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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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.
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What happens if two druids both cast Druid 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 does casting 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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How does the Acolyte have 3 spell slots as a 1st-level spell caster?
The Acolyte stat block on page 342 of the 5e Monster Manual states
the acolyte is a 1st-level spellcaster.
However it also states, that the Acolyte has three 1st-level spell slots. This contradicts ...
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How does spellcasting progression work if I go back to the original class after prestige classing?
Silly example, but it should be fairly understandable:
If a character takes 9 levels as a Wizard and then becomes a Loremaster. They take 3 levels of Loremaster, and decide they would actually really ...
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Can I shoot or use spells from one room to another?
Can I shoot or use spells from one room to another? I can see my opponents through an open door that is between the rooms. My DM told me I could not do that.
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What's the (currently) correct way to specify monster/npc spellcasting?
I'm fairly new to DnD and I wanted to create my own NPC's. What is the currently accepted "correct" way to specify spellcasting for a monster/npc?
Does it go under the "actions" ...
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Does a Counterspelled spell break Sanctuary?
Let's say I've cast Hold Person on an enemy while protected by Sanctuary. Enemy Counterspells, making the save for my Sanctuary and successfully countering my spell. Does this break my Sanctuary?
For ...
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Does the Life Cleric's Disciple of Life feature affect spells that use the target's Hit Dice? (e.g. Wither and Bloom, Catnap)
Considering the feature from life domain cleric, disciple of life.
Disciple of Life:
your healing spells are more effective. Whenever you use a spell of 1st level or higher to restore hit points to a ...
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What do I do if my character has two spell-casting abilities?
I am playing a character with two spell-casting abilities: one is from their class, the other from their race.
The race is a fae dragon (created from the monster manual) and the class is Wizard. The ...
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What are the consequences of changing the rule for casting multiple spells in a turn to "You can spend no more than one spell-slot each turn"?
The D&D 5e rules for casting multiple spells in one round are a frequent source of confusion across tables in my experience. While the rule is just a line of text
You can’t cast another spell ...
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Innate spellcasting x / day: is it x attempts or x successful casts?
The party, which includes a bard and a wizard both with counterspell, will soon be facing a marid. The marid's total time on the battlefield will likely largely depend on whether or not he is able to ...
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Can a Knowledge cleric using the Channel Divinity: Read Thoughts feature to cast the Suggestion spell be perceived, for the purposes of Counterspell?
The Knowledge Domain cleric's Channel Divinity: Read Thoughts feature (PHB, p. 59-60) lets you read a creature's surface thoughts, and states that while you do so:
During that time, you can use your ...
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Which source gave the option for a spellcaster to use wishes as verbal component?
I vaguely remember that I have seen a Dungeons and Dragons subclass, variant or feat that allowed a spellcaster who studied Genies or was related to them to cast spells by using spoken wishes as ...
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dnd-3.5e Warmage Edge damage to Wounding Spell damage per turn
Does Warmage Edge's additional damage apply to the damage per round caused by the Wounding Spell metamagic when applied to an instantaneous duration damaging spell?
"If a spell deals damage for ...
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Can a Chronurgy Wizard upcast using Arcane Abeyance?
Can arcane abeyance be used to upcast a spell? For example, can a bead made via arcane abeyance hold a 4th level fireball?
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Can summon cast spells with longer casting time?
Some summons have spells, like a Djin with Creation spell, which has 1 minute casting time. Neither summoned rules forbid from multiturn casting, nor cast a spell require having all 3 actions ...
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Is there a way to maintain two concentration spells? [duplicate]
Assuming I play a high-level Wizard in D&D 5, with access to magic items and most of the published content. Is there a way for me to maintain two spells that normally both require concentration at ...
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Full round spell and being attacked
If a caster casts a spell that in the casting time states "full round", or uses a metamagic feat casting and her spell casting time increases to "full round" is the caster "...
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How Do Subclass Spells Work For Druids?
So, I'm making an 8th-level Spores druid for a campaign. I'm very confused on how circle spells work-specifically with the slots. Do I get extra slots? What spell level would, say, Blight be? Thank ...
