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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Knight Otu" data-source="post: 1585678" data-attributes="member: 192">A long time ago, I was to play the Phoenix clan in the Rokugan IR. Sadly, we got only a few rounds. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f641.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":(" title="Frown    :("  data-smilie="3"data-shortname=":(" /> Keep in mind that the spells are quite old, and I would do a number of them differently if I would write them up today. They may very well include a number of errors, as I only cleaned up a few minor things. Call of the Phoenix would be a prime contender for rewriting extensively, flavorless as it is <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt="(:" title="Smile    (:"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname="(:" />(), and the Rain of Jade ad hoc factor seems way too high in retrospect. I might note that the spells for three "groups/cycles" - a Phoenix cycle, a Jade cycle and a Void cycle, each consisting of three spells. Thus, here they are, the Epic Spells of the Phoenix Clan in the Rokugan Industrial Revolution:  Rise of the Phoenix  Conjuration (Healing) (Earth, Fire)  Spellcraft DC: 167 Components: V, S, DF Casting Time: 1 minute Range: 300 ft. Area: 200 ft. radius Duration: Instantaneous Saving Throw: Will negates (harmless) Spell Resistance: Yes (harmless) To Develop: 1,503,000 gp; 31 days; 60,120 XP; Seeds: Heal (DC 25), Life (DC 27), Transform (DC 21). Factors: Restores permanently drained ability scores (+6 DC), dispels negative levels (+2 DC), Can affect objects up to Colossal size (+18 DC) with a hardness up to 10 (+20 DC), does repairs only (ad hoc -2 DC), change from touch to target, and from target to area (20 ft. radius) (+14 DC), increase to 200 ft. radius (+36 DC). You call upon powerful kami of earth and fire, as well as upon the spirit of the phoenix, asking them to undo damage done to a small area and it's inhabitants. During the casting time, an image of a large Phoenix rises over the area, bursting into fiery feathers at the end. The feathers cover a circle with a radius of 200 ft., and every living being touched by them feels the feathers' healing power surging through them, removing all damage, ability damage and drain, negative levels, poison, and similar effects. Everyone recently killed within the radius is allowed to return to his body, if he has not yet gone to Meido, the Realm of the Dead. Every damaged object that is not magical, and has no hardness higher than 10, is mended and returned to it's original status. It is clear to every spectator that the rising Phoenix is just an image, and that the burst of feathers is just metaphorical, and not an actual attack. It does not distract, hurt, or otherwise impede anyone. Undead of any kind are not affected by this spell, neither in a positive nor in a negative way.  Wings of the Phoenix  Transmutation (Fire)  Spellcraft DC: 90 Components: V, S Casting time: 1 action Range: Personal Duration: 100 rounds Saving Throw: Reflex half (see text) Spell Resistance: Yes (see text) To Develop: 810,000 gp; 17 days; 32,400 XP. Seeds: Energy (DC 19), Transport (DC 27). Factors: Increase to 20d6 (+20 DC), increase duration to 100 rounds (+8 DC), 1 action casting time (+20 DC). Mitigating factors: Fly effect instead of teleport (ad hoc -2 DC), change from area to personal (-2 DC). As you cast this spell, flames begin to flicker at your feet, wandering up to your arms, where they start to consume the arms and take the forms of fiery wings. These flames do not hurt you, nor do they burn your equipment or impede your spellcasting ability, but you cannot use any weapon, ring, bracer or similar item while the spell is active. These wings allow you to fly as though under the effect of a fly spell. Also, you can attack with the wings as though they were natural weapons. Any creature hit by the wings suffers 20d6 points of fire damage, with a Reflex Save for half possible. If a creature hit has Spell Resistance, this is checked for at the first hit. If the Spell Resistance check succeeds, the creature is immune to the damage for this casting, otherwise it takes damage normally. The wings are a single attack made at your best attack bonus, with all applicable boni. At the end of the duration, your arms and any equipment in your hand reappears, unharmed.  