Cantrips: Difference between revisions

== Cantrips ==

 

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|+ Acid Splash (Shaman, Sorcerer, Warlock)

| 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).

 

|+ Amanuensis (Sorcerer, Warlock, Wizard)

| 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.  

 

|+ Booming Blade (Shaman, Sorcerer, Warlock, Wizard)

| 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).

 

|+ Chill Touch (Sorcerer, Warlock, Wizard)

| 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).

 

|+ Control Flames (Druid, Shaman, Sorcerer, Wizard)

| Level: Cantrip || Casting Time: 1 Action || Transmutation

| Range: 60ft || Duration: Instant || Components: S

You choose nonmagical flame that you can see within range and that fits within a 5-foot cube. You affect it in one of the following ways:

*You instantaneously expand the flame 5 feet in one direction, provided that wood or other fuel is present in the new location.

*You instantaneously extinguish the flames within the cube.

*You double or halve the area of bright light and dim light cast by the flame, change its color, or both. The change lasts for 1 hour.

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.

 

|+ Create Bonfire (Druid, Shaman, Sorcerer, Warlock, Wizard)

| 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).

 

|+ Dancing Lights (Bard, Sorcerer, Wizard)

| Level: Cantrip || Casting Time: 1 Action || Evocation

| Range: 120ft || Duration: 1 Minute (Concentration) || Components: VSM (a bit of phosphorus or wychwood, or a glowworm)

You create up to four torch-sized lights within range, making them appear as torches, lanterns, or glowing orbs that hover in the air for the duration. You can also combine the four lights into one glowing vaguely humanoid form of Medium size.

 

Whichever form you choose, each light sheds dim light in a 10-foot radius. As a bonus action on your turn, you can move the lights up to 60 feet to a new spot within range. A light must be within 20 feet of another light created by this spell, and a light winks out if it exceeds the spell's range.

 

|+ Die, Insect! (Druid, Shaman, Sorcerer, Warlock, Wizard)

| Level: Cantrip || Casting Time: 1 Action || Evocation

| Range: 30ft || Duration: 1 Turn (Concentration) || Components: V

You conjure a sphere of elemental flame which briefly hovers in place before flying at a nearby foe. At the end of your turn, the flame leaps at a random hostile creature within range; you roll randomly to determine which enemy is affected. That enemy must succeed on a Dexterity saving throw or take 8 Fire Damage.<br>

This spell's damage increases by 8 when you reach 5th level (16), 11th level (24), and 17th level (32).

 

|+ Druidcraft (Druid, Shaman)

| Level: Cantrip || Casting Time: 1 Action || Transmutation

| Range: 30ft || Duration: Instant || Components: VS

*You create an instantaneous, harmless sensory effect, such as falling leaves, a puff of wind, the sound of a small animal, or the faint odor of skunk. The effect must fit in a 5-foot cube.

 

|+ Echoing Strike (Bard, Shaman, Sorcerer, Wizard)

| Level: Cantrip || Casting Time: 1 Action or Reaction (when you hear another creature within 60ft of you cast this spell) || Evocation

| Range: 60ft || Duration: Instant || Components: VS

You hurl a wave of echoing energy at a creature you can see within range. The target must make a Constitution Saving Throw, taking 1d6 Thunder Damage on a failure and being pushed back 5ft from you in a straight line.<br>

This spell's damage increases by 1d6 when you reach 5th level (2d6), 11th level (3d6), and 17th level (4d6).

 

|+ Eldritch Blast (Warlock)

| 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.<br>

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.

 

|+ Encode Thoughts (Shaman, Wizard)

| Level: Cantrip || Casting Time: 1 Action || Enchantment

| Range: Self || Duration: 8 hours || Components: VS

Putting a finger to your head, you pull a memory, an idea, or a message from your mind and transform it into a tangible string of glowing energy called a thought strand, which persists for the duration or until you cast this spell again. The thought strand appears in an unoccupied space within 5 feet of you as a Tiny, weightless, semisolid object that can be held and carried like a ribbon. It is otherwise stationary.

 

If you cast this spell while concentrating on a spell or an ability that allows you to read or manipulate the thoughts of others (such as detect thoughts or modify memory), you can transform the thoughts or memories you read, rather than your own, into a thought strand.

 

Casting this spell while holding a thought strand allows you to instantly receive whatever memory, idea, or message the thought strand contains. (Casting detect thoughts on the strand has the same effect.)

 

|+ Firebolt (Shaman, Sorcerer, Wizard)

| Level: Cantrip || Casting Time: 1 Action || Evocation

| Range: 120ft || Duration: Instant || Components: VS

You hurl a mote of fire at a creature or object within range. Make a ranged spell attack against the target. On a hit, the target takes 1d10 fire damage. A flammable object hit by this spell ignites if it isn't being worn or carried.

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

 

|+ Friends (Bard, Sorcerer, Warlock, Wizard)

| 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.

 

|+ Frostbite (Druid, Shaman, Sorcerer, Warlock, Wizard)

| 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).

 

|+ Green-Flame Blade (Shaman, Sorcerer, Warlock, Wizard)

| 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).

 

|+ Guidance (Cleric, Druid, Shaman)

| Level: Cantrip || Casting Time: 1 Action || Divination

| Range: Touch || Duration: 1 Minute (Concentration) || Components: VS

You touch one willing creature. Once before the spell ends, the target can roll a d4 and add the number rolled to one ability check of its choice. It can roll the die before or after making the ability check. The spell then ends.

 

|+ Gust of Wind (Druid, Shaman, Sorcerer, Wizard)

| Level: Cantrip || Casting Time: 1 Action || Transmutation

| Range: 30ft || Duration: Instant || Components: VS

You seize the air and compel it to create one of the following effects at a point you can see within range:

*(One Medium or smaller creature that you choose must succeed on a Strength saving throw or be pushed up to 5 feet away from you.

*You create a small blast of air capable of moving one object that is neither held nor carried and that weighs no more than 5 pounds. The object is pushed up to 10 feet away from you. It isn’t pushed with enough force to cause damage.

 

|+ Infestation (Druid, Shaman, Sorcerer, Warlock, Wizard)

| 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).

 

|+ Light (Bard, Cleric, Sorcerer, Wizard)

| Level: Cantrip || Casting Time: 1 Bonus Action || Evocation

| Range: Touch || Duration: 1 Hour || Components: VSM (a firefly or phosphorescent moss)

You touch one object that is no larger than 10 feet in any dimension. Until the spell ends, the object sheds bright light in a 20-foot radius and dim light for an additional 20 feet. The light can be colored as you like. Completely covering the object with something opaque blocks the light. The spell ends if you cast it again or dismiss it as a free action.

 

If you target an object held or worn by a hostile creature, you must make a melee spell attack against that creature, casting the spell on a successful attack.

 

| 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).

 

|+ Lucky Number (Bard, Sorcerer, Warlock)

| 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.