The Spell Compendium

A list of D&D 5E spells that needed some rebalancing.

0-Level Spells (Cantrips)

Poison Spray

0-Level Evocation

• Casting Time: 1 action
• Range: 30 feet
• Components: V, S
• Duration: Instantaneous

You launch a mist of toxic energy at a creature within range. Make a ranged spell attack. On a hit, the target takes 1d12 Poison damage.

This spell's damage increases by 1d12 when you reach 5th level (2d12), 11th level (3d12), and 17th level (4d12).

Produce Flame

0-Level Conjuration

• Casting Time: 1 action
• Range: self
• Components: V, S
• Duration: 10 Minutes

A flickering flame appears in your hand. The flame remains there for the duration and harms neither you nor your equipment. The flame sheds bright light in a 30-foot radius and dim light for an additional 30 feet. The spell ends if you dismiss it as an action or if you cast it again.

You can also attack with the flame when you cast this spell, or as an action on a later turn, you can hurl the flame at a creature within 30 feet of you. Make a ranged spell attack. On a hit, the target takes 1d10 fire damage. When you do so, another flame appears instantaneously in your hand if you wish it to do so, otherwise the spell ends.

This spell's damage increases by 1d10 when you reach 5th level (2d10), 11th level (3d10), and 17th level (4d10).

Resistance

0-Level Abjuration Spell

• Casting Time: 1 Reaction
• Range: 10 feet
• Components: V, S
• Duration: Instantaneous

You channel magical protection to the creature who failed the Saving Throw. That creature can roll a d4 and add the number rolled to the save, potentially turning it into a success.

Shocking Grasp

*0-Level Evocation

• Casting Time: 1 action
• Range: touch
• Components: V, S
• Duration: Instantaneous

Lightning springs from your hand to deliver a shock to a creature you try to touch. Make a melee spell attack against the target. On a hit, the target takes 1d10 Lightning damage, and it can’t make Opportunity Attacks until the start of its next turn.

The spell's damage increases by 1d10 when you reach 5th level (2d10), 11th level (3d10), and 17th level (4d10).

Sorcerous Burst

0-Level Conjuration (Sorcerer)

• Casting Time: 1 Action
• Range: 120 feet
• Components: V, S
• Duration: Instantaneous

You cast sorcerous energy at one creature or object within range. Make a ranged attack roll against the target. On a hit, the target takes 1d8 damage. If you roll an 8 on a d8 for this spell, you can roll another d8, and add it to the damage. You choose the damage type each time you cast this spell: Acid, Cold, Fire, Lightning, Poison, Psychic, or Thunder.

This spell’s damage increases by 1d8 when you reach level 5 (2d8), 11 (3d8), and 17 (4d8).

True Strike

0-Level Divination

• Casting Time: 1 Reaction
• Range: 10 Ft
• Components: S
• Duration: Instantaneous

With your magic you subtly alter the course of an attack that would otherwise certainly miss. When a creature you can see within 10 feet of you, including yourself, misses with an unarmed or weapon attack, that creature can roll a d4 and add the number rolled to the attack, potentially turning it into a hit.

Vicious Mockery

0-Level Enchantment (Bard)

• Casting Time: 1 action
• Range: 60 Ft
• Components: V
• Duration: Instantaneous

You unleash a string of insults laced with subtle enchantments at a creature you can see within range. If the target can hear you (though it need not understand you), it must succeed on a Wisdom saving throw or take 1d4 psychic damage and have disadvantage on the next attack roll it makes before the end of its next turn.

The spell causes disadvantage on the next 2 attacks when you reach 5th level, the next 3 attacks at 11th level, and the next 4 attacks at 17th level.

First Level Spells

Chromatic Orb

1st level Evocation

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• Casting Time: 1 action
• Range: 90 feet
• Components: V, S
• Duration: Instantaneous

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You hurl a 4-inch-diameter sphere of energy at a creature that you can see within range. You choose acid, cold, fire, force, lightning, or thunder for the type of orb you create, and then make a ranged spell attack against the target. If the attack hits, the creature takes 4d8 damage of the type you chose.

At Higher Levels. When you cast this spell using a spell slot of 2nd level or higher, the damage increases by 1d8 for each slot level above 1st.

Color Spray

1st level Illusion

• Casting Time: 1 Action
• Range: Self
• Components: V, S, M (Colored powder or sand)
• Duration: 1 Round

A dazzling array of flashing, colored light springs from your hand. Creatures in a 15-foot cone originating from you must make a Constitution saving throw or become Blinded until the end of your next turn.

At Higher Levels. When you cast this spell using a spell slot of 2nd level or higher, the cone size increases by 5 feet for each slot level above 2nd.

Cure Wounds

1st level evocation

• Casting Time: 1 action
• Range: Touch
• Components: V, S
• Duration: Instantaneous

A creature you touch regains a number of hit points equal to 2d6 + your spellcasting ability modifier. This spell has no effect on undead or constructs.

At Higher Levels. When you cast this spell using a spell slot of 2nd level or higher, the healing increases by 2d6 for each slot level above 1st.

Divine Favor

1st level evocation

• Casting Time: 1 Bonus action
• Range: Self
• Components: V
• Duration: Concentration 1 Minute

Your prayer empowers you with divine radiance. As you cast this spell you choose Radiant or Necrotic. Until the spell ends, your weapon attacks deal an extra 1d6 of the chosen damage type on a hit.

Expeditious Retreat

1st level Transmutation

• Casting Time: 1 Bonus action
• Range: Self
• Components: V, S
• Duration: Concentration 10 Minutes

This spell allows you to move at an incredible pace away from your enemies. When you cast this spell, and then as a bonus action on each of your turns until the spell ends, you can take the Dash action. On the turn you cast this spell, your movement does not provoke attacks of opportunity.

Goodberry

1st level Transmutation

• Casting Time: 1 Action
• Range: Touch
• Components: V, S, M*
• Duration: Instantaneous

Up to ten berries appear in your hand and are infused with magic for the duration. Eating or administering a berry takes an Bonus action. Eating a berry restores 1 hit point, and the berry provides enough nourishment to sustain a creature for one day.

The berries lose their potency if they have not been consumed within 24 hours of the casting of this spell.

