Index of Spells by Name Letters - G

Name
School Casting Time Source Book
Save - Res Level Comps
Dur Range Recharge
Effect
Expensive Focus
Expensive Material
XP Cost
Description
Full Description
G'elsewhere Chant
    SPC
  Brd 3  
    General

You teleport a target to a random, safe location up to 100 feet distant and visible to you

Gaseous Form
Transmutation 1 standard action SRD
None - No Air 3, Brd 3, Sor/Wiz 3, Transformation 3, Wuj 3 S, M/DF
2 min./level (D) Touch 5 minutes
Target: Willing corporeal creature touched

Subject becomes insubstantial and can fly slowly.

The subject and all its gear become insubstantial, misty, and translucent. Its material armor (including natural armor) becomes worthless, though its size, Dexterity, deflection bonuses, and armor bonuses from force effects still apply. The subject gains damage reduction 10/magic and becomes immune to poison and critical hits. It can't attack or cast spells with verbal, somatic, material, or focus components while in gaseous form. (This does not rule out the use of certain spells that the subject may have prepared using the feats Silent Spell, Still Spell, and Eschew Materials.) The subject also loses supernatural abilities while in gaseous form. If it has a touch spell ready to use, that spell is discharged harmlessly when the gaseous form spell takes effect.

A gaseous creature can't run, but it can fly at a speed of 10 feet (maneuverability perfect). It can pass through small holes or narrow openings, even mere cracks, with all it was wearing or holding in its hands, as long as the spell persists. The creature is subject to the effects of wind, and it can't enter water or other liquid. It also can't manipulate objects or activate items, even those carried along with its gaseous form. Continuously active items remain active, though in some cases their effects may be moot.

Gate (XP)
Conjuration (Creation or Calling) 1 standard action SRD
None - No APeace 9, Arc 9, Celestial 9, Clr 9, Demonic 9, Diabolic 9, DrgBlw 9, Drow 9, Glory 9, Hlr 9, Pact 9, Portal 9, Portal (alt) 9, Sor/Wiz 9, Summoner 9, Wuj 9 V, S, XP, text
Instant or concentration (up to 1 round/level); see text Medium General
Effect: See text
XP Cost: 1,000 XP (only for the calling creatures function).

Connects two planes for travel or summoning.

Casting a gate spell has two effects. First, it creates an interdimensional connection between your plane of existence and a plane you specify, allowing travel between those two planes in either direction.

Second, you may then call a particular individual or kind of being through the gate.

The gate itself is a circular hoop or disk from 5 to 20 feet in diameter (casters choice), oriented in the direction you desire when it comes into existence (typically vertical and facing you). It is a two-dimensional window looking into the plane you specified when casting the spell, and anyone or anything that moves through is shunted instantly to the other side.

A gate has a front and a back. Creatures moving through the gate from the front are transported to the other plane; creatures moving through it from the back are not.

Planar Travel: As a mode of planar travel, a gate spell functions much like a plane shift spell, except that the gate opens precisely at the point you desire (a creation effect). Deities and other beings who rule a planar realm can prevent a gate from opening in their presence or personal demesnes if they so desire. Travelers need not join hands with you-anyone who chooses to step through the portal is transported. A gate cannot be opened to another point on the same plane; the spell works only for interplanar travel.

You may hold the gate open only for a brief time (no more than 1 round per caster level), and you must concentrate on doing so, or else the interplanar connection is severed.

Calling Creatures: The second effect of the gate spell is to call an extraplanar creature to your aid (a calling effect). By naming a particular being or kind of being as you cast the spell, you cause the gate to open in the immediate vicinity of the desired creature and pull the subject through, willing or unwilling. Deities and unique beings are under no compulsion to come through the gate, although they may choose to do so of their own accord. This use of the spell creates a gate that remains open just long enough to transport the called creatures. This use of the spell has an XP cost (see below).

If you choose to call a kind of creature instead of a known individual you may call either a single creature (of any HD) or several creatures. You can call and control several creatures as long as their HD total does not exceed your caster level. In the case of a single creature, you can control it if its HD do not exceed twice your caster level. A single creature with more HD than twice your caster level can't be controlled. Deities and unique beings cannot be controlled in any event. An uncontrolled being acts as it pleases, making the calling of such creatures rather dangerous. An uncontrolled being may return to its home plane at any time.

A controlled creature can be commanded to perform a service for you. Such services fall into two categories: immediate tasks and contractual service. Fighting for you in a single battle or taking any other actions that can be accomplished within 1 round per caster level counts as an immediate task; you need not make any agreement or pay any reward for the creatures help. The creature departs at the end of the spell.

If you choose to exact a longer or more involved form of service from a called creature, you must offer some fair trade in return for that service. The service exacted must be reasonable with respect to the promised favor or reward; see the planar ally, lesser spell for appropriate rewards. (Some creatures may want their payment in livestock rather than in coin, which could involve complications.) Immediately upon completion of the service, the being is transported to your vicinity, and you must then and there turn over the promised reward. After this is done, the creature is instantly freed to return to its own plane.

