This chapter describes the most common spells in the worlds of Dungeons & Dragons. The chapter begins with the spell lists of the spellcasting classes. The remainder contains spell descriptions, presented in alphabetical order by the name of the spell.
Bard Spells
- Blade Ward
- Dancing Lights
- Friends
- Light
- Mage Hand
- Mending
- Message
- Minor Illusion
- Prestidigitation
- True Strike
- Vicious Mockery
- Animal Friendship
- Bane
- Charm Person
- Comprehend Languages
- Cure Wounds
- Detect Magic
- Disguise Self
- Dissonant Whispers
- Faerie Fire
- Feather Fall
- Healing Word
- Heroism
- Identify
- Illusory Script
- Longstrider
- Silent Image
- Sleep
- Speak with Animals
- Tasha's Hideous Laughter
- Thunderwave
- Unseen Servant
- Animal Messenger
- Blindness/Deafness
- Calm Emotions
- Cloud of Daggers
- Crown of Madness
- Detect Thoughts
- Enhance Ability
- Enthrall
- Heat Metal
- Hold Person
- Invisibility
- Knock
- Lesser Restoration
- Locate Animals or Plants
- Locate Object
- Magic Mouth
- Phantasmal Force
- See Invisibility
- Shatter
- Silence
- Suggestion
- Zone of Truth
- Bestow Curse
- Clairvoyance
- Dispel Magic
- Fear
- Feign Death
- Glyph of Warding
- Hypnotic Pattern
- Leomund's Tiny Hut
- Major Image
- Nondetection
- Plant Growth
- Sending
- Speak with Dead
- Speak with Plants
- Stinking Cloud
- Tongues
- Compulsion
- Confusion
- Dimension Door
- Freedom of Movement
- Greater Invisibility
- Hallucinatory Terrain
- Locate Creature
- Polymorph
- Animate Objects
- Awaken
- Dominate Person
- Dream
- Geas
- Greater Restoration
- Hold Monster
- Legend Lore
- Mass Cure Wounds
- Mislead
- Modify Memory
- Planar Binding
- Raise Dead
- Scrying
- Seeming
- Teleportation Circle
- Eyebite
- Find the Path
- Guards and Wards
- Mass Suggestion
- Otto's Irresistible Dance
- Programmed Illusion
- True Seeing
Cleric Spells
- Bane
- Bless
- Command
- Create or Destroy Water
- Cure Wounds
- Detect Evil and Good
- Detect Magic
- Detect Poison and Disease
- Guiding Bolt
- Healing Word
- Inflict Wounds
- Protection from Evil and Good
- Purify Food and Drink
- Sanctuary
- Shield of Faith
- Aid
- Augury
- Blindness/Deafness
- Calm Emotions
- Continual Flame
- Enhance Ability
- Find Traps
- Gentle Repose
- Hold Person
- Lesser Restoration
- Locate Object
- Prayer of Healing
- Protection from Poison
- Silence
- Spiritual Weapon
- Warding Bond
- Zone of Truth
- Animate Dead
- Beacon of Hope
- Bestow Curse
- Clairvoyance
- Create Food and Water
- Daylight
- Dispel Magic
- Feign Death
- Glyph of Warding
- Magic Circle
- Mass Healing Word
- Meld into Stone
- Protection from Energy
- Remove Curse
- Revivify
- Sending
- Speak with Dead
- Spirit Guardians
- Tongues
- Water Walk
- Banishment
- Control Water
- Death Ward
- Divination
- Freedom of Movement
- Guardian of Faith
- Locate Creature
- Stone Shape
- Commune
- Contagion
- Dispel Evil and Good
- Flame Strike
- Geas
- Greater Restoration
- Hallow
- Insect Plague
- Legend Lore
- Mass Cure Wounds
- Planar Binding
- Raise Dead
- Scrying
Druid Spells
- Animal Friendship
- Charm Person
- Create or Destroy Water
- Cure Wounds
- Detect Magic
- Detect Poison and Disease
- Entangle
- Faerie Fire
- Fog Cloud
- Goodberry
- Healing Word
- Jump
- Longstrider
- Purify Food and Drink
- Speak with Animals
- Thunderwave
- Animal Messenger
- Barkskin
- Beast Sense
- Darkvision
- Enhance Ability
- Find Traps
- Flame Blade
- Flaming Sphere
- Gust of Wind
- Heat Metal
