¶ Wizard
A few unintelligible words and fleeting gestures carry more power than a battleaxe, when they are the words and gestures of a wizard. These simple acts make magic seem easy, but they only hint at the time the wizard must spend poring over her spellbook preparing each spell for casting, and the years before that spent in apprenticeship to learn the arts of magic. Wizards depend on intensive study to create their magic. They examine musty old tomes, debate magical theory with their peers, and practice minor magics whenever they can. For a wizard, magic is not a talent but a difficult, rewarding art.
Wizards conduct their adventures with caution and forethought. When prepared, they can use their spells to devastating effect. When caught by surprise, they are vulnerable. They seek knowledge, power, and the resources to conduct their studies. They may also have any of the noble or ignoble motivations that other adventurers have.
The wizard’s strength is her spells. Everything else is secondary. She learns new spells as she experiments and grows in experience, and she can also learn them from other wizards. In addition to learning new spells, a wizard can, over time, learn to manipulate her spells so they go farther, work better, or are improved in some other way. Some wizards prefer to specialize in a certain type of magic. Specialization makes a wizard more powerful in her chosen field, but it denies her access to some of the spells that lie outside that field (see School Specialization). Like a sorcerer, a wizard can call a familiar - a small, magical animal companion that serves her. For some wizards, their familiars are their only true friends.
Overall, wizards show a slight tendency toward law over chaos because the study of magic rewards those who are disciplined. Illusionists and transmuters, however, are masters of deception and change, respectively. They favour chaos over law.
Wizards commonly revere Boccob (god of magic). Some, especially necromancers or simply more misanthropic wizards, prefer Wee Jas (goddess of death and magic). Evil necromancers are known to worship Nerull (god of death). Wizards in general are more devoted to their studies than to their spiritual sides.
Wizards recognize each other as comrades or rivals. Even wizards from very different cultures or magical traditions have much in common because they all conform to the same laws of magic. Unlike fighters or rogues, wizards see themselves as members of a distinct, if diverse, group. In civilized lands where wizards study in academies, schools, or guilds, wizards also identify themselves and others according to membership in these formal organizations. But while a guild magician may look down her nose at a rustic wizard who learned his arts from a doddering hermit, she nevertheless can’t deny the rustic’s identity as a wizard.
Humans take to magic for any of various reasons: curiosity, ambition, lust for power, or just personal inclination. Human wizards tend to be practical innovators, creating new spells or using old spells creatively. Elves are enthralled by magic, and many of them become wizards for love of the art. Elf wizards see themselves as artists, and they hold magic in high regard as a wondrous mystery, as opposed to the more pragmatic human wizards, who see magic more as a set of tools or tricks. Illusion magic comes so simply to gnomes that becoming an illusionist is just natural to brighter and more talented ones. Gnome wizards who don’t specialize in the school of illusion are rare, but they don’t suffer under any special stigma. Half-elf wizards feel both the elf’s attraction to magic and the human’s drive to conquer and understand. Some of the most powerful wizards are half-elves. Dwarf and halfling wizards are rare because their societies don’t encourage the study of magic. Half-orc wizards are rare because few half-orcs have the brains necessary for wizardry. Drow (evil, subterranean elves) often take up wizardry, but wizards are quite rare among the savage humanoids.
Wizards prefer to work with members of other classes. They love to cast their spells from behind strong fighters, to “magic up” rogues and send them out to scout, and to rely on the divine healing of clerics. They may find members of certain classes (such as sorcerers, rogues, and bards) to be not quite serious enough, but they’re not judgmental.
The wizard’s role depends somewhat on her spell selection, but most wizards share certain similarities in function. They are among the most offensively minded of the spellcasting classes, with a broad range of options available for neutralizing enemies. Some wizards provide great support to their comrades by way of their spells, while others may focus on divination or other facets of wizardry.
¶ Class Skills
The wizard’s class skills (and the key ability for each skill) are Concentration (Con), Craft (Int), Decipher Script (Int), Knowledge (all skills, taken individually) (Int), Profession (Wis), and Spellcraft (Int).
Skill Points at 1st Level: (2 + Int modifier) × 4.
Skill Points at Each Additional Level: 2 + Int modifier.
¶ Table: Wizard
| Level | Base Attack Bonus | Fort Save | Ref Save | Will Save | Special | Spells per Day | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0 | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | 5th | 6th | 7th | 8th | 9th | ||||||
| — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||||||
| 1st | +0 | +0 | +0 | +2 | Summon familiar, Scribe Scroll | 3 | 1 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2nd | +1 | +0 | +0 | +3 | � | 4 | 2 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 3rd | +1 | +1 | +1 | +3 | � | 4 | 2 | 1 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 4th | +2 | +1 | +1 | +4 | � | 4 | 3 | 2 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 5th | +2 | +1 | +1 | +4 | Bonus feat | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 6th | +3 | +2 | +2 | +5 | � | 4 | 3 | 3 | 2 | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 7th | +3 | +2 | +2 | +5 | � | 4 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | — | — | — | — | — |
| 8th | +4 | +2 | +2 | +6 | � | 4 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 2 | — | — | — | — | — |
| 9th | +4 | +3 | +3 | +6 | � | 4 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | — | — | — | — |
| 10th | +5 | +3 | +3 | +7 | Bonus feat | 4 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 2 | — | — | — | — |
| 11th | +5 | +3 | +3 | +7 | � | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | — | — | — |
| 12th | +6/+1 | +4 | +4 | +8 | � | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 2 | — | — | — |
| 13th | +6/+1 | +4 | +4 | +8 | � | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | — | — |
| 14th | +7/+2 | +4 | +4 | +9 | � | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 2 | — | — |
| 15th | +7/+2 | +5 | +5 | +9 | Bonus feat | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | — |
| 16th | +8/+3 | +5 | +5 | +10 | � | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 2 | — |
| 17th | +8/+3 | +5 | +5 | +10 | � | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 |
| 18th | +9/+4 | +6 | +6 | +11 | � | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 2 |
| 19th | +9/+4 | +6 | +6 | +11 | � | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 3 |
| 20th | +10/+5 | +6 | +6 | +12 | Bonus feat | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 |
¶ Class Features
All of the following are class features of the wizard.
Weapon and Armour Proficiency: Wizards are proficient with the club, dagger, heavy crossbow, light crossbow, and quarterstaff, but not with any type of armour or shield. Armour of any type interferes with a wizard’s movements, which can cause her spells with somatic components to fail.
Spells: A wizard casts arcane spells which are drawn from the sorcerer/wizard spell list. A wizard must choose and prepare her spells ahead of time (see below).
To learn, prepare, or cast a spell, the wizard must have an Intelligence score equal to at least 10 + the spell level. The Difficulty Class for a saving throw against a wizard’s spell is 10 + the spell level + the wizard’s Intelligence modifier.
Like other spellcasters, a wizard can cast only a certain number of spells of each spell level per day. Her base daily spell allotment is given on Table: The Wizard. In addition, she receives bonus spells per day if she has a high Intelligence score.
Unlike a bard or sorcerer, a wizard may know any number of spells. She must choose and prepare her spells ahead of time by getting a good night’s sleep and spending 1 hour studying her spellbook. While studying, the wizard decides which spells to prepare.
Bonus Languages: A wizard may substitute Draconic for one of the bonus languages available to the character because of her race.
Familiar: A wizard can obtain a familiar. Doing so takes 24 hours and uses up magical materials that cost 100 gp. A familiar is a magical beast that resembles a small animal and is unusually tough and intelligent. The creature serves as a companion and servant.
The wizard chooses the kind of familiar he gets. As the wizard advances in level, his familiar also increases in power.
If the familiar dies or is dismissed by the wizard, the wizard must attempt a DC 15 Fortitude saving throw. Failure means he loses 200 experience points per wizard level; success reduces the loss to one-half that amount. However, a wizard’s experience point total can never go below 0 as the result of a familiar’s demise or dismissal. A slain or dismissed familiar cannot be replaced for a year and day. A slain familiar can be raised from the dead just as a character can be, and it does not lose a level or a Constitution point when this happy event occurs.
A character with more than one class that grants a familiar may have only one familiar at a time.
Scribe Scroll: At 1st level, a wizard gains Scribe Scroll as a bonus feat.
Bonus Feats: At 5th, 10th, 15th, and 20th level, a wizard gains a bonus feat. At each such opportunity, she can choose a metamagic feat, an item creation feat, or Spell Mastery. The wizard must still meet all prerequisites for a bonus feat, including caster level minimums.
These bonus feats are in addition to the feat that a character of any class gets from advancing levels. The wizard is not limited to the categories of item creation feats, metamagic feats, or Spell Mastery when choosing these feats.
Spellbooks: A wizard must study her spellbook each day to prepare her spells. She cannot prepare any spell not recorded in her spellbook, except for read magic, which all wizards can prepare from memory.
A wizard begins play with a spellbook containing all 0-level wizard spells (except those from her prohibited school or schools, if any; see School Specialization, below) plus three 1st-level spells of your choice. For each point of Intelligence bonus the wizard has, the spellbook holds one additional 1st-level spell of your choice. At each new wizard level, she gains two new spells of any spell level or levels that she can cast (based on her new wizard level) for her spellbook. At any time, a wizard can also add spells found in other wizards’ spellbooks to her own.
¶ SCHOOL SPECIALIZATION
A school is one of eight groupings of spells, each defined by a common theme. If desired, a wizard may specialize in one school of magic (see below). Specialization allows a wizard to cast extra spells from her chosen school, but she then never learns to cast spells from some other schools.
A specialist wizard can prepare one additional spell of her specialty school per spell level each day. She also gains a +2 bonus on Spellcraft checks to learn the spells of her chosen school.
The wizard must choose whether to specialize and, if she does so, choose her specialty at 1st level. At this time, she must also give up two other schools of magic (unless she chooses to specialize in divination; see below), which become her prohibited schools. A wizard can never give up divination to fulfill this requirement. Spells of the prohibited school or schools are not available to the wizard, and she can’t even cast such spells from scrolls or fire them from wands. She may not change either her specialization or her prohibited schools later.
The eight schools of arcane magic are abjuration, conjuration, divination, enchantment, evocation, illusion, necromancy, and transmutation. Spells that do not fall into any of these schools are called universal spells.
Abjuration: Spells that protect, block, or banish. An abjuration specialist is called an abjurer.
Conjuration: Spells that bring creatures or materials to the caster. A conjuration specialist is called a conjurer.
Divination: Spells that reveal information. A divination specialist is called a diviner. Unlike the other specialists, a diviner must give up only one other school.
Enchantment: Spells that imbue the recipient with some property or grant the caster power over another being. An enchantment specialist is called an enchanter.
Evocation: Spells that manipulate energy or create something from nothing. An evocation specialist is called an evoker.
Illusion: Spells that alter perception or create false images. An illusion specialist is called an illusionist.
Necromancy: Spells that manipulate, create, or destroy life or life force. A necromancy specialist is called a necromancer.
Transmutation: Spells that transform the recipient physically or change its properties in a more subtle way. A transmutation specialist is called a transmuter.
Universal: Not a school, but a category for spells that all wizards can learn. A wizard cannot select universal as a specialty school or as a prohibited school. Only a limited number of spells fall into this category.
¶ ARCANE SPELLS AND ARMOR
Wizards and sorcerers do not know how to wear armour effectively. If desired, they can wear armour anyway (though they’ll be clumsy in it), or they can gain training in the proper use of armour (with the various Armour Proficiency feats - light, medium, and heavy - and the Shield Proficiency feat), or they can multiclass to add a class that grants them armour proficiency. Even if a wizard or sorcerer is wearing armour with which he or she is proficient, however, it might still interfere with spellcasting.
Armour restricts the complicated gestures that a wizards or sorcerer must make while casting any spell that has a somatic component (most do). The armour and shield descriptions list the arcane spell failure chance for different armours and shields.
By contrast, bards not only know how to wear light armour effectively, but they can also ignore the arcane spell failure chance for such armour . A bard wearing armour heavier than light or using any type of shield incurs the normal arcane spell failure chance, even if he becomes proficient with that armour .
If a spell doesn’t have a somatic component, an arcane spellcaster can cast it with no problem while wearing armour . Such spells can also be cast even if the caster’s hands are bound or if he or she is grappling (although Concentration checks still apply normally). Also, the metamagic feat Still Spell allows a spellcaster to prepare or cast a spell at one spell level higher than normal without the somatic component. This also provides a way to cast a spell while wearing armour without risking arcane spell failure.
Source: Player’s Handbook (Page 55)
¶ Spell List
Wizards choose their spells from the following list:
¶ 0-Level (Cantrips)
- Acid Splash: Orb deals 1d3 acid damage.
- Amanuensis: Copy non-magical text.
- Arcane Mark: Inscribes a personal rune (visible or invisible).
- Caltrops: Creates caltrops in 5-ft.-by-5-ft. square, + 5-ft. square/2 levels beyond 1st (max 5).
- Dancing Lights: Creates torches or other lights.
- Daze: Humanoid creature of 4 HD or less loses next action.
- Detect Magic: Detects spells and magic items within 60 ft.
- Detect Poison: Detects poison in one creature or small object.
- Disrupt Undead: Deals 1d6 damage to one undead.
- Electric Jolt: Ranged touch attack deals 1d3 electricity damage.
- Flare: Dazzles one creature (–1 on attack rolls).
- Ghost Sound: Figment sounds.
- Launch Bolt: Launches a crossbow bolt up to 80 ft.
- Launch Item: Hurls Fine item up to Medium range.
- Light: Object shines like a torch.
- Mage Hand: 5-pound telekinesis.
- Mending: Makes minor repairs on an object.
- Message: Whispered conversation at distance.
- Open/Close: Opens or closes small or light things.
- Prestidigitation: Performs minor tricks.
- Ray of Frost: Ray deals 1d3 cold damage.
- Read Magic: Read scrolls and spellbooks.
- Repair Minor Damage: Repairs 1 point of damage to any construct.
- Resistance: Subject gains +1 on saving throws.
- Silent Portal: Negates sound from door or window.
- Sonic Snap: Subject takes 1 point of sonic damage and is deafened 1 round.
- Stick: Glues an object weighing 5 pounds or less to another object.
- Touch of Fatigue: Touch attack fatigues target.
¶ 1st-Level
- Accelerated Movement: Balance, Climb or Move Silently at normal speed with no penalty on skill check.
- Alarm: Wards an area for 2 hours/level.
- Animate Rope: Makes a rope move at your command.
- Appraising Touch: Gain +10 bonus on Appraise checks.
- Arrow Mind: You threaten nearby squares with your bow and fire without provoking attacks of opportunity.
- Babau Slime: Secrete a body-covering acid that damages attacking foes.
- Backbiter: Weapon strikes wielder.
- Benign Transposition: Two willing subjects switch places.
- Blades of Fire: Your melee weapons deal +1d8 fire damage for 1 round.
- Blood Wind: Subject uses natural weapons at range.
- Breath Flare: Your breath weapon dazzles subjects.
- Burning Hands: 1d4/level fire damage (max 5d4).
- Buzzing Bee: Bee gives subject –10 penalty on Move Silently and hinders Concentration checks.
- Cause Fear: One creature of 5 HD or less flees for 1d4 rounds.
- Charm Person: Makes one person your friend.
- Cheat: Caster rerolls when determining the success of a game of chance.
- Chill Touch: One touch/level deals 1d6 damage and possibly 1 Str damage.
- Colour Spray: Knocks unconscious, blinds and/or stuns subjects.
- Comprehend Languages: You understand all spoken and written languages.
- Corrosive Grasp: 1 touch/level deals 1d8 acid damage.
- Critical Strike: For 1 round you gain +1d6 damage, doubled threat range, and +4 on attack rolls to confirm critical threats.
- Cutting Hand: Your hand gains a +2 enhancement bonus and deals 1d6 damage.
- Dead End: Removes spoor of one creature/level.
- Deep Breath: Your lungs are filled with air.
- Detect Secret Doors: Reveals hidden doors within 60 ft.
- Detect Undead: Reveals undead within 60 ft.
- Disguise Self: Changes your appearance.
- Dispel Ward: As dispel magic, but affects only wards.
- Distract: Subjects take –4 on Concentration, Listen, Search and Spot.
- Distract Assailant: One creature is flat-footed for 1 round.
- Ebon Eyes: Subject can see through magical darkness.
- Ectoplasmic Armour: Gain armour bonus against incorporeal touch attacks.
- Endure Elements: Exist comfortably in hot or cold environments.
- Enlarge Person: Humanoid creature doubles in size.
- Erase: Mundane or magical writing vanishes.
- Expeditious Retreat: Your speed increases by 30 ft.
- Expeditious Retreat, Swift: Your speed increases by 30 ft. for 1 round.
- Familiar Pocket: Garment or container becomes extradimensional safe haven for your familiar.
- Feather Fall: Objects or creatures fall slowly.
- Fist of Stone: Gain +6 Str and natural slam attack.
- Golem Strike: You can sneak attack constructs for 1 round.
- Grease: Makes 10-ft. square or one object slippery.
- Guided Shot: You ignore distance, cover, concealment penalties with your ranged attacks for 1 round.
- Guiding Light: +2 on ranged attacks against creatures in illuminated area.
- Hail of Stone:M Stones deal 1d4 points of damage/level to creatures in the area (max 5d4).
- Hold Portal: Holds door shut.
- Horrible Taste: Touched creature or object nauseates biting or swallowing foes.
- Hypnotism: Fascinates 2d4 HD of creatures.
- Ice Dagger: Grenade-like weapon deals subject 1d4/level cold damage, plus area damage.
- Identify:M Determines properties of magic item.
- Incite: Subjects can’t ready actions or delay.
- Inhibit: Subject delays until next round.
- Insightful Feint: Gain +10 on your next Bluff check to feint in combat.
- Instant Locksmith: Make Disable Device or Open Lock check at +2 as free action.
- Instant Search: Make Search check at +2 as free action.
- Ironguts: Subject gains +5 bonus on saving throws against poison.
- Jump: Subject gets bonus on Jump checks.
- Light of Lunia: You radiate silvery light, which you can expend as 2 bolts that deal 1d6 damage.
- Low-Light Vision: See twice as far as a human in poor illumination.
- Luminous Gaze: Your eyes emit light, dazzle creatures.
- Mage Armour: Gives subject +4 armour bonus.
- Mage Hand, Greater: As mage hand, but medium range and up to 40 lb.
- Magic Missile: 1d4+1 damage; +1 missile per two levels above 1st (max 5).
- Magic Weapon: Weapon gains +1 bonus.
- Master’s Touch: You gain proficiency in a weapon or shield touched for 1 minute/level.
- Mount: Summons riding horse for 2 hours/level.
- Nerveskitter: Subject gains +5 bonus on initiative checks.
- Net of Shadows: Ordinary shadows provide concealment to all in the area.
- Nightshield: You gain resistance bonus on saves, and spell absorbs magic missile damage.
- Nystul’s Magic Aura: Alters object’s magic aura.
- Obscuring Mist: Fog surrounds you.
- Orb of Acid, Lesser: Ranged touch attack deals 1d8 acid damage + 1d8/2 levels beyond 1st (max 5d8).
- Orb of Cold, Lesser: Ranged touch attack deals 1d8 cold damage + 1d8/2 levels beyond 1st (max 5d8).
- Orb of Electricity, Lesser: Ranged touch attack deals 1d8 electricity damage + 1d8/2 levels beyond 1st (max 5d8).
- Orb of Fire, Lesser: Ranged touch attack deals 1d8 fire damage + 1d8/2 levels beyond 1st (max 5d8).
- Orb of Sound, Lesser: Ranged touch attack deals 1d6 sonic damage + 1d6/2 levels beyond 1st (max 5d6).
- Persistent Blade: Blade of force attacks subject, automatically flanks.
- Portal Beacon: You grant others knowledge of a magic portal’s location.
- Protection from Chaos: +2 to AC and saves, counter mind control, hedge out elementals and outsiders.
- Protection from Evil: +2 to AC and saves, counter mind control, hedge out elementals and outsiders.
- Protection from Good: +2 to AC and saves, counter mind control, hedge out elementals and outsiders.
- Protection from Law: +2 to AC and saves, counter mind control, hedge out elementals and outsiders.
- Raging Flame: Fires burn twice as hot, half as long.
- Ray of Clumsiness: Victim takes 1d6 Dexterity penalty +½ levels.
- Ray of Enfeeblement: Ray deals 1d6 +1 per two levels Str penalty.
- Ray of Flame: Ray deals 1d6/2 levels fire damage, ignites subject.
- Reduce Person: Humanoid creature halves in size.
- Remove Scent: Hides touched creature’s scent.
- Repair Light Damage: Repairs 1d8 damage +1/level (max +5) to any construct.
- Resist Planar Alignment: Subject can resist penalties for being of an opposed alignment on an aligned Outer Plane.
- Scatterspray: Group of small objects flies apart in a burst.
- Serene Visage: Gain insight bonus on Bluff checks equal to half your level.
- Shield: Invisible disc gives +4 to AC, blocks magic missiles.
- Shieldbearer: Shield floats near subject to offer protection.
- Shock and Awe: Flat-footed creatures get –10 on initiative.
- Shocking Grasp: Touch delivers 1d6/level electricity damage (max 5d6).
- Silent Image: Creates minor illusion of your design.
- Sleep: Puts 4 HD of creatures into magical slumber.
- Slide: Move subject 5 feet.
- Slow Burn: Fires burn twice as long.
- Sniper’s Shot: No range limit on next ranged sneak attack.
- Sonic Blast: Subject takes 1d4/2 levels sonic damage plus deafness.
- Spell Flower: Hold the charge on one touch spell per forelimb.
- Spirit Worm: Subject takes 1 point Con damage every round for 1 round/level.
- Spontaneous Search: Instantly Search area as if having taken 10.
- Summon Monster I: Calls extraplanar creature to fight for you.
- Summon Undead I: Summons undead to fight for you.
- Targeting Ray: You and allies are +1 to hit/3 levels against subject.
- Tenser’s Floating Disk: Creates 3-ft.-diameter horizontal disk that holds 100 lb./level.
- Thunderhead: Small lightning bolts deal 1 damage/round.
- True Strike: +20 on your next attack roll.
- Unseen Servant: Invisible force obeys your commands.
- Ventriloquism: Throws voice for 1 min./level.
- Wall of Smoke: Wall of black smoke obscures vision and nauseates those who pass through.
- Weapon Shift: Touched weapon changes form.
- Wings of the Sea: +30 ft. to subject’s swim speed.
¶ 2nd-Level
- Aiming at the Target: +10 bonus on Concentration checks for previously cast spell.
- Alarm, Greater:F As alarm, and it works on co-existent planes.
- Alter Self: Assume form of a similar creature.
- Arcane Lock:M Magically locks a portal or chest.
- Augment Familiar: Your familiar becomes more powerful.
- Balancing Lorecall: You gain a +4 bonus on Balance checks and can balance on difficult surfaces if you have 5 or more ranks in Balance.
- Baleful Transposition: Two subjects switch places.
- Balor Nimbus: Your flaming body damages foes in grapple.
- Battering Ram: Deals 1d6 damage plus bull rush.
- Bear’s Endurance: Subject gains +4 to Con for 1 min./level.
- Belker Claws: Touch attack deals 2d12 damage and lingers +1 round/3 levels.
- Bladeweave: Your melee attack dazes your opponent.
- Blast of Force: Attack deals 1d6 damage/2 levels (max 5d6).
- Blindness/Deafness: Makes subject blinded or deafened.
- Blur: Attacks miss subject 20% of the time.
- Body of the Sun: Your body emanates fire, dealing 1d4 fire damage/2 levels.
