Questions tagged [spellcasting]
For questions relating to the process of casting spells within a game. Including, but not limited to: spellcasting mechanics, improving likelihood of success when casting a spell, interrupting the casting of a spell, and mechanics surrounding spellcasting attributes (when applicable by system).
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Casting spells while out of hearing and sight
There are other questions addressing how casting attack spells while hidden blows your cover, but what if you are out of the range of perception for the target?
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Means of pretending to be Dominated, thralled, or Charmed
Is there any means for a character to pretend to be subject to a mind-effecting spell or ability after resisting or being immune, so as not to alert the caster?
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Would a Lich/Wizard casting Globe of Invulnerability, Prismatic Wall, and Shield (as needed) be "invincible"?
In Dnd 5e, would casting Globe of Invulnerability at 8th level (concentration) on a surprise round, then Prismatic Wall (action) around the caster at the top of the next round, and Shield (Reaction) ...
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Can a 14th level College of Creation Bard Create Five Summonable Items for Free with Creative Crescendo and Drawmij's Instant Summons? [duplicate]
Creative Crescendo. At 14th level, when you use your Performance of Creation feature, you can create more than one item at once. The number of items equals your Charisma modifier (minimum of two items)...
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Do "10th-level spells" show up anywhere in 5th Edition lore?
I saw a video a while back about some examples of so-called "10th-level spells" causing havoc, in possibly outdated lore.
I'm wondering if any of the examples of such spells have persisted ...
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Can the damage taken from Blood Channeling cause you to lose concentration on the spell it's paying for?
The Blood Channeling feature of the Blood Magic Wizard from Tal’dorei Campaign Setting: Reborn says:
When casting a wizard spell that requires a costly material component, you can forego the ...
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Does the Vital Sacrifice feat cause Fireball or Magic Missile to deal additional damage? If so, to whom?
The Vital Sacrifice feat from Tal’dorei Campaign Setting: Reborn says you can expend a blood boon to gain the following benefit:
When you hit with an attack or spell, you deal an additional 2d6 ...
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Do the Friends cantrip and War Caster feat allow a PC to heal another PC as a reaction?
The Friends cantrip turns a creature hostile.
When the spell ends, the creature realizes that you used magic to influence its mood and becomes hostile toward you.
Opportunity attacks can be made ...
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Does Cartomancer's Hidden Ace require you to expend a spell slot?
The new Cartomancer feat from The Book of Many Things has a feature, Hidden Ace, that says "when you finish a long rest, you can choose one spell from your class's spell list and imbue that spell ...
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Does Cartomancer's Hidden Ace allow you to bypass the casting time of a spell with a long casting time?
The new Cartomancer feat from The Book of Many Things has a feature, Hidden Ace, that says "when you finish a long rest, you can choose one spell from your class's spell list and imbue that spell ...
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Does Cartomancer's Hidden Ace allow you to cast a spell you normally couldn't prepare?
The new Cartomancer feat from The Book of Many Things has a feature, Hidden Ace, that says "when you finish a long rest, you can choose one spell from your class's spell list and imbue that spell ...
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Does Cartomancer's Hidden Ace require the imbued spell's components at the time of casting or imbuing?
The new Cartomancer feat from The Book of Many Things states that "You can use a card deck as your spellcasting focus." It also has a feature, Hidden Ace, that says "when you finish a ...
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When using a deck of cards as a spellcasting focus (with Cartomancer), can you flourish a single card (for Hidden Ace) with the hand holding the deck?
The new Cartomancer feat from The Book of Many Things states that "You can use a card deck as your spellcasting focus." It also states that you can "imbue" a spell "into a ...
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Can Paragon Surge be cast on a familiar?
Familiars have the Share Spells ability, allowing spells with special targeting rules to be cast on them:
Share Spells: The wizard may cast a spell with a target of “You” on his familiar (as a touch ...
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Can You Hold the Stone that Wall of Stone Springs From?
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A nonmagical wall of solid stone springs into existence at a point you choose within range. The wall is 6 inches thick and is composed of ten 10-foot-by-10-foot panels. Each panel ...
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Would raging break the concentration of a Wild Shaped Druid?
