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Returning 35 results for 'melee spell with only acid fails for long'.
Monsters
Monster Manual
three Rend attacks. It can replace one attack with a use of Spellcasting to cast Melf's Acid Arrow (level 3 version).
Rend. Melee Attack Roll: +11;{"diceNotation":"1d20+11", "rollType":"to hit
Throw: DC 18, each creature in a 60-foot-long, 5-foot-wide Line. Failure: 54 (12d8);{"diceNotation":"12d8", "rollType":"damage", "rollAction":"Acid Breath", "rollDamageType":"Acid"} Acid damage. Success
Monsters
Monster Manual
three Rend attacks. It can replace one attack with a use of Spellcasting to cast Melf's Acid Arrow (level 4 version).
Rend. Melee Attack Roll: +15;{"diceNotation":"1d20+15", "rollType":"to hit
Throw: DC 22, each creature in a 90-foot-long, 10-foot-wide Line. Failure: 67 (15d8);{"diceNotation":"15d8", "rollType":"damage", "rollAction":"Acid Breath", "rollDamageType":"Acid"} Acid damage
Monsters
Monster Manual
60-foot-long, 5-foot-wide Line. Failure: 54 (12d8);{"diceNotation":"12d8", "rollType":"damage", "rollAction":"Acid Breath", "rollDamageType":"Acid"} Acid damage. Success: Half damage.
Slowing Breath
Legendary Resistance (3/Day, or 4/Day in Lair). If the dragon fails a saving throw, it can choose to succeed instead.Multiattack. The dragon makes three Rend attacks. It can replace one attack with a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sage Advice & Errata
Is the intent that only Melee weapon attacks can knock foes Unconscious, or can melee spell attacks as well? If you reduce a creature to 0 Hit Points with a melee attack, you can knock the creature
out. That melee attack isn’t restricted to weapons. Even a melee spell attack can be used to knock a creature out.
Monsters
Monster Manual
90-foot-long, 10-foot-wide Line. Failure: 63 (14d8);{"diceNotation":"14d8", "rollType":"damage", "rollAction":"acid breath", "rollDamageType":"Acid"} Acid damage. Success: Half damage.
Slowing Breath
Legendary Resistance (4/Day, or 5/Day in Lair). If the dragon fails a saving throw, it can choose to succeed instead.Multiattack. The dragon makes three Rend attacks. It can replace one attack with a
Magic Items
Dungeon Master’s Guide
Intelligence (Arcana) check. On a successful check, you cast the spell. On a failed check, the spell fails, and the action used to cast the spell is wasted. In either case, you can’t use this property again until you finish a Long Rest.
spells.
Unknown Spell. As a Magic action, you can try to cast a cantrip that you don’t know. The cantrip must be on the Wizard spell list and have a casting time of an action, and you make a DC 10
Monsters
Monster Manual
", "rollType":"damage", "rollAction":"Psychic Crush", "rollDamageType":"Psychic"} Psychic damage.Mind Corrosion. Trigger: The ooze fails a saving throw against a spell or another magical effect created by
Amorphous. The ooze can move through a space as narrow as 1 inch without expending extra movement to do so.Pseudopod. Melee Attack Roll: +3;{"diceNotation":"1d20+3", "rollType":"to hit", "rollAction
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a casting time of an action, and you make a DC 10 Intelligence (Arcana) check. On a successful check, you cast the spell. On a failed check, the spell fails, and the action used to cast it is wasted. In either case, you can’t use this property again until you finish a Long Rest.
amulet as a Spellcasting Focus for your Warlock spells.
Unknown Spell. As a Magic action, you can try to cast a cantrip that you don’t know. The cantrip must be on the Warlock spell list and have
Monsters
Monster Manual
creature in a 30-foot-long, 5-foot-wide Line. Failure: 49 (14d6);{"diceNotation":"14d6", "rollType":"damage", "rollAction":"Acid Breath", "rollDamageType":"Acid"} Acid damage. Success: Half damage.Acid
Amphibious. The dragon can breathe air and water.Multiattack. The dragon makes three Rend attacks.
