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How does readying a spell work? Do you lose your spell slot if the trigger never occurs?

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How does readying a spell work? Do you lose your spell slot if the trigger never occurs? When you take the Ready action to ready a spell, you immediately expend any resources used to cast said spell

, including any spell slot. You don’t get any of these resources back if the trigger never occurs. See appendix C of the Player’s Handbook.

Sleet Storm

Spells Player’s Handbook

Until the spell ends, sleet falls in a 40-foot-tall, 20-foot-radius Cylinder centered on a point you choose within range. The area is Heavily Obscured, and exposed flames in the area are doused

. Ground in the Cylinder is Difficult Terrain. When a creature enters the Cylinder for the first time on a turn or starts its turn there, it must succeed on a Dexterity saving throw or have the Prone condition and lose Concentration.

Sanctuary

Spells Player’s Handbook

new target or lose the attack or spell. This spell doesn’t protect the warded creature from areas of effect. The spell ends if the warded creature makes an attack roll, casts a spell, or deals damage.

You ward a creature within range. Until the spell ends, any creature who targets the warded creature with an attack roll or a damaging spell must succeed on a Wisdom saving throw or either choose a

Ring of Spell Storing

Magic Items Dungeon Master’s Guide

. If the ring can’t hold the spell, the spell is expended without effect. The level of the slot used to cast the spell determines how much space it uses. While wearing this ring, you can cast any

stored spells chosen by the DM. Any creature can cast a spell of level 1 through 5 into the ring by touching the ring as the spell is cast. The spell has no effect other than to be stored in the ring

Tarrasque

Monsters Monster Manual

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

":"Reflective Carapace"}. On a 1–5, the tarrasque is unaffected. On a 6, the tarrasque is unaffected and reflects the spell, turning the caster into the target. Siege Monster. The tarrasque deals

Staff of Power

Magic Items Dungeon Master’s Guide

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

must expend to cast the spell. Spell Charge Cost Cone of Cold 5 Fireball (level 5 version) 5 Globe of Invulnerability 6 Hold Monster 5 Levitate 2 Lightning

Book of Exalted Deeds

Magic Items Dungeon Master’s Guide

last only as long as you strive to do good. If you fail to perform at least one act of kindness or generosity within the span of 10 days, or if you willingly perform an evil act, you lose all the

maximum of 24. You can’t gain this benefit from the book more than once. Enlightened Magic. After you spend the requisite amount of time reading and studying the book, any spell slot you expend to

Staff of the Magi

Magic Items Dungeon Master’s Guide

This staff has 50 charges and can be wielded as a magic Quarterstaff that grants a +2 bonus to attack rolls and damage rolls made with it. While you hold it, you gain a +2 bonus to spell attack rolls

. Spell Absorption. While holding the staff , you have Advantage on saving throws against spells. In addition, you can take a Reaction when another creature casts a spell that targets only you. If

Prismatic Spray

Spells Player’s Handbook

Prismatic Rays table. Prismatic Rays 1d8 Ray 1 Red. Failed Save: 12d6 Fire damage. Successful Save: Half as much damage. 2 Orange. Failed Save: 12d6 Acid damage. Successful Save

: Half as much damage. 3 Yellow. Failed Save: 12d6 Lightning damage. Successful Save: Half as much damage. 4 Green. Failed Save: 12d6 Poison damage. Successful Save: Half as much damage

Inflict Wounds

Spells Player’s Handbook

A creature you touch makes a Constitution saving throw, taking 2d10 Necrotic damage on a failed save or half as much damage on a successful one. Using a Higher-Level Spell Slot. The damage increases by 1d10 for each spell slot level above 1.

Conjure Barrage

Spells Player’s Handbook

you can see in a 60-foot Cone makes a Dexterity saving throw, taking 5d8 Force damage on a failed save or half as much damage on a successful one. Using a Higher-Level Spell Slot. The damage increases by 1d8 for each spell slot level above 3.

