Welcome to my guide for Solasta: Crown of the Magister! For a first creation by a new studio, the team at Tactical Adventures really did well. This is a pretty faithful rendering of fifth edition Dungeons and Dragons rules into a video game format. They used a mixture of a unique setting, some homebrew content and the contents of the System Reference Document by Wizards of the Coast to translate 5th edition into a form that is easily accessible.

The purpose of this guide is to help break down the main campaign into main and side missions with steps on how to prepare. I also want to discuss the six factions in the game and how to choose which ones to increase favor with. Character creation is discussed, as are the spell options for casters.

Notes: A few notes to make - I do not have specific locations of all items, recipes, etc. I will mention specific shops that are useful for getting recipes, ingredients, and so on, but I will not have an exhaustive list of the location of every single useful thing.

The Sorcerer update is live, and I have updated the guide with all relevant sorcerer information!

With all that said, happy reading! I hope you find this guide useful.

5/3/23 Update: I am in the process of updating all the information to be current, including new classes, feats, spells, achievements, and a new section on status effects. Currently all spell subsections are updated. All base achievements are updated, and the section for status effects has been created and added. Added a section for spellcasting tips as well. A walkthrough for the other campaigns will be coming as soon as I beat them and can create a good guide.

This section of the guide is to take a look at each of the attributes and skills you will encounter during character creation, what they mean, and how they work in the game. This will include a look at the numbers, but also a general explanation of what you should consider when looking at each thing.


Solasta has six attributes, each affecting different things. Below is a list of each ability score and the things they directly affect.

Strength:

• Athletics skill
  
• Carrying capacity
  
• Jumping and climbing max distance
  
• Attack and Damage modifiers for certain weapon attacks
  
• Strength saving throws

Dexterity:

• Acrobatics, Sleight of Hand, and Stealth skills
  
• Climbing and falling max distance
  
• Attack and Damage modifiers for certain weapon attacks
  
• Success with lockpicking attempts using thieves' tools
  
• Dexterity saving throws

Constitution:

• Additional hit points per level (increasing Constitution does retroactively add hit points)
  
• Constitution saving throws

Intelligence:

• Arcana, History, Nature, Investigation, and Religion skills
  
• Wizard, Spellblade Fighter, and Shadowcaster Rogue spellcasting ability
  
• Intelligence saving throws

Wisdom:

• Animal Handling, Insight, Perception, Medicine and Survival skills
  
• Cleric and Ranger spellcasting ability
  
• Wisdom saving throws

Charisma:

• Persuasion, Deception, Intimidation and Performance skills
  
• Paladin and Sorcerer spellcasting ability
  
• Charisma saving throws

There are a total of 18 skills. Every skill starts at zero, and adds the modifier from the related ability score. Then, at character creation, you gain proficiency with some skills, which adds your proficiency bonus to those skills. Rogues gain expertise, which adds double their proficiency bonus to chosen skills as well. The tables below can be used to help calculate the total bonus to each skill.

• Athletics: Strength related skill. Athletics affect success when grappling, climbing and jumping long distances.

• Acrobatics: Dexterity related skill. Acrobatics affect success when escaping a grapple, climbing and jumping long distances, and falling without taking damage or going prone.
  
• Sleight of Hand: Dexterity related skill. Sleight of Hand is not utilized in the main campaign of Solasta.
  
• Stealth: Dexterity related skill. Stealth affects success when hiding and remaining hidden after attacking while hidden.

• Arcana: Intelligence related skill. Arcana affects success with scribing scrolls, crafting certain potions, enchanting items, identifying hostile spells as they are being cast, and success copying wizard spells into their spellbook from spell scrolls or other spellbooks.
  
• History: Intelligence related skill. History affects success on certain checks to recall information related to the history of the world of Solasta (situational chances at extra party XP).
  
• Investigation: Intelligence related skill. Investigation is not utilized in the main campaign of Solasta.
  
• Nature: Intelligence related skill. Nature affects success with crafting certain poisons, and recalling information about certain regions, natural phenomena and locations in the world of Solasta (situational chances at extra party XP).
  
• Religion: Intelligence related skill. Religion affects success on certain checks to recall information about religions and religious history in the world of Solasta (situational chances at extra party XP).

• Animal Handling: Wisdom related skill. Animal Handling is not utilized in the main campaign of Solasta.
  
• Insight: Wisdom related skill. Insight affects success in conversation trees at discerning success chances of different conversation options. Failure at an Insight check means conversation options have hidden success chances.
  
• Medicine: Wisdom related skill. Medicine affects success with crafting certain potions and poisons, and stabilizing allies who have been reduced to zero hit points and are making death saves.
  
• Perception: Wisdom related skill. Perception affects success seeing hidden enemies, finding traps, and seeing hidden doors.
  
• Survival: Wisdom related skill. Survival affects success foraging for food while traveling, finding entrances to new areas, and adding new information about enemies to the bestiary after a fight.

• Deception: Charisma related skill. Deception affects success during conversation with deceptive conversation options.
  
• Intimidation: Charisma related skill. Intimidation affects success during conversation with intimidating conversation options.
  
• Performance: Charisma related skill. Performance is not utilized in the main campaign of Solasta.
  
• Persuasion: Charisma related skill. Persuasion affects success during conversation with persuasive conversation options.

Below, I have added a couple of tables to show the progression of your proficiency bonus at each level, and the modifier given by each ability score to its affected things. So, if you have a wisdom score of 15, you add the +2 modifier to each related skill: animal handling, insight, perception, medicine and survival, as well as increasing the wisdom saving throws by +2. It also affects any cleric or ranger spellcasting. Spellcasting will be covered in more detail at each class's explanation later.

To expand on the above example, if you are proficient in perception, and your character is level 5, you would add your proficiency bonus of +3 to perception as well, ending with a perception skill that adds +5 to every roll. If your character is also proficient with wisdom saving throws, the same holds true there - +2 from the wisdom modifier, and +3 from the proficiency bonus, ending with a wisdom saving throw of +5 each time it gets rolled.

Here is a practical example of the mechanics behind a skill check. Let's say you need to roll a perception check to find a secret door. The secret door has a difficulty check of 15 (written as DC15 in-game). This means you need to roll a 15 or higher to see the secret door and succeed the check. You will see that your character automatically rolls a d20, getting a number between 1 and 20. Let's say your d20 roll is 11. 11 is not high enough to see the secret door... but in the example above, you would add +2 for your wisdom modifier and +3 for your proficiency bonus, ending with a perception check of 16, which is higher than the difficulty check of 15. Your character would then succeed at seeing the secret door.

Heritage Options

Heritage Options: In Solasta, there are seven heritages to choose from, with Elves, Halflings and Dwarves all having two sub-heritage variants, and Dragonborn just choosing a color. Below, I will list the benefits of each option.

It is important to note here that Humans, Dragonborn and Island Halflings are the only heritage options that do not have darkvision. Darkvision allows you to operate normally in unlit areas, so if you make a human, dragonborn or island halfling, be prepared to need light sources or magic items that grant darkvision, or be at disadvantage during half of the fights in the game.

Humans:









All humans have the following benefits:

• 6 squares of movement
  
• +1 to all ability scores
  
• Speak Common and one other language of your choice

Half-Elf:









All Half-elves have the following benefits:

• 6 squares of movement
  
• +2 Charisma, +1 to two other abilities of your choice
  
• Darkvision
  
• 2 skills of your choice
  
• Advantage against charm effects
  
• Immune to sleep
  
• Speak Common, Elvish, and one language of your choice

Dwarves:









All dwarves have the following benefits:

• 5 squares of movement
  
• +2 Constitution
  
• Darkvision
  
• Proficient with battleaxes, handaxes, and warhammers
  
• Speak Common and Dwarven

Hill Dwarves:









In addition to the universal dwarf benefits, hill dwarves gain the following:

• +1 Wisdom
  
• One additional hit point per level

Snow Dwarves:









In addition to the universal dwarf benefits, snow dwarves gain the following:

• Proficient with heavy crossbows
  
• +1 Dexterity
  
• +2 to Constitution saving throws

Elves:









All elves gain the following benefits:

• 6 squares of movement
  
• +2 Dexterity
  
• Darkvision
  
• Advantage against charm effects
  
• Immune to sleep
  
• 4 hour long rests
  
• Proficient in Perception skill
  
• Proficient with shortswords, longswords, shortbows, and longbows
  
• Speak Common and Elvish

High Elves:









In addition to the universal elf benefits, high elves gain the following:

• +1 Intelligence
  
• Learn a wizard cantrip (intelligence as spellcasting ability)
  
• One language of your choice

Sylvan Elves:









In addition to the universal elf benefits, sylvan elves gain the following:

• +1 Wisdom
  
• 7 squares of movement
  
• Proficiency with survival and athletics
  
• Advantage on survival checks to hunt for food
  
• Speak Dwarven and Halfling

Halflings:









All halflings gain the following benefits:

• 5 squares of movement
  
• +2 Dexterity
  
• Advantage against fear effects
  
• Reroll 1's on attack rolls, saving throws and ability checks, and use the new roll
  
• Move through occupied spaces freely
  
• Speak Common and Halfling

Marsh Halflings:









In addition to the universal halfling benefits, marsh halflings gain the following:

• +2 Constitution
  
• Expanded terrain considered a "swamp"
  
• Darkvision

Island Halflings:









In addition to the universal halfling benefits, island halflings gain the following:

• +2 Charisma
  
• Advantage on acrobatics checks
  
• One language of your choice

Half-Orcs:









All half-orcs have the following benefits:

• 6 squares of movement
  
• +2 Strength, +1 Constitution
  
• Darkvision
  
• Proficiency in Intimidation
  
• 1/rest, instead of dropping to 0 hit points, they drop to 1 instead
  
• roll one additional damage die on a critical hit with a melee weapon
  
• speak Common and Orc

Dragonborn:









All dragonborn have the following benefits:

• 6 squares of movement
  
• +2 Strength, +1 Charisma
  
• Draconic Ancestry - Pick a color (Black - Acid, Red - Fire, Silver - Cold, Green - Poison). Gain resistance to the associated damage type and a breath weapon of that damage type that can be used 1/rest
  
• speak Common and Draconic

Background Options

Backgrounds: Every character comes with one of eight backgrounds. Each background has a unique quest, and it's best if you have a unique background for each character in your party. Each background has it's own achievement as well, which is gained by completing the background specific questline. Below are the backgrounds and their benefits.

Academic:

• Proficient in Nature, Arcana and Insight
  
• 2 additional languages of your choice
  
• Bonus reputation with the Antiquarians
  
• Proficient with the Manacalon Rosary
  
• Start with additional 15 gold, commoner's clothing, and a notebook
  
• Speech pattern: Formal

Acolyte:

• Proficient in Religion, Nature and Insight
  
• Proficient with Herbalism Kit
  
• 1 additional language of your choice
  
• Start with additional 15 gold, commoner's clothing, and one herbalism kit
  
• Speech pattern: Casual

Aristocrat:

• Proficient in History, Persuasion and Intimidation
  
• 1 additional language of your choice
  
• Start with additional 40 gold and a sigil ring
  
• Speech pattern: Formal

Lawkeeper:

• Proficient in Perception and Intimidation
  
• Proficient with Martial Weapons
  
• One additional language of your choice
  
• Start with additional 10 gold, commoner's clothing and a lawkeeper's badge
  
• Speech pattern: Casual

Philosopher:

• Proficient in Medicine and Persuasion
  
• Proficient with Herbalism Kit
  
• One additional language of your choice
  
• Start with additional 25 gold and one herbalism kit
  
• Speech pattern: Formal

Sellsword:

• Proficient in Athletics and Intimidation
  
• Proficient with Medium Armor
  
• One additional language of your choice
  
• Start with additional 10 gold, commoner's clothing, and a military campaign ribbon
  
• Speech pattern: Slang

Spy:

• Proficient in Stealth, Nature and Deception
  
• Proficient with Poisoner's Kit
  
• One additional language of your choice
  
• Start with additional 25 gold, noble garb and a poisoner's kit
  
• Speech pattern: Casual

Lowlife:

• Proficient with Sleight of Hand, Stealth and Deception
  
• Proficient with Thieves' Tools
  
• Start with additional commoner's clothing
  
• Speech pattern: Slang

In the following sections, I will put a quick bullet-point list of what each class and subclass gets at character creation and at each level up to the current in-game level max, level 10. Keep in mind at character creation that you cannot currently multi-class, meaning that if you pick a class and subclass, that's what you have all the way to the end of the game on that character.

Each class has a certain hit die, which affects hit points. Refer to the chart below:

Starting Equipment:

• Mace or Warhammer
  
• Scale Mail or Leather Armor
  
• Club or Light Crossbow with 20 bolts
  
• Shield
  
• Holy Symbol (Amulet)
  
• Priest's Pack or Explorer's Pack

Cleric Spellcasting: Clerics have access to their entire spell list from the start. If you can cast level 1 spells, you can prepare any level 1 cleric spell from the entire cleric spell list. Any spell with the ritual tag can be cast at any time as a ritual (taking ten minutes) without using a spell slot. Clerics gain more spell slots as they progress in level, allowing more spells to be cast. Clerics also can prepare more spells as they level up, allowing them to prepare more spells for more situations. This also allows them to rearrange their spell lists after every long rest for new situations and environments.

Total Spells Prepared = Cleric Level + Wisdom Modifier


At character creation: All clerics gain the following at character creation.

• d8 Hit Dice
  
• Wisdom and Charisma saving throw proficiency
  
• Light and Medium armor proficiency
  
• Shield proficiency
  
• Simple weapon proficiency
  
• Scroll Kit proficiency
  
• 2 skills of your choice from History, Insight, Medicine, Persuasion, and Religion
  
• Level 1 spells available
  
• 2 first-level domain spells always prepared

Level 2: Channel Divinity can be used once per rest, but there are several types of Channel Divinity options. All clerics have access to Turn Undead, and every cleric domain has a second Channel Divinity option.

• Channel Divinity once per long rest
  
• Channel Divinity: Turn Undead - Force undead within 6 squares to flee if they fail a Wisdom saving throw
  
• Channel Divinity: Domain Option

Level 3:

• Level 2 spells available
  
• 2 second-level domain spells always prepared

Level 4:

• Ability Score Increase or Feat

Level 5:

• Level 3 spells available
  
• 2 third-level domain spells always prepared
  
• Channel Divinity: Destroy Undead - When using your Turn Undead feature, undead of Challenge Rating 0.5 or lower are destroyed if they fail their wisdom saving throw

Level 6:

• +1 use of Channel Divinity between long rests

Level 7:

• Level 4 spells available
  
• 2 fourth-level domain spells always prepared

Level 8:

• Ability Score Increase or Feat
  
• Channel Divinity: Destroy Undead now destroys undead of CR 1 or lower

Level 9:

• Level 5 spells available
  
• 2 fifth-level domain spells always prepared

Level 10:

• Divine Intervention - 10% chance of succeeding and gaining powerful alignment-dependent boon from deity

Fire

• Resistance to Fire damage
  
• Learn Firebolt cantrip
  
• Channel Divinity: Fire Burst - 3d6 fire damage to single target within 12 squares, dexterity saving throw for half damage
  
• Level 6 - reaction to gain immunity to fire damage and regain hit points equal to the damage negated
  
• Level 8 - deal fire damage and target must make Strength saving throw or be pushed back
  
• Domain spells

Ice

• Resistance to Frost damage
  
• Learn Ray of Frost cantrip
  
• Channel Divinity: Frost Lance - 2d8 frost damage to single target within 12 squares, dexterity saving throw or get pushed 2 squares back
  
• Level 6 - reaction to gain immunity to frost damage and regain hit points equal to the damage negated
  
• Level 8 - deal frost damage and target must make Strength saving throw or be pushed back
  
• Domain spells

Lightning

• Resistance to Lightning damage
  
• Learn Shocking Grasp cantrip
  
• Channel Divinity: Lightning Blade - 1d8 lightning damage to single target within 12 squares, dexterity saving throw or be stunned until the end of target's next turn
  
• Level 6 - reaction to gain immunity to lightning damage and regain hit points equal to the damage negated
  
• Level 8 - deal lightning damage and target must make Strength saving throw or be pushed back
  
• Domain spells

Sun

• Enemies have disadvantage on saving throws against your Sacred Flame cantrip
  
• Learn Light cantrip
  
• Channel Divinity: Herald of the Sun - 1d8 + (2*cleric level) radiant damage and blindness to single target within 6 squares, constitution saving throw for half damage and no blindness
  
• Level 6 - Heal ally and remove negative conditions
  
• Level 6 - Channel Divinity: Indomitable Light - create large area of daylight, dispelling areas of darkness and affecting light-sensitive creatures
  
• Level 8 - add 1d8 radiant damage to any weapon attack once per turn
  
• Domain spells

Battle Domain

• Gain 3 temporary hit points per level as an action once per long rest
  
• Martial Weapon proficiency
  
• Able to cast spells without a free hand
  
• Channel Divinity: Decisive Strike - 1d6 extra damage to weapon attack damage (2d6 at level 5, 3d6 at level 8) and stun target (constitution save prevents stun)
  
• Level 6 - allies within one square gain +1 to attack rolls, damage, AC, and saving throws
  
• Level 8 - attack twice when taking the attack action
  
• Domain spells

Law

• Advantage on rolls to prevent forced movement
  
• Proficient with intimidation skill, advantage on intimidation checks
  
• Channel Divinity: Holy Retribution - after getting hit with a melee weapon attack, use your reaction to attack back, adding 2d6 + cleric level psychic damage to the return strike.
  
