Resistance
2024 Rules
- 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.
2014 Rules
- 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
Resistance popularity
How popular is Resistance? It is a commonly found spell in the game, but is chosen less than other options when available. This spell may be situational for many spellbooks.
- Top 25% of all 5e spells
- Bottom 25% picked Druid cantrip
- Bottom 25% of all cantrips
- Bottom 10% picked Cleric cantrip
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.
Players prefer Guidance over Resistance
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.
Players prefer Warding Bond over Resistance
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.
Players prefer Protection from Poison over Resistance
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.
Players prefer Protection from Energy over Resistance
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.
Players prefer Resistance over Blade Ward