We're running Dragon Heist and the party is facing the Xanathar himself in a battle. I as the DM have decided to make this encounter a bit more fun by letting some of the spectators to play as NPCs (including the Beholder itself) One of the high-level NPC wizards, who was helping the party in thi...

In our campaign, the party is preparing for the inevitable epic battle with a super strong BBEG in a couple of sessions. They were inspired by an awesome scene from the Vox Machina animated series where the bard somehow casts an illusion of the whole party mocking the dragon, while the "real" par...

We're running the Dragon Heist campaign and the party is facing Xanathar. The bard came up with an idea to distract the Beholder with the Major Image spell. The description of the Major Image spell says: Physical interaction with the image reveals it to be an illusion, because things can pass th...

Is this spell balanced for what it can do? Are there other issues with it? Nystul's Magic Mask Second level illusion Casting Time: 1 action Range: Touch Components: V, S, M (an item touched by or from the creature to impersonate) Duration: 24 hours You touch a creature, masking it with the pe...

This question came up while answering this question. While I made the assumption that Nondetection does not protect against an Alarm in my answer, I quickly realised that the answer probably wasn't as obvious as I thought at first glance. The spell Nondetection states the following : For the dur...