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Create Magic Tattoo

(Player's Guide to Faerûn, DnD 3.5)


Conjuration (Creation)


Level: ; Sorcerer/Wizard 2
Components: V, S, M
Casting Time: 10 minutes
Range: Touch
Target: Creature touched
Duration: 1 day
Saving Throw: None
Spell Resistance: Yes (harmless)

This spell creates a single magic tattoo.
You determine the exact type of tattoo, though the selection is limited by your caster level, as indicated below.
You must possess a modicum of artistic talent to sketch the desired tattoo—at least 1 rank of Craft (drawing), Craft (painting), Craft (calligraphy), or a similar Craft skill.
Inscribing a magic tattoo requires a successful Craft check.
The DC varies with the kind of tattoo, as noted below.
If you are a 3rd- to 6th-level caster, you can inscribe a tattoo that generates any one of the following effects (Craft DC 10).

  • +2 resistance bonus on one type of saving throw (Fortitude, Reflex, or Will).
  • +1 luck bonus on attack rolls.
  • +1 deflection bonus to AC.

At 7th to 12th caster level, you can add the following tattoos to the list that you can inscribe (Craft DC 15):
  • +2 resistance bonus on all saving throws.
  • +2 competence bonus on attack rolls.

When your caster level reaches 13th, you may add the following to the list of tattoos you can inscribe (Craft DC 20).
  • Spell resistance equal to 10 + 1/six caster levels.
  • +2 enhancement bonus to any one ability score.
  • +1 level of spellcasting ability.

This effect increases the subject's effective level, but not the total number of spells.
For example, an 11th-level caster who receives this tattoo functions as a 12th-level caster for the purpose of determining level-based spell variables (such as range, area, effect, and so on), but he does not receive any extra spells.
A single creature can have only three magic tattoos at a time.
Any attempt to apply more than that automatically fails.
A successful erase spell removes a single magic tattoo.
A successful dispel magic spell can remove multiple magic tattoos if targeted on the creature bearing them (see the dispel magic spell description, page 223 of the Player's Handbook).
Material Components: Tattoo inks in appropriate colors costing at least 100 gp.
Focus: Tattoo needles.