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Complete Homebrew Spell List

Name	School	Level	Summary	Article Balance
5e Spells
Adaptive Ward	Transmutation	1	A low-level reactionary Stoneskin, meant to replace Absorb Elements.
Afterimage Dodge	Illusion	1	A low-level, reactive Mirror Image
Agonizing Word	Necromancy	1
Alwin's Arcane Virus	Necromancy	4	Infect a caster's spell. A nuisance in the short term, but can turn deadly if left untreated.
Alwin's Spell Siphon	Abjuration	4	A riskier version of Counterspell that can recover spell slots
Arc Loop	Evocation	Cantrip	A small bolt of lightning that bounces from target to target.
Arcane Buckler	Abjuration	Cantrip	Useful but modest update of 3.5e's Shield to 5e.
Arcing Blade	Evocation	Cantrip	Hit an enemy, causing lightning to lash out at other enemies close to them.
Astral Seal	Conjuration	Cantrip	Mark a target, to heal your allies when it is struck if it is strong, or to suffer additional damage if it is weak.
Blackthorn Arrow	Necromancy	Cantrip	Ranged "Blade" cantrip; Target can't heal for 1 round.
Blades of Vanquished Armies	Conjuration	4	Conjure spectral warrior spirits to swirl around you, harming those who come close. You can also command them to surge forth and strike your foes for you.
Blazing Rebirth	Evocation	5	Reactive Revivify, with some fire damage and extra healing.
Bodyguard	Necromancy	1	A defensive spell for a school of magic that is criminally underdeveloped at lower levels.
Bone Puppet	Necromancy	Cantrip	A flavorful cantrip for a school of magic that is criminally underdeveloped at lower levels.
Boreal Wind	Evocation	3	You create a fierce gust of freezing wind that is 20 feet high and 20 feet wide.
Breathing Room	Evocation	Cantrip	A quick boop to get enemies away from you.
Cadaver Bomb	Necromancy	2	An offensive AOE spell for a school of magic that is criminally underdeveloped at lower levels.
Calamitous Curse	Enchantment	5	A stronger version of Jinx, forcing the creature's next d20 roll to fail catastrophically.
Call Steed	Divination	Cantrip	Call a mount you've bonded with to travel to your location.
Chilling Blade	Evocation	Cantrip	Hit an enemy and grow crystal armor temporarily.
Column of Ice	Conjuration	4	Conjures one column of ice, 10-ft. radius and 35 ft in height
Conjure Creature	Conjuration	1
Conjurer's Blade	Conjuration	Cantrip	A simple cantrip to create a melee weapon.
Corrosive Grasp	Transmutation	Cantrip	3.5e conversion of Rusting Grasp; Smack your targets to corrode their flesh, armor and weapons.
Crashing Stone	Transmutation	1	Toss a pebble that turns into a boulder mid-flight.
Creeping Cold	Transmutation	2	You turn a creature's sweat and the air's ambient moisture to ice, creating blisters as the ice forms on and inside the skin.
Crumbling Curse	Enchantment	2
Crystal Blade	Abjuration	Cantrip	Hit an enemy and grow crystal armor temporarily.
Daze	Enchantment	Cantrip	Momentarily disorient a creature
Decay	Necromancy	1	Cause the slow but inevitable decay of matter over time, dealing 1d6 necrotic damage per round.
Divisive Challenge	Enchantment	2	Challenge your opponents, Goading those that are Worthy, while Frightening those that are not.
Dreadtheft	Necromancy	2	Create a beam of life-draining energy, withering foes and healing yourself.
Earthwalk	Transmutation	2	Gain a burrowspeed and tremorsense
Ekbom's Imaginary Insects	Enchantment	5	Target hallucinates insects all over their body and attacks themselves.
Elemental Rebuke	Evocation	1	Hellish Rebuke buff. Use at your own risk.
Emberflash Arrow	Evocation	Cantrip	Ranged "Blade" cantrip; Target catches fire for 1 round.
Encode Memories	Divination	1
Endure Elements	Abjuration	3	A creature protected by endure elements suffers much less harm from being in a hot or cold environment.
Extinguishing Strike	Necromancy	3
Fangblight Arrow	Transmutation	Cantrip	Ranged "Blade" cantrip; Weapon constricts target for 1 round.
Fissure	Transmutation	Cantrip	Punch the ground, sending out a line-shaped shockwave.
Flashing Blade	Evocation	Cantrip	Hit an enemy and hinder its vision.
Focus Breaker	Abjuration	2	Shatters focus and concentration
Freezing Strike	Evocation	2	Much in the line of the Smite spells, imbue your weapon with the power to freeze a foe in its tracks.
Gift of Recovery	Evocation	1	A little bit different take on healing; Basically fast healing from 3.5e.
Glyph of Oath-binding	Abjuration	5	You inscribe a glyph on one or more willing person to enforce an oath or contract.
Hammer	Evocation	Cantrip	Bludgeoning damage: The cantrip.
Hand of Blight	Necromancy	Cantrip	Launch clawing hands of necrotic energy at your foes.
Hastening Strike	Transmutation	3	Much in the line of the Smite spells, steal your opponent's time.
Heartripper	Evocation	4	An update of a 3.5e spell, you use a targeted bolt of force to push a creature's heart out of its body.
Heat Drain	Necromancy	5	The heat in the room seems to rush toward you, leaving everyone around you in bone chilling pain while you feel amazingly refreshed and alive.
Sanguine Siphon	Necromancy	1	Use your reaction to suck the blood out of your enemies.
Mass Sanguine Siphon	Necromancy	3	Use your reaction to suck the blood out of even more enemies.
Hymn of Recovery	Evocation	1	A Channeled healing spell. Don't worry, it's not broken.
