Wounding Spell

Ellian · Post by **Ellian** » Sat Jun 10, 2006 9:48 am

From Lost Empires of Faerun:

Wounding Spell (Metamagic)

You know how to cast spells that cause terrible, bleeding wounds.

Prerequisites: Empower spell.
Benefit: When affected by this feat, a spell that deals damage to a creature also inflicts a bleeding wound that does not heal normally. On each subsequent round, the victim loses one hit point at the beginning of your turn. The continuing hit point loss can be stopped with a Heal check (DC equal to the spell's save DC, or the save DC it would otherwise have in the case of a spell with no save), a cure spell, or a heal spell.

Isolrem · Post by **Isolrem** » Sat Jun 10, 2006 6:39 pm

I am not clear as to what spells this feat affects.
You can perhaps aim your magic missiles more carefully, but how do you make a fireball cause bleeding wounds? And what about damage caused by finger of death?

Nysan · Post by **Nysan** » Sat Jun 10, 2006 10:17 pm

Mmmm, in thinking how it could fit into FK, I would suggest restricting this to certain spells. The Cause Light/Moderate/Serious/Critial Wounds series and Contact spells like Chilling Touch or Burning Hands come to mind. As Isolrem said, I am unsure how we could effect some of our spells, like fireball or lightning bolt, with this feat. But attaching a bleed effect (closest effect in current FK coding) through feats to certain spells is appealing.

Ellian · Post by **Ellian** » Sat Jun 10, 2006 10:30 pm

The illustration associated with the feat showed a lightning bolt spell causing bleeding wounds, but other than that there wasn't really any specification of what spells would work with this feat. From the description of the feat, it sounds like any spell that does damage would be eligible for the bleeding wound bonus, but you're right, Isolrem, it's hard to imagine how exactly a fireball would do this.

Jayson

Lerytha · Post by **Lerytha** » Sat Jun 10, 2006 11:21 pm

Really, it's hard to imagine how a lightning bolt would cause bleeding. I think that's what the whole idea behind this feat is: to show that wizards can often influence their own magic to make it even more weird. And I can imagine that every wizard character would have their own ideas of how it worked.

Telk · Post by **Telk** » Sun Jun 11, 2006 1:19 am

A fireball could cause the skin to peel, causing bleedings, think a really severe sunburn. Lightning bolt could peirce the target, but like Lerytha said, wizards change their spells to suit their needs, so I don't see why they couldn't be changed this way.

Gwain · Post by **Gwain** » Sun Jun 11, 2006 7:26 am

A lightning bolt can rip a human arm off it is hits in the right place. It is like being hit with the hammer of the gods, a electric current hotter than the sun running through your body for one second. I've read about women being hit with it and growing chest hair, waking up in a pool of blood. So it might cause a bit of bleeding.