Maze

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Control

Maze is a Control spell. Control spells restrict enemy options through debuffs or denial effects.

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 spell that traps a creature in a shifting maze until it finds a way out.

2024 Rules
Level & School
8th-level conjuration
Casting Time
Action
Range
60 feet
Components
V, S
Duration
Concentration, up to 10 minutes
Classes
Wizard

You banish a creature that you can see within range into a labyrinthine demiplane. The target remains there for the duration or until it escapes the maze.

The target can take a Study action to try to escape. When it does so, it makes a DC 20 Intelligence (Investigation) check. If it succeeds, it escapes, and the spell ends.

When the spell ends, the target reappears in the space it left or, if that space is occupied, in the nearest unoccupied space.

2014 Rules
Level & School
8th-level conjuration
Casting Time
Action
Range
60 feet
Components
V, S
Duration
Concentration, 10 minutes
Classes
Wizard

You banish a creature that you can see within range into a labyrinthine demiplane. The target remains there for the duration or until it escapes the maze.

The target can use its action to attempt to escape. When it does so, it makes a DC 20 Intelligence check. If it succeeds, it escapes, and the spell ends (a minotaur or goristro demon automatically succeeds).

When the spell ends, the target reappears in the space it left or, if that space is occupied, in the nearest unoccupied space.

Maze 5.5e 2024 vs. 5e 2014 edition differences

Maze now uses an Intelligence (Investigation) check to escape instead of a plain Intelligence check, so proficiency can apply. Minotaurs and goristro demons no longer automatically escape.

Spells similar to Maze

  • Banishment 4th-level abjuration

    It temporarily removes a creature from the battlefield by sending it to another plane until the effect ends or it succeeds on a check to return.

  • Forcecage 7th-level evocation

    This spell imprisons targets in a secure extradimensional space for a long duration, serving the same tactical purpose of taking an enemy out of the fight.

  • Imprisonment 9th-level abjuration

    It confines a creature for an effectively indefinite time unless freed, making it a higher-level analogue to banishment-style crowd removal.

  • Otiluke's Resilient Sphere 4th-level evocation

    Though framed as protection, it isolates a single creature inside an impenetrable bubble and keeps them out of combat for the spell's duration.

  • Demiplane 8th-level conjuration

    Both create or interact with pocket dimensions, and this spell's ability to fashion a personal demiplane echoes the extradimensional setting Maze uses to sequester a target.