Ancient Red Dragon

Ancient Red Dragon

Gargantuan dragon
Challenge

STR
10
DEX
3
CON
9
INT
4
WIS
2
CHA
6

546
28d20+252
28
Soak
4
Fort
+15
Ref
+12
Will
+11
Defense note natural armor
Damage immunities fire
Condition immunities burning

Speed 8 m., climb 8 m., fly 20 m.
Skills Athletics +16 (27), Brawn +16 (27), Intimidation +12 (23), Perception +8 (19), Primal (cha) +12 (23), Stealth +9 (20)
Senses blindsight 10 m., darkvision 20 m.
Languages Common, Draconic

Legendary Resistance (3/day). If the ancient red dragon fails a saving throw, it can choose to succeed instead.

Maneuvers. The ancient red dragon uses maneuvers (maneuver save Difficulty 25). It has 23 stamina dice which are d8s, a dice limit of 8, regains all expended stamina dice when it finishes a long rest, and regains half its total stamina dice when it finishes a short rest. It knows the following maneuvers:

1 stamina die: blind, blood in the water, charge, disorient, dive attack, fearsome beast, fountain of blood, grapple, hamstring, knockback (Claw or Tail only), lead the attack, rampage, slice through, smash, spring attack, sprint, swipe, tear flesh, throw, trip (Tail only), whirling blade

2 stamina dice: frenzy, tear tendon, vengeance

3 stamina dice: battle cry, battle leader

Spellcasting. The ancient red dragon uses Primal (cha) to cast spells (spell save Difficulty 21, +12 to hit with spell attacks). It has 11 mana, a mana limit of 4, regains all expended mana when it finishes a long rest, and regains half its total mana when it finishes a short rest. It knows the following spells:

Cantrips (at will, 30th-level spellcaster): burn, cauterize wound, control flames, produce flame

1 mana: ash fall, burning hands, command, continual flame, fear, fiery rebuke, flaming weapon, immolation, protection from fire, pyrotechnics, rising phoenix, scorching bolts, searing burst, searing strike

2 mana: animate flames, fireball, flame bane, flaming sphere, heat metal, incendiary cloud, incite panic, minute meteors, molten upheaval, wall of fire

Actions (4)

Bite (1/turn). Melee Weapon Attack: +16 to hit, reach 3 m. Hit: 21 (2d10 + 10) piercing damage plus 10 (3d6) fire damage.

Claw (2/turn). Melee Weapon Attack: +16 to hit, reach 2 m. Hit: 17 (2d6 + 10) slashing damage.

Tail (1/turn). Melee Weapon Attack: +16 to hit, reach 4 m. Hit: 19 (2d8 + 10) bludgeoning damage.

Frightful Presence (1/turn). Each creature of the ancient red dragon’s choice that is within 20 meters of it and aware of it must succeed on a Difficulty 21 Will saving throw or become frightened for 1 minute. A creature can repeat the saving throw at the end of each of its turns, with disadvantage if the ancient red dragon is within line of sight, ending the effect on itself on a success. If a creature’s saving throw is successful or the effect ends for it, the creature is immune to the ancient red dragon’s Frightful Presence for the next 24 hours.

Fire Breath (Costs 2 actions; Recharge 5–6). The ancient red dragon exhales fire in a 20-meter cone or line. Each creature in that area must make a Difficulty 24 Reflex saving throw. On a failure, a creature takes 105 (30d6) fire damage and is burning 6. On a success, a creature takes half as much damage and isn’t burning.

Legendary actions (3)

Only one legendary option can be used at a time and only at the end of another creature’s turn. The ancient red dragon regains spent legendary actions at the start of its turn.

Detect. The ancient red dragon makes a Perception check.

Tail Attack. The ancient red dragon makes a tail attack.

Wing Attack (Costs 2 actions). The ancient red dragon beats its wings. Each creature within 2 meters of the ancient red dragon must succeed on a Difficulty 25 Reflex saving throw or take 17 (2d6 + 10) bludgeoning damage and be knocked prone. The ancient red dragon can then fly up to half its flying speed.

