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PATH OF FROST
Transmutation [Cold]
Level: Druid 1, sorcerer/wizard 1
Components: V, S
Casting Time: 1 standard action; see
text
Range: 30 ft.
Area: One 5-foot square per level
(maximum 5), beginning adjacent
to your space (S)
Duration: 1 round/level
Saving Throw: Reflex negates
Spell Resistance: No
A pathway of solid ice races along the
ground from your feet, creating a frozen
strip that gives off wisps of moisture.
CHAPTER 3
DRACONIC
MAGIC
An ill wind blows in the desert, spurred on by dragon magic
You entire body sparkles as color fades from
your form. A stiff breeze picks up as you
collapse into thousands of particles of sand,
sent flying on the warm wind.
You and all your belongings become
a flying cloud of sand, swirling and
formless yet retaining your consciousness.
You lose your normal shape and
become a sand cloud, taking up the
same space you do in your normal
form. You can fly at a speed of 40 feet
(perfect maneuverability), but you lose
any other movement rates you had in
your normal form. Treat this otherwise
as gaseous form (PH 234).
If you end your movement in the
same space as another creature, that
creature is blinded for 1 round (Fortitude
negates). Spell resistance does not
apply against this effect.
Furthermore, while this spell is
active, you can activate a gust of wind
effect (as the spell) as a swift action.
Doing so ends the duration of passage
of the shifting sands.
Special: A blue dragon capable of casting
6th-level sorcerer spells can cast
this spell as a swift action.
This spell creates a pathway or area of
slippery ice on the ground. Entering
an affected square costs 2 squares of
movement; a creature can avoid this
hindrance by succeeding on a DC 10
Balance check. If the creature fails the
save by 5 or more, it not only spends
2 squares of movement to enter the
affected square, but it also falls prone
in that square.
In addition, any creature that starts
its turn in an affected square or that
enters an affected square takes 1 point
of cold damage. If a creature enters
more than one affected square on its
turn, it takes damage for each square.
This spell can be cast only on solid
ground and has no effect when cast on
the surface of water or other liquids.
If you cast path of frost again before
the duration of the first spell ends,
any squares within the area of both
castings deal 2 points of cold damage.
More than two overlapping areas don’t
stack.
Special: A white dragon capable of
casting 3rd-level sorcerer spells can
cast this spell as a swift action.
PRIMAL HUNTER
Transmutation
Level: Druid 2, ranger 1, sorcerer 2
Components: V, S
Casting Time: 1 standard action
Range: Personal
Target: You
Duration: 24 hours
Illus. by C. Critchlow
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