Iron_Chef
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Here's a new spell I made based on Sean K Reynold's article on binding "Gingwatzim" (ethereal air elementals) in the LGJ of Dragon #295. Feedback, please. Too powerful?
I've made four versions of the spell: one for summoning up to CR 2 creatures (3rd level spell), one for summoning CR 3-4 creatures (4th level spell), one for summoning CR 5-6 creatures (5th level spell) and one for summoning CR 7-8 creatures (6th level spell).
UPDATE: Changed limit of creature power from HD to CR.
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Minor Polymorphic Planar Slave
Conjuration (Calling) [see text]
Level: Sor/Wiz 3
Components: V, S, F
Casting Time: 1 hour per HD of target
Range: Close (25 ft. + 5 ft./2 levels)
Target: One elemental or outsider of up to CR 2 [see text]
Duration: Instantaneous
Saving Throw: Will negates
Spell Resistance: Yes
You lure a random representative of a type and/or subtype specified by you at time of
casting into a specially prepared magic trap, where you seek to force it into your service.
The creature's spell resistance does not apply but it receives a Will save to refuse the
summons. If you know the
true name of a specific creature, you can call it instead.
When you call a planar creature, you can force it into one of three forms which must be
chosen at time of casting and cannot be altered later unless you dismiss the creature and
successfully call it again. The three forms are: 1) its natural form on its home plane; 2) an
animal, fey, humanoid or plant form with an appearance of your choosing and of the same
size or smaller than its natural size; or 3) an object of the same size or smaller than its
natural size, such as a weapon, suit of armor, shield, amulet, wand, rod or staff. Creatures bound
into objects lose all ability to move and all other abilities except spell-like abilities and
telepathy (if any).
Creatures bound into a form not their own have any non-armor bonuses to AC become
natural armor bonuses. They retain their normal, extrardinary, spell-like and supernatural
abilities and forms of speech and movement unless these are not provided by the new form
(such as a succubus bound into a human female being unable to fly as her new form has no
wings). Creatures are typically bound into physical forms not their own because their
natural form is too unpleasant or dangerous, or the master wishes to conceal their true
nature from others.
Once the creature appears, it is trapped by the magic circle and you must either force
it into service (opposed Charisma check applies) or else bargain with it until some
mutually agreeable arrangement can be made or you decide to dismiss it (opposed Charisma checks apply). Each day it is trapped,
you can force another opposed Charisma check upon it until either it escapes, accepts or you dismiss it.
Trapped creatures receive one escape attempt each day they are held prisoner as per
lesser planar binding.
You can only have a number of CR worth of planar slaves equal to your spellcasting level.
If you attempt to exceed this limit, it frees all preexisting slaves immediately, though this
does not interfere with your attempt to gain a new one at the time you exceed the limit.
Planar slaves gain XP as any normal follower would (a half share), and if this increases their HD and/or character level, their new level counts against the total number of HD of planar slaves you can control at any one time.
Planar slaves may be dismissed back to their native plane as any elemental or outsider can; in addition, if they are hit by a targeted dispel magic spell,
they are immediately dismissed without a saving throw.
Special: This spell requires you to precast a magic circle spell of the appropriate type
(focused inward) to use as both a focus and trap.
Using this spell to call a creature with one or more subtypes (such as air, chaotic, earth,
evil, fire, good, lawful, water, etc.) makes it a spell of that type. Thus, calling a lemure up
would add both the lawful and evil descriptors to the spell.
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Lesser Polymorphic Planar Slave
Conjuration (Calling) [see text]
Level: Sor/Wiz 4
Components: V, S, F
Casting Time: 1 hour per HD of target
Range: Close (25 ft. + 5 ft./2 levels)
Target: One elemental or outsider of up to CR 4 [see text]
Duration: Instantaneous
Saving Throw: Will negates
Spell Resistance: Yes
As minor polymorphic planar servant except the creature summoned can be CR 1-4.
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Polymorphic Planar Slave
Conjuration (Calling) [see text]
Level: Sor/Wiz 5
Components: V, S, F
Casting Time: 1 hour per HD of target
Range: Close (25 ft. + 5 ft./2 levels)
Target: One elemental or outsider of up to CR 6 [see text]
Duration: Instantaneous
Saving Throw: Will negates
Spell Resistance: Yes
As lesser polymorphic planar slave except the creature summoned can have CR 1-6.
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Greater Polymorphic Planar Slave
Conjuration (Calling) [see text]
Level: Sor/Wiz 6
Components: V, S, F
Casting Time: 1 hour per HD of target
Range: Close (25 ft. + 5 ft./2 levels)
Target: One elemental or outsider of up to CR 8 [see text]
Duration: Instantaneous
Saving Throw: Will negates
Spell Resistance: Yes
As polymorphic planar slave except the creature summoned can have CR 1-8.
