Rainbow Pattern (Bard Spell)
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
Casting
- Casting Time: Standard Action, or the first attack of a Full Attack Action
- Components: V, S, M (A small piece of phosphor, worth 1 gp.)
Effect
- Range: Medium (100 ft. + 10 ft./lvl)
- Target or Area: one target creature, plus one per 10 character levels (drop fractions; max 4 at level 30), within a 20 foot spread (9x9 area, line of sight required to the center space)
- Duration: Instantaneous
- Saving Throw: Will partial
Save DC: 10 + caster stat modifier + 1/2 caster level - Spell Resistance: Yes
Description
- You cast this spell soothingly, the gentle words calming and kind, your hands coated with glowing phosphor flowing gracefully through the required motions for the magic to work. You create a glowing, rainbow-hued pattern of interweaving colors in a target square you choose that you can see. (Line of sight but not line of effect is required.) Rainbow Pattern fascinates a maximum number of creatures the caster chooses as defined above.
- With a simple gesture, affected creatures you choose find their worldview caught up by the colored lights. Their impulses try to follow the paths of the lights, to make sense of what they are seeing, but attempting such a thing is inimical to continued existence. The lights are impossible, not real, and looking at them is destructive in the extreme. Even mindless creatures find their reflexes and impulses caught up in the luring, amazing dance of the lights, and they grind to a halt, their eyes riveted, a glow emanating from within as they try desperately to see just a little better....
- All targeted creatures suffer (Circle 4 damage): 1d6+1 points of damage per character level (max 12d6+12 at character level 12) of light (energy, uncommon) damage, as well as suffering the fascinated condition until their next action, as the lights infest their sensorium and burn brilliant trails through their bodies. Creatures that make their saving throw realize that the impossibly lovely lights and patterns cannot possibly be real, and suffer only half damage as fictive (energy, uncommon) damage as the illusory magic tears at them as it dissipates. Creatures that make their save are not fascinated.
- The spell does not affect sightless creatures.
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 |