Bursting Sinew

Bursting Sinew is a cantrip (Necromancy). It allows the caster to detonate a corpse into a small AoE of damage.

Description

Explode a corpse, causing it to impale those around it.

Properties

Cost

 Action

Damage: 1~10

1d10⁠Piercing ( Dexterity saving throw to negate)

Details

 DEX Save

 Range: 18 m / 60 ft

 AoE: 3 m / 10 ft (Radius)

 Targets: 1 fresh corpse

At higher levels

• At character level 5, the damage increases to 2d10⁠⁠Piercing.
• At character level 10, the damage increases to 3d10⁠⁠Piercing.

Technical details

UID

Target_BurstingSinew

Spell flags

HasSomaticComponent, HasVerbalComponent, IsHarmful, IsSpell

How to learn

Classes:

• Class level 1: Cleric, Sorcerer, Wizard, and Death Domain (Domain Spell)
• Class level 3: Eldritch Knight, and Arcane Trickster

Races:

• Character level 1: High Elf, and High Half-Elf

(Character level is the sum of all class levels for a multi-classed character.)

Granted by features:

•  Magic Initiate: Cleric
•  Magic Initiate: Sorcerer
•  Magic Initiate: Wizard

Other ways to learn:

• There are no scrolls available for wizards to scribe to their spellbooks.

Notes

• The damage is considered non-magical so creatures resistant to non-magical piercing damage take only half damage.
• The corpse cannot be an ooze, plant, construct, or elemental. Any other creature type works.
• The corpse must be "fresh". This is the same criteria as for  Speak with Dead. If killed where the final form of damage is by ⁠Fire, ⁠Radiant, or ⁠Acid, the corpse is unusable with Speak with Dead and also this cantrip.
• After using this spell, the target corpse is reduced to a pile of viscera which cannot be reused for this spell nor reanimated with spells like  Animate Dead.
• With the Death Domain Cleric feature,  Reaper, this cantrip can be twin cast on two separate corpses at once. If the area of effects overlap, creatures in the overlap take damage from both explosions. It is one of the only area of effect spells that can be twin cast.
• This cantrip cannot be twin cast by Sorcerers using  Metamagic: Twinned Spell.