"}]},{"name":"Spellcasting","key":"srd_spellcasting","document":{"name":"System Reference Document 5.1","key":"srd-2014","type":"SOURCE","display_name":"5e 2014 Rules","publisher":{"name":"Wizards of the Coast","key":"wizards-of-the-coast"},"gamesystem":{"name":"5th Edition 2014","key":"5e-2014"},"permalink":"https://dnd.wizards.com/resources/systems-reference-document"},"desc":"Magic permeates fantasy gaming worlds and often appears in the form of a spell.\n\nThis chapter provides the rules for casting spells. Different character classes have distinctive ways of learning and preparing their spells, and monsters use spells in unique ways. Regardless of its source, a spell follows the rules here.","rules":[{"key":"srd_spellcasting_what-is-a-spell","name":"What Is a Spell?","desc":"A spell is a discrete magical effect, a single shaping of the magical energies that suffuse the multiverse into a specific, limited expression. In casting a spell, a character carefully plucks at the invisible strands of raw magic suffusing the world, pins them in place in a particular pattern, sets them vibrating in a specific way, and then releases them to unleash the desired effect-in most cases, all in the span of seconds.\n\nSpells can be versatile tools, weapons, or protective wards. They can deal damage or undo it, impose or remove conditions (see appendix A), drain life energy away, and restore life to the dead.\n\nUncounted thousands of spells have been created over the course of the multiverse's history, and many of them are long forgotten. Some might yet lie recorded in crumbling spellbooks hidden in ancient ruins or trapped in the minds of dead gods. Or they might someday be reinvented by a character who has amassed enough power and wisdom to do so.","index":1,"initialHeaderLevel":2,"document":"srd-2014","ruleset":"srd_spellcasting"},{"key":"srd_spellcasting_spell-level","name":"Spell Level","desc":"Every spell has a level from 0 to 9. A spell's level is a general indicator of how powerful it is, with the lowly (but still impressive) _magic missile_ at 1st level and the earth-shaking _wish_ at 9th. Cantrips-simple but powerful spells that characters can cast almost by rote-are level 0. The higher a spell's level, the higher level a spellcaster must be to use that spell.\n\nSpell level and character level don't correspond directly. Typically, a character has to be at least 17th level, not 9th level, to cast a 9th-level spell.","index":2,"initialHeaderLevel":2,"document":"srd-2014","ruleset":"srd_spellcasting"},{"key":"srd_spellcasting_known-and-prepared-spells","name":"Known and Prepared Spells","desc":"Before a spellcaster can use a spell, he or she must have the spell firmly fixed in mind, or must have access to the spell in a magic item. Members of a few classes, including bards and sorcerers, have a limited list of spells they know that are always fixed in mind. The same thing is true of many magic-using monsters. Other spellcasters, such as clerics and wizards, undergo a process of preparing spells. This process varies for different classes, as detailed in their descriptions.\n\nIn every case, the number of spells a caster can have fixed in mind at any given time depends on the character's level.","index":3,"initialHeaderLevel":2,"document":"srd-2014","ruleset":"srd_spellcasting"},{"key":"srd_spellcasting_spell-slots","name":"Spell Slots","desc":"Regardless of how many spells a caster knows or prepares, he or she can cast only a limited number of spells before resting. Manipulating the fabric of magic and channeling its energy into even a simple spell is physically and mentally taxing, and higher level spells are even more so. Thus, each spellcasting class's description (except that of the warlock) includes a table showing how many spell slots of each spell level a character can use at each character level. For example, the 3rd-level wizard Umara has four 1st-level spell slots and two 2nd-level slots.\n\nWhen a character casts a spell, he or she expends a slot of that spell's level or higher, effectively “filling” a slot with the spell. You can think of a spell slot as a groove of a certain size-small for a 1st-level slot, larger for a spell of higher level. A 1st-level spell fits into a slot of any size, but a 9th-level spell fits only in a 9th-level slot. So when Umara casts _magic missile_, a 1st-level spell, she spends one of her four 1st-level slots and has three remaining.