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other monsters or beings of the shadow type) take 1d6 points
of damage per caster level, to a maximum of 10d6. Creatures
subject to this effect are entitled to a Fortitude saving throw
for half damage. Second, spells of the shadow subschool or the
darkness descriptor (including shadow conjurations and
shadow evocations) may be dispelled. Make a dispel check
(1d20 + your caster level, maximum +10) against a DC of 11
+ the target spell’s caster level.
Material Component: A small piece of obsidian.
ANIMATE DREAD WARRIOR
Necromancy [Evil]
Level: Sor/Wiz 6
Components: V, S, M, XP
Casting Time: 10 minutes
Range: Touch
Target: One humanoid corpse
Duration: Instantaneous
Saving Throw: None
Spell Resistance: No
You transform the corpse of a skilled warrior into an undead
monster under your command. The corpse in question must be
that of a humanoid with at least three levels or Hit Dice and
no more Hit Dice than your own, killed within the last tenday.
The body must be substantially whole, although any injury
short of dismemberment does not interfere with the spell.
Upon completion of the spell, the subject corpse reanimates
as a dread warrior under your command (see the Dread Warrior
entry in Chapter 6: Monsters of the East). The creature
serves loyally and obeys your orders to the best of its ability,
although a cleric with the ability to command undead can
usurp your control with a sufficiently high rebuke undead
check. Upon the caster’s death, the dread warrior becomes a
free-willed undead creature.
Created twenty years ago by the zulkir of Necromancy,
Szass Tam, this spell is found only in the spellbooks of those
Red Wizards who served as his apprentices and the apprentices
of those apprentices. Szass Tam has been using this spell to
steadily create a vast army of dread warriors.
Material Component: A rusted fragment of a sword blade
broken in battle.
XP Cost: 250 XP per HD of the dread warrior created.
BALL LIGHTNING
Evocation [Electricity]
Level: Sor/Wiz 5
Components: V, S, M
Casting Time: 1 standard action
Range: Medium (100 ft. + 10 ft./level)
Effect: One or more balls of lightning, up to 1/2 levels
Duration: 1 round/level
Saving Throw: Reflex half
Spell Resistance: Yes
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You create one or more 3-foot-diameter balls of lightning that
shed light as candles and move under your control. You can
deal a number of damage dice (d6) equal to half your caster
level (maximum 10d6), divided however you see fit, although
no one ball can deal less than 1d6 points of damage. For example,
a 9th-level caster could create one 4d6 lightning ball,
two 2d6 balls, four 1d6 balls, or a 2d6 ball and two 1d6 balls.
On the round in which you cast the spell, the lightning balls
appear where you wish in the spell’s range, and you may direct
their movements as a free action. On following rounds, you
must actively direct the lightning balls to move them; otherwise,
they stay at rest and damage any creature in the spaces
they occupy. Directing the movement of all existing lightning
balls is a move-equivalent action for you. A lightning ball has
a fly speed of 100 feet with perfect maneuverability. If a
lightning ball enters a space with a creature, it stops moving
for the round and deals electricity damage equal to the assigned
number of dice. The target of a lightning ball can halve
this damage with a successful Reflex save. A ball winks out if
it exceeds the spell’s range.
Note: This spell first appeared in Magic of Faerûn. This
version supersedes the one originally printed there.
Material Component: A handful of copper and iron pellets.
BELTYN’S BURNING BLOOD
Necromancy
Level: Nar demonbinder 4, Sor/Wiz 5
Components: V, S, M
Casting Time: 1 standard action
Range: Medium (100 ft. + 10 ft./level)
Target: One living creature
Duration: 1 round/level (D)
Saving Throw: Fortitude partial (see text)
Spell Resistance: Yes
You infuse a living creature’s blood with a hot, corrosive mixture,
dealing 1d8 points of acid damage and 1d8 points of fire
damage per round. Each round, on its action, the subject may
attempt a Fortitude save to negate that round’s damage, but
a successful save in one round does not necessarily prevent
damage in future rounds. On any round in which the subject
fails its Fortitude save, the pain limits it to a single moveequivalent
action in that round.
Beltyn’s burning blood does not affect creatures of the construct,
elemental, ooze, plant, or undead types.
Material Component: A drop of blood and a pinch of
saltpeter.
BLADEBANE
Transmutation
Level: Clr 3, Pal 2, Sor/Wiz 4
Components: V, S, M
Casting Time: 1 standard action
Range: Touch