Spell:Spell H

Hallow
Evocation [Good] Level: Clr 5, Drd 5 Components: V, S, M, DF Casting Time: One day Range: Touch Area: 10-ft./level radius emanating from the touched point Duration: Instantaneous Saving Throw: None Spell Resistance: See text

Hallow makes a particular site, building, or structure a holy site. This has four major effects.

First, the site or structure is guarded by a magic circle against evil effect.

Second, all Charisma checks to turn undead gain a +4 sacred bonus and Charisma checks to command undead suffer a –4 sacred penalty. Spell resistance does not apply to this effect. (Note: This provision does not apply to the druid version of the spell.)

Third, any dead body interred in a hallowed site cannot be turned into an undead creature.

Finally, the character may choose to fix a single spell effect to the hallow site. The spell effect lasts for one year and functions throughout the entire consecrated site, regardless of the normal duration and area or effect. The character may designate whether the effect applies to all creatures, creatures who share the character's faith or alignment, or creatures who adhere to another faith or alignment. At the end of the year, the chosen effect lapses, but it can be renewed or replaced simply by casting hallow again.

Spell effects that may be tied to a hallow site include aid, bane, bless, cause fear, darkness, daylight, deeper darkness, detect evil, detect magic, dimensional anchor, discern lies, dispel magic, endure elements, freedom of movement, invisibility purge, negative energy protection, protection from elements, remove fear, resist elements, silence, tongues, and zone of truth. Spell resistance might apply to these spells’ effects. (See the individual spell descriptions for details.)

An area can receive only one hallow (and its associated spell effect) at a time.

Hallow counters or dispels unhallow.

Material Components: Worth at least 1,000 gp, plus 1,000 gp per level of the spell to be included in the hallowed area.

Hallucinatory Terrain
Illusion (Glamer) Level: Brd 4, Sor/Wiz 4 Components: V, S, M Casting Time: 10 minutes Range: Long (400 ft. + 40 ft./level) Area: One 30-ft. cube/level (S) Duration: 2 hours/level Saving Throw: Will disbelief (if interacted with) Spell Resistance: No

The character makes natural terrain look, sound, and smell like some other sort of natural terrain. Thus, open fields or a road can be made to resemble a swamp, hill, crevasse, or some other difficult or impassable terrain. A pond can be made to seem like a grassy meadow, a precipice like a gentle slope, or a rock-strewn gully like a wide and smooth road. Structures, equipment, and creatures within the area are not hidden or changed in appearance.

Halt Undead
Necromancy Level: Sor/Wiz 3 Components: V, S, M Casting Time: 1 action Range: Medium (100 ft. + 10 ft./level) Targets: Up to three undead, no two of which can be more than 30 ft. apart Duration: 1 round/level Saving Throw: See text Spell Resistance: Yes

This spell renders up to three undead creatures immobile. Nonintelligent undead (such as skeletons and zombies) get no saving throw; intelligent undead do. If the spell is successful, it renders the undead immobile for the duration of the spell (similar to the effect of hold person on a living creature). The effect is broken if the halted creatures are attacked or take damage.

Harm
Necromancy Level: Clr 6, Destruction 6, Drd 7 Components: V, S Casting Time: 1 action Range: Touch Target: Creature touched Duration: Instantaneous Saving Throw: None Spell Resistance: Yes

Harm charges a subject with negative energy that causes the loss of all but 1d4 hit points.

If used on an undead creature, harm acts like heal.

Haste
Transmutation Level: Brd 3, Sor/Wiz 3 Components: V, S, M Casting Time: 1 action Range: Close (25 ft. + 5 ft./2 levels) Target: One creature Duration: 1 round/level Saving Throw: Fortitude negates (harmless) Spell Resistance: Yes (harmless)

The transmuted creature moves and acts more quickly than normal. This extra speed has several effects.

On his turn, the subject may take an extra partial action, either before or after his regular action.

He gains a +4 haste bonus to AC. He loses this bonus whenever he would lose a dodge bonus.

He can jump one and a half times as far as normal. This increase counts as an enhancement bonus.

Haste dispels and counters slow.

Heal
Conjuration (Healing) Level: Clr 6, Drd 7, Healing 6 Components: V, S Casting Time: 1 action Range: Touch Target: Creature touched Duration: Instantaneous Saving Throw: None Spell Resistance: Yes (harmless)

Heal enables the character to channel positive energy into a creature to wipe away disease and injury. It completely cures all diseases, blindness, deafness, hit point damage, and all temporary ability damage. It neutralizes poisons in the subject’s system. so that no additional damage or effects are suffered. It offsets a feeblemind spell. It cures those mental disorders caused by spells or injury to the brain. Only a single application of the spell is needed to simultaneously achieve all these effects.

