Questions tagged [spells]
For questions about specific manifestations of magic that we generically call "spells." Use the [magic] tag for more generic questions about magic, and [spellcasting] for questions specifically about the process of spellcasting.
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Does Irresistible Dance force me to use *all* my actions?
(Otto's) Irresistible Dance says:
As an action, a dancing creature makes a Wisdom saving throw to regain control of itself.
This is a strange phrasing, in that is does not specify whether one ...
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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 I use the spiritual weapon spell so it can take the form of a legendary weapon and gain it's effects?
In dnd, I'm planning on playing a fighter/sorcerer with divine soul (giving me access to cleric spells) and battle master, essentially having the ability to be the active person in the group (I call ...
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Would Prestidigitation remove poison from an object's surface?
I had the passing thought of getting revenge, I mean protecting your items from thieves by using a strong contact poison. Now in the case of coins, would a casting of Prestidigitation be enough to ...
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Definition of "Direction" in Divination Context
Was wondering if there was a specific RAI source for a definition of direction in the case of a spell like Locate Object.
Do they mean cardinal direction in that it would point you in the cardinal ...
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Explain Like I'm 5 How Oath Spells Work (D&D 5e)
What the title says. I genuinely cannot, for the life of me, figure out how they work. What spell slot would a level 8 Devotion Paladin use for Sanctuary? It says 3rd level, but I don't know if that's ...
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A question about paladin oath spells
So, I'm making a Devotion paladin. What spell slot level would I use for, say, Lesser Restoration (which is received at level 5)?
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Can you move Healing Spirit's AOE (and other aoe spells) through walls if you can see both points?
For the spell "Healing Spirit," it says the following:
As a bonus action on your turn, you can move the Spirit up to 30 feet to a space you can see.
Can you move the "The Intangible ...
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Would an ethereal Night Hag's touch be picked up by the Alarm spell?
Our hapless 3rd-level party picked up a Night Hag and a Green Hag while we were trekking through the jungle in our last play session. They had disguised their forms to travel with us and before we ...
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Can a cleric cast spells from his domain if his allignment does not match the spell?
Can a cleric with say lawful neutral allignment cast a spell from one of his domains that has a good / evil / chaos disignator?
As the anwer below points out.
chaos vs law is a no go.
But in this case ...
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How do we determine whether an awakened creature/plant will stay after 30 days?
After 30 days, the charm affect ends in an awakened creature or plant; it says, they will determine based on how you treated them if they like you or will stick around. Should that be a roll, or ...
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Are the plants animated by an Assassin Vine considered magical?
In our last play session the party was attacked by an Assassin Vine. The low-strength kobold ranger was trapped in the vines for several rounds (in part because he went unconscious from damage, but ...
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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 a summoned creature act immediately after being summoned by a readied action?
I have a player that wanted to use a spell to summon a creature if the person in front of him did something hostile using its ready action.
After doing so, he wanted to attack immediately... But it's ...
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Can a permanent Magic Mouth be used with new parameters after it has been discharged?
A wizard casts magic mouth, permanently, on the door to his study.
Is the magic mouth then limited to its set parameters and message indefinitely, or could the caster set a new set of parameters for ...
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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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What's the best way to handle new objects placed inside a permanent shrink item chest?
A caster has Leomond's secret chest and casts shrink item to carry it around (while it's not on the ethereal plane) regularly enough to warrant spending the experience points to cast permanency on it. ...
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Can the Spiritual Weapon spell be used as cover?
Can Spiritual Weapon be used as cover, offering an AC bonus, if so what are the limitations? Would it provide Half-cover? Three-Quarters Cover? Or maybe even Total Cover, depending on what shape I ...
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Can you use the Spiritual Weapon spell as a platform, to fly?
Can Spiritual Weapon be used as a platform to stand on; and potentially fly?
You create a floating, spectral weapon within range that lasts for the duration or until you cast this spell again.........
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Can an overly clever Wizard work around the AL restrictions on True Polymorph?
I am a level 20 Wizard whose greatest dream is to become an Ancient Topaz Dragon. I can do this easily via True Polymorph.
Unfortunately for me, I am an Adventurers League character, and the FAQ ...
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Can I have concentric Tiny Huts? [duplicate]
Leomund's tiny hut makes a 10' radius dome shaped barrier. As a ritual, this takes 11 minutes to cast.
We're thinking of luring the bad guys to our tiny hut and using it for tactical advantages. If ...
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Is the blindness caused by Sunbeam/Sunburst permanent?
Is there a difference between the blindness caused by the sunbeam spell and the sunburst spell?
Both spells are worded basically the same:
Sunbeam
For the duration of this spell, you can use a ...
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Can I combine Reckless Abandon with Debilitating Dichotomy?
Can I combine Reckless Abandon with Debilitating Dichotomy?
Reckless abandon -> cast spell -> roll will -> get success no matter what -> get 1 result better due to spell = crit
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Can a bag of holding be put into a Leomond's Secret Chest?
Extradimensional and non-dimensional terms are interchangable.
Leomond's secret chest is the foundation spell by which all magic containers that function like a bag of holding are formed, but the ...
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Is the vial necessary to Summon Greater Demon?
Summon Greater Demon has material component "a vial of blood from a humanoid killed within the past 24 hours". I'm having trouble parsing whether "vial" is an actual vial or just a ...
