Additional Ritual Spells (5e Variant Rule)
Additional Ritual Spells[edit]
Right, let's set one thing straight: The selection of ritual spells in the PHB is puny. The additional supplemental books don't help this situation much either. Unless you are for some reason creating a divination caster (or an NPC spellcaster with a specialty in divination), the selection spells gifted with the ritual tag are token utilities that at best that barely contribute to being able to further a character's thematic choices.
- (mainly I'm just salty about the Ritual Caster feat having a tiny selection of spells to pick up and only letting you learn those from a single class list, and then having the audacity to let you learn more like a wizard)
The following spells (and spells from other supplements as well) are thusly granted the ritual tag by this optional rule, sorted by spell school and then by level.
- Some of these spells deviate from typical the typical +10-minute casting time usually granted to ritual spells; ritual spells with durations that are shorter than or equal to normal supersede the regular casting duration of the spells they inherit from. Ritual spells that are changed this way are noted with their altered ritual-casting time.
Abjuration Ritual Spells[edit]
- Armor of Agathys (1st level)
- Mage Armor (1st level)
- Snare (1st level)*
- Aid (2nd level, casting time 1 hour)
- Dispel Magic (3rd level)
- Magic Circle (3rd level)
- Banishment (4th level)
- Stoneskin (4th level, casting time 1 hour)
- Mordenkainen's Private Sanctum (4th level, casting time 1 hour)
- Dispel Evil and Good (5th level)
- Globe of Invlunerability (6th level)
- Guards and Wards (6th level, casting time 1 hour)
- Antimagic Field (8th level)
- Holy Aura (8th level)
- Mind Blank (8th level, casting time 1 hour))
- Imprisonment (9th level, casting time 8 hours)
- Invulnerability (9th level, casting time 1 hour)*
Conjuration Ritual Spells[edit]
- Fog Cloud (1st level)
- Grease (1st level, casting time 1 minute)
- Find Steed (2nd level)
- Misty Step (2nd level)
- Web (2nd level)
- Call Lightning (3rd level)
- Conjure Animals (3rd level)
- Sleet Storm (3rd level)
- Summon Lesser Demons (3rd level)*
- Conjure Minor Elementals (4th level)
- Conjure Woodland Beings (4th level)
- Dimension Door (4th level)
- Evard's Black Tentacles (4th level)
- Leomund's Secret Chest (4th level)
- Summon Greater Demon (4th level)*
- Summon Abberation (4th level)**
- Cloudkill (5th level)
- Conjure Elemental (5th level)
- Conjure Volley (5th level)
- Teleportation Circle (5th level)
- Tree Stride (5th level
- Far Step (5th level)*
- Infernal Calling (5th level)*
- Heroes' Feast (6th level, casting time 1 hour)
- Transport via Plants (6th level)
- Conjure Celestial (7th level)
- Mordenkainen's Magnificent Mansion (7th level, casting time 1 hour)
- Plane Shift (7th level, casting time 1 hour)
- Teleport (7th level)
- Temple of the Gods (7th level, casting time 1 hour)*
- Demiplane (8th level)
- Maze (8th level)
- Mighty Fortress (8th level, casting time 8 hours)*
- Gate (9th level, casting time 1 hour)
Divination Ritual Spells[edit]
- Detect Evil and Good (1st level)
- Detect Thoughts (2nd level)
- Find Traps (2nd level)
- Locate Object (2nd level)
- Tongues (3rd level)
- Locate Creature (4th level)
- Find the Path (6th level)
- Foresight (9th level, casting time 1 hour)
Enchantment Ritual Spells[edit]
- Animal Friendship (1st Level)
- Bane (1st level)
- Bless (1st level)
- Charm Person (1st level)
- Command (1st level, casting time 1 minute)
- Compelled Duel (1st level)
- Dissonant Whispers (1st level, casting time 1 minute)
- Heroism (1st level, casting time 1 minute)
- Hex (1st level, casting time 1 minute)
