The Wizard raises his hand, and you watch him draw some symbols in the air, as he stops, you see a small orange ball of light at the tip of his finger. Let’s also assume they fail their Dex saving throw. So let’s say one of my NPC’s cast fireball at the party, this is how I would go on to describe it. Interestingly, this spell can dispel magical darkness cast on an area. Anything caught in its 60-foot radius must make a Con save, if they fail, they take 12d6 radiant damage and are considered blinded for 1 minute. Sunburst, this spell is a powerful holy spell. On top of most of the spells dealing damage, some have other effects on top of that, such as this spell. ![]() However, it seems more like it’s just a blast of intense fire that shoots out from the origin point. One interesting thing about Fireball that I used to mess up, is that I thought it was an active explosion, like, blowing up dynamite or something like that. Dealing 8d6 Fire damage to anyone caught in the blast who fails their Dex saving throw. When it’s used it creates a 20-foot-radius sphere of fire that radiates out from the center point. It’s the most obvious hard-hitting damage spell for its level. Such as this famous spell from the game.įireball is one of the most iconic spells from evocation. Evocation SpellsĪ lot of the spells in this school are directly damaging. The school contains a lot of iconic spells from the game, which we’re going to take a look at a couple of examples. ![]() The idea behind it is that as the caster, you manipulate the magical fabric of the world to shoot out fire or zap someone with lightning. ![]() Don’t get me wrong, there are spells in the other categories that deal damage, but that’s evocations main attraction, big hard hitting spells. With all that said, let’s look at the school of evocation! Evocation MagicĮvocation is the main school of magic if you’re looking to deal straight up damage to your foes. So please check that out if you’re looking for a quick overview of all the schools. We briefly went over the schools of magic in our previous post, DnD 5e Schools of Magic Explained. There will be a future post describing the different sources of magic within DnD in relation to the different spellcasting classes. I want to quickly mention that this is a look at this school of magic as a concept within DnD, as opposed to the specific Wizard school. As is now standard, we’ll get a brief summary of evocation, then look at some specific spell examples, and finally, we’ll finish off the post with some flavor of how I would describe certain evocation spells. So in today’s post, DnD 5e School of Evocation Explained, we’ll be going over probably one of the most common schools of magic, evocation.
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