• Channel Divinity: Force Law - use when casting a spell that requires a saving throw to impose disadvantage on the saving throw
  
• Level 6 - break an enemy's concentration
  
• Level 8 - restrain an enemy and deal force damage until enemy succeeds a wisdom saving throw
  
• Domain spells

Life

• Proficient with Heavy Armor
  
• When casting a healing spell, the target regains addition HP equal to (2 x spell level)
  
• Channel Divinity: Preserve Life - restore (5 x cleric level) hit points divided among any number of targets within 6 squares, healing up to half their maximum hit points
  
• Level 6 - when you cast a spell of 1st level or higher that restores hit points to a creature other than yourself, you regain hit points equal to (2 x spell level)
  
• Level 8 - deal 1d8 extra radiant damage on weapon attacks once per turn
  
• Domain spells

Oblivion

• Learn Chill Touch cantrip
  
• While conscious, all allies within 6 squares have advantage on death saving throws
  
• Channel Divinity: Herald of Pain - deal 1d8 necrotic damage and poison all enemies within 6 squares unless they pass a wisdom saving throw
  
• Level 2 - can no longer be surprised while resting
  
• Level 6 - deal 1d6 extra radiant damage on weapon attacks once per turn
  
• Level 8 - mark a creature to receive extra damage from all of all damage rolls from you and your party members
  
• Domain spells

Insight

• Advantage on Arcana, Nature and History checks
  
• Always know success chances during conversation (bypasses need for insight skill entirely)
  
• Channel Divinity: Foreknowledge - for 1 minute, first attack of each turn made against you is made at disadvantage
  
• Level 6 -advantage to detect hidden traps, hidden doors and objects
  
• Level 8 - speak and understand all languages, and can now cast identify once per long rest for free
  
• Domain spells

Starting Equipment:

• Longsword or Martial Weapon of your choice
  
• Shield or Battleaxe
  
• Chain Mail or Leather Armor
  
• 2 Handaxes or Light Crossbow with 20 bolts
  
• Dungeoneer's Pack or Explorer's Pack

At character creation: All fighters gain the following at character creation.

• d10 Hit Dice
  
• Strength and Constitution saving throw proficiency
  
• Light, Medium and Heavy Armor proficiency
  
• Shield proficiency
  
• Simple and Martial weapon proficiency
  
• Smith's Tools proficiency
  
• 2 skills of your choice from Acrobatics, Animal Handling, Athletics, History, Insight, Intimidation, Perception, and Survival
  
• Fighting Style
  
• Second Wind - heal 1d10 + fighter level as a bonus action once per short or long rest

Level 2:

• Action Surge - take an additional action once per short or long rest

Level 3:

• Fighter Subclass chosen

Level 4:

• Ability Score Increase or Feat

Level 5:

• Attack twice when taking the attack action

Level 6:

• Ability Score Increase or Feat

Level 7:

• Additional subclass feature

Level 8:

• Ability Score Increase or Feat

Level 9:

• Indomitable: re-roll a failed saving throw once per long rest

Level 10:

• Additional subclass feature

Fighting Styles: There are six fighting styles available to fighters. Each offers unique bonuses. Those bonuses are listed below.

• Archery - +2 to ranged weapon attack rolls
  
• Defense - +1 AC when wearing any armor
  
• Dueling - +2 damage when wielding a single one-handed weapon (can still use a shield)
  
• Great Weapon Fighting - Re-roll 1s and 2s on damage dice for two-handed weapons
  
• Protection - Impose disadvantage on an attack against an adjacent ally as a reaction while wearing a shield
  
• Two-Weapon Fighting - Add ability score modifier to off-hand weapon damage

Champion

• Level 3 - Critical hits occur on a 19 or a 20.
  
• Level 7 - Add half of your proficiency bonus (rounded up) to any strength, dexterity, or constitution check you make that you are not proficient in already.
  
• Level 10 - Choose a second fighting style

Mountaineer

• Level 3 - Advantage on shove attempts while wearing a shield
  
• Level 3 - +2 AC when adjacent to a wall while wearing a shield
  
• Level 7 - Additional Shove option to swap places with an adjacent enemy
  
• Level 10 - Shove as a bonus action while wearing a shield

Spellblade

• Level 3 - Spellbade spellcasting available from the Spellblade spell list. Once a spell is learned, it cannot be changed later, and remains in your known spells for the duration of the game. Spellblades only ever learn a few first and second level spells.
  
• Level 3 - Any weapon you wield is considered magical
  
• Level 7 - Ranged spell attacks do not have disadvantage due to adjacent enemies
  
• Level 7 - Can cast without a free hand
  
• Level 10 - Move an enemy 1 square in any direction unless they pass a strength saving throw

Starting Equipment:

• Longsword and Shield or Greataxe and Battleaxe
  
• Chain Mail
  
• Spear or 5 Javelins
  
• Holy Symbol (Amulet)
  
• Priest's Pack or Explorer's Pack

Paladin Spellcasting: Paladins have access to their entire spell list from the start. If you can cast level 1 spells, you can prepare any level 1 paladin spell from the entire paladin spell list. Paladins gain more spell slots as they progress in level, allowing more spells to be cast. Paladins also can prepare more spells as they level up, allowing them to prepare more spells for more situations. This also allows them to rearrange their spell lists after every long rest for new situations and environments. Note that paladins do not learn cantrips, nor do they have any on their spell list.

Total Spells Prepared = 1/2 of your Paladin Level + Charisma Modifier


At character creation: All paladins gain the following at character creation.

• d10 Hit Dice
  
• Wisdom and Charisma saving throw proficiency
  
• Light, Medium and Heavy Armor proficiency
  
• Shield proficiency
  
• Simple and Martial Weapon proficiency
  
• 2 skills of your choice from Athletics, Insight, Intimidation, Medicine, Persuasion, and Religion
  
• Divine Sense: Reveals celestials, fiends, and undead (1 + Cha modifier times per long rest)
  
• Healing Pool: A pool of healing power - 5 points per Paladin level
  
• Lay on Hands: Spend points from your healing pool to restore lost HP
  
• Neutralize Poison: Spend 5 points from your healing pool to neutralize one poison
  
• Cure Disease: Spend 5 points from your healing pool to cure one disease

Level 2:

• Divine Smite: When you hit a creature with a melee weapon, you can spend one spell slot to deal 2d8 additional radiant damage, +1d8 per slot level above 1st, and +1d8 when hitting an undead or a fiend.
  
• Choose a Fighting Style
  
• Level 1 spells available

Level 3:

• Paladin Subclass available
  
• 2 first-level oath spells always prepared

Level 4:

• Ability Score Increase or Feat

Level 5:

• Attack twice when taking the attack action
  
• Level 2 spells available
  
• 2 second-level oath spells always prepared

Level 6:

• Aura of Protection: Add charisma modifier to ally saving throws within 2 squares around yourself.

Level 7:

• Paladin Subclass feature

Level 8:

• Ability Score Increase or Feat

Level 9:

• Level 3 spells available
  
• 2 third-level oath spells always prepared

Level 10:

• Aura of Courage: You and allies within 10 feet cannot be frightened while you are conscious

Fighting Styles: There are four fighting styles available to paladins. Each offers unique bonuses. Those bonuses are listed below.

• Defense - +1 AC when wearing any armor
  
• Dueling - +2 damage when wielding a single one-handed weapon (can still use a shield)
  
• Great Weapon Fighting - Re-roll 1s and 2s on damage dice for two-handed weapons
  
• Protection - Impose disadvantage on an attack against an adjacent ally as a reaction while wearing a shield

Oath of Devotion

• Level 3: Channel Divinity: Sacred Weapon - For 1 minute, add your Charisma modifier to hit with a chosen weapon. The weapon also emits bright light over 4 cells and dim light over 4 more cells, and its attacks count as magical.
  
• Level 3: Channel Divinity: Turn the Unholy - Force fiends and undead within 6 cells who can see you to flee unless they make a successful Wisdom saving throw.
  
• Level 7: Aura of Devotion: Friendly creatures within 2 squares cannot be charmed while you are conscious
  
• Oath of Devotion Spells

Oath of the Motherland

• Level 3: Channel Divinity: Fiery Wrath - Target one creature within 12 cells and deal 2d6 + Paladin level fire damage and set the target on fire. Target can make a DC 10 Dexterity check to put out the fire, or sustain another 1d6 more fire damage per turn every turn afterwards.
  
• Level 3: Channel Divinity: Fiery Presence - Blind opponents within 12 cells who fail a Dexterity save for 1d4 turns. Creatures with Darkvision or better sight in darkness have disadvantage.
  
• Level 7: Volcanic Aura - Friendly creatures within 2 squares gain fire resistance and +1 to AC.
  
• Oath of the Motherland Spells

Oath of Tirmar

• Learn the Old Timarian language
  
• Level 3: Channel Divinity: Golden Speech - Gain advantage on Persuasion and Intimidation checks for one hour.
  
• Level 3: Channel Divinity: Scourge of the Hidden - Deal 1d8 radiant damage on attacks that hit opponents with either natural shapeshifting or darkvision (2d8 if both) for the next 10 minutes.
  
• Level 7: Aura of Truth - Friendly creatures within 2 squares gain superior darkvision and +2 Perception.
  
• Oath of Tirmar Spells

Starting Equipment:

• 2 Shortswords or Dagger and Javelin
  
• Leather Armor or Scale Mail
  
• Longbow or Shortbow
  
• 20 arrows
  
• Dungeoneer's Pack or Explorer's Pack

Ranger Spellcasting: Rangers have access to their entire spell list from the start. If you can cast level 1 spells, you can learn any level 1 ranger spell from the entire ranger spell list. Rangers only learn a few spells over their entire career, and cannot change which spells are known once they have been chosen. Note that rangers do not learn cantrips, nor do they have any on their spell list.


At character creation: All rangers gain the following at character creation.

• d10 Hit Dice
  
• Strength and Dexterity saving throw proficiency
  
• Light and Medium Armor proficiency
  
• Shield proficiency
  
• Simple and Martial Weapon proficiency
  
• 3 skills of your choice from Animal Handling, Athletics, Insight, Investigation, Nature, Perception, Survival, Stealth
  
• 1st Favored Enemy Selection: Gain an advantage on ability checks towards a creature type, and additional damage against it equal to your knowledge level (1-4 extra based on bestiary entry completion)
  
• 1st Natural Explorer Selection: You are adept at living and traveling in a certain type of terrain

Level 2:

• Choose a Fighting Style
  
• Ranger Spellcasting: Level 1 spells available

Level 3:

• Primeval Awareness: Detects the presence of certain creature types in the location (map-wide)
  
• Ranger Subclass selected

Level 4:

• Ability Score Increase or Feat

Level 5:

• Attack twice when taking the attack action
  
• Level 2 spells available

Level 6:

• 2nd Natural Explorer Selection: You are adept at living and traveling in a certain type of terrain
  
• 2nd Favored Enemy Selection: Gain an advantage on ability checks towards a creature type, and additional damage against it equal to your knowledge level (1-4 extra based on bestiary entry completion)

Level 7:

• Ranger Subclass feature

Level 8:

• Ability Score Increase or Feat

Level 9:

• Level 3 spells available

Level 10:

• 3rd Natural Explorer Selection: You are adept at living and traveling in a certain type of terrain.
  
• Hide in Plain Sight: You can spend 1 minute creating camouflage for yourself, granting +10 to your stealth check while you are standing against a wall, and the bonus lasts until you rest or move to another location.

Fighting Styles: There are four fighting styles available to rangers. Each offers unique bonuses. Those bonuses are listed below.

• Archery - +2 to ranged weapon attack rolls
  
• Defense - +1 AC when wearing any armor
  
• Dueling - +2 damage when wielding a single one-handed weapon (can still use a shield)
  
• Two-Weapon Fighting - Add ability score modifier to off-hand weapon damage

Hunter

• Level 3 - Hunter's Prey: Choose one of the following specialties - Colossus Slayer, Giant Killer, or Horde Breaker
  
  • Colossus Slayer - 1/turn, deal 1d8 extra damage to any enemy below their maximum hit points
    
  • Giant Killer - Size large or larger creature triggers a reaction attack from you when it misses on a melee attack
    
  • Horde Breaker - 1/turn, when you kill an enemy, make another free attack with the same weapon on a different enemy
• Level 7 - Defensive Tactics: Choose one of the following options: Escape the Horde, Multi-Attack Defense or Steel Will.
  
  • Escape the Horde - Opportunity attacks against you are made at disadvantage
    
  • Multi-Attack Defense - +4 AC after the first attack made against you each turn
    
  • Steel Will - Advantage on checks against frightened condition

Marksman

• Level 3 - Reaction Shot: When a visible opponent 2 cells or more from you attacks you with a ranged weapon or a spell, you can use your reaction to shoot back at them
  
• Level 3 - Proficiency with Herbalism Kit or Poisoner's Kit
  
• Level 7 - Step Back: When you are within melee range of an enemy creature, you can use your bonus action to move one cell without provoking opportunity attacks, and gain advantage on your next attack with a ranged weapon this turn
  
• Level 7 - You can craft arrows every time you take a short or long rest.

Shadow Tamer

• Level 3 - Dark Slayer: When attacking a creature with sensitivity or hypersensitivity to light with a weapon, you add your proficiency bonus to both hit and damage.
  
• Level 3 - Tunnel Wisdom: When in dim light or darkness, you gain advantage on Dexterity saving throws.
  
• Level 7 - Know the Darkness: While in darkness or dim light, you have advantage on stealth, perception, and investigation checks, and gain tremorsense.
  
• Level 7 - Rope Grapple: Target a distant creature and attempt to pull it with a standard grapple check

Starting Equipment:

• Rapier or Shortsword
  
• Shortsword or Shortbow with 20 arrows
  
• Leather Armor
  
• 2 Daggers
  
• Thieves' Tools
  
• Burglar's Pack or Explorer's Pack

At character creation: All rogues gain the following at character creation.

• d8 Hit Dice
  
• Dexterity and Intelligence saving throw proficiency
  
• Light Armor proficiency
  
• Simple weapon, longsword, shortsword, and rapier proficiency
  
• Thieves' Tools and Smith's Tools proficiency
  
• 4 skills of your choice from Athletics, Deception, Insight, Intimidation, Investigation, Perception, Performance, Persuasion, Sleight of Hand, and Stealth
  
• 1st Expertise Selection: Select 2 proficient skills or tools to double their proficiency bonus
  
• Sneak Attack: 1d6 extra damage to one creature you hit using a finesse or ranged weapon, once per turn, so long as you have advantage or have an adjacent ally. Sneak attack cannot trigger if you have disadvantage on the attack, even if an ally is adjacent.

Level 2:

• Cunning Action: You can Dash, Disengage, or Hide as a bonus action on your turn

Level 3:

• Rogue Subclass chosen
  
• 2d6 Sneak Attack damage

Level 4:

• Ability Score Increase or Feat

Level 5:

• Uncanny Dodge: When an attacker that you can see hits you with an attack, you can use your reaction to halve the attack's damage
  
• 3d6 Sneak Attack damage

Level 6:

• 2nd Expertise Selection: Select 2 proficient skills or tolls to double their proficiency bonus

Level 7:

• Evasion: When you are subjected to an area of effect that allows you to make a Dexterity saving throw to take only half damage, you instead take no damage if you succeed on the saving throw, and only half damage if you fail
  
• 4d6 Sneak Attack damage

Level 8:

• Ability Score Increase or Feat

Level 9:

• Rogue Subclass feature
  
• 5d6 Sneak Attack damage

Level 10:

• Ability Score Increase or Feat

Thief

• Level 3 - Fast Hands: Cunning Action allows you to take the Use an Object action as a bonus action
  
• Level 3 - Second-Story Work: Climbing no longer costs you extra movement, difficult climbing surfaces are considered normal to you, and you can jump longer distances.
  
• Level 9 - Supreme Sneak: You have permanent advantage on Stealth checks.

Darkweaver

• Level 3 - Spider on the Wall: Climbing no longer costs you extra movement, and difficult to climb surfaces are considered normal for you
  
• Level 3 - Proficiency with Poisoner's Kit
  
• Level 3 - Predator: When hitting an enemy on lower ground with a ranged weapon, add your proficiency bonus to the damage
  
• Level 9 - Poisonous: When you hit with a melee weapon and deal at least 1 point of damage, your target must take a constitution saving throw (DC 13) or they will be poisoned and take an additional 2d6 damage

Shadow Caster

• Level 3 - Shadow Caster Spellcasting available. Once a spell is learned, it cannot be changed later, and remains in your known spells for the duration of the game. Shadow Casters only ever learn a few first and second level spells.
  
