Move Earth
LEVEL: 6th
CASTING TIME: 1 Action
RANGE/AREA: 120 ft
COMPONENTS: V, S
DURATION: Concentration 2 Hours
SCHOOL: Transmutation
ATTACK/SAVE: None
DAMAGE/EFFECT: Control
- Choose an area of terrain no larger than 40 feet on a side within range. You can reshape dirt, sand, or clay in the area in any manner you choose for the duration. You can raise or lower the area's elevation, create or fill in a trench, erect or flatten a wall, or form a pillar. The extent of any such changes can't exceed half the area's largest dimension. So, if you affect a 40-foot square, you can create a pillar up to 20 feet high, raise or lower the square's elevation by up to 20 feet, dig a trench up to 20 feet deep, and so on. It takes 10 minutes for these changes to complete.
- At the end of every 10 minutes you spend concentrating on the spell, you can choose a new area of terrain to affect.
- Because the terrain's transformation occurs slowly, creatures in the area can't usually be trapped or injured by the ground's movement.
- This spell can't manipulate natural stone or stone construction. Rocks and structures shift to accommodate the new terrain. If the way you shape the terrain would make a structure unstable, it might collapse.
- Similarly, this spell doesn't directly affect plant growth. The moved earth carries any plants along with it.
Concentration
- Some Spells require you to maintain Concentration in order to keep their magic active. If you lose Concentration, such a spell ends.
- If a spell must be maintained with Concentration, that fact appears in its Duration entry, and the spell specifies how long you can concentrate on it. You can end Concentration at any time (no action required).
- Normal activity, such as moving and attacking, doesn’t interfere with Concentration. The following factors can break concentration:
- Casting another spell that requires Concentration. You lose Concentration on a spell if you cast another spell that requires Concentration. You can’t concentrate on two Spells at once.
- Taking damage. Whenever you take damage while you are concentrating on a spell, you must make a Constitution saving throw to maintain your Concentration. The DC equals 10 or half the damage you take, whichever number is higher. If you take damage from multiple sources, such as an arrow and a dragon’s breath, you make a separate saving throw for each source of damage.
- Being Incapacitated or killed. You lose Concentration on a spell if you are Incapacitated or if you die.
- The GM might also decide that certain environmental phenomena, such as a wave Crashing over you while you’re on a storm--tossed ship, require you to succeed on a DC 10 Constitution saving throw to maintain Concentration on a spell.
Components
- A spell's components are the physical requirements you must meet in order to cast it. Each spell's description indicates whether it requires verbal (V), or somatic (S). If you can't provide one or more of a spell's components, you are unable to cast the spell.
- Most spells require the chanting of mystic words. The words themselves aren't the source of the spell's power; rather, the particular combination of sounds, with specific pitch and resonance, sets the threads of magic in motion. Thus, a character who is gagged or in an area of silence, such as one created by the silence spell, can't cast a spell with a verbal component.
- Spellcasting gestures might include a forceful gesticulation or an intricate set of gestures. If a spell requires a somatic component, the caster must have free use of at least one hand to perform these gestures.
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