melee spell with only ally forth for like

Is the intent that only Melee weapon attacks can knock foes Unconscious, or can melee spell attacks as well?

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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.

Thorn Whip

Spells Player’s Handbook

You create a vine-like whip covered in thorns that lashes out at your command toward a creature in range. Make a melee spell attack against the target. On a hit, the target takes 1d6 Piercing damage

Steel Wind Strike

Spells Player’s Handbook

You flourish the weapon used in the casting and then vanish to strike like the wind. Choose up to five creatures you can see within range. Make a melee spell attack against each target. On a hit, a

Summon Dragon

Spells Player’s Handbook

when the spell ends. The creature is an ally to you and your allies. In combat, the creature shares your Initiative count, but it takes its turn immediately after yours. It obeys your verbal commands

type until the spell ends. Actions Multiattack. The spirit makes a number of Rend attacks equal to half the spell’s level (round down), and it uses Breath Weapon. Rend. Melee Attack Roll

Summon Construct

Spells Player’s Handbook

You call forth the spirit of a Construct. It manifests in an unoccupied space that you can see within range and uses the Construct Spirit stat block. When you cast the spell, choose a material: Clay

it drops to 0 Hit Points or when the spell ends. The creature is an ally to you and your allies. In combat, the creature shares your Initiative count, but it takes its turn immediately after yours

Summon Aberration

Spells Player’s Handbook

You call forth an aberrant spirit. It manifests in an unoccupied space that you can see within range and uses the Aberrant Spirit stat block. When you cast the spell, choose Beholderkin, Mind Flayer

Psychic damage. Actions Multiattack. The spirit makes a number of attacks equal to half this spell’s level (round down). Claw (Slaad Only). Melee Attack Roll: Bonus equals your spell attack

Summon Beast

Spells Player’s Handbook

You call forth a bestial spirit. It manifests in an unoccupied space that you can see within range and uses the Bestial Spirit stat block. When you cast the spell, choose an environment: Air, Land

Points or when the spell ends. The creature is an ally to you and your allies. In combat, the creature shares your Initiative count, but it takes its turn immediately after yours. It obeys your verbal

Summon Elemental

Spells Player’s Handbook

You call forth an Elemental spirit. It manifests in an unoccupied space that you can see within range and uses the Elemental Spirit stat block. When you cast the spell, choose an element: Air, Earth

the spell ends. The creature is an ally to you and your allies. In combat, the creature shares your Initiative count, but it takes its turn immediately after yours. It obeys your verbal commands (no

Summon Fey

Spells Player’s Handbook

You call forth a Fey spirit. It manifests in an unoccupied space that you can see within range and uses the Fey Spirit stat block. When you cast the spell, choose a mood: Fuming, Mirthful, or Tricksy

spell ends. The creature is an ally to you and your allies. In combat, the creature shares your Initiative count, but it takes its turn immediately after yours. It obeys your verbal commands (no

Deck of Many Things

Magic Items Dungeon Master’s Guide

you occupied when you disappeared. You remain imprisoned until you are found and removed from the sphere. You can’t be located by any Divination magic, but a Wish spell can reveal the location

of your prison. You draw no more cards. Euryale. The card’s medusa-like visage curses you. You take a −2 penalty to saving throws while cursed in this way. Only a god or the magic of the

Summon Fiend

Spells Player’s Handbook

You call forth a fiendish spirit. It manifests in an unoccupied space that you can see within range and uses the Fiendish Spirit stat block. When you cast the spell, choose Demon, Devil, or Yugoloth

makes a number of attacks equal to half this spell’s level (round down). Bite (Demon Only). Melee Attack Roll: Bonus equals your spell attack modifier, reach 5 ft. Hit: 1d12 + 3 + the spell

Eye and Hand of Vecna

Magic Items Dungeon Master’s Guide

your body, devours it, and then takes control of the body like a puppet. If that happens, you become an NPC under the DM’s control. Eye of Vecna Spells Spell Charge Cost

, and you gain the following benefits: Great Strength. Your Strength becomes 20 unless it is already 20 or higher. Icy Touch. Any melee spell attack you make with the hand and any melee attack made

Summon Undead

Spells Player’s Handbook

You call forth an Undead spirit. It manifests in an unoccupied space that you can see within range and uses the Undead Spirit stat block. When you cast the spell, choose the creature’s form

when the spell ends. The creature is an ally to you and your allies. In combat, the creature shares your Initiative count, but it takes its turn immediately after yours. It obeys your verbal commands

Hallucinatory Terrain

Spells Player’s Handbook

You make natural terrain in a 150-foot Cube in range look, sound, and smell like another sort of natural terrain. Thus, open fields or a road can be made to resemble a swamp, hill, crevasse, or some

other difficult or impassable terrain. A pond can be made to seem like a grassy meadow, a precipice like a gentle slope, or a rock-strewn gully like a wide and smooth road. Manufactured structures

