Enhancement Sphere

You may deliver enhancements through a melee touch attack. As a standard action, you may make a single weapon attack in conjunction with making an enhancement. This casting cannot be reduced below a standard action, and does not provoke attacks of opportunity, unless as usual if making a ranged attack. If the target is struck by the attack, it is also struck by the enhancement. If using a scatter weapon, the enhancement only applies to a single target, chosen at the time of attack.

When you enhance an object or creature, the enhancement remains for 2 rounds after you stop concentrating. When you spend a spell point to make an enhancement last 1 minute per caster level without concentration, it lasts for 10 minutes per caster level instead.

Whenever you use an enhancement that gives you multiple options, you may spend a spell point to select two options. For example, you could use Physical Enhancement to provide a bonus to Strength and Constitution simultaneously, or Steal Senses to steal two senses instead of one.

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You may spend a spell point to enhance a target within range as an immediate action rather than a standard action. If you do, the duration of any enhance effect used in this way is reduced to 1 round and you cannot spend a spell point or concentrate to increase the duration.

When using the Enhance Equipment enhancement, increase the enhancement bonus granted by 1, and raise the maximum enhancement cap to +6. Additionally, when spending a spell point to allow Enhance Equipment to endure for 1 minute per caster level without concentration, it instead lasts for 10 minutes per caster level. If you possess Deep Enhancement, this enhancement instead lasts for 1 hour per caster level.

As a standard action you may touch a small container of liquid and instill an enhancement inside it, which functions as a potion or oil. You must spend a spell point to make the enhancement endure without concentration. Enhancements that create creatures (such as Animate Object) still consider you their creator, counting against your totals and following your commands.

An instilled liquid remains potent until you rest to regain spell points. If you have equipment on hand (such as an alchemy lab), the cost of bottles and water is considered negligible. You may target food but not an already-magical item, such as a potion. All spell points must be spent and all variables of the sphere effect must be chosen at the time the instilled liquid is created. You cannot instill multiple effects in a single liquid, nor create multiple instilled liquids with a single action.

When bestowing an enhancement, you may spend an additional spell point to enhance an additional 1 target per 2 caster levels (minimum 1) at the same time. Each target must be within range and must gain the same enhancement (thus, if using the Physical Enhancement talent to increase a target’s Strength, you could only target creatures, all of which would gain increased Strength). Once created, each enhancement is considered a separate sphere effect.

You may enhance a creature with enhancements that normally only apply to weapons or armor. If it applies to weapons, it applies to one of the creature’s natural weapons as well as its unarmed strikes; if it applies to armor, it applies to any natural armor bonus that the creature possesses (creatures without natural armor are considered to have a natural armor bonus of +0).

Whenever you use a magic sphere effect to successfully inflict ability damage, ability drain, or ability score penalties on a target with at least half as many Hit Dice as your character level, you may spend 1 additional spell point to use an Enhancement sphere ability as a swift action on any willing creature within range. Conditions such as fatigued, grappled or entangled do not trigger this ability. Any penalty imposed by an (enhance) talent on an acceptable target can be used to activate this talent as if it were ability damage, drain, or an ability penalty.

You may enhance targets within medium range. You may take this talent multiple times. Each time it is taken, increase the range by an additional step (close to medium, medium to long).

You may enhance creatures, increasing or decreasing their speed.

When increasing, you grant the target a +10 feet enhancement bonus to one movement speed, as well as a +2 enhancement bonus to any Acrobatics, Climb, Fly, or Swim checks they might attempt while using that movement speed. These bonuses increase by +10 and +2, respectively, per 5 caster levels.

When decreasing a target’s movement, you halve all of the target’s movement speeds (minimum 5 feet). In addition, the target provokes an attack of opportunity whenever it makes a 5-foot step unless it succeeds at an Acrobatics check against your MSD.

You may spend a spell point to enhance an object, bestowing movement and a semblance of life. The object obeys your command and understands your language, but as it is not intelligent, it can only obey simple commands such as ‘move’, ‘fight’, ‘guard’, ‘stop’, etc.

