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This page lists and explains the Spells of Arelith.

Spell-Related

Cleric Domains

Cleric Domains have been substantially changed on Arelith. These changes are listed under the Domains page and can be browsed by Category.

Spell Focus Feats

Spell Focus Feats have been changed and augmented greatly on Arelith, and often alter or expand the potential of spellcasting classes. Changes to Spell Focus Feats are listed under Feat Changes.

Spell Components System

Spell components are used in casting Arcane Spells of Levels 7-9 and the Console Commands gained through Epic Spell Focuses in magic schools. One charge of a component pouch is consumed when casting a Level 7 Spell, two for a Level 8 Spell, three for a Level 9 Spell, and five for the Console Commands. If a character lacks sufficient components, then the spell will fail, but it won't consume any charges.

There is a toggle option in the Rest menu in Miscellaneous Settings -> Equipment: - "Toggle Stop Component Pouches being destroyed. [Active/Inactive]" - > Determines whether the first pouch found has enough components, if no and the option is toggled to active then it will stop the spell rather than destroy the pouch.

Note that the spell level doesn't equate the slot it occupies. For example an extended Mass Haste (level 7 slot, level 6 spell) would not consume charges of the spell components pouch.

Spell components can be created through Alchemy and Art crafting, and the spell components pouch, can be made through Tailoring.

Other Systems

Polymorph

• Most polymorphing effects will refresh the spellbook once the state is left.
• While under polymorph, disguise checks will only reveal you are polymorphed, but not your name.
• Polymorphed characters can speak common.
• Polymorphed characters will temporarily be able to speak and comprehend animal while in that form.
• See Disguise for the bonus to disguise checks provided by polymorph.

Charm / Dominate

Note: Unable to verify these charm & dominate changes in the update thread.

• Charm Monster, Charm Person, Charm Person or Animal and Mass Charm spells:

• Cause Confusion in affected PCs.
• Additionally effects orcs, monstrous humanoid, goblinoid, and reptilian humanoids.

• Dominate Animal, Dominate Monster and Dominate Person spells:

• Have a duration of 2 + CL/3 Turns, instead of 2 + CL/3 Rounds.
• With Greater Spell Focus Enchantment, this improves to 2 + CL/3 Hours.
• With Epic Spell Focus Enchantment, a second creature can be Dominated. Does not work on Boss or lieutenant (yellow named) creatures.
• Dominated PCs will now be Stunned instead of Dazed.
• The Stun duration against PCs remains 2 + CL/3 Rounds, and does not improve to Turns or Hours.
• Additionally effects orcs, monstrous humanoid, goblinoid, and reptilian humanoids.

Fright, Fear and Fear Auras

Fear has branched in two different effects in Arelith. Some spells and abilities will apply the old vanilla effect (like Barbarian's terrifying rage or the Fear spell), while others will incur some penalties on a failed save, here named Fright. Fright cannot be self-removed by the same frightened character. Attempting to self-recover using spells like Remove Fear will not dispel the effect, but will leave the lingering increased save bonus against fear effects. Third-party characters using the spells will function as normal.

Standard Fright Aura:

• -10 AB
• -10 Saving Throws
• -10 Skills
• -10 AC
• 50% Spell Failure

Lesser Fright Aura:

• -1 AB per level difference
• -1 Saving Throws per level difference
• -1 Skill per level difference
• -1 AC per level difference
• 5% Spell Failure per level difference
• Lesser Fright Aura penalties never exceed -10/50% (+10 levels and will never be below -2/10%).
• Usually coming from summons, the lesser auras act according to a level difference. The greater the difference, the greater the effect.

Epic Spells

See the individual .

Added Spell/Status Effects

Frozen Status Effect: A Frozen creatures gain DR 10/-, 2d6 points of Dexterity damage, 50% Movement Reduction, vulnerability to fire, and immunity to cold and electricity.

Sickened (Curse): The character takes a -2 penalty on all attack rolls, weapon damage rolls, saving throws, skill checks, and ability checks. Can only be removed by Remove Curse or until it expires.

Nightmare (Curse): Nightmare prevents sleep and will give -2 STR & -2 DEX. Creatures currently sleeping/resting or under the Sleep spell will wake up if they are affected by Nightmare. Creatures immune to Sleep (E.g Elves) are not affected by Nightmare. Curse is permanent until removed by Remove Curse or Greater Restoration.

Bugs Affecting Spells

Please Note: These bugs are either inherent to NWN, or in some other way a long-standing & chronic problem. Incidental or minor bugs should not be mentioned here.

