D&D NEXT SPELL LIST
Level 0 Spells
Burning Hands0-level evocation
As you hold your hands with your thumbs touching and fingers spread, a thin sheet of flames shoots forth from your outstretched fingertips.
Effect: Each creature in a 15-foot cone originating from you must make a Dexterity saving throw. A creature takes 1d6 fire damage on a failed save, and half as much damage on a successful one.
The fire ignites unattended flammable objects in the area.
Detect Magic
0-level divination
Upon casting detect magic, you immediately perceive an aura around any objects, areas, or creatures affected or created by magic. Studying the auras can give you clues to the nature of the magic.
Effect: You detect the presence of any magic in a 30-foot cone originating from you for 1 minute. You can ignore the presence of magic that you are already aware of. If the magic you sense belongs to a school of magic, you learn what that school is.
This spell does not reveal invisible creatures or magic that conceals spells, objects, or creatures.
On each of your turns, you can turn to detect magic in a new area as part of your movement. The spell can penetrate barriers, but 1 foot of stone, 1 inch of common metal, a thin sheet of lead, or 3 feet of wood or dirt blocks it.
Disguise Self
0-level illusion
Weaving strands of illusion magic, you fashion a new appearance for yourself.
Effect: You make yourself — including your clothing, armor, weapons, and equipment — look different for 1 hour or until you dismiss it as an action. You can seem 1 foot shorter or taller and can appear thin, fat, or in between. You can't change your body type, forcing you to adopt a form that has the same basic arrangement of limbs. Otherwise, the extent of the illusion is up to you.
The changes fail to hold up to physical interaction. If you use this spell to add a hat to your outfit, objects pass through the hat and anyone touching it would feel nothing or would feel your head and hair. Anyone observing you can make a DC 15 Wisdom check to notice the disguise.
Light
0-level evocation
You cause an object you touch to shine with light for a time.
Effect: You touch an object. It sheds bright light in a 20-foot-radius sphere and dim light for an additional 20 feet. The light may be colored as you choose. The light lasts for 1 hour or until you cast this spell again.
Covering the object with a solid object, such as a bowl or a helm, blocks the glow.
Mage Armor
0-level abjuration
While you incant this spell, your stylized gestures recall the motions of a knight donning armor. As you finish, a pulse of light reveals the extent and design of the magical protection plating your body before the armor fades to invisibility.
Effect: You don armor of invisible, tangible force that lasts for 1 hour, and your AC becomes 12 + your Dexterity modifier. You can dismiss the armor at any time.
Mage Hand
0-level conjuration
The spectral hand you create with this spell can manipulate objects, open doors, and carry small items for you. Many wizards use mage hand to retrieve components from their pouches while keeping their hands free.
Effect: A spectral, floating hand appears at a point you choose within 50 feet of you. The hand lasts for 1 minute or until you cast this spell again. The hand vanishes if it is ever more than 50 feet away from you.
While the hand is present, you can control it as an action. You can use the hand to manipulate an object, open a door or a container, stow or retrieve an item from an open container, or pour the contents from a vial. You can move the hand up to 30 feet each time you use it.
The hand cannot attack, use magic items, or carry more than 10 pounds.
Minor Illusion
0-level illusion
The fundamental building blocks of illusion-craft include this spell. To grasp minor Illusion, the caster must learn a few mundane tricks of legerdemain, such as finding a card in a deck or changing a silk cloth from one color to another.
With an barely perceptible waggle of your fingers, you create a sound or an image that other creatures can sense.
Effect: You create a ghost sound or a silent image within 100 feet of you that lasts for 1 minute or until you freely dismiss it. A creature can determine that the sound or image is an illusion with a DC 15 Wisdom check.
- Ghost Sound: You create a sound that originates from a point of your choice within range. The sound can have a volume that ranges from a whisper to a scream. It can be your voice, someone else's voice, a lion's roar, a beating of drums, or any other sound you choose. The sound continues throughout the duration, or you can make discrete sounds at different points before the spell ends.
- Silent Image: You create the image of an object, creature, or force at a spot within range. The illusion does not create sound or any other effect beyond its image. It can fill a cube up to 10 feet on each side. Any physical interaction with the image reveals it to be an image, as objects pass right through it.
Prestidigitation
0-level transmutation
Magical study often means learning a little something about how to manipulate the underlying arcane principles in a trivial but often useful fashion.
