Effects with this trait deal acid damage. Creatures with this trait have a connection to magical acid.
Concentrate
An action with this trait requires a degree of mental concentration and discipline.
Manipulate
You must physically manipulate an item or make gestures to use an action with this trait. Creatures without a suitable appendage can’t perform actions with this trait. Manipulate actions often trigger reactions.
legacy_name: Acid Arrow
range: 120
saving_throw: Reflex
source: Player Core pg. 314
spell_type: Spell
target: 1 creature
tradition: ArcanePrimal
type: Spell
An ephemeral, taloned hand grips the target, burning it with magical acid. The target takes 2d8 acid damage plus 1d6 persistent acid damage depending on its Reflex save. A creature taking persistent damage from this spell takes a –10-foot status bonus to its Speeds.
Critical Success The creature is unaffected. Success The creature takes half damage and no persistent damage, and the claw moves it up to 5 feet in a direction of your choice. Failure The creature takes full damage and persistent damage, and the claw moves it up to 10 feet in a direction of your choice. Critical Failure The creature takes double damage and full persistent damage, and the claw moves it up to 20 feet in a direction of your choice.
Heightened (+2) The initial damage increases by 2d8, and the persistent acid damage increases by 1d6.
An action with this trait requires a degree of mental concentration and discipline.
Manipulate
You must physically manipulate an item or make gestures to use an action with this trait. Creatures without a suitable appendage can’t perform actions with this trait. Manipulate actions often trigger reactions.
Polymorph
These effects transform the target into a new form. A target can't be under the effect of more than one polymorph effect at a time. If it comes under the effect of a second polymorph effect, the second polymorph effect attempts to [counteract](/Rules.aspx?ID=371) the first. If it succeeds, it takes effect, and if it fails, the spell has no effect on that target. Any Strikes specifically granted by a polymorph effect are [magical](/Traits.aspx?ID=103). Unless otherwise stated, polymorph spells don't allow the target to take on the appearance of a specific individual creature, but rather just a generic creature of a general type or ancestry.
If you take on a battle form with a polymorph spell, the special statistics can be adjusted only by circumstance bonuses, status bonuses, and penalties. Unless otherwise noted, the battle form prevents you from casting spells, speaking, and using most [manipulate](/Traits.aspx?ID=104) actions that require hands. (If there's doubt about whether you can use an action, the GM decides.) Your gear is absorbed into you; the constant abilities of your gear still function, but you can't activate any items.
duration: 1 min.
source: Player Core pg. 314
spell_type: Spell
tradition: ArcanePrimal
type: Spell
You harness your mastery of the sky to reshape your body into a Medium flying animal battle form. When you Cast this Spell, choose a listed battle form. You can decide the specific type of animal (such as an owl or eagle for bird), but this has no effect on the form’s Size or statistics. While in this form, you gain the animal trait. You can Dismiss the spell. You gain specific abilities based on the animal you choose:
AC = 18 + your level. Ignore your armor’s check penalty and Speed reduction.
One or more unarmed melee attacks specific to the battle form you choose, which are the only attacks you can Strike with. You’re trained with them. Your attack modifier is +16, and your damage bonus is +5. These attacks are Dexterity based (for the purpose of the clumsy condition, for example). If your attack modifier for Dexterity-based unarmed attacks is higher, you can use it instead.
Acrobatics modifier of +16, unless your own is higher.
You also gain specific abilities based on the form you choose:
Wasp Speed 20 feet, fly 40 feet; Melee stinger, Damage 1d8 piercing plus 1d6 persistent poison.
Heightened (5th) Your battle form is Large and your fly Speed gains a +10-foot status bonus. You instead gain 10 temporary HP, attack modifier +18, damage bonus +8, and Acrobatics +20.
Heightened (6th) Your battle form is Huge, your fly Speed gains a +15-foot status bonus, and your attacks have 10-foot reach. You instead gain AC = 21 + your level, 15 temporary HP, attack modifier +21, damage bonus +4 and double damage dice (including persistent damage), and Acrobatics +23.
Effects with the air trait either manipulate or conjure air. Those that manipulate air have no effect in a vacuum or an area without air. Creatures with this trait consist primarily of air or have a connection to magical air.
Planes with this trait consist mostly of open spaces and air of various levels of turbulence, though they also contain rare islands of floating stone and other elements and energies. Air planes usually have breathable atmospheres, though they might include clouds of acidic or toxic gas. Earth creatures often find themselves at a disadvantage within air planes, as there’s little solid ground for them to gain their bearings, which tends to at least make them uncomfortable.
Concentrate
An action with this trait requires a degree of mental concentration and discipline.
duration: 1 min.
element: Air
range: 60
source: Player Core pg. 314
spell_type: Spell
target: the triggering creature
tradition: ArcaneDivinePrimal
trigger: A creature within range enters an environment where it can't breathe.
type: Spell
A bubble of pure air appears around the target’s head, allowing it to breathe normally. The effect ends as soon as the target returns to an environment where it can breathe normally.
An action with this trait requires a degree of mental concentration and discipline.
Manipulate
You must physically manipulate an item or make gestures to use an action with this trait. Creatures without a suitable appendage can’t perform actions with this trait. Manipulate actions often trigger reactions.
area: 20-foot burst
component: 10 minutes
duration: 8 hrs.
0
source: Player Core pg. 314
spell_type: Spell
tradition: ArcaneDivineOccultPrimal
type: Spell
You ward an area to alert you when creatures enter without your permission. When you cast alarm, select a password. Whenever a Small or larger corporeal creature enters the spell’s area without speaking the password, alarm sends your choice of a mental alert (in which case the spell gains the mental trait) or an audible alarm with the sound and volume of a hand bell (in which case the spell gains the auditory trait). Either option automatically awakens you, and the bell allows each creature in the area to attempt a DC 15 Perception check to wake up. A creature aware of the alarm must succeed at a Stealth check against the spell’s DC or trigger the spell when moving into the area.
Heightened (3rd) You can specify a trigger for which types of creatures sound the alarm spell, as described in Setting Triggers on page 303.
An action with this trait requires a degree of mental concentration and discipline.
Manipulate
You must physically manipulate an item or make gestures to use an action with this trait. Creatures without a suitable appendage can’t perform actions with this trait. Manipulate actions often trigger reactions.
Polymorph
These effects transform the target into a new form. A target can't be under the effect of more than one polymorph effect at a time. If it comes under the effect of a second polymorph effect, the second polymorph effect attempts to [counteract](/Rules.aspx?ID=371) the first. If it succeeds, it takes effect, and if it fails, the spell has no effect on that target. Any Strikes specifically granted by a polymorph effect are [magical](/Traits.aspx?ID=103). Unless otherwise stated, polymorph spells don't allow the target to take on the appearance of a specific individual creature, but rather just a generic creature of a general type or ancestry.
If you take on a battle form with a polymorph spell, the special statistics can be adjusted only by circumstance bonuses, status bonuses, and penalties. Unless otherwise noted, the battle form prevents you from casting spells, speaking, and using most [manipulate](/Traits.aspx?ID=104) actions that require hands. (If there's doubt about whether you can use an action, the GM decides.) Your gear is absorbed into you; the constant abilities of your gear still function, but you can't activate any items.
deity: Lamashtu
duration: 1 min.
source: Player Core pg. 315
spell_type: Spell
tradition: Primal
type: Spell
You call upon primal energy to transform yourself into a Medium animal battle form. When you Cast this Spell, choose a listed battle form. You can decide the specific type of animal (such as lion or snow leopard for cat), but this has no effect on the form’s Size or statistics. While in this form, you gain the animal trait. You can Dismiss the spell.
You gain specific abilities based on the animal you choose:
AC = 16 + your level. Ignore your armor’s check penalty and Speed reduction.
One or more unarmed melee attacks specific to the battle form you choose, which are the only attacks you can Strike with. You’re trained with them. Your attack modifier is +9, and your damage bonus is +1. These attacks are Strength based (for the purpose of the enfeebled condition, for example). If your unarmed attack bonus is higher, you can use it instead.
Athletics modifier of +9, unless your own is higher.
You also gain specific abilities based on the animal you choose:
Heightened (3rd) You instead gain 10 temporary HP, AC = 17 + your level, attack modifier +14, damage bonus +5, and Athletics +14.
Heightened (4th) Your battle form is Large and your attacks have 10-foot reach. You instead gain 15 temporary HP, AC = 18 + your level, attack modifier +16, damage bonus +9, and Athletics +16.
Heightened (5th) Your battle form is Huge and your attacks have 15-foot reach. You instead gain 20 temporary HP, AC = 18 + your level, attack modifier +18, damage bonus +7 and double the number of damage dice, and Athletics +20.
An action with this trait requires a degree of mental concentration and discipline.
Manipulate
You must physically manipulate an item or make gestures to use an action with this trait. Creatures without a suitable appendage can’t perform actions with this trait. Manipulate actions often trigger reactions.
Mental
A mental effect can alter the target’s mind. It has no effect on an object or a mindless creature.
component: 1 minute
range: 120
source: Player Core pg. 315
spell_type: Spell
tradition: Primal
type: Spell
You offer food, and an ordinary Tiny animal within range approaches to eat it. You imprint the image, direction, and distance of an obvious place or landmark well known to you within the animal. You can also attach a small object or note up to light Bulk to it. The animal does its best to reach the destination; if it makes it there, it waits nearby and allows nonhostile creatures to approach and remove the attached object. The spell ends after the message is delivered or after 24 hours, whichever comes first. If there are no Tiny wild animals in range, the spell is lost.
An action with this trait requires a degree of mental concentration and discipline.
Manipulate
You must physically manipulate an item or make gestures to use an action with this trait. Creatures without a suitable appendage can’t perform actions with this trait. Manipulate actions often trigger reactions.
area: 1 creature
duration: 8 hrs.
0
source: Player Core pg. 315
spell_type: Spell
tradition: ArcanePrimal
type: Spell
You reinforce the target’s musculoskeletal system to bear more weight. The target can carry 3 more Bulk than normal before becoming encumbered and up to a maximum of 6 more Bulk.
An action with this trait requires a degree of mental concentration and discipline.
Manipulate
You must physically manipulate an item or make gestures to use an action with this trait. Creatures without a suitable appendage can’t perform actions with this trait. Manipulate actions often trigger reactions.
Water
Effects with the water trait either manipulate or conjure water. Those that manipulate water have no effect in an area without water. Creatures with this trait consist primarily of water or have a connection to magical water.
Planes with this trait are mostly liquid. Visitors who can’t breathe water or reach an air pocket likely drown. The rules for aquatic combat (Player Core 437) usually apply, including the inability to cast fire spells or use actions with the fire trait. Creatures with a weakness to water take damage equal to double their weakness at the end of each round.
duration: 1 min.
element: Water
range: 60
saving_throw: Reflex
source: Player Core pg. 315
spell_type: Spell
tradition: ArcanePrimal
type: Spell
A sphere of water 10 feet in diameter forms in an unoccupied space in range, either on the ground or on the surface of a liquid. When you Cast this Spell and each time you Sustain it, you can roll the orb, moving it up to 10 feet along the ground or the surface of a liquid. The orb can move through the spaces of any creatures or obstacles that wouldn’t stop the flow of water. It extinguishes non-magical fires it moves through of its size or smaller, and it attempts to counteract any magical fires it moves through. If it fails to counteract a given fire, it can’t counteract that fire for the duration of the spell.
The orb can engulf Large or smaller creatures it moves through, and it can contain as many creatures as fit in its space. The orb can try to engulf the same creature only once per turn, even if you roll it onto a creature’s space more than once. Any Large or smaller creature whose space the orb tries to move through can attempt a Reflex save.
Success The creature can either let the orb pass (remaining in its space or moving out of the orb’s path into a space of the creature’s choice) or allow itself to be pushed in front of the orb to the end of the orb’s movement. Failure The creature is engulfed in the orb. It moves along with the orb and must hold its breath or begin suffocating (unless it can breathe in water). An engulfed Medium or smaller creature and anyone trying to affect that creature follow the normal rules for aquatic battles. An engulfed Large creature is usually big enough that parts of it stick out from the water, and it can reach out of the water. The creature can get free either by Swimming with a successful DC 10 Athletics check or by Escaping against your spell DC. A freed creature exits the orb’s space and can immediately breathe. Critical Failure As failure, but the creature can’t Swim to get free.
Effects with this trait deal cold damage. Creatures with this trait have a connection to magical cold.
Concentrate
An action with this trait requires a degree of mental concentration and discipline.
Manipulate
You must physically manipulate an item or make gestures to use an action with this trait. Creatures without a suitable appendage can’t perform actions with this trait. Manipulate actions often trigger reactions.
area: 120-foot line
legacy_name: Polar Ray
saving_throw: Fortitude
source: Player Core pg. 316
spell_type: Spell
tradition: ArcanePrimal
type: Spell
A jagged crack opens in the air, dealing 12d8 cold damage as it draws away warmth. Each creature along the rift must attempt a Fortitude save.
Critical Success The creature is unaffected. Success The creature takes half damage. Failure The creature takes full damage and is slowed 1 until the start of your next turn. Critical Failure The creature takes double damage, is immobilized by a layer of ice, and is slowed 1 as long as its immobilized. The ice is an object with 60 Hit Points, Hardness 5, immunity to cold damage, and vulnerability 10 to fire. It has object immunities (page 269) and is destroyed if the target Escapes.
Heightened (+1) The damage increases by 1d8 and the ice’s Hit Points increase by 5.
An action with this trait requires a degree of mental concentration and discipline.
Incapacitation
An ability with this trait can take a character completely out of the fight or even kill them, and it’s harder to use on a more powerful character. If a spell has the incapacitation trait, any creature of more than twice the spell’s rank treats the result of their check to prevent being incapacitated by the spell as one degree of success better, or the result of any check the spellcaster made to incapacitate them as one degree of success worse. If any other effect has the incapacitation trait, a creature of higher level than the item, creature, or hazard generating the effect gains the same benefits.
Manipulate
You must physically manipulate an item or make gestures to use an action with this trait. Creatures without a suitable appendage can’t perform actions with this trait. Manipulate actions often trigger reactions.
area: 1 creature that isn't on its home plane
range: 30
saving_throw: Will
source: Player Core pg. 317
spell_type: Spell
tradition: ArcaneDivineOccultPrimal
type: Spell
You send the target back to its home plane. The target must attempt a Will save. You can spend an extra action while Casting this Spell and add a cost to the spell to give the creature a –2 circumstance penalty to its save. The cost must be a specially gathered object that is anathema to the creature. This spell fails if you aren’t on your home plane when you cast it.
Critical Success The target resists being banished and you are stunned 1. Success The target resists being banished. Failure The target is banished. Critical Failure The target is banished and can’t return by any means to the plane it’s banished from for 1 week.
Heightened (9th) You can target up to 10 creatures. The extra cost affects targets to which it is anathema.
An ability with this trait involves an attack. For each attack you make beyond the first on your turn, you take a multiple attack penalty.
Concentrate
An action with this trait requires a degree of mental concentration and discipline.
Fire
Effects with the fire trait deal fire damage or either conjure or manipulate fire. Those that manipulate fire have no effect in an area without fire. Creatures with this trait consist primarily of fire or have a connection to magical fire.
Planes with this trait are composed of flames that continually burn with no fuel source. Fire planes are extremely hostile to non-fire creatures. Unprotected wood, paper, cloth, and other flammable materials catch fire almost immediately, and creatures wearing unprotected flammable clothing catch fire, typically taking 1d6 persistent fire damage. Extraplanar creatures take moderate environmental fire damage at the end of each round (sometimes minor environmental damage in safer areas, or major or massive damage in even more fiery areas). Ice creatures are extremely uncomfortable on a fire plane, assuming they don’t outright melt in the heat.
Manipulate
You must physically manipulate an item or make gestures to use an action with this trait. Creatures without a suitable appendage can’t perform actions with this trait. Manipulate actions often trigger reactions.
element: Fire
legacy_name: Scorching Ray
range: 60
saving_throw: AC
source: Player Core pg. 318
spell_type: Spell
target: 1 or more creatures
tradition: ArcanePrimal
type: Spell
You fire a ray of heat and flame. Make a spell attack roll against a single creature. On a hit, the target takes 2d6 fire damage, and on a critical hit, the target takes double damage.
For each additional action you use when Casting the Spell, you can fire an additional ray at a different target, to a maximum of three rays targeting three different targets for 3 actions.
These attacks each increase your multiple attack penalty, but you don’t increase your multiple attack penalty until after you make all the spell attack rolls for blazing bolt. If you spend 2 or more actions Casting the Spell, the damage increases to 4d6 fire damage on a hit, and it still deals double damage on a critical hit.
Heightened (+1) The damage to each target increases by 1d6 for the 1-action version, or by 2d6 for the 2- and 3-action versions.
An action with this trait requires a degree of mental concentration and discipline.
Incapacitation
An ability with this trait can take a character completely out of the fight or even kill them, and it’s harder to use on a more powerful character. If a spell has the incapacitation trait, any creature of more than twice the spell’s rank treats the result of their check to prevent being incapacitated by the spell as one degree of success better, or the result of any check the spellcaster made to incapacitate them as one degree of success worse. If any other effect has the incapacitation trait, a creature of higher level than the item, creature, or hazard generating the effect gains the same benefits.
Manipulate
You must physically manipulate an item or make gestures to use an action with this trait. Creatures without a suitable appendage can’t perform actions with this trait. Manipulate actions often trigger reactions.
range: 30
saving_throw: Fortitude
source: Player Core pg. 318
spell_type: Spell
target: 1 creature
tradition: ArcaneDivineOccultPrimal
type: Spell
You blind the target. The effect is determined by the target’s Fortitude save. The target then becomes temporarily immune for 1 minute.
Critical Success The target is unaffected. Success The target is blinded until its next turn begins. Failure The target is blinded for 1 minute. Critical Failure The target is blinded permanently.
An action with this trait requires a degree of mental concentration and discipline.
Fire
Effects with the fire trait deal fire damage or either conjure or manipulate fire. Those that manipulate fire have no effect in an area without fire. Creatures with this trait consist primarily of fire or have a connection to magical fire.
Planes with this trait are composed of flames that continually burn with no fuel source. Fire planes are extremely hostile to non-fire creatures. Unprotected wood, paper, cloth, and other flammable materials catch fire almost immediately, and creatures wearing unprotected flammable clothing catch fire, typically taking 1d6 persistent fire damage. Extraplanar creatures take moderate environmental fire damage at the end of each round (sometimes minor environmental damage in safer areas, or major or massive damage in even more fiery areas). Ice creatures are extremely uncomfortable on a fire plane, assuming they don’t outright melt in the heat.
Manipulate
You must physically manipulate an item or make gestures to use an action with this trait. Creatures without a suitable appendage can’t perform actions with this trait. Manipulate actions often trigger reactions.
area: 15-foot cone
deity: RovagugSarenrae
element: Fire
legacy_name: Burning Hands
saving_throw: basic Reflex
source: Player Core pg. 319
spell_type: Spell
tradition: ArcanePrimal
type: Spell
A gout of flame sprays from your mouth. You deal 2d6 fire damage to creatures in the area with a basic Reflex save.
Effects with this trait deal acid damage. Creatures with this trait have a connection to magical acid.
Air
Effects with the air trait either manipulate or conjure air. Those that manipulate air have no effect in a vacuum or an area without air. Creatures with this trait consist primarily of air or have a connection to magical air.
Planes with this trait consist mostly of open spaces and air of various levels of turbulence, though they also contain rare islands of floating stone and other elements and energies. Air planes usually have breathable atmospheres, though they might include clouds of acidic or toxic gas. Earth creatures often find themselves at a disadvantage within air planes, as there’s little solid ground for them to gain their bearings, which tends to at least make them uncomfortable.
Cold
Effects with this trait deal cold damage. Creatures with this trait have a connection to magical cold.
Concentrate
An action with this trait requires a degree of mental concentration and discipline.
Earth
Effects with the earth trait either manipulate or conjure earth. Those that manipulate earth have no effect in an area without earth. Creatures with this trait consist primarily of earth or have a connection to magical earth.
These planes are mostly solid. Travelers arriving upon an earth plane risk suffocation if they don’t reach a cavern or some other air pocket within the plane’s solid matter. Creatures who can’t burrow are entombed in the plane’s substance and must attempt to dig their way toward an air pocket. Air creatures are ill at ease, as they rarely have the space to move freely through even the loftiest warrens.
Electricity
Effects with this trait deal electricity damage. A creature with this trait has a connection to magical electricity.
Fire
Effects with the fire trait deal fire damage or either conjure or manipulate fire. Those that manipulate fire have no effect in an area without fire. Creatures with this trait consist primarily of fire or have a connection to magical fire.
Planes with this trait are composed of flames that continually burn with no fuel source. Fire planes are extremely hostile to non-fire creatures. Unprotected wood, paper, cloth, and other flammable materials catch fire almost immediately, and creatures wearing unprotected flammable clothing catch fire, typically taking 1d6 persistent fire damage. Extraplanar creatures take moderate environmental fire damage at the end of each round (sometimes minor environmental damage in safer areas, or major or massive damage in even more fiery areas). Ice creatures are extremely uncomfortable on a fire plane, assuming they don’t outright melt in the heat.
Manipulate
You must physically manipulate an item or make gestures to use an action with this trait. Creatures without a suitable appendage can’t perform actions with this trait. Manipulate actions often trigger reactions.
Water
Effects with the water trait either manipulate or conjure water. Those that manipulate water have no effect in an area without water. Creatures with this trait consist primarily of water or have a connection to magical water.
Planes with this trait are mostly liquid. Visitors who can’t breathe water or reach an air pocket likely drown. The rules for aquatic combat (Player Core 437) usually apply, including the inability to cast fire spells or use actions with the fire trait. Creatures with a weakness to water take damage equal to double their weakness at the end of each round.
area: 60-foot burst
element: AirEarthFireWater
range: 1000
saving_throw: basic Reflex
source: Player Core pg. 319
spell_type: Spell
tradition: ArcanePrimal
type: Spell
You call upon the unimaginable power of world-ending cataclysms, ripping a small piece of each cataclysm and combining them together into one horrifically powerful attack. The following effects come down upon all creatures in the area. Treat the resistances of creatures in the area as if they were 10 lower for the purpose of determining the cataclysm’s damage. Each creature attempts one basic Reflex save that applies to all five types of damage.
An action with this trait requires a degree of mental concentration and discipline.
Electricity
Effects with this trait deal electricity damage. A creature with this trait has a connection to magical electricity.
Manipulate
You must physically manipulate an item or make gestures to use an action with this trait. Creatures without a suitable appendage can’t perform actions with this trait. Manipulate actions often trigger reactions.
range: 500
saving_throw: basic Reflex
source: Player Core pg. 319
spell_type: Spell
target: 1 creature, plus any number of additional creatures
tradition: ArcanePrimal
type: Spell
You discharge a powerful bolt of lightning at the target, dealing 8d12 electricity damage. The target must attempt a basic Reflex save. The electricity then arcs to another creature within 30 feet of the first target, jumps to another creature within 30 feet of that target, and so on. You can end the chain at any point. You can’t target the same creature more than once, and you must have line of effect to all targets. Roll the damage only once and apply it to each target (halving or doubling as appropriate for its saving throw outcome). The chain ends if any one of the targets critically succeeds at its save.
An action with this trait requires a degree of mental concentration and discipline.
Emotion
This effect alters a creature’s emotions. Effects with this trait always have the mental trait as well. Creatures with special training or that have mechanical or artificial intelligence are immune to emotion effects.
Incapacitation
An ability with this trait can take a character completely out of the fight or even kill them, and it’s harder to use on a more powerful character. If a spell has the incapacitation trait, any creature of more than twice the spell’s rank treats the result of their check to prevent being incapacitated by the spell as one degree of success better, or the result of any check the spellcaster made to incapacitate them as one degree of success worse. If any other effect has the incapacitation trait, a creature of higher level than the item, creature, or hazard generating the effect gains the same benefits.
Manipulate
You must physically manipulate an item or make gestures to use an action with this trait. Creatures without a suitable appendage can’t perform actions with this trait. Manipulate actions often trigger reactions.
Mental
A mental effect can alter the target’s mind. It has no effect on an object or a mindless creature.
Subtle
A spell with the subtle trait can be cast without incantations and doesn't have obvious manifestations.
deity: AsmodeusCalistria
duration: 1 hrs.
range: 30
saving_throw: Will
source: Player Core pg. 320
spell_type: Spell
target: 1 creature
tradition: ArcaneOccultPrimal
type: Spell
To the target, your words are honey and your visage seems bathed in a dreamy haze. It must attempt a Will save, with a +4 circumstance bonus if you or your allies recently threatened it or used hostile actions against it.
You can Dismiss the spell. If you use hostile actions against the target, the spell ends. When the spell ends, the target doesn’t necessarily realize it was charmed unless its friendship with you or the actions you convinced it to take clash with its expectations, meaning you could potentially convince the target to continue being your friend via mundane means.
Critical Success The target is unaffected and aware you tried to charm it. Success The target is unaffected but thinks your spell was something harmless instead of charm, unless it identifies the spell (see Identifying Spells on page 303). Failure The target’s attitude becomes friendly toward you. If it was friendly, it becomes helpful. It can’t use hostile actions against you. Critical Failure The target’s attitude becomes helpful toward you, and it can’t use hostile actions against you.
Heightened (4th) The duration lasts until your next daily preparations.
Heightened (8th) The duration lasts until your next daily preparations, and you can target up to 10 creatures.
An action with this trait requires a degree of mental concentration and discipline.
Healing
A healing effect restores a creature’s body, typically by restoring Hit Points, but sometimes by removing diseases or other debilitating effects.
Manipulate
You must physically manipulate an item or make gestures to use an action with this trait. Creatures without a suitable appendage can’t perform actions with this trait. Manipulate actions often trigger reactions.
legacy_name: Neutralize Poison
0
source: Player Core pg. 320
spell_type: Spell
target: 1 willing creature
tradition: DivineOccultPrimal
type: Spell
Gentle restorative magic pushes back the effects of toxins and more complex maladies. Choose an affliction on the target, such as a curse, disease, or poison. If it has advanced past stage one, reduce the stage by one. This reduction can be applied only once to a given case of an affliction, with the case ending when it’s completely cured. Although the reduction can’t occur again, heightened versions of this spell attempt to counteract with each casting.