Failure to fulfill the promise to the letter results in your being subjected to service by the creature or by its liege and master, at the very least. At worst, the creature or its kin may attack you.

Note: When you use a calling spell such as gate to call an air, chaotic, earth, evil, fire, good, lawful, or water creature, it becomes a spell of that type.

Gatorswarm
    Far Corners of the World
  Arc 6, Drd 6  
    General

This spell summons 1d3 exceptionally irate and hungry monstrous alligators from the surrounding waters.

Gaze Screen
    Tome and Blood
  Arc 2, Clr 2, Drd 2, Sor/Wiz 2  
    General

Subject has a 50% chance to avoid gaze attacks.

Lesser Geas
Enchantment (Compulsion) [Language-Dependent] [Mind-Affecting] 1 round SRD
Will negates - Yes Brd 3, EmBarachiel 3, Sor/Wiz 4 V
1 day/level or until discharged (D) Close General
Target: One living creature with 7 HD or less

Commands subject of 7 HD or less.

A lesser geas places a magical command on a creature to carry out some service or to refrain from some action or course of activity, as desired by you. The creature must have 7 or fewer Hit Dice and be able to understand you. While a geas cannot compel a creature to kill itself or perform acts that would result in certain death, it can cause almost any other course of activity.

The geased creature must follow the given instructions until the geas is completed, no matter how long it takes.

If the instructions involve some open-ended task that the recipient cannot complete through his own actions the spell remains in effect for a maximum of one day per caster level. A clever recipient can subvert some instructions:

If the subject is prevented from obeying the lesser geas for 24 hours, it takes a 2 penalty to each of its ability scores. Each day, another 2 penalty accumulates, up to a total of 8. No ability score can be reduced to less than 1 by this effect. The ability score penalties are removed 24 hours after the subject resumes obeying the lesser geas.

A lesser geas (and all ability score penalties) can be ended by break enchantment, limited wish, remove curse, miracle, or wish. Dispel magic does not affect a lesser geas.

Geas/Quest
Enchantment (Compulsion) [Mind-Affecting] [Language-Dependent] 10 minutes SRD
None - Yes APeace 6, Arc 6, Brd 6, Charm 6, Clr 6, Domination 6, Fate 6, Inquisition 6, Nobility 6, Sor/Wiz 6, Tyranny 6, Wuj 6 V
1 day/level or until discharged (D) Close General
Target: One living creature

As geas, lesser, plus it affects any creature.

A geas/quest places a magical command on a creature to carry out some service or to refrain from some action or course of activity, as desired by you. The creature must be able to understand you. While a geas cannot compel a creature to kill itself or perform acts that would result in certain death, it can cause almost any other course of activity.

The geased creature must follow the given instructions until the geas is completed, no matter how long it takes.

If the instructions involve some open-ended task that the recipient cannot complete through his own actions the spell remains in effect for a maximum of one day per caster level. A clever recipient can subvert some instructions:

If the subject is prevented from obeying the geas/quest for 24 hours, it takes 3d6 points of damage each day it does not attempt to follow the geas/quest. Additionally, each day it must make a Fortitude saving throw or become sickened. These effects end 24 hours after the creature attempts to resume the geas/quest.

A remove curse spell ends a geas/quest spell only if its caster level is at least two higher than your caster level. Break enchantment does not end a geas/quest, but limited wish, miracle, and wish do.

Bards, sorcerers, and wizards usually refer to this spell as geas, while clerics call the same spell quest.

Gelid Blood
    Frostburn
  Sor/Wiz 5  
    General

Subject takes –4 penalty on attacks, AC, and Str- and Dex-related checks, 50% failure of spells with somatic components.

Gembomb (M)
    SPC
  Gnome 2, Trade 2  
    General

Converts five gems into bombs that deal 1d8 force damage/two levels.

Gemjump (F)
    SPC
  Sor/Wiz 6  
    4 hours

Teleport to the location of a specially prepared gem.

General of Undeath
    SPC
  Arc 8, Clr 8  
    24 hours

Increases your maximum HD of controlled undead by your caster level.

Genesis (XP)
Conjuration (Creation) 1 week (8 hours/day) SRD
None - No Creation 9 V, S, M, XP
Instant 180 ft. General
Effect: A demiplane on the Ethereal Plane centered on your location
XP Cost: 5,000 XP.

Create a demi-plane.

This spell creates an immobile, finite plane with limited access—a demi-plane.

Demiplanes created by this power are very small, minor planes. A character can cast this spell only on the Ethereal Plane. When he or she casts it, a local density fluctuation precipitates the creation of a demiplane. At first, the demiplane grows at a rate of a 1-foot-radius per day to an initial maximum radius of 180 feet as the fledgling plane draws substance from surrounding ethereal vapors and protomatter or astral ectoplasm.

