Seeming

Level 5 Illusion spell available to Bards, Sorcerers, and Wizards. Disguise Self for the whole party in one cast, lasting until Long Rest. It is a roleplay tool, not a combat one, and it does exactly one thing well.

Spell description: Disguise up to 4 members of your adventuring party.

Spell properties

• Range: 18m (60ft)
• Duration: Until Long Rest
• Conditions applied: Seeming. Up to 4 party members are disguised until Long Rest. Each can use Adjust Seeming once to pick a new look, and Dispel Disguise to end it.
• Cost: Action + Spell Slot
• Recharge: Per action

Spell upcasting

Casting Seeming at higher levels provides no additional benefits.

How to obtain Seeming

• Bard, Sorcerer, Wizard at Class level 9
• Trickery Domain Clerics (Domain spell) and The Archfey Warlocks at Class level 9

Source item: Scroll of Seeming

When to cast Seeming

Cast it when you need the whole party to look like someone else. Sneaking a drow party through a place that hates drow, walking a githyanki past people who would recognise her, or just avoiding a fight with guards who are looking for you.

The disguises are random at first, and each character gets one Adjust Seeming to change it. Merchants keep a separate attitude score for your disguised face, so it can also reset a trader who has stopped liking you.

It does nothing in combat, and it is a Level 5 slot. On a Sorcerer or Wizard that slot is Cloudkill or Hold Monster, so this only goes in the prepared list on the day you plan to use it.

There is a known bug where two of the random disguises (masculine githyanki and masculine dwarf) make the spell fail. If it fizzles, cast it again.