Lair actions

On initiative count 20 (losing initiative ties), the ancient red dragon takes a lair action to cause one of the following effects; the same effect can’t be used two rounds in a row:

  • Magma erupts from a point on the ground the dragon can see within 20 meters of it, creating a 5-meter-high, 1-meter radius geyser. Each creature in the geyser’s area must make a Difficulty 21 Reflex saving throw, taking 21 (6d6) fire damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one.

  • A tremor shakes the lair in a 10-meter radius around the dragon. Each creature other than the dragon on the ground in that area must succeed on a Difficulty 21 Reflex saving throw or be knocked prone.

  • Volcanic gases form a cloud in a 5-meter radius sphere centered on a point the dragon can see within 20 meters of it. The sphere spreads a round corners, and its area is lightly obscured. It lasts until initiative count 20 on the next round. Each creature that starts its turn in the cloud must succeed on a Difficulty 21 Fortitude saving throw or be poisoned until the end of its turn. While poisoned in this way, a creature is incapacitated.

  • Noxious Smoke. A cloud of thick, dark smoke fills a 5-meter-radius sphere centered on a point the dragon can see within 20 meters of it. The sphere spreads around corners, and its area is heavily obscured. A creature other than the dragon that starts its turn in the cloud or enters it for the first time on its turn must succeed on a Difficulty 21 Fortitude saving throw or be poisoned until the end of its turn. The cloud lasts until initiative count 20 on the next round.

  • Searing Heat. Searing heat spreads out in a 3-meter-radius sphere centered on a point the dragon can see within 20 meters of it. Any creature that enters the affected area or starts its turn there must make a Difficulty 21 Fortitude saving throw, taking 10 (3d6) fire damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one. The heat lasts until initiative count 20 on the next round.

Regional effects

The region containing the ancient red dragon’s lair is warped by the ancient red dragon’s magic, which creates one or more of the following effects:

  • Small earthquakes are common within 10 kilometers of the dragon’s lair.

  • Water sources within 2 kilometers of the lair are supernaturally warm and tainted by sulfur.

  • Rocky fissures within 2 kilometers of the dragon’s lair form portals to the Elemental Plane of Fire, allowing creatures of elemental fire into the world to dwell nearby.

  • Desertification. Precipitation is almost nonexistent within 10 kilometers of the dragon’s lair, making the land parched and arid and most plant life withered and brown.

  • Fiery Senses. The dragon can hear up to 5 meters through any open flame within 1 kilometer of the dragon’s lair.

  • Ominous Flames. Open flames within 10 kilometers of the dragon’s lair are tinged dark red, hiss and crackle constantly, and throw off embers and showers of sparks.

If the dragon dies, these effects fade over the course of 1d10 days.

Hill, Mountainmm

Maneuvers

As an action, make a weapon attack as you strike a sensitive area.

On a hit, add the stamina die to the attack’s damage and the creature must succeed on a Fortitude saving throw or it is blinded until the end of its next turn.

On a critical hit, add twice as much damage.

On a miss by 4 or less, add half as much damage.

Enhance
You can augment this maneuver with the following options, expending stamina dice for each option.
  • You can increase the damage for each additional stamina die expended.

  • You can expend 2 additional stamina die so the creature is blinded for 1 minute/stamina die. A creature can repeat the saving throw at the end of each of its turns, ending the effect on itself on a success.

As an action, make a melee weapon attack with advantage against a creature that is below half its health.

On a hit, add the stamina die to the attack’s damage.

On a critical hit, add twice as much damage.

On a miss by 4 or less, add half as much damage.

Until the start of your next turn, if you are within 10 meters of a creature that you can sense that is below half its health, any attack you make against a creature not below half its health is made with disadvantage.

Enhance

You can increase the damage for each additional stamina die expended.