Heightened (3rd) Attempt to counteract the affliction if it is a disease or poison.
Heightened (4th) Attempt to counteract the affliction if it is a curse, disease, or poison.
An action with this trait requires a degree of mental concentration and discipline.
Manipulate
You must physically manipulate an item or make gestures to use an action with this trait. Creatures without a suitable appendage can’t perform actions with this trait. Manipulate actions often trigger reactions.
area: 1 cubic foot
legacy_name: Purify Food and Drink
range: 10
source: Player Core pg. 320
spell_type: Spell
tradition: DivinePrimal
type: Spell
You transform all food and beverages in the area into delicious fare, changing water into wine or another fine beverage, or enhancing the food’s taste and ingredients to make it a gourmet treat. You can also choose to remove all toxins and contaminations from the food. This spell doesn’t prevent future contamination, natural decay, or spoilage, nor does it make the food any more nutritious.
Heightened (+2) Add another cubic foot to the area, which must be contiguous with the rest.
An action with this trait requires a degree of mental concentration and discipline.
Healing
A healing effect restores a creature’s body, typically by restoring Hit Points, but sometimes by removing diseases or other debilitating effects.
Manipulate
You must physically manipulate an item or make gestures to use an action with this trait. Creatures without a suitable appendage can’t perform actions with this trait. Manipulate actions often trigger reactions.
Mental
A mental effect can alter the target’s mind. It has no effect on an object or a mindless creature.
legacy_name: Remove Fear
0
source: Player Core pg. 320
spell_type: Spell
target: 1 willing creature
tradition: DivineOccultPrimal
type: Spell
You drive mental contamination from the target’s mind. Attempt to counteract an effect of your choice imposing one of these conditions on the target: fleeing, frightened, and stupefied. If you failed to counteract the effect but you would have if its counteract rank were 2 lower, instead suppress the effect until the beginning of your next turn. The effect’s duration doesn’t elapse while it’s suppressed. This spell can’t counteract or suppress conditions that are part of curses, diseases, or a natural state of the target.
An action with this trait requires a degree of mental concentration and discipline.
Manipulate
You must physically manipulate an item or make gestures to use an action with this trait. Creatures without a suitable appendage can’t perform actions with this trait. Manipulate actions often trigger reactions.
Water
Effects with the water trait either manipulate or conjure water. Those that manipulate water have no effect in an area without water. Creatures with this trait consist primarily of water or have a connection to magical water.
Planes with this trait are mostly liquid. Visitors who can’t breathe water or reach an air pocket likely drown. The rules for aquatic combat (Player Core 437) usually apply, including the inability to cast fire spells or use actions with the fire trait. Creatures with a weakness to water take damage equal to double their weakness at the end of each round.
area: 50 feet long by 50 feet wide
deity: Gozreh
duration: 1 hrs.
element: Water
range: 500
saving_throw: Fortitude (see text)
source: Player Core pg. 321
spell_type: Spell
tradition: ArcanePrimal
type: Spell
By imposing your will upon the water, you can raise or lower the level of water in the chosen area by 10 feet. Creatures that have the water trait and that are in the area when you Cast the Spell must attempt a Fortitude save, with the effects of the slow spell.
An action with this trait requires a degree of mental concentration and discipline.
Manipulate
You must physically manipulate an item or make gestures to use an action with this trait. Creatures without a suitable appendage can’t perform actions with this trait. Manipulate actions often trigger reactions.
component: 1 hour
range: 30
source: Player Core pg. 321
spell_type: Spell
tradition: ArcaneDivinePrimal
type: Spell
You create enough food to feed six Medium creatures for a day. This food is bland and unappealing, but it is nourishing. After 1 day, if no one has eaten the food, it decays and becomes inedible. Most Small creatures eat one-quarter as much as a Medium creature (one-sixteenth as much for most Tiny creatures), and most Large creatures eat 10 times as much (100 times as much for Huge creatures and so on).
Heightened (4th) You can feed 12 Medium creatures.
Heightened (6th) You can feed 50 Medium creatures.
Heightened (8th) You can feed 200 Medium creatures.
An action with this trait requires a degree of mental concentration and discipline.
Manipulate
You must physically manipulate an item or make gestures to use an action with this trait. Creatures without a suitable appendage can’t perform actions with this trait. Manipulate actions often trigger reactions.
Water
Effects with the water trait either manipulate or conjure water. Those that manipulate water have no effect in an area without water. Creatures with this trait consist primarily of water or have a connection to magical water.
Planes with this trait are mostly liquid. Visitors who can’t breathe water or reach an air pocket likely drown. The rules for aquatic combat (Player Core 437) usually apply, including the inability to cast fire spells or use actions with the fire trait. Creatures with a weakness to water take damage equal to double their weakness at the end of each round.
element: Water
0
source: Player Core pg. 322
spell_type: Spell
tradition: ArcaneDivinePrimal
type: Spell
As you cup your hands, water begins to flow forth from them. You create 2 gallons of water. If no one drinks it, it evaporates after 1 day.
An action with this trait requires a degree of mental concentration and discipline.
Manipulate
You must physically manipulate an item or make gestures to use an action with this trait. Creatures without a suitable appendage can’t perform actions with this trait. Manipulate actions often trigger reactions.
component: 1 minute
deity: AbadarShelynTorag
duration: 1 hrs.
0
source: Player Core pg. 322
spell_type: Spell
tradition: ArcanePrimal
type: Spell
You conjure a temporary object from magical energy. It must consist of earthen or plant-derived matter (such as wood, paper, brick, or stone) and be 5 cubic feet or smaller. It can’t rely on intricate artistry or complex moving parts, never fulfills a cost or the like, and can’t be made of precious materials or materials with a rarity of uncommon or higher. It is obviously temporarily conjured, and thus can’t be sold or passed off as a genuine item. The spell gains the appropriate trait for the item created, typically earth, plant, or wood.
Heightened (5th) The item is metal and can include common minerals, like feldspar or quartz. The spell gains the metal trait if used to create a metal object.
An action with this trait requires a degree of mental concentration and discipline.
Curse
A curse is an effect that places some long-term affliction on a creature. Curses are always magical and are typically the result of a spell or trap. Effects with this trait can be removed only by effects that specifically target curses.
Incapacitation
An ability with this trait can take a character completely out of the fight or even kill them, and it’s harder to use on a more powerful character. If a spell has the incapacitation trait, any creature of more than twice the spell’s rank treats the result of their check to prevent being incapacitated by the spell as one degree of success better, or the result of any check the spellcaster made to incapacitate them as one degree of success worse. If any other effect has the incapacitation trait, a creature of higher level than the item, creature, or hazard generating the effect gains the same benefits.
Manipulate
You must physically manipulate an item or make gestures to use an action with this trait. Creatures without a suitable appendage can’t perform actions with this trait. Manipulate actions often trigger reactions.
Polymorph
These effects transform the target into a new form. A target can't be under the effect of more than one polymorph effect at a time. If it comes under the effect of a second polymorph effect, the second polymorph effect attempts to [counteract](/Rules.aspx?ID=371) the first. If it succeeds, it takes effect, and if it fails, the spell has no effect on that target. Any Strikes specifically granted by a polymorph effect are [magical](/Traits.aspx?ID=103). Unless otherwise stated, polymorph spells don't allow the target to take on the appearance of a specific individual creature, but rather just a generic creature of a general type or ancestry.
If you take on a battle form with a polymorph spell, the special statistics can be adjusted only by circumstance bonuses, status bonuses, and penalties. Unless otherwise noted, the battle form prevents you from casting spells, speaking, and using most [manipulate](/Traits.aspx?ID=104) actions that require hands. (If there's doubt about whether you can use an action, the GM decides.) Your gear is absorbed into you; the constant abilities of your gear still function, but you can't activate any items.
legacy_name: Baleful Polymorph
range: 30
saving_throw: Fortitude
source: Player Core pg. 322
spell_type: Spell
target: 1 creature
tradition: ArcaneOccultPrimal
type: Spell
You transform the target creature into a harmless animal appropriate to the area, with effects based on its Fortitude save.
Critical Success The target is unaffected. Success The target’s body gains minor features of the harmless animal. Its insides churn as they partially transform, causing it to be sickened 1. When it recovers from the sickened condition, its features revert to normal. Failure The target transforms for 1 minute but keeps its mind. If it spends all its actions on its turn concentrating on its original form, it can attempt a Will save to end the effect immediately. Critical Failure The target is transformed into the chosen harmless animal, body and mind, for an unlimited duration.
An action with this trait requires a degree of mental concentration and discipline.
Darkness
Darkness effects extinguish non-magical light in the area and can counteract less powerful magical light. You must usually target light magic with your darkness magic directly to counteract it, but some darkness spells automatically attempt to counteract light.
Manipulate
You must physically manipulate an item or make gestures to use an action with this trait. Creatures without a suitable appendage can’t perform actions with this trait. Manipulate actions often trigger reactions.
area: 20-foot burst
duration: 1 min.
range: 120
source: Player Core pg. 322
spell_type: Spell
tradition: ArcaneDivineOccultPrimal
type: Spell
You create a shroud of darkness that prevents light from penetrating or emanating within the area. Light does not enter the area and any non-magical light sources, such as a torch or lantern, do not emanate any light while inside the area, even if their light radius would extend beyond the darkness. This also suppresses magical light of your darkness spell’s rank or lower. Light can’t pass through, so creatures in the area can’t see outside. From outside, it appears as a globe of pure darkness.
Heightened (4th) Even creatures with darkvision (but not greater darkvision) can barely see through the darkness. They treat targets seen through the darkness as concealed.
An action with this trait requires a degree of mental concentration and discipline.
Manipulate
You must physically manipulate an item or make gestures to use an action with this trait. Creatures without a suitable appendage can’t perform actions with this trait. Manipulate actions often trigger reactions.
duration: 1 hrs.
source: Player Core pg. 322
spell_type: Spell
tradition: ArcaneDivineOccultPrimal
type: Spell
You grant yourself supernatural sight in areas of darkness. You gain darkvision.
Heightened (3rd) The spell’s range is touch and it targets 1 willing creature.
Heightened (5th) The spell’s range is touch and it targets 1 willing creature. The duration is until your next daily preparations.
An action with this trait requires a degree of mental concentration and discipline.
Manipulate
You must physically manipulate an item or make gestures to use an action with this trait. Creatures without a suitable appendage can’t perform actions with this trait. Manipulate actions often trigger reactions.
range: 30
saving_throw: Fortitude
source: Player Core pg. 322
spell_type: Spell
target: 1 creature
tradition: ArcaneDivineOccultPrimal
type: Spell
The target loses its hearing. It must attempt a Fortitude save, and it is then temporarily immune for 1 minute.
Critical Success The target is unaffected. Success The target is deafened for 1 round. Failure The target is deafened for 10 minutes. Critical Failure The target is deafened permanently.
An action with this trait requires a degree of mental concentration and discipline.
Manipulate
You must physically manipulate an item or make gestures to use an action with this trait. Creatures without a suitable appendage can’t perform actions with this trait. Manipulate actions often trigger reactions.
Void
Effects with this trait heal [undead](/Traits.aspx?ID=160) creatures with void energy, deal void damage to living creatures, or manipulate void energy.
Planes with this trait are vast, empty reaches that suck the life from the living. They tend to be lonely, haunted planes, drained of color and filled with winds carrying the moans of the dead At the end of each round, a living creature takes at least minor void environmental damage. In the strongest areas of a void plane, they could take moderate or even major void damage at the end of each round. This damage has the death trait, and if a living creature is reduced to 0 Hit Points by this void damage and killed, it crumbles into ash and can become a wraith (see Monster Core).
legacy_name: Horrid Wilting
range: 500
saving_throw: basic Fortitude
source: Player Core pg. 323
spell_type: Spell
target: any number of living creatures
tradition: ArcanePrimal
type: Spell
You pull the moisture from the targets’ bodies, dealing 10d10 void damage. Creatures made of water (such as water elementals) and plant creatures use the outcome for one degree of success worse than the result of their saving throw. Creatures whose bodies contain no significant moisture (such as earth elementals) are immune to desiccate.
Something of uncommon rarity requires special training or comes from a particular culture or part of the world. Some character choices give access to uncommon options, and the GM can choose to allow access for anyone. Less is known about uncommon creatures than common creatures. They typically can't be summoned. The DC of [Recall Knowledge](/Actions.aspx?ID=26) checks related to these creature is increased by 2.
Concentrate
An action with this trait requires a degree of mental concentration and discipline.
Detection
Effects with this trait attempt to determine the presence or location of a person, object, or aura.
Manipulate
You must physically manipulate an item or make gestures to use an action with this trait. Creatures without a suitable appendage can’t perform actions with this trait. Manipulate actions often trigger reactions.
range: 30
source: Player Core pg. 323
spell_type: Spell
target: 1 object or creature
tradition: DivinePrimal
type: Spell
You detect whether a creature is venomous or poisonous, or if an object is poison or has been poisoned. You do not ascertain whether the target is poisonous in multiple ways, nor do you learn the type or types of poison. Certain substances, like lead and alcohol, are poisons and so mask other poisons.
Heightened (2nd) You learn the number and types of poison.
Something of uncommon rarity requires special training or comes from a particular culture or part of the world. Some character choices give access to uncommon options, and the GM can choose to allow access for anyone. Less is known about uncommon creatures than common creatures. They typically can't be summoned. The DC of [Recall Knowledge](/Actions.aspx?ID=26) checks related to these creature is increased by 2.
Concentrate
An action with this trait requires a degree of mental concentration and discipline.
Manipulate
You must physically manipulate an item or make gestures to use an action with this trait. Creatures without a suitable appendage can’t perform actions with this trait. Manipulate actions often trigger reactions.
deity: Nethys
legacy_name: Disjunction
range: 120
saving_throw: basic Reflex (see text)
source: Player Core pg. 324
spell_type: Spell
target: 1 magic item or spell effect
tradition: ArcanePrimal
type: Spell
You cause the magic within the target to dissipate in a destructive explosion. You attempt to counteract the target. If the attempt succeeds, an explosion of magical force deals 8d6 force damage with a basic Reflex save. If you successfully counteract the magic of an item, it’s deactivated for 1 week (or destroyed on a critical success) and the explosion is a 5-foot emanation from the item. If you successfully counteract a spell, the effect ends and the explosion affects either all creatures in the spells’ area or the target of the spell and all creatures in a 5-foot emanation around it.
An action with this trait requires a degree of mental concentration and discipline.
Manipulate
You must physically manipulate an item or make gestures to use an action with this trait. Creatures without a suitable appendage can’t perform actions with this trait. Manipulate actions often trigger reactions.
Polymorph
These effects transform the target into a new form. A target can't be under the effect of more than one polymorph effect at a time. If it comes under the effect of a second polymorph effect, the second polymorph effect attempts to [counteract](/Rules.aspx?ID=371) the first. If it succeeds, it takes effect, and if it fails, the spell has no effect on that target. Any Strikes specifically granted by a polymorph effect are [magical](/Traits.aspx?ID=103). Unless otherwise stated, polymorph spells don't allow the target to take on the appearance of a specific individual creature, but rather just a generic creature of a general type or ancestry.
If you take on a battle form with a polymorph spell, the special statistics can be adjusted only by circumstance bonuses, status bonuses, and penalties. Unless otherwise noted, the battle form prevents you from casting spells, speaking, and using most [manipulate](/Traits.aspx?ID=104) actions that require hands. (If there's doubt about whether you can use an action, the GM decides.) Your gear is absorbed into you; the constant abilities of your gear still function, but you can't activate any items.
duration: 1 min.
source: Player Core pg. 324
spell_type: Spell
tradition: Primal
type: Spell
You channel the primal forces of nature to transform into a Large animal battle form, specifically that of a powerful and terrifying dinosaur. When you Cast this Spell, choose a listed battle form. You can decide the specific type of animal, but this has no effect on the form’s Size or statistics. While in this form, you gain the animal and dinosaur traits. You can Dismiss the spell.
You gain the following statistics and abilities regardless of which battle form you choose:
AC = 18 + your level. Ignore your armor’s check penalty and Speed reduction.
15 temporary Hit Points.
Low-light vision and imprecise scent 30 feet.
One or more unarmed melee attacks specific to the battle form you choose, which are the only attacks you can Strike with. You’re trained with them. Your attack modifier is +16, and your damage bonus is +9. These attacks are Strength based (for the purpose of the enfeebled condition, for example). If your unarmed attack modifier is higher, you can use it instead.
Athletics modifier of +18, unless your own is higher.
You also gain specific abilities based on the form you choose:
Heightened (5th) Your battle form is Huge and your attacks have 15-foot reach, or 20-foot reach if they started with 15-foot reach. You instead gain 20 temporary HP, an attack modifier of +18, a damage bonus of +6, double the damage dice, and Athletics +21.
Heightened (7th) Your battle form is Gargantuan and your attacks have 20-foot reach, or 25-foot reach if they started with 15-foot reach. You instead gain AC = 21 + your level, 25 temporary HP, an attack modifier of +25, a damage bonus of +15, double the damage dice, and Athletics +25.
An action with this trait requires a degree of mental concentration and discipline.
Manipulate
You must physically manipulate an item or make gestures to use an action with this trait. Creatures without a suitable appendage can’t perform actions with this trait. Manipulate actions often trigger reactions.
range: 120
source: Player Core pg. 325
spell_type: Spell
target: 1 spell effect or unattended magic item
tradition: ArcaneDivineOccultPrimal
type: Spell
You unravel the magic behind a spell or effect. Attempt a counteract check against the target. If you successfully counteract a magic item, it becomes a mundane item of its type for 10 minutes. This doesn’t change the item’s non-magical properties. If the target is an artifact or similar item, you automatically fail.
An action with this trait requires a degree of mental concentration and discipline.
Manipulate
You must physically manipulate an item or make gestures to use an action with this trait. Creatures without a suitable appendage can’t perform actions with this trait. Manipulate actions often trigger reactions.
Polymorph
These effects transform the target into a new form. A target can't be under the effect of more than one polymorph effect at a time. If it comes under the effect of a second polymorph effect, the second polymorph effect attempts to [counteract](/Rules.aspx?ID=371) the first. If it succeeds, it takes effect, and if it fails, the spell has no effect on that target. Any Strikes specifically granted by a polymorph effect are [magical](/Traits.aspx?ID=103). Unless otherwise stated, polymorph spells don't allow the target to take on the appearance of a specific individual creature, but rather just a generic creature of a general type or ancestry.
If you take on a battle form with a polymorph spell, the special statistics can be adjusted only by circumstance bonuses, status bonuses, and penalties. Unless otherwise noted, the battle form prevents you from casting spells, speaking, and using most [manipulate](/Traits.aspx?ID=104) actions that require hands. (If there's doubt about whether you can use an action, the GM decides.) Your gear is absorbed into you; the constant abilities of your gear still function, but you can't activate any items.
duration: 1 min.
source: Player Core pg. 326
spell_type: Spell
tradition: ArcaneDivineOccultPrimal
type: Spell
Calling upon powerful magic, you gain a Large dragon battle form. When you Cast this Spell, choose one type of common dragon or another type to which your GM allows access. While in this form, you gain the dragon trait. You have hands in this battle form and can take manipulate actions. You can Dismiss the spell.
You gain the following statistics and abilities regardless of which battle form you choose:
AC = 18 + your level. Ignore your armor’s check penalty and Speed reduction.
10 temporary Hit Points.
Speed 40 feet, fly 100 feet. You gain any of the following Speeds the chosen dragon has, but with the listed amount: burrow 20 feet, climb 40 feet, swim 60 feet.
Resistance 10 against the damage type of your Dragon Breath (see below).
The following unarmed melee attacks, which are the only attacks you can Strike with. You’re trained with them. Your attack modifier is +22, and your damage bonus is +6. These attacks are Strength based (for the purpose of the enfeebled condition, for example). If your unarmed attack modifier is higher, you can use it instead. See below for more on these attacks. Melee jaws, Damage 2d12 piercing plus 2d6 damage of the same damage type as your Dragon Breath (see below); Melee claw (agile), Damage 3d10 slashing; Melee tail (reach 10 feet), Damage 3d10 bludgeoning.
Athletics modifier of +23, unless your own is higher.
Dragon Breath You exhale deadly magical energy in an area, dealing 10d6 damage to each creature in the area with a basic save against your spell DC. The shape, damage type, and save type match that of your chosen dragon’s breath. If the chosen dragon’s breath can deal more than one type of damage, choose one when you cast dragon form. The shape is a 30-foot cone or a 100- foot line. Once activated, Dragon Breath can’t be used again for 1d4 rounds. Dragon Breath has the tradition trait matching the type of dragon and the damage trait matching the type of damage it deals, if applicable.
Tradition Resistance If the dragon’s magical tradition matches that of your dragon form spell, you gain the listed ability. Arcane resistance 5 against magic; divine resistance 10 to spirit, vitality, and void; occult resistance 10 to mental; primal resistance 5 to physical damage.
Heightened (8th) Your battle form is Huge, you gain a +20-foot status bonus to your fly Speed, and your attacks have 10-foot reach (or 15-foot reach if they previously had 10-foot reach). You instead gain AC = 21 + your level, 15 temporary HP, an attack modifier of +28, a damage bonus of +12, and Athletics +28. Your Dragon Breath deals an additional 4d6 damage.
Monster Core Dragons The dragons from Monster Core use the following specifications for dragon form.
An action with this trait requires a degree of mental concentration and discipline.
Earth
Effects with the earth trait either manipulate or conjure earth. Those that manipulate earth have no effect in an area without earth. Creatures with this trait consist primarily of earth or have a connection to magical earth.
These planes are mostly solid. Travelers arriving upon an earth plane risk suffocation if they don’t reach a cavern or some other air pocket within the plane’s solid matter. Creatures who can’t burrow are entombed in the plane’s substance and must attempt to dig their way toward an air pocket. Air creatures are ill at ease, as they rarely have the space to move freely through even the loftiest warrens.
Manipulate
You must physically manipulate an item or make gestures to use an action with this trait. Creatures without a suitable appendage can’t perform actions with this trait. Manipulate actions often trigger reactions.
deity: Torag
element: Earth
range: 120
saving_throw: Fortitude
source: Player Core pg. 327
spell_type: Spell
target: 1 flying creature
tradition: ArcanePrimal
type: Spell
Using the weight of earth, you hamper a target’s flight, with effects based on its Fortitude save. If the creature reaches the ground safely, it doesn’t take falling damage.
Critical Success The target is unaffected. Success The target falls safely up to 120 feet. Failure The target falls safely up to 120 feet. If it hits the ground, it can’t Fly, levitate, or otherwise leave the ground for 1 round. Critical Failure The target falls safely up to 120 feet. If it hits the ground, it can’t Fly, levitate, or otherwise leave the ground for 1 minute.
An action with this trait requires a degree of mental concentration and discipline.
Earth
Effects with the earth trait either manipulate or conjure earth. Those that manipulate earth have no effect in an area without earth. Creatures with this trait consist primarily of earth or have a connection to magical earth.
These planes are mostly solid. Travelers arriving upon an earth plane risk suffocation if they don’t reach a cavern or some other air pocket within the plane’s solid matter. Creatures who can’t burrow are entombed in the plane’s substance and must attempt to dig their way toward an air pocket. Air creatures are ill at ease, as they rarely have the space to move freely through even the loftiest warrens.
Manipulate
You must physically manipulate an item or make gestures to use an action with this trait. Creatures without a suitable appendage can’t perform actions with this trait. Manipulate actions often trigger reactions.
area: 60-foot burst
duration: 1 round
element: Earth
range: 500
source: Player Core pg. 327
spell_type: Spell
tradition: ArcanePrimal
type: Spell
You shake the ground, topple creatures into fissures, and collapse structures. The GM might add additional effects in certain areas. Cliffs might collapse, causing creatures to fall, or a lake might drain as fissures open up below its surface, leaving a morass of quicksand.
Shaking Ground The ground is difficult terrain, and creatures on it take a –2 circumstance penalty to attack rolls, AC, and skill checks.
Fissures Each creature on the ground must attempt a Reflex save at the start of its turn to keep its footing and avoid falling into 40-foot-deep fissures that open beneath it. The fissures are permanent, and their sides require successful DC 15 Athletics checks to Climb.
Collapse Structures and ceilings might collapse. The GM rolls a flat check for each (DC 16 for a sturdy structure, DC 14 for an average structure and most natural formations, DC 9 for a shoddy structure, all adjusted higher or lower as the GM sees fit). A collapse deals 11d6 bludgeoning damage to each creature caught in it with a basic Reflex save. A creature falls prone unless it critically succeeds and falls into a fissure if it critically fails.
Heightened (10th) You create a massive earthquake that can devastate a settlement. The range increases to half a mile and the area to a quarter-mile burst.
Effects with this trait deal cold damage. Creatures with this trait have a connection to magical cold.
Concentrate
An action with this trait requires a degree of mental concentration and discipline.
Darkness
Darkness effects extinguish non-magical light in the area and can counteract less powerful magical light. You must usually target light magic with your darkness magic directly to counteract it, but some darkness spells automatically attempt to counteract light.
Manipulate
You must physically manipulate an item or make gestures to use an action with this trait. Creatures without a suitable appendage can’t perform actions with this trait. Manipulate actions often trigger reactions.
Void
Effects with this trait heal [undead](/Traits.aspx?ID=160) creatures with void energy, deal void damage to living creatures, or manipulate void energy.
Planes with this trait are vast, empty reaches that suck the life from the living. They tend to be lonely, haunted planes, drained of color and filled with winds carrying the moans of the dead At the end of each round, a living creature takes at least minor void environmental damage. In the strongest areas of a void plane, they could take moderate or even major void damage at the end of each round. This damage has the death trait, and if a living creature is reduced to 0 Hit Points by this void damage and killed, it crumbles into ash and can become a wraith (see Monster Core).
area: 60-foot burst
range: 500
saving_throw: Reflex
source: Player Core pg. 328
spell_type: Spell
tradition: ArcaneDivinePrimal
type: Spell
A globe of freezing darkness explodes in the area, dealing 8d10 cold damage to creatures in the area, plus an additional 8d4 void damage to living creatures. Each creature in the area must attempt a Reflex save.
