Acid Splash

Description

You create a small amount of magical Acid D&D Portal - Acid Damage type Acid is a damage type used by attacks, spells, class features, resistance, immunity, and vulnerability. Full link: https://dnd-portal.com/rules/damage-types/acid/ and propel it toward a target within range. Resolve the spell with a ranged touch attack D&D Portal - Attack Roll Combat rule Attack Roll is a combat rule used by attacks, damage, defenses, or turn order. Full link: https://dnd-portal.com/rules/combat/attack-roll/. If the attack hits, the target takes 1d3 D&D Portal - Dice Roller Roll your dice Roll standard or custom dice with adjustable count, faces, advantage, and disadvantage. Full link: https://dnd-portal.com/dice-roller/ Acid D&D Portal - Acid Damage type Acid is a damage type used by attacks, spells, class features, resistance, immunity, and vulnerability. Full link: https://dnd-portal.com/rules/damage-types/acid/. If the attack misses, the spell ends without dealing damage or creating a secondary splash effect.

How Acid Splash Works

Acid Splash is a 0-level Conjuration spell with the Creation subschool and the Acid descriptor. It takes one action to cast and requires verbal and somatic components. The spell produces a single projectile of magical Acid D&D Portal - Acid Damage type Acid is a damage type used by attacks, spells, class features, resistance, immunity, and vulnerability. Full link: https://dnd-portal.com/rules/damage-types/acid/ that the caster directs toward a target within range.

The spell does not automatically affect its target. After casting Acid Splash, the caster makes a ranged touch attack D&D Portal - Attack Roll Combat rule Attack Roll is a combat rule used by attacks, damage, defenses, or turn order. Full link: https://dnd-portal.com/rules/combat/attack-roll/. A successful attack deals 1d3 D&D Portal - Dice Roller Roll your dice Roll standard or custom dice with adjustable count, faces, advantage, and disadvantage. Full link: https://dnd-portal.com/dice-roller/ Acid D&D Portal - Acid Damage type Acid is a damage type used by attacks, spells, class features, resistance, immunity, and vulnerability. Full link: https://dnd-portal.com/rules/damage-types/acid/, while a failed attack deals no damage. Despite the name of the spell, missing does not create a separate splash effect around the target or point of impact.

Acid Splash has an instantaneous duration. Its normal effect is resolved as part of the attack and does not continue dealing Acid D&D Portal - Acid Damage type Acid is a damage type used by attacks, spells, class features, resistance, immunity, and vulnerability. Full link: https://dnd-portal.com/rules/damage-types/acid/ during later rounds. The spell does not create an ongoing pool, cloud, coating, or other persistent area of Acid D&D Portal - Acid Damage type Acid is a damage type used by attacks, spells, class features, resistance, immunity, and vulnerability. Full link: https://dnd-portal.com/rules/damage-types/acid/.

The 3e version is subject to spell resistance. When Acid Splash is used against a creature that has spell resistance, landing the ranged touch attack D&D Portal - Attack Roll Combat rule Attack Roll is a combat rule used by attacks, damage, defenses, or turn order. Full link: https://dnd-portal.com/rules/combat/attack-roll/ is not necessarily enough: the caster must also overcome that resistance before the spell can affect the creature. This is one of the important differences between the original 3e spell and its later 3.5e revision.

Range and Targeting

Acid Splash uses the Close range category. Its maximum range begins at 25 feet and increases by 5 feet for every two caster levels. Increasing caster level therefore allows the spell to reach progressively farther targets even though its base damage does not increase.

Because Acid Splash requires a ranged touch attack D&D Portal - Attack Roll Combat rule Attack Roll is a combat rule used by attacks, damage, defenses, or turn order. Full link: https://dnd-portal.com/rules/combat/attack-roll/, the attack is resolved against the target’s armor class D&D Portal - Armor Class Combat rule Armor Class is a combat rule used by attacks, damage, defenses, or turn order. Full link: https://dnd-portal.com/rules/combat/armor-class/ rather than its armor class D&D Portal - Armor Class Combat rule Armor Class is a combat rule used by attacks, damage, defenses, or turn order. Full link: https://dnd-portal.com/rules/combat/armor-class/. Defenses based primarily on physically stopping an attack, such as armor, shield D&D Portal - Shields Equipment reference Shields is an equipment reference used by character options and rules. Full link: https://dnd-portal.com/rules/equipment/shields/, and natural armor, therefore do not protect the target in the same way they would against an ordinary attack.

Touch armor class D&D Portal - Armor Class Combat rule Armor Class is a combat rule used by attacks, damage, defenses, or turn order. Full link: https://dnd-portal.com/rules/combat/armor-class/ can still benefit from defenses that remain relevant to touch attacks, so Acid Splash is not automatically easy to land. A mobile target, a small creature, or a target protected by appropriate magical defenses may still have a comparatively strong touch AC.

The spell creates one projectile and resolves one attack against its intended target. It has no listed area and does not automatically affect creatures standing nearby. Normal combat rules involving ranged attacks D&D Portal - Attack Roll Combat rule Attack Roll is a combat rule used by attacks, damage, defenses, or turn order. Full link: https://dnd-portal.com/rules/combat/attack-roll/, line of effect, cover, concealment, and similar circumstances still apply when relevant.

