Level
4th
Casting Time
1 Action
Range/Area
Self
Components
V, S, M *
Duration
10 Minutes
School
Evocation
Attack/Save
None
Damage/Effect
Fire (...)
Thin and wispy flames wreathe your body for the duration, shedding bright light in a 10-foot radius and dim light for an additional 10 feet. You can end the spell early by using an action to dismiss it.
The flames provide you with a warm shield or a chill shield, as you choose. The warm shield grants you resistance to cold damage, and the chill shield grants you resistance to fire damage.
In addition, whenever a creature within 5 feet of you hits you with a melee attack, the shield erupts with flame. The attacker takes 2d8 fire damage from a warm shield, or 2d8 cold damage from a chill shield.
* - (a bit of phosphorus or a firefly)
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Posted Aug 4, 2022If I cast a Cold shield, does the flames ignite stuff?
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Posted Jan 15, 2023welp I'm confused
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Posted Apr 15, 2023The flames don't ignite anything either way
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Posted Apr 17, 2023Who having this on you prevent a gelatinous cube or other ooze from eating you?
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Posted Mar 6, 2025Does hitting a creature with a fire shield trigger the damage of your own fire shield, dealing damage infinitely even when you die?
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Posted Mar 8, 2025No, due to the trigger of the damage from the shield is not a melee attack. So they wouldn't chain.
"whenever a creature within 5 feet of you hits you with a melee attack, the shield erupts with flame."
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Posted Feb 23, 2026"...as you choose."
Given that it doesn't say, like many do, "choose when you cast"... this reads to me like it could change at any point during the spell. One round/turn it could be Cold, the next Fire, or even between hits. Because "as" there isn't stationary or fixed like "when" in something like "when you cast it."