If the globe overlaps with an area of magical light or affects a creature affected by magical light, eclipse burst attempts to counteract the light effect.
Critical Success The creature is unaffected. Success The creature takes half damage. Failure The creature takes full damage. Critical Failure The creature takes double damage and becomes blinded by the darkness for an unlimited duration.
Heightened (+1) The cold damage increases by 1d10 and the void damage against the living increases by 1d4.
An action with this trait requires a degree of mental concentration and discipline.
Manipulate
You must physically manipulate an item or make gestures to use an action with this trait. Creatures without a suitable appendage can’t perform actions with this trait. Manipulate actions often trigger reactions.
Polymorph
These effects transform the target into a new form. A target can't be under the effect of more than one polymorph effect at a time. If it comes under the effect of a second polymorph effect, the second polymorph effect attempts to [counteract](/Rules.aspx?ID=371) the first. If it succeeds, it takes effect, and if it fails, the spell has no effect on that target. Any Strikes specifically granted by a polymorph effect are [magical](/Traits.aspx?ID=103). Unless otherwise stated, polymorph spells don't allow the target to take on the appearance of a specific individual creature, but rather just a generic creature of a general type or ancestry.
If you take on a battle form with a polymorph spell, the special statistics can be adjusted only by circumstance bonuses, status bonuses, and penalties. Unless otherwise noted, the battle form prevents you from casting spells, speaking, and using most [manipulate](/Traits.aspx?ID=104) actions that require hands. (If there's doubt about whether you can use an action, the GM decides.) Your gear is absorbed into you; the constant abilities of your gear still function, but you can't activate any items.
duration: 1 min.
source: Player Core pg. 328
spell_type: Spell
tradition: ArcanePrimal
type: Spell
You call upon the power of the planes to transform into a Medium elemental battle form. When you Cast this Spell, choose a listed element. While in this form, you gain the corresponding trait and the elemental trait. You have hands in this battle form and can take manipulate actions. You can Dismiss the spell.
You gain the following statistics and abilities regardless of which battle form you choose:
AC = 19 + your level. Ignore your armor’s check penalty and Speed reduction.
One or more unarmed melee attacks specific to the battle form you choose, which are the only attacks you can Strike with. You’re trained with them. Your attack modifier is +18, and your damage bonus is +9. These are Dexterity based (air, fire, or metal) or Strength based (earth, water, or wood). If your corresponding unarmed attack modifier is higher, you can use it instead.
Acrobatics (air, fire, or metal) or Athletics (earth, water, or wood) modifier of +20; ignore this change if your own modifier is higher.
You gain specific abilities based on the element you choose:
Air fly 80 feet, movement doesn’t trigger reactions; Melee gust, Damage 1d4 bludgeoning.
Fire Speed 50 feet; fire resistance 10, weakness 5 to cold and 5 to water; Melee tendril, Damage 1d8 fire plus 1d4 persistent fire.
Metal Speed 40 feet, fly 20 feet; Melee blade (versatile piercing), Damage 1d8 slashing plus 1d4 electricity.
Water Speed 20 feet, swim 60 feet; fire resistance 5; Melee wave, Damage 1d12 bludgeoning, and you can spend an action immediately after a hit to push the target 5 feet with the effects of a successful Shove.
Heightened (6th) Your battle form is Large and your attacks have 10-foot reach. You instead gain AC = 22 + your level, 15 temporary HP, an attack modifier of +23, a damage bonus of +13, and Acrobatics or Athletics +23.
Heightened (7th) Your battle form is Huge and your attacks have 15-foot reach. You instead gain AC = 22 + your level, 20 temporary HP, an attack modifier of +25, a damage bonus of +11, double the number of damage dice (including persistent damage), and Acrobatics or Athletics +25.
An action with this trait requires a degree of mental concentration and discipline.
Manipulate
You must physically manipulate an item or make gestures to use an action with this trait. Creatures without a suitable appendage can’t perform actions with this trait. Manipulate actions often trigger reactions.
component: 1 minute
0
source: Player Core pg. 328
spell_type: Spell
target: 1 creature
tradition: ArcaneDivineOccultPrimal
type: Spell
You protect the target with a powerful, long-lasting energy barrier. The target gains resistance 5 to acid, cold, electricity, fire, force, sonic, vitality, and void damage.
An action with this trait requires a degree of mental concentration and discipline.
Manipulate
You must physically manipulate an item or make gestures to use an action with this trait. Creatures without a suitable appendage can’t perform actions with this trait. Manipulate actions often trigger reactions.
Polymorph
These effects transform the target into a new form. A target can't be under the effect of more than one polymorph effect at a time. If it comes under the effect of a second polymorph effect, the second polymorph effect attempts to [counteract](/Rules.aspx?ID=371) the first. If it succeeds, it takes effect, and if it fails, the spell has no effect on that target. Any Strikes specifically granted by a polymorph effect are [magical](/Traits.aspx?ID=103). Unless otherwise stated, polymorph spells don't allow the target to take on the appearance of a specific individual creature, but rather just a generic creature of a general type or ancestry.
If you take on a battle form with a polymorph spell, the special statistics can be adjusted only by circumstance bonuses, status bonuses, and penalties. Unless otherwise noted, the battle form prevents you from casting spells, speaking, and using most [manipulate](/Traits.aspx?ID=104) actions that require hands. (If there's doubt about whether you can use an action, the GM decides.) Your gear is absorbed into you; the constant abilities of your gear still function, but you can't activate any items.
deity: GorumIomedaeRovagug
duration: 5 min.
range: 30
source: Player Core pg. 329
spell_type: Spell
target: 1 willing creature
tradition: ArcanePrimal
type: Spell
Bolstered by magical power, the target grows to size Large. Its equipment grows with it but returns to natural size if removed. The creature is clumsy 1. Its reach increases by 5 feet (or by 10 feet if it started out Tiny), and it gains a +2 status bonus to melee damage. This spell has no effect on a Large or larger creature.
Heightened (4th) The creature instead grows to size Huge. The status bonus to melee damage is +4 and the creature’s reach increases by 10 feet (or 15 feet if the creature started out Tiny). The spell has no effect on a Huge or larger creature.
Heightened (6th) Choose either the 2nd-rank or 4th-rank version of this spell and apply its effects to up to 10 willing creatures.
An action with this trait requires a degree of mental concentration and discipline.
Manipulate
You must physically manipulate an item or make gestures to use an action with this trait. Creatures without a suitable appendage can’t perform actions with this trait. Manipulate actions often trigger reactions.
Plant
Vegetable creatures have the plant trait. They are distinct from normal plants. Magical effects with this trait manipulate or conjure plants or plant matter in some way. Effects that manipulate plants have no effect in an area with no plants.
Wood
Effects with the wood trait conjure or manipulate wood. Those that manipulate wood have no effect in an area without wood. Creatures with this trait consist primarily of wood or have a connection to magical wood.
These planes consist of trees and other flora latticed in organic patterns. Wood planes are often perfectly constructed to match their desired purpose or environment but aren’t usually outright hostile to visitors.
area: all squares in a 20-foot burst
duration: 1 min.
element: Wood
legacy_name: Entangle
range: 120
source: Player Core pg. 329
spell_type: Spell
tradition: ArcanePrimal
type: Spell
Plants and fungi burst out or quickly grow, entangling creatures. All surfaces in the area are difficult terrain. Each round that a creature starts its turn in the area, it must attempt a Reflex save. On a failure, it takes a –10-foot circumstance penalty to its Speeds until it leaves the area, and on a critical failure, it’s also immobilized for 1 round. Creatures can attempt to Escape to remove these effects.
An action with this trait requires a degree of mental concentration and discipline.
Manipulate
You must physically manipulate an item or make gestures to use an action with this trait. Creatures without a suitable appendage can’t perform actions with this trait. Manipulate actions often trigger reactions.
component: 10 minutes
legacy_name: Endure Elements
0
source: Player Core pg. 329
spell_type: Spell
target: 1 willing creature
tradition: ArcaneDivinePrimal
type: Spell
You shield the target against dangerous temperatures. Choose severe cold or heat. The target is protected from the temperature you chose (but not extreme cold or heat).
Heightened (3rd) The target is protected from severe cold and severe heat.
Heightened (5th) The target is protected from severe cold, severe heat, extreme cold, and extreme heat.
An action with this trait requires a degree of mental concentration and discipline.
Light
Light effects overcome non-magical darkness in the area and can counteract magical darkness. You must usually target darkness magic with your light magic directly to counteract the darkness, but some light spells automatically attempt to counteract darkness.
Manipulate
You must physically manipulate an item or make gestures to use an action with this trait. Creatures without a suitable appendage can’t perform actions with this trait. Manipulate actions often trigger reactions.
legacy_name: Continual Flame
0
source: Player Core pg. 329
spell_type: Spell
target: a gemstone worth 6 gp or more
tradition: ArcaneDivineOccultPrimal
type: Spell
The gemstone you touch glows, spreading bright light with a color of your choice in a 20-foot radius (and dim light for the next 20 feet). The spell ends immediately if the gemstone is broken.
An action with this trait requires a degree of mental concentration and discipline.
Death
An effect with the death trait kills you immediately if it reduces you to 0 HP. Some death effects can bring you closer to death or slay you outright without reducing you to 0 HP.
Manipulate
You must physically manipulate an item or make gestures to use an action with this trait. Creatures without a suitable appendage can’t perform actions with this trait. Manipulate actions often trigger reactions.
Void
Effects with this trait heal [undead](/Traits.aspx?ID=160) creatures with void energy, deal void damage to living creatures, or manipulate void energy.
Planes with this trait are vast, empty reaches that suck the life from the living. They tend to be lonely, haunted planes, drained of color and filled with winds carrying the moans of the dead At the end of each round, a living creature takes at least minor void environmental damage. In the strongest areas of a void plane, they could take moderate or even major void damage at the end of each round. This damage has the death trait, and if a living creature is reduced to 0 Hit Points by this void damage and killed, it crumbles into ash and can become a wraith (see Monster Core).
legacy_name: Finger of Death
range: 30
saving_throw: basic Fortitude
source: Player Core pg. 329
spell_type: Spell
target: 1 creature
tradition: DivinePrimal
type: Spell
You point at a creature and invoke the demise of all things. The target takes 70 void damage with a basic Fortitude save. If the target is undead or otherwise has void healing, the spell loses the death and void traits and gains the vitality trait, and the target takes 70 vitality damage with a basic Fortitude save.
An action with this trait requires a degree of mental concentration and discipline.
Manipulate
You must physically manipulate an item or make gestures to use an action with this trait. Creatures without a suitable appendage can’t perform actions with this trait. Manipulate actions often trigger reactions.
area: 4 40-foot bursts
legacy_name: Meteor Swarm
range: 500
saving_throw: basic Reflex
source: Player Core pg. 330
spell_type: Spell
tradition: ArcanePrimal
type: Spell
You reach into the skies and call down an array of falling stars that explode upon colliding with the ground. Choose for the falling stars to be airbursts (sonic), asteroids (fire), comets (cold), or plasma (electricity). The spell gains the trait of the falling star type you chose. The four stars’ central 10-foot bursts can’t overlap. Each falling star deals 6d10 bludgeoning damage to each creature in the 10-foot burst at the center of its area of effect before exploding, dealing 14d6 energy damage of the type you chose to each creature in its 40-foot burst. A creature in any of the areas attempts one basic Reflex save against the spell no matter how many overlapping explosions it’s caught in and can take each type of damage only once.
Heightened (+1) The bludgeoning damage increases by 1d10, and the energy damage increases by 2d6.
An action with this trait requires a degree of mental concentration and discipline.
Emotion
This effect alters a creature’s emotions. Effects with this trait always have the mental trait as well. Creatures with special training or that have mechanical or artificial intelligence are immune to emotion effects.
Fear
Fear effects evoke the emotion of fear. Effects with this trait always have the mental and emotion traits as well.
Manipulate
You must physically manipulate an item or make gestures to use an action with this trait. Creatures without a suitable appendage can’t perform actions with this trait. Manipulate actions often trigger reactions.
Mental
A mental effect can alter the target’s mind. It has no effect on an object or a mindless creature.
patron_theme: Starless Shadow
range: 30
saving_throw: Will
source: Player Core pg. 331
spell_type: Spell
target: 1 creature
tradition: ArcaneDivineOccultPrimal
type: Spell
You plant fear in the target; it must attempt a Will save.
Critical Success The target is unaffected. Success The target is frightened 1. Failure The target is frightened 2. Critical Failure The target is frightened 3 and fleeing for 1 round.
Heightened (3rd) You can target up to five creatures.
An action with this trait requires a degree of mental concentration and discipline.
Manipulate
You must physically manipulate an item or make gestures to use an action with this trait. Creatures without a suitable appendage can’t perform actions with this trait. Manipulate actions often trigger reactions.
Morph
Effects that slightly alter a creature's form have the morph trait. Any Strikes specifically granted by a morph effect are magical. You can be affected by multiple morph spells at once, but if you morph the same body part more than once, the second morph effect attempts to [counteract](/Rules.aspx?ID=371) the first (in the same manner as two [polymorph](/Traits.aspx?ID=127) effects, described in that trait).
Your morph effects might also end if you are polymorphed and the polymorph effect invalidates or overrides your morph effect. The GM determines which morph effects can be used together and which can't.
duration: 10 min.
0
source: Player Core pg. 331
spell_type: Spell
target: 1 willing creature
tradition: ArcanePrimal
type: Spell
The target’s feet transform into fins, improving mobility in the water but reducing it on land. The target gains a swim Speed equal to its normal land Speed, but its land Speed becomes 5 feet.
Heightened (6th) The spell lasts until your next daily preparations.
An action with this trait requires a degree of mental concentration and discipline.
Healing
A healing effect restores a creature’s body, typically by restoring Hit Points, but sometimes by removing diseases or other debilitating effects.
Manipulate
You must physically manipulate an item or make gestures to use an action with this trait. Creatures without a suitable appendage can’t perform actions with this trait. Manipulate actions often trigger reactions.
Vitality
Effects with this trait heal living creatures with energy from the Forge of Creation, deal vitality energy damage to [undead](/Traits.aspx?ID=160), or manipulate vitality energy.
These planes are awash with life energy. Colors are brighter, fires are hotter, noises are louder, and sensations are more intense. At the end of each round, an undead creature takes at least minor vitality environmental damage. In the strongest areas of a vitality plane, they could take moderate or even major vitality damage instead. While this might seem safe for living creatures, vitality planes present a different danger. Living creatures regain an amount of HP each round equal to the environmental damage undead take in the same area. If this would bring the living creature above their maximum HP, any excess becomes temporary HP. Unlike normal, these temporary HP combine with each other, and they last until the creature leaves the plane. If a creature’s temporary HP from a vitality plane ever exceeds its maximum HP, it explodes in a burst of overloaded vitality energy, spreading across the area to birth new souls.
area: 20-foot burst
duration: 1 min.
lesson: Lesson of Renewal
range: 30
source: Player Core pg. 331
spell_type: Spell
tradition: DivinePrimal
type: Spell
A field of life energy fills the area, exuding warmth and rejuvenating those within. Each living creature that starts its turn in the area regains 1d8 Hit Points, and any undead creature that starts its turn in the area takes 1d8 vitality damage.
Heightened (8th) The healing and damage increase to 1d10.
Heightened (9th) The healing and damage increase to 1d12.
An action with this trait requires a degree of mental concentration and discipline.
Fire
Effects with the fire trait deal fire damage or either conjure or manipulate fire. Those that manipulate fire have no effect in an area without fire. Creatures with this trait consist primarily of fire or have a connection to magical fire.
Planes with this trait are composed of flames that continually burn with no fuel source. Fire planes are extremely hostile to non-fire creatures. Unprotected wood, paper, cloth, and other flammable materials catch fire almost immediately, and creatures wearing unprotected flammable clothing catch fire, typically taking 1d6 persistent fire damage. Extraplanar creatures take moderate environmental fire damage at the end of each round (sometimes minor environmental damage in safer areas, or major or massive damage in even more fiery areas). Ice creatures are extremely uncomfortable on a fire plane, assuming they don’t outright melt in the heat.
Manipulate
You must physically manipulate an item or make gestures to use an action with this trait. Creatures without a suitable appendage can’t perform actions with this trait. Manipulate actions often trigger reactions.
Polymorph
These effects transform the target into a new form. A target can't be under the effect of more than one polymorph effect at a time. If it comes under the effect of a second polymorph effect, the second polymorph effect attempts to [counteract](/Rules.aspx?ID=371) the first. If it succeeds, it takes effect, and if it fails, the spell has no effect on that target. Any Strikes specifically granted by a polymorph effect are [magical](/Traits.aspx?ID=103). Unless otherwise stated, polymorph spells don't allow the target to take on the appearance of a specific individual creature, but rather just a generic creature of a general type or ancestry.
If you take on a battle form with a polymorph spell, the special statistics can be adjusted only by circumstance bonuses, status bonuses, and penalties. Unless otherwise noted, the battle form prevents you from casting spells, speaking, and using most [manipulate](/Traits.aspx?ID=104) actions that require hands. (If there's doubt about whether you can use an action, the GM decides.) Your gear is absorbed into you; the constant abilities of your gear still function, but you can't activate any items.
duration: 1 min.
element: Fire
source: Player Core pg. 331
spell_type: Spell
tradition: ArcanePrimal
type: Spell
You become living flame, giving you fire immunity, resistance 10 to precision damage, and weakness 5 to cold and to water. Any creature that touches you or damages you with an unarmed attack or non-reach melee weapon takes 3d6 fire damage.
Your unarmed attacks deal an additional 1d4 fire damage, and your fire spells deal one additional die of fire damage (of the same damage die the spell uses). You can cast ignite as an innate spell; the casting is reduced from 2 actions to 1. In fire form, you have a fly Speed of 40 feet and don’t need to breathe.
Heightened (9th) Creatures touching you take 4d6 fire damage instead of 3d6, your unarmed attacks deal an additional 2d4 fire damage, and you have a fly Speed of 60 feet.
An action with this trait requires a degree of mental concentration and discipline.
Fire
Effects with the fire trait deal fire damage or either conjure or manipulate fire. Those that manipulate fire have no effect in an area without fire. Creatures with this trait consist primarily of fire or have a connection to magical fire.
Planes with this trait are composed of flames that continually burn with no fuel source. Fire planes are extremely hostile to non-fire creatures. Unprotected wood, paper, cloth, and other flammable materials catch fire almost immediately, and creatures wearing unprotected flammable clothing catch fire, typically taking 1d6 persistent fire damage. Extraplanar creatures take moderate environmental fire damage at the end of each round (sometimes minor environmental damage in safer areas, or major or massive damage in even more fiery areas). Ice creatures are extremely uncomfortable on a fire plane, assuming they don’t outright melt in the heat.
Manipulate
You must physically manipulate an item or make gestures to use an action with this trait. Creatures without a suitable appendage can’t perform actions with this trait. Manipulate actions often trigger reactions.
deity: Iomedae
duration: 1 min.
element: Fire
source: Player Core pg. 331
spell_type: Spell
tradition: ArcanePrimal
type: Spell
You create a hovering shield made of fire. As long as the shield persists, its heat grants you cold resistance 5 and makes you immune to mild and severe environmental cold. You can Raise a Shield with the fire shield as a normal shield to gain a +1 circumstance bonus to AC. You can use the Shield Block reaction with the fire shield, which has Hardness 10, is immune to fire, and has 40 HP (with no Broken Threshold), and its Hardness is halved against effects that have the water trait. If you Shield Block a melee attack that is either an unarmed attack or made by an adjacent attacker, the attacker takes 2d6 fire damage.
Heightened (+2) The cold resistance increases by 5, the HP increase by 10, and the fire damage increases by 1d6.
An action with this trait requires a degree of mental concentration and discipline.
Fire
Effects with the fire trait deal fire damage or either conjure or manipulate fire. Those that manipulate fire have no effect in an area without fire. Creatures with this trait consist primarily of fire or have a connection to magical fire.
Planes with this trait are composed of flames that continually burn with no fuel source. Fire planes are extremely hostile to non-fire creatures. Unprotected wood, paper, cloth, and other flammable materials catch fire almost immediately, and creatures wearing unprotected flammable clothing catch fire, typically taking 1d6 persistent fire damage. Extraplanar creatures take moderate environmental fire damage at the end of each round (sometimes minor environmental damage in safer areas, or major or massive damage in even more fiery areas). Ice creatures are extremely uncomfortable on a fire plane, assuming they don’t outright melt in the heat.
Manipulate
You must physically manipulate an item or make gestures to use an action with this trait. Creatures without a suitable appendage can’t perform actions with this trait. Manipulate actions often trigger reactions.
area: 20-foot burst
deity: Sarenrae
element: Fire
range: 500
saving_throw: basic Reflex
source: Player Core pg. 331
spell_type: Spell
tradition: ArcanePrimal
type: Spell
A roaring blast of fire detonates at a spot you designate, dealing 6d6 fire damage.
An action with this trait requires a degree of mental concentration and discipline.
Manipulate
You must physically manipulate an item or make gestures to use an action with this trait. Creatures without a suitable appendage can’t perform actions with this trait. Manipulate actions often trigger reactions.
An action with this trait requires a degree of mental concentration and discipline.
Fire
Effects with the fire trait deal fire damage or either conjure or manipulate fire. Those that manipulate fire have no effect in an area without fire. Creatures with this trait consist primarily of fire or have a connection to magical fire.
Planes with this trait are composed of flames that continually burn with no fuel source. Fire planes are extremely hostile to non-fire creatures. Unprotected wood, paper, cloth, and other flammable materials catch fire almost immediately, and creatures wearing unprotected flammable clothing catch fire, typically taking 1d6 persistent fire damage. Extraplanar creatures take moderate environmental fire damage at the end of each round (sometimes minor environmental damage in safer areas, or major or massive damage in even more fiery areas). Ice creatures are extremely uncomfortable on a fire plane, assuming they don’t outright melt in the heat.
Manipulate
You must physically manipulate an item or make gestures to use an action with this trait. Creatures without a suitable appendage can’t perform actions with this trait. Manipulate actions often trigger reactions.
area: 1 5-foot square
duration: 1 min.
element: Fire
legacy_name: Flaming Sphere
range: 30
saving_throw: Reflex
source: Player Core pg. 332
spell_type: Spell
tradition: ArcanePrimal
type: Spell
You create a fire that burns without fuel and moves to your commands. The flame deals 3d6 fire damage to each creature in the square in which it appears, with a basic Reflex save. When you Sustain this spell, you can levitate the flame up to 10 feet. It then deals damage to each creature whose space it shared at any point during its flight. This uses the same damage and save, and you roll the damage once each time you Sustain. A given creature can take damage from floating flame only once per round.
An action with this trait requires a degree of mental concentration and discipline.
Manipulate
You must physically manipulate an item or make gestures to use an action with this trait. Creatures without a suitable appendage can’t perform actions with this trait. Manipulate actions often trigger reactions.
duration: 5 min.
0
source: Player Core pg. 332
spell_type: Spell
target: 1 creature
tradition: ArcaneDivineOccultPrimal
type: Spell
The target can soar through the air, gaining a fly Speed equal to its Speed or 20 feet, whichever is greater.
Heightened (7th) The duration increases to 1 hour.
An action with this trait requires a degree of mental concentration and discipline.
Manipulate
You must physically manipulate an item or make gestures to use an action with this trait. Creatures without a suitable appendage can’t perform actions with this trait. Manipulate actions often trigger reactions.
legacy_name: Spider Climb
0
source: Player Core pg. 333
spell_type: Spell
target: 1 creature
tradition: ArcanePrimal
type: Spell
Tiny clinging hairs sprout across the creature’s hands and feet, offering purchase on nearly any surface. The target gains a climb Speed equal to its Speed.
Heightened (5th) The duration increases to 1 hour.
Effects with the air trait either manipulate or conjure air. Those that manipulate air have no effect in a vacuum or an area without air. Creatures with this trait consist primarily of air or have a connection to magical air.
Planes with this trait consist mostly of open spaces and air of various levels of turbulence, though they also contain rare islands of floating stone and other elements and energies. Air planes usually have breathable atmospheres, though they might include clouds of acidic or toxic gas. Earth creatures often find themselves at a disadvantage within air planes, as there’s little solid ground for them to gain their bearings, which tends to at least make them uncomfortable.
Concentrate
An action with this trait requires a degree of mental concentration and discipline.
duration: 1 min.
element: Air
legacy_name: Feather Fall
range: 60
source: Player Core pg. 333
spell_type: Spell
target: 1 falling creature
tradition: ArcanePrimal
trigger: A creature within range is falling
type: Spell
You raise a magical updraft to arrest a fall. The target’s fall slows to 60 feet per round, and the portion of the fall during the spell’s duration doesn’t count when calculating falling damage. If the target reaches the ground while the spell is in effect, it takes no damage from the fall. The spell ends as soon as the target lands.
An action with this trait requires a degree of mental concentration and discipline.
Disease
An effect with this trait applies one or more diseases. A disease is typically an affliction.
Manipulate
You must physically manipulate an item or make gestures to use an action with this trait. Creatures without a suitable appendage can’t perform actions with this trait. Manipulate actions often trigger reactions.
deity: Urgathoa
0
saving_throw: Fortitude
source: Player Core pg. 333
spell_type: Spell
target: 1 creature
tradition: ArcanePrimal
type: Spell
Your touch afflicts the target with goblin pox, an irritating allergenic rash. The target must attempt a Fortitude save.
Critical Success The target is unaffected. Success The target is sickened 1. Failure The target is afflicted with goblin pox at stage 1. Critical Failure The target is afflicted with goblin pox at stage 2.
Goblin Pox (disease) Level 1; Creatures that have the goblin trait and goblin dogs are immune; Stage 1 sickened 1 (1 round); Stage 2 sickened 1 and slowed 1 (1 round); Stage 3 sickened 1 and the creature can’t reduce its sickened value below 1 (1 day)
An action with this trait requires a degree of mental concentration and discipline.
