Resistance

Support

Level & School
Abjuration 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 damage type: Acid, Bludgeoning, Cold, Fire, Lightning, Necrotic, Piercing, Poison, Radiant, Slashing, or Thunder. When the creature takes damage of the chosen type before the spell ends, the creature reduces the total damage taken by 1d4. A creature can benefit from this spell only once per turn.

Level & School
Abjuration cantrip
Casting Time
Action
Range
Touch
Components
V, S, M (a miniature cloak)
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 saving throw of its choice. It can roll the die before or after making the saving throw. The spell then ends.

Resistance 5.5e 2024 vs. 5e 2014 edition differences

The 2014 version grants a flat +d4 bonus to one saving throw once before the spell ends; the 2024 version reduces damage of a chosen type by 1d4 whenever the creature takes damage of that type, only once per turn. The 2024 version specifies a damage type choice, while the 2014 version does not.

Spells similar to Resistance

  • Guidance, Divination cantrip

    It's a touch cantrip that grants a short, concentration-based buff to a willing creature for up to a minute, matching the same support niche and duration.

  • Protection from Energy, 3rd-level abjuration

    This spell also lets you pick a damage type and protects a touched target from that type for a limited time, making it a clear higher-level analogue.

  • Blade Ward, Abjuration cantrip

    As an abjuration cantrip that grants brief damage resistance, it occupies a very similar defensive, low-level option for preventing harm.

  • Protection from Poison, 2nd-level abjuration

    It’s a touch abjuration that grants protection against a specific harmful effect, so it resembles the single-type defensive focus of the target spell.

  • Warding Bond, 2nd-level abjuration

    Though higher level, it creates a protective link on a touched ally that reduces harm and supports them over time, reflecting a related protective purpose.