Wizard spellLevel 1
Alarm
- School
- Abjuration, Evocation
- Range
- 10 yds.
- Components
- V / S / M
- Duration
- 4 hrs. + 1 ⁄2 hr./level
- Casting time
- 1 rd.
- Area of effect
- Up to 20-ft. cube
- None
- Source
- PHB
Flavor
The caster traces a ward over a doorway or patch of floor; anything crossing it unbidden sets off a sharp ringing only the protected area produces.
Mechanics
Wards an area up to a 20-ft. cube for 4 hrs. + 1/2 hr./. Any creature larger than ~1/2 cubic foot / ~3 lbs entering, touching, or crossing the warded zone without speaking a caster-set password triggers a loud ring audible within 60 ft (reduced 10 ft per closed door, 20 ft per solid wall). Ethereal/astral creatures don't trigger it; invisible, flying, levitating, gaseous, or incorporeal ones do. Caster can dismiss with a word. : a tiny bell and fine silver wire.