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return within 10 minutes if dispersed while Guards and Wards lasts)
Gust of Wind in one corridor or room (the wind blows continuously while the spell lasts)
Suggestion in one 5-foot square; any creature that enters that square receives the suggestion mentally
, when spoken aloud within 5 feet of the warded area, makes the speaker immune to its effects.
The spell creates the effects below within the warded area. Dispel Magic has no effect on Guards and Wards
Monsters
Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
obeys Isolde’s spoken commands. If the target suffers any harm from Isolde or another creature or receives a suicidal command from Isolde, the target can repeat the saving throw, ending the
, but not without casting a spell that made Isolde forget about Zybilna and her Feywild domain, thus preventing the eladrin from divulging the archfey’s secrets. As a further punishment, Zybilna
Guards and Wards
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Spells
Basic Rules (2014)
tall, and shaped as you desire. You can ward several stories of a stronghold by dividing the area among them, as long as you can walk into each contiguous area while you are casting the spell.
When you
these effects.
Guards and wards creates the following effects within the warded area.
Corridors. Fog fills all the warded corridors, making them heavily obscured. In addition, at each intersection or
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player’s Handbook
Guards and Wards Level 6 Abjuration (Bard, Wizard) Casting Time: 1 hour
Range: Touch
Components: V, S, M (a silver rod worth 10+ GP)
Duration: 24 hours
You create a ward that protects up to
area, makes the speaker immune to its effects. The spell creates the effects below within the warded area. Dispel Magic has no effect on Guards and Wards itself, but each of the following effects can be
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules
Guards and Wards Level 6 Abjuration (Bard, Wizard) Casting Time: 1 hour
Range: Touch
Components: V, S, M (a silver rod worth 10+ GP)
Duration: 24 hours
You create a ward that protects up to
area, makes the speaker immune to its effects. The spell creates the effects below within the warded area. Dispel Magic has no effect on Guards and Wards itself, but each of the following effects can be
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)
Guards and Wards 6th-level abjuration Casting Time: 10 minutes Range: Touch Components: V, S, M (burning incense, a small measure of brimstone and oil, a knotted string, a small amount of umber hulk
into each contiguous area while you are casting the spell. When you cast this spell, you can specify individuals that are unaffected by any or all of the effects that you choose. You can also specify
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
Guards and Wards 6th-level abjuration Casting Time: 10 minutes Range: Touch Components: V, S, M (burning incense, a small measure of brimstone and oil, a knotted string, a small amount of umber hulk
into each contiguous area while you are casting the spell. When you cast this spell, you can specify individuals that are unaffected by any or all of the effects that you choose. You can also specify
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Eve of Ruin
Accessing the Rod Piece The rod piece was stored in a safe room in the Lambent Zenith’s prow (area Z19). When the ship crashed, the safe room’s security wards activated, and the room’s doors sealed
magically. To access the safe room and uncover the rod piece, the characters must first deactivate the security wards. Ward Runes The security wards are powered by two magical runes: one in area Z8 and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
Pass without Trace 2nd-level abjuration Casting Time: 1 action Range: Self Components: V, S, M (ashes from a burned leaf of mistletoe and a sprig of spruce) Duration: Concentration, up to 1 hour A
Dexterity (Stealth) checks and can’t be tracked except by magical means. A creature that receives this bonus leaves behind no tracks or other traces of its passage.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)
Pass without Trace 2nd-level abjuration Casting Time: 1 action Range: Self Components: V, S, M (ashes from a burned leaf of mistletoe and a sprig of spruce) Duration: Concentration, up to 1 hour A
Dexterity (Stealth) checks and can’t be tracked except by magical means. A creature that receives this bonus leaves behind no tracks or other traces of its passage.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
Warding Bond 2nd-level abjuration Casting Time: 1 action Range: Touch Components: V, S, M (a pair of platinum rings worth at least 50 gp each, which you and the target must wear for the duration
) Duration: 1 hour This spell wards a willing creature you touch and creates a mystic connection between you and the target until the spell ends. While the target is within 60 feet of you, it gains a +1
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player’s Handbook
Contagion Level 5 Necromancy (Cleric, Druid) Casting Time: Action
Range: Touch
Component: V, S
Duration: 7 days
Your touch inflicts a magical contagion. The target must succeed on a
the target. If the target fails three of the saves, the spell lasts for 7 days on it. Whenever the Poisoned target receives an effect that would end the Poisoned condition, the target must succeed on a Constitution saving throw, or the Poisoned condition doesn’t end on it.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)
Warding Bond 2nd-level abjuration Casting Time: 1 action Range: Touch Components: V, S, M (a pair of platinum rings worth at least 50 gp each, which you and the target must wear for the duration
