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Phantasmal Killer

(Player's Handbook v.3.5, page 260, DnD 3.5)


Illusion (Phantasm) [Mind-Affecting], [Fear]


Level: ; Sorcerer/Wizard 4; Warmage 4; Duskblade 4; Hexblade 4; Death Master 4; Sha'ir 4; Dread Necromancer 4; , Madness 6, ; , Dream 4, ; , Illusion 4
Components: V, S
Casting Time: 1 standard action
Range: Medium (100 ft. + 10 ft./level)
Target: One living creature
Duration: Instantaneous
Saving Throw: Will disbelief (if interacted with), then Fortitude partial; see text
Spell Resistance: Yes

You create a phantasmal image of the most fearsome creature imaginable to the subject simply by forming the fears of the subject's subconscious mind into something that its conscious mind can visualize: this most horrible beast. Only the spell's subject can see the phantasmal killer. You see only a vague shape. The target first gets a Will save to recognize the image as unreal. If that save fails, the phantasm touches the subject, and the subject must succeed on a Fortitude save or die from fear. Even if the Fortitude save is successful, the subject takes 3d6 points of damage.

If the subject of a phantasmal killer attack succeeds in disbelieving and is wearing a helm of telepathy, the beast can be turned upon you. You must then disbelieve it or become subject to its deadly fear attack.