Manipulate
You must physically manipulate an item or make gestures to use an action with this trait. Creatures without a suitable appendage can’t perform actions with this trait. Manipulate actions often trigger reactions.
area: 4 contiguous 5-foot squares or
duration: 1 min.
range: 30
source: Player Core pg. 333
spell_type: Spell
target: 1 object of 1 Bulk or less
tradition: ArcanePrimal
type: Spell
You conjure grease, choosing an area or target.
Area All solid ground in the area is covered with grease. Each creature standing on the greasy surface must succeed at a Reflex save or an Acrobatics check against your spell DC or fall prone. Creatures using an action to move onto the greasy surface during the spell’s duration must attempt either a Reflex save or an Acrobatics check to Balance. A creature that Steps or Crawls doesn’t have to attempt a check or save.
Target If you Cast the Spell on an unattended object, anyone trying to pick up the object must succeed at an Acrobatics check or Reflex save against your spell DC to do so. If you target an attended object, the creature that has the object must attempt an Acrobatics check or Reflex save. On a failure, the holder or wielder takes a –2 circumstance penalty to all checks that involve using the object; on a critical failure, the holder or wielder releases the item. The object lands in an adjacent square of the GM’s choice. If you Cast this Spell on a worn object, the wearer gains a +2 circumstance bonus to Fortitude saves against attempts to grapple them.
Effects with the air trait either manipulate or conjure air. Those that manipulate air have no effect in a vacuum or an area without air. Creatures with this trait consist primarily of air or have a connection to magical air.
Planes with this trait consist mostly of open spaces and air of various levels of turbulence, though they also contain rare islands of floating stone and other elements and energies. Air planes usually have breathable atmospheres, though they might include clouds of acidic or toxic gas. Earth creatures often find themselves at a disadvantage within air planes, as there’s little solid ground for them to gain their bearings, which tends to at least make them uncomfortable.
Concentrate
An action with this trait requires a degree of mental concentration and discipline.
Manipulate
You must physically manipulate an item or make gestures to use an action with this trait. Creatures without a suitable appendage can’t perform actions with this trait. Manipulate actions often trigger reactions.
area: 60-foot line
deity: Gozreh
element: Air
patron_theme: Silence in Snow
saving_throw: Fortitude
source: Player Core pg. 334
spell_type: Spell
tradition: ArcanePrimal
type: Spell
A violent wind issues forth from your palm, blowing from the point where you are when you Cast the Spell to the line’s opposite end. The wind extinguishes small non-magical fires, disperses fog and mist, blows objects of light Bulk or less around, and pushes larger objects. Large or smaller creatures in the area must attempt a Fortitude save. Large or smaller creatures that later move into the gust must attempt the save on entering.
Critical Success The creature is unaffected. Success The creature can’t move against the wind. Failure The creature is knocked prone. If it was flying, it takes the effects of critical failure instead. Critical Failure The creature is pushed 30 feet in the wind’s direction, knocked prone, and takes 2d6 bludgeoning damage.
An action with this trait requires a degree of mental concentration and discipline.
Manipulate
You must physically manipulate an item or make gestures to use an action with this trait. Creatures without a suitable appendage can’t perform actions with this trait. Manipulate actions often trigger reactions.
deity: Irori
duration: 1 min.
range: 30
source: Player Core pg. 335
spell_type: Spell
target: 1 creature
tradition: ArcaneOccultPrimal
type: Spell
Magic empowers the target to act faster. It gains the quickened condition and can use the extra action each round for only Strike and Stride actions.
Heightened (7th) You can target up to 6 creatures.
A healing effect restores a creature’s body, typically by restoring Hit Points, but sometimes by removing diseases or other debilitating effects.
Manipulate
You must physically manipulate an item or make gestures to use an action with this trait. Creatures without a suitable appendage can’t perform actions with this trait. Manipulate actions often trigger reactions.
Vitality
Effects with this trait heal living creatures with energy from the Forge of Creation, deal vitality energy damage to [undead](/Traits.aspx?ID=160), or manipulate vitality energy.
These planes are awash with life energy. Colors are brighter, fires are hotter, noises are louder, and sensations are more intense. At the end of each round, an undead creature takes at least minor vitality environmental damage. In the strongest areas of a vitality plane, they could take moderate or even major vitality damage instead. While this might seem safe for living creatures, vitality planes present a different danger. Living creatures regain an amount of HP each round equal to the environmental damage undead take in the same area. If this would bring the living creature above their maximum HP, any excess becomes temporary HP. Unlike normal, these temporary HP combine with each other, and they last until the creature leaves the plane. If a creature’s temporary HP from a vitality plane ever exceeds its maximum HP, it explodes in a burst of overloaded vitality energy, spreading across the area to birth new souls.
source: Player Core pg. 335
spell_type: Spell
target: 1 willing living creature or 1 undead creature
tradition: DivinePrimal
type: Spell
You channel vital energy to heal the living or damage the undead. If the target is a willing living creature, you restore 1d8 Hit Points. If the target is undead, you deal that amount of vitality damage to it, and it gets a basic Fortitude save. The number of actions you spend when Casting this Spell determines its targets, range, area, and other parameters.
The spell has a range of touch. (concentrate) The spell has a range of 30 feet. If you’re healing a living creature, increase the Hit Points restored by 8. (concentrate) You disperse vital energy in a 30-foot emanation. This targets all living and undead creatures in the burst.
Heightened (+1) The amount of healing or damage increases by 1d8, and the extra healing for the 2-action version increases by 8.
An ability with this trait involves an attack. For each attack you make beyond the first on your turn, you take a multiple attack penalty.
Concentrate
An action with this trait requires a degree of mental concentration and discipline.
Fire
Effects with the fire trait deal fire damage or either conjure or manipulate fire. Those that manipulate fire have no effect in an area without fire. Creatures with this trait consist primarily of fire or have a connection to magical fire.
Planes with this trait are composed of flames that continually burn with no fuel source. Fire planes are extremely hostile to non-fire creatures. Unprotected wood, paper, cloth, and other flammable materials catch fire almost immediately, and creatures wearing unprotected flammable clothing catch fire, typically taking 1d6 persistent fire damage. Extraplanar creatures take moderate environmental fire damage at the end of each round (sometimes minor environmental damage in safer areas, or major or massive damage in even more fiery areas). Ice creatures are extremely uncomfortable on a fire plane, assuming they don’t outright melt in the heat.
Holy
Effects with the holy trait are tied to powerful magical forces of benevolence and virtue. They often have stronger effects on unholy creatures. Creatures with this trait are strongly devoted to holy causes and often have weakness to [unholy](/Traits.aspx?ID=521). If a creature with weakness to holy uses a holy item or effect, it takes damage from its weakness.
Light
Light effects overcome non-magical darkness in the area and can counteract magical darkness. You must usually target darkness magic with your light magic directly to counteract the darkness, but some light spells automatically attempt to counteract darkness.
Manipulate
You must physically manipulate an item or make gestures to use an action with this trait. Creatures without a suitable appendage can’t perform actions with this trait. Manipulate actions often trigger reactions.
element: Fire
legacy_name: Searing Light
range: 120
saving_throw: AC
source: Player Core pg. 335
spell_type: Spell
target: 1 creature
tradition: DivinePrimal
type: Spell
You shine a blazing ray of light tinged with holy energy. Make a ranged spell attack. The ray deals 5d6 fire damage. If the target has the unholy trait, you deal an extra 5d6 spirit damage.
Critical Success The target takes double damage. Success The target takes full damage.
If the light passes through an area of magical darkness or targets a creature affected by magical darkness, holy light attempts to counteract the darkness. If you need to determine whether the light passes through an area of darkness, draw a line between yourself and the spell’s target.
Heightened (+1) The fire damage increases by 2d6, and the spirit damage against unholy creatures increases by 2d6.
Effects with the air trait either manipulate or conjure air. Those that manipulate air have no effect in a vacuum or an area without air. Creatures with this trait consist primarily of air or have a connection to magical air.
Planes with this trait consist mostly of open spaces and air of various levels of turbulence, though they also contain rare islands of floating stone and other elements and energies. Air planes usually have breathable atmospheres, though they might include clouds of acidic or toxic gas. Earth creatures often find themselves at a disadvantage within air planes, as there’s little solid ground for them to gain their bearings, which tends to at least make them uncomfortable.
Cold
Effects with this trait deal cold damage. Creatures with this trait have a connection to magical cold.
Concentrate
An action with this trait requires a degree of mental concentration and discipline.
Manipulate
You must physically manipulate an item or make gestures to use an action with this trait. Creatures without a suitable appendage can’t perform actions with this trait. Manipulate actions often trigger reactions.
area: varies
element: Air
legacy_name: Cone of Cold
saving_throw: Reflex
source: Player Core pg. 335
spell_type: Spell
tradition: ArcanePrimal
type: Spell
Freezing winds extend from your hands, pushing away from you with great force. If you Cast this Spell with 2 actions, it has an area of a 60-foot cone; if you Cast this Spell with 3 actions, it has a range of 500 feet and an area of a 30-foot burst. Each creature in the area takes 10d6 cold damage with a basic Reflex save. Snowdrifts and icy gales fill the area until the start of your next turn, making the area difficult terrain.
An action with this trait requires a degree of mental concentration and discipline.
Manipulate
You must physically manipulate an item or make gestures to use an action with this trait. Creatures without a suitable appendage can’t perform actions with this trait. Manipulate actions often trigger reactions.
Polymorph
These effects transform the target into a new form. A target can't be under the effect of more than one polymorph effect at a time. If it comes under the effect of a second polymorph effect, the second polymorph effect attempts to [counteract](/Rules.aspx?ID=371) the first. If it succeeds, it takes effect, and if it fails, the spell has no effect on that target. Any Strikes specifically granted by a polymorph effect are [magical](/Traits.aspx?ID=103). Unless otherwise stated, polymorph spells don't allow the target to take on the appearance of a specific individual creature, but rather just a generic creature of a general type or ancestry.
If you take on a battle form with a polymorph spell, the special statistics can be adjusted only by circumstance bonuses, status bonuses, and penalties. Unless otherwise noted, the battle form prevents you from casting spells, speaking, and using most [manipulate](/Traits.aspx?ID=104) actions that require hands. (If there's doubt about whether you can use an action, the GM decides.) Your gear is absorbed into you; the constant abilities of your gear still function, but you can't activate any items.
duration: 10 min.
source: Player Core pg. 335
spell_type: Spell
tradition: ArcaneOccultPrimal
type: Spell
You transform your appearance to that of a Small or Medium humanoid, such as a dwarf, elf, goblin, halfling, human, or orc. You gain the humanoid trait in addition to your other traits while in this form, as well as any trait related to the creature’s kind (such as goblin or human). If this transformation reduces your size, it reduces your reach accordingly (typically to 5 feet). This transformation doesn’t change your statistics in any way, and you don’t gain any special abilities of the humanoid form you assume. You can still wear and use your gear, which changes size (if necessary) to match your new form. If items leave your person, they return to their usual size.
Humanoid form grants you a +4 status bonus to Deception checks to pass as a generic member of the chosen ancestry, and you add your level even if you’re untrained, but you can’t make yourself look like a specific person. If you want to Impersonate an individual, you still need to create a disguise, though the GM won’t factor in the difference in ancestry when determining the DC of your Deception check. You can Dismiss this spell.
An ability with this trait involves an attack. For each attack you make beyond the first on your turn, you take a multiple attack penalty.
Concentrate
An action with this trait requires a degree of mental concentration and discipline.
Manipulate
You must physically manipulate an item or make gestures to use an action with this trait. Creatures without a suitable appendage can’t perform actions with this trait. Manipulate actions often trigger reactions.
Water
Effects with the water trait either manipulate or conjure water. Those that manipulate water have no effect in an area without water. Creatures with this trait consist primarily of water or have a connection to magical water.
Planes with this trait are mostly liquid. Visitors who can’t breathe water or reach an air pocket likely drown. The rules for aquatic combat (Player Core 437) usually apply, including the inability to cast fire spells or use actions with the fire trait. Creatures with a weakness to water take damage equal to double their weakness at the end of each round.
element: Water
range: 60
saving_throw: AC
source: Player Core pg. 336
spell_type: Spell
target: 1 creature or unattended object
tradition: ArcanePrimal
type: Spell
You call forth a powerful blast of pressurized water that bludgeons the target and knocks it back. Make a ranged spell attack roll.
Critical Success The target takes 6d6 bludgeoning damage and is knocked back 10 feet. Success The target takes 3d6 bludgeoning damage and is knocked back 5 feet.
Heightened (+1) The bludgeoning damage increases by 2d6.
An action with this trait requires a degree of mental concentration and discipline.
Manipulate
You must physically manipulate an item or make gestures to use an action with this trait. Creatures without a suitable appendage can’t perform actions with this trait. Manipulate actions often trigger reactions.
Water
Effects with the water trait either manipulate or conjure water. Those that manipulate water have no effect in an area without water. Creatures with this trait consist primarily of water or have a connection to magical water.
Planes with this trait are mostly liquid. Visitors who can’t breathe water or reach an air pocket likely drown. The rules for aquatic combat (Player Core 437) usually apply, including the inability to cast fire spells or use actions with the fire trait. Creatures with a weakness to water take damage equal to double their weakness at the end of each round.
area: 60-foot line
element: Water
saving_throw: Fortitude
source: Player Core pg. 336
spell_type: Spell
tradition: Primal
type: Spell
A swirling torrent of water manifests along a straight line, battering creatures and unattended objects in its path and possibly pushing them away from you. The torrent deals 8d6 bludgeoning damage. Each creature in the area must attempt a basic Fortitude save; unattended objects automatically fail. Creatures and objects that fail are also knocked back 5 feet (10 feet on a critical failure).
An action with this trait requires a degree of mental concentration and discipline.
Manipulate
You must physically manipulate an item or make gestures to use an action with this trait. Creatures without a suitable appendage can’t perform actions with this trait. Manipulate actions often trigger reactions.
Metal
Effects with the metal trait conjure or manipulate metal. Those that manipulate metal have no effect in an area without metal. Creatures with this trait consist primarily of metal or have a connection to magical metal.
These planes consist of chaotic and shifting structures and oceans of metal. Metal planes tend to exist in a state of change and decay, leaving plentiful pockets of air for visitors to breathe or move within. Creatures unlucky enough to be entombed in the plane’s substance risk suffocation if they can’t phase through metal. Wood creatures find the lack of stability and soil on a metal plane disconcerting and often fail to thrive in such environments.
duration: 1 min.
element: Metal
range: 30
saving_throw: Reflex
source: Player Core pg. 338
spell_type: Spell
target: 1 creature
tradition: ArcanePrimal
type: Spell
You conjure a spike that thrusts up from the earth beneath a target creature, potentially impaling it. The spike is made of cold iron and deals 8d6 piercing damage. The target must attempt a Reflex save.
Critical Success The target dodges the spike and is unaffected. Success The target is struck by the spike and takes half damage. Failure The target is impaled through a leg or another non-vital body part. The creature takes full damage and, if it’s standing on solid ground, becomes immobilized. It can attempt to Escape (the DC is your spell DC). While it remains impaled, it takes damage from any weakness to cold iron it has at the end of each of its turns. Critical Failure As failure, but the creature is impaled through a vital organ or its center of mass, taking double damage, and it is off-guard as long as it’s impaled.
An action with this trait requires a degree of mental concentration and discipline.
Manipulate
You must physically manipulate an item or make gestures to use an action with this trait. Creatures without a suitable appendage can’t perform actions with this trait. Manipulate actions often trigger reactions.
duration: 1 min.
range: 30
saving_throw: basic Fortitude
source: Player Core pg. 338
spell_type: Spell
target: 1 corporeal creature
tradition: ArcanePrimal
type: Spell
You crush the target by causing it to collapse in on itself, dealing 75 damage. The first time each round you Sustain the spell, you must choose a new target to be subject to the same effect; the same creature can never be targeted more than once with a single casting of this spell. You also can’t affect more than one creature per turn with implosion. You can’t target a creature that’s incorporeal, gaseous, or liquid, or otherwise lacking a solid form.
An action with this trait requires a degree of mental concentration and discipline.
Manipulate
You must physically manipulate an item or make gestures to use an action with this trait. Creatures without a suitable appendage can’t perform actions with this trait. Manipulate actions often trigger reactions.
source: Player Core pg. 338
spell_type: Spell
tradition: ArcaneDivineOccultPrimal
type: Spell
You sever yourself from cause and effect. For the duration of the spell, you are immune to any effect or damage that would harm you, excluding effects caused by artifacts, deific power, and similarly powerful sources. You can selectively allow yourself to be affected by anything you’re willing to have affect you.
An action with this trait requires a degree of mental concentration and discipline.
Manipulate
You must physically manipulate an item or make gestures to use an action with this trait. Creatures without a suitable appendage can’t perform actions with this trait. Manipulate actions often trigger reactions.
Polymorph
These effects transform the target into a new form. A target can't be under the effect of more than one polymorph effect at a time. If it comes under the effect of a second polymorph effect, the second polymorph effect attempts to [counteract](/Rules.aspx?ID=371) the first. If it succeeds, it takes effect, and if it fails, the spell has no effect on that target. Any Strikes specifically granted by a polymorph effect are [magical](/Traits.aspx?ID=103). Unless otherwise stated, polymorph spells don't allow the target to take on the appearance of a specific individual creature, but rather just a generic creature of a general type or ancestry.
If you take on a battle form with a polymorph spell, the special statistics can be adjusted only by circumstance bonuses, status bonuses, and penalties. Unless otherwise noted, the battle form prevents you from casting spells, speaking, and using most [manipulate](/Traits.aspx?ID=104) actions that require hands. (If there's doubt about whether you can use an action, the GM decides.) Your gear is absorbed into you; the constant abilities of your gear still function, but you can't activate any items.
duration: 1 min.
source: Player Core pg. 338
spell_type: Spell
tradition: ArcanePrimal
type: Spell
You envision a simple bug and transform into a Medium animal battle form. When you Cast this Spell, choose a listed battle form. You can decide the specific type of animal (such as such as a ladybug or scarab for beetle), but this has no effect on the form’s Size or statistics. While in this form, you gain the animal trait. You can Dismiss this spell.
You gain the following statistics and abilities regardless of which battle form you choose:
AC = 18 + your level. Ignore your armor’s check penalty and Speed reduction.
One or more attacks specific to the battle form you choose, which are the only attacks you can Strike with. You’re trained with them. Your attack modifier is +13, and your damage bonus is +2. These attacks are Strength based (for the purpose of the enfeebled condition). If your unarmed attack modifier is higher, you can use it instead.
Athletics modifier of +13, unless your own is higher.
You gain specific abilities based on the form you choose:
Heightened (4th) Your battle form is Large, and your attacks have 10-foot reach. You instead gain 15 temporary HP, attack modifier +16, damage bonus +6, and Athletics +16.
Heightened (5th) Your battle form is Huge, and your attacks have 15-foot reach. You instead gain 20 temporary HP, attack modifier +18, damage bonus +2 and double damage dice (including persistent damage), and Athletics +20.
Something of uncommon rarity requires special training or comes from a particular culture or part of the world. Some character choices give access to uncommon options, and the GM can choose to allow access for anyone. Less is known about uncommon creatures than common creatures. They typically can't be summoned. The DC of [Recall Knowledge](/Actions.aspx?ID=26) checks related to these creature is increased by 2.
Concentrate
An action with this trait requires a degree of mental concentration and discipline.
Manipulate
You must physically manipulate an item or make gestures to use an action with this trait. Creatures without a suitable appendage can’t perform actions with this trait. Manipulate actions often trigger reactions.
Teleportation
Teleportation effects instantaneously move something from one point in space to another. Teleportation does not usually trigger reactions based on movement.
component: 10 minutes
legacy_name: Plane Shift
range: 5
requirement: You have a planar key for the destination plane, used as a locus
source: Player Core pg. 339
spell_type: Spell
target: up to 8 willing creatures
tradition: ArcaneDivineOccultPrimal
type: Spell
You and your allies traverse the barriers between planes of existence. The targets move to another plane, such as the Plane of Fire, the Netherworld, or the Outer Rifts. You must know the destination plane exists and use a magic planar key created from material from that plane as a locus for the spell. While the planar keys for most prominent planes are uncommon, just like the spell interplanar teleport, more obscure planes and demiplanes often have rare or possibly even unique planar keys.
The spell is highly imprecise, and you appear 1d20×25 miles from the last place one of the targets (of your choice) was located the last time that target traveled to the plane. If it’s the first time traveling to a particular plane for all targets, you appear at a random location on the plane. Interplanar teleport doesn’t provide a means of return travel, though casting interplanar teleport again allows you to return to your previous plane unless there are extenuating circumstances.
You must physically manipulate an item or make gestures to use an action with this trait. Creatures without a suitable appendage can’t perform actions with this trait. Manipulate actions often trigger reactions.
Move
An action with this trait involves moving from one space to another.
deity: Irori
source: Player Core pg. 340
spell_type: Spell
tradition: ArcanePrimal
type: Spell
Your legs surge with strength, ready to leap high and far. You jump 30 feet in any direction without touching the ground. You must land on a space of solid ground within 30 feet of you, or else you fall after using your next action.
Heightened (3rd) The range becomes touch, the target changes to one touched creature, and the duration becomes 1 minute, allowing the target to jump as described whenever it takes the Leap action.
An action with this trait requires a degree of mental concentration and discipline.
Electricity
Effects with this trait deal electricity damage. A creature with this trait has a connection to magical electricity.
Manipulate
You must physically manipulate an item or make gestures to use an action with this trait. Creatures without a suitable appendage can’t perform actions with this trait. Manipulate actions often trigger reactions.
area: 120-foot line
deity: Gozreh
saving_throw: basic Reflex
source: Player Core pg. 341
spell_type: Spell
tradition: ArcanePrimal
type: Spell
A bolt of lightning strikes outward from your hand, dealing 4d12 electricity damage with a basic Reflex save.
An action with this trait requires a degree of mental concentration and discipline.
Manipulate
You must physically manipulate an item or make gestures to use an action with this trait. Creatures without a suitable appendage can’t perform actions with this trait. Manipulate actions often trigger reactions.
area: 5-foot burst
duration: 1 min.
lesson: Lesson of Mischief
range: 30
source: Player Core pg. 341
spell_type: Spell
tradition: Primal
type: Spell
Magical monkey spirits fill the area as they pile and climb on top of one another. Because the monkeys are magical spirits, they can’t be attacked or hurt. Casting calm or a similar effect over the monkeys makes them docile, causing them to cease making mischief for the duration of mad monkeys.
Choose the kind of mischief your monkeys make when you Cast the Spell. They produce the effect listed for that mischief when you Cast the Spell and the first time each round when you Sustain the spell. The first time each round when you Sustain the spell, you can move the area of the monkeys by 5 feet.
Flagrant Burglary The monkeys try to Steal any one item from one creature in the area. Use your spell DC – 10 as the monkeys’ Thievery modifier. Their attempt relies more on distraction than subtlety, so the victim knows what item the monkeys were trying to take and whether it was taken. Getting a stolen item from the monkeys— even for the caster—requires Stealing it from them or Disarming them, using your spell DC. When the spell ends, any stolen items fall to the ground in any square of the spell’s area you choose.
Raucous Din The monkeys screech loudly, potentially deafening creatures in the spell’s area. Each creature in the spell’s area must attempt a Fortitude save.
Critical Success The creature is unaffected and is temporarily immune for 10 minutes. Success The creature is unaffected. Failure The creature is deafened for 1 round. Critical Failure The creature is deafened for 1 minute.
Tumultuous Gymnastics The monkeys jump and climb all over creatures in the spell’s area, interfering with complex movements. Each creature in the spell’s area must attempt a Reflex save.
Critical Success The creature is unaffected and is temporarily immune for 10 minutes. Success The creature is unaffected. Failure For 1 round, the creature must succeed at a DC 5 flat check whenever it attempts a manipulate action. If it fails this check, the action is disrupted. Critical Failure As failure, but the monkeys cling to the creature tenaciously, and the effect lasts until the spell ends, even if the creature leaves the spell’s area.
Something of uncommon rarity requires special training or comes from a particular culture or part of the world. Some character choices give access to uncommon options, and the GM can choose to allow access for anyone. Less is known about uncommon creatures than common creatures. They typically can't be summoned. The DC of [Recall Knowledge](/Actions.aspx?ID=26) checks related to these creature is increased by 2.
Concentrate
An action with this trait requires a degree of mental concentration and discipline.
Earth
Effects with the earth trait either manipulate or conjure earth. Those that manipulate earth have no effect in an area without earth. Creatures with this trait consist primarily of earth or have a connection to magical earth.
These planes are mostly solid. Travelers arriving upon an earth plane risk suffocation if they don’t reach a cavern or some other air pocket within the plane’s solid matter. Creatures who can’t burrow are entombed in the plane’s substance and must attempt to dig their way toward an air pocket. Air creatures are ill at ease, as they rarely have the space to move freely through even the loftiest warrens.
Manipulate
You must physically manipulate an item or make gestures to use an action with this trait. Creatures without a suitable appendage can’t perform actions with this trait. Manipulate actions often trigger reactions.
area: 5-foot-wide, 10-foot-tall, 10-foot-deep section of wooden, plaster, or stone wall
duration: 1 hrs.
element: Earth
legacy_name: Passwall
0
source: Player Core pg. 342
spell_type: Spell
tradition: ArcanePrimal
type: Spell
You create a visible tunnel through the wall in the chosen area, replacing the area with empty space. If the wall is thicker than 10 feet, the tunnel ends 10 feet in. Even a small layer of metal in the wall prevents this spell from functioning. This spell doesn’t reduce the integrity of the structure. When the spell ends, anyone inside the tunnel is shunted to the nearest exit.
Heightened (7th) The tunnel can be up to 20 feet deep. The areas of the wall that contain your tunnel’s entrance appear completely normal (unless viewed with truesight or a similar effect), despite the tunnel’s existence. The tunnel’s entrance functions as a solid wall, but you can specify a password or a trigger (page 303), allowing creatures to enter freely.
An action with this trait requires a degree of mental concentration and discipline.
