Warlock Spells
Warlock Spells
Cantrips
| Level: Cantrip | Casting Time: 1 Action | Conjuration |
| Range: 60ft | Duration: Instant | Components: VS |
You hurl a bubble of acid. Choose one or two creatures you can see within range that are within 5 feet of each other. A target must succeed on a Dexterity saving throw, taking 1d6 Acid Damage on a failed save.
- This spell’s damage increases by 1d6 when you reach 5th level (2d6), 11th level (3d6), and 17th level (4d6).
| Level: Cantrip | Casting Time: 1 Action | Conjuration |
| Range: Touch | Duration: Instant | Components: VS |
You touch a work with writing, such as a book, scroll, or parchment, and you touch medium that could contain writing, such as a book, scroll or parchment. The work is copied into the medium at a rate of 250 words per minute, creating a perfect duplicate of the original. This spell only copies non-magical text, if the work contains non-magical writing in addition to illustrations and/or magical writing, only the non-magical writing is copied to the medium. If the medium runs out of space, then the spell ends. the spell does not translate the copied writing, it remains in the language it was copied from.
| Level: Cantrip | Casting Time: 1 Action | Evocation |
| Range: Self | Duration: 1 Round | Components: VM (a melee weapon) |
You brandish the weapon used in the spell’s casting and make a melee weapon attack with it. On a hit, the target suffers the attack’s normal effects and then becomes sheathed in booming energy until the start of your next turn.
If the target willingly moves 5 feet or more before then, the target takes 1d8 Thunder Damage, and the spell ends.
- This spell’s damage increases when you reach certain levels. At 5th level, the melee attack deals an extra 1d8 Thunder damage to the target on a hit, and the damage the target takes for moving increases to 2d8. Both damage rolls increase by 1d8 at 11th level (2d8 and 3d8) and again at 17th level (3d8 and 4d8).
| Level: Cantrip | Casting Time: 1 Action | Necromancy |
| Range: 120ft | Duration: 1 Round | Components: VS |
You create a ghostly, skeletal hand in the space of a creature within range. Make a Ranged Spell Attack against the creature to assail it with the chill of the grave. On a hit, the target takes 1d8 Necrotic Damage, and it can't regain hit points until the start of your next turn. Until then, the hand clings to the target.
If you hit an undead target, it also has disadvantage on attack rolls against you until the end of your next turn.
- This spell's damage increases by 1d8 when you reach 5th level (2d8), 11th level (3d8), and 17th level (4d8).
| Level: Cantrip | Casting Time: 1 Action | Conjuration |
| Range: 60ft | Duration: 1 Minute (Concentration) | Components: VS |
You create a bonfire on ground that you can see within range. Until the spell ends, the magic bonfire fills a 5-foot cube. Any creature in the bonfire’s space when you cast the spell must succeed on a Dexterity saving throw, taking 1d8 fire damage on a failed save.
A creature must also make the saving throw when it moves into the bonfire’s space for the first time on a turn or ends its turn there. The bonfire ignites flammable objects in its area that aren’t being worn or carried.
- The spell’s damage increases by 1d8 when you reach 5th level (2d8), 11th level (3d8), and 17th level (4d8).
| Level: Cantrip | Casting Time: 1 Action | Evocation |
| Range: 120ft | Duration: Instant | Components: VS |
A beam of crackling energy streaks toward a creature within range. Make a ranged spell attack against the target. On a hit, the target takes 1d10 Force damage.
- The spell creates more than one beam when you reach higher levels: two beams at 5th level, three beams at 11th level, and four beams at 17th level. You can direct the beams at the same target or at different ones. Make a separate attack roll for each beam.
| Level: Cantrip | Casting Time: 1 Action | Enchantment |
| Range: Self | Duration: 1 Minute (Concentration) | Components: SM (a small amount of makeup applied to the face as this spell is cast) |
For the duration, you have advantage on all Charisma checks directed at one creature of your choice that isn’t hostile toward you. When the spell ends, the creature realizes that you used magic to influence its mood and becomes hostile toward you. A creature prone to violence might attack you. Another creature might seek retribution in other ways (at the DM’s discretion), depending on the nature of your interaction with it.
| Level: Cantrip | Casting Time: 1 Action | Evocation |
| Range: 60ft | Duration: Instant | Components: VS |
You cause numbing frost to form on one creature that you can see within range. The target must make a Constitution saving throw. On a failed save, the target takes 1d6 cold damage, and it has disadvantage on the next weapon attack roll it makes before the end of its next turn.
