Description
- School: necromancy (evil, pain)
- Classes: arcanist 5, cleric 5, mesmerist 5, occultist 4, oracle 5, sorcerer 5, warpriest 5, witch 5, wizard 5
- Casting Time: 10 minutes
- Range: 0 ft
- Effect: one symbol
- Duration: see text
- Save: Fortitude negates
- Components: V, S, M (mercury and phosphorus, plus powdered diamond and opal worth a total of 1,000 gp)
- Dismissible: No
- Shapeable: No
- Spell Resistance: Yes
This spell functions like symbol of death, except that each creature within the radius of a symbol of pain instead suffers wracking pains that impose a -4 penalty on attack rolls, skill checks, and ability checks. These effects last for 1 hour after the creature moves farther than 60 feet from the symbol.
Unlike symbol of death, symbol of pain has no hit point limit; once triggered, a symbol of pain simply remains active for 10 minutes per caster level.
Note: Magic traps such as symbol of pain are hard to detect and disable. A rogue (only) can use the Perception skill to find a symbol of pain and Disable Device to thwart it. The DC in each case is 25 + spell level, or 30 for symbol of pain.