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ENCHANTMENT (COMPULSION) [LANGUAGE-DEPENDENT, MIND-AFFECTING]

CASTING DC: 20

# OF SLOTS: 1

RANGE: Close (25 ft. + 5 ft./2 Caster Levels)

TARGET: One living creature

DURATION: 1 round

SAVING THROW: Will negates (DC 11)

SPELL RESISTANCE: Yes

You give the subject a single command, which it obeys to the best of its ability at its earliest opportunity. If the subject can’t carry out your command on its next turn, the spell automatically fails. You may select from the following options:

Approach: On its turn, the subject moves toward you as quickly and directly as possible for 1 round. The creature may do nothing but move during its turn, and it provokes attacks of opportunity for this movement as normal.

DROP: On its turn, the subject drops whatever it is holding. It can’t pick up any dropped item until its next turn.

FALL: On its turn, the subject falls to the ground and remains prone for 1 round. It may act normally while prone but takes any appropriate penalties.

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FLEE: On its turn, the subject moves away from you as quickly as possible for 1 round. It may do nothing but move during its turn, and it provokes attacks of opportunity for this movement as normal.

HALT: The subject stands in place for 1 round. It may not take any actions but is not considered helpless.

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ENCHANTMENT (COMPULSION) [LANGUAGE-DEPENDENT, MIND-AFFECTING]

CASTING DC: 38

# OF SLOTS: 2

TARGETS: One creature/Caster Level, no two of which can

be more than 30 ft. apart

DURATION: 1 round/Caster Level

SAVING THROW: Will negates (DC 15)

This spell functions like command, except that up to one creature per Caster Level may be affected, and the activities continue beyond 1 round. At the start of each commanded creature’s action after the first, it gets another Will Save to attempt to break free from the spell. Each creature must receive the same command.

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TRANSMUTATION

CASTING DC: 34

# OF SLOTS: 2

RANGE: Close (25 ft. + 5 ft./2 Caster Levels)

TARGETS: Up to 2 HD/Caster Level of plant creatures, no

two of which can be more than 30 ft. apart

DURATION: One day/Caster Level

SAVING THROW: Will negates (DC 14)

SPELL RESISTANCE: Yes

This spell allows you some degree of control over a number of plant creatures whose combined Caster Level or HD do not exceed twice your Caster Level. Affected plant creatures can understand you, and they perceive your words and actions in the most favourable way (treat their attitude as friendly). They will not attack you while the spell lasts. You can try to give a subject orders, but you must win an opposed Charisma check to convince it to do anything it wouldn’t ordinarily do. Retries are not allowed. A commanded plant never obeys suicidal or obviously harmful orders, but it might be convinced that something very dangerous is worth doing.

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NDEAD

NECROMANCY

CASTING DC: 26

# OF SLOTS: 1

RANGE: Close (25 ft. + 5 ft./2 Caster Levels)

TARGETS: One undead creature

DURATION: One day/Caster Level

SAVING THROW: Will negates (DC 12); see text

SPELL RESISTANCE: Yes

This spell allows you some degree of control over an undead creature. Assuming the subject is intelligent, it perceives your words and actions in the most favourable way (treat its attitude as friendly). It will not attack you while the spell lasts. You can try to give the subject verbal orders, but you must win an opposed Charisma check to convince it to do anything it wouldn’t ordinarily do. Retries are not allowed. An intelligent commanded undead never obeys suicidal or obviously harmful orders, but it might be convinced that something very dangerous is worth doing.

A nonintelligent undead creature gets no saving throw against this spell. When you control a mindless being, you can communicate only basic commands, such as “come here,” “go there,” “fight,” “stand still,” and so on. Nonintelligent undead won’t resist suicidal or obviously harmful orders.

Any act by you or your apparent allies that threatens the commanded undead (regardless of its Intelligence) breaks the spell.

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OMMUNE DIVINATION CASTING DC: 52 # OF SLOTS: 2 RANGE: Personal TARGET: You

DURATION: 1 round/Caster Level

You contact your deity — or agents thereof — and ask questions that can be answered by a simple yes or no. You are allowed one such question per Caster Level. The answers given are correct within the limits of the entity’s knowledge. “Unclear” is a legitimate answer, because powerful beings of the Outer Planes are not necessarily omniscient. In cases where a one-word answer would be misleading or contrary to the deity’s interests, a short phrase (five words or less) may be given as an answer instead. Any delay causes the spell to end. Deities may very well slant their answer to their own benefit.