As an action, make a melee weapon attack against a creature after you move at least 3 meters straight toward it.

On a hit, add the stamina die to the attack’s damage and if the creature is your size or smaller, the creature must succeed on a Reflex saving throw or you can push it 2 meters away from you and knock it prone.

On a critical hit, add twice as much damage.

On a miss by 4 or less, add half as much damage.

Enhance

You can increase the damage, target a creature of a larger size, and push the creature an additional 1 meter for each additional stamina die expended.

1 minute/stamina die

As an action, make a weapon attack to disorient the creature.

On a hit, add the stamina die to the attack’s damage and the creature must succeed on a Reflex saving throw or it can’t take reactions for the duration.

On a critical hit, add twice as much damage.

On a miss by 4 or less, add half as much damage.

The creature can repeat the saving throw at the end of each of its turns, ending the effect on itself on a success.

Enhance
You can augment this maneuver with the following options, expending stamina dice for each option.
  • You can increase the damage for each additional stamina die expended.

  • Stagger. You can expend 1 additional stamina die so the creature is staggered instead of not being able to take reactions, but only until the end of its next turn. You can expend 1 additional stamina die so the creature is staggered for the duration.

  • Incapacitate. You can expend 2 additional stamina die so the creature is incapacitated instead of not being able to take reactions, but only until the end of its next turn.

  • Stun. You can expend 4 additional stamina die so the creature is stunned instead of not being able to take reactions, but only until the end of its next turn.

As an action while flying, you can use the Dash action. If you move at least 3 meters in a straight line angled downwards toward a creature, you can make an Attack action with a melee weapon attack against it.

On a hit, add the stamina die to the attack’s damage and you don’t provoke opportunity attacks when you fly out of the creature’s reach.

On a critical hit, add twice as much damage.

On a miss by 4 or less, add half as much damage.

Enhance

You can increase the damage for each additional stamina die expended.

1 minute/stamina die

As an action, you roar, rear up, flex your wings, or do another similar movement that frightens creatures. Each creature of your choice that is not a construct or an undead in a sphere around you must succeed on a Will saving throw or become frightened of you for the duration or until you are incapacitated.

While frightened by this maneuver, a creature must move at least half its speed away from you by the safest available route at the start of each of its turns, unless there is nowhere to move. If the creature ends its turn in a location where it doesn’t have line of sight to you, the creature can can repeat the saving throw, ending the effect on itself on a success.

As a reaction, which you use when you hit a creature with a melee weapon attack and reduce it to 0 health, you can rip into your foe as it drops. Each creature of your choice in a sphere twice as big as normal around you must make a Will saving throw.

On a failure, a creature is frightened of you until the end of your next turn.

As an action, make a melee weapon attack and a Brawn check to grapple the creature.

Enhance

You can add the stamina die to the attack’s damage (add half on a miss by 4 or less) for each additional stamina die expended.

As an action, make a melee weapon attack that deals slashing damage to cripple the creature.

On a hit, add the stamina die to the attack’s damage and the creature must succeed on a Fortitude saving throw or it is slowed 1 until the end of its next turn.

On a critical hit, add twice as much damage.

On a miss by 4 or less, add half as much damage.

Enhance
You can augment this maneuver with the following options, expending stamina dice for each option.
  • You can increase the damage for each additional stamina die expended and the slowed level by 1 for every two additional stamina die expended.

  • You can expend 1 additional stamina die so the creature is slowed for 1 minute/stamina die. A creature can repeat the saving throw at the end of each of its turns, ending the effect on itself on a success.

As an action, make a weapon attack to knock the creature back.

On a hit, add the stamina die to the attack’s damage and if the creature is your size or smaller, it must succeed on a Reflex saving throw or you push it 4 meters away from you.

On a critical hit, add twice as much damage.

On a miss by 4 or less, add half as much damage.

Enhance

You can increase the damage, push the creature an additional meter, and target a creature of a larger size for each additional stamina die expended.

