Ventriloquism (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, M (A runed parchment, rolled and pasted into a cone, worth 1 gp.)

Effect

Range: Close (25 ft. + 5 ft./two lvls)

Target or Area: one target creature, any creature chosen

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

You murmur the precise rhyme and meter of this spell over and over, the words reverberating and overlapping, growing ever-clearer but also fainter, as the cone of parchment you hold begins to glow. You hold the cone to your mouth and speak.

You can make your voice (or any sound that you can normally make vocally) seem to issue from someplace else. You may choose the origin square for your words as any square to which you have line of effect, but not necessarily line of sight. You can, for example, choose a square on the other side of a wall, or around a corner, as long as there is an unblocked path of squares between you and the target square. You can speak in any language you know, and can make skill checks based on verbal communications (the GM adjudicates the exact circumstances and whether the check is allowed). With respect to such voices and sounds, anyone who hears the sound and rolls a successful save recognizes it as illusory (but still hears it).

In addition, you may choose to expend the power of the spell in a single grating screech, causing the overlapping sounds to destructively saw their way into the mind of a single target, chosen as above. Attacking with this spell is a standard action, but if you wish you may make this attack as part of the same action as casting the spell. Attacking with this spell in this way immediately ends the spell. This grating feedback yawp causes (Circle 1 damage): 1d6 points of damage per character level (max 4d6 at character level 4) of sonic (energy, common) damage. If a save is made, the damage is halved and the damage type is changed to fictive (energy, uncommon) damage.

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