Exemplars of Evil

CHAPTER 1
GREAT
VILLAINS
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Target: Creature touched
Duration: 1 hour/level (D)
Saving Throw: Will negates; see text
Spell Resistance: No
You rub dung onto your minion’s brow, intoning dark words to
bind his life to your cause.
With a touch, you give a target a powerful motivation to
avoid failure. If the target is captured by non-evil creatures
or is slain, his body dissolves into foul sludge. The target
is utterly destroyed and cannot be affected by any spell
or effect that restores life (such as true resurrection) or a
semblance of life (such as animate dead) short of miracle
or wish.
When the target dissolves, all creatures within 30 feet must
succeed on a Fortitude save against the spell’s DC or become
nauseated for 1d4 rounds.
Material Component: Dung from an evil creature.
PHANTASMAL INJURY
Illusion (Phantasm) [Fear, Mind-Affecting]
Level: Bard 3, sorcerer/wizard 3
Components: V, S
Casting Time: 1 standard action
Range: Medium (100 ft. + 10 ft./level)
Target: One living creature
Duration: 1 round/level (D)
Saving Throw: Will disbelief
Spell Resistance: Yes
You cast out your senses to fill your foe’s mind, causing him to believe
that he has suffered a mortal wound.
You create the sensation in the target’s mind that he has been
disabled (reduced to 0 hit points), restricting him to a single
move action or standard action each turn. If the target takes
a standard action (or any kind of strenuous action), he takes
1 point of damage from phantasmal injury. The target remains
conscious unless the damage would actually reduce his hit
points below 0. This damage is real and remains after the
spell’s duration has expired.
PHANTASMAL WASTING
Illusion (Phantasm) [Fear, Mind-Affecting]
Level: Bard 4, druid 4, sorcerer/wizard 5
Components: V, S
Casting Time: 1 standard action
Range: Touch
Target: One living creature touched
Duration: 1 round/level (D)
Saving Throw: Will disbelief
Spell Resistance: Yes
Your touch infects your foe’s senses, leading him to believe that he
has grown feeble and ancient.
With a touch, you cause a target to believe that he has lost his
vitality and vigor. For the duration of the spell, the target takes
a –6 penalty to Strength, Dexterity, and Constitution.
RING OF FIRE
Conjuration (Creation) [Fire]
Level: Druid 9, sorcerer/wizard 9
Components: V, S, M
Casting Time: 1 round
Range: Medium (100 ft. + 10 ft./level)
Effect: 10-ft.-radius area of lava; see text
Duration: 1 round/2 levels
Saving Throw: Reflex partial
Spell Resistance: No
You utter deep, rumbling tones as you make arcane gestures over
the basalt disc, causing it to glow white hot and evaporate in your
hand. When you finish, the ground tears open and hot lava wells
up from the depths of the earth.
You create an area of lava. All creatures in the area that make
successful Reflex saves take 1d6 points of fire damage plus
1 point per caster level. Creatures that fail their saves take
1d6 points of damage per caster level, to a maximum of 20d6
points. Creatures that take at least 1 point of damage from
ring of fire take an extra 1d6 points of fire damage each round
for 3 rounds.
Each round after the first, the area of lava expands by 10
feet, becoming a 20-foot-radius ring on the second round, a
30-foot-radius ring on the third round, and so on. As the ring
of fire spreads, all creatures in its area must make new saving
throws as described above.
When the spell’s duration expires, the lava cools rapidly.
All creatures in the area at that time are held fast and cannot
move until they make a successful Strength check or Escape
Artist check against the spell’s DC. Breaking free of the lava
is a full-round action.
Material Component: A disc of basalt (5 gp).
STIFFEN
Necromancy
Level: Bard 3, cleric 3, sorcerer/wizard 4
Components: V, S
Casting Time: 1 standard action
Range: Touch
Target: Living creature touched
Duration: 1 round/level (D)
Saving Throw: Fortitude partial; see text
Spell Resistance: Yes
As you touch your foe, blue spiderwebs appear on his skin, slowing
him down and gradually paralyzing him.
Upon touching a target, you set in motion a devastating
effect that gradually deadens his nerves. On the first round,
the target takes a –4 penalty to his Dexterity score, and all
his movement rates are reduced by 5 feet. If the target can
fly, his maneuverability is reduced by one step.
On the following round, the target can make a new Fortitude
save to halt the spell’s progress. If the save fails, the penalty
to Dexterity worsens to –8, his movement rates are reduced
another 5 feet, and his maneuverability is reduced by another 2
steps. This deterioration continues each round until the target
succeeds on his save, at which point his condition no longer
worsens, or until the target’s Dexterity drops to 0. Targets