If you animate an enemy’s weapon, the weapon cannot move and attack while it is being held, but the wielder must succeed at a Reflex save (DC 10 + 1/2 caster level + casting ability modifier) each round they hold the item or lose their action fighting their weapon for control. If you animate an enemy’s armor or clothing, the enemy becomes entangled and must succeed at a Reflex save each round or be staggered for that round. Animated objects are constructs, and gain Hit Dice according to their size. The maximum sized object you may animate depends on your caster level, according to Table: Animate Object.

You can only have a number of animated object Hit Dice at once equal to twice your caster level.

Animated Object Special Qualities
All animated objects possess construction qualities and construction flaws. However, these are not options the player has the power to choose; an animated object’s construction qualities and flaws are instead chosen by the GM to reflect the item in question. For example, animating an object made from cloth grants it the ‘cloth’ construction flaw, while animating a slingshot would create an animated object with the ranged attack construction quality.

You may spend a spell point to enhance an animal, plant, object, or mindless creature, granting it temporary intelligence. The target becomes a magical creature (or intelligent item if an object), and gains an Intelligence, Charisma, and Wisdom score of 6 + 1/2 your caster level (or its original score, whichever is higher), as well as an alignment equal to your own, and the ability to speak and understand one language of your choice which you also speak and understand, +1 language you know per point of Intelligence bonus. It also gains normal senses to 60 feet if it did not previously possess any. However, temporary minds do not grant skill points or feats, nor the ability to move. However, a target with a bestowed mind no longer counts as mindless for purposes such as immunities.

For the most part, the new mind has a beginning disposition of friendly towards you, unless the creature already had a different disposition (for example, a hostile creature would still be hostile). The target does not gain greater insight into its surroundings before it gained intelligence (thus, an intelligent rock could not tell you who passed by it before it gained sentience, nor an intelligent tree describe a creature who climbed it the day before), nor does it automatically obey your commands, although it will usually provide favors and aid that is not too dangerous. Mindless creatures must attempt a Will saving throw against this effect unless it is a creature already under your control, such as an animated object or undead minion.

When bestowing a mind onto a creature under your control, it still continues to obey you explicitly even though it is now intelligent.

You may apply an enhancement to a creature, giving it a -2 penalty to all of its attack rolls, saving throws, ability checks and skill checks. This penalty increases by 1 for every 5 caster levels you possess.

You may enhance a weapon, granting it the keen special ability if it does not already possess it and a +1 bonus to critical hit confirmation rolls for every 3 caster levels possessed (minimum 0).

Alternatively, you may instead alter the physical properties of a weapon, enabling it to bypass damage reduction of one of the following types: bludgeoning, cold iron, piercing, silver, or slashing.

You may enhance creatures, granting them alignment subtypes corresponding to the non-neutral components of their alignment. While under the effects of this enhancement, that creature gains damage reduction equal to 1/3 of your caster level (minimum 1), bypassed by attacks made with weapons aligned to the alignment opposed to their new subtype. This damage reduction stacks with any other source of damage reduction they might have.

You may enhance a target’s physical resilience. This suppresses the fatigued condition or reduces the exhausted condition to fatigued for the duration. You may spend a spell point to instead completely suppress the exhausted condition for the duration. The target is still considered to be suffering those conditions for the purposes of effects that would render them fatigued or exhausted. If the target is sleeping, this enhancement causes them to immediately wake up.

Additionally, the target adds your caster level to their Constitution score for the purpose of how long it may hold its breath or run before attempting Constitution checks. The target also doubles their carrying capacity. This multiplier increases by 1 for every 5 caster levels possessed (thus becoming x3 at 5th caster level, x4 at 10th caster level, etc.).

You may enhance a weapon, granting it the corrosive, flaming, frost, or shock weapon special abilities. The weapons deal an extra point of elemental damage for every 2 caster levels possessed.

You may also apply this enhancement to a consumable item, a splash weapon, or a dose of poison. Targets who consume the item, suffer direct or splash damage from the splash weapon, or are struck with the poison (whether or not they fail their saving throw) also suffer acid, cold, electricity, or fire damage (chosen at the time the enhancement is created) equal to your caster level.

