Greater Sacred Censure — Legacy Excommunicate Spell

5.5e / 2024 — No Direct Official Equivalent

The 2024 rules do not contain an official spell that permanently severs a member from the supernatural privileges of one specific divine institution. Any modern conversion is a campaign rule, not recovered core material.

5e / 2014 — No Direct Official Equivalent

The 2014 spell list likewise has no direct equivalent. Atonement-style institutional procedures from older editions should not be assumed to exist mechanically in 5e unless the campaign establishes them.

Pathfinder 1e — Third-Party Conversion Only

The spell’s d20 structure is compatible with Pathfinder-style play, but it is not a core PF1e spell. A Pathfinder adaptation should define which divine class features, patron-granted spells, domains, mysteries, or order-specific powers the censure actually suspends.

Original d20 Rules — Excommunicate

The caster must be an authorised representative of the same sacred institution as the target and cannot impose the curse on someone who outranks them within that institution.

The spell includes the effects of the source’s lesser Ban and becomes more severe when used against a member of the caster’s own faith:

• A divine spellcaster loses the ability to receive divine spells and loses the source’s Turn/Rebuke Undead capability.
• A paladin loses Remove Disease, Detect Evil, and Lay on Hands but retains other class abilities under the original text.
• The target cannot benefit from beneficial divine spells granted through the former sacred institution, though hostile magic from that institution can still affect them.
• A member of the same order who attempts such a beneficial spell senses the censure; the spell is lost and the caster learns why it failed.
• The censure has no visible mark. The legacy Detect Heretic/Detect Censure spell or a failed beneficial spell can reveal it.

The source allows restoration through the same methods as Ban and specifically names atonement and miracle.