True Resurrection

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Support

True Resurrection is a Support spell. Support spells strengthen, protect, or buff allies.

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 spell that restores the dead with
healing

True Resurrection is a Healing spell. Healing spells restore hit points and bring characters back to life.

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, closing wounds, lifting curses, and even giving them a new body.

2024 Rules
Level & School
9th-level necromancy
Casting Time
1 hour
Range
Touch
Components
V, S, M (diamonds worth 25,000+ GP, which the spell consumes)
Duration
Instantaneous
Classes
Cleric, Druid

You touch a creature that has been dead for no longer than 200 years and that died for any reason except old age. The creature is revived with all its Hit Points.

This spell closes all wounds, neutralizes any poison, cures all magical contagions, and lifts any curses affecting the creature when it died. The spell replaces damaged or missing organs and limbs. If the creature was Undead, it is restored to its non-Undead form.

The spell can provide a new body if the original no longer exists, in which case you must speak the creature's name. The creature then appears in an unoccupied space you choose within 10 feet of you.

2014 Rules
Level & School
9th-level necromancy
Casting Time
1 hour
Range
Touch
Components
V, S, M (a sprinkle of holy water and diamonds worth at least 25,000 gp, which the spell consumes)
Duration
Instantaneous
Classes
Cleric, Druid

You touch a creature that has been dead for no longer than 200 years and that died for any reason except old age. If the creature's soul is free and willing, the creature is restored to life with all its hit points.

This spell closes all wounds, neutralizes any poison, cures all diseases, and lifts any curses affecting the creature when it died. The spell replaces damaged or missing organs and limbs. If the creature was undead, it is restored to its non-undead form.

The spell can even provide a new body if the original no longer exists, in which case you must speak the creature's name. The creature then appears in an unoccupied space you choose within 10 feet of you.

True Resurrection 5.5e 2024 vs. 5e 2014 edition differences

The 2024 version no longer requires the target’s soul to be free and willing, so that restriction is gone. It also changes the cleansing effect from curing all diseases to curing all magical contagions.

Spells similar to True Resurrection

  • Resurrection 7th-level necromancy

    It's the immediate lower-level counterpart that also brings a dead creature back to life and shares a necromantic revival function for divine casters.

  • Raise Dead 5th-level necromancy

    This spell is a more commonly used revival option with similar touch range and instant restoration of a creature who recently died.

  • Revivify 3rd-level necromancy

    Although lower level and more time-limited, it serves the same basic purpose of returning a dead ally to life via a touch.

  • Power Word Heal 9th-level enchantment

    As a ninth-level restorative spell for divine casters, it parallels True Resurrection's role as an extremely powerful, single-target healing/rescue option.

  • Mass Heal 9th-level abjuration

    This other ninth-level cleric spell provides a high-level, instantaneous restorative effect on many creatures and fills the same top-tier healing niche.