- Bonefiddle:F Spectral fiddle bow deals 3d6 damage/round.
- Bristle: Armour spikes attack with wearer.
- Bull’s Strength: Subject gains +4 to Str for 1 min./level.
- Burning Sword: Weapon gains flaming burst special ability.
- Cat’s Grace: Subject gains +4 to Dex for 1 min./level.
- Chain of Eyes: See through other creatures’ eyes.
- Claws of Darkness: Claws deal 1d8 cold damage and have reach.
- Cloak Pool: Hide a colour pool on the Astral Plane from view.
- Cloud of Bewilderment: Generates a nauseating 10-ft. cube.
- Combust: Subject takes 1d8/level fire damage and might catch fire.
- Command Undead: Undead creature obeys your commands.
- Continual Flame:M Makes a permanent, heatless torch.
- Create Magic Tattoo:M Subject receives a magic tattoo with various effects.
- Curse of Impending Blades: Subject takes –2 penalty to AC.
- Daggerspell Stance: You gain +2 insight bonus on attack rolls and damage rolls if you make a full attack, SR 5 + caster level if you fight defensively, and DR 5/magic if you use the total defence action.
- Dark Way: Creates temporary unbreakable bridge supporting up to 200 lb./level.
- Darkness: 20-ft. radius of supernatural shadow.
- Darkvision: See 60 ft. in total darkness.
- Daze Monster: Living creature of 6 HD or less loses next action.
- Death Armour:F Black aura damages creatures attacking you.
- Delusions of Grandeur: Subject thinks it is better than it is.
- Desiccating Bubble: Globe of air damages by evaporating moisture from subject.
- Detect Thoughts: Allows “listening” to surface thoughts.
- Discern Shapechanger:M Penetrates disguises and identifies shapechanging creatures.
- Discolour Pool: Change the colour of a colour pool on the Astral Plane.
- Disguise Undead: Change appearance of one corporeal undead.
- Dissonant Chant: Concentration checks more difficult within area of spell.
- Distracting Ray: Ray forces spellcaster to make Concentration check.
- Eagle’s Splendour: Subject gains +4 to Cha for 1 min./level.
- Earth Lock:M Constricts tunnel, preventing access.
- Earthbind: Subject creature can’t fly.
- Earthen Grasp: Arm made of earth and soil grapples foes.
- Ectoplasmic Feedback: Incorporeal attackers take 1d6 damage + 1/level.
- Electric Loop: Deals 1d6/2 levels electricity damage plus stunning to a single creature.
- Entice Gift: Subject gives caster what it’s holding.
- Ethereal Chamber: You entrap an ethereal subject in a chamber of force.
- Expose the Dead: Gain insight bonuses to locate undead or when investigating a corpse.
- Extend Tentacles: +5 ft. to reach of tentacle attack.
- False Life: Gain 1d10 temporary hp +1/level (max +10).
- Fearsome Grapple: You grow tentacles that help you grapple.
- Fins to Feet: Transforms tails and fins into legs and feet.
- Fireburst: Creatures within 10 feet take 1d8/level fire damage.
- Flame Dagger: Beam of fire deals 1d4 damage +1/level.
- Flaming Sphere: Creates rolling ball of fire, 2d6 damage, lasts 1 round/level.
- Fly, Swift: Gain fly speed of 60 ft. for 1 round.
- Fog Cloud: Fog obscures vision.
- Force Ladder:F Creates an immobile ladder of force.
- Fox’s Cunning: Subject gains +4 Int for 1 min./level.
- Frost Breath: Icy breath deals 1d4 damage/2 levels.
- Fuse Arms: Multiple arms/tentacles become one pair of stronger limbs.
- Ghost Touch Armour: Armour works normally against incorporeal attacks.
- Ghoul Glyph: Glyph wards area, paralyzes victims.
- Ghoul Touch: Paralyzes one subject, which exudes stench that makes those nearby sickened.
- Glitterdust: Blinds creatures, outlines invisible creatures.
- Gust of Wind: Blows away or knocks down smaller creatures.
- Heroics: Fighter gains one fighter bonus feat.
- Hurl: Thrown weapon returns to thrower.
- Hypnotic Pattern: Fascinates (2d4 + level) HD of creatures.
- Ice Knife: Magical shard of ice deals 2d8 cold damage plus 2 Dex damage, or deals 1d8 cold damage in 10-ft.-radius burst.
- Infernal Wound: Weapon deals persistent, bleeding wounds.
- Inky Cloud: Obscures sight underwater beyond 5 ft.
- Invisibility: Subject is invisible for 1 min./level or until it attacks.
- Ironthunder Horn: Intense vibrations trip those in area.
- Knock: Opens locked or magically sealed door.
- Leomund’s Trap:M Makes item seem trapped.
- Levitate: Subject moves up and down at your direction.
- Life Bolt: 1 ray/2 levels draws 1 hp from you to deal 1d12 damage to undead.
- Light of Mercuria: You radiate golden light, which you can expend as 2 bolts that deal 1d6 damage, 2d6 against undead and evil outsiders.
- Lively Step: You and allies gain +10 increase to speed.
- Locate Object: Senses direction toward object (specific or type).
- Magic Mouth:M Speaks once when triggered.
- Malevolent Miasma: Cloud of fog deals 1d4 non-lethal damage/level.
- Marked Object: You gain bonus to track a specific being.
- Mechanus Mind: Reformat subject’s mind to be coldly calculating.
- Melf’s Acid Arrow: Ranged touch attack; 2d4 damage for 1 round +1 round/three levels.
- Mindless Rage: Subject compelled to attack you physically for 1 round/level.
- Minor Image: As silent image, plus some sound.
- Mirror Image: Creates decoy duplicates of you (1d4 +1 per three levels, max 8).
- Misdirection: Misleads divinations for one creature or object.
- Mountain Stance: Subject becomes hard to move.
- Obscure Object: Masks object against scrying.
- Owl’s Wisdom: Subject gains +4 to Wis for 1 min./level.
- Phantasmal Assailants: Nightmare creatures strike subject for 8 Wis damage, 8 Dex damage.
- Phantom Foe:M Subject is always flanked by one creature.
- Portal Alarm: You are alerted when a creature passes through a warded portal.
- Protection from Arrows: Subject immune to most ranged attacks.
- Pyrotechnics: Turns fire into blinding light or choking smoke.
- Quick Potion: Creates a potion that must be used within 1 hour/level.
- Rainbow Beam:F Ray dazzles and deals 1d12 damage/3 levels of random type.
- Ray of Ice: Ray deals 1d6 cold damage/2 levels.
- Ray of Sickness: Subject becomes sickened.
- Ray of Stupidity: Victim takes 1d4+1 Intelligence damage.
- Ray of Weakness: Subject takes –2 on attacks, –10 ft. speed.
- Razorfangs: Your bite or claw attack threatens a critical hit on a 19 or 20.
- Rebuke: Subject is dazed 1 round, then shaken.
- Reflective Disguise: Viewers see you as their own species and gender.
- Repair Moderate Damage: Repairs 2d8 damage +1/level (max +10) to any construct.
- Resist Energy: Ignores first 10 (or more) points of damage/attack from specified energy type.
- Rope Trick: As many as eight creatures hide in extradimensional space.
- Scale Weakening: Subject’s natural armour weakens.
- Scare: Panics creatures of less than 6 HD.
- Scintillating Scales: Your natural armour bonus turns into a deflection bonus.
- Scorch: Jet of flame deals 1d8/2 levels (max 5d8).
- Scorching Ray: Ranged touch attack deals 4d6 fire damage, +1 ray/four levels (max 3).
- See Invisibility: Reveals invisible creatures or objects.
- Shadow Mask: Grants +4 on saves against light spells, protection from gaze attacks.
- Shadow Radiance: Area filled with intense light that grows brighter.
- Shadow Spray: Deals 4 points of Str damage and dazes.
- Shatter: Sonic vibration damages objects or crystalline creatures.
- Shroud of Undeath: Negative energy shroud makes undead perceive you as undead.
- Slapping Hand: Hand makes creature provoke attacks of opportunity.
- Slide, Greater: Move subject 20 feet.
- Snake’s Swiftness: Subject immediately makes one attack.
- Snowball Swarm: Snowballs deal 2d6 points of cold damage in 10-ft. burst.
- Sonic Weapon: Weapon touched deals +1d6 sonic damage with each hit.
- Spawn Screen: Subject resists being transformed into an undead spawn if slain.
- Speak to Allies: Subjects can converse at distance without moving lips.
- Spectral Hand: Creates disembodied glowing hand to deliver touch attacks.
- Spider Climb: Grants ability to walk on walls and ceilings.
- Sting Ray: Subject of ray can take only standard or move action, has –2 AC, and must make Concentration checks to cast spells.
- Stolen Breath: Subject has wind knocked out of it.
- Stone Bones: Corporeal undead gains +3 natural armour bonus.
- Summon Monster II: Calls extraplanar creature to fight for you.
- Summon Swarm: Summons swarm of bats, rats or spiders.
- Summon Undead II: Summons undead to fight for you.
- Surefooted Stride: You can move over rubble as easily as you can over open ground.
- Swim: Subject gains swim speed, +8 bonus on Swim checks.
- Tasha’s Hideous Laughter: Subject loses actions for 1 round/level.
- Touch of Idiocy: Subject takes 1d6-point penalty to Int, Wis and Cha.
- Veil of Shadow: Darkness grants you concealment.
- Wall of Gloom: Shadow barrier obscures vision.
- Web: Fills 20-ft.-radius spread with sticky spiderwebs.
- Whirling Blade: Hurled slashing weapon magically attacks all foes in 60-ft. line.
- Whispering Wind: Sends a short message 1 mile/level.
- Wings of Air: Subject’s flight manoeuvrability improves by one step.
- Wracking Touch: Deal 1d6 damage +1/level; you also deal sneak attack damage if you have any.
- Wraithstrike: Your melee attacks strike as touch attacks for 1 round.
¶ 3rd-Level
- Acid Breath: Cone of acid deals 1d6 damage/level (max 10d6).
- Air Breathing: Subjects can breathe air freely.
- Amorphous Form: Subject becomes puddle-like and can slip through cracks quickly.
- Analyze Portal: Find a nearby portal and discover its properties.
- Anticipate Teleportation:F Predict and delay the arrival of creatures teleporting into range by 1 round.
- Antidragon Aura:M Allies gain bonus to AC and saves against dragons.
- Arcane Sight: Magical auras become visible to you.
- Avoid Planar Effects: Provides temporary protection against overtly damaging planar traits.
- Bands of Steel: Metallic bands immobilize or entangle subject for 1 round/level.
- Bite of the Wererat: You gain the Dexterity and attacks of a wererat.
- Blacklight: Create an area of total darkness.
- Blade of Pain and Fear: Creates blade of gnashing teeth.
- Blink: You randomly vanish and reappear for 1 round/level.
- Capricious Zephyr: Gale-force winds push creatures.
- Chain Missile: Multiple missiles deal 1d4+1 damage each, then strike secondary targets.
- Circle Dance: Indicates direction to known individual.
- Clairaudience/Clairvoyance: Hear or see at a distance for 1 min./level.
- Cone of Dimness: Subjects believe they are engulfed in magical darkness.
- Contagious Fog: 20-ft.-radius cloud of fog inflicts disease.
- Corpse Candle: Ghostly hand and candle sheds light, affects incorporeal creatures.
- Curse of Impending Blades, Mass: Enemies take –2 penalty to AC.
- Daylight: 60-ft. radius of bright light.
- Deep Slumber: Puts 10 HD of creatures to sleep.
- Deeper Darkvision: Subject can see 90 ft. in magical darkness.
- Demon Dirge: Demons are stunned and take 3d6 damage/round for 1d4 rounds.
- Detect Metal and Minerals:M Detect the presence of metal and minerals.
- Devil Blight: Damage and stun baatezu; damage other lawful and evil creatures.
- Diamondsteel:M Metal armour provides damage reduction.
- Dispel Magic: Cancels magical spells and effects.
- Displacement: Attacks miss subject 50%.
- Disrupt Undead, Greater: As disrupt undead, but 1d8 damage/level.
- Dolorous Blow: Weapon’s threat range is doubled and threats are automatically confirmed.
- Dragonskin: You gain a bonus to natural armour plus energy resistance 10.
- Earthen Grace: Subject takes only non-lethal damage from stone and earth.
- Enhance Familiar: Your familiar receives +2 bonus on saves, combat rolls, and AC for 1 hour/level.
- Eradicate Earth: Deals 1d8 points of damage/level to earth creatures (max 10d8).
- Explosive Runes: Deals 6d6 damage when read.
- False Gravity: Travel on a solid surface as if that surface had its own gravity.
- Fireball: 1d6 damage per level, 20-ft. radius.
- Flame Arrow: Arrows deal +1d6 fire damage.
- Flashburst: Flash of light dazzles and blinds creatures in area.
- Fly: Subject flies at speed of 60 ft.
- Fortify Familiar: Your familiar gains 2d8 temporary hp, +2 to armour, 25% chance to avoid extra sneak attack and critical hit damage.
- Gaseous Form: Subject becomes insubstantial and can fly slowly.
- Gentle Repose: Preserves one corpse.
- Giant’s Wrath: Pebbles you throw become boulders.
- Girallon’s Blessing: Subject gains one additional pair of arms.
- Glowing Orb:F Creates permanent magical light; you control brightness.
- Great Thunderclap: Loud noise causes stunning, deafness, and knocks prone in a large area.
- Hailstones: Frigid globes deal 5d6 cold damage.
- Halt Undead: Immobilizes undead for 1 round/level.
- Hamatula Barbs: Subjects grow barbs, which damage foes that attack subject in melee.
- Handfang: Grow a fanged mouth in your palm to be used as a touch attack weapon.
- Haste: One creature/level moves faster, +1 on attack rolls, AC, and Reflex saves.
- Healing Touch: Heal subject 1d6/2 levels, but take damage equal to half.
- Heroism: Gives +2 bonus on attack rolls, saves, skill checks.
- Hold Person: Paralyzes one humanoid for 1 round/level.
- Icelance:F Changes ice into lance, which attacks subject for 6d6 damage and stuns for 1d4 rounds.
- Illusory Script:M Only intended reader can decipher.
- Incorporeal Enhancement: Grant bonuses to incorporeal undead.
- Invisibility Sphere: Makes everyone within 10 ft. invisible.
- Junglerazer: Fey, vermin, plants and animals take 1d10 damage/level.
- Keen Edge: Doubles normal weapon’s threat range.
- Leomund’s Tiny Hut: Creates shelter for ten creatures.
- Light of Venya: You radiate pearly light, which you can expend as 2 bolts that deal 2d6 damage, 4d6 against undead and evil outsiders.
- Lightning Bolt: Electricity deals 1d6/level damage.
- Mage Armour, Greater: Gives subject +6 armour bonus.
- Mage Armour, Mass: As mage armour, but one creature/level.
- Magic Circle against Chaos: As protection from chaos, but 10-ft. radius and 10 min./level.
- Magic Circle against Evil: As protection from evil, but 10-ft. radius and 10 min./level.
- Magic Circle against Good: As protection from good, but 10-ft. radius and 10 min./level.
- Magic Circle against Law: As protection from law, but 10-ft. radius and 10 min./level.
- Magic Weapon, Greater: +1/four levels (max +5).
- Major Image: As silent image, plus sound, smell and thermal effects.
- Manyjaws: One set of jaws/level attacks enemies for 1d6 damage.
- Mesmerizing Glare: Your gaze fascinates creatures.
- Mind Poison: Your poisonous touch deals Wis damage.
- Miser’s Envy: Subject jealously covets nearby object.
- Moon’s Change: Bonuses to Str, Dex and Con that increase then decrease by round.
- Nauseating Breath: Exhale a cone of nauseating gas.
- Non-Detection:M Hides subject from divination, scrying.
- Phantom Steed: Magic horse appears for 1 hour/level.
- Primal Form: You change into elemental, gain some abilities.
- Protection from Energy: Absorb 12 points/level of damage from one kind of energy.
- Rage: Subjects gains +2 to Str and Con, +1 on Will saves, –2 to AC.
- Rainbow Blast:F Line deals 1d6 damage of each energy type.
- Ray of Dizziness: Subject can take only move or standard actions.
- Ray of Exhaustion: Ray makes subject exhausted.
- Regal Procession: As mount, but you summon several mounts.
- Repair Serious Damage: Repairs 3d8 damage +1/level (max +15) to any construct.
- Resonating Bolt: Sonic energy deals 1d4 damage/level (max 10d4).
- Reverse Arrows: As protection from arrows, but negated arrows turn back upon their source.
- Rust Ray: Metal objects take 2d6 damage +1/2 levels.
- Scintillating Sphere: 20-ft.-radius burst deals 1d6 electricity/level.
- Secret Page: Changes one page to hide its real content.
- Sepia Snake Sigil:M Creates text symbol that immobilizes reader.
- Servant Horde: Create 2d6 unseen servants +1/level (max +15).
- Shadow Binding: Ribbon-like shadows entangle creatures in 10-ft.-radius burst.
- Shadow Cache: You open a small portal to the Plane of Shadow through which you can put an item for later retrieval.
- Shadow Phase: Subject becomes partially incorporeal.
- Shatterfloor: Deals 1d4 sonic/level plus damages floor surface.
- Shrink Item: Object shrinks to one-sixteenth size.
- Sign of Sealing:M Magical sigil protects door or chest, deals 1d4/level damage (max 10d4) if opened.
- Skull Watch: Skull shrieks when creature enters warded area.
- Sleet Storm: Hampers vision and movement.
- Slow: One subject/level takes only one action/round, –2 to AC, –2 on attack rolls.
- Snake’s Swiftness, Mass: Allies each immediately make one attack.
- Sonorous Hum: Removes need to concentrate to maintain next spell cast.
- Sound Lance: Sonic energy deals 1d8/level damage.
- Spectral Weapon: Use quasi-real weapon to make touch attacks.
- Spell Vulnerability: Reduce creature’s spell resistance by 1/caster level (max reduction 15).
- Spider Poison: Touch deals 1d6 Str damage, repeats in 1 minute.
- Spiderskin: Subject gains increasing bonus to natural armour, saves against poison, and Hide checks.
- Steeldance: Blades hover around you and attack foes.
- Stinking Cloud: Nauseating vapors, 1 round/level.
- Stony Grasp: Arm made of soil and rock grapples foes.
- Suggestion: Compels subject to follow stated course of action.
- Summon Monster III: Calls extraplanar creature to fight for you.
- Summon Undead III: Summons undead to fight for you.
- Suppress Breath Weapon: Subject can’t use its breath weapon.
- Suspended Silence:M Object becomes programmed to create an area of silence at your command.
- Telepathic Bond, Lesser: Link with subject within 30 ft. for 10 minutes/level.
- Tongues: Speak any language.
- Tremorsense: Grants tremorsense to a range of 30 feet.
- Undead Lieutenant: Chosen undead can give orders to undead in your control.
- Undead Torch: Undead creature gains blue aura that gives +2d6 damage against living creatures.
- Unluck: Subject remakes all rolls, uses worse result for 1 round/level.
- Vampiric Touch: Touch deals 1d6/two levels damage; caster gains damage as hp.
- Vipergout: You spit forth celestial or fiendish vipers that attack your foes.
- Wall of Light: Creates wall of light, can dazzle creatures.
- Water Breathing: Subjects can breathe underwater.
- Weapon of Energy: Weapon deals extra energy damage.
- Weapon of Impact: As keen edge, but aids bludgeoning weapons.
- Wind Wall: Deflects arrows, smaller creatures and gases.
¶ 4th-Level
- Animate Dead:M Creates undead skeletons and zombies.
- Arcane Eye: Invisible floating eye moves 30 ft./round.
- Assay Spell Resistance: +10 bonus on caster level checks to defeat one creature’s spell resistance.
- Attune Form: Grant creature temporary protection against overtly damaging planar traits.
- Backlash: Subject takes damage if it uses spells against another creature.
- Battle Hymn: Allies can reroll one Will save/round.
- Bestow Curse: –6 to an ability score; –4 on attack rolls, saves, and checks; or 50% chance of losing each action.
- Bite of the Werewolf: You gain the Strength and attacks of a werewolf.
- Blast of Flame: 60-ft. cone of fire (1d6/level damage).
- Blinding Breath: Your breath weapon blinds subjects.
- Blistering Radiance: Light dazzles creatures, deals 2d6 fire damage in 50-ft.-radius spread.
- Bloodstar:F Hovering construct does Con damage each time foe is damaged.
- Burning Blood: Subject takes 1d8 acid damage plus 1d8 fire damage/round.
- Charm Monster: Makes monster believe it is your ally.
- Confusion: Subjects behave oddly for 1 round/level.
- Contagion: Infects subject with chosen disease.
- Corporeal Instability: Transform a creature into an amorphous mass.
- Crushing Despair: Subjects take –2 on attack rolls, damage rolls, saves and checks.
- Darkvision, Mass: As darkvision, but affects one/level subjects.
- Defenestrating Sphere:F Cloudy grey sphere knocks enemies prone, hurls them upward for subsequent falling damage.
- Detect Scrying: Alerts you of magical eavesdropping.
- Dimension Door: Teleports you short distance.
- Dimensional Anchor: Bars extradimensional movement.
- Dispelling Screen: Targeted dispel magic on any creatures and unattended items, +10 max on caster level check.
- Displacer Form: You change into displacer beast, gain some abilities.
- Dragon Breath: You choose a dragon type and mimic its breath weapon.
- Energy Spheres: Five coloured spheres attack with or negate acid, cold, electricity, fire and sonic energy.
- Enervation: Subject gains 1d4 negative levels.
- Enlarge Person, Mass: Enlarges several creatures.
- Entangling Staff: Quarterstaff can grapple and constrict foes.
- Ethereal Mount: You conjure swift mounts on the Ethereal Plane.
- Evard’s Black Tentacles: Tentacles grapple all within 15 ft. spread.
- Explosive Cascade: Bouncing flame ball deals 1d6/level fire damage.
- Fear: Subjects within cone flee for 1 round/level.
- Fire Shield: Creatures attacking you take fire damage; you’re protected from heat or cold.
- Fire Stride: Teleport from one fire to another.
- Fire Trap:M Opened object deals 1d4 damage +1/level.
- Flame Whips: Your forelimbs deal 6d6 fire damage.
- Flight of the Dragon: You grow dragon wings.
- Floating Disk, Greater: As floating disk, but you can ride it.
- Force Chest: 2-ft-cube chest made of force.
- Force Claw: Claw of force guards an area, making opportunity attacks.
- Force Missiles: Unerring missiles of force strike for 2d6 damage and explode in a burst.
- Forceward: Creates a sphere of force that protects against force effects and keeps out incorporeal creatures.
- Forcewave: Bull rushes all creatures within 10 ft.
- Geas, Lesser: Commands subject of 7 HD or less.
- Globe of Invulnerability, Lesser: Stops 1st- through 3rd-level spell effects.
- Hallucinatory Terrain: Makes one type of terrain appear like another (field into forest, or the like).
- Ice Storm: Hail deals 5d6 damage in cylinder 40 ft. across.
- Illusory Wall: Wall, floor or ceiling looks real, but anything can pass through.
- Invisibility, Greater: As invisibility, but subject can attack and stay invisible.
- Iron Bones: Corporeal undead gains +6 natural armour bonus.
- Know Vulnerabilities: Determine subject’s vulnerabilities and resistances.
- Leomund’s Secure Shelter: Creates sturdy cottage.
- Locate Creature: Indicates direction to familiar creature.
- Lower Spell Resistance: Subject’s spell resistance reduced.
