Acid Splash

Conjuration Cantrip

Casting Time: 1 action
Range: 60 ft
Components: V, S
Duration: Instantaneous
Damage Type: Acid

Save: Dexterity

You hurl a bubble of acid. Choose one creature you can see (within range), or choose two creatures you can see (within range) that are within 5 feet of each other. A target must succeed on a Dexterity saving throw or take 1d6 acid damage.

This spell's damage increases by 1d6 when you reach 5th level (2d6), 11th level (3d6), and 17th level (4d6).

Verbal Component: Eructo di Toxicum

Verbal Component (Alternative): This may seem quite rash, but I conjure forth an acid splash

Classes: Sorcerer, Wizard, Rogue, Artificer

Tags: Damage

Source: Player's Handbook [5th Edition] (page 211)

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Spell FAQs

Below are commonly asked questions about this spell. Some of the information is pulled official D&D sources (such as books and the twitter feeds of D&D officials), but other information is derived from forums and online discussions. As always, it is up to the DM to decide how they wish to spell questions. If you have a FAQ about this spell that you feel other DM's may wish to know, please send us the message!

Can the 'Acid' of Acid Splash be stored?

The duration of Acid Splash is "Instantaneous". In the PHB p203, the description of this duration is:

The spell harms, heals, creates, or alters a creature or an object in a way that can't be dispelled, because its magic exists only for an instant.

The acid bubble only lasts for the duration of the attack. Spells which create lasting attacks (such as Spike Growth) have specific durations listed (10 minutes, in the case of Spike Growth).

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Other Planes and Effects

Below is information about this spell as it relates to other planes and area of effects (i.e. underwater). Some of the information is pulled official D&D sources (such as books and the twitter feeds of D&D officials), but other information is derived from forums and online discussions. As always, it is up to the DM to decide how they wish to handle spell effects.

Underwater - Verbal Component

Official rules have been verified by Jeremy Crawford - "No rule prohibits verbal components from working underwater. Keep in mind that if you're talking, you're not holding your breath." Hence, while submerged underwater and holding its breath, a creature can cast a spell that requires a verbal component. After casting the spell, if the creature can't breathe underwater, it immediately runs out of breath. The creature can survive for a number of rounds equal to its Constitution modifier (minimum of 1 round).

Underwater - Acid Effects

None of the acid spells mention water interaction in any way. In addition, the section in the PHB about underwater combat (pg. 198) doesn't mention anything about acid spells behaving differently in water. So officially, there are no rules amplifiying or diminishing the spell effects. In addition, Jeremy Crawford has made a comment regarding a fireball in water that relates to this subject, "Nothing in the rules causes a fireball to vaporize water. Magic ≠ physics. DMs may apply whatever magical/scientific logic they like."

As a DM, I would personally treat acid like fire, "Creatures and objects that are fully immersed in water have resistance to fire damage." (PHB p198)

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