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Does Counterspell prevent from any further spells being cast on a given turn?
If my understanding is correct, a successful Counterspell not only negates the spell effect of the receiving caster, but also burns their spell slot.
So if Bob the Bard attempts to cast Mass Healing ...
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Does Cast a Spell make you a spellcaster?
If I want to use a Spellheart to cast Electric Arc as a Monk, I need the Cast a Spell ability. Based on the comments on this answer, people seem to think Focus Spells gives you Cast a Spell for Focus ...
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Can a cleric prepare, cast and then prepare again just after a long rest?
To my understanding, a cleric in DnD can prepare their spells after finishing a long rest. Does that means that a player can prepare their spells, cast some of them, and prepare again just after the ...
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Where does a Wildfire Druid's Thorn Whip "originate” in conjunction with the Level 6 class feature Enhanced Bond?
The class feature Enhanced Bond contains this:
[provision that grants a bonus on casting fire or healing spells]
In addition, when you cast a spell with a range other than self, the spell can ...
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Review a mechanic for allowing weaker Spell Scrolls even if not on class spell list
I am a new GM so I would like to get some feedback on me "relaxing" the Spell Scroll class requirements. Basically if it makes sense and is not something I might regret in the long run.
The ...
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Vampiric Touch + FS/FGS - Who gets the hit points from the damage?
Separately from my other question about where to get the spell attack modifier value from when sharing a spell with Find/Greater Steed, but similar in situation.
Vampiric Touch:
On a hit, the target ...
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Vampiric Touch while mounted on FS/FGS. What melee spell attack does my steed use?
Vampiric Touch is a Self spell. During this spell, you have the option to
Make a melee spell attack against a creature within your reach.
Find Steed/Find Greater Steed
While mounted on it, you can ...
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Can a Beguiler benefit from Greyhawk Method?
Beguiler
The Beguiler class is a fixed-list spontaneous arcane caster; a Beguiler PC gets access to spells from the Beguiler list as it levels up and can cast them spontaneously.
A beguiler casts ...
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How does the Flexible Casting ability from the sorcerer's Font of Magic feature work?
I've recently joined a D&D table which happened to be with only new players, including the DM himself.
The thing is that, we added an extra friend to the party that decided to play a sorcerer, and ...
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What impact does this "Spell Melding" homebrew feature have on the balance of casters?
I am currently homebrewing alternative types of casters for D&D 5e, and mostly looking at making them unique through new ways of casting spells. My main objective is to keep them in line with the ...
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Does an Epic character in 3.5 get new spells if they pick up a new base class?
In 3.5, the epic rules rules
state that no new spell slots
are obtained after level 20. But if a 20th level wizard, say, picks up a level of cleric to get to level 21 (20 Wiz 1 Clr) does that ...
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How can I get reach for touch spells without spending an action per spell?
Snaptongue Gripplis with the Long Tongue feat can deliver touch spells from 10 feet.
Aberrant Sorcerers can use the Tentacular Limbs focus spell1 to get a similar effect.
Is there any other way?
The ...
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Would a Command spell cause a target to teleport away? [duplicate]
My 9th level Bard character failed his save against a Command to Flee, which states that "The target spends its turn moving away from you by the fastest available means." Would that include ...
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Can the Staff of Defense be used to give all members of a party Mage Armor at dawn?
Running LMOP and the party has already defeated Glasstaff and taken his Staff of Defense. The wizard is now attuned to it, and in our last session they asked a question I was not prepared for: Can the ...
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Does a Dragonborn Dragon Magic Sorcerer pierce their own damage resistance when taking damage from Nusemnee's Atonement?
An oft discussed optimization trick in the 4th edition era was the use of Nusemnee's Atonement on a Dragonborn Dragon Magic Sorcerer in order to recharge your breath weapon with the use of the Ancient ...
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Does an epic spell with the Ward seed disappear if the target moves?
(...) A ward against magic creates an immobile, faintly shimmering magical sphere (with radius 10 feet) that surrounds the caster and excludes all spell effects of up to 1st level. Alternatively, the ...
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