You perform an amusing magical trick, such as creating a dancing wisp of light, freshening a wilting flower, making a coin invisible, or warming a cold drink.
Effect: You create one of the following magical effects within 10 feet of you:
- You color, clean, or soil an item no larger than a cubic foot for up to 1 hour.
- You chill, warm, or flavor up to 1 pound of nonliving material for up to 1 hour.
- You create an instantaneous sensory effect that is harmless, such as a shower of sparks, a puff of wind, faint musical notes, or an odd odor.
- You instantly light or snuff out a candle, a torch, or a small campfire.
- You make a small mark or symbol appear on an object or a surface for up to 1 hour.
- You produce out of nothingness a small trinket or illusory image that lasts until the end of your next turn.
- You make a small handheld item invisible until the end of your next turn.
Ray of Frost
0-level evocation
You fire a pale beam of blue-white energy that chills your enemy to the bone.
Effect: Make a magic attack against one creature within 100 feet of you. On a hit, the target takes 1d6 + 3 cold damage, and its speed is reduced by 10 feet until the end of your next turn.
Read Magic
0-level divination
Spellcasters are often jealous of their lore. To guard their arcane secrets, they might use secret alphabets and cyphers to record their spells. Magical writing also sometimes adorns enchanted objects, magic weapons, the sides of ancient towers, and so on, though the authors of these passages are usually lost to history.
When you cast this spell, incomprehensible magical symbols waver, change position, then suddenly become clear, allowing you to peruse the magical writing with ease.
Effect: Choose an object within 10 feet of you. You can decipher a discrete magical inscription on that object that would otherwise be unintelligible, including a spell from someone else's spellbook, a spell on a scroll, a line of mystical script on a magic weapon, and the like. This does not normally invoke the magic contained in the writing, although it might do so in the case of a cursed scroll.
Once a particular magical inscription is deciphered by means of this spell, the inscription continues to be intelligible to you.
You can also identify the names of specific magic glyphs and symbols using read magic, though not their function.
Shocking Grasp
0-level evocation
Lightning wreathes your hand and delivers a brutal shock to the creature you touch.
Effect: Make a magic attack to touch a creature of your choice. On a hit, the target takes 1d8 + 4 lightning damage and can't take reactions until its next turn.
Level 1 Spells
Charm Person1st-level enchantment
This spell twists a creature's mind so that it sees you in the best possible light in the present circumstances. A hostile creature, for example, might not see you as a threat, while a bored shopkeeper might suddenly regard you with unfounded trust.
Effect: Choose a living humanoid within 25 feet of you. It must make a Wisdom saving throw, and does so with advantage if you or your companions are fighting it. If it fails, it is charmed by you for 1 hour, or until you or your companions harm it.
A creature charmed by this spell remembers being charmed.
Color Spray
1st-level illusion
This spell creates a dazzling array of flashing colors that daze and disorient onlookers. A creature exposed to its effects feels a sense of vertigo and a clash of emotions, as the illusion overwhelms its senses and confuses its mind.
Effect: Each creature in a 15-foot cone originating from you must make a Wisdom saving throw, provided the creature can see. Choose blue, red, or yellow. Every creature that fails its saving throw suffers that color's effect until the end of its next turn.
- Blue: The creature's speed is halved, and the creature has disadvantage on all attack rolls and checks.
- Red: The creature must use its action to make a melee or ranged attack (its choice) against a randomly determined target within range.
- Yellow: The creature is frightened. It must move as far away from you as possible before taking an action, but if moving would provoke an opportunity attack, it need not move.
1st-level divination
The world is home to countless languages and dialects, tongues that are beyond counting and whose meaning is lost on even the most erudite scholars. This spell makes the incomprehensible comprehensible.
Effect: For 1 hour, you understand the literal meaning of spoken language that you hear and of written language, provided you are touching the surface on which the words are written. It takes about 1 minute to read one page of text (about 250 words).
This spell does not decipher codes, and it does not allow you to read magical writing or inscriptions (such as those deciphered by the read magic spell. Certain magical wards might foil this spell by concealing text, trapping it, or making the text nonsensical.
Ritual: You can cast this spell as a ritual by spending at least 10 minutes reciting ancient words of forgotten languages while using special material components, including a pouch of salt worth no less than 25 gp and a pinch of soot taken from a hearth.
Feather Fall
1st-level transmutation
You can turn a plunging free fall into a gentle descent.