• Level 3 - Shadow Dodge: As a bonus action, teleport to a square you can see within 5 squares once per short or long rest
  
• Level 9 - Shadow Retribution: If you are targeted by a damaging spell, whether it damages you or not, you can use your reaction to cast a cantrip in response, targeting the enemy caster

Starting Equipment:

• Component Pouch or Spell Focus
  
• Simple Weapon or Light Crossbow with 20 bolts
  
• Sorcerer Outfit
  
• 2 Daggers
  
• Dungeoneer's Pack or Explorer's Pack

Sorcerer Spellcasting: Sorcerers only learn a certain number of spells per level, and are limited to those spells throughout the entire game. Refer to the chart below for how many spells your sorcerer knows total at each level. Each time you level up, you may replace a spell you already know with a different spell, allowing some flexibility as you level up. This is in addition to any new spells learned at level-up. Any spell with the ritual tag can be cast at any time as a ritual (taking ten minutes) without using a spell slot.


At character creation: All sorcerers gain the following at character creation.

• d6 Hit Dice
  
• Constitution and Charisma saving throw proficiency
  
• Dagger, dart, quarterstaff and light crossbow proficiency
  
• Herbalism Kit and Manacalon Rosary proficiency
  
• 2 skills of your choice from: Arcana, Deception, Insight, Intimidation, Persuasion, and Religion
  
• Sorcerous Origin
  
• Sorcerer Spellcasting

Level 2:

• Sorcery Points: 1 per level, regain all after long rest, can convert sorcery points to spell slots and vice versa as a bonus action

Level 3:

• Metamagic options x2
  
• Level 2 spells available

Level 4:

• Ability Score Increase or Feat

Level 5:

• Level 3 spells available

Level 6:

• Sorcerous Origin feature

Level 7:

• Level 4 spells available

Level 8:

• Ability Score Increase or Feat

Level 9:

• Level 5 spells available

Level 10:

• Additional Metamagic option

Metamagic Options:

• Careful Spell (1 sorcery point): Allies automatically pass the saving throw for the spell (Fireball, baby!)
  
• Distant Spell (1 sorcery point): Ranged spells double their range, & touch spells gain range of 6 squares
  
• Empowered Spell (2 sorcery points): Reroll 1's and 2's on damage dice
  
• Extended Spell (1 sorcery point): Spell duration is doubled
  
• Heightened Spell (3 sorcery points): Enemies roll saving throw against spell at disadvantage
  
• Quickened Spell (2 sorcery points): Cast a spell with a normal casting time of 1 action as a bonus action
  
• Twinned Spell (+1 sorcery point per extra target): Spells that have a single target now add additional targets (Haste, baby!). Range limitations remain.

Draconic Bloodline





Level 1:

• +1 hit point per level
  
• Base armor class is 13 + dexterity bonus unless wearing better armor
  
• Speak Draconic
  
• Choose draconic ancestry (color and associated element for breath attacks and abilities)
  
• Origin Spells: These spells are always known for you and do not count against total spells known

Level 6:

• Charisma modifier bonus damage to all sources of ancestry elemental damage
  
• Spend 1 sorcery point for resistance to ancestry elemental damage for one hour

Mana Painter





Level 1:

• Charisma modifier is used instead of other ability scores (when higher) for saves against magical effects
  
• Origin Spells: These spells are always known for you and do not count against total spells known

Level 2:

• Mana Drain (1/short or long rest): Melee spell attack that deals 1d10 + Charisma modifier force damage and restores a sorcery point on hit

Level 6:

• Recover sorcery points equal to half your sorcerer level rounded up after a short rest (once per long rest)

Child of the Rift





Level 1:

• Rift Magic: After casting a slotted spell, roll a d20. On a 20, you recover the spell slot.
  
• Origin Spells

Level 2:

• Rift Deflection: Spend a sorcery point to gain proficiency bonus to AC and saving throws as a bonus action for one round

Level 6:

• As a bonus action, lose 5 hit points and recover a sorcery point.

Starting Equipment:

• Quarterstaff or Dagger
  
• Component Pouch or Orb
  
• Spellbook
  
• Wizard's Clothing
  
• Scholar's Pack or Explorer's Pack

Wizard Spellcasting: Wizards have access to whatever spells they have copied into their spellbook. Wizards start with 6 first level spells, and can choose 2 more spells at each level up. Adding other spells outside of this process requires another person's spellbook or a spell scroll, which the wizard can copy spells from into their own spellbook using an Arcana check (DC = 10 + spell level of the copied spell). Any spell with the ritual tag can be cast at any time as a ritual (taking ten minutes) without using a spell slot, and ritual spells need not be prepared in order to be cast from the spellbook. Wizards can prepare a number of spells from their spellbook to use, and lose access to the rest until their next long rest, at which point they choose their spells again. Your spellbook has enough room to scribe every single spell from the wizard's spell list into it.

Total Spells Prepared = Wizard Level + Intelligence Modifier


At character creation: All wizards gain the following at character creation.

• d6 Hit Dice
  
• Intelligence and Wisdom saving throw proficiency
  
• Dagger, dart and quarterstaff proficiency
  
• Manacalon Rosary and Scroll Kit proficiency
  
• 2 skills of your choice from Arcana, History, Insight, Investigation, Medicine, and Religion.
  
• Level 1 spells available

Level 2:

• Wizard Subclass chosen
  
• Arcane Recovery: Once per long rest after you complete a short rest, you can recover a number of expanded spell slots up to half of your wizard level (rounded up)

Level 3:

• Level 2 spells available

Level 4:

• Ability Score Increase or Feat

Level 5:

• Level 3 spells available

Level 6:

• Wizard Subclass feature

Level 7:

• Level 4 spells available

Level 8:

• Ability Score Increase or Feat

Level 9:

• Level 5 spells available

Level 10:

• Wizard Subclass feature

Shock Arcanist

• Level 2 - Certain spells are always cast at one level higher for free.
  
  
  Spell Level

  Spell 1

  Spell 2

  Spell 3

  1

  Burning Hands

  Magic Missile

  Thunderwave

  2

  Acid Arrow

  Scorching Ray

  Flaming Sphere

  3

  Fireball

  Lightning Bolt
  
  
• Level 6 - Arcane Fury: Add your proficiency bonus and Intelligence bonus to your evocation spell damage for 1 minute. Recharges after a long rest
  
• Level 10 - Arcane Shock: You overcharge your mana and become restrained until the end of your turn. Afterwards, when you cast an attack spell, your damage dice are always above average, but you must make a constitution saving throw (DC14) each time, taking 2d6 Psychic Damage if you fail.
  
• Level 10 - Constitution Saving Throw proficiency

Loremaster

• Level 2 - Keen Mind: Advantage on Arcana, History, and Investigation ability checks. Advantage to copy scrolls your spellbook. Scroll and potion crafting costs and times are halved.
  
• Level 6 - Spell Academic: You learn one additional spell each time you gain a level.
  
• Level 10 - Arcane Lore: You can add your Proficiency Bonus to the number of spells you can memorize.
  
• Level 10 - Learn two additional Cantrips from the Wizard's spell list.

Green Mage

• Level 2 - Green Mage spell list is available to you.
  
• Level 2 - Gain proficiency with light armor and gain the archery fighting style (+2 to attack rolls for ranged weapon attacks)
  
• Level 2 - Natural Explorer: You are adept at living and traveling in a certain type of terrain.
  
• Level 6 - Entangling Shot: Your arrow can transform into a vine on impact. The target must make a Strength saving throw or be restrained until the end of your next turn. You can use this ability a number of times equal to your Intelligence modifier, and all uses recharge at the end of a long rest.
  
• Level 10 - Leaf Scales: When an attacker that you can see hits you with a ranged attack or spell, you can use your reaction to halve the attack's damage against you

In this section, I will give a quick list of each of the optional feats in the game that can be chosen at level up instead of taking a straight bonus to your ability scores.

Ambidextrous: +1 Dexterity, can wield non-light weapons in both hands

Arcane Appraiser: Automatically identify magic items in inventory

Armor Master: +1 AC while wearing any armor

Badlands Marauder: +1 Constitution, resistance to poison damage and advantage against being poisoned

Blessing of the Elements: 1/rest, gain resistance to fire, cold or lightning damage until your next turn as a reaction to taking one of those damage types

Burning Touch: Deal proficiency bonus fire damage with unarmed or weapon strikes 1/turn

Cloak and Dagger: +2 AC after hitting an enemy with a light weapon

Creed of Arun: +1 Constitution, proficiency in constitution saves, or +1 if already proficient

Creed of Einar: +1 Strength, proficiency in strength saves, or +1 if already proficient

Creed of Maraike: +1 Wisdom, proficiency in wisdom saves, or +1 if already proficient

Creed of Misaye: +1 Dexterity, proficiency in dexterity saves, or +1 if already proficient

Creed of Pakri: +1 Intelligence, proficiency in intelligence saves, or +1 if already proficient

Creed of Solasta: +1 Charisma, proficiency in charisma saves, or +1 if already proficient

Daunting Push: Shoving an enemy removes half their movement speed next turn

Discretion of the Coedymwarth: +1 Dexterity, proficiency with light armor, shortbows, shortswords and longbows

Distracting Gambit: After hitting an enemy with a one-handed weapon, they lose 1 AC for 1 minute

Eager for Battle: +1 Dexterity, advantage on initiative roll

Electrifying Touch: Deal proficiency bonus lightning damage with unarmed or weapon strikes 1/turn

Enduring Body: +1 Constitution, +1 hit point per level (does act retroactively as well)

Flawless Concentration: Advantage on concentration checks, auto-succeed if damage was 10 or less (spellcasting ability required)

Focused Sleeper: +1 Constitution, only need 4 hours to sleep for a long rest

Follow-up Strike: After attacking with a two-handed weapon, can make a bonus action attack for 1d4 + strength modifier damage with the same weapon

Forest Runner: +2 squares (10 feet) of movement speed

Forestalling Strength: +1 AC while wielding a two-handed weapon

Hard to Kill: Advantage on death saves, regain one hit die when you stabilize and two hit die if you roll a nat20 on a death save

Hauler: +1 Strength, double carrying capacity (13 strength required)

Icy Touch: Deal proficiency bonus cold damage with unarmed or weapon strikes 1/turn

Initiate Alchemist: Proficiency with Herbalism Kit, Poisoner's Kit, and Nature (expertise if already proficient)

Initiate Enchanter: Proficiency with Manacalon Rosary and Arcana (expertise if already proficient)

Lock Breaker: Advantage on lockpicking checks, proficiency with thieves' tools or expertise if already proficient (13 dexterity required)

Manipulator: Gain proficiency in persuasion, intimidation and deception, or expertise if already proficient (13 charisma required)

Master Alchemist: Half the successes required to create a potion, expertise on checks to make potions, and unknown potions are automatically identified (13 intelligence required)

Master Enchanter: Half the successes required to enchant an item and expertise on checks to enchant an item (spellcasting ability required)

Melting Touch: Deal proficiency bonus acid damage with unarmed or weapon strikes 1/turn

Mender: When you stabilize an ally with a Medicine check, they regain 1 HP

Might of the Iron Legion: +1 Strength, proficiency with heavy armor, longswords, greatswords and battleaxes (medium armor proficiency required)

Mighty Blow: Add 1/2 Strength modifier, rounded up, to two-handed weapon damage

Powerful Cantrip: If an enemy saves against your cantrip or you miss an attack roll with your cantrip, the enemy still takes half damage (spellcasting ability required)

Raise Shield: Proficiency with shields, can gain +3 AC as a reaction to an attack that would hit you

Ready or Not: Advantage on rolls made for Ready Action: Attack

Robust: +1 Constitution, when rolling hit die to recover hit points, roll twice and take the higher roll (13 constitution required)

Rush to Battle: As a bonus action, gain 3 squares of movement and -2 AC until next turn

Sturdiness of the Tundra: +1 Constitution, proficiency with medium armor, warhammers, light crossbows and heavy crossbows (light armor proficiency required)

Take Aim: As a bonus action, cause all ranged attacks to be made at neutral, regardless of situational advantage or disadvantage

Toxic Touch: Deal proficiency bonus poison damage with unarmed or weapon strikes 1/turn

Trip Attack: Successful melee weapon attacks also make a Shove action to knock enemy prone

Twin Blade: While dual wielding, can gain +3 AC as a reaction to an attack that would hit you

Uncanny Accuracy: +1 Dexterity, ranged attacks now ignore 1/2 and 3/4 cover

The following section is a list of all conditions you may encounter in Solasta. Usually a spell or effect will tell you it is inflicting this condition. Some conditions are spell specific, and are just the coded effect of the spell's written effect. For example, there is a coded effect in the game called "Distracted by Annoying Bee" which is just the functional application of the spell as described. I will not be adding these to the list. However, common conditions like Prone or Stunned, or complicated spell effects like In Sleet Storm will be expanded upon.

I hope this helps!

Asleep: Character is Unconscious until woken up by action or first instance of damage.

Blinded: Character is blinded. Attacks against them have advantage, attacks made by them have disadvantage, and they cannot see. If a character has Blindsight through any means, they are unaffected by the Blinded condition in the range of the Blindsight.

Blindsight: Immune to the effects of Blindness within the range specified by the Blindsight.

Charmed: Creature cannot attack the charmer or its allies.

Confused: Creature acts randomly on its turn, choosing one of the following: Take no action, attack a valid target, move randomly, or act normally (in which you can command your own confused party member).

Cursed: Applied by Bestow Curse, this has different effects depending on the option chosen.

• On Attack - attack rolls are at disadvantage
  
• On Action - successful Wisdom save required to take an action
  
• On Damage - +1d8 necrotic damage added to attacks from Curse caster
  
• On Ability - Disadvantage on ability checks and saving throws related to chosen attribute

Deafened: Cannot hear or pass hearing related checks.

Diseased: Applied by the Contagion spell, it has varying effects based on the disease chosen:

• Blinding Sickness - diseased creature is blinded
  
• Filth Fever - Disadvantage on Strength-based checks, attack rolls and saving throws
  
• Flesh Rot - Disadvantage on Charisma-based checks and vulnerability to all damage
  
• Mindfire - Disadvantage on Intelligence-based checks and saving throws, and creature is Confused
  
• Seizure - Disadvantage on Dexterity-based checks, attack rolls and saving throws
  
• Slimy Doom - Disadvantage on Constitution-based checks and saving throws, and creature is Stunned when it takes damage until the end of its next turn

Drained: Max HP is lowered. Drained stacks, and eventually can outright kill a character if your max HP is lowered to zero.

Exhausted: Gained a variety of ways, exhaustion is cured with a long rest and typically should never get past a couple levels unless you are deliberately pushing your characters' limits. There are six levels, with increasing penalties that all stack.

• Level 1 - Disadvantage on all ability checks
  
• Level 2 - Halved movement speed
  
• Level 3 - Disadvantage on all attack rolls and saving throws
  
• Level 4 - Hit point maximum is halved
  
• Level 5 - Movement speed becomes zero
  
• Level 6 - Character death

Frightened: While character can see the source of the Fear effect, they have disadvantage on all attack rolls and ability checks, and cannot move closer to the source.

Grappled: Character's movement speed becomes zero

Hasted: Character's movement speed is doubled, they gain +2 AC, dexterity saving throws are made at advantage, and gain a second action that can be taken each turn. This additional action can be used to take any standard action, but can only make one attack.

Heavily Obscured: A condition applied while within an area (usually a Darkness or Fog Cloud spell effect). Creatures are effectively Blinded while within the area or trying to perceive inside of the area while still outside.

Incapacitated: Character cannot take actions or reactions.

In Sleet Storm: While in the affected area, character must make a Dexterity saving throw or fall prone at the start of their turn (or upon first entering the area). Character is Slowed and the area is Heavliy Obscured. Additionally, a concentration check must be made at the start of each turn to maintain a spell while in the area.

Invisible: Character is invisible, and others are treated as Blinded when trying to perceive character.

On Fire: Creature takes 1d6 fire damage at the start of each turn until the fire is extinguished.

Paralyzed: Character cannot take actions, reactions, move or speak. Character also fails all strength or dexterity related checks, all attacks against character are at advantage, and all successful attacks are automatically treated as a critical hit.

Petrified: Character is turned to stone and Stunned. Character gains resistance to all damage and immunity to poison and disease. Any current poison or disease is suspended, not cured, and resumes as normal once Petrified is removed.

Poisoned: Character has disadvantage on all ability checks and attack rolls.

Prone: Creature is lying down on the ground. Movement speed is halved, and takes half of creature's full movement speed to stand up. Dexterity checks and saves are made at disadvantage. All attack rolls are made at disadvantage. Attacks on the character have advantage within 1 square, and disadvantage beyond that.

Restrained: Character's movement speed is zero, and character has disadvantage on dexterity saves and all attack rolls. Attack rolls against the character are made at advantage.

Silenced: Character makes no sound, and cannot cast spells with verbal (V) components. Typically caused by being within a Silence spell's effect.

