Animate Rope (Bard Spell)

Level: Bard 1

School: Transmutation

Casting

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

Components: V, S, M (A small piece of cord, laced about with silk thread, worth 1 gp.)

Effect

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

Target or Area: One rope or rope-like object

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: No saving throw granted
 Save DC: -

Spell Resistance: No

Description

You can animate a nonliving rope-like object. One coil of rope, no less than twenty feet long, can be turned into a coiling mass of slithering loops and grasping bowlines. The rope is unable to move from the space or creature into which or upon which it is thrown, but within that space, it is disturbingly, liquidly agile.

The rope can only enwrap a creature or an object in its space – it does not snake outward or have a move – so the caster must either affect a space already containing a rope within range, or must throw a rope upon an intended target creature. If you choose to throw a rope, it can be thrown as part of the same standard action as casting the spell, but you must succeed on a ranged attack against either the target creature, or the target space (AC 5). A thrown rope has a range increment of 10 feet (max range of 50 feet, and -2 to-hit per range increment after the first).

• To use a rope to trip up an opponent, choose any 10-foot, unblocked area within range that either contains a rope (or rope-like object), or throw a rope into one square of this area. Once this 10-foot zone contains a rope (or rope-like object), you may make a Caster Check against the first creature which moves into any one of the spaces in the zone, versus that creature's Maneuver Defense. If successful, the creature falls Prone. If the caster check fails, the creature is instead Quelled.

• To use a rope to entangle an opponent, a rope must be present in the target's space, or you must throw a rope at the target. Regardless of whether a rope is already present in the target creature's space or you are throwing it, you make a Caster Check against the target's Maneuver Defense. If your caster check exceeds the target's Maneuver Defense by 4 or more, the target becomes Entrapped until the start of your next turn. If your caster check is at least equal to the target's Maneuver Defense, the target is Entangled until the start of your next turn. If your caster check is only sufficient to hit the target's square (DC 5), the target is Hindered until the start of your next turn. Remember that throwing a rope can be done as part of the same action as casting this spell.

• Any creature capable of casting spells or using a spell-like ability that is affected by a status condition caused by this spell must succeed on a Caster Check against a Challenging DC, based on the caster level of the spell.

The rope itself and any knots tied in it are non-magical in nature. The spell cannot be used to attempt to manipulate, steal, or otherwise affect objects carried or worn by a creature.

While a creature is affected by a status condition caused by this spell, the rope is treated as having as Sunder DC of (19 + the caster's caster level), and a durability of 1.

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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