must be non-humanoid; +1 circumstance bonus on ritual skill checks per 100, L in the wilderness, T begin 7 days before the Spring Equinox Optional Components F the tome Cultes des Goules
Trang 1must be non-humanoid; +1 circumstance bonus on ritual
skill checks per 100), L (in the wilderness), T (begin 7 days
before the Spring Equinox)
Optional Components F (the tome Cultes des Goules
gives a +5 insight bonus on ritual skill checks if at least
100 Mythos ghouls participate)
Skill Checks Craft (masonry) DC 15, 1 success (diagram);
Knowledge (planes) or Profession (Yog-Sothothery
philosopher) DC 30, 7 successes
Range 50 miles
Diagram the focus pillars must be evenly spaced at least 30
feet apart in the shape of a “V” and kept covered in blood
no less than 24 hours old for the duration of the ritual
Area 50-mile radius centered on primary caster
Duration 1 year
Saving Throw none; Spell Resistance no
This powerful ritual channels the fecundity of
Shub-Niggurath to an area, which gives Shub-Shub-Niggurath
influence stage 2 (see page 274) over the area for
the duration Crops are lusher, beasts and humanoids
breed more easily and quickly, and fertility increases
significantly in general Additionally, 50% of all
creatures born are mutated in some way This may be
simply be a strange appearance and a Mythos taint that
grants a bonus on ritual skill checks, or as extreme as
being a Mythos satyr (see page 367) or having the
half-fiend template Each of the ritual's focus pillars is
Huge, with hardness 8 and 600 hit points If a pillar
takes 300 or more points of damage, it is unusable
for the ritual (and the ritual fails) During the ritual
casting, the first time a pillar is damaged in some
way, a dark young of Shub-Niggurath (see page 309)
emerges from the woods or wilderness within 300 feet
to defend it and kill any interlopers This can occur
once for each pillar
PROTECTIVE AURA
School abjuration; Level 4
Casting Time 1 minute (2 phases of 5 rounds)
Skill Checks Knowledge (arcana) or Profession
(Yog-Sothothery philosopher) DC 10, 1 success (diagram);
Knowledge (planes) or Profession (Yog-Sothothery
philosopher) DC 15, 1 success
Range 5 ft.
Diagram 5-ft radius circle centered on the caster Area diagram
Duration ritual casting time; see text Saving Throw Will negates (harmless); Spell Resistance
yes (harmless) This ritual siphons off excess magical energy from another ritual to protect the caster during that other ritual's casting time To use the aura, the caster must immediately begin casting another ritual within 1 round and remain within the circle she draws as part
of this ritual Once the next ritual's casting begins, the caster gains the benefits of stoneskin and her choice of
protection from chaos, protection from evil, protection from good, or protection from law These protections last only until the caster completes casting the new ritual
or until she leaves the protective circle, at which point they end immediately
THE RED SIGN School transmutation [chaotic, evil]; Level 7 Casting Time 4 hours (2 phases of 2 hours; interruption
causes automatic failure)
Components V, S, M (a slashing weapon of at least +3 or
equivalent enhancement used to carve the Red Sign,
and blood no more than 24 hours old of at least four creatures of size equal to the target), SC (at least 5 and up
to 12 providing verbal components, each of whom must have at least 1 rank in Knowledge [religion] or Profession [Yog-Sothothery philosopher] or have Mythos taint), L (a smooth basin filled with blood from intelligent creatures and some of the blood of the subject, in which the target
is almost entirely submerged)
Skill Checks Knowledge (nature) or Profession
(Yog-Sothothery philosopher) DC 15, 1 success (diagram); Knowledge (religion) or Profession (Yog-Sothothery philosopher) DC 30, 1 success
Range touch Diagram a simple circular diagram surrounds the basin
containing the target
Target living, non-mindless, non-humanoid
creature touched
Duration permanent Saving Throw Fortitude negates (harmless); Spell Resistance yes (harmless)