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Spark Jolt (1st Level, Evocation)

Casting Time: 1 action

Range: Self

Components: V, S

Duration: Instantaneous

Classes: Sorcerer, Warlock, Wizard

You slam the ground with great force, causing a shower of red-hot sparks. Each creature of your choice within 15 feet must make a Dexterity saving throw, taking 2d6 fire damage on a failed save, or half as much on a success. A creature that fails this saving throw is also blinded until the start of your next turn.

After casting this spell, roll a d20 and record the result. Once before the end of your next short or long rest, when you roll a d20 you can choose to replace the roll with the recorded one. You can do so after seeing the roll, but before you know the result. If you have already cast a spell that allows you to roll any number of d20s and record the results, you lose the results of any previously recorded rolls.

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Stymied Hopes (2nd Level, Abjuration)

Casting Time: 1 reaction, taken when you see a creature within 60 feet of you casting a spell

Range: 60 feet

Components: S

Duration: Instantaneous

Classes: Bard, Cleric, Warlock

You attempt to interfere with a creature in the process of casting a spell, forcing it to expend additional magical energy to continue the casting. At the same time, you steal this energy for your own, and use it to help yourself divine the future. If the creature is casting a spell of 2nd level or lower, it must expend an additional spell slot of 1st level or higher, otherwise its spell fails and has no effect. Then, if its spell fails, roll a d20 and record the result. Once before the end of your next short or long rest, when you roll a d20 you can choose to replace the roll with the recorded one. You can do so after seeing the roll, but before you know the result. If you have already cast a spell that allows you to roll any number of d20s and record the results, you lose the results of any previously recorded rolls.

At Higher Levels. When you cast this spell using a spell slot of 3rd level or higher, the level of spell affected and the level of the spell slot that must be expended both increase by 1 for each slot level above 2nd.

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Steam Augury (8th Level, Divination)

Casting Time: 10 minutes

Range: Self

Components: V, S

Duration: Concentration, up to 1 hr.

Classes: Cleric

You coat one hand in flame and the other in water, and crash the two together, generating a powerful cloud of steam. As the cloud slowly dissipates, you watch its movements for any sign of a pattern, detecting in its subtle movements vision of the future. When you cast this spell, roll 5d20, and choose and record one result. Then choose attack roll, saving throw, or ability check. For the duration of the spell, whenever you make a roll of the chosen type, you can instead choose to use the recorded result in place of the roll, allowing the possible futures you have seen to guide you.

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Swan Song (2nd Level, Conjuration)

Casting Time: 1 reaction, taken when you see a creature within 60 feet of you casting a spell

Range: 60 feet

Components: S, M (the feather of a swan, goose, duck, or other bird capable of swimming)

Duration: Instantaneous

Classes: Sorcerer, Wizard

You attempt to wrest control of a spell from the creature casting uit, turning the magical energy away from its intended use and towards the summoning of new life instead. If the creature is casting a spell of 3rd level or lower, its spell fails, and instead of the intended effect, the spell summons a beast of the spellcaster’s choice of a CR equal to or less than the level of the interrupted spell. The summoned creature is under the spellcaster’s control, acts at the end of its turn, and obeys any mental commands the spellcaster issues to it (no action required).

At Higher Levels. When you cast this spell using a spell slot of 3rd level or higher, the interrupted spell instead fails and instead summons a beast under the spellcaster’s control if its level is less than or equal to 1 + the level of the spell slot you used.

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Hushbringer

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Lash of the Whip (5th Level, Necromancy)

Casting Time: 1 action

Range: Self

Components: S, M (the thigh bone of a beast, monstrosity, or humanoid)

Duration: Concentration, up to 1 min.

Classes: Cleric, Warlock, Wizard

A whip of malevolent, purple energy springs forth from your hand, twisting and writhing as if it were a living creature, seeking blood. As part of casting the spell, and as an action on each of your turns for the spell’s duration, you can make a melee spell attack using the whip against a creature you can see within 20 feet. When you hit a target with the whip, it takes 4d8 necrotic damage, and if the target is a creature, it must make a Constitution saving throw. On a failed save, the target has disadvantage on all attack rolls, saving throws, and ability checks until the start of your next turn.

