Fractured Shell

Steinhardt's Guide to the Eldritch Hunt

Fractured Shell

1-level Transmutation

Casting Time: 1 action

Range/Area: Touch

Components: V, S, M (a porcupine's carapace)

Duration: Concentration, up to 10 minutes

You touch a willing creature, forcing spiked bone plates to grow and pierce through its skin. It takes 1 point of piercing damage. For the duration of the spell, the first time each turn that the target is hit with a melee attack, the attacking creature takes 2d4 piercing damage.

At higher levels: When you cast this spell using a spell slot of 2nd level or higher, the damage dealt do attacking creatures increases by 1d4 for each slot level above 1st. If you use a spell slot of 5th level or higher, the spell doesn't require concentration.

Available for: Warlock, Wizard