- Metal Melt: Melts metal object without heat.
- Minor Creation: Creates one cloth or wood object.
- Orb of Acid: Ranged touch, 1d6/level acid damage and subject might be sickened.
- Orb of Cold: Ranged touch, 1d6/level cold damage and subject might be blinded.
- Orb of Electricity: Ranged touch, 1d6/level electricity damage and subject might be entangled.
- Orb of Fire: Ranged touch, 1d6/level fire damage and subject might be dazed.
- Orb of Force: Globe of force deals 1d6/level damage (max 10d6).
- Orb of Sound: Ranged touch, 1d4/level sonic damage and subject might be deafened.
- Otiluke’s Resilient Sphere: Force globe protects but traps one subject.
- Perinarch: Gain greater control over Limbo’s morphic essence.
- Phantasmal Killer: Fearsome illusion kills subject or deals 3d6 damage.
- Plague Carrier: The target can transmit the disease before showing symptoms.
- Polymorph: Gives one willing subject a new form.
- Portal Alarm, Improved: Warded portal alerts you or a creature designated by you to creatures passing through it.
- Rainbow Pattern: Lights fascinate 24 HD of creatures.
- Raise from the Deep: Creature or sunken ship made buoyant.
- Rary’s Mnemonic Enhancer:F Prepares extra spells or retains one just cast.
- Ray Deflection: Ray attacks are reflected away.
- Ray of Deanimation: Ray deals 1d6 damage/level to constructs.
- Rebuke, Greater: Subject cowers for 1d4 rounds.
- Rebuking Breath: Your breath weapon rebukes undead.
- Reduce Person, Mass: Reduces several creatures.
- Remove Curse: Frees object or person from curse.
- Repair Critical Damage: Repairs 4d8 damage +1/level (max +20) to any construct.
- Resist Energy, Mass: Creatures ignore damage from specified energy type.
- Resistance, Greater: Subject gains +3 on saving throws.
- Ruin Delver’s Fortune: Cast on another creature’s turn and choose one of several benefits.
- Scramble Portal: You randomize the destination of a magic portal.
- Scrying:F Spies on subject from a distance.
- Sensory Deprivation: All of subject’s senses are blocked.
- Shadow Conjuration: Mimics conjuration below 4th level, but only 20% real.
- Shadow Well: Subject enters gloomy pocket plane and emerges frightened.
- Sharptooth: One of your natural weapons deals damage as if you were one size larger.
- Shout: Deafens all within cone and deals 5d6 sonic damage.
- Solid Fog: Blocks vision and slows movement.
- Spell Enhancer: Lets you cast another spell in the same round at +2 caster level.
- Stone Shape: Sculpts stone into any shape.
- Stone Sphere: 3-ft.-diameter stone sphere rolls over your enemies.
- Stoneskin:M Ignore 10 points of damage per attack.
- Summon Monster IV: Calls extraplanar creature to fight for you.
- Summon Undead IV: Summons undead to fight for you.
- Sword of Deception: Blade of energy attacks independently, deals 1d4 damage, penalizes subsequent save.
- Thunderlance: Lance of force deals 3d6 damage and might dispel force effects.
- Translocation Trick: You and subject switch places and appear as each other.
- Treasure Scent: You detect valuable metals and gems.
- Voice of the Dragon: +10 on Bluff, Diplomacy and Intimidate checks; can use one suggestion.
- Vortex of Teeth: 3d8 points of damage due to force per round to all creatures in the area.
- Wall of Chaos:M Wall blocks creatures of opposite alignment.
- Wall of Evil:M Wall blocks creatures of opposite alignment.
- Wall of Fire: Deals 2d4 fire damage out to 10 ft. and 1d4 out to 20 ft. Passing through wall deals 2d6 damage +1/level.
- Wall of Good:M Wall blocks creatures of opposite alignment.
- Wall of Ice: Ice plane creates wall with 15 hp +1/level, or hemisphere can trap creatures inside.
- Wall of Law:M Wall blocks creatures of opposite alignment.
- Wall of Sand: Swirling sand blocks ranged attacks, slows movement through.
- Wall of Water: Creates shapeable transparent wall of water.
- Wingbind: A net of force entangles the subject, causing it to fall from the sky.
- Wings of Air, Greater: Subject’s flight manoeuvrability improves by two steps.
¶ 5th-Level
- Acid Sheath:F Sheath of acid damages those who attack you, enhances acid spells.
- Animal Growth: One animal/two levels doubles in size.
- Anticold Sphere: Sphere hedges out cold creatures and protects you from cold.
- Arc of Lightning: Line of electricity arcs between two creatures (1d6/level damage).
- Baleful Polymorph: Transforms subject into harmless animal.
- Ball Lightning: Energy ball deals 1d6/level electricity damage.
- Bigby’s Interposing Hand: Hand provides cover against one opponent.
- Bite of the Wereboar: You gain the Strength and attacks of a wereboar.
- Blight: Withers one plant or deals 1d6/level damage to plant creature.
- Blink, Greater: Controlled blinking between the Material and Ethereal Planes grants defenses for 1 round/level.
- Break Enchantment: Frees subjects from enchantments, alterations, curses, and petrification.
- Breath Weapon Substitution: Your breath weapon deals a different kind of damage than normal.
- Cacophonic Burst: Noise deals 1d6/level sonic damage to all within area.
- Cacophonic Shield: Shield 10 ft. from you blocks sounds, deals 1d6 sonic damage +1/level, and deafens creatures passing through.
- Call Zelekhut:x A zelekhut performs one duty for you.
- Cloudkill: Kills 3 HD or less; 4–6 HD save or die, 6+ HD take Con damage.
- Cone of Cold: 1d6/level cold damage.
- Contact Other Plane: Lets you ask question of extraplanar entity.
- Contingent Energy Resistance: Energy damage triggers a resist energy spell.
- Cyclonic Blast: Deals 1d6 damage/level, knocks down creatures.
- Death Throes: Your body explodes when you die.
- Dimension Door, Greater: Short-range, multiple-use dimension door.
- Dismissal: Forces a creature to return to native plane.
- Dispelling Breath: Your breath weapon acts as a targeted dispel magic to all creatures in its area.
- Dominate Person: Controls humanoid telepathically.
- Draconic Might: Gain +5 to Str, Con, Cha; +4 natural armour; immunity to magic sleep and paralysis effects.
- Dragon Ally, Lesser:X Exchange services with a 9 HD dragon.
- Dragonsight: Gain low-light vision, darkvision and blindsense.
- Dream: Sends message to anyone sleeping.
- Duelward: +4 on Spellcraft checks, counterspell as an immediate action.
- Earth Reaver: Eruption deals 7d6 damage to all in area.
- Enlarge Person, Greater: Subject remains enlarged for 1 hour/level.
- Ethereal Breath: Your breath weapon manifests on the Ethereal Plane.
- Fabricate: Transforms raw materials into finished items.
- False Vision:M Fools scrying with an illusion.
- Feeblemind: Subject’s Int and Cha drop to 1.
- Fiendform: Assume form and abilities of fiendish creature, demon or devil.
- Fire Shield, Mass: Creatures attacking allies take damage; allies are protected from fire or cold.
- Firebrand:M One 5-ft. burst/level deals 1d6 fire/level plus burning for 1 round.
- Fireburst, Greater: Subjects within 15 ft. take 1d10/level fire damage.
- Fly, Mass: One creature/level flies at speed of 60 ft.
- Greymantle: Inhibits creature’s ability to heal and regenerate for 1 round/level.
- Gutsnake: 10-ft. tentacle grows from your stomach and attacks your enemies.
- Hidden Lodge: Creates sturdy cottage camouflaged to blend into natural surroundings.
- Hold Monster: As hold person, but any creature.
- Illusory Feast: Subjects become dazed by illusory food.
- Indomitability: Subject can’t be reduced below 1 hp.
- Ironguard, Lesser: Subject becomes immune to non-magical metal.
- Leomund’s Secret Chest:F Hides expensive chest on Ethereal Plane; you retrieve it at will.
- Lucent Lance: Ambient light forms lance, deals various damage.
- Magic Jar:F Enables possession of another creature.
- Major Creation: As minor creation, plus stone and metal.
- Miasma of Entropy: Rot all natural materials in 30-ft. cone-shaped burst.
- Mind Fog: Subjects in fog get –10 to Wis and Will checks.
- Mirage Arcana: As hallucinatory terrain, plus structures.
- Moonbow: Three motes of electricity each deal 1d6/2 levels electricity damage to subjects.
- Mordenkainen’s Faithful Hound: Phantom dog can guard, attack.
- Mordenkainen’s Private Sanctum: Prevents anyone from viewing or scrying an area for 24 hours.
- Night’s Caress: Touched foe takes 1d6 points of damage/level plus 1d6+2 Con damage.
- Nightmare: Sends vision dealing 1d10 damage, fatigue.
- Nightstalker’s Transformation:M Gain +4 Dex, +3 luck bonus to AC, +5 luck bonus on Ref saves, +3d6 sneak attack and evasion.
- Overland Flight: You fly at a speed of 40 ft. and can hustle over long distances.
- Passwall: Creates passage through wood or stone wall.
- Permanency:X Makes certain spells permanent.
- Persistent Image: As major image, but no concentration required.
- Phantasmal Thief: Creates an unseen force that steals from others.
- Planar Binding, Lesser: Traps extraplanar creature of 6 HD or less until it performs a task.
- Planar Tolerance: Provides long-term protection against overtly damaging planar traits.
- Prismatic Ray: Ray of light blinds subject, deals random effect.
- Prying Eyes: 1d4 +1/level floating eyes scout for you.
- Rary’s Telepathic Bond: Link lets allies communicate.
- Reciprocal Gyre: Creature or object takes 1d12 damage/level of spell affecting it (max 25d12).
- Reduce Person, Greater: Subject remains reduced for 10 minutes/level.
- Refusal: Spellcasters and creatures with spell-like abilities are prevented from entering an area.
- Seeming: Changes appearance of one person per two levels.
- Sending: Delivers short message anywhere, instantly.
- Shadow Evocation: Mimics evocation below 5th level, but only 20% real.
- Shadow Form: Gain +4 on Hide, Move Silently and Escape Artist checks, and concealment; you can move through obstacles if you have ranks in Escape Artist.
- Shadow Hand: Medium hand blocks opponents or carries items.
- Shadowfade: Opens a portal to the Plane of Shadow.
- Shape Metal: Sculpts metal into any shape.
- Shard Storm: Blast deals 3d6 damage to creatures in area.
- Shroud of Flame: Subject bursts into flames, taking 2d6 fire damage/round.
- Sonic Rumble:F Cone of sound deals damage.
- Spell Matrix, Lesser:F Magical matrix stores a 3rd-level or lower spell to be cast later as quickened spell.
- Spiritwall: Wall of spirit-forms causes panic, deals 1d10 damage if touched, can bestow negative levels if passed through.
- Stunning Breath: Your breath weapon also stuns creatures for 1 round.
- Summon Monster V: Calls extraplanar creature to fight for you.
- Summon Undead V: Summons undead to fight for you.
- Sunlight: 60-ft. radius of sunlight.
- Surefooted Stride, Mass: As surefooted stride but multiple subjects.
- Symbol of Pain:M Triggered rune wracks nearby creatures with pain.
- Symbol of Sleep:M Triggered rune puts nearby creatures into catatonic slumber.
- Symbol of Spell Loss: Triggered rune absorbs spells yet to be cast.
- Telekinesis: Moves object, attacks creature or hurls object or creature.
- Teleport: Instantly transports you as far as 100 miles/level.
- Transmute Mud to Rock: Transforms two 10-ft. cubes per level.
- Transmute Rock to Mud: Transforms two 10-ft. cubes per level.
- Viscid Glob: Ranged touch attack hurls 5-ft.-diameter glob of glue at subject.
- Vitriolic Sphere: Potent acid deals 6d6 acid damage plus possible damage in following 2 rounds.
- Vulnerability: Reduces an opponent’s damage reduction.
- Wall of Dispel Magic: Creatures passing through a transparent wall becomes subjects of targeted dispel magic.
- Wall of Force: Wall is immune to damage.
- Wall of Limbs: Whirling limbs deal 5d6 damage and grab creatures passing through.
- Wall of Stone: Creates a stone wall that can be shaped.
- Waves of Fatigue: Several targets become fatigued.
- Wrack: Renders creature helpless with pain.
- Xorn Movement: Touched creature swims through earth like a xorn.
- Zone of Respite: Prevents teleportation and similar effects from functioning in the area.
¶ 6th-Level
- Acid Fog: Fog deals acid damage.
- Acid Storm:M Deals 1d6/level acid damage (max 15d6) in a 20-ft. radius.
- Analyze Dweomer:F Reveals magical aspects of subject.
- Anti-Magic Field: Negates magic within 10 ft.
- Anticipate Teleportation, Greater:F Predict and delay the arrival of creatures teleporting into range by 3 rounds.
- Aura of Evasion:M All within 10 ft. gain evasion against breath weapons.
- Aura of Terror: You gain an aura of fear, or your frightful presence becomes more effective.
- Bear’s Endurance, Mass: As bear’s endurance, affects one subject/level.
- Bigby’s Forceful Hand: Hand pushes creatures away.
- Bite of the Weretiger: You gain the Strength and attacks of a weretiger.
- Brilliant Blade: Weapon or projectiles shed light, ignore armour.
- Bull’s Strength, Mass: As bull’s strength, affects one subject/level.
- Cat’s Grace, Mass: As cat’s grace, affects one subject/level.
- Chain Lightning: 1d6/level damage; 1 secondary bolt/level each deals half damage.
- Circle of Death:M Kills 1d4/level HD of creatures.
- Cloak of the Sea: Gain blur, freedom of movement and water breathing while in water.
- Contagion, Mass: As contagion, but 20-ft. radius.
- Contingency:F Sets trigger condition for another spell.
- Control Water: Raises or lowers bodies of water.
- Create Undead:M Creates ghouls, ghasts, mummies or mohrgs.
- Disintegrate: Makes one creature or object vanish.
- Dispel Magic, Greater: As dispel magic, but +20 on check.
- Dream Casting: Alter subject’s dreams to produce desired effect.
- Eagle’s Splendour, Mass: As eagle’s splendour, affects one subject/level.
- Extract Water Elemental: Pulls water from victim, forms water elemental.
- Eyebite: Target becomes panicked, sickened and comatose.
- Fire Spiders: Swarm of Fine fire elementals deals fire damage in an area.
- Fires of Purity: Subject bursts into magical flame, becoming a dangerous weapon.
- Flesh to Stone: Turns subject creature into statue.
- Fleshshiver: Subject is stunned for 1 round, takes 1d6/level damage, and is nauseated for 1d4+2 rounds.
- Fox’s Cunning, Mass: As fox’s cunning, affects one subject/level.
- Freezing Fog: Fog slows creatures, obscures vision, hinders movement.
- Geas/Quest: As lesser geas, plus it affects any creature.
- Gemjump:F Teleport to the location of a specially prepared gem.
- Ghoul Gauntlet: Convert victim to a ghoul under your control.
- Globe of Invulnerability: As lesser globe of invulnerability, plus 4th-level spell effects.
- Guards and Wards: Array of magic effects protect area.
- Hardening:M Increases object’s hardness by 1 point/2 levels.
- Heroism, Greater: Gives +4 bonus on attack rolls, saves, skill checks; immunity to fear; temporary hp.
- Howling Chain:F Chain of force trips and attacks opponents.
- Illusory Pit: Creatures in area are knocked prone while believing they’re falling.
- Imbue Familiar with Spell Ability: You transfer spells and casting ability into your familiar.
- Imperious Glare: You cause subjects to cower in fear.
- Incorporeal Nova: Destroy incorporeal undead.
- Interplanar Telepathic Bond: Link lets allies communicate across planes.
- Legend Lore:MF Lets you learn tales about a person, place or thing.
- Make Manifest: You cause a creature on a co-existent plane to appear on your plane.
- Mislead: Turns you invisible and creates illusory double.
- Mordenkainen’s Lucubration: Recalls spell of 5th level or lower.
- Move Earth: Digs trenches and build hills.
- Ooze Puppet: You telekinetically control an ooze.
- Opalescent Glare: Kill creatures with a look, or make them very afraid.
- Otiluke’s Freezing Sphere: Freezes water or deals cold damage.
- Owl’s Wisdom, Mass: As owl’s wisdom, affects one subject/level.
- Permanent Image: Includes sight, sound and smell.
- Planar Binding: As lesser planar binding, but up to 12 HD.
- Probe Thoughts: Read subject’s memories, one question/round.
- Programmed Image:M As major image, plus triggered by event.
- Ray of Entropy: Subject takes –4 Strength, Dexterity and Constitution.
- Ray of Light: Ray blinds subject.
- Reflective Disguise, Mass: Viewers see subjects as their own species and gender.
- Repulsion: Creatures can’t approach you.
- Resistance, Superior: Subject gains +6 on saving throws.
- Revive Undead:M Restores undeath to undead that was destroyed up to 1 day/level ago.
- Ruby Ray of Reversal:F Ray negates magical or mundane hazards.
- Seal Portal:M Seal an interplanar portal or gate.
- Shadow Canopy Create a dome of shadow that is impenetrable to vision and is dark inside.
- Shadow Walk: Step into shadow to travel rapidly.
- Shadowy Grappler: Illusory force grapples subject.
- Sign of Sealing, Greater:M Magical sigil protects door, chest or open space, deals 1d6/level damage (max 20d6) if opened.
- Spectral Touch: Your touch bestows one negative level/round.
- Spore Clock: The cloak is surrounded by a spore cloud providing concelement, 1d6/2d6 Con damage and fungal immunity.
- Stone Body: Your body becomes living stone.
- Stone to Flesh: Restores petrified creature.
- Subvert Planar Essence: Reduces subject’s damage reduction and spell resistance.
- Suggestion, Mass: As suggestion, plus one subject/level.
- Summon Monster VI: Calls extraplanar creature to fight for you.
- Symbol of Fear:M Triggered rune panics nearby creatures.
- Symbol of Persuasion:M Triggered rune charms nearby creatures.
- Tenser’s Transformation:M You gain combat bonuses.
- Transcribe Symbol: Safely moves an untriggered magical symbol to another location.
- True Seeing:M Lets you see all things as they really are.
- Tunnel Swallow: Tunnel’s peristaltic convulsions deal 1d6 points of damage/level (max 15d6).
- Undeath to Death:M Destroys 1d4/level HD of undead (max 20d4).
- Veil: Changes appearance of group of creatures.
- Wall of Gears: Creates wall of moving gears that deals 1d6 damage/2 levels to creatures within 10 ft.
- Wall of Iron:M 30 hp/four levels; can topple onto foes.
¶ 7th-Level
- Animate Breath: Your breath weapon becomes an elemental.
- Antimagic Ray:M Subject loses all magical powers.
- Arcane Sight, Greater: As arcane sight, but also reveals magic effects on creatures and objects.
- Arrow of Bone:M Missile or thrown weapon gains +4 bonus, subject takes 3d6 damage +1/level (max +20) or is slain.
- Avasculate: Reduce foe to half hp and stun.
- Awaken Undead:X Grant sentience to otherwise mindless undead.
- Banishment: Banishes 2 HD/level of extraplanar creatures.
- Barghest’s Feast:M Destroy corpse, potentially preventing its return to life.
- Bigby’s Grasping Hand: Hand provides cover, pushes or grapples.
- Bite of the Werebear: You gain the Strength and attacks of a werebear.
- Body of War: You change into warforged titan, gain some abilities.
- Brilliant Aura: Allies’ weapons become brilliant energy, ignoring armour.
- Call Kolyarut:X A kolyarut performs one duty for you.
- Control Undead: Undead don’t attack you while under your command.
- Control Weather: Changes weather in local area.
- Delayed Blast Fireball: 1d6/level fire damage; you can postpone blast for 5 rounds.
- Dispelling Screen, Greater: Targeted dispel magic on any creatures and unattended items, +20 max on caster level check.
- Dragon Ally:X As lesser dragon ally, but up to 15 HD.
- Drawmij’s Instant Summons:M Prepared object appears in your hand.
- Elemental Body: You take on the qualities of a type of elemental.
- Emerald Flame Fist: Touch attack deals 3d6 + fire damage 1/level (max +20); subject can be engulfed by flame for additional damage.
- Energy Ebb: Give subject one negative level/round for 1 round/level.
- Energy Immunity: Subject and equipment gain immunity to damage of specified energy type.
- Energy Transformation Field:MX Area absorbs magic energy to power a predetermined spell.
- Ethereal Jaunt: You become ethereal for 1 round/level.
- Evil Glare: Paralyze creatures with your glare.
- Finger of Death: Kills one subject.
- Forcecage:M Cube or cage of force imprisons all inside.
- Ghost Trap: Incorporeal creatures turn corporeal.
- Glass Strike: Turns subject into glass.
- Hide from Dragons: Dragons can’t perceive one subject/2 levels.
- Hiss of Sleep: You induce comatose slumber in subjects.
- Hold Person, Mass: As hold person, but all within 30 ft.
- Ice Claw: Claw of ice grapples and deals cold damage.
- Insanity: Subject suffers continuous confusion.
- Invisibility, Mass: As invisibility, but affects all in range.
- Ironguard:F Subject becomes immune to all metal.
- Kiss of the Vampire:M You gain vampire-like supernatural abilities, but are vulnerable to attacks that harm undead.
- Limited Wish:X Alters reality -—- within spell limits.
- Mordenkainen’s Magnificent Mansion:F Door leads to extradimensional mansion.
- Mordenkainen’s Sword:F Floating magic blade strikes opponents.
- Phase Door: Creates an invisible passage through wood or stone.
- Planar Bubble: Create bubble around creature that emulates its native planar environment.
- Plane Shift:F As many as eight subjects travel to another plane.
- Power Word Blind: Blinds creature with 200 hp or less.
- Prismatic Eye: Orb produces individual prismatic rays as touch attacks.
- Prismatic Spray: Rays hit subjects with variety of effects.
- Project Image: Illusory double can talk and cast spells.
- Radiant Assault: 1d6 damage/level, victims dazed or dazzled.
- Rebuke, Final: As rebuke, except the subject must save or die.
- Reverse Gravity: Objects and creatures fall upward.
- Scrying, Greater: As scrying, but faster and longer.
- Sequester: Subject is invisible to sight and scrying; renders creature comatose.
- Shadow Conjuration, Greater: As shadow conjuration, but up to 6th level and 60% real.
- Simulacrum:MX Creates partially real double of a creature.
- Solipsism: Subject believes it alone exists.
- Spell Matrix:F Stores up to two spells of 3rd level or lower to be released later.
- Spell Turning: Reflect 1d4+6 spell levels back at caster.
- Statue: Subject can become a statue at will.
- Stone Shape, Greater: Sculpts 10 cu. ft. + 10 cu. ft./level of stone into any shape.
- Stun Ray: Subject stunned 1d4+1 rounds.
- Submerge Ship: You control ship mentally while it travels underwater.
- Summon Monster VII: Calls extraplanar creature to fight for you.
- Sword of Darkness: Blade of negative energy bestows one or more negative levels.
- Symbol of Stunning:M Triggered rune stuns nearby creatures.
- Symbol of Weakness:M Triggered rune weakens nearby creatures.
- Symphonic Nightmare:M Discordant noise haunts subject’s sleep.
- Synostodweomer: Channel a spell into positive energy to cure 1d8/spell level.
- Teleport Object: As teleport, but affects a touched object.
- Teleport, Greater: As teleport, but no range limit and no off-target arrival.
- Transfix: Humanoids freeze in place until condition you specify is met.