Heal does not remove negative levels, restore permanently drained levels, or restore permanently drained ability scores.

If used against an undead creature, heal acts like harm.

Healing Circle
Conjuration (Healing) Level: Brd 5, Clr 5, Drd 6, Healing 5 Components: V, S Casting Time: 1 action Range: 20 ft. Area: All living allies and undead creatures within a 20-ft.-radius burst centered on the character Duration: Instantaneous Saving Throw: Fortitude half (harmless) Spell Resistance: Yes (harmless)

Positive energy spreads out in all directions from the point of origin, curing 1d8 points of damage +1 point per caster level (maximum +20) to nearby living allies.

Like cure spells, healing circle damages undead in its area rather than curing them.

Heal Mount
Conjuration (Healing) Level: Pal 3 Components: V, S Casting Time: 1 action Range: Touch Target: The character's mount touched Duration: Instantaneous Saving Throw: None Spell Resistance: Yes (harmless)

Heal mount enables the character to wipe away disease and injury in the character's special mount (typically a warhorse). It completely cures all diseases, blindness, or deafness of the mount, cures all points of damage taken due to wounds or injury, and repairs temporary ability damage. It cures those mental disorders caused by spells or injury to the brain.

Heal mount does not remove negative levels, restore drained levels, or restore drained ability scores.

Heat Metal
Transmutation Level: Drd 2, Sun 2 Components: V, S, DF Casting Time: 1 action Range: Close (25 ft. + 5 ft./2 levels) Target: Metal equipment of one creature/two levels, no two of which can be more than 30 ft. apart; or 25 lb. of metal/level, all of which must be within a 30-ft. circle Duration: 7 rounds Saving Throw: Will negates (object) Spell Resistance: Yes (object)

This spell is identical with chill metal except that it makes metal warm, hot (1d4 points of fire damage), and searing (2d4 points of fire damage) instead of cold, icy, and freezing. Enchanted metal gets a saving throw to resist. Just as damage from chill metal negates fire damage, so damage from heat metal negates cold damage on a one-for-one basis. If cast underwater, heat metal deals half damage and boils the surrounding water.

Heat metal counters and dispels chill metal.

Helping Hand
Evocation Level: Clr 3 Components: V, S, DF Casting Time: 1 action Range: Five miles Effect: Ghostly hand Duration: 1 hour/level Saving Throw: None Spell Resistance: No

The character creates the ghostly image of a hand, which the character can send to find someone within five miles. The hand then beckons to that person and leads her to the character if she follows it.

When the spell is cast, the hand appears in front of the character. The character then specifies a person (or any creature) by physical description, which can include race, gender, and appearance but not ambiguous factors such as level, alignment, or class. When the description is complete, the hand streaks off in search of a subject that fits the description. The amount of time it takes to find the subject depends on how far away she is.

Distance	Time to Locate --

Up to 100 ft.	1 round 1,000 ft.	1 minute One mile	10 minutes Two miles	1 hour Three miles	2 hours Four miles	3 hours Five miles	4 hours

Once the hand locates the subject, it beckons her to follow it. If she follows, the hand points in the character's direction, leading her in the most direct, feasible route. The hand hovers 10 feet in front of the subject, moving before her at a rate of anywhere up to 240 feet per round. Once the hand leads the subject to the character, it disappears.

The subject is not compelled to follow the hand or act in any particular way toward the character. If she chooses not to follow, the hand continues to beckon for the duration of the spell, then disappears. If the spell expires while the subject is en route to the character, the hand disappears; she will have to rely on her own devices to locate the character.

If more than one subject within a five-mile radius meets the description, the hand locates the closest creature. If that creature refuses to follow the hand, the hand does not seek out a second subject.

If, at the end of 4 hours of searching, the hand has found no subject that matches the description within five miles, it returns to the character, displays an outstretched palm (indicating that no such creature was found), and disappears.

The ghostly hand has no physical form. It is invisible to anyone except the character and potential subjects. It cannot engage in combat or execute any other task aside from locating the subject and leading her back to the character. The hand does not pass through solid objects but can ooze through small cracks and slits. The hand cannot travel more than five miles from the spot it appeared when the character cast the spell.

Heroes’ Feast
Evocation Level: Clr 6 Components: V, S, DF Casting Time: 10 minutes Range: Close (25 ft. + 5 ft./2 levels) Effect: Feast for one creature/level Duration: 1 hour + 12 hours (see text) Saving Throw: None Spell Resistance: Yes (harmless)

The character brings forth a great feast, including a magnificent table, chairs, service, and food and drink. The feast takes 1 hour to consume, and the beneficial effects do not set in until this hour is over. Those partaking of the feast are cured of all diseases, are immune to poison for 12 hours, and are healed of 1d4+4 points of damage after imbibing the nectarlike beverage that is part of the feast. The ambrosial food that is consumed creates an effect equal to bless that lasts for 12 hours. During this same period, the people who consumed the feast are immune to magical fear and hopelessness.