Summon Celestial

Spells Player’s Handbook

You call forth a Celestial spirit. It manifests in an angelic form in an unoccupied space that you can see within range and uses the Celestial Spirit stat block. When you cast the spell, choose

Avenger or Defender. Your choice determines certain details in its stat block. The creature disappears when it drops to 0 Hit Points or when the spell ends. The creature is an ally to you and your allies

Conjure Fey

Spells Player’s Handbook

appears, you can make one melee spell attack against a creature within 5 feet of it. On a hit, the target takes Psychic damage equal to 3d12 plus your spellcasting ability modifier, and the target has the

You conjure a Medium spirit from the Feywild in an unoccupied space you can see within range. The spirit lasts for the duration, and it looks like a Fey creature of your choice. When the spirit

Potion of Gaseous Form

Magic Items Dungeon Master’s Guide

When you drink this potion, you gain the effect of the Gaseous Form spell for 1 hour (no Concentration required) or until you end the effect as a Bonus Action. This potion’s container seems to hold fog that moves and pours like water.

Mirage Arcane

Spells Player’s Handbook

You make terrain in an area up to 1 mile square look, sound, smell, and even feel like some other sort of terrain. Open fields or a road could be made to resemble a swamp, hill, crevasse, or some

other rough or impassable terrain. A pond can be made to seem like a grassy meadow, a precipice like a gentle slope, or a rock-strewn gully like a wide and smooth road. Similarly, you can alter the

Staff of Swarming Insects

Magic Items Dungeon Master’s Guide

from you. The insects remain for 10 minutes, making the area Heavily Obscured for creatures other than you. A strong wind (like that created by Gust of Wind) disperses the swarm and ends the effect

. Spells. While holding the staff, you can cast one of the spells on the following table from it, using your spell save DC and spell attack modifier. The table indicates how many charges you must

Cube of Summoning

Magic Items Dungeon Master’s Guide

This Tiny cube looks like a jack-in-the-box. When you wind its crank as a Magic action, a merry tune emits from the box, the lid pops open, a creature appears in the nearest unoccupied space, and the

lid closes. The lid can’t otherwise be opened. Roll on the Cube of Summoning table to determine which spell the cube casts to summon the creature. The spell is cast at level 5 (save DC 17, +9

Cyclops Oracle

Monsters Monster Manual

Multiattack. The cyclops makes three attacks, using Radiant Strike or Flash of Light in any combination. Radiant Strike. Melee Attack Roll: +10;{"diceNotation":"1d20+10", "rollType":"to hit

following spells, requiring no Material components and using Wisdom as the spellcasting ability (spell save DC 16): 2/Day Each: Arcane Eye, Detect Magic, Locate Object 1/Day: Legend LorePortent (Recharge

Goblin Boss

Monsters Monster Manual

Multiattack. The goblin makes two attacks, using Scimitar or Shortbow in any combination. Scimitar. Melee Attack Roll: +4;{"diceNotation":"1d20+4", "rollType":"to hit", "rollAction":"Scimitar

against it. Response: The goblin chooses a Small or Medium ally within 5 feet of itself. The goblin and that ally swap places, and the ally becomes the target of the attack instead.Nimble Escape. The goblin takes the Disengage or Hide action.

Creation

Spells Player’s Handbook

, crystal, metal, and the like). The object must be no larger than a 5-foot Cube, and the object must be of a form and material that you have seen. The spell’s duration depends on the object’s

You pull wisps of shadow material from the Shadowfell to create an object within range. It is either an object of vegetable matter (soft goods, rope, wood, and the like) or mineral matter (stone

Dire Wolf

Monsters Monster Manual

Pack Tactics. The wolf has Advantage on an attack roll against a creature if at least one of the wolf’s allies is within 5 feet of the creature and the ally doesn’t have the Incapacitated

condition.Bite. Melee Attack Roll: +5;{"diceNotation":"1d20+5", "rollType":"to hit", "rollAction":"Bite"}, reach 5 ft. Hit: 8 (1d10 + 3);{"diceNotation":"1d10+3", "rollType":"damage", "rollAction

Blood Hawk

Monsters Monster Manual

Pack Tactics. The hawk has Advantage on an attack roll against a creature if at least one of the hawk’s allies is within 5 feet of the creature and the ally doesn’t have the Incapacitated

condition.Beak. Melee Attack Roll: +4;{"diceNotation":"1d20+4", "rollType":"to hit", "rollAction":"Beak"}, reach 5 ft. Hit: 4 (1d4 + 2);{"diceNotation":"1d4+2", "rollType":"damage", "rollAction

Giant Vulture

Monsters Monster Manual

Pack Tactics. The vulture has Advantage on an attack roll against a creature if at least one of the vulture’s allies is within 5 feet of the creature and the ally doesn’t have the

