Mark Chance
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A thread in the D&D Rules section was looking for information about a Hunger Domain. No one has been able to come up with any, so I decided to do something about it.
Hunger Domain
Granted Power: Esurience, a spell-like ability usable once per day as a melee touch attack, forces your target to make a Fortitude save (DC 10 + one-half your cleric caster level + your Wisdom modifier) or suffer 1d6 points of subdual damage and become fatigued (see p. 84, DMG). This subdual damage and fatigue cannot be healed except by consuming a meal. Creatures that do not derive nourishment from food in a conventional manner (such as undead) are invulnerable to esurience.
Hunger Domain Spells
1 Corruption*. Destroys food and drink, including healing potions
2 Ray of Enfeeblement. Ray reduces Str by 1d6 + 1 points/two levels.
3 Contagion. Infects subject with chosen disease.
4 Blight*. Destroys food, drink, and plant matter, and damages plant creatures.
5 Circle of Doom. Deals 1d8 +1/level damage in all directions.
6 Famine*. Living creatures in a 20-ft.-radius are damaged and fatigued.
7 Aura of Pain*. Creatures within the radius suffer wracking pains.
8 Maw of the Devourer*. Jaws and teeth transform into a deadly attack form.
9 Carnival of Forbidden Flesh*. Compulsion forces intelligent creatures to feed on each other.
* Indicates new spell.
New Spells
Aura of Pain
Transmutation
Level: Hunger 7
Components: V, S, DF
Casting Time: 1 action
Range: 20 ft.
Area: 20-ft.-radius emanation around you
Duration: 1 round/level (D) (see text)
Saving Throw: Fortitude negates
Spell Resistance: Yes
You surround yourself with an emanation that causes intense agony in affected creatures. Any creature within the radius when it first appears must make a Fortitude save or suffer wracking pains that reduce Dexterity by 2 and impose a -4 penalty on attack rolls, skill checks, and ability checks. Any creature within the radius on its initiative turn must also make a Fortitude save or suffer wracking pains. If a creature has resisted the aura of pain, it need not make another Fortitude save against that aura of pain should it remain in the area of effect.
A creature that fails its Fortitude save against aura of pain suffers wracking pains for as long as it remains within the area of effect plus 10 minutes per caster level.
Blight
Necromancy
Level: Hunger 4
Components: V, S
Casting Time: 1 action
Range: Medium (100 ft. + 10 ft./level)
Area: 10-ft.-radius burst
Duration: Instantaneous
Saving Throw: Will half or Will negates (object) (see text)
Spell Resistance: Yes or Yes (object) (see text)
With this spell, you cause a burst of negative energy that damages living creatures, including plants, and destroys food, drinks, dead plant matter, and healing potions.
Plant creatures caught in the burst suffer 1d4 points of damage per four caster levels (maximum 5d4). A successful Will save halves the damage. Since undead are powered by negative energy, this spell cures them, restoring 1d4 points of damage per four caster levels (maximum 5d4).
Unattended, nonmagical food and drinks are automatically spoilt. Unattended dead plant matter (such as a hemp rope or a wooden door) within the radius is automatically suffers 1d4 points of damage per caster level (maximum 10d4), resisted by hardness as normal. Affected magical objects (such as potion of cure light wounds or a +1 longbow) and attended objects made of dead plant matter are permitted a Will save to negate the damage. Attended or magical food and drink are permitted a Will save to avoid spoilage.
Carnival of Forbidden Flesh
Enchantment (Compulsion) [Evil, Mind-Affecting]
Level: Hunger 9
Components: V, S, DF
Casting Time: 1 action
Range: Long (400 ft. + 40 ft./level)
Area: 60-ft.-radius spread
Target: All intelligent living creatures within the area
Duration: 1 minute/level (D)
Saving Throw: Will negates
Spell Resistance: Yes
By means of this hellish spell, you infect the minds of living creatures with murderous rage and an overwhelming compulsion to consume the raw flesh of their victims. Creatures with Intelligence scores lower than 3 cannot be affected by carnival of forbidden flesh.
Affected creatures are filled with murderous rage. They gain a +2 morale bonus to Will saves, attack rolls, and melee damage rolls. They suffer a -2 penalty to Armor Class and cannot perform actions that require patience or concentration. Affected creatures move to attack in melee combat the closest intelligent living creature, heedless of danger and full of homicidal intent. They continue to fight for the duration of the spell or until killed or otherwise disabled.