If the feast is interrupted for any reason, the spell is ruined and all effects of the spell are negated.

Hold Animal
Enchantment (Compulsion) [Mind-Affecting] Level: Animal 2, Drd 2, Rgr 2 Components: V, S Target: One animal

As hold person, except the spell affects an animal instead. Hold animal does not work on beasts, magical beasts, or vermin.

Hold Monster
Enchantment (Compulsion) [Mind-Affecting] Level: Brd 4, Law 6, Sor/Wiz 5 Components: V, S, M/DF Target: One living creature

As hold person, except this spell holds any living creature who fails its Will save.

Hold Person
Enchantment (Compulsion) [Mind-Affecting] Level: Brd 2, Clr 2, Sor/Wiz 3 Components: V, S, F/DF Casting Time: 1 action Range: Medium (100 ft. + 10 ft./level) Target: One humanoid of Medium-size or smaller Duration: 1 round/level (D) Saving Throw: Will negates Spell Resistance: Yes

The subject freezes in place, standing helpless. He is aware and breathes normally but cannot take any physical actions, even speech. He can, however, execute purely mental actions (such as casting a spell with no components).

A winged creature who is held cannot flap its wings and falls. A swimmer can’t swim and may drown.

Hold Portal
Abjuration Level: Sor/Wiz 1 Component: V Casting Time: 1 action Range: Medium (100 ft. + 10 ft./level) Target: One portal, up to 20 sq. ft./level Duration: 1 minute/level Saving Throw: None Spell Resistance: No

This spell magically bars a door, gate, window, or shutter of wood, metal, or stone. The magic holds the portal fast, just as if it were securely closed and normally locked. A knock spell or a successful dispel magic spell can negate the hold portal. For a portal affected by this spell, add 5 to the normal DC for forcing the portal.

Holy Aura
Abjuration [Good] Level: Clr 8, Good 8, Luck 8 Components: V, S, F Casting Time: 1 action Range: 20 ft. Targets: One creature/level in a 20-ft.-radius burst centered on the character Duration: 1 round/level (D) Saving Throw: See text Spell Resistance: Yes (harmless)

A brilliant divine radiance surrounds the subjects, protecting them from attacks, granting them resistance to spells cast by evil creatures, and blinding evil creatures when they strike the subjects. This abjuration has four effects:

First, the warded creatures gain a +4 deflection bonus to AC and a +4 resistance bonus to saves. Unlike protection from evil, this benefit applies against all attacks, not just against attacks by evil creatures.

Second, the warded creatures gain SR 25 against evil spells and spells cast by evil creatures.

Third, the abjuration blocks possession and mental influence, just as protection from evil does.

Finally, if an evil creature succeeds at a melee attack against a warded creature, the offending attacker is blinded (Fortitude save negates, as blindness/deafness, but against holy aura’s save DC).

Focus: Worth at least 500 gp.

Holy Smite
Evocation [Good] Level: Good 4 Components: V, S Casting Time: 1 action Range: Medium (100 ft. + 10 ft./level) Area: 20-ft.-radius burst Duration: Instantaneous Saving Throw: Reflex half Spell Resistance: Yes

The character draws down holy power to smite the character's enemies. Only evil and neutral creatures are harmed by the spell; good creatures are unaffected.

The spell deals 1d8 points of damage per two caster levels (maximum 5d8) to evil creatures and blinds them for 1 round. A successful Reflex saving throw reduces damage to half and negates the blinding effect.

The spell deals only half damage against creatures who are neither good nor evil, and they are not blinded. They can reduce that damage by half (down to one-quarter of the roll) with a successful Reflex save.

In addition to the obvious effects, a blinded creature suffers a 50% miss chance in combat (all opponents have full concealment), loses any Dexterity bonus to AC, grants a +2 bonus to opponents’ attack rolls (they are effectively invisible), moves at half speed, and suffers a –4 penalty on most Strength- and Dexterity-based skills.

Holy Sword
Evocation Level: Pal 4 Components: V, S Casting Time: 1 action Range: Touch Target: Weapon touched Duration: 1 round/level Saving Throw: None Spell Resistance: No

This spell allows the character to channel holy power into the character's sword, or any weapon the character choose. The weapon acts as a +5 magic weapon and deals double damage against evil opponents. It emits a magic circle against evil (as the spell). If the magic circle ends, the sword creates a new one on the character's turn as a free action. The spell is automatically canceled 1 round after the weapon leaves the character's hand for any reason. The character cannot have more than one holy sword at a time.