Incapacitated condition.Gouge. Melee Attack Roll: +4;{"diceNotation":"1d20+4", "rollType":"to hit", "rollAction":"Gouge"}, reach 5 ft. Hit: 9 (2d6 + 2);{"diceNotation":"2d6+2", "rollType":"damage

Warrior Commander

Monsters Monster Manual

Multiattack. The warrior makes three attacks, using Greatsword or Longbow in any combination. Greatsword. Melee Attack Roll: +9;{"diceNotation":"1d20+9", "rollType":"to hit", "rollAction

effects: Sap. The target has Disadvantage on its next attack roll before the start of the warrior’s next turn. Maneuver. One ally who can see or hear the warrior can take a Reaction to move up

Giant Rat

Monsters Monster Manual

Pack Tactics. The rat has Advantage on an attack roll against a creature if at least one of the rat’s allies is within 5 feet of the creature and the ally doesn’t have the Incapacitated

condition.Bite. Melee Attack Roll: +5;{"diceNotation":"1d20+5", "rollType":"to hit", "rollAction":"Bite"}, reach 5 feet. Hit: 5 (1d4 + 3);{"diceNotation":"1d4+3", "rollType":"damage", "rollAction":"Bite", "rollDamageType":"Piercing"} Piercing damage.

Warrior Infantry

Monsters Monster Manual

Pack Tactics. The warrior has Advantage on an attack roll against a creature if at least one of the warrior’s allies is within 5 feet of the creature and the ally doesn’t have the

Incapacitated condition.Spear. Melee or Ranged Attack Roll: +3;{"diceNotation":"1d20+3", "rollType":"to hit", "rollAction":"Spear"}, reach 5 ft. or range 20/60 ft. Hit: 4 (1d6 + 1);{"diceNotation":"1d6+1", "rollType":"damage", "rollAction":"Spear", "rollDamageType":"Piercing"} Piercing damage.

Demonomicon of Iggwilv

Magic Items Dungeon Master’s Guide

. Spell Charge Cost Magic Circle 1 Magic Jar 3 Planar Ally 3 Planar Binding 2 Plane Shift (to the Abyss only) 3 Summon Fiend 3 Tasha's Hideous Laughter 0

Fiend that you can see that is trapped within the area of a Magic Circle spell. The Fiend must succeed on a DC 20 Charisma saving throw with Disadvantage or become trapped within one of the Demonomicon

Burning Hands

Spells Player’s Handbook

A thin sheet of flames shoots forth from you. Each creature in a 15-foot Cone makes a Dexterity saving throw, taking 3d6 Fire damage on a failed save or half as much damage on a successful one

. Flammable objects in the Cone that aren’t being worn or carried start burning. Using a Higher-Level Spell Slot. The damage increases by 1d6 for each spell slot level above 1.

Berserker Commander

Monsters Monster Manual

. Melee Attack Roll: +7;{"diceNotation":"1d20+7", "rollType":"to hit", "rollAction":"Greataxe"}, reach 5 ft. Hit: 10 (1d12 + 4);{"diceNotation":"1d12+4", "rollType":"damage", "rollAction":"Greataxe

creature within 5 feet of the target. Javelin. Melee or Ranged Attack Roll: +7;{"diceNotation":"1d20+7", "rollType":"to hit", "rollAction":"Javelin"}, reach 5 ft. or range 30/120 ft. Hit: 18 (4d6 + 4

Hell Hound

Monsters Monster Manual

Pack Tactics. The hound has Advantage on an attack roll against a creature if at least one of the hound’s allies is within 5 feet of the creature and the ally doesn’t have the

Incapacitated condition.Multiattack. The hound makes two Bite attacks. Bite. Melee Attack Roll: +5;{"diceNotation":"1d20+5", "rollType":"to hit", "rollAction":"Bite"}, reach 5 ft. Hit: 7 (1d8 + 3

Hobgoblin Warrior

Monsters Monster Manual

Pack Tactics. The hobgoblin has Advantage on an attack roll against a creature if at least one of the hobgoblin’s allies is within 5 feet of the creature and the ally doesn’t have the

Incapacitated condition.Longsword. Melee Attack Roll: +3;{"diceNotation":"1d20+3", "rollType":"to hit", "rollAction":"Longsword"}, reach 5 ft. Hit: 12 (2d10 + 1);{"diceNotation":"2d10+1", "rollType

Chuul

Monsters Monster Manual

Amphibious. The chuul can breathe air and water. Sense Magic. The chuul senses magic within 120 feet of itself. This trait otherwise works like the Detect Magic spell but isn’t itself

magical.Multiattack. The chuul makes two Pincer attacks and uses Paralyzing Tentacles. Pincer. Melee Attack Roll: +6;{"diceNotation":"1d20+6", "rollType":"to hit", "rollAction":"pincer"}, reach 10 ft. Hit: 9

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