Spell: Caustic Hand
Acid | Burning⚙️
Hand Spell
Arcane | Primal | Evocation
Stats
- Tradition(s); Ability Rank: Evocation ; 2
- Availability: u.Spell List: Arcane, Primal
- Complexity: Complex
- Cost: 2
-- Use Time: 1 action / ◈
- Component(s): Verbal, Somatic
- Display: None
-- Range: 120 ft
- Target(s): 1 target
- Duration: Instant / up to 1 minute
- Saving Throw: Reflex
Description
An ephemeral, taloned hand grips the target, burning it with magical acid.
Effects
Choose one creature you can see within range. You conjure the hand in their space, and they must make a Reflex Save vs your Save DC, or take 4d6 ⤴/ Acid damage and lose 10 MOVEMENT at the start of their next turn.
If they Critically Fail their save, you can forcefully move them 10 ft in any direction if they are Large or smaller, and they gain Burning Damage⚙️ equal to the amount of damage dealt.
This spell does double damage to enemies with Armor HP
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Failure: Creature(s) takes the listed damage.
Critical Failure: Creature(s) takes the listed damage and is moved 10 ft, and gains Burning..
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Success: Creature takes half damage.
Critical Success: Creature takes no damage.
Augmentation + other notes
⤴/Augment Up: When you cast this spell using a spell slot of 3rd level or higher, the damage increases by [2d6] for every spell slot levels above 2nd.
↣/Augmented by Chaining: If you are using a Hand Spell at the same time as Caustic Hand, the hand may persist after the spell's casting for up to 1 minute, taking on the Commands / ◇ and aspects of your other Hand spells. If so, caustic hand adds 2d6 acid damage to other commands when necessary.