For the duration, you know if there is an aberration, celestial, elemental, fey, fiend, or undead within 30 feet of you, as well as where the creature is located. Similarly, you know if there is a place or object within 30 feet of you that has been magically consecrated or desecrated. The spell can penetrate most barriers, but it is blocked by 1 foot of stone, 1 inch of common metal, a thin sheet of lead, or 3 feet of wood or dirt.
Detect Evil and Good appears in System Reference Document 5.1. Text from the SRD 5.1 by Wizards of the Coast, CC BY 4.0.
This spell also appears in
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Utility 1st · Divination
Detect Evil and Good
Cast
1 action
Range
Self
Duration
10 min
Save
None
For the duration, you know if there is an aberration, celestial, elemental, fey, fiend, or undead within 30 feet of you, as well as where the creature is located. Similarly, you know if there is a place or object within 30 feet of you that has been magically consecrated or desecrated.
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Utility 1st · Divination
Detect Evil and Good
Cast
1 action
Range
Self
Duration
10 min
Save
None
For the duration, you know if there is an aberration, celestial, elemental, fey, fiend, or undead within 30 feet of you, as well as where the creature is located. Similarly, you know if there is a place or object within 30 feet of you that has been magically consecrated or desecrated.
# Detect Evil and Good
*1st-level Divination*
- **Casting time:** 1 act
- **Range:** Self
- **Components:** V, S
- **Duration:** 10 min (concentration)
- **Role:** Utility
- **Source:** System Reference Document 5.1
## Card summary
**Target.** Self
**Effect.** Within 30 ft: aberrations, celestials, elementals, fey, fiends, undead, consecrated or desecrated items
**Extras.** Blocked by 1 ft stone, 1 in common metal, thin lead, or 3 ft wood or dirt
## Description
For the duration, you know if there is an aberration, celestial, elemental, fey, fiend, or undead within 30 feet of you, as well as where the creature is located. Similarly, you know if there is a place or object within 30 feet of you that has been magically consecrated or desecrated. The spell can penetrate most barriers, but it is blocked by 1 foot of stone, 1 inch of common metal, a thin sheet of lead, or 3 feet of wood or dirt.
