Excavate
Excavate is a D&D 3.5 spell (Transmutation) from Sc. On class lists for Sorcerer (Level 8), Wizard (Level 8), Abjurer Variant (Level 8), and others. Range or area: Close (25 ft. + 5 ft./2 levels); Saving throw: None; Duration: Instantaneous; Casting time: 1 standard action.
- School
- Transmutation
- Casting Time
- 1 standard action
- Components
- V, S, M
- Range
- Close (25 ft. + 5 ft./2 levels)
- Target
- One 5 ft. by 5 ft. opening, 1 ft./caster level deep
- Duration
- Instantaneous
- Saving Throw
- None
- Spell Resistance
- No
You toss the bit of earth against the wall and it glitters and burns as it strikes the stone. The rock vaporizes where it hits and a passage opens before you, burrowing into the wall.
As with passwall (PH 259), this spell allows you to create a passage through wooden, plaster, or stone walls, but not through metal or harder materials, if a wall’s thickness is more than 1 foot per caster level, then a single excavate spell simply makes a niche or short tunnel with the stated dimensions. Several excavate spells can be used in succession to breach very thick walls by forming a continuing passage. Unlike passwall, excavate is an instantaneous effect that does not end and cannot be dispelled; any passage it creates is permanent.
Material Component: A pinch of excavated earth.