-* (a sprig of mistletoe)

Hail of Thorns

1st level Conjuration

• Casting Time: 1 Bonus action
• Range: Self
• Components: V
• Duration: Concentration 1 Minute

The next time you hit a creature with a ranged weapon attack before the spell ends, this spell creates a rain of thorns that sprouts from your ranged weapon or ammunition. In addition to the normal effect of the attack, the target of the attack and each creature within 5 feet of it takes 1d10 piercing damage.

At Higher Levels. If you cast this spell using a spell slot of 2nd level or higher, the damage increases by 1d10 for each slot level above 1st (to a maximum of 6d10).

Hellish Rebuke

1st level Evocation

• Casting Time: 1 Reaction*
• Range: 60 feet
• Components: V, S
• Duration: Instantaneous

You point your finger, and the creature that damaged you is momentarily surrounded by hellish flames. The creature must make a Dexterity saving throw. It takes 2d12 Fire damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one.

At Higher Levels. When you cast this spell using a spell slot of 2nd level or higher, the damage increases by 1d12 for each slot level above 1st.

-* which you take in response to being damaged by a creature within 60 feet of you that you can see

Identify

1st level Divination

• Casting Time: 1 Action (ritual)
• Range: Touch
• Components: V, S, M (an owl feather)
• Duration: Instantaneous

You choose one object that you must touch throughout the casting of the spell. If it is a magic item or some other magic-imbued object, you learn its properties and how to use them, whether it requires attunement to use, and how many charges it has, if any.

Illusory Script

1st level Illusion

• Casting Time: 1 Minute (ritual)
• Range: Touch
• Components: S, M (a bottle of ink)
• Duration: 10 Days

You write on parchment, paper, or some other suitable writing material and imbue it with a potent illusion that lasts for the duration.

To you and any creatures you designate when you cast the spell, the writing appears normal, written in your hand, and conveys whatever meaning you intended when you wrote the text. To all others, the writing is invisible. Alternatively, you can cause the writing to appear to be an entirely different message, written in a different hand and language, though the language must be one you know.

Should the spell be dispelled, the original script and the illusion both disappear.

A creature with truesight can read the hidden message.

Jump

1st level Transmutation (Druid, Ranger, Sorcerer, Wizard)

• Casting Time: 1 Bonus Action
• Range: Touch
• Components: V, S, M (a grasshopper's hind leg)
• Duration: 1 Minute

You touch a willing creature. Once on each of its turns until the spell ends, that creature can jump up to 30 feet by spending only 10 feet of movement.

At Higher Levels. When you cast this spell using a spell slot of level 2 or higher, you can target one additional creature for each slot level above 1.

Mage Armor

1st level Abjuration

• Casting Time: 1 Bonus action
• Range: Touch
• Target: A willing creature who isn't wearing armor
• Components: V S M (A piece of cured leather)
• Duration: 24 Hours

You touch a willing creature who isn't wearing armor, and a protective magical force surrounds it until the spell ends. The target's base AC becomes 13 + its Dexterity modifier. The spell ends it if the target dons armor or if you dismiss the spell as an Action.

At Higher Levels. If you cast this spell using a spell slot of 3rd level or higher, the AC increases by 1 for every two spell slot levels above 1st.

Ray of Sickness

1st level Necromancy

• Casting Time: 1 Action
• Range: 60 Feet
• Components: V, S
• Duration: Instantaneous

A ray of sickening greenish energy lashes out toward a creature within range and explodes in a nauseous gas upon impact. Make a ranged spell attack against the target. On a hit, the target takes 3d8 poison damage. On a hit, the target of the attack must make a Constitution saving throw or be Poisoned until the end of your next turn.

At Higher Levels. When you cast this spell using a spell slot of 2nd level or higher, the damage increases by 1d8 for each slot level above 1st.

Shield

1st level Abjuration

• Casting Time: 1 Reaction, which you take when you are hit by an attack or targeted by the magic missile spell
• Range: Self
• Components: V, S
• Duration: 1 Turn

An invisible barrier of magical force appears and protects you. Until the end of the current turn, you may add +5 modifier to AC, including against the triggering attack, and you take no damage from magic missile. This AC bonus does not stack with the AC bonus provided by a physical shield.

At Higher Levels. You may cast this spell using a spell slot of 2nd level or higher. If you do, it does not require your Reaction.

Witch Bolt

1st level Evocation, Arcane

• Casting Time: 1 Action
• Range: 30 Feet
• Components: V, S, M*
• Duration: Concentration 1 Minute

A blue bolt of crackling energy lances out toward a creature within range. The target must make a Dexterity saving throw. On a failed save the bolt deals 1d12 Lightning damage and forms a sustained arc of electricity between you and the target. The sustained arc causes the target to gain the Dazed condition while under the effect of the spell. On each of your turns while the arc persists, you can use your Action to deal 1d12 lightning damage to the target. If the creatures moves out of the spells range the arc breaks. On a successful Dexterity saving throw, the target only takes half the Lightning damage once and the arc doesn't form.

On your turn during the spells effect, you may choose to have the spell arc over to a different creature. The spell ends if you use your action to do anything else.

At Higher Levels. When you cast this spell using a spell slot of 2nd level or higher, the initial and repeated damage increases by 1d12 for each slot level above 1st.

-* (a twig from a tree that has been struck by lightning)

Second Level Spells

Find Traps

2nd level Divination

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• Casting Time: 1 action
• Range: 60 Feet
• Components: V, S
• Duration: Concentration 1 Minute

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You sense the location of any trap trigger within range that is also within line of sight. A trap, for the purpose of this spell, includes anything that would inflict a sudden or unexpected effect you consider harmful or undesirable, which was specifically intended as such by its creator. Thus, the spell would sense an area that would activate a magical or mechanical trap, but it would not reveal a natural weakness in the floor, an unstable ceiling, or a hidden sinkhole.

Furthermore, the spell allows you to discern if a trap is mechanical or magical in origin, but it does not tell you what kind of magic it uses if it is in fact magical.