Requirement: You can cast this spell only as a reaction when you or a creature within 50 feet of you falls.
Effect: The falling creature's rate of descent slows to 10 feet per round. The spell ends when the creature lands or has fallen 1,000 feet. If it lands before the spell ends, it takes no falling damage and can land on its feet.
Identify
1st-level divination
Discovering a magic item's effects is usually possible through trial and error. But to precisely catalog every facet of its lore and ability requires an academic approach refined by years of spellcraft.
You incant the magical phrases of revelation as you brush your fingers across an item, drawing up any magic that might be hidden within it. Upon casting identify, you discover the properties and pertinent lore of a magic item.
Effect: You learn the properties of a magic item you touch. If the item has any special lore associated with it, you learn that as well.
This spell reveals if an item has a secret, though not the nature of the secret.
Ritual: You can cast this spell as a ritual by spending at least 10 minutes intoning hierarchal questions to spirits of knowledge and lore, and scribing marks upon the object to be identified with special chalks worth no less than 10 gp.
Magic Missile
1st-level evocation
A spell famous for its reliability, magic missile produces one or more darts of magical force that unerringly strike their target. Those who have been struck by this spell and survived describe a piercing pain that seems to pass through the body and out the other side. This spell leaves its victims bruised and can even break bones.
Many spellcasters alter the appearance of this spell when they cast it. A necromancer's magic missile might take the form of a skeletal hand, while a war wizard might create a glimmering, ghostly lance.
Effect: Choose a creature within 100 feet of you. The target takes 2d4 + 5 force damage.
Special: You can prepare and cast magic missile as a higher level spell. You produce a number of darts equal to the level at which you cast it. You can target different creatures with the darts or send more than one dart against a single creature.
Shield
1st-level conjuration
You create an invisible, mobile disk of force that hovers near you to intercept attacks.
Effect: For 10 minutes, you have half cover and take no damage from magic missile.
Sleep
1st-level enchantment
The fine sand you fling into the air sparkles when this spell's magic takes hold. Creatures touched by the scintillating granules grow drowsy and might fall asleep.
Effect: Choose a point that you can see within 100 feet of you, roll 3d8, and add them up. The total is how many hit points of creatures this spell can affect within 20 feet of the point you chose.
Starting with the creature that has the lowest current hit points, each creature affected by this spell falls unconscious for 1 minute or until it takes damage or someone uses an action to shake or slap the sleeper awake. Subtract each creature's hit points from the total before moving on to the creature with the next lowest hit points. A creature's hit points must be no more than the remaining total for that creature to be affected.
Thunderwave
1st-level evocation
You evoke a whip-crack of thunder, creating a wave of energy that can sweep aside creatures and objects it contacts.
Thunderwave is a popular spell among battle wizards. In the crush and grind of melee, it is a key weapon in breaking enemy lines and turning a tightly fought battle into a rout.
Effect: Each creature in a 15-foot cone originating from you must make a Dexterity saving throw. If a creature fails, it takes 2d6 thunder damage and is pushed 15 feet away from you. If it succeeds, it takes half as much damage and is not pushed.
In addition, unsecured objects that weigh less than 50 pounds are automatically pushed 15 feet by the spell's effect, and the spell emits a thunderous boom audible within 300 feet of it.
Special: You can prepare and cast this spell as a higher level spell. Increase its damage by 1d6 and the distance it pushes targets and unattended objects by 5 feet for each level above 1st.
Level 2 Spells
Darkness2nd-level evocation
Learning the darkness spell requires a knowledge of lightless voids so extreme that evoking their image leaches all light from an area. Some creatures, such as drow, are naturally familiar with such places, and the study of them and their environs also serves those who would master this spell.
The object you touch blooms like a night flower, darkening the air all around it until no light can pierce the area of gloom.
Effect: You touch an unattended object or an object you are holding. A 15-foot radius sphere centered on the object is filled with darkness until your concentration is broken, but for no longer than 10 minutes. Not even darkvision can see through this darkness, and no natural light can illuminate it.
Covering the object with a solid object, such as a bowl or a helm, suppresses the darkness.
If this spell's area overlaps with an area of light created by a spell of this spell's level or lower, the light is dispelled.
Invisibility
2nd-level illusion
You evoke invisibility with your words and gestures. The colors of the creature and its possessions you touch bleed away, rendering it first white, then translucent, and finally invisible.