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Lightning Strike (2nd Level, Evocation)

Casting Time: 1 action

Range: 60 feet 

Components: S

Duration: Instantaneous

Classes: Druid, Sorcerer, Wizard

Lightning leaps from your fingers towards a target that you can see within range. Make a ranged spell attack against the target. On a hit, the target takes 2d12 lightning damage, and must succeed on a Constitution saving throw or be stunned until the end of its next turn.

At Higher Levels. When you cast this spell using a spell slot of 3rd level or higher, the damage increases by 1d12 for each slot level above 2nd.

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Lost in a Labyrinth (1st Level, Enchantment)

Casting Time: 1 action

Range: 120 feet

Components: V, S

Duration: 1 round

Classes: Bard, Wizard

One creature of your choice that you can see within range must make a Wisdom saving throw. On a failed save, the target can only watch as its surroundings disappear, replaced with the walls of an illusionary labyrinth. While under the effects of the spell, the target can’t see any creature further than 10 feet away from it. At the start of the target’s next turn, it must roll a d20, and move up to its speed in the resulting direction. This movement doesn’t provoke opportunity attacks, and if the direction rolled is blocked, the target doesn’t move. At the end of the target’s next turn, the illusionary walls disappear, and the spell ends.

1-5: North

6-10: East

11-15: South

16-20: West

After casting the spell, roll a d20 and record the result. Once before the end of your next short or long rest, when you roll a d20 you can choose to replace the roll with the recorded one. You can do so after seeing the roll, but before you know the result.

At Higher Levels. When you cast this spell using a spell slot of 2nd level or higher, you can target an additional creature for each slot level above 1st. Each of the targets must be within 10 feet of a previous target.

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March of the Returned (4th Level, Necromancy)

Casting Time: 1 hour

Range: Touch

Components: V, S, M (an object of importance to the dead creature, consumed in the casting)

Duration: Instantaneous

Classes: Cleric, Paladin, Warlock

Using the creature’s personal connection with the material component of the spell, you conjure its body and soul back to life, causing each to separately manifest on the Material Plane. The creature’s body returns to life with 1 hit point, except that it is an undead, and has no memory of its life before death. The creature’s soul returns to life as a ghost, which also has no memory of its life before death, and which appears in a random unoccupied space within 100 feet. This spell also neutralizes any poisons and cures nonmagical diseases that affected the creature at the time it died. This spell doesn’t, however, remove magical diseases, curses, or similar effects; if these aren’t first removed prior to casting the spell, they take effect when the creature returns to life. The spell can’t return an undead creature to life. This spell closes all mortal wounds, but it doesn’t restore missing body parts. If the creature is lacking body parts or organs integral for its survival – its head, for instance – the spell automatically fails.

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Hero’s Downfall (6th Level, Necromancy)

Casting Time: 1 reaction, taken when hit a creature with a weapon attack

Range: Self

Components: S

Duration: Instantaneous

Classes: Bard, Cleric, Druid, Sorcerer, Warlock, Wizard

As your weapon strikes the target, curling wisps of shadow blossom from the injury, and tainted lines of darkness begin to spread across the target’s body from the point of impact. The target must make a Constitution saving throw. On a failed save, the target takes 8d10 necrotic damage and becomes poisoned for 1 minute. On a success, the target takes half as much damage and is not poisoned. The target’s maximum hit points are reduced by an amount equal to the necrotic damage dealt this way.

At Higher Levels. When you cast this spell using a higher level spell slot, it deals an additional 1d10 necrotic damage for each slot level above 6th, and the effect changes depending upon the level of the spell slot used. If cast using a spell slot of 8th level or higher, on a failed saving throw the target also suffers one level of exhaustion.

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Defend the Hearth (2nd Level, Abjuration)

Casting Time: 1 reaction, taken when an object or structure you can see within range is hit by an attack

Range: 120 feet

Components: V, S

Duration: Concentration, up to 1 min.

