You supply the semblance of lifestyles and brain to a corpse of your preference inside the range, permitting it to reply to the questions you pose. The corpse has to nevertheless have a mouth and can’t be undead. The spell fails if the corpse used to be the goal of this spell inside the remaining 10 days.
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Speak with Dead
- Level: 3 (Necromancy)
- Casting time: 1 Action
- Components: V, S, M*
- Range(area): 10 ft
- Attack(save): None
- Damage(effect): Communication
- School: Necromancy
- Duration: 10 Minutes
Until the spell ends, you can ask the corpse up to 5 questions. The corpse is aware of solely what it knew in life, along with the languages it knew. Answers are typically brief, cryptic, or repetitive, and the corpse is underneath no compulsion to provide a trustworthy reply if you are opposed to it or it acknowledges you as an enemy. This spell doesn’t return the creature’s soul to its body, solely its animating spirit. Thus, the corpse can’t examine new information, doesn’t know something that has come about due to the fact it died, and can’t speculate about future events.
FAQ
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How to forestall the use of Speak With Dead?
This spell does now not have an effect on a corpse that has been growing to become an undead creature.
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Can you pressure honesty with the aid of the use of the Speak with Dead and Zone of Truth spells together?
No, a quarter of fact does no longer work on corpses.
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Does “Speak with Dead” work with (well preserved) skeletons?
The corpse is the one issue you want to consider, the difference is. that the Speak with Dead spell can’t be used on a skeleton.
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Can you use Sending on a lifeless creature?
Sending requires focusing on a creature. A lifeless physique is viewed as an object, no longer a creature, so sending would no longer work on a corpse.
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Can you solid Speak with Dead on lifeless undead?
Yes, a useless undead creature can be the goal of a Speak with Dead spell.