- The spell’s damage increases by 1d6 when you reach 5th level (2d6), 11th level (3d6), and 17th level (4d6).
| Level: Cantrip | Casting Time: 1 Action | Evocation |
| Range: Self | Duration: Instant | Components: SM (a melee weapon) |
You brandish the weapon used in the spell’s casting and make a melee weapon attack with it. On a hit, the target suffers the attack’s normal effects, and you can cause green fire to leap from the target to a different creature of your choice that you can see within 5 feet of it. The second creature takes fire damage equal to your spellcasting ability modifier.
- This spell’s damage increases when you reach certain levels. At 5th level, the melee attack deals an extra 1d8 fire damage to the target on a hit, and the fire damage to the second creature increases to 1d8 + your spellcasting ability modifier. Both damage rolls increase by 1d8 at 11th level (2d8 and 2d8) and 17th level (3d8 and 3d8).
| Level: Cantrip | Casting Time: 1 Action | Conjuration |
| Range: 30ft | Duration: Instant | Components: VSM (a living flea) |
You cause a cloud of mites, fleas, and other parasites to appear momentarily on one creature you can see within range. The target must succeed on a Constitution saving throw, or it takes 1d6 poison damage and moves 5 feet in a random direction if it can move and its speed is at least 5 feet. Roll a d4 for the direction: 1, north; 2, south; 3, east; or 4, west. This movement doesn’t provoke opportunity attacks, and if the direction rolled is blocked, the target doesn’t move.
- The spell’s damage increases by 1d6 when you reach 5th level (2d6), 11th level (3d6), and 17th level (4d6).
| Level: Cantrip | Casting Time: 1 Action | Evocation |
| Range: 15ft | Duration: Instant | Components: V |
You create a lash of lightning energy that strikes at one creature of your choice that you can see within 15 feet of you. The target must succeed on a Strength saving throw or be pulled up to 10 feet in a straight line toward you and then take 1d8 lightning damage if it is within 5 feet of you.
- This spell’s damage increases by 1d8 when you reach 5th level (2d8), 11th level (3d8), and 17th level (4d8).
| Level: Cantrip | Casting Time: 1 Action | Divination |
| Range: Self | Duration: 24 Hours | Components: VS |
You are able to tweak tiny variables affecting a creature's immediate future in order to grant yourself a bit of luck at the right time. Roll a d20; once during the duration of lucky number, when you roll that result (regardless of what type of dice the target rolls), the creature has the option to either reroll the result or add a +2 bonus to the result. The creature must decide to use this ability before the success or failure of the original roll is known. A creature can have only one lucky number per day.
| Level: Cantrip | Casting Time: 1 Action | Conjuration |
| Range: 30ft | Duration: 1 Minute | Components: VS |
A spectral, floating hand appears at a point you choose within range. The hand lasts for the duration or until you dismiss it as an action. The hand vanishes if it is ever more than 30 feet away from you or if you cast this spell again.
You can use your action to control the hand. You can use the hand to manipulate an object, open an unlocked door or container, stow or retrieve an item from an open container, or pour the contents out of a vial. You can move the hand up to 30 feet each time you use it. The hand can't attack, or carry more than 10 pounds.
| Level: Cantrip | Casting Time: 1 Bonus Action | Transmutation |
| Range: Touch | Duration: 1 Minute | Components: VS |
You touch one to three pebbles and imbue them with magic. You or someone else can make a ranged spell attack with one of the pebbles by throwing it or hurling it with a sling. If thrown, it has a range of 60 feet. If someone else attacks with the pebble, that attacker adds your spellcasting ability modifier, not the attacker’s, to the attack roll. On a hit, the target takes bludgeoning damage equal to 1d6 + your spellcasting ability modifier. Hit or miss, the spell then ends on the stone.