• Invisibility sphere, Dirge etc (spells working in circle around caster and following him) are affected by lag. The effects can often be lost on transitioning, and can even fail to apply when standing still.

• Hostile NPCs may keep chasing and attacking PCs even after entering invisibility, stealthing, or even both.

• True Strike reports as increasing +20 points of AB in the character sheet, but this information may be false since it counts toward the +20 bonus AB cap. The character sheet is often wrong about armor class or attack bonus. The real attack value still appears in the combat log when performing an attack.

Groups of Spell Changes

Bigby Line

• Additionally, all Bigby spells (except Interposing Hand) will attack both mind and mobility. Protection against one effect will not deny the other, but the spells will only affect mobility if the user is mind effect-immune. The movement-restraining effect can be removed with Remove Paralysis, Restoration, Greater Restoration and Freedom of Movement.
• All are 1 round / level duration.

Bigby's...	Innate Level	Save	Effect
Bigby's Clenched Fist	8	Fort	1d8+11 force per round & 1 round stun per round if fail
Bigby's Crushing Hand	9	Reflex	2d6+12 force each round
Bigby's Disrupting Hand	3	None	Target must concentration check vs spell's save DC when casting
Bigby's Forceful Hand	6	Reflex	Knocked down and dazed for duration
Bigby's Grasping Hand	7	Reflex	Held for duration
Bigby's Interposing Hand	5	Reflex	-10 penalty to all attack rolls for duration

Cantrips

• Cantrips are now infinite; uses are automatically replenished after casting.

  * Wizard: Casting a Wizard cantrip has a 10% chance to activate Arcane Flux.
  * Generalist Wizard: Casting a Wizard cantrip has a 15% chance to activate Arcane Flux.
  * Sorcerer: Casting a Sorcerer cantrip has a 10% chance to activate Arcane Flux.
  * Wild Mage: Casting a Wizard cantrip has a 5% chance to activate Arcane Flux.

• May be autocast with -cantrip autocast command.

Spell	Notes
Acid Splash, Electric Jolt, Ray of Frost	Damage increased to 1d6 per 3 caster levels.
Flare	No longer applies an AB penalty. Instead, the cantrip inflicts 1d6 fire damage per 3 caster levels.
Daze	Inflicts 1d4 psychic damage per 3 caster levels. The duration of the daze effect is now 1d2 rounds. The damage applies regardless of whether the daze affects the target.
Cure Minor Wounds	Healing increased to 1d3 per 3 caster levels (minimum of 4). Damage versus Undead 1d6 per 3 caster levels.
Inflict Minor Wounds	Damage increased to 1d6 per 3 caster levels. Healing on Undead 1d3 per 3 caster levels.
Sacred Flame	Inflicts between 1d3 and 1d6 damage for every 3 caster levels to a single target creature, depending on the distance between caster and target. Damage type changes based on alignment or is selectable with -stream.
Virtue	Now grants 1d3 temporary hit points per 3 caster levels. Does not stack with itself.
Resistance	The original effect was replaced with scaling damage reduction (starts at 1/+1, improving to 2/+2 at CL7+, 3/+3 at CL14+, 4/+4 at CL21+ and 5/+5 at CL28+). The effect can absorb CL+1d6 damage before it fades. Duration is 1 hour.
Bestow Wound	Drains the subject dealing d3 points of bleeding damage for every 3 caster levels. Healing self for 1 point for every 3 caster levels. Empowered if the target is frightened.
Blades of Fire	Ignites the subject's melee weapons, allowing each to deal an additional 2d4 worth of fire damage for the duration; 2d6 at level 9, 2d8 at level 18, and 2d10 at level 27. This spell does not stack with Darkfire or Elemental Weapon. Non-restricted weapon enchantment.
Sustain	Caster touches a friendly creature with less than 1 hit point remaining and grants them 1/- Bleed damage resistance for a duration of 1 turn. Creatures with with 0 hit points or less (who are bleeding out) are immediately sustained this way, and then restored back to 1 hit point after 1 round. This spell will also prevent the effects of the Stop Heart spell if used upon an afflicted creature and grant immunity to it for 1 turn.
Vicious Mockery	The caster laces their words with hateful energy and aggressively mocks a creature in range that is capable of hearing. The target takes 1d4 Psychic damage per 3 caster levels. They must roll a Will save or receive a -1 morale penalty per 9 caster levels to their Attack Bonus and a -2 morale penalty per 9 caster levels to Leadership, Bluff, and Intimidate for 1d2 rounds. This spell has no effect on targets that are immune to mind effects. The debuff is not applied if caster level is lower than the HD of the target. Vicious Mockery will remove Serene Visage from any target it strikes.
Chill Touch	The caster creates a ghostly, skeletal hand in the space of a creature within range. They must make a ranged touch attack against the ceature to assail it with the chill of the grave. On a hit, the target takes 1d2 Entropic and 1d2 Cold damage per 3 caster levels and is sent into a shivering frenzy, receiving a -2 penalty to their Heal and Concentration skills for every 9 caster levels for 1d3 rounds. If the target is undead, it must succeed a Will save or receives a -1 penalty to its Attack bonus per 9 caster levels for 1d3 rounds. The debuff is not applied if caster level is lower than the HD of the target.

