Explanation/Description: By means of an anti-magic sheit, the magic-user causes an invisible barrier to surround his or her person, and this moves with the spell caster. This barrier is totally impervious to all magic and magic spell effects (this includes such attack forms as breath weapons, gaze weapons, and voice weapons). It thus prevents the entrance of spells or their effects, and it likewise prevents the function of any magical items or spells within its confines. It prevents the entrance of charmed, summoned and conjured creatures. However, normal creatures (assume a normal troll rather than one conjured up, for instance) can pass through the shell, as can normal missiles. While a magic sword would not function magically within the shell, it would still be a sword.

Explanation/Description: Bigbys' Forceful Hand is a more powerful version of Bigbys' Interposing Hand (q.v.). It exerts a force in addition to interposing itself, and this force is sufficient to push a creature away from the spell caster if the creature weighs 500 pounds or less, to push so as to slow movement to 1" per round if the creature weighs between 500 and 2,000 pounds, and to slow movement by 50% of creatures weighing up to 8,000 pounds. It takes as many hit points to destroy as its creator has. Its material component is a glove.

Explanation/Description: When this spell is cast, the electrical discharge begins as a single stroke of lightning, 1/4" wide, commencing from the fingertips of the caster and extending to the primary target, which must lie within the maximum range of the spell as dictated by the level of the caster.

Chain lightning differs sharply from a lightning bolt spell in that it has a primary target as opposed to an area effect. If the primary target makes a successful saving throw versus spell, one-half damage from the bolt of chain lightning is taken; otherwise full damage (1d6 points per level of the spell caster) will be inflicted.

In addition, after striking the initial target, the bolt arcs to the nearest other object, be it animal, vegetable, or mineral. This chain of striking continues from one object to another object nearest it, possibly setting up an oscillation between two (presumably stationary or immobilized) objects, or a regular pattern involving three or more objects. If two or more possible targets are equidistant, the chain lightning will arc to metal first, then to the one with the most fluid, otherwise at random. The chain keeps building up to as many "links" (including the initial target) as the spell caster has levels. Thus, a 12th-level magic-user casting the spell would hit 12 targets: the primary target first, then 11 other (not necessarily different) targets. After the initial strike, each object subsequently struck is entitled to a saving throw versus spell, if applicable. Success on this save indicates that the stroke actually arced to the next nearest target, and the target that saved takes no damage.

The arcing bolt will continue until it has struck the appropriate number of objects, as indicated by a targets' failure to save or lack of the opportunity to do so (as for an inanimate object of non-magical nature), until the stroke fades out or strikes a target that grounds it. Direction is never a consideration in plotting the path of the arcing chain lightning. Distance is a factor, though; a single arc can never be longer than the range limit. If, in order to arc, the bolt must travel a greater distance than its maximum range, the stroke fades into nothing. A tree or a substantial piece of conductive metal - such as interconnecting iron bars of a large cell or cage - will ground the lightning stroke and prevent further arcing.

The lightning inflicts one less d6 of damage on each target it hits after striking the primary target for the first time; if the initial target was struck by a 12d6 bolt, the next target struck takes an 11d6 bolt, then lOd6, 9d6, 8d6, 7d6, and so on all the way down to ld6 - the last spurt of energy from the bolt. (A saving throw for half damage applies on each strike, different from the save versus spell to see if the lightning actually hits a secondary target.) The caster can be struck by an arc from his or her own spell. The material components are a bit of fur, an amber, glass, or crystal rod, and as many silver pins as the spell caster has levels of experience.

Explanation/Description: By means of this spell, the magic-user is able to place another spell upon his or her person so that the latter spell will come into effect upon occurrence of the situation dictated during the casting of the contingency spell. The contingency spell and the spell it is to bring into effect - the "companion" spell - are, in effect, cast at the same time (the 1 turn casting time indicated above is a total for both castings). The spell to be brought into effect by the prescribed contingency must be one which affects the magic-users' person (feather fall, levitation, fly, statue, feign death, etc.) and of a level no higher than one-third of the experience level of the caster (rounded down), to an upper limit of the 6th spell level: a 4th level "companion spell" maximum at 12th, 13th or 14th level of experience; a 5th level maximum at 15th, 16th or 17th level of experience, and a 6th level maximum at 18th level of experience and beyond. Only one contingency spell can be in effect upon the spell caster at any one time; if a second is used, the first one (if still active) is cancelled.

