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Can you prevent players using cantrips to tell whether a creature is disguised as an object?
As it is established in the question below that there is some distinction between a cantrip that targets a creature and targeting an object:
What happens when a caster targets an object that looks ...
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What are the limitations on the Shape Water cantrip?
I have been having a discussion regarding the Shape Water cantrip from the Elemental Evil Player's Companion. A friend and I are trying to come to an accurate view of how this spell actually functions....
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Can I cast the Light cantrip on an 11-foot pole?
The description of the Light spell in D&D 5e says:
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 ...
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How does targeting work for the Poison Spray cantrip?
Poison spray targets only one creature (at a range of 10 feet), but the description talks about "a puff of noxious gas [projected] from your palm." sounds like it should affect a creature ...
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Can you twin the Light cantrip?
This question is very similar to my previous question here, and is more what I was originally trying to ask.
Jeremy Crawford clarified in the 19/JAN/2017 Sage Advice segment of the Dragon Talk ...
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Can I successfully cast the Message cantrip targeting a familiar creature in range when I have no idea where they are to "point toward"?
This came up last night in-session, and RAW, I do not believe the verbiage of the Message Cantrip matches RAI. The issue arises due to the fact that the spell seems to be two spells in one.
You point ...
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Can the sorcerer's Metamagic option Twinned Spell be used on the Eldritch Blast cantrip?
I was just reading this on an online max-DPR build. There were some who thought using the Metamagic option Twinned Spell on the warlock's Eldritch Blast cantrip was illegal, and some who thought the ...
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Can the Green-Flame Blade cantrip be cast as a reaction using the War Caster feat?
The War Caster feat (PHB, p. 170) allows a single-target spell ("must target only that creature") to be cast instead of an opportunity attack.
The Green-Flame Blade cantrip (SCAG, p. 142) ...
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At higher levels, can the Eldritch Blast cantrip be cast as a reaction with the War Caster feat if all the beams are directed at a single target?
The final benefit of the War Caster feat says (PHB, p. 170):
The spell [...] must target only one creature.
If my character is level 5+, does a spell like eldritch blast still meet this condition as ...
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Can I cast spells requiring pointing at the target by looking in a mirror?
I am trying to cast a spell, like Message which requires "pointing" at the target, but without looking directly a the target.
I think there are two possible situations that could occur:
As ...
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Can the Mending cantrip be used on plants?
The description of the mending cantrip says:
This spell repairs a single break or tear in an object you touch, such
as a broken chain link, two halves of a broken key, a torn cloak, or a
leaking ...
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If there is no other enemy within 5 feet of the initial target of the Green-Flame Blade cantrip, must the fire leap to a friendly creature in range?
When I use the green-flame blade cantrip to attack a creature, then it can bounce the flame to a creature within 5 feet of my target.
If there is no enemy within 5 feet of my target, but there is a ...
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Does Minor Illusion break only when someone spends an action to investigate it?
Using Minor Illusion to create a 5x5' cube of stone, one of my players who was a 6'4" ranger claimed it gave him three quarters cover and that he was shooting over it. I was okay with that. But ...
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Do multiple beams from Eldritch Blast happen simultaneously or not by RAW? [duplicate]
After reading Can you move between the separate attacks of a spell?, I was quite surprised to learn that eldritch blast can be considered to not fire the beams simultaneously.
Given that the spell's ...
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Would the Sacred Flame cantrip hurt a person whom the target is holding as a hostage/human shield?
An enemy had grabbed a friendly NPC and was using him as a hostage and standing behind him as cover. The (new) DM seemed to be implying that the archers in our party would risk shooting the friendly.
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