Aura of Vitality - D&D 5th Edition Spell Book
Aura of Vitality Spell Effects
3rd-level evocation
Casting Time: 1 action
Range: Self (30-foot radius)
Components: V
Duration: Concentration, up to 1 minute
Healing energy radiates from you in an aura with a 30-foot radius. Until the spell ends, the aura moves with you, centered on you. You can use a bonus action to cause one creature in the aura (including you) to regain 2d6 hit points.
All information about Aura of Vitality comes from the DnD Player's Handbook.
Classes That Can Cast Aura of Vitality
The following classes gain access to casting Aura of Vitality 5e as part of their normal class spell availability:
- Artificer: Battle Smith Subclass (Xanthar's Guide to Everything)
- Cleric: Twilight Domain (Xanthar's Guide to Everything)
- Druid (Xanthar's Guide to Everything)
- Paladin
- Sorcerer: Divine Soul Subclass (Tasha's Cauldron of Everything)
One of the most confusion parts of Dungeons and Dragons is that supplemental material often sometimes provides wildly different rulesets than the Player's Handbook. For example, only Paladins are capable of casting aura of vitality through the Player's Handbook. Meanwhile, artificer, cleric, druid, and sorcerer all have subclasses available from Tasha's Cauldron of Everything and Xanthar's Guide to Everything that may cast the spell.
Really, it takes websites like this one to keep track of where to find everything you may need for your game. Why? I don't know. Ask Wizards of the Coast.
Aura of Vitality Spell Effectiveness
| Healing | Round 1 | Round 2 | Round 3 | Round 4 | Round 5 | Round 6 | Round 7 | Round 8 | Round 9 | Round 10 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Healing Dice | 2d6 | 2d6 | 2d6 | 2d6 | 2d6 | 2d6 | 2d6 | 2d6 | 2d6 | 2d6 |
| Average Healing | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 |
| Cumulative Healing | 7 | 14 | 21 | 28 | 35 | 42 | 49 | 56 | 63 | 70 |
Healing Value
Every round of combat in D&D 5e lasts for 6-seconds. Meanwhile, the aura of vitality spell lasts for up to 1-minute (so long as concentration isn't broken). This means that for the small cost of a bonus action every round, aura of vitality can heal up to 10 total instances, for a total of 70 hit points, which is insane.
For comparison, mass cure wounds (a 5th-level spell) heals 3d8 hit points + your spell casting modifier to up to 6 creature, making its total healing probably just a little higher than the mere 3rd-level spell, aura of vitality.
Aura of Vitality Usefulness
Aura of vitality is a healing-over-time effect spell. Players should use aura of vitality in the following circumstances:
- Ideally, outside of combat. The reason is that since aura of vitality is a concentration spell, there's a chance that its effect may be interrupted by enemy attacks. For the massive amount of hit points restored from such a relatively low-tier spell, it may be best used in between combat rather than during.
- If you don't have other bonus actions that you want to use. Since aura of vitality requires a bonus action to provide healing each round, you'll have to decide if you want to cause healing or some other effect. If you don't have other useful bonus actions in the moment, then aura of vitality is the clear choice, and allows you to maximize healing.
- When fighting particularly powerful or high-damage enemies, you can use your bonus action to provide healing with aura of vitality while still using normal actions to cast other healing or utility spells.
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Combine Aura of Vitality with the Following Spells
Aura of vitality is an incredibly powerful spell for it's level. However, you can combine it with other spells and effects for even more added value.
- Aid 5e: aid provides temporary hit points, and the spell can be cast before battle begins. Send your allies into combat with more hp than normal, then heal them with aura of vitality after they take damage.
- Armor of Agathys 5e: similar to aid, armor of agathys provides temporary hit points.
- Cure Wounds 5e: since aura of vitality only requires bonus actions to heal (once the spell has been cast), you can follow up for additional healing to allies with cure wounds or other 1 action healing spells.
- Mage Armor 5e: the main idea behind aura of vitality is keeping people alive, so a spell like mage armor fits in perfectly well. Give you ally additional AC to reduce damage taken, then heal them back up with aura vitality when they get low.
Note that since aura of vitality requires concentration, you aren't able to combine it with other spells that also require concentration. So, though spells such as bless 5e, charm person 5e, cause fear 5e, and haste 5e are also excellent ways of either directly or indirectly reducing enemy damage, you can't combine them with aura of vitality.
Aura of Vitality Counters
As an added benefit, aura of vitality doesn't really have a lot of counters, aside from effects like dispel magic. Casting the spell does require a verbal (V) component, so silence 5e would prevent the spell from initially being cast. Once cast, however, the only other ways to stop the spell from taking place would be to stun the character concentrating on it, or drop them to 0HP.
Aura of Vitality-Type Spells in Eternity TTRPG
If you weren't aware yet, Eternity TTRPG has its own independently-published TTRPG. Similar to D&D 5e in many ways, the Eternity TTRPG Game System provides players with roleplaying and combat encounters in an immersive world they can explore.
If you've ever wondered about playing other tabletop RPG systems, give Eternity TTRPG a try. Below is a spell sample that's similar to aura of vitality from 5e, for a quick comparison of how the game works.
