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Spells
Player’s Handbook
You grant the semblance of life to a corpse of your choice within range, allowing it to answer questions you pose. The corpse must have a mouth, and this spell fails if the deceased creature was
Speak with Dead
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Spells
Basic Rules (2014)
You grant the semblance of life and intelligence to a corpse of your choice within range, allowing it to answer the questions you pose. The corpse must still have a mouth and can't be undead. The
Compendium
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Speak with Dead Level 3 Necromancy (Bard, Cleric, Wizard) Casting Time: Action
Range: 10 feet
Components: V, S, M (burning incense)
Duration: 10 minutes
You grant the semblance of life to a
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Speak with Dead 3rd-level necromancy Casting Time: 1 action Range: 10 feet Components: V, S, M (burning incense) Duration: 10 minutes You grant the semblance of life and intelligence to a corpse of
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Speak with Dead 3rd-level necromancy Casting Time: 1 action Range: 10 feet Components: V, S, M (burning incense) Duration: 10 minutes You grant the semblance of life and intelligence to a corpse of
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Speak with Dead Level 3 Necromancy (Bard, Cleric, Wizard) Casting Time: Action
Range: 10 feet
Components: V, S, M (burning incense)
Duration: 10 minutes
You grant the semblance of life to a
Monsters
Monster Manual
components and using Intelligence as the spellcasting ability:
At Will: Speak with Dead, ThaumaturgyNecrotic, Poison
Spells
Player’s Handbook
You touch a creature that has been dead for no longer than 200 years and that died for any reason except old age. The creature is revived with all its Hit Points.
This spell closes all wounds
restored to its non-Undead form.
The spell can provide a new body if the original no longer exists, in which case you must speak the creature’s name. The creature then appears in an unoccupied space you choose within 10 feet of you.
Monsters
Monster Manual
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At Will: Detect Magic, Fear, Melf's Acid Arrow (level 3 version)
1/Day Each: Speak with Dead, Vitriolic
Magic Items
Dungeon Master’s Guide
Death
3
Power Word Kill
4
Speak with Dead
1
While attuned to the wand, Orcus or a follower blessed by him can cast each of the wand’s spells using 2 fewer charges (minimum of 0
from it (save DC 18). The table indicates how many charges you must expend to cast the spell.
Spell
Charge Cost
Animate Dead
1
Blight
2
Circle of Death
3
Finger of
Monsters
Forgotten Realms: Adventures in Faerûn
following spells, using Intelligence as the spellcasting ability (spell save DC 17):
At Will: Speak with Dead, Thaumaturgy
1/Day Each: Animate Dead, Circle of DeathCultists of Myrkul dominate the dead
Nearer to the Dead. While Bloodied, the cultist has Immunity to the Frightened and Poisoned conditions.Multiattack. The cultist makes three Necrotic Burst attacks.
Necrotic Burst. Melee or Ranged
Monsters
Forgotten Realms: Adventures in Faerûn
, Prestidigitation
2/Day Each: Speak with Dead, Wall of Force
1/Day Each: Create Undead (level 8 version), Disintegrate, Power Word KillProtective Magic. Sammaster casts Counterspell or Shield in
Monsters
Forgotten Realms: Adventures in Faerûn
, Speak with Dead
1/Day Each: Create Undead (level 8 version), Power Word KillLegendary Action Uses: 3. Immediately after another creature’s turn, Sammaster can expend a use to take one of the
Magic Items
The Book of Many Things
While wearing this armor, you can use it to cast either Speak with Dead or Animate Dead. Once the armor has cast a spell in this way, it can’t cast either spell until the next dawn.
Your soul keeps this armor together. If you die while you are attuned to the armor, the armor is destroyed.
Classes
Player’s Handbook (2014)
Spells
3rd
augury, command, identify, suggestion
5th
nondetection, speak with dead
7th
arcane eye, confusion
9th
legend lore, scrying
Monsters
Storm King's Thunder
: dancing lights, mage hand, message, thaumaturgy
1/day each: augury (cast as 1 action), bestow curse, cordon of arrows, detect magic, speak with dead, spirit guardiansThe Uthgardt are suspicious and
with one foot in the land of the living and the other in the land of the dead. Those who walk the shadowed path between two lands do so because the spirits of the dead compel them. Other Uthgardt fear
Berbalang
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Mordenkainen’s Tome of Foes
, requiring no material components:
At will: speak with dead
1/day: plane shift (self only)Multiattack. The berbalang makes two attacks: one with its bite and one with its claws.
Bite. Melee Weapon
. Berbalangs prefer to speak only to dead things, and specifically only to the spirits they call forth in the hope of learning secrets. They record their stories on the bones that once belonged to
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
material components and using Intelligence as the spellcasting ability:
At will: speak with dead
1/day: plane shift (self only)Berbalangs creep across the petrified remains of dead gods adrift on the
life.
