Spikes

School transmutation [metal]; Level antipaladin 2, bloodrager 2, cleric 2, magus 2, sorcerer/wizard 2, vanguard 2

CASTING

Casting Time 1 standard action
Components V, S

EFFECT

Range close (25 ft. + 5 ft./2 levels)
Target or Area see text
Duration 1 min./level (D)
Saving Throw Will negates (object); Spell Resistance yes (object), see text

DESCRIPTION

Spikes is a versatile spell that causes sharp, metallic spikes to grow from a surface, object, or creature. The uses of spikes vary greatly, as shown below:

  • You can cover a weapon in spikes. A weapon with spikes can be used to deal piercing damage (if it couldn’t already) and causes creatures struck to take 1 point of bleeding damage each round.
  • You can make the outside of a single suit of armor or a shield spiky, treating it as having armor spikes or shield spikes respectively.
  • You can cause the handle of a weapon or shield to become spiky. The creature carrying it takes 1d6 piercing damage each round unless it drops the item.
  • You can cause a relatively flat surface to grow spikes, affecting a space up to one 5-foot square per caster level (max 10 squares). The spaces are treated as having caltrops scattered within them, though the spikes deal 1d6 damage instead of just 1.
  • You can make a creature’s skin grow spikes. You can affect all or some of its body. The target’s natural attacks and unarmed strikes deal piercing damage, and any creature striking the target with natural weapons or grappling it takes 1d6 points of piercing damage (this damage occurs each round it is grappled).
  • You can make a single unattended object spiky all over. The object cannot exceed 2 cubic feet per caster level (max 20 cubic feet). Any creature that carries, wears, touches, or wields the object takes 1d6 piercing damage each round.
The spell can create any other effect that would logically extend from making an object spiky, such as growing spikes from boots or a wagon wheel to create traction, subject to GM discretion. A creature or magic item that does not wish to receive a spikes spell can make a Will save to negate its effects, and spell resistance applies. Non-magic items do not receive a saving throw unless they are attended.
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Path of Iron, © 2015, Ascension Games, LLC; Author Christopher Moore

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