If you had a Druid/Barbarian multiclass would you be able to cast a spell such as Call Lightning that requires concentration, Wild Shape, and then rage without breaking concentration on the spell?
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Can you drop concentration on Delayed Blast Fireball as Dispel Magic is being cast on it? [duplicate]
Assume you cast Delayed Blast Fireball, another creature then casts Dispel Magic on it. Would you be able to end your concentration--causing it to explode--as it is being dispelled? If so, do you do ...
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Can a Devil variant of the Fiendish Spirit summoned by the Summon Fiend spell grapple a creature and also use its Hurl Flame action with multiattack?
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Can a Devil variant of the Fiendish Spirit summoned by the Summon Fiend spell perform a Grapple as one of its attacks on its turn, and also use its Hurl Fire ranged spell attack?
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Can I cast Clinging Ice twice on the same target?
Clinging Ice is a Witch cantrip. It does very good damage for its action cost, but the "target becomes immune for 1 minute after the spell ends". The spell ends if you do not Sustain it at ...
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What is the maximum amount of reusable spells a character can have at the same time that do not require spell slots to cast?
I enjoy casting spells in D&D, but spell slots have always felt big and important to me. Regardless of the build I make, I always feel some compulsion to save them for a more important and pivotal ...
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Does being in the Shadowfell (5E) in any way affect spells that players cast?
The 5E DMG mentions only that the plane has a hatred of light and lacks color, mentions the Domains of Dread, and then gives an optional rule for despair. Does the Plane of Shadow cause radiant damage ...
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Does an item-cast, but user-powered spell count as a "spell on" for effective casting skill calculation?
Say I'm playing a mage (in DFRPG or Magic 4e systems) and I have a "casting item" -- that is, an enchanted item that lets the user cast a particular spell but requires the user to provide ...
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Does the effective skill of a "casting item" give an energy discount as caster skill would?
I'm playing in a campaign that's (mostly) running under DFRPG (4th Ed. rules exist as legacy, since as a play-by-post it's been running for many years and predates much of DF and all of DFRPG).
I've ...
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Can a summon monster type spell be made permanent?
Is there a RAW way to summon a monster of some variety and make it permanent? In my scenario I'm thinking of Oozes specifically, in case that makes a difference.
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Is there any way to use Dexterity for spellcasting or as a named spellcasting ability?
I've always wondered about creating a character who trains to use every spellcasting ability.
The publication of Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants introduces the possibility of using Strength in a ...
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Can you use Shapechange to regain a creature’s daily uses of an ability?
Using the spell Shapechange, one can access certain creatures with abilities that either recharge every so often (like a dragon’s breath attack), or are limited in use in a day (like an androsphinx’s ...
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Are non-damaging effects obvious in combat without a check?
This question came about in response to a debate relating to this answer, wherein I stipulated that the effects of the Warp Mind spell are not immediately obvious to your allies.
The reasoning I had ...
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Can you wear a magic spell component?
To cast a "Hex" spell (Player's Handbook, pg. 251, Warlock 1 lvl spell), you must use an arcane focus or a component called "petrified eye of a newt". I thought it was very cool to ...
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Are the spell descriptions detailing movements a part of the spell's somatic component? For example with Message "you point your finger" [duplicate]
I am specifically asking this, whether Subtle Spell would eliminate all signs of casting a spell or not, as many have additional movements or actions described in them. Message needs pointing a finger ...
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How does the Dream Spell manipulate the target?
One of my players uses the Dream spell regularly as pretty much a visual telephone. He casts it to contact people he wants/ needs to talk to, who are otherwise unavailable due to distance. This has ...
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Is this Thaumatology: Ritual Path Magic casting cost calculation correct?
I'm looking at the example spells in Thaumatology: Ritual Path Magic and the very first example, Air Jet, seems to have an error in the calculation of casting cost.
I'm aware that SJG sources often ...
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What are the balance implications of removing spell lists?
How would the game change if I removed spell lists? Essentially, every spell would be on every spell list.
I know this would lead to balance issues with wizard's Spell Mastery and spells such as ...
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Do the secondary effects of protection from evil prevent a Programmed Amnesia spell?
