Flying Fingernails (Sorcerer/Wizard Spell)

Level: Sorcerer/Wizard 8

School: Transmutation

Casting

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

Components: V, S, M (Paints and unguents, applied to the caster's fingernails, worth 1 gp.)

Effect

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

Target or Area: one target creature, plus one per 20 character levels (drop fractions; max 2 at level 20), creatures you choose to target with your ray attack(s), all of whom must be within 30 feet of each other

Duration: Instantaneous

Saving Throw: No saving throw granted
 Save DC: -

Spell Resistance: No

Description

You cast this spell as you apply colorful lacquer to one or more of your own fingernails, the steady drone of your rapid words pitching higher and faster until, at the culmination of your working, you flick your freshly-decorated digits dismissively towards your target(s).

With a gory spray, one or more of your freshly painted nails rips free of your hand and darts forth as a deadly ray attack, the tiny missiles spinning with a whipcrack of sound. If your ranged touch attack succeeds, the struck creature(s) suffer (Circle 9 damage): 1d6+3 points of damage per character level (max 25d6+75 at character level 25) of drilling (physical, uncommon) damage, as the spinning bits of your keratagenous tissue tear insanely huge holes in your victims.

The transmutation makes this process mostly painless for the caster, and your bleeding fingertips are no impediment to any further action. Note that (although it is unlikely to come up often), technically you can only send forth ten such missiles in any given encounter, unless you are willing to give up your shoes to get more "ammo", and having the Maimed condition (or worse) may cost you some valuable fingernail ammunition. Such matters are left to the GM's discretion. In general, at the end of each encounter, your nails affected by this spell regrow, ready for your next battle.

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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