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Spell List
Record Count: 14

Hallucinatory Terrain View
Bardic Illusion Level 4
Wizardry Illusion Level 4
Real Cost: 20 Active Points: 70
Provider: Killer Shrike Source: D&D 3e Core
Keywords
Glamer
Effect
Sight, Smell/Taste, Touch and Hearing Groups Images, +/-1 to PER Rolls, 1 Continuing Charge lasting 1 Day (+1/4), MegaScale (1" = 1 km; +1/4), Increased Size (4" radius; +1/2), Uncontrolled (+1/2) (70 Active Points); Extra Time (1 Minute, Only to Activate, Character May Take No Other Actions, -1), Only To Make One Area Of Terrain Look Like A Different Area Of Terrain (-1), Incantations (-1/4), Gestures (-1/4)
Edition
HERO System 5th Edition

Illusory Wall View
Wizardry Illusion Level 4
Real Cost: 18 Active Points: 72
Provider: Killer Shrike Source: D&D 3e Core
Keywords
Glamer
Effect
Sight and Touch Groups and Spatial Awareness Images, +/-3 to PER Rolls, 1 Continuing Charge lasting 1 Day (+1/4), Uncontrolled (+1/2), Increased Size (8" radius; +3/4) (72 Active Points); Only To Make An Illusory Wall (-1 1/2), Extra Time (Full Phase, Delayed Phase, -3/4), Concentration 1/2 DCV (-1/4), Gestures (-1/4), Incantations (-1/4)
Edition
HERO System 5th Edition

Improved Invisibility View
Bardic Illusion Level 4
Wizardry Illusion Level 4
Real Cost: 30 Active Points: 75
Provider: Killer Shrike Source: D&D 3e Core
Keywords
Glamer
Effect
Invisibility to Sight, Smell/Taste and Hearing Groups and Danger Sense, No Fringe, UBO (+1/4), No LOS Required After Activated (+1/2) (75 Active Points); Extra Time (Full Phase, Only to Activate Constant or Persistent Power, Delayed Phase, -1/2), Incantations (-1/4), Concentration (1/2 DCV; -1/4), Gestures (-1/4), 1 Continuing Charge lasting 1 Hour (-1/4)
Edition
HERO System 5th Edition

Leomund's Improved Trap View
Wizardry Illusion Level 4
Real Cost: 26 Active Points: 72
Provider: Killer Shrike Source: New Content
Keywords
Glamer
Effect
Sight and Touch Groups, Detect Traps and Danger Sense Images, 1" radius, +/-5 to PER Roll, 1 Continuing Charge lasting 1 Season (+1) (72 Active Points); Extra Time (1 Minute, Only to Activate, Character May Take No Other Actions, -1), Gestures (-1/4), Incantations (-1/4), Concentration 1/2 DCV (-1/4)
Edition
HERO System 5th Edition

Lesser Shawdow Evocation View
Wizardry Illusion Level 4
Real Cost: 14 Active Points: 75
Provider: Killer Shrike Source: New Content
Keywords
Shadow
Description
Generally must acheive EGO +30 to do damage and have the target remember the damage as real; +10 more for big explosions and similar effects.
Effect
Mental Illusions 8 1/2d6, Variable Advantage (+1/2 Advantages Limited Group of Advantages (Explosion, One Hex, IPE vs Mental, Lingering 1 Turn); +3/4) (75 Active Points); 1 Charge (-2), Extra Time (Full Phase, Delayed Phase, -3/4), Incantations (-1/4), Does Not Provide Mental Awareness (-1/4), Normal Range (-1/4), Concentration 1/2 DCV (-1/4), Gestures (-1/4), Requires A Skill Roll (No Active Point penalty to Skill Roll, RSR Skill is subject to Skill vs. Skill contests Magic Skill vs Spell Resistance; -1/4)
Edition
HERO System 5th Edition

