# Lightning Bolt

- **Level**: 3 Evocation
- **Classes**: Sorcerer, Wizard
- **Casting Time**: 1 action
- **Range**: Self
- **Components**: V, S, M (a bit of fur and a crystal rod)
- **Duration**: instantaneous
- **Source**: 5.2 SRD (D&D 2024)

A stroke of lightning forming a 100-foot-long, 5-foot-wide Line blasts out from you in a direction you choose. Each creature in the Line makes a Dexterity saving throw, taking 8d6 Lightning damage on a failed save or half as much damage on a successful one.

**Using a Higher-Level Spell Slot.** The damage increases by 1d6 for each spell slot level above 3.