Forbiddance
2024 Rules
- Level & School
- 6th-level abjuration
- Casting Time
- 10 minutes or Ritual
- Range
- Touch
- Components
- V, S, M (ruby dust worth 1,000+ GP)
- Duration
- 1 day
- Classes
- Cleric
You create a ward against magical travel that protects up to 40,000 square feet of floor space to a height of 30 feet above the floor. For the duration, creatures can't teleport into the area or use portals, such as those created by the Gate spell, to enter the area. The spell proofs the area against planar travel, and therefore prevents creatures from accessing the area by way of the Astral Plane, the Ethereal Plane, the Feywild, the Shadowfell, or the Plane Shift spell.
In addition, the spell damages types of creatures that you choose when you cast it. Choose one or more of the following: Aberrations, Celestials, Elementals, Fey, Fiends, and Undead. When a creature of a chosen type enters the spell's area for the first time on a turn or ends its turn there, the creature takes 5d10 Radiant or Necrotic damage (your choice when you cast this spell).
You can designate a password when you cast the spell. A creature that speaks the password as it enters the area takes no damage from the spell.
The spell's area can't overlap with the area of another Forbiddance spell. If you cast Forbiddance every day for 30 days in the same location, the spell lasts until it is dispelled, and the Material components are consumed on the last casting.
2014 Rules
- Level & School
- 6th-level abjuration
- Casting Time
- 10 minutes
- Range
- Touch
- Components
- V, S, M (a sprinkling of holy water, rare incense, and powdered ruby worth at least 1,000 gp)
- Duration
- 1 day
- Classes
- Cleric
You create a ward against magical travel that protects up to 40,000 square feet of floor space to a height of 30 feet above the floor. For the duration, creatures can't teleport into the area or use portals, such as those created by the gate spell, to enter the area. The spell proofs the area against planar travel, and therefore prevents creatures from accessing the area by way of the Astral Plane, Ethereal Plane, Feywild, Shadowfell, or the plane shift spell.
In addition, the spell damages types of creatures that you choose when you cast it. Choose one or more of the following: celestials, elementals, fey, fiends, and undead. When a chosen creature enters the spell's area for the first time on a turn or starts its turn there, the creature takes 5d10 radiant or necrotic damage (your choice when you cast this spell).
When you cast this spell, you can designate a password. A creature that speaks the password as it enters the area takes no damage from the spell.
The spell's area can't overlap with the area of another forbiddance spell. If you cast forbiddance every day for 30 days in the same location, the spell lasts until it is dispelled, and the material components are consumed on the last casting.
Forbiddance 5.5e 2024 vs. 5e 2014 edition differences
Spells similar to Forbiddance
Guards and Wards 6th-level abjuration
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Hallow 5th-level abjuration
Hallow creates a persistent sanctified area with selectable effects against certain types of creatures, serving a similar defensive and thematic purpose.
Symbol 7th-level abjuration
Symbol is an installed, long-lasting ward that triggers harmful effects and can be tuned to affect creatures that enter, much like a harmful protective perimeter.
Glyph of Warding 3rd-level abjuration
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Mordenkainen's Private Sanctum 4th-level abjuration
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