Description
- School: necromancy
- Classes: arcanist 7, cleric 7, occultist 5, oracle 7, sorcerer 7, witch 7, wizard 7
- 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 5,000 gp)
- Dismissible: No
- Shapeable: No
- Spell Resistance: Yes
This spell functions like symbol of death, except that every creature within 60 feet of a Symbol of Weakness instead suffers crippling weakness that deals [[/r 3d6]] points of Strength damage.
Unlike symbol of death, Symbol of Weakness has no hit point limit; once triggered, a Symbol of Weakness simply remains active for 10 minutes per caster level. A creature can only be affected by this symbol once.
Note: Magic traps such as Symbol of Weakness are hard to detect and disable. While any character can use Perception to find a symbol, only a character with the trapfinding class feature can use Disable Device to disarm it. The DC in each case is 25 + spell level, or 32 for Symbol of Weakness.