- Calm Emotions (2nd level)
- Crown of Madness (2nd level)
- Enthrall (2nd level)
- Hold Person (2nd level, casting time 1 minute)
- Suggestion" (2nd level)
- Compulsion (4th level)
- Confusion (4th level)
- Dominate Beast (4th level)
- Dominate Person (5th level)
- Geas (5th level, casting time 1 hour)
- Hold Monster (5th level)
- Modify Memory (5th level)
- Synaptic Static (5th level)*
- Mass Suggestion (6th level)
- Otto's Irresistible Dance (6th level)
- Antipathy/Sympathy (8th level, casting time 8 hours)
Evocation Ritual Spells[edit]
- Magic Missile (1st level, casting time 1 minute)
- Earth Tremor (1st level)*
- Continual Flame (2nd level)
- Darkness (2nd level)
- Moonbeam (2nd level)
- Warding Wind (2nd level)*
- Fireball (3rd level, casting time 1 minute)
- Lightning Bolt (3rd level, casting time 1 minute)
- Sending (3rd level)
- Wall of Sand (3rd level)*
- Ice Storm (4th level)
- Otiluke's Resilient Sphere (4th level)
- Wall of Fire (4th level, casting time 1 minute)
- Storm Sphere (4th level)*
- Vitriolic Sphere (4th level)*
- Wall of Stone (5th level)
- Destructive Wave
- Maelstrom (5th level)*
- Holy Weapon (5th level)*
- Otiluke's Freezing Sphere (6th level)
- Wall of Ice (6th level)
- Divine Word (7th level)
- Forcecage (7th level)
- Earthquake (8th level)
Illusion Ritual Spells[edit]
- Disguise Self (1st level)
- Blur (2nd level)
- Phantasmal Force (2nd level)
- Nystul's Magic Aura (2nd level, casting time 1 hour)
- Hypnotic Pattern (3rd level)
- Major Image (3rd level)
- Dream (5th level, casting time 1 hour)
- Mislead (5th level)
- Seeming (5th level, casting time 1 hour)
- Programmed Illusion (6th level, casting time 1 hour)
- Mirage Arcane (7th level, casting time 8 hours)
- Project Image (7th level, casting time 1 hour)
- Feeblemind (8th level)
- Illusory Dragon (8th level, casting time 1 hour)*
Necromancy Ritual Spells[edit]
- Inflict Wounds (1st level, casting time 1 minute)
- Blindness/Deafness (2nd level)
- Animate Dead (3rd level)
- Speak with Dead (3rd level)
- Life Transference (3rd level)*
- Blight (4th level)
- Fire Shield (4th level)
- Contagion (5th level)
- Raise Dead (5th level)
- Circle of Death (6th level)
- Create Undead (6th level)
- Eyebite (6th level)
- Magic Jar (6th level)
- Finger of Death (7th level)
- Fire Storm (7th level)
- Clone (8th level, casting time 8 hours)
Transmutation Ritual Spells[edit]
- Catapult (1st level, casting time 1 minute)*
- Zephyr Strike (1st level, casting time 1 minute)*
- Alter Self (2nd level)
- Cordon of Arrows (2nd level)
- Enhance Ability (2nd level)
- Heat Metal (2nd level, casting time 1 minute)
- Magic Weapon (2nd level)
- Druid Grove (2nd level, casting time 1 hour)*
- Pyrotechnics (2nd level)*
- Blink (3rd level)
- Gaseous Form (3rd level)
- Haste (3rd level)
- Revivify (3rd level)
- Flaming Arrows (3rd level)*
- Tiny Servant (3rd level)*
- Control Water (4th level)
- Stone Shape (4th level)
- Fabricate (4th level, casting time 1 hour)
- Awaken (5th level)
- Reincarnate (5th level, casting time 8 hours)
- Telekinesis (5th level)
- Transmute Rock (5th level)*
- Disintegrate (6th level)
- Flesh to Stone (6th level)
- Move Earth (6th level)
- Tenser's Transmutation (6th level)*
- Etherealness (7th level, casting time 1 hour)
- Regenerate (7th level, casting time 1 hour)
- Reverse Gravity (7th level)
- Sequester (7th level, casting time 1 hour)
- Control Weather (8th level, casting time 1 hour)
- Glibness (8th level)
- Shapechange (9th level, casting time 1 hour)
- Time Stop (9th level)
*See Xanathar's Guide to Everything for the statistics of this spell.
**See Tasha's Cauldron of Everything for the statistics of this spell.
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