Pillar of Ice (Sorcerer/Wizard Spell): Difference between revisions

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Casting

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

Components: V, S, M (A piece of ice, magically stabilized, worth 1 gp.)

Effect

Range: Medium (100 ft. + 10 ft./lvl)

Target or Area: One pillar five feet wide and ten feet tall per ten caster levels, 2 at 10th, 3 at 20th, and 4 at 30th.

Duration: Until the end of the current encounter, the end of the next encounter, or until the start of a full night's rest, whichever is sooner

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

Spell Resistance: Yes

Description

You speak clearly, strange words mixed with crackling and pinging sounds, your hands weaving before you as a bit of ice melts in your grasp.

At the culmination of the casting, you make a powerful gesture as though raising a heavy weight, and one of more pillars of blue-white opaque ice creak and crackle as they form.

This spell brings into existence a number of Pillars as defined above. Each Pillar must originate from a square on a horizontal solid surface to which you have line of sight. Each pillar must be vertical. No two pillars can be adjacent to each other: There must be at least five feet (one square) between each Pillar, although that space can be Blocked, Occupied, Impeded, etc.

If you evoke the pillars so that one or more appear in the space of any creature, that creature suffers (Circle 3 damage): 1d6 points of damage per character level (max 10d6 at character level 10) of cold (energy, common), and enough Push to move them out of the square. If they fall Prone to avoid the Push, they become Prone, lying on the square atop the Pillar. If the Pillar does not have enough space to rise to its full height, it conforms to the space available.

Damaged creatures are allowed a saving throw as defined above for half damage. A given creature can be affected by this initial effect only once, no matter how large it is. The pillars block the squares they appear in. Furthermore, once each round, any creature that moves adjacent to a Pillar after they are emplaced gains the Burned condition, inflicting cold damage, without benefit of a save. This Burned condition cannot be removed as long as the Pillars are present.

At the time of casting the caster decides if the pillars are square (creatures cannot cut the corners to go around it), or rounded (allowing creatures to cut the corners when trying to move around it). Once placed, each Pillar is immobile and fixed in place for the duration of the spell.

If cast multiple times, several castings can be 'joined together' to create more and more pillars, with the caveat that at least five feet must separate all pillars at all times. Attempting to place a pillar adjacent to another pillar causes the entire spell to fail, even if the pillars were built up over several castings.

Each Pillar of Ice provides Cover to creatures on the opposite side of it.

Pillars can be circumvented by some movement types, such as Flight, Vaulting, or Burrow.

Each Pillar is immune to Hit Point damage but can be destroyed by Sunders. To Sunder a pillar, roll against the Maneuver Defense of the caster. Each Pillar has a Durability of 1, so a single successful Sunder dispels them. Other siege damage can be used to destroy them as well. If Dispel or Disjunction is used on them, each Pillar must be dispelled, with a separate casting of the Dispel or Disjunction.

Pillar of Ice blocks line of sight, and line of effect.

This spell lays an arcane charge on its target(s). If the targets are something other than you or another creature (such as an object or area), the spell lays an arcane charge on you, the caster. Targets which already have an arcane charge present must choose which to keep if the new spell has the same charge type. Only one arcane charge can ever be present on a target at a time.

This charge can support multiple castings of the same spell, the charges merging into one another.

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

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-| Description = This spell creates an anchored plane of ice or a hemisphere of ice, depending on the version selected. A ''Wall of Ice'' cannot form in an area occupied by physical objects or creatures. Its surface must be smooth and unbroken when created. Any creature adjacent to the wall when it is created may attempt a [[REFL]] save to disrupt the wall as it is being formed. A successful save indicates that the spell automatically fails. Fire can melt a ''Wall of Ice'', and it deals full damage to the wall (instead of the normal half damage taken by objects). Suddenly melting a ''Wall of Ice'' creates a great cloud of steamy fog that lasts for 10 minutes.
+| Description = You speak clearly, strange words mixed with crackling and pinging sounds, your hands weaving before you as a bit of ice melts in your grasp.
+: At the culmination of the casting, you make a powerful gesture as though raising a heavy weight, and one of more pillars of blue-white opaque ice creak and crackle as they form.
+: This spell brings into existence a number of Pillars as defined above.  Each Pillar must originate from a square on a horizontal solid surface to which you have line of sight. Each pillar must be vertical. No two pillars can be adjacent to each other: There must be at least five feet (one square) between each Pillar, although that space can be Blocked, Occupied, Impeded, etc.
+: If you evoke the pillars so that one or more appear in the space of any creature, that creature suffers {{circle|3}} of {{dmg|cold}}, and enough [[Push]] to move them out of the square. If they fall Prone to avoid the Push, they become Prone, lying on the square atop the  Pillar. If the Pillar does not have enough space to rise to its full height, it conforms to the space available.
+:Damaged creatures are allowed a saving throw as defined above for half damage. A given creature can be affected by this initial effect only once, no matter how large it is. The pillars block the squares they appear in. Furthermore, once each round, any creature that moves adjacent to a Pillar after they are emplaced gains the [[Burned]] condition, inflicting cold damage, without benefit of a save.  This Burned condition cannot be removed as long as the Pillars are present.
+: At the time of casting the caster decides if the pillars are square (creatures cannot cut the corners to go around it), or rounded (allowing creatures to cut the corners when trying to move around it). Once placed, each Pillar is immobile and fixed in place for the duration of the spell.
+: If cast multiple times, several castings can be 'joined together' to create more and more pillars, with the caveat that at least five feet must separate all pillars at all times.  Attempting to place a pillar adjacent to another pillar causes the entire spell to fail, even if the pillars were built up over several castings.
-:* '''Ice Plane:''' A sheet of strong, hard ice appears. The wall is 1 inch thick per [[caster level]]. It covers up to a 10-foot-square area per caster level (so a 10th-level wizard can create a ''Wall of Ice'' 100 feet long and 10 feet high, a wall 50 feet long and 20 feet high, or any other combination of length and height that does not exceed 1,000 square feet). The plane can be oriented in any fashion as long as it is anchored. A vertical wall need only be anchored on the floor, while a horizontal or slanting wall must be anchored on two opposite sides.
+: Each Pillar of Ice provides [[Cover]] to creatures on the opposite side of it.
-:: Each 10-foot square of wall has 3 [[hit point]]s per inch of thickness. Creatures can hit the wall automatically. A section of wall whose hit points drop to 0 is breached. If a creature tries to break through the wall with a single attack, the DC for the [[Strength check]] is 15 + caster level.
+: Pillars can be circumvented by some movement types, such as Flight, Vaulting, or Burrow.
-:: Even when the ice has been broken through, a sheet of frigid air remains. Any creature stepping through it (including the one who broke through the wall) takes 1d6 points of [[Cold Damage]] + 1 point per caster level (no save).
+: Each Pillar is immune to Hit Point damage but can be destroyed by [[Sunder]]s. To Sunder a pillar, roll against the Maneuver Defense of the caster. Each Pillar has a Durability of 1, so a single successful Sunder dispels them. Other siege damage can be used to destroy them as well. If Dispel or Disjunction is used on them, each Pillar must be dispelled, with a separate casting of the Dispel or Disjunction.
-:* '''Hemisphere:''' The wall takes the form of a hemisphere whose maximum radius is 3 feet + 1 foot per caster level. The ''Hemisphere'' is as hard to break through as the ''Ice Plane'' form, but it does not deal damage to those who go through a breach.
+: ''Pillar of Ice'' blocks [[line of sight]], and [[line of effect]].
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