Manipulate
You must physically manipulate an item or make gestures to use an action with this trait. Creatures without a suitable appendage can’t perform actions with this trait. Manipulate actions often trigger reactions.
source: Player Core pg. 342
spell_type: Spell
tradition: ArcaneDivineOccultPrimal
type: Spell
You spin secrets from the fundaments of magic, shaping them into a power with nearly unlimited potential. You duplicate a spell of 9th rank or lower of the tradition from which you cast manifestation, or a spell of 7th rank or lower from any tradition. Though you can normally choose only spells that are common or to which you have access, the GM might allow broader options.
An action with this trait requires a degree of mental concentration and discipline.
Curse
A curse is an effect that places some long-term affliction on a creature. Curses are always magical and are typically the result of a spell or trap. Effects with this trait can be removed only by effects that specifically target curses.
Manipulate
You must physically manipulate an item or make gestures to use an action with this trait. Creatures without a suitable appendage can’t perform actions with this trait. Manipulate actions often trigger reactions.
0
saving_throw: Will
source: Player Core pg. 342
spell_type: Spell
target: 1 creature
tradition: ArcaneOccultPrimal
type: Spell
You afflict the target with the curse of the roiling, unforgiving sea. The target must attempt a Will save.
Critical Success The target is unaffected. Success The target becomes sickened 1. Reducing its sickened condition to 0 ends the curse. Failure The target becomes sickened 1 and can’t reduce its sickened condition below 1 while the curse remains. The curse can be lifted by 4th-rank cleanse affliction or similar magic. Whenever the target is sickened and on the water at least a mile from shore, it is also slowed 1. Critical Failure As failure, but the target becomes sickened 2.
An action with this trait requires a degree of mental concentration and discipline.
Manipulate
You must physically manipulate an item or make gestures to use an action with this trait. Creatures without a suitable appendage can’t perform actions with this trait. Manipulate actions often trigger reactions.
component: 10 minutes
duration: 8 hrs.
legacy_name: Phantom Steed
range: 30
source: Player Core pg. 342
spell_type: Spell
target: 1 creature
tradition: ArcaneDivineOccultPrimal
type: Spell
You conjure a Large fantastical creature to serve as a mount for the target. The mount is the target’s minion, has a Speed of 40 feet, and can bear the target with any carried possessions. It can’t carry any other creature. The mount uses the target’s AC and saves, but it’s destroyed if it takes more than 10 damage at one time, ending the spell.
Heightened (3rd) The mount can walk on water, but it must end its turn on solid ground or sink.
Heightened (4th) The mount has a Speed of 60 feet and can walk on water.
Heightened (5th) The mount has a Speed of 60 feet and can walk on water. It also has a fly Speed of 60 feet, but it must end its turn on a surface or fall.
Heightened (6th) The mount has a Speed and fly Speed of 80 feet.
An action with this trait requires a degree of mental concentration and discipline.
Emotion
This effect alters a creature’s emotions. Effects with this trait always have the mental trait as well. Creatures with special training or that have mechanical or artificial intelligence are immune to emotion effects.
Fear
Fear effects evoke the emotion of fear. Effects with this trait always have the mental and emotion traits as well.
Illusion
Effects and magic items with this trait involve false sensory stimuli.
Manipulate
You must physically manipulate an item or make gestures to use an action with this trait. Creatures without a suitable appendage can’t perform actions with this trait. Manipulate actions often trigger reactions.
Mental
A mental effect can alter the target’s mind. It has no effect on an object or a mindless creature.
Visual
A visual effect can affect only creatures that can see it. This applies only to visible parts of the effect, as determined by the GM.
deity: Urgathoa
duration: 1 min.
range: 30
school: illusion
source: Player Core pg. 342
spell_type: Spell
target: 1 creature
tradition: ArcaneOccultPrimal
type: Spell
The target appears to be a gruesome and terrifying creature. The effect is unique to each observer, so a human viewing the target might see a demon with bloody fangs, but a demon observing the target might see a glowing angelic visage.
When any creature attempts a hostile action against the target, the creature must attempt a Will save. It is then temporarily immune until the end of its next turn.
Success The creature is unaffected. Failure The creature becomes frightened 2 before using its action. Critical Failure The creature becomes frightened 2, and its action fails and is wasted.
Heightened (8th) You can target up to 5 creatures. If a creature uses a hostile action or reaction that affects multiple targets simultaneously, it needs to attempt only one save against mask of terror.
An action with this trait requires a degree of mental concentration and discipline.
Death
An effect with the death trait kills you immediately if it reduces you to 0 HP. Some death effects can bring you closer to death or slay you outright without reducing you to 0 HP.
Manipulate
You must physically manipulate an item or make gestures to use an action with this trait. Creatures without a suitable appendage can’t perform actions with this trait. Manipulate actions often trigger reactions.
Void
Effects with this trait heal [undead](/Traits.aspx?ID=160) creatures with void energy, deal void damage to living creatures, or manipulate void energy.
Planes with this trait are vast, empty reaches that suck the life from the living. They tend to be lonely, haunted planes, drained of color and filled with winds carrying the moans of the dead At the end of each round, a living creature takes at least minor void environmental damage. In the strongest areas of a void plane, they could take moderate or even major void damage at the end of each round. This damage has the death trait, and if a living creature is reduced to 0 Hit Points by this void damage and killed, it crumbles into ash and can become a wraith (see Monster Core).
area: 60-foot line
saving_throw: Fortitude
source: Player Core pg. 342
spell_type: Spell
tradition: ArcaneDivinePrimal
type: Spell
You unleash a wave of death to snuff out the life force of those in its path. Each living creature of 17th level or lower in the line must attempt a Fortitude save. If the damage from massacre reduces a creature to 0 Hit Points, that creature dies instantly. If massacre doesn’t kill even a single creature, the void energy hungrily turns backward toward you, dealing an additional 30 void damage to every living creature in the line (even those above 17th level) and 30 void damage to you.
Critical Success The creature is unaffected. Success The creature takes 9d6 void damage. Failure The creature takes 100 void damage. Critical Failure The creature dies.
Heightened (10th) The spell can affect living creatures up to 19th level. Increase the damage to 10d6 on a success, and to 115 on a failure.
An action with this trait requires a degree of mental concentration and discipline.
Manipulate
You must physically manipulate an item or make gestures to use an action with this trait. Creatures without a suitable appendage can’t perform actions with this trait. Manipulate actions often trigger reactions.
component: 10 minutes
0
source: Player Core pg. 343
spell_type: Spell
target: non-magical object of light Bulk or less
tradition: ArcaneDivineOccultPrimal
type: Spell
You repair the target item. You restore 5 Hit Points per spell rank to the target, potentially removing the broken condition if this repairs it past the item’s Broken Threshold. You can’t replace lost pieces or repair an object that’s been completely destroyed.
Heightened (2nd) You can target a non-magical object of 1 Bulk or less.
Heightened (3rd) You can target a non-magical object of 2 Bulk or less, or a magical object of 1 Bulk or less.
An action with this trait requires a degree of mental concentration and discipline.
Manipulate
You must physically manipulate an item or make gestures to use an action with this trait. Creatures without a suitable appendage can’t perform actions with this trait. Manipulate actions often trigger reactions.
Polymorph
These effects transform the target into a new form. A target can't be under the effect of more than one polymorph effect at a time. If it comes under the effect of a second polymorph effect, the second polymorph effect attempts to [counteract](/Rules.aspx?ID=371) the first. If it succeeds, it takes effect, and if it fails, the spell has no effect on that target. Any Strikes specifically granted by a polymorph effect are [magical](/Traits.aspx?ID=103). Unless otherwise stated, polymorph spells don't allow the target to take on the appearance of a specific individual creature, but rather just a generic creature of a general type or ancestry.
If you take on a battle form with a polymorph spell, the special statistics can be adjusted only by circumstance bonuses, status bonuses, and penalties. Unless otherwise noted, the battle form prevents you from casting spells, speaking, and using most [manipulate](/Traits.aspx?ID=104) actions that require hands. (If there's doubt about whether you can use an action, the GM decides.) Your gear is absorbed into you; the constant abilities of your gear still function, but you can't activate any items.
duration: 1 min.
legacy_name: Shapechange
source: Player Core pg. 343
spell_type: Spell
tradition: ArcanePrimal
type: Spell
Harnessing your mastery of transformative magic, you hide forms within forms. You transform yourself into any form you could choose with a polymorph spell in your spell repertoire or that you could prepare of 8th-rank or lower (including any 8th-rank or lower heightened versions of spells you know). You gain 40 temporary Hit Points rather than the amount normally granted by the form.
You can Sustain the spell to enter a new form you haven’t used during this metamorphosis. This replenishes your temporary Hit Points from this spell.
An action with this trait requires a degree of mental concentration and discipline.
Manipulate
You must physically manipulate an item or make gestures to use an action with this trait. Creatures without a suitable appendage can’t perform actions with this trait. Manipulate actions often trigger reactions.
Polymorph
These effects transform the target into a new form. A target can't be under the effect of more than one polymorph effect at a time. If it comes under the effect of a second polymorph effect, the second polymorph effect attempts to [counteract](/Rules.aspx?ID=371) the first. If it succeeds, it takes effect, and if it fails, the spell has no effect on that target. Any Strikes specifically granted by a polymorph effect are [magical](/Traits.aspx?ID=103). Unless otherwise stated, polymorph spells don't allow the target to take on the appearance of a specific individual creature, but rather just a generic creature of a general type or ancestry.
If you take on a battle form with a polymorph spell, the special statistics can be adjusted only by circumstance bonuses, status bonuses, and penalties. Unless otherwise noted, the battle form prevents you from casting spells, speaking, and using most [manipulate](/Traits.aspx?ID=104) actions that require hands. (If there's doubt about whether you can use an action, the GM decides.) Your gear is absorbed into you; the constant abilities of your gear still function, but you can't activate any items.
duration: 8 hrs.
legacy_name: Wind Walk
range: 20
source: Player Core pg. 343
spell_type: Spell
target: you and up to 5 willing creatures
tradition: Primal
type: Spell
The targets naturally take on animal forms most fitting their movement and environment. Each target gains a land, burrow, climb, fly, and swim Speed of 40 feet, and can transform into a Tiny or Small animal most appropriate for a given movement and environment. It also gains immunity to mild, severe, and extreme cold and heat, along with any other immunities common to the local wildlife, at the GM’s discretion. In exploration mode, a target can move much faster, at a travel Speed of 20 miles per hour.
A target can’t Strike, cast spells, or use most manipulate actions in animal form, but it can resume its normal shape by Sustaining the spell. It can Sustain the spell again to resume animal form.
Something of uncommon rarity requires special training or comes from a particular culture or part of the world. Some character choices give access to uncommon options, and the GM can choose to allow access for anyone. Less is known about uncommon creatures than common creatures. They typically can't be summoned. The DC of [Recall Knowledge](/Actions.aspx?ID=26) checks related to these creature is increased by 2.
Concentrate
An action with this trait requires a degree of mental concentration and discipline.
Illusion
Effects and magic items with this trait involve false sensory stimuli.
Manipulate
You must physically manipulate an item or make gestures to use an action with this trait. Creatures without a suitable appendage can’t perform actions with this trait. Manipulate actions often trigger reactions.
area: 50-foot burst
component: 10 minutes
legacy_name: Hallucinatory Terrain
range: 500
school: illusion
source: Player Core pg. 344
spell_type: Spell
tradition: ArcaneOccultPrimal
type: Spell
You create an illusion that causes natural terrain to look, sound, feel, and smell like a different kind of terrain. This doesn’t disguise any structures or creatures in the area.
Any creature that touches the illusion or uses the Seek action to examine it can attempt to disbelieve your illusion.
Heightened (5th) Your image can also disguise structures or create illusory structures (but still doesn’t disguise creatures).
An action with this trait requires a degree of mental concentration and discipline.
Manipulate
You must physically manipulate an item or make gestures to use an action with this trait. Creatures without a suitable appendage can’t perform actions with this trait. Manipulate actions often trigger reactions.
Water
Effects with the water trait either manipulate or conjure water. Those that manipulate water have no effect in an area without water. Creatures with this trait consist primarily of water or have a connection to magical water.
Planes with this trait are mostly liquid. Visitors who can’t breathe water or reach an air pocket likely drown. The rules for aquatic combat (Player Core 437) usually apply, including the inability to cast fire spells or use actions with the fire trait. Creatures with a weakness to water take damage equal to double their weakness at the end of each round.
area: 20-foot burst
duration: 1 min.
element: Water
legacy_name: Obscuring Mist
range: 120
source: Player Core pg. 344
spell_type: Spell
tradition: ArcanePrimal
type: Spell
You call forth a cloud of mist. All creatures within the mist become concealed, and all creatures outside the mist become concealed to creatures within it. You can Dismiss the cloud.
An action with this trait requires a degree of mental concentration and discipline.
Healing
A healing effect restores a creature’s body, typically by restoring Hit Points, but sometimes by removing diseases or other debilitating effects.
Manipulate
You must physically manipulate an item or make gestures to use an action with this trait. Creatures without a suitable appendage can’t perform actions with this trait. Manipulate actions often trigger reactions.
0
source: Player Core pg. 344
spell_type: Spell
target: up to 6 creatures
tradition: DivinePrimal
type: Spell
The targets experience a day’s worth of recovery in an instant. Any detrimental effects that would be gone after 24 hours end, though this doesn’t shorten the duration of any active spells affecting the targets. The targets regain Hit Points and recover from conditions as if they had taken 24 hours of rest, but they do not make their daily preparations again or gain any benefits of rest other than healing. The targets are then temporarily immune for 1 day.
An action with this trait requires a degree of mental concentration and discipline.
Manipulate
You must physically manipulate an item or make gestures to use an action with this trait. Creatures without a suitable appendage can’t perform actions with this trait. Manipulate actions often trigger reactions.
Polymorph
These effects transform the target into a new form. A target can't be under the effect of more than one polymorph effect at a time. If it comes under the effect of a second polymorph effect, the second polymorph effect attempts to [counteract](/Rules.aspx?ID=371) the first. If it succeeds, it takes effect, and if it fails, the spell has no effect on that target. Any Strikes specifically granted by a polymorph effect are [magical](/Traits.aspx?ID=103). Unless otherwise stated, polymorph spells don't allow the target to take on the appearance of a specific individual creature, but rather just a generic creature of a general type or ancestry.
If you take on a battle form with a polymorph spell, the special statistics can be adjusted only by circumstance bonuses, status bonuses, and penalties. Unless otherwise noted, the battle form prevents you from casting spells, speaking, and using most [manipulate](/Traits.aspx?ID=104) actions that require hands. (If there's doubt about whether you can use an action, the GM decides.) Your gear is absorbed into you; the constant abilities of your gear still function, but you can't activate any items.
duration: 1 min.
source: Player Core pg. 344
spell_type: Spell
tradition: ArcanePrimal
type: Spell
You transform into the shape of a legendary monster, assuming a Huge battle form. When you Cast this Spell, choose phoenix, cave worm, or sea serpent. While in this form, you gain the beast trait (for phoenix) or the animal trait (for cave worm or sea serpent). You can Dismiss the spell.
You gain the following statistics and abilities regardless of which battle form you choose:
AC = 20 + your level. Ignore your armor’s check penalty and Speed reduction.
One or more unarmed melee attacks specific to the battle form you choose, which are the only attacks you can Strike with. You’re trained with them. Your attack modifier is +28, and you use the listed damage. These attacks are Strength based (for the purpose of the enfeebled condition, for example). If your unarmed attack modifier is higher, you can use it instead.
Athletics modifier of +30, unless your own is higher.
You gain specific abilities based on the monster you choose:
Phoenix Speed 30 feet, fly 90 feet; Melee beak (reach 15 feet), Damage 2d6+12 piercing plus 2d4 fire and 2d4 persistent fire; Melee talon (agile, reach 15 feet), Damage 2d8+12 slashing; Shroud of Flame (aura, fire, primal) 20 feet. You gain an aura of fire that extends out from you. A creature that enters or ends its turn within the aura takes 2d6 fire damage. A creature can take this damage only once per turn. You can activate or deactivate this aura with a Sustain action.
Sea Serpent Speed 20 feet, swim 90 feet; Melee jaws (reach 15 feet), Damage 2d12+20 piercing; Melee tail (reach 25 feet), Damage 2d8+20 bludgeoning; Spine Rake (move) You extend your spines and Swim or Stride. Each creature you’re adjacent to at any point during your movement takes 4d8+10 slashing damage (basic Reflex against your spell DC).
Heightened (9th) You instead gain AC = 22 + your level, 25 temporary HP, attack modifier +31, increase damage by one damage die, and Athletics +33.
An action with this trait requires a degree of mental concentration and discipline.
Manipulate
You must physically manipulate an item or make gestures to use an action with this trait. Creatures without a suitable appendage can’t perform actions with this trait. Manipulate actions often trigger reactions.
Morph
Effects that slightly alter a creature's form have the morph trait. Any Strikes specifically granted by a morph effect are magical. You can be affected by multiple morph spells at once, but if you morph the same body part more than once, the second morph effect attempts to [counteract](/Rules.aspx?ID=371) the first (in the same manner as two [polymorph](/Traits.aspx?ID=127) effects, described in that trait).
Your morph effects might also end if you are polymorphed and the polymorph effect invalidates or overrides your morph effect. The GM determines which morph effects can be used together and which can't.
duration: 1 min.
range: 30
source: Player Core pg. 345
spell_type: Spell
target: up to 5 willing creatures
tradition: Primal
type: Spell
A feral aspect overcomes the targets, filling them with strength and ferocity. Targets gain 5 temporary Hit Points, a +10-foot status bonus to their Speeds, and weakness 5 to silver. They also grow vicious fangs and claws, which are unarmed attacks. The fangs deal 2d8 piercing damage; the claws deal 2d6 slashing damage and have the agile and finesse traits. The targets use their highest weapon or unarmed attack proficiency with these attacks, and if they have weapon specialization or greater weapon specialization, they add this damage as well. On a critical hit with one of these unarmed attacks, the creature struck takes 1d4 persistent bleed damage.
The targets can’t use concentrate actions unless those actions also have the rage trait, with the exception of Seek. A creature can attempt to end the spell’s effect on itself by using a single action, which has the rage trait, to attempt a Will save against your spell DC; on a success, it ends the spell’s effect on itself.
If a target is in the light of a full moon, it also grows by one size if it were Medium or smaller. This increases the reach of a Medium or Tiny creature by 5 feet.
Heightened (6th) The temporary Hit Points increase to 10, the silver weakness to 10, and the damage dealt by the attacks to three dice.
Heightened (10th) The temporary Hit Points increase to 20, the silver weakness to 20, and the damage dealt by the attacks to four dice.
An action with this trait requires a degree of mental concentration and discipline.
Earth
Effects with the earth trait either manipulate or conjure earth. Those that manipulate earth have no effect in an area without earth. Creatures with this trait consist primarily of earth or have a connection to magical earth.
These planes are mostly solid. Travelers arriving upon an earth plane risk suffocation if they don’t reach a cavern or some other air pocket within the plane’s solid matter. Creatures who can’t burrow are entombed in the plane’s substance and must attempt to dig their way toward an air pocket. Air creatures are ill at ease, as they rarely have the space to move freely through even the loftiest warrens.
Manipulate
You must physically manipulate an item or make gestures to use an action with this trait. Creatures without a suitable appendage can’t perform actions with this trait. Manipulate actions often trigger reactions.
deity: Irori
duration: 20 min.
element: Earth
legacy_name: Stoneskin
0
source: Player Core pg. 346
spell_type: Spell
target: 1 creature
tradition: ArcanePrimal
type: Spell
The target’s skin hardens like the stone of a mountain face. It gains resistance 5 to physical damage, except adamantine. Each time the target is hit by a bludgeoning, piercing, or slashing attack, mountain resilience’s duration decreases by 1 minute.
An action with this trait requires a degree of mental concentration and discipline.
Manipulate
You must physically manipulate an item or make gestures to use an action with this trait. Creatures without a suitable appendage can’t perform actions with this trait. Manipulate actions often trigger reactions.
legacy_name: Mage Armor
lesson: Lesson of Protection
source: Player Core pg. 346
spell_type: Spell
tradition: ArcaneDivineOccultPrimal
type: Spell
You ward yourself with shimmering magical energy, gaining a +1 item bonus to AC and a maximum Dexterity modifier of +5. While wearing mystic armor, you use your unarmored proficiency to calculate your AC.
Heightened (4th) You gain a +1 item bonus to saving throws.
Heightened (6th) The item bonus to AC increases to +2, and you gain a +1 item bonus to saving throws.
Heightened (8th) The item bonus to AC increases to +2, and you gain a +2 item bonus to saving throws.
Heightened (10th) The item bonus to AC increases to +3, and you gain a +3 item bonus to saving throws.
An action with this trait requires a degree of mental concentration and discipline.
Manipulate
You must physically manipulate an item or make gestures to use an action with this trait. Creatures without a suitable appendage can’t perform actions with this trait. Manipulate actions often trigger reactions.
Polymorph
These effects transform the target into a new form. A target can't be under the effect of more than one polymorph effect at a time. If it comes under the effect of a second polymorph effect, the second polymorph effect attempts to [counteract](/Rules.aspx?ID=371) the first. If it succeeds, it takes effect, and if it fails, the spell has no effect on that target. Any Strikes specifically granted by a polymorph effect are [magical](/Traits.aspx?ID=103). Unless otherwise stated, polymorph spells don't allow the target to take on the appearance of a specific individual creature, but rather just a generic creature of a general type or ancestry.
If you take on a battle form with a polymorph spell, the special statistics can be adjusted only by circumstance bonuses, status bonuses, and penalties. Unless otherwise noted, the battle form prevents you from casting spells, speaking, and using most [manipulate](/Traits.aspx?ID=104) actions that require hands. (If there's doubt about whether you can use an action, the GM decides.) Your gear is absorbed into you; the constant abilities of your gear still function, but you can't activate any items.
duration: 1 min.
source: Player Core pg. 346
spell_type: Spell
tradition: Primal
type: Spell
The primal power of the world flows through you. You transform into an incarnation of nature, either a green man or a kaiju. Your battle form is Medium for a green man or Gargantuan (30-foot-by-30-foot space) for a kaiju. While in this form, you gain the plant trait (for a green man) or the beast trait (for a kaiju). You can Dismiss the spell.
You gain the following statistics and abilities regardless of which battle form you choose:
AC = 25 + your level. Ignore your armor’s check penalty and Speed reduction.
One or more attacks specific to the battle form you choose, which are the only attacks you can Strike with. You’re trained with them. Your attack modifier is +34, and you use the listed damage. These attacks are Strength based (for the purpose of the enfeebled condition, for example). If your unarmed attack modifier is higher, you can use it instead.
Athletics modifier of +36, unless your own is higher.
You gain specific abilities based on the incarnation you choose:
Green Man Speed 40 feet, climb 40 feet; Melee vines (reach 30 feet, versatile P), Damage 6d8+12 bludgeoning; Ranged thorns (range 100 feet), Damage 6d6+6 piercing; Green Caress (aura, primal) 60 feet. Enemies other than plants must succeed at a Fortitude save against your spell DC or become clumsy 1 for 1 round (clumsy 2 on a critical failure).
Kaiju Speed 50 feet; resistance 5 to physical damage; Melee jaws (reach 30 feet), Damage 6d10+10 piercing; Melee claws (agile, reach 30 feet), Damage 6d8+8 slashing; Melee foot (agile, reach 15 feet), Damage 6d6+10 bludgeoning; Unstoppable You are immune to being immobilized and ignore difficult terrain and greater difficult terrain; Trample You move up to double your Speed and move through the spaces of Huge or smaller creatures, trampling each creature whose space you enter. A trampled creature takes foot damage with a basic Reflex save against your spell DC.
Something of uncommon rarity requires special training or comes from a particular culture or part of the world. Some character choices give access to uncommon options, and the GM can choose to allow access for anyone. Less is known about uncommon creatures than common creatures. They typically can't be summoned. The DC of [Recall Knowledge](/Actions.aspx?ID=26) checks related to these creature is increased by 2.
Concentrate
An action with this trait requires a degree of mental concentration and discipline.
Manipulate
You must physically manipulate an item or make gestures to use an action with this trait. Creatures without a suitable appendage can’t perform actions with this trait. Manipulate actions often trigger reactions.
Mental
A mental effect can alter the target’s mind. It has no effect on an object or a mindless creature.
Plant
Vegetable creatures have the plant trait. They are distinct from normal plants. Magical effects with this trait manipulate or conjure plants or plant matter in some way. Effects that manipulate plants have no effect in an area with no plants.
Teleportation
Teleportation effects instantaneously move something from one point in space to another. Teleportation does not usually trigger reactions based on movement.
component: 1 minute
deity: Erastil
legacy_name: Tree Stride
source: Player Core pg. 346
spell_type: Spell
tradition: Primal
type: Spell
You step into a living tree with a trunk big enough for you to fit inside it and instantly teleport to any tree within 5 miles that also has a sufficiently large trunk. Once you enter the first tree, you instantly know the rough locations of other sufficiently large trees within range and can exit from the original tree, if you prefer. You can’t carry extradimensional spaces with you; if you attempt to do so, the spell fails.
Heightened (6th) The tree you exit can be up to 50 miles away.
Heightened (8th) The tree you exit can be up to 500 miles away.
Heightened (9th) The tree you exit can be anywhere on the same planet.
An action with this trait requires a degree of mental concentration and discipline.
Manipulate
You must physically manipulate an item or make gestures to use an action with this trait. Creatures without a suitable appendage can’t perform actions with this trait. Manipulate actions often trigger reactions.
Plant
Vegetable creatures have the plant trait. They are distinct from normal plants. Magical effects with this trait manipulate or conjure plants or plant matter in some way. Effects that manipulate plants have no effect in an area with no plants.
Wood
Effects with the wood trait conjure or manipulate wood. Those that manipulate wood have no effect in an area without wood. Creatures with this trait consist primarily of wood or have a connection to magical wood.