The situation prescribed to bring the spell into effect must be clear, although it can be rather general. For example, a contingency cast with an airy water "companion spell" might prescribe that any time the magic-user is plunged into or otherwise engulfed in water or similar liquid, the airy water spell will instantly come into effect. Likewise, the contingency could bring a feather fall into effect anytime the magic-user falls over 2' distance. In all cases, the contingency immediately brings into effect the second spell, the latter being "cast" instantaneously when the prescribed circumstances occur. Note that complex, complicated, and/or convoluted prescribed conditions for effecting the play of the dweomer are likely to cause the whole spell complex (the contingency spell and the companion magic) to simply fail when called upon.

The material components of this spell are (in addition to those of the companion spell) 100 gp worth of quicksilver, an elephant ivory statuette of the magic-user, and an eyelash of an ogre magi, ki-rin, or similar spell-using creature. Note that the ivory statuette is not destroyed by the spell casting (although it might be subject to wear and tear), and it must be carried on the person of the spell caster for the contingency spell to perform its function when called upon.

Explanation/Description: Except as noted above, and for the differing material components, this spell is the same as the seventh level cleric spell, control weather (q.v.). The material components of this spell are burning incense, and bits of earth and wood mixed in water.

Explanation/Description: When a death spell is cast, it slays creatures in the area of effect instantly and irrevocably. The number of creatures which can be so slain is a function of their hit dice:

If a mixed group of creatures is attacked with a death spell, use the following conversion:

First, simply roll the dice to see how many creatures of less than 2 hit dice are affected, kill all these, then use the conversion to kill all 2 to 4 hit dice monsters, etc. If not enough of the number remains to kill the higher levels, they remain. This system can be reversed by applying it to higher hit dice victims first. Example: The 4d2O when rolled indicate a total of 53, 20 of this is used to kill one 6+4 to 8+3 die creature (20 X .05 = 1), 16 are used to kill two 4+1 to 6+3 hit dice creatures (16 X .125 = 2), 12 are used to kill three 2 to 4 die creatures (3 X 4 = 12), and 5 remainder can be used to kill off 5 less-than-2 dice creatures (5 X 1 = 5), i.e. 20 + 16 + 12 + 5 = 53. A death spell does not affect lycanthropes, undead creatures, or creatures from other than the Prime Material Plane. The material component of this spell is a crushed black pearl with a minimum value of 1000 g.p.

Explanation/Description: This spell causes matter to vanish. It will affect even matter (or energy) of a magical nature, such as Bigby's Forceful Hand, but not a globe of invulnerability or an anti-magic shell. Disintegration is instantaneous, and its effects are permanent. Any living thing can be affected, even undead, and non-living matter up to 1" cubic volume can be obliterated by the spell. Creatures, and magical material with a saving throw, which successfully save versus the spell are not affected. Only 1 creature or object can be the target of the spell. Its material components area lodestone and a pinch of dust.

Explanation/Description: This is a spell which must be used by a magic-user planning to create a magic item. The enchant an item spell prepares the object to accept the magic to be placed upon or within it. The item to be magicked must meet the following tests: 1) it must be in sound and undamaged condition; 2) the item must be the finest possible, considering its nature, i.e. crafted of the highest quality material and with the finest workmanship; and 3) its cost or value must reflect the second test, and in most cases the item must have a raw materials cost in excess of 100 g.p. With respect to requirement 3, it is not possible to apply this test to items such as ropes, leather goods, cloth, and pottery not normally embroidered, bejeweled, tooled, carved, and/or engraved; however, if such work or materials can be added to an item without weakening or harming its normal functions, these are required for the item to be magicked.

