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Dragonborn Paladin using Wrathful Smite spell

Wrathful Smite

Classes: Paladin
level: 1
School: Evocation
Casting Time: 1 Bonus Action
Concentration

Wrathful Smite – Drive your enemies into a corner to cower in fear!

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sad ogre hit by vicious mockery

Vicious Mockery

Classes: Bard
level: Cantrip
School: Enchantment
Casting Time: 1 Action

What’s so great about Vicious Mockery? It’s D4 damage only. Well, let’s look into why this is still a good cantrip.

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5e Message Cantrip image

Message

Classes: Artificer, Bard, Sorcerer, Wizard
level: Cantrip
School: Transmutation
Casting Time: 1 Action

Message cantrip- super useful, but what are the limitations?

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Wizard casting Sapping Sting cantrip spell

Toll the Dead

Classes: Cleric, Warlock, Wizard
level: Cantrip
School: Necromancy
Casting Time: 1 Action

Spell review for 5th Edition Toll the Dead Cantrip from Xanathar’s Guide to Everything

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D&D 5e Ceremony Spell

Ceremony

Classes: Cleric, Paladin, Warlock, Wizard
level: 1
School: Abjuration
Casting Time: 1 Hour
Ritual

Ceremony – An odd spell that has got to be useful somehow, right? Let’s review.

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Cleric Casting 5e spell Bane

Bane

Classes: Bard, Cleric, Warlock
level: 1
School: Enchantment
Casting Time: 1 Action
Concentration

Bane Spell- Is it as good as Bless? Let’s review.

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Faerie Fire - It can light up your enemies, even invisible ones, but can it overcome magical darkness? Let's review!

Faerie Fire

Classes: Artificer, Bard, Druid
level: 1
School: Evocation
Casting Time: 1 Action
Concentration

Faerie Fire – It can light up your enemies, even invisible ones, but can it overcome magical darkness? Let’s review!

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Acid Splash, 5th edition cantrip spell image

Acid Splash

Classes: Artificer, Sorcerer, Wizard
level: Cantrip
School: Conjuration
Casting Time: 1 Action

Throwing a bubble of acid is cool, but what if you want to use this to make some acid you can re-use? Can it be stored? Let’s talk about it.

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Cleric casting word of radiance

Word of Radiance

Classes: Cleric
level: Cantrip
School: Evocation
Casting Time: 1 Action

Word of Radiance- turn your cleric into a walking fireball! Except, not really.

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5th edition cantrip- Sword Burst image by Operion on Deviant Art

Sword Burst

Classes: Artificer, Sorcerer, Warlock, Wizard
level: Cantrip
School: Conjuration
Casting Time: 1 Action

5th Edition Spells – Sword Burst: An introverts best friend? Okay, that might be overboard.

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DnD Cleric Heals Wounds

Cure Wounds

Classes: Artificer, Bard, Cleric, Druid, Paladin, Ranger
level: 1
School:
Casting Time: 1 Action

Cure Wounds – Even in 5e D&D, having healing spells is still necessary. Now available to … not quite everybody, but a lot more than it used to be.

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True Strike Cantrip

Update: True Strike

Classes: Bard, Sorcerer, Warlock, Wizard
level: Cantrip
School: Divination
Casting Time: 1 Action

UPDATED! Spell review for 5th Edition True Strike Cantrip from D&D 5E. It might be good, now!

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picture of water-bender making a water dragon

Shape Water

Classes: Druid, Sorcerer, Wizard
level: Cantrip
School: Transmutation
Casting Time: 1 Action

Shape Water D&D 5E – it’s a cantrip, not waterbending.

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Poison Spray

Classes: Artificer, Druid, Sorcerer, Warlock, Wizard
level: Cantrip
School: Conjuration
Casting Time: 1 Action

5E cantrip spell Poison Spray- “Puff of gas”? That’s sounds… farty.
Come on D&D, make it a spray of poison!

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Thaumaturgy, a DnD cantrip spell

Thaumaturgy

Classes: Cleric
level: Cantrip
School: Conjuration
Casting Time: 1 Action

Spare the Dying

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Witch scrying SB, a good example Scrying spell for 5th edition D&D

Scrying

Classes: Bard, Cleric, Druid, Warlock, Wizard
level: 5
School: Divination
Casting Time: 10 Minutes
Concentration

Scrying – how can it be used best by players and DMs? PS, don’t let it ruin your game.

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Encode Thoughts, a DnD 5th Edition Cantrip Spell

Encode Thoughts

Classes: Wizard
level: Cantrip
School: Enchantment
Casting Time: 1 Action

Encode Thoughts – Psychic security measures, save encode bits of information straight from your psyche.

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5th edition cantrip spell Thunderclap

Thunderclap

Classes: Artificer, Bard, Druid, Sorcerer, Warlock, Wizard
level: Cantrip
School: Evocation
Casting Time: 1 Action

Thunderclap – Thunder… Thunder… Thunder-Claps Ho! This is not a sneaky spell.

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