Shroud of Undeath
3rd-level necromancy (Artificer,Bard,Cleric,Sorcerer,Warlock,Wizard)
- Casting Time: 1 action
- Range: Self
- Components: V, S, M (dust or bone fragments from any destroyed undead creature)
- Duration: Concentration, up to 1 hour
You shroud yourself in necrotic energy, temporarily gaining the traits of undeath. Your appearance does not change except for a very slight pallor, but your creature type changes to undead for the duration of the spell. Nonintelligent undead creatures perceive you as one of their kind, ignoring you. Intelligent undead do not immediately recognize you as alive, but may question whether you are undead. Any ability check made to determine that you are not truly undead is made with disadvantage, and you have advantage on all Charisma checks to convince others of your undead nature. If an undead creature does target you directly with an attack or a harmful spell, that creature must make a Wisdom saving throw (an undead needn't make the save when it includes you in an area effect, such as the explosion or fireball). On a failed saving throw, the creature must choose a new target or forfeit targeting someone else, potentially wasting the attack or spell. A creature automatically succeeds on this saving throw if it has made a successful saving throw against this effect within the last 24 hours or it has seen you target an undead creature with an attack or other harmful effect within the last 24 hours. Because you are undead, if a spell or other effect states that it does not affect undead, then it does not affect you for the spell's duration. Conversely, effects that do affect undead (such as the Turn Undead class feature) affect you as such.