spell name: STORE LOCATION | list name: Planar Survival | level: 1 | realm: Arcane | type: closed arcane | spell class: I* | duration: permanent | range: self | area of effect: self | sourcebook: spell user's companion |
description: Allows caster to memorize a precise location on a plane for use with other spells. |
spell name: SCAN PATTERN | list name: Planar Survival | level: 3 | realm: Arcane | type: closed arcane | spell class: F | duration: permanent | range: self | area of effect: self | sourcebook: spell user's companion |
description: Allows caster to determine the composition of a being for use with Transfigure Form. A pattern which has been scanned, may be stored in memory normally. |
spell name: DETERMINE LOCATION | list name: Planar Survival | level: 4 | realm: Arcane | type: closed arcane | spell class: I | duration: - | range: 1 plane | area of effect: self | sourcebook: spell user's companion |
description: Allows caster to determine his location on one plane based upon direction and distance to a previously designated point. If caster leaves this plane, he must re-designate a measuring point. |
spell name: FOCUS | list name: Planar Survival | level: 5 | realm: Arcane | type: closed arcane | spell class: U | duration: varies | range: self | area of effect: self | sourcebook: spell user's companion |
description: Allows caster to develop the total focus necessary for a 'speed shift' spell without the danger of straining the mind to the point of permanent damage. Note all insanity damage takes effect, but it is of a temporary nature only. Insanity duration is equal to the level of the insanity in days. |
spell name: ANALYZE | list name: Planar Survival | level: 6 | realm: Arcane | type: closed arcane | spell class: I | duration: - | range: sight | area of effect: self | sourcebook: spell user's companion |
description: Allows caster to determine the exact parameters of a perceived area. These parameters will delineate what would be required to allow the caster to survive at that location. |
spell name: XENO-SKILL | list name: Planar Survival | level: 7 | realm: Arcane | type: closed arcane | spell class: I | duration: 1 round / level | range: self | area of effect: self | sourcebook: spell user's companion |
description: Allows caster to overcome the -25 bonus for any Xeno-lore skill. Thus, caster would have +0 with the affected skill. |
spell name: ANOMALY WARNING | list name: Planar Survival | level: 8 | realm: Arcane | type: closed arcane | spell class: F | duration: varies | range: self | area of effect: self | sourcebook: spell user's companion |
description: Caster is immediately warned, when travelling in an extra-planar manner such as Gating, Ethereally Travelling, etc. of any environmental danger that may affect him. For example, Gozer, the planar traveler, is about to step through a gate. The area he is about to enter appears safe and hospitable (to his present form). It is not. The instant any part of Gozer passes through the gate, he is warned that there is something wrong (not what is wrong, however). Assuming Gozer survives this small penetration into the new plane, he may attempt to discern what is incompatible between his form and the planar environment he is about to enter and, if possible, correct the mismatch. Once this spell is triggered, it must be recast. If a caster changes his form (to something with different environmental needs or tolerances) he must recast this spell with those differences in mind, else the Warning will not be accurate and will feed him potentially false information. |
spell name: FATHOM COMMUNICATION | list name: Planar Survival | level: 9 | realm: Arcane | type: closed arcane | spell class: I | duration: concentration | range: self | area of effect: self | sourcebook: spell user's companion |
description: Allows caster to understand radically different forms of communication, e.g., communication based upon differences in vibration, gravity, mass, etc. Caster may utilize the new form of communication if his physiology permits, e.g., to communicate with a being that 'talks' by altering its mass, caster must be able to alter his mass also. |
spell name: RESIST SHIFT | list name: Planar Survival | level: 10 | realm: Arcane | type: closed arcane | spell class: F* | duration: 1 round / level | range: self | area of effect: self | sourcebook: spell user's companion |
description: Caster gains +3 per level bonus to resist any type of travel involving crossing a planar barrier such as summoning, banishment, passing through a gate, etc. |
spell name: TRANSFIGURE FORM | list name: Planar Survival | level: 11 | realm: Arcane | type: closed arcane | spell class: F | duration: 10 minutes / level | range: self | area of effect: self | sourcebook: spell user's companion |
description: Allows caster to change his form into that of one being/creature on which he has cast Scan Pattern. Caster gains none of the abilities of the form acquired, other than those relating to the natural environment of the being/creature. Caster's new body does require the sort of environment necessary to support it. |
spell name: PLANAR CONCEPT | list name: Planar Survival | level: 12 | realm: Arcane | type: closed arcane | spell class: F | duration: 1 round / level | range: self | area of effect: self | sourcebook: spell user's companion |
description: Allows caster's mind to merge with the reality of the planes. This provides the caster with a +2 per level bonus to the following skills: Demon/Devil Lore, Hostile Environments (Extra-Planar), Sense Reality Warp, and Time Sense. |
spell name: ENVIRONMENTAL SPHERE | list name: Planar Survival | level: 13 | realm: Arcane | type: closed arcane | spell class: F | duration: 10 minutes / level | range: 10'/lvl | area of effect: varies | sourcebook: spell user's companion |
description: Creates a sphere (up to T radius per level) that maintains the environment needed by the target to survive including the correct and survivable temperature range, right air mixture, etc. Sphere is centered on target and moves with him. This sphere is not solid and only prevents hostile environmental material from passing - this does not include elemental attacks. |
