Unexpected Clarity

5th-level enchantment (Bard,Paladin,Ranger,Sorcerer,Warlock,Wizard)

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• Casting Time: 1 reaction, which you take when you score a critical hit with an attack roll
• Range: Self
• Components: V, M (a melee weapon)
• Duration: Instantaneous

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When an astonishing strike opens a new opportunity for you in battle, you focus your mental energies to take full advantage of it. As part of the reaction used to cast this spell, you make a further melee weapon attack against a creature within your reach. On a hit, the target suffers the attack's normal effects. In addition, the target takes an additional 1d12 psychic damage, and is frightened of you until the end of its next turn.

At Higher Levels. When you cast this spell using a spell slot of 6th level or higher, the psychic damage increases by 1d12 for each level above 5th.