Disguise Self
2024 Rules
- Level & School
- 1st-level illusion
- Casting Time
- Action
- Range
- Self
- Components
- V, S
- Duration
- 1 hour
- Classes
- Artificer, Bard, Sorcerer, Wizard
- Source
- Player's Handbook (2024)
You make yourself—including your clothing, armor, weapons, and other belongings on your person—look different until the spell ends. You can seem 1 foot shorter or taller and can appear heavier or lighter. You must adopt a form that has the same basic arrangement of limbs as you have. Otherwise, the extent of the illusion is up to you.
The changes wrought by this spell fail to hold up to physical inspection. For example, if you use this spell to add a hat to your outfit, objects pass through the hat, and anyone who touches it would feel nothing.
To discern that you are disguised, a creature must take the Study action to inspect your appearance and succeed on an Intelligence (Investigation) check against your spell save DC.
2014 Rules
- Level & School
- 1st-level illusion
- Casting Time
- Action
- Range
- Self
- Components
- V, S
- Duration
- 1 hour
- Classes
- Artificer, Bard, Sorcerer, Wizard
- Source
- Player's Handbook (2014)
You make yourself—including your clothing, armor, weapons, and other belongings on your person—look different until the spell ends or until you use your action to dismiss it. You can seem 1 foot shorter or taller and can appear thin, fat, or in between. You can't change your body type, so you must adopt a form that has the same basic arrangement of limbs. Otherwise, the extent of the illusion is up to you.
The changes wrought by this spell fail to hold up to physical inspection. For example, if you use this spell to add a hat to your outfit, objects pass through the hat, and anyone who touches it would feel nothing or would feel your head and hair. If you use this spell to appear thinner than you are, the hand of someone who reaches out to touch you would bump into you while it was seemingly still in midair.
To discern that you are disguised, a creature can use its action to inspect your appearance and must succeed on an Intelligence (Investigation) check against your spell save DC.
Disguise Self 5.5e 2024 vs. 5e 2014 edition differences
Disguise Self popularity
How popular is Disguise Self? It is one of the most popular spells in the game, and is often chosen over other options when available. This spell is a proven favourite among spellcasters.
- Top 10% of all 5e spells
- Top 25% of all level 1 spells
- Top 25% picked level 1 Wizard spell
- Top 50% picked level 1 Artificer spell
- Top 50% picked level 1 Sorcerer spell
- Top 50% picked level 1 Bard spell
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Spells similar to Disguise Self
Invisibility 2nd-level illusion
Like Disguise Self, it supports infiltration and avoiding notice while lasting an hour and belonging to the Illusion school.
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Minor Illusion Illusion cantrip
The cantrip offers simple visual disguises and distractions for deception, though its images are smaller and shorter-lived.
Players prefer Minor Illusion over Disguise Self
Alter Self 2nd-level transmutation
Both transform the caster's appearance for an hour and are self-targeted utility spells available to several of the same classes.
Players prefer Alter Self over Disguise Self
Seeming 5th-level illusion
It is the broader version of the same appearance-changing illusion, disguising multiple creatures for several hours.
Players prefer Disguise Self over Seeming
Silent Image 1st-level illusion
This low-level Illusion creates a visual deception for practical trickery, infiltration, and social misdirection.
Players prefer Disguise Self over Silent Image
Distort Value 1st-level illusion
It is a first-level Illusion designed for deception in social or commercial situations and shares much of the same class access.
Players prefer Disguise Self over Distort Value