Cantrips and Metamagic:

• All cantrips can be cast with Quicken Spell, Still Spell and Silent Spell.
• Cantrips with a duration (Daze, Virtue, Resistance, Light) can be cast with Extend Spell.
• Cantrips intentionally cannot be empowered or maximized, nor will they be affected by similar class or feat effects.
• Metamagic does not prevent cantrips from getting replenished.

Cure and Inflict Line

Spell	Healing	Average @ 30
Cure Minor Wounds	1d3 (minimum 4) per 3 caster levels	20
Cure Light Wounds	2d8 + 1 per target character level	39
Cure Moderate Wounds	4d8 + 1 per target character level	48
Cure Serious Wounds	6d8 + 1 per target character level	57
Cure Critical Wounds	8d8 + 1 per target character level	66
Healing Circle	3 rounds of 1d8 + Caster Level	103.5
Heal (spell)	100 + 5*CL. Capped at 200 at level 20.	200
Mass Heal	Heals 150 + 5*CL. Capped at 300 at level 30.	300

• No touch attack is required when using inflict spells to heal undead.

Spell	Damage	Average @ 30
Inflict Minor Wounds	1d6 per 3 caster levels	35
Inflict Light Wounds	2d8 + 1 per target character level	39
Inflict Moderate Wounds	4d8 + 1 per target character level	48
Inflict Serious Wounds	6d8 + 1 per target character level	57
Inflict Critical Wounds	8d8 + 1 per target character level	66
Circle of Doom	1d8 + Caster Level	34.5
Harm	10 times Caster Level*	300

Damage Shields

• Biteback spells, spells that cause damage to a melee attacker, do not stack. The last spell cast overrides the others.
• All biteback spells (aka damage shields) are moved to the top of the Breach List.
• Death Armor has special scaling for Pale Masters, Hemomancers, and Clerics(Death, Undeath): Death Armor scaling is uncapped and scales at +1 per CL instead of +1 per 2 CL for 32.5 average @ 30.
• These spells do stack with the biteback damage of Aura Versus Alignment.

Biteback Spells	Innate Level	Spell School	Damage	Type	Average @ 30
Death Armor	2	necro	1d4 + 1 per 2 levels (max +5)	magic	7.5
Flame Shield	4	evo	1d6 + 1 per level	fire	33.5
Frost Shield	4	evo	1d6 + 1 per level	cold	33.5
Lightning Shield	5	evo	1d6 + 3 per 2 levels	electrical	48.5
Mestil's Acid Sheath	5	conj	1d6 + 2 per level	acid	63.5
Wounding Whispers	3	abj	1d6 + 1 per level	sonic	33.5
Aura Versus Alignment	8	abj	1d6 + 8	holy or neg	11.5

Dispel and Breach

• Area of effect dispels will no longer try to dispel the highest spell level effect(s). Instead they will try to dispel all effects up until two have been removed.
• Each Spell Focus in Abjuration grants a cumulative +1 to Dispel rolls with Epic granting an additional +1 for a total of +3. These are applied after the Level Cap imposed by individual spells.
• Arcane Defense: Abjuration increases a characters effective Caster Level by +2 when trying to resist a Dispel.
• To remove an effect in a dispel check, the caster makes a dispel check of 1d20 +1 per caster level (up to a maximum) against a DC of 12 + the spell effect's caster level.
• See Dispel Tables for a breakdown and tables of common situations and their probabilities.
• See Breach List for changes to what spells are breached first.
• Nature's Balance breaches more spells with investment in Spell Focus: Transmutation.

