Spectral skeletal arms emerge from the ground in a 20-foot-radius circle, centered on a point you can see within range. The arms grasp at creatures within the area, except for undead creatures, which ignore the effects of this spell. The area is difficult terrain.
When a creature enters the area for the first time on a turn or starts its turn there, it must make a Strength saving throw. On a failed save, a creature takes 3d6 necrotic damage, and is dragged by the hands to any unoccupied space within the area that you choose. On a successful save, a creature takes half as much damage and is not moved.
Until the spell ends, you can use your action to force each creature within the area to immediately make a save against this spell.
AtHigherLevels When you cast this spell using a spell slot of 5th level or higher, its damage increases by 1d6 for each slot level above 4th.
You trace a complex arcane symbol into the flesh of a willing creature within 5 feet of you, marking them for sacrifice. During the spell’s duration, when you are hit with an attack and the marked creature is within 60 feet of you, you can use your reaction to switch positions with the creature, causing it to be hit by the attack instead of you. The spell then ends.
For the duration, you hide a target that you touch from divination magic. The target can be a willing creature, a place, or an object no larger than 10 feet in any dimension. If the target is targeted by any divination magic or perceived through a scrying spell’s sensors, you are able to present the diviner with false information of your choice, as long as you are conscious at the time of the divination attempt. The target could appear to be in different circumstances, in one or more false locations, or completely undetectable.
The spell manipulates the direction of gravity on a non-horizontal surface you touch, causing it to attract creatures and objects within 15 feet of it as if it were the ground. The surface can be up to a 60-foot square in area and can wrap around a structure, if its geometry permits. A creature can walk on this surface as if it were level ground, even if the surface is perpendicular to the ground or upside down.
When the duration ends, all creatures and objects fall from the surface.
You receive a message of up to 6 words from your future self, warning you of a critical threat or pointing you toward a fruitful avenue. At some point in the future, once you have learned why you sent the message, you must perform a 10-minute-long ritual to deliver the message back in time to your past self. Once you cast this spell, you can’t cast it again until you perform this ritual, or one week later if you don’t discover this information. If you cast this spell and receive no message, it indicates that you never complete the ritual in the future, possibly owing to your death or some other hindrance.
You and at least three willing creatures lock hands in a moment of meditation to conjure a spirit from the afterlife to answer your questions. Describe or name a creature that is familiar to you. If the creature’s soul is free and willing, it manifests as a ghostly specter. This spell fails if the spirit was the target of this spell within the last 10 days.
Until the spell ends, you can ask up to three questions of the specter. The specter knows only what it knew in life, including the languages it knew. Answers are usually brief, cryptic, or repetitive, and the specter is under no compulsion to offer a truthful answer if you are hostile to it or it recognizes you as an enemy. There is a 5% chance that this spell contacts the wrong spirit, one which will answer questions untruthfully or ambiguously.
You conjure a potent acid at your fingertips, which can corrode metal and burn flesh. Make a melee spell attack against a creature or object within your reach. On a hit, a creature takes 6d4 acid damage and, if it is wearing nonmagical metal armor or wielding a nonmagical metal shield, you can corrode either its armor or shield. Corroded armor takes a permanent and cumulative -3 penalty to the AC it offers. Armor reduced to an AC of 10 is destroyed. A corroded shield is destroyed.
If you target a nonmagical metal object with this spell that isn’t being worn or carried, you corrode and destroy parts of the object you choose that can fit within a 1-foot cube.
AtHigherLevels When you cast this spell using a spell slot of 4th level or higher, the damage increases by 2d4 for each slot level above 3rd. Additionally, you can destroy one additional cubic foot of a nonmagical object for each slot level above 3rd.
A red haze clouds the eyes of a creature that meets your gaze. Choose one creature you can see within range to make a Constitution saving throw. On a failed save, the creature is cursed for the duration. A cursed target can see normally out to 5 feet, but is blind beyond this radius.
A remove curse spell ends this curse early.
