Vicious Mockery

See also: Vicious Mockery (disambiguation)

Vicious Mockery is a cantrip (Enchantment). It deals Psychic damage to enemies and inflicts Disadvantage on their Attack Rolls.

Description

Insult a creature: it has Disadvantage on its next Attack roll.

Properties

Cost

 Action

Damage: 1~4

1d4Psychic

Details

WIS Save (On Save: Spell is negated)

 Range: 18 m / 60 ft

At higher levels

• At character level 5, the damage increases to 2d4Psychic.
• At character level 10, the damage increases to 3d4Psychic.

Technical details

UID

Target_ViciousMockery

Spell flags

HasVerbalComponent, IsHarmful, IsSpell

Condition: Vicious Mockery

 Vicious Mockery

Duration: 1 turn

Spell save DC  Wisdom saving throw

• Disadvantage on the next Attack roll.

How to learn

Classes:

• Class level 1: Bard
• Class level 3: Warlock (via Pact of the Tome)

Granted by features:

•  Magic Initiate: Bard

Other ways to learn:

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

Notes

• In most cases casting this spell will cause the caster to make a verbal quip or insult the target. These remarks are fully voice acted, including for characters who don't normally have access to the spell. (These same lines are also used for the College of Lore Bard feature  Cutting Words.)

• Targets hit by this spell will face the caster.

Bugs

•  Vicious Mockery is removed on any "attack" made by the target, which includes virtually any attack/spell which targets another creature (including allies), that does not need to include an Attack Roll.

External links

• Vicious mockery on the Forgotten Realms Wiki