Damage and Combat Use

When its ranged touch attack D&D Portal - Attack Roll Combat rule Attack Roll is a combat rule used by attacks, damage, defenses, or turn order. Full link: https://dnd-portal.com/rules/combat/attack-roll/ succeeds, Acid Splash deals 1d3 D&D Portal - Dice Roller Roll your dice Roll standard or custom dice with adjustable count, faces, advantage, and disadvantage. Full link: https://dnd-portal.com/dice-roller/ Acid D&D Portal - Acid Damage type Acid is a damage type used by attacks, spells, class features, resistance, immunity, and vulnerability. Full link: https://dnd-portal.com/rules/damage-types/acid/. The spell has no built-in damage progression based on caster level, so increasing caster level does not automatically add more dice or increase the size of the damage die.

Caster level still matters because it increases the spell’s Close range and can matter when the caster needs to overcome spell resistance. This means a more experienced caster can use Acid Splash from farther away and may be better able to affect resistant creatures without the spell itself becoming more damaging.

Acid Splash can be useful against opponents whose armor class D&D Portal - Armor Class Combat rule Armor Class is a combat rule used by attacks, damage, defenses, or turn order. Full link: https://dnd-portal.com/rules/combat/armor-class/ is much higher than their armor class D&D Portal - Armor Class Combat rule Armor Class is a combat rule used by attacks, damage, defenses, or turn order. Full link: https://dnd-portal.com/rules/combat/armor-class/. Heavy physical protection may make an ordinary weapon attack difficult while providing much less protection against the spell’s ranged touch attack D&D Portal - Attack Roll Combat rule Attack Roll is a combat rule used by attacks, damage, defenses, or turn order. Full link: https://dnd-portal.com/rules/combat/attack-roll/.

The 3e version also has an important limitation: spell resistance applies. Against a resistant creature, Acid Splash may therefore require both a successful ranged touch attack D&D Portal - Attack Roll Combat rule Attack Roll is a combat rule used by attacks, damage, defenses, or turn order. Full link: https://dnd-portal.com/rules/combat/attack-roll/ and a successful attempt to overcome spell resistance before its Acid D&D Portal - Acid Damage type Acid is a damage type used by attacks, spells, class features, resistance, immunity, and vulnerability. Full link: https://dnd-portal.com/rules/damage-types/acid/ can take effect.

The word “Splash” should not be interpreted as granting the spell the rules of a thrown splash weapon. A missed attack does not damage adjacent creatures, and there is no separate splash-damage value or radius. The spell resolves according to its own ranged touch attack D&D Portal - Attack Roll Combat rule Attack Roll is a combat rule used by attacks, damage, defenses, or turn order. Full link: https://dnd-portal.com/rules/combat/attack-roll/ and damage rules.

Class Availability

Acid Splash is available to both Sorcerer D&D Portal - Sorcerer Character class A Charisma-based known-spell full caster whose Sorcery Points and Metamagic reshape spells in ways other casters cannot. Full link: https://dnd-portal.com/classes/sorcerer/ and Wizard D&D Portal - Wizard Character class An Intelligence-based prepared full caster with the largest spell-learning system, ritual flexibility, and subclass traditions focused on schools or specialist theories. Full link: https://dnd-portal.com/classes/wizard/ as a 0-level spell in its original 3e appearance. Unlike the later 3.5e version, it was introduced outside the core Player’s Handbook and appears in Magic of Faerûn.

Sorcerer D&D Portal - Sorcerer Character class A Charisma-based known-spell full caster whose Sorcery Points and Metamagic reshape spells in ways other casters cannot. Full link: https://dnd-portal.com/classes/sorcerer/ can select Acid Splash through their normal spells-known rules, while Wizard D&D Portal - Wizard Character class An Intelligence-based prepared full caster with the largest spell-learning system, ritual flexibility, and subclass traditions focused on schools or specialist theories. Full link: https://dnd-portal.com/classes/wizard/ can add and prepare it through the Wizard D&D Portal - Wizard Character class An Intelligence-based prepared full caster with the largest spell-learning system, ritual flexibility, and subclass traditions focused on schools or specialist theories. Full link: https://dnd-portal.com/classes/wizard/ spellcasting and spellbook systems. For both classes, it remains a 0-level arcane spell with the same range, attack, damage, saving throw D&D Portal - Saving Throw D20 test rule Saving Throw is a d20 test rule used to resolve uncertain outcomes during play. Full link: https://dnd-portal.com/rules/d20-tests/saving-throw/, and spell-resistance mechanics.

Its low spell level makes Acid Splash a minor offensive option rather than a major source of damage. Its main mechanical characteristics are the ranged touch attack D&D Portal - Attack Roll Combat rule Attack Roll is a combat rule used by attacks, damage, defenses, or turn order. Full link: https://dnd-portal.com/rules/combat/attack-roll/, Acid D&D Portal - Acid Damage type Acid is a damage type used by attacks, spells, class features, resistance, immunity, and vulnerability. Full link: https://dnd-portal.com/rules/damage-types/acid/ type, lack of a saving throw D&D Portal - Saving Throw D20 test rule Saving Throw is a d20 test rule used to resolve uncertain outcomes during play. Full link: https://dnd-portal.com/rules/d20-tests/saving-throw/, and interaction with spell resistance rather than raw damage output.

Other character options may grant access to the spell or modify the way it is cast, but those effects are separate from the base Acid Splash rules. Unless another rule explicitly changes the spell, its underlying 3e mechanics remain the same.