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☄️5e - Verbal Components☄️

A Verbal component is the chanting of esoteric words that sound like nonsense to the uninitiated. The words must be uttered in a normal speaking voice and articulated clearly. The words define a caster’s intent in the process of casting, the particular combination of sounds, with specific pitch and resonance, sets the threads of magic in motion. Thus, a creature who is gagged or in an area of magical silence can’t cast a spell with a Verbal component.

Verbal components can be heard within a range of 150 feet around the caster.

Creating Verbal Components

If you’d like to say a spell’s Verbal component, you may make up the words. However you make them, the goal is to create something that’s easy to say at the table. Consider this method: take the name of the spell, keep only one instance of each of its letters, and rearrange the remaining letters into words. For example, remove the second l from Fireball and rearrange the remaining letters to create Ber Fila or Fel Bira.

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