The item to be prepared must be touched manually by the spell caster. This touching must be constant and continual during the casting time which is a base 16 hours plus an additional 8-64 hours (as the magic-user may never work over 8 hours per day, and haste or any other spells will not alter time required in any way, this effectively means that casting time for this spell is 2 days + 1-8 days). All work must be uninterrupted, and during rest periods the item being enchanted must never be more than 1' distant from the spell caster, for if it is, the whole spell is spoiled and must be begun again. (Note that during rest periods absolutely no other form of magic may be performed, and the magic-user must remain quiet and in isolation.) At the end of the spell, the caster will "know" that the item is ready for the final test. He or she will then pronounce the final magical syllable, and if the item makes a saving throw (which is exactly the same as that of the magic-user who magicked it) versus magic, the spell is completed. (Note that the spell casters' saving throw bonuses also apply to the item, up to but not exceeding +3.) A result of 1 on the die (d2O) always results in failure, regardless of modifications. Once the spell is finished, the magic-user may begin to place the desired dweomer upon the item, and the spell he or she plans to place on or within the item must be cast within 24 hours or the preparatory spell fades, and the item must again be enchanted.

Each spell subsequently cast upon an object bearing an enchant an item spell requires 4 hours + 4-8 additional hours per spell level of the magic being cast. Again, during casting the item must be touched by the magic-user, and during rest periods it must always be within 1' of his or her person. This procedure holds true for any additional spells placed upon the item, and each successive dweomer must be begun within 24 hours of the last, even if any prior spell failed.

No magic placed on or into an item is permanent unless a permanency spell is used as a finishing touch, and this always runs a risk of draining a point of constitution from the magic-user casting the spell. it is also necessary to point out that while it is possible to tell when the basic (enchant an item) spell succeeds, it is not possible to tell if successive castings actually take, for each must make the same sort of saving throw as the item itself made. Naturally, items that are charged - rods, staves, wands, javelins of lightning, ring of wishes, etc. - can never be made permanent. Scrolls or magic devices can never be used to enchant an item or cast magic upon an object so prepared.

The material component(s) for this spell vary according to both the nature of the item being magicked and successive magicks to be cast upon it. For example, a cloak of displacement might require the hides of 1 or more displacer beasts, a sword meant to slay dragons could require the blood and some other part of the type(s) of dragon(s) it will be effective against, and a ring of shooting stars might require pieces of meteorites and the horn of a ki-rin. These specifics, as well as other information pertaining to this spell, are known by your Dungeon Master.

Explanation/Description: The casting of this spell attempts a dangerous act - the luring of a powerful creature from another plane to a specially prepared trap where it will be held until it agrees to perform one service in return for freedom from the ensnarement spell. The spell causes an awareness of a gate-like opening on the plane of the creature to be ensnared. A special saving throw is then made to determine if the creature detects the nature of the planar opening as a trap or believes it to be a gate. To save, the creature must roil equal to or less than its intelligence score on 3d6. The score is modified by the difference between the creatures' intelligence and that of the spell casters'. If the creature has a higher score, the difference is subtracted from its dice roll to save. If the spell caster has a higher score, the difference is added to the total of the 3d6.

If the saving throw succeeds, the creature merely ignores the spell-created opening, and the dweomer fails. If the saving throw is not made, the creature steps into the opening and is ensnared. The type of creature to be ensnared must be known and stated, and if it has a specific, proper, or given name, this also must be used in casting of the ensnarement spell.

When actually ensnared, the creature coming from another plane to that of the spell caster is not constrained from harming the one who trapped it. Therefore, the caster uses a magic circle (for creatures from the upper planes or the Astral Plane), a thaumatugic triangle (for creatures from the Ethereal, Elemental, or Concordant Opposition planes), or a pentagram (for creatures from the lower and infernal planes). Regardless of such protection, there is a chance that the entrapped creature will be able to break free and wreak its vengence upon the spell caster. The base chance for an ensnared creature to break free depends on the manner in which the confining design was made. A hand-done one has a base chance of 20% of being broken, one inlaid or carved has only a base of 10%, and that for the first time only (which indicates whether or not the job was done properly). This base chance is modified by the total score of the magic-users' combined intelligence and experience level compared to the intelligence score and the experience level or number of hit dice of the creature summoned. If the spell caster has a higher total, that difference is subtracted from the percentage chance for the creature to break free. If the creature has a higher total, that difference is added to its chance to break free.

