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Arcane Lock The spell arcane lock can prevent a "door, window, gate, chest, or other entryway" from opening (or, at least, make it much harder to open). Its duration is Until Dispelled. If the tome, b …

Most spells don't simply ask if a creature is 'fighting'. Rather, they are conditioned on a creature fighting some other creature. This is more ambiguous. …

When all spells affecting the target have different caster levels the order for checking spells is clear. … Do we select spells with higher spell level preferentially? Or is it completely ill-defined and players should ask their GM which ruling will be made at their table? …

The Control Water spell (PHB p. 227) provides several options for manipulating water in some volume. The Flood, Part Water and Redirect Flow options all explicitly state that the effect lasts until th …

A military general wishes to deliver important instructions to an allied leader who is a long distance away. To safeguard the message from being read by enemy spies during delivery, the general employ …

Your powerful spellcasters have several options for attending distant auctions, which each have their costs and benefits. However, I'll first comment that the options you presented are not particularl …

You can't use modify memory, but if you found another way... From MikeQ's answer, a revenant is immune to the charmed condition, which makes it immune to the spell modify memory. But if you were to fi …

Those are all the necromancy spells from D&DBeyond which you could find on a body. There could also be other magical effects, such as from special abilities or magic items or homebrew. … The typical spells for creating undead, animate dead and create undead, have a duration of instantaneous. …

Yes, hair is a body part for the purpose of spells. I've searched the Player's Handbook for all references to 'hair'. … However, we want to see whether spells treat hair as a 'body part'. There are three spells which reference hair and body parts together. …

Fight magic with magic There are many spells available to spellcasters to either stop or suppress the spells in this combo. … However, it also suppresses any buff spells the BBEG may have had active and prevents them from casting other spells, although they can always drop concentration on antimagic field once they are clear …

(This is unlike dispel magic, which specifically states that it dispels spells "on the target"). …

One could attempt to argue that this means that only spells from classes who prepare their spells (such as wizards and clerics) are valid and spells from spontaneous casters such as warlocks cannot be … used (because they know spells rather than prepare them). …

Unlike spells where the number of targets is chosen at the time of casting, hex allows new targets to be allocated dynamically for the duration of the spell, which means hex cannot be prevented from cursing …

Secondly, the wording in creating a permanent teleportation circle differs from other spells which can be made permanent. … They are destinations for teleportation circle spells (and other teleportation spells as described in their own descriptions). …

Yes, the host dies The second paragraph of the Body Thief ability describes all the ways in which the intellect devourer can leave the host body, then says that the host dies. It doesn't matter whethe …