Effect: You touch a willing Large or smaller creature. The creature becomes invisible for 1 hour, until it attacks or casts a spell that affects a creature other than itself, or until you cast this spell again.
Knock
2nd-level transmutation
You whisper arcane syllables into your closed fist, which takes on a golden glow. Then you raise your hand, performing three knocks in the air. With each pantomimed knock, a booming crack sounds from the locked door or object. When you finish, the final sound is that of a lock turning, a bar falling, or wood drying and shrinking in a stuck door.
Effect: Choose an object within 50 feet of you. The object can be a door, a box, a chest, a set of manacles, a padlock, or another object that contains a mundane or magical means that prevents it from being accessed. In conjunction with a knocking sound audible within 300 feet of the object, the object is unlocked, unstuck, or unbarred if the DC required to open it is 20 or less. If the object has multiple locks, only one of them is unlocked.
If the object is affected by an arcane lock or hold portal spell, the locking magic is not dispelled, but is instead suppressed for 1 minute.
Ritual: You can cast this spell as a ritual by spending at least 1 minute scribing runes of opening upon the object with special ink worth no less than 25 gp. When you use knock as a ritual, you can open an object that requires a DC 15 or lower check to open, rather than DC 20.
Levitate
2nd-level transmutation
As you cast this spell, you imagine shining wires that hang the subject of your levitate spell in the air. You finish this spell with a grand upward gesture, and a creature rises into the air as if being reeled up.
Effect: Choose a willing creature, or an object, weighing 500 pounds or less within 50 feet of you. The target rises vertically, up to 20 feet and remains suspended at that height for up to 10 minutes or until you end the spell as an action.
Each round as an action, or in place of your movement if you are the spell's target, you can change the target's altitude, moving it up to 20 feet up or down.
A creature being levitated can move only by pushing or pulling against a fixed object or surface in reach (such as a wall or a ceiling), which allows the creature to move at half speed at its current altitude. The creature could push against the ceiling to lower itself a distance equal to its limb length.
Melf's Acid Arrow
2nd-level evocation
A shimmering arrow of green, glowing liquid streaks to your target and bursts in a spray of sizzling acid.
Effect: Make a magic attack against one creature within 100 feet of you. On a hit, the target takes 4d8 acid damage now and 2d8 acid damage at the end of its next turn. On a miss, it takes 2d8 acid damage.
Mirror Image
2nd-level Illusion
Two illusory duplicates step out of your body and take positions around you. When you move, the duplicates move with you, merging with and splitting from you to confuse your enemies about which one of you is the real one.
Effect: Two illusory duplicates of yourself appear in your space. The duplicates move with you and mimic your actions. They last for 1 minute or until you dismiss them as an action.
Each time a creature targets you with an attack or a harmful spell while a duplicate remains, that creature randomly determines whether it targets you or one of the duplicates. If you have two duplicates, the creature targets a duplicate if it rolls 1-4 on a d6. If you have one duplicate, the creature targets a duplicate if it rolls 1-3 on a d6.
A duplicate's AC equals 10 + your Dexterity modifier, and it uses your saving throws. If an attack hits the duplicate, or if the duplicate fails a saving throw against a damaging effect, the duplicate disappears.
A creature is unaffected by this spell if it can't see or if it relies on senses other than sight, such as blindsight or tremorsense.
Phantasmal Force
2nd-level illusion
The magic of illusion, fear, and mental manipulation come together to create a phantasm: an illusion so powerful that it takes root in its victim's mind.
A phantasm is visible only to those creatures affected by it. Onlookers might assume that an invisible creature is on the loose.
Effect: Choose a living creature that you can see within 50 feet of you. You create an illusory object, creature, or force of your choice that is visible only to that creature. The illusion lasts until your concentration is broken, but for no longer than 10 minutes.
The illusion includes sound, temperature, and other stimuli, though these are evident only to the creature. The illusion can occupy up to 500 cubic feet.
When the creature first tries to interact with the illusion, the creature can make a Wisdom saving throw to discern it as a phantasm. Otherwise, the creature must use an action to attempt to disbelieve and make another saving throw. On a successful save, the spell ends. On a failed save, the creature rationalizes any illogical events prompted by the phantasm. For instance, if the creature falls through a phantasmal bridge but clearly doesn't fall, the creature believes that it must have slipped instead and falls prone.