The chance may be further modified by care in preparation of the protective symbol. If the hand-made protection is inscribed over a long period of time, using specially prepared pigments (1,000 gp per turn of application), the chance of an ensnared creature breaking free is reduced by 1% for every turn spent so preparing; i.e., an expenditure of 1 turn and 1,000 gp reduces the chance of breaking free by 1%. This can bring the base chance to 0%, but the further modifications for intelligence and level/hit dice still must be made thereafter, and no amount of special preparation can negate that risk. Similarly, an inlaid or inscribed design can be brought to a 0% chance of being broken by inlaying it with various metals, minerals, etc. This effort will require a minimum of one full month of time and add not less than 50,000 gp to the basic cost of having the protection inlaid or inscribed into stone. Any breaking of the lines of protection or blurring of the glyphs, runes, and sigils which guard the magical barrier will spoil the efficacy of the dweomer and allow the creature to break free automatically. Even a straw dropped across the lines of a circle destroy its power. Fortunately, the creature within cannot so much as place a straw upon any portion of the inscribed protective device, for the magic of the barrier absolutely prevents it.

Once safely ensnared, the creature can be kept for as long as the spell caster dares. (Remember the danger of something breaking the inscription!) The caster can offer bribes, use promises, or make threats in order to exact one service from the captive creature. The DM will then assign a value to what the magic-user has said to the ensnared creature, rating it from 0 to 6. This rating is then subtracted from the intelligence score of the creature. If the creature makes its saving throw, a score equal to or less than its adjusted intelligence, it will refuse service. New offers, bribes, etc. can be made, or the old ones re-offered 24 hours later, when the creatures' intelligence has dropped by 1 point due to confinement. This can be repeated until the creature promises to serve, until it breaks free, or until the caster decides to release it by means of some riddance spell. It need not be stressed that certain other spells can be used to force a captive creature into submission.

Once the single service is completed, the creature need only so inform the spell caster to be instantly teleported from whence it came. Revenge can be sought (cf. efreeti, aerial servant, and invisible stalker). Impossible commands or unreasonable commands will never be agreed to.

Explanation/Description: This spell is the same as the fourth level Extension I except that it will extend first through third level spells to double duration and will extend the duration of fourth or fifth level spells by 50% of the indicated duration.

Explanation/Description: An eyebite spell enables the caster to merely meet the gaze of his or her subject and speak a single word to cause the dweomer to be effectuated. With this single spell, the caster can choose which particular effect is to strike the subject, but the eyebite spell is then dissipated, even though only one of its four possible effects were used. The four effects of the spell to be chosen from are these:

Charm: The magic-user can charm a person or monster by gaze and vocalization of a single word. The effect is to make the charmed subject absolutely loyal and docile with respect to the charmer, even to the point of personal danger. It is otherwise the same as a charm person or charm monster spell. A successful saving throw versus spell negates this effect.

Fear: The magic-user can cause fear by gaze and vocalization of a single word. The subject will act as if struck by a fear spell unless a saving throw versus spell is successful.

Sicken: This power enables the caster to merely gaze at the subject, speak a word, and cause sudden nausea and sickness to sweep over the subjects' body. The victim will be at one-half normal abilities (strength, intelligence, etc.) from the pain and fever (creatures without ability scores are not affected). Movement will be at one-half normal rate also, and the victim will have to rest half of each turn in order to be able to move at all. A saving throw versus spell will negate the power of the dweomer. Otherwise, the victim will remain struck by the sickness, losing one actual point of constitution per day until death occurs at zero constitution points. The effects are negated by a successful dispel magic spell or by a heal spell. Alter reality, limited wish, and wish spells will also remove the sickness, but a cure disease will not. Note: All non-human, non-demi-human, and non-humanoid creatures save at +4 versus this effect.

Sleep: The magic-user can cause any individual to fall into a comatose slumber by means of a gaze and a single word, unless the subject makes its saving throw versus spell. Creatures normally subject to the lst-level spell sleep save at -2. Undead are not subject to this power. Affected creatures must be shaken or otherwise shocked to bring them back to consciousness.

Explanation/Description: A geas spell places a magical command upon the creature (usually human or humanoid) to carry out some service, or refrain from some action or course of activity, as desired by the spell caster. The creature must be intelligent, conscious, and under its own volition. While a geas cannot compel a creature to kill itself, or to perform acts which are likely to result in certain death, it can cause almost any other course of action. The spell causes the geased creature to follow the instructions until the geas is completed. Failure to do so will cause the creature to grow sick and die within 1 to 4 weeks. Deviation from or twisting of the instructions causes corresponding loss of strength points until the deviation ceases. A geas can be done away with by a wish spell, but a dispel magic or remove curse will not negate it. Your referee will instruct you as to any additional details of a geas, for its casting and fulfillment are tricky, and an improperly cast geas is null and void immediately (cf. wish).

