Potestas: a D&D3E supplement
Spells
Protect from Affliction
Conjuration [Healing]
Casting Time: 1 standard action
Range: Touch
Target: Living creature or object touched
Duration: 10 minutes/Power point
Saving Throw: Fortitude negates (harmless, object)
Spell Resistance: Yes (harmless, object)
Minimum Power Points: 1; see text
This spell protects the subject from one type of affliction. The spell immediately
removes any non-magical effect the subject is suffering from. It also removes
any magical effect of equal or fewer Power points than the Power points expended
by the caster, and grants a new saving throw with a +4 bonus against more powerful
magical effects. This occurs even if the affliction has a duration of instantaneous.
It also renders the target immune to non-magical effects and magical effects of
equal or fewer Power points for the duration of the spell, and confers a +4 bonus
to saving throws against more powerful magical effects.
This spell can instead counter and dispel a creature or object's power to use
supernatural or spell-like effects that cause one type of affliction for the duration
of the spell, at the caster's option. The caster must make a dispel check, as
for remove magic.
Restriction: Choose one type of affliction (blindness & deafness,
disease, fatigue & exhaustion, paralysis, petrification, poison, sickened
& nauseated). This spell only protects against that affliction, as follows.
Blindness & Deafness: the minimum Power points cost increases to
3. This spell protects equally against both conditions, but will not restore missing
eyes and ears.
Disease: the minimum Power points cost increases to 5. It does not prevent
reinfection at a later date.
Fatigue & Exhaustion: this spell removes fatigue, and improves exhausted
target to fatigued. For an additional 4 Power points, it can be heightened to
remove exhaustion as well.
Paralysis: the minimum Power points cost increases to 3. This spell also
protects against all magic effects that reduce speed, including the slow
spell and the heightened cloud spell. For an
additional 4 Power points, it can be heightened to allow the subject to move freely
while underwater, even with slashing weapons such as axes and swords or with bludgeoning
weapons such as flails, hammers, and maces, provided that the weapon is wielded
in the hand rather than hurled.
Petrification: the minimum Power points cost increases to 7.
Poison: the minimum Power points cost increases to 3.
Sickened & Nauseated: this spell protects equally against both conditions.
Diminished: For 2 Power points less (minimum 0 Power points),
the subject gains only the +4 bonus to saving throws.
maintained by Gary Johnson (gwzjohnson at optusnet.com.au)
last updated 30 January 2005