Potestas: a D&D3E supplement

Chapter Eleven: Spells

Create Undead

This spell allows the caster to create one aware undead, corporeal or incorporeal, from the body of a person who did not have the Devout Belief feat or was not buried by someone with the Devout Belief feat. The undead creature is not under the caster's control.

Detect Arcane

You can sense the presence of arcane creatures, spellcasters, spells, and items.

Creature/Object
Arcane Aura Strength
Faint
Moderate
Strong
Overwhelming
Mortal Bard or Sorcerer
1-10
11-25
26-50
51 or higher
Part-Arcane creature (part-fey, goblin, lesser giant)
1-10
11-25
26-50
51 or higher
Part-Arcane Bard or Sorcerer
1-2
3-8
9-20
21 or higher
Arcane creature (dragon, fey, giant, god, undead)
1-2
3-8
9-20
21 or higher
Arcane spell or item (caster level)
1-2
3-8
9-20
21 or higher
Arcane Bard or Sorcerer
1
2-4
5-10
11 or higher

Dispel Arcane

  1. You gain a +4 deflection bonus to AC against attacks by arcane creatures.
  2. You can destroy an undead creature or dispel a summoned arcane creature with a successful melee touch attack (Will save to negate, SR applies). This ends the spell.
  3. You can dispel any one enchantment cast by an arcane creature or any one arcane spell with a successful melee touch attack (no save, SR does not apply), as long as the enchantment can be dispelled by dispel magic. This ends the spell.

Energy Drain

This spell inflicts 2d4 permanent Con drain.

Enervation

This spell inflicts 1d4 permanent Con drain.

Low-Light Vision

As darkvision, except that the spell confers low-light vision.

Neutralise Fear

As neutralise poison, except that the spell removes any continuing fear effects and makes the creature immune to any fear effects it is exposed to during the duration of the spell. This spell can instead remove the fear effect in a creature or object that can cause fear for the duration of the spell, at the caster's option.

Raise Dead

As described in the PHB, except the character automatically suffers 2 points of permanent Con drain. The character does not lose 1 character level.

Read Arcane

This spell allows you to decipher arcane inscriptions on objects.

Regenerate, Lesser

Some of the subject’s severed body parts (missing fingers, toes, nose, tongue, ears) grow back and broken bones are mended. The process takes 1 round if the severed parts are present and touching the creature and 1d10 rounds otherwise. Lesser regenerate also cures 1d8 points of damage +1 point per caster level (up to +20) and eliminates all non-lethal damage the subject has taken.

Reincarnate

This spell brings a dead creature’s soul back in another body created out of the dead creature’s body, provided death occurred no more than one week before the casting of the spell and the subject’s soul is free and willing to return. The new body is of the same race as the dead creature, but is not quite the same as the dead creature’s first body. The new body looks different, is a young adult, and has different physical characteristic scores (reallocate Strength, Dexterity and Constitution scores). The dead creature’s mental characteristic scores (Intelligence, Wisdom and Charisma) are unmodified, as are skills and class abilities: however, the character automatically suffers 2 points of permanent Con drain. The character does not lose 1 character level.

Resurrection

As described in the PHB, except the character automatically suffers 2 points of permanent Con drain. The character does not lose 1 character level.

Summon Object

As summon instrument, expect this spell summons one handheld tool of ordinary (not masterwork) quality that will work only for you.

Telekinesis

As described in the PHB, except that a sustained force moves an object up to 10 feet per round and a violent thrust moves objects towards any target within feet per level of all the objects.


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last updated 28 August 2004