Dancing Jade No-Dachi  Conjuration (Creation) (Air, Earth)  Spellcraft DC: 100* Components: V, S, XP Casting Time: 1 action Range: 0 ft. Duration: 100 rounds Saving Throw: None Spell Resistance: No To Develop: 900,000 gp; 18 days; 36,000 XP. Seeds: Conjure (DC 21), Animate (DC 25), Transform (DC 21), Magic Equipment (DC 14/19). Factors: +5 enhancement bonus (+8/+6 DC), can affect objects that should stay non-magical (ad hoc +5 DC), grants ability to fly (+10 DC), 1 action casting time (+20), increase duration to 100 rounds (+8 DC). Mitigating Factor: Burn 3200/3500 XP (-32/-35 DC). By casting this spell, you ask the kami of earth to quickly gather pure jade, form it into a large greatsword, and push it to the surface, where a powerful air kami will inhabit it. The air kami will give the greatsword the ability to fly and attack as though it were a +5 everdancing weapon. As the created greatsword is Huge** sized, it will deal 2d8+5 points of damage with each successful strike. Since the sword is made out of jade, it may have special effects against some Shadowlands monsters. To give the earth kami enough information to manufacture the sword correctly, you must succeed at a Craft (weaponsmith) check with a DC of 20***. XP Cost: 3200/3500 XP*  *I calculated the DC based on both versions of the Magic Equipment seed, aiming at a final Spellcraft DC of 100. Since my version would call for a DC that is 3 points higher, the XP cost per casting is 300 points higher. **I’m not 100% sure, but I think that the Conjure Seed would create enough material to create a weapon that big. ***I upped the DC for the Craft check from 15 (which would be the DC for martial weapons) to 20 to reflect both the masterwork status as well as the greater size.  Regarding the Magic Equipment Seed:  Ward against Jigoku  Abjuration (Air)  Spellcraft DC: 140 Components: V, S Casting Time: 10 minutes Range: 100 ft. radius Duration: 120 hours Saving Throw: Will negates (harmless) Spell Resistance: Yes (harmless, see text) To Develop: 1,260,000 gp; 26 days; 50,400 XP. Seeds: Fortify (Will Saving throws, DC 23), Fortify (Spell Resistance 25) (DC 27), Ward (against Oni) (DC 14). Factors: +10 morale bonus to Will saves (+54 DC), change from touch to target, and from target to area (20 ft. radius) (+14 DC), increase area to 100 ft. radius (+16 DC), increase duration to 120 hours (+10 DC). Mitigating factors: increase casting time to 10 minutes (-18). You send out a long prayer to Tengoku and Yomi, the Celestial Heavens and the Relm of the Blessed Ancestors, to protect a large number of people from the dark powers of the Realm of Evil, Jigoku. The ancestors and the Fortunes answer your call by covering the people to be protected in jade-green sparks that remain for 5 days, granting a Spell Resistance of 25, as well as warding against the evil oni. The jade sparks prevent bodily contact by an oni, thus causing it’s natural attacks to fail and causing the oni to recoil if such attacks require touching the warded person. The protection ends if the warded person makes an attack against or intentionally moves within 5 feet of an oni. Spell Resistance can allow an oni to overcome this protection and touch the warded person. In addition to the direct effects described above, any person covered in the jade sparks is secure in it’s knowledge that he is protected by his ancestors and the Fortunes, granting him a +10 morale bonus to all Will saves while the protection lasts.  Call of the Phoenix  Conjuration (Summoning) (Fire)  Spellcraft DC: 200 Components: V, S Casting Time: 1 free action Range: 75 ft. Duration: 100 rounds Saving Throw: Will negates (harmless) Spell Resistance: Yes (harmless, see text) To Develop: 1,800,000 gp; 36 days; 72,000 XP. Seeds: Summon (DC 14), Transform (DC 21), Transport (DC 27). Factors: Summon CR 35 creature (+66 DC), add ability to fly (+10 DC), add immunity to taint (ad hoc +20), summon elemental (+10), free action casting time (+28), increase duration to 100 rounds (+8). Mitigating factors: haste phoenix instead of teleport (-4 DC). You call upon all fire kami in close proximity to unite into a single, powerful spirit resembling a huge phoenix. This phoenix acts as a hastened primal fire elemental, which also has the ability to fly with a speed of 50 ft. (poor). While the spell lasts, the phoenix cannot be tainted in any way, and if the spell ends while it is in a tainted area, the fire kami usually manage to flee before being transformed into kansen.  