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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.
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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
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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).
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!
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.
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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.