Explanation/Description: By means of this spell the magic-user is able to make a section of metal, stone or wood as transparent as glass to his gaze, or even make it into transparent material as explained hereafter. Normally, up to four inches of metal can be seen through, stone up to 6' thick can be made transparent, and 20' of wood can be affected by the glassee spell. The spell will not work on lead, gold or platinum. The magic-user can opt to make the glassee apply to himself or herself only, and apply it up to once per round while spell duration lasts; or the caster can actually make a transparent area, a one-way window, in the material affected. Either case gives a viewing area 3' wide by 2' high. The material component of the spell is a small piece of crystal or glass.

Explanation/Description: This spell is the same as the fourth level minor globe of invulnerability (q.v.), except as regards casting time and for the fact that it prevents the funcntioning of first through fourth level spells affecting the magic-user within the globe, while he or she can cast spells through it, of course.

Explanation/Description: This special and powerful spell is primarily used to defend the magic-users' stronghold. The following take place in the area of effect upon casting of the spell:

1. All corridors become misty, and visibility is reduced to 10'.

2. All doors are wizard locked.

3. One door per level of experience of the magic-user is covered by an illusion as if it were a plain wall.

4. Stairs are filled with webs from top to bottom.

5. Where there are choices in direction - such as a cross or side passage - a minor confusion-type spell functions so as to make it 50% probable that intruders will believe they are going in the exact opposite direction.

6. The whole area radiates magic.

7. The magic-user can place one of the following additional magics:

A. Dancing lights in four corridors, or

B. Magic mouths in two places, or

C. Stinking Clouds in two places, or

D. Gust of wind in one corridor or room, or

E. Suggestion in one place.

Note that items 3 and 7 function only when the magic-user is totally familiar with the area of the spells' effect. Dispel magic can remove one effect, at random, per casting of a dispel. A remove curse will not work. The material components of the spell are burning incense, a small measure of sulphur and oil, a knotted string, a small amount of umber hulk blood, and a small silver rod.

Explanation/Description: This spell summons an invisible stalker from the Elemental Plane of Air. This 8 hit die monster will obey and serve the spell caster in performance of whatever tasks are set before it. However, the creature is bound to serve; it does not do so from loyalty or desire. Therefore, it will resent prolonged missions or complex tasks, and it will attempt to pervert instructions accordingly (for complete details of the invisible stalker, consult ADVANCED DUNGEONS & DRAGONS, MONSTER MANUAL). The invisible stalker will follow instructions even at hundreds or thousands of miles distance. The material components of this spell are burning incense and a piece of horn carved into a crescent shape.

Explanation/Description: The legend lore spell is used to determine information available regarding a known person, place or thing. If the person or thing is at hand, or if the magic-user is in the place in question, the likelihood of the spell producing results is far greater and the casting time is only 1 to 4 turns. If detailed information on the person, place or thing is known, casting time is 1 to 10 days. If only rumors are known, casting time is 2 to 12 weeks. During the casting, the magic-user cannot engage in other activities other than routine: eating, sleeping, etc. When completed, the divination will reveal if legendary material is available. It will often reveal where this material is-by place name, rhyme, or riddle. It will sometimes give certain information regarding the person, place or thing (when the object of the legend lore is at hand), but this data will always be in some cryptic form (rhyme, riddle, anagram, cipher, sign, etc.). The spell is cast with incense and strips of ivory formed into a rectangle, but some item must be sacrificed in addition - a potion, magic scroll, magic item, creature, etc. Naturally, legend lore will reveal information only if the person, place or thing is noteworthy or legendary.

Explanation/Description: Except as noted above, and for the facts that the reverse spell raises water only 1/2'/level of experience of the spell caster, and the material components for the spell are a small vial of water and a small vial of dust, it is the same as the fourth level cleric spell, lower water (q.v.).

Explanation/Description: This spell summons 1 to 3 fourth level monsters, and they appear within 1 to 3 rounds. See monster summoning I for other details.