Slowed: Typically caused by the Slow spell. Character's movement is halved, they have -2 AC, cannot take reactions or cast spells, can take one action or one bonus action, and cannot make more than a single attack in a round.

Stunned: Character cannot move, take actions or reactions, and fails strength and dexterity related checks. All attack rolls against the character are made at advantage.

Surprised: Typically the result of failing to see an ambush. While surprised, a character cannot take actions, bonus actions, or move, and movement speed is zero.

Unconscious: Creature is Incapacitated and Stunned, falls Prone and attacks made within one square are automatically counted as critical hits.

Well Fed: Buff given by Heroes Feast. Grants immunity to Frightened, Diseased, and Poisoned conditions, as well as immunity to poison damage. Grants advantage on all wisdom saving throws, and buffs maximum hit points by 2d10.

There are currently six factions in Solasta. Each one has benefits, and it is impossible to reach maximum affinity with all six in a single game. I will also mention that while the game throws out some statements like "joins you in battle", the factions will never join you in battle. That is a lie. Shame on you, Tactical Adventures.

That said, this section will focus on each faction, who they are, who to talk to, and how to gain affinity with that faction. It will also list what they sell (both in general and very specific terms).

Faction affinity increases along the following scale:

• Indifference - Relationship: 0-10. No benefits
  
• Sympathy - Relationship: 11-30. Store can now be accessed
  
• Alliance - Relationship: 31-50. Store discount: 10%
  
• Brotherhood - Relationship: 51-80. Store discount: 20%
  
• Living Legend - Relationship: 81-100. Store discount: 30%

At each tier, more of the faction's store inventory becomes available. In general, the very best stuff is lock behind the Living Legend tier, but some really good stuff can be accessed even if affinity is not maxed out yet. The Ring of Darkvision, for example, fixes the no-light problem and can be accessed from the Antiquarians at Alliance level.

The Scavengers and The Principality of Masgarth both max out automatically each playthrough. The Tower of Knowledge does not need any items given to them in order to max them out; their shopkeeper and contact, Maddy, will grant you +4 to their reputation every time you talk to her if you tell her you missed her. This can be done once every time you enter Caer Cyflen, and can be spammed to maximum affinity as soon as Maddy is available to talk to.

UPDATE: Maddy can no longer be charmed infinitely. Apparently this was a bug and not a feature. My disappointment is immeasurable.

This leaves the Arcaneum, the Antiquarians, and the Circle of Danatar. Of the three, it is easiest to max out the Circle of Danatar, due to it benefiting from storyline boosts to affinity. However, giving faction relics to max out Danatar means you won't be able to max out one of the other two.

Thus, you cannot maximize every faction's affinity in a single playthrough. However, played correctly, it shouldn't take you more than two runs to get every faction to maximum affinity. Now let's get started looking at each faction and what they offer.


Council Member: Chancellor Hertha Gormsdottir

Contact/Shopkeeper: Halman Summer

Items Sold: Utility magic items, bags of holding, low-quality enchanting ingredients



The Antiquarians have a really useful list of magic items. While other shops focus on armor or weapons or ingredients, the Antiquarians are the ones selling enchanted rings, capes, bags of holding, and other utility magic items. Living Legend with them unlocks the Belt of Fire Giant Strength, which sets strength to 25 on a character, making your bruiser character unbelievably powerful. The Ring of Darkvision is another great choice, solving the problem of darkvision for all your humans and halflings in the party. It's affordable and available early on if you raise your affinity quickly. This is easily my most relied on faction because of the stuff they offer. Everything else can be replaced through loot and enchanting, but there's no substitute for a full party of people carrying a bag of holding. And this faction has the stat-boosting manuals and tomes, allowing your characters to boost their ability scores by 2 once... even past 20, up to 22.

Halman Summer Shop Inventory:
Affinity Requirement: Alliance

• Belt of Hill Giant Strength
  
• Boots of Elvenkind
  
• Bracers of Sparkle
  
• Cloak of Protection
  
• Endless Quiver of Colthannin
  
• Periapt of Proof against Poison
  
• Ring of Darkvision
  
• Slippers of Spiderclimbing
  
• Stone of Good Luck
  
• Wand of Magic Detection
  
• Oil of Acuteness

Affinity Requirement: Brotherhood

• Handy Haversack
  
• Amulet of Health
  
• Boots of Levitation
  
• Boots of Striding and Springing
  
• Boots of the Winterlands
  
• Bracers of Archery
  
• Bracers of Defense
  
• Brooch of Shielding
  
• Circlet of Blasting
  
• Cloak of Elvenkind
  
• Dust of Disappearance
  
• Gauntlets of Ogre Power
  
• Headband of Intellect
  
• Oil of Sharpness
  
• Periapt of Health
  
• Ring of Feather Falling
  
• Blood Ruby

Affinity Requirement: Living Legend

• Bag of Holding
  
• Belt of Fire Giant Strength
  
• Cloak of Arachnida
  
• Manual of Bodily Health
  
• Manual of Gainful Exercise
  
• Manual of Quickness of Action
  
• Necklace of Fireballs
  
• Ring of Protection +1
  
• Tome of Leadership and Influence
  
• Tome of Quick Thought
  
• Tome of Understanding
  
• Shard of Ice

Council Member: Master Ilastar Keenmind Airgentine

Contact/Shopkeeper: Heddlon Surespell

Items Sold: Spell scrolls and primed weapons/armor



The Arcaneum sells primed weapons and armor, and also has most spell scrolls for sale. Gaining affinity with this faction is crucial if you're wanting to craft all your own gear. Buying a primed greatsword, for example, is exponentially cheaper than buying a +2 greatsword. And you can't buy the Lightbringer Greatsword, you can only craft it. Below is a list of their stuff and what affinity is requires to purchase it.

Heddlon Surespell Shop Inventory:
Affinity Requirement: Alliance

• Pearl
  
• Primed Dagger
  
• Primed Mace
  
• Primed Shortbow
  
• Primed Shortsword
  
• Primed Scimitar
  
• Primed Leather Armor
  
• Primed Breastplate
  
• Scroll of Bane
  
• Scroll of Bless
  
• Scroll of Charm Person
  
• Scroll of Command
  
• Scroll of Comprehend Languages
  
• Scroll of Cure Wounds
  
• Scroll of Detect Evil and Good
  
• Scroll of Detect Magic
  
• Scroll of Detect Poison and Disease
  
• Scroll of Expeditious Retreat
  
• Scroll of Faerie Fire
  
• Scroll of Feather Fall
  
• Scroll of Fog Cloud
  
• Scroll of Grease
  
• Scroll of Hideous Laughter
  
• Scroll of Identify
  
• Scroll of Jump
  
• Scroll of Mage Armor
  
• Scroll of Protection from Evil and Good
  
• Scroll of Shield of Faith
  
• Scroll of Sleep

Affinity Requirement: Brotherhood

• Primed Greatsword
  
• Primed Greataxe
  
• Primed Battleaxe
  
• Primed Longbow
  
• Primed Rapier
  
• Primed Morningstar
  
• Primed Scale Mail
  
• Primed Chain Mail
  
• Primed Half Plate
  
• Scroll of Barkskin
  
• Scroll of Blur
  
• Scroll of Darkness
  
• Scroll of Darkvision
  
• Scroll of Find Traps
  
• Scroll of Flame Blade
  
• Scroll of Flaming Sphere
  
• Scroll of Invisibility
  
• Scroll of Knock
  
• Scroll of Lesser Restoration
  
• Scroll of Levitate
  
• Scroll of Misty Step
  
• Scroll of Pass Without Trace
  
• Scroll of See Invisibility
  
• Scroll of Silence
  
• Scroll of Spider Climb
  
• Scroll of Warding Bond

Affinity Requirement: Living Legend

• Primed Plate
  
• Scroll of Counterspell
  
• Scroll of Daylight
  
• Scroll of Dispel Magic
  
• Scroll of Fly
  
• Scroll of Haste
  
• Scroll of Hypnotic Pattern
  
• Scroll of Protection From Energy
  
• Scroll of Tongues
  
• Scroll of Banishment
  
• Scroll of Conjure Minor Elementals
  
• Scroll of Greater Invisibility
  
• Scroll of Stoneskin
  
• Scroll of Conjure Elemental
  
• Scroll of Dispel Evil and Good

Council Member: Grandmaster Edvan Danatar

Contact/Shopkeeper: Joriel Foxeye

Items Sold: Magic weapons and armor, spell scrolls



The Circle of Danatar sells generic +1 and +1 magic armor and weapons, as well as some spell scrolls. They are easily the least interesting group to purchase from, as you get access to a lot of much better options through general enchanting, even without the affinity of the enchanting-focused factions. They also have the least impressive Living Legend tier. Get to Brotherhood and stop unless you're achievement hunting. That said, you gain affinity with the Circle of Danatar much easier than the rest, and will have enough affinity just from playing all the game content that you can fill out whatever magic equipment you're missing with the boring garden variety +1 or +2 equipment. Below is a list of what they sell and what affinity is needed to purchase it.

Joriel Foxeye Shop Inventory:
Affinity Requirement: Alliance

• +1 Breastplate
  
• Chainmail of Sturdiness
  
• +1 Leather Armor
  
• +1 Plate
  
• +2 Leather Armor
  
• +1 Battleaxe
  
• +1 Dagger
  
• +1 Greataxe
  
• +1 Greatsword
  
• +1 Longsword
  
• +1 Mace
  
• +1 Quarterstaff
  
• +1 Rapier
  
• +1 Shortbow
  
• +1 Shortsword
  
• +1 Warhammer
  
• Scroll of Burning Hands
  
• Scroll of Color Spray
  
• Scroll of Entangle
  
• Scroll of Guiding Bolt
  
• Scroll of Magic Missile
  
• Scroll of Inflict Wounds
  
• Scroll of Shield
  
• Scroll of Thunderwave
  
• Scroll of Acid Arrow
  
• Scroll of Blindness
  
• Scroll of Hold Person
  
• Scroll of Magic Weapon
  
• Scroll of Shatter

Affinity Requirement: Brotherhood

• Dwarven Plate
  
• Colthannin Chain
  
• +2 Shield
  
• +1 Longbow
  
• +2 Longsword
  
• +1 Manacalon Morningstar
  
• +2 Quarterstaff
  
• +2 Shortbow
  
• Scroll of Scorching Ray
  
• Scroll of Fireball
  
• Scroll of Lightning Bolt
  
• Scroll of Sleet Storm
  
• Scroll of Vampiric Touch
  
• Scroll of Blight
  
• Scroll of Ice Storm
  
• Scroll of Phantasmal Killer

Affinity Requirement: Living Legend

• Adamantine Plate Armor
  
• +2 Morningstar
  
• Scroll of Cloudkill
  
• Scroll of Cone of Cold
  
• Scroll of Flame Strike
  
• Scroll of Mind Twist

Council Member: Princess Ceiwad Silverflower, Captain Verissa Ironshell

Contact/Shopkeeper: Hugo Requer, Gorim Ironsoot, Circe Gerardoirin

Items Sold: Crafting recipes, magical equipment, and ingredients



The Principality of Masgarth has a couple of merchants available. Two in Caer Cyflen, the starter magic merchant and general goods merchant, and Circe Gerardoirin at the Manacalon Ruins once you have cleared that area. They sell basic magical equipment, crafting recipes and spell scrolls, and since you will reach Living Legend with this faction every playthrough, you should not worry about what items require which affinity level. If you lack ingredients for potions, scrolls or poisons, check Hugo Requer, who also has some really great potions available at higher affinity. Circe Gerardoirin sells every single enchanting recipe in the game, and I am adding those to the shop list below. All items are recipes for enchanting.

Circe Gerardoirin Shop List:
Affinity Requirement: Below Living Legend

• Rations
  
• Projectile Parts
  
• Dagger of Acuteness
  
• Greatsword of Acuteness
  
• Battleaxe of Acuteness
  
• Longsword of Acuteness
  
• Mace of Acuteness
  
• Rapier of Acuteness
  
• Scimitar of Acuteness
  
• Shortsword of Acuteness
  
• Longbow of Accuracy
  
• Breastplate of Sturdiness
  
• Chain Mail of Sturdiness
  
• Half Plate of Sturdiness
  
• Plate Armor of Sturdiness
  
• Scale Armor of Sturdiness
  
• Punisher Battleaxe
  
• Breastplate of Deflection
  
• Frostburn Dagger
  
• Souldrinker Dagger
  
• Empress Garb Chain Shirt
  
• Stormblade Greataxe
  
• Doomblade Greatsword
  
• Lightbringer Greatsword
  
• Leather Armor of Flame Dancing
  
• Leather Armor of Survival
  
• Lightbringer Longbow
  
• Stormbow
  
• Dragonblade
  
• Frostburn Longsword
  
• Stormblade Longsword
  
• Wardenblade
  
• Mace of Smashing
  
• Bear's Claw
  
• Morningstar of Power
  
• Doomblade Rapier
  
• Black Viper
  
• Scale Armor of Frost Walking
  
• Medusa Bow
  
• Lightbringer Shortsword

Affinity Requirement: Living Legend

• Shortsword of Sharpness
  
• Shortbow of Acuteness
  
• Scale Armor of Robustness
  
• Plate Armor of Robustness
  
• Leather Armor of Robustness
  
• Half Plate of Robustness
  
• Chain Mail of Robustness
  
• Greataxe of Sharpness
  
• Dagger of Sharpness
  
• Battleaxe of Sharpness
  
• Spellbook

Council Member: None

Contact/Shopkeeper: Annie Bagmordah, Bertran, Milan, Mogo the Poor, Ramin Blake

Items Sold: None



The Scavengers are not a merchant group, and do not sell anything unique, though they do have some general goods stores that have the entire inventory available regardless of affinity. Rather, they are responsible for coming in behind you after you clear an area (including any random encounters) and picking up stuff that you missed off of enemy corpses and chests that you unlocked but did not completely empty. They are a plot faction, will always reach Living Legend by the end of the campaign, and generally give you an occasional influx of gold after you finish an area when they finish their scavenging runs.


Council Member: Dean Lolair Faisech

Contact/Shopkeeper: Maddy Greenisle

Items Sold: Crafting recipes for spell scrolls, poisons, and poisoned ammunition



The Tower of Knowledge is unimpressive. They have a lot of crafting recipes, but I never had much use for them. Poisoned equipment is great but you find plenty of recipes through adventuring, and the only reason I ever crafted spell scrolls was to get the achievement. However, they are easy to gain affinity with, which offsets the low payoff. I will include the same list of items and affinity requirements below. Keep in mind that this faction sells exclusively recipes, so assume this whole list is "Recipe for Crafting [Item Name]" and I just list the Item Name in the list.

