Description
- School: evocation (force)
- Classes: arcanist 3, bard 3, mesmerist 3, occultist 3, psychic 3, skald 3, sorcerer 3, wizard 3
- Casting Time: 1 standard action
- Range: Personal
- Target: you
- Duration: 10 minutes/level or until discharged; see text
- Components: V, S, F
- Dismissible: No
- Shapeable: No
- Spell Resistance: Yes
When a creature attempts to touch you with an attack (such as a touch attack, an unarmed strike, an attack with a natural weapon, or a grapple), it feels a field of force blocking its way. It can choose to abandon the attempt, losing its action, or to push through the ward. If it pushes through, you can trigger a wave of force against that creature. This discharges the spell, deals 1d4 points of force damage per caster level (maximum 10d4), and pushes the creature back 5 feet. If the creature cannot be pushed back 5 feet (if a solid surface is directly behind it, for example), it takes 2d4 additional points of force damage. A successful Fortitude saving throw halves the total amount of force damage the creature takes.
Members of the Sanctified Prophet prestige class can cast this spell, even though it is not a divination or enchantment.