Ice Crystal Phalanx	Conjuration	1	Fire a line of freezing ice, that leaves spikes behind in its wake.
Impaling Conjuration	Conjuration	Cantrip	Briefly summon spears, arrows, and other piercing projectiles to impale your enemies.
Incite Rage	Enchantment	1	The Goad version of Cause Fear, with one extra twist.
Infernal Spheres	Conjuration	2	Conjure sphere of flame to protect you, striking those that harm you.
Inflame	Enchantment	3	An AoE Goad, in the vein of the 3rd-level Fear spell.
Irk	Enchantment	Cantrip	Touch your opponent to annoy them; The opposite of Guidance.
Jinx	Enchantment	Cantrip	Curse your target with instant bad luck, dealing random damage to them as something abrupt and painfully inconvenient happens to them.
Kinetic Blade	Evocation	Cantrip	Push an enemy around the battlefield by bonking it over the head.
Kiss of Vanti	Necromancy	Cantrip	Psychic Vampirism
Lithic Block	Transmutation	Cantrip	Raise a 5ft cube out of the ground to hide behind; More cubes as you gain levels.
Lunging Maw	Conjuration	2	Conjure a giant mouth to swallow your enemies.
Mass Mage Armor	Abjuration	3	Gives Mage Armor to a number of creatures for 1 minute
Mass Revivify	Necromancy	5	Revivify 3 targets with 1 action, get more with upcasting.
Mass Swift Barrier	Abjuration	3	A mass version of my Shield rework.
Necrotic Awareness	Necromancy	Cantrip	Detect the presence of necrotic cysts
Necrotic Burst	Necromancy	4	Encysted subject killed, cyst begins to roam.
Necrotic Cyst	Necromancy	2	Infect the subject with an undead sac of tissue.
Necrotic Scrying	Necromancy	3	Hear or see encysted subject at a distance.
Prismatic Burst	Evocation	1	A pop of bright color with various debilitating effects for those that roll a 1.
Quickening Blade	Transmutation	Cantrip	Hit an enemy and hasten your reaction time.
Redirecting Rift	Conjuration	1	A low-level reactive Conjuration spell to throw an attack somewhere else.
Reflexive Foresight	Divination	1	A low-level reactive defense spell, utilizing the painfully utilitarian school of Divination.
Rekindling Touch	Necromancy	1
Revitalizing Word	Evocation	1	A Healing Word that is good for something other than a cheap way to bring up a downed ally.
Roaring Arrow	Evocation	Cantrip	Ranged "Blade" cantrip; Deals minor AoE Thunder damage.
Saving Grace	Evocation	1
Shadow	Transmutation	Cantrip	Creates a zone of shadow
Shafts of Radiance	Evocation	Cantrip	Briefly summon spears, arrows, and other piercing projectiles to impale your enemies.
Shout	Evocation	4	An update of a 3.5e spell.
Skybolt	Conjuration	1	A long-ranged small AoE Lightning spell. Too many fire spells these days...
Slow Healing	Evocation	1	Recover hp slowly over time.
Soul Summons	Conjuration	3	You look within yourself to conjure your own soul, which separates from your body and takes its own form.
Sound Burst	Evocation	2	An update of a 3.5e spell.
Spectral Stampede	Conjuration	4	Remember that scene from The Lion King? Now with force ghosts.
Swift Barrier	Abjuration	1	A Shield replacement that is more versatile and less annoying.
Séance	Conjuration	2	A lower-level, riskier alternative to Speak With Dead. As detailed as it is verbose.
Terraform	Transmutation	7	Reshape the earth and stone around you into simple objects and structures.
Thousandfold Strike	Transmutation	5	Much in the line of the Smite spells, hit your foe with a multitude of attacks across dozens of timelines.
Toxic Blade	Transmutation	Cantrip	Hit an enemy and hinder its actions.
True Dodge	Divination	Cantrip	Sense your foe's next attack and preemptively evade it.
True Strike, Variant	Divination	Cantrip	A variant to true strike that attempts to fix the problems with the original.
Twisted Magic Field	Abjuration	7	You manipulate and twist magic around you
Twisting Blade	Evocation	Cantrip	Hit an enemy, and immediately move without provoking your foe's wrath.
Vampiric Smite	Necromancy	2	Empowers your weapon with life-draining force.
Vampiric Weapon	Necromancy	3
Vanishing Strike	Illusion	1	Much in the line of the Smite spells, charge up, and vanish the moment you strike.
Venomous Strike	Transmutation	2	Much in the line of the Smite spells, imbue your weapon with deadly poison.
Vexing Word	Enchantment	1	A Silvery Barbs replacement that doesn't break the RNG.
Warping Strike	Conjuration	2	Much in the line of the Smite spells, hit your target and teleport away.
Windshear	Evocation	Cantrip	Cut your enemies with a solidified razor of high-speed wind.
Withering Blade	Necromancy	Cantrip	Hit an enemy and stop them from healing.
Woodwisp Arrow	Transmutation	Cantrip	Ranged "Blade" cantrip; Ignores cover from wooden objects.
Z's Compelled Duel	Enchantment	1	A rework of Compelled Duel using the Goaded condition.
Z's Cure Wounds	Evocation	1	My redux of Cure Wounds. Can't heal targets above half HP.
Z's False Life	Necromancy	1	A rework of False Life that gets stronger the weaker you are. Y'know... So there's actually a reason to pick it over Armor of Agathys.
Z's Healing Word	Evocation	1	A Healing Word that is good for something other than a cheap way to bring up a downed ally. Can't heal targets above half HP.
Z's Toll the Dead	Necromancy	Cantrip
Z's Witch Bolt	Evocation	1	A rework of a bad spell, using my Channeling variant rule.

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