Maddy Greenisle Shop List:
Affinity Requirement: Indifference

• Ghoul's Caress
  
• 5x Ghoul's Caress Poisoned Arrow
  
• 5x Ghoul's Caress Poisoned Bolt
  
• Potion of Healing
  
• Potion of Greater Healing

Affinity Requirement: Sympathy

• Basic Poison
  
• 5x Basic Poisoned Arrow
  
• 5x Basic Poisoned Bolt
  
• Brimstone Fang
  
• 5x Brimstone Fang Poisoned Arrow
  
• 5x Brimstone Fang Poisoned Bolt
  
• Dark Stab
  
• 5x Dark Stab Poisoned Arrow
  
• 5x Dark Stab Poisoned Bolt
  
• 5x Corrosive Arrow
  
• 5x Corrosive Bolt
  
• 5x Flaming Arrow
  
• 5x Flaming Bolt
  
• 5x Flash Arrow
  
• 5x Flash Bolt
  
• Healing Remedy
  
• Scroll of Bane
  
• Scroll of Bless
  
• Scroll of Burning Hands
  
• Scroll of Charm Person
  
• Scroll of Color Spray
  
• Scroll of Command
  
• Scroll of Comprehend Languages
  
• Scroll of Detect Evil and Good
  
• Scroll of Detect Magic
  
• Scroll of Detect Poison and Disease
  
• Scroll of Entangle
  
• Scroll of Expeditious Retreat
  
• Scroll of Faerie Fire
  
• Scroll of Grease
  
• Scroll of Guiding Bolt
  
• Scroll of Inflict Wounds
  
• Scroll of Jump
  
• Scroll of Mage Armor
  
• Scroll of Magic Missile
  
• Scroll of Protection from Evil and Good
  
• Scroll of Shield
  
• Scroll of Sleep
  
• Scroll of Thunderwave

Affinity Requirement: Alliance

• Arun's Light
  
• 5x Arun's Light Poisoned Arrow
  
• 5x Arun's Light Poisoned Bolt
  
• Deep Pain
  
• 5x Deep Pain Poisoned Arrow
  
• 5x Deep Pain Poisoned Bolt
  
• The Burden
  
• 5x Burden Poisoned Arrow
  
• 5x Burden Poisoned Bolt
  
• Tiger Fang
  
• 5x Tiger Fang Poisoned Arrow
  
• 5x Tiger Fang Poisoned Bolt
  
• Potion of Heroism
  
• Scroll of Acid Arrow
  
• Scroll of Barkskin
  
• Scroll of Blindness
  
• Scroll of Blur
  
• Scroll of Darkness
  
• Scroll of Darkvision
  
• Scroll of Find Traps
  
• Scroll of Flame Blade
  
• Scroll of Flaming Sphere
  
• Scroll of Hold Person
  
• Scroll of Invisibility
  
• Scroll of Knock
  
• Scroll of Lesser Restoration
  
• Scroll of Levitate
  
• Scroll of Magic Weapon
  
• Scroll of Misty Step
  
• Scroll of Pass Without Trace
  
• Scroll of Ray of Enfeeblement
  
• Scroll of Scorching Ray
  
• Scroll of See Invisibility
  
• Scroll of Shatter
  
• Scroll of Silence
  
• Scroll of Spider Climb
  
• Scroll of Spiritual Weapon
  
• Scroll of Warding Bond

Affinity Requirement: Brotherhood

• Mariake's Torpor
  
• 5x Torpor Poisoned Arrow
  
• 5x Torpor Poisoned Bolt
  
• Queen Spider's Blood
  
• 5x Queen's Blood Poisoned Arrow
  
• 5x Queen's Blood Poisoned Bolt
  
• Potion of Superior Healing
  
• Scroll of Conjure Animals
  
• Scroll of Counterspell
  
• Scroll of Daylight
  
• Scroll of Fear
  
• Scroll of Fireball
  
• Scroll of Haste
  
• Scroll of Hypnotic Pattern
  
• Scroll of Lightning Bolt
  
• Scroll of Mass Healing Word
  
• Scroll of Protection from Energy
  
• Scroll of Remove Curse
  
• Scroll of Revivify
  
• Scroll of Sleet Storm
  
• Scroll of Slow
  
• Scroll of Spirit Guardians
  
• Scroll of Stinking Cloud
  
• Scroll of Tongues
  
• Scroll of Vampiric Touch

Affinity Requirement: Living Legend

• Scroll of Banishment
  
• Scroll of Black Tentacles
  
• Scroll of Blight
  
• Scroll of Confusion
  
• Scroll of Conjure Minor Elementals
  
• Scroll of Death Ward
  
• Scroll of Dimension Door
  
• Scroll of Fire Shield
  
• Scroll of Freedom of Movement
  
• Scroll of Greater Invisibility
  
• Scroll of Guardian of Faith
  
• Scroll of Ice Storm
  
• Scroll of Phantasmal Killer
  
• Scroll of Stoneskin
  
• Scroll of Wall of Fire

Solasta's main campaign stretches several locations, several sidequests, and lots of enemies and, every once in a while, a significant choice. My goal with this guide is to avoid spoilers for the plot of the game, and focus instead on drawing your attention to important choices and the repercussions after those choices.

If something is missable, I will draw your attention to that as well. Otherwise, expect things like "follow the quest goals", as this is fairly obvious. If a particularly challenging combat encounter is waiting somewhere, particularly a boss fight, I will give you a warning of what to expect and how to prepare.

I hope you find this section helpful!


For the first portion of the game, there will be a brief introduction to each character, and a super unintrusive tutorial for the basic mechanics of the game, which will also familiarize you with the user interface. For this portion, follow the quest markers.

Until you reach Caer Lym, nothing significant happens. The only real freedom of choice comes during the shopping before you set out to leave to investigate the council's first assignment. Shopping at this point is rough, because you have basically no money, but be sure to upgrade your leather armor characters to studded leather armor, and sell off some of the stuff you don't need to offset the cost. The additional AC will make more of a difference than you might think. Be sure everyone has the loadout you want, but don't sweat it too much. You'll be using these items for a brief time but soon you'll start getting a slow drip of magical weapons and items to round out your people.

Once you feel prepared, head out. The game is scripted to give you one encounter on the road with some bandits, but this is the only 100% certain encounter while traveling on the overworld map. As a note, be sure every character has a ranged attack option. Bows, ranged spell cantrips, whatever works. At Caer Lym, you will have to fight several different enemies that either fly or spiderclimb up walls, and having ranged options means your fighters and paladins still have options. Additionally, if you want to be able to reach every container in the upcoming area, bring someone with the Jump spell in their arsenal.


Once you reach Caer Lem, you'll fight some goblins on the way up the path. It's an easy fight, but don't keep heading towards the outpost. Right after the goblin fight, there is a hidden side path that leads to a goblin cave. Go there and fight all the goblins. This serves two purposes. First, there is a note there that will prove helpful at the outpost momentarily. Second, finding the goblin cave unlocks a side quest when you make your way back to Caer Cyflen.

At the camp, make sure you pass the arcana check at the minor gate. It unlocks a relic that will boost your affinity to a faction. Another battle starts with Brimstone Vipers. This fight is complicated only because you are low level and the enemy likes to fly out of melee range. If you made sure to stock up on ranged options for all of your characers, this will be a nonissue. Remember, just because your fighter has a dexterity score of 8, that doesn't mean they can't use a longbow to hit some of the time, rather than stand there with that big sword looking like an idiot. And at this stage in the game, a good d8 damage roll will still make a difference.

The first conversation is fairly simple. Sellswords and Spies have unique dialogue options to gain entry, and even moderately charismatic characters can pass the persuasion check option to enter.

In general, unless you're achievement hunting, you want to save Daliat. He has a really significant faction relic that he will give you if you pass a certain persuasion check with him, or if you have a character with the spy background in your party. If you have a spy in your party, Daliat will also give you a secondary path to completing the spy background quest. Saving Berryl also gives you faction favor with the Antiquarians once you return to Caer Cyflen and speak to her there.

Who gets saved depends on who is talked to. After you talk to everyone the first time, your party has a group huddle to decide what to do next. If you talk to Robar and convince him to take charge, you will save Robar and Lisbath. Otherwise it's Daliat and Berryl. Talking to Daliat grants the opportunity at getting the Silent Whisper document, which grants favor with whichever faction you give it to.

From here, it's just straight running through several encounters with enemies. Move slowly and cautiously, and trigger surprise rounds when you can to gain the advantage. You need to give yourself every advantage this early, since your characters are still pretty squishy and a couple bad rounds will do you in. Check the area for interactive targets as you progress so you don't miss anything. The Jump spell is extremely useful for reaching all the containers in this area. Once you finish, make your way back to Caer Cyflen.

At Caer Cyflen, be sure to sell any excess stuff you might be carrying, check in with the Scavengers to get them started scavenging, and take quests from the quest board (there should be 2, both at Caer Lem). At this point, go back to Caer Lem, accomplish both side quests, then head to the new area that has been unlocked - the suspected enemy base. Note that the goblin base and the caverns past the outpost will all have repopulated with enemies, so go in prepared for more combat.

Significant Items:

• Imperial Gate Plaque
  
• Silent Whisper Document
  
• Tirmarian Holy Symbol
  
• Tirmarian Inquisitor's Journal

Hoo boy. This area has a lot of ups and downs, is built like a maze, and there are a lot of things you can miss. Again, be prepared for a couple of smaller encounters on the way through (cultists and spectral spiders), followed by a campfire for a long rest, followed by a big brawl at the very last room. You may have to revisit this area later when you have the Fly spell in order to reach all the chests and fully explore. For now, focus on reaching the objectives, and come back when you have the magical means to explore fully. Your party will suggest that the humans you encounter at the camp might be friendly. They are not. Surprise them.

Once you reach the library portion, head right and check the door first. Then, as you head through the rest of the library, make sure to save before investigating the statues. There are three total statues that offer a faction relic if your party succeeds an arcana check while investigating them. Make sure you save and reload until you pass each check, or you'll miss out.

Before you reach the third statue (almost immediately after the dragonborn statue) you'll be ambushed by spiders. This fight can be kind of dicey because your characters start surrounded, and you don't get a chance to position your casters in a safe spot. Save in case the dice don't go your way.

After this, it's all just one objective after the next, until you reach a campfire. Be sure to rest up, level up to level four, and save. The very next room from the campfire is a huge brawl against several tough enemies. Be sure to cast any long-lasting buffs, like Mage Armor or False Life, before heading in. Enter stealth mode before entering as well to try to get a surprise round in.

Know that it does not matter from a story perspective who gets the artifact at the end of this dungeon. It is powerful and gives some healing properties, so give it to someone who normally would not have healing as an option. Head back to Caer Cyflen after this, and celebrate your victory.

Significant Items:

• Myths of Solasta
  
• Archaeological Notes x3

This castle is a long slog compared to Caer Lem, but it still isn't all that bad. To start with, be sure to NOT go straight into the castle through the front gate. While this is perfectly acceptable, it will miss out on an important side quest for the Antiquarians. Instead, take the side path (not immediately apparent) on the right. Follow it to the graveyard, talk to the ghost, and get the quest to find his bones. There are three piles of bones - one in the graveyard with the ghost, one in a container inside the keep on the left, before actually entering the main castle, and the final pile of bones is to the left of Talbut's house, down the side path to the left of the main castle entrance.

Talbut is irrelevant, and can be spoken to or killed. In the main courtyard, expect a fight, then a confrontation with Adam, the skeletal captain of the guard. Talk your way through, or kill him. It is worth noting that if you do not kill Adam here, but end up fighting the lord of the castle later, Adam will help in that fight, making it harder in the end.

There are four ways to enter the castle. Pick one, they don't really matter, and then head inside.

Inside the castle, there is an Encrypted Spellbook inside a locked room near the entrance. This book is a faction affinity item. A couple of fights in, there is a long rest checkpoint, so feel free to take your time, and explore carefully. Make sure you explore everywhere before moving forward, as there is a lot of castle to see.

Inside, you will face Lizzaria of Grimhold. Again, spare of kill at your leisure. There is the long rest point, so be sure you stay fueled up and ready to go. There are a lot of fights, including a few surprise ambushes that you cannot avoid. The third boss of this area is automatically engaged when you find the "move to new area" glow in front of a closed door.

Aksha is a vampire. She is also the first enemy in the game with legendary actions. You can talk your way out of fighting, but you miss out on her loot, which includes an item for faction affinity. If you try to loot her stuff after negotiating with her, she will still attack. If you choose to fight, be prepared before you go in with any buff spells you want. Be sure, during the fight, to keep your party separated. She has an ability that blinds everyone within a certain area, and it will ruin your day.

A few tips for the Aksha fight:

1. Focus your attacks on Aksha. Hit her hard and early, her legendary actions make her a real damage dealer, and you'll lose the long game against her combos
   
2. Chill Touch will completely change this fight. So long as Aksha is chilled, she cannot heal. At all, ever. This turns off her hp regeneration every round, she cannot drain hit points with her bite attack, and occasionally she will try to drain 10 hit points from the other enemies to heal for 10... but while the damage is done, the healing is blocked.
   
3. Spread out! She can't hit everyone with AoE if you aren't clustered together.
   
4. Be sure to get a long rest and enter this fight at your best
   
5. If you end up hit by her darkness or concealment effects, AoE is your friend. Spirit guardians is easily the best spell here
   
6. Radiant and Fire damage are the way to go here
   
7. If you have a way to make your bruiser's weapon magical, do it; Aksha is resistant to nonmagical damage
   
8. Aksha can fly. Have the Fly spell prepared for your melee bruiser, or cast it ahead of time on them.
   
9. Light sources harm Aksha and her minions, and also turn off her regeneration. Have light on your weapons, even if your whole party has darkvision, or lure Aksha into the previous room with the glowing orbs on the wall - those count and will completely change the fight.
   
10. It is absolutely crucial you turn off Aksha's regeneration. Chill touch is the best option. Light on your weapons is second best. If you do not have either of those options, move to the hallway with the glowing orbs. No matter what, do not fight Aksha while she is regenerating. You will lose by attrition.
    
11. Buff your party IMMEDIATELY BEFORE opening the door. Good options are: Mage Armor, Shadow Armor, Protection from Evil and Good, cast light on everyone's weapons, & consider giving the bruiser a potion of giant strength if you've found one to increase their effectiveness this fight.

The next area is a maze, but it isn't complicated. There are traps all over that should be disarmed first. The room you want to go to is the one with the circle and four buttons on the floor, and it can be reached by opening the steel door by stepping on the button just down the hall from it. From there, you can push aside some boxes in the next room, opening a path.

A character with Fly, Misty Step or Spiderclimb can bypass a lot of aggravation. They can unlock the rest area by pushing the crate after they reach the top, and as there is no ceiling, can simply move up and over walls to the areas they want to reach. The center lab area has a button on the inside that unlocks that door leading to it.

When you step on all four buttons at once in the circle room, some portals open up and designs on the wall start to glow. "Stairs, Down, Up, Right, Up, Down" is the order here. Step on portal, activate wall design, and just follow the order. You'll be taken through several portals before the process finishes, but explore everywhere you can on the way for some good loot. The final door immediately after finishing the maze leads to a massive unavoidable ambush, so backtrack and take a long rest before triggering it.

Long rest again, because immediately after that ambush is Mardracht. He is the final boss, and he is just as tough as Aksha was. Focus on him, have counterspell prepared, and be ready for him to counterspell your high level spells too. If you can, wait for him to cast shield, which uses his reaction, then unload your high level spells. Focus on him, and the rest shall fall. One good Turn Undead also makes this a much simpler fight. Or you can just negotiate with him.

Once this encounter resolves, you have finished the Dark Castle! Congratulations, it's one of the longest straight crawls, and you succeeded. Take the Major Gate in Madracht's office back to Caer Cyflen when you've finished looting the place.

Important Items:

• Encrypted Spellbook
  
• Aksha's Journal
  
• Depleted Rune

There are a couple of sidequests to do if you feel like it before heading into the next possible gem location. I will mention that the sidequest that takes you back to the Manacalon Ruins involves a massive brawl against fire elemental creatures in the final room where you got the plot device earlier. That fight can be brutal at this level. Be prepared, attack from stealth for a surprise round, bring ranged options, and try to have as many magical items equipped for attacking as possible. Frost damage is ideal, as they are vulnerable to that damage type. If you're outmatched, it's fine to come back later - the side quest will still be there.

The Tirmarian Ruins (initially listed as "possible gem location") are super simple. You have a couple of goblin encounters, and the biggest problem is the elevation. The goblin encounters involve easy enemies attacking from higher elevation behind 1/2 or 3/4 cover. It will take several turns to get into melee. Consider giving your biggest melee bruiser the Fly spell to bypass the aggravation here; don't worry, there are only three combats on this map, and this is a good use of a third level slot.

There is a single puzzle to be completed here. Wait until midnight, then click the center and right-most stone pillar to solve the puzzle. Get a lore dump, then keep on moving forward.

Important Items:

• Tirmarian Master Smith's Memoirs
  
• Antique Holy Symbol
  
• Journal of Emtan Darwaz

Leave the ruins and travel to Coparann with your new companion... until she stops at a random map. There's a single chest, which spawns an encounter with some orcs. Disarm and unlock the chest, loot it for some really good stuff, and move on.

Important Items:

• Encrypted Spellbook

You get stopped again at another location. It's literally a hallway with a locked chest. The chest has a magical weapon inside, so grab that, but there's nothing else here. Keep going... and get stopped again, this time at a caravan. There will be a brief combat, after which point you can rest up, trade, and move on.

NOW you reach Coparann. No more unplanned stops. You're finally here.

Follow the objectives. It's a good bit of running around. Be sure to stop in to check on the Scavengers' Guild here, and to deliver the letter to the shopkeep for some extra gold. Eventually, you will reach a point where you are exploring the catacombs under the keep. There is a side room with a chest with some books with lore, but beyond that head straight through. You will be ambushed by Soraks - fight them and win, and then prepare to move the plot forward from there. The puzzle requires you to activate the leftmost stone, and the two rightmost stones. If you want to get the treasure chest behind the locked cell door, Misty Step is the quickest option. It has a magical +1 quarterstaff, a poison recipe, and some gold. Missable if you don't care to be a completionist.


Next stop: The Fortress of the Shield. Before you set about exploring this map, make sure it's daytime. You'll be fighting a lot of undead that take damage each turn and attack at disadvantage during the daytime, even if they're indoors. This makes your life much simpler. The first encounter has some wolves and a winter wolf, which is simple enough. Kill the wolves so the winter wolf doesn't get advantage from allies, and then make your way through the rest of the map, grabbing whatever you can. Note that there is a little lake with a bag in it. You can drain the lake by shooting the wall inside the building nearby. In that same building is a room that can only be reached by shooting (not shoving) the pillar. While there are no absolutely unmissable things here, there's some good loot to grab.

When you finish exploring the map, go to the entrance, and wait until midnight. You'll have another ambush as you do this puzzle, and this is a brutal one. Save beforehand, and do all your spell prep. The ambush springs when you finish the first of two of the puzzles, and you'll face 6 of the same variety of undead you've been fighting. Focus on one or two at a time and kill them quickly. If you have a daylight spell, this is a fabulous time to use it. Make sure all your weapons have the Light spell on them before you spring the trap too.

First puzzle: left and right stone pillars. Second puzzle: all three pillars

Once the door is open, it will stay open, so go long rest after that ambush. Then head on in.