These planes consist of trees and other flora latticed in organic patterns. Wood planes are often perfectly constructed to match their desired purpose or environment but aren’t usually outright hostile to visitors.
duration: 10 min.
element: Wood
legacy_name: Barkskin
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source: Player Core pg. 347
spell_type: Spell
target: 1 willing creature
tradition: ArcanePrimal
type: Spell
The target’s skin becomes tough, with a consistency like bark or wood. The target gains resistance 2 to bludgeoning and piercing damage and weakness 3 to fire. After the target takes fire damage, it can Dismiss the spell as a free action triggered by taking the damage; doing so doesn’t reduce the fire damage the target was dealt.
Heightened (+2) The resistances increase by 2, and the weakness increases by 3.
An action with this trait requires a degree of mental concentration and discipline.
Manipulate
You must physically manipulate an item or make gestures to use an action with this trait. Creatures without a suitable appendage can’t perform actions with this trait. Manipulate actions often trigger reactions.
Plant
Vegetable creatures have the plant trait. They are distinct from normal plants. Magical effects with this trait manipulate or conjure plants or plant matter in some way. Effects that manipulate plants have no effect in an area with no plants.
Polymorph
These effects transform the target into a new form. A target can't be under the effect of more than one polymorph effect at a time. If it comes under the effect of a second polymorph effect, the second polymorph effect attempts to [counteract](/Rules.aspx?ID=371) the first. If it succeeds, it takes effect, and if it fails, the spell has no effect on that target. Any Strikes specifically granted by a polymorph effect are [magical](/Traits.aspx?ID=103). Unless otherwise stated, polymorph spells don't allow the target to take on the appearance of a specific individual creature, but rather just a generic creature of a general type or ancestry.
If you take on a battle form with a polymorph spell, the special statistics can be adjusted only by circumstance bonuses, status bonuses, and penalties. Unless otherwise noted, the battle form prevents you from casting spells, speaking, and using most [manipulate](/Traits.aspx?ID=104) actions that require hands. (If there's doubt about whether you can use an action, the GM decides.) Your gear is absorbed into you; the constant abilities of your gear still function, but you can't activate any items.
Wood
Effects with the wood trait conjure or manipulate wood. Those that manipulate wood have no effect in an area without wood. Creatures with this trait consist primarily of wood or have a connection to magical wood.
These planes consist of trees and other flora latticed in organic patterns. Wood planes are often perfectly constructed to match their desired purpose or environment but aren’t usually outright hostile to visitors.
duration: 10 min.
element: Wood
legacy_name: Tree Shape
source: Player Core pg. 347
spell_type: Spell
tradition: Primal
type: Spell
You can either transform into a plant or merge with plant matter. While transformed, you can’t move or affect anything outside the plant, but you can cast spells as long as they don’t require line of effect beyond the plant. You can Dismiss this spell.
Merge with Plants The spell’s duration is 10 minutes. While casting the spell, you must touch a plant with enough volume to fit you and your possessions or the spell is disrupted. While merged, you can hear, but not see, what’s going on outside the plant. If the plant takes damage while you’re inside it, you’re expelled from the plant and take 10d6 damage. Magic passage expels you without dealing damage. The spell ends if you’re ever outside the plant.
Turn into a Plant The spell’s duration is 8 hours. You become a Large plant—typically a tree. Perception checks don’t reveal your true nature, but a successful Nature or Survival check against your spell DC reveals that you appear to be a plant that is strangely new to the area. While in this form, you can observe everything around you, using your normal senses. As a plant, your AC is 20, and only status bonuses, status penalties, circumstance bonuses, and circumstance penalties affect you. Any successes and critical successes you roll on Reflex saves are failures.
An action with this trait requires a degree of mental concentration and discipline.
Earth
Effects with the earth trait either manipulate or conjure earth. Those that manipulate earth have no effect in an area without earth. Creatures with this trait consist primarily of earth or have a connection to magical earth.
These planes are mostly solid. Travelers arriving upon an earth plane risk suffocation if they don’t reach a cavern or some other air pocket within the plane’s solid matter. Creatures who can’t burrow are entombed in the plane’s substance and must attempt to dig their way toward an air pocket. Air creatures are ill at ease, as they rarely have the space to move freely through even the loftiest warrens.
Manipulate
You must physically manipulate an item or make gestures to use an action with this trait. Creatures without a suitable appendage can’t perform actions with this trait. Manipulate actions often trigger reactions.
Polymorph
These effects transform the target into a new form. A target can't be under the effect of more than one polymorph effect at a time. If it comes under the effect of a second polymorph effect, the second polymorph effect attempts to [counteract](/Rules.aspx?ID=371) the first. If it succeeds, it takes effect, and if it fails, the spell has no effect on that target. Any Strikes specifically granted by a polymorph effect are [magical](/Traits.aspx?ID=103). Unless otherwise stated, polymorph spells don't allow the target to take on the appearance of a specific individual creature, but rather just a generic creature of a general type or ancestry.
If you take on a battle form with a polymorph spell, the special statistics can be adjusted only by circumstance bonuses, status bonuses, and penalties. Unless otherwise noted, the battle form prevents you from casting spells, speaking, and using most [manipulate](/Traits.aspx?ID=104) actions that require hands. (If there's doubt about whether you can use an action, the GM decides.) Your gear is absorbed into you; the constant abilities of your gear still function, but you can't activate any items.
duration: 10 min.
element: Earth
legacy_name: Meld into Stone
source: Player Core pg. 347
spell_type: Spell
tradition: ArcanePrimal
type: Spell
You can either transform into a stone or merge with stone. This spell has the same effects as one with plants, but lets you merge with or turn into stone. A stone you turn into has AC 23. You can Dismiss this spell.
An action with this trait requires a degree of mental concentration and discipline.
Manipulate
You must physically manipulate an item or make gestures to use an action with this trait. Creatures without a suitable appendage can’t perform actions with this trait. Manipulate actions often trigger reactions.
legacy_name: Gentle Repose
0
source: Player Core pg. 348
spell_type: Spell
target: 1 corpse
tradition: ArcaneDivineOccultPrimal
type: Spell
The targeted corpse doesn’t decay, nor can it be transformed into an undead. If the corpse is subject to a spell that requires the corpse to have died within a certain amount of time (for example, raise dead), do not count the duration of peaceful rest against that time. This spell also prevents ordinary bugs and pests (such as maggots) from consuming the body.
Heightened (5th) The spell’s duration is unlimited, but the spell takes one more action to cast and requires a cost (embalming fluid worth 6 gp).
An action with this trait requires a degree of mental concentration and discipline.
Manipulate
You must physically manipulate an item or make gestures to use an action with this trait. Creatures without a suitable appendage can’t perform actions with this trait. Manipulate actions often trigger reactions.
Polymorph
These effects transform the target into a new form. A target can't be under the effect of more than one polymorph effect at a time. If it comes under the effect of a second polymorph effect, the second polymorph effect attempts to [counteract](/Rules.aspx?ID=371) the first. If it succeeds, it takes effect, and if it fails, the spell has no effect on that target. Any Strikes specifically granted by a polymorph effect are [magical](/Traits.aspx?ID=103). Unless otherwise stated, polymorph spells don't allow the target to take on the appearance of a specific individual creature, but rather just a generic creature of a general type or ancestry.
If you take on a battle form with a polymorph spell, the special statistics can be adjusted only by circumstance bonuses, status bonuses, and penalties. Unless otherwise noted, the battle form prevents you from casting spells, speaking, and using most [manipulate](/Traits.aspx?ID=104) actions that require hands. (If there's doubt about whether you can use an action, the GM decides.) Your gear is absorbed into you; the constant abilities of your gear still function, but you can't activate any items.
duration: 10 min.
source: Player Core pg. 348
spell_type: Spell
tradition: ArcanePrimal
type: Spell
You transform into the battle form of a Tiny animal, such as
a cat, insect, lizard, or rat. You can decide the specific type of
animal (such as a rat or praying mantis), but this has no effect
on your Size or statistics. While in this form, you gain the animal trait, and you can’t make Strikes. You can Dismiss the spell.
You gain the following statistics and abilities:
AC = 15 + your level. Ignore your armor’s check penalty and Speed reduction.
Speed 20 feet.
Weakness 5 to physical damage. (If you take physical damage in this form, you take 5 additional damage.)
This effect or item creates an extradimensional space. An extradimensional effect placed inside another extradimensional space ceases to function until it is removed.
Manipulate
You must physically manipulate an item or make gestures to use an action with this trait. Creatures without a suitable appendage can’t perform actions with this trait. Manipulate actions often trigger reactions.
duration: 8 hrs.
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source: Player Core pg. 348
spell_type: Spell
target: 1 willing creature that is your companion
tradition: ArcaneDivineOccultPrimal
type: Spell
You open your cloak or create a gap with your hands, drawing the target into a pocket dimension just large enough for its basic comfort. No other creature can enter this extradimensional space, and the target can bring along objects only if they were designed to be worn by a creature of its kind. The space has enough air, food, and water to sustain the target for the duration.
You can Dismiss the spell. The spell also ends if you die or enter an extradimensional space. When the spell ends, the target reappears in the nearest unoccupied space (outside of any extradimensional space you may have entered).
An action with this trait requires a degree of mental concentration and discipline.
Earth
Effects with the earth trait either manipulate or conjure earth. Those that manipulate earth have no effect in an area without earth. Creatures with this trait consist primarily of earth or have a connection to magical earth.
These planes are mostly solid. Travelers arriving upon an earth plane risk suffocation if they don’t reach a cavern or some other air pocket within the plane’s solid matter. Creatures who can’t burrow are entombed in the plane’s substance and must attempt to dig their way toward an air pocket. Air creatures are ill at ease, as they rarely have the space to move freely through even the loftiest warrens.
Manipulate
You must physically manipulate an item or make gestures to use an action with this trait. Creatures without a suitable appendage can’t perform actions with this trait. Manipulate actions often trigger reactions.
element: Earth
legacy_name: Flesh to Stone
range: 120
saving_throw: Fortitude
source: Player Core pg. 349
spell_type: Spell
target: 1 creature made of organic material
tradition: ArcanePrimal
type: Spell
The target’s body slowly turns into a stone statue. The target must attempt a Fortitude save.
Critical Success The target is unaffected. Success The target is slowed 1 for 1 round as stone begins to form on their body. Failure The target is slowed 1 and must attempt a Fortitude save at the end of each of its turns; this ongoing save has the incapacitation trait. On a failed save, the slowed condition increases by 1 (or 2 on a critical failure) as stone growths creep across their body. A successful save reduces the slowed condition by 1. When a creature becomes fully unable to act due to the slowed condition from petrify, the spell then ends in a flash of gray light, leaving the target petrified permanently as they become a statue. The spell also ends if the slowed condition is removed, which causes the stone to break off harmlessly. Critical Failure As failure, but the target is initially slowed 2.
An action with this trait requires a degree of mental concentration and discipline.
Manipulate
You must physically manipulate an item or make gestures to use an action with this trait. Creatures without a suitable appendage can’t perform actions with this trait. Manipulate actions often trigger reactions.
Plant
Vegetable creatures have the plant trait. They are distinct from normal plants. Magical effects with this trait manipulate or conjure plants or plant matter in some way. Effects that manipulate plants have no effect in an area with no plants.
Polymorph
These effects transform the target into a new form. A target can't be under the effect of more than one polymorph effect at a time. If it comes under the effect of a second polymorph effect, the second polymorph effect attempts to [counteract](/Rules.aspx?ID=371) the first. If it succeeds, it takes effect, and if it fails, the spell has no effect on that target. Any Strikes specifically granted by a polymorph effect are [magical](/Traits.aspx?ID=103). Unless otherwise stated, polymorph spells don't allow the target to take on the appearance of a specific individual creature, but rather just a generic creature of a general type or ancestry.
If you take on a battle form with a polymorph spell, the special statistics can be adjusted only by circumstance bonuses, status bonuses, and penalties. Unless otherwise noted, the battle form prevents you from casting spells, speaking, and using most [manipulate](/Traits.aspx?ID=104) actions that require hands. (If there's doubt about whether you can use an action, the GM decides.) Your gear is absorbed into you; the constant abilities of your gear still function, but you can't activate any items.
Wood
Effects with the wood trait conjure or manipulate wood. Those that manipulate wood have no effect in an area without wood. Creatures with this trait consist primarily of wood or have a connection to magical wood.
These planes consist of trees and other flora latticed in organic patterns. Wood planes are often perfectly constructed to match their desired purpose or environment but aren’t usually outright hostile to visitors.
duration: 1 min.
element: Wood
source: Player Core pg. 350
spell_type: Spell
tradition: Primal
type: Spell
Taking inspiration from verdant creatures, you transform into a Large plant battle form. When you Cast this Spell, choose a listed battle form. You can substitute a similar specific plant to turn into (such as a pitcher plant instead of a flytrap), but this has no effect on the form’s Size or statistics. While in this form, you gain the plant trait. You can Dismiss the spell.
You gain the following statistics and abilities regardless of which battle form you choose:
AC = 19 + your level. Ignore your armor’s check penalty and Speed reduction.
One or more unarmed melee attacks specific to the battle form you choose, which are the only attacks you can Strike with. You’re trained with them. Your attack modifier is +17, and your damage bonus is +11. These attacks are Strength based (for the purpose of the enfeebled condition, for example). If your unarmed attack modifier is higher, you can use it instead.
Athletics modifier of +19, unless your own is higher.
You gain specific abilities based on the plant you choose:
Arboreal Speed 30 feet; Melee branch (reach 15 feet), Damage 2d10 bludgeoning; Melee foot, Damage 2d8 bludgeoning; you can speak in this form.
Flytrap Speed 15 feet; resistance 10 to acid; Melee leaf (reach 10 feet), Damage 2d8 piercing, and you can spend an action after a hit to Grab the target.
Heightened (6th) Your battle form is Huge, and the reach of your attacks increases by 5 feet. You instead gain AC = 22 + your level, 24 temporary HP, attack modifier +21, damage bonus +16, and Athletics +22.
An action with this trait requires a degree of mental concentration and discipline.
Earth
Effects with the earth trait either manipulate or conjure earth. Those that manipulate earth have no effect in an area without earth. Creatures with this trait consist primarily of earth or have a connection to magical earth.
These planes are mostly solid. Travelers arriving upon an earth plane risk suffocation if they don’t reach a cavern or some other air pocket within the plane’s solid matter. Creatures who can’t burrow are entombed in the plane’s substance and must attempt to dig their way toward an air pocket. Air creatures are ill at ease, as they rarely have the space to move freely through even the loftiest warrens.
Manipulate
You must physically manipulate an item or make gestures to use an action with this trait. Creatures without a suitable appendage can’t perform actions with this trait. Manipulate actions often trigger reactions.
area: 15-foot cone
element: Earth
saving_throw: Reflex
source: Player Core pg. 351
spell_type: Spell
tradition: ArcanePrimal
type: Spell
A spray of heavy rocks flies through the air in front of you. The rubble deals 2d4 bludgeoning damage to each creature in the area. Each creature must attempt a Reflex save.
Critical Success The creature is unaffected. Success The creature takes half damage. Failure The creature takes full damage and is pushed 5 feet away from you. Critical Failure The creature takes double damage and is pushed 10 feet away from you.
Effects with the air trait either manipulate or conjure air. Those that manipulate air have no effect in a vacuum or an area without air. Creatures with this trait consist primarily of air or have a connection to magical air.
Planes with this trait consist mostly of open spaces and air of various levels of turbulence, though they also contain rare islands of floating stone and other elements and energies. Air planes usually have breathable atmospheres, though they might include clouds of acidic or toxic gas. Earth creatures often find themselves at a disadvantage within air planes, as there’s little solid ground for them to gain their bearings, which tends to at least make them uncomfortable.
Concentrate
An action with this trait requires a degree of mental concentration and discipline.
Manipulate
You must physically manipulate an item or make gestures to use an action with this trait. Creatures without a suitable appendage can’t perform actions with this trait. Manipulate actions often trigger reactions.
area: 30-foot radius, 100-foot-tall cylinder
duration: 1 min.
element: Air
range: 100
source: Player Core pg. 351
spell_type: Spell
tradition: Primal
type: Spell
Violent winds and a powerful downdraft fill the area, forming a cyclone. All flying creatures in the area descend 40 feet. The entire area is greater difficult terrain for Flying creatures, and difficult terrain for creatures on the ground or Climbing. Any creature that ends its turn Flying within the area descends 20 feet. Any creature pushed into a surface by this spell’s winds takes bludgeoning damage as though it had fallen.
The squares at the outside vertical edges of the cylinder prevent creatures from leaving. These squares are greater difficult terrain, and a creature attempting to push through must succeed at an Athletics check or Acrobatics check to Maneuver in Flight against your spell DC to get through. A creature that fails ends its current action but can try again.
An action with this trait requires a degree of mental concentration and discipline.
Healing
A healing effect restores a creature’s body, typically by restoring Hit Points, but sometimes by removing diseases or other debilitating effects.
Manipulate
You must physically manipulate an item or make gestures to use an action with this trait. Creatures without a suitable appendage can’t perform actions with this trait. Manipulate actions often trigger reactions.
Vitality
Effects with this trait heal living creatures with energy from the Forge of Creation, deal vitality energy damage to [undead](/Traits.aspx?ID=160), or manipulate vitality energy.
These planes are awash with life energy. Colors are brighter, fires are hotter, noises are louder, and sensations are more intense. At the end of each round, an undead creature takes at least minor vitality environmental damage. In the strongest areas of a vitality plane, they could take moderate or even major vitality damage instead. While this might seem safe for living creatures, vitality planes present a different danger. Living creatures regain an amount of HP each round equal to the environmental damage undead take in the same area. If this would bring the living creature above their maximum HP, any excess becomes temporary HP. Unlike normal, these temporary HP combine with each other, and they last until the creature leaves the plane. If a creature’s temporary HP from a vitality plane ever exceeds its maximum HP, it explodes in a burst of overloaded vitality energy, spreading across the area to birth new souls.
duration: 1 min.
0
source: Player Core pg. 352
spell_type: Spell
target: 1 willing living creature
tradition: DivinePrimal
type: Spell
An infusion of vital energy grants a creature continuous healing. The target temporarily gains regeneration 15, which restores 15 Hit Points to it at the start of each of its turns. While it has regeneration, the target can’t die from taking Hit Point damage and its dying condition can’t increase to a value that would kill it (this stops most creatures’ dying condition at dying 3), though if its wounded value becomes 4 or higher, it stays unconscious until its wounds are treated. If the target takes acid or fire damage, its regeneration deactivates until after the end of its next turn.
Each time the creature regains Hit Points from regeneration, it also regrows one damaged or ruined organ (if any). During the spell’s duration, the creature can also reattach severed body parts by spending an Interact action to hold the body part to the area it was severed from.
Heightened (9th) The regeneration increases to 20.
Something of uncommon rarity requires special training or comes from a particular culture or part of the world. Some character choices give access to uncommon options, and the GM can choose to allow access for anyone. Less is known about uncommon creatures than common creatures. They typically can't be summoned. The DC of [Recall Knowledge](/Actions.aspx?ID=26) checks related to these creature is increased by 2.
Concentrate
An action with this trait requires a degree of mental concentration and discipline.
Manipulate
You must physically manipulate an item or make gestures to use an action with this trait. Creatures without a suitable appendage can’t perform actions with this trait. Manipulate actions often trigger reactions.
component: 1 hour
cost: a remnant of the item
range: 5
source: Player Core pg. 352
spell_type: Spell
tradition: ArcaneDivineOccultPrimal
type: Spell
You fully re-create an object from nothing, even if the object was destroyed. To do so, you must be able to picture the object in your mind. The remnant of the item can be small or insignificant (even a speck of dust that remains from disintegrate is enough). The spell fails if your imagination relied on too much guesswork; if the object would be too large to fit in a 5-foot cube; if the object still exists and you were simply not aware of it; or if the object is an artifact, has a level over 20, or has similar vast magical power.
The item reassembles in perfect condition. Even if your mental image was of a damaged or weathered object, the new one is in this perfected form. If the object was magical, this spell typically restores its constant magical properties, but not any temporary ones, such as charges or one-time uses. An item with charges or uses per day has all of its uses expended when remade, but it replenishes them normally thereafter.
An action with this trait requires a degree of mental concentration and discipline.
Manipulate
You must physically manipulate an item or make gestures to use an action with this trait. Creatures without a suitable appendage can’t perform actions with this trait. Manipulate actions often trigger reactions.
duration: 10 min.
0
source: Player Core pg. 353
spell_type: Spell
target: 1 creature
tradition: ArcaneDivineOccultPrimal
type: Spell
A shield of elemental energy protects a creature against one type of energy damage. Choose acid, cold, electricity, fire, or sonic damage. The target and its gear gain resistance 5 against the damage type you chose.
Heightened (4th) The resistance increases to 10, and you can target up to two creatures.
Heightened (7th) The resistance increases to 15, and you can target up to five creatures.
An action with this trait requires a degree of mental concentration and discipline.
Light
Light effects overcome non-magical darkness in the area and can counteract magical darkness. You must usually target darkness magic with your light magic directly to counteract the darkness, but some light spells automatically attempt to counteract darkness.
Manipulate
You must physically manipulate an item or make gestures to use an action with this trait. Creatures without a suitable appendage can’t perform actions with this trait. Manipulate actions often trigger reactions.
area: 10-foot burst
legacy_name: Glitterdust
range: 120
saving_throw: Reflex
source: Player Core pg. 353
spell_type: Spell
tradition: ArcaneDivineOccultPrimal
type: Spell
A wave of magical light washes over the area. You choose the appearance of the light, such as colorful, heatless flames or sparkling motes. A creature affected by revealing light is dazzled. If the creature was invisible, it becomes concealed instead. If the creature was already concealed for any other reason, it is no longer concealed.
Critical Success The target is unaffected. Success The light affects the creature for 2 rounds. Failure The light affects the creature for 1 minute. Critical Failure The light affects the creature for 10 minutes.
An action with this trait requires a degree of mental concentration and discipline.
Healing
A healing effect restores a creature’s body, typically by restoring Hit Points, but sometimes by removing diseases or other debilitating effects.
Manipulate
You must physically manipulate an item or make gestures to use an action with this trait. Creatures without a suitable appendage can’t perform actions with this trait. Manipulate actions often trigger reactions.
Vitality
Effects with this trait heal living creatures with energy from the Forge of Creation, deal vitality energy damage to [undead](/Traits.aspx?ID=160), or manipulate vitality energy.
These planes are awash with life energy. Colors are brighter, fires are hotter, noises are louder, and sensations are more intense. At the end of each round, an undead creature takes at least minor vitality environmental damage. In the strongest areas of a vitality plane, they could take moderate or even major vitality damage instead. While this might seem safe for living creatures, vitality planes present a different danger. Living creatures regain an amount of HP each round equal to the environmental damage undead take in the same area. If this would bring the living creature above their maximum HP, any excess becomes temporary HP. Unlike normal, these temporary HP combine with each other, and they last until the creature leaves the plane. If a creature’s temporary HP from a vitality plane ever exceeds its maximum HP, it explodes in a burst of overloaded vitality energy, spreading across the area to birth new souls.
duration: 1 min.
range: 30
source: Player Core pg. 353
spell_type: Spell
target: dead creatures and living creatures of your choice within range
tradition: DivinePrimal
type: Spell
A burst of healing energy soothes living creatures and temporarily rouses those recently slain. All living targets regain 10d8+40 Hit Points. You return any number of dead targets to life temporarily, with the same effects and limitations as raise dead. The raised creatures have a number of temporary Hit Points equal to the Hit Points you gave living creatures, but no normal Hit Points. The raised creatures can’t regain Hit Points or gain temporary Hit Points in other ways, and once revival’s duration ends, they lose all temporary Hit Points and die. Revival can’t resurrect creatures killed by disintegrate or a death effect. It has no effect on undead.
An action with this trait requires a degree of mental concentration and discipline.
Manipulate
You must physically manipulate an item or make gestures to use an action with this trait. Creatures without a suitable appendage can’t perform actions with this trait. Manipulate actions often trigger reactions.
duration: 1 min.
legacy_name: Magic Fang
0
source: Player Core pg. 354
spell_type: Spell
target: 1 willing creature
tradition: ArcaneDivineOccultPrimal
type: Spell
Glowing runes appear on the target’s body. All its unarmed attacks become +1 striking unarmed attacks, gaining a +1 item bonus to attack rolls and increasing the number of damage dice to two.
Heightened (6th) The unarmed attacks are +2 greater striking.
Heightened (9th) The unarmed attacks are +3 major striking.
An action with this trait requires a degree of mental concentration and discipline.
Manipulate
You must physically manipulate an item or make gestures to use an action with this trait. Creatures without a suitable appendage can’t perform actions with this trait. Manipulate actions often trigger reactions.
duration: 1 min.
legacy_name: Magic Weapon
patron_theme: The Inscribed One
0
source: Player Core pg. 354
spell_type: Spell
target: 1 weapon that is unattended or wielded by a willing creature
tradition: ArcaneDivineOccultPrimal
type: Spell
The weapon glimmers with magic as temporary runes carve down its length. The target becomes a +1 striking weapon, gaining a +1 item bonus to attack rolls and increasing the number of weapon damage dice to two.
Heightened (6th) The weapon is +2 greater striking.
An action with this trait requires a degree of mental concentration and discipline.
Earth
Effects with the earth trait either manipulate or conjure earth. Those that manipulate earth have no effect in an area without earth. Creatures with this trait consist primarily of earth or have a connection to magical earth.
These planes are mostly solid. Travelers arriving upon an earth plane risk suffocation if they don’t reach a cavern or some other air pocket within the plane’s solid matter. Creatures who can’t burrow are entombed in the plane’s substance and must attempt to dig their way toward an air pocket. Air creatures are ill at ease, as they rarely have the space to move freely through even the loftiest warrens.
Manipulate
You must physically manipulate an item or make gestures to use an action with this trait. Creatures without a suitable appendage can’t perform actions with this trait. Manipulate actions often trigger reactions.
element: Earth
0
source: Player Core pg. 356
spell_type: Spell
target: cube of stone 10 feet across or smaller
tradition: ArcanePrimal
type: Spell
You shape the stone into a rough shape of your choice. The shaping process is too crude to produce intricate parts, fine details, moving pieces, or the like. Any creatures standing atop the stone when you reshape it must each attempt a Reflex save or Acrobatics check.
