Drow Magic. Sorcery Of Endless Night.pdf - RoseRed

THE DROW DARK WEAVER
finds himself within the circle of even a candle’s light,
he loses the benefits of this ability.
Favoured Paths: Dark weavers are touched by the
bleak spirit of their cruel goddess and by her will alone
do they gain access to the most powerful enchantments.
At 1 st level, the character selects two favoured paths,
which represent his ties to his dark goddess.
Each path represents a specific aspect of the Dark
Mother of Spiders and consists of a related set of arcane
spells and a granted ability which the dark weaver gains
immediately. The spells which are included in each
path are gained automatically when the weaver gains
the appropriate caster level. These spells do not count
against the number of spells which he automatically
learns at each level.
When preparing spells each day, the dark weaver
can choose to prepare favoured path spells exactly
as he prepares his standard spells, with the favoured
spell occupying a spell slot of the appropriate level.
Alternately, the dark weaver can sacrifice a prepared
spell slot to spontaneously cast a favoured path spell
of the same or lower level instead.
As shown in the chart above, the dark weaver’s only
access to spells of 7 th , 8 th or 9 th level is through his
favoured paths. The dark weaver need not prepare
spells of these levels ahead of time and may cast them
spontaneously as he sees fit – he can, in fact, use higher
level favoured spell slots to cast favoured spells of lower
level, on a one for one basis.
Familiar: A dark weaver can obtain a familiar at 2 nd
level, if he so chooses. In order to do so, he must purify
himself with a simple ritual of agony. His familiar is a
magical beast which takes the form of an animal sacred
Dark Weaver Familiars
While the dark weaver has access to several of the standard familiar species, the granted abilities he gains from
them are sometimes substantially different
Familiar Special
Bat Master gains a +2 bonus to Listen and Spot checks
Cat Master gains a +2 bonus to Move Silently checks and to torment ceremony checks
Lizard Master gains a +2 bonus to Climb checks and to saves against Fear
Spider, tiny* Master gains a +2 bonus to saves against poison and to poison ceremony checks
Snake Master gains a +2 bonus to Bluff checks and to feast ceremony checks
* as Core Rulebook III’s tiny monstrous spider, though the tiny spider familiar has an Intelligence score as other
familiars do.
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to the Dark Mother of Spiders, and is unusually tough
and intelligent.
The dark weaver selects his familiar from the choices
below. As the dark weaver gains both power and
experience, so to does his familiar (as detailed in Core
Rulebook I).
If the familiar dies or is dismissed by the dark weaver,
the weaver must immediately attempt a Fortitude
save against a DC of 15. Failure means he loses 200
experience points per class level, with success reducing
that amount by half. The dark weaver’s experience
point total can never drop below 0 in this fashion. A
slain or dismissed familiar cannot be replaced for a year
and a day, though a familiar can be raised from the dead
just as a character can be, and does not lose a level or
Constitution point should this come to pass.
Web Scribe: The spider is the holiest of living things,
at least in the eyes of the drow. The dark weaver, as a
servant of the Dark Mother of Spiders, understands the
way of spiders and can influence them to assist in his
spell preparation, at least to a limited degree. Beginning
at 3 rd level, the dark weaver can direct spiders to craft
magical webs on which to store his arcane spells.
These magical webs are filled with arcane symbols,
which only dark weavers may read – in essence, the
dark weaver gains the ability to create scrolls from
webbing.
Web scribe works much as the Scribe Scroll feat does.
Directing spiders to create the scroll takes one hour
per level of the spell to be woven into the web, and
the actual scribing process requires one day per 1,000
gold pieces of the base price. The base price of a web
is equal to the level of the spell to be cast x its caster
level x 25 gold pieces. To successfully scribe a web,
the dark weaver must expend 1/25 th of the base price in