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Submitted by Bane on Tue, 2005-08-23 01:00
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Siphon Power Universal
Level: Power 9
Components: V,S
Time: 1 standard action
Target: Creature Touched
Range: Touch
Effect:
Duration: Instantaneous
Save: Will negates (See Text)
Spell Resistance: Yes

With this spell, you can strip other creatures of their power and use it to boost yours. You make an opposed Charisma check against the target.  If you win this opposed check, the target suffers the following effects:

  • Its ability scores are all reduced by 4 (minimum 1).  You gain a +4 enhancement bonus to all of your ability scores.
  • Any hit points lost from the Constitution damage are immediately transfered to you as temporary hit points.
  • Your base attack bonus increases to be the same as your Hit Dice (similar to the Fighter class progression).
  • If the target is an arcane spell caster, you absorb its highest level spell.  If it has multiple spells of the highest level (whether they are memorized or known), one is selected randomly.  You gain the ability to cast this spell once as a spell-like ability with a caster level equal to your own.
  • If the creature is psionic, you absorb 1pp per caster level and gain the knowledge to manifest one of the creature's highest level powers (randomly selected).  For the duration of the spell, the creature loses the ability to manifest that power.
  • If the target has one or more class abilities that are usable per day (such as a barbarian's rage), you absorb one of their daily uses from each of them.
This spell does not absorb divine spells or abilities, since they are powers that come from a divine source and do not belong to the target.  Once the spell duration ends, any absorbed powers, power points, spells, and abilities you did not use are lost.If the target succeeds their Will save, they still take the ability damage, but only to the physical ability scores (Str, Dex, Con).  You still gain the temporary hit points as well.  No other effects occur.If the target succeeds against the opposed Charisma check (but not the Will save), they do not take the ability score damage and you do not gain the base attack bonus.All effects last for 1 hour per caster level.
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