https://wiki.bgtscc.net/api.php?action=feedcontributions&feedformat=atom&user=24.77.251.176Baldur's Gate The Sword Coast Chronicles wiki - User contributions [en]2026-10-17T10:12:16ZUser contributionsMediaWiki 1.43.0https://wiki.bgtscc.net/index.php?title=Balagarn%27s_Iron_Horn&diff=2405Balagarn's Iron Horn2009-05-11T22:04:30Z<p>24.77.251.176: /* Gameplay Notes */</p>
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<div>{{spell<br />
|icon=Is_balagarnhorn.png<br />
|image=<br />
|level_bard=1<br />
|level_sorwiz=2<br />
|level_innate=2<br />
|school=Transmutation<br />
|descriptor=Sonic<br />
|components=VS<br />
|range=Cone, 20 ft.<br />
|area=Spell Cone<br />
|duration_type=instant<br />
|save=Special, see text<br />
|save_type=S<br />
|spell_resistance=Yes<br />
|hostile=Yes<br />
|empower=No<br />
|extend=No<br />
|maximize=No<br />
|quicken=Yes<br />
|silent=Yes<br />
|still=Yes<br />
|persist=No<br />
}}<br />
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==Description==<br />
You create a deep, resonant vibration that shakes all creatures in the area of effect and knocks them off their feet if they fail an opposed [[Strength]] check (the spell has an effective Strength of 20). Creatures that fail the check are knocked [[prone]] for one round.<br />
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== Gameplay Notes ==<br />
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The "opposed Strength check" is an ability score check, not an ability modifier check. You have a good chance of knocking down things <= 15 in strength, and it'd be a lot harder against people with 25 or more. The only case where you cannot knock a target down by luck, is if the target has 40 or more strength, since 40 + 1 cannot be beaten by 20 + 20. Very few creatures have 40 strength however.<br />
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This can be taken to be a bit unbalancing against some casters, which at a strength score of around 10 would mean they get knocked down a lot more - and no save means it cannot easily be resisted. Spell Resistance and mantles still apply however, meaning Globes of Invulnerability help.<br />
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It is also good against other low strength targets, such as Rogues.<br />
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Immunity to [[Knockdown]] and its effects renders the target immune to this spell.</div>24.77.251.176