- Hold Person
- Lesser Restoration
- Locate Animals or Plants
- Locate Object
- Moonbeam
- Pass without Trace
- Protection from Poison
- Spike Growth
- Call Lightning
- Conjure Animals
- Daylight
- Dispel Magic
- Feign Death
- Meld into Stone
- Plant Growth
- Protection from Energy
- Sleet Storm
- Speak with Plants
- Water Breathing
- Water Walk
- Wind Wall
- Blight
- Confusion
- Conjure Minor Elementals
- Conjure Woodland Beings
- Control Water
- Dominate Beast
- Freedom of Movement
- Giant Insect
- Grasping Vine
- Hallucinatory Terrain
- Ice Storm
- Locate Creature
- Polymorph
- Stone Shape
- Stoneskin
- Wall of Fire
- Antilife Shell
- Awaken
- Commune with Nature
- Conjure Elemental
- Contagion
- Geas
- Greater Restoration
- Insect Plague
- Mass Cure Wounds
- Planar Binding
- Reincarnate
- Scrying
- Tree Stride
- Wall of Stone
Paladin Spells
- Bless
- Command
- Compelled Duel
- Cure Wounds
- Detect Evil and Good
- Detect Magic
- Detect Poison and Disease
- Divine Favor
- Heroism
- Protection from Evil and Good
- Purify Food and Drink
- Searing Smite
- Shield of Faith
- Thunderous Smite
- Wrathful Smite
- Aid
- Branding Smite
- Find Steed
- Lesser Restoration
- Locate Object
- Magic Weapon
- Protection from Poison
- Zone of Truth
Ranger Spells
- Alarm
- Animal Friendship
- Cure Wounds
- Detect Magic
- Detect Poison and Disease
- Ensnaring Strike
- Fog Cloud
- Goodberry
- Hail of Thorns
- Hunter's Mark
- Jump
- Longstrider
- Speak with Animals
- Animal Messenger
- Barkskin
- Beast Sense
- Cordon of Arrows
- Darkvision
- Find Traps
- Lesser Restoration
- Locate Animals or Plants
- Locate Object
- Pass without Trace
- Protection from Poison
- Silence
- Spike Growth
Sorcerer Spells
- Acid Splash
- Blade Ward
- Chill Touch
- Dancing Lights
- Fire Bolt
- Friends
- Light
- Mage Hand
- Mending
- Message
- Minor Illusion
- Poison Spray
- Prestidigitation
- Ray of Frost
- Shocking Grasp
- True Strike
- Burning Hands
- Charm Person
- Chromatic Orb
- Color Spray
- Comprehend Languages
- Detect Magic
- Disguise Self
- Expeditious Retreat
- False Life
- Feather Fall
- Fog Cloud
- Jump
- Mage Armor
- Magic Missile
- Ray of Sickness
- Shield
- Silent Image
- Sleep
- Thunderwave
- Witch Bolt
- Alter Self
- Blindness/Deafness
- Blur
- Cloud of Daggers
- Crown of Madness
- Darkness
- Darkvision
- Detect Thoughts
- Enhance Ability
- Enlarge/Reduce
- Gust of Wind
- Hold Person
- Invisibility
- Knock
- Levitate
- Mirror Image
- Misty Step
- Phantasmal Force
- Scorching Ray
- See Invisibility
- Shatter
- Spider Climb
- Suggestion
- Web
- Blink
- Clairvoyance
- Counterspell
- Daylight
- Dispel Magic
- Fear
- Fireball
- Fly
- Gaseous Form
- Haste
- Hypnotic Pattern
- Lightning Bolt
- Major Image
- Protection from Energy
- Sleet Storm
- Slow
- Stinking Cloud
- Tongues
- Water Breathing
- Water Walk
- Banishment
- Blight
- Confusion
- Dimension Door
- Dominate Beast
- Greater Invisibility
- Ice Storm
- Polymorph
- Stoneskin
- Wall of Fire
- Animate Objects
- Cloudkill
- Cone of Cold
- Creation
- Dominate Person
- Hold Monster
- Insect Plague
- Seeming
- Telekinesis
- Teleportation Circle
- Wall of Stone
- Arcane Gate
- Chain Lightning
- Circle of Death
- Disintegrate
- Eyebite
- Globe of Invulnerability
- Mass Suggestion
- Move Earth
- Sunbeam
- True Seeing
Warlock Spells
- Blade Ward
- Chill Touch
- Eldritch Blast
- Friends
- Mage Hand
- Minor Illusion
- Poison Spray
- Prestidigitation
- True Strike