Find Steed

2nd level Conjuration

• Casting Time: 10 Minutes
• Range: 30 Feet
• Components: V, S
• Duration: Instantaneous

You summon a spirit that assumes the form of an unusually intelligent, strong, and loyal steed, creating a long-lasting bond with it. Appearing in an unoccupied space within range, the steed takes on a form that you choose: a warhorse, a pony, a camel, an elk, or a mastiff. (Your GM might allow other animals to be summoned as steeds.) The steed has the statistics of the chosen form, though it is a celestial, fey, or fiend (your choice) instead of its normal type. Additionally, if your steed has an Intelligence of 5 or less, its Intelligence becomes 6, and it gains the ability to understand one language of your choice that you speak.

Your steed serves you as a mount, both in combat and out, and you have an instinctive bond with it that allows you to fight as a seamless unit. While mounted on your steed, you can make any spell you cast that has a range of self or which targets only yourself and has no area of effect parenthetical also target your steed.

When the steed drops to 0 hit points, it disappears, leaving behind no physical form. You can also dismiss your steed at any time as an action, causing it to disappear. In either case, casting this spell again summons the same steed, restored to its hit point maximum.

While your steed is within 1 mile of you, you can communicate with each other telepathically.

You can't have more than one steed bonded by this spell at a time. As an action, you can release the steed from its bond at any time, causing it to disappear.

Whenever the mount disappears, it leaves behind any objects it was wearing or carrying.

Flame Blade

2nd level Evocation

• Casting Time: 1 Bonus action
• Range: Self
• Components: V, S, M (leaf of sumac)
• Duration: 10 Minutes

You evoke a fiery blade in your free hand. The blade is similar in size and shape to a short sword, and it lasts for the duration. If you let go of the blade, it disappears, but you can evoke the blade again as a Bonus action.

The Flame Blade can be used as a weapon. It is treated as a short sword, except on a hit it deals 3d6 Fire damage. In addition, the spell grants proficiency with the weapon, and you can use your spellcasting ability instead of Strength or Dexterity for the attack and damage rolls of melee attacks using the Flame Blade.

The flaming blade sheds bright light in a 10-foot radius and dim light for an additional 10 feet.

At Higher Levels. When you cast this spell using a spell slot of 4th level or higher, you can attack twice, instead of once, whenever you take the Attack action using the Flame Blade. This does not stack with the Extra Attack class feature.

Gentle Repose

2nd level Necromancy

• Casting Time: 1 action (Ritual)
• Range: Touch
• Components: V, S, M*
• Duration: 30 days

You touch a corpse or other remains. For the duration, the target is protected from decay and can't become undead.

The spell also effectively extends the time limit on raising the target from the dead, since days spent under the influence of this spell don't count against the time limit of spells such as raise dead.

-* (a pinch of salt and one copper piece placed on each of the corpse's eyes, which must remain there for the duration)

Locate Object

2nd level Divination

• Casting Time: 1 action
• Range: Self
• Components: V, S, M*
• Duration: Instantaneous

Describe or name an object that is familiar to you. You sense the direction and distance to the object's location, as long as that object is within 5 miles of you. If the object is in motion, you know the direction of its movement.

The spell can locate a specific object known to you, as long as you have seen it up close--within 30 feet--at least once. Alternatively, the spell can locate the nearest object of a particular kind, such as a certain kind of apparel, jewelry, furniture, tool, or weapon.

This spell can't locate an object if any thickness of lead, even a thin sheet, blocks a direct path between you and the object.

-* (a forked twig)

Magic Mouth

2nd level Illusion

• Casting Time: 1 minute (ritual)
• Range: 30 Feet
• Components: V, S, M*
• Duration: Until Dispelled

You implant a message within an object in range, a message that is uttered when a trigger condition is met. Choose an object that you can see and that isn't being worn or carried by another creature. Then speak the message, which must be 25 words or less, though it can be delivered over as long as 10 minutes. Finally, determine the circumstance that will trigger the spell to deliver your message.

When that circumstance occurs, a magical mouth appears on the object and recites the message in your voice and at the same volume you spoke. If the object you chose has a mouth or something that looks like a mouth (for example, the mouth of a statue), the magical mouth appears there so that the words appear to come from the object's mouth. When you cast this spell, you can have the spell end after it delivers its message, or it can remain and repeat its message whenever the trigger occurs.

Melf's Acid Arrow

2nd level Evocation

• Casting Time: 1 action
• Range: 90 Feet
• Components: V, S, M (a snake's stomach)
• Duration: Instantaneous

A shimmering green arrow streaks toward a target within range and bursts in a spray of acid. Make a ranged spell attack against the target. On a hit, the target takes 4d4 Acid damage immediately and 4d4 Acid damage at the end of its next turn. On a miss, the arrow splashes the target with acid for half as much of the initial damage and no damage at the end of its next turn.

At Higher Levels. When you cast this spell using a spell slot of 3rd level or higher, both the initial and later damage increases by 1d4 for each slot level above 2nd.

Phantasmal Force

2nd level Illusion

• Casting Time: 1 action
• Range: 60 Feet
• Components: V, S, M*
• Duration: Concentration 1 Minute

You craft an illusion that takes root in the mind of a creature that you can see within range. The target must make an Intelligence saving throw. On a failed save, you create a phantasmal object, creature, or other visible phenomenon of your choice that is no larger than a 10-foot cube and that is perceivable only to the target for the duration. This spell has no effect on undead or constructs. Any illusory effect that would impose a condition (such as blindness) on a target is ineligible.

The phantasm includes sound, temperature, and other stimuli, also evident only to the creature.

The target can use its action to examine the phantasm with an Intelligence (Investigation) check against your spell save DC. If the check succeeds, the target realizes that the phantasm is an illusion, and the spell ends.

While a target is affected by the spell, the target treats the phantasm as if it were real. The target rationalizes any illogical outcomes from interacting with the phantasm. For example, a target attempting to walk across a phantasmal bridge that spans a chasm falls once it steps onto the bridge. If the target survives the fall, it still believes that the bridge exists and comes up with some other explanation for its fall - it was pushed, it slipped, or a strong wind might have knocked it off.

An affected target is so convinced of the phantasm’s reality that it can even take damage from the illusion. A phantasm created to appear as a creature can attack the target. Similarly, a phantasm created to appear as fire, a pool of acid, or lava can burn the target. Each round on your turn, the phantasm can deal 1d6 psychic damage to the target if it is in the phantasm’s area or within 5 feet of the phantasm, provided that the illusion is of a creature or hazard that could logically deal damage, such as by attacking. The target perceives the damage as a type appropriate to the illusion.

