It has long been a tradition that witches keep plants, and most suspect that these are for herbs or crafting poisons. However, some witches have even more clever magics afoot, and use these plants to ward off harmful spells using apotropaic (a-pot-ro-pay-ic) magic.
Apotropaic Plant 2nd-level Enchantment (Ritual) Classes: Druid, Sorcerer Casting Time: 1 minute Range: Touch Components: V, S, M ( plant seed, and a drop of the caster's blood costing 1 hit point) Duration: Instantaneous You plant a seed or berry, and infuse it with some of your life essence, just enough to interfere with hostile magics. It grows to a healthy size immediately (enough to fill a pot plant) and grows normally. If you are within 10 feet of an Apotropaic Plant which you have infused, any magic effect for which you are the target, instead targets the plant. If affected, the plant suffers any effects that the spell would inflict, instead of you. You may only have one casting of Apotropaic Plant active at a time. If you cast this spell again, any plants previously affected wither and die instantly. At Higher Levels: When you cast this spell using a spell slot of 3rd level or higher, you can plant an additional seed per spell level above 2nd. Each plant can absorb one spell, or spell effect (for spells which create multiple effects targeting the caster). How you can use Apotropaic Plants in your game: - A witch that your Player Characters have to confront makes their stand in a greenhouse or other plant-filled area, with enough time to prepare. The PCs may be surprised to find their spells heading awry and the witch evading their effects. - Advanced versions of this spell which use full-size trees or plant creatures to absorb hostile magic are rumoured, but seem lost to the ages. - A darker and forbidden variant using blood magic embeds fractions of the caster's soul into living beings, inflicting effects on those targets instead of the caster. This variant requires sacrifice of 1d6+2 hit points per target, which cannot be healed while the targets live. Also posted on Game Masters Stash on 11 January 2020. Comments are closed.
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