Summary

Spells are the breadstuff and butter of any magic user inDungeons & Dragons , and even martial classes can occasionally have the chance to dip their toe into spellcasting . They can also be one of the most consuming aspects ofbuilding aDnDcharacter , as the 2024Player ’s Handbookfeatures a vast smorgasbord of spells to prefer from .

DnDspells are divided into eight different schools of magic , each of which interpolate the bounds of realism in a unlike way . All sorcerous classes have their own piece lists , which draw from across schools of deception to build the appropriate flavor for each course of study . The 2024Player ’s Handbookcontains almost 400 spells in sum , with most of them returning from former textile alongside a small selection ofcompletely new spell addition .

Character backgrounds are more important than ever in the Dungeons & Dragons 2024 Player ’s Handbook , and there ’s a enceinte choice to opt from .

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8Abjuration Spells

Spell

Level

compactness

A bard playing a stringed instrument and manipulating a kobold in D&D 2024 Player’s Handbook art.

Ritual

Blade Ward

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A dragonborn Monk and human Wizard as depicted in D&D’s 2024 Player’s Handbook.

electrical resistance

consternation

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Art from the 2024 Player’s Handbook showing a D&D character casting Raise Dead on a fallen companion.

armour of Agathys

Cure Wounds

Healing Word

A D&D character in fine clothes writing with a quill pin in 2024 Player’s Handbook art.

Dungeons and Dragons is a popular tabletop game originally invented in 1974 by Ernest Gary Gygax and David Arneson. The fantasy role-playing game brings together players for a campaign with various components, including abilities, races, character classes, monsters, and treasures. The game has drastically expanded since the ’70s, with numerous updated box sets and expansions.

Mage Armor

Protection from Evil and Good

Sanctuary

A cleric casts a healing spell onto a wounded person.

Shield

Shield of Faith

Aid

A D&D character hiding behind a curtain and using mage hand to manipulate an auction.

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Arcane Lock

Arcane Vigor

A druid spellcaster surrounded by plant and animal life in D&D’s 2024 Player’s Handbook.

Lesser Restoration

go through without Trace

Prayer of Healing

DnD character being caught by Hold Person spell

Protection from Poison

Warding Bond

Aura of Vitality

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Beacon of Hope

Counterspell

A character pulling an invisibile cloak over themselves in D&D art.

Dispel Magic

Glyph of Warding

Magic Circle

A necromancer raising corpses while holding up a dagger.

Mass Healing discussion

Nondetection

Protection from Energy

Falling wizard using feather fall in DnD.

bump off Curse

Aura of living

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Dungeons and Dragons is a popular tabletop game originally invented in 1974 by Ernest Gary Gygax and David Arneson. The fantasy role-playing game brings together players for a campaign with various components, including abilities, races, character classes, monsters, and treasures. The game has drastically expanded since the ’70s, with numerous updated box sets and expansions.

Aura of Purity

Banishment

Death Ward

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Freedom of Movement

Mordenkainen ’s Private Sanctum

Antilife Shell

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Circle of Power

Dispel Evil and Good

Greater Restoration

Hallow

Mass Cure Wounds

Planar Binding

contingence

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Forbiddance

Globe of Invulnerability

Guards and Wards

Heal

Symbol

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Antimagic Field

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Holy Aura

Mind Blank

Imprisonment

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Mass Heal

Prismatic Wall

7Conjuration Spells

Mage Hand

Produce Flame

subdivision of Hadar

trap tap

Entangle

Find conversant

Fog Cloud

Goodberry

grunge

Hail of Thorns

Ice Knife

Tenser ’s Floating Disk

unobserved Servant

Cloud of Daggers

Find Steed

Flaming Sphere

Misty Step

Summon Beast

Web

Call Lightning

Conjure Animals

Conjure Barrage

Create Food and Water

Hunger of Hadar

Sleet Storm

Spirit Guardians

reek Cloud

Summon Fey

Conjure Minor Elementals

Conjure Woodland Beings

Dimension Door

Evard ’s Black Tentacles

Giant Insect

Grasping Vine

Guardian of Faith

Leomund ’s undercover Chest

Mordenkainen ’s Faithful Hound

Summon Aberration

Summon Construct

Summon Elemental

Banishing Smite

Cloudkill

Conjure Elemental

Conjure Volley

Insect Plague

Steel Wind Strike

Summon Celestial

Summon Dragon

Teleportation Circle

Tree Stride

Arcane Gate

Conjure Fey

Drawmij ’s Instant Summons

Heroes ' banquet

Planar Ally

Summon Fiend

Tasha ’s burble Cauldron

Transport via plant

Wall of Thorns

tidings of Recall

Conjure Celestial

Etherealness

Mordenkainen ’s Magnificent Mansion

Plane Shift

Teleport

Demiplane

Incendiary CLoud

Maze

Tsunami

logic gate

Storm of Vengeance

Wish

There ’s always been an answer out there , but putting it in the book for the first sentence could settle a pile of arguments about how to play .

6Divination Spells

Guidance

True smash

Comprehend words

observe Evil and ripe

Detect Magic

discover Poison and Disease

Hunter ’s Mark

Identify

Speak with Animals

Augury

Beast Sense

Detect thought

Find Traps

Locate Animals or Plants

Locate Object

Mind Spike

See Invisibility

ESP

Sending

Tongues

Arcane Eye

prophecy

Locate Creature

Commune

Commune with Nature

contact lens Other Plane

Legend Lore

Rary ’s Telepathic Bond

Scrying

Find the Path

dead on target eyesight

Telepathy

foresightedness

Hunter ’s marktakes on a new emphasisas a central feature of the Ranger toolkit in the 2024Player ’s Handbook .