You brandish the weapon used to cast the spell and conjure similar spectral weapons (or ammunition appropriate to the weapon) that launch forward and then disappear. Each creature of your choice that

Finger of Death

Spells Player’s Handbook

You unleash negative energy toward a creature you can see within range. The target makes a Constitution saving throw, taking 7d8 + 30 Necrotic damage on a failed save or half as much damage on a

successful one. A Humanoid killed by this spell rises at the start of your next turn as a Zombie that follows your verbal orders.

Circle of Death

Spells Player’s Handbook

or half as much damage on a successful one. Using a Higher-Level Spell Slot. The damage increases by 2d8 for each spell slot level above 6.

Ioun Stone

Magic Items Dungeon Master’s Guide

level of the slot used to cast the spell determines how much space it uses. While this stone orbits your head, you can cast any spell stored in it. The spell uses the slot level, spell save DC

;Absorption (Very Rare). While this pale lavender ellipsoid orbits your head, you can take a Reaction to cancel a spell of level 4 or lower cast by a creature you can see. A canceled spell has no effect

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.

Hail of Thorns

Spells Player’s Handbook

throw, taking 1d10 Piercing damage on a failed save or half as much damage on a successful one. Using a Higher-Level Spell Slot. The damage increases by 1d10 for each spell slot level above 1.

As you hit the creature, this spell creates a rain of thorns that sprouts from your Ranged weapon or ammunition. The target of the attack and each creature within 5 feet of it make a Dexterity saving

Arms of Hadar

Spells Player’s Handbook

damage and can’t take Reactions until the start of its next turn. On a successful save, a target takes half as much damage only. Using a Higher-Level Spell Slot. The damage increases by 1d6 for each spell slot level above 1.

Lightning Bolt

Spells Player’s Handbook

a failed save or half as much damage on a successful one. Using a Higher-Level Spell Slot. The damage increases by 1d6 for each spell slot level above 3.

Harm

Spells Player’s Handbook

by an amount equal to the Necrotic damage it took. On a successful save, it takes half as much damage only. This spell can’t reduce a target’s Hit Point maximum below 1.

Lightning Arrow

Spells Player’s Handbook

much damage on a successful one. The weapon or ammunition then returns to its normal form. Using a Higher-Level Spell Slot. The damage for both effects of the spell increases by 1d8 for each spell slot level above 3.

4d8 Lightning damage on a hit or half as much damage on a miss. Each creature within 10 feet of the target then makes a Dexterity saving throw, taking 2d8 Lightning damage on a failed save or half as

Hellish Rebuke

Spells Player’s Handbook

The creature that damaged you is momentarily surrounded by green flames. It makes a Dexterity saving throw, taking 2d10 Fire damage on a failed save or half as much damage on a successful one. Using a Higher-Level Spell Slot. The damage increases by 1d10 for each spell slot level above 1.

Blight

Spells Player’s Handbook

A creature that you can see within range makes a Constitution saving throw, taking 8d8 Necrotic damage on a failed save or half as much damage on a successful one. A Plant creature automatically

fails the save. Alternatively, target a nonmagical plant that isn’t a creature, such as a tree or shrub. It doesn’t make a save; it simply withers and dies. Using a Higher-Level Spell Slot. The damage increases by 1d8 for each spell slot level above 4.

Dissonant Whispers

Spells Player’s Handbook

immediately use its Reaction, if available, to move as far away from you as it can, using the safest route. On a successful save, the target takes half as much damage only. Using a Higher-Level Spell Slot. The damage increases by 1d6 for each spell slot level above 1.

