Spiritual Weapon

This article is about the base spell. For other uses, see Spiritual Weapon (disambiguation).

Spiritual Weapon is a level 2 evocation spell. It summons a floating weapon that can attack enemies. The caster can choose between several different weapons, and each has a different weapon action.

Description

Summon a floating, spectral weapon that attacks your enemies alongside you.

Properties

Cost

 Bonus Action +  Level 2 Spell Slot

Damage: 2~9 + modifiers

1d8 + 1 + Spellcasting modifier⁠Force

Details

 Range: 18 m / 60 ft

At higher levels

Upcasting: For every 2 spell slot levels higher than 2nd, the weapon gains  8 hit points and deals an additional 1d8⁠⁠Force damage.

Technical details

UID

Target_SpiritualWeapon

Spell flags

CannotTargetCharacter, CannotTargetItems, HasSomaticComponent, HasVerbalComponent, IsLinkedSpellContainer, IsSpell

Variants

•  Spiritual Weapon: Greataxe
•  Spiritual Weapon: Greatsword
•  Spiritual Weapon: Halberd
•  Spiritual Weapon: Maul
•  Spiritual Weapon: Spear
•  Spiritual Weapon: Trident

How to learn

Classes:

• Class level 3: Cleric, and War Domain (Domain Spell)
• Class level 5: Oath of the Crown (Oath Spell)
• Class level 6: College of Lore (via Magical Secrets)
• Class level 10: Bard (via Magical Secrets)

Granted by items:

•  Sethan
•  Harper Sacredstriker

Notes

• The summoned weapon rolls its own initiative (with a +0 bonus) and acts on its own turn rather than the summoner's turn.
• The weapon is Ethereal, Immune to ⁠Psychic and ⁠Poison damage, and Resistant to all other Damage Types.
• Each spiritual weapon lasts for 10 turns, and only one Spiritual Weapon may be summoned at any time.
• The caster's spellcasting modifier is added to both the damage and attack rolls of the summoned Spiritual Weapon.
  • If the caster has multiclassed, the spellcasting modifier of the newest caster class is used.
• The caster's proficiency bonus is also added to the summoned weapon's  Attack rolls.
• On the other hand, the weapon action DC of the summoned weapon (used for example by  Spiritual Weapon: Spear to inflict  Gaping Wounds with  Piercing Strike) is fixed at 12 and does not benefit from the caster's spellcasting modifier.
• The greataxe, greatsword, and halberd variants of Spiritual Weapon are functionally identical and all have  Lacerate. The spear and trident variants are functionally identical and both have  Piercing Strike. The maul variant has  Concussive Smash.
• Spiritual Weapons cannot make opportunity attacks.
• The incantation for Spiritual Weapon is Ex Textura, Latin for "From the weave".

External links

• ⁠Spiritual weapon on the Forgotten Realms Wiki