Chain Lightning

6th-Level Evocation
Casting Time: 1 action
Range: 150 feet
Components: VSM (a bit of fur; a piece of amber, glass, or a crystal rod; and three silver pins)
Duration: Instantaneous

You create a bolt of lightning that arcs toward a target of your choice that you can see within range. The bolt of energy then arcs to another target within 30 feet three additional times, each in succession A creature can be affected by this ability more than once, but it must arc away to another target first.

A target must make a Dexterity saving throw. The target takes 10d8 lightning damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one. If a single creature is targeted by multiple bolts, the damage they take increases by 5d8 for each bolt after the first.

At Higher Levels. When you cast this spell using a spell slot of 7th level or higher, one additional bolt leaps from the first target to another target for each slot level above 6th.

Source: PHB 221, SRD

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