The character determines the environment in the demiplane when he or she first casts genesis, reflecting most any desire he or she can visualize. The caster determines factors such as atmosphere, water, temperature, and the shape of the general terrain. However, the spell cannot create life, nor can it create construction. If desired, these must be brought in by some other fashion.

Once the basic demiplane reaches its maximum size, the character can continue to cast this spell to enlarge the demiplane if he or she is inside the boundaries of the demiplane. In such a case, the radiusof the demiplane increases by 60 feet for each subsequent casting.

If the spell is cast again while outside an existing demi-plane, the casting creates a separate bubble that does not touch or overlap any previously created demiplane.

Gentle Repose (M)
Necromancy 1 standard action SRD
Will negates (object) - Yes (object) Arc 2, Clr 2, Hlr 2, Repose 2, Slayer of Domiel 2, Sor/Wiz 3, Time 2 V, S, M/DF
1 day/level Touch General
Target: Corpse touched
Materials: A: A pinch of salt, and a copper piece for each eye the corpse has (or had).

Preserves one corpse.

You preserve the remains of a dead creature so that they do not decay. Doing so effectively extends the time limit on raising that creature from the dead (see raise dead). Days spent under the influence of this spell don't count against the time limit. Additionally, this spell makes transporting a fallen comrade more pleasant.

The spell also works on severed body parts and the like.

Getaway
    Song and Silence
  Asn 2  
    1 hour

Causes pursuers to go astray 50% of the time.

Geyser
    Dragon 334
  Arc 3, Drd 3, Sor/Wiz 2  
    General

Creates a line of water that deals 1d6 nonlethal damage +1d6/2 additional levels.

Ghorus Toth's Magnetism
    Unapproachable East
  Sor/Wiz 6  
    General

Metallic creature or object becomes strongly magnetic.

Ghost Knight
    Magic Books of Faerun
  Arc 4, Clr 4  
    6 hours

A visible force that does not harm, but distracts.

Ghost Light
    Complete Arcane
  Wuj 1  
    General

An eerie green torch light causes creatures to become shaken.

Ghost Pipes
    LostEmpiresOfFaerun
  Brd 1  
    General

Causes an instrument to float above the ground and play itself.

Ghost Sound
Illusion (Figment) 1 standard action SRD
Will disbelief (if interacted with) - No Adp 0, Arc 0, Asn 1, Beguiler 0, Blg 0, Brd 0, Duskblade 0, Hoard 1, Shu 0, Slayer of Domiel 1, Sor/Wiz 0, Wuj 0 V, S, M
1 round/level (D) Close General
Effect: Illusory sounds

Figment sounds.

Ghost sound allows you to create a volume of sound that rises, recedes, approaches, or remains at a fixed place. You choose what type of sound ghost sound creates when casting it and cannot thereafter change the sounds basic character.

The volume of sound created depends on your level. You can produce as much noise as four normal humans per caster level (maximum twenty humans). Thus, talking, singing, shouting, walking, marching, or running sounds can be created. The noise a ghost sound spell produces can be virtually any type of sound within the volume limit. A horde of rats running and squeaking is about the same volume as eight humans running and shouting. A roaring lion is equal to the noise from sixteen humans, while a roaring dire tiger is equal to the noise from twenty humans.

Ghost sound can enhance the effectiveness of a silent image spell.

Ghost sound can be made permanent with a permanency spell.

Ghost Storm
    Far Corners of the World
  Arc 5, Clr 5, Sor/Wiz 5  
    General

Save and become Frightened or fail and gain a temporary negative level, per round. Levels return at the rate of 1 per minute. More nastiness.

Ghost Touch Armor
    SPC
  Arc 2, Clr 2, Sor/Wiz 2  
    5 minutes

Armor works normally against incorporeal attacks.

Ghost Touch Weapon
    Libris
  Arc 4, Clr 4  
    1 hour

Weapon works normally against incorporeal creatures.

Ghost Trap
    SPC
  Arc 6, Clr 6, Sor/Wiz 7  
    6 hours

Incorporeal creatures turn corporeal.

Ghostform
    Complete Arcane
  Sor/Wiz 8  
    General

You become incorporeal.

Ghostharp
    SPC
  Brd 0  
    General

Object records, plays a song at your command.

Ghostly Reload
    RotDrg
  Sor/Wiz 1  
    4 hours

Automatically pulls crossbow string into catch.

Ghostly Tail
    RotDrg
  Sor 1  
    6 hours

Your tail of force can be used to take advantage of an attack of opportunity.

Ghoul Gauntlet
    Libris
  Hunger 5, Sor/Wiz 6  
    General

Convert victim to a ghoul under your control.

Ghoul Gesture
    Libris
  Hunger 3  
    General

Ray paralyzes target.

