For more context, Bavlorna Blightstraw in The Wild Beyond the Witchlight has an allergy to seeing widdershins. It doesn’t allow her to cast spells. She has a spell casting list but she also has create lornling and withering ray as part of her actions. Would those not be able to be used?
For more context, Bavlorna Blightstraw in The Wild Beyond the Witchlight has an allergy to seeing widdershins. It doesn’t allow her to cast spells. She has a spell casting list but she also has create lornling and withering ray as part of her actions. Would those not be able to be used?
* can’t find anything clarifying this.
If it's not listed under "Spellcasting" (or otherwise identified as a spell) it's not a spell.
If it ain’t on this list, it ain’t a spell:
https://www.dndbeyond.com/spells
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For Bavlorna Blightstraw specifically, only the spell's listed under "spellcasting" are spells. Her other actions (while spell-like) are not spells.
Does that mean you can't use counterspell since its not a spell?
Yes, you cannot counterspell something that is not a spell.
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