Skill Empowerment
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.
How popular is Skill Empowerment in 5e?
Skill Empowerment is the #62 most popular level 5 spell (of 71) and the #20 most picked level 5 Sorcerer spell (of 21).
Among level 5 spells, Skill Empowerment ranks just below Reincarnate and just above Mordenkainen's Lucubration in popularity.
- #505 (of 580) most popular 5e spell
- #62 (of 71) most popular level 5 spell
- #20 (of 21) most picked level 5 Sorcerer spell
- #46 (of 48) most picked level 5 Wizard spell
- #21 (of 21) most picked level 5 Bard spell
- #10 (of 10) most picked level 5 Artificer spell
Read about how this popularity data is calculated.
Spells similar to Skill Empowerment
Guidance Divination cantrip
This touch spell also directly strengthens another creature's ability checks, though only for a single check at a time.
Players prefer Guidance over Skill Empowerment
Glibness 8th-level enchantment
It provides a powerful, hour-long enhancement to a character's social ability checks, albeit only for the caster.
Players prefer Glibness over Skill Empowerment
Foresight 9th-level divination
This long-duration touch buff broadly improves a creature's performance on d20 tests, but at a much higher spell level.
Players prefer Foresight over Skill Empowerment
Enhance Ability 2nd-level transmutation
Both are touch-based, concentration buffs lasting an hour that improve a willing ally's ability checks.
Players prefer Enhance Ability over Skill Empowerment
Fortune's Favor 2nd-level divination
A recipient gains a lasting boost to important d20 rolls, making it a comparable preparation tool for challenging checks.
Players prefer Skill Empowerment over Fortune's Favor
Borrowed Knowledge 2nd-level divination
It is the closest match, granting a creature improved capability with a skill for an hour.
Players prefer Skill Empowerment over Borrowed Knowledge