Dungeons & Dragons Reveals Two New Spells That Will Appear in Forgotten Realms Books

Wizards of the Coast has revealed two new spells that will appear in the upcoming Forgotten Realms: Heroes of Faerun book. Doomtide and Spellfire Storm were revealed over on D&D Beyond this week, providing a look at the new spells and explaining how Circle Casting will work within the game. Doomtide's description is as follows:

This spell creates a 20-foot-radius Sphere of inky, magical Darkness that can deal 5d6 Psychic damage to creatures caught within. But that's not all—those who fail their saving throw also subtract 1d6 from their saving throws until the end of their next turn.

This spell creates a 20-foot-radius Sphere of inky, magical Darkness that can deal 5d6 Psychic damage to creatures caught within. But that's not all—those who fail their saving throw also subtract 1d6 from their saving throws until the end of their next turn.

Meanwhile, the description of Spellfire Storm is as follows:

Not only does this spell conjure a 20-foot-radius, 20-foot-high Cylinder pillar of spellfire that can deal 4d10 Radiant damage to creatures within, but it also interferes with creatures who attempt to cast spells from inside the pillar's area of effect.

Both spells can be greatly enhanced via Circle Casting. By expending a string of three black pearls from Pandemonium with at least five other casters, the spell's range becomes 1 mile and it no longer requires Concentration to cast. Meanwhile, Spellfire Storm's range can also be extended to one mile by expending a blue star sapphire worth 25,000+ GP. When circle casting is used, Spellfire Storm also no longer requires Concentration to contain.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Both of those spells could create a hazardous region if they're allowed to expand the area in addition to the specific circle casting effects.

Yeah, that's what I thought the pearls did at first, and realized that would make them military-level weapons. Just extending the range isn't useless, but is a lot less compelling -- and less of a reason to go to Pandemonium.

 

[Stalker0]

Yeah, that's what I thought the pearls did at first, and realized that would make them military-level weapons. Just extending the range isn't useless, but is a lot less compelling -- and less of a reason to go to Pandemonium.

yeah that was my reaction. Ok I can do this 1 mile away cool.....wait its still just a 20 foot radius effect?

That seems a pretty limited use case.

 

[Misanthrope Prime]

yeah that was my reaction. Ok I can do this 1 mile away cool.....wait its still just a 20 foot radius effect?

That seems a pretty limited use case.

You can send a killer fart to your enemy while they're sleeping in a poorly ventilated bedroom.

 

[Stalker0]

So a huge thing I just noticed in that article. To be viable for a circle spell, the spell has to have a 1 minute casting time+, and use spell slots (aka no rituals).

So these spells are 1 minute long casting time spells normally....that's.....garbage tbh.

 

[Parmandur]

So a huge thing I just noticed in that article. To be viable for a circle spell, the spell has to have a 1 minute casting time+, and use spell slots (aka no rituals).

So these spells are 1 minute long casting time spells normally....that's.....garbage tbh.

I mean, that is a lot of Spells. This mechanic is suited for story actions, notnfor fights per se.

 

[Parmandur]

has to have a 1 minute casting time+, and use spell slots (aka no rituals).

And juat to clarify, a Spell having the Ritual tag is not disqualifiying, it isnjuat that it needs to use Slots to do the Circle.

 

[Stalker0]

And juat to clarify, a Spell having the Ritual tag is not disqualifiying, it isnjuat that it needs to use Slots to do the Circle.

and rituals do not need slots. A wizard with no a spell slot left on their person can still do a ritual.

My point is, you can't just take a spell, casting it as a ritual to get the casting time to 1 minute+, and throw on circle magic. It has to be a 1 minute+ casting time at base.

 

[Parmandur]

and rituals do not need slots. A wizard with no a spell slot left on their person can still do a ritual.

My point is, you can't just take a spell, casting it as a ritual to get the casting time to 1 minute+, and throw on circle magic. It has to be a 1 minute+ casting time at base.

Right, that is a specific limit, designed to direct where this can go narratively.

 

[bedir than]

So a huge thing I just noticed in that article. To be viable for a circle spell, the spell has to have a 1 minute casting time+, and use spell slots (aka no rituals).

So these spells are 1 minute long casting time spells normally....that's.....garbage tbh.

That's not what the article says

Any spell that has a casting time of an action or 1 minute or longer and is cast using a spell slot can be cast as a Circle spell.

Emphasis added

 

[Stalker0]

That's not what the article says


Emphasis added

great thank you