\n\nFinishing a long rest restores any expended spell slots.\n\nSome characters and monsters have special abilities that let them cast spells without using spell slots. For example, a monk who follows the Way of the Four Elements, a warlock who chooses certain eldritch invocations, and a pit fiend from the Nine Hells can all cast spells in such a way.","index":4,"initialHeaderLevel":2,"document":"srd-2014","ruleset":"srd_spellcasting"},{"key":"srd_spellcasting_casting-a-spell-at-higher-level","name":"Casting a Spell at a Higher Level","desc":"When a spellcaster casts a spell using a slot that is of a higher level than the spell, the spell assumes the higher level for that casting. For instance, if Umara casts _magic missile_ using one of her 2nd-level slots, that _magic missile_ is 2nd level. Effectively, the spell expands to fill the slot it is put into.\n\nSome spells, such as _magic missile_ and _cure wounds_, have more powerful effects when cast at a higher level, as detailed in a spell's description.","index":5,"initialHeaderLevel":3,"document":"srd-2014","ruleset":"srd_spellcasting"},{"key":"srd_spellcasting_casting-in-armor","name":"Casting in Armor","desc":"Because of the mental focus and precise gestures required for spellcasting, you must be proficient with the armor you are wearing to cast a spell. You are otherwise too distracted and physically hampered by your armor for spellcasting.","index":6,"initialHeaderLevel":2,"document":"srd-2014","ruleset":"srd_spellcasting"},{"key":"srd_spellcasting_cantrips","name":"Cantrips","desc":"A cantrip is a spell that can be cast at will, without using a spell slot and without being prepared in advance. Repeated practice has fixed the spell in the caster's mind and infused the caster with the magic needed to produce the effect over and over. A cantrip's spell level is 0.","index":7,"initialHeaderLevel":2,"document":"srd-2014","ruleset":"srd_spellcasting"},{"key":"srd_spellcasting_rituals","name":"Rituals","desc":"Certain spells have a special tag: ritual. Such a spell can be cast following the normal rules for spellcasting, or the spell can be cast as a ritual. The ritual version of a spell takes 10 minutes longer to cast than normal. It also doesn't expend a spell slot, which means the ritual version of a spell can't be cast at a higher level.\n\nTo cast a spell as a ritual, a spellcaster must have a feature that grants the ability to do so. The cleric and the druid, for example, have such a feature. The caster must also have the spell prepared or on his or her list of spells known, unless the character's ritual feature specifies otherwise, as the wizard's does.","index":8,"initialHeaderLevel":2,"document":"srd-2014","ruleset":"srd_spellcasting"},{"key":"srd_spellcasting_casting-a-spell","name":"Casting a Spell","desc":"When a character casts any spell, the same basic rules are followed, regardless of the character's class or the spell's effects.\n\nEach spell description begins with a block of information, including the spell's name, level, school of magic, casting time, range, components, and duration. The rest of a spell entry describes the spell's effect.","index":9,"initialHeaderLevel":2,"document":"srd-2014","ruleset":"srd_spellcasting"},{"key":"srd_spellcasting_casting-time","name":"Casting Time","desc":"Most spells require a single action to cast, but some spells require a bonus action, a reaction, or much more time to cast.","index":10,"initialHeaderLevel":2,"document":"srd-2014","ruleset":"srd_spellcasting"},{"key":"srd_spellcasting_bonus-action","name":"Bonus Action","desc":"A spell cast with a bonus action is especially swift. You must use a bonus action on your turn to cast the spell, provided that you haven't already taken a bonus action this turn. You can't cast another spell during the same turn, except for a cantrip with a casting time of 1 action.","index":11,"initialHeaderLevel":3,"document":"srd-2014","ruleset":"srd_spellcasting"},{"key":"srd_spellcasting_reactions","name":"Bonus Action","desc":"Some spells can be cast as reactions. These spells take a fraction of a second to bring about and are cast in response to some event. If a spell can be cast as a reaction, the spell description tells you exactly when you can do so.","index":12,"initialHeaderLevel":3,"document":"srd-2014","ruleset":"srd_spellcasting"},{"key":"srd_spellcasting_longer-casting-times","name":"Longer Casting Times","desc":"Certain spells (including