A 15-foot-radius sphere of fog, filled with the necromantic Dead Mists, appears centered on a point you can see within range. The fog spreads around corners, and its area is heavily obscured. It lasts for the duration, or until strong wind disperses the fog, ending the spell. *When you cast this spell, you can empower it with your own life essence by losing 10,15, or 20 hit points when you cast it. When you do so, treat the spell slot used to cast the spell as being one level higher if you lost 10 hit points, two levels higher if you lost 15 hit points, and three levels higher if you lost 20 hit points, up to a maximum of 9th level. *When a creature enters the area for the first time on a turn or starts its turn there, it must make a Constitution saving throw, taking 3d8 necrotic damage on a failed save. *Additionally, when a creature tries to leave the sphere of fog, you can choose for the fog to grasp the creature with misty tendrils. The creature must make a Strength saving throw to leave the fog, and is unable to move on a failed save. *AtHigherLevels When you cast this spell using a spell slot of 4th level or higher, the damage increases by 1d8 for each slot level above 3rd.
Unholy bands of black energy tie a creature to its weapon. Choose a creature you can see within range that is holding a weapon to make a Wisdom saving throw. On a failed save, the creature is cursed for the duration. A cursed target can’t willingly drop or stow its weapon. Additionally, whenever it takes the Attack action on its turn, it makes one additional attack using its weapon targeting itself, against its own AC, dealing damage as normal on a hit.
A remove curse spell ends this curse early.
For the duration, a willing target’s body parts (fingers, legs, tail, and even its head) can be harmlessly severed from its body. It takes no damage from such dismemberment, as long as the cut removing the body part is swift and leaves a clean cut. The target’s head remains alive and conscious, and parts connected to it also remain alive. All severed body parts become inanimate, but do not begin decomposition for the spell’s duration. Any of the target’s severed body parts that are removed during this spell’s duration can be held back to the stump, which instantly causes the part to knit to the stump, restoring the body part.
At the end of the duration, severed body parts become permanently severed. The target dies if vital organs have not been reattached to its head.
This spell creates an invisible, shapeless force that performs intellectual tasks at your command until the spell ends. The servant springs into existence in an unoccupied space on the ground within range. It has AC 10, 1 hit point, an Intelligence of 12, and it can’t attack. If it drops to 0 hit points, the spell ends.
Once on each of your turns as a bonus action, you can mentally command the servant to move up to 15 feet and interact with an object. The accountant can perform intellectual tasks that a human clerk could do, such as assessing prices, updating accounts, managing inventories, or computing interest. Once you give the command, the accountant performs the task to the best of its ability until it completes the task, then waits for your next command. The accountant can perform no physical labor, and is not able to lift any object heavier than a bottle of ink.
If you command the accountant to perform a task that would move it more than 300 feet away from you, the spell ends.
You magically reinforce a creature you can see within range, granting it resistance to bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing damage from nonmagical attacks until the end of your next turn.
Tracing arcane sigils along its boundary, you can ward a doorway, window, or other portal from entry. For the duration, an invisible eldritch creature stalks the warded portal. Any creature that attempts to pass through the portal must make a Wisdom saving throw or take 4d6 psychic damage, or half as much on a successful save.
AtHigherLevels When you cast this spell using a spell slot of 3rd level or higher, the damage increases by 1d6 for each slot level above 2nd.
A shimmering shield of energy surrounds one willing creature you touch. For the duration, ranged attacks made by firearms have disadvantage against the target, and the target has resistance to any damage dealt by firearms.
This spell makes you seem ordinary and nondescript to others, though it doesn’t change your actual appearance. Creatures who see you while you are under the influence of this spell are unable to recall specific details of your appearance upon being asked if they had seen you or someone matching your description, though their memory of actions you undertook or events they experienced is unaffected.
You briefly slow time for a creature of your choice that you can see within range. The target must succeed on a Wisdom saving throw or be moved to last place in the initiative order from the beginning of the next round onwards.
You reach out your hand and touch a willing creature within your reach, raising a smoke-like barrier around it. For the duration, the target has resistance to necrotic damage and can’t be cursed, possessed, or targeted by a hex. Also, its maximum hit points can’t be lowered. If the target is already affected by one of these effects, the effect is suspended until the spell ends.
You channel stygian power from an extraplanar source, enhancing three creatures other than yourself within range. Whenever a target makes a weapon attack, it adds 1d4 damage to their damage roll. If a target moves more than 15 feet away from you, it loses the effect until it is within range again.