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DIVINATION CASTING DC: 48 # OF SLOTS: 2 RANGE: Personal TARGET: You DURATION: Instantaneous

You become one with nature, attaining knowledge of the surrounding territory. You instantly gain knowledge of as many as three facts from among the following subjects: the ground or terrain, plants, minerals, bodies of water, people, general animal population, presence of woodland creatures, presence of powerful unnatural creatures, or even the general state of the natural setting.

In outdoor settings, the spell operates in a radius of 1 mile per Caster Level. In natural underground settings — caves, caverns, and the like — the radius is limited to 100 feet per Caster Level. The spell does not function in an urban or constructed setting.

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ANGUAGES DIVINATION CASTING DC: 21 # OF SLOTS: 1 RANGE: Personal TARGET: You

DURATION: 10 min./Caster Level

You can understand the spoken words of creatures or read otherwise incomprehensible written messages. In either case, you must touch the creature or the writing. The ability to read does not necessarily impart insight into the material, merely its literal meaning. The spell enables you to understand or read an unknown language, not speak or write it. Magical writing cannot be read, though the spell reveals that it is magical. It does not decipher codes or reveal messages concealed in otherwise normal text.

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OLD EVOCATION [COLD] CASTING DC: 39 # OF SLOTS: 2 RANGE: 60 ft.

AREA: Cone-shaped burst

DURATION: Instantaneous

SAVING THROW: Reflex half (DC 15)

SPELL RESISTANCE: Yes

Cone of cold creates an area of extreme cold, originating at your

hand and extending outward in a cone. It drains heat, dealing 1d6 points of cold damage per Caster Level (maximum 15d6).

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ONFUSION

ENCHANTMENT (COMPULSION) [MIND-AFFECTING]

CASTING DC: 35

# OF SLOTS: 2

RANGE: Medium (100 ft. + 10 ft./Caster Level)

TARGETS: All creatures in a 15-ft. radius burst

DURATION: 1 round/Caster Level

SAVING THROW: Will negates (DC 15)

SPELL RESISTANCE: Yes

This spell causes the targets to become confused, making them unable to independently determine what they will do.

Roll on the following table at the beginning of each subject’s turn each round to see what the subject does in that round.

A confused character who can’t carry out the indicated action does nothing but babble incoherently. Any confused character who is attacked automatically goes after its attackers on its next turn, as long as it is still confused when its turn comes. Note that a confused character will not make attacks of opportunity against any creature that it is not already devoted to attacking.

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ENCHANTMENT (COMPULSION) [MIND-AFFECTING]

CASTING DC: 21

# OF SLOTS: 1

RANGE: Close (25 ft. + 5 ft./2 Caster Levels)

TARGET: One living creature

DURATION: 1 round

SAVING THROW: Will negates (DC 11)

This spell causes a single creature to become confused for 1 round. See the confusion spell, above, to determine the exact effect on the subject.

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ONSECRATE

EVOCATION [GOOD]

CASTING DC: 28

# OF SLOTS: 1

RANGE: Close (25 ft. + 5 ft./2 Caster Levels)

AREA: 20-ft.-radius emanation

DURATION: 2 hours/Caster Level

SAVING THROW: None

SPELL RESISTANCE: No

This spell blesses an area with positive energy. Each Charisma check made to turn undead within this area gains a +3 sacred bonus. Every undead creature entering a consecrated area suffers minor disruption, giving it a –1 penalty on attack rolls, damage rolls, and Saves. Undead cannot be created within or summoned into a consecrated area.

If the consecrated area contains an altar, shrine, or other permanent fixture dedicated to your deity, pantheon, or aligned higher power, the modifiers given above are doubled (+6 sacred bonus on turning checks, –2 penalties for undead in the area).

If the area contains an altar, shrine, or other permanent fixture of a deity, pantheon, or higher power other than your patron,

consecrate instead curses the area, cutting off its connection with the

associated deity or power and providing no other benefits.