Eye of the Void  Divination (Void)  Spellcraft DC: 62 Components: V, S Casting Time: 1 minute Range: See text Duration: 20 minutes (D) Saving Throw: Will negates (harmless) Spell Resistance: Yes (harmless, see text) To Develop: 558,000 gp, 12 days, 22,320 XP. Seeds: Reveal (DC 19), Foresee (DC 17). Factors: Hear and see (+2 DC), mobile sensor (+2 DC), allow magically enhanced senses (+4 DC), gain 10 pieces of information (+18). By meditating, you can sever your conciousness from the body, allowing you to see and hear impressions from a place either known to you, or one that is obvious. Distance is not a factor. Your conciousness acts as a mobile, invisible sensor that has a speed of 30 ft. Like a magical sensor, your conciousness can be „dispelled“, causing it to immediatly returning to your body, unharmed. If you had any magically enhanced senses active as you began your meditation, your conciousness retains those. When you see a creature, you can examine it closer, gaining knowledge about it’s taint score, level, class, honor score and up to 6 special abilities of the creature. This use ends the spell. Since you cannot use this spell to overcome planar borders, you cannot enter (or leave, if already within) the Shadowlands while under this spell.  Rain of Jade  Evocation (Earth)*  Spellcraft DC: 329 Components: V, S, XP, Ritual Casting Time: 1 action Range: 12,000 feet Area: 1000 ft. radius Duration: Instantaneous Saving Throw: Fortitude half Spell Resistance: Yes To Develop: 2,961,000 gp, 60 days, 118,440 XP. Seeds: Destroy (29). Factors: Change from target to 20 ft. radius (+10 DC), only affects tainted creatures (ad hoc +100 DC), increase damage dice to d12 (+30 DC), increase radius to 1000 ft. (+ 196 DC), increase casting time to 1 action (+20 DC), increase saving throw by +20 (+40 DC), increase spell resistance penetration by +20 (+40), increase to 40 damage dice (+40). Mitigating factors: burn 10,000 XP (-100 DC), ritual (4 additional casters contribute epic spell slots) (-76). While casting this extremly taxing ritual, during which 4 additional casters must contribute an epic spell slot, you imbue the Earth kami in the area of the spell with the power of pure jade and cause them to fly up into the air, seek tainted creatures in the area, and strike them without error. Any tainted creature is subjected to 40d12 points of damage, with a successful Fortitude save (DC 40 + relevant ability modifier) for half possible. You gain a +20 bonus to overcome any Spell Resistance a target may have. XP-Cost: 10000 XP * This should be a Transmutation spell, but I feel that Evocation fits better.  Remove the Taint  Transmutation (Void)  Spellcraft DC: 234 Components: V, S, XP, Ritual Casting Time: 1 minute Range: 300 ft. Target: 1 tainted artifact Duration: Instantaneous Saving Throw: Fortitude negates Spell Resistance: Yes To Develop: 2,106,000 gp, 43 days, 84,240 XP; Seeds: Transform (DC 21); Factors: affects taint (ad hoc +20 DC), affects artifacts (ad hoc +20 DC), remove ability to lure Shugenja (ad hoc +20 DC), remove possible requirements for sacrifice and similar things (ad hoc +20 DC), instantaneous duration (ad hoc * 5 DC)*. Mitigating factors: Burn 10,000 XP (-100 DC), Ritual (9 additional casters contribute epic spell slot) (- 171 DC) By casting this spell, a blend between Rokugani kami prayers and Nezumi name magic, you undergo a dangerous project: to untaint a tainted artifact, such as a Black Scroll. Along with the Taint, you try to remove any track of maho required, such as the sacrifice of creatures, and the ability to tempt other shugenja to use it. You tap into the Void to determine the best course of actions to cleanse the item permanently, without any chance of the spell being dispelled. XP-Cost: 10,000 XP  Cleanse the Lands  Transmutation (Void)  Spellcraft DC: 459 Components: V, S, XP, Ritual Casting Time: 100 days, 11 minutes Range: 300 ft. Area: 1000 ft. radius of tainted land Duration: Instantaneous Saving Throw: Fortitude negates Spell Resistance: Yes To Develop: 4,131,000 gp, 83 days, 165,240 XP; Seeds: Transform (DC 21); Factors: affects taint (ad hoc +20 DC), change target to area (20 ft. radius) (+10 DC), increase radius to 1000 ft. (+ 196 DC), instantaneous duration (ad hoc * 5 DC)*. Mitigating factors: Burn 10,000 XP (-100 DC), Ritual (24 additional casters contribute epic spell slot) (- 456 DC), increase casting time to 11 minutes (-20), increase casting time to 100 days (-200). Propably the most diffcult prospect any shugenja of Rokugan could undergo, this ritual allows you to cleanse a small area of the Shadowlands Taint by calling upon the kami as well as upon the name of the untainted land, reclaiming it for the Empire. It is a lengthy ritual, however, so the Shugenja casting it requires proper protection, as it also must be cast either in close proximity or even within the Shadowlands or similarly tainted region. The kami visibly return to the reclaimed land, causing grass to grow, but a proper vegetation and fauna won’t return until after several centuries have passed. XP-Cost: 10,000 XP</blockquote>

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