Fireball

Level

Level 3 · Evocation

Cost

Action + 3rd-level spell slot

Range

18 m

Area

4 m radius

Roll

Dexterity save

Damage

8d6 Fire

On a successful save

Half damage

Components

Verbal, Somatic

Shoot a bright flame from your fingers that explodes upon contact, torching everything in the vicinity.

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 2

• Sorcerer · can pick, from level 5
• Bard · can pick, from level 10

Subclasses 12

• Abjuration (Wizard) · can pick, from level 5
• Bladesinging (Wizard) · can pick, from level 5
• Conjuration (Wizard) · can pick, from level 5
• Divination (Wizard) · can pick, from level 5
• Enchantment (Wizard) · can pick, from level 5
• Evocation (Wizard) · can pick, from level 5
• Illusion (Wizard) · can pick, from level 5
• Light Domain (Cleric) · always known, from level 5
• Necromancy (Wizard) · can pick, from level 5
• The Fiend (Warlock) · can pick, from level 5
• Transmutation (Wizard) · can pick, from level 5
• College of Lore (Bard) · can pick, from level 6

Equipment 1

• Incandescent Staff · always known

Scrolls and items 2

• Crooked Wand of Fireballs · casts it
• Scroll of Fireball · can copy into a spellbook, casts it