Questions tagged [spell-components]
For questions about the components that go into spells, or how they are involved in spellcasting.
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Can you counterspell misty step while deafened?
The example is misty step, but works with every spell that has only verbal components, can such a spell be counterspelled if you can see the target within 60 feet, but you are deafened?
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Can a Sorcerer speak another spell's verbal components while using Subtle Spell?
Subtle Spell allows a Sorcerer to cast a spell without the verbal component and I was imagining a situation where the Sorcerer starts casting a subtle spell but while casting the spell he speaks the ...
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How can I cast while holding an Arcane Bond staff and a metamagic rod without a free hand for somatic and material components?
I'm playing a wizard with a Arcane Bond staff and I want to use a metamagic rod. I have the staff in one hand and the metamagic rod in the other. How do I cast without a free hand for the somatic and ...
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How should spell scrolls handle material components that must remain in place (e.g. Gentle Repose)?
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(PHB‑1) Player’s Handbook (2014 p. 203, Material Components):
“If a cost is indicated for a component, a character must have that specific component before he or she can cast the spell. If ...
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Can an Artificer cast spells that have a Somatic component while their hands are full, without War Caster or similar features?
In Tasha's Cauldron of Everything and the Artificer from Unearthed Arcana 2024: The Artificer, the Spellcasting feature has a section titled "Tools Required".
TCoE, p. 11:
Tools Required
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Does Divinely Favored actively eliminate the need for costly spell components?
I noticed an interesting application of specific beats general in SotDQ's feat, Divinely Favored. Relevant rules entries follow.
Divinely Favored (Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen, p.32) says, ...
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Can a spellcaster use the Blood Money spell to cast the Unseen Engineers spell for free?
New DM here. My player asked if he can use Blood Money to cast Unseen Engineers for free. At least up to however much gold value worth of strength that he has.
My question is about the material ...
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Does False Focus allow you to assume any components?
As far as I can tell, it's generally assumed that False Focus allows you to cast a spell as if it had any components. Can False Focus be used to supply multiple material components to the same spell ...
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If I buy spell components for a different price than the official one, does that change anything about how they work as a component?
Spell component amounts are expressed in GP. For example, a spell might require 1000 GP of diamonds. If I haggle with the shopkeeper and buy a diamond of 1000 GP for 900 GP; Or if the shopkeeper is ...
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Can sorcerers actually use wizardy spell formulas as their verbal components? [closed]
Most spells require a verbal component. We know that wizards learn the exact magic formulas to produce magic. Warlocks heavily rely on their patrons, leading them using primordial languages and long ...
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Can a Wooden Staff (Druidic Focus) also be used as an Arcane Focus?
Pretty much exactly the title. I've been pondering a multiclass character, which is both Druid and Wizard. However, I keep getting stuck on the character's spellcasting focus. It's because my ...
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Can a character speak while engulfed by a darkmantle?
The darkmantle’s Crush attack has the following effect:
it attaches by engulfing the target’s head, and the target is also blinded and unable to breathe while the darkmantle is attached in this way
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Can an Artificer with a prosthetic arm infusion cast spells with both hands full?
Very Similar to This question about whether an Artificer can generally cast spells with both hands full, but for an edge case I've encountered in a game I'm playing. I play an Artificer, who is using ...
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Can a character with no arms/hands cast spells with Somatic/Material components?
Inspired by a combination of this question about GM-controlled monsters and this question about the same topic as I'm asking here for 5e-2014.
Quite happily I will accept the premise that, because for ...
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How does the Bone Naga cast the Lightning Bolt spell?
In the new Monster Manual, the Bone Naga has the following Spellcasting entry (p. 53; emphasis added):
Spellcasting. The naga casts one of the following spells, requiring no Material components and ...
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