If the phantasm is an illusory creature, it can attack the chosen creature each round on your turn if you so choose. It automatically inflicts 2d4 psychic damage.
Rope Trick
2nd-level transmutation
Your magic raises a length of rope into the air to a point you choose. The rope's upper end leads into an invisible extradimensional space, where the rope is affixed. The space can serve as a refuge for several creatures.
Requirement: You must have a length of rope no less than 50 feet long to cast this spell.
Effect: You create an invisible entrance within 50 feet of you that leads to an extradimensional space. The entrance lasts for 1 hour. The entrance is marked by a rope that dangles beneath it, which seems to be fixed in empty air. The extradimensional space can be reached by creatures that climb up the rope all the way to the top, at which point they enter the space. The space holds as many as eight Medium or smaller creatures. A creature in the space can pull the rope up into the space, making the rope disappear.
Creatures in the extradimensional space are on another plane. Attacks and spells cannot cross through the entrance into the space, but those in the space can see out of it as if through a 3-foot-by-5-foot window centered on the rope.
Anything inside the extradimensional space drops out when the spell ends.
Scorching Ray
2nd-level evocation
This spell creates a ray of searing fire and light to erupt from your hand. You can focus the beam to blast a single target, or split it into several lesser beams to carve through multiple enemies.
Effect: You create rays that deal a total of 20 fire damage. Choose up to five creatures within 100 feet of you and divide this automatic damage among them as you wish.
Spider Climb
2nd-level transmutation
The gesticulations you make while casting this spell mimic that of a spider climbing an imaginary wall, conferring on a creature the ability to climb any surface
Effect: You touch a willing creature. That creature gains the ability to move up, down, or across vertical surfaces or even upside down along ceilings while leaving its hands free. The creature can move in this way at its normal speed and without needing to make a check, unless the surface it's traversing is exceedingly slippery. These benefits last until your concentration is broken, but for no longer than 10 minutes.
Web
2nd-level conjuration
You conjure a mass of thick webbing that chokes a corridor, a chamber, a small grove of trees, or anyplace where the web can be anchored. Creatures in the area are stuck fast.
Effect: Choose a point you can see within 50 feet of you. A 20-foot-radius cloud centered on that point fills with sticky webs. The webs last until your concentration is broken, but for no longer than 10 minutes.
If the webs are not anchored between two solid masses or layered across a floor, wall, or ceiling, the conjured web collapses on itself and disappears at the start of your next turn. Webs layered over a flat surface have a depth of 5 feet.
Each creature that starts its turn in the webs or that enters the webs for the first time during its turn must make a Dexterity saving throw. On a failed save, the creature is restrained as long as it remains in the webs or until it breaks free.
A creature restrained by the webs can use its action to make a Strength check against your spell save DC. If it succeeds, it is no longer restrained.
The webs lightly obscure any creature caught in them.
The webs' strands are flammable. Once lit, webs burn away at the rate of one 5-foot cube per round. Any creature that starts its turn in the burning webs takes 2d4 fire damage.
Level 3 Spells
Blink3rd-level transmutation
This spell was developed by spellcasters attempting to replicate the ability of blink dogs to briefly vanish deep into the Ethereal Plane. Unlike those dogs, a spellcaster sometimes fails to blink back into this plane of existence when the spell ends.
Requirement: You must be on a plane other than the Ethereal Plane to cast this spell.
Effect: For the next minute, roll a d20 at the end of each of your turns. On a roll of 11 or higher, you vanish from your current plane of existence and appear deep in the Ethereal Plane. At the start of your next turn, you return in a space of your choice that is within 10 feet of the space where you vanished.
Unless you have magic that can reach across planes, you can affect and be affected only be things on the Ethereal Plane while you are absent.
Special: If you roll a 1 on the d20, roll again. If you roll another 1, you are lost in the Ethereal Plane for 2d6 hours. At the end of that time, you reappear as described above.
Dispel Magic
3rd-level abjuration
This spell can unravel and suppress magical effects from a variety of sources. Whether confronted by a blazing wall of fire or a fiend summoned from the deepest pits of the Nine Hells, you can use dispel magic to dismantle the effect.
Effect: Choose one creature, object, or spell effect within 100 feet of you.
Any spell of 2nd level or lower on the target ends. For each spell of a higher level on the target, make a check using your magic ability modifier. The DC equals 10 + the spell's level. On a successful check, the spell ends.