Ghoul Glyph (M)
    Libris
  Hunger 2, Sor/Wiz 2  
    General

Glyph wards area, paralyzes victims.

Ghoul Light
    Libris
  Hunger 1  
    1 hour

Light provides turn resistance.

Ghoul Touch
Necromancy [Negative] 1 standard action SRD
Fortitude negates - Yes Duskblade 2, Sor/Wiz 2 V, S, M
1d6+2 rounds Touch General
Target: Living humanoid touched

Paralyzes one subject, which exudes stench.

Imbuing you with negative energy, this spell allows you to paralyze a single living humanoid for the duration of the spell with a successful melee touch attack.

Additionally, the paralyzed subject exudes a carrion stench that causes all living creatures (except you) in a 10-foot-radius spread to become sickened (Fortitude negates). A neutralize poison spell removes the effect from a sickened creature, and creatures immune to poison are unaffected by the stench.

Giant Size
    Complete Arcane
  Wuj 7  
    General

You may grow up to Huge, Gargantuan, or Colossal size.

Giant Vermin
Transmutation 1 standard action SRD
None - Yes Arc 4, Clr 4, Drd 4, Spider 4 V, S, DF
1 min./level Close 30 minutes
Targets: Up to three vermin, no two of which can be more than 30 ft. apart

Turns centipedes, scorpions, or spiders into giant vermin.

You turn three normal-sized centipedes, two normal-sized spiders, or a single normal-sized scorpion into larger forms. Only one type of vermin can be transmuted (so a single casting cannot affect both a centipede and a spider), and all must be grown to the same size. The size to which the vermin can be grown depends on your level; see the table below.

Any giant vermin created by this spell do not attempt to harm you, but your control of such creatures is limited to simple commands (Attack, Defend, Stop, and so forth). Orders to attack a certain creature when it appears or guard against a particular occurrence are too complex for the vermin to understand. Unless commanded to do otherwise, the giant vermin attack whoever or whatever is near them.

Caster Level, Vermin Size

9th or lower, Medium

10th-13th, Large

14th-17th, Huge

18th-19th, Gargantuan

20th or higher, Colossal

Giant's Wrath
    Far Corners of the World
  Arc 3, Clr 3, Sor/Wiz 3  
    General

Thrown pebble turns into boulder dealing 2d6 + 1/2 caster levels bludgeoning damage. Base damage increases to 2d8 at 9th level, 2d8 + 2d6 fire at 13th, and critical becomes x3 at 17th.

Girallon's Blessing
    SPC
  Arc 3, Clr 3, Drd 3, Sor/Wiz 3  
    General

Subject gains one additional pair of arms.

Glacial Globe of Invulnerability
    Frostburn
  Arc 4, Clr 4, Sor/Wiz 3  
    General

Stops 1st- through 3rd-level fire spell effects and provides concealment.

Glacial Ward
    Frostburn
  Sor/Wiz 4  
    General

Subject gains SR 18 against fire spells and effects.

Greater Glacial Ward (M)
    Frostburn
  Sor/Wiz 7  
    General

Area around you provides SR 25 against fi re spells and effects.

Glacier
    Frostburn
  Arc 8, Drd 8  
    General

Conjures glaciers that attack your enemies.

Glass Strike
    Magic of Faerun
  Sor/Wiz 6  
    General

Turns subject into glass.

Glaze Lock
    Frostburn
  Sor/Wiz 1  
    1 hour

Jams locks with snow and ice, raising Open Lock DC by 10 and lock's hardness by 5.

Glibness
Transmutation 1 standard action SRD
- Asn 4, Beguiler 3, Brd 3, Commerce 4 S
10 min./level (D) Personal 4 hours
Target: You

You gain +30 bonus on Bluff checks, and your lies can escape magical discernment.

Your speech becomes fluent and more believable. You gain a +30 bonus on Bluff checks made to convince another of the truth of your words. (This bonus doesn't apply to other uses of the Bluff skill, such as feinting in combat, creating a diversion to hide, or communicating a hidden message via innuendo.)

If a magical effect is used against you that would detect your lies or force you to speak the truth the user of the effect must succeed on a caster level check (1d20 + caster level) against a DC of 15 + your caster level to succeed. Failure means the effect does not detect your lies or force you to speak only the truth.

Glimpse of Eternity
    MoE
  Brd 5, Sor/Wiz 5  
    General

Target takes 1d6 nonlethal damage/level and is confused.

Glimpse of Fear
    Dragon 333
  Arc 1, Brd 1, Clr 1, Sor/Wiz 1  
    General

A flash of horror causes the target to become shaken.

Glimpse Of The Prophecy
    MoE
  Arc 6, Brd 6, Clr 6, Sor/Wiz 6  
    General

Gain +1 insight bonus to AC and on saves; gain insight bonus equal to 1/2 caster level on one save, or enter prophetic favor as immediate action.

