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 innate sorcery apply to every attack from storm sphere?
A player at my table is looking at the 5e-2024 sorcerer and the 4th-level Storm Sphere spell from the Elemental Evil Players Companion.
The spell provides a modest 2d6 AoE for the duration of its 1-...
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druid spell and animal form
if a druid casts girallon's blessing and then casts beast claws,then changes to cat form would he have six limbs with 4 attacks? Or would shifting cause him to change to a cat with no extra limbs? My ...
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How long should a wooden construct burn (and continue to take damage) until it burns out (and stops doing damage)
My players encountered some wooden golems, which are vulnerable to fire damage. One of the players casts a Fire Bolt spell, the description of which says "A flammable object hit by this spell ...
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Does Gravity Well work with Blade Ward?
Gravity well says:
whenever you cast a spell on a creature, you can move the target 5 feet to an unoccupied space of your choice if the target is willing to move, the spell hits it with an attack, or ...
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Can unlimited Duration spells be Dismissed?
Reading the remastered description of Peaceful Rest (Player Core p348), I see that when heightened to level 5, its duration becomes unlimited. This seems like a useful way to keep someone's body ...
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Does Hallow stop me from leaving if I am within the area when it is cast?
I'm playing as a fairy, and was looking through the list of spells that affect me, but not humanoids. I came across hallow, which lasts until dispelled. It says fey, among other things, can't enter, ...
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Is there a way to resist spells or abilities with an AOE coming from my teammates, or exclude certain beings from the effect?
In my next game I'm playing a fey (specifically a fairy), and I'm worried about things like Turn the Faithless, as I don't know what my teammates are playing, and they could very easily use it ...
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Can Shatter damage Manifest Mind?
The wording for Manifest Mind says:
you can cause the mind to manifest as a Tiny spectral object
And Shatter says:
A nonmagical object that isn’t being worn or carried also takes the damage if it’s ...
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How do you determine what order to process chained events/interactions? [migrated]
I'm trying to write a top-down tactics RPG game in python, and run into the first major decision I can't make with my limited knowledge of RPG fundamentals.
In our game you create a team of characters ...
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Aberrant Mind spell swapping
When an Aberrant Mind Sorcerer levels up and wants to swap out a psionic spell, how do you make the substitution in DnD Beyond?
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Does casting Goodberry consume the mistletoe? [duplicate]
I'm playing a ranger in my next game, and I took the Goodberry spell. I was wondering if I have to buy a sprig of mistletoe every time I want to cast this spell, or do I just need one?
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Can mending be used to attach the unbroken ends of a pole together?
If I break a pole apart, turn the ends around so the broken parts point outwards and use mending to attach the unbroken part together would it work?
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Can I cast True Strike, then cast Message to give someone else advantage?
Roughly, True Strike identifies a weakness in an enemy giving you an advantage on your next attack. But it costs a full action.
Can you cast it, then use the cantrip Message as your bonus to share the ...
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Wall of Fire: Taking damage multiple times by using forced movement on a target
This is my first post. I would like to ask: Can a Warlock with repelling blast and grasp of Hadar eldritch blast invocations + a Wizard with the telekinetic feat deal Wall of Fire damage 3 times in ...
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Where is the Minor Reflection spell?
Spell Compendium says on page 5 that minor reflection has been renamed ray deflection.
Where was the spell originally published as minor reflection?
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Can a wizard learn a spell from a cleric or druid?
In Pathfinder 2e one can learn a spell assuming one has an instructor who can teach the spell. I'm interested in expanding my spell library, and I'm traveling with a druid and a cleric. I've noticed ...
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Can chronal shift be applied to yourself? [closed]
One of my player is a wizard with chronurgy magic.
Chronal shift states that:
"At 2nd level, you can magically exert limited control over the flow of time around a creature. As a reaction, after ...
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Does a Hexblood still need material components for their racial ability casting of Hex?
So Hex itself requires a Petrified Eye of Newt, recommended at 15gp. Now, this is in a campaign where the DM has ruled that every material component for a spell is consumed, regardless of the ...
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Animate Objects on vials of Holy Water
If a wizard had a collection of holy water flasks and cast Animate Objects on them, would the objects be able to splash their own contents on a target without breaking in the first round and attack ...
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Could Slayer's Prey actually be OP on earlier levels? [closed]
Since Slayer's Prey is basically a Non Concentration Hunter's Mark and you can stack another spell with it, what are the most powerful combos possible in each Tier of play since Lv3? Like combining SP ...
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Could mage hand be used for surgery on another creature?
At the moment my party just finished rescuing a goblin princess who wants to marry a dragon, and we have now been given the task to make her pretty. The DM explains to us that this princess is quite ...
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Can you be resurrected while your soul is under the effect of Magic Jar?
I've been reading up on soul-related spells and abilities from the 5th edition spell list. The question I had relates to a unique problem you run into when, while using the spell Magic Jar, your body ...
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How does lycanthropy interact with the clone spell?
The clone spell introduces some interesting edge cases regarding creature states. One such case is lycanthropy, which appears to be a type of curse but can also be inflicted through serum, such as ...
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How does Wild Shape interact with the clone spell?
Are there any interesting results from cloning a druid in Wild Shape? What form does the clone take? If it takes the form of a beast, could the druid be trapped in beast form, or would they be able ...
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Does Wall of Ice still deal damage after being affected by a Wot4E Monk's Shape the Flowing River?
Consider the spell wall of ice (PHB, p. 285), specifically these sections (emphasis mine):
You create a wall of ice on a solid surface within range. You can form it into a hemispherical dome or a ...
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Using clone spell without a target's knowledge to trap them
I've been trying to theory-craft a D&D 5e strategy that uses the spell Clone to kidnap and imprison someone. The rough idea is to secretly clone a target, set a trap to effectively imprison the ...