-* (a bit of fleece)

Prayer of Healing

2nd level Abjuration (Divine)

• Casting Time: 1 minute
• Range: 30 Feet
• Components: V
• Duration: Instantaneous

You utter an extended prayer of restoration. Choose a number of willing creatures equal to your Spellcasting Ability Modifier (minimum of 1). Each of those creatures who remains within range for the Spell’s entire casting gains the benefits of a Short Rest and also regains 2d8 Hit Points, and a creature can’t be affected by this Spell again until that creature finishes a Long Rest.

At Higher Levels. When you cast this Spell using a Spell Slot of 3rd level or higher, the healing increases by 1d8 for each slot above 2nd.

Ray of Enfeeblement

2nd level Necromancy

• Casting Time: 1 Action
• Range: 60 Feet
• Components: V, S
• Duration: Concentration 1 Minute

A black beam of enervating energy springs from your finger toward a creature within range. Make a ranged spell attack against the target. On a hit, the target has Disadvantage on Strength checks, Strength saving throws and attack roll using Strength while the spell is in effect.

Spiritual Weapon

2nd-Level Evocation Spell (Divine)

• Casting Time: Bonus Action
• Range: 60 feet
• Components: V, S
• Duration: Concentration, up to 1 minute

You create a floating, spectral force that resembles a weapon of your choice and that lasts for the duration. The force appears within range in a space of your choice, and you can immediately make one melee spell attack against a creature within 5 feet of the force. On a hit, the target takes Force Damage equal to 1d8 + your spellcasting ability modifier. As a Bonus Action on your later turns, you can move the force up to 20 feet and repeat the attack against a creature within 5 feet of it.

At Higher Levels. When you cast this Spell using a Spell Slot of 3rd level or higher, the damage increases by 1d8 for every slot level above 2nd.

Zone of Truth

2nd level Enchantment

• Casting Time: 1 Action
• Range: 60 Feet
• Components: V, S
• Duration: 10 Minutes

You create a magical zone that guards against deception in a 15-foot-radius sphere centered on a point of your choice within range. Until the spell ends, an unwilling creature that enters the spell's area for the first time on a turn or starts its turn there must make a Charisma saving throw. If the target is willing, or if an unwilling creature fails their save, a creature can't speak a deliberate lie while in the radius. You know whether each creature succeeded on their saving throw if they made one.

An affected creature is aware of the spell and can thus avoid answering questions to which it would normally respond with a lie. Such a creature can be evasive in its answers as long as it remains within the boundaries of the truth.

Third Level Spells

Fireball

3rd level Evocation

• Casting Time: 1 Action
• Range: 150 feet
• Target: A point you choose within range
• Components: V S M (sulfur)
• Duration: Instantaneous

A bright streak flashes from your pointing finger to a point you choose within range and then blossoms with a low roar into an explosion of flame. Each creature in a 20-foot-radius sphere centered on that point must make a Dexterity saving throw. A target takes 8d6 Fire damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one. The fire spreads around corners. It ignites flammable objects in the area that aren’t being worn or carried.

There must be a clear path between you and the target point, any creature or object in its path will cause the Fireball the explode on collision.

At Higher Levels: When you cast this spell using a spell slot of 4th level or higher, the damage increases by 1d6 for each slot level above 3rd.

Gaseous Form

3rd level Transmutation

• Casting Time: 1 Action
• Range: touch
• Components: V, S, M*
• Duration: Concentration 1 Hour

You transform a willing creature you touch, along with everything it's wearing and carrying, into a misty cloud for the duration. The spell ends if the creature drops to 0 hit points. An incorporeal creature isn't affected.

While in this form, the target's only method of movement is a flying speed of 10 feet. The target can enter and occupy the space of another creature. The target has immunity to nonmagical damage, and it has advantage on Strength, Dexterity, and Constitution saving throws. The target can pass through small holes, narrow openings, and even mere cracks, though it treats liquids as though they were solid surfaces. The target can't fall and remains hovering in the air even when stunned or otherwise incapacitated.

While in the form of a misty cloud, the target can't talk or manipulate objects, and any objects it was carrying or holding can't be dropped, used, or otherwise interacted with. The target can't attack or cast spells.

-* (a bit of gauze and a wisp of smoke)

Glyph of Warding

3rd level Abjuration

• Casting Time: 1 Hour
• Range: touch
• Components: V, S, M*
• Duration: Until Dispelled or Triggered

When you cast this spell, you inscribe a glyph that later unleashes a magical effect. You inscribe it either on a surface (such as a table or a section of floor or wall) or within an object that can be closed (such as a book, a scroll, or a treasure chest) to conceal the glyph. The glyph can cover an area no larger than 10 feet in diameter. If the surface or object is moved more than 10 feet from where you cast this spell, the glyph is broken, and the spell ends without being triggered.

The glyph is nearly invisible and requires a successful Intelligence (Investigation) check against your spell save DC to be found.

You decide what triggers the glyph when you cast the spell. For glyphs inscribed on a surface, the most typical triggers include touching or standing on the glyph, removing another object covering the glyph, approaching within a certain distance of the glyph, or manipulating the object on which the glyph is inscribed. For glyphs inscribed within an object, the most common triggers include opening that object, approaching within a certain distance of the object, or seeing or reading the glyph. Once a glyph is triggered, this spell ends.

You can further refine the trigger so the spell activates only under certain circumstances or according to physical characteristics (such as height or weight), creature kind (for example, the ward could be set to affect aberrations or drow), or alignment. You can also set conditions for creatures that don’t trigger the glyph, such as those who say a certain password.

When you inscribe the glyph, choose explosive runes or a spell glyph.

Explosive Runes. When triggered, the glyph erupts with magical energy in a 20-foot-radius sphere centered on the glyph. The sphere spreads around corners. Each creature in the area must make a Dexterity saving throw. A creature takes 5d8 Acid, Cold, Fire, Lightning, or Thunder damage on a failed saving throw (your choice when you create the glyph), or half as much damage on a successful one.

