for example, druids are the only ones who naturally get druid craft.
l know l could just look at each spell on dndbeyond, but comparing all 100+ spells and who can use them is a pain, so l want to know if someone has already done the work so l dont have to. (l know dnd beyond has each class' spell list, but doing it that way requires too much back and forth from spell lists.
To be clear l want a list like
Druid exclusive spells:druid craft, sheleleh, bones of the earth, ect
I've got a spreadsheet that tracks this, but I haven't updated it for spells from the last 2 or 3 books (could do, though). How are you counting uniqueness? Do you want only spells that you have to be class X to get, like Invulnerability? Or what about spells like Hunter's Mark, which is unique to rangers in theory, but then certain subclasses can get, like Oath of Vengeance Paladins. Or spells acquired through a feat -- like taking Magic Initiate to get Find Familiar (or Shadow or Fey Touched). Technically, with Bards' Magical Secrets, the only spells that are unique any more are the Chronurgy/Graviturgy spells from EGtW, since those spells aren't on a class list at all. And what about the new optional added spells from Tasha's? Not the brand new spells, but the option to increase a class's spell list.
Honestly, l just want a easy way to look at two spell lists, say bard and cleric, and quickly tell which spells are shared between them, and which aren't. For example, only the cleric has guidance, the bard gets Vicious Mockery, but both have mending.
So far, the only way l have to do this is make a homebrew subclass, and give a bard the entire cleric list, and see which spells are doubled, which, though possible, is time consuming, especially for many different combinations, like bard wizard, wizard cleric, druid warlock, ect.
for example, druids are the only ones who naturally get druid craft.
l know l could just look at each spell on dndbeyond, but comparing all 100+ spells and who can use them is a pain, so l want to know if someone has already done the work so l dont have to. (l know dnd beyond has each class' spell list, but doing it that way requires too much back and forth from spell lists.
To be clear l want a list like
Druid exclusive spells:druid craft, sheleleh, bones of the earth, ect
Paladin spesific spells: SMITES.
ect. (does this make sence?)
To make it more manageable, I recommend looking through the spells one level at a time, and work your way from high level to low level. There are fewer high level spells compared to low level spells, and once you get in the rhythm of clicking through spells, it does not feel as daunting to go through all the spells.
For example 9th level: Invulnerability — Wizard Mass Heal — Cleric Power Word Heal — Bard Prismatic Wall — Wizard Storm of Vengeance — Druid Weird — Wizard
It took me at most two or three minutes to look go through 9th level and type the above list out. And then you can just sort them by class.
Yeah, I really wish pages like the spell page had exclusion options, and I really wish the pages with collapsed results had an expand/collapse all button. Not all the spells that are available via subclass, invocation, or other special subclass ability (I'm looking at you, Arcana Cleric) show up when you look on the spell pages, though.
Artificers have no unique spells, point blank, and Bards and Sorcerers only have unique spells if you're comparing class lists (ie, there are subclasses, invocations, etc, that also can get these spells). Bards make up for a lot of that with Magical Secrets, of course. I'd say excluding the Dunamancy spells, totally unique spells per class breaks down like this:
Clerics: 6 (all above 5th level)
Druids: 6 (all above 4th level)
Paladins: 6
Rangers: 4
Warlocks: 3 (all below 5th level)
Wizards: 0 (controversial, I'm sure! But we have fighter and rogue subclasses that have their pick of wizard spells level 1-5, and then a cleric subclass going after the rest.)
I'm pretty sure sharing my spreadsheet wouldn't violate copyright or anything, as it's all indexing data without the content of the spells or features that the data comes from, but to be on the safe side I won't provide a link on the forums. But I would recommend if you think you're going to want to make those comparisons a lot, making a spreadsheet like that is probably worth your time. Once it's made maintaining it isn't too hard, but it's a couple hours of data wrangling up front. I have another spreadsheet I made that's just feats, and to be honest, I use it more than DDB when picking feats, because I can search the full text of all the feats and once without having to expand or collapse, I can exclusion filter by prerequisite, or add new fields, like sorting by whether or not it grants spells.
Wizards: 0 (controversial, I'm sure! But we have fighter and rogue subclasses that have their pick of wizard spells level 1-5, and then a cleric subclass going after the rest.)
just from a quick glance Druid has atleast 8, and Wizard has a bunch above 5th level.
The spreadsheet I've got is accurate up to Tasha's, which was the last book to add spells. The only unique spells wizards as a full class have continues to be zero. Dunamancy spells aren't available to all wizards, they're not part of the class spell list, so I'm not counting those. If I was, then yeah, there would be a fair amount, but barring Dunamancy, a 17th-level Arcana Cleric can choose any 6th, 7th, 8th, and 9th level spell (one of each) and add them to their spell list, and Eldritch Knights and Arcane Tricksters have their pick of the rest.
The spells I've marked as 100% unique for Druids are Reincarnate, Druid Grove, Wind Walk, Animal Shapes, Tsunami, and Storm of Vengeance. There are a few other ones that are almost unique but that other classes can obtain, like Entangle, Call Lightning, Maelstrom etc. This is why the labeling and filtering on the spells page is so unfortunate, and why I keep the spreadsheet.