- Vision:MX As legend lore, but quicker and strenuous.
- Waves of Exhaustion: Several targets become exhausted.
¶ 8th-Level
- Antipathy: Object or location affected by spell repels certain creatures.
- Avascular Mass: Reduce foe to half hp and stun, entangle in 20-ft. radius from victim.
- Bestow Curse, Greater: As bestow curse, but more severe penalties.
- Bigby’s Clenched Fist: Large hand provides cover, pushes or attacks your foes.
- Binding:M Utilizes an array of techniques to imprison a creature.
- Blackfire: Subject is engulfed in black flame, takes 1d4 Con damage and becomes nauseated; flames and effects can spread to adjacent living creatures.
- Charm Monster, Mass: As charm monster, but all within 30 ft.
- Clone:MF Duplicate awakens when original dies.
- Create Greater Undead:M Create shadows, wraiths, spectres or devourers.
- Demand: As sending, plus you can send suggestion.
- Dimensional Lock: Teleportation and interplanar travel blocked for one day/level.
- Discern Location: Reveals exact location of creature or object.
- Excavate: Creates a permanent passage in earth and walls.
- Field of Icy Razors:F Creatures in area take normal and cold damage, might be slowed.
- Fierce Pride of the Beastlands: Summon celestial lions and celestial dire lions to follow your commands.
- Flensing: Pain and trauma deal 2d6 damage, 1d6 Con damage, 1d6 Cha damage for up to 4 rounds.
- Ghostform: You assume incorporeal form and gain some incorporeal traits and bonuses.
- Heart of Stone:FX Exchange your heart with stone heart to gain damage reduction, resistance to energy for 1 year.
- Horrid Wilting: Deals 1d6/level damage within 30 ft.
- Incendiary Cloud: Cloud deals 4d6 fire damage/round.
- Invisibility, Superior: Subject is invisible to sight, hearing, and scent for 1 minute/level, and can attack.
- Iron Body: Your body becomes living iron.
- Lightning Ring: Ring of lightning gives you resistance to electricity 20, damages adjacent creatures, and emits two lightning bolts per round.
- Maddening Whispers: You induce confusion and madness in subjects.
- Make Manifest, Mass: As make manifest but affecting all creatures in the area.
- Maze: Traps subject in extradimensional maze.
- Mind Blank: Subject is immune to mental/emotional magic and scrying.
- Moment of Prescience: You gain insight bonus on single attack roll, check or save.
- Otiluke’s Telekinetic Sphere: As Otiluke’s Resilient Sphere, but you move sphere telekinetically.
- Otto’s Irresistible Dance: Forces subject to dance.
- Planar Binding, Greater: As lesser planar binding, but up to 18 HD.
- Plane Shift, Greater: Plane shift accurately to your desired destination.
- Polar Ray: Ranged touch attack deals 1d6/level cold damage.
- Polymorph any Object: Changes any subject into anything else.
- Power Word Stun: Stuns creature with 150 hp or less.
- Prismatic Wall: Wall’s colours have array of effects.
- Protection from Spells:MF Confers +8 resistance bonus.
- Prying Eyes, Greater: As prying eyes, but eyes have true seeing.
- Scintillating Pattern: Twisting colours confuse, stun or render unconscious.
- Screen: Illusion hides area from vision, scrying.
- Shadow Evocation, Greater: As shadow evocation, but up to 7th level and 60% real.
- Shifting Paths: Illusion hides path, creates false new path.
- Shout, Greater: Devastating yell deals 10d6 sonic damage; stuns creatures, damages objects.
- Skeletal Guard:M Create one skeleton/level with turn resistance.
- Spell Engine:MX Swap out prepared spells for other spells in your spellbook.
- Stunning Breath, Greater: Your breath weapon also stuns creatures for 2d4 rounds.
- Summon Monster VIII: Calls extraplanar creature to fight for you.
- Sunburst: Blinds all within 80 ft., deals 6d6 damage.
- Symbol of Death:M Triggered rune slays nearby creatures.
- Symbol of Insanity:M Triggered rune renders nearby creatures insane.
- Sympathy:F Object or location attracts certain creatures.
- Temporal Stasis:M Puts subject into suspended animation.
- Trap the Soul:MF Imprisons subject within gem.
- Veil of Undeath: You gain undead traits.
- Wall of Greater Dispel Magic: Creatures passing through a transparent wall become subjects of targeted greater dispel magic.
- Wrathful Castigation: Subject dies or is dazed and –4 on saves for 1 round/level.
¶ 9th-Level
- Absorption: You absorb spell energy to power spells of your own.
- Abyssal Army: Summons demons to fight for you.
- Astral Projection:M Projects you and companions onto Astral Plane.
- Awaken Construct:X Construct gains human-like sentience.
- Bigby’s Crushing Hand: Large hand provides cover, pushes or crushes your foes.
- Black Blade of Disaster: Floating magic weapon disintegrates subjects.
- Breath Weapon Admixture: Add a second kind of energy to your breath weapon.
- Call Marut:X A marut performs one duty for you.
- Dominate Monster: As dominate person, but any creature.
- Dragon Ally, Greater:X As lesser dragon ally, but up to 21 HD.
- Effulgent Epuration: Creates one sphere/level to negate hostile magic.
- Energy Drain: Subject gains 2d4 negative levels.
- Enervating Breath: Your breath weapon also bestows 2d4 negative levels.
- Etherealness: Travel to Ethereal Plane with companions.
- Eye of Power: As arcane eye, but you can cast spells of 3rd level or lower through it.
- Foresight: “Sixth sense” warns of impending danger.
- Freedom: Releases creature from imprisonment.
- Gate:X Connects two planes for travel or summoning.
- Heavenly Host: Summons archons to fight for you.
- Hellish Horde: Summons devils to fight for you.
- Hindsight:M You see into the past.
- Hold Monster, Mass: As hold monster, but all within 30 ft.
- Imprisonment: Entombs subject beneath the earth.
- Instant Refuge:MX Transport to a safe location of your choice.
- Magic Miasma: Solid fog reduces caster level by –4.
- Maw of Chaos: Chaotic energy dazes, deals damage, impedes concentration.
- Meteor Swarm: Four exploding spheres each deal 6d6 fire damage.
- Mordenkainen’s Disjunction: Dispels magic, disenchants magic items.
- Obedient Avalanche: Snowy avalanche crushes and buries your foes.
- Perinarch, Planar: Gain control over a small area of any divinely morphic plane.
- Plague of Undead:M Animates horde of undead.
- Power Word Kill: Kills one creature with 100 hp or less.
- Prismatic Sphere: As prismatic wall, but surrounds on all sides.
- Programmed Amnesia:M Destroy, alter or replace memories in subject creature.
- Reality Maelstrom: Hole in reality sends creatures and objects to another plane.
- Reaving Dispel: On a targeted dispel, steal spell power and effects for yourself.
- Refuge:M Alters item to transport its possessor to you.
- Replicate Casting: Duplicate observed spell or spell-like ability.
- Shades: As shadow conjuration, but up to 8th level and 80% real.
- Shapechange:F Transforms you into any creature, and change forms once per round.
- Soul Bind:F Traps newly dead soul to prevent resurrection.
- Spell Matrix, Greater:F Stores up to three spells of 3rd level or lower to be released later.
- Sphere of Ultimate Destruction: Featureless black sphere does 2d6/level damage, disintegrates.
- Summon Elemental Monolith:M Calls powerful elemental creature to fight for you.
- Summon Monster IX: Calls extraplanar creature to fight for you.
- Teleportation Circle:M Circle teleports any creature inside to designated spot.
- Time Stop: You act freely for 1d4+1 rounds.
- Transmute Rock to Lava: Transforms one 10-ft. cube with subsequent fire damage and effects.
- Unbinding: Frees everyone in range from spells that constrain or bind.
- Undermaster:M You gain earth-related spell-like abilities.
- Vile Death:MX Undead creature gains fiendish template.
- Wail of the Banshee: Kills one creature/level.
- Weird: As phantasmal killer, but affects all within 30 ft.
- Wish:X As limited wish, but with fewer limits.
¶ WIZARD VARIANTS
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|Variant Classes
Anagakok
Combat Wizard
Deathwalker
Domain Wizard
Filidh
Fleshcrafter
High Specialist
Soul Reaper
|Alternative Class Features
¶ Aligned Spellcaster
See Transversed Arcana: Aligned Spellcaster.
¶ Aquatic Wizard
See Stormwrack Class Features: Aquatic Wizard.
¶ Arcane Reabsorption
See Unfamiliar Territory: Arcane Reabsorption.
¶ Beleaguered Spellcaster
See Transversed Arcana: Beleaguered Spellcaster.
¶ Disciple of Boccob
See Transversed Arcana: Disciple of Boccob.
Domain Granted Power
Drakken Familar
Drow Wizard
¶ Eidetic Spellcaster
See Transversed Arcana: Eidetic Spellcaster.
¶ Focus Caster
See Unfamiliar Territory: Focus Caster.
¶ Frostfell Wizard
See Frostburn Class Features: Frostfell Wizard.
Golarion Wizard
Imbued Staff
Immediate Magic
¶ Impromptu Metamagic
See Transversed Arcana: Impromptu Metamagic.
¶ School Mastery
See Transversed Arcana: School Mastery.
¶ Wasteland Wizard
See Sandstorm Class Features: Wasteland Wizard.
Wilderness Companion
Wizard of Sun and Moon
|Substitution Levels
Changeling Wizard
Dukar
Elf Wizard
Gnome Illusionist
Halfling Wizard
High One Warrior-Wizard
Planar Wizard
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¶ Anagakok
Most primitive societies have sorcerers, shamans, or witch doctors among their ranks, but a lesser-known tradition of cunning arcanists has existed for thousands of years. Found among some of the most barbaric tribes of the world, those who learn this magical discipline do not rely on instincts, personal magnetism, or divinity to weave their magic. Instead, much like the wizards of more civilized societies, they learn their mysterious craft by rote and study their spells each day, using their superior intellects to master the peculiar power of the arcane. Those who follow this path are called anagakoks.
An anagakok (ah nah GA kawk) is an alternative specialist wizard from a primitive society. Born and raised in nature and bound by the traditions of an ancient people, an anagakok has great respect for and control over the environment in which he lives. From an early age, he learns to master the art of survival in the most extreme conditions. Many of his spells grant him a measure of control over animals and plants, and others allow him to move through nature unhindered or unseen. Although he does not necessarily worship deities associated with the wilderness and the source of his power comes from arcane forces rather than from the divine, an anagakok attracts the attention of many lesser spirits of the wild. These fickle beings bestow special boons on the anagakok that make him unnaturally lucky. The members of his tribe regard him as someone who brings good fortune to the people. Most of his tribesmen cling to the belief that a guardian spirit possesses this mysterious magic weaver.
The anagakok is especially concerned with the well-being of his tribe. He helps gather food, finds safe shelter in times of crisis, and defends tribesmates against sometimes impossible odds. Because of his connection to nature and the useful spells he can cast, the anagakok is a vital member of his society. Nevertheless, like many wizards the anagakok is often attracted to a life of adventure and exploration. When an anagakok chooses to become an adventurer, he travels the world seeking to perfect his art.
An adventuring anagakok can be of valuable assistance to any party. Because his magic is especially useful in the wild, he is a great addition to any group that lacks a druid or ranger in its ranks, as well as to any party that specializes in wilderness exploration. A versatile character, the anagakok is not lost in environments unknown to him - such as in great cities.
The anagakok is a variant wizard. Unless otherwise noted, an anagakok advances in the same manner as a wizard (same base attack bonus, saving throw bonuses, skill points, and so on). When a character elects to take a level of wizard or anagakok, he may not later take levels in the other class. This prevents the character from gaining the benefits of a 1st-level wizard twice.
The anagakok originally appeared as a kit in second edition’s Complete Wizard’s Handbook.
Alignment: Any. Although an anagakok is rarely lawful, he can be of any alignment.
¶ Class Skills
In addition to those of the standard wizard, the anagakok also has Survival as a class skill.
¶ Table: The Anagakok
| Level | Base Attack Bonus | Fort Save | Ref Save | Will Save | Special | Spells per Day1 | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0 | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | 5th | 6th | 7th | 8th | 9th | ||||||
| — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||||||
| 1st | +0 | +0 | +0 | +2 | Good fortune (2 points), illiteracy, spontaneous casting, wilderness lore | 3+1 | 1+1 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2nd | +1 | +0 | +0 | +3 | � | 4+1 | 2+1 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 3rd | +1 | +1 | +1 | +3 | � | 4+1 | 2+1 | 1+1 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 4th | +2 | +1 | +1 | +4 | � | 4+1 | 3+1 | 2+1 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 5th | +2 | +1 | +1 | +4 | Good fortune (4 points) | 4+1 | 3+1 | 2+1 | 1+1 | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 6th | +3 | +2 | +2 | +5 | � | 4+1 | 3+1 | 3+1 | 2+1 | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 7th | +3 | +2 | +2 | +5 | � | 4+1 | 4+1 | 3+1 | 2+1 | 1+1 | — | — | — | — | — |
| 8th | +4 | +2 | +2 | +6 | � | 4+1 | 4+1 | 3+1 | 3+1 | 2+1 | — | — | — | — | — |
| 9th | +4 | +3 | +3 | +6 | � | 4+1 | 4+1 | 4+1 | 3+1 | 2+1 | 1+1 | — | — | — | — |
| 10th | +5 | +3 | +3 | +7 | Good fortune (6 points) | 4+1 | 4+1 | 4+1 | 3+1 | 3+1 | 2+1 | — | — | — | — |
| 11th | +5 | +3 | +3 | +7 | � | 4+1 | 4+1 | 4+1 | 4+1 | 3+1 | 2+1 | 1+1 | — | — | — |
| 12th | +6/+1 | +4 | +4 | +8 | � | 4+1 | 4+1 | 4+1 | 4+1 | 3+1 | 3+1 | 2+1 | — | — | — |
| 13th | +6/+1 | +4 | +4 | +8 | � | 4+1 | 4+1 | 4+1 | 4+1 | 4+1 | 3+1 | 2+1 | 1+1 | — | — |
| 14th | +7/+2 | +4 | +4 | +9 | � | 4+1 | 4+1 | 4+1 | 4+1 | 4+1 | 3+1 | 3+1 | 2+1 | — | — |
| 15th | +7/+2 | +5 | +5 | +9 | Good fortune (8 points) | 4+1 | 4+1 | 4+1 | 4+1 | 4+1 | 4+1 | 3+1 | 2+1 | 1+1 | — |
| 16th | +8/+3 | +5 | +5 | +10 | � | 4+1 | 4+1 | 4+1 | 4+1 | 4+1 | 4+1 | 3+1 | 3+1 | 2+1 | — |
| 17th | +8/+3 | +5 | +5 | +10 | � | 4+1 | 4+1 | 4+1 | 4+1 | 4+1 | 4+1 | 4+1 | 3+1 | 2+1 | 1+1 |
| 18th | +9/+4 | +6 | +6 | +11 | � | 4+1 | 4+1 | 4+1 | 4+1 | 4+1 | 4+1 | 4+1 | 3+1 | 3+1 | 2+1 |
| 19th | +9/+4 | +6 | +6 | +11 | � | 4+1 | 4+1 | 4+1 | 4+1 | 4+1 | 4+1 | 4+1 | 4+1 | 3+1 | 3+1 |
| 20th | +10/+5 | +6 | +6 | +12 | Good fortune (10 points) | 4+1 | 4+1 | 4+1 | 4+1 | 4+1 | 4+1 | 4+1 | 4+1 | 4+1 | 4+1 |
| 1 In addition to the stated number of spells per day for 0- through 9th-level spells, an anagakok gets a bonus specialization spell for each spell level for specializing in a distinctive school of magic unique to anagakoks. The “+1” in the entries on this table represents that spell. Bonus specialization spells are in addition to any bonus spells the anagakok may receive for having a high Intelligence score. |
¶ Class Features
An anagakok can prepare as many spells per day a regular specialist.
Spellbooks: Just like a wizard, an anagakok must study his spellbook each day to prepare his spells. He cannot prepare any spell not recorded in his spellbook, except for read magic, which all anagakoks can prepare from memory. An anagakok’s spellbook is usually made from crudely cut layers of bark. Some anagakoks even carve the formulas for their spells on stone, tree roots, or other materials found in nature, but most prefer bark because it is lighter and easier to write on.
School Specialization: An anagakok is a specialist wizard (seeSchool Specialization) specializing in a distinctive school of magic unique to anagakoks. Unlike typical wizard schools, the anagakok’s school of magic regroups spells especially useful to survival in harsh environmental conditions as well as spells affecting nature in general. As such, the anagakok school of magic allows him to cast spells not typically available to other wizards (i.e., not on the wizard spell list). As a type of specialist wizard, an anagakok can prepare one additional spell of this specialty school per spell level each day, as normal. These spells go on the anagakok’s spell list, allowing him to prepare them in any spell slot. He also gains a +2 bonus on Spellcraft checks to learn spells of this school. The anagakok’s prohibited schools are always illusion and necromancy, and he may never learn or cast spells from them. An anagakok cannot become a specialist in any other school.
The anagakok’s school includes the following spells:
0 - create water, know direction, purify food and drink;
1st - calm animals, charm animal, detect animals or plants, detect snares and pits, longstrider, pass without trace;
2nd - animal trance, hold animal, reduce animal, wood shape;
3rd - diminish plants, dominate animal, neutralize poison, quench, snare;
4th - antiplant shell, command plants, repel vermin, rusting grasp;
5th - awaken, commune with nature, control winds, tree stride;
6th - find the path, repel wood, stone tell, transport via plants;
7th - animate plants, transmute metal to wood, windwalk;
8th - animal shapes, control plants, repel metal or stone;
9th - elemental swarm, regenerate, shambler.
Illiteracy: With the exception of arcane spell formulas, the anagakok cannot read or write. He may spend 2 skill points to gain the ability to read and write all languages he is able to speak.
An anagakok who gains a level in any other class except barbarian automatically gains literacy. Any other character who gains an anagakok level does not lose the literacy he already had.
Spontaneous Casting: An anagakok can channel stored spell energy into an endure elements spell the anagakok did not prepare ahead of time. The anagakok can “lose” any prepared spell of 1st level or higher that is not his specialist bonus spell in order to cast endure elements.
Wilderness Lore: An anagakok is learned in the ways of nature. He gains a +2 bonus on Knowledge (Nature) and on Survival checks.
Good Fortune: The anagakok is well regarded by the many spirits that inhabit the wilderness and begins to attract their attention early in his career. Blessed by the spirits of nature, he gains a number of good fortune points he can apply (as an immediate action) to any die roll to gain a luck bonus equal to the number of points he expends. At 1st level, he receives 2 good fortune points per day, and this number increases by 2 more points at 5th level and every five levels thereafter. The anagakok may spread out his good fortune points to add bonuses to a number of rolls, checks, or saving throws or expend them all on a single die roll. As a readied action, the anagakok may also choose to expend his good fortune points to grant a luck bonus on the roll of an ally he can touch.
¶ Changeling Wizard
The changeling wizard taps into his doppelganger heritage in order to simultaneously specialize in illusion and transmutation. He has an intuitive feel for how to change himself and others (both physically and visually), but gives up some of the standard wizard’s versatility in exchange for these additional talents in deception.
¶ Requirements
To take a changeling wizard substitution level, a character must be a changeling about to take his 1st, 5th, or 10th level of wizard.
¶ Class Skills
Changeling wizard substitution levels have the class skills of the standard wizard class, plus Bluff, Disguise, and Sleight of Hand.
Skill Points at Each Level: 4 + Int modifier (or four times this number as a beginning character).
¶ Class Features
All the following are features of the changeling wizard’s racial substitution levels.
Dual Specialization (Ex): At 1st level, a changeling wizard can choose to pursue a dual specialization in illusion and transmutation. To do so, he must give up three other schools of magic (but just as for a normal specialist wizard, a changeling wizard can’t give up divination to fulfill this requirement).
A changeling wizard can prepare one additional spell per spell level each day, chosen from either of his specialty schools. For instance, he might choose to prepare ghost sound (illusion) as his additional 0-level spell and expeditious retreat (transmutation) as his additional 1st-level spell.
In addition, he gains a +2 bonus on Spellcraft checks to learn spells from either of these schools. This substitution feature replaces the standard wizard’s specialization option.
Limited Spell Knowledge: A changeling wizard’s focused studies in illusion and transmutation lead to an excess of knowledge in those areas, but limit his ability to easily add spells of other schools to his spellbook. Each time the character selects a changeling wizard substitution level (other than 1st level), he chooses three spells from the illusion or transmutation schools to add to his spellbook in lieu of the normal two spells added to the standard wizard’s spellbook upon gaining a new wizard level. This has no effect on a changeling wizard’s ability to add other spells to his spellbook, such as those taken from a scroll or from another wizard’s spellbook.
Morphic Familiar (Su): At 5th level, a changeling wizard’s familiar gains the ability to alter its form on command. As a full-round action, the familiar can change its form to that of any creature that the wizard could normally have as afamiliar. The wizard gains the new benefit of the familiar while losing the previous benefit. If the changeling wizard does not have a familiar, this ability has no effect until he gains one.
This substitution feature replaces the standard wizard’s bonus feat gained at 5th level.
Override Transmutation (Ex): A changeling wizard’s skill with transmutation spells serves as a good defence against them. Starting at 10th level, if he fails his normal saving throw against a transmutation spell or spell-like ability with a duration other than instantaneous, a changeling wizard can attempt an additional save 1 round later against the same DC.
This substitution feature replaces the standard wizard’s bonus feat gained at 10th level.
¶ Table: Changeling Wizard Racial Substitution Levels
| Level | Base Attack Bonus | Fort Save | Ref Save | Will Save | Special | Spellcasting |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1st | +0 | +0 | +0 | +2 | Dual specialization, summon familiar, Scribe Scroll | Same as wizard |
| 5th | +2 | +1 | +1 | +4 | Limited spell knowledge, morphic familiar | Same as wizard |
| 10th | +5 | +3 | +3 | +7 | Limited spell knowledge, override transmutation | Same as wizard |
¶ Combat Wizard
See Combat Wizard.
¶ Dead Levels
See Dead Levels: Wizard.
¶ Deathwalker
From the earliest days of her training, the deathwalker works to gain immortality as an undead creature. The first stages of her transformation are simple changes that leave her mostly alive. As her necromantic prowess increases, however, the dark energies she commands slowly kill off her corporeal form, rotting it from the inside out. By the time she reaches 20th level, she has completed her transformation into an undead creature.
The deathwalker invests more time and effort in achieving immortality this way than she would by using other means, but the gradual change allows her to gain control of potent necromantic magic as she undergoes the necessary physical changes. Furthermore, as she grows in power, her capacity to command and control other undead creatures increases. The deathwalker may follow a more arduous road to eternal life than other necromancers, but the end result is immortality plus power - a potent combination indeed.
Deathwalkers crave undeath, and they view necromancy as a useful tool for collecting and commanding utterly obedient undead servants. Many deathwalkers are utterly amoral, seeing living beings in the same light as they do skeletons or zombies. Both categories of beings, living and mindless undead, are little more than tools or objects to be used and manipulated for their own twisted ends. Some deathwalkers are content to remain in their isolated towers and strongholds, but most are too ambitious to rest on their laurels. Their casual disdain for the living leads them to pursue rituals that require the deaths of hundreds of innocents with little concern for the potential repercussions of their actions.
¶ Class Skills
The deathwalker’s class skills (and the key ability for each skill) are Bluff (Cha), Concentration (Con), Craft (Int), Knowledge (All skills, taken individually) (Int), Profession (Wis), and Spellcraft (Int).