Mirror Images View
Wizardry Illusion Level 4
Real Cost: 20 Active Points: 75
Provider: Killer Shrike Source: D&D 3e Core
Keywords
Figment
Effect
FF (20 PD/20 ED) (Protect Carried Items), Trigger (At Will; +1/4), Hardened (+1/4) (75 Active Points); 1 Continuing Charge lasting 1 Minute (-1), Ablative BODY Only (-1/2), Gestures (-1/4), Incantations (-1/4), Extra Time (Delayed Phase, Only to Activate, -1/4), Concentration 1/2 DCV (-1/4), Physical Manifestation (Mirror Images of Caster) (USPDB pg100; Has DCV = to Casters Base DCV; Broken as Breakable FOCI; -1/4)
Edition
HERO System 5th Edition

Oloron's Fabulous Formshifting View
Wizardry Illusion Level 4
Real Cost: 23 Active Points: 69
Provider: Killer Shrike Source: New Content
Keywords
Glamer
Description
Though not a Wizard of great consequence, Oloron nevertheless stood out in any crowd thanks to his sublime mastery of high fashion, amazing good looks, and exemplary standards of personal hygiene and toiletry. Not content with what could be accomplished in these areas by mundane means, Oloron developed several spells over the course of his life to make the world a better looking place.
Effect
Shape Shift (Sight Group, any shape), Cellular, Imitation, Instant Change, 1 Continuing Charge lasting 1 Day (+1/4) (69 Active Points); Extra Time (1 Minute, Only to Activate, Character May Take No Other Actions, -1), Concentration 0 DCV (-1/2), Incantations (-1/4), Gestures (-1/4)
Edition
HERO System 5th Edition

Phantasmal Killer View
Wizardry Illusion Level 4
Stregari Conjuring Level 4
Real Cost: 19 Active Points: 75
Provider: Killer Shrike Source: D&D 3e Core
Keywords
Mind-Affecting, Fear, Phantasm
Description
Inserts a terrifying image into targets mind, causing psychic trauma
Effect
Ranged Killing Attack 1d6 (vs. Mental Defense), Uncontrolled (+1/2), Continuous (+1), Does BODY (+1), AVLD: Mental Defense (+1 1/2) (75 Active Points); 1 Continuing Charge lasting 1 Turn (-1 1/4), Extra Time (Extra Phase, Only to Activate, Delayed Phase, Character May Take No Other Actions, -3/4), Concentration 1/2 DCV (-1/4), Gestures (-1/4), Incantations (-1/4), No Knockback (-1/4)
Edition
HERO System 5th Edition

Pollonia's Lesser Wall of Solid Shadows View
Wizardry Illusion Level 4
Real Cost: 17 Active Points: 74
Provider: Killer Shrike Source: New Content
Keywords
Shadow
Description
Her Mistress of Aberfael, Magewarden of County Kaeltar and Environs, Lady Pollonia od-Ver was a powerful pioneer of Shadow and Pattern magic two millennia ago, nearly lost to prehistory. She is known in the modern age due to a biographical preface in the compendious Catalogia est Collegia Magistras grimoire (a compilation of several small grimoires of ancient wizards that was compiled and distributed by the eponymous learning establishment twelve hundred years ago).
Effect
Force Wall (18 PD/5 ED; 4" long and 1" tall) (Opaque: Sight Group) (74 Active Points); Side Effects, Side Effect occurs automatically whenever Power is used (Caster takes 15 LTE loss; -1), 1 Continuing Charge lasting 1 Minute (-1), Extra Time (Full Phase, Only to Activate, Delayed Phase, -1/2), Concentration 1/2 DCV (-1/4), Gestures (-1/4), Incantations (-1/4)