And of course, as was said up-thread, this is with throwing out Bards' Magical Secrets, or it'd all be a moot point.
Artificers have no unique spells, point blank, and Bards and Sorcerers only have unique spells if you're comparing class lists ie, there are subclasses, invocations, etc, that also can get these spells.
for example, druids are the only ones who naturally get druid craft.
l know l could just look at each spell on dndbeyond, but comparing all 100+ spells and who can use them is a pain, so l want to know if someone has already done the work so l dont have to. (l know dnd beyond has each class' spell list, but doing it that way requires too much back and forth from spell lists.
To be clear l want a list like
Druid exclusive spells:druid craft, sheleleh, bones of the earth, ect
Paladin spesific spells: SMITES.
ect. (does this make sence?)
https://www.reddit.com/r/dndnext/comments/4h11yf/class_exclusive_spells/
Not sure how up to date that is.
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I've got a spreadsheet that tracks this, but I haven't updated it for spells from the last 2 or 3 books (could do, though). How are you counting uniqueness? Do you want only spells that you have to be class X to get, like Invulnerability? Or what about spells like Hunter's Mark, which is unique to rangers in theory, but then certain subclasses can get, like Oath of Vengeance Paladins. Or spells acquired through a feat -- like taking Magic Initiate to get Find Familiar (or Shadow or Fey Touched). Technically, with Bards' Magical Secrets, the only spells that are unique any more are the Chronurgy/Graviturgy spells from EGtW, since those spells aren't on a class list at all. And what about the new optional added spells from Tasha's? Not the brand new spells, but the option to increase a class's spell list.
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Honestly, l just want a easy way to look at two spell lists, say bard and cleric, and quickly tell which spells are shared between them, and which aren't. For example, only the cleric has guidance, the bard gets Vicious Mockery, but both have mending.
So far, the only way l have to do this is make a homebrew subclass, and give a bard the entire cleric list, and see which spells are doubled, which, though possible, is time consuming, especially for many different combinations, like bard wizard, wizard cleric, druid warlock, ect.
To make it more manageable, I recommend looking through the spells one level at a time, and work your way from high level to low level. There are fewer high level spells compared to low level spells, and once you get in the rhythm of clicking through spells, it does not feel as daunting to go through all the spells.
For example 9th level:
Invulnerability — Wizard
Mass Heal — Cleric
Power Word Heal — Bard
Prismatic Wall — Wizard
Storm of Vengeance — Druid
Weird — Wizard
It took me at most two or three minutes to look go through 9th level and type the above list out. And then you can just sort them by class.
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Yeah, I really wish pages like the spell page had exclusion options, and I really wish the pages with collapsed results had an expand/collapse all button. Not all the spells that are available via subclass, invocation, or other special subclass ability (I'm looking at you, Arcana Cleric) show up when you look on the spell pages, though.
Artificers have no unique spells, point blank, and Bards and Sorcerers only have unique spells if you're comparing class lists (ie, there are subclasses, invocations, etc, that also can get these spells). Bards make up for a lot of that with Magical Secrets, of course. I'd say excluding the Dunamancy spells, totally unique spells per class breaks down like this:
I'm pretty sure sharing my spreadsheet wouldn't violate copyright or anything, as it's all indexing data without the content of the spells or features that the data comes from, but to be on the safe side I won't provide a link on the forums. But I would recommend if you think you're going to want to make those comparisons a lot, making a spreadsheet like that is probably worth your time. Once it's made maintaining it isn't too hard, but it's a couple hours of data wrangling up front. I have another spreadsheet I made that's just feats, and to be honest, I use it more than DDB when picking feats, because I can search the full text of all the feats and once without having to expand or collapse, I can exclusion filter by prerequisite, or add new fields, like sorting by whether or not it grants spells.
Birgit | Shifter | Sorcerer | Dragonlords
Shayone | Hobgoblin | Sorcerer | Netherdeep
just from a quick glance Druid has atleast 8, and Wizard has a bunch above 5th level.
The spreadsheet I've got is accurate up to Tasha's, which was the last book to add spells. The only unique spells wizards as a full class have continues to be zero. Dunamancy spells aren't available to all wizards, they're not part of the class spell list, so I'm not counting those. If I was, then yeah, there would be a fair amount, but barring Dunamancy, a 17th-level Arcana Cleric can choose any 6th, 7th, 8th, and 9th level spell (one of each) and add them to their spell list, and Eldritch Knights and Arcane Tricksters have their pick of the rest.
The spells I've marked as 100% unique for Druids are Reincarnate, Druid Grove, Wind Walk, Animal Shapes, Tsunami, and Storm of Vengeance. There are a few other ones that are almost unique but that other classes can obtain, like Entangle, Call Lightning, Maelstrom etc. This is why the labeling and filtering on the spells page is so unfortunate, and why I keep the spreadsheet.
And of course, as was said up-thread, this is with throwing out Bards' Magical Secrets, or it'd all be a moot point.
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So I needed a list of class unique spells and couldn't find it anywhere, decided to make one and share it with whoever needs it.
Class unique spells in alphabetical order, from the PHB 2024:
bard
cleric
druid
paladin
ranger
sorcerer
warlock
wizard