Skill Points at 1st Level: (2 + Int modifier) × 4.
Skill Points at Each Additional Level: 2 + Int modifier.
¶ Table: The Deathwalker
| Level | Base Attack Bonus | Fort Save | Ref Save | Will Save | Special | Spells per Day1 | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0 | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | 5th | 6th | 7th | 8th | 9th | ||||||
| — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||||||
| 1st | +0 | +0 | +0 | +2 | Master of the dead, undead familiar | 3+1 | 1+1 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2nd | +1 | +0 | +0 | +3 | � | 4+1 | 2+1 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 3rd | +1 | +1 | +1 | +3 | � | 4+1 | 2+1 | 1+1 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 4th | +2 | +1 | +1 | +4 | � | 4+1 | 3+1 | 2+1 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 5th | +2 | +1 | +1 | +4 | Aura of the grave | 4+1 | 3+1 | 2+1 | 1+1 | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 6th | +3 | +2 | +2 | +5 | � | 4+1 | 3+1 | 3+1 | 2+1 | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 7th | +3 | +2 | +2 | +5 | � | 4+1 | 4+1 | 3+1 | 2+1 | 1+1 | — | — | — | — | — |
| 8th | +4 | +2 | +2 | +6 | � | 4+1 | 4+1 | 3+1 | 3+1 | 2+1 | — | — | — | — | — |
| 9th | +4 | +3 | +3 | +6 | � | 4+1 | 4+1 | 4+1 | 3+1 | 2+1 | 1+1 | — | — | — | — |
| 10th | +5 | +3 | +3 | +7 | Shroud of death | 4+1 | 4+1 | 4+1 | 3+1 | 3+1 | 2+1 | — | — | — | — |
| 11th | +5 | +3 | +3 | +7 | � | 4+1 | 4+1 | 4+1 | 4+1 | 3+1 | 2+1 | 1+1 | — | — | — |
| 12th | +6/+1 | +4 | +4 | +8 | � | 4+1 | 4+1 | 4+1 | 4+1 | 3+1 | 3+1 | 2+1 | — | — | — |
| 13th | +6/+1 | +4 | +4 | +8 | � | 4+1 | 4+1 | 4+1 | 4+1 | 4+1 | 3+1 | 2+1 | 1+1 | — | — |
| 14th | +7/+2 | +4 | +4 | +9 | � | 4+1 | 4+1 | 4+1 | 4+1 | 4+1 | 3+1 | 3+1 | 2+1 | — | — |
| 15th | +7/+2 | +5 | +5 | +9 | Mastery of undeath | 4+1 | 4+1 | 4+1 | 4+1 | 4+1 | 4+1 | 3+1 | 2+1 | 1+1 | — |
| 16th | +8/+3 | +5 | +5 | +10 | � | 4+1 | 4+1 | 4+1 | 4+1 | 4+1 | 4+1 | 3+1 | 3+1 | 2+1 | — |
| 17th | +8/+3 | +5 | +5 | +10 | � | 4+1 | 4+1 | 4+1 | 4+1 | 4+1 | 4+1 | 4+1 | 3+1 | 2+1 | 1+1 |
| 18th | +9/+4 | +6 | +6 | +11 | � | 4+1 | 4+1 | 4+1 | 4+1 | 4+1 | 4+1 | 4+1 | 3+1 | 3+1 | 2+1 |
| 19th | +9/+4 | +6 | +6 | +11 | � | 4+1 | 4+1 | 4+1 | 4+1 | 4+1 | 4+1 | 4+1 | 4+1 | 3+1 | 3+1 |
| 20th | +10/+5 | +6 | +6 | +12 | Mantle of undeath | 4+1 | 4+1 | 4+1 | 4+1 | 4+1 | 4+1 | 4+1 | 4+1 | 4+1 | 4+1 |
| 1 In addition to the stated number of spells per day for 0- through 9th-level spells, a deathwalker gets a bonus necromancy spell for each spell level for specializing in the necromancy school. The “+1” in the entries on this table represents that spell. Bonus necromancy spells are in addition to any bonus spells the deathwalker may receive for having a high Intelligence score. |
¶ Class Features
All of the following are class features of the deathwalker.
Weapon and Armour Proficiency: Like most arcane spellcasters, a deathwalker receives only minimal training with weapons and none with armour . She is proficient with the club, dagger, heavy crossbow, light crossbow, and quarterstaff, but not with any type of armour or shield. Armour of any type interferes with a deathwalker’s movements, which can cause spells with somatic components to fail.
Spells: A deathwalker casts arcane spells, which are drawn from the sorcerer/wizard spell list in the Player’s Handbook. She must choose and prepare her spells ahead of time, like a wizard. To learn, prepare, or cast a spell, a deathwalker must have an Intelligence score equal to at least 10 + the spell level. The Difficulty Class for a saving throw against a deathwalker’s spell is 10 + the spell level the deathwalker’s Intelligence modifier.
Like a wizard, a deathwalker can cast only a certain number of arcane spells of each spell level per day. Her base daily spell allotment is given on the table for her class. In addition, she receives bonus spells per day if she has a high Intelligence score.
All deathwalkers function as necromancer specialist wizards for the purpose of spellcasting. They must specialize in necromancy and choose prohibited schools as per the standard rules for specialist wizards.
Spellbooks: A deathwalker must record her spells in thick books. Each morning, she pores over these tomes to prepare her spells for use later in the day. The deathwalker can prepare read magic from memory, but all other spells must appear in her spellbooks before she can prepare them. A deathwalker gains all 0-level wizard spells (except for those from prohibited schools) at 1st level. In addition, she gains three 1st-level spells and an additional number equal to her Intelligence bonus. Thereafter, each time the deathwalker achieves a new level, she gains two new spells of any level or levels that her new level allows her to cast.
Like a wizard, a deathwalker may select the Spell Mastery feat.
Master of the Dead (Sp): At 1st level, the deathwalker gains the ability to bind certain undead creatures to her service, controlling them as though with animate dead. If the deathwalker or any of her allies attack a controlled creature, control is immediately broken for that creature.
Upon confronting a zombie or skeleton, the deathwalker can attempt a Charisma check (DC 15 + the undead’s Hit Dice) to command it. She cannot use this method if she or any of her comrades have already attacked the target creature.
A deathwalker can control only 5 HD worth of skeletons and zombies per deathwalker level. (Treat undead with less than one Hit Die as 1-HD undead for the purpose of this ability.) If she attempts to gain control of undead in excess of her limit, she must immediately release already controlled zombies and skeletons from her service until the number she has under her control falls to or below her limit. The limit of 5 × the deathwalker’s class levels is the maximum number of Hit Dice of mindless undead that the deathwalker can control by any means, including animate dead, (That is, casting animate dead does not allow the deathwalker to exceed this limit.)
The deathwalker’s ability to control undead using master of the dead extends only to skeletons and zombies.
At this point in her development, the deathwalker gains a pale complexion and an unnaturally low body temperature. Her hands are cold to the touch, and her eyes have a glassy look. She takes a -2 penalty on all Fortitude saves to resist negative levels as her life force begins to waver within her physical shell.
Undead Familiar: A deathwalker’s familiar is always an undead creature. The deathwalker uses all the standard rules that a wizard would for gaining a familiar, but the creature that arrives immediately becomes undead. Its type changes to undead, and all its Hit Dice become d12s (this does not affect its hit points). Like other undead, it has no Constitution score. It gains darkvision to a range of 60 feet if it did not already have it, and it also gains the standard undead traits. Treat the familiar’s Hit Dice as equal to its master’s for the purpose of turn, rebuke, or bolster attempts. The creature cannot be commanded by anyone save its own master.
Aura of the Grave (Ex): At 5th level, the deathwalker continues her slow descent into an undead state. She no longer needs to sleep, and she gains immunity to sleep effects. She also becomes immune to all diseases. Her nerve endings begin to dull, making her less able to feel pain.
The physical effects of the deathwalker’s continuing transformation become more marked at this point. Her skin draws tightly over her body, giving her a hollow, empty look. Any person viewing her may make a Knowledge (Arcana) check (DC 25) to determine that she follows the deathwalker’s path. Because of her decreased tactile sense, she may absentmindedly skewer her hand with a needle while deep in thought, singe her hand on a hot stove without noticing, or fail to note the flies that land on her eye or buzz in or near her mouth. Slowly but surely, she continues to lose her grip on life.
Shroud of Death (Ex): As the deathwalker’s magical prowess increases, her physical body continues to fail. Yet, in many ways, she becomes stronger than ever. As her body dies, her organs rot in place, but the necromantic energies she has learned to harness keep her bodily processes functioning enough to sustain the shred of life remaining in her.
At 10th level, the deathwalker gains a +4 circumstance bonus on saves against poison, paralysis, and mind-affecting effects. Since her organs have largely ceased functioning, there is a 50% chance that extra damage from a critical his or sneak attack does not affect her. This ability works much like the fortificationspecial armour quality. She no longer needs to eat or drink to stay alive (although she still must breathe). However, the stench of decay that surrounds her imposes a -2 penalty on Charisma, Bluff, and Diplomacy checks against any creatures except undead.
Mastery of Undeath (Su): At 15th level, the deathwalker gains the ability to force obedience and servitude From even the mightiest undead creatures. The raw force of her necromantic magic combined with the slow replacement of her living body with undead flesh make her appear as a commanding, regal figure to the undead. She gains the ability to rebuke or command undead as an evil cleric of her deathwalker level a number of times per day equal to 1 + her Charisma bonus (if any).
She also develops further outward signs of her descent into undeath. Her stomach bloats and may even split open because of the rot within her body, and her teeth turn yellow and fall from her gums.
Mantle of Undeath: At 20th level, the deathwalker finally becomes an undead creature. She loses her Constitution score and any bonus hit points she had previously gained from it, and her Hit Die type becomes d12 (but the deathwalker’s hit point total does not change). Her type changes to undead, and she gains the standard undead traits. She does not lose any of the racial traits she previously possessed, and her attack bonuses, save bonuses, and other statistics are not recalculated.
¶ Domain Granted Power
See Complete Champion Class Features: Domain Granted Power.
¶ Domain Wizard
A wizard who uses the arcane domain system (called a domain wizard) selects a specific arcane domain of spells, much like a cleric selects a pair of domains associated with his deity. A domain wizard cannot also be a specialist wizard; in exchange for the versatility given up by specializing in a domain instead of an entire school, the domain wizard casts her chosen spells with increased power.
Some of the arcane domains described below have the same name as a divine domain. Regardless of any apparent similarity, these domains have no connection to one another.
¶ Class Features
The domain wizard has all the standard Wizard class features, except as noted below.
Arcane Domain: At 1st level, a domain wizard selects an arcane domain from those listed below. (At the game master’s discretion, the player might create an alternatively themed domain instead.) Once selected, the domain may never be changed.
A domain wizard automatically adds each new domain spell to her list of known spells as soon as she becomes able to cast it. These spells do not count against her two new spells known per wizard level.
A domain wizard casts spells from her chosen domain (regardless of whether the spell was prepared as a domain spell or a normal spell) as a caster one level higher than her normal level. This bonus applies only to the spells listed for the domain, not all spells of the school or subtype whose name matches the domain name.
In some cases, an arcane domain includes spells not normally on the wizard’s class spell list. These spells are treated as being on the character’s class spell list (and thus she can use wands or arcane scrolls that hold those spells, or even prepare those spells in her normal wizard spell slots).
Spellcasting: A domain wizard prepares and casts spells like a normal wizard. However, a domain wizard gains one bonus spell per spell level, which must be filled with the spell from that level of the domain spell list (or with a lower-level domain spell that has been altered with a metamagic feat).
No Prohibited Schools: Unlike a specialist wizard, a domain wizard need not select any prohibited schools or domains. All wizard spells are available to her to learn.
¶ ABJURATION DOMAIN
0 - resistance;
1st - shield;
2nd - resist energy;
3rd - dispel magic;
4th - remove curse;
5th - Mordenkainen’s Private Sanctum;
6th - greater dispel magic;
7th - banishment;
8th - mind blank;
9th - prismatic sphere.
¶ ANTIMAGIC DOMAIN
0 - detect magic;
1st - protection from chaos/evil/good/law;
2nd - obscure object;
3rd - dispel magic;
4th - lesser globe of invulnerability;
5th - break enchantment;
6th - antimagic field;
7th - spell turning;
8th - protection from spells;
9th - Mordenkainen’s Disjunction.
¶ BATTLE DOMAIN
0 - daze;
1st - true strike;
2nd - protection from arrows;
3rd - greater magic weapon;
4th - fire shield;
5th - Bigby’s Interposing Hand;
6th - transformation;
7th - power word blind;
8th - moment of prescience;
9th - time stop.
¶ COLD DOMAIN
0 - ray of frost;
1st - chill touch;
2nd - chill metal(as 2nd-level druid spell);
3rd - sleet storm;
4th - wall of ice;
5th - cone of cold;
6th - freezing sphere;
7th - delayed blast frostball (as delayed blast fireball, but deals cold damage instead of fire damage);
8th - polar ray;
9th - comet swarm (as meteor swarm, but deals cold damage instead of fire damage).
¶ CONJURATION DOMAIN
0 - acid splash;
1st - mage armour;
2nd - web;
3rd - stinking cloud;
4th - summon monster IV;
5th - wall of stone;
6th - acid fog;
7th - summon monster VII;
8th - maze;
9th - gate.
¶ DIVINATION DOMAIN
0 - detect magic;
1st - detect secret doors;
2nd - see invisibility;
3rd - arcane sight;
4th - arcane eye;
5th - prying eyes;
6th - true seeing;
7th - greater arcane sight;
8th - discern location;
9th - foresight.
¶ ENCHANTMENT DOMAIN
0 - daze;
1st - charm person;
2nd - hideous laughter;
3rd - suggestion;
4th - confusion;
5th - hold monster;
6th - greater heroism;
7th - insanity;
8th - mass charm monster;
9th - dominate monster.
¶ EVOCATION DOMAIN
0 - light;
1st - magic missile;
2nd - flaming sphere;
3rd - lightning bolt;
4th - shout;
5th - wall of force;
6th - Bigby’s Forceful Hand;
7th - Mordenkainen’s Sword;
8th - telekinetic sphere;
9th - Bigby’s Crushing Hand.
¶ FIRE DOMAIN
0 - flare;
1st - burning hands;
2nd - scorching ray;
3rd - fireball;
4th - wall of fire;
5th - cone of fire (as cone of cold, but deals fire damage instead of cold damage);
6th - summon monster VI (fire creatures only);
7th - delayed blast fireball;
8th - incendiary cloud;
9th - meteor swarm.
¶ ILLUSION DOMAIN
0 - ghost sound;
1st - disguise self;
2nd - invisibility;
3rd - major image;
4th - phantasmal killer;
5th - shadow evocation;
6th - mislead;
7th - mass invisibility;
8th - scintillating pattern;
9th - shades.
¶ NECROMANCY DOMAIN
0 - disrupt undead;
1st - ray of enfeeblement;
2nd - false life;
3rd - vampiric touch;
4th - fear;
5th - waves of fatigue;
6th - circle of death;
7th - control undead;
8th - horrid wilting;
9th - energy drain.
¶ STORM DOMAIN
0 - ray of frost;
1st - obscuring mist(as 1st-level cleric spell);
2nd - gust of wind;
3rd - lightning bolt;
4th - ice storm;
5th - control winds(as 5th-level druid spell);
6th - chain lightning;
7th - control weather;
8th - whirlwind(as 8th-level druid spell);
9th - storm of vengeance(as 9th-level cleric spell).
¶ TRANSMUTATION DOMAIN
0 - mage hand;
1st - expeditious retreat;
2nd - levitate;
3rd - haste;
4th - polymorph;
5th - baleful polymorph;
6th - disintegrate;
7th - reverse gravity;
8th - iron body;
9th - shapechange.
¶ Drakken Familiar
See Draconic Class Features: Drakken Familiar.
¶ Drow Wizard
Wizards are among the most feared and admired nondivine members of drow society. Despite their innate resistance to magic, the drow have great respect for both the spells and the knowledge available to these masters of the arcane arts. Although they are not directly tied to Lolth in the way divine casters and warlocks are, their devotion to the Spider Queen - and indeed, their very upbringing within society - has led to the development of race-specific wizard traits.
¶ Abyssal Specialist
Most wizards who choose to specialize do so in a specific school. Many drow wizards instead focus on a variety of spells closely linked to the powers and objectives of the Weaver of Webs. The basic mechanic for specialization is the same, but the specifics differ.
Level: 1st.
Replaces: If you select this class feature, you cannot specialize in a school of magic, and you lose the ability to cast spells from a prohibited school.
You must select one school of magic to serve as your prohibited school, and you can never cast spells from it or use spell completion and spell trigger devices connected to it, as per normal specialist rules. You may not select divination as your prohibited school.
Benefit: You are considered specialized, but not in a specific school. Rather, you gain all the benefits of specialization with a group of spells that includes all those of the following subschools and/or descriptors: chaotic, compulsion, darkness, evil, and fear. You gain all the standard benefits of specialization as applied to this group of spells, as though it were a school unto itself.
¶ Dukar
These wizards of a dwindling order protect the tenuous peace under the Sea of Fallen Stars, working quietly and secretly to achieve their goals and rebuild their numbers. Many of their powers stem from living coral implanted under the skin of their hands.
¶ Requirements
To take a Dukar substitution level, a character must be a member of the Dukars, have 1 rank in Knowledge (religion), and be about to take his 5th, 10th, or 15th level of wizard. The first time a character takes a Dukar substitution level, he must undergo a secret Dukar ritual that implants the living coral under the skin of his palms (see Dukar hand coral). The coral does not interfere with using his hands in any way. If the Dukar somehow loses this coral, he loses his coral-related powers, but if he is implanted again he immediately regains his full abilities.
¶ Class Skills
Dukar substitution levels have the class skills of the standard wizard class plus Swim.
Skill Points at Each Level: 2 + Int modifier.
¶ Table: Dukar Substitution Levels
| Level | Base Attack Bonus | Fort Save | Ref Save | Will Save | Special | Spellcasting |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5th | +2 | +1 | +1 | +4 | Coral claw, bonus spells | Same as wizard |
| 10th | +5 | +3 | +3 | +7 | Coral power, bonus spells | Same as wizard |
| 15th | +7/+2 | +5 | +5 | +9 | Coral power, bonus spells | Same as wizard |
¶ Class Features
All of the following are features of the Dukar substitution levels.
Bonus Spells (Ex): There are four Dukar orders, each with two associated schools of magic. Upon taking his first Dukar substitution level, a Dukar chooses one order and can never change it thereafter (similar to choosing a wizard specialty school). Each time a Dukar substitution level is taken, a Dukar adds two spells to his spell book; these must be from one or both of his order’s associated schools of magic (either one from each or both from the same). A specialist wizard Dukar is not restricted to choosing these bonus spells from his school of specialization, but he cannot use them to acquire spells from his prohibited school (therefore, choosing an order that studies one of your prohibited schools is normally a bad choice). The orders are as follows.
| Order | Color | Schools of Magic |
|---|---|---|
| Jhimar* | Red | Enchantment, evocation |
| Kupav | Blue | Aburation, transmutation |
| Maalirn | Green | Conjuration, divination |
| Numos | White | Illusion, necromancy |
* The order of Jhimar was destroyed centuries ago and its knowledge and traditions are lost.
This class feature replaces the standard wizard’s ability to add two spells to his spellbook each time he gains a wizard level.
Coral Claw (Ex): At 5th level, a Dukar can extend the coral under his skin to form sharp spikes on his hand, giving him a claw attack that deals 1d4 points of damage. The Dukar is automatically proficient in the coral weapon and can extend or retract the coral as a swift action.
This benefit replaces the bonus feat normally gained by a 5th-level wizard.
Coral Power: At 10th and 15th level, a Dukar learns how to use his implanted coral in different ways. Each time this ability is gained, a Dukar chooses one ability from the following choices. Each ability can be taken twice, with increasing effect.
Acid (Ex): A Dukar adds 1d4 points of acid damage to all claw attacks (including those made with his coral claw; see above). The acid quickly decays and cannot be stored for later use. A Dukar and his gear are not harmed by his own coral’s acid. This ability functions automatically, though a Dukar can suspend or resume this ability as a free action. If a Dukar selects the ability a second time, the acid damage increases to 1d8 points.
Armour (Ex): Three times per day as a standard action, a Dukar can make his coral extend hard growths across his skin, giving him a +1 enhancement bonus to his natural armour bonus to AC. These growths crumble to dust after 10 minutes. If a Dukar selects this ability a second time, the enhancement bonus to his natural armour increases to +2.
Color Spray (Sp): A Dukar’s coral gains the ability to glow intensely in confusing patterns. At will as a standard action, a Dukar can use this light as a colour spray effect. Using this ability requires the Dukar to have one hand free, uncovered, and able to make gestures. The save DC of this ability is Intelligence-based. If a Dukar takes this ability a second time, the save DC of this ability increases by 2.
Wound Transfer (Su): A Dukar’s coral develops the ability to transfer life energy by touch from him to another creature, healing its wounds at the expense of his own health. Each use of this ability heals the target of 1d6 points of damage and deals a like amount of damage to the Dukar. If a Dukar chooses this ability a second time, he heals the target of 2d6 points of damage and takes a like amount of damage per use. This ability can never provide a target more hit points than its full normal total +10. Any hit points gained beyond its normal maximum are treated as temporary hit points that last for up to 1 hour.
This benefit replaces the bonus feat normally gained by a 10th- or 15th-level wizard.
¶ Eberron Wizard
See Eberron Campaign Setting: Wizard.
¶ Elf Wizard
Elves are naturally enthralled by the study of magic, and many of history’s most famous wizards were elves. Elf wizards typically prefer a general approach to magic, recognizing the value in versatility.
¶ Requirements
To take an elf wizard substitution level, a character must be an elf about to take her 1st, 3rd, or 5th level of wizard.
¶ Class Skills
Elf wizard substitution levels grant the same class skills as the standard wizard class, plus Search.
Skill Points at Each Level: 2 + Int modifier (or four times this number as a beginning character).
¶ Class Features
All the following are features of the elf wizard’s racial substitution levels.
Generalist Wizardry: A 1st-level elf wizard begins play with one extra 1st-level spell in her spellbook. At each new wizard level, she gains one extra spell of any spell level that she can cast. This represents the additional elven insight and experience with arcane magic.
The elf wizard may also prepare one additional spell of her highest spell level each day. Unlike the specialist wizard ability, this spell may be of any school.
This substitution feature replaces the standard wizard’s ability to specialize in a school of magic.
Natural Link (Su): At 3rd level, an elf wizard’s link to her familiar strengthens. The bonus on skill checks, saves, or hit points granted by the familiar doubles. For example, the cat familiar of an elf wizard grants a +6 bonus on Move Silently checks (rather than +3), a weasel familiar grants a +4 bonus on Reflex saves (rather than +2), and a toad familiar grants +6 hit points (rather than +3). This increase only applies when the familiar is within arm’s reach of the wizard; when the creature is farther away than that, the normal bonus applies (unless the familiar is more than one mile away, in which case no bonus applies).
This substitution feature replaces the standard wizard familiar’s ability to deliver touch spells (normally gained by the familiar of a 3rd-level wizard) and the familiar’s ability to speak with animals of its kind (normally gained by the familiar of a 7th-level wizard). If the wizard’s familiar already has either of these abilities (for instance, if the character is a multiclass sorcerer/wizard), it loses those abilities when the wizard selects this substitution level.
