{
  "casting_time": "1 action",
  "classes": [
    {
      "index": "sorcerer",
      "name": "Sorcerer",
      "url": "/api/2014/classes/sorcerer"
    },
    {
      "index": "warlock",
      "name": "Warlock",
      "url": "/api/2014/classes/warlock"
    },
    {
      "index": "wizard",
      "name": "Wizard",
      "url": "/api/2014/classes/wizard"
    }
  ],
  "components": [
    "V",
    "S"
  ],
  "concentration": false,
  "damage": {
    "damage_at_slot_level": {
      "7": "7d8 + 30"
    },
    "damage_type": {
      "index": "necrotic",
      "name": "Necrotic",
      "url": "/api/2014/damage-types/necrotic"
    }
  },
  "dc": {
    "dc_success": "half",
    "dc_type": {
      "index": "con",
      "name": "CON",
      "url": "/api/2014/ability-scores/con"
    }
  },
  "desc": [
    "You send negative energy coursing through a creature that you can see within range, causing it searing pain. The target must make a constitution saving throw. It takes 7d8 + 30 necrotic damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one.",
    "A humanoid killed by this spell rises at the start of your next turn as a zombie that is permanently under your command, following your verbal orders to the best of its ability."
  ],
  "duration": "Instantaneous",
  "higher_level": [],
  "index": "finger-of-death",
  "level": 7,
  "name": "Finger of Death",
  "range": "60 feet",
  "ritual": false,
  "school": {
    "index": "necromancy",
    "name": "Necromancy",
    "url": "/api/2014/magic-schools/necromancy"
  },
  "subclasses": [],
  "updated_at": "2026-04-01T20:35:39.217Z",
  "url": "/api/2014/spells/finger-of-death"
}