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Does glyph of warding cast the spell instantaneously, ignoring the cast time? [duplicate]
My party recently got a job in which we need to defend multiple huts with people inside for a couple of days. There are two wizard in my party, including me, and we both believe just waiting, guarding ...
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Do Jim's Magic Missiles strike simultaneously? If not, how is damage resolved?
This question asks about a source of advantage to combine with Jim's Magic Missile spell, with the requirement being that each of the missile attacks will have advantage. A since-deleted answer ...
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Is there any way for a character to identify another character's class?
Quite often, a dungeon master will reveal to the players the classes of the NPCs whom the PCs are fighting for ease of tactical decision making, on assumptions such as that the guy in heavy armour and ...
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Are consumable material components consumed if the spell fails?
According to the Player's Handbook, p174, When spells with material components are cast, the material components "are annihilated by the spell energies in the casting process."
If the spell ...
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Does a crit fail on a Telekinetic Maneuver make you fall prone?
The Telekinetic Maneuver spell lets you Trip an enemy with a spell attack roll. If you get a crit failure on a Trip, you fall prone.
Obviously it's a little ridiculous for a telekinetic trip to make ...
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What classes, feats, or abilities lets you have advantage on attacks at the start of your turn?
I'm working on a wizard build using Jim's Magic Missile, and to reduce the chances of a nat 1 I'm trying to think of ways to gain advantage on the spell attacks. However there are some caveats I need ...
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Homebrew DND 5e Spell, review in power, and well... utility
So, I usually design spells without a care in the world for how powerful or weak it might be, since you generally find that out with testing. However, in this particular case it made me wonder, and ...
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Do spells taken by the Magic Initiate feat require material components that cost gold?
Good afternoon, I have a question about the Magic Initiate feat.
I am a cleric, I chose the cleric spell Ceremony, however this ritual requires a material component that has a cost (25 gp worth of ...
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How can a Warlock learn Magic Missile?
My DM is starting a campaign using PHB, VGtM, TCoE, and XGtE as our sourcebooks. I'm playing as a Yuan-ti Warlock, while building for my character, I want to add the spell Magic Missile to my known ...
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If my spellcasting focus has the Reach property, does that extra reach apply for spells such as Inflict Wounds? [duplicate]
Inflict Wounds states
Make a melee spell attack against a creature you can reach.
So if my spellcasting focus is a reach weapon, such as a whip, such that I can make a melee attack at the extra ...
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Incapacitation on Sleep Arrow?
The Incapacitation tag is missing from the Sleep Arrow, while it inherits all the other properties from the spell. It does however say that the target of the arrow is "subject to the effects of a ...
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Can you Drawmij's Instant Summons your Genie's Vessel while you are in it? What happens when you exit?
If you have a level of Genie warlock then your Vessel is "a Tiny object" that "remains in the space you left" when you vanish inside its "extradimensional space".
If you ...
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Regarding banishment and force cage
Suppose you are fighting an enemy and you manage to banish it to a safe demiplane. Next turn you cast forcecage around where the enemy was. When banishment ends, what happens with the enemy? Here are ...
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Limiting teleportation in 5e [closed]
I'm playing a 5e warlock with the Fey Touched feat, which I've never done before. My DM is learning the ropes still and I'm trying to play by the book to help him to learn the rules. In a recent ...
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Is a spirit summoned with the Find Greater Steed spell affected by the Divine Word spell?
The Divine Word spell description says:
Regardless of its current hit points, a celestial, an elemental, a
fey, or a fiend that fails its save is forced back to its plane of
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What's the shape of the Control Weather spell? (if any)
We have this rule in the Player's Handbook, p. 204:
Spells such as burning hands and cone of cold cover an area, allowing
them to affect multiple creatures at once. A spell's description
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Does the damage from Thunderwave occur before or after the target is moved
A PC is adjacent to a target which is a Magma Mephit. The mephit does damage to adjacent creatures upon death:
Death Burst: When the mephit dies, it explodes in a burst of lava. Each creature within ...
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Dominate Person/Dominate Monster and action order for the dominated creature
A creature fails the saving throw and is dominated by the Dominate Person/Monster spell:
Can the caster command a first order to the dominated creature (e.g., 'move closer to me') immediately, or ...
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How does persistent damage work with hardness?
Our group came across animated statues during our recent game, and one of the spells our wizard considered casting was dehydrate, which does 1d6 persistent fire damage. But how does that work with the ...
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Can a Cube of Force be used to end spell effects when entering an area as opposed to being cast into the cube area?
According to the Dungeon Master's Guide P. 160, when using Face 4 of the Cube of Force: "Spell effects can't pass through the barrier."
Does this mean that when a character enters an area ...
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Is there a way to change a cantrip spell type to Necromancy in order to fulfil the requirement of the Death Domain Reaper ability for Clerics?
The Death Domain Reaper ability says:
you learn one necromancy cantrip of your choice from any spell list. When you cast a necromancy cantrip that normally targets only one creature, the spell can ...
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What spells can I cast while swallowed?
My level 6 druid was swallowed by an unknown creature - maybe a Remorhaz? It's unclear, since it seems sensitive to fire damage, so not the typical Remorhaz. But something similar.
I'm currently a ...
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Turning Misty step into a reaction to dodge spells/attacks
My wizard player wants to create a spell. I want to let him do it, as they are nearing the end of the current campaign and I think its a cool way to spend character downtime to research and create a ...
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Would the command spell fail if the commanded action becomes directly harmful later on, but initially appears benign?
The command spell has the stipulation that the spell has no effect if your command is directly harmful to the target it.
Say the Initiative order goes:
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Pc1 casts command on a mob with ...
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