spells cast as rituals) require more time to cast: minutes or even hours. When you cast a spell with a casting time longer than a single action or reaction, you must spend your action each turn casting the spell, and you must maintain your concentration while you do so (see “Concentration” below). If your concentration is broken, the spell fails, but you don't expend a spell slot. If you want to try casting the spell again, you must start over.","index":13,"initialHeaderLevel":3,"document":"srd-2014","ruleset":"srd_spellcasting"},{"key":"srd_spellcasting_spell-range","name":"Spell Range","desc":"The target of a spell must be within the spell's range. For a spell like _magic missile_, the target is a creature. For a spell like _fireball_, the target is the point in space where the ball of fire erupts.\n\nMost spells have ranges expressed in feet. Some spells can target only a creature (including you) that you touch. Other spells, such as the _shield_ spell, affect only you. These spells have a range of self.\n\nSpells that create cones or lines of effect that originate from you also have a range of self, indicating that the origin point of the spell's effect must be you (see “Areas of Effect” later in the this chapter).\n\nOnce a spell is cast, its effects aren't limited by its range, unless the spell's description says otherwise.","index":14,"initialHeaderLevel":3,"document":"srd-2014","ruleset":"srd_spellcasting"},{"key":"srd_spellcasting_components","name":"Components","desc":"A spell's components are the physical requirements you must meet in order to cast it. Each spell's description indicates whether it requires verbal (V), somatic (S), or material (M) components. If you can't provide one or more of a spell's components, you are unable to cast the spell.\n\n### Verbal (V)\n\nMost spells require the chanting of mystic words. The words themselves aren't the source of the spell's power; rather, the particular combination of sounds, with specific pitch and resonance, sets the threads of magic in motion. Thus, a character who is gagged or in an area of silence, such as one created by the _silence_ spell, can't cast a spell with a verbal component.\n\n### Somatic (S)\n\nSpellcasting gestures might include a forceful gesticulation or an intricate set of gestures. If a spell requires a somatic component, the caster must have free use of at least one hand to perform these gestures.\n\n### Material (M)\n\nCasting some spells requires particular objects, specified in parentheses in the component entry. A character can use a **component pouch** or a **spellcasting focus** (found in “Equipment”) in place of the components specified for a spell. But if a cost is indicated for a component, a character must have that specific component before he or she can cast the spell.\n\nIf a spell states that a material component is consumed by the spell, the caster must provide this component for each casting of the spell.\n\nA spellcaster must have a hand free to access a spell's material components-or to hold a spellcasting focus-but it can be the same hand that he or she uses to perform somatic components","index":15,"initialHeaderLevel":2,"document":"srd-2014","ruleset":"srd_spellcasting"},{"key":"srd_spellcasting_duration","name":"Duration","desc":"A spell's duration is the length of time the spell persists. A duration can be expressed in rounds, minutes, hours, or even years. Some spells specify that their effects last until the spells are dispelled or destroyed.\n\n### Instantaneous\n\nMany spells are instantaneous. The spell harms, heals, creates, or alters a creature or an object in a way that can't be dispelled, because its magic exists only for an instant.\n\n### Concentration\n\nSome spells require you to maintain concentration in order to keep their magic active. If you lose concentration, such a spell ends.\n\nIf a spell must be maintained with concentration, that fact appears in its Duration entry, and the spell specifies how long you can concentrate on it. You can end concentration at any time (no action required).\n\nNormal activity, such as moving and attacking, doesn't interfere with concentration. The following factors can break concentration:\n\n* **Casting another spell that requires concentration.** You lose concentration on a spell if you cast another spell that requires concentration. You can't concentrate on two spells at once.\n* **Taking damage.