AtHigherLevels When you cast this spell using a spell slot of 2nd level or higher, the range increases by 5 feet, and you can target one additional creature for each slot level above 1st.
While casting this spell, your eyes pass over the words on the page, which are committed to your memory. For the next year, you exactly remember the details of all information on this page. After that time, you have advantage on all Intelligence checks you make to recall this information
You fling a drop of blood at a target you can see within range, marking them for reckoning. The target must make a Constitution saving throw. On a failed save, the target takes 1d8 radiant or necrotic damage (your choice) whenever you lose hit points for the duration. This spell ends early if the target begins its turn further than 60 feet from you
Tendrils of black mist extend from your fingertips, latching onto a creature and draining its vitality. Choose a creature you can see within range to make a Dexterity saving throw. On a failed save, the target takes 2d6 necrotic damage and is cursed for up to one minute. On a successful save, the target takes half as much damage and is not cursed. While the target is cursed, you can use your action to deal 1d6 necrotic damage to it automatically. The curse ends early if you use your action to do anything else, if the target is ever outside the spell’s range, or if the target has total cover from you. A remove curse spell also ends this curse.
AtHigherLevels When you cast this spell using a spell slot of 2nd level or higher, the initial and secondary damage each increases by 1d6 for each slot level above 1st.
You throw a cackling skull at a point you can see within range, which emits a mortifying shriek audible out to 300 feet. Each creature within a 10-foot cube centered on the skull takes 2d4 thunder damage, without making a saving throw.
AtHigherLevels When you cast this spell using a spell slot of 2nd level or higher, the damage increases by 1d4 for each slot level above 1st.
You stitch together the wounds of a willing creature you touch, which regains 4d6 hit points. However, the mending is imperfect, and the target’s hit point maximum is reduced by the same amount until it finishes a long rest. A creature that regains hit points due to this spell will be left with some permanent scars.
AtHigherLevels When you cast this spell using a spell slot of 2nd level or higher, the healing increases by 1d6 for each slot level above 1st.
Choose an unoccupied 20-foot square within range—note that the area must have solid earth beneath it, this spell fails if cast on the upper floor of a building. This spell then causes one pile of humanoid bones to rise out of the ground within that square. If you cast this spell within a burial place such as a graveyard, mausoleum, or barrow, 1d4 piles of bones are exhumed instead of 1. The ground itself is not changed or disturbed by this spell, the bones simply appear out of the ground.
You conjure forth a glowing white tendril formed of the sinister, necromantic Dead Mists, which lashes out at a foe you can see within range. When you cast this spell, you can empower it with your own life essence by losing 5,10, or 15 hit points when you cast it. When you do so, treat the spell slot used to cast the spell as being one level higher for every 5 hit points lost, up to a maximum of 9th level.
Make a ranged spell attack roll against a creature within range. On a hit, the target takes 3d8 necrotic damage.
AtHigherLevels If you cast this spell using a slot of 2nd level or higher, the damage increases by 1d8 for each slot level above 1st.
At your touch, wet blood on a surface shifts and reforms into a pattern of crimson blotches. This blood print is unique to the particular creature to whom the blood belongs, but you can determine the creature’s kind (such as human, gnoll, deer, or fire giant) by examining the general shape. A print can be preserved by pressing a sheet of paper against it. If this spell is cast twice, it is possible to match samples of blood originating from the same creature by comparing the prints.
You spread cracks in the magical energy that suffuses the multiverse. For the duration, whenever a spell is cast within range, roll a d6. On a 1, the spell casting fails, expending a spell slot as normal, but not consuming expensive material components.
You conjure minor paranormal phenomena and other ominous effects. You create one of the following magical effects within range for 1 minute:
*You cause all candles, torches, and other open flames to darken and flicker*.
*You create a quiet sound that originates from a point of your choice within range, such as ominous whispers, the drone of insects, or the sound of crying*.
*You create up to four torch-sized spectral, glowing orbs, which float around within range. The orbs do not provide light, apart from a dim glow*.
*You can chill or warm the air in a 10-foot cube by 10 degrees*.
