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When counterspelling a spell cast from a Trickery Cleric's Invoke Duplicity illusion, do you target the Cleric or the illusion?
The Trickery Domain Cleric gains the 2nd level Channel Divinity: Invoke Duplicity which grants that(PHB, 63)
For the duration, you can cast spells as though you were in the illusion’s space, but ...
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How many enemies can I hit with a Cloud of Daggers?
Cloud of Daggers has an area of a 5' cube. If I cast it on a group of enemies standing together (in adjacent "squares" if you use a battle map), can I affect more than one enemy with the spell? For ...
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What happens when a caster targets an object that looks like a creature with a spell that targets only creatures?
There are many spells which explicitly target creatures:
Choose one creature within range
The target creature is normally supposed to make a saving throw in this case.
What happens when the ...
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Can a multitarget spell with a range of "Touch" be delivered by both a familiar and the caster simultaneously?
I'm a level 5 warlock with Pact of the Chain, so I can cast invisibility with a level 3 slot, and cause 2 creatures to become invisible.
Can I use my familiar to deliver invisibility to both someone ...
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Can you dispel a magic effect you can't perceive?
Discussions about Dispel Magic seem to imply that as long as you can perceive a magic effect in range of the spell, you can try and dispel it.
See Can the Dispel Magic spell end a Darkness spell? ...
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Can a single casting of Dispel Magic dispel every creature conjured by a Conjure Animals spell?
Yesterday in a game, my character cast Conjure Animals and summoned 8 wolves†. On the baddies' turn, one cleric was about to cast Dispel Magic, but the DM changed his mind, deciding that the 8 wolves ...
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Can I only target other creatures, not myself, when casting spells such as Invisibility that target "a creature you touch"?
Invisibility reads: "A creature you touch becomes invisible until the spell ends..."
Greater Invisibility says: "You or a creature you touch becomes invisible until the spell ends..."
By omission, ...
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Do the targets of Prayer of Healing need to be present during the casting time? [duplicate]
Prayer of Healing has a casting time of 10 minutes. The typical case for this spell would be a cleric casting this on injured members of a party while they rest. But what if one more fellow drops in ...
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Can a spell be readied to trigger when its intended target comes into view?
Can I ready witch bolt, for instance, with the condition of attacking "the first goblin to come out of the cave" if I cannot see the goblin at the time of my (Ready) action? To be perfectly clear: at ...
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Does the secondary damage of the Green-Flame Blade cantrip damage the caster if no other targets are available?
The description of the green-flame blade cantrip (SCAG, p. 143) reads:
As part of the action used to cast this spell, you must make a melee attack with a weapon against one creature within the ...
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Can you cast a stealth spell on a vehicle?
Our party is traveling through the desert in a boat-like vehicle and we want to hide its tracks. We're not sure how to do that. Right now we're looking at spells that might help such as pass without ...
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Can the School of Necromancy wizard's Command Undead feature be used on very powerful undead?
The School of Necromancy wizard's 14th-level Command Undead feature says (PHB, p. 119):
As an action, you can choose one undead that you can see within 60 feet of you.
If that undead fails a ...
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If a caster uses a higher-level slot for the Enhance Ability spell, can they specify different effects for different targets?
If a caster uses a higher level slot for the Enhance Ability spell, can they specify different effects for different targets?
Example: target 1 gets Bear's Endurance, and target 2 gets Bull's ...
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Can you Enlarge/Reduce the planet you stand on?
I won't reprint the spell's text here, but the long and the short of it is that I don't see anything in the text of the spell that would prevent casting it on extremely big objects.
The planet sits ...
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What happens when you cast the Dispel Magic spell and target a summoned creature?
Regarding spells that summon more than one creature, like conjure animals, conjure woodland beings, etc.
What happens when you cast dispel magic on one of the summoned creatures? Does the whole spell ...
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