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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dark Mistress" data-source="post: 5368904" data-attributes="member: 11816">101 6th level Spells by Rite PublishingThis product is 35 pages long.  It starts with a cover and credits. (2 pages) The sixth installment of the 101 spells.Next it jumps to the spells by class tables. (3 pages)Bard – 28Cleric – 26Druid – 18Sorc/Wiz by schoolAbjuration - 6Conjuration – 15Divination – 6Enchantment – 6Evocation – 9Illusion – 7Necromancy – 10Transmutation – 14The following section gets into the meat of the spells. Here is a few that stood out for me good and bad. (25 pages)GoodBe a Tree – you turn the target into a tree, forever.Bestow Major Curse – Now these are some nice curses.Coma – You do non lethal damage, if you drop them unconscious they stay that way until a special condition is meet or dispelled. On the surface it seems strong, thinking cast it then kill them. But it doesn't do much damage for a 6th level spell. So I think it is balanced and somewhat flavorful spell.Death Gaze – You gain a gaze attack for a number of rounds. Nice fluff.Divide and Conquer – You turn yourself into 300 little you's who can then do swarm attacks. I just found this one funny, it reminded me of Army of Darkness movie.Fearsome familiar – Temporarily turn your familiar into a oversized dangerous version of it's self.Kiss of Death – Kissing a target. If they fail a save, the die when the caster next makes a gesture or if the caster is killed. I just liked the spell, a last ditch effort to save yourself. Kiss someone and then if they kill you, they die too.  I do think the gesture part should have had a range though, it doesn't mention one. Or perhaps linked their deaths until caster releases them. So if one died they both died. Cool spell though.Pestilence – All those around the caster must make save or be struck with a disease. It has a list of diseases.  It sounds like they get hit with all of them on the list. From that point on the disease seems to work like normal.Return to the Grave – A cleric spell that forces a undead to return to it's grave and return to death on a failed save.Sever the Source – Fairly long cast time, if target fails save they can no longer cast arcane magic or use supernatural abilities, until removed.Solid Darkness – Create a blob of tarry like darkness that slows movement, deals minor damage to the living and heals undead inside. As well as function like Darkness.Steal Breath – Save or target can not breath for 1 round per caster level. A pretty vicious spell but I love the fluff.True Love – Makes two targets fall in love forever. If they go more than 24 hours with out touching they become sickened. If one dies the other gets worse. A kinda odd but wickedly fun curse.UndecidedOffering of Rain – Causes rain to fall for one round per level, those in the rain get fast healing of 1 per 4 caster levels. Neat druid spell but I am not sure I like it working indoors. I know it makes it more useful but it just seems wrong to me. I think I might have liked it better if outdoors only but boosted a bit.Pocket Paradise – This one just made me smile. You create a pocket dimension of a lush paradise, time spent there can cure many aliments.BadArcane Prohibition – Makes casting arcane spells very hard in the area, divine spell. Last 10 mins a level. Love the idea of the spell, so why is it in my bad list? Casting time of a single round combined with how long it last and the big failure chance to arcane spells makes it a cleric own wizard spell. I felt the casting time needed to go way up. Something clerics could cast in churches or such but something they had to set up in advance.Transmute Elf to Orc – It turns a elf into a orc forever. The spell just seems odd and almost pointless. I suppose in some campaign settings it might make sense.It closes with a OGL and 2 pages of ads. Closing Thoughts. The art is black and white and pretty good. It has a old art style, I have seen it but not sure the name. It works well for the book. I didn't notice any obvious errors in the book. There was a few points where things could have been more clear but all and all not bad. Most of the spells where pretty good and well balanced. A few was meh, the only truly bad spell I thought was the Transmute Elf to Orc spell IMHO. In this one there was fewer spells I thought was very good though, but the ones that was very good where top notch. I do have one comment about the art, it does show nipple in one of the art pieces. Personally I don't mind or care but I know some people do mind. It is tasteful artistic art though. So whats my rating? Well I thought this one was good, not great but good. I am giving it a solid 4 star. Maybe a 4.5, but I felt it wasn't there, close but not quite.</blockquote>

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