If an affected creature slays the target of its rage, the affected creature stops fighting and begins to consume the flesh of its victim. The affected creature continues to gorge itself for the duration of the spell unless attacked, in which case its murderous rage turns onto its attacker.
Corruption
Transmutation
Level: Hunger 1
Components: V, S
Casting Time: 1 action
Range: Close (25 ft. + 5 ft./2 levels)
Area: 5-ft.-radius burst
Duration: Instantaneous
Saving Throw: Will negates (object)
Spell Resistance: Yes (object)
With this spell, you destroy food, drinks, and magical healing potions caught in the 5-foot radius burst. Unattended, nonmagical food and drinks are automatically spoilt. Potions of healing (such as potion of cure light wounds) and attended or magical food and drinks are permitted a Will save to negate the effects. A potion of healing receives a bonus to the Will save equal to its spell level. For example, a potion of cure moderate wounds receives a +2 bonus.
Famine
Necromancy
Level: Hunger 6
Components: V, S, DF
Casting Time: 1 action
Range: Medium (100 ft. + 10 ft./level)
Area: 20-ft.-radius burst
Duration: Instantaneous
Saving Throw: Fortitude half
Spell Resistance: Yes
A burst of negative energy inflicts 2d8 points of subdual damage +1 point per caster level (maximum +20) to living creatures caught in the burst. Creatures failing their Fortitude saves are also fatigued (see p. 84, DMG). Subdual damage and fatigue cannot be healed except by consuming a meal.
Famine has a special effect on undead creatures. Undead creatures caught in the burst gain a +1 profane bonus to attack rolls, damage rolls, and saving throw for 1d4 rounds + 1 round per caster level.
Maw of the Devourer
Transmutation
Level: Hunger 8
Components: V, S
Casting Time: 1 action
Range: Personal
Target: You
Duration: 10 minutes/level (D)
Your jaws and teeth change, increasing the size of your mouth dramatically as well as filling it with razor-sharp fangs. In lieu of your normal attacks, you can make a single bite attack per round at your base attack bonus with a +5 enhancement bonus to attack and damage rolls. Your bite inflicts 1d8 points of slashing damage (no Strength bonus but include the +5 enhancement bonus) and has a critical hit threat range of 19-20. Upon a successful critical hit, you sever the head of a Large or smaller opponent.
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Hunger Domain Copyright 2003, Mark L. Chance.
Hunger Domain
Granted Power: Esurience, a spell-like ability usable once per day as a melee touch attack, forces your target to make a Fortitude save (DC 10 + one-half your cleric caster level + your Wisdom modifier) or suffer 1d6 points of subdual damage and become fatigued (see p. 84, DMG). This subdual damage and fatigue cannot be healed except by consuming a meal. Creatures that do not derive nourishment from food in a conventional manner (such as undead) are invulnerable to esurience.
Hunger Domain Spells
1 Corruption*. Destroys food and drink, including healing potions
2 Ray of Enfeeblement. Ray reduces Str by 1d6 + 1 points/two levels.
3 Contagion. Infects subject with chosen disease.
4 Blight*. Destroys food, drink, and plant matter, and damages plant creatures.
5 Circle of Doom. Deals 1d8 +1/level damage in all directions.
6 Famine*. Living creatures in a 20-ft.-radius are damaged and fatigued.
7 Aura of Pain*. Creatures within the radius suffer wracking pains.
8 Maw of the Devourer*. Jaws and teeth transform into a deadly attack form.
9 Carnival of Forbidden Flesh*. Compulsion forces intelligent creatures to feed on each other.
* Indicates new spell.
New Spells
Aura of Pain
Transmutation
Level: Hunger 7
Components: V, S, DF
Casting Time: 1 action
Range: 20 ft.
Area: 20-ft.-radius emanation around you
Duration: 1 round/level (D) (see text)
Saving Throw: Fortitude negates
Spell Resistance: Yes
You surround yourself with an emanation that causes intense agony in affected creatures. Any creature within the radius when it first appears must make a Fortitude save or suffer wracking pains that reduce Dexterity by 2 and impose a -4 penalty on attack rolls, skill checks, and ability checks. Any creature within the radius on its initiative turn must also make a Fortitude save or suffer wracking pains. If a creature has resisted the aura of pain, it need not make another Fortitude save against that aura of pain should it remain in the area of effect.
A creature that fails its Fortitude save against aura of pain suffers wracking pains for as long as it remains within the area of effect plus 10 minutes per caster level.
