Mordenkainen’s Sword
- Casting Time
- 1 Action
- Range
- 60 Feet
- Duration
- Concentration, up to 1 minute
- Components
- V
- S
- M
- Materials Required
- A miniature platinum sword with a grip and pommel of copper and zinc, worth 250 gp
Spell Description
You make terrain in an area up to 1 mile square look, sound, smell, and even feel like some other sort of terrain. The terrain’s general shape remains the same, however. Open fields or a road could be made to resemble a swamp, hill, crevasse, or some other difficult or impassable terrain. A pond can be made to seem like a grassy meadow, a precipice like a gentle slope, or a rock-strewn gully like a wide and smooth road.
Similarly, you can alter the appearance of structures, or add them where none are present. The spell doesn’t disguise, conceal, or add creatures.
The illusion includes audible, visual, tactile, and olfactory elements, so it can turn clear ground into difficult terrain (or vice versa) or otherwise impede movement through the area. Any piece of the illusory terrain (such as a rock or stick) that is removed from the spell’s area disappears immediately.
Creatures with truesight can see through the illusion to the terrain’s true form; however, all other elements of the illusion remain, so while the creature is aware of the illusion’s presence, the creature can still physically interact with the illusion.
1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | 5th | 6th | 7th | 8th | 9th | |
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Damage Dice | 3d10 | ||||||||
Min Damage | 3 | ||||||||
Average Damage | 16.5 | ||||||||
Max Damage | 30 |
Lvl | Dice | Min | Avg | Max |
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7th | 3d10 | 3 | 16.5 | 30 |
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Is Mordenkainen’s Sword Good?
Overall Rating: Red. This means that mordenkainen’s sword isn’t going to contribute to the effectiveness of your character build at all.
Overall Notes: Terrible amount of damage for a 7th level spell.