Berbalangs prefer to speak only to dead things, and specifically only to the spirits they call forth in the hope of learning secrets. They record their stories on the bones that once belonged
Magic Items
Out of the Abyss
10 charges. While holding it, you can use an action to expend some of its charges to cast one of the following spells from it: speak with animals (2 charges), speak with dead (4 charges), or speak
Magic Items
Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything
are attuned to the book: animate dead, circle of death, false life, finger of death, speak with dead, summon undead (appears in this book), vampiric touch. It functions as a spellbook for you.
While
Knowledge Domain
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Classes
Player’s Handbook (2014)
Spells
1st
command, identify
3rd
augury, suggestion
5th
nondetection, speak with dead
7th
arcane eye, confusion
9th
legend lore, scrying
Warlock of the Great Old One
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Monsters
Volo's Guide to Monsters
, levitate, mage armor (self only), speak with dead
1/day each: arcane gate, true seeing
Spellcasting. The warlock is a 14th-level spellcaster. Its spellcasting ability is Charisma (spell save DC 15
Monsters
Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus
sickness
2nd level (3 slots): blindness/deafness, gentle repose, hold person, ray of enfeeblement, spiritual weapon
3rd level (3 slots): animate dead, magic circle, speak with dead, spirit guardians
monsters
Monster Manual
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Spellcasting. The cultist casts one of the following spells, using Wisdom as the spellcasting ability (spell save DC 14):
At Will: Speak with Dead
Contact Other Plane
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You mentally contact a demigod, the spirit of a long- dead sage, or some other mysterious entity from another plane. Contacting this extraplanar intelligence can strain or even break your mind. When
understand what other creatures say, can't read, and speak only in gibberish. A greater restoration spell cast on you ends this effect.
On a successful save, you can ask the entity up to five questions. You
True Resurrection
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You touch a creature that has been dead for no longer than 200 years and that died for any reason except old age. If the creature's soul is free and willing, the creature is restored to life with all
limbs. If the creature was undead, it is restored to its non-undead form.
The spell can even provide a new body if the original no longer exists, in which case you must speak the creature's name. The creature then appears in an unoccupied space you choose within 10 feet of you.
Monsters
Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
each: comprehend languages, locate object
1/day each: mage armor, speak with dead, stone shapeLearn from the Past (2/Day). When another creature within 60 feet of the pledgemage misses a target with an
Lorehold apprentice;apprentices and then as pledgemages—study the magic of the past, searching for arcane artifacts and speaking with long-dead adventurers to uncover secrets lost to time.
Though
Deva
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, requiring only verbal components:
At will: detect evil and good
1/day each: commune, raise dead
Magic Resistance. The deva has advantage on saving throws against spells and other magical
retains its game statistics and ability to speak, but its AC, movement modes, Strength, Dexterity, and special senses are replaced by those of the new form, and it gains any statistics and
Monsters
Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
Essence Transfer (1/Day). The professor can cast the animate dead spell, using Wisdom as the spellcasting ability.Multiattack. The professor makes two Mortality Spear attacks. It can replace one of
):
At will: druidcraft, spare the dying
1/day each: antilife shell, bane, feign death, speak with deadProfessors of decay wield magic that drains and twists the essence of the professors&rsquo
classes
Empowered by Ancestral Spirits
You were born with a strong, otherworldly connection to the spirits of your ancestors and to the honored dead. You can call on these spirits to aid you and your allies
symbolic appearance, usually as ghostly animals that speak as their formal selves. In the Northlands, these animals reflect those found in that region, though it’s possible that other animals
Monsters
Adventure Atlas: The Mortuary
, speak with dead
1/day each: banishment, dispel evil and goodDauntless in the face of death, exorcists in the Heralds of Dust cleanse hapless creatures and resting places haunted by ghost;ghosts, specter
;specters, and other malign entities that prevent the dead from being interred or jeopardize those already in repose. Though most Duster exorcists conduct their operations in the Mortuary, many heed
Monsters
Infernal Machine Rebuild
, levitate, mage armor (self only), speak with dead
1/day each: arcane gate, true seeing
Spellcasting. Stolos is a 14th-level spellcaster. His spellcasting ability is Charisma (spell save DC 15, +7
Orcus
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Out of the Abyss
Wand of Orcus. The wand has 7 charges, and any of its properties that require a saving throw have a save DC of 18. While holding it, Orcus can use an action to cast animate dead, blight, or speak
with dead. Alternatively, he can expend 1 or more of the wand’s charges to cast one of the following spells from it: circle of death (1 charge), finger of death (1 charge), or power word kill (2
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
will: animate dead (as an action), blight, speak with dead
1 charge each: circle of death, finger of death
2 charges: power word killOrcus can take 3 legendary actions, choosing from the options
.
Master of Undeath. Orcus can cast animate dead (at will) and create undead (3/day). He chooses the level at which the spells are cast, and the creatures created by them remain under his control
Monsters
Monstrous Compendium Vol. 1: Spelljammer Creatures
connected to one another.
False Appearance. If the yggdrasti is motionless and rooted in the ground at the start of combat, it looks just like a dead tree and has advantage on its initiative roll. Moreover
Tree, yggdrasti look like gigantic, dead trees covered with barnacles. They fly through Wildspace and the Astral Sea with their topmost branches leading the way and their withered roots trailing behind