If it shows up when you press the Alt button, interact with it. The locked office can be opened by pressing a book in the library room. There are a lot of things to find, like The Elven Wars, which is gained by interacting with the book on the table in the Major Gate room. The far end of one hall has a long rest point and a magic barrier. The other far end leads to the next boss fight, so prep for that the same way you prepped for the ambush at the entrance - light spells on everything, mage armor, fly on your heavy melee guy, and generally prepare for a brawl. Know that you will not have your 5th companion for this fight, so ignore her - you lose her in a cinematic before the fight begins.

This boss fight ends when Razan is reduced to 1/3 his total hit points. It can be ended quickly if you want, or you can farm the three supporter undead creatures for experience. In any case, the fight ends and you gain another gem. Long rest, and head back up. It's time to put an end to Razan permanently.

Ulike the rest of the fights in this area, make sure you trigger this fight during the nighttime. The exact same penalties apply but the game will auto-wait for you and undo a lot of your prep. Prep again for the same kind of fight, just with way more supporting undead and lots of regen. Focus on the undead minions first, as Razan is hard to pin down. Save some of your burst damage for him once the rest of his minions are down. The reward for this is some really sweet magical loot, and an achievement.

Head back through the magic gate after this back to Caer Cyflen. Give Arwin Merton his sword back, hand in any faction items you have, check the scavenger's guild for any new shipments, get all the new quests from the quest board, and then head to the council to report your progress.

Important Item:

• Ancient Manifest
  
• Poem
  
• The Elven Wars
  
• Magic Weapon Request

Now for some sidequests. There is one - Bitterroot's Treasure Map, which leads to an orc brawl. Not too hard, but the shaman can ruin your day while you're mobbed by melee brutes. Aoe is your friend, and have counterspell ready to shut down the shaman.

The quest leading to the Magister's Amulet has a tough, tough fight against several air elementals. This might be worth waiting to do until you have access to the banishment spell, and a full suite of magical weapons. It's a hard fight.

The Collector has an encounter with a small group of humanoids, a mix of brawlers and casters. It's comparatively easy, but complicated slightly by the terrain. Not really worth sweating, and you have plenty of time to cast your pre-fight buff spells without starting combat.

Runs in the Family has a simple fight against more of the same undead as before. Make sure it's daytime, and just steamroll the fight. Now with the side quests done, back to the main story!


There are technically two options here. I always go to the volcano first, because the hardest fight in the game happens at The Lava Fields, and it is much better to finish all the other stuff first and, with any luck, be level 10 with a full suite of magic items before then. However, if you feel like pushing your luck, or you feel confident, you are free to go to the lava fields first.

There are two ways to do this area. One is scorched earth and kill everything that moves, which is boring, and the other is to talk to the shaman outside the volcano entrance to take a diplomatic route to this area. Speaking the Orc language gives you advantage on a lot of persuasion checks in this area.

Your first task is to free the shaman's chieftain, who is guarded by a bunch of other orcs. This fight isn't too hard, and once you've finished it, you'll be brought around to the rest of the tribes.

First up is a duel between the next orc chieftain and a party member of your choice. You will be stripped of all equipment heading in, which means your caster can't cast. Choose a melee bruiser and take some of the garbage-quality arena equipment when offered. Duel. It's a tough duel only because you are one-on-one and because you have crap equipment, but so long as the dice don't betray you, you'll be fine.

The Bloodfang want you to get an axe. The axe is extremely powerful, and guarded by the Spider Queen boss fight. It's only tough because she spawns an endless supply of spiderlings, which harry your backline fighters. Having rings of poison resistance on your vulnerable guys, or even better, a periapt of proof against poison from the Antiquarians, will make this fight much easier. It's hard, and there's no way to really prepare beyond doing your usual pre-battle buff spells. Focus on the queen, deal with the spiderlings after. You can keep the greataxe, but don't, it's not THAT great.

Spider Queen Tips:

• Always, always, always do your pre-battle buffs. Mage Armor, Fire Shield, Aid, etc.
  
• There's gonna be a LOT of poison damage this fight. Getting resistance or immunity on every single character will improve your chances a lot. Don't worry, you'll need this stuff again soon for a green dragon fight. Pay up.
  
• AoE spells like Spirit Guardians or Lightning Bolt, which can be maneuvered to hit only enemies, are really helpful
  
• Chill Touch is useful here. The Spider Queen will spend her turn or a legendary action draining health from nearby spiderlings if she gets low. This will always damage the spiderlings, but the queen still won't heal if affected by Chill Touch
  
• Burn it if you got it. This is not the time to halfway fight, the queen has a ton of hit points and deals a lot of damage, and you can long rest after the fight when you deliver the axe.
  
• The Spiderlings are problematic because they harrass your casters in the back. If you have a spell that summons lots of smaller things (conjure animals, conjure minor elementals, etc), use it to flood the field with targets that will distract the spiderlings and dilute the damage to your backline casters

Once you deliver the axe, the next tribe you need to visit is the Sandravens. They want you to raid a tomb, which is a trick. The tomb, while a bit of a fight, is not the boss fight. The Sandraven chief betrays you, ambushes you after you leave, and you have to fight him and a bunch of Sorr-Akkath fighters. The challenge of this tribe isn't any individual fight, it's the ambush after you possibly expended all your resources in the previous tomb-raiding. Save your best stuff for the ambush and you'll be just fine.

This final tribe has another option. You COULD just go take the gate inside the tomb, bypass the dead emperor and the ambush, and go straight to the fight with the final boss of this region, but without the help of the orc tribes. I have never done this, because that fight has a lot of enemies, and having some support is extremely helpful.

Once you survive the ambush, it's time to face the boss. He has a lot of fire elementals and lobs a lot of fire damage spells around. Fire resistance is extremely useful in this fight if you have access to it. Fire Shield and Protection from Energy are two spells that will save your life. Prep ice damage spells, and try not to leave your characters on fire if you can help it. This fight is hard, and the strategy is really just to grind through the enemies. There's not even really a priority target - just focus on one thing at a time so there's gradually less stuff running around attacking you. Once you win, you've completed the volcano. Well done!

Significant Items:

• Encrypted Spellbook

Buckle up, this is the wildest dungeon in the game, and the boss fight at the end of this one is absolutely brutal. Before you even come here, make sure every single person in your party is resistant or immune to poison. Immunity is preferable. Spending enough money to buy four poison immunity amulets from the Antiquarians is worth the expense, because you'll be fighting a green dragon and one breath attack will gut your entire party, even at level 10, if you aren't prepared and playing on anything over Easy difficulty.

The initial forest is full of "traps" that are only disarmed by shooting the plants in the middle. There is an obvious ambush from spiders in the clearing area that is sprung only when you try to loot the container. There's some good loot, but my recommendation is to skip this fight until later when you have access to the long rest spot. It's pretty rough. Cast Fly on the bruiser beforehand so they can get to the spiders that don't politely come into melee range from the treetops.

In fact, there are a lot of resource-draining battles in this area that can be avoided until you reach the shack with the campfire outside of it. Until you have access to the long rest point, you really should focus on going north and west until you reach that area. If you try to power through all three big fights in this area with no breaks, you will have a really hard time. Explore once you have a campfire to go back to.

Once you click the gem, you're transported away from the lava fields to a different area. And so begins the long slog through this dungeon. At least it's a fascinating dungeon.

Down the left path is the arena. This is exactly what it sounds like. There are three required waves, going from Undead, to Orcs, to a menagerie of monstrosities. Save your resources for the last wave, as it is the most deadly. There is a fourth wave that is optional, and the bonus chest has nothing unmissable, so if you're tapped out, skip it and move on.

The right path has a super dark maze to go through. Even with darkvision, it'll be pitch black. Light up a torch and you'll be able to see enough to navigate. It's not much of a maze, but more of a complicated circle, so just find the glowy button, press it, and head back. There is a small area with a chest, but it's skippable.

Once the main door is open, head through to the area with the obvious trap chest. It spawns 4 earth elementals and 2 air elementals. You might be thinking to yourself, good lord, that's a lot of elementals, and those earth elementals have a ton of health. Well here's a happy fun fact for you: earth elementals can't fly. Fire elementals and air elementals can, but earth elementals can't! So go ahead and send them off the edges of the center platform and they will plummet to their deaths! It makes this whole fight much quicker and less of a headache.

Next room is a lie. Deal 1 damage and the illusory dragon fades. The center pile of gold leads to the next area. Now, you COULD just... move on. Skip this whole area. The path to the exit is right there. But the chests have some good stuff. Step on all four yellow buttons. Go to the first chest then to get the Encrypted Spellbook. Then step on the orange buttons you can reach now... and rotate the center block. Do this three times total, until the buttons are in position for you to step on them in the center. Step on them twice to rotate the blue bricks to allow access to the second chest. Press the orange buttons one more time, then the yellow buttons twice. The second chest is locked and trapped, but holds the best quarterstaff in the game. Go to the exit.

The cube of light is a solo miniboss. It's not particularly hard, but it is a bit of a grind to get through. Once it falls, you are free to actually move forward from this area. If you have a mage with counterspell, that will help a lot, as the cube casts some really high level high damage spells, like cone of cold, but if you can shut it down, it doesn't have legendary actions, so it just loses its turn.

This is the last area. Finally. You can take the book in the center dais if you want (it sets all ability scores to 20), but you can't keep it. You have to give it back when you reach the mansion, so just leave it be. There are some random monsters outside to fight, so the book does help in the short term.

Now, this house? Don't behave. Touch everything. Loot all of it. You have to fight the end boss anyway, and you don't get to backtrack later. Nobody fights you inside the mansion either, so no matter how ominous it sounds, go wild. Rest at the rest stop; your next stop is the hardest boss fight in the game.

This boss fight consists of 2 stages. In the first stage, you need to activate all the pillars to disable the shield. Every round you leave a pillar up, everyone takes lightning damage. In this stage, it is acceptable to focus on the pillars, not the Spectral Servants. They do moderate damage, but you need to be in as good a spot as possible for stage two.

Part 2 of the boss fight is the dragon. Remember at the start of this section when I said poison would be a huge issue here? Every single member of your party needs to be resistant or immune, preferably immune. Otherwise the breath attack will drop a couple party members each time, and that's without the added problem of the bite attack that also does poison damage.

However, it goes from almost impossible to manageable if you have poison resistance. Keep your healers on standby, be ready to bring people back from the dead, and unload every high level damage source you have on the dragon. Frustratingly, the dragon can relocate as a legendary action, which means your melee bruisers will spend a good amount of time running back and forth. If they can't reach the dragon, hit a Spectral Servant. If they can't hit anything, move and dodge. Dodge makes your characters harder to hit, and gives advantage on dex saves against the breath weapon.

It's hard. Save beforehand, prep a lot, and be ready to win by a narrow margin.

Green Dragon Boss Fight Tips:

• Cast fly on someone before the fight so they can quickly move from pillar to pillar. Ideally, cast fly on the rogue, who can dash as a bonus action. If your rogue has the thief subclass, even better, as they can do two item interacts per turn with a bonus action.
  
• Lightning is useless in this fight against the servants.
  
• Protection from Energy is easily the best spell to cast to prep for this fight. It grants resistance to all major sources of damage you encounter. If you can get it going on everyone, great.
  
• I mention this repeatedly, but while lightning resistance is optional, poison resistance is non-negotiable. The Antiquarians sell Periapt of Proof against Poison that makes you outright immune. This is even better, and worth spending your money on.
  
• The dragon has two annoying abilities. First is frightful presence, which makes everyone afraid if they fail a save. The other is its breath attack, which deals upwards of 60-70 points of poison damage to everyone in a cone (dex save for half). POISON RESISTANCE IS CRUCIAL.
  
• Those giant strength potions you've been saving? Use them.
  
• Burn everything you have on the dragon. The spectral servants are background noise. Deal with them as convenient, but the dragon is the ONLY important target during this fight.
  
• There are a few spells that are really worth the investment in this fight:
  
  • Protection from Poison (lvl 1) OR Protection from Energy (lvl 3) - Poison damage control
    
  • Fly - this is super helpful in getting through stage 1 of the fight quickly
    
  • Heroism - Immune to fear; good on allies that did not pass their save against the Frightful Presence
    
  • Mage Armor & Shield - you know why
    
  • Stoneskin - resistance to melee attacks of the dragon
    
  • Ray of Enfeeblement - the dragon has legendary resistances, but this cuts all non-poison damage in half from the dragon, making it the hail mary of level 1 spells. And since it's a level 1 spell, you can use it over and over and hope for the best.
    
  • Wall of Fire - If you can keep this up around your party, this will regularly do good damage to the dragon and the spectral servants, and is a good way to even up the damage output
    
  • Mass Healing Word/Mass Cure Wounds - this fight is rough, because you are one bad round away from half a party being down. This is a game-changer spell in that situation.
    
  • Spiritual Weapon - persistent bonus action damage
    
  • Mind Twist - High damage AoE that can incapacitate the servants for a round or two
    
  • Beacon of Hope - max healing is usually irrelevant, but this is the fight where every hit point counts, and a max roll on Mass Cure Wounds for everyone is a huge deal.
• It might seem like a good idea to split up, but it isn't. The dragon's breath attack covers a massive area, and will regularly get 2-3 of your characters, regardless of placement
  
• Grouping up also enables things like your rogue's sneak attack and the paladin's auras, the protection fighting style, and keeps everyone close for the mass heals.
  
• If you're like me, you like to hoard your one-time use items in case you need them later. This fight? This is what you were saving them for. It doesn't get tougher than this. It's time to use them.

Good luck. If you can win this fight, you've beaten the game. What's left after this is a victory lap as a reward for winning this fight.


If you have any outstanding side quests, wrap them up now. I do want to mention that at this point there is a slightly broken puzzle when you reach the Temple of the Lost God, followed by a moderately challenging fight inside if you aren't ready for it. The entrance puzzle is not broken, so much as unintuitive. Follow the charts below on placing your characters on the pressure plates to pass the puzzle.

Step 1:

Place four characters on each of the pressure plates, as shown below. The 5th member of your party is to remain off of the pressure plates until the final step.


Step 2:

Move individual 3 to the indicated plate. No one else should move.


Step 3:

Move individual 4 to the left, creating the triangle design, as shown below. As with before, keep everyone else in the same place.


Step 4:

Move person 1 up to the top row, creating the diamond pattern. As with before, keep everyone else in the same place.


Step 5:

Move your final party member to the top right pressure plate. This will open the door to the temple and complete the puzzle.


Inside the temple is a relatively hard fight, if only because you will be taking a lot of fire damage from 3 Remorhaz inside. Protection from Energy will get you through this fight with very little trouble, especially if it's coupled with sneaking in and springing a surprise round on the enemy. In any case, keep a close eye on Arwen Merton. He's a good fighter, but compared to the rest of your party, he's fairly squishy. It's ok to have him retreat or just defend if he gets low.

Every side quest should be available at this point, so wrap them all up if you care to. From this point on, it's all main questline stuff, so buckle up for the endgame!

Important Items:

• The War of the Gods

Alright, you'll be bouncing from place to place a lot. There's not much else to advise you to do except to follow the quest marker to the next spot, and do what is asked of you. A few notes as you go.

First, when Heddlon warns you to sleep at the inn, do so. You will be ambushed by a (relatively unthreatening) group of Sorr-Akkath assassins. If you want to kill them, rest in your palace quarters. It's a good place to round out some of the more uncommon Sorr-Akkath bestiary entries (notably, a Sorr-Akkath Shikkath is present).

NOTE: Once you go to Earcorn, you can no longer increase faction affinity or shop at some faction stores.

After the long rest, there's a whole lot of lore dump stuff. Arwen Merton joins you if you did his whole questline for the Earcorn trip, which is obviously a trap and which you can easily handle by this point. Cue more lore dump before you make your way back to Caer Cyflen.

After you're back, just follow the plot for a while. You'll run all over Caer Cyflen for a while, have the easiest fight of your life against unarmed civilians, and then... teleport. Once you hit the teleport, it's a walk down a few encounters until the final battle. Enjoy the ride. Note that after this long rest, you won't get another, so conserve your resources over the next several fights. The chest has some really good magic items, but most likely you won't need any of them unless you've been completely ignoring side quests and crafting.

In order, you will fight:

• Fire Elemental and 5 Fire Spiders
  
• 2 Sorr-Akkath Assassins, 1 Sorr-Akkath Warrior, 1 Sorr-Akkath Saboteur
  
• 4 Badland Wraiths
  
• Short Rest recommended
  
• 4 Air Elementals
  
• Short Rest recommended
  
• The Final Showdown (until the Sorr-Akkath Tshar is killed)
  
• The Final Showdown Remix (4 rounds only)

And after you wrap up these fights, you've won the game. This might seem like a lot, and it can be, but remember to short rest when you need to. There's nothing to do here. There is some stuff to loot, but why bother? This is the endgame. You can't go back and play more once you finish.

Just focus on killing everything that has a red circle around it, and enjoy the feeling of victory at the end! Well done!

