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.
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.
- Bottom 25% of all level 5 spells
- Bottom 25% picked level 5 Sorcerer spell
- Bottom 25% of all 5e spells
- Bottom 10% picked level 5 Wizard spell
- Bottom 10% picked level 5 Artificer spell
- Bottom 10% picked level 5 Bard spell
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