Favor (Invocation/Evocation)
Fifth Level Priest
Sphere: Protection
Range: Touch
Components: V, S
Duration: 1 week per level of caster
Casting Time: 1 hour
Area of Effect: one individual
Saving Throw: none
By casting a favor spell, the priest is asking his deity to watch over the target (which may be himself). Usually, the favor spell is cast upon a great hero, such as Odysseus or Jason, lust before he undertakes a magnificent deed.
The effectiveness of the spell depends upon how the priest’s god views the glory of the deed to be undertaken. Usually, as the god’s favor is somewhat arbitrary, this is determined by rolling 1d6. For the duration of the spell, the target’s saving throws are modified (in the positive direction) by the result. In cases of especially glorious undertakings, the DM may assign a saving throw modifier that he feels is appropriate.
In addition, the target is blessed by a pledge of one godly intervention. In practical terms, this means that, during the duration of the spell, the player character may reroll any single die roll that affects him personally. The player character may ask the god to honor his pledge of intervention only once, even if the second roll was unsuccessful.
The gods will never grant more than one favor spell to a single group of adventurers or a single adventurer, and usually insist that the spell be cast upon the group’s leader. If a second favor spell is attempted, both it and the first are lost.