- Armor of Agathys
- Arms of Hadar
- Charm Person
- Comprehend Languages
- Expeditious Retreat
- Hellish Rebuke
- Hex
- Illusory Script
- Protection from Evil and Good
- Unseen Servant
- Witch Bolt
- Cloud of Daggers
- Crown of Madness
- Darkness
- Enthrall
- Hold Person
- Invisibility
- Mirror Image
- Misty Step
- Ray of Enfeeblement
- Shatter
- Spider Climb
- Suggestion
Wizard Spells
- Acid Splash
- Blade Ward
- Chill Touch
- Dancing Lights
- Fire Bolt
- Friends
- Light
- Mage Hand
- Mending
- Message
- Minor Illusion
- Poison Spray
- Prestidigitation
- Ray of Frost
- Shocking Grasp
- True Strike
- Alarm
- Burning Hands
- Charm Person
- Chromatic Orb
- Color Spray
- Comprehend Languages
- Detect Magic
- Disguise Self
- Expeditious Retreat
- False Life
- Feather Fall
- Find Familiar
- Fog Cloud
- Grease
- Identify
- Illusory Script
- Jump
- Longstrider
- Mage Armor
- Magic Missile
- Protection from Evil and Good
- Ray of Sickness
- Shield
- Silent Image
- Sleep
- Tasha's Hideous Laughter
- Tenser's Floating Disk
- Thunderwave
- Unseen Servant
- Witch Bolt
- Alter Self
- Arcane Lock
- Blindness/Deafness
- Blur
- Cloud of Daggers
- Continual Flame
- Crown of Madness
- Darkness
- Darkvision
- Detect Thoughts
- Enlarge/Reduce
- Flaming Sphere
- Gentle Repose
- Gust of Wind
- Hold Person
- Invisibility
- Knock
- Levitate
- Locate Object
- Magic Mouth
- Magic Weapon
- Melf's Acid Arrow
- Mirror Image
- Misty Step
- Nystul's Magic Aura
- Phantasmal Force
- Ray of Enfeeblement
- Rope Trick
- Scorching Ray
- See Invisibility
- Shatter
- Spider Climb
- Suggestion
- Web
- Animate Dead
- Bestow Curse
- Blink
- Clairvoyance
- Counterspell
- Dispel Magic
- Fear
- Feign Death
- Fireball
- Fly
- Gaseous Form
- Glyph of Warding
- Haste
- Hypnotic Pattern
- Leomund's Tiny Hut
- Lightning Bolt
- Magic Circle
- Major Image
- Nondetection
- Phantom Steed
- Protection from Energy
- Remove Curse
- Sending
- Sleet Storm
- Slow
- Stinking Cloud
- Tongues
- Vampiric Touch
- Water Breathing
- Arcane Eye
- Banishment
- Blight
- Confusion
- Conjure Minor Elementals
- Control Water
- Dimension Door
- Evard's Black Tentacles
- Fabricate
- Fire Shield
- Greater Invisibility
- Hallucinatory Terrain
- Ice Storm
- Leomund's Secret Chest
- Locate Creature
- Mordenkainen's Faithful Hound
- Mordenkainen's Private Sanctum
- Otiluke's Resilient Sphere
- Phantasmal Killer
- Polymorph
- Stone Shape
- Stoneskin
- Wall of Fire
- Animate Objects
- Bigby's Hand
- Cloudkill
- Cone of Cold
- Conjure Elemental
- Contact Other Plane
- Creation
- Dominate Person
- Dream
- Geas
- Hold Monster
- Legend Lore
- Mislead
- Modify Memory
- Passwall
- Planar Binding
- Rary's Telepathic Bond
- Scrying
- Seeming
- Telekinesis
- Teleportation Circle
- Wall of Force
- Wall of Stone
- Arcane Gate
- Chain Lightning
- Circle of Death
- Contingency
- Create Undead
- Disintegrate
- Drawmij's Instant Summons
- Eyebite
- Flesh to Stone
- Globe of Invulnerability
- Guards and Wards
- Magic Jar
- Mass Suggestion
- Move Earth
- Otiluke's Freezing Sphere
- Otto's Irresistible Dance
- Programmed Illusion
- Sunbeam
- True Seeing
- Wall of Ice
- Delayed Blast Fireball
- Etherealness
- Finger of Death
- Forcecage
- Mirage Arcane
- Mordenkainen's Magnificent Mansion
- Mordenkainen's Sword
- Plane Shift
- Prismatic Spray
- Project Image
- Reverse Gravity
- Sequester
- Simulacrum
- Symbol
- Teleport
Spell Descriptions
The spells are presented in alphabetical order.
