Fog Cloud

Category: Baldur’s Gate Spells

Level 1 Conjuration spell available to Druids, Sorcerers, and Wizards. It fills a 4.5m sphere with blinding fog that breaks line of sight for everyone inside. The budget version of Darkness.

Spell description: Create a cloud of dense fog that Heavily Obscures and Blinds creatures within.

Spell properties

Range: 18m (60ft)
Area: 4.5m (15ft) radius
Duration: 10 turns
Concentration spell
Conditions applied: Heavily Obscured. Blinded.
Cost: Action + Spell Slot
Recharge: Per action

Spell upcasting

Casting Fog Cloud at a higher level increases the area of effect by 2m (7ft) for each spell slot level above the 1st.

How to obtain Fog Cloud

Druid, Sorcerer, Wizard at Class level 1
Tempest Domain (Cleric) at Class level 1, as a Domain Spell
Draconic Bloodline (Bronze, Lightning ancestry) Sorcerer at Class level 1
Ranger at Class level 2
Arcane Trickster (Rogue) and Eldritch Knight (Fighter) at Class level 3
Granted by features: Magic Initiate: Druid, Sorcerer, or Wizard
Source item: Hammergrim Mist Amulet

Create a cloud of dense fog that Heavily Obscures and Blinds creatures within.

Range: 18m (60ft)

AoE: 4.5m (15ft) radius

When to cast Fog Cloud

Fog Cloud blinds everything inside it, which breaks line of sight for the whole area. Drop it on enemy archers and casters and they cannot see to target anyone, or drop it on your own party to retreat under cover.

It is the cheap version of Darkness, and it blinds your own side too, so it is a wall and an escape tool rather than an offensive trick. Pair it with an ally who does not rely on sight, or use it to disengage from a fight gone wrong.

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Spell properties

Level

Level 1

School

Conjuration

Casting resource

Action + Spell Slot

Damage type

Range

18m (60ft)

Duration

10 turns

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