Skill Empowerment

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Support

Skill Empowerment is a Support spell. Support spells strengthen, protect, or buff allies.

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spell that awakens a creature’s hidden talent, granting expertise in one skill to help it excel at key moments.

2014 Rules

Level & School
5th-level transmutation
Casting Time
Action
Range
Touch
Components
V, S
Duration
Concentration, 1 hour
Classes
Artificer, Bard, Sorcerer, Wizard
Source
Xanathar's Guide to Everything

Your magic deepens a creature's understanding of its own talent. You touch one willing creature and give it expertise in one skill of your choice; until the spell ends, the creature doubles its proficiency bonus for ability checks it makes that use the chosen skill.

You must choose a skill in which the target is proficient and that isn't already benefiting from an effect, such as Expertise, that doubles its proficiency bonus.

Skill Empowerment 5.5e 2024 vs. 5e 2014 edition differences

Skill Empowerment is currently only available in the 2014 edition.

Skill Empowerment popularity

How popular is Skill Empowerment? It is a seldom seen spell in the game, and it is almost never chosen when available. This spell is one that few spellcasters would ever acquire.

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