Level: 4
Range: 1" /level (distance from caster to chosen spell focus)
Duration: 1 round/level
Area of Effect: Special
Components: V,S,M
Casting Time: 6 segments
Saving Throw: ½

A briartangle
spell causes living shrubbery or
undergrowth of any type to be instantly
changed to densely tangled briars of
the thorniest sort, growing to 6" in
height and increasing in horizontal volume
to a 1" circular radius, plus 1"
additional radius for every 2 levels of
experience of the caster (thus, a 2nd level
druid would cause a briartangle of
2" radius).

The briars can be readily
forced through, but will snag and halt
missiles, thrown objects, or flying creatures
within their confines; all creatures
trapped within a briartangle
when it forms, or those that enter it
thereafter, will suffer 3-6 points of
piercing and scratching damage per
round, or portion thereof, that they
remain in contact with the spell. Beings
clad in banded, scale, or plate mail have
all damage thus done lessened to 1-3
points per round. This also applies to
creatures made of rock or with skin of
comparable hardness, but creatures
with lesser armor, such as chain, take
full damage, with or without a shield. In
all cases, a successful save vs. spells
equals half damage. Spell casting
requiring a somatic component is
impossible within a briartangle, and
cloth raiment and items must save vs.
acid once per round (or portion thereof)
that they are within the briartangle?s
confines or be rent and torn. A briartangle
will vanish instantly if the caster
so wills, but otherwise exists for 1
round per experience level of the caster,
the plants afterwards reverting to
their former state.

Fire will destroy a briartangle in a
round, but creatures within it take 2-12
hit points of fiery damage (no saving
throw). The area where a briartangle
was cast radiates a faint dweomer for 2-
6 turns after the spell has expired, and
can be used to confuse creatures following
a pass without trace trail by
detecting a dweomer.

MC: Living plants of any type (which are
transformed into the briartangle), mistletoe,
a thorn from any plant, and a
bud, petal, or leaf from a briar (wild
rose).
 
 

Book of Num "the Mad"

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