Bonus Feat: At 5th level, an elf wizard gains a bonus feat, chosen from the following list: Defensive Archery, Far Shot, Point-Blank Shot, Precise Shot, Rapid Shot, or Weapon Focus (longbow/composite longbow or shortbow/composite shortbow only). The wizard must still meet all prerequisites for a bonus feat.
This substitution feature replaces the standard wizard’s bonus feat gained at 5th level.
¶ Table: Elf Wizard Racial Substitution Levels
| Level | Base Attack Bonus | Fort Save | Ref Save | Will Save | Special | Spellcasting |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1st | +0 | +0 | +0 | +2 | Generalist wizardry, Scribe Scroll, summon familiar | Same as wizard |
| 3rd | +1 | +1 | +1 | +3 | Natural link | Same as wizard |
| 5th | +2 | +1 | +1 | +4 | Bonus feat | Same as wizard |
¶ Filidh
Highly respected lawgivers of barbarian society, filidhs draw their power from their knowledge and application of lore. They provide judgments in legal disputes and defend their people using the mysterious ways of their ancestors. If shamans are the conscience of the tribe and skalds its memory, then filidhs are its unshakable will.
The filidh is a variant wizard. Unless otherwise noted, a filidh advances in the same manner as a wizard (same Hit Die, base attack bonus, saving throw bonuses, skill points, and so on). When a character elects to take a level of wizard or filidh, he may not later take levels in the other class. This prevents the character from gaining the benefits of a 1st-level wizard twice.
Filidhs seek to preserve the beliefs of their tribe. As enforcers of ancestral traditions, they seek out magical power to increase their knowledge and strengthen their position within the tribe. These barbaric lore keepers tend toward neutral alignments, although both lawful and chaotic societies have traditions filidhs might seek to uphold. To aid them, most filidhs typically devote a significant number of spells to divination, balancing them with other offensive or supporting spells. These tribal wizards equate knowledge with power and carefully dispense their learning to a select few. They tend to play subtle but domineering roles in any group, even if they do not obviously lead it. Many filidhs associate with religious orders or druids as they often hold similar perspectives and goals.
Devout and spiritual beyond most traditional wizards, filidhs usually worship gods of knowledge, magic, poetry, or travel. They also highly respect and might worship creator gods, as they are usually credited with teaching laws to the first mortals. Other filidhs worship nature gods and explore the secrets of both the natural and the unseen world.
¶ Class Skills
The filidh’s class skills (and the key ability for each skill) are Concentration (Con), Craft (Int), Decipher Script (Int), Gather Information (Cha), Intimidate (Cha), Knowledge (All skills, taken individually) (Int), Sense Motive (Wis), Spellcraft (Int), and Survival (Wis).
¶ Class Features
The filidh loses the base wizard’s Scribe Scroll, bonus feats, and summon familiar class features but gains several abilities related to knowledge and divination. All of the following are class features of the filidh.
Weapon and Armour Proficiencies: Filidhs are proficient with the club, dagger, quarterstaff, and shortbow but not with any type of armour or shield. Armour of any type interferes with a filidh’s movements, which can cause her spells with somatic components to fail.
Filidh Knowledge: This ability functions as the bardic knowledge ability. A filidh with levels in another class that grants bardic knowledge stacks those levels with her filidh levels when determining her total bonus to bardic knowledge checks.
Greater Divining: A filidh is able to cast divination spells as if her caster level was +1 level higher at 5th level. This ability increases to +2 levels higher at 10th level, +3 levels higher at 15th level, and +4 levels higher at 20th level.
¶ Fleshcrafter
Death is the converse of life. The same forces that can drain a creature’s life force can also channel that energy and forge it into useful tools. Thus, although necromancy delves into the power of death, the fleshcrafter can use it to gain control over life, manipulating it to his own ends. His black magic creates unholy abominations - mockeries of life built from the blood and bone of his countless victims. He sees living creatures in the same light that an artist sees a canvas and paints, but his “art” consists of twisting, and forming those raw materials into whatever shapes suit his foul goals.
The fleshcrafter lurks at the edge of society, picking off the weak and those unlikely to be missed. His lab might feature still-beating hearts kept alive in a vat of demonic ichor, furniture crafted from creatures’ limbs that moves and adjusts itself on command, and half-formed jigsaws of body parts that vaguely resemble humanoid forms. Many fleshcrafters seek out victims who have particular features - innocents with the perfect arms, feet, or other body parts - for their experiments. To the typical fleshcrafter, such victims are like apple trees with fruit ripe for harvest.
¶ Class Skills
The fleshcrafter’s class skills and the key ability for each skill) are Concentration (Con), Craft (Int), Heal (Wis), Knowledge (All skills, taken individually) (Int), and Spellcraft (Int).
Skill Points at 1st Level: (2 + Int modifier) × 4.
Skill Points at Each Additional Level: 2 + Int modifier.
¶ Table: The Fleshcrafter
| Level | Base Attack Bonus | Fort Save | Ref Save | Will Save | Special | Spells per Day1 | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0 | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | 5th | 6th | 7th | 8th | 9th | ||||||
| — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||||||
| 1st | +0 | +0 | +0 | +2 | Craft Construct, reaper’s touch, stitched flesh familiar | 3+1 | 1+1 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2nd | +1 | +0 | +0 | +3 | � | 4+1 | 2+1 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 3rd | +1 | +1 | +1 | +3 | � | 4+1 | 2+1 | 1+1 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 4th | +2 | +1 | +1 | +4 | � | 4+1 | 3+1 | 2+1 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 5th | +2 | +1 | +1 | +4 | Brink of life and death | 4+1 | 3+1 | 2+1 | 1+1 | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 6th | +3 | +2 | +2 | +5 | � | 4+1 | 3+1 | 3+1 | 2+1 | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 7th | +3 | +2 | +2 | +5 | � | 4+1 | 4+1 | 3+1 | 2+1 | 1+1 | — | — | — | — | — |
| 8th | +4 | +2 | +2 | +6 | � | 4+1 | 4+1 | 3+1 | 3+1 | 2+1 | — | — | — | — | — |
| 9th | +4 | +3 | +3 | +6 | � | 4+1 | 4+1 | 4+1 | 3+1 | 2+1 | 1+1 | — | — | — | — |
| 10th | +5 | +3 | +3 | +7 | Forge flesh | 4+1 | 4+1 | 4+1 | 3+1 | 3+1 | 2+1 | — | — | — | — |
| 11th | +5 | +3 | +3 | +7 | � | 4+1 | 4+1 | 4+1 | 4+1 | 3+1 | 2+1 | 1+1 | — | — | — |
| 12th | +6/+1 | +4 | +4 | +8 | � | 4+1 | 4+1 | 4+1 | 4+1 | 3+1 | 3+1 | 2+1 | — | — | — |
| 13th | +6/+1 | +4 | +4 | +8 | � | 4+1 | 4+1 | 4+1 | 4+1 | 4+1 | 3+1 | 2+1 | 1+1 | — | — |
| 14th | +7/+2 | +4 | +4 | +9 | � | 4+1 | 4+1 | 4+1 | 4+1 | 4+1 | 3+1 | 3+1 | 2+1 | — | — |
| 15th | +7/+2 | +5 | +5 | +9 | Master of life and death | 4+1 | 4+1 | 4+1 | 4+1 | 4+1 | 4+1 | 3+1 | 2+1 | 1+1 | — |
| 16th | +8/+3 | +5 | +5 | +10 | � | 4+1 | 4+1 | 4+1 | 4+1 | 4+1 | 4+1 | 3+1 | 3+1 | 2+1 | — |
| 17th | +8/+3 | +5 | +5 | +10 | � | 4+1 | 4+1 | 4+1 | 4+1 | 4+1 | 4+1 | 4+1 | 3+1 | 2+1 | 1+1 |
| 18th | +9/+4 | +6 | +6 | +11 | � | 4+1 | 4+1 | 4+1 | 4+1 | 4+1 | 4+1 | 4+1 | 3+1 | 3+1 | 2+1 |
| 19th | +9/+4 | +6 | +6 | +11 | � | 4+1 | 4+1 | 4+1 | 4+1 | 4+1 | 4+1 | 4+1 | 4+1 | 3+1 | 3+1 |
| 20th | +10/+5 | +6 | +6 | +12 | Forge life | 4+1 | 4+1 | 4+1 | 4+1 | 4+1 | 4+1 | 4+1 | 4+1 | 4+1 | 4+1 |
| 1 In addition to the stated number of spells per day for 0- through 9th-level spells, a fleshcrafter gets a bonus necromancy spell for each spell level for specializing in the necromancy school. The “+1” in the entries on this table represents that spell. Bonus necromancy spells are in addition to any bonus spells the fleshcrafter may receive for having a high Intelligence score. |
¶ Class Features
All of the following are class features of the fleshcrafter. When an ability requires humanoid bodies, the fleshcrafter can substitute corpses of different size categories, according to the following equivalences.
| One Corpse of | |
|---|---|
| This Size Equals… | Number of |
| Medium Corpses | |
| Small | 1/2 |
| Large | 4 |
| Huge | 16 |
| Gargantuan | 64 |
| Colossal | 256 |
Weapon and Armour Proficiency: Like most arcane spellcasters, a fleshcrafter receives only minimal training with weapons and none with armour . He is proficient with the club, dagger, heavy crossbow, light crossbow, and quarterstaff, but not with any type of armour or shield. Armour of any type interferes with a fleshcrafter’s movements, which can cause spells with somatic components to fail.
Spells: A fleshcrafter casts arcane spells, which are drawn from the sorcerer/wizard spell list in the Player’s Handbook. He must choose and prepare his spells ahead of time, like a wizard. To learn, prepare, or cast a spell, a fleshcrafter must have an Intelligence score equal to at least 10 + the spell level. The Difficulty Class for a saving throw against a fleshcrafter’s spell is 10 + the spell level the fleshcrafter’s Intelligence modifier.
Like a wizard, a fleshcrafter can cast only a certain number of arcane spells of each spell level per day. His base daily spell allotment is given on the table for his class. In addition, he receives bonus spells per day if he has a high Intelligence score.
All fleshcrafters function as necromancer specialist wizards for the purpose of spellcasting. They must specialize in necromancy and choose prohibited schools as per the standard rules for specialist wizards.
Spellbooks: A fleshcrafter must record his spells in thick books. Each morning, he pores over these tomes to prepare his spells for use later in the day. The fleshcrafter can prepare read magic from memory, but all other spells must appear in his spellbooks before he can prepare them. A fleshcrafter gains all 0-level wizard spells (except for those from prohibited schools) at 1st level. In addition, he gains three 1st-level spells and an additional number equal to his Intelligence bonus. Thereafter, each time the fleshcrafter achieves a new level, he gains two new spells of any level or levels that his new level allows him to cast.
Like a wizard, a fleshcrafter may select the Spell Mastery feat.
Craft Construct: A fleshcrafter gainsCraft Construct as a bonus feat.
Stitched Flesh Familiar: While other spellcasters summon familiars to do their bidding, the fleshcrafter forms his own. He can build a construct familiar with a value of 300 gp by gathering the necessary body parts from three Medium humanoids that he has killed, and making successful DC 18 Craft checks. He must then donate a portion of his own life force to grant his construct the spark of life. This portion of the process costs an additional 100 gp in components. (Failing the Craft check uses up this last 100 gp as well as any other wasted materials and money.) This shared life force creates such a deep bond between the two that the fleshcrafter cannot create another such familiar until his current servant dies.
A stitched flesh familiar gains the abilities indicated on the Stitched Flesh Familiar Abilities table, based on its master’s level. It also gains all the abilities described under “Familiar Basics” in the Familiars section. Many of the abilities below are standard familiar abilities, but the stitched flesh familiar gains them at a slower rate. A few are unique to the familiar.
¶ Table: Stitched Flesh Familiar Special Abilities
| Master | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Class Level | Natural | ||
| Armour Adj. | Int | Special | |
| 1st-2nd | +1 | 6 | Empathic link, improved evasion, uncanny likeness |
| 3rd-4th | +2 | 7 | Alertness, share spells |
| 5th-6th | +3 | 8 | Deliver touch spells, speak with master |
| 7th-8th | +4 | 9 | — |
| 9th-10th | +5 | 10 | Sustained spirit |
| 11th-12th | +6 | 11 | Spell resistance |
| 13th-14th | +7 | 12 | Scry on familiar |
| 15th-16th | +8 | 13 | — |
| 17th-18th | +9 | 14 | — |
| 19th-20th | +10 | 15 | — |
Uncanny Likeness: The close link that the stitched flesh familiar has with its master alters its physical appearance. Anyone who sees the familiar and has already seen its master may make a DC 20 Spot check to note the similarity between the two.
Sustained Spirit: When the fleshcrafter reaches 9th level, his link with his stitched flesh familiar becomes strong enough to survive after death. If a fleshcrafter creates a new stitched flesh familiar to replace a lost one, the newly created servant has all the memories of the previous one, as well as the same personality. Thus, a stitched flesh familiar created to replace one that was killed under mysterious circumstances can remember the details of its predecessor’s death (including the killers, if it saw them).
Reaper’s Touch (Ex): At 1st level, the fleshcrafter gains such an intimate knowledge of living things that he can increase the chances of a creature’s death while appearing to heal it. When using the Heal skill to treat another creature, he may instead double any hit point or ability score damage his patient takes due to any conditions from which it already suffers. The Heal DC decreases by 5 when he uses the skill for this purpose, and the effect lasts for 24 hours. Thus, a creature with fewer than 0 hit points loses 2 hit points per round rather than 1.
Furthermore, the affected creature cannot check to stabilize as long as the creature is taking extra damage from this ability. An observer may make a Heal check opposed by the fleshcrafter’s Heal check result to notice the latter’s sabotage of the patient. A successful Heal check opposed by the fleshcrafter’s Heal result or the application of any sort of healing magic is sufficient to halt the accelerated loss of life.
Brink of Life and Death (Ex): At 5th level, the fleshcrafter gains the ability to more rapidly pinpoint the critical veins and organs he must destroy to slay a creature. Thus, he can make a coup de grâce attack as a standard action. Furthermore, the fleshcrafter can extend this ability to his stitched flesh familiar as long the latter is within range of its empathic link with him. To share this ability, the fleshcrafter must concentrate on the stitched flesh famillar as a full-round action, but the coup de grâce remains a standard action for the stitched flesh familiar.
Forge Flesh: At 10th level, the fleshcrafter unlocks the basic secrets of mimicking life. He may gather body parts to produce custom-designed animated creatures that have a vague semblance of life, such as chairs with elf legs, or racks built of outstretched arms. Such creatures count as animated objects, although they are crafted from organs, bones, and flesh taken from the fleshcrafter’s victims.
For each 2 HD of the animated object to be created, the fleshcrafter must harvest body parts from one Medium creature, make a successful Craft check (DC 20), and devote 200 gp worth of chemicals, noxious fluids, and rare herbs to the creation process. When complete, the animated object obeys the fleshcrafter to the best of its ability without question. A fleshcrafter may create and control animated objects whose total HD are no more than twice his fleshcrafter level.
Master of Life and Death (Su): At 15th level, the fleshcrafter perfects his understanding of life, death, and magic. His spells are so attuned to the patterns and energy of life that they are difficult for living creatures to resist. When the fleshcrafter affects a living creature (that is, any creature other than a construct or undead) with a spell, the DC for the saving throw (if any) increases by +1.
Forge Life (Ex): At 20th level, the fleshcrafter can use his knowledge of arcane magic and biology to create a flesh golem using special, rare methods that only he and others of his class can access. The fleshcrafter need spend only 5,000 gp to produce the golem, although he must still meet all the remaining prerequisites, and spend the standard amount of time and XP based on the value of the flesh golem listed in the Monster Manual. In addition, he must collect body parts from the equivalent equivalent of at least twenty different Medium humanoids that he personally killed to assemble the golem. The fleshcrafter can create any number of flesh golems in this manner.
¶ Focused Specialist
Every wizard who calls himself a specialist takes pride in wielding his preferred form of magic. Those who are exceptionally pure of purpose take this specialization to an entirely new level, disdaining breadth of skill in favour of even greater focus.
Class: Wizard.
Level: 1st.
Special Requirement: You must be a specialist wizard.
Replaces: You lose one spell slot from each level of wizard spells you can cast. If you later gain the ability to cast higher-level wizard spells, you lose one spell slot from each new level of spells you can cast.
You must also choose another prohibited school of magic, which can’t be divination.
Benefit: You can prepare two additional spells of your specialty school per spell level each day. These extra spells are in addition to those normally granted to a specialist wizard.
This benefit doesn’t apply to spells gained from classes other than wizard.
¶ Gnome Illusionist
Gnomes are inherently drawn to the magic of illusion, and most gnome wizards choose to specialize in that school. As a gnome illusionist advances in level, her intimate familiarity with illusions allows her to cast certain illusion spells more easily than other wizards, to cast illusions that last longer than normal, and to make her spells harder to detect and dispel. These abilities make gnome illusionists the subtlest of all their kind and - some would argue - the most effective.
¶ Requirements
To take a gnome illusionist substitution level, a character must be a gnome about to take her 1st, 5th, or 10th level of illusionist.
¶ Class Skills
Gnome illusionist substitution levels have the class skills of the standard wizard class.
Skill Points at Each Level: 2 + Int modifier (or four times this number as a beginning character).
¶ Table: Gnome Illusionist Racial Substitution Levels
| Level | Base Attack Bonus | Fort Save | Ref Save | Will Save | Special | Spellcasting |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1st | +0 | +0 | +0 | +2 | Gnome illusion spells, Scribe Scroll, summon familiar | Same as illusionist |
| 5th | +2 | +1 | +1 | +4 | Extended illusions | Same as illusionist |
| 10th | +5 | +3 | +3 | +7 | Insidious illusions | Same as illusionist |
¶ Class Features
All the following are features of the gnome illusionist’s racial substitution levels.
Gnome Illusion Spells: A gnome illusionist who takes the 1st-level racial substitution level uses her wizard level as the caster level for her racial spell-like abilities. In addition, she can prepare and cast the following illusion spells at the indicated spell level, rather than at their normal spell level:
0 level: Silent image, ventriloquism.
1st level: Leomund’s trap, minor image.
2nd level: Illusory script, major image.
3rd level: Illusory wall.
4th level: Persistent image.
5th level: Programmed image.
In exchange for this benefit, a gnome illusionist must choose one of the following schools of magic from which she can cast spells (in other words, one that she has not given up access to as the price for specializing in illusion): evocation, transmutation, or conjuration. The gnome illusionist’s effective caster level for spells of this school is equal to her actual caster level minus one. At 1st level, she cannot cast any spells from the selected school.
Extended Illusions (Su): A gnome illusionist who takes the 5th-level racial substitution level gains the ability to create illusions that last longer than normal. When she casts any illusion spell that has a duration other than instantaneous, the duration of the spell is doubled. A spell with a duration of concentration lasts for the duration of the illusionist’s concentration plus 1d4 rounds. A spell with a duration of concentration plus a certain increment of time lasts for the duration of the illusionist’s concentration plus double that increment of time. Thus, a mirror image spell cast by a 10th-level gnome illusionist lasts for 20 minutes, a silent image spell lasts for the duration of the caster’s concentration plus 1d4 rounds, a minor image spell lasts for the duration of the caster’s concentration plus 4 rounds, and a mirage arcana lasts for the duration of her concentration plus 20 hours.
This benefit replaces the bonus feat gained by a standard wizard at 5th level, as well as the two spells a standard 5thlevel wizard learns for free.
Insidious Illusions (Su): A gnome illusionist who takes the 10th-level racial substitution level can cast illusion spells that are harder for other creatures to detect or pierce. When any creature employs a divination spell, spell-like ability, or magic item (such as detect magic or true seeing) that would detect or pierce an illusion spell cast by the gnome illusionist, that creature must make a caster level check (DC 11 + the gnome illusionist’s caster level) to successfully detect or pierce the illusion. The detecting creature can check only once for each divination spell or effect used, no matter how many of the gnome illusionist’s illusion spells are operating in an area.
This benefit replaces the bonus feat gained by a standard wizard at 10th level, as well as the two spells a standard 10thlevel wizard learns for free.
¶ Golarion Wizard
See Pathfinder Chronicles: Wizard.
¶ Halfling Wizard
Lacking the great colleges of wizardry in which human and elven wizards learn their craft, halflings master magic by practice, curiosity, and the random accumulation of knowledge. Halfling wizards gain a new form of versatility.
¶ Requirements
To take a halfling wizard substitution level, a character must be a halfling about to take her 3rd, 5th, or 12th level of wizard.
¶ Class Skills
Halfling wizard substitution levels grant the same class skills as the standard wizard class.
Skill Points at Each Level: 2 + Int modifier.
¶ Table: Halfling Wizard Racial Substitution Levels
| Level | Base Attack Bonus | Fort Save | Ref Save | Will Save | Special | Spellcasting |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3rd | +1 | +1 | +1 | +3 | Alternative spell | Same as wizard |
| 5th | +2 | +1 | +1 | +4 | Lore | Same as wizard |
| 12th | +6/+1 | +4 | +4 | +8 | Greater alternative spell | Same as wizard |
¶ Class Features
All of the following are features of the halfling wizard’s racial substitution levels.
Alternative Spell (Ex): At 3rd level, the wizard gains a single spell known. This spell can be chosen from any 1st-level spell list, not just the wizard spell list. If this spell does not appear on the wizard spell list, treat the spell as 2nd level when prepared and cast by this wizard.
This substitution feature replaces the standard wizard’s two automatic spells learned.
Lore (Ex): At 5th level, the wizard knows legends or information regarding various topics, just as a bard can with bardic knowledge. She adds her wizard level and Intelligence modifier to the lore check, which otherwise functions like a bardic knowledge check.
This substitution replaces the wizard’s two automatic spells known and her bonus feat gained at 5th level.
Greater Alternative Spell (Ex): At 12th level, the wizard gains a single spell known. This spell can be chosen from any spell list, not just the wizard spell list, but it can be no higher than 5th level. If the spell appears on the wizard spell list she must learn it at the level it appears on that list, even if it appears at a lower level on another list. If this spell does not appear on the wizard spell list, treat the spell as one level higher when prepared and cast by this wizard.
This substitution feature replaces the standard wizard’s two automatic spells learned.
¶ High One Warrior-Wizard
Some paladins of Azuth belong to the Order of the Swords of the High One. These rare warriors must progress as paladins before studying wizardry fulltime, since they cannot multiclass freely. This dual focus fuses their paladin training with their wizardry.
¶ Requirements
To take a level of High One warrior-wizard, a character must be a member of the Swords of the High One, have 1 rank in Knowledge (religion), have at least two paladin levels, and be about to take her 2nd, 4th, or 5th level of wizard.
¶ Class Skills
High One warrior-wizards have all the class skills that a standard wizard does, plus Diplomacy, Handle Animal, Heal, and Ride.
Skill Points at Each Level: 2 + Int modifier.
¶ Table: High One Warrior-Wizard Substitution Levels
| Level | Base Attack Bonus | Fort Save | Ref Save | Will Save | Special | Spellcasting |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2nd | +1 | +0 | +0 | +3 | Wizardly smiting | See text |
| 4th | +2 | +1 | +1 | +4 | Reduce armour hindrances | See text |
| 5th | +2 | +1 | +1 | +4 | Familiar mount | See text |
¶ Class Features
All the following are features of the High One warrior-wizard substitution levels.
Wizardly Smiting (Su): At 2nd level, a High One warrior-wizard can smite evil as a paladin. Her wizard levels stack with her paladin levels for the purpose of determining how many times per day she can use this ability.