spell name: MIND BASTION | list name: Planar Survival | level: 14 | realm: Arcane | type: closed arcane | spell class: F | duration: 1 round / level | range: self | area of effect: self | sourcebook: spell user's companion |
description: Allows caster to not see anything which his mind could not handle and thus would cause him harm. This is dangerous, however, as the caster is still vulnerable to the unseen creatures or objects. |
spell name: IRREVOCABLE STASIS | list name: Planar Survival | level: 15 | realm: Arcane | type: closed arcane | spell class: F | duration: varies | range: self | area of effect: self | sourcebook: spell user's companion |
description: Caster places himself into total stasis until a chosen trigger occurs: certain length of time passes, certain friends happen by, etc. Caster is encased in a force bubble, hence nothing can affect him until he comes out of stasis. |
spell name: PLANAR RESCUE | list name: Planar Survival | level: 16 | realm: Arcane | type: closed arcane | spell class: S* | duration: - | range: self | area of effect: self | sourcebook: spell user's companion |
description: Caster is immediately transported to chosen Stored Location. Caster may preset conditions which will trigger this spell such as his death, incapacitation, entering a totally inhospitable place, etc. 'Distance' of travel need not be planar in nature. |
spell name: ELEMENTAL IMMUNITY | list name: Planar Survival | level: 17 | realm: Arcane | type: closed arcane | spell class: F | duration: 1 round / level | range: self | area of effect: self | sourcebook: spell user's companion |
description: Allows caster total immunity to any one type of element. This spell prevents PEM poisoning (see Elemental Companion), damage from the element, etc. This protection extends to all of the caster's non-living possessions within a 5' radius. Only one Elemental Immunity spell may be in effect on one person at any time. To change the element protected from, caster must recast this spell. |
spell name: REALITY ANCHOR | list name: Planar Survival | level: 18 | realm: Arcane | type: closed arcane | spell class: U | duration: 1 round / level | range: self | area of effect: self | sourcebook: spell user's companion |
description: Allows caster to see things based on what he understands, e.g., see an X level extra-planar being as a 13th level being, or see a spell-like effect as if it were a spell (including who caused it etc.). This would allow caster to interact with creatures/beings whose true form might drive him mad etc. without mental harm. |
spell name: REFUGE | list name: Planar Survival | level: 19 | realm: Arcane | type: closed arcane | spell class: F | duration: varies | range: self | area of effect: self | sourcebook: spell user's companion |
description: Caster is totally removed from reality. He exists, in a personal void. Nothing may reach caster while so separated. This separation exists for as long as caster wills it at the casting of the spell (potentially permanently if so desired). This personal void has no dimensions, and the caster is capable of no actions (other than magical or mental). Caster may exit to any location he has seen before. Caster may remain for as long as desired. |
spell name: COMPREHEND TRUTH | list name: Planar Survival | level: 20 | realm: Arcane | type: closed arcane | spell class: U | duration: 1 round / level | range: self | area of effect: self | sourcebook: spell user's companion |
description: Allows caster to see things based upon the truth. This spell acts to protect the mind from totally alien perceptions by expanding the mind so it can understand those perceptions without the crutch of Reality Anchor or similar spells. |
spell name: VOIDAL FLEXIBILITY | list name: Planar Survival | level: 25 | realm: Arcane | type: closed arcane | spell class: U | duration: 1 round / level | range: self | area of effect: self | sourcebook: spell user's companion |
description: Allows caster's mind to accept the reality of the Void. Caster is then able to perceive the subtle differences between objects and creatures originating from the Void. This will prevent the disorientation that usually follows as a result of the lack of reality necessary to form accurate perceptions when dealing with creatures from the Void or with conditions present in the Void itself (the various planes of the Pales etc.). |
spell name: SUBCONSCIOUS SURVIVAL | list name: Planar Survival | level: 30 | realm: Arcane | type: closed arcane | spell class: S* | duration: varies | range: self | area of effect: self | sourcebook: spell user's companion |
description: When the caster is in extreme danger, due to his extra-planar exploits, his mind is allowed to protect him by casting any spell (or spells) on this list as necessary. These spells will be cast subconsciously based upon a set of pre-set assumptions that the caster must program by the use of this spell, for example: 1) I (meaning the caster) will remain on the plane I have chosen. 2) My companions will remain with me. etc.) Thus, if the caster desires to remain on a given plane regardless of the cost, this spell will change his form, or create an Environmental Sphere, etc. anything that is necessary to accomplish the caster's preset goals. If the caster should run out of PPs, this spell will be cancelled and the caster will basically be up an unsanitary tributary with insufficient means of locomotion. |
spell name: RESIST FORCES | list name: Planar Survival | level: 50 | realm: Arcane | type: closed arcane | spell class: F* | duration: 1 round | range: self | area of effect: self | sourcebook: spell user's companion |
description: Allows caster to resist reality-altering events and phenomena by strengthening the reality of his own existence to the point where it is unaffected by them. For example, the caster is caught in a Reality Storm and casts a. Resist Forces spell. The caster is altered by the storm each round, but by the end of the round his existence is repaired to the point that he is essentially unaffected by the storm. |