Shadow Barbs (Sorcerer/Wizard Spell)

Level: Sorcerer/Wizard 4

School: Illusion

Casting

Casting Time: Standard Action, or the first attack of a Full Attack Action

Components: V, S, M (A single link from a spiked chain, worth 1 gp.)

Effect

Range: Self

Target or Area: all creatures in target area (friend or foe), a 7x7 cone, adjacent to the caster's space.

Duration: Instantaneous

Saving Throw: Will partial
 Save DC: 10 + caster stat modifier + spell level

Spell Resistance: Yes

Description

You whisper the phrases of this spell as if casting the words into a dark, shadowed abyss, never expecting anyone to hear. But from the very stuff of Shadows, you receive an answer.

When you cast this spell, you create a brief portal into the shadow realm, and there, you find the eager urges to destruction and chaos that forever reign in that dim place. These inchoate urges cannot hold themselves together well enough to harm any real thing...but you can give them the illusion of form, at least briefly. And then they can harm many things very badly indeed.

You tear open the portal, a dusky ragged window into utter night, next to you. As the stuff of Shadow brims forth, you shape it with illusory form into a vast outburst of razor-edged hooks, thorny vines, tentacles studded with razor-sharp scutes and the very air filled with a swarm of tiny razors, that burst forth to fill a 35 foot cone (a 7x7 square space) adjacent to your own space. All creatures, friend or foe, caught in this cone wholly or partially suffers (Circle 4 damage): 1d6+1 points of damage per character level (max 12d6+12 at character level 12) of ripping (physical, uncommon) damage and are dazzled by shadows in their eyes. If affected creatures make their saving throw as described above, they realize the bards and thorns and hooks tearing at their flesh are not real. Instead of taking ripping damage, they take fictive (energy, uncommon) damage, only half, as the illusory magic teases at their sense of reality. Making the saving throw, alas, does not save them from the Dazzled condition, as the shadow stuff floods their forms regardless.

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Mana Burn Circle Damage

Spell Circle	Burn Cost	Req'd Char Level	Base Dice	Max Dice
0	N/A	N/A	1d4 per 2 character levels	max of 4d4 at character level 8
1	N/A	1st	1d6 per character level	max of 4d6 at character level 4
2	+1	3rd	1d6 per character level	max of 6d6 at character level 6
3	+1	5th	1d6 per character level	max of 10d6 at character level 10
4	+1	7th	1d6+1 per character level	max of 12d6+12 at character level 12
5	+1	9th	1d6+1 per character level	max of 15d6+15 at character level 15
6	+1	11th	1d6+2 per character level	max of 16d6+32 at character level 16
7	+1	13th	1d6+2 per character level	max of 20d6+40 at character level 20
8	+1	15th	1d6+3 per character level	max of 21d6+63 at character level 21
9	+1	17th	1d6+3 per character level	max of 25d6+75 at character level 25
10	+1	19th	1d6+4 per character level	max of 25d6+100 at character level 25
11	+1	21st	1d6+5 per character level	max of 25d6+125 at character level 25
12	+1	23rd	1d6+6 per character level	max of 27d6+162 at character level 27
13	+1	25th	1d6+7 per character level	max of 27d6+189 at character level 27
14	+1	27th	1d6+8 per character level	max of 29d6+232 at character level 29
15	+1	29th	1d6+9 per character level	max of 29d6+261 at character level 29
16	+1	31st	1d6+10 per character level	max of 30d6+300 at character level 30
17	+1	33rd	1d6+11 per character level	max of 30d6+330 at character level 30
18	+1	35th	1d6+12 per character level	max of 30d6+360 at character level 30