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Hilater's Greater Misdirection

2018-07-30T09:57:11Z

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{{spell
|icon=Spell_hilatermisdirec.png
|image=
|level_additional=[[Cleric]] with [[Good (domain)|Good]] domain 9
|level_bard=
|level_cleric=
|level_druid=
|level_paladin=
|level_ranger=
|level_sorwiz=9
|level_warlock=
|level_innate=9
|school=Abjuration
|descriptor=
|components=VS
|range=Medium
|area=Nearby creatures
|duration=round / 3 levels
|save=[[Will]]
|spell_resistance=Yes
|hostile=Yes
|empower=Yes
|extend=No
|maximize=Yes
|quicken=Yes
|silent=Yes
|still=Yes
|persist=No|save_type = W}}

==Description==

An invisible, mobile field surrounds you and prevents creatures from sucesfully attacking you. Any creature within or entering the field must attempt a save. If it fails, it becomes unable to sucesfully attack you in for that round. Misdirected creatures’ actions are not otherwise restricted.

Subjects can fight other creatures and can cast spells and attack you with ranged weapons if they leave the spell's boundary. If you move closer to an affected creature, nothing happens. (The creature is not forced back)

== Gameplay Notes ==
This spell works somewhat like Repulsion does in D&D. That's what it was inpsired from, because actual repulsion would have been too unbalanced in a multiplayer environment.

Polar Ray

2018-07-30T09:50:47Z

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{{spell
|icon=Is_polarray.png
|image=
|level_bard=
|level_cleric=
|level_druid=
|level_paladin=
|level_ranger=
|level_sorwiz=8
|level_warlock=
|level_additional=[[Cleric]] with [[Cold (domain)|Cold]] domain 8
|level_innate=8
|school=Evocation
|descriptor=Cold
|components=VS
|range=Short
|area=Ray
|duration_type=instant
|save=None
|spell_resistance=Yes
|hostile=Yes
|empower=Yes
|extend=No
|maximize=Yes
|quicken=Yes
|silent=Yes
|still=Yes
|persist=No}}

==Description==
You must succeed on a [[ranged touch attack]] with the ray to deal damage to a target. The ray deals 1d6 points of [[damage type|cold damage]] per [[caster level]] (maximum 30d6).

==Gameplay Notes==
As of patch 1.10, polar ray can score a critical on a 20 threat roll.

With at least 3 levels in [[Arcane Scholar of Candlekeep]] this spell can be empowered (treating it as a level 9 spell), causing it to do 38d6 points of damage. On a critical hit, it does a whopping 76d6 points of damage. Against a Red Dragon with 50% cold weakness, this would do a whopping '''114d6''' points of damage! Since that does an average of 399 points of damage and a red dragon has 361 HP, this is the only spell in the entire game that has a possibility of instantly killing a red dragon out of sheer damage.