5Enchantment Spells

Friends

Mind Sliver

Minor Illusion

Vicious Mockery

Animal Friendship

Bane

Bless

Charm Person

bid

obligate Duel

Dissonant Whispers

valorousness

curse

Sleep

Tasha ’s horrific Laughter

Animal Messenger

Calm emotion

Crown of Madness

Enthrall

Hold Person

Suggestion

Zone of Truth

Charm Monster

Compulsion

confusedness

Dominate Beast

astounding Smite

Dominate Person

Geas

Hold Monster

Modify Memory

Synaptic Static

Yolande ’s Regal Presence

Mass Suggestion

Otto ’s Irresistible Dance

mogul Word Fortify

Antipathy / Sympathy

Befuddlement

Dominate Monster

Glibness

index Word Stun

Power Word Heal

baron Word Kill

Feats are a fun way to spice up characters in Dungeons & Dragons , and the 2024 Player ’s Handbook put up a lot of options across several categories .

4Evocation Spells

Acid Splash

Eldritch Blast

Fire Bolt

Light

Ray of Frost

Sacred Flame

Shocking Grasp

Sorcerous Burst

Starry Wisp

bombshell

Word of Radiance

burn Hands

Chromatic Orb

Divine Smite

Faerie Fire

draw Bolt

Hellish Rebuke

Magic Missile

sear Smite

Thunderous Smite

Thunderwave

Witch Bolt

Continual Flame

Darkness

Flame Blade

Gust of air current

Melf ’s Acid Arrow

Moonbeam

scorch Ray

Shatter

Spiritual Weapon

Blinding Smite

Crusader ’s Mantle

Daylight

Fireball

Leomund ’s Tiny Hut

Lightning Bolt

Wind Wall

Fire Shield

Fount of Moonlight

Ice Storm

Otiluke ’s Resilient Sphere

Vitriolic Sphere

Wall of Fire

Bigby ’s Hand

Cone of Cold

Destructive Wave

Flame Strike

Jallarzi ’s Storm of Radiance

Wall of Force

Wall of Stone

Blade Barrier

Chain Lightning

Otiluke ’s Freezing Sphere

Sunbeam

Wall of Ice

Delayed Blast Fireball

Divine Word

Fire Storm

Forcecage

Mordenkainen ’s Sword

Prismatic Spray

Sunburst

Meteor Swarm

3Illusion Spells

Dancing Lights

Color Spray

Disguise Self

Illusory Script

Silent Image

Blur

Invisibility

Magic Mouth

Mirror persona

Nystul ’s Magic Aura

Phantasmal Force

Silence

Fear

Hypnotic Pattern

Major Image

Phantom Steed

Greater Invisiblity

Hallucinatory Terrain

Phantasmal killer whale

Creation

Dream

Mislead

Seeming

Programmed Illusion

Mirage Arcane

Project Image

Simulacrum

unearthly

The 2024 Dungeons & Dragons Player ’s Handbook has a strong batting order of classes and subclasses to choose from , even if thing have shifted a chip .

2Necromancy Spells

Chill Touch

Poison Spray

dispense with the Dying

Toll the Dead

sham Life

Inflict Wounds

Ray of Sickness

Wrathful Smite

Gentle Repose

Ray of Enfeeblement

Animate Dead

Bestow Curse

Feign Death

Revivify

talk with Dead

Summon Undead

Vampiric Touch

Blight

contagious disease

Raise Dead

Reincarnate

Circle of decease

produce Undead

Eyebite

Harm

Magic Jar

Finger of Death

Christ’s Resurrection

Clone

Astral Projection

dependable Resurrection of Christ

1Transmutation Spells

Druidcraft

Elementalism

mend

Message

Prestidigitation

Shillelagh

Thaumaturgy

Thorn Whip

Create or Destroy Water

Divine Favor

Expeditious hideaway

Feather Fall

Jump

Longstrider

purge Food and Drink

Alter Self

Barskin

Blindness / Deafness

Cordon of Arrows

Darkvision

Dragon ’s Breath

raise power

Enlarge / Reduce

Heat Metal

Knock

Levitate

Magic arm

Rope Trick

Shining Smite

Spider Climb

Spike emergence

eye blink

Elemental Weapon

Fly

Gaseous Form

Haste

Lightning Arrow

Meld into Stone

Plant Growth

Slow

Speak with plant

pee Breathing

Water Walk

Control Water

manufacture

Polymorph

Stone Shape

Stoneskin

Animate object

Awaken

Passwall

Swift Quiver

Telekinesis

decompose

Flesh to Stone

Move Earth

Wind take the air

Regenerate

Reverse Gravity

Sequester

fauna Shapes

Control Weather

Earthquake

Shapechange

Time blockade

True Polymorph

Dungeons and Dragons is a popular tabletop game originally invented in 1974 by   Ernest Gary Gygax and David Arneson .   The fantasy role - trifle game play together players for a campaign with various components , including abilities , backwash , character classes , monsters , and treasures . The game has drastically expanded since the ' 70s , with numerous updated box sets and expansions .