For magical effects that are not spells, the DC needed to end the effect is 10 + the number of Hit Dice of the creature that created the effect.
Fireball
3rd-level evocation
You hurl a spinning ball of fire with a pea-sized point of flame bright as the sun at its center. The ball streaks to its target and detonates with an explosion of flame and a low roar.
Effect: Choose a point within 50 feet of you. Each creature in a 20-foot-radius cloud centered on that point must make a Dexterity saving throw. A creature takes 5d6 fire damage on a failed save, and half as much damage on a successful one.
The fire ignites unattended flammable objects and damages objects in the area.
Fly
3rd-level conjuration
You extend a hand like a swooping wing toward the recipient of the spell. The creature you touch gains the ability to fly for a time.
Effect: You touch a willing creature. That creature gains a fly speed of 60 feet until your concentration is broken, but for no longer than 1 hour. When the spell ends, the creature falls at the start of its next turn if it is still aloft and has no means to stop the fall.
Haste
3rd-level transmutation
Smoke pours from your blurring fingers as the mere act of casting this spell speeds your gestures to supernatural quickness. Your spell cracks a tiny imperfection in time's facade, allowing the target of your spell to move slightly faster than everything around it.
Rumors persist that the recipients of this spell age at an unnatural rate, though it is more likely that such stories are an attempt to discourage its use.
Effect: Choose a willing creature within 25 feet of you. That creature's speed is doubled, it gains a +2 bonus to AC, it has advantage on Dexterity saving throws, and it gains an additional, hasted action on each of its turns. These benefits last until your concentration is broken, but for no longer than 1 minute.
The hasted action can be used only for the following actions:
- cast an at-will spell
- make a single attack
- disengage
- hustle
- initiate a contest like a grab
Hold Person
2nd-level enchantment
Focusing on a small, straight piece of iron, you draw forth its properties and impose them on a creature you can see. Until the creature breaks free, it becomes like the iron, stiff and inert, frozen in place.
Effect: Choose a living humanoid within 100 feet of you that you can see. The target must succeed on a Wisdom saving throw or be paralyzed until your concentration is broken, but for no longer than 1 minute. On its turn, a creature affected by this spell can take an action to make a Wisdom check against your spell save DC to end the spell.
Lightning Bolt
3rd-level evocation
You release a crackling stroke of lightning that leaves a thunderclap and eye-searing afterimages in its wake.
Effect: A line of lightning 120 feet long and 5 feet wide emanates from you in a direction you choose. Each creature in the line must make a Dexterity saving throw. A creature takes 6d6 lightning damage on a failed save, and half as much damage on a successful one.
This spell damages unattended objects in the line and sets fire to any of those objects that are flammable.
Stinking Cloud
3rd-level conjuration
A billowing mass of dense, yellow vapors writhes into being, smothering the area you choose in a poisonous cloud.
Effect: You create a 20-foot-radius cloud of poisonous gas centered on a point you can see within 100 feet of you. The cloud's area is lightly obscured, and it lasts until your concentration is broken, but for no longer than 10 minutes.
When the cloud appears, each living creature in it must make a Constitution saving throw. A creature takes 2d10 poison damage on a failed save, and half as much damage on a successful one. Any living creature that enters the cloud or ends its turn there must also make this saving throw (no more than once per turn).
A moderate wind (at least 11 miles per hour) disperses the cloud after 4 rounds. A strong wind (at least 21 miles per hour) disperses it after 1 round.
Water Breathing
3rd-level transmutation
Those who live on dry land instinctively fear the deeps. Mastering this spell requires that the caster face and overcome these fears.
When you cast this spell, the suggestion of gills appears on each affected creature's neck. Each gains the ability to breathe underwater for extended periods.
Effect: Choose up to 10 willing creatures within 50 feet of you. In addition to retaining its normal mode of respiration, each creature can also now breath water as if it were a fish. This benefit lasts for 24 hours.
Level 4 Spells
Dimension Door4th-level conjuration
Your conjuration briefly creates two rounded doors of darkness hanging in space. One door appears next to you, and the other appears up to a hundred feet away. When you step into the nearer door, you emerge from the farther one, and they both disappear.
Effect: You teleport yourself from your current location to any other spot within 400 feet. You arrive at exactly the spot desired, whether by seeing it, by imagining it, or by stating direction, such as "200 feet straight downward" or "upward to the northwest at a 45-degree angle, 300 feet."