Glimpse of Truth
    Book of Vile Darkness
  Sor/Wiz 3  
    12 hours

You get an answer to a yes-or-no question.

Glitterdust
Conjuration (Creation) 1 standard action SRD
Will negates (blinding only) - No Arc 2, Beguiler 2, Brd 2, EmBarachiel 2, HB 2, Shu 2, Sor/Wiz 2 V, S, M
1 round/level Medium General
Area: Creatures and objects within 10-ft.-radius spread

Blinds creatures, outlines invisible creatures.

A cloud of golden particles covers everyone and everything in the area, causing creatures to become blinded and visibly outlining invisible things for the duration of the spell. All within the area are covered by the dust, which cannot be removed and continues to sparkle until it fades.

Any creature covered by the dust takes a -40 penalty on Hide checks.

Globe of Invulnerability
Abjuration 1 standard action SRD
None - No Artificer 6, Endurance 7, Sor/Wiz 6, Wuj 6 V, S, M
1 round/level (D) 10 ft. General
Area: 10-ft.-radius spherical emanation, centered on you

As globe of invulnerability, lesser, plus 4th-level spell effects.

An immobile, faintly shimmering magical sphere surrounds you and excludes all spell effects of 4th level or lower. The area or effect of any such spells does not include the area of the globe of invulnerability. Such spells fail to affect any target located within the globe. Excluded effects include spell-like abilities and spells or spell-like effects from items. However, any type of spell can be cast through or out of the magical globe. Spells of 5th level and higher are not affected by the globe, nor are spells already in effect when the globe is cast. The globe can be brought down by a targeted dispel magic spell, but not by an area dispel magic. You can leave and return to the globe without penalty.

Note that spell effects are not disrupted unless their effects enter the globe, and even then they are merely suppressed, not dispelled.

If a given spell has more than one level depending on which character class is casting it, use the level appropriate to the caster to determine whether globe of invulnerability stops it.

Lesser Globe of Invulnerability
Abjuration 1 standard action SRD
None - No Artificer 4, Sor/Wiz 4, Wuj 4 V, S, M
1 round/level (D) 10 ft. General
Area: 10-ft.-radius spherical emanation, centered on you

Stops 1st- through 3rd-level spell effects.

An immobile, faintly shimmering magical sphere surrounds you and excludes all spell effects of 3rd level or lower. The area or effect of any such spells does not include the area of the lesser globe of invulnerability. Such spells fail to affect any target located within the globe. Excluded effects include spell-like abilities and spells or spell-like effects from items. However, any type of spell can be cast through or out of the magical globe. Spells of 4th level and higher are not affected by the globe, nor are spells already in effect when the globe is cast. The globe can be brought down by a targeted dispel magic spell, but not by an area dispel magic. You can leave and return to the globe without penalty.

Note that spell effects are not disrupted unless their effects enter the globe, and even then they are merely suppressed, not dispelled.

If a given spell has more than one level depending on which character class is casting it, use the level appropriate to the caster to determine whether lesser globe of invulnerability stops it.

Glorious Raiment
    Book of Exalted Deeds
  APeace 2, Arc 2, Glory 2  
    5 minutes

Wearer gains +1 sacred bonus to AC per five caster levels and damage reduction 5/evil.

Glory of the Martyr
    Magic of Faerun
  Arc 4, ChamGwyn 4, Pal 4  
    24 hours

As shield other, but affecting multiple creatures, and healing them if you die.

Glossolalia
Evocation 1 standard action SRD
Fortitude partial; see text - Yes Brd 2 V
Instant 60 ft. General
Area: Cone-shaped burst

Cone-shaped shriek distracts smart foes, makes concentrating difficult.

You utter shrieks of nonsense and gibberish that thinking creatures find distracting and confusing. The spell affects only creatures with Intelligence scores of 3 or higher. Any such creatures within the spell's area must succeed on Fortitude saves or be stunned for 1 round (if they have Intelligence scores of 20 or higher), dazed for 1 round (if they have Intelligence scores between 10 and 19), or shaken for 1 round (if they have Intelligence scores between 3 and 9). In addition, a creature within the spell's area loses any psionic focus it might have had and takes a –4 penalty on Concentration checks for 1 round. These effects happen whether or not the creature succeeded on its save.

Glowing Orb (F)
    PGtF
  Arc 4, Clr 4, Sor/Wiz 3  
    6 hours

Creates permanent magical light; you control brightness.

Glyph of Warding (M)
Abjuration 10 minutes SRD
See text - No (object) and Yes; see text Arc 3, Clr 3, Dwarf 3, Rune 3, Shu 3, Wealth 3 V, S, M
Permanent until discharged (D) Touch General
Target or Area: Object touched or up to 5 sq. ft./level
Materials: You trace the glyph with incense, which must first be sprinkled with powdered diamond worth at least 200 gp.