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LANE

DIVINATION CASTING DC: 48 # OF SLOTS: 2 RANGE: Personal TARGET: You DURATION: Concentration

You send your mind to another plane of existence (an Elemental Plane or some plane farther removed) in order to receive advice and information from powers there. The powers reply in a language you understand, but they resent such contact and give only brief answers to your questions. All questions are answered with “yes,” “no,” “maybe,” “never,” “irrelevant,” or some other one-word answer.

You must concentrate on maintaining the spell (a standard action) in order to ask questions at the rate of one per round. A question is answered by the power during the same round. For every two Caster Levels, you may ask one question.

Contact with minds far removed from your home plane increases the probability that you will incur a decrease to Intelligence and Charisma, but the chance of the power knowing the answer, as well as the probability of the entity answering correctly, is likewise increased by moving to distant planes.

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EHAVIOUR

01–10 Attack caster (or close with caster if attack is not possible) 11–20 Act normally.

21–50 Do nothing but babble incoherently 51–70 Flee from caster at top speed 71–100 Attack nearest creature

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Elemental DC 7/1 week 01–34 35–62 63–83 84–100

(appropriate) (DC 7/1 week) (01–68) (69–75) (76–98) (99–100)

Pos/Neg Energy DC 8/1 week 01–39 40–65 66–86 87–100

Astral DC 9/1 week 01–44 45–67 68–88 89–100

Outer (demideity) DC 10/2 weeks 01–49 50–70 71–91 92–100

Outer (lesser deity) DC 12/3 weeks 01–60 61–75 76–95 96–100

Outer (intermediate deity) DC 14/4 weeks 01–73 74–81 82–98 99–100

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Once the Outer Planes are reached, the power of the deity contacted determines the effects. Random results obtained from the table are subject to the personalities of individual deities. On rare occasions, this divination may be blocked by an act of certain deities or forces.

AVOID INT/CHA DECREASE: You must succeed on an Intelligence check

against this DC to avoid a decrease in Intelligence and Charisma. If the check fails, your Intelligence and Charisma scores each fall to 8 for the stated duration, and you become unable to cast arcane spells. If you lose Intelligence and Charisma, the effect strikes as soon as the first question is asked, and no answer is received. The entries in parentheses are for questions that pertain to the appropriate Elemental Plane.

Results of a Successful Contact: d% is rolled for the result shown on the table. Truth indicates a true one-word answer. Don’t Know means the entity says it doesn’t know the answer. Lie means it intentionally lies to you, and with random, the entity simply makes up an answer.

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ONTAGION NECROMANCY [EVIL] CASTING DC: 30 # OF SLOTS: 1 RANGE: Touch

TARGET: Living creature touched

DURATION: Instantaneous

SAVING THROW: Fortitude negates (DC 13)

SPELL RESISTANCE: Yes

The subject contracts a disease selected from the table below, which strikes immediately (no incubation period). The DC noted is for the subsequent Saves (use contagion’s normal Save DC for the initial saving throw).

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ONTINGENCY EVOCATION CASTING DC: 55 # OF SLOTS: 2 RANGE: Personal TARGET: You

DURATION: One day/Caster Level (D) or until discharged

You can place another spell upon your person so that it comes into effect under some condition you dictate when casting contingency. The contingency spell and the companion spell are cast at the same time. The spell to be brought into effect by the contingency must be one that affects your person and be of a casting DC no higher than 10 + twice your Caster Level, to a maximum of 44.

The conditions needed to bring the spell into effect must be clear, although they can be general. In all cases, the contingency immediately brings into effect the companion spell, the latter being

“cast” instantaneously when the prescribed circumstances occur. If complicated or convoluted conditions are prescribed, the whole spell combination (contingency and the companion magic) may fail when called on. The companion spell occurs based solely on the stated conditions, regardless of whether you want it to or not.

You can use only one contingency spell at a time; if a second is cast, the first one (if still active) is dispelled.

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LAME

EVOCATION [LIGHT]

CASTING DC: 26

# OF SLOTS: 1

RANGE: Touch

TARGET: Object touched

EFFECT: Magical, heatless flame

DURATION: Permanent

SAVING THROW: None

SPELL RESISTANCE: No

A flame, equivalent in brightness to a torch, springs forth from an object that you touch. The effect looks like a regular flame, but it creates no heat and doesn’t use oxygen. A continual flame can be covered and hidden but not smothered or quenched.

