Index of Spells by Domain - Pestilence

Deities: Dark Six (Pantheon) (NE), Incabulos (NE), Nerull (NE), The Cults of the Dragon Below (NE), The Devourer (NE)

Name: Pestilence

Granted Power: Immunity to the effects of all diseases, though clerics with this power can still carry infectious diseases.

Name
School Casting Time Source Book
Save - Res Level Comps
Dur Range Recharge
Effect
Expensive Focus
Expensive Material
XP Cost
Description
Full Description
Doom
Necromancy [Fear] [Mind-Affecting] 1 standard action SRD
Will negates - Yes Arc 1, Blg 1, Blk 1, Clr 1, Corruption 1, Decay 1, Dem 1, Hatred 1, KotC 1, Pestilence 1, Wrath 1 V, S, DF
1 min./level Medium General
Target: One living creature

One subject takes -2 on attack rolls, damage rolls, saves, and checks.

This spell fills a single subject with a feeling of horrible dread that causes it to become shaken.

Summon Swarm
Conjuration (Summoning) 1 round SRD
None - No Arc 2, Brd 2, Drd 2, HB 2, Pestilence 2, Sor/Wiz 2, Spider 2 V, S, M/DF
Concentration + 2 rounds Close General
Effect: One swarm of bats, rats, or spiders

Summons swarm of bats, rats, or spiders.

You summon a swarm of bats, rats, or spiders (your choice), which attacks all other creatures within its area. (You may summon the swarm so that it shares the area of other creatures.) If no living creatures are within its area, the swarm attacks or pursues the nearest creature as best it can. The caster has no control over its target or direction of travel.

Contagion
Necromancy [Evil] 1 standard action SRD
Fortitude negates - Yes Adp 3, Arc 3, Blg 3, Blk 3, Clr 3, Corruption 3, Decay 3, Destruction 3, Drd 3, Pestilence 3, Sor/Wiz 4, Wmg 4 V, S
Instant Touch General
Target: Living creature touched

Infects subject with chosen disease.

The subject contracts a disease selected from the table below, which strikes immediately (no incubation period). The DC noted is for the subsequent saves (use contagions normal save DC for the initial saving throw).

DiseaseDC Damage
Blinding sickness 16 1d4 Str (1)
Cackle fever 16 1d6 Wis
Filth fever 12 1d3 Dex and 1d3 Con
Mindfire 12 1d4 Int
Red ache 15 1d6 Str
Shakes 13 1d8 Dex
Slimy doom 14 1d4 Con

1 Each time a victim takes 2 or more points of Strength damage from blinding sickness, he or she must make another Fortitude save (using the disease's save DC) or be permanently blinded.

Poison
Necromancy 1 standard action SRD
Fortitude negates; see text - Yes Arc 4, Asn 4, Blg 3, Blk 4, Clr 4, Drd 3, HB 3, Pestilence 4, Scalykind 4, Slime 3, Wmg 3 V, S, DF
Instant; see text Touch General
Target: Living creature touched

Touch deals 1d10 Con damage, repeats in 1 min.

Calling upon the venomous powers of natural predators, you infect the subject with a horrible poison by making a successful melee touch attack. The poison deals 1d10 points of temporary Constitution damage immediately and another 1d10 points of temporary Constitution damage 1 minute later. Each instance of damage can be negated by a Fortitude save (DC 10 + 1/2 your caster level + your Wis modifier).

Plague of Rats
    Complete Divine
  Pestilence 5  
    General

Summon horde of diseased rats.

Curse of Lycanthropy (M)
    Complete Divine
  Pestilence 6  
    General

Causes temporary lycanthropy in subject.

Curse of Lycanthropy 2 (M)
    SPC
  Pestilence 6  
    General

Kills subject and summons wererats.

Scourge (F)
    Complete Divine
  Pestilence 7  
    General

Inflicts a disease that must be magically cured, one subject/level.

Create Greater Undead (M)
Necromancy [Evil] 1 hour SRD
None - No Arc 8, Clr 8, Death 8, Pestilence 8, Sor/Wiz 8, Undeath 8 V, S, M
Instant Close General
Target: One corpse
Materials: A clay pot filled with grave dirt and another filled with brackish water. The spell must be cast on a dead body. You must place a black onyx gem worth at least 50 gp per HD of the undead to be created into the mouth or eye socket of each corpse.

Create shadows, wraiths, spectres, or devourers.

A much more potent spell than animate dead, this evil spell allows you to create more powerful sorts of undead: shadows, wraiths, spectres, and devourers. The type or types of undead you can create is based on your caster level, as shown on the table below.

Caster LevelUndead Created
15th or lowerShadow
16th - 17thWraith
18th - 19thSpectre
20th or higherDevourer

You may create less powerful undead than your level would allow if you choose. Created undead are not automatically under the control of their animator. If you are capable of commanding undead, you may attempt to command the undead creature as it forms.

This spell must be cast at night.

Otyugh Swarm
    Complete Divine
  Pestilence 9  
    24 hours

Creates 4d4 otyughs or 1d3+1 Huge otyughs.