Casting Time: 1 action
Range: Touch
Components: V, S, M
Duration: Concentration
, up to 1 hour
Until the spell ends, one willing creature you touch gains the ability to move up, down, and across vertical surfaces and upside down along ceilings, while leaving its hands free. The target also gains a climbing speed equal to its walking speed.
Material Component:
a drop of bitumen and a spider
Verbal Component:
Ascendenti Sicut Araneam
Verbal Component (Alternative):
Up and down, all across the walls, just like a spider moves and crawls.
Classes: Sorcerer, Warlock, Wizard, Rogue, Artificer
Tags: Buff, Movement
Source: Player's Handbook [5th Edition] (page 277)
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Other Planes and Effects
Below is information about this spell as it relates to other planes and area of effects (i.e. underwater). Some of the information is pulled official D&D sources (such as books and the twitter feeds of D&D officials), but other information is derived from forums and online discussions. As always, it is up to the DM to decide how they wish to handle spell effects.
Underwater - Verbal Component
Official rules have been verified by Jeremy Crawford - "No rule prohibits verbal components from working underwater. Keep in mind that if you're talking, you're not holding your breath." Hence, while submerged underwater and holding its breath, a creature can cast a spell that requires a verbal component. After casting the spell, if the creature can't breathe underwater, it immediately runs out of breath. The creature can survive for a number of rounds equal to its Constitution modifier (minimum of 1 round).
