.. _`Contingency`:

Contingency
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*6th-level evocation*

**Casting Time:** 10 minutes

**Range:** Self

**Components:** V, S, M (a statuette of yourself carved from ivory and
decorated with gems worth at least 1,500 gp)

**Duration:** 10 days

Choose a spell of 5th level or lower that you can cast, that has a
casting time of 1 action, and that can target you. You cast that
spell-called the contingent spell-as part of casting *contingency*,
expending spell slots for both, but the contingent spell doesn't come
into effect. Instead, it takes effect when a certain circumstance
occurs. You describe that circumstance when you cast the two spells. For
example, a *contingency* cast with *water breathing* might stipulate
that *water breathing* comes into effect when you are engulfed in water
or a similar liquid.

The contingent spell takes effect immediately after the circumstance is
met for the first time, whether or not you want it to, and then
*contingency* ends.

The contingent spell takes effect only on you, even if it can normally
target others. You can use only one :ref:`contingency` spell at a time. If
you cast this spell again, the effect of another :ref:`contingency` spell on
you ends. Also, *contingency* ends on you if its material component is
ever not on your person.