You can bring along objects as long as their weight doesn't exceed the maximum load you can carry. You can also bring one willing creature of your size category or smaller carrying gear up to its maximum load. The creature must be in physical contact with you when you cast this spell.
If you arrive in a place already occupied by an object or a creature, you and any creature traveling with you each take 4d6 force damage, and the spell is expended but fails to teleport you.
Ice Storm
4th-level evocation
You utter the words of this spell, cold and heavy in your mouth, describing a future where the world has ended and ice ceaselessly pummels the frozen landscape. As you finish, your breath steams as white as the hail of rock-hard ice that pounds down, pulverizing everything in reach of the brief storm.
Effect: Each creature in a 20-foot-radius, 40-foot-high cylinder centered on a point within 50 feet of you must make a Dexterity saving throw. A creature takes 2d6 bludgeoning damage and 3d6 cold damage on a failed save, and half as much damage on a successful one.
Until your next turn ends, hailstones turn the storm's area into difficult terrain.
Polymorph
4th-level transmutation
Mastering polymorph demands knowledge of physiology and the sympathetic links that link all living creatures.
When you cast this spell, you hold clear in your mind the images of both the target of your magic and of the living creature whose form you wish to impart. Your words mold the creature's current form into the new shape.
Effect: Choose a living creature within 50 feet of you. If the target is willing, you transform it into another kind of living creature. The transformation lasts until your concentration is broken, but for no longer than 1 hour.
If the target is unwilling and has a hit point maximum of 150 or more, or if it is a shapechanger, it is unaffected. If the target is unwilling and has a hit point maximum of less than 150, it must make a Wisdom saving throw. If the creature fails the saving throw, it takes on the new form for 1 minute.
The new form can be any beast whose number of Hit Dice is equal to or less than that of the target creature. The target creature gains all the abilities and limitations of the new form, and loses all the abilities and limitations of its original form. But the creature retains its current hit points as well as its Intelligence, Wisdom, and Charisma scores.
The creature continues to wear or carry any gear in its new form if that form is physically capable of doing so. Otherwise, the gear melds into the new form and becomes nonfunctional.
Stoneskin
4th-level abjuration
You sprinkle diamond dust over a creature's body to protect it from harm as you incant the echoing words of this spell. For a time, the creature's flesh becomes as hard as stone.
Requirement: You must have 100 gp worth of diamond dust, which is consumed when you cast the spell.
Effect: You touch a willing creature. For the next hour, the target has resistance to bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing damage.
Wall of Fire
4th-level evocation
When you evoke wall of fire, you visualize the Elemental Plane of Fire. The blazing plane's ground is ever-shifting plates of compressed flame, the air a continual firestorm, and its seas and rivers boiling magma.
With a rippling wave of your hand, you draw up from the ground a vertical sheet of flame, which burns as hot as that blazing plane.
Effect: You create a wall of fire within 100 feet of you on a solid surface. You choose to make the wall 30 feet long, 10 feet high, and 1 foot wide or a circle that has a 10-foot radius and is 20 feet high. The wall lasts until your concentration is broken, but for no more than 1 minute. The wall heavily obscures creatures behind it.
One side of the wall, selected by you when you cast this spell, deals 2d8 fire damage to each creature within 10 feet of that side. The wall deals this damage when it appears, and a creature takes the damage when it ends its turn within 10 feet of the wall's damaging side. The other side of the wall deals no damage.
A creature can pass through the wall, but if it does so, it takes 4d8 fire damage (no more than once per turn). A creature is also subject to this damage if it ends its turn in the wall.
If you create the wall on top of a creature, that creature must succeed on a Dexterity saving throw or take damage as if it passed through the wall. On a success, the creature can move 5 feet so that it is not in the fire.
Level 5 Spells
Cloudkill5th-level conjuration
To master this spell, you must be familiar with one of a few nameless, reeking Abyssal layers where the very atmosphere is death to mortals and demons alike.
As you cast this spell, you hold the image of the toxic Abyssal layer in your mind while the words of your conjuration siphon from it a portion of what you behold. Noisome, yellow-green vapors roll across the ground, bringing death to creatures caught within.
Effect: You create a 20-foot-radius cloud of poisonous fog centered on a point you can see within 100 feet of you. The cloud's area is heavily obscured. It lasts until your concentration is broken, but for no longer than 10 minutes.
