Guidance
2024 Rules
- Level & School
- Divination cantrip
- Casting Time
- Action
- Range
- Touch
- Components
- V, S
- Duration
- Concentration, up to 1 minute
- Classes
- Cleric, Druid
You touch a willing creature and choose a skill. Until the spell ends, the creature adds 1d4 to any ability check using the chosen skill.
2014 Rules
- Level & School
- Divination cantrip
- Casting Time
- Action
- Range
- Touch
- Components
- V, S
- Duration
- Concentration, 1 minute
- Classes
- Cleric, Druid
You touch one willing creature. Once before the spell ends, the target can roll a d4 and add the number rolled to one ability check of its choice. It can roll the die before or after making the ability check. The spell then ends.
Guidance 5.5e 2024 vs. 5e 2014 edition differences
Guidance popularity
How popular is Guidance? 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.
- #1 picked Druid cantrip
- #2 of all cantrips
- #3 picked Cleric cantrip
- Top 5% of all 5e spells
Spells similar to Guidance
Pass without Trace 2nd-level abjuration
It grants a reliable bonus to a particular category of skill checks (stealth) for a duration, functioning like a targeted, party-wide version of Guidance for exploration.
Players prefer Pass without Trace over Guidance
Bless 1st-level enchantment
Bless uses a 1d4 bonus and concentration to improve allies' important rolls, sharing the same design idea of a small, repeatable party buff.
Players prefer Bless over Guidance
Enhance Ability 2nd-level transmutation
This touch concentration spell also helps with ability-related checks and is the obvious higher-level analogue to boosting skills over time.
Players prefer Guidance over Enhance Ability
Resistance Abjuration cantrip
It's a cantrip that you cast with touch and concentration to add a 1d4 bonus to another kind of die roll, making its core mechanic nearly identical to Guidance.
Players prefer Guidance over Resistance
True Strike Divination cantrip
Although aimed at attacks, this divination cantrip provides a single-turn mechanical boost to a roll, similar in purpose to improving a specific action's chance of success.
Players prefer Guidance over True Strike