Brain Spider

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NameBrain Spider
SchoolDivination [Mind-Affecting]
LevelArc 7, Clr 7, Mind 7
ComponentsV, S, M, DF
Casting Time1 round
Recharge Time1 hour
RangeLong (400 ft. + 40 ft./level)
TargetsUp to eight living creatures within range
Duration1 min./level
Saving ThrowWill negates
Spell ResistanceYes
VersionSRD
SourcesComplete Divine on page 156, Defenders of the Faith on page 82, Lords of Madness on page 209, Spell Compendium on page 38, System Reference Document
Short Description

Listen to thoughts of up to eight other creatures.

Materials

A spider of any size or type. It may be dead, but must still have all eight legs.

Living GreyhawkOpen

You touch a spider's body and think of the targets. As each target succumbs to the spell, a leg of the spider vanishes into nothingness.

For the duration of the spell, as a standard action, you can eavesdrop on the thoughts of up to eight other creatures at once, hearing as desired:

  • A creature's surface thoughts.
  • Individual trains of thought in whatever order you desire.
  • One nugget of information per caster level from all the minds regarding one particular topic, thing, or being.
  • The thoughts and memories of one creature of the group in detail.

Once per round, if you do not perform a detailed study of one creature's mind, you can attempt (as a standard action) to implant a suggestion in the mind of any one of the affected creatures. The creature can make another Will saving throw to resist the suggestion, using the save DC of the brain spider. (Creatures with special resistance to enchantment spells can use this resistance to keep from being affected by the suggestion.) Success on this saving throw does not negate the other effects of the brain spider for that creature.

IMarvinTPA's editor notes:

They took out some text and lowered the level for clerics in the SPC.

Source Copyright: System Reference Document Copyright 2000-2003, Wizards of the Coast, Inc.; Authors Jonathan Tweet, Monte Cook, Skip Williams, Rich Baker, Andy Collins, David Noonan, Rich Redman, Bruce R. Cordell, John D. Rateliff, Thomas Reid, James Wyatt, based on original material by E. Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson.

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