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The torment ceremony is among the simplest of black ceremonies, requiring only that the participants burn a small, venomous animal on an altar consecrated to the Dark Mother. When the animal gives its last death shriek, the participants must impale it with a small obsidian dagger. At that exact moment, the victim is stricken. War Black ceremony Effect: Bolstering +4 to Strength and Constitution (DC 44). Weakening -4 to enemies Strength and Constitution (DC 44) Materials: Minimum 100 participants (DC -30), Average Materials (DC +/-0), Drow only (DC -5), Intimidation sub-check DC 20 (DC -10) Completion Time: 1 day (DC +/-0), standard commitment (DC +0) Range: Medium (up to 50 miles) (DC +10). Target: All drow and their designated enemies within 50 miles (DC +20) Duration: 1 week (DC -10) Final DC Check: 73 59 BLACK CEREMONIES Through the use of this powerful ceremony, drow warriors can gorge themselves on the fighting spirit of their most hated enemies. This mystic energies created by this ceremony greatly increased both the killing fury and the fortitude of the drow, transforming them into a howling warband of unimaginable fury. This ceremony is used only in the most dire of circumstances, when the survival of an entire drow city is at stake for example, as it is difficult to gather one hundred drow and get them to co-operate for any reason. The war ceremony is a sombre affair, at least by the standards of drow black ceremonies. Ceremony participants are required to dance until exhaustion takes them and they collapse, bloody froth at their lips. The magic ceremony culminates, accompanied by the thunder of war drums, with the summoning and ritual slaughter of a fiendish monstrous spider.
HELP FOR GAMES MASTERS Help for Games Masters Drow magic is nasty, in every sense of the word. Drow spells tend to be more vicious than their Core Rulebook I counterparts. While they are not more powerful, their effects tend towards the corruptive and the crippling, ripping and tearing of flesh and spirit in ways that can seem quite disturbing. The first time your player’s hear that their character’s flesh is bubbling and ripping and erupting into gouts of tiny spiders, they are likely to react with shock, perhaps even a bit of revulsion. In other words, they will react exactly as they should when confronted by the drow. Introducing Drow Spells Introducing the new spells in this book should be relatively easy, since most campaigns do not feature drow opponents so regularly that players can feel confident that they have seen the full extent of their magical knowledge. The best way to introduce these spells is to simply unleash them in combat, which will help to play up the mysterious and truly alien nature of the drow which, until gamers were overexposed to them over the past few years, was always the key part of their mystique. The first time you use any of the spells in this book, you should take great pains not to name it. The old saying goes that names are power, but for the purposes of inspiring unease in your players, that simply is not true. The moment you say 'the drow casts swarm boil at you', your players will immediately begin trying to guess at what is coming and what its mechanical effects will be, and when that happens you can throw any notions of disquieting them right out the 60 window. It is better to simply request that they roll the appropriate saving throw and then describe to them what occurs and better still if you give them the results in gritty, visceral detail. In order to get the most use out of the spells in this book, it is suggested that you use them as replacements for some of the more common spells in Core Rulebook I, at least when making up spell lists for drow wizards and sorcerers. So, for example, a drow wizard should have spider gorge, rather than lightning bolt, in his repertoire and a sorcerer should use shriek of abject hatred, rather than ice storm, in combat. Should you choose to eventually allow non-drow spellcasters access to the spells in the book, you should not simply allow them to pick and choose them each time they go up a level, or even buy or find scrolls containing the spells in local magic stores or random treasure hordes. Instead, they should earn them only by defeating drow spellcasters in combat, or by outwitting them, as the spells in this book work best when they remain rare and mysterious. Introducing the Dark Weaver Introducing a new base class into your campaigns is never an easy thing, since it brings with it questions of appropriateness within your game and balance against the existing options. That said, introducing the dark weaver should be relatively painless, primarily because while it is balanced with the classes in Core Rulebook I in mind, it will most likely be used primarily to create unique Non-Player Characters for your player’s characters to fight, a role it fulfils admirably. As a base class, the dark weaver can at first seem a bit of an odd duck; with his decent combat abilities, his two good saves and, especially, his mixture of traditional arcane spell progression and domain-like favoured spell paths, he at first looks like nothing
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Encyclopaedia Contents Introduction
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Drow Magic - An Overview The drow a
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Sorcerers and Breeding Programs Sin
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The Drow Dark Weaver The dark weave
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