Magic/Spells/Diminish Plants

Keywords: Blight

Prerequisites: Decay(Nature-Anima) Affinity

Target: Area (see text)

Duration: instantaneous.

Range: Long

Action: 4 AP

Saving Throw: None

Spell Resistance: No

Description: You may spend a spell point to cause plant life within a 60 foot line, or 10 foot radius to shrink in size to about ⅓  their normal size, becoming untangled and less bushy. You may also designate portions of the area that are not affected. The vegetation affected by this may look as if it was carefully pruned and trimmed or as if it has withered (caster’s choice). This has no effect on plant creatures.

If cast upon plantlife that was magically created (such as the grasping vines spell) you may make an opposed SPB check to dispel the magically enhanced plantlife.

At 4th BCB this ability may be used to diminish plant life to the extent it removes plant-based cover or concealment provided by trees and undergrowth.

Antiplant Shell
Prerequisite: Diminish Plants, BCB 8th

Keywords: Shell

Target: 10 foot radius burst, centered on you

Duration: concentration or 1 minute per BCB.

Range: Personal

Benefit: This spell created an invisible, mobile barrier that keeps all creatures within the shell protected from attacks by plant creatures or animated plants. The barrier cannot be used to push away plant creatures, but prevents them from entering the area. Instead of paying the spell point you may concentrate on the spell; while concentrating you may indefinitely keep out plant life, but if you choose to let the barrier continue without concentration it lasts 1 minute per BCB and has a total of 20 hit points per SPB; once these hits point are depleted the barrier breaks and the spell ends.

Blight
Prerequisite: BCB 4th

Saving Throw: Resilience(End) Half

Benefit: Plant creatures within the area of Diminish plants begin to wither, taking 1d6 untyped damage per BCB. A failed Resilience(End) save deals half. Non-creature plants receive no save and immediately wither and die.

Deforest
Prerequisite: Greater Diminish, Diminish Plants, BCB 12th

Target: ½ Mile Radius burst.

Range: Personal

Saving Throw: None

Benefit: You may spend an additional spell point to cause your diminish plants spell to target all plants for a mile radius burst from yourself. This talent may not be combined with other Diminish plants talents except for Stunt Growth.

Greater Diminish
Prerequisite: Diminish Plants, BCB 6th

Saving Throw: None

Benefit: When using Diminish plants you may spend an additional spell point to target a wider area of a 100-foot-radius circle, a 150-foot-radius semicircle, or a 200-foot-radius quarter-circle. This talent may not be combined with other Diminish plants talents besides Stunt Growth.

Stunt Growth
Prerequisite: Diminish Plants

Saving Throw: None

Benefit: When using Diminish plants you may choose to stunt the growth, reducing their productivity for the next year to half normal; causing the plants to produce half as much or grow half as much. You may choose to use this effect along or alongside the base effect of Diminish plants.

Targeted Diminish
Prerequisite: Diminish Plants, BCB 2nd

Target: One Plant Creature

Saving Throw: Resilience(End) negates (see text)

Duration: 1d4 +1 rounds. Benefit: You may target this spell against a plant creature, making a Resilience(End) save attack against them. If successful the plant creature takes 2d8 decay damage and becomes sickened; if you succeed by more than two degrees it becomes nauseated. A failed save attack deals half damage.