Description
- School: enchantment / compulsion (mind-affecting)
- 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: Will 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 all creatures of 10 HD or less within 60 feet of the symbol of sleep instead fall into a catatonic slumber for 3d6 x 10 minutes. Unlike with the sleep spell, sleeping creatures cannot be awakened by nonmagical means before this time expires.
Unlike symbol of death, symbol of sleep has no hit point limit; once triggered, a symbol of sleep simply remains active for 10 minutes per caster level.
Note: Magic traps such as symbol of sleep are hard to detect and disable. A rogue (only) can use the Perception skill to find a symbol of sleep and Disable Device to thwart it. The DC in each case is 25 + spell level, or 30 for symbol of sleep.