If this spell is cast on a magic weapon, the powers of the spell supersede any that the weapon normally has, rendering the normal enhancement bonus and powers of the weapon inoperative for the duration of the spell. This spell is not cumulative with bless weapon or any other spell that might modify the weapon in any way.

This spell does not work on artifacts.

Note: A masterwork weapon’s bonus to attack does not stack with an enhancement bonus to attack.

Holy Word
Evocation [Good, Sonic] Level: Clr 7, Good 7 Components: V Casting Time: 1 action Range: 30 ft. Area: Creatures in a 30-ft.-radius spread centered on the character Duration: Instantaneous Saving Throw: None Spell Resistance: Yes

Uttering holy word has two effects.

If the character is on the character's home plane, the spell instantly banishes nongood extraplanar creatures within the area back to their home planes. Creatures so banished cannot return for at least 1 day. This effect takes place regardless of whether the creatures hear the holy word.

Creatures native to the character's plane who hear the holy word and are not good suffer the following ill effects:

HD		Effect --		--

12 or more	Deafened Less than 12	Blinded, deafened Less than 8	Paralyzed, blinded, deafened Less than 4	Killed, paralyzed, blinded, deafened

The effects are cumulative.

Deafened: The creature is deafened (see blindness/deafness) for 1d4 rounds.

Blinded: The creature is blinded (see blindness/deafness) for 2d4 rounds.

Paralyzed: The creature is paralyzed and helpless for 1d10 minutes, unable to move or act in any way.

Killed: Living creatures die. Undead creatures are destroyed.

Horrid Wilting
Necromancy Level: Sor/Wiz 8, Water 8 Components: V, S, M/DF Casting Time: 1 action Range: Long (400 ft. + 40 ft./level) Targets: Living creatures, no two of whom can be more than 60 ft. apart Duration: Instantaneous Saving Throw: Fortitude half Spell Resistance: Yes

This spell evaporates moisture from the bodies of all the subject living creatures, dealing 1d8 points of damage per caster level (maximum 25d8). This spell is especially devastating to water elementals and plant creatures, who receive a penalty of –2 to their saving throws.

Hypnotic Pattern
Illusion (Pattern) [Mind-Affecting] Level: Brd 2, Sor/Wiz 2 Components: (V), S, M Casting Time: 1 action Range: Medium (100 ft. + 10 ft./level) Effect: Colorful lights in a 15-ft.-radius spread Duration: Concentration + 2 rounds Saving Throw: Will negates Spell Resistance: Yes

A twisting pattern of subtle, shifting colors weaves through the air, fascinating creatures within it. Roll 2d4 +1 per caster level to determine the total number of HD affected (maximum +10). Creatures with the fewest HD are affected first; and, among creatures with equal HD, those who are closest to the spell’s point of origin are affected first. HD that are not sufficient to affect a creature are wasted. Affected creatures gaze at the lights, heedless of all else, acting as if they are affected by hypnotism. However, the character cannot make suggestions as with hypnotism. Sightless creatures are not affected.

A wizard or sorcerer need not utter a sound to cast this spell, but a bard must sing, play music, or recite a rhyme as a verbal component.

Hypnotism
Enchantment (Compulsion) [Mind-Affecting] Level: Brd 1, Sor/Wiz 1 Components: V, S Casting Time: 1 action Range: Close (25 ft. + 5 ft./2 levels) Area: Several living creatures, no two of which may be more than 30 ft. apart Duration: 2d4 rounds (D) Saving Throw: Will negates Spell Resistance: Yes

The character's gestures and droning incantation cause creatures nearby to stop and stare blankly at the character, hypnotized. The character can use their rapt attention to make the character's suggestions and requests seem more plausible. Roll 2d4 to see how many total HD the character affects. Creatures with fewer HD are affected before creatures with more HD. Only creatures who can see or hear the character are affected, but they do not need to understand the character to be hypnotized.

If the character uses this spell in combat, the targets gain a +2 bonus to their saving throws. If the spell affects only a single creature not in combat at the time, the saving throw has a penalty of –2. While hypnotized, a creature’s Spot and Listen checks suffer a –4 penalty. Any potential threat (such as an armed party member moving behind the hypnotized creature) allows the creature a second saving throw. Any obvious threat, such as casting a spell, drawing a sword, or aiming an arrow, automatically breaks the hypnotism, as does shaking or slapping the creature. A hypnotized creature’s ally may shake it free of the spell as a standard action.

While the subject is hypnotized, the character can make a suggestion or request (provided the character can communicate with it). The suggestion must be brief and reasonable. An affected creature reacts as though it were two steps more friendly in attitude. Even once the spell ends, it retains its new attitude toward the character, but only with respect to that particular suggestion.

A creature who fails its saving throw does not remember that the character enspelled it.