Success The creature is unaffected. Failure The creature falls prone atop the stone. Critical Failure The creature falls off the stone (if applicable) and lands prone.
An action with this trait requires a degree of mental concentration and discipline.
Manipulate
You must physically manipulate an item or make gestures to use an action with this trait. Creatures without a suitable appendage can’t perform actions with this trait. Manipulate actions often trigger reactions.
Plant
Vegetable creatures have the plant trait. They are distinct from normal plants. Magical effects with this trait manipulate or conjure plants or plant matter in some way. Effects that manipulate plants have no effect in an area with no plants.
Wood
Effects with the wood trait conjure or manipulate wood. Those that manipulate wood have no effect in an area without wood. Creatures with this trait consist primarily of wood or have a connection to magical wood.
These planes consist of trees and other flora latticed in organic patterns. Wood planes are often perfectly constructed to match their desired purpose or environment but aren’t usually outright hostile to visitors.
element: Wood
0
source: Player Core pg. 356
spell_type: Spell
target: an unworked piece of wood up to 20 cubic feet in volume
tradition: ArcanePrimal
type: Spell
You shape the wood into a rough shape of your choice. The shaping power is too crude to produce with intricate parts, fine details, moving pieces, or the like. You can’t use this spell to enhance the value of the wooden object you are shaping.
An action with this trait requires a degree of mental concentration and discipline.
Manipulate
You must physically manipulate an item or make gestures to use an action with this trait. Creatures without a suitable appendage can’t perform actions with this trait. Manipulate actions often trigger reactions.
Sonic
An effect with the sonic trait functions only if it makes sound, meaning it has no effect in an area of silence or in a vacuum. This is different from an auditory spell, which is effective only if the target can hear it. A sonic effect might deal sonic damage.
range: 30
source: Player Core pg. 356
spell_type: Spell
target: 1 unattended object
tradition: OccultPrimal
type: Spell
A high-frequency sonic attack shatters a nearby object. You deal 2d10 sonic damage to the object, ignoring the object’s Hardness if it is 4 or lower.
Heightened (+1) The damage increases by 1d10, and the Hardness the spell ignores increases by 2.
An action with this trait requires a degree of mental concentration and discipline.
Manipulate
You must physically manipulate an item or make gestures to use an action with this trait. Creatures without a suitable appendage can’t perform actions with this trait. Manipulate actions often trigger reactions.
Polymorph
These effects transform the target into a new form. A target can't be under the effect of more than one polymorph effect at a time. If it comes under the effect of a second polymorph effect, the second polymorph effect attempts to [counteract](/Rules.aspx?ID=371) the first. If it succeeds, it takes effect, and if it fails, the spell has no effect on that target. Any Strikes specifically granted by a polymorph effect are [magical](/Traits.aspx?ID=103). Unless otherwise stated, polymorph spells don't allow the target to take on the appearance of a specific individual creature, but rather just a generic creature of a general type or ancestry.
If you take on a battle form with a polymorph spell, the special statistics can be adjusted only by circumstance bonuses, status bonuses, and penalties. Unless otherwise noted, the battle form prevents you from casting spells, speaking, and using most [manipulate](/Traits.aspx?ID=104) actions that require hands. (If there's doubt about whether you can use an action, the GM decides.) Your gear is absorbed into you; the constant abilities of your gear still function, but you can't activate any items.
duration: 5 min.
range: 30
source: Player Core pg. 356
spell_type: Spell
target: 1 willing creature
tradition: ArcanePrimal
type: Spell
You warp space to make a creature smaller. The target shrinks to become Tiny in size. Its equipment shrinks with it but returns to its original size if removed. The creature’s reach changes to 0 feet. This spell has no effect on a Tiny creature.
Heightened (+6) The spell can target up to 10 creatures.
An action with this trait requires a degree of mental concentration and discipline.
Manipulate
You must physically manipulate an item or make gestures to use an action with this trait. Creatures without a suitable appendage can’t perform actions with this trait. Manipulate actions often trigger reactions.
range: 30
saving_throw: Fortitude
source: Player Core pg. 357
spell_type: Spell
target: 1 creature
tradition: ArcaneOccultPrimal
type: Spell
You dilate the flow of time around the target, slowing its actions.
Critical Success The target is unaffected. Success The target is slowed 1 for 1 round. Failure The target is slowed 1 for 1 minute. Critical Failure The target is slowed 2 for 1 minute.
Heightened (6th) You can target up to 10 creatures.
An action with this trait requires a degree of mental concentration and discipline.
Healing
A healing effect restores a creature’s body, typically by restoring Hit Points, but sometimes by removing diseases or other debilitating effects.
Manipulate
You must physically manipulate an item or make gestures to use an action with this trait. Creatures without a suitable appendage can’t perform actions with this trait. Manipulate actions often trigger reactions.
Vitality
Effects with this trait heal living creatures with energy from the Forge of Creation, deal vitality energy damage to [undead](/Traits.aspx?ID=160), or manipulate vitality energy.
These planes are awash with life energy. Colors are brighter, fires are hotter, noises are louder, and sensations are more intense. At the end of each round, an undead creature takes at least minor vitality environmental damage. In the strongest areas of a vitality plane, they could take moderate or even major vitality damage instead. While this might seem safe for living creatures, vitality planes present a different danger. Living creatures regain an amount of HP each round equal to the environmental damage undead take in the same area. If this would bring the living creature above their maximum HP, any excess becomes temporary HP. Unlike normal, these temporary HP combine with each other, and they last until the creature leaves the plane. If a creature’s temporary HP from a vitality plane ever exceeds its maximum HP, it explodes in a burst of overloaded vitality energy, spreading across the area to birth new souls.
legacy_name: Restore Senses
0
source: Player Core pg. 357
spell_type: Spell
target: 1 willing creature
tradition: DivineOccultPrimal
type: Spell
You send a surge of healing energy to restore the target’s body. Attempt to counteract an effect of your choice imposing one of these conditions on the target: blinded, dazzled, deafened, enfeebled, or sickened. If you didn’t counteract the effect, but you would have if its counteract rank were 2 lower, instead suppress the effect until the beginning of your next turn. The effect’s duration doesn’t elapse while it’s suppressed. This spell can’t counteract or suppress curses, diseases, or conditions that are part of the target’s normal state.
Heightened (4th) Add drained and slowed to the list of conditions.
Heightened (8th) Add stunned to the list of conditions.
An action with this trait requires a degree of mental concentration and discipline.
Manipulate
You must physically manipulate an item or make gestures to use an action with this trait. Creatures without a suitable appendage can’t perform actions with this trait. Manipulate actions often trigger reactions.
duration: 1 hrs.
source: Player Core pg. 358
spell_type: Spell
tradition: Primal
type: Spell
You can ask questions of, receive answers from, and use the Diplomacy skill with animals. The spell doesn’t make them more friendly than normal. Cunning animals are likely to be terse and evasive, while less intelligent ones often make inane comments.
An action with this trait requires a degree of mental concentration and discipline.
Manipulate
You must physically manipulate an item or make gestures to use an action with this trait. Creatures without a suitable appendage can’t perform actions with this trait. Manipulate actions often trigger reactions.
Plant
Vegetable creatures have the plant trait. They are distinct from normal plants. Magical effects with this trait manipulate or conjure plants or plant matter in some way. Effects that manipulate plants have no effect in an area with no plants.
Wood
Effects with the wood trait conjure or manipulate wood. Those that manipulate wood have no effect in an area without wood. Creatures with this trait consist primarily of wood or have a connection to magical wood.
These planes consist of trees and other flora latticed in organic patterns. Wood planes are often perfectly constructed to match their desired purpose or environment but aren’t usually outright hostile to visitors.
duration: 1 hrs.
element: Wood
source: Player Core pg. 358
spell_type: Spell
tradition: DivineOccultPrimal
type: Spell
You can ask questions of and receive answers from plants and fungi, but the spell doesn’t make them more friendly or intelligent than normal. Most normal plants and fungi have a distinctive view of the world around them, so they don’t recognize details about creatures or know anything about the world beyond their immediate vicinity. Cunning plant or fungus monsters are likely to be terse and evasive, while less intelligent ones often make inane comments.
An action with this trait requires a degree of mental concentration and discipline.
Earth
Effects with the earth trait either manipulate or conjure earth. Those that manipulate earth have no effect in an area without earth. Creatures with this trait consist primarily of earth or have a connection to magical earth.
These planes are mostly solid. Travelers arriving upon an earth plane risk suffocation if they don’t reach a cavern or some other air pocket within the plane’s solid matter. Creatures who can’t burrow are entombed in the plane’s substance and must attempt to dig their way toward an air pocket. Air creatures are ill at ease, as they rarely have the space to move freely through even the loftiest warrens.
Manipulate
You must physically manipulate an item or make gestures to use an action with this trait. Creatures without a suitable appendage can’t perform actions with this trait. Manipulate actions often trigger reactions.
duration: 1 hrs.
element: Earth
legacy_name: Stone Tell
source: Player Core pg. 358
spell_type: Spell
tradition: DivineOccultPrimal
type: Spell
You can ask questions of and receive answers from natural or worked stone. While stone is not intelligent, you speak with the natural spirits of the stone, which have a personality colored by the type of stone, as well as by the type of structure the stone is part of, for worked stone. A stone’s perspective, perception, and knowledge give it a worldview different enough from a human’s that it doesn’t consider the same details important. Stones can mostly answer questions about creatures that touched them in the past and what is concealed beneath or behind them.
An action with this trait requires a degree of mental concentration and discipline.
Manipulate
You must physically manipulate an item or make gestures to use an action with this trait. Creatures without a suitable appendage can’t perform actions with this trait. Manipulate actions often trigger reactions.
Poison
An effect with this trait delivers a poison or deals poison damage. An item with this trait is poisonous and might cause an affliction.
deity: Lamashtu
0
saving_throw: Fortitude
source: Player Core pg. 358
spell_type: Spell
target: 1 creature
tradition: ArcanePrimal
type: Spell
You magically duplicate a spider’s venomous sting. You deal 1d4 piercing damage to the touched creature and afflict it with spider venom. The target must attempt a Fortitude save.
Critical Success The target is unaffected. Success The target takes 1d4 poison damage. Failure The target is afflicted with spider venom at stage 1. Critical Failure The target is afflicted with spider venom at stage 2. Spider Venom (poison) Level 1; Maximum Duration 4 rounds; Stage 1 1d4 poison damage and enfeebled 1 (1 round); Stage 2 1d4 poison damage and enfeebled 2 (1 round)
An action with this trait requires a degree of mental concentration and discipline.
Detection
Effects with this trait attempt to determine the presence or location of a person, object, or aura.
Manipulate
You must physically manipulate an item or make gestures to use an action with this trait. Creatures without a suitable appendage can’t perform actions with this trait. Manipulate actions often trigger reactions.
0
source: Player Core pg. 359
spell_type: Spell
target: 1 willing living creature
tradition: DivineOccultPrimal
type: Spell
As long as you and the target are on the same plane of existence and both alive, you remain aware of its present state. You know the target’s direction from you, distance from you, and any conditions affecting it.
Heightened (4th) The spell’s range increases to 30 feet, and you can target up to 10 creatures.
An action with this trait requires a degree of mental concentration and discipline.
Manipulate
You must physically manipulate an item or make gestures to use an action with this trait. Creatures without a suitable appendage can’t perform actions with this trait. Manipulate actions often trigger reactions.
Summon
Spells with the summon trait can conjure creatures, typically ones with a particular trait. Such creatures can be found in _Monster Core_ and similar books. Unless noted otherwise, the creature must be common, it gains the [summoned](/Traits.aspx?ID=154) trait, and it must appear in an unoccupied space in range large enough to contain it. The highest level of creature the spell can summon depends on the rank of the spell, as listed below. The spell can still summon a creature of a lower level if you so choose. These rules apply only to spells that have the summon trait; other spells that call or conjure items or beings but that don't have the trait, like [_summon instrument_](/Spells.aspx?ID=721), work as explained in the spell.
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**Spell Rank**
**Maximum Creature Level**
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duration: 1 min.
range: 30
source: Player Core pg. 360
spell_type: Spell
tradition: ArcanePrimal
type: Spell
You summon a creature that has the animal trait and whose level is –1 to fight for you.
An action with this trait requires a degree of mental concentration and discipline.
Manipulate
You must physically manipulate an item or make gestures to use an action with this trait. Creatures without a suitable appendage can’t perform actions with this trait. Manipulate actions often trigger reactions.
Summon
Spells with the summon trait can conjure creatures, typically ones with a particular trait. Such creatures can be found in _Monster Core_ and similar books. Unless noted otherwise, the creature must be common, it gains the [summoned](/Traits.aspx?ID=154) trait, and it must appear in an unoccupied space in range large enough to contain it. The highest level of creature the spell can summon depends on the rank of the spell, as listed below. The spell can still summon a creature of a lower level if you so choose. These rules apply only to spells that have the summon trait; other spells that call or conjure items or beings but that don't have the trait, like [_summon instrument_](/Spells.aspx?ID=721), work as explained in the spell.
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duration: 1 min.
range: 30
source: Player Core pg. 360
spell_type: Spell
tradition: ArcaneDivineOccultPrimal
type: Spell
You summon a creature that has the dragon trait and whose level is 5 or lower to fight for you. If the dragon has a magical tradition trait (arcane, divine, occult, or primal), you can summon it only if you’re using that tradition to cast summon dragon.
An action with this trait requires a degree of mental concentration and discipline.
Manipulate
You must physically manipulate an item or make gestures to use an action with this trait. Creatures without a suitable appendage can’t perform actions with this trait. Manipulate actions often trigger reactions.
Summon
Spells with the summon trait can conjure creatures, typically ones with a particular trait. Such creatures can be found in _Monster Core_ and similar books. Unless noted otherwise, the creature must be common, it gains the [summoned](/Traits.aspx?ID=154) trait, and it must appear in an unoccupied space in range large enough to contain it. The highest level of creature the spell can summon depends on the rank of the spell, as listed below. The spell can still summon a creature of a lower level if you so choose. These rules apply only to spells that have the summon trait; other spells that call or conjure items or beings but that don't have the trait, like [_summon instrument_](/Spells.aspx?ID=721), work as explained in the spell.
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duration: 1 min.
range: 30
source: Player Core pg. 360
spell_type: Spell
tradition: ArcanePrimal
type: Spell
You summon a creature that has the elemental trait and whose level is 1 or lower to fight for you.
An action with this trait requires a degree of mental concentration and discipline.
Manipulate
You must physically manipulate an item or make gestures to use an action with this trait. Creatures without a suitable appendage can’t perform actions with this trait. Manipulate actions often trigger reactions.
Summon
Spells with the summon trait can conjure creatures, typically ones with a particular trait. Such creatures can be found in _Monster Core_ and similar books. Unless noted otherwise, the creature must be common, it gains the [summoned](/Traits.aspx?ID=154) trait, and it must appear in an unoccupied space in range large enough to contain it. The highest level of creature the spell can summon depends on the rank of the spell, as listed below. The spell can still summon a creature of a lower level if you so choose. These rules apply only to spells that have the summon trait; other spells that call or conjure items or beings but that don't have the trait, like [_summon instrument_](/Spells.aspx?ID=721), work as explained in the spell.
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duration: 1 min.
range: 30
source: Player Core pg. 360
spell_type: Spell
tradition: OccultPrimal
type: Spell
You summon a creature that has the fey trait and whose level
is –1 to fight for you.
An action with this trait requires a degree of mental concentration and discipline.
Manipulate
You must physically manipulate an item or make gestures to use an action with this trait. Creatures without a suitable appendage can’t perform actions with this trait. Manipulate actions often trigger reactions.
Summon
Spells with the summon trait can conjure creatures, typically ones with a particular trait. Such creatures can be found in _Monster Core_ and similar books. Unless noted otherwise, the creature must be common, it gains the [summoned](/Traits.aspx?ID=154) trait, and it must appear in an unoccupied space in range large enough to contain it. The highest level of creature the spell can summon depends on the rank of the spell, as listed below. The spell can still summon a creature of a lower level if you so choose. These rules apply only to spells that have the summon trait; other spells that call or conjure items or beings but that don't have the trait, like [_summon instrument_](/Spells.aspx?ID=721), work as explained in the spell.
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**Spell Rank**
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duration: 1 min.
range: 30
source: Player Core pg. 361
spell_type: Spell
tradition: Primal
type: Spell
You summon a creature that has the giant trait and whose
level is 5 or lower to fight for you.
An action with this trait requires a degree of mental concentration and discipline.
Manipulate
You must physically manipulate an item or make gestures to use an action with this trait. Creatures without a suitable appendage can’t perform actions with this trait. Manipulate actions often trigger reactions.
Summon
Spells with the summon trait can conjure creatures, typically ones with a particular trait. Such creatures can be found in _Monster Core_ and similar books. Unless noted otherwise, the creature must be common, it gains the [summoned](/Traits.aspx?ID=154) trait, and it must appear in an unoccupied space in range large enough to contain it. The highest level of creature the spell can summon depends on the rank of the spell, as listed below. The spell can still summon a creature of a lower level if you so choose. These rules apply only to spells that have the summon trait; other spells that call or conjure items or beings but that don't have the trait, like [_summon instrument_](/Spells.aspx?ID=721), work as explained in the spell.
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**Spell Rank**
**Maximum Creature Level**
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duration: 1 min.
range: 30
source: Player Core pg. 361
spell_type: Spell
tradition: Primal
type: Spell
You summon a creature that has the plant or fungus trait and whose level is –1 to fight for you.
An action with this trait requires a degree of mental concentration and discipline.
Fire
Effects with the fire trait deal fire damage or either conjure or manipulate fire. Those that manipulate fire have no effect in an area without fire. Creatures with this trait consist primarily of fire or have a connection to magical fire.
Planes with this trait are composed of flames that continually burn with no fuel source. Fire planes are extremely hostile to non-fire creatures. Unprotected wood, paper, cloth, and other flammable materials catch fire almost immediately, and creatures wearing unprotected flammable clothing catch fire, typically taking 1d6 persistent fire damage. Extraplanar creatures take moderate environmental fire damage at the end of each round (sometimes minor environmental damage in safer areas, or major or massive damage in even more fiery areas). Ice creatures are extremely uncomfortable on a fire plane, assuming they don’t outright melt in the heat.
Light
Light effects overcome non-magical darkness in the area and can counteract magical darkness. You must usually target darkness magic with your light magic directly to counteract the darkness, but some light spells automatically attempt to counteract darkness.
Manipulate
You must physically manipulate an item or make gestures to use an action with this trait. Creatures without a suitable appendage can’t perform actions with this trait. Manipulate actions often trigger reactions.
Vitality
Effects with this trait heal living creatures with energy from the Forge of Creation, deal vitality energy damage to [undead](/Traits.aspx?ID=160), or manipulate vitality energy.
These planes are awash with life energy. Colors are brighter, fires are hotter, noises are louder, and sensations are more intense. At the end of each round, an undead creature takes at least minor vitality environmental damage. In the strongest areas of a vitality plane, they could take moderate or even major vitality damage instead. While this might seem safe for living creatures, vitality planes present a different danger. Living creatures regain an amount of HP each round equal to the environmental damage undead take in the same area. If this would bring the living creature above their maximum HP, any excess becomes temporary HP. Unlike normal, these temporary HP combine with each other, and they last until the creature leaves the plane. If a creature’s temporary HP from a vitality plane ever exceeds its maximum HP, it explodes in a burst of overloaded vitality energy, spreading across the area to birth new souls.
area: 60-foot burst
element: Fire
range: 500
saving_throw: Reflex
source: Player Core pg. 361
spell_type: Spell
tradition: DivinePrimal
type: Spell
A powerful globe of searing sunlight explodes in the area, dealing 8d10 fire damage to all creatures in the area, plus an additional 8d10 vitality damage to undead creatures. Each creature in the area must attempt a Reflex save.
Critical Success The creature is unaffected. Success The creature takes half damage. Failure The creature takes full damage. Critical Failure The creature takes full damage and becomes blinded permanently. If the globe overlaps with an area of magical darkness, sunburst attempts to counteract the darkness effect.
Heightened (+1) The fire damage increases by 1d10, and the vitality damage against undead increases by 1d10.
An action with this trait requires a degree of mental concentration and discipline.
Healing
A healing effect restores a creature’s body, typically by restoring Hit Points, but sometimes by removing diseases or other debilitating effects.
Manipulate
You must physically manipulate an item or make gestures to use an action with this trait. Creatures without a suitable appendage can’t perform actions with this trait. Manipulate actions often trigger reactions.
legacy_name: Remove Paralysis
0
source: Player Core pg. 361
spell_type: Spell
target: 1 willing creature
tradition: DivineOccultPrimal
type: Spell
You free the target’s limbs from ailments that impede mobility. Attempt to counteract an effect of your choice imposing one of these conditions on the target: clumsy, grabbed, or paralyzed. If you didn’t counteract the effect, but you would have if its counteract rank were 2 lower, instead suppress the effect until the beginning of your next turn. The effect’s duration doesn’t elapse while it’s suppressed.
This spell can’t counteract or suppress curses, diseases, or conditions that are part of the target’s normal state.
Effects with the air trait either manipulate or conjure air. Those that manipulate air have no effect in a vacuum or an area without air. Creatures with this trait consist primarily of air or have a connection to magical air.
Planes with this trait consist mostly of open spaces and air of various levels of turbulence, though they also contain rare islands of floating stone and other elements and energies. Air planes usually have breathable atmospheres, though they might include clouds of acidic or toxic gas. Earth creatures often find themselves at a disadvantage within air planes, as there’s little solid ground for them to gain their bearings, which tends to at least make them uncomfortable.
Concentrate
An action with this trait requires a degree of mental concentration and discipline.
Manipulate
You must physically manipulate an item or make gestures to use an action with this trait. Creatures without a suitable appendage can’t perform actions with this trait. Manipulate actions often trigger reactions.
duration: 1 hrs.
element: Air
legacy_name: Longstrider
source: Player Core pg. 362
spell_type: Spell
tradition: ArcanePrimal
type: Spell
The wind at your back pushes you to find new horizons. You gain a +10-foot status bonus to your Speed.
Heightened (2nd) The duration increases to 8 hours.
An action with this trait requires a degree of mental concentration and discipline.
Manipulate
You must physically manipulate an item or make gestures to use an action with this trait. Creatures without a suitable appendage can’t perform actions with this trait. Manipulate actions often trigger reactions.
Plant
Vegetable creatures have the plant trait. They are distinct from normal plants. Magical effects with this trait manipulate or conjure plants or plant matter in some way. Effects that manipulate plants have no effect in an area with no plants.
Wood
Effects with the wood trait conjure or manipulate wood. Those that manipulate wood have no effect in an area without wood. Creatures with this trait consist primarily of wood or have a connection to magical wood.
These planes consist of trees and other flora latticed in organic patterns. Wood planes are often perfectly constructed to match their desired purpose or environment but aren’t usually outright hostile to visitors.
area: 40-foot burst
duration: 10 min.
element: Wood
range: 500
source: Player Core pg. 362
spell_type: Spell
tradition: ArcanePrimal
type: Spell
Dense, twitching creepers sprout from every surface and fill any bodies of water in the area. Any creature moving on the land, or Climbing or Swimming within the creepers, takes a –10-foot circumstance penalty to its Speeds while in the area. Once per round, you can Sustain the spell to make a vine lash out from any square within the expanse of creepers. This vine has a 15- foot reach. Make a melee spell attack roll against the target; on a success, the vine pulls the target into the creepers and makes it immobilized for 1 round or until the creature Escapes (against your spell DC), whichever comes first.
An action with this trait requires a degree of mental concentration and discipline.
Electricity
Effects with this trait deal electricity damage. A creature with this trait has a connection to magical electricity.
Manipulate
You must physically manipulate an item or make gestures to use an action with this trait. Creatures without a suitable appendage can’t perform actions with this trait. Manipulate actions often trigger reactions.
Sonic
An effect with the sonic trait functions only if it makes sound, meaning it has no effect in an area of silence or in a vacuum. This is different from an auditory spell, which is effective only if the target can hear it. A sonic effect might deal sonic damage.
legacy_name: Shocking Grasp
range: 120
saving_throw: basic Reflex
source: Player Core pg. 363
spell_type: Spell
target: 1 creature
tradition: ArcanePrimal
type: Spell
You call down a tendril of lightning that cracks with thunder, dealing 1d12 electricity damage and 1d4 sonic damage to the target with a basic Reflex save. A target wearing metal armor or made of metal takes a –1 circumstance bonus to its save, and if damaged by the spell is clumsy 1 for 1 round.
Heightened (+1) The damage increases by 1d12 electricity and 1d4 sonic.
An action with this trait requires a degree of mental concentration and discipline.
Death
An effect with the death trait kills you immediately if it reduces you to 0 HP. Some death effects can bring you closer to death or slay you outright without reducing you to 0 HP.
Manipulate
You must physically manipulate an item or make gestures to use an action with this trait. Creatures without a suitable appendage can’t perform actions with this trait. Manipulate actions often trigger reactions.
Poison
An effect with this trait delivers a poison or deals poison damage. An item with this trait is poisonous and might cause an affliction.
area: 20-foot burst
duration: 1 min.
legacy_name: Cloudkill
range: 120
saving_throw: basic Fortitude
source: Player Core pg. 363
spell_type: Spell
tradition: ArcanePrimal
type: Spell
You conjure a poisonous fog. This functions as mist, except the area moves 10 feet away from you each round. A breathing creature that starts its turn in the area takes 6d8 poison damage with a basic Fortitude save. You can Dismiss the spell.
An action with this trait requires a degree of mental concentration and discipline.
Manipulate
You must physically manipulate an item or make gestures to use an action with this trait. Creatures without a suitable appendage can’t perform actions with this trait. Manipulate actions often trigger reactions.
Plant
Vegetable creatures have the plant trait. They are distinct from normal plants. Magical effects with this trait manipulate or conjure plants or plant matter in some way. Effects that manipulate plants have no effect in an area with no plants.
Wood
Effects with the wood trait conjure or manipulate wood. Those that manipulate wood have no effect in an area without wood. Creatures with this trait consist primarily of wood or have a connection to magical wood.
