Level
4th
Casting Time
1 Action
Range/Area
Touch
Components
V, S, M *
Duration
Concentration
1 Hour
School
Abjuration
Attack/Save
None
Damage/Effect
Buff
This spell turns the flesh of a willing creature you touch as hard as stone. Until the spell ends, the target has resistance to nonmagical bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing damage.
* - (diamond dust worth 100 gp, which the spell consumes)






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Posted Mar 5, 2024My dm conveniently just gave us 1m worth of diamond dust thinking it would be useless
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Posted Apr 7, 2024My main issue is that it's the EXACT same cost as Greater Restoration, which is best known for Coffee-Lock characters avoiding exhaustion levels, removing Curses, and other HP threatening effects. Keeping the concentration is not the issue, unless you are casting it on yourself; but the cost for what you get is ridiculous. If you are going to consume the material component, then don't make it 100 gp worth of diamond dust; that requires you to not only have a diamond worth 100 gp, but also have the ability to grind said diamond into dust. If you also have a Coffee-Lock in the party, the DM may limit the number of diamonds that you can even find, making Greater Restoration the primary reason that you collect the diamonds. I do agree with the people that intend to use this as an ally buff, the concentration is important, but the spell cost makes this not worth it in my opinion. As a concentration spell, you are already preventing people from spamming it over the whole party, and at lower levels (when you will most likely need/use it), you only get 1-2 uses of it per day. As stated by someone else, resistances can be acquired in many ways, so a forth level spell with this kind of cost... not really worth it, but that's just my opinion.
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Posted Jul 24, 2024.
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Posted Jan 11, 2025Exactly what I thought. Prohibitively expensive in both monetary and taking the one concentration you can manage. Borders on useless given how many times my wizard has been attacked with non-spell or non-magical weapon attacks.