Blight
Necromancy
Level: Hunger 4
Components: V, S
Casting Time: 1 action
Range: Medium (100 ft. + 10 ft./level)
Area: 10-ft.-radius burst
Duration: Instantaneous
Saving Throw: Will half or Will negates (object) (see text)
Spell Resistance: Yes or Yes (object) (see text)
With this spell, you cause a burst of negative energy that damages living creatures, including plants, and destroys food, drinks, dead plant matter, and healing potions.
Plant creatures caught in the burst suffer 1d4 points of damage per four caster levels (maximum 5d4). A successful Will save halves the damage. Since undead are powered by negative energy, this spell cures them, restoring 1d4 points of damage per four caster levels (maximum 5d4).
Unattended, nonmagical food and drinks are automatically spoilt. Unattended dead plant matter (such as a hemp rope or a wooden door) within the radius is automatically suffers 1d4 points of damage per caster level (maximum 10d4), resisted by hardness as normal. Affected magical objects (such as potion of cure light wounds or a +1 longbow) and attended objects made of dead plant matter are permitted a Will save to negate the damage. Attended or magical food and drink are permitted a Will save to avoid spoilage.
Carnival of Forbidden Flesh
Enchantment (Compulsion) [Evil, Mind-Affecting]
Level: Hunger 9
Components: V, S, DF
Casting Time: 1 action
Range: Long (400 ft. + 40 ft./level)
Area: 60-ft.-radius spread
Target: All intelligent living creatures within the area
Duration: 1 minute/level (D)
Saving Throw: Will negates
Spell Resistance: Yes
By means of this hellish spell, you infect the minds of living creatures with murderous rage and an overwhelming compulsion to consume the raw flesh of their victims. Creatures with Intelligence scores lower than 3 cannot be affected by carnival of forbidden flesh.
Affected creatures are filled with murderous rage. They gain a +2 morale bonus to Will saves, attack rolls, and melee damage rolls. They suffer a -2 penalty to Armor Class and cannot perform actions that require patience or concentration. Affected creatures move to attack in melee combat the closest intelligent living creature, heedless of danger and full of homicidal intent. They continue to fight for the duration of the spell or until killed or otherwise disabled.
If an affected creature slays the target of its rage, the affected creature stops fighting and begins to consume the flesh of its victim. The affected creature continues to gorge itself for the duration of the spell unless attacked, in which case its murderous rage turns onto its attacker.
Corruption
Transmutation
Level: Hunger 1
Components: V, S
Casting Time: 1 action
Range: Close (25 ft. + 5 ft./2 levels)
Area: 5-ft.-radius burst
Duration: Instantaneous
Saving Throw: Will negates (object)
Spell Resistance: Yes (object)
With this spell, you destroy food, drinks, and magical healing potions caught in the 5-foot radius burst. Unattended, nonmagical food and drinks are automatically spoilt. Potions of healing (such as potion of cure light wounds) and attended or magical food and drinks are permitted a Will save to negate the effects. A potion of healing receives a bonus to the Will save equal to its spell level. For example, a potion of cure moderate wounds receives a +2 bonus.
Famine
Necromancy
Level: Hunger 6
Components: V, S, DF
Casting Time: 1 action
Range: Medium (100 ft. + 10 ft./level)
Area: 20-ft.-radius burst
Duration: Instantaneous
Saving Throw: Fortitude half
Spell Resistance: Yes
A burst of negative energy inflicts 2d8 points of subdual damage +1 point per caster level (maximum +20) to living creatures caught in the burst. Creatures failing their Fortitude saves are also fatigued (see p. 84, DMG). Subdual damage and fatigue cannot be healed except by consuming a meal.
Famine has a special effect on undead creatures. Undead creatures caught in the burst gain a +1 profane bonus to attack rolls, damage rolls, and saving throw for 1d4 rounds + 1 round per caster level.
Maw of the Devourer
Transmutation
Level: Hunger 8
Components: V, S
Casting Time: 1 action
Range: Personal
Target: You
Duration: 10 minutes/level (D)
Your jaws and teeth change, increasing the size of your mouth dramatically as well as filling it with razor-sharp fangs. In lieu of your normal attacks, you can make a single bite attack per round at your base attack bonus with a +5 enhancement bonus to attack and damage rolls. Your bite inflicts 1d8 points of slashing damage (no Strength bonus but include the +5 enhancement bonus) and has a critical hit threat range of 19-20. Upon a successful critical hit, you sever the head of a Large or smaller opponent.
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Hunger Domain Copyright 2003, Mark L. Chance.
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