New Magic Item: Lava Gem

NOW on The Bardess’ Library #6!

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Lava Gem Price 50 gp 

Slot none CL 1st Weight —

Aura faint transmutation

Made from the solidified breath weapon of a ruby dragon, this small ruby can be thrown or used as a sling bullet. It shatters at impact, releasing a small quantity of lava that deals 1d6 points of fire damage.

Construction Requirements Price 25 gp

Craft Wondrous Items, lava droplets

New Spell: Lava Droplets

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Lava Droplets

School transmutation (earth, fire); Level arcanist/sorcerer/wizard 1, bloodrager 1, cleric/oracle/warpriest 1, druid/hunter 1, magus 1, shaman 1, witch 1

Casting Time 1 standard action
Components V, S

Range touch
Targets up to three pebbles touched
Duration 30 minutes or until discharged
Saving Throw Will negates (harmless, object); Spell Resistance yes (harmless, object)

This spell functions as magic stone, except the enchanted pebbles melt into lava when hitting a target, dealing 1d6+1 points of fire damage each (including the spell’s enhancement bonus).

The Bardess’ Library #6 Is Out!

This month’s issue of The Bardess’ Library (my own magazine by Legendary Games) has arcane magic for its theme. Inside, you will find new spells, familiars, characters, magic items, and even a short story.

Tomorrow, for the Hodgepodge column, you will find a little something extra on my Patreon page. Enjoy it!

New Familiar: Ruby Dragon

Soon on The Bardess’ Library #6!

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Dragon, Ruby

This chubby dragonet’s scales glitter like red gems; its coppery claws look as sharp as knives and apt to burrow into the hardest rock.

Ruby Dragon CR 3

XP 800

NG Tiny dragon (earth, fire)

Init +3; Senses darkvision 60 ft., low-light vision, tremor sense 60 ft.; Perception +9

Defense

AC 15, touch 13, flat-footed 14 (+1 Dex, +2 natural, +2 size)

hp 30 (4d12+4)

Fort +7, Ref +5, Will +6

Immune fire, paralysis, sleep

Weaknesses vulnerability to cold

Offense

Speed 10 ft., fly 30 ft. (average), burrow 40 ft.

Melee bite +6 (1d3), 2 claws +6 (1d3)

Space 2-½ ft.; Reach 0 ft.

Special Attacks adamantine attacks, breath weapon (5 ft. cone, 2d6 fire damage, Ref DC 13 for half, usable every 1d4 rounds)

Spell-Like Abilities (CL 4th; concentration+6)

3/day- earth glide

Spells Known (caster level 4th; concentration +6)

2nd (4/day)- flaming sphere (DC 14)

1st (7/day)- blend with surroundings, expeditious excavation, lava droplets (DC 13)

0 (at will)- flare (DC 12), grasp, light, mending, prestidigitation, spark

Statistics

Str 10, Dex 13, Con 12, Int 10, Wis 14, Cha 15

Base Atk +4; CMB +3; CMD 13

Feats Great Fortitude, Improved Initiative

Skills Climb +8, Fly +12, Knowledge (nature) +6, Perception +9, Stealth +8, Survival +9

Languages Draconic

Ecology

Environment volcanoes or arid badlands

Organization solitary or family (1-6)

Treasure standard

Special Abilities

Adamantine Attacks A ruby dragon’s natural weapons are made of adamantine, and have the qualities of a weapon made from that material.

Spells A ruby dragon casts spells as a 4th-level sorcerer.

Ruby dragons live inside and around active volcanoes, lay eggs on solidified lava blocks in lava lakes inside craters, and hoard the little gems and stones brought to surface by eruptions.

A NG arcane spellcaster of at least 7th level with the Improved Familiar feat may select a ruby dragon as a familiar.

New Mythic Spells: Commune With Texts & Page-Bound Epiphany

Soon on The Bardess’ Library #6!

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Mythic Commune With Texts

During the spell’s effect, you add your mythic tier to every Knowledge check made and you can converse with texts twice.

Augmented (5th tier): The spell’s duration decreases to 1 minute per level. For every minute of research, you gain the same benefits you would have gained in an hour. 

Mythic Page-Bound Epiphany

You add your mythic tier to the Knowledge check you make on the round you stop reading the notes.

Augmented (3rd tier): You can attempt your Knowledge check immediately, without even reading the notes, with a bonus equal to your mythic tier.

New Warpriest Focused Blessing: Whimsy

For warpriests following fey or chaos deities.

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Whimsy

Associated Blessing: Chaos.

Replacement Blessing: The following major blessing replaces the battle companion ability of the Chaos blessing.

Killing Joke (major): At 10th level, you can tell a joke or commit another act of whimsy that causes all opponents within 30 feet that can see or hear you to burst into laughter, being staggered for 1 round (Will save negates).

New Magic Item: Bow Harp

There is a way to use a bow as a harp, but what if I want to use a harp as a bow (like Bow from the old She-Ra show)?

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Bow Harp Price 18,000 gp

Slot none CL 7th Weight 5 lbs

Aura moderate evocation

These small golden harps are favored by elven, fey and lillend bards. A bow harp functions as a masterwork stringed instrument and can also be used as a +2 shortbow. If the wielder has a bardic performance or raging song ongoing, they can expend one additional round of the ability to shoot arrows made of sheer sound from the bow harp in a round. These deal the same damage of regular arrows, but all the damage dealt is sonic damage.