Spell	Innate Level	Max Dispel Caster Level	Breach Spells
Lesser Dispel	2	5	N/A
Dispel Magic	3	10	N/A
Greater Dispelling	5	23	N/A
Mordenkainen's Disjunction	9	23	6 (2 AoE)
Lesser Spell Breach	4	N/A	2
Greater Spell Breach	5	N/A	4
Nature's Balance	8	N/A	2-3 AoE

Elemental Resistance

• Epic Spell Focus: Abjuration increases damage absorbed by 1.5 times. Damage resistance remains the same.

Spell	Resistance	ESF: Abj	Duration
Endure Elements	10/- resistance and 30 absorption	45	24 hours
Resist Elements	20/- resistance and 50 absorption	75	24 hours
Protection from Elements	30/- resistance and 60 absorption	90	24 hours
Energy Buffer	40/- resistance and 100 absorption	150	1 turn / level

Persistent AoE Spells

• Under construction.
• Persistent area spells do not stack with themselves. When the same spell is cast it will be replaced and refreshed.

• Different area spells may be stacked.
• Same spell by different caster stacks.
• The same spell may be casted away from 50% of the center of the Area of Effect (AoE) radius, allowing a section where they can overlap, and hit twice.
• Acid Fog, Wall of Fire, Incendiary Cloud and Cloudkill spells will ignore NPC and PC corpses, but still damage furniture/placables normally.

• Table key:
  • CEoR: Checks made on (e)ntry, per (r)ound, or (b)oth.
  • SpR: Speed reduction.

Persistent AoE Spells	Innate Level	CEoR	SpR
Acid Fog	6	b	75%
Blade Barrier	6	b
Cloud of Bewilderment	2	b
Cloudkill	5	b
Creeping Doom	7	b
Daltim's Fiery Tentacles	5	b
Evard's Black Tentacles	4	b
Entangle (spell)	1	e
Grease	1	b	50%[1]
Incendiary Cloud	8	b
Kyristan's Malevolent Tentacles	6	b
Mind Fog	5	e
Shadow Plague	8	b
Spike Growth	3	b
Stinking Cloud	3	b
Stonehold	6	b
Storm of Vengeance	9	b
Wall of Fire	4	b
Wall of Ice	4	b
Web	2	b
Vine Mine	5	b

Summoning Spells

• Compendium of summoning-related changes.
• Complete list of overhauled summons with streams.

• Summons are heavily customized, read Summoning Changes which details how summons are changed on Arelith and Summons which details each specific summon stream and what is summoned at each tier of the stream.
• Table key:
  • GCoD: Greater Spell Focus: Conjuration or Domain (Animal or Vermin) Tier increase: ^
  • SFB: Spell focus bonus: (C)onjuration, (*C)onjuration with GSF: Conj & a Domain (Animal or Vermin), (E)vocation, (I)llusion^[1], (N)ecromancy
  • ECB: Epic Caster Level bonuses: +
  • S: Streams (-stream) can apply: S
  • ADv: Alignment Divergence can apply: ≠
  • BoD: Summon Warding from Banishment or Dismissal will block the creature from being summoned: ⛔
  • BrS: All summoning breaks Greater Sanctuary, these summons are additionally removed if Greater Sanctuary is cast: 👁

Spell	Innate Level	Type	GCoD	SFB	ECB	S	ADv	BoD	BrS
Summon Creature I	1	Beast	^	*C				⛔
Summon Creature II	2	Beast	^	*C				⛔
Summon Creature III	3	Beast	^	*C				⛔
Summon Creature IV	4	Beast	^	*C				⛔
Summon Creature V	5	Beast	^	*C				⛔
Summon Creature VI	6	Beast	^	*C				⛔
Summon Creature VII	7	Elemental	^	*C		S		⛔
Summon Creature VIII	8	Elemental	^	*C		S		⛔
Summon Creature IX	9	Elemental	^	*C	+	S		⛔
Elemental Swarm	9	Elemental	^	*C	+	S		⛔
Shelgarn's Persistent Blade	1	Construct		E				⛔
Mordenkainen's Sword	7	Construct		E				⛔
Black Blade of Disaster	9	Construct		C				⛔	👁
Shadow Conjuration	4	Outsider		I				⛔
Greater Shadow Conjuration	5	Outsider		I				⛔
Animate Dead	3	Undead		N		S
Create Undead	6	Undead		N		S
Create Greater Undead	8	Undead		N		S
Blackguard Create Undead	-	Undead		N
Animate Dead (feat)[2]	-	Undead		N		S
Summon Undead (feat)	-	Undead		N		S
Summon Greater Undead (feat)	-	Undead		N		S
Lesser Planar Binding	5	Outsider				S	≠	⛔
Planar Ally	6	Outsider				S	≠	⛔
Planar Binding	6	Outsider				S	≠	⛔
Greater Planar Binding	8	Outsider			+	S	≠	⛔
Gate	9	Outsider			+	S	≠	⛔	👁
Epic Spell: Dragon Knight[3]	10	Dragon		C	+	S		⛔	👁
Epic Spell: Dragon Knight[4]	10	Undead		N	+	S			👁
Epic Spell: Mummy Dust	10	Undead		N		S			👁
Epic Spell: Planar Conduit	10	Outsider		C	+	S[5]		⛔	👁
Summon Fiend[6]	-	Outsider		C	+	S	≠	⛔
Dark Invocation: Planar Gate[7]	-	Outsider		C[8]		S	≠	⛔	👁
Eldritch Summon[9]	-	Outsider		C	+[10]	S[11]	[12]	⛔

