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Athenaeum Arcane:

Spells of the Vampire

Introduction

Vampires make very effective spell-

casters. Their bonuses to Intelligence and

Charisma make them good wizards and

exceptional sorcerers, while many vam-

pires enjoy the clerics’ ability to rebuke

and control other forms of undead. In

either case, with their improved Hit Die

and bonuses to Strength and Dexterity,

they are far-more resilient and therefore

independent than mortal spellcasters.

This allows them to explore the bound-

aries of their foul magic in private, and

without disturbance. For vampire spell-

casters, the transformation to undeath is

only one more stepping stone on the path

to absolute power.

Uninterrupted centuries in which to

research and experiment have led to

numerous dark, arcane spells unique to

vampire-like. Some spells are designed

to reflect a vampire’s obsession with

blood. Other spells improve a vampire’s

natural abilities, and compensate for its

weaknesses.

Athenaeum Arcane: Spells of the

Vampire presents twelve spells unique to

the Lords of the Night, arranged in alpha-

betical order.

the spells

A NTICOAGULANT

Necromancy

only be halted with a successful Heal

check (DC 15) or with the use of any cure

spell or other healing spell.

Material Components: A mosquito.

Level: Clr 1, Sor/Wiz 1

Components: S, M

Casting Time: 1 action

Range: Close (25 ft. + 5 ft./2 levels)

Target: One creature

Duration: 1 round/level

Saving Throw: Fortitude negates (harm-

less)

Spell Resistance: Yes (harmless)

B LOOD C LOT

Necromancy

Level: Sor/Wiz 6

Components: V, S. M

Casting Time: 1 action

Range: Touch

Target: Living creature bitten

Duration: See text

Saving Throw: Yes (see text)

Spell Resistance: Yes

You make an arcane gesture with one

hand, targeting a single creature within

range. The subject must make a Fortitude

save or its blood becomes dangerously

thin. For one round per level of the caster,

each successful attack against the crea-

ture acts as if by a wounding weapon

(lose 1 additional hp/round from each

consecutive attack). This bleeding can

After casting this spell, you must suc-

cessfully drink blood from a target within

2 rounds/per level or it dissipates. Your

blood drain attack deals damage as nor-

mal, but in addition your saliva contami-

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nates the victims’ veins, causing blood to

rapidly coagulate in its heart.

Creatures of HD less than the vam-

pire’s caster level must succeed at a

Fortitude save or die instantly. On a suc-

cessful save, the victim takes 2d6+1d6

per level points of damage, up to a maxi-

mum of 12d6 damage. Creatures of HD

greater than the caster level take no dam-

age on a successful save, but take suffer

2d6+1d6 per level points of damage, up

to a maximum of 12d6 damage, on a

failed save.

A powerful spell, it is nonetheless only

selectively used by vampires because the

victim is rendered dead, and thus its

blood unpalatable. This ability can only

be used once per casting.

This spell has no effect on creatures

that are not subject to critical hits.

Material Components: A small vial of

congealed blood.

victim at the casting vampire’s normal

rate (typically 1d4 points of Constitution

per round), and can be stored within the

bloodskin as sustenance for 1 day per

level of the caster.

Once drained, or when the spell’s

duration expires (whichever comes first),

the bloodskin quickly rots into a foul,

maggot-infested blob of meat.

Material Component: A sliver from a

waterskin that held blood.

F RENZIED F EEDER

Transmutation

Level: 1

Components: V

Casting Time: 1 action

Range: Touch

Target: One vampire

Duration: see text

Saving Throw: None

Spell Resistance: No

B LOODSKIN

Necromancy

You allow the target vampire to drain

blood from its victims much more rapidly

than is otherwise possible, invaluable

when it’s not possible to find a secure,

secluded place to feed. Though the vam-

pires teeth do grow marginally larger

(providing +1 to Bite attacks), the ability

to drain blood faster is largely a matter of

magically expanded throat and tissue

(where the blood is stored prior to “diges-

tion”) capacity. A vampire under the

effects of frenzied feeding drains 2d4

points of Constitution damage each

round, instead of 1d4.

This spell lasts for 1 hour per level of

the caster, or until such time as the vam-

pire feeds. Once the vampire begins to

drain blood, the spell remains in effect for

1 round for every 2 levels of the caster.

Level: 4

Components: V, S. M

Casting Time: 1 action

Range: Close (25 ft. +5 ft./2 levels)

Target: One creature

Duration: See Text

Saving Throw: Fortitude partial (see text)

Spell Resistance: Yes

This spell draws blood from a victim

in the form of a red mist, which condens-

es into a stream of fluid and is then stored

in a magically created flask made of

human epidermis. The bloodskin is warm

to the touch, ruddy in complexion with

small veins crisscrossing its surface, and

pulsates mildly. Blood is drained from a

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R ULES FOR F EEDING

Vampire’s feed exclusively on the fresh blood of humanoids, draining 1d4

points of Constitution each round a bite is maintained. Only creature’s that are

subject to critical hits may be drained of blood: constructs, elementals (save for

the extremely rare Blood Elemental), oozes, plants, and undead with the excep-

tion of other vampires are immune to this ability. Vampires cannot ingest normal

food or liquids, and take 1d6 points of damage and must make a Fortitude save

(DC 16) to avoid being shaken for 1d10 rounds should they elect to consume

them.