Rend. Melee Attack Roll: +7;{"diceNotation":"1d20+7", "rollType":"to hit", "rollAction":"Rend
Monsters
Monster Manual
in a 15-foot-long, 5-foot-wide Line. Failure: 22 (5d8);{"diceNotation":"5d8", "rollType":"damage", "rollAction":"Acid Breath", "rollDamageType":"Acid"} Acid damage. Success: Half damage.Acid
Amphibious. The dragon can breathe air and water.Multiattack. The dragon makes two Rend attacks.
Rend. Melee Attack Roll: +4;{"diceNotation":"1d20+4", "rollType":"to hit", "rollAction":"Rend
Monsters
Monster Manual
-foot-long, 5-foot-wide Line. Failure: 18 (4d8);{"diceNotation":"4d8", "rollType":"damage", "rollAction":"Acid Breath", "rollDamageType":"Acid"} Acid damage. Success: Half damage.
Slowing Breath
Rend. Melee Attack Roll: +4;{"diceNotation":"1d20+4", "rollType":"to hit", "rollAction":"Rend"}, reach 5 ft. Hit: 7 (1d10 + 2);{"diceNotation":"1d10+2", "rollType":"damage", "rollAction":"Rend
Monsters
Monster Manual
Grappled condition (escape DC 13).
Acid Spray (Recharge 6);{"diceNotation":"1d6", "rollType":"recharge", "rollAction":"Acid Spray"}. Dexterity Saving Throw: DC 12, each creature in a 30-foot-long, 5
Tunneler. The ankheg can burrow through solid rock at half its Burrow Speed and leaves a 10-foot-diameter tunnel in its wake.Bite. Melee Attack Roll: +5;{"diceNotation":"1d20+5", "rollType":"to
Magic Items
Dungeon Master’s Guide
When you drink this potion, you gain the “reduce” effect of the Enlarge/Reduce spell for 1d4 hours (no Concentration required).
The red in the potion’s liquid continuously
contracts to a tiny bead and then expands to color the clear liquid around it. Shaking the bottle fails to interrupt this process.
Monsters
Monster Manual
", "rollType":"recharge", "rollAction":"Acid Breath"}. Dexterity Saving Throw: DC 14, each creature in a 40-foot-long, 5-foot-wide Line. Failure: 40 (9d8);{"diceNotation":"9d8", "rollType":"damage
Multiattack. The dragon makes three Rend attacks. It can replace one attack with a use of Slowing Breath.
Rend. Melee Attack Roll: +7;{"diceNotation":"1d20+7", "rollType":"to hit", "rollAction
Monsters
Monster Manual
", "rollAction":"Ooze Cube", "rollDamageType":"Acid"} Acid damage.
Transparent. Even when the cube is in plain sight, a creature must succeed on a DC 15 Wisdom (Perception) check to notice the cube if the
creature hasn’t witnessed the cube move or otherwise act.Pseudopod. Melee Attack Roll: +4;{"diceNotation":"1d20+4", "rollType":"to hit", "rollAction":"Pseudopod"}, reach 5 ft. Hit: 12 (3d6 + 2
Equipment
A yklwa (pronounced YICK-ul-wah) is a simple melee weapon that is the traditional weapon of Chultan warriors. A yklwa consists of a 3-foot wooden shaft with a steel or stone blade up to 18 inches
long. It costs 1 gp, and it deals 1d8 piercing damage on a hit. Although it has the thrown weapon property, the yklwa is not well balanced for throwing (range 10/30 ft.).
Spells
Player’s Handbook
A shimmering green arrow streaks toward a target within range and bursts in a spray of acid. Make a ranged spell attack against the target. On a hit, the target takes 4d4 Acid damage and 2d4 Acid
damage at the end of its next turn. On a miss, the arrow splashes the target with acid for half as much of the initial damage only.
