Confusing Critical Feat (Normal and Mythic)

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Confusing Critical (Combat, Critical)

Your critical hits cause confusion in your opponents.

Prerequisites: Staggering Critical, base attack bonus +17.

Benefit: Whenever you score a critical hit, your opponent becomes confused for 1d4 rounds. A successful Fortitude save reduces the duration to 1 round. The DC of this Fortitude save is equal to 10 + your base attack bonus. The effects of this feat do not stack. Additional hits instead add to the duration.

Special: You can only apply the effects of one critical feat to a given critical hit unless you possess Critical Mastery.

Confusing Critical (Combat, Critical, Mythic)

You can make your foes confused with a weapon blow at will.

Prerequisites: Confusing Critical, 3rd mythic tier.

Benefit: Once per round when you hit a foe with an attack, but the attack is not a critical, you may expend two uses of mythic power to inflict the effect of the Confusing Critical feat rather than your attack’s normal damage.

You may not add the effects of more than one mythic critical feat to a single attack.

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

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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).