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Deep Magic for 5th Edition
600 New Spells for 5th Edition
Ultimate spellpower is yours! No matter how you slice it, magic is at the heart of fantasy. Nothing says magic like a massive tome of spells.
This tome collects, updates, tweaks, and expands every awesome spell, cantrip, and glamour derived from years of the Deep Magic for 5th Edition series―more than 600 new and compiled spells by the best in the business, including Wizards of the Coast staffers and A-list freelancers. And it adds a lot 15 divine domains, new arcane subclasses like the diabolist and temporal magic, expanded familiars and conjured servants, wizard workshops, arcane traps, and yes, even more new spells.
This tome is not just for wizards and sorcerers. Deep Magic expands the horizons of what's possible for wizards, sorcerers, clerics, and even for rangers and paladins. It offers something new for every casting class, from alkemancy to druid rituals, and from bard to warlock!
With these new spells and options, your characters (or your villains) can become masters of winter magic, chaos magic, or shadow magic. Seek out hidden colleges and academies of lost lore. Learn new runes, hieroglyphs, and cantrips to crack open the walls of reality, or just bend them a bit.
Deep Magic contains all magic from start to finish!
Ultimate spellpower is yours! No matter how you slice it, magic is at the heart of fantasy. Nothing says magic like a massive tome of spells.
This tome collects, updates, tweaks, and expands every awesome spell, cantrip, and glamour derived from years of the Deep Magic for 5th Edition series―more than 600 new and compiled spells by the best in the business, including Wizards of the Coast staffers and A-list freelancers. And it adds a lot 15 divine domains, new arcane subclasses like the diabolist and temporal magic, expanded familiars and conjured servants, wizard workshops, arcane traps, and yes, even more new spells.
This tome is not just for wizards and sorcerers. Deep Magic expands the horizons of what's possible for wizards, sorcerers, clerics, and even for rangers and paladins. It offers something new for every casting class, from alkemancy to druid rituals, and from bard to warlock!
With these new spells and options, your characters (or your villains) can become masters of winter magic, chaos magic, or shadow magic. Seek out hidden colleges and academies of lost lore. Learn new runes, hieroglyphs, and cantrips to crack open the walls of reality, or just bend them a bit.
Deep Magic contains all magic from start to finish!
288 pages, Hardcover
Published October 6, 2020
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January 29, 2022
It's an especially great read for anyone who wants a specifically themed spellslinger, as the book does a great job at compiling spells by vibe. Many of the spells (and boy, there are a ton) are just slight variations on classics or too niche to be useful in most games, but some absolute delights are to be had. My short list of top spells I recommend looking up include Booster Shot, Aura of Protection/Destruction, Feather Travel, Iron Hand, Snow Boulder, Kavelin's Instant Aerosol, and my personal favorite, TRENCH.
May 4, 2022
Great selection of spells by theme as well as new subclasses. The Void and Mythos magic are my personal favorites, but there should be something here for every spellcaster in the party.
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November 25, 2022A dad-friend and fellow-gamer came over for a kid playdate, and when I showed him my collection of 2nd edition D&D, he asked me "why are you writing 5th edition material?"
And skimming this book on new magic options, that's what I kept thinking. There's a lot of spells, a lot of new bard colleges, priest domains, sorcerous origins, and wizard traditions, but I can't bring myself to care. Like, there's Rune Magic and Dragon Magic, and for evil folks, there's Blood Magic, but everything is so ... bland? Unconnected to a world? Patched together? I don't know, it just feels like we don't need a new spell that's just another magic missile or fireball or whatever.
But also: I'm very interested in Kobold Press as a venture. Like they were started by an old TSR hand, and they seem to have a good relationship with WotC now. So who is buying Kobold's stuff? How popular is it?
And skimming this book on new magic options, that's what I kept thinking. There's a lot of spells, a lot of new bard colleges, priest domains, sorcerous origins, and wizard traditions, but I can't bring myself to care. Like, there's Rune Magic and Dragon Magic, and for evil folks, there's Blood Magic, but everything is so ... bland? Unconnected to a world? Patched together? I don't know, it just feels like we don't need a new spell that's just another magic missile or fireball or whatever.
But also: I'm very interested in Kobold Press as a venture. Like they were started by an old TSR hand, and they seem to have a good relationship with WotC now. So who is buying Kobold's stuff? How popular is it?
February 5, 2026
I got this book as a gift and was very pleasantly surprised by the contents. Lots of great new spells, themed by different schools of magic to make them interesting and flavorful.
One negative point; bad indexing. It's hard to find something you're looking for unless you already know a lot about it.
I feel like Deep Magic is the spiritual grand-child of the 2nd edition- Unearthed Arcana that I enjoyed in my youth. Each new spell, power, item, etc. in a compendium like this sparks off a scenario generator in my mind about how to fold it into my current campaign. Great gaming prompts.
One negative point; bad indexing. It's hard to find something you're looking for unless you already know a lot about it.
I feel like Deep Magic is the spiritual grand-child of the 2nd edition- Unearthed Arcana that I enjoyed in my youth. Each new spell, power, item, etc. in a compendium like this sparks off a scenario generator in my mind about how to fold it into my current campaign. Great gaming prompts.
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