Explanation/Description: By use of this spell, the magic-user is able to instantly recall any spell he or she has used and otherwise forgotten during the past 24 hours. The spell must have been memorized and actually used during the stated time period, and it cannot be of greater power than fifth level. Mordenkainens' Lucubration enables the spell caster to recall any 1st through 5th level spell precisely as if it had never been cast. Only one such spell can be so recalled by use of the lucubration dweomer. The spell recalled can thereafter be cast normally on any succeeding round. Material spell components must be available if the spell recalled requires such, or else the remembered spell is not usable until the material components are available.

Explanation/Description: When cast, the move earth spell moves dirt (clay, loam, sand) and its other components. Thus, embankments can be collapsed, hillocks moved, dunes shifted, etc. The area to be affected will dictate the casting time; for every 4" square area, 1 turn of casting time is required. If terrain features are to be moved - as compared to simply caving in banks or walls of earth - it is necessary that an earth elemental be subsequently summoned to assist. All spell casting and/or summoning must be completed before any effects occur. In no event can rock prominences be collapsed or moved. The material components for this spell are a mixture of soils (clay, loam, sand) in a small bag, and an iron blade.

Explanation/Description: Otilukes' Freezing Sphere is a multi-purpose dweomer of considerable power. If the caster opts, he or she may create a globe of matter at absolute zero temperature which spreads upon contact with water or liquid which is principally composed of water, so as to freeze it to a depth of 6 inches over an area equal to 100 square feet per level of the magic-user casting the spell. The ice so formed lasts for 1 round per level of the caster. The spell can also be used as a thin ray of cold which springs from the casters' hand to a distance of 1" per level of the magic-user; this ray will inflict 4 hit points of damage per level of the caster upon the creature struck, with a saving throw versus magic applicable, and all damage negated if it is successful (as the ray is so narrow a save indicates it missed), but the path of the ray being plotted to its full distance, as anything else in its path must save (if applicable) or take appropriate damage. Finally, Otilukes' Freezing Sphere can be cast so as to create a small globe about the size of a sling stone, cool to the touch, but not harmful. This globe can be cast, and it will shatter upon impact, inflicting 4-24 hit points of cold damage upon all creatures within a 10' radius (one-half damage if saving throw versus magic is made). Note that if the globe is not thrown or slung within a time period equal to 1 round times the level of the spell caster, it automatically shatters and causes cold damage as stated above. This timed effect can be employed against pursuers, although it can also prove hazardous to the spell caster and/or his or her associates as well. The material components of the spell depend upon in which form it is to be cast. A thin sheet of crystal about an inch square is needed for the first application of the spell, a white sapphire of not less than 1,000 g.p. value for the second application of the spell, and a 1,000 g.p. diamond is minimum for the third application of the spell. All components are lost when the spell is cast.

Explanation/Description: Except as shown above, and also that the material components for this spell are two small sheets of crystal or glass, this spell is the same as the sixth level cleric spell, part water (q.v.).

Explanation/Description: By means of this spell, the magic-user creates a non-material duplicate of himself or herself, projecting it to any spot within spell range which is desired. This image performs actions identical to the magic-user - walking, speaking, spell-casting - as the magic-user determines. A special channel exists between the image of the magic-user and the actual magic-user, so spells cast actually originate from the image. The image can be dispelled only by means of a dispel magic spell (or upon command from the spell caster), and attacks do not affect it. The image must be within view of the magic-user projecting it at all times, and if his or her sight is obstructed, the spell is broken. The material component of this spell is a small replica (doll) of the magic-user.

Explanation/Description: This spell is similar to the seventh level druid spell of the same name (q.v.). It does not require any saving throw for system shock or resurrection survival. The corpse is touched, and a new incarnation of the person will appear in the area in 1 to 6 turns, providing the person has not been dead for longer than 1 day per level of experience of the magic-user. The new incarnation will be:

Note: Very good or very evil persons will not be reincarnated as creatures whose general alignment is the opposite. The material components of the spell are a small drum and a drop of blood.

Explanation/Description: When this spell is cast, the magic-user is able to cause all creatures in the path of the area of effect to move away from his or her person. Repulsion is at 3" per round, or at the motive speed of the creature attempting to move towards the spell caster. The repelled creature will continue to move away for the balance of a complete move even though this takes it beyond spell range. The material component of this spell is a pair of small magnetized iron bars attached to two small canine statuettes, one ivory and one ebony.

