Other than noting it here, I’m going to assume all spells can just have their components changed to things found underwater.įor some of my phrasing, as with illusory script, understand that I’m really writing this to Shawn Ellsworth and Jack Houser, as a way to discuss “Under the Seas of Vodari” setting design. Good luck finding either of those underwater. Acid arrow – the first spell of the SRD, alphabetically – wants a powdered rhubarb leaf and an adder’s stomach. Let’s get the first thing out of the way: almost no material components of the Player’s Handbook spells work. (F’rex, casting disintegrate doesn’t disintegrate a big cube of water next to the caster’s hand, any more than it disintegrates the air next to an above-water caster’s hand.) Unless a spell specifically talks about interacting with water, I’m assuming that water is not an object that causes collision, because if it were, the Player’s Handbook would have mentioned that.Almost all underwater action cares about the z-axis.Spells that involve melee or ranged weapon attacks are rare, though not unheard-of.That said: technically, being immersed in water grants resistance, so Elemental Adept (Fire) solves that problem. Fire spells in general going to be incredibly tough sells for underwater creatures, though fireball in specific is overpowered enough to almost still be a good idea when its damage is halved.

120-ft darkvision is rare and probably carries a drawback, and any other range is a unique case. For example, darkvision usually comes in 60-ft range.

I’m trying not to make too many assumptions about the ancestries that might be casting these spells, but we’re still working in existing mechanical parameters.I’m only covering the SRD here, because this is for an OGL-based product.Underwater spellcasters never would bothered to hand down from generation to

The campaign takes place there, maybe you want to cut out things that Vodari,” a Kickstarter stretch goal supplement for Seas of Vodari.ĭ&D has rules for magical interactions underwater, but if all or much of 10 Jul, 2020 in 5e DnD / Seas of Vodari tagged aquatic / D&D 5e / Seas of Vodari / spells by Brandes StoddardĪs you may know, we’re working on “Under the Seas of

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