Below, I will list every spell list for each spellcaster and subclass casting option. There is a lot of overlap, but this will help you determine your build ahead of time. After this, I will include a complete spell list with what each spell does, so that you can look up spells ahead of time as well. But first... the spell lists!

Cantrips:

• Dancing Lights
  
• Dazzle
  
• Light
  
• Shadow Armor
  
• Shadow Dagger
  
• Sparkle
  
• True Strike
  
• Vicious Mockery

Level 1 Spells:

• Animal Friendship
  
• Bane
  
• Charm Person
  
• Comprehend Languages
  
• Cure Wounds
  
• Detect Magic
  
• Faerie Fire
  
• Feather Fall
  
• Healing Word
  
• Heroism
  
• Hideous Laughter
  
• Identify
  
• Longstrider
  
• Thunderwave

Level 2 Spells:

• Blindness
  
• Calm Emotions
  
• Enhance Ability
  
• Heat Metal
  
• Hold Person
  
• Invisibility
  
• Knock
  
• Lesser Restoration
  
• See Invisibility
  
• Shatter
  
• Silence

Level 3 Spells:

• Bestow Curse
  
• Dispel Magic
  
• Fear
  
• Hypnotic Pattern
  
• Stinking Cloud
  
• Tongues

Level 4 Spells:

• Confusion
  
• Dimension Door
  
• Dreadful Omen
  
• Freedom of Movement
  
• Greater Invisibility

Level 5 Spells:

• Dominate Person
  
• Greater Restoration
  
• Hold Monster
  
• Mass Cure Wounds
  
• Raise Dead

Level 6 Spells:

• Eyebite
  
• Hilarity
  
• True Seeing

Cantrips:

• Guidance
  
• Light
  
• Resistance
  
• Sacred Flame
  
• Shine
  
• Spare The Dying
  
• Sparkle

Level 1 Spells:

• Bane
  
• Bless
  
• Cure Wounds
  
• Detect Evil and Good
  
• Detect Magic
  
• Guiding Bolt
  
• Healing Word
  
• Inflict Wounds
  
• Protection from Evil and Good
  
• Shield of Faith

Level 2 Spells:

• Aid
  
• Blindness
  
• Calm Emotions
  
• Enhance Ability
  
• Find Traps
  
• Hold Person
  
• Lesser Restoration
  
• Prayer of Healing
  
• Silence
  
• Spiritual Weapon

Level 3 Spells:

• Beacon of Hope
  
• Bestow Curse
  
• Create Food
  
• Daylight
  
• Dispel Magic
  
• Mass Healing Word
  
• Protection from Energy
  
• Remove Curse
  
• Revivify
  
• Spirit Guardians
  
• Tongues

Level 4 Spells:

• Banishment
  
• Death Ward
  
• Freedom of Movement
  
• Guardian of Faith

Level 5 Spells:

• Contagion
  
• Dispel Evil and Good
  
• Flame Strike
  
• Greater Restoration
  
• Insect Plague
  
• Mass Cure Wounds
  
• Raise Dead

Level 6 Spells:

• Blade Barrier
  
• Harm
  
• Heal
  
• Heroes Feast
  
• True Seeing

Cantrips:

• Annoying Bee
  
• Guidance
  
• Poison Spray
  
• Produce Flame
  
• Resistance
  
• Shillelagh
  
• Sparkle
  
• Venomous Spike

Level 1 Spells:

• Animal Friendship
  
• Charm Person
  
• Cure Wounds
  
• Detect Magic
  
• Detect Poison and Disease
  
• Entangle
  
• Faerie Fire
  
• Fog Cloud
  
• Goodberry
  
• Healing Word
  
• Jump
  
• Longstrider
  
• Thunderwave

Level 2 Spells:

• Barkskin
  
• Darkvision
  
• Enhance Ability
  
• Find Traps
  
• Flame Blade
  
• Flaming Sphere
  
• Heat Metal
  
• Hold Person
  
• Lesser Restoration
  
• Moonbeam
  
• Protection from Poison
  
• Spike Growth

Level 3 Spells:

• Call Lightning
  
• Conjure Animal
  
• Daylight
  
• Dispel Magic
  
• Protection from Energy
  
• Sleet Storm
  
• Wind Wall

Level 4 Spells:

• Blight
  
• Confusion
  
• Conjure Minor Animals
  
• Dominate Beast
  
• Freedom of Movement
  
• Giant Insect
  
• Ice Storm
  
• Stoneskin
  
• Wall of Fire

Level 5 Spells:

• Conjure Elemental
  
• Contagion
  
• Greater Restoration
  
• Insect Plague
  
• Mass Cure Wounds

Level 6 Spells:

• Heal
  
• Heroes Feast
  
• Sunbeam
  
• Wall of Thorns

Cantrips:

• None

Level 1 Spells:

• Bless
  
• Cure Wounds
  
• Detect Evil and Good
  
• Detect Magic
  
• Divine Favor
  
• Heroism
  
• Protection vs Evil and Good
  
• Shield of Faith

Level 2 Spells:

• Aid
  
• Branding Smite
  
• Lesser Restoration
  
• Magic Weapon
  
• Protection from Poison

Level 3 Spells:

• Create Food
  
• Daylight
  
• Dispel Magic
  
• Remove Curse
  
• Revivify

Level 4 Spells:

• Banishment
  
• Death Ward

Level 5 Spells:

• None

Level 6 Spells:

• None

Cantrips:

• None

Level 1 Spells:

• Animal Friendship
  
• Cure Wounds
  
• Detect Magic
  
• Fog Cloud
  
• Goodberry
  
• Hunter's Mark
  
• Jump
  
• Longstrider

Level 2 Spells:

• Barkskin
  
• Darkvision
  
• Find Traps
  
• Lesser Restoration
  
• Pass Without Trace
  
• Protection from Poison
  
• Silence
  
• Spike Growth

Level 3 Spells:

• Conjure Animal
  
• Daylight
  
• Protection From Energy
  
• Wind Wall

Level 4 Spells:

• Freedom of Movement
  
• Stoneskin

Level 5 Spells:

• None

Level 6 Spells:

• None

Cantrips:

• Acid Splash
  
• Annoying Bee
  
• Chill Touch
  
• Dancing Lights
  
• Dazzle
  
• Firebolt
  
• Light
  
• Poison Spray
  
• Ray of Frost
  
• Shadow Armor
  
• Shadow Dagger
  
• Shine
  
• Shocking Grasp
  
• Sparkle
  
• True Strike

Level 1 Spells:

• Burning Hands
  
• Charm Person
  
• Color Spray
  
• Comprehend Languages
  
• Detect Magic
  
• Expeditious Retreat
  
• False Life
  
• Featherfall
  
• Fog Cloud
  
• Grease
  
• Hideous Laughter
  
• Identify
  
• Jump
  
• Longstrider
  
• Mage Armor
  
• Magic Missile
  
• Protection from Evil and Good
  
• Shield
  
• Sleep
  
• Thunderwave

Level 2 Spells:

• Acid Arrow
  
• Blindness
  
• Blur
  
• Darkness
  
• Darkvision
  
• Flaming Sphere
  
• Hold Person
  
• Invisibility
  
• Knock
  
• Levitate
  
• Magic Weapon
  
• Misty Step
  
• Ray of Enfeeblement
  
• Scorching Ray
  
• See Invisibility
  
• Shatter
  
• Spiderclimb

Level 3 Spells:

• Bestow Curse
  
• Counterspell
  
• Dispel Magic
  
• Fear
  
• Fireball
  
• Fly
  
• Haste
  
• Hypnotic Pattern
  
• Lightning Bolt
  
• Protection From Energy
  
• Remove Curse
  
• Sleet Storm
  
• Slow
  
• Stinking Cloud
  
• Tongues
  
• Vampiric Touch

Level 4 Spells:

• Banishment
  
• Black Tentacles
  
• Blight
  
• Confusion
  
• Conjure Minor Elementals
  
• Dimension Door
  
• Fire Shield
  
• Greater Invisibility
  
• Ice Storm
  
• Identify Creatures
  
• Phantasmal Killer
  
• Stoneskin
  
• Wall of Fire

Level 5 Spells:

• Cloudkill
  
• Cone of Cold
  
• Conjure Elemental
  
• Contagion
  
• Dominate Person
  
• Hold Monster
  
• Mind Twist

Level 6 Spells:

• Chain Lightning
  
• Circle of Death
  
• Disintegrate
  
• Eyebite
  
• Freezing Sphere
  
• Globe of Invulnerability
  
• Hilarity
  
• Sunbeam
  
• True Seeing

Cantrips:

• None

Level 1 Spells:

• Animal Friendship
  
• Detect Poison and Disease
  
• Entangle
  
• Faerie Fire
  
• Goodberry
  
• Hunter's Mark

Level 2 Spells:

• Barkskin
  
• Find Traps
  
• Lesser Restoration
  
• Pass Without Trace
  
• Protection From Poison

Level 3 Spells:

• Conjure Animal
  
• Create Food
  
• Daylight
  
• Wind Wall

Level 4 Spells:

• Freedom of Movement
  
• Giant Insect

Level 5 Spells:

• Contagion
  
• Insect Plague

Level 6 Spells:

• None

Cantrips:

• Acid Splash
  
• Dancing Lights
  
• Fire Bolt
  
• Light
  
• Poison Spray
  
• Ray of Frost
  
• Shine
  
• Shocking Grasp
  
• Sparkle

Level 1 Spells:

• Burning Hands
  
• Charm Person
  
• Expeditious Retreat
  
• Feather Fall
  
• Fog Cloud
  
• Grease
  
• Hideous Laughter
  
• Jump
  
• Longstrider
  
• Magic Missile
  
• Sleep
  
• Thunderwave

Level 2 Spells:

• Acid Arrow
  
• Darkness
  
• Darkvision
  
• Flaming Sphere
  
• Hold Person
  
• Knock
  
• Levitate
  
• Magic Weapon
  
• Misty Step
  
• Scorching Ray
  
• Shatter
  
• Spider Climb

Level 3 Spells:

• Fireball
  
• Fly
  
• Haste
  
• Lightning Bolt
  
• Sleet Storm
  
• Slow
  
• Stinking Cloud

Level 4 Spells:

• None

Level 5 Spells:

• None

Level 6 Spells:

• None

Cantrips:

• Annoying Bee
  
• Chill Touch
  
• Dazzle
  
• Shadow Armor
  
• Shadow Dagger
  
• True Strike

Level 1 Spells:

• Color Spray
  
• Comprehend Languages
  
• Detect Magic
  
• False Life
  
• Identify
  
• Mage Armor
  
• Protection vs Evil and Good
  
• Shield

Level 2 Spells:

• Blindness
  
• Blur
  
• Invisibility
  
• Ray of Enfeeblement
  
• See Invisibility

Level 3 Spells:

• None

Level 4 Spells:

• None

Level 5 Spells:

• None

Level 6 Spells:

• None

Cantrips:

• Acid Splash
  
• Annoying Bee
  
• Chill Touch
  
• Dancing Lights
  
• Dazzle
  
• Firebolt
  
• Light
  
• Poison Spray
  
• Ray of Frost
  
• Shadow Armor
  
• Shadow Dagger
  
• Shine
  
• Shocking Grasp
  
• Sparkle
  
• True Strike

Level 1 Spells:

• Burning Hands
  
• Charm Person
  
• Color Spray
  
• Comprehend Languages
  
• Detect Magic
  
• Expeditious Retreat
  
• False Life
  
• Feather Fall
  
• Fog Cloud
  
• Jump
  
• Mage Armor
  
• Magic Missile
  
• Shield
  
• Sleep
  
• Thunderwave

Level 2 Spells:

• Blindness
  
• Blur
  
• Darkness
  
• Darkvision
  
• Hold Person
  
• Invisibility
  
• Knock
  
• Levitate
  
• Misty Step
  
• Ray of Enfeeblement
  
• Scorching Ray
  
• See Invisibility
  
• Shatter
  
• Spider Climb

Level 3 Spells:

• Counterspell
  
• Daylight
  
• Dispel Magic
  
• Fear
  
• Fireball
  
• Fly
  
• Haste
  
• Hypnotic Pattern
  
• Lightning Bolt
  
• Protection From Energy
  
• Sleet Storm
  
• Slow
  
• Stinking Cloud
  
• Tongues

Level 4 Spells:

• Banishment
  
• Blight
  
• Confusion
  
• Dimension Door
  
• Dominate Beast
  
• Greater Invisibility
  
• Ice Storm
  
• Stoneskin
  
• Wall of Fire

Level 5 Spells:

• Cloudkill
  
• Cone of Cold
  
• Dominate Person
  
• Hold Monster
  
• Mind Twist

Level 6 Spells:

• Chain Lightning
  
• Circle of Death
  
• Disintegrate
  
• Eyebite
  
• Globe of Invulnerability
  
• Sunbeam
  
• True Seeing

Cantrips:

• Chill Touch
  
• Dazzle
  
• Eldritch Blast
  
• Poison Spray
  
• Shadow Armor
  
• Shadow Dagger
  
• Sparkle
  
• True Strike

Level 1 Spells:

• Charm Person
  
• Comprehend Languages
  
• Expeditious Retreat
  
• Hellish Rebuke
  
• Malediction
  
• Protection from Evil and Good

Level 2 Spells:

• Darkness
  
• Hold Person
  
• Invisibility
  
• Misty Step
  
• Ray of Enfeeblement
  
• Shatter
  
• Spider Climb

Level 3 Spells:

• Counterspell
  
• Dispel Magic
  
• Fear
  
• Fly
  
• Hypnotic Pattern
  
• Remove Curse
  
• Tongues
  
• Vampiric Touch

Level 4 Spells:

• Banishment
  
• Blight
  
• Dimension Door
  
• Dreadful Omen

Level 5 Spells:

• Hold Monster
  
• Mind Twist

Level 6 Spells:

• Circle of Death
  
• Conjure Fey
  
• Eyebite
  
• True Seeing

Below, you will find a full compendium of all spells in the game, along with their abilities. Refer to the Spell List section for which class can learn which spells. Refer to the section on individual classes for how their spellcasting functions and how they prepare or learn spells.

Components:

Verbal Components (V) - Verbal components require the caster to be able to speak, and spells with this component cannot be cast in the area of a Silence spell. Almost every spell has a verbal component, meaning the Silence spell is a very effective way of shutting down spellcasting. Some status effects prevent speaking, which also prevents verbal components. Fun fact: thunder damage has no effect in a silenced area.

Material Components (M) - Material components indicate a spell needs either a spell focus or a component pouch. In this game, you should always have one or both of those available unless you sell them. Don't sell your component pouch or spell focus, but if you do, you can always buy another one. Some spells have a unique material requirement, such as revivify, which requires 300 gold in diamonds, which must be bought separately.

Somatic Components (S) - Somatic components are movements done with the hands, and spells with somatic components require a free hand in order to cast. Thus, if your character is wielding a sword and shield, they cannot cast spells with somatic components. There are some subclasses, such as battle cleric, which can use their weapon for somatic components, bypassing this restriction. Note that it is possible to wield a shield in one hand and nothing in the other, maximizing defense while still using spellcasting.

Ritual Spellcasting:

Ritual spells can be cast at any time as a ritual. Casting a spell in this manner takes ten minutes (meaning it must be done outside of combat), but casting spells as a ritual does not use up a spell slot. So if you're completely tapped out after a fight, but you find a magic item? You can still cast Identify to figure out what the item is. Just cast it as a ritual.

Concentration:

Many spells require concentration. A character can concentrate only on one spell at a time. If you cast another concentration spell, the game will give you an alert reminding you that you will lose the first concentration spell if you cast the next one. Additionally, concentrating on spells requires a constitution saving throw every time you take damage. Failing that save also loses concentration and drops the spell. The pay-off for all this is that concentration spells are usually very useful or powerful effects that have significant impact during combat.


Cantrips:

Cantrips are basic spells that do not require a spell slot to cast. In other words, you never run out of cantrips to cast, and it is usually a good idea to have one or two attack cantrips to deal damage even when your casters run out of spell slots. Cantrips also scale with your character, and do more damage as you level up (as shown in the chart below).


Spell Saves: Some spells require a save from the target. The DC for that save is calculated as follows:

Spell Save DC = 8 + caster proficiency bonus + caster spellcasting ability modifier

With all that explained, let's get to the list of spells!