Druid - Core Class Spell
Seed of Healing (Magic): 4Range, on every one of the target’s turns, roll d20. If you roll 18-20, they heal +1HP. This Spell allows the affected target to heal 1HP above their normal max HP. Every time your target heals with this effect, they are also Fatigued, giving -1Resilience, -1Dodge, and -1Will for 1Day Duration (can stack without limit). You can instead choose to continually maintain this Spell for 2Inspiration.
- (Nature's Wrath) You gain either +4Strike Bonus or +4Faith against the first enemy that attacks the target of this Spell. You can instead choose to continually maintain this Critical for 5Inspiration (and 0Wisdom).
- (Nature's Healing) Roll 15-20. You can instead choose to continually maintain this Critical for 4Inspiration (and 0Wisdom).
- (Primal) Instant Action. Your target also gains +1Speed while affected by “Seed of Healing.” When you use this Critical, you can’t use any more Wisdom this turn. 1turn Recharge.
Once seed of healing has been cast on a target, they have a chance each turn to gain healing. There are no bonus actions in Eternity TTRPG, so once the spell's active, players are free to use any of their other spells or effects each round, while the healing continues in a passive and ongoing manner. When used as a Critical, seed of healing either increases its chances to heal, provides additional hit chance, or gives the affected target more movement, allowing them to flee if combat gets to dicey.
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Transcribed content from our recent YouTube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Wu7xicNd6k Transcription [00:00:00] Welcome back to Eternity TTRPG YouTube channel, where I cover different happenings in the tabletop role-playing universe, as well as just other topics that I find interesting. Um, this go around, I wanna go back into The Crooked Moon. So my husband did a little bit of coverage on this a while back, but I'm gonna circle back to it. Um, and I wanna look at a couple of their races. So the thing about the character you pick and the class, the race, all of that stuff lends itself to building the story around your character and how they tie into the party, the world, and what their, like, internal goals could be. So three of the races that are in Crooked Moon, in my opinion, can make some really terrifying characters. So to jump in with these three races that I found through Crooked Moon, it's gonna be your Curseborn, [00:01:00] Graveborn, and your Plagueborn. Okay? 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They're, like, undead in my mind. So with that going on in your head, you could have this whole idea of, what if I already died? Or maybe they just were never cognizant of that in the first place, and they think that this skeletal form is all that they are. Um, maybe they aren't afraid of dying because they've already died, right? Um, so then you start to ask questions about your past life like who-- what happened so that they passed, right? Who did that to them? Did they deserve it? Were there loved ones that buried them? Were they mourned? Why did they come back? How did they [00:05:00] come back? Um, so really cool ideas with this kind of race is maybe they become, like, a grave keeper, and now they protect all of these different grave sites. And as a party, you're trying to convince this, um, Graveborn to come with you for some greater plan, right? Um, another idea that we can look at is this whole I'm not supposed to be here. I already lived my life, so what do I do next kind of thing. Why did I come back, right? So definitely some different ideas there with the Graveborn, and I think it's a really scary idea when you're like, "Hey, I already lived my life. Why am I here again?" Um, last one I'm gonna cover is the Plagueborn, and in the back of my mind what I have playing is, like in World of Warcraft, there is the Abomination that has like the stench that comes off of them, and then that stench kind of infects everything [00:06:00] around it, right? The plague. Um, so this is definitely a horror concept, right? And it's this idea of disease, contamination, and fear spreading, right? It's something you can't control. You have no control over it happening, so what do you play them as? Because if you have no control of the bad thing, are they really evil? And do you play them as evil? Okay. So different concepts with this could be like a plague doctor and the Plagueborn could become the healer, okay? Because they're so used to being around these diseases, they can't catch them, and that kind of idea, so how do they help everyone else with this contamination going on? Um, of course, there's the idea of the immune one, um, because you're the one spreading everything, how can you get sick, right? Um, and then of course there is, like, a walking biohazard going on where everywhere you go, you're gonna [00:07:00] infect the people around you. So how do you work with a party with that going on? Um, because the people are gonna get sick, animals are gonna behave strangely. And then you could potentially create items in the world that you're constantly trying to find to suppress the contamination, right? Um, but where do you go from there, right? So if you're not really evil but your existence hurts people, what do you do? Okay. So with all three of those, right, you have the Curseborn, which is fearing what you might become with the monster inside you. You have the Graveborn because you fear what you already are. You're already gone, past, right? And the Plagueborn is you fear what you might be doing to others, so there's a monster that's spreading within you, around you. So with all of that being said, that's why I think these three are so much more interesting than just being these, like, [00:08:00] monster races. They have these really in-depth stories that you can flesh out in a campaign, and it's a really, a terrifying character that could potentially be really misunderstood. Um, with all of that being said, I know there are some more, um, Crooked Moon races that can be covered, and I will be making my way through those. Um, you can always check what we've already covered, and we're gonna just loop around and get through them all eventually. So after all of that, would you trust any of these three characters to do anything for you, stand with you, resurrect you, heal you? Um, or would you just be, like, an ignorant villager and do nothing for them? Let me know in the comments. Like, comment, subscribe. Let us know how we're doing. Give us any ideas you'd like to hear about, and we'll catch you next time. Bye.