** Whenever you take damage while you are concentrating on a spell, you must make a Constitution saving throw to maintain your concentration. The DC equals 10 or half the damage you take, whichever number is higher. If you take damage from multiple sources, such as an arrow and a dragon's breath, you make a separate saving throw for each source of damage.\n* **Being incapacitated or killed.** You lose concentration on a spell if you are incapacitated or if you die.\n\nThe GM might also decide that certain environmental phenomena, such as a wave crashing over you while you're on a storm-tossed ship, require you to succeed on a DC 10 Constitution saving throw to maintain concentration on a spell.","index":16,"initialHeaderLevel":2,"document":"srd-2014","ruleset":"srd_spellcasting"},{"key":"srd_spellcasting_targets","name":"Targets","desc":"A typical spell requires you to pick one or more targets to be affected by the spell's magic. A spell's description tells you whether the spell targets creatures, objects, or a point of origin for an area of effect (described below).\n\nUnless a spell has a perceptible effect, a creature might not know it was targeted by a spell at all. An effect like crackling lightning is obvious, but a more subtle effect, such as an attempt to read a creature's thoughts, typically goes unnoticed, unless a spell says otherwise.\n\n### A Clear Path to the Target\n\nTo target something, you must have a clear path to it, so it can't be behind total cover.\n\nIf you place an area of effect at a point that you can't see and an obstruction, such as a wall, is between you and that point, the point of origin comes into being on the near side of that obstruction.\n\n### Targeting Yourself\n\nIf a spell targets a creature of your choice, you can choose yourself, unless the creature must be hostile or specifically a creature other than you. If you are in the area of effect of a spell you cast, you can target yourself.","index":17,"initialHeaderLevel":2,"document":"srd-2014","ruleset":"srd_spellcasting"},{"key":"srd_spellcasting_areas-of-effect","name":"Areas of Effect","desc":"Spells such as _burning hands_ and _cone of cold_ cover an area, allowing them to affect multiple creatures at once.\n\nA spell's description specifies its area of effect, which typically has one of five different shapes: cone, cube, cylinder, line, or sphere. Every area of effect has a **point of origin**, a location from which the spell's energy erupts. The rules for each shape specify how you position its point of origin. Typically, a point of origin is a point in space, but some spells have an area whose origin is a creature or an object.\n\nA spell's effect expands in straight lines from the point of origin. If no unblocked straight line extends from the point of origin to a location within the area of effect, that location isn't included in the spell's area. To block one of these imaginary lines, an obstruction must provide total cover.\n\n### Cone\n\nA cone extends in a direction you choose from its point of origin. A cone's width at a given point along its length is equal to that point's distance from the point of origin. A cone's area of effect specifies its maximum length.\n\nA cone's point of origin is not included in the cone's area of effect, unless you decide otherwise.\n\n### Cube\n\nYou select a cube's point of origin, which lies anywhere on a face of the cubic effect. The cube's size is expressed as the length of each side.\n\nA cube's point of origin is not included in the cube's area of effect, unless you decide otherwise.\n\n### Cylinder\n\nA cylinder's point of origin is the center of a circle of a particular radius, as given in the spell description. The circle must either be on the ground or at the height of the spell effect. The energy in a cylinder expands in straight lines from the point of origin to the perimeter of the circle, forming the base of the cylinder. The spell's effect then shoots up from the base or down from the top, to a distance equal to the height of the cylinder.\n\nA cylinder's point of origin is included in the cylinder's area of effect.\n\n### Line\n\nA line extends from its point of origin in a straight path up to its length and covers an area defined by its width.\n\nA line's point of origin is not included in the line's area of effect, unless you decide otherwise.\n\n### Sphere\n\nYou select a sphere's point of origin, and the sphere extends outward from that point. The sphere's size is expressed as a radius in feet that extends from the point.