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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Endzeitgeist" data-source="post: 5523387" data-attributes="member: 82318">This installment of the 101-series is 40 pages long, 1 page front cover, 1 page editorial, 2 pages of advertisements and 1 page SRD, leaving 35 pages of content for the spells.The pdf kicks off with 3 pages of spell-lists for clerics, druids and Sorcerors/wizards.9th-level spells. The apex of magical might. The stuff arcane dreams are made of, the signature of the archmages. I've been looking forward to this one for a long time, so let's take a look at the spells and check out whether they have the iconic potential I expect of 9th-level spells.The spells are:-Accursed Rot (Clr 9, Drd 9, Sor/Wiz 9): A plague spell that dispels foils to it and is very hard to cure. Nice.-Aid Item, Greater (Clr 9, Drd 9, Sor/Wiz 9): Grant an item your caster level and special charges that enable you to use it faster.-Behind the Curtain (Sor/Wiz 9): Get a clear, non-cryptic response from the DM, but be unable to relay it in any way to others without being blasted from reality. AWESOME spell. I usually HATE metagaming spells, but this one has great potential and e.g. explains why powerful figures don't simply tell everyone about a certain fact/problem.-Bestow Malediction(Clr 9, Sor/Wiz 9): A curse of the grandest kind.-Black Blizzard (Clr 9, Drd 9): You conjure a violent prone-knocking, people-burying sandstorm.-Blightfire Ray (Clr 9, Sor/Wiz 9): Devastating, 5-round lasting Con-draining ray that grants you temporary HP.-Block and Pit Trap (Drd 9, Sor/Wiz 9): Open an extradimensional pit trap and let a block of stone fall on it. Nice idea.-Blood Protectors (Clr 9): Create up to 5 constructs from your shed blood.-Boiling Sea (Drd 9): Either boil  a large amount of water or conjure forth a devastating geyser.-Brain Drain (Sor/Wiz 9): Drain Intelligene and drive target insane, use skills of target for a limited amount of time.-Burbling Blast of the Jabberwock (Drd 9): Sonic damage and permanent confusion. -Call of the legendary Jewel (Sor/Wiz 9):  Force a creature to steal a certain item you crave.-Call of the Obsidian (Sor/Wiz 9): Force a creature to kill a certain enemy of yours.-Cast Out (Clr 9, Drd 9, Sor/Wiz 9): Permanently banish a creature to another plane, deals damage instead on a successful save.-Chain Gang (Sor/Wiz 9): Bind a group of people together so that when they leave each others sight, they are teleported back.-Change the Path (Drd 9, Sor/Wiz 9): Bend Reality to change the course of one path.-Cleansing Light (Clr 9): Deal massive damage and inflict negative conditions on evil creatures.-Convert Foe (Clr 9): Makes a former enemy your cohort, up to the point of e.g. making a paladin an anti-paladin.-Curse Community (Clr 9, Sor/Wiz 9): Curse a whole community - great idea!-Curse of the Albatross (Clr 9): Prevent a creature from travelling ever again.-Curse of the Pyrrhic Victory (Sor/Wiz 9): Go out with a devastating blast.-Darkest Night of Winter (Drd 9):  Spehere of darkness and heavy snowfall negates almost all senses and can counter light spells like prismatic sphere.-Deadly Tempest (Drd 9, Sor/Wiz 9): Conjure a devastating vortex to destroy your foes.-Defensive Sphere(Clr 9, Sor/Wiz 9): Very powerful sphere makes you practically impervious to harm and attacks for the duration.