Spell Glyph. You can store a prepared of 3rd level or lower in the glyph by casting it as part of creating the glyph. The spell must target a single creature or an area and have an effect that is detrimental to the target. The spell being stored has no immediate effect when cast in this way. When the glyph is triggered, the stored spell is cast. If the spell has a target, it targets the creature that triggered the glyph. If the spell affects an area, the area is centered on that creature. If the spell summons hostile creatures or creates harmful objects or traps, they appear as close as possible to the intruder and attack it. If the spell requires concentration, it lasts until the end of its full duration.

At Higher Levels. When you cast this spell using a spell slot of 4th level or higher, the damage of an explosive runes glyph increases by 1d8 for each slot level above 3rd. If you create a spell glyph, you can store any spell of up to the same level as the slot you use for the glyph of warding.

-* (incense and powdered diamond worth at least 200 gp, which the spell consumes)

Hunger of Hadar

3rd level Conjuration

• Casting Time: 1 action
• Range: 150 Feet
• Components: V, S, M*
• Duration: Concentration 1 Minute

You open a gateway to the dark between the stars, a region infested with unknown horrors. A 20-foot-radius sphere of blackness and bitter cold appears, centered on a point with range and lasting for the duration. This void is filled with a cacophony of soft whispers and slurping noises that can be heard up to 30 feet away. No light, magical or otherwise, can illuminate the area, and creatures fully within the area are blinded.

The void creates a warp in the fabric of space, and the area is difficult terrain. Any creature that starts its turn in the area takes 2d6 Cold damage. Any creature that ends its turn in the area must succeed on a Dexterity saving throw or take 2d6 Acid damage as corrosive, otherworldly tentacles rub against it.

A caster concentrating on this spell may move freely through the area as if it were not difficult terrain and takes no damage from the effect.

-* (a pickled octopus tentacle)

Lightning Arrow

3rd level Evocation

• Casting Time: 1 Bonus action
• Range: self
• Components: V, S
• Duration: Instantaneous

The next time you make a ranged weapon attack on the turn you cast this spell, the weapon’s ammunition, or the weapon itself if it’s a thrown weapon, crackles with lightning. Make the attack roll as normal. The target takes 3d8 lightning damage on a hit, or half as much damage on a miss, in addition to the weapon's normal damage.

Whether you hit or miss, each creature within 10 feet of the target must make a Dexterity saving throw. Each of these creatures takes 2d8 lightning damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one.

At Higher Levels. When you cast this spell using a spell slot of 4th level or higher, the damage for both effects of the spell increases by 1d8 for each slot level above 3rd.

Lightning Bolt

3rd level Evocation

• Casting Time: 1 Action
• Range/Area: Self (100-foot line)
• Components: V S M (A piece of amber, crystal, or glass)
• Duration: Instantaneous

A stroke of lightning forming a line 100 feet long and 5 feet wide blasts out from you in a direction you choose. Each creature in the line must make a Dexterity saving throw. A creature takes 7d8 Lightning damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one. The lightning ignites flammable objects in the area that aren’t being worn or carried.

At Higher Levels: When you cast this spell using a spell slot of 4th level or higher, the damage increases by 1d8 for each slot above 3rd.

Sleet Storm

3rd level Conjuration

• Casting Time: 1 Action
• Range: 150 Feet
• Components: V, S, M*
• Duration: Concentration 1 Minute

Until the spell ends, freezing rain and sleet fall in a 40-foot-tall cylinder with a 40-foot radius centered on a point you choose within range. The area is heavily obscured, and exposed flames in the area are doused. Creatures in the area have Disadvantage on Constitution saving throws made to maintain concentration.

The ground in the area is covered with slick ice, making it difficult terrain. When a grounded creature enters the spell’s area for the first time on a turn or starts its turn there, it must make a Dexterity saving throw. On a failed save, it falls prone.

Any creature that ends its turn in the area takes 1d6 Cold damage.

At Higher Levels. When you cast this spell using a spell slot of 4th level or higher, the Cold damage increases by 1d6 for each slot level above 3rd.

Vampiric Touch

3rd level Necromancy

• Casting Time: 1 Action
• Range: self
• Components: V, S
• Duration: 1 Minute

The touch of your shadow-wreathed hand can siphon life force from others to increase yours. Make a melee spell attack against a creature within your reach. On a hit, the target takes 4d6 necrotic damage, and you recover hit points equal to half the amount of necrotic damage dealt, once your full hit points are restored, any additional points are added as temporary hit points. Until the spell ends, you can make the attack again on each of your turns as an action.

At Higher Levels. When you cast this spell using a spell slot of 4th level or higher, the damage increases by 1d6 for each slot level above 3rd.

Wall of Water

3rd level Conjuration (Arcane)

• Casting Time: 1 Action or 1 Reaction
• Range: 60 feet
• Components: V, S
• Duration: 10 Minutes

You create a wall of water on the ground at a point you can see within range. You can make the wall up to 30 feet long, 10 feet high, and 1 foot thick, or you can make a ringed wall up to 20 feet in diameter, 20 feet high, and 1 foot thick. The wall vanishes when the spell ends. The wall’s space is difficult terrain.

Any ranged weapon attack that enters the wall’s space has Disadvantage on the attack roll, and Fire damage is halved if the Fire effect passes through the wall to reach its target. Spells that deal Cold damage that pass through the wall cause the area of the wall they pass through to freeze solid (at least a 5-foot-square section is frozen). Each 5-foot-square frozen section has AC 5 and 15 hit points. Reducing a frozen section to 0 hit points destroys it. When a section is destroyed, the wall’s water doesn’t fill it.

To Cast as a Reaction. Alternatively, you may cast this spell as a Reaction to a Fire spell to reduce incoming damage, or against ranged attacks, to impose Disadvantage. You may do so after rolls are made. When cast like this, the spell has its duration reduced and ends at the start of your next turn.

Forth Level Spells

Evard's Black Tentacles

4th level Conjuration

• Casting Time: 1 Action
• Range: 90 Feet
• Components: V, S, M*
• Duration: Concentration 1 Minute

Squirming, ebony tentacles fill a 20-foot square on ground that you can see within range. For the duration, these tentacles turn the ground in the area into difficult terrain.

When a creature enters the affected area for the first time on a turn, or starts its turn there, the creature must succeed on a Dexterity saving throw or take 3d6 Bludgeoning damage and be Restrained by the tentacles until the start of its next turn.