\n\nA sphere's point of origin is included in the sphere's area of effect.\n\n## Spell Saving Throws\n\nMany spells specify that a target can make a saving throw to avoid some or all of a spell's effects. The spell specifies the ability that the target uses for the save and what happens on a success or failure.\n\nThe DC to resist one of your spells equals 8 + your spellcasting ability modifier + your proficiency bonus + any special modifiers.","index":18,"initialHeaderLevel":2,"document":"srd-2014","ruleset":"srd_spellcasting"},{"key":"srd_spellcasting_spell-attack-rolls","name":"Spell Attack Rolls","desc":"Some spells require the caster to make an attack roll to determine whether the spell effect hits the intended target. Your attack bonus with a spell attack equals your spellcasting ability modifier + your proficiency bonus.\n\nMost spells that require attack rolls involve ranged attacks. Remember that you have disadvantage on a ranged attack roll if you are within 5 feet of a hostile creature that can see you and that isn't incapacitated.","index":19,"initialHeaderLevel":2,"document":"srd-2014","ruleset":"srd_spellcasting"},{"key":"srd_spellcasting_schools-of-magic","name":"The Schools of Magic","desc":"Academies of magic group spells into eight categories called schools of magic. Scholars, particularly wizards, apply these categories to all spells, believing that all magic functions in essentially the same way, whether it derives from rigorous study or is bestowed by a deity.\n>\n> The schools of magic help describe spells; they have no rules of their own, although some rules refer to the schools.\n>\n> **Abjuration** spells are protective in nature, though some of them have aggressive uses. They create magical barriers, negate harmful effects, harm trespassers, or banish creatures to other planes of existence.\n>\n> **Conjuration** spells involve the transportation of objects and creatures from one location to another. Some spells summon creatures or objects to the caster's side, whereas others allow the caster to teleport to another location. Some conjurations create objects or effects out of nothing.\n>\n> **Divination** spells reveal information, whether in the form of secrets long forgotten, glimpses of the future, the locations of hidden things, the truth behind illusions, or visions of distant people or places.\n>\n> **Enchantment** spells affect the minds of others, influencing or controlling their behavior. Such spells can make enemies see the caster as a friend, force creatures to take a course of action, or even control another creature like a puppet.\n>\n> **Evocation** spells manipulate magical energy to produce a desired effect. Some call up blasts of fire or lightning. Others channel positive energy to heal wounds.\n>\n> **Illusion** spells deceive the senses or minds of others. They cause people to see things that are not there, to miss things that are there, to hear phantom noises, or to remember things that never happened. Some illusions create phantom images that any creature can see, but the most insidious illusions plant an image directly in the mind of a creature.\n>\n> **Necromancy** spells manipulate the energies of life and death. Such spells can grant an extra reserve of life force, drain the life energy from another creature, create the undead, or even bring the dead back to life.\n>\n> Creating the undead through the use of necromancy spells such as _animate dead_ is not a good act, and only evil casters use such spells frequently.\n>\n> **Transmutation** spells change the properties of a creature, object, or environment. They might turn an enemy into a harmless creature, bolster the strength of an ally, make an object move at the caster's command, or enhance a creature's innate healing abilities to rapidly recover from injury.\n\n## Combining Magical Effects\n\nThe effects of different spells add together while the durations of those spells overlap. The effects of the same spell cast multiple times don't combine, however. Instead, the most potent effect-such as the highest bonus-from those castings applies while their durations overlap.\n\nFor example, if two clerics cast _bless_ on the same target, that character gains the spell's benefit only once; he or she doesn't get to roll two bonus dice.","index":20,"initialHeaderLevel":2,"document":"srd-2014","ruleset":"srd_spellcasting"}]}]}