Player's Handbook 5th edition

The ***Player's Handbook 5th edition*** is the Player's Guide for the 5th edition of the Advanced Dungeons & Dragons game.

*The Player's Handbook® is the essential reference for every Dungeons & Dragons® roleplayer. It contains rules for character creation and advancement, backgrounds and skills, exploration and combat, equipment, spells, and much more.*
*Use this book to create exciting characters from among the most iconic D&D® races and classes.*
*Dungeons & Dragons immerses you in a world of adventure. Explore ancient ruins and deadly dungeons. Battle monsters while searching for legendary treasures. Gain experience and power as you trek across uncharted lands with your companions.*
*The world needs heroes. Will you answer the call?*

## Contents

* Introduction
* Chapter 1: Step-by-step Characters
* Chapter 2: Races
* Chapter 3: Classes
* Chapter 4: Personality and Background
* Chapter 5: Equipment
* Chapter 6: Customization Options
* Chapter 7: Using Ability Scores
* Chapter 8: Adventuring
* Chapter 9: Combat
* Chapter 10: Spellcasting
* Chapter 11: Spells
* Appendix A: Conditions
* Appendix B: Gods of the Multiverse
* Appendix C: The Planes of Existence
* Appendix D: Creature Statistics
* Appendix E: Inspirational Reading
* Index
* Character Sheet