As an action, make a weapon attack and shout a war cry that victory is at hand, stoking the fires of battle.

On a hit, add the stamina die to the attack’s damage and the next attack made against the target by an attacker other than you has advantage if the attack is made before the start of your next turn.

On a critical hit, add twice as much damage.

On a miss by 4 or less, add half as much damage.

Enhance
You can augment this maneuver with the following options, expending stamina dice for each option.
  • You can increase the damage for each additional stamina die expended.

  • You can expend 3 additional stamina dice to cause all attacks made against the target by an attacker other than you to have advantage.

As a reaction, which you use when a hostile creature within 5 meters is reduced to 0 health or a friendly creature within 5 meters is reduced to less than half its health, you can move up to half your speed and attack a creature.

On a hit, the creature takes damage equal to the stamina die, but no additional effects from hitting apply.

On a critical hit, add twice as much damage.

On a miss by 4 or less, add half as much damage.

The damage type is the same as the weapon used.

Enhance

You can increase the damage for each additional stamina die expended.

As an action, make a weapon attack with a melee weapon that deals slashing damage and then slice through the target. Each creature within 1 meter of the target and within your weapon’s reach must make a Reflex saving throw.

On a failure, it takes slashing damage equal to the stamina die.

On a critical failure, it takes twice as much damage.

On a success, it takes half as much damage.

On a critical success, it takes no damage.

Enhance

You can increase the damage for each additional stamina die expended.

As an action, make a melee weapon attack with a weapon that deals bludgeoning damage against an object or structure to smash it.

On a hit, add the stamina die to the attack’s damage.

On a critical hit, add twice as much damage.

On a miss by 4 or less, add half as much damage.

The attack deals double damage to objects and structures.

Enhance

You can increase the damage for each additional stamina die expended.

As an action, you can use the Dash action. If you move at least 3 meters straight toward a creature, you can make a melee weapon attack against it.

On a hit, add the stamina die to the attack’s damage.

On a critical hit, add twice as much damage.

On a miss by 4 or less, add half as much damage.

Enhance

You can increase the damage for each additional stamina die expended.

As an action, you can use the Dash action twice. You also have advantage on Athletics checks to jump.

As an action, make a weapon attack with a melee weapon with a natural weapon that deals slashing damage and then swipe through the target. Each creature within 1 meter of the target and within your weapon’s reach must make a Reflex saving throw.

On a failure, it takes slashing damage equal to the stamina die.

On a critical failure, it takes twice as much damage.

On a success, it takes half as much damage.

On a critical success, it takes no damage.

Enhance

You can increase the damage for each additional stamina die expended.

As an action, make a melee weapon attack with a natural weapon that deals piercing or slashing damage to cause jagged wounds that bleed.

On a hit, add the stamina die to the attack’s damage and the creature is bleeding 1.

On a critical hit, add twice as much damage.

On a miss by 4 or less, add half as much damage.

Enhance

You can increase the damage and bleeding level by 1 for each additional stamina die expended.

As an action while you have two hands free, you can attempt to grab and throw a creature that is your size or smaller. The creature must make a Reflex saving throw.

On a failure, you throw it 2 meters away from you where it falls prone and takes bludgeoning damage equal to the stamina die.

On a critical failure, you throw it twice as far and it takes twice as much damage.

Enhance

You can increase the damage, target a creature of a larger size, and throw the creature an additional 2 meters for each additional stamina die expended.

As an action, make a melee weapon attack and a Brawn check to Trip.

Enhance

You can add the stamina die to the attack’s damage (add half on a miss by 4 or less) for each additional stamina die expended.

As an action, make a melee weapon attack with a weapon that you wield in two hands that deals slashing damage and then whirl your weapon around. Each creature within your weapon’s reach must make a Reflex saving throw.

On a failure, it takes slashing damage equal to the stamina die.

On a critical failure, it takes twice as much damage.

On a success, it takes half as much damage.

