• Level: Level 1
• School: Transmutation
• Casting Time: 1 action
• Range: touch
• Components: V, S, M (a porcupine's carapace)
• Duration: Concentration, up to 10 minute or 10 minute

You touch a willing creature, forcing spiked bone plates to grow and pierce through its skin. It takes 1 point of piercing damage. For the duration of the spell, the first time each turn that the target is hit with a melee attack, the attacking creature takes 2d4 piercing damage.

At Higher Levels

When you cast this spell using a spell slot of 2nd level or higher, the damage dealt to attacking creatures increases by 1d4 for each slot level above 1st. If you use a spell slot of 5th level or higher, the spell doesn't require concentration.

• Classes: Warlock, Wizard