Cantrip Divination spell available to Clerics and Druids. It hands an ally a +1d4 bonus to Ability Checks for ten turns, which sounds tiny until you remember how many skill checks this game throws at you outside combat.
Spell description: Bestow guidance upon an ally. They gain a +1d4 bonus to Ability Checks.
Spell properties
- Range: Melee (1.5m)
- Duration: 10 turns
- Concentration spell
- Cost: Action
- Recharge: Per action
Spell upcasting
This cantrip does not scale. The bonus stays at 1d4.
How to obtain Guidance
- Cleric, Druid at Class level 1
- Circle of the Stars (Druid) at Class level 2
- Pact of the Tome (Warlock) and Arcane Archer (Fighter) at Class level 3
- Granted by features: Magic Initiate: Cleric, Magic Initiate: Druid
- Source item: Silver Pendant
Guidance
Divination CantripBestow guidance upon an ally. They gain a +1d4 bonus to Ability Checks.
Range: Melee (1.5m)
Duration: 10 turns
When to cast Guidance
This is a dialogue and lockpicking cantrip, not a combat one. Cast it before a big persuasion check, a hard lock, or a disarm, and you have a free 1d4 swinging the roll your way. Over a whole playthrough that is a lot of checks quietly passed.
It is Concentration, so you cannot hold it alongside a control spell in a fight, but out of combat that never matters. There is almost no reason not to have it prepared on a Cleric or Druid.
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