You may enhance creatures, allowing them a higher standard of skill. Choose one skill when you grant this enhancement. The target gains an enhancement bonus to that skill equal to 5 + 1 per 4 caster levels you possess.

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You may apply an enhancement to an item, trap, or other object, including those created through sphere effects. While this enhancement is in effect, use the higher of the item’s normal saving throw DC and your Enhancement sphere DC for saving throws against the item’s effects. If the item is a trap, door, or other device that can be interacted with through the Disable Device skill, you may increase the Disable Device DC of the item to 10 + your casting ability modifier + your caster level.

Alternatively, when you apply this enhancement, you may reduce the item’s saving throw DC by 1 plus an additional 1 for every 8 caster levels you possess.

You may enhance an object to either increase or decrease its hardness, or enhance a creature to grant it or lessen its damage reduction. You may increase or decrease an object’s hardness by an amount equal to your caster level (minimum 1). Decreasing an object’s hardness gives it the fragile quality if it does not already have it. When targeting a creature, you may either grant it DR/adamantine equal to 1/2 your caster level (minimum 1), or decrease its current damage reduction by the same amount. This only affects damage reduction that can be bypassed (so it could decrease DR/cold iron, but not DR/-).

You may enhance a creature, allowing it to attempt Escape Artist checks that normally require a full minute to perform as a full-round action, and that normally take a full-round action as a standard action. At 6th caster level, it ignores all penalties while squeezing through narrow spaces, and may move through such spaces at full speed. At 12th caster level, it may squeeze through tight spaces at its full speed, and does not lose its Dexterity bonus to AC when doing so. At 18th level, it may use Escape Artist to squeeze through any space large enough to fit one of its fists.

You may spend a spell point to enhance an item or creature, reducing its weight or even making it weightless. The maximum sized object you can affect is given on Table: Lighten Object.

An enhanced object weighs half as much as normal, but if you choose, you may make objects up to one size category smaller than your limit completely weightless, or up to 2 size categories smaller float up or down as you choose at a rate of 20 feet per round. While you cannot make an object or creature move any direction other than up or down, this can easily be combined with telekinesis, wind power, or pushing off a wall (at half the target’s usual speed) to create flight-like effects. Unwilling creatures are allowed a new saving throw each round to negate this effect, but they may suffer falling damage if successful.

When determining things such as penalties for using oversized weapons, damage dealt from dropping an object like an indirect siege engine, affecting an object with telekinesis, etc., a 1/2 weight object counts as being one size category smaller and a weightless object counts as being two size categories smaller. 1/2-weight creatures suffer a -2 penalty to their CMD vs. bull rush, drag, and reposition combat maneuvers, and 1/2-weight armor has its spell failure chance decreased by 5%, its max Dexterity bonus increased by 1, and its armor check penalty decreased by 1 (minimum 0). Weightless or floating creatures/armor double these bonuses/penalties. Additionally, a levitating creature that attacks with a melee or ranged weapon finds itself increasingly unstable; the first attack has a -1 penalty on attack rolls, the second -2, and so on, to a maximum penalty of -5. A full-round action spent stabilizing allows the creature to begin again at -1.

Creatures floating above the ground cannot use a land speed to move without a wall or some other method of pushing themselves horizontally.

You may enhance creatures or objects, protecting any other magic they might be subject to. Whenever a creature attempts to Counterspell or otherwise dispel a magical effect on the target, they must first roll their check against your magic sink, only rolling against the intended magical effect if this first check was a success. While Magic Sink can be countered when first cast, it is not considered its own magical effect once applied to a target and cannot be dispelled; instead, it is considered an augment to the other magical effects the target is affected by.

You may enhance creatures, granting them a +2 enhancement bonus to either their Intelligence, Wisdom, or Charisma scores. This increases by +2 per 7 caster levels.

You may enhance creatures, granting them a +2 enhancement bonus to either their Strength, Dexterity, or Constitution scores. This increases by +2 per 7 caster levels.

You may apply an enhancement to a weapon, causing attacks made with it to deal additional bleed damage equal to half your caster level (minimum 1). You may spend a spell point to have the weapon deal additional bleed damage equal to your caster level instead.