Acid Splash
Effect: Dexterity save or 1d6 acid damage
Casting Time: 1 action
Range: 12 squares
Duration: Instantaneous
Components: V, S
Concentration: No
Ritual: No

Annoying Bee
Effect: Imposes disadvantage on target's concentration checks
Casting Time: 1 action
Range: 12 squares
Duration: 1 round
Components: V, S
Concentration: No
Ritual: No

Chill Touch
Effect: Ranged spell attack for 1d8 necrotic damage & prevent healing
Casting Time: 1 action
Range: 24 squares
Duration: 1 round
Components: V, S
Concentration: No
Ritual: No

Dancing Lights
Effect: Create moveable floating light sources
Casting Time: 1 action
Range: 12 squares
Duration: 1 minute
Components: V, S, M
Concentration: Yes
Ritual: No

Dazzle
Effect: Melee spell attack to lower AC by 2 & prevent reactions
Casting Time: 1 action
Range: Melee
Duration: Until the start of the enemy's next turn
Components: S
Concentration: No
Ritual: No

Eldritch Blast
Effect: 1d10 force damage to target
Casting Time: 1 action
Range: 16 squares
Duration: Instantaneous
Components: V, S
Concentration: No
Ritual: No

Fire Bolt
Effect: Ranged spell attack for 1d10 fire damage
Casting Time: 1 action
Range: 24 squares
Duration: Instantaneous
Components: V, S
Concentration: No
Ritual: No

Guidance
Effect: Adds 1d4 to target's next ability check
Casting Time: 1 action
Range: Touch
Duration: 1 minute or until an ability check is made
Components: V, S
Concentration: Yes
Ritual: No

Light
Effect: Cause 1 held item to give off 8 squares of light
Casting Time: 1 action
Range: Touch
Duration: 1 hour
Components: V, M
Concentration: No
Ritual: No

Poison Spray
Effect: Constitution save or target takes 1d12 poison damage
Casting Time: 1 action
Range: 2 squares
Duration: Instantaneous
Components: V, S
Concentration: No
Ritual: No

Produce Flame
Effect: Flame in hand works like torch, 1d8 fire damage on attack
Casting Time: 1 action
Range: Self/Touch
Duration: 10 minutes
Components: V, S
Concentration: No
Ritual: No

Ray of Frost
Effect: Ranged spell attack for 1d8 cold damage & -2 squares of movement
Casting Time: 1 action
Range: 12 squares
Duration: 1 round
Components: V, S
Concentration: No
Ritual: No

Resistance
Effect: Adds 1d4 to target's next saving throw
Casting Time: 1 action
Range: Touch
Duration: 1 minute or target makes a saving throw
Components: V, S, M
Concentration: Yes
Ritual: No

Sacred Flame
Effect: Dexterity save or 1d8 radiant damage
Casting Time: 1 action
Range: 12 squares
Duration: Instantaneous
Components: V, S
Concentration: No
Ritual: No

Shine
Effect: Wisdom save (each turn) or enemy gives off 6 squares of light
Casting Time: 1 action
Range: 10 squares
Duration: 1 minute
Components: V, S
Concentration: No
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Shadow Armor
Effect: 3 temporary hit points added to caster's hit points
Casting Time: 1 action
Range: Self
Duration: 1 minute
Components: V, S
Concentration: No
Ritual: No

Shadow Dagger
Effect: Wisdom save or 1d8 psychic damage
Casting Time: 1 action
Range: 24 squares
Duration: Instantaneous
Components: V, S
Concentration: No
Ritual: No

Shillelagh
Effect: Turns club or quarterstaff into a magical d8 weapon
Casting Time: 1 bonus action
Range: Self
Duration: 1 minute
Components: V, S, M
Concentration: No
Ritual: No

Shocking Grasp
Effect: Melee spell attack for 1d8 lightning damage and no reactions
Casting Time: 1 action
Range: Melee
Duration: Start of target's next turn
Components: V, S
Concentration: No
Ritual: No

Spare the Dying
Effect: Stabilize an ally making death saves
Casting Time: 1 action
Range: Touch
Duration: Instantaneous
Components: S
Concentration: No
Ritual: No

Sparkle
Effect: Light 3 possible sources (like unlit torches)
Casting Time: 1 bonus action
Range: 24 squares
Duration: Instantaneous
Components: V, S
Concentration: No
Ritual: No

True Strike
Effect: Advantage on next attack roll
Casting Time: 1 action
Range: 6 squares
Duration: 1 round or target makes an attack roll
Components: S
Concentration: Yes
Ritual: No

Venomous Spike
Effect: 1d6 piercing + 1d4 poison damage
Casting Time: 1 action
Range: 12 squares
Duration: Instantaneous
Components: V, S
Concentration: No
Ritual: No

Vicious Mockery
Effect: 1d4 damage and disadvantage on next attack, Wis save to prevent
Casting Time: 1 action
Range: 12 squares
Duration: Instantaneous
Components: V
Concentration: No
Ritual: No


Animal Friendship
Effect: Wisdom save or target beast is charmed by caster
Casting Time: 1 action
Range: 6 squares
Duration: 24 hours
Components: V, S, M
Concentration: No
Ritual: No

Bane
Effect: Charisma save (each turn) or -1d4 on attacks and saves
Casting Time: 1 action
Range: 6 squares, 3 targets
Duration: 1 minute
Components: V, S, M
Concentration: Yes
Ritual: No

Bless
Effect: Adds 1d4 to attack rolls and saving throws
Casting Time: 1 action
Range: 6 squares, 3 targets
Duration: 1 minute
Components: V, S, M
Concentration: Yes
Ritual: No

Burning Hands
Effect: 3d6 fire damage, dexterity save for half damage
Casting Time: 1 action
Range: 3 square cone
Duration: Instantaneous
Components: V, S
Concentration: No
Ritual: No

Charm Person
Effect: Wisdom save or charmed by caster
Casting Time: 1 action
Range: 6 squares
Duration: 1 hour
Components: V, S
Concentration: No
Ritual: No

Color Spray
Effect: All creatures in area are blinded
Casting Time: 1 action
Range: 3 square cone
Duration: 1 round
Components: V, S, M
Concentration: No
Ritual: No

Command
Effect: Target humanoid becomes Charmed and obeys a command
Casting Time: 1 action
Range: 12 squares, 1 enemy
Duration: 1 hour
Components: V
Concentration: Yes
Ritual: No

Comprehend Languages
Effect: You can understand (but not speak) all languages
Casting Time: 1 action
Range: Self
Duration: 1 hour
Components: V, S, M
Concentration: No
Ritual: Yes

Cure Wounds
Effect: Restore 1d8 + Spell ability modifier hit points to target
Casting Time: 1 action
Range: Touch
Duration: Instantaneous
Components: V, S
Concentration: No
Ritual: No

Detect Evil and Good
Effect: Detect nearby undead, elemental, abberation, fiend, celestial, and fey
Casting Time: 1 action
Range: 6 square sphere around self
Duration: 10 minutes
Components: V, S
Concentration: Yes
Ritual: No

Detect Magic
Effect: Detect nearby magic items and magical effects on characters
Casting Time: 1 action
Range: Self
Duration: 10 minutes
Components: V, S
Concentration: Yes
Ritual: Yes

Detect Poison and Disease
Effect: Detects nearby poisons, poisonous creatures or diseases
Casting Time: 1 action
Range: 6 square sphere around self
Duration: 10 minutes
Components: V, S
Concentration: Yes
Ritual: No

Divine Favor
Effect: Add 1d4 radiant damage to weapon attacks
Casting Time: 1 bonus action
Range: Self
Duration: 1 minute
Components: V, S
Concentration: Yes
Ritual: No

Entangle
Effect: Stength save each turn or restrained, difficult terrain
Casting Time: 1 action
Range: 18 squares, 4x4 area
Duration: 1 minute
Components: V, S
Concentration: Yes
Ritual: No

Expeditious Retreat
Effect: Able to dash as a bonus action
Casting Time: 1 bonus action
Range: Self
Duration: 10 minutes
Components: V, S
Concentration: Yes
Ritual: No

Faerie Fire
Effect: Dexterity save or attacks on targets have advantage, no invisibility
Casting Time: 1 action
Range: 12 squares, everyone in 4x4 area
Duration: 1 minute
Components: V
Concentration: Yes
Ritual: No

False Life
Effect: 1d4+4 temporary hit points
Casting Time: 1 action
Range: Self
Duration: 1 hour
Components: V, S, M
Concentration: No
Ritual: No

Feather Fall
Effect: Fall safely, up to 5 targets
Casting Time: 1 reaction
Range: 12 squares
Duration: 1 minute
Components: V, M
Concentration: No
Ritual: No

Fog Cloud
Effect: Creates heavily obscured area
Casting Time: 1 action
Range: 12 squares, 4x4 area
Duration: 1 hour
Components: V, S
Concentration: Yes
Ritual: No

Goodberry
Effect: Create 10 berries, restore 1 hp each, count as rations
Casting Time: 1 action
Range: Self
Duration: Next long rest
Components: V, S, M
Concentration: No
Ritual: No

Grease
Effect: Area is difficult terrain, Dex save in area or fall Prone
Casting Time: 1 action
Range: 12 squares, 2x2 area
Duration: 1 minute
Components: V, S, M
Concentration: No
Ritual: No

Guiding Bolt
Effect: Ranged attack roll, 4d6 radiant damage & next attack has advantage
Casting Time: 1 action
Range: 24 squares
Duration: 1 round
Components: V, S
Concentration: No
Ritual: No

Healing Word
Effect: 1d4 + spellcasting ability modifier healing
Casting Time: 1 bonus action
Range: 12 squares
Duration: Instantaneous
Components: V
Concentration: No
Ritual: No

Hellish Rebuke
Effect: After being hit, deal 2d10 fire damage (Dex save for half)
Casting Time: 1 reaction
Range: 12 squares, 1 enemy
Duration: Instantaneous
Components: V, S
Concentration: No
Ritual: No

Heroism
Effect: Immune to fear & gain spellcasting ability modifier temp hp each turn
Casting Time: 1 action
Range: Touch
Duration: 1 minute
Components: V, S
Concentration: Yes
Ritual: No

Hideous Laughter
Effect: Wisdom save each turn or incapacitated
Casting Time: 1 action
Range: 6 squares
Duration: 1 minute
Components: V, S, M
Concentration: Yes
Ritual: No

Hunter's Mark
Effect: +1d6 to caster's weapon attacks against target
Casting Time: 1 bonus action
Range: 18 squares
Duration: 1 hour
Components: V
Concentration: Yes
Ritual: No

Identify
Effect: Identify the magical properties of an item
Casting Time: 1 action
Range: 1 item
Duration: Instantaneous
Components: V, S
Concentration: No
Ritual: Yes

Inflict Wounds
Effect: Melee spell attack for 3d10 necrotic damage
Casting Time: 1 action
Range: Melee attack
Duration: Instantaneous
Components: V, S
Concentration: No
Ritual: No

Jump
Effect: Jump distance is tripled
Casting Time: 1 action
Range: Touch
Duration: 1 minute
Components: V, S, M
Concentration: No
Ritual: No

Longstrider
Effect: Movement increased by 2 squares
Casting Time: 1 action
Range: Touch
Duration: 1 hour
Components: V, S, M
Concentration: No
Ritual: No

Mage Armor
Effect: Armor Class is now 13 + dexterity bonus
Casting Time: 1 action
Range: Self
Duration: 8 hours
Components: V, S, M
Concentration: No
Ritual: No

Magic Missile
Effect: 3 missiles, dealing 1d4+1 damage each, missiles auto-hit
Casting Time: 1 action
Range: 24 squares
Duration: Instantaneous
Components: V, S
Concentration: No
Ritual: No

Malediction
Effect: Deal 1d6 extra damage per attack
Casting Time: 1 bonus action
Range: Self
Duration: 1 hour
Components: V, S
Concentration: Yes
Ritual: No

Protection Vs Evil and Good
Effect: Aberrations, Celestials, Fey, Fiends, Elementals and Undead cannot frighten, charm, or possess target, & attack at disadvantage
Casting Time: 1 action
Range: Touch
Duration: 10 minutes
Components: V, S, M
Concentration: Yes

Shield of Faith
Effect: +2 to armor class
Casting Time: 1 bonus action
Range: 12 squares
Duration: 10 minutes
Components: V, S, M
Concentration: Yes
Ritual: No

Shield
Effect: +5 armor class in response to an attack that would hit the caster
Casting Time: 1 reaction
Range: Self
Duration: Until start of character's next turn
Components: V, S
Concentration: No
Ritual: No

Sleep
Effect: Targets in area with up to a total of 5d8 hit points go to sleep
Casting Time: 1 action
Range: 18 squares, 4x4 area
Duration: 1 minute
Components: V, S, M
Concentration: No
Ritual: No

Thunderwave
Effect: 2d8 thunder damage, pushed, constitution save for 1/2 damage only
Casting Time: 1 action
Range: 3x3x3 cube originating from caster
Duration: Instantaneous
Components: V, S
Concentration: No
Ritual: No



Acid Arrow
Effect: 4d4 acid damage then 2d4 next turn or 2d4 acid damage if missed
Casting Time: 1 action
Range: 16 squares, ranged attack roll
Duration: Instantaneous
Components: V, S, M
Concentration: No
Ritual: No

Aid
Effect: 3 targets gain 5 current & max hit points
Casting Time: 1 action
Range: 6 squares
Duration: 8 hours
Components: V, S, M
Concentration: No
Ritual: No

Barkskin
Effect: Armor Class becomes 16 unless it was already higher
Casting Time: 1 action
Range: Touch
Duration: 1 hour
Components: V, S, M
Concentration: Yes
Ritual: No

Blindness
Effect: Constitution save each turn or the target is blinded
Casting Time: 1 action
Range: 6 squares
Duration: 1 minute
Components: V
Concentration: No
Ritual: No

Blur
Effect: Attack rolls against caster have disadvantage
Casting Time: 1 action
Range: Self
Duration: 1 minute
Components: V
Concentration: Yes
Ritual: No

Branding Smite
Effect: Next attack does 2d6 extra radiant damage and target is illuminated
Casting Time: 1 bonus action
Range: Self
Duration: 1 minute or caster's next successful attack
Components: V
Concentration: Yes
Ritual: No

Calm Emotions
Effect: All targets cannot be charmed or frightened
Casting Time: 1 action
Range: 12 squares, 2 square radius sphere
Duration: 1 minute
Components: V, S
Concentration: Yes
Ritual: No

Darkness
Effect: Area becomes engulfed in magical darkness
Casting Time: 1 action
Range: 12 squares, 3 foot radius sphere
Duration: 10 minutes
Components: V, M
Concentration: Yes
Ritual: No

Darkvision
Effect: Target has darkvision
Casting Time: 1 action
Range: Touch
Duration: 8 hours
Components: V, S, M
Concentration: No
Ritual: No

Enhance Ability
Effect: Target has advantage on ability checks for one ability of choice
Casting Time: 1 action
Range: Touch
Duration: 1 hour
Components: V, S, M
Concentration: Yes
Ritual: No

Find Traps
Effect: Reveals all traps within 24 squares
Casting Time: 1 action
Range: Self
Duration: Instantaneous
Components: V, S
Concentration: No
Ritual: No

Flame Blade
Effect: Summons a blade that deals 3d6 fire damage per attack
Casting Time: 1 bonus action
Range: Self
Duration: 10 minutes
Components: V, S, M
Concentration: Yes
Ritual: No

Flaming Sphere
Effect: Flame sphere deals 2d6 fire damage, dexterity save 1/2 damage
Casting Time: 1 action (bonus action to control after)
Range: 12 squares, 3 square sphere
Duration: 1 minute
Components: V, S, M
Concentration: Yes
Ritual: No

Heat Metal
Effect: 2d8 fire damage and disadvantage on attacks and ability checks
Casting Time: 1 action (bonus action to do damage after)
Range: 12 squares, one enemy
Duration: 1 minute
Components: V, S, M
Concentration: Yes
Ritual: No

Hold Person
Effect: Wisdom save each turn or paralyzed
Casting Time: 1 action
Range: 12 squares
Duration: 1 minute
Components: V, S, M
Concentration: Yes
Ritual: No

Invisibility
Effect: Target is invisible until taking an offensive action
Casting Time: 1 action
Range: Touch
Duration: 1 hour
Components: V, S, M
Concentration: Yes
Ritual: No

Knock
Effect: Unlock target chest
Casting Time: 1 action
Range: Touch
Duration: Instantaneous
Components: V
Concentration: No
Ritual: No

Lesser Restoration
Effect: Cures Blindness, Diseased, Paralyzed and Poisoned conditions
Casting Time: 1 action
Range: Touch
Duration: Instantaneous
Components: V, S
Concentration: No
Ritual: No

Levitation
Effect: Caster can levitate target up or down, constitution save negates
Casting Time: 1 action
Range: 12 squares
Duration: 10 minutes
Components: V, S, M
Concentration: Yes
Ritual: No

Magic Weapon
Effect: Target weapon gains +1 attack and damage, becomes magical
Casting Time: 1 bonus action
Range: Touch
Duration: 1 hour
Components: V, S
Concentration: Yes
Ritual: No

Misty Step
Effect: Teleport anywhere within 6 squares
Casting Time: 1 bonus action
Range: 6 squares
Duration: Instantaneous
Components: V
Concentration: No
Ritual: No

Moonbeam
Effect: 2d10 radiant damage to anyone inside spell area (Con save for half damage, shapeshifters have disadvantage on the save
Casting Time: 1 action
Range: 12 squares, 2x2x8 cylinder
Duration: 1 minute
Components: V
Concentration: Yes

Pass Without Trace
Effect: Makes caster and 5 other targets get +10 on stealth checks
Casting Time: 1 action
Range: 6 squares
Duration: 1 hour
Components: V, S, M
Concentration: Yes
Ritual: No