- Acid Splash
- Aid
- Alarm
- Alter Self
- Animal Friendship
- Animal Messenger
- Animal Shapes
- Animate Dead
- Animate Objects
- Antilife Shell
- Antimagic Field
- Antipathy/Sympathy
- Arcane Eye
- Arcane Gate
- Arcane Lock
- Armor of Agathys
- Arms of Hadar
- Astral Projection
- Augury
- Aura of Life
- Aura of Purity
- Aura of Vitality
- Awaken
- Bane
- Banishing Smite
- Banishment
- Barkskin
- Beacon of Hope
- Beast Sense
- Bestow Curse
- Bigby's Hand
- Blade Barrier
- Blade Ward
- Bless
- Blight
- Blinding Smite
- Blindness/Deafness
- Blink
- Blur
- Branding Smite
- Burning Hands
- Call Lightning
- Calm Emotions
- Chain Lightning
- Charm Person
- Chill Touch
- Chromatic Orb
- Circle of Death
- Circle of Power
- Clairvoyance
- Clone
- Cloud of Daggers
- Cloudkill
- Color Spray
- Command
- Commune
- Commune with Nature
- Compelled Duel
- Comprehend Languages
- Compulsion
- Cone of Cold
- Confusion
- Conjure Animals
- Conjure Barrage
- Conjure Celestial
- Conjure Elemental
- Conjure Fey
- Conjure Minor Elementals
- Conjure Volley
- Conjure Woodland Beings
- Contact Other Plane
- Contagion
- Contingency
- Continual Flame
- Control Water
- Control Weather
- Cordon of Arrows
- Counterspell
- Create Food and Water
- Create or Destroy Water
- Create Undead
- Creation
- Crown of Madness
- Crusader's Mantle
- Cure Wounds
- Dancing Lights
- Darkness
- Darkvision
- Daylight
- Death Ward
- Delayed Blast Fireball
- Demiplane
- Destructive Wave
- Detect Evil and Good
- Detect Magic
- Detect Poison and Disease
- Detect Thoughts
- Dimension Door
- Disguise Self
- Disintegrate
- Dispel Evil and Good
- Dispel Magic
- Dissonant Whispers
- Divination
- Divine Favor
- Divine Word
- Dominate Beast
- Dominate Monster
- Dominate Person
- Drawmij's Instant Summons
- Dream
- Druidcraft
- Earthquake
- Eldritch Blast
- Elemental Weapon
- Enhance Ability
- Enlarge/Reduce
- Ensnaring Strike
- Entangle
- Enthrall
- Etherealness
- Evard's Black Tentacles
- Expeditious Retreat
- Eyebite
- Fabricate
- Faerie Fire
- False Life
- Fear
- Feather Fall
- Feeblemind
- Feign Death
- Find Familiar
- Find Steed
- Find the Path
- Find Traps
- Finger of Death
- Fire Bolt
- Fire Shield
- Fire Storm
- Fireball
- Flame Blade
- Flame Strike
- Flaming Sphere
- Flesh to Stone
- Fly
- Fog Cloud
- Forbiddance
- Forcecage
- Foresight
- Freedom of Movement
- Friends
- Gaseous Form
- Gate
- Geas
- Gentle Repose
- Giant Insect
- Glibness
- Globe of Invulnerability
- Glyph of Warding
- Goodberry
- Grasping Vine
- Grease
- Greater Invisibility
- Greater Restoration
- Guardian of Faith
- Guards and Wards
- Guidance
- Guiding Bolt
- Gust of Wind
- Hail of Thorns
- Hallow
- Hallucinatory Terrain
- Harm
- Haste
- Heal
- Healing Word
- Heat Metal
- Hellish Rebuke
- Heroes' Feast
- Heroism
- Hex
- Hold Monster
- Hold Person
- Holy Aura
