
Wizards, Warlocks, and Sorcerors can all use Mind Spike. Here is a good video about the DND Mind Spike 5e spell: This benefit of Mind Spike works even if your enemy is invisible-as long as they are within 60 feet and on the same plane of existence. Your mental connection is like a magical GPS beacon. One of my favorite aspects of Mind Spike is that the psychic attack inflicts damage on a targeted being whether they make a successful Wisdom saving throw or not.Īs a bonus, when your target fails their saving throw, you also know their location.
If your target succeeds on their Wisdom Saving Throw, they still take half the damage. You add 1d8 per slot level above 2nd to the damage roll. If you use a spell slot at or higher than 3rd level, your damage increases. If your target enemy does not succeed (i.e, fails the saving throw), then they suffer 3d8 of psychic damage. Your target makes a Wisdom Saving Throw by rolling DND dice. During an encounter, your magical character uses an action to cast Mind Spike. You select Mind Spike for one of your spell slots. Your character must have access to the Mind Spike Spell. Here are the steps for using Mind Spike in Dungeons and Dragons: You use Mind Spike much like you use any spell in DND. Mind Spike works at a range of 60 feet (as long as the other being is on the same plane) and requires a magical character’s concentration. Somatic refers to hand motions or gestures. Like most spells, it must be learned and cast in combat with somatic components. While you have this knowledge, the target can’t become hidden from you, and if it’s invisible, it gains no benefit from that condition against you.
On a failed save, you also always know the target’s location until the spell ends, but only while the two of you are on the same plane of existence.
The target must make a Wisdom saving throw, taking 3d8 psychic damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one. You reach into the mind of one creature you can see within range. Xanathar’s Guide to Everything describes Mind Spike this way: Mind Spike is a second-level psychic attack spell in DND for magical characters. Image by the author via Canva-DND Mind Spike 5e