Level
9th
Casting Time
1 Hour
Range/Area
Touch
Components
V, S, M *
Duration
Instantaneous
School
Necromancy
Attack/Save
None
Damage/Effect
Healing
You touch a creature that has been dead for no longer than 200 years and that died for any reason except old age. If the creature's soul is free and willing, the creature is restored to life with all its hit points.
This spell closes all wounds, neutralizes any poison, cures all diseases, and lifts any curses affecting the creature when it died. The spell replaces damaged or missing organs and limbs. If the creature was undead, it is restored to its non-undead form.
The spell can even provide a new body if the original no longer exists, in which case you must speak the creature's name. The creature then appears in an unoccupied space you choose within 10 feet of you.
* - (a sprinkle of holy water and diamonds worth at least 25,000 gp, which the spell consumes)
There's errata that has not yet been applied to this spell. From the PH-Errata Version 1.22 PDF:
There’s a new sentence at the end of the second paragraph: “If the creature was undead, it is restored to its non-undead form” (6th printing).
good to know man thx
The material components are a bit much, especially that it already expends the spell slot. But i guess that when you're 17th level and up, you can get that much (or enough gold to buy the diamonds) from one good treasure hoard. Though the act of casting it frequently would be difficult.
That's sort of the point. It would break the game if you went around raising your friends from the dead, with no lasting consequences.
Unless they are Zealot Barbarians. Haha
They're basically Vikings!
helpful effective but expensive,good if a party member has fallen to a beholders disintegration eye ray!
Its a 9th level spell not a 1st
so technically if two necromancers who both knew this spell stabbed each other when they were about to die, and then cast this spell when right after the other person died, could they technically live forever...?
No, as they still come back as their original age when they died. This spell cannot raise people who died of old age, therefore they will still be just about to die.
'You touch a creature that has been dead for no longer than 200 years and that died for any reason except old age'
Well, the spell doesn't SAY that they come back just-about-to-die of old age, it just says old age can't be their cause of death. It's hard to say if any resurrection-related magic just treats death as a pause button, or what. At most they might buy themselves a smidge of time, but it'd be really expensive to do so and a waste of 1 hour of their remaining time alive. They'd be better off bringing themselves back as undead or making some hideous deal with a powerful being for a longer life.
Or they could just have clones for WAY less.
This is the type of spell entire adventures are formed around
Good spell for a Wizard's Simulacrum with a Wish spell slot. DM would need to OK it since its an exceptional request to cast a 9th level spell, which requires the 33% chance that the simulacrum can't cast Wish ever again. But, the simulacrum can't regain spell slots anyway. And, since Wish negates all the cost and time requirements, there's no cost, material, time or penalties for a simulacrum to cast this. You could even cast it instantly in combat if you want. After a long rest, regenerate a new simulacrum.
I know, Wish breaks the game.
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If a character was born without a left arm, died, and this was cast, would they now have a left arm? it wasn’t damaged, or “missing,” because it never existed.
If the creature's body was destroyed, it is restored by the casting of the spell, yet the range is touch - does a dead creature without an existing body surpass the need for the touching aspect of the spell, or does the caster need at least 1 remaining part of the dead body (a bone, piece of hair etc.)?
It says in the last paragraph that it can make a body if you speak the creature's name, so I don't think you need any bits of the dead thing.
I would say that the new body would form in contact with the caster (reducing the range where they can appear to 5 feet) thus keeping a consistent range of touch for the spell.
"I don't want to touch that!"