Weapon Enchantments

• Restricted weapon enchantments cannot be used with magical weapons, weapons with any property, or stacked with each other.
• Non-restricted weapon enchantments can be used freely in any weapon and stacked with one another; even on Restricted weapon enchantments.
• Players commonly seek out bronze weapons (which have no properties) to have blank weapons to be able to apply Restricted weapon enchantments first, and then cast additional Non-restricted enchantments.
• Casting a weapon enchantment on a target with an invalid main hand weapon (due to the weapon already being enchanted or possessing magical properties) will attempt to apply the weapon enchantment to the offhand.

Spell	Restricted or Non-Restricted	Cast-from-item Adjustments
Blackstaff	Non-Restricted	No
Blade Thirst	Non-Restricted	No
Blades of Fire	Non-Restricted	?
Bless Weapon	Non-Restricted	Yes
Deafening Clang	Non-Restricted	No
Holy Sword	Non-Restricted	N/A
Darkfire	Restricted	Yes
Elemental Weapon	Restricted	Yes
Greater Magic Weapon	Restricted	Yes
Keen Edge	Restricted	Yes
Magic Weapon	Restricted	No

• Additionally, the weapon enchantments Bless Weapon, Darkfire, Elemental Weapon, Greater Magic Weapon, and Keen Edge spells cast from items such as scrolls and wands will:
  • Use the Caster Level of the item for the Duration of the spell.
  • Use the Character Level of the item user for the Effects of the spell.
  • Bless Weapon exceptions:
    • Will grant +2d6 damage vs. dragons if the user of the scroll is level 18 or higher. The CL of the scroll is still level 17 and Enhancement bonus is capped at +3.
    • Note: It is possible to achieve +4 enhancement with Loremaster scroll + levels (17 CL scroll + 5 levels from LM = 22 CL scroll), but still requires the base character level to be at least 21 for the effects.

Examples - A Character of various levels using a Greater Magic Weapon Scroll (Caster Level 15)

A level 30 Character will have a duration of 5 hours (15 Caster Level/3 hours) and an enhancement bonus of +5 ((Character Level +3)/4 - capped at +5).

A level 15 Character will have a duration of 5 hours (15 Caster Level/3 hours) and an enhancement bonus of +4 ((Character Level +3)/4).

A level 5 Character will have a duration of 5 hours (15 Caster Level/3 hours) and an enhancement bonus of +2 ((Character Level +3)/4)

Zoo Spells

• The bonus stacks across multiple castings to a maximum of +5 when cast without metamagic feats.
• The stacking bonus is the same between the single and mass-targeted versions, but both spells can stack towards the maximum.
• Metamagic empower will increase the maximum 1.5, but NWN always rounds down. Greater Spell Focus, Epic Spell Focus: Transmutation, and Transmutation Specialization increase the maximum further +1 each.

Zoo Spells now have static gains, these are as follows:

• Normal: 4
• Maximise: 5
• Empower: 6

This will not change the caps or benefits of other sources such as:

• Base Cap 5
• Transmutation (0, 1, 2)
• Empower (+50%)

Average uses to reach the cap will now be:

• Normal: 2
• Maximised: 1
• Empowered: 2
• This change will also apply to Mass Zoo spells.

Spell	Mass Version
Bear's Endurance	Mass Bear's Endurance
Bull's Strength	Mass Bull's Strength
Cat's Grace	Mass Cat's Grace
Eagle's Splendor	Mass Eagle's Splendor
Fox's Cunning	Mass Fox's Cunning
Owl's Wisdom	Mass Owl's Wisdom

Categorized List of All Spells