The Restrained condition immediately ends on an affected creature when the spell ends, or when a creature leaves the area.

-* (a piece of tentacle from a giant octopus or a giant squid)

At Higher Levels. When you cast this spell using a spell slot of 5th level or higher, the radius of the sphere increases by 5 feet for each slot level above 4th.

Grasping Vine

4th level Conjuration

• Casting Time: 1 Bonus action
• Range: 30 Feet
• Components: V, S
• Duration: Concentration 1 Minute

You conjure a thick powerful vine that sprouts from the ground in an unoccupied space of your choice that you can see within range. When you cast this spell, you can direct the vine to lash out at a creature within 30 feet of it that you can see. If the creature is large or smaller size, that creature must succeed on a Dexterity saving throw or gain the Grappled and Prone conditions, and you may choose to pull it 20 feet directly toward the vine. The Grappled save DC is equal to you spell DC.

Until the spell ends, you can direct the vine to lash out at the same creature or another one as a bonus action on each of your turns. The Grappled condition is also removed if you choose to target another creature with the vine.

At Higher Levels. When you cast this spell using a spell slot of 5th level or higher, the range increases by 10 feet and the size you can Grapple, knock Prone and pull is increases by size for each slot level above 4th.

Ice Storm

4th level Evocation

• Casting Time: 1 Action
• Range: 300 Feet
• Components: V, S, M (a pinch of silver dust)
• Duration: Instantaneous

A hail of rock-hard ice pounds to the ground in a 20-foot-radius, 40-foot-high cylinder centered on a point within range. Each creature in the cylinder must make a Dexterity saving throw. A creature takes 3d8 Bludgeoning damage and 5d8 Cold damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one.

Hailstones turn the storm's area of effect into difficult terrain until the end of your next turn.

At Higher Levels. When you cast this spell using a spell slot of 5th level or higher, the Bludgeoning damage increases by 1d8 for each slot level above 4th.

Phantasmal Killer

4th level Illusion

• Casting Time: 1 Action
• Range: 120 Feet
• Components: V, S
• Duration: Concentration 1 Minute

You tap into the nightmares of a creature you can see within range and create an illusory manifestation of its deepest fears, visible only to that creature. The target must make a Wisdom saving throw. On a failed save, the target takes 6d10 Psychic damage and becomes Frightened for the duration. On a successful save, the target takes half the damage, is not Frightened.

At the beginning of each of the target's turns before the spell ends, the creature takes 6d10 Psychic damage. At the end of each of its turns, the target can make a Wisdom saving throw. On a success, the spell ends.

At Higher Levels. When you cast this spell using a spell slot of 5th level or higher, the damage increases by 1d10 for each slot level above 4th.

Stoneskin

4th level Abjuration

• Casting Time: 1 Action
• Range: touch
• Components: V, S, M (granite dust)
• Duration: Concentration 1 Hour

This spell turns the flesh of a willing creature you touch as hard as stone. Until the spell ends, the target has resistance to bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing damage.

Vitriolic Sphere

4th level Evocation

• Casting Time: 1 action
• Range/Area: 150 feet, 20 foot radius sphere
• Components: V S M (a drop of giant slug bile)
• Duration: Instantaneous

You point at a location within range, and a glowing, 1-foot-diameter ball of emerald acid streaks there and explodes in a 20-foot-radius sphere. Each creature in that area must make a Dexterity saving throw. A target takes 12d4 Acid damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one.

Immediately after, an acid mist fills the affected space, causing heavy obscurement until the start of your next turn. Any creature that ends its turn in the acid mist takes 5d4 acid damage.

At Higher Levels: When you cast this spell using a spell slot of 5th level or higher, the initial damage increases by 2d4 and the mist damage by 1d4 for each slot level above 4th.

Fifth Level Spells

Dream

5th level Illusion

• Casting Time: 1 minute
• Range: self
• Components: V, S, M*
• Duration: 8 Hours

This spell shapes a creature's dreams. Choose a creature known to you as the target of this spell. The target must be on the same plane of existence as you. Creatures that don't sleep, such as elves, can't be contacted by this spell. You, or a willing creature you touch, enters a trance state, acting as a messenger. While in the trance, the messenger is aware of his or her surroundings, but can't take actions or move.

If the target is asleep, the messenger establishes telepathic contact with the target and appears in the target's dreams and can converse with the target as long as it remains asleep, through the duration of the spell. The messenger can also shape the environment of the dream, creating landscapes, objects, and other images. The messenger can emerge from the trance at any time, ending the effect of the spell early. The target recalls the dream perfectly upon waking. If the target is awake when you cast the spell, the messenger knows it, and can either end the trance (and the spell) or wait for the target to fall asleep, at which point the messenger appears in the target's dreams.

You can make the messenger appear monstrous and terrifying to the target. If you do, the messenger can create horrible images of the target being injured or destroyed and can deliver up to 5d6 psychic damage to the target each round. Once the target takes 10d6 damage this way, they may make a Wisdom saving throw. On a successful save, the target wakes up and the spell ends, on a failed save, the messenger may continue delivering damage this way with the target making a new saving throw after each 10d6 psychic damage delivered. If the target reaches 0 hp, the spell ends. Should the target suffer damage from this spell, it prevents the target from gaining any benefit from that rest.

A target of a dream spell cannot be targeted by a second dream spell for the duration.

-* (a personal item of the target of the dream, such as a locket, a lock of hair, or a item of significance to the target, if the target takes damage from this spell, the component is consumed when the spell ends.)

Flame Strike

5th level Evocation

• Casting Time: 1 Action
• Range: 60 Feet
• Target: 20-foot radius, 40-foot-high cylinder centered on a point within range
• Components: V, S, M (pinch of sulfur)
• Duration: Instantaneous

A vertical column of divine fire roars up to the heavens in a location you specify. Each creature within a 10-foot-radius of the center of the pillar takes 2d8 Fire damage and 2d8 Radiant damage. Then each creature within the 20-foot-radius must make a Dexterity saving throw. A creature takes 2d8 Fire damage and 2d8 Radiant damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one. Note that this spell deals damage twice to creatures within the 10 foot radius.

