Alarm

You ward an area to alert you when creatures enter without your permission.

Source

• Arcane Magic
• Divine Magic
• Occult Magic
• Primal Magic

Related Discipline

All Magic Disciplines

Related School

Abjuration

Effect Casting Time

10 Mins

Level

1st, Hightened

Alarm - Spell 1

EXPLORATION

Requirements Material, Somatic, and verbal components

Description You ward an area to alert you when creatures enter without your permission.
Applications

• Cast 10 minutes
• Requirements 3 gp silver bell focus
• Range touch
• Area 20-foot burst
• Duration 8 hours

When you cast alarm, select a password. Whenever a Small or larger corporeal creature enters the spell’s area without speaking the password, alarm sends your choice of a mental alert (in which case the spell gains the mental trait) or an audible alarm with the sound and volume of a handbell (in which case the spell gains the auditory trait). Either option automatically awakens you, and the bell allows each creature in the area to attempt a DC 15 Perception check to wake up. A creature aware of the alarm must succeed at a Stealth check against the spell’s DC or trigger the spell when moving into the area.
Heightened (3rd) You can specify criteria for which creatures sound the alarm spell—for instance, orcs or masked people.