On a critical success, it takes no damage.

Enhance

You can increase the damage for each additional stamina die expended.

As an action, make a melee weapon attack against two different creatures.

Enhance

You can attack an additional creature for each additional stamina die expended.

1 minute/stamina die

As an action, make a melee weapon attack with a natural weapon that deals piercing or slashing damage to tear the creature’s tendon.

On a hit, add one stamina die to the attack’s damage and the creature must succeed on a Fortitude saving throw or it is slowed 1 for the duration and while affected it loses health equal to one of the stamina dice for every meter it travels. This has no effect on any creature that cannot bleed or lose a vital liquid substance.

On a critical hit, add twice as much damage.

On a miss by 4 or less, add half as much damage.

The creature can repeat the saving throw at the end of each of its turns, ending the effect on itself on a success.

Enhance

You can increase the damage for each additional stamina die expended and the slowed level by 1 for every two additional stamina die expended.

As a reaction, which you use when a creature hits a creature other than you with an attack, you can visit vengeance on the creature. You can make a melee weapon attack against the creature.

Enhance

You can add the stamina die to the attack’s damage (add half on a miss by 4 or less) for each additional stamina die expended.

As an action, you unleash a zealous battle cry. Each creature of your choice within 10 meters of you that can hear you gains advantage on its next attack or Will saving throw made before the end of your next turn.

1 minute/stamina die

As an action, courage radiates from you in an aura shaped as a sphere centered on you, awakening boldness in friendly creatures for the duration or until you are incapacitated. Until the maneuver ends, the aura moves with you. While in the aura, each nonhostile creature in the aura (including you) who can see or hear you deals 1d4 extra damage when it hits with a weapon attack.

Spells

As an action, you burn a creature that you can touch or see within 5 meters. The creature must make a Fortitude saving throw.

On a failure, it takes 1d6 fire damage and is burning 1.

On a critical failure, it takes twice as much damage and is burning 2.

On a success, it takes half as much damage and is burning half as much.

On a critical success, it takes no damage.

At higher levels

You can increase this spell’s damage by 1d6 and the burning level when you reach 9th level (2d6; burning 2) and 17th level (3d6; burning 3).

As an action, you sear the wounds of a creature that you can touch or see within 10 meters. The creature must make a Fortitude saving throw. If the creature is at full health, the spell has no effect on it.

On a failure, it takes 1d6 fire damage and can’t regain health until the end of its next turn. If the creature is alive and has 0 health, it becomes stable. If the creature is currently bleeding, the bleeding stops.

On a critical failure, it takes twice as much damage.

On a success, it takes half as much damage.

On a critical success, it takes no damage.

At higher levels

You can increase this spell’s damage by 1d6 when you reach 9th level (2d6) and 17th level (3d6).

As an action, you choose nonmagical flame that you can see within 10 meters and that fits within a 1-meter cube. You affect it in one of the following ways:

  • You expand the flame 1 meter in one direction, provided that wood or other fuel is present in the new location.
  • You reduce the flames on any object within the cube. If you use this twice, you can extinguish the flames on an object.
  • You reduce the burning condition by 1 for a burning creature in the cube.
  • You cause the flames on a burning creature in the cube to burn a bit brighter. The creature takes 1d6 fire damage.
  • You double or halve the area of bright light and dim light cast by the flame, change its color, or both. The change lasts for 1 hour.
  • You cause simple shapes—such as the vague form of a creature, an inanimate object, or a location—to appear within the flames and animate as you like. The shapes last for 1 hour.

If you cast this spell multiple times, you can have up to three of its non-instantaneous effects active at a time, and you can dismiss such an effect on your turn (no action required).

At higher levels

This spell’s damage increases by 1d6 when you reach 9th level (2d6) and 17th level (3d6).

5 minutes

As an action, a flickering flame appears in your hand. The flame remains there for the duration and harms neither you nor your equipment. The flame sheds bright light in a 1-meter radius and dim light for an additional 1 meter.