When the cloud appears, each living creature in it must make a Constitution saving throw. A creature takes 3d10 poison damage on a failed save, and half as much damage on a successful one. Any living creature that enters the cloud or ends its turn there must also make this saving throw (no more than once per turn).
The cloud moves 10 feet away from you at the start of each of your turns, rolling along the surface of the ground. The vapors, being heavier than air, sink to the lowest level of the land, even pouring down openings.
A moderate wind (at least 11 miles per hour) disperses the cloud after 4 rounds. A strong wind (at least 21 miles per hour) disperses it after 1 round.
Cone of Cold
5th-level evocation
Incipient frostbite stings your fingertips as you open an ephemeral link to an Inner Plane where ice reigns supreme. Your spell summons a blast of elemental cold that fans out from you, flash-freezing everything it touches.
Effect: Each creature in a 60-foot cone originating from you must make a Constitution saving throw. A creature takes 4d6 cold damage on a failed save, and half as much damage on a successful one.
A creature killed by this spell becomes a frozen statue until it thaws.
Dominate Person
5th-level enchantment
Mastering this spell requires practice, usually by repeating its magical formula again and again in your mind while focusing your concentration. You build your willpower like a muscle so that you can overpower another creature's mind.
You focus all your attention on a nearby creature and forge a psychic conduit linking your minds. The words of your mental binding speed along the conduit, words of obligation and mental domination that seek to tie the target to your least whim.
Effect: Choose a living humanoid within 50 feet of you that you can see. The creature must succeed on a Charisma saving throw to avoid being charmed by you for the next hour.
For the duration, you have a telepathic link with the charmed creature, and you choose its actions and where it moves by commanding it telepathically. It cannot take reactions. If you give it no commands, it does nothing, other than the basics for survival.
The charmed creature can make a new saving throw against the spell if it takes damage or if you give it an order that is directly counter to its alignment. The spell instantly fails if you give the creature an obviously self-destructive order.
Your telepathic link extends across any distance on the same plane only. You do not gain sensory input from the link, but the creature can communicate simple concepts through it to you. As an action, you can gain an awareness of the creature's surroundings until the start of your next turn, as interpreted through the creature's senses.
Hold Monster
5th-level enchantment
This spell is of the same lineage as hold person. However, mastering hold monster requires much greater control and knowledge than the lesser spell because it can affect all living creatures, not just people.
Focusing on a rod of iron, you draw forth its properties and impose them on a creature you can see. Until the creature breaks free, it becomes like the iron, stiff and inert, frozen in place.
Effect: Choose a living creature within 100 feet of you that you can see. The target must succeed on a Wisdom saving throw or be paralyzed until your concentration is broken, but for no longer than 1 minute. On its turn, a creature affected by this spell can take an action to make a Wisdom check against your spell save DC to end the spell.
Telekinesis
5th-level transmutation
When casting this spell, you utter a few syllables designed to focus your mind as a fulcrum, and harden your will as a lever. Along the lever, you extend a powerful telekinetic grip you can use to pick up creatures or objects and move them about.
Effect: You gain the ability to telekinetically manipulate creatures and objects until your concentration is broken, but for no longer than 10 minutes.
- Creature: As your action, you can choose a creature within 50 feet of you that is no more than two size categories larger than you. Make a check with your magic ability opposed by the creature's Constitution check.
Each round as your action, you can attempt to maintain your telekinetic grip on the creature. If the creature is being held in the air without contact with the ground or another surface capable of supporting the creature, you automatically maintain your grip, and you can move the creature up to 30 more feet in any direction, as long as you don't move it to a position farther than 50 feet from you.
If the creature in your telekinetic grip can get purchase on an immovable surface or it is size Large or larger, you must engage it in another contest. If the creature wins the contest, the spell ends. If you choose not to maintain your telekinetic grip as your action, the spell also ends. Either way, if the creature was being held above the ground, it falls.
- Object: You can also use an action and select an object within 50 feet of you to manipulate. The spell works the same as if you had targeted creature, except as follows.
If the object is held, worn, or otherwise tended by a creature, you must make a check with your magic ability opposed by that creature's Strength check.
You can also exert fine control on objects with your telekinetic grip: manipulating an object, opening a door or a container, stowing or retrieving an item from an open container, or pouring the contents from a vial.
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