If you cast this spell again, the spell ends early on any pebbles still affected by it.
| Level: Cantrip | Casting Time: 1 Action | Enchantment |
| Range: 60ft | Duration: Instant | Components: V |
You drive a disorienting spike of psychic energy into the mind of one creature you can see within range. The target must succeed on an Intelligence saving throw or take 1d6 psychic damage and subtract 1d4 from the next saving throw it makes before the end of your next turn.
- This spell’s damage increases by 1d6 when you reach certain levels: 5th level (2d6), 11th level (3d6), and 17th level (4d6).
| Level: Cantrip | Casting Time: 1 Action | Illusion |
| Range: 30ft | Duration: 1 Minute | Components: SM (a bit of fleece) |
You create a sound or an image of an object within range that lasts for the duration. The illusion also ends if you dismiss it as an action or cast this spell again.
If you create a sound, its volume can range 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 unabated throughout the duration, or you can make discrete sounds at different times before the spell ends.
If you create an image of an object--such as a chair, muddy footprints, or a small chest--it must be no larger than a 5-foot cube. The image can't create sound, light, smell, or any other sensory effect. Physical interaction with the image reveals it to be an illusion, because things can pass through it.
If a creature uses its action to examine the sound or image, the creature can determine that it is an illusion with a successful Intelligence (Investigation) check against your spell save DC. If a creature discerns the illusion for what it is, the illusion becomes faint to the creature.
| Level: Cantrip | Casting Time: 1 Action | Conjuration |
| Range: 10ft | Duration: Instant | Components: VS |
You extend your hand toward a creature you can see within range and project a puff of noxious gas from your palm. The creature must succeed on a Constitution saving throw or take 1d12 poison damage.
- This spell's damage increases by 1d12 when you reach 5th level (2d12), 11th level (3d12), and 17th level (4d12).
| Level: Cantrip | Casting Time: 1 Action | Transmutation |
| Range: 10ft | Duration: 1 Hour | Components: VS |
This spell is a minor magical trick that novice spellcasters use for practice. You create one of the following magical effects within range:
- You create an instantaneous, harmless sensory effect, such as a shower of sparks, a puff of wind, faint musical notes, or an odd odor.
- You instantaneously light or snuff out a candle, a torch, or a small campfire.
- You instantaneously clean or soil an object no larger than 1 cubic foot.
- You chill, warm, or flavor up to 1 cubic foot of nonliving material for 1 hour.
- You make a color, a small mark, or a symbol appear on an object or a surface for 1 hour.
- You create a nonmagical trinket or an illusory image that can fit in your hand and that lasts until the end of your next turn.
If you cast this spell multiple times, you can have up to three of its non-instantaneous effects active at a time, and you can dismiss such an effect as an action.
| Level: Cantrip | Casting Time: 1 Action | Necromancy |
| Range: 30ft | Duration: Instant | Components: VS |
You sap the vitality of one creature you can see in range. The target must succeed on a Constitution saving throw or take 1d4 necrotic damage and fall prone.
- This spell’s damage increases by 1d4 when you reach 5th level (2d4), 11th level (3d4), and 17th level (4d4).
| Level: Cantrip | Casting Time: 1 Action | Evocation |
| Range: 120ft | Duration: 1 Round | Components: VS |
When you cast the spell, choose a point you can see within range, which begins to glow with a radiant light. At the start of your next turn, a mote of starlight crashes down on that point. Each creature within 5 feet of that point takes 1d10 Radiant damage.
- The spell's damage increases by 1d10 when you reach 5th level (2d10), 11th level (3d10), and 17th level (4d10).
| Level: Cantrip | Casting Time: 1 Action | Conjuration |
| Range: Self | Duration: Instant | Components: VS |
You create a momentary circle of spectral blades that sweep around you. All other creatures within 5 feet of you must succeed on a Dexterity saving throw or take 1d6 force damage.