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TABLE 1-A
Creature Types, Sizes and Temperaments:
up to CR 2 (Small): Content, docile, lazy, or stupid, such lowly creatures only receive a save
to escape your control once per week, and even then at a -2 penalty.
CR 3-4 (Medium): Aggressive, alert and willful, these creatures are beginning to manifest
signs of their true power and will rebel if not allowed to slake their thirst for battle, cruelty
or murder at least once per week on one or more sentient beings. They receive a save to
escape your control once per week, but receive a +2 cumulative circumstance bonus for
each week that passes where they are not able to satisfy their baser instincts.
CR 5-6 (Large): These creatures are clever, cunning and resent servitude, subtly twisting
things to their advantage, interpreting the letter of your orders rather than the spirit, and
studying you for the first sign of weakness so they can escape and gain their revenge. They
are allowed a save to escape control once each week. If you have shown any sign of
weakness (according to their kind) during the past week, they receive a +4 cumulative
circumstance bonus to break free per such show of weakness.
CR 7-8 (Large): Hateful, spiteful and utterly malicious, these creatures are always looking
for a way to work towards your destruction in the most spectacular way possible. They
receive a save each day to escape control with a +4 circumstance bonus because they hate
serving you so much.
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TABLE 1-B
Bound Creature Benefits:
up to CR 2: Your choice of a +1 magic weapon with no special properties, or
a wondrous item that provides a +3 competence bonus to one skill (which must be one known to the creature).
CR 3-4: Your choice of a +1 magic weapon, armor or shield with no special properties, or
a wondrous item that provides a +3 competence bonus to two related skills (which must be known to the creature), or a +1 luck bonus to all saving throws.
CR 5-6: Your choice of a +1 magic weapon, armor or shield with a +1 market price bonus
ability (such as flaming, shock, etc.), or a wondrous item that provides a +3 competence
bonus to any three skills known to the creature, or a +2 luck bonus to all saving throws, or
a wand, staff, or rod that allows you to access the creature’s spell-like abilities 1/round.
CR 7-8: Your choice of a +2 magic weapon, armor or shield with two +1 market price
bonus abilities (such as flaming and shock), or a wondrous item that provides a +3
competence bonus to any four skills known to the creature, or a +2 luck bonus to all
saving throws and resistance 5 to all elements, or a wand, staff or rod that allows you to
access the creature’s spell-like abilities 1/round.
I've made four versions of the spell: one for summoning up to CR 2 creatures (3rd level spell), one for summoning CR 3-4 creatures (4th level spell), one for summoning CR 5-6 creatures (5th level spell) and one for summoning CR 7-8 creatures (6th level spell).
UPDATE: Changed limit of creature power from HD to CR.
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Minor Polymorphic Planar Slave
Conjuration (Calling) [see text]
Level: Sor/Wiz 3
Components: V, S, F
Casting Time: 1 hour per HD of target
Range: Close (25 ft. + 5 ft./2 levels)
Target: One elemental or outsider of up to CR 2 [see text]
Duration: Instantaneous
Saving Throw: Will negates
Spell Resistance: Yes
You lure a random representative of a type and/or subtype specified by you at time of
casting into a specially prepared magic trap, where you seek to force it into your service.
The creature's spell resistance does not apply but it receives a Will save to refuse the
summons. If you know the
true name of a specific creature, you can call it instead.
When you call a planar creature, you can force it into one of three forms which must be
chosen at time of casting and cannot be altered later unless you dismiss the creature and
successfully call it again. The three forms are: 1) its natural form on its home plane; 2) an
animal, fey, humanoid or plant form with an appearance of your choosing and of the same
size or smaller than its natural size; or 3) an object of the same size or smaller than its
natural size, such as a weapon, suit of armor, shield, amulet, wand, rod or staff. Creatures bound
into objects lose all ability to move and all other abilities except spell-like abilities and
telepathy (if any).
Creatures bound into a form not their own have any non-armor bonuses to AC become
natural armor bonuses. They retain their normal, extrardinary, spell-like and supernatural
abilities and forms of speech and movement unless these are not provided by the new form
(such as a succubus bound into a human female being unable to fly as her new form has no
wings). Creatures are typically bound into physical forms not their own because their
natural form is too unpleasant or dangerous, or the master wishes to conceal their true
nature from others.
Once the creature appears, it is trapped by the magic circle and you must either force
it into service (opposed Charisma check applies) or else bargain with it until some
mutually agreeable arrangement can be made or you decide to dismiss it (opposed Charisma checks apply). Each day it is trapped,
you can force another opposed Charisma check upon it until either it escapes, accepts or you dismiss it.
