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Rope Trick 5e spell

2nd-level transmutation · 2024 version below

Casting time
1 action
Range
Touch
Components
V, S, M (Powdered corn extract and a twisted loop of parchment)
Duration
1 hour
School
Transmutation
Level
2

You touch a length of rope that is up to 60 feet long. One end of the rope then rises into the air until the whole rope hangs perpendicular to the ground. At the upper end of the rope, an invisible entrance opens to an extradimensional space that lasts until the spell ends.

The extradimensional space can be reached by climbing to the top of the rope. The space can hold as many as eight Medium or smaller creatures. The rope can be pulled into the space, making the rope disappear from view outside the space.

Attacks and spells can't cross through the entrance into or out of the extradimensional space, but those inside can see out of it as if through a 3-foot-by-5-foot window centered on the rope.

Anything inside the extradimensional space drops out when the spell ends.

Classes that can cast Rope Trick

ClassFirst availableSpellcasting ability
Wizard spells3rd character levelIntelligence

Rope Trick in the 2024 rules

The 2024 Player’s Handbook revised many spells, and the SRD 5.2 carries the new text. What changed from the 2014 version above:

Same level, casting time, range, components, duration and dice; the text is reworded for the 2024 rules glossary.

Casting time
Action
Range
Touch
Components
V, S, M (a segment of rope)
Duration
1 hour
School
Transmutation
Level
2
Classes
Wizard

You touch a rope. One end of it hovers upward until the rope hangs perpendicular to the ground or the rope reaches a ceiling. At the rope's upper end, an Invisible 3-foot-by-5-foot portal opens to an extradimensional space that lasts until the spell ends. That space can be reached by climbing the rope, which can be pulled into or dropped out of it.

The space can hold up to eight Medium or smaller creatures. Attacks, spells, and other effects can't pass into or out of the space, but creatures inside it can see through the portal. Anything inside the space drops out when the spell ends.

2024 version from the SRD 5.2. Most tables settle on one edition, so check which one yours uses.

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