Symbol Of Pain
Triggered rune wracks creatures with pain.
- School
- Necromancy
- Casting Time
- —
- Range
- —
- Target
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- Duration
- —
- Saving Throw
- —
- Spell Resistance
- No
- Components
- V S M · 1000 gp
This spell functions like symbol of death, except that each creature within the radius of a symbol of pain instead suffers wracking pains that impose a –4 penalty on attack rolls, skill checks, and ability checks. These effects last for 1 hour after the creature moves farther than 60 feet from the symbol.
Unlike symbol of death, symbol of pain has no hit point limit; once triggered, a symbol of pain simply remains active for 10 minutes per caster level.
NoteMagic traps such as symbol of pain are hard to detect and disable. While any character can use Perception to find a symbol, only a character with the trapfinding class feature can use Disable Device to disarm it. The DC in each case is 25 + spell level, or 30 for symbol of pain.