Inscription harms those who pass it.

This powerful inscription harms those who enter, pass, or open the warded area or object. A glyph of warding can guard a bridge or passage, ward a portal, trap a chest or box, and so on.

You set the conditions of the ward. Typically, any creature entering the warded area or opening the warded object without speaking a password (which you set when casting the spell) is subject to the magic it stores. Alternatively or in addition to a password trigger, glyphs can be set according to physical characteristics (such as height or weight) or creature type, subtype, or kind. Glyphs can also be set with respect to good, evil, law, or chaos, or to pass those of your religion. They cannot be set according to class, Hit Dice, or level. Glyphs respond to invisible creatures normally but are not triggered by those who travel past them ethereally. Multiple glyphs cannot be cast on the same area. However, if a cabinet has three drawers, each can be separately warded.

When casting the spell, you weave a tracery of faintly glowing lines around the warding sigil. A glyph can be placed to conform to any shape up to the limitations of your total square footage. When the spell is completed, the glyph and tracery become nearly invisible.

Glyphs cannot be affected or by-passed by such means as physical or magical probing, though they can be dispelled. Mislead, polymorph, and nondetection (and similar magical effects) can fool a glyph, though non-magical disguises and the like can't. Read magic allows you to identify a glyph of warding with a DC 13 Spellcraft check. Identifying the glyph does not discharge it and allows you to know the basic nature of the glyph (version, type of damage caused, what spell is stored).

Note: Magic traps such as glyph of warding are hard to detect and disable. A rogue (only) can use the Search skill to find the glyph and Disable Device to thwart it. The DC in each case is 25 + spell level, or 28 for glyph of warding.

Depending on the version selected, a glyph either blasts the intruder or activates a spell.

Blast Glyph: A blast glyph deals 1d8 points of damage per two caster levels (maximum 5d8) to the intruder and to all within 5 feet of him or her. This damage is acid, cold, fire, electricity, or sonic (casters choice, made at time of casting). Each creature affected can attempt a Reflex save to take half damage. Spell resistance applies against this effect.

Spell Glyph: You can store any harmful spell of 3rd level or lower that you know. All level-dependent features of the spell are based on your caster level at the time of casting the glyph. If the spell has a target, it targets the intruder. If the spell has an area or an amorphous effect the area or effect is centered on the intruder. If the spell summons creatures, they appear as close as possible to the intruder and attack. Saving throws and spell resistance operate as normal, except that the DC is based on the level of the spell stored in the glyph.

Greater Glyph of Warding (M)
Abjuration 10 minutes SRD
See text - No (object) and Yes; see text Arc 6, Clr 6, Rune 6, Shu 6 V, S, M
Permanent until discharged (D) Touch General
Target or Area: Object touched or up to 5 sq. ft./level
Materials: You trace the glyph with incense, which must first be sprinkled with powdered diamond worth at least 400 gp.

As glyph of warding, but up to 10d8 damage or 6th-level spell.

This spell functions like glyph of warding, except that a greater blast glyph deals up to 10d8 points of damage, and a greater spell glyph can store a spell of 6th level or lower.

Gnome Blight
    RotDrg
  Sor/Wiz 2  
    General

Cloud of itchy debilitating pollen sickens living creatures.

Golden Barding
    Complete Divine
  Arc 1, Blk 1, Pal 1  
    6 hours

Your mount gets force armor.

Golden Dragonmail
    CV
  Sor/Wiz 3  
    General

You create a suit of shining golden +1 mithral full plate around your body.

Golem Immunity
    RE
  Arc 8, Clr 8, Sor/Wiz 8  
    General

Grants a construct the magic immunity special quality of a particular golem.

Golem Strike
    Complete Adventurer
  Sor/Wiz 1  
    General

Swift. You can sneak attack constructs for 1 round.

Good Hope
Enchantment (Compulsion) [Mind-Affecting] 1 standard action SRD
Will negates (harmless) - Yes (harmless) APeace 4, Arc 4, Brd 3, Charm 4, EmBarachiel 3, Joy 4, Moon 4, Wuj 4 V, S
1 min./level Medium 30 minutes
Targets: One living creature/level, no two of which may be more than 30 ft. apart

Subjects gain +2 on attack rolls, damage rolls, saves, and checks.

This spell instills powerful hope in the subjects. Each affected creature gains a +2 morale bonus on saving throws, attack rolls, ability checks, skill checks, and weapon damage rolls.

Good hope counters and dispels crushing despair.

Goodberry
Transmutation 1 standard action SRD
None - Yes Arc 1, Drd 1, Feast 1, Hlr 1, Sin-G 1 V, S, DF
1 day/level Touch 6 hours
Targets: 2d4 fresh berries touched

2d4 berries each cure 1 hp (max 8 hp/24 hours).