Long Term Endurance Lost Paid When Spell Is Cast
Edition
HERO System 5th Edition

Pollonia's Obscuring Pattern View
Wizardry Illusion Level 4
Real Cost: 19 Active Points: 75
Provider: Killer Shrike Source: New Content
Keywords
Pattern
Description
Her Mistress of Aberfael, Magewarden of County Kaeltar and Environs, Lady Pollonia od-Ver was a powerful pioneer of Shadow and Pattern magic two millennia ago, nearly lost to prehistory. She is known in the modern age due to a biographical preface in the compendious Catalogia est Collegia Magistras grimoire (a compilation of several small grimoires of ancient wizards that was compiled and distributed by the eponymous learning establishment twelve hundred years ago).
Effect
Darkness to Sight Group and Spatial Awareness 1" radius, Personal Immunity (+1/4), Trigger (On Command; +1/4), Persistent (+1/2), Uncontrolled (+1/2), Mobile (x8 rate of movement; +2 1/2) (75 Active Points); 1 Continuing Charge lasting 1 Minute (-1), Extra Time (1 Minute, Only to Activate, Character May Take No Other Actions, -1), Concentration 1/2 DCV, throughout (-1/2), Gestures (-1/4), Incantations (-1/4)
Edition
HERO System 5th Edition

Rainbow Pattern View
Bardic Illusion Level 4
Wizardry Illusion Level 4
Stregari Hexcasting Level 4
Real Cost: 18 Active Points: 75
Provider: Killer Shrike Source: D&D 3e Core
Keywords
Pattern
Description
Ooooooh, Ahhhhhhh
Effect
Entangle 2d6, 3 DEF, Takes No Damage From Attacks Physical Attacks (+1/4), Works Against EGO, Not STR (+1/4), Area of Effect Radius: 6", Nonselective (+3/4), BOECV (Mental Defense applies; +1), Range Modifiers Apply (-1/4) (75 Active Points); 1 Continuing Charge lasting 1 Extra Phase (-1 1/2), Extra Time (Full Phase, Delayed Phase, -3/4), Mental Defense Adds To EGO (-1/2), Gestures (-1/4), Incantations (-1/4)
Edition
HERO System 5th Edition

Sensory Confusion View
Bardic Illusion Level 5
Wizardry Illusion Level 5
Domain Trickery Level 4
Domain Chromata Level 4
Real Cost: 25 Active Points: 87
Provider: Killer Shrike Source: New Content
Keywords
Glamer
Description
Spell causes a swirling cloud of sensory stimuli; random lights, noises, smells, and tactile sensation.
Effect
Change Environment 8" radius, -3 to Sight Group PER Rolls, -3 to Smell/Taste Group PER Rolls, -3 to Touch Group PER Rolls, -3 to Hearing Group PER Rolls, Multiple Combat Effects, Uncontrolled (+1/2) (87 Active Points); 1 Continuing Charge lasting 1 Minute (-1), Extra Time (Full Phase, Delayed Phase, -3/4), Concentration 1/2 DCV (-1/4), Incantations (-1/4), Gestures (-1/4)
Edition
HERO System 5th Edition

Shadow Junket View
Wizardry Illusion Level 4
Real Cost: 10 Active Points: 70
Provider: Killer Shrike Source: New Content
Keywords
Shadow, Teleport
Effect
Teleportation 10", x8 Increased Mass, MegaScale (1" = 100 km; +3/4), Can Be Scaled Down: 1" = 1km (+1/4) (70 Active Points); 1 Charge (-2), Extra Time (1 Minute, Character May Take No Other Actions, To Walk Thru The Shadow Zone; -1 3/4), Restricted Path (Straight Line; -1), Concentration 1/2 DCV, throughout (-1/2), Gestures (-1/4), Must Pass Through Intervening Space (-1/4), Incantations (-1/4)
Edition
HERO System 5th Edition

Superior Shadowstep View
Wizardry Illusion Level 4
Real Cost: 15 Active Points: 75
Provider: Killer Shrike Source: New Content
Keywords
Shadow, Teleport
Effect
Teleportation 15", No Relative Velocity, Position Shift, x2 Increased Mass, Trigger (At Will; +1/2) (75 Active Points); 1 Charge (-2), Only In Shadows To Another Area Of Shadow (-1), Extra Time (Delayed Phase, Character May Take No Other Actions, -1/2), Incantations (-1/4), Concentration 1/2 DCV (-1/4)
Edition
HERO System 5th Edition