-Defile (Clr 9, Drd 9): Destroy a piece of land, deal damage to people, let them rise as undead and poison water. Includes a quick and dirty mini-template.-Downdraft (Drd 9, Sor/Wiz 9): Force flying creatures, vessels, etc. to the ground.-Dreamstealer (Clr 9, Sor/Wiz 9): Stealing dreams of a target imposes massive, cumulative penalties. VERY cool spell.-Duplicate(Sor/Wiz 9): Create an exact duplicate of yours under your control.-Endless Enemies (Clr 9, Sor/Wiz 9): Turns EVERYONE against the targets. Nice!-Engulfing Doom (Sor/Wiz 9): Shrieking maelstrom of negative energy deals damage and expands when it kills foes.-Entwined Fate (Clr 9, Drd 9, Sor/Wiz 9): While your archenemy is alive, you cannot die. Iconic & cool.-Eruption (Drd 9, Sor/Wiz 9): Volcanic eruption, complete with flow of lava, fire and subsequent PC- death. -Fist of Raging Energy (Drd 9, Sor/Wiz 9): Bigby-like hand-spell that comes in variants for energy-types.-Fly on the Wall (Drd 9, Sor/Wiz 9): Makes an insect a powerful scrying sensor.-Flying Flaming Corpse, Greater (Sor/Wiz 9): Immolate a target and use it to telekinetically batter foes.-Form of the Swarm (Drd 9, Sor/Wiz 9): Take the form of an insect swarm. Great escape spell.-Glacial Slide (Clr 9, Drd 9): Slow-moving glacier destroys immovable objects.-Globe against the Arcane (Clr 9):  Antimagic Field for arcane casters.-Glyph of warding, Superior: Warding glyph that deals a lot of damage.-Guardian's Tomb (Clr 9, Drd 9, Sor/Wiz 9): A kind of imprisonment-like spell for people to act as eternal guardians.-Heart of the Volcano (Drd 9): Teleport target into the heart of a volcano. Ouch.-Illusory World (Sor/Wiz 9): Superior form of mirage arcana.-Immortality (Sor/Wiz 9): Makes a target immortal, but comes with a risk.-Inescapable Shackles (Sor/Wiz 9): Super-force shackles.-Judgment Day (Clr 9): Very powerful curse that entraps a victim in its former sins.-Khan's Sending (Clr 9, Sor/Wiz 9): Powerful madness-inducing spell.-Lash of Sin (Clr 9, Sor/Wiz 9): Create a lash attuned to the 7 deadly sins.-Lifefire Ray (Clr 9, Sor/Wiz 9): Minor, but almost unhealable, continuous damage.-Lord of the City (Clr 9, Sor/Wiz 9): Know almost all about a city.-Maelstrom (Drd 9, Sor/Wiz 9): Create a devastating maelstrom.-Magic Castle(Sor/Wiz 9): Instantly create a magical castle. How cool is that?-Mark of the Avatar (Clr 9, Drd 9): Enables you to give one creature of your choosing an avatar-like form. Cool one.-Mark of the Prismatic (Sor/Wiz 9): Either pass prismatic effects once or shoot all 7 effects at once as a ray.-Meteorite, Superior (Clr 9, Drd 9, Sor/Wiz 9):  Three months after the casting, an annihilating, terrible meteorite comes down. Great plot-device spell.-Nigh Indestructible (Sor/Wiz 9): Makes an item almost indestructible.-Occlude (Clr 9): Disrupt other divine spell-casting.-One Step beyond (Clr 9, Sor/Wiz 9): Stay ahead of divinations.-Pandemonium (Clr 9, Sor/Wiz 9): Force of damaging chaos with several 50%-chances.-Petrify (Sor/Wiz 9): Wave of petrification.-Phantasmal Opposition (Sor/Wiz 9): Duplicates try to kill the enemies.-Phantasmal World (Sor/Wiz 9): Trap foes in a phantasmal world.-Phoenix from the Ashes (Clr 9):  Resurrect a target and transform it into a phoenix.-Psychic Clone (Sor/Wiz 9): Transform enemies thought pattern into your own.-Purge Recollection (Sor/Wiz 9):  Erase an event from memory.-Purify (Clr 9, Drd 9): Damage undead and mass-ressurect destroyed undead.