Blade Ward - 2024 PHB

[ShadeRaven]

Guessing there's no [SELF] effect to emulate the new Blade Ward effect to have strikes against the caster come with a -1d4 penalty, short of applying a temporary ATK: -1d4 on each individual attacker who goes after the caster.

But just in case, is there any way to automate this 1 minute spell or at least plans to support it in the works?

[superteddy57]

Currently the wiki provides the effect tags we have and the developer note's thread provides the new ones we have added. So it would have to be handled how you could handle it now as I don't see anything currently that would provide that automatically with just one tag. It is something we can look into for a future expansion of the code.

[estrolof]

If you have Better Combat Effects (Gold) could you do:

EFFECT 01: BladeWardA; AC: +1d4; EXPIREADD: BladeWardB; DUR: 1
EFFECT 02: BladeWardB; AC: +1d4; EXPIREADD: BladeWardA; DUR: 1

And set it to Remove at End of Turn. It wouldn't roll it every attack, but it's only a 1d4, so the swing at Round to Round vs Attack to Attack...meh?
Or, Maybe (and I don't have the program open) set it to Remove, Once per Modifier? Can't remember if that is an actual option for removal vs disable.

[EDIT], obviously, this doesn't address the Duration: 1 Minute, but in my experience, most combats don't last the minute anyway.