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You may apply an enhancement to a weapon, causing it to either gain the vicious property or to deal 1d6 untyped damage plus 1d6 per 4 caster levels you possess to its wielder whenever they miss with an attack using the weapon.

You may enhance objects, increasing their ability to interact with the insubstantial.

You may enhance an object to be treated as though it were solid to an incorporeal creature, allowing an incorporeal creature to manipulate or hold the object, but also preventing an incorporeal creature from freely passing through the object (such as enhancing a wall or cage to impede a ghost). If you would enhance an object to trap an incorporeal creature, the creature may attempt a Reflex save to immediately move to the nearest unoccupied space outside the object (see Catches, Nets, and Cages in the Creation sphere, Ultimate Spheres of Power pg. 254). The maximum sized object you can affect this way is given on Table: Spectral Enhancement.

Alternatively, you may enhance a weapon, suit of armor, shield, or as many as 50 pieces of ammunition grouped together, granting it either the ghost touch special weapon ability or ghost touch special armor ability. If you spend an additional spell point, the enhanced equipment gains an additional benefit:

If the enhanced equipment gains the ghost touch special weapon ability, the weapon becomes especially potent against undead and incorporeal creatures. Undead or incorporeal creatures damaged by the weapon must succeed at a Will saving throw or be sickened for 1 round, bypassing any immunity to the sickened condition the target may possess.

If the enhanced equipment gains the ghost touch special armor ability, the armor grants the wearer energy resistance to negative energy equal to 1/2 your caster level and a circumstance bonus on saving throws against possession and negative energy effects equal to +2 + 1 per 5 caster levels you possess.

You may enhance creatures, granting them a +2 untyped bonus to one saving throw. This bonus increases by +1 per 5 caster levels.

You may spend a spell point to apply an enhancement to a creature, causing it to become either blind or deaf (your choice), or to lose one special sense such as blindsense, blindsight, the scent ability, tremorsense, etc.

You may spend a spell point to apply an enhancement to a creature, rendering it incapable of performing some action it normally could. This can be used to rob the character of the power of speech, or some other form of communication it possesses, such as telepathy, writing, or performing sign language.

This can also be used to rob a target of one of its special movement speeds, such as flight or burrow; if the creature in question has a natural flight speed, they glide safely to the ground. This cannot be used to rob a target of its base land speed, nor of its only movement speed (for example, robbing an air elemental of its fly speed).

You may enhance a dose of poison, increasing the number of successful saving throws necessary to cure the poison by 1.

You may enhance creatures, giving them a +1 bonus to initiative and allowing them to make an additional attack of opportunity each round. In addition, they may make attacks of opportunity while flat-footed.

At 5th caster level, and every 4 levels thereafter, increase to bonus to initiative by +1 and the number of additional attacks of opportunity by 1.

You may enhance creatures, allowing them to ignore 2 points of ability damage, drain, or penalty they have suffered to one of their ability scores (chosen when using this talent), and reducing any such damage or drain they would suffer during the duration by half this amount. This reduction does not affect any ability damage or drain taken as part of a cost. This increases by 2 points per 7 caster levels. If you possess Physical Enhancement or Mental Enhancement, the benefits of this talent are supplied to any ability score enhanced with those talents at no extra cost.

You may enhance a melee weapon, granting it the throwing and returning weapon special abilities.

When used on a ranged weapon, a throwing weapon, or a weapon that already possesses the throwing special ability, this instead gives the weapon or its ammunition the ability to curve slightly; ranged attacks with that weapon ignore 2 points of the AC bonus from cover less than total cover, +2 points per 7 caster levels.

Prerequisites: Enhancement sphere (Energy Enhancement (enhance)), caster level 5th.

When enhancing a weapon with Energy Enhancement, you may choose sonic damage. At 10th caster level, you may choose force damage. Treat these choices as though they were the flaming weapon special ability, but instead dealing sonic or force damage respectively.

Prerequisites: Enhancement sphere (Magic Sink (enhance)), Protection sphere (Spell Ward (aegis, ward)), caster level 1st.

