Welda’s Ruthless Plague

This Spell is a self-made homebrew by the author. Use it at your own risk.
In playtest.

Ruthless Plague is a devastating spell able to cause an epidemic on a battlefield. It is designed to damage large crowds in a short period of time.

Effect

Target creature makes a Constitution saving throw. On failed save, the target suffers 2d4 poison damage or half as much on successful save (minimum of 1). In case of the failed save, starting from the target's next turn, the target takes 1d4 poison damage at the end of each of their turn until the spell is dropped. While the target is under this effect, any creature in 5 feet of it not already under the effect takes a constitution saving throw at the start of their turn. On a failed save, they will also be affected by the spell. The spell does not affect constructs.

A creature that has been under a spell’s effect or has succeeded the saving throw against it can’t be affected by it again for 24 hours.

At Higher Levels: Spell damage changes in different casting levels in the following ways: at the 4th level, initial damage turns to 2d6 and secondary to 1d6, at 6th level to 4d4 and secondary to 2d4, and on 8th level to 4d6 and secondary to 2d6.

Manifestation

Sickly, hissing and buzzing cloud of gas swirls around the caster before flying towards the target, taking a form of a swarm of thousands of ethereal skeletal rats to corrupt their victim. Air fills with a smell of rot.

Discovery

The spell was discovered and written by Welda Briarrose, Professor of Necromancy from the

Silver Shore Academy of Magi. It is only available to her top students, considering the worrying implications of this spell going array in the wrong place at the wrong time.

The spell was created as part of Welda's attempts to further understanding of magical diseases.

Material Components

Whiskers of a diseased giant rat

Gestures & Ritual

V, S, M

Related Discipline

Wizard, Warlock, Druid, Cleric

Related School

Necromancy

Related Element

Poison

Effect Duration

Concentration, Up to 30 seconds (5 turns)

Effect Casting Time

1 action

Range

30 feet

Level

2

Applied Restriction

Constructs are immune to the spell's effect.

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NPC tied spells

Certain spells in Melyria are tied to a certain NPC. These spells appear on the Extended spell-list with the name of the NPC in the title. To unlock one of these spells in the game, they must be obtained from the NPC or someone related to them in-game.

This spell is tied to

Welda Briarrose

Source(s): Original Melyria creation, NPC tied, Homebrew by Tiirikka

Welda’s Ruthless Plague

2nd-level Necromancy

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Casting time

1 action

Range

30 ft

Components

V, S, M [Whiskers of a diseased giant rat]

Duration

Concentration, up to 30 seconds (5 turns)

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Sickly, hissing and buzzing cloud of gas swirls around the caster before flying towards the target, taking a form of a swarm of thousands of ethereal skeletal rats to corrupt their victim. Air fills with a smell of rot.

Target creature makes a Constitution saving throw. On failed save, the target suffers 2d4 poison damage or half as much on successful save. In case of the failed save, starting from the target's next turn, the target takes 1d4 poison damage at the end of each of their turn until the spell is dropped. While the target is under this effect, any creature in 5 feet of it not already under the effect takes a constitution saving throw at the start of their turn. On a failed save, they will also be affected by the spell. The spell does not affect constructs.

A creature that has been under a spell’s effect or has succeeded the saving throw against it can’t be affected by it again for 24 hours.

At higher levels

Spell damage changes in different casting levels in the following ways: at the 4th level, initial damage turns to 2d6 and secondary to 1d6 , at 6th level to 4d4 and secondary to 2d4 , and on 8th level to 4d6 and secondary to 2d6 .

Level	Initial Damage	Secondary Damage
2nd	2d4	1d4
3rd	2d4	1d4
4th	2d6	1d6
5th	2d6	1d6
6th	4d4	4d4
7th	4d4	4d4
8th	4d6	2d6
9th	4d6	2d6

Damage type(s)

Poison

Available to

Clerics, Druids, Warlocks, Wizards

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Quick tags:

lvl2 spell, lvl2 necromancy spell, poison-dmg spell, lvl2 cleric spell, lvl2 druid spell, lvl2 warlock spell, lvl2 wizard spell, OMC

Notes:

Certain spells in Melyria are tied to a certain NPC. These spells appear on the Extended spell-list with the name of the NPC in the title. To unlock one of these spells in the game, they must be obtained from the NPC or someone related to them in-game.

This spell is tied to Welda Briarrose.