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ONTROL

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LANTS

TRANSMUTATION

CASTING DC: 50

# OF SLOTS: 3

RANGE: Close (25 ft. + 5 ft./2 Caster Levels)

TARGETS: Up to 2 HD/Caster Level of plant creatures, no

two of which can be more than 30 ft. apart

DURATION: 1 min./Caster Level

SAVING THROW: Will negates (DC 19)

SPELL RESISTANCE: No

This spell enables you to control the actions of one or more plant creatures for a short period of time. You command the creatures by voice and they understand you, no matter what language you speak. Even if vocal communication is impossible, the controlled plants do not attack you. At the end of the spell, the subjects revert to their normal behaviour. Suicidal or self-destructive commands are ignored.

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NECROMANCY

CASTING DC: 46

# OF SLOTS: 3

RANGE: Close (25 ft. + 5 ft./2 Caster Levels)

TARGETS: Up to 2 HD/Caster Level of undead creatures,

no two of which can be more than 30 ft. apart

DURATION: 1 min./Caster Level

SAVING THROW: Will negates (DC 18)

SPELL RESISTANCE: Yes

This spell enables you to command undead creatures for a short period of time. You command them by voice and they understand you, no matter what language you speak. Even if vocal communication is impossible, the controlled undead do not attack you. At the end of the spell, the subjects revert to their normal behaviour. Intelligent undead creatures will remember that you controlled them.

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ATER TRANSMUTATION [WATER] CASTING DC: 35 # OF SLOTS: 2

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AMAGE Blinding sickness 16 1d4 Str1

Cackle fever 16 1d6 Wis

Filth fever 12 1d3 Dex and 1d3 Con

Mindfire 12 1d4 Int

Red ache 15 1d6 Str

Shakes 13 1d8 Dex

Slimy doom 14 1d4 con

* Each time a victim takes 2 or more points of Strength damage from blinding sickness, he or she must make another Fortitude Save (using the disease’s Save DC) or be permanently blinded.

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RANGE: Long (400 ft. + 40 ft./Caster Level)

AREA: Water in a volume of 10 ft./Caster Level by 10 ft./Caster Level by 2 ft./Caster Level (S)

DURATION: 10 min./Caster Level (D)

SAVING THROW: None; see text

SPELL RESISTANCE: No

Depending on the version you choose, the control water spell raises or lowers water.

Lower Water: This causes water or similar liquid to reduce its

depth by as much as 2 feet per Caster Level (to a minimum depth of 1 inch). The water is lowered within a squarish depression whose sides are up to Caster Level x 10 feet long. In extremely large and deep bodies of water, such as a deep ocean, the spell creates a whirlpool that sweeps ships and similar craft downward, putting them at risk and rendering them unable to leave by normal movement for the duration of the spell.

Raise Water: This causes water or similar liquid to rise in height,

just as the lower water version causes it to lower. Boats raised in this way slide down the sides of the hump that the spell creates. If the area affected by the spell includes riverbanks, a beach, or other land nearby, the water can spill over onto dry land.

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EATHER

TRANSMUTATION

CASTING DC: 55

# OF SLOTS: 3

RANGE: 2 miles

AREA: 2-mile-radius circle, centred on you; see text

DURATION: 4d12 hours; see text

SAVING THROW: None

SPELL RESISTANCE: No

You change the weather in the local area. It takes 10 minutes for the effects to manifest. You can call forth weather appropriate to the climate and season of the area you are in.

You control the general tendencies of the weather, such as the direction and intensity of the wind. You cannot control specific applications of the weather — where lightning strikes, for example, or the exact path of a tornado. When you select a certain weather condition to occur, the weather assumes that condition in a gradual change, remaining that way until you use an action to designate a new kind of weather. Contradictory conditions are not possible simultaneously.

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TRANSMUTATION [AIR]

CASTING DC: 38

# OF SLOTS: 2

RANGE: 40 ft./Caster Level

AREA: 40 ft./Caster Level radius cylinder 40 ft. high

DURATION: 10 min./Caster Level

SAVING THROW: Fortitude negates (DC 15)

SPELL RESISTANCE: No

You alter wind force in the area surrounding you. You can make the wind blow in a certain direction or manner and increase or

decrease its strength. The new wind direction and strength persist until the spell ends or until you choose to alter it, which requires concentration. You may create an “eye” of calm air up to 80 feet in diameter at the centre of the area if you so desire; you may also

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