At Higher Levels. When you cast this spell using a spell slot of 6th level or higher, the fire damage or the radiant damage (your choice) increases by 1d8 for each slot level above 5th.

Geas

5th level Enchantment

• Casting Time: 1 minute
• Range: 60 Feet
• Components: V
• Duration: 30 Days

You place a magical command on a creature that you can see within range, forcing it to carry out some service or refrain from some action or course of activity as you decide. If the creature can understand you, it must succeed on a Wisdom saving throw or become charmed by you for the duration. While the creature is charmed by you, it must make a Wisdom saving throw each time it attempts to act in a manner directly counter to your instructions, on a failed saving throw, it corrects its actions to follow your instructions. A creature that can't understand you is unaffected by the spell.

You can issue any command you choose, short of an activity that would result in certain death. Should you issue a suicidal command, the spell ends.

You can end the spell early by using an action to dismiss it. A remove curse, greater restoration, or wish spell also ends it.

At Higher Levels. When you cast this spell using a spell slot of 7th or 8th level, the duration is 1 year. When you cast this spell using a spell slot of 9th level, the spell lasts until it is ended by one of the spells mentioned above.

Immolation

5rd level Evocation (Arcane)

• Casting Time: 1 action
• Range: 90 feet
• Components: V
• Duration: Concentration, up to 1 minute

Flames wreathe one creature you can see within range. The target must make a Dexterity saving throw. It takes 8d6 fire damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one. On a failed save, the target gains the Burning [3d6] condition for the spell’s duration.

If damage from this spell reduces a target to 0 hit points, the target is turned to ash.

At Higher Levels: When you cast this spell using a spell slot of 6th level or higher, both the initial and Burning damage increases by 1d6 for each slot level above 5th.

Insect Plague

5th level Conjuration

• Casting Time: 1 action
• Range: 300 Feet
• Components: V, S, M*
• Duration: 10 Minutes

Swarming, biting locusts fill a 20-foot-radius sphere centered on a point you choose within range. The sphere spreads around corners. The sphere remains for the duration, and its area is lightly obscured. The sphere's area is difficult terrain.

When the area appears, each creature in it must make a Reflex saving throw. A creature takes 4d10 piercing damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one. A creature must also make this saving throw when it enters the spell's area for the first time on a turn or ends its turn there. You may use your action to end the spell at any time before the duration expires.

At Higher Levels. When you cast this spell using a spell slot of 6th level or higher, the damage increases by 1d10 for each slot level above 5th.

-* (a few grains of sugar, some kernels of grain, and a smear of fat)

Swift Quiver

5th level Transmutation

• Casting Time: 1 bonus action
• Range: Touch
• Components: V, S, M*
• Duration: 1 minute

You transmute your quiver so it produces an endless supply of nonmagical ammunition, which seems to leap into your hand when you reach for it.

When you cast the spell, and as a bonus action on each of your subsequent turns you may make two attacks with a weapon that uses ammunition from the quiver. Each time you make such a ranged attack, your quiver magically replaces the piece of ammunition you used with a similar piece of nonmagical ammunition. Any pieces of ammunition created by this spell disintegrate when the spell ends. If the quiver leaves your possession, the spell ends.

-* (a quiver containing at least one piece of ammunition)

Sixth Level Spells

Drawmij's Instant Summons

6th level conjuration

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• Casting Time: 1 minute (ritual)
• Range: Touch
• Components: V, S, M*
• Duration: Until Dispelled

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You touch an object weighing 10 pounds or less whose longest dimension is 6 feet or less. The spell leaves an invisible mark on its surface and invisibly inscribes the name of the item on the gemstone you use as the material component. Each time you cast this spell, you must use a different gemstone.

At any time thereafter, you can use your action to speak the item’s name and crush the gemstone. The item instantly appears in your hand regardless of physical or planar distances, and the spell ends.

If another creature is holding or carrying the item, crushing the gemstone doesn’t transport the item to you, but instead you learn who the creature possessing the object is and roughly where that creature is located at that moment.

Dispel magic or a similar effect successfully applied to the sapphire ends this spell’s effect.

-* (a gemstone worth at least 100 gp)

Find the Path

6th level divination

• Casting Time: 1 minute
• Range: self
• Components: V, S, M*
• Duration: 1 day

This spell allows you to find the shortest, most direct physical route to a specific fixed location that you are familiar with on the same plane of existence. If you name a destination on another plane of existence, a destination that moves (such as a mobile fortress), or a destination that isn't specific (such as "a green dragon's lair"), the spell fails.

For the duration, as long as you are on the same plane of existence as the destination, you know how far it is and in what direction it lies. While you are traveling there, whenever you are presented with a choice of paths along the way, you automatically determine which path is the shortest and most direct route (but not necessarily the safest route) to the destination.

-* (a set of divinatory tools--such as bones, ivory sticks, cards, teeth, or carved runes--worth 100 gp and an object from the location you wish to find)

Magic Jar

6th level necromancy

• Casting Time: 1 minute
• Range: self
• Components: V, S, M*
• Duration: Until Dispelled

Your body falls into a catatonic state as your soul leaves it and enters the container you used for the spell's material component. While your soul inhabits the container, you are aware of your surroundings as if you were in the container's space. You can't move or use reactions. The only action you can take is to project your soul up to 100 feet out of the container, either returning to your living body (and ending the spell) or attempting to possess a humanoids body.

You can attempt to possess any humanoid within 100 feet of you that you can see (creatures warded by a protection from evil and good or magic circle spell can't be possessed). The target must make a Charisma saving throw. On a failure, your soul moves into the target's body, and the target's soul becomes trapped in the container. On a success, the target resists your efforts to possess it, and you can't attempt to possess it again for 24 hours.

Once you possess a creature's body, you control it. Your game statistics are replaced by the statistics of the creature, though you retain your alignment and your Intelligence, Wisdom, and Charisma scores. You retain the benefit of your own class features with the exception of hit points and hit dice. If the target has any class levels, you can't use any of its class features.

Meanwhile, the possessed creature's soul can perceive from the container using its own senses, but it can't move or take actions at all.

While possessing a body, you can use your action to return from the host body to the container if it is within 100 feet of you, returning the host creature's soul to its body. If the host body dies while you're in it, the creature dies, and you must make a Charisma saving throw against your own spellcasting DC. On a success, you return to the container if it is within 100 feet of you. Otherwise, you die.