Using a Higher-Level Spell Slot. The damage (both initial and later) increases by 1d4 for each spell slot level above 2.
Spells
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You magically sense the most direct physical route to a location you name. You must be familiar with the location, and the spell fails if you name a destination on another plane of existence, a
moving destination (such as a mobile fortress), or an unspecific destination (such as “a green dragon’s lair”).
For the duration, as long as you are on the same plane of existence as the
Magic Items
Dungeon Master’s Guide
When you drink this potion, you gain the “enlarge” effect of the Enlarge/Reduce spell for 10 minutes (no Concentration required).
The red in the potion’s liquid continuously
expands from a tiny bead to color the clear liquid around it and then contracts. Shaking the bottle fails to interrupt this process.
Magic Items
Dungeon Master’s Guide
While holding this Shield, you have Resistance to damage from attacks made with Ranged weapons.
Curse. This Shield is cursed. Attuning to it curses you until you are targeted by a Remove Curse spell
or similar magic. Removing the Shield fails to end the curse on you. Whenever an attack with a Ranged weapon targets a creature within 10 feet of you, the curse causes you to become the target instead.
Monsters
Monster Manual
Multiattack. The cultist makes three attacks, using Elemental Flail or Elemental Claw in any combination.
Elemental Flail. Melee Attack Roll: +7;{"diceNotation":"1d20+7", "rollType":"to hit
", "rollAction":"Elemental Flail"}, reach 5 ft. Hit: 25 (6d6 + 4) damage of a type chosen by the cultist: Acid;{"diceNotation":"6d6+4", "rollType":"damage", "rollAction":"Elemental Flail (Acid
Magic Items
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is used, it can’t be used again until the next dawn.
Lightning. When you hit with a melee attack using the staff, you can cause the target to take an extra 2d6 Lightning damage (no action
required).
Thunder. When you hit with a melee attack using the staff, you can cause the staff to emit a crack of thunder audible out to 300 feet (no action required). The target you hit must succeed on a
Magic Items
Dungeon Master’s Guide
, a fact that is revealed only when the Identify spell is cast on the armor or you attune to it. Attuning to the armor curses you until you are targeted by a Remove Curse spell or similar magic
; removing the armor fails to end the curse. While cursed, you have Vulnerability to two of the three damage types associated with the armor (not the one to which it grants Resistance).
Monsters
Monster Manual
the penalty reaches −5. The penalty can be removed by casting the Mending spell on the weapon.
The ooze can eat through 2-inch-thick, nonmagical metal or wood in 1 round.Pseudopod. Melee Attack
":"Acid"} Acid damage. Nonmagical armor worn by the target takes a −1 penalty to the AC it offers. The armor is destroyed if the penalty reduces its AC to 10. The penalty can be removed by casting the Mending spell on the armor.Acid, Cold, Fire
Monsters
Monster Manual
Amphibious. The frog can breathe air and water.
Standing Leap. The frog’s Long Jump is up to 20 feet and its High Jump is up to 10 feet with or without a running start.Bite. Melee Attack Roll
’s next turn, the swallowed target takes 5 (2d4);{"diceNotation":"2d4", "rollType":"damage", "rollAction":"Swallow", "rollDamageType":"Acid"} Acid damage. If that damage doesn’t kill it, the frog disgorges it, causing it to exit Prone.
Monsters
Monster Manual
Amphibious. The toad can breathe air and water.
Standing Leap. The toad’s Long Jump is up to 20 feet and its High Jump is up to 10 feet with or without a running start.Bite. Melee Attack Roll
":"Acid"} Acid damage at the end of each of the toad’s turns. The toad can have only one target swallowed at a time, and it can’t use Bite while it has a swallowed target. If the toad dies
Monsters
Monster Manual
":"damage", "rollAction":"Fiendish Blood", "rollDamageType":"Acid"} Acid damage, and the target is cursed until it finishes a Short or Long Rest. While cursed, the target can’t benefit from the
telepathy.Multiattack. The sahuagin makes three Trident attacks.