Casting goodberry upon a handful of freshly picked berries makes 2d4 of them magical. You (as well as any other druid of 3rd or higher level) can immediately discern which berries are affected. Each transmuted berry provides nourishment as if it were a normal meal for a Medium creature. The berry also cures 1 point of damage when eaten, subject to a maximum of 8 points of such curing in any 24-hour period.

Grace
    SPC
  Arc 3, Brd 2, Clr 3  
    General

Silvery light grants +2 Dexterity, +10 feet to land speed*, melee attacks treated as good; take -20 to Hide checks.

Grasping Hand
Evocation [Force] 1 standard action SRD
None - Yes Sor/Wiz 7, Strength 7, Tyranny 7 V, S, F/DF
1 round/level (D) Medium General
Effect: 10-ft. hand

Large hand provides cover, pushes, or grapples.

This spell functions like interposing hand, except the hand can also grapple one opponent that you select. The grasping hand gets one grapple attack per round.

Its attack bonus to make contact equals your caster level + your Intelligence, Wisdom, or Charisma modifier (for wizards, clerics, and sorcerers, respectively), +10 for the hands Strength score (31), -1 for being Large. Its grapple bonus is this same figure, except with a +4 modifier for being Large instead of -1. The hand holds but does not harm creatures it grapples.

Directing the spell to a new target is a move action.

The grasping hand can also bull rush an opponent as forceful hand does, but at a +16 bonus on the Strength check (+10 for Strength 35, +4 for being Large, and a +2 bonus for charging, which it always gets), or interpose itself as interposing hand does.

Clerics who cast this spell name it for their deities.

Grasping Wall
    CS
  Sor/Wiz 3  
    General

Wall sprouts hands that entangle enemies, help allies climb.

Grave Strike
    SPC
  Arc 1, Clr 1, Pal 1  
    General

Swift. You can sneak attack undead for 1 round.

Graymantle
    SPC
  Sor/Wiz 5  
    General

Target is prevented from regaining hit points by any means.

Graz'zt's Long Grasp
    Book of Vile Darkness
  Sor/Wiz 2  
    1 hour

Your hand flies from you to make grapple artacks.

Grease
Conjuration (Creation) 1 standard action SRD
See text - No Brd 1, Slime 1, Sor/Wiz 1 V, S, M
1 round/level (D) Close General
Target or Area: One object or a 10-ft. square

Makes 10-ft. square or one object slippery.

A grease spell covers a solid surface with a layer of slippery grease. Any creature in the area when the spell is cast must make a successful Reflex save or fall. This save is repeated on your turn each round that the creature remains within the area. A creature can walk within or through the area of grease at half normal speed with a DC 10 Balance check. Failure means it can't move that round (and must then make a Reflex save or fall), while failure by 5 or more means it falls (see the Balance skill for details).

The spell can also be used to create a greasy coating on an item. Material objects not in use are always affected by this spell, while an object wielded or employed by a creature receives a Reflex saving throw to avoid the effect. If the initial saving throw fails, the creature immediately drops the item. A saving throw must be made in each round that the creature attempts to pick up or use the greased item. A creature wearing greased armor or clothing gains a +10 circumstance bonus on Escape Artist checks and on grapple checks made to resist or escape a grapple or to escape a pin.

Great Thunderclap
    SPC
  Sor/Wiz 3  
    General

Loud noise causes stunning, deafness, and knocks prone in a 20-ft.-radius spread.

Greenfire
    Unapproachable East
  Arc 3, Drd 3  
    General

Each creature in area takes 2d6 acid damage +1/level.

Grim Revenge
    Book of Vile Darkness
  Sor/Wiz 4  
    General

Tears hand from target, dealing 6d6 damage, then hand attacks target.

Groundsmoke
    Dragon 326
  Arc 0, Drd 0, Sor/Wiz 0  
    General

Prevents smoke from rising from a small fire.

Guards and Wards
Abjuration 30 minutes SRD
See text - See text Greed 6, Sor/Wiz 6 V, S, M, F
2 hours/level (D) Anywhere within the area to be warded 24 hours
Area: Up to 200 sq. ft./level (S)

Array of magic effects protect area.

This powerful spell is primarily used to defend your stronghold. The ward protects 200 square feet per caster level. The warded area can be as much as 20 feet high, and shaped as you desire. You can ward several stories of a stronghold by dividing the area among them; you must be somewhere within the area to be warded to cast the spell. The spell creates the following magical effects within the warded area.

Fog: Fog fills all corridors, obscuring all sight, including darkvision, beyond 5 feet. A creature within 5 feet has concealment (attacks have a 20% miss chance). Creatures farther away have total concealment (50% miss chance, and the attacker cannot use sight to locate the target). Saving Throw: None. Spell Resistance: No.

Arcane Locks: All doors in the warded area are arcane locked. Saving Throw: None. Spell Resistance: No.

