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Panigg
2010-04-27, 05:59 AM
UMBRAL TOUCH
Ap prentice, Touch of Twilight
Level/School: 3rd/Conjuration
Range: Touch
Target: Creature or creatures touched
Duration: 1 minute/level (D); see text
Saving Throw: Fortitude partial; see text
Spell Resistance: Yes
Darkness surrounds your hand, turning it into a deadly weapon.
Umbral touch infuses one of your hands with dark, shadowy
energy, allowing you to make debilitating melee touch
attacks. A successful strike deals 5d6 points of damage to a
target, which must succeed on a Fortitude saving throw or
also be slowed. While this mystery is active, you threaten an
area as if you were armed and can make attacks of opportunity
with your umbral touch.
This mystery completely occupies one of your hands, as if
you were holding an object in that hand. If you have another
open hand, you can cast other mysteries or spells normally,
even those with a range of touch, but you cannot deliver
another touch mystery or touch spell and make an attack
with umbral touch in the same round.
This effect normally lasts for 1 minute per level, but each
successful touch attack shortens the
duration by 1 minute (allowing you to
make one successful attack per level
before the effect is discharged).

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How exactly does the slow work?

We can't come to a conclusion. Is it one round? Is it the duration of the spell or what?

The Cat Goddess
2010-04-27, 07:08 AM
Typically with secondary-type effects, the effect lasts for 1 round.

Given that there is no save on the damage, that's the read I'd take.

Panigg
2010-04-27, 08:57 AM
Seems fair, considering the save will increase to that of a supernatural ability later on.

Scorpions__
2010-04-27, 09:50 AM
This effect normally lasts for 1 minute per level, but each
successful touch attack shortens the
duration by 1 minute

I would say that the slow effect lasts until the duration of the mystery expires. I realize that 'effect' may mean the glove you have on your hand doing the damage and rendering the effects, but I think they would have pointed that out.





DM[F]R

Panigg
2010-04-27, 10:53 AM
That is what I thought. But the slow works for 1 min/ CL.

At Level 9 you could stab 8 people and stop stabbing to slow them for another minute. Which seems wrong.

I think the 1 round / level is pretty decent.