With a touch and a murmur of somber words, you place a willing creature into a cataleptic state that is indistinguishable from death. For the duration, the target appears dead to all outward inspections and to spells used to determine the target’s status. The target is subjected to the following effects: it is blinded and incapacitated, and its speed drops to 0. The target has resistance to all damage except psychic damage. Additionally, the spell ends if the target takes any damage or if someone uses an action to shake the target awake.
The target’s shallow breathing and faint heartbeat are undetectable, and it is immune to disease and poison for the duration of the spell. This state does not trigger the true death of the creature, and it is fully reversible upon the spell’s conclusion or interruption.
Catalepsy offers a powerful tool for evasion, infiltration, or simply avoiding confrontation, providing a perfect guise of death without the permanent consequences.
*a pinch of graveyard dirt
Credits: Game Squire