Vampires prefer humanoid blood, but will also willingly drink from giants,

monstrous humanoids, shapechangers, and most magical beasts. However, aber-

rations, animals, beasts, and vermin are typically avoided as their blood tastes foul

to vampires and is somehow less nourishing.

H EART R ENDER

Transmutation

pire suffers a -2 circumstance penalty on

its Fortitude save against destruction.

While it would seem this spell would

be most readily used by crusaders and

witch-hunters, in fact it most often sees

use among vampires themselves, espe-

cially younger sires seeking to partake of

the power of their elders.

Level: Sor/Wiz 5

Components: V, S

Casting Time: 1 action

Range: Touch

Target: Living Creature Touched

Duration: 1 round/level

Saving Throw: None

Spell Resistance: No

H UNGRY G RAVE

Transmutation

You cause the skin of the target crea-

ture’s hands to transform into rowan

wood, a species of tree known to be par-

ticularly deadly to vampires. The affected

creature’s slam attacks are thereafter

treated as a +1 weapon for purposes of

overcoming a vampire’s damage reduc-

tion. The critical threat range of these

slam attacks are 17-20 against vampires,

and on a successful critical hit the target

literally thrusts his fist into the vampires’

heart, paralyzing the creature as if it had

been staked. The target deals double dam-

age on a successful coup de grace attack

against a helpless vampire, and that vam-

Level: Clr 3, Sor/Wiz 3

Components: V, S, M

Casting Time: 1 action

Range: Long (400 ft. + 40 ft./level)

Area: Dirt in an area 6 feet square and 6

feet deep

Duration: 2 rounds/level

Saving Throw: None

Spell Resistance: No

The earth forms skeletal-looking arms

that reach out to attack a single Medium-

size or smaller foe within 30 feet. Unless

the foe succeeds at a grapple check (the

animated earth is considered to have

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Strength 21), the arms grab hold and

begin to drag the victim into the earth. In

the first round, the victim sinks to his

waists and can no longer move and loses

any Dexterity bonus to AC. On the sec-

ond round, the victim is pulled complete-

ly underground to a depth of six feet.

Other characters can help pull the victim

free by winning an opposed Strength

check against the earth, as per the “Break

Another’s Pin” action (see “Grapple” in

Chapter Eight of the Players handbook ).

Starting on the third round, the victim

must make Fortitude saves as per drown-

ing.

The animated earth can only attack

one individual at a time, and once a vic-

tim is grappled cannot turn its attention to

another until its victim is either dead or

has broken free. If cast within the con-

fines of a graveyard, the spell’s duration

lasts twice as long (4 rounds/level) and

the animated earth is considered to have

Strength 24.

Material Components : A handful of

grave soil and a humanoid finger-bone.

tures there. A creature in the rain who takes

no actions other than shielding himself

from the maggots takes 1 point of damage

on its turn. A creature in the rain who takes

any other action, including leaving the

swarm, takes 1 point of damage per caster

level. Spellcasting or concentrating on

spells within the swarm is impossible.

Damage reduction, being incorporeal, and

other special abilities makes the creature

immune to damage from the swarm.

Creatures within the rain who suffer

slashing or piercing wounds from may also

find their wounds infested by the maggots.

The creature must make a Fortitude save

(DC 10+ 1 per point of damage suffered in

the wound in question) to prevent maggots

from burrowing into the exposed flesh.

These ravenous maggots cause 1 point per

two caster levels of bite damage per infect-

ed wound every hour. Cleansing the body

of maggots requires a Heal roll (DC 12 +1

per hour of infestation), or a cure light

wounds spell per infected wound.

Material Components: A single maggot

and a drop of water.

M AGGOT R AIN

Conjuration (Summoning)

M IRROR G EIST

Illusion (Figment)

Level: Sor/Wiz 4

Components: V, S, M

Casting Time: 1 full round

Range: Medium (100 ft. + 10 ft./level)

Effect: Swarm of maggots in one 20-ft.

cube/2 levels

Duration: Concentration + 2 rounds

Saving Throw: None, or Fortitude negates

(see below)

Spell Resistance: No

Level: Sor/Wiz 2

Components: V, S

Casting Time: 1 action

Range: Long (400 ft. + 40 ft./level)

Effect: Visual figment confined to reflec-

tive surface

Duration: 1 minute/level

Saving Throw: Will disbelief

Spell Resistance: No

A rain of vile maggots rains down on

the effect’s area and then pools on the floor,

viciously attacking all other living crea-

A vampire does not appear in mirrors,

still waters, or any other reflective sur-

face. Moreover, the sight of a mirror, or

more properly his lack of a reflection in

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