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To what degree does Polymorph Any Object change the subject?
Alter self changes just the form, and lists the ways in which the change is limited:
must be the same creature type, must be within one size category, retain your own ability scores, Supernatural and ...
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I don't understand how the Telekinesis spell works
I don't understand a bit about some things in the spell, like:
After moving a creature once with the spell, is it possible to move it another 30 feet on your next turn?
If you change the target of ...
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Ready action to use the action part of a spell like Maximilian’s Earthen Grasp or Call Lightning
To ready spells for a trigger to occur, concentrations is required.
But if you have already casts spells like Maximilian’s Earthen Grasp or Call Lightning, can you ready the "action" part of ...
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Using RAW, can the Polymorph Any Object spell allow a Simulacrum to gain in power?
I was unable to delete this and post the revised question. I apologize to those who have invested time in answering, but I feel that this is now more evidence based than presentation based and better ...
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Is this Electrifying Body spell thematic and balanced?
Stark Rost, look away!
One of my players is an Imperial Sorcerer focused on lightning magic - he has Sudden Bolt, Lightning Bolt, Chain Lightning, and Electric Arc currently. I'm hoping to reward them ...
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Does the Obscure Object hide things inside the object?
If a character casts Obscure Object on a box, would someone still be able to cast Scrying on an object inside the box?
Alternatively, if that character casts Obscure Object on boat, would it still be ...
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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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What are toxins?
The spell Restoration says:
When you cast restoration, choose to either reduce a condition or lessen the effect of a toxin.
It references "toxin" many times more. But, what is a toxin? It'...
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Mage Slayer saving throw advantage vs Web spell
So the Mage Slayer feat says:
You have advantage on saving throws against spells cast by creatures within 5 feet of you
If a caster were to use web on a Mage Slayer user, does the Mage Slayer have ...
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How do I make a version of Armor of Agathys on D&D Beyond that scales with my Pact Magic spell slot levels?
A while ago I was given a free spell from my benevolent GM, and I chose Armor of Agathys with the caveat that I could change the damage type (let's leave aside the balance concerns of that for now) ...
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What happens to things taken out of a demiplane after the demiplane expires?
Me and my friends were debating a certain idea. Namely using demiplanes as a place to get resources from (such as fertile soil, organic matter, stone and so on. There was also the mention of metals ...
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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
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Can a Tricksy fey from the Summon Fey spell place a cube of darkness partially on an enemy, so allies can still target what’s visible at advantage?
The summon fey spell (TCoE, p. 112) summons a fey spirit marked by a chosen mood, which determines the secondary effect of its Fey Step bonus action (after teleporting 30 feet). For the Tricksy mood, ...
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Does immunity to conditions imposed by layers of a Prismatic Wall give immunity to that layer's further consequences?
In a fairly high stakes scenario, I (DM) put a Prismatic Wall in a party's way.
It goes off, does Prismatic Wall things, one person is hit by the Indigo and Violet layers and here we develop a problem....
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Does the Wish spell allow me to cast a lower-level spell (that normally targets a willing creature) on an unwilling creature?
Wish allows casting a lower-level spell 'without meeting its requirements'.
A major restriction to many spells is that it can only be cast on a willing creature. Can I use wish to avoid this ...
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Difference between Sunbeam and Lightning Bolt
I was looking at some 5e spell effects and noticed that the 6th level spell Sunbeam does 6d8 radiant damage (average 27 damage).
The 3rd level Lightning Bolt spell does 8d6 lightning damage (average ...
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Is there thought and emotion component for psychic spells?
I could have sworn that psychic spells had there specific components listed like regular spells. For example, the fireball spell tells you the material component is bat guano.
I seem to remember ...
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Banishment as an escape route
Normally, the Banishment spell is used to remove a target from combat for a while. But I've been asked some questions by a player and I'm not sure how to answer them.
For reference, we're talking ...
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Is Heightened(4th) Silence spell balanced?
The second level spell Silence can be heightened to 4th level, when its description is as follows:
Heightened (4th) The spell effect emanates from the touched creature, silencing all sound in or ...
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How does Freedom of Movement interact with magical effects which increase movement costs?
The text for the Freedom of Movement spell contains the following clause:
the target's movement is unaffected by difficult terrain, and spells and other magical effects [cannot] reduce the target's ...
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Can a creature be targeted by future uses of eyebite if they are immune to the initial casting?
The party is fighting a masked assassin, and the wizard, wanting to question the assassin, casts Eyebite and attempts to use the Asleep effect. However, the assassin was an elf, and is thus immune to ...
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Are daily preparations optional?
I understand that under most circumstances, one would want to get their daily uses back, but I can imagine at least one where you wouldn't (So there must be more!)
gentle repose level 2 lasts until ...
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Illusionary Disguise Level 3 olfactory trait missing?
The rules for heightening spells include
In addition, many spells have additional specific benefits when they are heightened, such as increased damage. These extra benefits are described at the end ...
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Can I cast 3 spells (1 Bonus Action, a 1 Action cantrip, and 1 Reaction) on the same turn? Does the order of the spells cast matter? [duplicate]
In Dungeons and Dragons 5th edition, can I cast Expeditious Retreat (cast time 1 Bonus Action), the cantrip spell Fire Bolt (cast time 1 Action), and Shield (cast time 1 Reaction) when I am hit by an ...
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