Webs: Webs fill all stairs from top to bottom. These strands are identical with those created by the web spell, except that they regrow in 10 minutes if they are burned or torn away while the guards and wards spell lasts. Saving Throw: Reflex negates; see text for web. Spell Resistance: No.

Confusion: Where there are choices in direction-such as a corridor intersection or side passage-a minor confusion-type effect functions so as to make it 50% probable that intruders believe they are going in the opposite direction from the one they actually chose. This is an enchantment, mind-affecting effect. Saving Throw: None. Spell Resistance: Yes.

Lost Doors: One door per caster level is covered by a silent image to appear as if it were a plain wall. Saving Throw: Will disbelief (if interacted with). Spell Resistance: No.

In addition, you can place your choice of one of the following five magical effects.

1. Dancing lights in four corridors. You can designate a simple program that causes the lights to repeat as long as the guards and wards spell lasts. Saving Throw: None. Spell Resistance: No.

2. A magic mouth in two places. Saving Throw: None. Spell Resistance: No.

3. A stinking cloud in two places. The vapors appear in the places you designate; they return within 10 minutes if dispersed by wind while the guards and wards spell lasts. Saving Throw: Fortitude negates; see text for stinking cloud. Spell Resistance: No.

4. A gust of wind in one corridor or room. Saving Throw: Fortitude negates. Spell Resistance: Yes.

5. A suggestion in one place. You select an area of up to 5 feet square, and any creature who enters or passes through the area receives the suggestion mentally. Saving Throw: Will negates. Spell Resistance: Yes.

The whole warded area radiates strong magic of the abjuration school. A dispel magic cast on a specific effect, if successful, removes only that effect. A successful Mage's disjunction destroys the entire guards and wards effect.

Guidance
Divination 1 standard action SRD
Will negates (harmless) - Yes Adp 0, APeace 0, Arc 0, Clr 0, Drd 0, Shu 0 V, S
1 minute or until discharged Touch 5 minutes
Target: Creature touched

+1 on one attack roll, saving throw, or skill check.

This spell imbues the subject with a touch of divine guidance. The creature gets a +1 competence bonus on a single attack roll, saving throw, or skill check. It must choose to use the bonus before making the roll to which it applies.

Guidance of the Avatar
    Spellbook Archive
  Arc 2, Clr 2  
    General

Provides +20 bonus to a skill check.

Guided Shot
    SPC
  Arc 1, Rgr 1, Sor/Wiz 1  
    General

Swift. You ignore distance penalties with your ranged attacks for 1 round.

Guiding Light
    SPC
  Arc 1, Brd 1, Clr 1, Sor/Wiz 1  
    5 minutes

+2 on ranged attacks against creatures in illuminated area.

Guilt
    BoEM
  Arc 1, Brd 1, Clr 1, Sor/Wiz 1  
    General

A non-good creature is forced to think about some evil deed it performed, denying it any actions except to defend itself.

Gust of Wind
Evocation [Air] 1 standard action SRD
Fortitude negates - Yes Arc 2, Drd 2, Shu 3, Sor/Wiz 2, Storm 2, Weather 2, Wmg 3 V, S
1 round 60 ft. General
Effect: Line-shaped gust of severe wind emanating out from you to the extreme of the range

Blows away or knocks down smaller creatures.

This spell creates a severe blast of air (approximately 50 mph) that originates from you, affecting all creatures in its path.

A Tiny or smaller creature on the ground is knocked down and rolled 1d4x10 feet, taking 1d4 points of nonlethal damage per 10 feet. If flying, a Tiny or smaller creature is blown back 2d6x10 feet and takes 2d6 points of nonlethal damage due to battering and buffeting.

Small creatures are knocked prone by the force of the wind, or if flying are blown back 1d6x10 feet.

Medium creatures are unable to move forward against the force of the wind, or if flying are blown back 1d6x5 feet.

Large or larger creatures may move normally within a gust of wind effect.

A gust of wind can't move a creature beyond the limit of its range.

Any creature, regardless of size, takes a -4 penalty on ranged attacks and Listen checks in the area of a gust of wind.

The force of the gust automatically extinguishes candles, torches, and similar unprotected flames. It causes protected flames, such as those of lanterns, to dance wildly and has a 50% chance to extinguish those lights.

In addition to the effects noted, a gust of wind can do anything that a sudden blast of wind would be expected to do. It can create a stinging spray of sand or dust, fan a large fire, overturn delicate awnings or hangings, heel over a small boat, and blow gases or vapors to the edge of its range.

Gust of wind can be made permanent with a permanency spell.

Gutsnake
    SPC
  Sor/Wiz 5  
    General

15-ft tentacle grows from your stomach and attacks your enemies.

Gutwrench
    Book of Vile Darkness
  Sor/Wiz 8  
    General

Kills subject and gives you 4d6 temporary hit points and +4 Strength.