) Duration: 1 hour This spell wards a willing creature you touch and creates a mystic connection between you and the target until the spell ends. While the target is within 60 feet of you, it gains a +1
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules
Contagion Level 5 Necromancy (Cleric, Druid) Casting Time: Action
Range: Touch
Component: V, S
Duration: 7 days
Your touch inflicts a magical contagion. The target must succeed on a
the target. If the target fails three of the saves, the spell lasts for 7 days on it. Whenever the Poisoned target receives an effect that would end the Poisoned condition, the target must succeed on a Constitution saving throw, or the Poisoned condition doesn’t end on it.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
Taxes and Fees As established in the first year of the reign of the previous Open Lord, Dagult Neverember, Waterdeep collects a monthly tax from all who live within its official wards. The tax is 1
receive a writ exempting them for twelve months, but the writ must be produced every month when the Guard calls, or a new payment is required. If the Guard knocks at a door and receives no answer, a notice
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)
What Is a Spell? A spell is a discrete magical effect, a single shaping of the magical energies that suffuse the multiverse into a specific, limited expression. In casting a spell, a character
effect — in most cases, all in the span of seconds. Spells can be versatile tools, weapons, or protective wards. They can deal damage or undo it, impose or remove conditions, drain life energy away
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
What Is a Spell? A spell is a discrete magical effect, a single shaping of the magical energies that suffuse the multiverse into a specific, limited expression. In casting a spell, a character
effect--in most cases, all in the span of seconds. Spells can be versatile tools, weapons, or protective wards. They can deal damage or undo it, impose or remove conditions, drain life energy away, and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
faerzress casts an eerie soft light across this cavern, swirling into spiral patterns and casting dancing shadows from the jagged pillars lining the walls. The air smells and tastes slightly metallic
character must make a DC 14 Wisdom saving throw. On a success, the character feels only a mild discomfort. A character who rolls a natural 20 on the save receives flashes of the future, gaining the benefit of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
collection (volumes 3 and 8 of Tales from the Gloaming Court), Skabatha placed wards on every one of the remaining books. Any book that is removed from her study turns to ashes instantly. A detect magic
spell reveals an aura of abjuration magic around each book. Shelved among the books are hundreds of scrolls that bear no magical wards; they describe encounters with individuals who struck bargains
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
driven the demilich insane, and it attacks anyone other than Halaster. Although powerful wards prevent the demilich from leaving Halaster’s tower, the tower is not considered its lair. Consequently
, the demilich doesn’t gain lair actions, nor does the tower exhibit the demilich’s lair traits. Cauldron The cauldron is held aloft by magic, and the fire beneath it is also magical. Casting dispel
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
6. Wizardly Wards A trapped hall (area 6a) guards two of Halaster’s vaults (areas 6b and 6c). 6a. Lightning Pillars This two-chambered hall has a 20-foot-high ceiling supported by ten copper-plated
item that is unwilling to disclose its secrets, trying to goad the characters into casting identify on it. If that tactic doesn’t work, the pit fiend tries to talk the shield’s wielder into
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
Entrance. Sgothgah’s advanced magical knowledge has allowed it to set up dozens of wards to protect the temple, each treated as a casting of glyph of warding using the explosive runes option. All but
one of the wards have been dismantled or triggered by the aboleths that attacked the site. The sole remaining glyph is at the bottom level of the tower, in the doorway into area L2. The glyph is
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
receives the following telepathic message in Common: “I cast my eye into the future and see in yours a perilous descent. South of here, beyond a secret passage, waits the Two-Headed King. Look to his
38, the two-headed statue in area 39a, and the stairs west of the statue that lead down to level 2. Casting dispel magic on the obelisk renders it nonfunctional. Toppling the obelisk requires a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Eve of Ruin
front of the ship. During the Lambent Zenith’s crash, arcane wards should have sealed the safe room’s doors. The safe room is inaccessible while the wards are active. Ward Runes. Two runes hidden on the
ship power the wards. Kycera knows one rune was placed in the ship’s stateroom, but she doesn’t remember the second rune’s location. She believes that magic or a pass phrase can deactivate the runes
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Out of the Abyss
A character that tries to learn more about Yeenoghu, the Demon Lord of Gnolls, receives the following unsettling vision. A hunched and rotting creature with the head of a fiendish hyena swings a
out by the powerful wards of Gravenhollow echoes in your mind as the vision is suddenly torn away to darkness.