-Rain of Blood (Clr 9): Rain of poisonous blood.-Ray of Ramming (Sor/Wiz 9): Ram enemies, deal damage, knock them prone etc.-Reforestation (Drd 9): Mass transform enemies into trees. Creepy.-Relive (Sor/Wiz 9):  lets subject relive past injuries, dealing a lot of damage.-Resonance (Sor/Wiz 9): Emit a destructive resonance, choose between three resonances.-Revelation (Clr 9, Sor/Wiz 9): Super-detect/analyze spell.-Ruin Structure (Sor/Wz 9): Destroy a structure.-Script of the Lost (Sor/Wiz 9): Amnesia-causing script. Cool one.-Scry Ward (Sor/Wiz 9): Prevents scrying and summons monsters to would-be scryers.-Shadowy Cohort (Sor/Wiz 9):  Create a lethal, shadowy force to help you.-Shunting Ward (Sor/Wiz 9): Ward a place and send potential interlopers away with greater teleport.-Signify (Sor/Wiz 9): Duplicate 8th-level or lower divination spells sans material components.-Silent Ruination (Sor/Wiz 9): Silent destructive pulse.-Siphon Life (Clr 9): Deal damage and heal you.-Sphere of Decay (Sor/Wiz 9): Sphere of damage that becomes more destructive each round.-Spirit of Victory (Clr 9, Sor/Wiz 9): +10 luck bonus to attack rolls, damage, saving throws, checks and AC.-Splinter Storm (Drd 9): Sphere of deadly splinters.-Sunfire Tomb (Clr 9, Drd 9): Entomb an enemy in the sun.-Symbol of Destruction (Clr 9, Sor/Wiz 9): Superior form of Symbol of Death.-Teleport Lair (Sor/Wiz 9): Teleport a whole location.-Thunderstorm's Fury (Drd 9): Summon a lightning-storm of terrible power.-Time Undone (Sor/Wiz 9):  Destructive ray that may make past misdeeds of a slain character undone.-Touch of Divine Insight (Sor/Wiz 9): Learn the name of a deity and thus change spells for divine spells.-Toxic Breath (Sor/Wiz 9): Gain a terrible acid-based breath weapon.-Triggered Agent (Sor/Wiz 9): Subtle, triggered chain of suggestions.-Ultimate Insight (Sor/Wiz 9): Either become a great fighter or create a certain task.-Undo (Clr 9, Sor/Wiz 9): Reverse something that happened last round.-Unending Torment (Clr 9, Sor/Wiz 9):  Applies massive penalties to an enemy.-Unmind (Sor/Wiz 9):  Remove the intelligence from a creature, reverting it to instinctive behavior.-Vials of Wrath (Clr 9):  Create up to 7 destructive vials.-Vorpal Scythe (Sor/Wiz 9): Create a deadly scythe made of force that can behead enemies.-Wake the Forest Primeval (Drd 9): Super-entangle, enemy-damaging effect.-Waves of Weakness (Sor/Wiz 9): Deal massive Str-damage.-Weapon of Death (Clr 9, Sor/Wiz 9): Deadly weapon.-Web of Fate (Sor/Wiz 9): Divide damage among all linked characters.-Zoanthropy (Sor/Wiz 9): Either makes target rabid or creates the delusion of being a monster.Conclusion:Layout adheres to the two-column RiP-standard, editing is good, I only noticed two minor glitches. Formatting is top-notch. I've made clear that I expect iconic spells at this level and the pdf delivers - a lot of the spells make you come up with adventure or even campaign ideas and mechanically they are interesting, too - even if you manage your saves, you often will experience minor damage/negative conditions, rendering this file absolutely awesome. If you as a DM need some good ideas, check these spells out - they are not only appropriately cataclysmic, but often downright brilliant. Due to the top-quality content, I'm going to let the two glitches I encountered slip and rate this the full 5 stars - a great purchase.</blockquote>

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