Holy sword

Spell level: paladin 4

Innate level: 4
School: evocation
Descriptor: weapon enchantment
Components: verbal, somatic
Range: touch
Area of effect: melee or creature
Duration: 1 round / level
Save: none
Spell resistance: no

Description: This spell transforms the caster's melee weapon into a powerful holy avenger, a specially blessed weapon that, when wielded by paladin, acts like a +5 holy weapon that dispels magic on-hit, delivers an additional +1d6 divine damage against evil aligned creatures and grants the wielder a spell resistance of 16.

Notes[]

Requires Hordes of the Underdark.
For details of the dispel check and effects for non-paladins, see the holy avenger article.
An existing holy avenger property will block the addition of the holy avenger property from this spell. In particular, a player should wait for this spell to expire before casting it again on the same weapon.
The holy avenger property cannot be added to creature weapons.
If this spell is cast on a weapon with an enhancement bonus greater than +5, that larger bonus will apply (as expected) for the duration of this spell. However, once holy sword expires, a bug in the game causes the weapon's enhancement bonus to be effectively reduced to +5 until the weapon is unequipped. (Once the weapon is re-equipped, it will again function as expected.)
This spell can be cast with extend spell if a level 5 paladin spell slot is obtained (from an item property, which still requires a base wisdom of 15).

Pencil and paper[]

In the pencil-and-paper version the Holy Sword spell, doesn't temporally enchant a weapon to a holy avenger. Instead it becomes +5 holy weapon, which deals 2d6 extra damage against evil opponents and emits a magic circle against evil (as the spell). Also, it would temporally overwrite any existing enchantments and abilities of a magic weapon and the spell would automatically end, if the weapon was to leave a paladin's hands for 1 round.
Clerics with access to the Glory Domain could cast Holy Sword as a 5th Level Spell.

Custom content notes[]

script: X2_S0_HolySwrd

External links[]

Holy sword on the Forgotten Realms Wiki, a wiki for the Dungeons & Dragons campaign setting Forgotten Realms.
Holy Sword on the NWN2Wiki, a wiki for the Neverwinter Nights 2 games.