Shades (Sorcerer/Wizard Spell)

Level: Sorcerer/Wizard 9

School: Illusion

Casting

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

Components: V, S, M (A small mirror, half-silvered so it only partially reflects, worth 1gp.)

Effect

Range: Touch

Target or Area: one target creature, plus one per 10 character levels (drop fractions; max 4 at level 30)

Duration: Until the end of your next full night's rest

Saving Throw: Harmless (Will negates)
 Save DC: 10 + caster stat modifier + spell level

Spell Resistance: Yes

Description

This spell functions like Shadow Walk, in that it must be cast in an area of dim light, and allows the recipient and those touched to travel through the Plane of Shadows. Note that once cast, you and all touched creatures appear vague and shadowy, although perfectly recognizable, and once cast, neither the caster nor any recipients have to stay in dim light to maintain the benefits of this powerful magic.

Shades is a far more potent spell for more reasons than merely that, however. If used for long-distance travel in the same Material Plane as you began from, you may move up to 50 miles per hour of travel and you arrive at your destination with great precision, typically within one Run action at your best movement speed. There is no "miss chance" roll: This travel is as safe as anything concerning the Plane of Shadow can be. Note that the tremendous speed and blurring of this travel renders this spell useless for spying and scouting, for much the same reason as Shadow Walk: You're just moving too fast to see much.

Traveling 'across' the Plane of Shadow to other planes adjacent to the Plane of Shadow is exactly the same with this spell as Shadow Walk, except such trips take 1d2 hours rather than 1d4 hours.

Even more usefully, for the duration of this spell you and all those touched may step into the adjacent Material Plane (assuming you're near one) and gain a Greater Teleport move of 50 feet. During combat, you may 'step into' and 'step out' of the Shadow World and reappear wherever you wish with your teleport move range. This teleport move may be used with single moves and double moves, the Run action, and the Withdraw action if desired. You may not 'pick up' items in the middle of this travel, although you can certainly move into the space of an unattended item and end your Move there, pick up the item as part of that Move, and then use another action (a Standard or action point action) to leave that square carrying the item.

This spell lays a dual charge on its target(s). If the targets are something other than you or another creature (such as an object or area), the spell instead lays a dual charge on you, the caster. Targets which already have a dual charge, a divine charge, or an arcane charge, may choose only one of these effects to keep. Dual charges are treated as both an arcane and a divine charge, and a creature may only ever have a single arcane charge and divine charge present on them 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