Chain Lightning

Level

Level 6 · Evocation

Cost

Action + 6th-level spell slot

Range

18 m

Roll

Dexterity save

Damage

10d8 Lightning

On a successful save

Half damage

Components

Verbal, Somatic

Strike an enemy with lightning. Three more bolts will leap from the target, electrifying as many as three other enemies within 18 m.

Damage by spell slot

Who can get it

From the game's class, subclass and race progression tables (the level is the class or character level it first becomes available at), feat choices, equipment boosts and scrolls.

Classes 1

• Sorcerer · can pick, from level 11

Subclasses 9

• Abjuration (Wizard) · can pick, from level 11
• Bladesinging (Wizard) · can pick, from level 11
• Conjuration (Wizard) · can pick, from level 11
• Divination (Wizard) · can pick, from level 11
• Enchantment (Wizard) · can pick, from level 11
• Evocation (Wizard) · can pick, from level 11
• Illusion (Wizard) · can pick, from level 11
• Necromancy (Wizard) · can pick, from level 11
• Transmutation (Wizard) · can pick, from level 11

Scrolls and items 1

• Scroll of Chain Lightning · casts it, can copy into a spellbook