- Hunger of Hadar
- Hunter's Mark
- Hypnotic Pattern
- Ice Storm
- Identify
- Illusory Script
- Imprisonment
- Incendiary Cloud
- Inflict Wounds
- Insect Plague
- Invisibility
- Jump
- Knock
- Legend Lore
- Leomund's Secret Chest
- Leomund's Tiny Hut
- Lesser Restoration
- Levitate
- Light
- Lightning Arrow
- Lightning Bolt
- Locate Animals or Plants
- Locate Creature
- Locate Object
- Longstrider
- Mage Armor
- Mage Hand
- Magic Circle
- Magic Jar
- Magic Missile
- Magic Mouth
- Magic Weapon
- Major Image
- Mass Cure Wounds
- Mass Heal
- Mass Healing Word
- Mass Suggestion
- Maze
- Meld into Stone
- Melf's Acid Arrow
- Mending
- Message
- Meteor Swarm
- Mind Blank
- Minor Illusion
- Mirage Arcane
- Mirror Image
- Mislead
- Misty Step
- Modify Memory
- Moonbeam
- Mordenkainen's Faithful Hound
- Mordenkainen's Magnificent Mansion
- Mordenkainen's Private Sanctum
- Mordenkainen's Sword
- Move Earth
- Nondetection
- Nystul's Magic Aura
- Otiluke's Freezing Sphere
- Otiluke's Resilient Sphere
- Otto's Irresistible Dance
- Pass without Trace
- Passwall
- Phantasmal Force
- Phantasmal Killer
- Phantom Steed
- Planar Ally
- Planar Binding
- Plane Shift
- Plant Growth
- Poison Spray
- Polymorph
- Power Word Heal
- Power Word Kill
- Power Word Stun
- Prayer of Healing
- Prestidigitation
- Prismatic Spray
- Prismatic Wall
- Produce Flame
- Programmed Illusion
- Project Image
- Protection from Energy
- Protection from Evil and Good
- Protection from Poison
- Purify Food and Drink
- Raise Dead
- Rary's Telepathic Bond
- Ray of Enfeeblement
- Ray of Frost
- Ray of Sickness
- Regenerate
- Reincarnate
- Remove Curse
- Resistance
- Resurrection
- Reverse Gravity
- Revivify
- Rope Trick
- Sacred Flame
- Sanctuary
- Scorching Ray
- Scrying
- Searing Smite
- See Invisibility
- Seeming
- Sending
- Sequester
- Shapechange
- Shatter
- Shield
- Shield of Faith
- Shillelagh
- Shocking Grasp
- Silence
- Silent Image
- Simulacrum
- Sleep
- Sleet Storm
- Slow
- Spare the Dying
- Speak with Animals
- Speak with Dead
- Speak with Plants
- Spider Climb
- Spike Growth
- Spirit Guardians
- Spiritual Weapon
- Staggering Smite
- Stinking Cloud
- Stone Shape
- Stoneskin
- Storm of Vengeance
- Suggestion
- Sunbeam
- Sunburst
- Swift Quiver
- Symbol
- Tasha's Hideous Laughter
- Telekinesis
- Telepathy
- Teleport
- Teleportation Circle
- Tenser's Floating Disk
- Thaumaturgy
- Thorn Whip
- Thunderous Smite
- Thunderwave
- Time Stop
- Tongues
- Transport via Plants
- Tree Stride
- True Polymorph
- True Resurrection
- True Seeing
- True Strike
- Tsunami
- Unseen Servant
- Vampiric Touch
- Vicious Mockery
- Wall of Fire
- Wall of Force
- Wall of Ice
- Wall of Stone
- Wall of Thorns
- Warding Bond
- Water Breathing
- Water Walk
- Web
- Weird
- Wind Walk
- Wind Wall
- Wish
- Witch Bolt
- Word of Recall
- Wrathful Smite
- Zone of Truth