Construction Requirements Cost 9,000 gp

Craft Wonderful Item, desperate weapon, sound burst, creator must have the bardic performance class feature

Fey Wild Shape Feat (Normal and Mythic)

For druids with ties to the First World.

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Fey Wild Shape

Your wild shape is infused with wild faerie energies.

Prerequisites: Wild shape class feature, Knowledge (nature) 5 ranks.

Benefit: When you use wild shape to take the form of an animal, you can expend an additional daily use of your wild shape class feature to add the plane of Faerie creature template to your animal form. You don’t reincarnate or reappear on Faerie if you die while in fey wild shape.  If you score a critical threat against a blighted fey creature while using your form’s natural weapons, you gain a +2 bonus on the attack roll to confirm the critical hit.

Fey Wild Shape (Mythic)

Your wild shape gains a number of fey abilities.

Prerequisites: Fey Wild Shape.

Benefit: When you use wild shape to take the form of an animal, you can expend two additional daily uses of your wild shape class feature and 2 points of mythic power to add the fey creature template to your animal form. You can select new fey special abilities every time you change into a fey creature wild shape.

New Warpriest Focused Blessing: Song

For warpriests whose gods grant the Song subdomain!

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Warpriest Focused Blessing: Song

Associated Blessing: Charm

Replacement Blessing: The following minor blessing replaces the charming presence ability of the Charm blessing.

Songstrike (minor): At 1st level, you can touch one weapon and enhance it with the power of music and song. For 1 minute, this weapon emits crystal vibrations and deals an additional 1d4 points of sonic damage with each hit. This additional damage doesn’t stack with the additional damage from the singing, thundering, or thundering burst weapon special abilities.

New Subdomain: Song

For priests worshiping deities of art and music.

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Song

Associated Domain: Charm

Replacement Power: The following granted power replaces the dazing touch power of the Charm domain.

Fascination (Sp): By singing, speaking, or playing a tune, you can compel the attention of people around you. This functions as the enthrall spell. You can use this ability for a number of rounds per day equal to 3 + your cleric level. These rounds do not need to be consecutive.

Replacement Domain Spells: 1st- songbird, 5th- deafening song bolt, 6th- music of the spheres.

New Wizard Elemental Arcane School: Light

Soon on The Bardess’ Library #6!

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New Wizard Elemental Arcane School: Light

Light represents good, charm, knowledge, purity, and clarity of mind. Wizards who specialize in this school are often confused with clerics of good, but are not necessarily of a good alignment.

A wizard who specializes in the light element gains a number of school powers and one bonus spell slot of each level that the wizard can cast, from 1st on up. This bonus spell slot must be used to prepare a spell from the light elemental school’s spell list. Unlike a normal arcane school, the light elemental school requires the wizard to select the void elemental school as his opposition school. A wizard must expend two spell slots to prepare a spell from the void elemental school as normal. He does not need to select a second opposition school.

Light Magic: At 1st level, add the following spells to your wizard spell list at the listed spell level: 2nd- blinding ray, light lance, moonbeam, 3rd- searing light, 4th- blade of light, burst with light, 6th- blazing rainbow, 7th- morning sun, sunbeam

Light Supremacy (Su): You gain a +2 enhancement bonus on Perception checks. This bonus increases by 1 for every 5 wizard levels you have. In addition, you can cast light at will as a spell-like ability that uses your caster level. At 5th level, you gain darkvision in a 60 ft. radius. At 10th level, you gain a +4 bonus on saving throws against dazzling and blinding effects. At 20th level, you become immune to the dazzled condition, blindness, and illusion spells and effects that rely on sight.

Rainbow Halo (Su): You can surround yourself with a multicolored aura that shifts continuously in hue, granting you concealment (20% miss chance) for 1 minute. You can use this ability a number of times per day equal to 3 + your Intelligence modifier.

Power of the Sun (Su): At 8th level, all spells you cast with the light descriptor are automatically affected as if by the Solar Spell metamagic feat, but with no increase in spell level.

Light Elementalist Wizard Spells

0- dancing lights, flare, light

1st- color spray, dancing lantern, dazzling blade, flare burst, hypnotism, magic missile, snapdragon firework, unwelcome halo

2nd- blinding ray, blur, burst of radiance, continual flame, corpse lanterns, detect thoughts, enchantment sight, fear the sun, flickering lights, fox’s cunning, hypnotic pattern, light lance, light prison, moonbeam, pyrotechnics, revealing light, spear of purity

3rd- arcane sight, campfire wall, dark-light, daylight, mass dazzling blade, motes of dusk and dawn, pierce disguise, searing light, silverlight, spotlight, stolen light, sunstalker, wall of split illumination

4th- blade of light, brightest light, burst with light, greater hypnotism, inhibiting patterns, moonstruck, mydriatic spontaneity, rainbow pattern, unbearable brightness, wandering star motes

5th- scintillating wall, telepathic bond, thoughtsense, wall of light

6th- blazing rainbow, chains of light, mass fox’s cunning, telepathy, true seeing, wall of silver

7th- greater arcane sight, mass mydriatic spontaneity, morning sun, prismatic spray, sunbeam

8th- prismatic wall, scintillating pattern, sunburst

9th- prismatic sphere