Shadow Weapon (Sorcerer/Wizard Spell)

Level: Sorcerer/Wizard 1

School: Illusion

Casting

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

Components: V, S

Effect

Range: Touch

Target or Area: one shadow weapon

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

Spell Resistance: Yes

Description

Drawing upon the essential duality of all nature that is the font of Illusion, you shape a quasi-real weapon. This can be of any type, melee, ranged, or projectile, light, one-handed, or two-handed. This illusory weapon cannot mimic any material properties such as dweomermetals or dural stone, but it faithfully creates all Weapon Qualities such as Adaptive Reach or Battering, and inflicts the usual damage type and amount for the weapon chosen. If a projectile weapon is created, it also has sufficient shadow ammunition (of any non-unique, non-material-based (dural is not allowed) type the caster wishes) for the combat at hand, although it must be reloaded as normal. A Shadow Weapon may be Tiny, Small, Medium, or Large.

This weapon may be wielded by you or an ally whom you touch as the spell is cast. Once willed into existence, the weapon cannot then be given to another, although it can be disarmed and then picked up again by the same user without penalty. If Sundered, a Shadow Weapon is dispelled.

You or the creature you touch may use this weapon to make attacks as if it were a real weapon, dealing normal damage for a weapon of its type and the wielder's level. Proficiency is required or penalties accrue, and any feats (such as Weapon Specialization) or abilities (such as a Fighter's Exacting Strikes or a Monk's Echoing Strike) the wielder possesses that apply to the Shadow Weapon work normally.

The first time the wielder of a shadow weapon hits a creature with the weapon, the victim may make a saving throw as defined above to disbelieve; failure means the weapon deals damage normally, success means it only inflicts half normal damage, but the damage type is converted to fictive (energy, uncommon) damage.

The weapon may be used for Sunder combat maneuvers as normal.

If an attacked creature has Spell Resistance (SR), the caster must make a Caster Check as a free action against that SR the first time the Shadow Weapon strikes it. If the weapon is successfully resisted, the spell is dispelled. If not, the target may save to disbelieve as normal.

At 1st level, the weapon gains a +1 Arcane Bonus to to-hit and damage, and if a Thrown Weapon, has the Returning Property, as normal. At 5th level, the weapon gains a +2 Enhancement Bonus. At 9th-level, you may increase the Enhancement Bonus to +3. At 13th the bonus becomes +4, at 17th, +5, at 21st +6, at 25th level +7, at 29th level +8, and at 33rd level, +9.

The spell ends at the end of combat, or if the Shadow Weapon is deliberately cast aside.

This spell lays an arcane 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 an arcane charge on you, the caster. Targets which already have an arcane charge present must choose which to keep if the new spell has the same charge type. Only one arcane 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