- This spell’s damage increases by 1d6 when you reach 5th level (2d6), 11th level (3d6), and 17th level (4d6).
| Level: Cantrip | Casting Time: 1 Action | Necromancy |
| Range: 60ft | Duration: Instant | Components: VS |
You point at one creature you can see within range, and the sound of a dolorous bell fills the air around it for a moment. The target must succeed on a Wisdom saving throw or take 1d8 necrotic damage. If the target is missing any of its hit points, it instead takes 1d12 necrotic damage.
- The spell’s damage increases by one die when you reach 5th level (2d8 or 2d12), 11th level (3d8 or 3d12), and 17th level (4d8 or 4d12).
| Level: Cantrip | Casting Time: 1 Action | Divination |
| Range: 30ft | Duration: 1 Round (Concentration) | Components: S |
You point a finger at a target in range. Your magic grants you a brief insight into the target's defenses. On your next turn, you gain advantage on your attack rolls against the target, provided that this spell hasn't ended.
Level 1
| Level: 1 | Casting Time: 1 Action | Evocation |
| Range: Touch | Duration: Instant | Components: VSM (1GP) |
You create three twisting, whistling, darts of magical force. Each dart targets a creature of your choice that you can see within range. Make a ranged spell attack for each missile. On a hit, a missile deals 2d4 force damage to its target.
If the attack roll scores a critical hit, the target of that missile takes 5d4 force damage instead of you rolling damage twice for a critical hit. If the attack roll for any missile is a 1, all missiles miss their targets and blow up in your face, dealing 1 force damage per missile to you.
- At Higher Levels. When you cast this spell using a spell slot of 2nd level or higher, the spell creates one more dart, and the material component increases by 1GP, for each slot level above 1st.
| Level: 1 | Casting Time: 1 Action | Abjuration |
| Range: Self | Duration: 1 Hour | Components: VSM (a cup of water) |
A protective magical force surrounds you, manifesting as a spectral frost that covers you and your gear. You gain 5 temporary hit points for the duration. If a creature hits you with a melee attack while you have these hit points, the creature takes 5 cold damage.
- At Higher Levels. When you cast this spell using a spell slot of 2nd level or higher, both the temporary hit points and the cold damage increase by 5 for each slot.
| Level: 1 | Casting Time: 1 Action | Conjuration |
| Range: Self | Duration: Instant | Components: VS |
You invoke the power of darkness. Tendrils of dark energy erupt from you and batter all creatures within 10 feet of you. Each creature in that area must make a Strength saving throw. On a failed save, a target takes 2d6 necrotic damage and can’t take reactions until its next turn. On a successful save, the creature takes half damage, but suffers no other effect.
- At Higher Levels. When you cast this spell using a spell slot of 2nd level or higher, the damage increases by 1d6 for each slot level above 1st.
| Level: 1 | Casting Time: 1 Action | Abjuration |
| Range: Self | Duration: 1 Minute (Concentration) | Components: VS |
You extend your hand and trace a sigil of warding in the air. Until the end of the duration, you have Resistance to bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing damage dealt by weapon attacks.
| Level: 1 | Casting Time: 1 Action | Necromancy |
| Range: 60ft | Duration: 1 Minute (Concentration) | Components: V |
You awaken the sense of mortality in one creature you can see within range. A construct or an undead is immune to this effect. The target must succeed on a Wisdom saving throw or become frightened of you until the spell ends. The frightened target can repeat the saving throw at the end of each of its turns, ending the effect on itself on a success.
- At Higher Levels. When you cast this spell using a spell slot of 2nd level or higher, you can target one additional creature for each slot level above 1st. The creatures must be within 30 feet of each other when you target them.
| Level: 1 | Casting Time: 1 Action | Enchantment |
| Range: 30ft | Duration: 1 Hour | Components: VS |
You attempt to charm a Humanoid you can see within range. It must make a Wisdom saving throw, and does so with advantage if you or your companions are fighting it. If it fails the saving throw, it is charmed by you until the spell ends or until you or your companions do anything harmful to it. The charmed creature regards you as a friendly acquaintance. When the spell ends, the creature knows it was charmed by you.