Transcribed content from our recent YouTube video: https://youtu.be/XjrHg-Eexds Transcription [00:00:00] Welcome back to the Eternity TTRPG YouTube channel, where I cover different happenings in the tabletop role-playing universe, as well as talk about the game that we have been working on, um, with the Eternity TTRPG. So we have been covering all nine of the races that are in the Eternity world, and we only have two left, so I'm gonna cover those two today. It's gonna be the Esper and the Stoneborn. These two are my personal favorites because they were the races of my first two characters. So hopping right in with the Esper. The Esper can actually be any race, um, because they're a part of a world incident. Okay, so this world incident is that a star fell to the world of Eternity. And when this star fell, it let [00:01:00] off all of this magic stardust and just covered the skin of the beings that were there. So if you were a human that was there, you would be covered in now these, like, runic constellation kind of tattoos, right? So that could happen to humans, Jadori, Treants, um, Aeteri, Empyrean, if you've been following along for a while and know those other races, right? So the thing about Esper is because they're covered in all of this magical stardust, they have really high magic casting abilities, right? So they're gonna be really good in your classes that focus on that casting. I personally played a summoner with this class the first time, which a summoner, you get to have a familiar with you, and I chose a dragon, and it was all about, like, buffing that dragon. So my idea was that this star being [00:02:00] was channeling all of the stardust energy into the dragon and making it stronger, bigger, faster, and hit harder. Um, it was a really fun character to play and a really cool take on an idea, right? Um, of course, there are a lot of ideas that you can go with with this, um, star incident that happened and how to interpret that into your world, into, um, how your character roleplays and everything, because maybe you're an astronomer that wants to understand what happened and why did the star fall from the sky. Real quick to interrupt. Eternity TTRPG is releasing a card game battler which emulates combat from the D&D tabletop role-playing genre. Sparks of Eternity: Emanation is fast-paced, easy to learn, and features six classes from your favorite TTRPGs. Each class deck comes with its own set of unique abilities, which everyone plays at the same time, so there's never any downtime at your table. Each turn, everyone's [00:03:00] characters levels up, giving players access to even more options. If you're interested in taking a look, we have our pre-sales page live now, packed with details. No payment info needed. Just let us know if you want an email when the product becomes available. Now, back to your video switching gears to the Stoneborn. So like I said, this was the other class that I played right when I first started playing this roleplaying game. And Stoneborn, like the Esper, can be any existing race. So they had a world incident happen to them, and they can be any existing race because of this world incident. So once again, human, Jadori, Treant, Ateri, Empyrean. Okay? So with Stoneborn, what happened with them is think of like this group of miners went into a cave near a volcano that they didn't realize was a volcano and they're [00:04:00] mining, mining, they have their different veins of, um, geological items that they're going after and one of them strikes just right into one of these veins and makes the volcano erupt and in this eruption there is this, um, organic material that explodes out and this organic material embeds itself into these miners that were there and along with the miners anybody that was in close proximity, um, just outside of this dormant volcano, right? So what this does now is that these people that were infected with the, um, organic stone material is now they crave eating stones, they crave eating rocks, okay? Any kind of rock and based on that rock is what their [00:05:00] being turns into. So if one of these races, people that decided to eat rocks decided to have volcanic rocks, they would have this volcanic kind of monstrous body. Um, however, let's say that a human thief wanted to eat the diamonds they were stealing, they would start to have diamonds appear all over their skin and eventually turn into a diamond. So it's a really cool idea that you can work with, with this idea of shape-shifting and how does the rock change my body and then it leads to the storylines of like, well, how far can this go with the rocks and did I have to be there at that volcanic eruption to become this or does it pass down through generations and what happens towards the end of Stoneborn's life? Um, it is speculated in lore that they actually become statues [00:06:00] based on all of the rock that they've consumed. Um, so is there a reversal for that or is there just a completely different story that needs to be fleshed out? Um, with the Stoneborn being, um, you know, made of rock, like a box of rocks, um, they have very high strength because rocks typically are very hard to break, right? So this idea with really high strength makes them very good as like your berserker classes, your thief, your assassin. Um, I personally played this, um, race as a, um As a mixed class, that was a caster/um, melee fighter, and it turned out really good. It was really fun. It's actually one of my favorite characters. I always thought that my, um, Stoneborn was a human that ate, like, icy rocks, so they were blue and frosted and really cool, right? I can still picture that in my mind, and that was a campaign that I wish had finished, [00:07:00] but it didn't. Maybe someday I will go back to that character, though. So that wraps up all nine of our races that we have in the world of Eternity. Um, in upcoming videos, I do hope to go over all of the classes now. There are 30 classes in this game that I will have to get through, so it's gonna take a while, especially with sprinkling in other stuff going on in the tabletop roleplaying community because I know you all aren't here just for the Eternity game. You're here for other tabletop news. So stay tuned, comment, like, subscribe. Let us know how we're doing, um, and we'll keep you updated. Have a good one. Bye.