Classes: Sorcerer, Wizard

A group of soldiers, ethereal but armed with very solid-looking shields and spears, springs up around the object or structure. For the duration of the spell, the object or structure is immune to all damage, including from the triggering attack. In addition, if the object is a structure, creatures are magically prevented from entering or exiting the structure for the duration.

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Pierce the Sky (2nd Level, Transmutation)

Casting Time: 1 bonus action

Range: Touch

Components: S, M (a feather at least 6 inches long)

Duration: 1 round

Classes: Druid, Paladin, Ranger, Wizard

You touch a ranged weapon or a single piece of ammunition. The next time before the end of your next turn that a creature makes a ranged attack roll with the weapon or ammunition, the range of the attack is doubled and it deals an additional 2d10 damage on a hit. If the target of the attack is a flying creature, the attack instead deals an additional 4d10 damage and the target must succeed on a Dexterity saving throw or immediately fall prone.

At Higher Levels. When you cast this spell using a spell slot of 3rd level or higher, the additional damage increases by 1d10 for each slot level above 2nd.

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Precognition Field (8th Level, Divination)

Casting Time: 10 minutes

Range: Self

Components: V, S, M (two crystal lenses each worth 1,500 gp)

Duration: Concentration, up to 1 hr.

Classes: Wizard

You carefully line up the crystal lenses so that they are exactly opposite each other, with yourself in the middle. As you cast the spell, a cloud of swirling dust filled with twinkling motes of light begins to appear around you, eventually coalescing into a thick gas. This gas remains for the duration of the spell, floating in the air between the two lenses without moving or dissipating, flashing with sparks of light and glimpses of movement. For every 10 minutes that you spend studying the gas and the movements within, you can ask the GM one question about the future and make a DC 20 Intelligence (Investigation) or Wisdom (Insight) check. On a success, the GM answers the question to the best of their abilities with a short phrase, 25 words or less. The question must be related to events that will occur in the next 24 hours after the casting of this spell, and events which you will be present for. For instance, you may ask the chances of success for a particular course of action, whether or not a specific companion might betray the others, or whether a specific event will occur. You could not ask whether you will successfully arrive at a destination further than 24 hours away, or what might happen in a specific location that you could not reasonably get to in the allotted time. After receiving an answer to a question that you have asked, you can immediately expend a spell slot of 3rd level or higher to receive further information about the answer, another short phrase of 25 words or less. You must expend the spell slot immediately after receiving the answer; you can not spend 10 minutes and ask another question, then attempt to receive further information about a previous question unless you spend 10 minutes to ask the question again.

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Commune with the Gods (2nd Level, Divination)

Casting Time: 1 action (ritual)

Range: Self

Components: V, M (an offering of gold, silver, or gems worth a total of 500 gp, consumed in the casting)

Duration: Instantaneous

Classes: Cleric

You offer up the material component of the spell to your deity, watching as their power consumes it. When you cast this spell, you can immediately exchange any number of spells from your list of currently prepared spells with an equal number of spells from the cleric spell list. The spells that you add to your list of prepared spells must all be of 5th level or below.

At Higher Levels. When you cast this spell using a spell slot of 3rd level or higher, the level of the spells that you can add to your list of prepared spells increases by one for each slot level above 2nd.

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Colossus of Akros

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Curse of the Swine (6th Level, Transmutation)

Casting Time: 1 action

Range: 90 feet

Components: V, S, M (the snout or hoof of a pig)

Duration: Until dispelled

Classes: Bard, Druid, Sorcerer, Wizard

You attempt to transform one creature of your choice that you can see within range into a lowly pig. The target must succeed on a Wisdom saving throw to resist the transformation. A shapechanger automatically succeeds on the save. On a failed save, the target’s game statistics, including mental ability scores, are replaced by the statistics of a boar, but the target retains its hit points, alignment, and personality. A target reverts to its normal form if the effect is dispelled or when it dies. The creature is limited in the actions it can perform by the nature of its new form. It can’t speak, cast spells, or do anything else that requires hands or speech. The target’s gear melds into the new form. The target can’t activate, use, wield, or otherwise benefit from any of its equipment.

At Higher Levels. When you cast this spell using a spell slot of 7th level or higher, you can target an additional two creatures for each slot level above 6th.

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