- At Higher Levels. When you cast this spell using a spell slot of 2nd level or higher, you can target one additional creature for each slot level above 1st. The creatures must be within 30 feet of each other when you target them.
| Level: 1 | Casting Time: 1 Action (Ritual) | Divination |
| Range: Self | Duration: 1 Hour | Components: VSM (a pinch of soot and salt) |
For the duration, you understand the literal meaning of any spoken language that you hear. You also understand any written language that you see, but you must be touching the surface on which the words are written. It takes about 1 minute to read one page of text.
This spell doesn't decode secret messages in a text or a glyph, such as an arcane sigil, that isn't part of a written language.
| Level: 1 | Casting Time: 1 Minute | Illusion |
| Range: Toch | Duration: 8 Hours | Components: V |
You cast this spell on an object no more than 1 foot on a side, doubling the object’s perceived value by adding illusory flourishes or polish to it, or reducing its perceived value by half with the help of illusory scratches, dents, and other unsightly features. Anyone examining the object can ascertain its true value with a successful Intelligence (Investigation) check against your spell save DC.
- At Higher Levels. When you cast this spell using a spell slot of 2nd level or higher, the maximum size of the object increases by 1 foot for each slot level above 1st.
| Level: 1 | Casting Time: 1 Bonus Action | Transmutation |
| Range: Self | Duration: 10 Minutes (Concentration) | Components: VS |
This spell allows you to move at an incredible pace. 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.
| Level: 1 | Casting Time: 1 Reaction (when you are damaged by a creature within 60ft of you that you an see) | Evocation |
| Range: 60ft | Duration: Instant | Components: VS |
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 2d10 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 1d10 for each slot level above 1st.
| Level: 1 | Casting Time: 1 Bonus Action | Enchantment |
| Range: 90ft | Duration: 1 Hour | Components: VSM (the petrified eye of a newt) |
You place a curse on a creature that you can see within range. Until the spell ends, you deal an extra 1d6 necrotic damage to the target whenever you hit it with an attack. Also, choose one ability when you cast the spell. The target has disadvantage on ability checks made with the chosen ability.
If the target drops to 0 hit points before this spell ends, you can use a bonus action on a subsequent turn of yours to curse a new creature. A remove curse cast on the target ends this spell early.
- At Higher Levels. When you cast this spell using a spell slot of 3rd or 4th level, you can maintain your concentration on the spell for up to 8 hours. When you use a spell slot of 5th level or higher, you can maintain your concentration on the spell for up to 24 hours.
| Level: 1 | Casting Time: 1 Minute (Ritual) | Divination |
| Range: 90ft | Duration: 10 Days | Components: VM (a lead-based ink worth at least 10GP which the spell consumes) |
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 appears as if it were written in an unknown or magical script that is unintelligible. 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.
| Level: 1 | Casting Time: 1 Action | Transmutation |
| Range: 60ft | Duration: 1 Round | Components: VS |
The gravity in a 10-foot-radius sphere centered on a point you can see within range increases for a moment. Each creature in the sphere on the turn when you cast the spell must make a Constitution saving throw. On a failed save, a creature takes 2d8 force damage, and its speed is halved until the end of its next turn. On a successful save, a creature takes half as much damage and suffers no reduction to its speed.
Until the start of your next turn, any object that isn’t being worn or carried in the sphere requires a successful Strength check against your spell save DC to pick up or move.
- 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.
| Level: 1 | Casting Time: 1 Action | Abjuration |
| Range: Touch | Duration: 10 Minutes (Concentration) | Components: VSM (holy water or powdered silver and iron, which the spell consumes) |
Until the spell ends, one willing creature you touch is protected against certain types of creatures: aberrations, celestials, elementals, fey, fiends, and undead.
The protection grants several benefits. Creatures of those types have disadvantage on attack rolls against the target. The target also can't be charmed, frightened, or possessed by them. If the target is already charmed, frightened, or possessed by such a creature, the target has advantage on any new saving throw against the relevant effect.