*You cause small, unattended objects to rattle or levitate an inch off the ground.*
-If you cast this spell multiple times, you can have up to three of its effects active at a time, and you can dismiss such an effect as an action.
With a quick jolt of necromantic energy, the dead momentarily rise to obey you, if only for a few seconds. Choose the corpse of a Huge or smaller creature that has been dead for no more than an hour. When you cast this spell, the corpse stands up and can move up to 15 feet and make a single melee slam attack against a target of your choice within its reach, using your spell attack modifier. On a hit, this attack deals bludgeoning damage based on the corpse’s size: a Tiny corpse deals 1d4, a Small corpse deals 1d6, a Medium corpse deals 1d8, a Large corpse deals 1d10, and a Huge corpse deals 1d12. Once the corpse attacks, it once again crumples into a heap. A corpse targeted by this spell doesn’t become an undead creature. This spell’s damage increases as you gain levels. At 5th level, the corpse deals two damage dice according to its size. At 11th level, it deals three damage dice, and at 17th level, it deals four damage dice
You drain life energy from a hostile creature you can see within range. The target must succeed on a Constitution saving throw or take 1d4 necrotic damage. You then gain temporary hit points equal to the amount of damage dealt, which last until you finish a long rest. This spell has no effect on undead or constructs.
This spell’s damage increases by 1d4 when you reach 5th level (2d4), 11th level (3d4), and 17th level (4d4).
You emit a dazzling array of short lightning bolts in all directions. All other creatures within 5 feet of you must succeed on a Dexterity saving throw or take 1d6 lightning damage.
This spell’s damage increases by 1d6 when you reach 5th level (2d6), 11th level (3d6), and 17th level (4d6).
As you cast this spell, a spectral meat hook is flung at the creature of your choice, connected to a spectral chain. Make a ranged spell attack against a creature within range. On a hit, the target takes 1d8 piercing damage as a spectral meat hook plunges into their body. Until the start of your next turn, the target must make a Strength saving throw to move further than 30 feet from you. On a failed save, it is prevented from moving until the start of your turn. This effect ends if you are further than 30 feet away from the target.
This spell’s damage increases by 1d8 when you reach 5th level (2d8), 11th level (3d8), and 17th level (4d8).
A beam of tenebrous moonlight streaks from your left eye toward a creature within range. Make a ranged spell attack against the target. On a hit, the target takes 1d8 necrotic damage and can’t take the Disengage action until the end of your next turn. This spell creates an additional beam and deals more damage at higher levels. At 5th level, you fire a second beam originating from your right eye. Your first beam’s damage increases by 1d8 (2d8) when you reach 11th level, and your second beam’s damage increases by 1d8 (2d8) when you reach 17th level.
You fling a ball of eldritch energy at a creature or object within range. Make a ranged spell attack against the target. On a hit, the target takes 1d8 force damage, and each other creature within 5 feet of the target must make a Dexterity saving throw. On a failed save, a creature takes half as much damage.
This spell’s damage increases by 1d8 when you reach 5th level (2d8), 11th level (3d8), and 17th level (4d8).
You send a small scroll with a short message to a creature of your choice. The recipient must be a creature known to you and also be on the same plane of existence as you. This scroll will hover in front of the recipient, drop into their pocket, or appear sitting on something nearby. The scroll’s message can be up to 8 characters long (spaces count as characters). You can send only one scroll to a single target each day.
You subtly twist your fingers, and fate seems to follow suit. For the duration, you can reroll any ability check you make to play nonmagical games of skill. Therefore, this spell could influence a game of poker, but not the result of a deck of many things.
As part of the action used to cast this spell, you must make a melee attack with a weapon against one creature within the spell's range, otherwise the spell fails. On hit, the target suffers the weapons attack's normal effects, except that any damage dealt by the attack is acid damage instead of its normal type. If you miss by 3 or less, acid splashes on the target, and you instead deal 1d8 acid damage.
This spell'd damage increases when you reach certain levels. At 5th level, the melee attack deals an additional 1d8 acid damage to the target on a hit, and the acid damage dealt on a miss increases to 2d8. Both damage rolls increase by one die at 11th level (2d8 and 3d8) and 17th level (3d8 and 4d8).