For context I play 3.5e Dnd, and my character has an amulet of Protection from Evil (continuous effect magic item) and an Evil Dragon successfully cast Programmed Amnesia on him despite the second ...
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Can you cast Ashardalon’s Stride while mounted?
The description of Ashardalon’s Stride spell reports:
3rd level transmutation
Range: Self
Components: Verbal, Somatic
Duration: Concentration, up to 1 minute
The billowing flames of a dragon blast ...
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Can a bard/cleric/druid ritual-cast a spell on their class list that they learned as another class?
Suppose I have a multiclassed bard/warlock who chooses unseen servant as one of their warlock spells. Given that unseen servant is also on the bard list, can they then use the bard's Ritual Casting ...
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Dual wielding magic items vs spell components [duplicate]
Say, we have a caster (e.g., wizard or warlock) who is holing a (distinct) magic item in each of their hands (arcane grimmoire or rod of the pact keeper in one hand, and wand of the war mage in the ...
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Countering the Forcecage spell with reactions?
I am trying to create a reaction that a creature can use in order to avoid the OP effect of the forcecage spell. Here is the reaction description:
When the monster sees a creature within 120 ft. of ...
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If you cast a spell with Still and Silent metamagic, can you do so while wildshaped without natural spell?
Reading through natural spell it says "You can complete the verbal and somatic components of spells while in a wild shape." which seems to imply that the only reason you can't cast spells ...
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Does a wizard need to read their spellbook to ritual cast from it? [duplicate]
The wizard spellcasting rules say...
You can cast a wizard spell as a ritual if that spell has the ritual tag and you have the spell in your spellbook. You don't need to have the spell prepared.
It ...
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What happens if two druids both cast Druids grove in overlapping areas?
What happens if two non-friendly druids were to cast druid grove (Xanathar's Guide to Everything) in overlapping areas? If one was already present, does the other caster get to put solid fog over the ...
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Ready an attack to disrupt spellcaster + attack of opportunity?
A player can ready an action to attack a spellcaster within their reach when they want to cast anything.
And a player also gains an attack of opportunity if someone casts a spell within their reach, ...
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What happens to the prepared spells of a wizard who dies and then is brought back to life?
I can't find anything on what happens to the prepared spells of a caster who dies.
I did find this about a PC's attunement to their magic items:
A creature's attunement to an item ends if the ...
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Need help with generating good and bad effects to magic [closed]
First time poster so sorry if this question already came up.
I'm creating a D&D 3.5 campaign where PCs come to a cursed island where magic casting becomes... A bit weird. What I wanna do is every ...
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Is there a limit to how many metamagic feats can be put on a spell if you are using the spell point system?
In my current campaign I'm playing a Kobold sorcerer using the spell point system and I have recently gained a few metamagic feats and this question popped into my head.
When using spell points is ...
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Do out-of-combat spells use spell slots?
this feels like a dumb question, but spells out of combat (like if someone used detect magic) use up spell slots? I would assume it does but i wanted to check in case
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Does Potion of Maximum Power maximize all damage dice of a duration-based spell?
The first time you cast a damage-dealing spell of 4th level or lower
within 1 minute after drinking the potion, instead of rolling dice to determine the damage dealt, you can instead use the highest ...
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Can you interact with objects or communicate verbally (or telepathically) while ritual casting?
My understanding of ritual casting and longer cast times is that it prohibits other actions, other than casting a bonus action cantrip such as Magic Stone or Shillelagh. You can still walk around, use ...
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Does being able to cast a divine spell, as a spell, because of a class feature make your class a divine spellcasting class?
There are multiple elements to the question I really want to ask, right now, but it primarily boils down to resolving a question about this Arcane Discovery:
The text of the Arcane Discovery "...
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In Exalted, can a sorcerer choose to cast a distorted spell?
In Exalted, one sorcerer can under some circumstances distort another sorcerer's spell. In most cases, this is massively problematic for the sorcerer casting the spell.
But the distortion for the ...
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After I finish casting Teleportation Circle, can I prevent the portal from immediately opening?
My party often has my wizard start casting teleportation circle while everyone else is still grabbing treasure. If I finish casting the spell but someone hasn't made it back in time, can I wait to ...
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