This benefit replaces the 1st-level spell that a standard wizard gains at 2nd level. From this point forward, the character has one fewer 1st-level spells that she can prepare per day than a standard wizard does.
Reduce Armour Hindrances (Ex): The High One warrior-wizard’s training in spellcasting allows her to ignore some of the hindrances of armour . The arcane spell failure chance imposed by her armour is reduced by 20% (minimum 0%). Thus, she can wear light armour without penalty, or medium or heavy armour with reduced penalties.
This benefit replaces the 2nd-level spell that a standard wizard gains at 4th level. From this point forward, the character has one fewer 2nd-level spells that she can prepare per day than a standard wizard does.
Familiar Mount: If a High One warrior-wizard has access to a special mount based on her paladin levels, this creature gains the characteristics of a familiar as well as those of a paladin mount. The High One warrior-wizard must dismiss her familiar (if she has one) to gain this benefit, but she takes no penalties for doing so. She then uses her wizard level to determine the natural armour bonus, Intelligence, and special abilities that her familiar should have and applies those to her special paladin mount. Her High One warriorwizard levels count as wizard levels for this purpose.
The mount’s natural armour bonuses from both sources stack, and it gains the greater of the two Intelligence scores. Thus, the mount has all the abilities of a special mount appropriate to the character’s paladin level and a familiar appropriate to her wizard level. Bonuses of the same type do not stack, except as noted above, and the mount cannot gain the same ability twice; it takes the better version to which it is entitled.
The High One warrior-wizard does not lose experience points if the familiar mount is killed because she can summon a new one according to the rules given for paladins.
This benefit replaces the bonus feat that a standard wizard gains at 5th level.
¶ High Specialist
Because magic plays such an important role in the game, the wizard class offers great opportunities for change when designing a campaign or a character. The following variants present different versions of the standard specialist wizards. Each variant specialist class gives up one of the standard specialists class abilities in exchange for a new ability unique to the high specialist. Each specialist class has three variants: one that replaces the specialist’s summon familiar ability, one that replaces the specialist’s bonus feats, and one that replaces the specialist’s bonus spell per day from the specialty school.
Because each variant requires the loss of an existing ability, you can use more than one of these variants at the same time. By choosing among the variant abilities presented for each specialist, you can easily customize the way that magic works in a campaign, in a geographic region of a campaign, for a school of magic, or even for a single spellcaster. Players can easily create unique and interesting characters using these variants.
For example, a campaign might be set up with some or all of the following variants for specialist wizards.
- All abjurers in the campaign have the resistance to energy variant ability because the setting includes a large number of gates to the elemental planes.
- Evokers from a specific city all have the overcome resistance ability, but they do not gain additional spells as specialist wizards. However, other evokers in the campaign gain abilities exactly as standard evokers and consider the evokers of that city a disruptive offshoot of the pure study of magic.
- The students and masters at a college of necromancy from a distant region slowly undergo undead apotheosis instead of gaining bonus feats, but most necromancers in the campaign gain abilities exactly as standard necromancers. This difference has led some to feel that the foreign necromancers have a more thorough understanding of the powers of death. Traditional necromancers have a hard time attracting students, while the foreigners gain several new apprentices each year.
- One conjurer of particular power in the city cannot obtain a familiar and instead casts summoning spells exceptionally quickly, as described in the rapid summoning variant ability. He claims he can teach others to wield magic as he does, but so far he has gathered few students.
In addition to a description of the variant class’s abilities, each entry below includes brief suggestions on sample campaigns, adventures, or characters that might benefit from the use of the high specialists. These notes are suggestions only, since nearly any campaign can benefit from adding variety to spells and spellcasters.
Although these abilities allow the creation and customization of variant classes, a character cannot, for example, take a few levels of conjurer using the rapid summoning variant and then “multiclass” into regular conjurer levels. These variants all follow the normal rules for multiclassing by specialist wizards.
¶ HIGH ABJURER
Masters of protective magic, abjurers can fill many roles in a campaign, from bodyguard to battlemage to adventurer. Although it lacks offensive options, the school of abjuration provides some of the most effective combat spells in the game. An evoker or transmuter might find it easier to bring down large groups of foes, but an abjurer is far more likely to bring herself and her companions through a fight alive.
In a campaign with a high degree of intrigue or political machinations, the protective abilities of an abjurer can guard against foes both obvious and unexpected, and rival groups of abjurers, all with slightly different powers, might vie for prominence among each nation’s schemers and courtiers. In combat-heavy campaigns, realms might employ abjuration specialists to protect against the battle magic of their rivals, and in any campaign, adventurers might come to rely on the skills of an abjurer to protect against the dangers of dungeon and wilderness.
Resistance to Energy (Su): Once per day, an abjurer using this variant can create a mystical shield that grants herself or any one creature that she touches limited protection against a chosen energy type (acid, cold, electricity, fire, or sonic). The affected creature gainsresistance equal to 5 plus one-half the abjurer’s class level against the chosen energy type. Activating this ability is a standard action. Once activated, the protection lasts for 1 hour. This protection overlaps with (and does not stack with) the effects of spells such as resist energy.
An abjurer using this variant permanently gives up the ability to obtain a familiar.
Aura of Protection (Ex): Once per day, a 5th-level abjurer using this variant can generate a protective aura that shields against both physical and magical attacks. When the abjurer generates this field, she gains a deflection bonus to her Armour Class and a resistance bonus on all saving throws equal to her Intelligence modifier. This ability requires a standard action to activate, and each use protects against only one attack or spell. Once activated, the protective aura lasts for 1 minute or until the abjurer is attacked or required to make a saving throw, whichever comes first.
An abjurer using this variant can use this ability one additional time per day for every five class levels gained above 5th.
An abjurer using this variant does not gain bonus feats for advancing as a wizard.
Spontaneous Dispelling (Ex): At 5th level, an abjurer using this variant gains the ability to spontaneously cast the spell dispel magic. This ability is similar to the cleric’s ability to spontaneously cast cure spells, with a few exceptions. The abjurer can “lose” four or more levels of prepared spells to cast dispel magic. The prepared spells can be of any level or combination of levels as long as the total spell levels add up to four or more (0-level spells don’t count). For example, an abjurer using this variant could lose two 2nd-level spells or one 1st-level spell and one 3rd-level spell to cast dispel magic.
At 11th level, an abjurer can “lose” seven or more levels of prepared spells to spontaneously cast greater dispel magic.
An abjurer using this variant can use it in conjunction with a readied action to use dispel magic or greater dispel magic as a counterspell.
An abjurer using this variant does not gain additional spells per day for being a specialist wizard.
¶ HIGH CONJURER
One of the most versatile schools of magic, conjuration offers its disciples an effective solution to nearly any task: simply summon the appropriate monster and let it solve the problem. In combat, high-level conjurers fight from behind wave after wave of summoned foes, and in most battles they simply direct their summoned allies into the conflict. In addition to these vaunted summoning powers, conjuration provides effective combat spells and access to teleportation magic.
While virtually any campaign can benefit from rival groups of conjurers serving diverse agendas, conjurers are particularly effective in combat-heavy campaigns. Campaigns that feature a great deal of long-distance travel or travel between planes also benefit from including diverse groups of conjurers, because their specialty facilitates travel and encourages a thorough understanding of the creatures of the Outer Planes.
Rapid Summoning (Ex): Any time a conjurer using this variant casts a summon monster spell, its casting time is 1 standard action rather than 1 full round. (Creatures so summoned can only take a standard action in the round they are summoned.) Conjurers using this variant gain the normal benefits from enhancing a summon monster spell with the Quicken Spell feat.
A conjurer using this variant permanently gives up the ability to obtain a familiar.
Enhanced Summoning (Ex): At 1st level, a conjurer using this variant gains the Augment Summoning feat for free instead of the Scribe Scroll feat.
At 5th level, the conjurer’s summoned creatures become particularly tough to dispel. Add 2 to the DC of any caster level check made to dispel the conjurer’s summoned creatures. At 15th level, this addition to the DC increases to 4.
At 10th level, the conjurer’s summoned creatures gain an additional +2 bonus to Strength and Constitution. At 20th level, these bonuses increase to +4. These bonuses stack with those granted by the Augment Summoning feat.
A conjurer using this variant does not gain bonus feats for advancing as a wizard.
Spontaneous Summoning (Ex): Conjurers using this variant can “lose” a prepared spell to cast any summon monster spell of a lower level. For example, a conjurer who has prepared greater invisibility(a 4th-level spell) may lose that spell to cast summon monster I, summon monster II, orsummon monster III.
A conjurer using this variant does not gain additional spells per day for being a specialist wizard.
Note: Since conjurers using this variant obviously summon monsters frequently, the game master should require the conjurer’s player to prepare simple record sheets ahead of time for each monster that the character commonly summons. It is also important to emphasize speedy play on the part of the conjurer and his summoned monsters.
¶ HIGH DIVINER
Seekers of knowledge, hoarders of lore, and master spies, diviners are perhaps the most underrated specialist wizards. Because they must give up access to only one other school of magic, they are also the most versatile specialists. More than any other specialists, diviners excel at gathering information, and an adventuring party that includes a diviner is much more likely to prepare properly for an adventure.
Many campaigns benefit from featuring more than one type of divination specialist, and diviners can play important parts in any game revolving around information gathering. Campaigns that feature mysteries and detective-style adventures, themes of prophecy and oracles, or large amounts of social interaction and espionage all make excellent forums for a diviner’s powers. In campaigns that feature high diviners with different class abilities, one simple way to add more variety is to make each distinct group of specialists experts in and proponents of a different form of divination. In game terms, this divergence is represented by altering the material components for some divination spells. For example, one group of diviners might favour osteomancy and require a collection of bones to use as components for their spells.
Enhanced Awareness (Ex): A diviner using this variant adds Sense Motive to her list of class skills. In addition, she gains minor benefits when casting certain divination spells.
She needs only to study an item for 10 minutes (rather than 1 hour) when casting identify.
An arcane eye cast by the diviner travels at 20 feet per round when studying its surroundings (rather than 10 feet per round).
Add +1 to the saving throw DCs of the character’s divination spells. (This bonus stacks with the bonus from the Spell Focusand Greater Spell Focusfeats.)
A diviner using this variant permanently gives up the ability to obtain a familiar.
Bonus Feat List: A diviner using this variant gradually grows in awareness and perceptive ability, but at the expense of her metamagic capabilities. The diviner may not select a metamagic feat as a wizard bonus feat (that is, those feats gained at 5th, 10th, 15th, and 20th level). However, the following feats are added to the list of bonus feats available to her at those levels:Alertness, Blind-Fight, Improved Initiative,Lightning Reflexes, andSkill Focus (Spot, Listen, or Sense Motive only).
Prescience (Ex): Gifted with extraordinary insight and perceptive abilities, a diviner using this variant can add an insight bonus equal to her Intelligence modifier to any attack roll, saving throw, skill check, or level check she makes. The diviner can use this ability once per day, plus one additional time per day for every five class levels attained. Using this ability is a free action that can be taken out of turn if needed, but the character must choose to use this ability before the die roll is made.
A diviner using this variant does not gain additional spells per day for being a specialist wizard.
¶ HIGH ENCHANTER
Charmer, schemer, deceiver, pacifist: an enchanter can be all these and more. As a practitioner of one of the most subtle schools of magic, an enchanter might charm a guard into opening a well-defended gate that fifty warriors couldn’t take by force. Good-aligned enchanters use their powers to seek out truth and encourage others onto the path of good, while their evil counterparts bend others’ minds at their whim and gather personal power as rapidly as possible.
Campaigns that feature a large amount of social scenarios, political intrigue, or investigation benefit greatly from the inclusion of high enchanters. These spellcasters, skilled in the manipulation of others and capable of concealing their own identities, make excellent villains and manipulators, or even investigators skilled at using magic to draw the truth out of opponents.
Players and game masters alike should also consider the ramifications that enchantment spells and similar effects have on a game world. Is casting charm person legal? Is a character legally responsible for actions taken while charmed? Do most of the campaign’s inhabitants know that enchantment effects exist? Are there folk remedies that supposedly provide protection against enchantment effects? Do they actually work? Having ready answers to these and similar questions not only adds consistency to the game, but also clarifies and highlights the role of the enchanter.
Cohort: Upon reaching 6th level, an enchanter using this variant gains the service of a loyal cohort of the player’s choice (with the game master’s approval). The cohort is a 4th-level character when first gained; after that point, follow the normal rules described in the Leadership feat to determine the cohort’s level, but treat the enchanter’s level as being two lower than normal.
The enchanter doesn’t gain any followers from this ability. If the enchanter selects the Leadership feat, he attracts followers as normal, the penalty to the enchanter’s effective level is eliminated, and the enchanter automatically qualifies for the “special power” modifier to his Leadership score.
An enchanter using this variant permanently gives up the ability to obtain a familiar.
Social Proficiency (Ex): Enchanters using this variant are as proficient at manipulating others through mundane means as they are at influencing their minds magically. Add the following skills to the character’s list of wizard class skills: Bluff, Diplomacy, Gather Information, Intimidate, and Sense Motive. The enchanter also gains a +2 competence bonus on checks involving one of these skills (player’s choice) every five levels (5th, 10th, 15th, and 20th). This bonus can only be applied once to each skill.
An enchanter using this variant does not gain bonus feats for advancing as a wizard.
Extended Enchantment (Su): Enchanters using this variant ensnare the minds of others more easily with their magic, and as a result their enchantment spells last longer than those cast by other spellcasters. Once per day, plus one additional time per two class levels gained above 1st, an enchanter using this variant can cast a spell from the enchantment school as if it were enhanced by the Extend Spell metamagic feat. This enhancement does not affect the spell’s level.
This ability cannot be used to extend a spell with a duration of concentration, instantaneous, or permanent.
An enchanter using this variant does not gain additional spells per day for being a specialist wizard.
¶ HIGH EVOKER
Masters of the raw power of magical energy, evokers can turn the tide of a battle with a single powerful spell, leveling groups of foes faster than any other practitioner of magic. Where some wizards focus on careful spell preparation and protective spells to survive combat encounters, evokers simply blast away with powerful energy attacks. Their prodigious offensive abilities ensure that evokers become the centre of an adventuring group’s battle plan.
Campaigns that include large numbers of wizards aligned to different nations are particularly suitable for high evokers, since each nation develops unique cadres of evokers to serve in battle. Groups of militant evokers marching in unison with more conventional groups can change the tide of nearly any battle. In addition, campaigns that include themes of primal energy, raw nature, or extreme elemental conditions can all benefit from introducing evokers with variant abilities. Evokers in these sorts of campaigns might explore the raw essence of magic, struggling to harness its energies in new and unique ways.
Energy Affinity (Ex): Evokers using this variant must choose an energy type (acid, cold, electricity, fire, or sonic). This choice is made upon character creation and cannot be altered thereafter. Any time the character casts an evocation spell with the chosen energy type, she casts the spell as if her caster level were one higher (affecting range, duration, damage, caster level checks, and any other factor influenced by caster level).
An evoker using this variant permanently gives up the ability to obtain a familiar.
Energy Substitution (Ex): An evoker of 5th level or higher using this variant can substitute energy of one type for another. When casting a spell that has an energy descriptor (acid, cold, electricity, fire, or sonic), the evoker can change the energy descriptor and the spell’s effects to energy of a different type.
Using this ability is a free action that must be declared before the spell is cast. The evoker can use this ability once per day for each five class levels he has attained (1/day at 5th, 2/day at 10th, and so on).
An evoker using this variant does not gain bonus feats for advancing as a wizard.
Overcome Resistance (Ex): The energy spells of an evoker using this variant can ignore some or all of a target’s resistance to energy. Using this ability is a free action that must be announced before the evoker casts the spell to be affected. Every creature affected by the spell is treated as if its resistance to the spell’s energy type was 10 points lower, to a minimum of 0. (This lowered resistance applies only to this spell; other effects with the same energy descriptor must get through the creature’s normal resistance.)
The overcome resistance ability does not give the affected spell any ability to affect creatures with immunity to the spell’s energy type, nor does the affected spell have any additional effect on creatures that do not have resistance to energy.
An evoker may use this ability one time per day, plus one additional time per day for every two class levels attained beyond 1st (2/day at 3rd, 3/day at 5th, and so forth).
An evoker using this variant does not gain additional spells per day for being a specialist wizard.
¶ HIGH ILLUSIONIST
Illusionists control their surroundings by shaping, distorting, and deceiving the perceptions of others. To some their abilities seem weak, because they only distort and disguise rather than effecting true change, but those affected by an illusionist’s spells know better, understanding that their own senses can be turned against them at any time.
Campaigns that deal in deception or that have a high level of social interaction, a fair number of mystery adventures, or even simply suspicious players can benefit from the introduction of high illusionists. Campaigns featuring multiple types of high illusionists might give each group or variant an even more distinctive flavor by making each the master of a particular subset of illusion spells. Illusionists from one nation might, for example, have the chains of disbelief variant ability and favour phantasms, while the illusionist thieves of the Guild of Shadows might have the shadow shaper variant ability and favour glamers and shadow magic.
Chains of Disbelief (Ex): Even if a viewer disbelieves an illusion created by an illusionist using this variant and communicates the details of the illusion to other creatures, those other creatures do not receive the normal +4 bonus on their saying throws to disbelieve the illusion. Furthermore, even when presented with incontrovertible proof that the illusion isn’t real, creatures must still succeed on a Will saving throw to see objects or creatures that the illusion obscures, although they get a +10 bonus on the saving throw.
An illusionist using this variant permanently gives up the ability to obtain a familiar.
Shadow Shaper: An illusionist using this variant has a special bond with the Plane of Shadow, and gains several special abilities as he advances in level.
At 1st level, Hide is treated as a class skill for the illusionist.
At 5th level, the illusionist may add his Intelligence modifier (in addition to his Dexterity modifier) to his Hide skill checks.
At 10th level the illusionist’s illusions become infused with shadow stuff from the Plane of shadow, making them more realistic and more likely to fool the senses. The save DCs of the illusionist’s illusion spells increase by +1. This benefit stacks with similar bonuses, such as from Spell Focus.
At 15th level, the illusionist can hide in plain sight (as the Ranger ability, except that the illusionist need not be in natural terrain).
At 20th level, the illusionist gains the ability to blend into shadows. In any condition of illumination that would normally grant the illusionist concealment, he instead gains total concealment (as if he were invisible).
An illusionist using this variant does not gain bonus feats for advancing as a wizard.
Illusion Mastery (Ex): An illusionist using this variant automatically adds two illusion spells to his spellbook every time he gains a level that grants access to a new spell level. Furthermore, any time the illusionist learns a new illusion spell, he treats that spell as if be had mastered it with the Spell Mastery feat.
An illusionist using this variant does not gain additional spells per day for being a specialist wizard.
¶ HIGH NECROMANCER
Wrapped in mystery and burdened by reputations of evil, necromancers control dangerous energies that rob the living of strength and grant unlife to the dead. The most powerful necromancers command dangerous undead minions and threaten towns, cities, and sometimes even entire kingdoms with their power. Although necromancers make excellent villains and nemeses for a group of adventurers, neutral- and good-aligned necromancers who view themselves as the shepherds of the living and guardians of the dead can also prove valuable allies.
Campaigns that include evil necromancers or groups of undead as antagonists can benefit from the inclusion of high necromancers. Rival groups of necromancers might view certain types of undead as the only true or “pure” undead and all others as evils that must be destroyed, with each group disagreeing on which types are which. Other factions or groups might have an innate loathing for undead raised by any but themselves.
Skeletal Minion: A 1st-level necromancer using this variant can begin play with an undead minion (a human warrior skeleton). Obtaining this minion takes 24 hours and uses up magical materials that cost 100 gp.
This creature is a loyal servant that follows the necromancer’s commands and accompanies her on adventures if desired. If the skeletal minion is destroyed, the necromancer suffers no ill effects and may replace it by performing a ceremony identical to the one that allowed her to obtain her first servant.
At 1st level, the skeleton is completely typical, but it gains power as the necromancer gains levels. The skeleton has a number of Hit Dice equal to the necromancer’s class level. Add one-half the necromancer’s class level to the skeleton’s natural armour bonus. Add one-third of the necromancer’s class level to the skeleton’s Strength and Dexterity scores.
A necromancer using this variant permanently gives up the ability to obtain a familiar.
Undead Apotheosis (Ex): As a necromancer using this variant progresses in levels, she gains some of the qualities that typify undead creatures.
At 5th level, the necromancer gains a 2 bonus on all saving throws made to resist sleep, stun, paralysis, poison, or disease. This bonus increases to +4 at 15th level.
At 10th level, the necromancer gains a +4 bonus on saving throws made to resist ability damage,ability drain, or energy drain.
At 20th level, the necromancer gains 25% resistance to critical hits, as the light fortification armour special ability.
A necromancer using this variant does not gain bonus feats for advancing as a wizard.
Enhanced Undead (Ex): Any time a necromancer using this variant creates an undead creature (such as with animate dead, create undead, or create greater undead), all undead creatures created gain a +4 enhancement bonus to Strength and Dexterity, and two additional hit points per Hit Die. This ability does not affect the number or Hit Dice of animated creatures that the necromancer can create or control.
A necromancer using this variant does not gain additional spells per day for being a specialist wizard.
¶ HIGH TRANSMUTER
Masters of change, transmuters are among the most varied and versatile specialists. Transmutation spells, by their very nature, can change the environment and allow the spellcaster to solve nearly any problem.
This school’s utility and variety ensures that nearly any campaign’s magic becomes richer with the introduction of high transmuters. Campaigns in which the magic system is undergoing change benefit from introducing high transmuters. Likewise, campaigns that include an above-average number of magical cultures or a long history of magical sophistication benefit from alternative traditions of transmutation magic.
Enhance Attribute (Ex): Once per day, plus one additional time per five class levels, a transmuter using this variant can add a +2 enhancement bonus to any one of his ability scores. This bonus lasts for a number of minutes equal to the transmuter’s class level. Using this ability is a free action (and counts as using a quickened spell, so it may only be used once per round).
A transmuter using this variant permanently gives up the ability to obtain a familiar.
Spell Versatility (Ex): A 5th-level transmuter using this variant can adapt magic of other schools to his own style of spellcasting. For every five class levels that the transmuter gains, he can select one spell of any spell level that he has access to and treat it as if it were a transmutation spell. This means, for example, that the specialist can learn the spell normally and even prepare it as a bonus spell from the transmutation school. This spell can even be from a school that he has chosen as a prohibited school. Once a spell is chosen to be affected by this ability, it cannot be changed.
For example, a transmutation specialist using this variant has selected abjuration and necromancy as his prohibited schools. At 5th level, he gains access to 3rd-level spells. He choosesdispel magic and forever after treats dispel magic as if were a transmutation spell.
A transmuter using this variant does not gain bonus feats for advancing as a wizard.
Transmutable Memory (Ex): A transmuter using this variant can alter some of his prepared spells in a short amount of time. Once per day, the transmuter can give up a number of prepared spell levels (up to a maximum total equal to half his class level) and prepare different spells in their place, as long as the number of newly prepared spell levels is equal to or less than the number of spell levels given up (0-level spells don’t count). For example, a 12th-level transmuter who uses this variant can lose two 1st-level spells and two 2nd-level spells from memory (a total of six spell levels, half the character’s class level) and prepare two 3rd-level spells.
Using this ability requires a number of minutes of concentration equal to the number of spell levels given up. if the transmuter’s concentration is broken during this time, all spells to be lost are gone and no spells are gained in their place.
A transmuter using this variant does not gain additional spells per day for being a specialist wizard.