Whenever you use Magic Sink on a creature benefiting from your Spell Ward, or vice versa, you may spend an additional spell point. If you do so, any aegis or enhancement that that creature benefits from is not suppressed by any form of antimagic; the creature is otherwise affected normally by effects such as antimagic field or Spell Ward. This protection ends when either Magic Sink or Spell Ward end, whichever comes first.

Prerequisites: Enhancement sphere, caster level 5th.

By spending 10 minutes and 2 spell points, you may downplay the needs of your body until they vanish entirely. While Ascetic Control is active, you do not bleed, and do not need to breathe, eat, drink, or sleep. Ascetic Control lasts 24 hours.

Prerequisites: Enhancement sphere (Animate Object (enhance), Bestow Intelligence (enhance)), caster level 10th.

You may spend 3 spell points and 24 hours to bring a plant, animal, construct, or object to life. This is an instantaneous effect, and as such is a permanent change and cannot be dispelled. This has no effect on a creature with an Intelligence of 3 or higher.

This ability may manifest in one of the following ways:

• You transform a tree into an intelligent animated object, granting it the benefits of your Animate Object and Bestow Intelligence enhancements. The target’s type changes to magical beast.
• You transform an animal into an awakened animal. The target’s type changes to magical beast, and its mental ability scores change to 3d6 each. At the GM’s discretion, the animal may be recreated using whatever character creation rules the campaign has employed.
• You grant life to an empty body. This could be a body created through the Fleshcraft and Create Materials Creation advanced talents or a body crafted from parts of other recently slain bodies sewed together. (Assembly requires a minimum of six different bodies—one for each limb, the torso including head, and the brain. In some cases, more bodies may be necessary. Special unguents and bindings worth 500 gp are also required.) The target becomes a living 1st level commoner of whatever race its body was crafted to mimic, but may retrain as usual.
• You transform a magical object into an intelligent item with a 10 Intelligence, Wisdom, and Charisma. The item must be a permanent magical item (thus scrolls, wands, potions, etc. cannot be enhanced in this way), and the item does not gain any powers automatically; abilities and attribute bonuses must be crafted into the item as usual.
• You transform a construct into a sentient construct. The target's Intelligence changes to 3d6 and its Charisma increases by 2d6. The target gains one language the caster speaks, plus one additional language that the caster knew per point of the target's Intelligence modifier (if positive). At the GM’s discretion, the construct may be recreated using whatever character creation rules the campaign has employed.

Creatures and magic items created in this fashion possess your alignment and can speak one language that you know plus one additional language that you know per point of Intelligence bonus (if any). An animal affected in this manner cannot serve as an animal companion, familiar, or special mount, but it may serve as a cohort if the caster possesses a means for having one.

With the exception of intelligent items (which follow the intelligent item rules), the affected creature serves you as a faithful companion. However, as it is a living, intelligent being, it will expect good treatment in return (indeed, an animal that was treated harshly before it was enhanced in this way may feel no particular loyalty to the caster at all). A caster may only have one companion of this sort at any one time; if a second creature is awakened, the first remains friendly, but no longer undertakes tasks for the caster unless it is in its own best interests.

Prerequisites: Enhancement Sphere (Deadly Weapon), caster level 5th

Whenever an enhanced creature or creature using an enhanced weapon confirms a critical hit on an attack roll, the character applies a drawn or rolled effect from the Critical Hit Deck/Table which is applied to the attack (drawing additional cards based on the attack’s critical damage multiplier as normal).

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Prerequisites: Enhancement sphere (Bestow Intelligence (enhance)), caster level 10th.

Whenever you use a non-instantaneous sphere ability, you may spend 2 spell points to give it the Embodiment of Magic template instead of casting it normally; if you do so, it is initially friendly towards you, and will die at the end of the effect’s duration.

If you also possess Bestow Life, you may use it on creatures created through this talent; instead of Bestow Life's normal effects, doing so increases their potency by 3, and prevents them from dying at the end of the effect’s duration.