This vision offers a glimpse of Lolth’s plan to drive her rivals out of the Abyss and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen
in diameter, with a door on the wall opposite the characters and the pedestal at the center. The door is locked and can be opened only by the key at the center of the rotunda or by casting the knock
allows a character to cast the spell as if they were casting it from a spell scroll of knock, except the spell on the wall isn’t consumed. The characters can use this spell to open the door and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a3
hour. A casting of dispel magic using a spell slot of 7th level or higher can also end the effect. The vapors linger for a month unless they are cleared away by a strong wind. Treasure. The seal on the
crypt is opened by those who don’t serve the god Zotzilaha. The curse lasts until it is dispelled, and 4d10 days after this tomb has been broken into, every cursed violator receives a visit from either
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything
guards and wards spell (save DC 13) for the next 24 hours. 11–15 A mundane part of one random character’s surroundings—perhaps a tree bole or a stuffed animal head—animates for 1 minute and whispers a
, writing on foggy glass, or insects swarming to create messages. 76–80 During the next night, one sleeping character in the region receives a vision as if the target of the dream spell. The dream is brief
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tomb of Annihilation
the ladder. A rope-and-hook thrown up to catch the edge always falls short. Casting teleport or misty step moves the caster sideways instead of up to the next level. Bypassing the tests by any means is
possibility of a recurrence. Each character who agrees receives a supernatural charm (see chapter 7 of the Dungeon Master’s Guide) to aid their task. Assign charms to characters that are appropriate to
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Adventure Atlas: The Mortuary
Version A malicious spirit (chaotic evil ghost) has tampered with one of the crypt’s magical wards, releasing a necrichor (see the appendix) previously trapped inside. The hostile creatures threaten to
, and immunity to poison and psychic damage. Casting remove curse on the stele or destroying the stele frees the soul trapped inside, which manifests as a specter. For 1 minute, the specter is friendly
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
storm, Leomund’s secret chest, Mordenkainen’s faithful hound, stoneskin
5th level: Bigby’s hand, cloudkill, geas, wall of force
6th level: globe of invulnerability, guards and wards, true seeing
hour before it dies out. This property can be activated at will. Casting an identify spell on the fireplace reveals both its property and the command word needed to activate it. 26. Port Lawn A healthy
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a6
smaller area holds one frost giant, one frost giant servant, and two young frost giants. 20. Jarl’s Antecavern and Trophy Hall Jarl Grugnur receives visitors in a chamber on the southern edge of the
feet off the ground. To a casting of detect magic, the bar has a strong aura of conjuration. Noticing the bar without specifically looking up for it requires a successful DC 15 Wisdom (Perception
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Vecna: Eve of Ruin
receives this vision gains the benefits of a short rest. No character can receive the vision more than once. L11: Workshop Fine tinkering tools, woodcarving equipment, and metal plates hang from
damage, and the piece doesn’t move. On a successful save, the creature takes half as much damage but is able to grab and move the piece freely. Successfully casting Dispel Magic (DC 14) on the piece
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
brought. As the first monk examines an offered gift, determining its title and provenance, a second gate guard performs a casting of the message spell. The Waterdhavian sage Waldrop tells me that the
part ranks to allow the seeker inside to the Court of Air. Visitors are instructed to cross that area and stand before the Emerald Door, where another monk receives them, offers them food, bath, and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
, the protective wards surrounding the tower unraveled, and one of the tomb tappers seized the opportunity to kill the anvil’s creator, High Abjurer Taruth. The wizard’s mauled body lies in this chamber
rises from the goblet’s contents and dissipates in the cold air.
Each window in the auditorium depicts a wizard casting a spell from one of the eight schools of magic. The spells depicted are blade