Trident. Melee or Ranged Attack Roll: +7;{"diceNotation":"1d20+7", "rollType":"to hit", "rollAction":"Trident"}, reach 5 ft. or range 20/60 ft. Hit: 13
Monsters
Monster Manual
Legendary Resistance (6/Day). If the tarrasque fails a saving throw, it can choose to succeed instead.
Magic Resistance. The tarrasque has Advantage on saving throws against spells and other magical
effects.
Reflective Carapace. If the tarrasque is targeted by a Magic Missile spell or a spell that requires a ranged attack roll, roll 1d6;{"diceNotation":"1d6", "rollType":"roll", "rollAction
Monsters
Monster Manual
). If the cataclysm fails a saving throw, it can choose to succeed instead.
Siege Monster. The cataclysm deals double damage to objects and structures.Multiattack. The cataclysm makes two Elemental Burst
attacks.
Elemental Burst. Melee or Ranged Attack Roll: +15;{"diceNotation":"1d20+15", "rollType":"to hit", "rollAction":"Elemental Burst"}, reach 30 ft. or range 150 ft. Hit: 25 (5d6 + 8) damage of
Spells
Player’s Handbook
integral for its survival—its head, for instance—the spell automatically fails.
Coming back from the dead is an ordeal. The target takes a −4 penalty to D20 Test;D20 Tests. Every time the target finishes a Long Rest, the penalty is reduced by 1 until it becomes 0.
With a touch, you revive a dead creature if it has been dead no longer than 10 days and it wasn’t Undead when it died.
The creature returns to life with 1 Hit Point. This spell also
Spells
Player’s Handbook
a failed save, a creature takes 10d4 Acid damage and another 5d4 Acid damage at the end of its next turn. On a successful save, a creature takes half the initial damage only.
Using a Higher-Level Spell Slot. The initial damage increases by 2d4 for each spell slot level above 4.
You point at a location within range, and a glowing, 1-foot-diameter ball of acid streaks there and explodes in a 20-foot-radius Sphere. Each creature in that area makes a Dexterity saving throw. On
Monsters
Monster Manual
Multiattack. The behir makes one Bite attack and uses Constrict.
Bite. Melee Attack Roll: +10;{"diceNotation":"1d20+10", "rollType":"to hit", "rollAction":"Bite"}, reach 10 ft. Hit: 19 (2d12 + 6
ends.
Lightning Breath (Recharge 5–6);{"diceNotation":"1d6", "rollType":"recharge", "rollAction":"Lightning Breath"}. Dexterity Saving Throw: DC 16, each creature in a 90-foot-long, 5-foot- wide Line
Monsters
Monster Manual
Intelligence as the spellcasting ability (spell save DC 14): Augury, Find Familiar, Identify, Locate Object, Scrying, or Unseen Servant. The hag must finish a Long Rest before using this trait to cast
Material Plane. The spell fails and is wasted if the target is under the effect of the Protection from Evil and Good spell or within a Magic Circle spell.
If the target takes damage from the Dream
Magic Items
Dungeon Master’s Guide
copier must succeed on a DC 13 Intelligence (Arcana) check. On a successful check, the spell is copied. Whether the check succeeds or fails, the Spell Scroll is destroyed.
This Spell Scroll bears the words of the Fireball spell, written in a mystical cipher. If Fireball is on your spell list, you can read the scroll and cast it without Material components. Otherwise
Equipment
The double-bladed scimitar is the signature weapon of Valenar elves. A haft of fine wood supports a long, curving blade on either end. Forged with techniques honed over centuries, these blades are
to prove they’re worthy to wield it.
Special. If you attack with a double-bladed scimitar as part of the Attack action on your turn, you can use a bonus action immediately after to make a melee attack with it. This attack deals 1d4 slashing damage on a hit, instead of 2d4.






