--- obsidianUIMode: preview cssclasses: json5e-spell tags: - compendium/src/5e/phb - spell/class/bard - spell/level/cantrip - spell/school/enchantment aliases: ["Vicious Mockery"] --- # Vicious Mockery *cantrip, Enchantment* - **Casting time:** 1 action - **Range:** 60 feet - **Components:** V - **Duration:** Instantaneous You unleash a string of insults laced with subtle enchantments at a creature you can see within range. If the target can hear you (though it need not understand you), it must succeed on a Wisdom saving throw or take `1d4` psychic damage and have disadvantage on the next attack roll it makes before the end of its next turn. This spell's damage increases by `1d4` when you reach 5th level (`2d4`), 11th level (`3d4`), and 17th level (`4d4`). **Classes**: [Bard](compendium/classes/bard.md) *Source: SRD / Basic Rules*