Explanation/Description: A spiritwrack spell is a very strong protection/punishment spell against the powerful creatures of the nether planes (Abyssal, Hades, Hell, etc.), but to employ the magic, the spell caster must know the name of the being at whom he or she will direct the energy. Prior to actual utterance of a spiritwrack spell the magic-user must prepare an illuminated sheet of vellum, carefully inscribed in special inks made from powdered rubies and the ichor of a slain demon of type I, II or III and covered with gold leaf in a continuous border. The spell caster must personally prepare this document, including the being's name thereon. (This will require from 8-32 hours of time and cost 1,000 g.p. for vellum, special pens, gold leaf, and other miscellaneous materials alone; the cost of the powdered rubies is a minimum of 5,000 g.p. for each document.) If the demon, devil, or other powerful being from a nether outer plane is present in some form (and not possessing another creature's body instead), the magic-user can then begin actual spell incantation.

Immediately upon beginning the reading of the document, the being named will be rooted to the spot unless it makes its magic resistance percentage (adjusted for the level of the magic-user) as a saving throw; and even if such a saving throw is made, the monster feels greatly uncomfortable, and if it has not been magically forced to the locale and so held there, it is 90% likely to retreat to its own (or another) plane, as the named being is powerless to attack the magic-user while he or she is reading the spell document. This first part of the document continues for 1 full round, with the discomfort to the named being becoming greater at the end. During the second minute of the incantation, the being named undergoes acute pain and loses 1 hit point per hit die it possesses. At the end of this round of reading, the being is in wracking pain. The third and final round of utterance of the condemnation will cause a loss to the being of 50% of its existing hit points, horrible pain, and at the end consign it to some confined space on its own plane - there to remain in torture for a number of years equal to the level of the magic-user who prepared the document.

Obviously, the being so dealt with will be the sworn foe of the magic-user forever afterwards, so the magic-user will be loath to finish the spell but rather use it as a threat to force submission of the being. Each round of reading will cause the being forced to listen to be a cumulative 25% likely to concede even without any other offerings or payment.

Explanation/Description: The stone to flesh spell turns any sort of stone into flesh - if the recipient stone object was formerly living, it will restore life (and goods), although the survival of the creature is subject to the usual system shock survival dice roll. Any formerly living creature, regardless of size, can be thus returned to flesh. Ordinary stone can be likewise turned to flesh at a volume of 9 cubic feet per level of experience of the spell caster. The reverse will turn flesh of any sort to stone, just as the stone to flesh spell functions. All possessions on the person of the creature likewise turn to stone. This reverse of the spell will require a saving throw be allowed the intended victim. The material components of the spell are a pinch of earth and a drop of blood; lime and water and earth are used for the reverse.

Explanation/Description: Tensers' Transformation is a sight guaranteed to astound any creature not aware of its power, for when the magic-user casts the dweomer, he or she undergoes a startling transformation. The size and strength of the magic-user increase to heroic proportions, so he or she becomes a formidable fighting machine, for the spell causes the caster to become a berserk fighter! The magic-users' hit points double, and all damage he or she sustains comes first from the magical points gained; so if damage does not exceed original hit points, none is actually taken, but if damage beyond the additional amount is sustained, each point counts as 2 (double damage). The armor class of the magic-user is a full 4 factors better than that he or she possessed prior to casting the snell (AC 10 goes to 6, AC 9 to 5, AC 8 to 4, etc.), all attacks are at a level equal to those of a fighter of the same level as the magic-user (i.e., the spell caster uses the combat table normally restricted to fighters), and although he or she can employ a dagger only in attacking, damage inflicted by the weapon is at +2 additional hit points, and 2 such attacks per round are made by the magic-user. However, it is worth noting that this spell must run its full course, and the magic-user will continue attacking until all opponents are slain, he or she is killed, the magic is dispelled, or the Transformation duration expires. The material component for casting this dweomer is a potion of heroism (or superheroism) which the magic-user must consume during the course of uttering the spell.

Explanation/Description: This spell is identical to the 6th level druid spell of the same name, except as noted above. The magic-user does not need mistletoe as a material component.