Trapped creatures receive one escape attempt each day they are held prisoner as per
lesser planar binding.
You can only have a number of CR worth of planar slaves equal to your spellcasting level.
If you attempt to exceed this limit, it frees all preexisting slaves immediately, though this
does not interfere with your attempt to gain a new one at the time you exceed the limit.
Planar slaves gain XP as any normal follower would (a half share), and if this increases their HD and/or character level, their new level counts against the total number of HD of planar slaves you can control at any one time.
Planar slaves may be dismissed back to their native plane as any elemental or outsider can; in addition, if they are hit by a targeted dispel magic spell,
they are immediately dismissed without a saving throw.
Special: This spell requires you to precast a magic circle spell of the appropriate type
(focused inward) to use as both a focus and trap.
Using this spell to call a creature with one or more subtypes (such as air, chaotic, earth,
evil, fire, good, lawful, water, etc.) makes it a spell of that type. Thus, calling a lemure up
would add both the lawful and evil descriptors to the spell.
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Lesser Polymorphic Planar Slave
Conjuration (Calling) [see text]
Level: Sor/Wiz 4
Components: V, S, F
Casting Time: 1 hour per HD of target
Range: Close (25 ft. + 5 ft./2 levels)
Target: One elemental or outsider of up to CR 4 [see text]
Duration: Instantaneous
Saving Throw: Will negates
Spell Resistance: Yes
As minor polymorphic planar servant except the creature summoned can be CR 1-4.
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Polymorphic Planar Slave
Conjuration (Calling) [see text]
Level: Sor/Wiz 5
Components: V, S, F
Casting Time: 1 hour per HD of target
Range: Close (25 ft. + 5 ft./2 levels)
Target: One elemental or outsider of up to CR 6 [see text]
Duration: Instantaneous
Saving Throw: Will negates
Spell Resistance: Yes
As lesser polymorphic planar slave except the creature summoned can have CR 1-6.
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Greater Polymorphic Planar Slave
Conjuration (Calling) [see text]
Level: Sor/Wiz 6
Components: V, S, F
Casting Time: 1 hour per HD of target
Range: Close (25 ft. + 5 ft./2 levels)
Target: One elemental or outsider of up to CR 8 [see text]
Duration: Instantaneous
Saving Throw: Will negates
Spell Resistance: Yes
As polymorphic planar slave except the creature summoned can have CR 1-8.
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TABLE 1-A
Creature Types, Sizes and Temperaments:
up to CR 2 (Small): Content, docile, lazy, or stupid, such lowly creatures only receive a save
to escape your control once per week, and even then at a -2 penalty.
CR 3-4 (Medium): Aggressive, alert and willful, these creatures are beginning to manifest
signs of their true power and will rebel if not allowed to slake their thirst for battle, cruelty
or murder at least once per week on one or more sentient beings. They receive a save to
escape your control once per week, but receive a +2 cumulative circumstance bonus for
each week that passes where they are not able to satisfy their baser instincts.
CR 5-6 (Large): These creatures are clever, cunning and resent servitude, subtly twisting
things to their advantage, interpreting the letter of your orders rather than the spirit, and
studying you for the first sign of weakness so they can escape and gain their revenge. They
are allowed a save to escape control once each week. If you have shown any sign of
weakness (according to their kind) during the past week, they receive a +4 cumulative
circumstance bonus to break free per such show of weakness.
CR 7-8 (Large): Hateful, spiteful and utterly malicious, these creatures are always looking
for a way to work towards your destruction in the most spectacular way possible. They
receive a save each day to escape control with a +4 circumstance bonus because they hate
serving you so much.
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TABLE 1-B
Bound Creature Benefits:
up to CR 2: Your choice of a +1 magic weapon with no special properties, or
a wondrous item that provides a +3 competence bonus to one skill (which must be one known to the creature).
CR 3-4: Your choice of a +1 magic weapon, armor or shield with no special properties, or
a wondrous item that provides a +3 competence bonus to two related skills (which must be known to the creature), or a +1 luck bonus to all saving throws.
CR 5-6: Your choice of a +1 magic weapon, armor or shield with a +1 market price bonus
ability (such as flaming, shock, etc.), or a wondrous item that provides a +3 competence
bonus to any three skills known to the creature, or a +2 luck bonus to all saving throws, or
a wand, staff, or rod that allows you to access the creature’s spell-like abilities 1/round.
CR 7-8: Your choice of a +2 magic weapon, armor or shield with two +1 market price
bonus abilities (such as flaming and shock), or a wondrous item that provides a +3
competence bonus to any four skills known to the creature, or a +2 luck bonus to all
saving throws and resistance 5 to all elements, or a wand, staff or rod that allows you to
access the creature’s spell-like abilities 1/round.
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