Fractured Shell

SGEH

Level 1 Transmutation (Warlock, Wizard)

Casting Time: 1 Action

Range: Touch

Components: V, S, M (a porcupine's carapace)

Duration: Concentration, up to 10 minutes

Damage/Effect: Piercing

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 roll, the attacking creature takes 2d4 Piercing damage.

Using a Higher-Level Spell Slot. The damage increases by 1d4 for each spell slot level above 1. The spell doesn't require Concentration with a level 5+ spell slot.