Spell mantle

Spell mantle
5: lesser spell mantle 7: spell mantle 9: greater spell mantle

Spell level: sorcerer/wizard 7

Innate level: 7
School: abjuration
Components: verbal, somatic
Range: personal
Area of effect: caster
Duration: 1 round / level
Save: harmless
Spell resistance: no
Additional counterspells: lesser spell breach, greater spell breach

Description: Creates a barrier around the caster that absorbs all incoming spells and spell-like abilities. It can absorb up to 1d8+8 spell levels before collapsing.

Notes

• Mantles do not absorb all spells, just the ones that check spell resistance.
• This spell replaces earlier castings of itself, and it also displaces earlier castings of lesser spell mantle and greater spell mantle.
• The empowered version of lesser spell mantle also occupies a level 7 spell slot and absorbs 10-15 spell levels before collapsing (similar to the 9-16 absorbed by this spell). Mages with the empower spell feat — particularly sorcerers, who have a limited spell selection — may want to use lesser spell mantle (empowered) instead of this spell, at least until spell mantle can be empowered.
• The empowered version of this spell occupies a level 9 spell slot and absorbs 13-24 spell levels before collapsing, which is more than what is absorbed by greater spell mantle. Mages with the empower spell feat — particularly sorcerers, who have a limited spell selection — may want to use this spell (empowered) instead of greater spell mantle.

Custom content notes

• script: NW_S0_SpMantle

External links

• Spell mantle on the Forgotten Realms Wiki, a wiki for the Dungeons & Dragons campaign setting Forgotten Realms.