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Prerequisites: Enhancement sphere (normalize), Fate sphere (hold on hope)

When you enhance a creature with Normalize, you may spend an additional spell point to increase the dice used from d10s to d12. If you do, one of the d12s is marked as a hope die and the other is marked as a fear die. Whenever the target rolls the 2d12, if the hope die has the higher result than the fear die, the target gains 1 temporary Reliance Point plus an additional temporary Reliance Point per 5 caster levels that lasts for the duration of this enhancement. If the fear die has the higher result than the hope die, the target gains 1 temporary vulnerability known as a Folly Point plus an additional temporary Folly Point per 5 caster levels that lasts for the duration of this enhancement.

While a creature has any Folly Points, any other creature that observes the affected creature may spend those Folly Points in place of their own Reliance Points when making a roll or using an ability for an effect that targets the affected creature.

Prerequisites: Enhancement sphere (Deep Enhancement, Mental Enhancement, Physical Enhancement), caster level 17th.

When you utilize Mental Enhancement or Physical Enhancement to grant a creature a bonus to their ability scores, you can temporarily modify a creature’s intrinsic capabilities by spending an additional spell point. The bonus type of the enhancement changes to untyped. However, this reduces the duration of the enhancement to a maximum of 1 round per caster level. The untyped bonus to an ability score stacks with the enhancement bonus provided by another casting of normal Mental Enhancement or Physical Enhancement.

Additionally, you may spend one hour and five spell points to enhance a creature’s intrinsic qualities. Doing so is expensive, and requires material components worth at least 25,000 gp to perform. At the end of the hour, you may grant your target a +1 inherent bonus to a single ability score. For each additional 25,000 gp in material components spent as part of this ritual, you may increase the bonus by 1, up to a maximum of +5. Inherent bonuses are instantaneous and cannot be dispelled, and do not stack with themselves.

^{Source: Baron’s Secluded Library}

Prerequisites: Enhancement Sphere

You may enhance a creature’s abilities to operate within normalized parameters, reducing the odds of grand success or failure. Choose either attack rolls, saving throws, skill checks, or other d20 rolls, plus an additional type of roll for every 5 caster levels you possess. Whenever the enhanced creature would roll a d20 with the chosen roll type, they instead roll 2d10 and add the results together. A result of 1 on both d10s is treated as if the target had rolled a natural 1 on the d20 roll.

Prerequisites: Enhancement sphere (Deep Enhancement, Mass Enhancement [mass]), caster level 15th.

Whenever you use Mass Enhancement, you may spend 2 additional spell points to have the enhancement affect a 30-foot burst instead. If you do so, the enhancement’s duration changes to days per caster level and it affects all valid targets that are within the enhancement’s area; the benefits fade if the target leaves the area, but return if they do.

Upon using this talent, you may exclude targets from the effect based on some visible or audible criterion. This would allow you to, for example, have Enhance Equipment affect any swords within the area.

Prerequisites: Enhancement sphere (Lighten (enhance)), caster level 15th.

You may spend 2 spell points to enhance an area of up to 1 10-foot cube per caster level, arranged contiguously. Unlike most enhancements, you can only maintain this effect through concentration for up to 1 round per caster level. Spending an additional spell point to allow it to become self-sustaining lasts for 1 round per caster level, not 1 minute per caster level, and is unaffected by Deep Enhancement.

Within this area, gravity reverses. Unattached objects and creatures in the area fall upward and reach the top of the area in 1 round. If a solid object (such as a ceiling) is encountered in this fall, falling objects and creatures strike it in the same manner as they would during a normal downward fall. If an object or creature reaches the top of the area without striking anything, it remains there, oscillating slightly, until the effect ends. At the end of the duration, affected objects and creatures fall downward.

Provided it has something to hold onto, a creature caught in the area can attempt a Reflex save to secure itself and not fall upward. Creatures who can fly or levitate can keep themselves from falling.

Prerequisites: Enhancement Sphere (Deadly Weapon), caster level 5th
You may enhance a weapon, causing any attack rolls made with the weapon to use a d24 rather than a d20 (if the attack roll would normally use a d16, use a d20 instead. If the attack roll would already use a d24, use a d30 instead). This does not change the weapon’s critical threat range (it does not threaten a critical hit on a 21 or any other number higher than 20).

^{Source: Card Casting 3: Volatile Variance}