Eye and Hand of Vecna

Magic Items Dungeon Master’s Guide

benefits: Truesight. You have Truesight out to 240 feet. Spellcasting. The eye has 8 charges and regains 1d4 + 4 expended charges daily at dawn. You can cast a spell on the Eye of Vecna Spells table

from the eye (save DC 18). The table indicates how many charges you must expend to cast the spell. Each time you cast a spell from the eye, there is a 5 percent chance that Vecna tears your soul from

Book of Vile Darkness

Magic Items Dungeon Master’s Guide

Charisma saving throw. On a failed save, the creature is magically transformed into a Larva under the DM’s control. Only a Wish spell can reverse this vile transformation. A creature attuned to the

disappears, your Attunement to it ends immediately, and you lose all benefits granted by it. If you die while attuned to the book, an entity of great evil claims your soul. You can’t be restored to life

Weird

Spells Player’s Handbook

target takes 10d10 Psychic damage and has the Frightened condition for the duration. On a successful save, a target takes half as much damage only. A Frightened target makes a Wisdom saving throw at

the end of each of its turns. On a failed save, it takes 5d10 Psychic damage. On a successful save, the spell ends on that target.

Cone of Cold

Spells Player’s Handbook

You unleash a blast of cold air. Each creature in a 60-foot Cone originating from you makes a Constitution saving throw, taking 8d8 Cold damage on a failed save or half as much damage on a successful

one. A creature killed by this spell becomes a frozen statue until it thaws. Using a Higher-Level Spell Slot. The damage increases by 1d8 for each spell slot level above 5.

Dragon's Breath

Spells Player’s Handbook

a Dexterity saving throw, taking 3d6 damage of the chosen type on a failed save or half as much damage on a successful one. Using a Higher-Level Spell Slot. The damage increases by 1d6 for each spell slot level above 2.

You touch one willing creature, and choose Acid, Cold, Fire, Lightning, or Poison. Until the spell ends, the target can take a Magic action to exhale a 15-foot Cone. Each creature in that area makes

Flame Strike

Spells Player’s Handbook

damage and 5d6 Radiant damage on a failed save or half as much damage on a successful one. Using a Higher-Level Spell Slot. The Fire damage and the Radiant damage increase by 1d6 for each spell slot level above 5.

Chain Lightning

Spells Player’s Handbook

half as much damage on a successful one. Using a Higher-Level Spell Slot. One additional bolt leaps from the first target to another target for each spell slot level above 6.

Thunderwave

Spells Player’s Handbook

feet away from you. On a successful save, a creature takes half as much damage only. In addition, unsecured objects that are entirely within the Cube are pushed 10 feet away from you, and a

thunderous boom is audible within 300 feet. Using a Higher-Level Spell Slot. The damage increases by 1d8 for each spell slot level above 1.

Meteor Swarm

Spells Player’s Handbook

. A creature takes 20d6 Fire damage and 20d6 Bludgeoning damage on a failed save or half as much damage on a successful one. A creature in the area of more than one fiery Sphere is affected only once

. A nonmagical object that isn’t being worn or carried also takes the damage if it’s in the spell’s area, and the object starts burning if it’s flammable.

Conjure Volley

Spells Player’s Handbook

You brandish the weapon used to cast the spell and choose a point within range. Hundreds of similar spectral weapons (or ammunition appropriate to the weapon) fall in a volley and then disappear

. Each creature of your choice that you can see in a 40-foot-radius, 20-foot-high Cylinder centered on that point makes a Dexterity saving throw. A creature takes 8d8 Force damage on a failed save or half as much damage on a successful one.

Befuddlement

Spells Player’s Handbook

take the Magic action. At the end of every 30 days, the target repeats the save, ending the effect on a success. The effect can also be ended by the Greater Restoration, Heal, or Wish spell. On a successful save, the target takes half as much damage only.

Prismatic Wall

Spells Player’s Handbook

Passwall spell, or another spell of equal or greater level that can open a portal on a solid surface, destroys this layer. 5 Blue. Failed Save: 12d6 Cold damage. Successful Save: Half as much

wall into a globe up to 30 feet in diameter centered on a point within range. The wall lasts for the duration. If you position the wall in a space occupied by a creature, the spell ends instantly

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