These planes consist of trees and other flora latticed in organic patterns. Wood planes are often perfectly constructed to match their desired purpose or environment but aren’t usually outright hostile to visitors.
duration: 1 min.
element: Wood
legacy_name: Fire Seeds
range: 60
source: Player Core pg. 364
spell_type: Spell
tradition: Primal
type: Spell
You cause a Small tree to instantly sprout in an unoccupied space on the ground. Four seedpods grow from the tree, each filled with the magic of a different one of the four seasons. A creature can Interact to pluck one of the pods, and can then either throw it up to 30 feet as part of the same action or do so with a separate Interact action later. When thrown, a pod explodes in a 5-foot burst, dealing 6d6 damage with a basic Reflex save against your spell DC. The damage type depends on the season of the pod: electricity for spring, fire for summer, poison for autumn, or cold for winter. When the spell ends, the tree withers away and any remaining pods rot, leaving behind non-magical seeds.
Heightened (+1) The burst’s damage increases by 1d6.
An action with this trait requires a degree of mental concentration and discipline.
Manipulate
You must physically manipulate an item or make gestures to use an action with this trait. Creatures without a suitable appendage can’t perform actions with this trait. Manipulate actions often trigger reactions.
Revelation
Effects with this trait see things as they truly are.
duration: 10 min.
legacy_name: True Seeing
source: Player Core pg. 364
spell_type: Spell
tradition: ArcaneDivineOccultPrimal
type: Spell
You see things within 60 feet as they actually are. The GM rolls a secret counteract check against any illusion, morph, or polymorph effect in the area, but only for the purpose of determining whether you see through it (for instance, if the check succeeds against a polymorph spell, you can see the creature’s true form, but you don’t end the polymorph spell).
An action with this trait requires a degree of mental concentration and discipline.
Manipulate
You must physically manipulate an item or make gestures to use an action with this trait. Creatures without a suitable appendage can’t perform actions with this trait. Manipulate actions often trigger reactions.
duration: 10 min.
legacy_name: Freedom of Movement
0
source: Player Core pg. 365
spell_type: Spell
target: 1 creature touched
tradition: ArcaneDivinePrimal
type: Spell
You repel hindrances that would affect a creature. While under this spell’s effect, the target ignores effects that would give them a circumstance penalty to Speed. When they attempt to Escape an effect that has them immobilized, grabbed, or restrained, they automatically succeed unless the effect is magical and of a higher rank than the unfettered movement spell.
An action with this trait requires a degree of mental concentration and discipline.
Manipulate
You must physically manipulate an item or make gestures to use an action with this trait. Creatures without a suitable appendage can’t perform actions with this trait. Manipulate actions often trigger reactions.
duration: 1 hrs.
range: 30
source: Player Core pg. 365
spell_type: Spell
target: up to 10 creatures
tradition: Primal
type: Spell
You free those who travel alongside you from environmental hindrances. Targets don’t take circumstance penalties to Speed from vegetation, rubble, winds, or other properties of the environment, and they ignore difficult terrain from such environmental properties.
Heightened (9th) The targets also ignore greater difficult terrain from environmental properties.
An action with this trait requires a degree of mental concentration and discipline.
Manipulate
You must physically manipulate an item or make gestures to use an action with this trait. Creatures without a suitable appendage can’t perform actions with this trait. Manipulate actions often trigger reactions.
duration: 1 hrs.
legacy_name: Pass Without Trace
source: Player Core pg. 365
spell_type: Spell
tradition: Primal
type: Spell
You obscure the tracks you leave behind. The DC of checks to Track you gains a +4 status bonus or is equal to your spell DC, whichever results in a higher DC.
Heightened (2nd) The duration increases to 8 hours.
Heightened (4th) The duration increases to 8 hours. The spell has a range of 20 feet and an area of a 20-footemanation, affecting up to 10 creatures of your choice within that area.
Effects with the air trait either manipulate or conjure air. Those that manipulate air have no effect in a vacuum or an area without air. Creatures with this trait consist primarily of air or have a connection to magical air.
Planes with this trait consist mostly of open spaces and air of various levels of turbulence, though they also contain rare islands of floating stone and other elements and energies. Air planes usually have breathable atmospheres, though they might include clouds of acidic or toxic gas. Earth creatures often find themselves at a disadvantage within air planes, as there’s little solid ground for them to gain their bearings, which tends to at least make them uncomfortable.
Concentrate
An action with this trait requires a degree of mental concentration and discipline.
Manipulate
You must physically manipulate an item or make gestures to use an action with this trait. Creatures without a suitable appendage can’t perform actions with this trait. Manipulate actions often trigger reactions.
Polymorph
These effects transform the target into a new form. A target can't be under the effect of more than one polymorph effect at a time. If it comes under the effect of a second polymorph effect, the second polymorph effect attempts to [counteract](/Rules.aspx?ID=371) the first. If it succeeds, it takes effect, and if it fails, the spell has no effect on that target. Any Strikes specifically granted by a polymorph effect are [magical](/Traits.aspx?ID=103). Unless otherwise stated, polymorph spells don't allow the target to take on the appearance of a specific individual creature, but rather just a generic creature of a general type or ancestry.
If you take on a battle form with a polymorph spell, the special statistics can be adjusted only by circumstance bonuses, status bonuses, and penalties. Unless otherwise noted, the battle form prevents you from casting spells, speaking, and using most [manipulate](/Traits.aspx?ID=104) actions that require hands. (If there's doubt about whether you can use an action, the GM decides.) Your gear is absorbed into you; the constant abilities of your gear still function, but you can't activate any items.
duration: 5 min.
element: Air
legacy_name: Gaseous Form
0
source: Player Core pg. 365
spell_type: Spell
target: 1 willing creature
tradition: ArcaneOccultPrimal
type: Spell
The target transforms into a vaporous state. In this state, the target is amorphous. It loses any item bonus to AC and all other effects and bonuses from armor, and it uses its proficiency modifier for unarmored defense. It gains resistance 8 to physical damage and is immune to precision damage. It can’t cast spells, activate items, or use actions that have the attack or manipulate trait. It gains a fly Speed of 10 feet and can slip through tiny cracks. The target can Dismiss the spell.
Something of uncommon rarity requires special training or comes from a particular culture or part of the world. Some character choices give access to uncommon options, and the GM can choose to allow access for anyone. Less is known about uncommon creatures than common creatures. They typically can't be summoned. The DC of [Recall Knowledge](/Actions.aspx?ID=26) checks related to these creature is increased by 2.
Concentrate
An action with this trait requires a degree of mental concentration and discipline.
Manipulate
You must physically manipulate an item or make gestures to use an action with this trait. Creatures without a suitable appendage can’t perform actions with this trait. Manipulate actions often trigger reactions.
component: 10 minutes
duration: 8 hrs.
legacy_name: Nondetection
0
source: Player Core pg. 366
spell_type: Spell
target: 1 creature or object
tradition: ArcaneOccultPrimal
type: Spell
You erect protective wards that make the target difficult to detect via magic. Veil of privacy attempts to counteract all detection, revelation, and scrying effects used against the target or the target’s gear throughout the duration, counting cantrips as 1st-rank spells for this purpose. Successfully counteracting a spell that targets an area or multiple targets negates the effects for only veil of privacy’s target.
Auditory actions and effects rely on sound. An action with the auditory trait can be successfully performed only if the creature using the action can speak or otherwise produce the required sounds. A spell or effect with the auditory trait has its effect only if the target can hear it. This applies only to sound-based parts of the effect, as determined by the GM. This is different from a sonic effect, which still affects targets who can’t hear it (such as deaf targets) as long as the effect itself makes sound.
Concentrate
An action with this trait requires a degree of mental concentration and discipline.
Illusion
Effects and magic items with this trait involve false sensory stimuli.
Manipulate
You must physically manipulate an item or make gestures to use an action with this trait. Creatures without a suitable appendage can’t perform actions with this trait. Manipulate actions often trigger reactions.
duration: 10 min.
school: illusion
source: Player Core pg. 366
spell_type: Spell
tradition: ArcaneDivineOccultPrimal
type: Spell
Whenever you speak or make any other sound vocally, you can make your vocalization seem to originate from somewhere else within 60 feet, and you can change that apparent location freely as you vocalize. Any creature that hears the sound can attempt to disbelieve your illusion.
Heightened (2nd) The spell’s duration increases to 1 hour, and you can also change the tone, quality, and other aspects of your voice. Before a creature can attempt to disbelieve your illusion, it must actively attempt a Perception check or otherwise use actions to interact with the sound.
An action with this trait requires a degree of mental concentration and discipline.
Healing
A healing effect restores a creature’s body, typically by restoring Hit Points, but sometimes by removing diseases or other debilitating effects.
Manipulate
You must physically manipulate an item or make gestures to use an action with this trait. Creatures without a suitable appendage can’t perform actions with this trait. Manipulate actions often trigger reactions.
Vitality
Effects with this trait heal living creatures with energy from the Forge of Creation, deal vitality energy damage to [undead](/Traits.aspx?ID=160), or manipulate vitality energy.
These planes are awash with life energy. Colors are brighter, fires are hotter, noises are louder, and sensations are more intense. At the end of each round, an undead creature takes at least minor vitality environmental damage. In the strongest areas of a vitality plane, they could take moderate or even major vitality damage instead. While this might seem safe for living creatures, vitality planes present a different danger. Living creatures regain an amount of HP each round equal to the environmental damage undead take in the same area. If this would bring the living creature above their maximum HP, any excess becomes temporary HP. Unlike normal, these temporary HP combine with each other, and they last until the creature leaves the plane. If a creature’s temporary HP from a vitality plane ever exceeds its maximum HP, it explodes in a burst of overloaded vitality energy, spreading across the area to birth new souls.
component: 1 minute
source: Player Core pg. 366
spell_type: Spell
tradition: DivinePrimal
type: Spell
Vitality radiates outward from you, allowing others to supplicate and receive healing. Once per round, either you or an ally can use an Interact action to supplicate and lay hands upon you to regain Hit Points. Each time the beacon heals someone, it decreases in strength. It restores 4d10 Hit Points to the first creature, 4d8 Hit Points to the second, 4d6 Hit Points to the third, and 4d4 Hit Points to the fourth, after which the spell ends. You can have only one vital beacon active at a time.
Heightened (+1) The beacon restores one additional die of HP each time it heals, using the normal die size for that step.
An action with this trait requires a degree of mental concentration and discipline.
Fire
Effects with the fire trait deal fire damage or either conjure or manipulate fire. Those that manipulate fire have no effect in an area without fire. Creatures with this trait consist primarily of fire or have a connection to magical fire.
Planes with this trait are composed of flames that continually burn with no fuel source. Fire planes are extremely hostile to non-fire creatures. Unprotected wood, paper, cloth, and other flammable materials catch fire almost immediately, and creatures wearing unprotected flammable clothing catch fire, typically taking 1d6 persistent fire damage. Extraplanar creatures take moderate environmental fire damage at the end of each round (sometimes minor environmental damage in safer areas, or major or massive damage in even more fiery areas). Ice creatures are extremely uncomfortable on a fire plane, assuming they don’t outright melt in the heat.
Manipulate
You must physically manipulate an item or make gestures to use an action with this trait. Creatures without a suitable appendage can’t perform actions with this trait. Manipulate actions often trigger reactions.
area: 5-foot radius, 80-foot-tall cylinder
element: Fire
range: 120
saving_throw: Reflex
source: Player Core pg. 366
spell_type: Spell
tradition: Primal
type: Spell
The ground opens up, spraying a column of lava high into the air in a vertical cylinder, dealing 14d6 fire damage to creatures in the area. The lava rapidly cools and encases creatures in the area. A creature encased in rock is clumsy 1 and takes a –10-foot status penalty to its Speeds. All normal terrain is difficult terrain to a flying creature, and such creatures immediately descend 20 feet the moment they’re encased, but they don’t take damage from this fall. A creature encased in rock can attempt to Escape against your spell DC to end the effect. Otherwise, the creature remains encased until it takes a total of 50 damage, freeing it from the rock.
Additionally, creatures in the area and those within 5 feet of the lava column automatically take 3d6 fire damage from the intense heat, regardless of the results of their saving throws.
Critical Success The creature is unaffected. Success The creature takes half damage. Failure The creature takes full damage and is encased. Critical Failure The creature takes double damage and is encased.
Heightened (+1) The damage in the area increases by 2d6, and the damage from the intense heat increases by 1d6.
An action with this trait requires a degree of mental concentration and discipline.
Fire
Effects with the fire trait deal fire damage or either conjure or manipulate fire. Those that manipulate fire have no effect in an area without fire. Creatures with this trait consist primarily of fire or have a connection to magical fire.
Planes with this trait are composed of flames that continually burn with no fuel source. Fire planes are extremely hostile to non-fire creatures. Unprotected wood, paper, cloth, and other flammable materials catch fire almost immediately, and creatures wearing unprotected flammable clothing catch fire, typically taking 1d6 persistent fire damage. Extraplanar creatures take moderate environmental fire damage at the end of each round (sometimes minor environmental damage in safer areas, or major or massive damage in even more fiery areas). Ice creatures are extremely uncomfortable on a fire plane, assuming they don’t outright melt in the heat.
Manipulate
You must physically manipulate an item or make gestures to use an action with this trait. Creatures without a suitable appendage can’t perform actions with this trait. Manipulate actions often trigger reactions.
deity: Sarenrae
duration: 1 min.
element: Fire
range: 120
source: Player Core pg. 367
spell_type: Spell
tradition: ArcanePrimal
type: Spell
You raise a blazing wall that burns creatures passing through it. You create either a 5-foot-thick wall of flame in a straight line up to 60 feet long and 10 feet high, or a 5-foot-thick, 10-foot-radius ring of flame with the same height. The wall stands vertically in either form; if you wish, the wall can be of a shorter length or height. Everything on each side of the wall is concealed from creatures on the opposite side. Any creature that crosses the wall or is occupying the wall’s area at the start of its turn takes 4d6 fire damage.
Effects with this trait deal cold damage. Creatures with this trait have a connection to magical cold.
Concentrate
An action with this trait requires a degree of mental concentration and discipline.
Manipulate
You must physically manipulate an item or make gestures to use an action with this trait. Creatures without a suitable appendage can’t perform actions with this trait. Manipulate actions often trigger reactions.
Water
Effects with the water trait either manipulate or conjure water. Those that manipulate water have no effect in an area without water. Creatures with this trait consist primarily of water or have a connection to magical water.
Planes with this trait are mostly liquid. Visitors who can’t breathe water or reach an air pocket likely drown. The rules for aquatic combat (Player Core 437) usually apply, including the inability to cast fire spells or use actions with the fire trait. Creatures with a weakness to water take damage equal to double their weakness at the end of each round.
duration: 1 min.
element: Water
range: 120
source: Player Core pg. 367
spell_type: Spell
tradition: ArcanePrimal
type: Spell
You sculpt an ice barrier that blocks sight and, once shattered, freezes foes. You create either a 1-foot-thick wall of ice in a straight line up to 60 feet long and 10 feet high (the wall doesn’t have to be vertical, but it must be anchored on both sides to a solid surface) or a 1-foot-thick, 10-foot radius hemisphere of ice. The ice that makes up the wall is opaque. If you wish, the wall can be of a smaller length, height, or radius. You must create the wall in an unbroken open space so its edges don’t pass through any creatures or objects, or the spell is lost.
Each 10-foot-by-10-foot section of the wall has AC 10, Hardness 10, and 40 Hit Points, and it’s immune to critical hits, cold damage, and precision damage. A section also has weakness to fire 15; a section of the wall destroyed by fire melts, evaporating into water and steam. A section destroyed by means other than fire leaves behind a chilling mass of ice that is difficult terrain and deals 2d6 cold damage to any creature passing through it.
Heightened (+2) The Hit Points of each section of the wall increase by 10, and the cold damage dealt to creatures crossing a destroyed section increases by 1d6.
An action with this trait requires a degree of mental concentration and discipline.
Earth
Effects with the earth trait either manipulate or conjure earth. Those that manipulate earth have no effect in an area without earth. Creatures with this trait consist primarily of earth or have a connection to magical earth.
These planes are mostly solid. Travelers arriving upon an earth plane risk suffocation if they don’t reach a cavern or some other air pocket within the plane’s solid matter. Creatures who can’t burrow are entombed in the plane’s substance and must attempt to dig their way toward an air pocket. Air creatures are ill at ease, as they rarely have the space to move freely through even the loftiest warrens.
Manipulate
You must physically manipulate an item or make gestures to use an action with this trait. Creatures without a suitable appendage can’t perform actions with this trait. Manipulate actions often trigger reactions.
element: Earth
range: 120
source: Player Core pg. 367
spell_type: Spell
tradition: ArcanePrimal
type: Spell
You shape a wall of solid stone. You create a 1-inch-thick wall of stone up to 120 feet long, and 20 feet high. You can shape the wall’s path, placing each 5 feet of the wall on the border between squares. The wall doesn’t need to stand vertically, so you can use it to form a bridge or set of stairs, for example. You must conjure the wall in an unbroken open space so its edges don’t pass through any creatures or objects, or the spell is lost.
Each 10-foot-by-10-foot section of the wall has AC 10, Hardness 14, and 50 Hit Points, and it’s immune to critical hits and precision damage. A destroyed section of the wall can be moved through, but the rubble created from it is difficult terrain.
Heightened (+2) The Hit Points of each section of the wall increase by 15.
An action with this trait requires a degree of mental concentration and discipline.
Manipulate
You must physically manipulate an item or make gestures to use an action with this trait. Creatures without a suitable appendage can’t perform actions with this trait. Manipulate actions often trigger reactions.
Plant
Vegetable creatures have the plant trait. They are distinct from normal plants. Magical effects with this trait manipulate or conjure plants or plant matter in some way. Effects that manipulate plants have no effect in an area with no plants.
Wood
Effects with the wood trait conjure or manipulate wood. Those that manipulate wood have no effect in an area without wood. Creatures with this trait consist primarily of wood or have a connection to magical wood.
These planes consist of trees and other flora latticed in organic patterns. Wood planes are often perfectly constructed to match their desired purpose or environment but aren’t usually outright hostile to visitors.
deity: ErastilZon-Kuthon
duration: 1 min.
element: Wood
range: 60
source: Player Core pg. 367
spell_type: Spell
tradition: ArcanePrimal
type: Spell
Over the course of a minute, you grow a wall of thorny brambles from the ground. You create a 5-foot-thick wall of brambles and thorns in a straight line up to 60 feet long and 10 feet high. You must create the wall in an unbroken open space so its edges don’t pass through any creatures or objects, or the spell is lost. The wall stands vertically. If you wish, the wall can be of a shorter length or height. Everything on each side of the wall has cover from creatures on the opposite side, and the wall’s spaces are difficult terrain. For every move action a creature uses to enter at least one of the wall’s spaces, that creature takes 3d4 piercing damage.
Each 10-foot-by-10-foot section of the wall has AC 10, Hardness 10, and 20 Hit Points. It’s immune to critical hits and precision damage. A destroyed section can be moved through freely.
Heightened (+1) The Hit Points of each section of the wall increase by 5, and the piercing damage increases by 1d4.
Effects with the air trait either manipulate or conjure air. Those that manipulate air have no effect in a vacuum or an area without air. Creatures with this trait consist primarily of air or have a connection to magical air.
Planes with this trait consist mostly of open spaces and air of various levels of turbulence, though they also contain rare islands of floating stone and other elements and energies. Air planes usually have breathable atmospheres, though they might include clouds of acidic or toxic gas. Earth creatures often find themselves at a disadvantage within air planes, as there’s little solid ground for them to gain their bearings, which tends to at least make them uncomfortable.
Concentrate
An action with this trait requires a degree of mental concentration and discipline.
Manipulate
You must physically manipulate an item or make gestures to use an action with this trait. Creatures without a suitable appendage can’t perform actions with this trait. Manipulate actions often trigger reactions.
duration: 1 min.
element: Air
lesson: Lesson of Snow
range: 120
source: Player Core pg. 368
spell_type: Spell
tradition: ArcanePrimal
type: Spell
You create a barrier of gusting winds that hinders anything moving through it. The wall of swirling winds is 5 feet thick, 60 feet long, and 30 feet high. The wall stands vertically, but you can shape its path. Though the wall of wind distorts the air, it does not hamper sight. The wall has the following effects.
Ammunition from physical ranged attacks—such as arrows, bolts, sling bullets, and other objects of similar size—can’t pass through the wall. Attacks with bigger ranged weapons, such as javelins, take a –2 circumstance penalty to their attack rolls if their paths pass through the wall. Massive ranged weapons and spell effects that don’t create physical objects pass through the wall with no penalty.
The wall is difficult terrain to creatures attempting to move overland through it. Gases, including creatures in vapor form, can’t pass through the wall.
A creature that attempts to fly through the wall using a move action must attempt a Fortitude save.
Critical Success The creature can move through the wall normally this turn. Success The flying creature can move through the wall this turn, but the wall is difficult terrain. Failure The wall stops the movement of the flying creature, and any remaining movement from its current action is wasted. Critical Failure As failure, and the creature is pushed 10 feet away from the wall.
An action with this trait requires a degree of mental concentration and discipline.
Manipulate
You must physically manipulate an item or make gestures to use an action with this trait. Creatures without a suitable appendage can’t perform actions with this trait. Manipulate actions often trigger reactions.
Water
Effects with the water trait either manipulate or conjure water. Those that manipulate water have no effect in an area without water. Creatures with this trait consist primarily of water or have a connection to magical water.
Planes with this trait are mostly liquid. Visitors who can’t breathe water or reach an air pocket likely drown. The rules for aquatic combat (Player Core 437) usually apply, including the inability to cast fire spells or use actions with the fire trait. Creatures with a weakness to water take damage equal to double their weakness at the end of each round.
component: 1 minute
duration: 1 hrs.
element: Water
range: 30
source: Player Core pg. 369
spell_type: Spell
target: up to 5 creatures
tradition: ArcaneDivinePrimal
type: Spell
The targets can breathe underwater.
Heightened (3rd) The duration is 8 hours.
Heightened (4th) The duration is until your next daily preparations.
An action with this trait requires a degree of mental concentration and discipline.
Manipulate
You must physically manipulate an item or make gestures to use an action with this trait. Creatures without a suitable appendage can’t perform actions with this trait. Manipulate actions often trigger reactions.
Water
Effects with the water trait either manipulate or conjure water. Those that manipulate water have no effect in an area without water. Creatures with this trait consist primarily of water or have a connection to magical water.
Planes with this trait are mostly liquid. Visitors who can’t breathe water or reach an air pocket likely drown. The rules for aquatic combat (Player Core 437) usually apply, including the inability to cast fire spells or use actions with the fire trait. Creatures with a weakness to water take damage equal to double their weakness at the end of each round.
duration: 10 min.
element: Water
0
source: Player Core pg. 369
spell_type: Spell
target: 1 creature
tradition: ArcaneDivinePrimal
type: Spell
The target can walk on the surface of water and other liquids without falling through. It can go underwater if it wishes, but in that case it must Swim normally. This spell doesn’t grant the ability to breathe underwater.
Heightened (4th) The spell’s range increases to 30 feet, the duration increases to 1 hour, and you can target up to 10 creatures.
An action with this trait requires a degree of mental concentration and discipline.
Manipulate
You must physically manipulate an item or make gestures to use an action with this trait. Creatures without a suitable appendage can’t perform actions with this trait. Manipulate actions often trigger reactions.
area: 30-foot cone or 10-foot emanation
deity: Gorum
saving_throw: Reflex
source: Player Core pg. 369
spell_type: Spell
tradition: ArcanePrimal
type: Spell
You swing a weapon you’re holding, and the weapon magically multiplies into duplicates that swipe at all creatures in either a cone or an emanation. This flurry deals four dice of damage to creatures in the area. This damage has the same type as the weapon and uses the same die size. Determine the die size as if you were attacking with the weapon; for instance, if you were wielding a two-hand weapon in both hands, you’d use its two-hand damage die.
Critical Success The creature is unaffected. Success The target takes half damage. Failure The target takes full damage. Critical Failure The target takes double damage and is subject to the weapon’s critical specialization effect.
Effects with the air trait either manipulate or conjure air. Those that manipulate air have no effect in a vacuum or an area without air. Creatures with this trait consist primarily of air or have a connection to magical air.
Planes with this trait consist mostly of open spaces and air of various levels of turbulence, though they also contain rare islands of floating stone and other elements and energies. Air planes usually have breathable atmospheres, though they might include clouds of acidic or toxic gas. Earth creatures often find themselves at a disadvantage within air planes, as there’s little solid ground for them to gain their bearings, which tends to at least make them uncomfortable.
Cold
Effects with this trait deal cold damage. Creatures with this trait have a connection to magical cold.
Electricity
Effects with this trait deal electricity damage. A creature with this trait has a connection to magical electricity.
Manipulate
You must physically manipulate an item or make gestures to use an action with this trait. Creatures without a suitable appendage can’t perform actions with this trait. Manipulate actions often trigger reactions.
area: 400-foot burst
duration: 1 min.
element: Air
legacy_name: Storm of Vengeance
range: 800
source: Player Core pg. 369
spell_type: Spell
tradition: Primal
type: Spell
A massive storm cloud forms in the air above the area, spreading rain and gales. The wind imposes a –4 circumstance penalty to physical ranged attacks. The air in the area is greater difficult terrain for flying creatures. When you Cast this Spell and the first time each round you Sustain it on subsequent rounds, you can choose one of the following storm effects. You can’t choose the same effect twice in a row.
Blizzard The driving snow deals 4d8 cold damage to each creature in or below the storm with no save. Everything in or beneath the cloud is concealed by driving snow and any ground is difficult terrain.
Hail Each creature in or below the storm takes 4d10 bludgeoning damage with a basic Fortitude save.
Lightning Choose up to 10 creatures in or below the storm to be struck by lightning. Each of them takes 7d6 electricity damage with a basic Reflex save.
Tornado A roughly cylindrical whirlwind appears in or below the cloud in a 30-foot radius. Each creature in the whirlwind is thrown 40 feet upward.
Heightened (10th) The range increases to 2,000 feet and the cloud is a 1,000-foot burst.
