Courses / BI / Decay
Decay
Prerequisites:
Qualifies For:
Level:
3
Study DC:
11
Code:
BI 342
Decay Spell
Time:
Action
Target:
Ranged: sight
Cost:
-1d10 Control
Defense:
Health save negates
Duration:
Permanent, until cured
The target gets a health save.
Fail:
The target becomes diseased with an affliction that reduces the effectiveness of healing on them, putrefying, blackening, and rotting every wound they suffer.
This disease lasts until it is cured.
Pass:
The target is unaffected.
If you pass a DC 10 test of Spellcraft when you cast it, you may mutate this spell to curse the target instead, allowing it to sap the vital energy from a wider variety of creatures.
A target can only be affected by one Decay spell at a time.
Fail:
The target becomes diseased with an affliction that reduces the effectiveness of healing on them, putrefying, blackening, and rotting every wound they suffer.
This disease lasts until it is cured.
Pass:
The target is unaffected.
If you pass a DC 10 test of Spellcraft when you cast it, you may mutate this spell to curse the target instead, allowing it to sap the vital energy from a wider variety of creatures.
A target can only be affected by one Decay spell at a time.
| Name | Effort | Requires | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Unlock | 10 | DC 13 Halves healing |
|
| New Strain | 10 | Unlock | Target cannot heal or gain HP. If the target is revived, they revive with 1 HP. |
| DC +1 | 2 | Unlock | DC 14 |
| DC +2 | 2 | DC +1 | DC 15 |
| DC +3 | 2 | DC +2 | DC 16 |
| DC +5 | 4 | DC +3 | DC 18 |
| Inoculation | 5 | Unlock | You are immune to Decay |
Extra Credit
Outbreak
Effort: 10
Requires: Unlock
You may cast Decay on all creatures within 30 ft. of your target, at a -5 DC penalty.
Contagion
Effort: 5
Requires: Outbreak
Carrier
Effort: 20
Requires: Unlock
As an action, you may attempt to spread any and all diseases that you have to all creatures within 30 ft. of you
They get a health save against each disease to avoid contracting it.
They get a health save against each disease to avoid contracting it.
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