Flaming Sphere, Greater (Druid Spell)

Level: Druid 4

School: Evocation

Casting

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

Components: V, S, M (A lump of tallow, brimstone, and powdered iron, worth 1 gp.)

Effect

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

Target or Area: 10-ft.-diameter sphere

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: Reflex partial
 Save DC: 10 + caster stat modifier + spell level

Spell Resistance: Yes

Description

You make broad, circular gestures, flame trailing your hands as you swirl into existence a burning globe of fire, ten feet in diameter. It behaves as a more potent version of Flaming Sphere (Druid Spell).

Once called into existence, in an open square adjacent to your space, you may expend a move action to command the flaming sphere to roll in whichever direction you point and burn all creatures it moves adjacent to, or who move adjacent to it, once per round per creature. (It does not burn the caster upon creation, although it is wise to move it quickly away.) It can also be commanded to explode (requiring a standard action) in a fiery gout of flames, affecting all creatures within ten feet of its space (a 6 x 6 square space, centered on the sphere). When commanded to explode it inflicts (Circle 3 damage): 1d6 points of damage per character level (max 10d6 at character level 10) of fire (energy, common) damage, with a saving throw as above for half damage. Exploding in this fashion does not end the spell.

It moves 40 feet per Move action the caster expends, using either Walk or Vaulting as its movement type, in any combination desired. As part of this movement, it can ascend or jump up to 40 feet to strike a target. If it enters a space adjacent to a creature, it deals 3d6 points of Fire damage and inflicts the Burned condition (inflicting Fire damage) to that creature, though a successful save as defined above halves the damage and negates the burned condition. A Flaming Sphere illuminates the same area as a torch would.

If not directed to move, the sphere stays at rest and burns any creatures who move adjacent to it, once per round per creature.

It occupies a space as a creature does, and can be moved around by Combat maneuver checks, and its space can be entered (at the cost of being burned) through normal means such as Overruns or Clamber. It is not a creature or an ally, does not flank or make attacks of opportunity, and cannot be targeted for buff or debuff effects. It can be extinguished by any means that would put out a normal fire of its size. The surface of the sphere has a spongy, yielding consistency and so does not cause damage except by its flame.

The Flaming Sphere is considered an attended object and cannot be harmed by hit point damage. It can be Sundered to destroy it, having a Durability of one. The difficulty of a Sunder check against the Sphere is the Maneuver Defense of the Caster. It cannot push aside unwilling creatures, batter down large obstacles, or inflict any Siege Damage. A Flaming Sphere winks out if it exceeds the spell's range.

This spell lays a divine charge on its target(s). If the targets are something other than you or another creature (such as an object or area), the spell lays a divine charge on you, the caster. Targets which already have a divine charge present must choose which to keep when the new spell is cast. Only one divine charge can ever be present on a target at a time.

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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