Quartz 5

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  • Otiluke’s Freezing Sphere
    created: 2026-03-09T12:15:33.907-04:00
    modified: 2026-03-09T12:15:33.907-04:00
    published: 2026-03-09T12:15:33.907-04:00
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  • ttrpg-cli/compendium/src/5e/xphb
  • ttrpg-cli/spell/class/bard
  • ttrpg-cli/spell/class/sorcerer
  • ttrpg-cli/spell/class/wizard
  • ttrpg-cli/spell/feat/boon-of-siberys/sorcerer-spell
  • ttrpg-cli/spell/level/6th-level
  • ttrpg-cli/spell/school/evocation
  • ttrpg-cli/spell/subclass/evoker
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  • Bard
  • Sorcerer
  • Wizard
  • Wizard (Evoker)

Otiluke’s Freezing Sphere

6th-level, Evocation

  • Casting time: 1 Action
  • Range: 300 feet
  • Components: V, S, M (a miniature crystal sphere)
  • Duration: Instantaneous

A frigid globe streaks from you to a point of your choice within range, where it explodes in a 60-foot-radius Sphere. Each creature in that area makes a Constitution saving throw, taking 10d6 Cold damage on failed save or half as much damage on a successful one.

If the globe strikes a body of water, it freezes the water to a depth of 6 inches over an area 30 feet square. This ice lasts for 1 minute. Creatures that were swimming on the surface of frozen water are trapped in the ice and have the Restrained condition. A trapped creature can take an action to make a Strength (Athletics) check against your spell save DC to break free.

You can refrain from firing the globe after completing the spell’s casting. If you do so, a globe about the size of a sling bullet, cool to the touch, appears in your hand. At any time, you or a creature you give the globe to can throw the globe (to a range of 40 feet) or hurl it with a sling (to the sling’s normal range). It shatters on impact, with the same effect as a normal casting of the spell. You can also set the globe down without shattering it. After 1 minute, if the globe hasn’t already shattered, it explodes.

Using a Higher-Level Spell Slot. The damage increases by 1d6 for each spell slot level above 6.

Classes: Bard; Sorcerer; Wizard (Evoker); Wizard

Source: Player’s Handbook (2024) p. 302. Available in the SRD (as “Freezing Sphere”) and the Free Rules (2024)

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