If the container is destroyed or the spell ends, your soul immediately returns to your body. If your body is more than 100 feet away from you or if your body is dead when you attempt to return to it, you die. If another creature's soul is in the container when it is destroyed, the creature's soul returns to its body if the body is alive and within 100 feet. Otherwise, that creature dies.

When the spell ends, the container is destroyed.

-* (a gem, crystal, reliquary, or some other ornamental container worth at least 500 gp)

Move Earth

6th level transmutation

• Casting Time: 1 action
• Range: 120 feet
• Components: V, S, M*
• Duration: Concentration 2 hours

Choose an area of terrain no larger than 40 feet on a side within range. You can reshape dirt, sand, or clay in the area in any manner you choose for the duration. You can raise or lower the area's elevation, create or fill in a trench, erect or flatten a wall, or form a pillar. The extent of any such changes can't exceed half the area's largest dimension. So, if you affect a 40-foot square, you can create a pillar up to 20 feet high, raise or lower the square's elevation by up to 20 feet, dig a trench up to 20 feet deep, and so on. It takes 10 minutes for these changes to complete.

This spell can manipulate natural stone, but the spell may only dig into the stone, creating a 5-foot square excavation for every 10 minutes concentrating on this spell.

At the end of every 10 minutes you spend concentrating on the spell, you can choose a new area of terrain to affect.

Because the terrain's transformation occurs slowly, creatures in the area can't usually be trapped or injured by the ground's movement.

This spell can't manipulate stone construction. Structures shift to accommodate the new terrain. If the way you shape the terrain would make a structure unstable, it might collapse.

Similarly, this spell doesn't directly affect plant growth. The moved earth carries any plants along with it.

-* (an iron blade and a small bag containing a mixture of soils--clay, loam, and sand)

Freezing Sphere

6th level evocation

• Casting Time: 1 Action
• Range: 300 feet
• Components: V, S, M*
• Duration: Instantaneous

A frigid globe of cold energy streaks from your fingertips to a point of your choice within range, where it explodes in a 60-foot-radius sphere. Each creature within the area must make a Constitution saving throw. On a failed save, a creature takes 10d6 Cold damage. On a successful save, it takes half as much damage.

If the globe strikes a body of water or a liquid that is principally water (not including water-based creatures), it freezes the liquid to a depth of 6 inches over an area 30 feet square. This ice lasts for 1 minute. Creatures that were swimming on the surface of frozen water are trapped in the ice. A trapped creature can use an action to make a Strength check against your spell save DC to break free.

You can refrain from firing the globe after completing the spell, if you wish. A small globe about the size of a sling stone, cool to the touch, appears in your hand. At any time, you or a creature you give the globe to can throw the globe (to a range of 80 feet) or hurl it with a sling (to the sling’s normal range). It shatters on impact, with the same effect as the normal casting of the spell. You can also set the globe down without shattering it. After 1 minute, if the globe hasn’t already shattered, it explodes.

At Higher Levels. When you cast this spell using a spell slot of 7th level or higher, the damage increases by 1d6 for each slot level above 6th

-* (a small crystal sphere)

Otto's Irresistible Dance

6th level enchantment

• Casting Time: 1 action
• Range: 30 feet
• Components: V
• Duration: Concentration 1 minute

Choose one creature that you can see within range. The target begins a comic dance in place: shuffling, tapping its feet, and capering for the duration. Creatures that can't be charmed are immune to this spell.

A dancing creature must use all its movement and its action to dance without leaving its space and has disadvantage on Dexterity saving throws and attack rolls. While the target is affected by this spell, other creatures have advantage on attack rolls against it. At the end of each of its turns, a dancing creature makes a Wisdom saving throw to regain control of itself. On a successful save, the spell ends.

Wall of Ice

6th level evocation

• Casting Time: 1 action
• Range: 120 feet
• Components: V, S, M*
• Duration: Concentration 10 minutes

You create a wall of ice on a solid surface within range. You can form it into a hemispherical dome or a sphere with a radius of up to 10 feet, or you can shape a flat surface made up of ten 10-foot-square panels. Each panel must be contiguous with another panel. In any form, the wall is 1 foot thick and lasts for the duration.

If the wall cuts through a creature's space when it appears, the creature within its area is pushed to one side of the wall and must make a Dexterity saving throw. On a failed save, the creature takes 10d6 Cold damage, or half as much damage on a successful save.

The wall is an object that can be damaged and thus breached. It has AC 12 and 30 hit points per 10-foot section, and it is vulnerable to Fire damage. Reducing a 10-foot section of wall to 0 hit points destroys it and leaves behind a sheet of frigid air in the space the wall occupied. A creature moving through the sheet of frigid air for the first time on a turn must make a Constitution saving throw. That creature takes 10d6 cold damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one.

At Higher Levels. When you cast this spell using a spell slot of 7th level or higher, the damage the wall deals when it appears as well as the damage from passing through the sheet of frigid air increases by 2d6 for each slot level above 6th.

-* (a small piece of quartz)

Wall of Thorns

6th level conjuration

• Casting Time: 1 action
• Range: 120 feet
• Components: V, S, M*
• Duration: Concentration 10 minutes

You create a wall of tough, pliable, tangled brush bristling with needle-sharp thorns. The wall appears within range on a solid surface and lasts for the duration. You choose to make the wall up to 60 feet long, 10 feet high, and 5 feet thick or a circle that has a 20-foot diameter and is up to 20 feet high and 5 feet thick. The wall blocks line of sight.

When the wall appears, each creature within its area must make a Dexterity saving throw. On a failed save, a creature takes 7d8 piercing damage, or half as much damage on a successful save.

A creature can move through the wall, albeit slowly and painfully. For every 1 foot a creature moves through the wall, it must spend 4 feet of movement. Furthermore, whenever a creature enters a space occupied by the wall, the creature must make a Dexterity saving throw. It takes 10d8 slashing damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one.

At Higher Levels. When you cast this spell using a spell slot of 7th level or higher, both types of damage increase by 1d8 for each slot level above 6th.

-* (a handful of thorns)

Seventh Level Spells

Eight Level Spells

Ninth Level Spells

New Spell Conditions