## Index

Magic

Spells
*Acid splash* • *Aid* • *Alarm* • *Alter self* • *Animal friendship* • *Animal messenger* • *Animal shapes* • *Animate dead* • *Animate objects* • *Antilife shell* • *Antimagic field* • *Antipathy/sympathy* • *Arcane eye* • *Arcane gate* • *Arcane lock* • *Armor of Agathys* • *Arms of Hadar* • *Astral projection* • *Augury* • *Aura of life* • *Aura of purity* • *Aura of vitality* • *Awaken* • *Bane* • *Banishing smite* • *Banishment* • *Barkskin* • *Beacon of hope* • *Beast sense* • *Bestow curse* • *Bigby's hand* • *Blade barrier* • *Blade ward* • *Bless* • *Blight* • *Blinding smite* • *Blindness/deafness* • *Blink* • *Blur* • *Branding smite* • *Burning hands* • *Call lightning* • *Calm emotions* • *Chain lightning* • *Charm person* • *Chill touch* • *Chromatic orb* • *Circle of death* • *Circle of power* • *Clairvoyance* • *Clone* • *Cloud of daggers* • *Cloudkill* • *Color spray* • *Command* • *Commune* • *Commune with nature* • *Compelled duel* • *Comprehend languages* • *Compulsion* • *Cone of cold* • *Confusion* • *Conjure animals* • *Conjure barrage* • *Conjure celestial* • *Conjure elemental* • *Conjure fey* • *Conjure minor elementals* • *Conjure volley* • *Conjure woodland beings* • *Contact other plane* • *Contagion* • *Contingency* • *Continual flame* • *Control water* • *Control weather* • *Cordon of arrows* • *Counterspell* • *Create food and water* • *Create or destroy water* • *Create undead* • *Creation* • *Crown of madness* • *Crusader's mantle* • *Cure wounds* • *Dancing lights* • *Darkness* • *Darkvision* • *Daylight* • *Death ward* • *Delayed blast fireball* • *Demiplane* • *Destructive wave* • *Detect evil and good* • *Detect magic* • *Detect poison and disease* • *Detect thoughts* • *Dimension door* • *Disguise self* • *Disintegrate* • *Dispel evil and good* • *Dispel magic* • *Dissonant whispers* • *Divination* • *Divine favor* • *Divine word* • *Dominate beast* • *Dominate monster* • *Dominate person* • *Drawmij's instant summons* • *Dream* • *Druidcraft* • *Earthquake* • *Eldritch blast* • *Elemental weapon* • *Enhance ability* • *Enlarge/reduce* • *Ensnaring strike* • *Entangle* • *Enthrall* • *Etherealness* • *Evard's black tentacles* • *Expeditious retreat* • *Eyebite* • *Fabricate* • *Faerie fire* • *False life* • *Fear* • *Feather fall* • *Feeblemind* • *Feign death* • *Find familiar* • *Find steed* • *Find the path* • *Find traps* • *Finger of death* • *Fire bolt* • *Fire shield* • *Fire storm* • *Fireball* • *Flame blade* • *Flame strike* • *Flaming sphere* • *Flesh to stone* • *Fly* • *Fog cloud* • *Forbiddance* • *Forcecage* • *Foresight* • *Freedom of movement* • *Friends* • *Gaseous form* • *Gate* • *Geas* • *Gentle repose* • *Giant insect* • *Glibness* • *Globe of invulnerability* • *Glyph of warding* • *Goodberry* • *Grasping vine* • *Grease* • *Greater invisibility* • *Greater restoration* • *Guardian of faith* • *Guards and wards* • *Guidance* • *Guiding bolt* • *Gust of wind* • *Hail of thorns* • *Hallow* • *Hallucinatory terrain* • *Harm* • *Haste* • *Heal* • *Healing word* • *Heat metal* • *Hellish rebuke* • *Heroes' feast* • *Heroism* • *Hex* • *Hold monster* • *Hold person* • *Holy aura* • *Hunger of Hadar* • *Hunter's mark* • *Hypnotic pattern* • *Ice storm* • *Identify* • *Illusory script* • *Imprisonment* • *Incendiary cloud* • *Inflict wounds* • *Insect plague* • *Invisibility* • *Jump* • *Knock* • *Legend lore* • *Leomund's secret chest* • *Leomund's tiny hut* • *Lesser restoration* • *Levitate* • *Light* • *Lightning arrow* • *Lightning bolt* • *Locate animals or plants* • *Locate creature* • *Locate object* • *Longstrider* • *Mage armor* • *Mage hand* • *Magic circle* • *Magic jar* • *Magic missile* • *Magic mouth* • *Magic weapon* • *Major image* • *Mass cure wounds* • *Mass heal* • *Mass healing word* • *Mass suggestion* • *Maze* • *Meld into stone* • *Melf's acid arrow* • *Mending* • *Message* • *Meteor swarm* • *Mind blank* • *Minor illusion* • *Mirage arcane* • *Mirror image* • *Mislead* • *Misty step* • *Modify memory* • *Moonbeam* • *Mordenkainen's faithful hound* • *Mordenkainen's magnificent mansion* • *Mordenkainen's private sanctum* • *Mordenkainen's sword* • *Move earth* • *Nondetection* • *Nystul's magic aura* • *Otiluke's freezing sphere* • *Otiluke's resilient sphere* • *Otto's irresistible dance* • *Pass without trace* • *Passwall* • *Phantasmal force* • *Phantasmal killer* • *Phantom steed* • *Planar ally* • *Planar binding* • *Plane shift* • *Plant growth* • *Poison spray* • *Polymorph* • *Power word, heal* • *Power word, kill* • *Power word, stun* • *Prayer of healing* • *Prestidigitation* • *Prismatic spray* • *Prismatic wall* • *Produce flame* • *Programmed illusion* • *Project image* • *Protection from energy* • *Protection from evil and good* • *Protection from poison* • *Purify food and drink* • *Raise dead* • *Rary's telepathic bond* • *Ray of enfeeblement* • *Ray of frost* • *Ray of sickness* • *Regenerate* • *Reincarnate* • *Remove curse* • *Resistance* • *Resurrection* • *Reverse gravity* • *Revivify* • *Rope trick* • *Sacred flame* • *Sanctuary* • *Scorching ray* • *Scrying* • *Searing smite* • *See invisibility* • *Seeming* • *Sending* • *Sequester* • *Shapechange* • *Shatter* • *Shield* • *Shield of faith* • *Shillelagh* • *Shocking grasp* • *Silence* • *Silent image* • *Simulacrum* • *Sleep* • *Sleet storm* • *Slow* • *Spare the dying* • *Speak with animals* • *Speak with dead* • *Speak with plants* • *Spider climb* • *Spike growth* • *Spirit guardians* • *Spiritual weapon* • *Staggering smite* • *Stinking cloud* • *Stone shape* • *Stoneskin* • *Storm of vengeance* • *Suggestion* • *Sunbeam* • *Sunburst* • *Swift quiver* • *Symbol* • *Tasha's hideous laughter* • *Telekinesis* • *Telepathy* • *Teleport* • *Teleportation circle* • *Tenser's floating disk* • *Thaumaturgy* • *Thorn whip* • *Thunderous smite* • *Thunderwave* • *Time stop* • *Tongues* • *Transport via plants* • *Tree stride* • *True polymorph* • *True resurrection* • *True seeing* • *True strike* • *Tsunami* • *Unseen servant* • *Vampiric touch* • *Vicious mockery* • *Wall of fire* • *Wall of force* • *Wall of ice* • *Wall of stone* • *Wall of thorns* • *Warding bond* • *Water breathing* • *Water walk* • *Web* • *Weird* • *Wind walk* • *Wind wall* • *Wish* • *Witch bolt* • *Word of recall* • *Wrathful smite* • *Zone of truth*