Is your soul made of the stuff of shadows? Do you prefer the rain, and hanging around cemeteries wearing black eyeliner? These spells are for you.
That’s right, get out your Bauhaus, your Cure, your Joy Division, and your My Chemical Romance (debatably, but if you’re goth one of the best things in your life is arguing about what is and isn’t goth it’s the only way to be sure), because today we’re talking about how you can be goth in D&D. You might not be able to go shopping at the Fantasy Hot Topic–and if you’re not, you need to tell your DM to get their head in the game–but you can always wear your shadowy, brooding soul on your sleeve with these five spells.
Darkness
Let’s start with the most obvious one, Darkness. This spell creates a magical pool of darkness that appears in an area you decide, so you can be surrounded by darkness everywhere you go. You won’t be able to see into or out of this darkness, so you might want Faerie Fire or some other non-spell magical light effect to let people outside of the darkness see you brooding within.
Shadow Blade
Okay so you have to fight, what could be gothier than pulling a black, shadowy blade from your soul itself? You create a sword of gloom itself (that’s what the book says) out of three strands of shadow you weave together. All you need is a raven familiar and you’re ready to be on the cover of a Type O Negative album.
Summon Shadow Spawn
They say that if you need to know the measure of a man, you simply count his friends. Well with this spell your friends will be darkness itself given form.
Dark Star
This one comes out of the Explorer’s Guide to Wildemount, proving that even a Critical Rolesperson can be a goth. After all this spell summons an area of literal crushing darkness. Just like the crushing darkness we all live in, you’re just the only one who realizes it.
Chill Touch
And finally we turned to the one cantrip on the list, the most misnamed spell in D&D. Because Chill Touch does neither cold damage nor is it a touch spell. Nobody understands it, it does necrotic damage and involves a spectral hand that prevents you from healing. What more do you want?
Happy Adventuring!
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