¶ Imbued Staff
As an optional rule, any sorcerer or wizard may opt to forego a normal familiar in order to imbue her travelling staff with that portion of her power. To do this, she selects a quarterstaff-length of wood that resonates with her mystical signature and personality. It cannot have been previously enchanted (although it may subsequently be) and must be of masterwork quality. It must be prepared using materials costing at least 500 gp, usually with a gem to serve as a mounted finial. The imbuing ritual takes 24 hours and ties a portion of the spellcaster’s power into the staff, a separate piece of her soul that grows in power as she does. Upon its imbuing, the staff becomes magically linked to its creator and is treated as a magic item.
Hit Points: The staff has 10 Hit Points and Hardness 5, both of which increase as the wizard or sorcerer gains levels, according to the Imbued Staff Advancement table.
Saving Throws: The staff saves as its creator, even when unattended.
If an imbued staff is broken, its creator must attempt a DC 15 Fortitude saving throw or lose 500 experience points per wizard or sorcerer level. Success reduces the loss by half. However, a caster’s experience point total can never be reduced below 0 as a result of the loss of her staff. A broken imbued staff cannot be replaced for a year and a day - the loss is too great.
If the character who imbued the staff dies, the staff loses all magical properties. Should the character return from the grave, it regains its imbued powers when it is first touched by the imbuing character.
¶ Table: Imbued Staff Advancement
| Master | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Class Level | Hardness | Hit Points | Special |
| 1st-2nd | 5 | 15 | Cantrips, deliver touch spells |
| 3rd-4th | 5 | 15 | Enhanced weapon +1 |
| 5th-6th | 5 | 15 | Remote viewing |
| 7th-8th | 10 | 20 | — |
| 9th-10th | 10 | 20 | Vital Transfer |
| 11th-12th | 10 | 20 | Enhanced weapon +2 |
| 13th-14th | 15 | 25 | Perfect location |
| 15th-16th | 15 | 25 | Mighty weapon |
| 17th-18th | 15 | 25 | Return |
| 19th-20th | 20 | 30 | Enhanced weapon +3 |
¶ Imbued Ability Descriptions
An imbued staff has special capabilities depending on its master’s wizard or sorcerer level, as shown on the Imbued Staff Advancement table.
Cantrips (Sp): Three times per day, as a standard action, the wielder of the staff can make it shed a flickering light as per the spell. Once activated, this light remains until the wielder dismisses it (a free action). In addition, the staff can hold a single cantrip available to the wielder, decided upon when it is first imbued. Once per day, as a standard action, the master can cast this cantrip from the staff. The caster level for these effects is equal to that of the master. The save DC for any cantrip cast by the staff is 10.
Deliver Touch Spells (Su): The master may deliver touch spells with the staff. When using the staff in this way, the wielder may attempt to deal the staffs damage by hitting the target’s standard AC (as opposed to the target’s touch AC). A successful critical hit with the staff does not double the spell’s affect when delivered in this way.
Enhanced Weapon (Su): The staff gains the listed enhancement bonus to attack and damage when wielded by its master. This bonus applies to both ends of the staff. In the hands of any other it is merely an ordinary masterwork staff.
Remote Viewing (Su): The staff’s master may concentrate and view the staff’s surroundings as though looking through the finial. This effect is identical to that of clairvoyance except that it lasts for as long as the owner concentrates and has an infinite range so long as the staff is on the same plane. While in effect, the staff’s finial glows faintly, illuminating the area around the staff like a candle.
Vital Transfer (Su): The staff’s master may opt to forego her natural healing for the evening and mend her staff through mystical means. Each night’s rest thus spent returns a number of hit points to the staff equal to the master’s character level, up to the staff’s maximum hit points. The Heal skill does not increase this amount.
Perfect Location (Su): By concentrating for a full round, the wizard knows the direction and distance to her staff, so long as it is on the same plane.
Mighty Weapon (Su): The staff gains the bane, defending, flaming, frost, merciful, shock, or thundering special weapon ability. This ability applies to both ends of the staff. Once chosen, the bonus cannot be changed and does not function in the hands of anyone other than the staff’s master.
Return (Su): The master can summon the staff to her hand as a standard action, so long as it is on the same plane. When summoned in this way, the staff simply appears in its master’s hand. Any effect targeting the staff or the master that prevents teleportation also blocks this ability.
¶ Invested Symbol of Power
Once a staff has been imbued with a wizard’s power, the spellcaster can further enhance it through feats like Enchant Staff, Imbued Defence, Imbued Strength, Invest Spell, and Recharge Staff. These feats each require further preparation and ornamentation of the staff, and as such are classified as item creation feats.
¶ Enhancing an Imbued Staff
A wizard with the Craft Staff feat wishing to add powers to her imbued staff as if it were a normal staff may do so, however all costs associated with its creation are increased by 20%. This reflects the difficulty in overlaying the newer abilities with the existing powers. A staff crafted in this manner is created with 50 charges. It retains any imbued powers and its magical nature, even after the charges are expended.
¶ Immediate Magic
See Player’s Handbook II: Immediate Magic.
¶ Planar Wizard
While other spellcasters may have a vested interest in a particular planar viewpoint, the wizard prefers a more open policy towards the planes. To a wizard, the planes represent knowledge and power, and the wizard who can learn the secrets of the planes without regard to those planes’ alignments or other traits is a true master of magic.
More so than many other classes, the wizard already has the ability to customize her abilities with an eye to the planes, simply through the spells she learns and prepares each day. If a wizard learns plane shift and planar tolerance, then the caster is self-customized to adventure on the planes. But the planar wizard goes a step beyond this adaptation, learning to channel the pure power of the planes themselves in her spells.
¶ Requirements
To take a wizard planar substitution level, a character must be about to take her 6th, 10th, or 14th level of wizard.
The character must also fulfill any one of the following criteria:
* Have 1 rank in Knowledge (The Planes).
* Have a heritage feat.
* Have the extraplanar subtype when on the Material Plane.
* Have visited a plane other than the Material Plane.
¶ Class Skills
Wizard planar substitution levels have the class skills of the standard wizard class.
Skill Points at Each Level: 2 + Int modifier.
¶ Table: Wizard Planar Substitution Levels
| Level | Base Attack Bonus | Fort Save | Ref Save | Will Save | Special | Spellcasting |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6th | +3 | +2 | +2 | +5 | Unimpeded magic | See text |
| 10th | +5 | +3 | +3 | +7 | Planar spellcasting | See text |
| 14th | +7/+2 | +4 | +4 | +9 | Enhanced magic | See text |
¶ Class Features
All of the following are features of the wizard’s planar substitution levels.
Unimpeded Magic (Su): A 6th-level planar wizard learns to overcome planar impediments to her spellcasting. When casting a wizard spell that would normally be impeded because of a plane’s magic traits (such as a fire spell on the Elemental Plane of Water), the spell functions normally without need for a Spellcraft check.
This benefit replaces the 3rd-level spell slot gained by a standard wizard at 6th level. From now on, the wizard can prepare one less 3rd-level wizard spell than indicated on Table: The Wizard.
Planar Spellcasting (Su): A 10th-level planar wizard learns to channel planar energy through her spells. Upon gaining this ability, the wizard chooses to make her spells anarchic (chaotic), axiomatic (lawful), celestial (good), or fiendish (evil). Her spells gain the indicated alignment descriptor. The wizard can choose any of the four options, regardless of her own alignment. Against creatures of the opposed alignment, she gains a +1 bonus on caster level checks made to overcome spell resistance, and her spell save DCs are increased by 1. If she casts a spell that normally has the same alignment descriptor that she would apply, or whenever she casts a spell on a plane with an alignment trait that matches the alignment she chose, the bonuses increase to +2. These effects apply only to the character’s wizard spells; any spellcasting ability gained from another class functions normally.
For example, the spells of a wizard choosing to cast fiendish spells gain the evil descriptor. She gains a +1 bonus on caster level checks to overcome the spell resistance of good-aligned creatures, and good-aligned creatures attempting to save against her spells do so against a DC that is 1 higher than normal. If she casts a spell that would normally be an evil spell (such as contagion), or if she casts any spell on an evil-aligned plane (such as the Abyss or the Nine Hells), these values would increase by 2 instead of by 1.
This benefit replaces the bonus feat gained by a standard wizard at 10th level, as well as the two spells a standard 10th-level wizard learns for free.
Enhanced Magic (Su): A 14th-level planar wizard learns how to channel the essence of a specific plane’s enhanced magic trait through her spells. Upon gaining this ability, the wizard must choose a specific plane that she has visited (other than the Material Plane). Three times per day, the wizard may spend a standard action to channel that plane’s magical essence. The next spell she casts (if cast within 1 minute) is enhanced as if she were casting it on that plane, applying any magic traits normal to that plane. This ability doesn’t apply any other planar magic traits to the wizard’s spells, such as wild magic or impeded magic.
For example, a planar wizard who chose to channel the essence of the Elemental Plane of Fire would maximize and enlarge the next spell she cast after activating this ability (as if she had applied the Maximize Spell and Enlarge Spell meta magic feats, but without adjusting the spell slot used), as long as that spell has the fire descriptor.
This benefit replaces the 7th-level spell slot gained by a standard wizard at 14th level. From now on, the wizard can prepare one less 7th-level wizard spell than indicated on Table: The Wizard.
¶ Soul Reaper
Most necromancers care little for the living, regarding them at best as potential sources of new undead servitors and at worst as inconvenient meddlers. The soul reaper takes a radically different approach. Rather than use her magic to expand the power of death, she crafts spells to breach the barrier between the living and the dead. By peering into the cosmic ether, the soul reaper can snatch a creature’s spirit in the split second that it hovers between the material world and the afterlife.
By collecting souls in this manner and using obscene rituals to torment and enslave them, the soul reaper can expand her arcane power and conquer her enemies more easily. For this reason, she is perhaps the most feared of the dark magi. A fleshcrafter may kill one or more victims to produce a new servant, but the creature so formed is only an animated physical shell - the life forces of the victims themselves pass on to the afterlife. Other necromancers traffic with evil spirits and mindless undead, but only the soul reaper routinely denies her victims their final reward. Trapped within her service, suspended between life and death, they endure a terrible, lonely existence in which they cater to the whims of a power-hungry wizard. When a diabolical fiend must permanently remove an opponent, he calls upon a soul reaper to trap his foe’s spirit. Even a cleric’s power to raise the dead fails to function on a soul trapped within a ruby that a soul reaper has tossed into the sea.
¶ Class Skills
The soul reaper’s class skills (and the key ability for each skill) are Concentration (Con), Craft (Int), Knowledge (All skills, taken individually) (Int), Profession (Wis), and Spellcraft (Int).
Skill Points at 1st Level: (2 + Int modifier) × 4.
Skill Points at Each Additional Level: 2 + Int modifier.
¶ Table: The Soul Reaper
| Level | Base Attack Bonus | Fort Save | Ref Save | Will Save | Special | Spells per Day1 | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0 | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | 5th | 6th | 7th | 8th | 9th | ||||||
| — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||||||
| 1st | +0 | +0 | +0 | +2 | Inquisitor of the grave, spiritual vassal | 3+1 | 1+1 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2nd | +1 | +0 | +0 | +3 | � | 4+1 | 2+1 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 3rd | +1 | +1 | +1 | +3 | � | 4+1 | 2+1 | 1+1 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 4th | +2 | +1 | +1 | +4 | � | 4+1 | 3+1 | 2+1 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 5th | +2 | +1 | +1 | +4 | Ancestral knowledge 1/day, bind spirit | 4+1 | 3+1 | 2+1 | 1+1 | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 6th | +3 | +2 | +2 | +5 | � | 4+1 | 3+1 | 3+1 | 2+1 | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 7th | +3 | +2 | +2 | +5 | � | 4+1 | 4+1 | 3+1 | 2+1 | 1+1 | — | — | — | — | — |
| 8th | +4 | +2 | +2 | +6 | � | 4+1 | 4+1 | 3+1 | 3+1 | 2+1 | — | — | — | — | — |
| 9th | +4 | +3 | +3 | +6 | Ancestral knowledge 2/day | 4+1 | 4+1 | 4+1 | 3+1 | 2+1 | 1+1 | — | — | — | — |
| 10th | +5 | +3 | +3 | +7 | Bonus feat | 4+1 | 4+1 | 4+1 | 3+1 | 3+1 | 2+1 | — | — | — | — |
| 11th | +5 | +3 | +3 | +7 | � | 4+1 | 4+1 | 4+1 | 4+1 | 3+1 | 2+1 | 1+1 | — | — | — |
| 12th | +6/+1 | +4 | +4 | +8 | � | 4+1 | 4+1 | 4+1 | 4+1 | 3+1 | 3+1 | 2+1 | — | — | — |
| 13th | +6/+1 | +4 | +4 | +8 | Ancestral knowledge 3/day | 4+1 | 4+1 | 4+1 | 4+1 | 4+1 | 3+1 | 2+1 | 1+1 | — | — |
| 14th | +7/+2 | +4 | +4 | +9 | � | 4+1 | 4+1 | 4+1 | 4+1 | 4+1 | 3+1 | 3+1 | 2+1 | — | — |
| 15th | +7/+2 | +5 | +5 | +9 | Spawn undead servant | 4+1 | 4+1 | 4+1 | 4+1 | 4+1 | 4+1 | 3+1 | 2+1 | 1+1 | — |
| 16th | +8/+3 | +5 | +5 | +10 | � | 4+1 | 4+1 | 4+1 | 4+1 | 4+1 | 4+1 | 3+1 | 3+1 | 2+1 | — |
| 17th | +8/+3 | +5 | +5 | +10 | Ancestral knowledge 4/day | 4+1 | 4+1 | 4+1 | 4+1 | 4+1 | 4+1 | 4+1 | 3+1 | 2+1 | 1+1 |
| 18th | +9/+4 | +6 | +6 | +11 | � | 4+1 | 4+1 | 4+1 | 4+1 | 4+1 | 4+1 | 4+1 | 3+1 | 3+1 | 2+1 |
| 19th | +9/+4 | +6 | +6 | +11 | � | 4+1 | 4+1 | 4+1 | 4+1 | 4+1 | 4+1 | 4+1 | 4+1 | 3+1 | 3+1 |
| 20th | +10/+5 | +6 | +6 | +12 | Bonus feat | 4+1 | 4+1 | 4+1 | 4+1 | 4+1 | 4+1 | 4+1 | 4+1 | 4+1 | 4+1 |
| 1 In addition to the stated number of spells per day for 0- through 9th-level spells, a soul reaper gets a bonus necromancy spell for each spell level for specializing in the necromancy school. The “+1” in the entries on this table represents that spell. Bonus necromancy spells are in addition to any bonus spells the soul reaper may receive for having a high Intelligence score. |
¶ Class Features
All of the following are class features of the soul reaper.
Weapon and Armour Proficiency: Like most arcane spellcasters, a soul reaper receives only minimal training with weapons and none with armour . She is proficient with the club, dagger, heavy crossbow, light crossbow, and quarterstaff, but not with any type of armour or shield. Armour of any type interferes with a soul reaper’s movements, which can cause spells with somatic components to fail.
Spells: A soul reaper casts arcane spells, which are drawn from the sorcerer/wizard spell list in the Player’s Handbook. She must choose and prepare her spells ahead of time, like a wizard. To learn, prepare, or cast a spell, a soul reaper must have an Intelligence score equal to at least 10 + the spell level. The Difficulty Class for a saving throw against a soul reaper’s spell is 10 + the spell level the soul reaper’s Intelligence modifier.
Like a wizard, a soul reaper can cast only a certain number of arcane spells of each spell level per day. Her base daily spell allotment is given on the table for her class. In addition, she receives bonus spells per day if she has a high Intelligence score.
All soul reapers function as necromancer specialist wizards for the purpose of spellcasting. They must specialize in necromancy and choose prohibited schools as per the standard rules for specialist wizards.
Spellbooks: A soul reaper must record her spells in thick books. Each morning, she pores over these tomes to prepare her spells for use later in the day. The soul reaper can prepare read magic from memory, but all other spells must appear in her spellbooks before she can prepare them. A soul reaper gains all 0-level wizard spells (except for those from prohibited schools) at 1st level. In addition, she gains three 1st-level spells and an additional number equal to her Intelligence bonus. Thereafter, each time the soul reaper achieves a new level, she gains two new spells of any level or levels that her new level allows him to cast.
Like a wizard, a soul reaper may select the Spell Mastery feat.
Inquisitor of the Grave (Sp): At 1st level, the soul reaper learns to force information from the recently departed soul of a fresh corpse. Once per day, the soul reaper can use speak with dead as a spell-like ability, duplicating the effects of the speak with dead spell. The soul reaper must follow all the guidelines and restrictions associated with casting that spell.
Spiritual Vassal: The soul reaper can compel obedience from a host of spirits that she has seized through a foul ceremony and combined into a single spiritual vassal. This ghostly apparition has little effect on the physical world, but besides acting as a familiar, it grants the reaper some of the knowledge the souls used to create it held in life.
A soul reaper dominates and controls the spirits that make up the vassal through a vile ritual that requires 100 gp worth of materials (primarily blood and bone taken from outsiders) and a humanoid creature slain via a ritual sacrifice. After killing her victim, the soul reaper can open a magical link to the afterlife, compel a number of minor spirits to enter the material world, and force them into her service. These spirits combine to form a single entity known as a spiritual vassal that obeys the soul reaper’s every command - primarily because it faces terrible repercussions if it refuses to do so. As a free action, a soul reaper can induce wracking agony in her vassal, causing it to howl in pain. The pain immobilizes the vassal (no save) until the reaper wills the effect to end (also a free action). This pitiable creature might moan for an end to its horrid existence even as it moves to oppose the soul reaper’s foes.
While the spiritual vassal serves the soul reaper, it is as loyal and trustworthy as a standard wizard’s familiar. If it is destroyed, the soul reaper suffers the same drawbacks as a wizard does if her familiar is slain. The spiritual vassal gains all the abilities indicated on the Spiritual Vassal Special Abilities table, based on its master’s level. Many of these are the standard abilities of a familiar, but a few are unique to the spiritual vassal. The spiritual vassal also gains all the abilities described under “Familiar Basics” in the Familiars section. Spiritual vassals are rarely encountered without a master. The statistics provided here, for an unbonded vassal, should only actually be used if the vassal’s master is slain and it manages to survive. Unbonded vassals constantly whimper and softly moan of their despair, begging any creatures they encounter to end their miserable existence and send the souls trapped in their bodies back to the afterlife.
Spiritual Vassal (unbonded): CR -; Tiny undead; HD 1/2d12; hp 3; Init +1; Spd 10 ft., fly 30 ft. (perfect); AC 14 (+2 size, +1 Dex, +1 natural armour), touch 13, flat-footed 13; BAB +0, Grp -8; Atk +1 melee (1-1, slam); Full Atk +1 melee (1-1, slam); SA -; SQ undead traits; AL N: SV Fort +0, Ref +1, Will +3; Str 8, Dex 12, Con -, Int 10, Wis 12, Cha 10.
A spiritual vassal looks like a small sphere of pale, glowing light. Those unfamiliar with soul reapers and their servants might mistake one for a will-o’-wisp. When in combat or forced to perform some other unpleasant task, spiritual vassals moan in inarticulate whispers of their pain and misery. Up close, shadowy faces - the spirits of the unfortunate souls bound into the vassal - occasionally appear and fade on the surface of the orb.
¶ Table: Spiritual Vassal Special Abilities
| Master | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Class Level | Natural | ||
| Armour Adj. | Int | Special | |
| 1st-2nd | +1 | 10 | Alertness, empathic link, improved evasion, share spells |
| 3rd-4th | +2 | 11 | Deliver touch spells |
| 5th-6th | +3 | 12 | Speak with master |
| 7th-8th | +4 | 13 | — |
| 9th-10th | +5 | 14 | — |
| 11th-12th | +6 | 15 | Spell resistance |
| 13th-14th | +7 | 16 | Scry on familiar |
| 15th-16th | +8 | 17 | — |
| 17th-18th | +9 | 18 | — |
| 19th-20th | +10 | 19 | — |
Ancestral Knowledge (Sp): The spiritual vassal can draw on its memories from life to provide the reaper with advice, skills, and abilities on a temporary basis. Starting at 5th level, the soul reaper can access her spiritual vassal’s memories, gaining one of the abilities described below (reaper’s choice) once per day. She gains one additional selection per day at 9th level, another at 13th level, and a fourth at 17th level. The soul reaper may mix and match the abilities as desired within her usage allotment. For example, a 17th-level soul reaper could use the memories of past lives ability four times, or memories of past lives twice and talents of the elders twice, or any combination of the three abilities that adds up to four uses. The reaper’s spiritual vassal must be able to communicate with her for this ability to function.
Memories of Past Lives: Drawing on her spiritual vassal’s memories, the soul reaper gains a +5 competence bonus on checks made with a skill of her choice. This bonus lasts for 1 minute.
Speech of the Ancients: The soul reaper gains the ability to speak and read a language of her choice for 1 minute.
Talents of the Elders: The soul reaper gains temporary access to a feat of her choice for which she meets the prerequisites. She can use the feat for 1 minute.
Bind Spirit (Su): At 5th level, the soul reaper may attempt to capture the spirit of a dying creature in a gem or crystal worth at least 500 gp. This entrapment requires a standard action, and the soul reaper must ready her action to use it at the moment her victim reaches -10 hit points or is destroyed. The victim may attempt a Will save (DC 15 + the soul reaper’s Intelligence modifier) to resist the binding. On a failed save, the victim’s spirit is trapped in the gem, where it must remain for 1 day per level the soul reaper possesses in this class, or until the gem is broken or destroyed. As long as the soul is in the gem, the victim cannot be restored to life in any manner. The victim’s soul cannot be communicated with or contacted in any way, with the exception of the soul reaper abilities described below.
The soul reaper can choose to use any one of the following benefits once per day while the soul is within the gem.
- Compel the bound soul to answer one yes or no question truthfully.
- Speak any one language the bound soul knows for 1 hour.
- Choose any one skill the bound soul possesses and use its ranks in that skill in place of her own for 1 minute. The soul reaper is considered trained in the use of the skill.
Whether or not the reaper actually uses one of these options, the soul is automatically released at the end of the ability’s duration. If the gem or crystal is destroyed, the soul is freed immediately.
Bonus Feat: At 10th level, the soul reaper gains a bonus feat. She may choose any metamagic, item creation, or necromantic feat for which she meets the prerequisites. She gains another such bonus feat at 20th level.
Spawn Undead Servitor: At 15th level, the soul reaper gains the dreaded ability to force a soul captured via her bind spirit ability to inhabit the body of a skeleton or zombie. By completing a ritual that costs 500 gp per Hit Die of the skeleton or zombie, the reaper can permanently grant it the trapped soul’s base attack bonus (if higher than its current one), skill ranks, weapon proficiencies, armour proficiencies, and feats. In addition, the undead creature gains the victim’s Intelligence, Wisdom, and Charisma scores. Other abilities, such as class abilities, special attacks, and special qualities, cannot be transferred in this manner.
This process creates a corrupted, twisted version of the original soul with the soul reaper’s alignment in the undead creature. Once the ritual is complete, the trapped soul used in the ritual is freed and moves on to the afterlife normally. The reaper gains no special control over undead creatures created in this way unless she already commands them. For purposes of turning or rebuking undead, an undead servitor counts as 1.5 times its actual Hit Dice. Its challenge rating equals its base CR plus 1/4 of the CR of the bound spirit used in the ritual.
¶ Spontaneous Divination
See Complete Champion Class Features: Spontaneous Divination.
¶ Wilderness Companion
See Wilderness Companion.