When you cast this spell, or as an action on a later turn, you can form the flame into a blade and swing it at a creature or hurl the flame at a creature within 5 meters. Make a melee or ranged spell attack against the target.

On a hit, it takes 1d10 fire damage.

On a critical hit, it takes twice as much damage.

On a miss by 4 or less, it takes half as much damage.

The spell ends if you dismiss it on your turn (no action required), if you cast it again, or if you end your turn without the flame in your hand. A flammable object hit by this spell ignites if it isn’t being worn or carried.

At higher levels

This spell’s damage increases by 1d10 when you reach 9th level (2d10) and 17th level (3d10).

concentration, 1 hour/mana

As an action, ash falls in a cylinder twice as big as normal centered on a point within 20 meters. The area is heavily obscured.

As an action, you hold your hands with thumbs touching and fingers spread as a thin sheet of flames shoots forth from your outstretched fingertips. The fire ignites any flammable objects in the area that aren’t being worn or carried. Each creature in a cone or line must make a Reflex saving throw.

On a failure, it takes 2d6 fire damage and is burning 2.

On a critical failure, it takes twice as much damage and is burning 4.

On a success, it takes half as much damage and is burning 1.

On a critical success, it takes no damage.

Augment

You can increase the damage by 1d6 and the burning level by 1 for each additional mana expended.

As an action, you speak a one-word command to a creature that you can touch or see within 10 meters. The target must succeed on a Will saving throw or follow the command. The spell has no effect if the target is undead, if it doesn’t understand your language, or if your command is directly harmful to it.

Some typical commands and their effects follow. You might issue a command other than one described here. If you do so, the GM determines how the target behaves. If the target can’t follow your command, the spell ends.

Approach. On its turn, the creature must use its speed to move toward you by the shortest and most direct route, and can’t willingly move away from you on during its turn.

Drop. The creature immediately drops whatever it is holding at its feet.

When a creature tries to interact with an object in a space occupied by a hostile creature it must use an action to make a Brawn or Nimbleness (its choice) check contested by the hostile creature’s Brawn or Nimbleness check (its choice). If the creature attempting to interact with the object wins the contest, it can interact with the object.

Flee. On its turn, the creature must use its speed to move away from you by the shortest and most direct route, and can’t willingly move toward you on during its turn.

Grovel. The creature immediately falls prone.

Halt. On its turn, the creature can’t willingly move. A flying creature stays aloft, provided that it is able to do so. If it must move to stay aloft, it flies the minimum distance needed to remain in the air.

Augment
You can augment this spell with the following options, expending mana for each option.
  • You can target one additional creatures for each additional mana expended. The creatures must be within 5 meters of each other when you target them.

  • You can expend 2 additional mana to change the duration to 1 minute/mana, concentration. For the duration, you can make an additional command on each of your turns.

M (ruby dust worth 50 sp, consumed)

As an action, a flame, equivalent in brightness to a torch, springs forth from an object that you touch and lasts until dispelled. The effect looks like a regular flame, but it creates no heat and doesn’t use oxygen. A continual flame can be covered or hidden but not smothered or quenched.

concentration, 1 minute/mana

As an action, you attempt to awaken the worst fears in a creature that is not a construct or an undead that you can touch or see within 10 meters. The creature must succeed on a Will saving throw or become frightened of you for the duration.

While frightened by this spell, the creature must move as far as its speed allows away from you by the safest available route at the start of each of its turns, unless there is nowhere to move. If the creature ends its turn in a location where it doesn’t have line of sight to you, the creature can can repeat the saving throw, ending the effect on itself on a success.

Augment

You can target two additional creatures for each additional mana expended. The creatures must be within 5 meters of each other when you target them.

As a reaction, which you use when you are hit by an attack or missed by 4 or less, wispy flames wreath your body, shedding bright light in a 2-meter radius and dim light for an additional 2 meters. If the creature who damaged you is within 10 meters, it must make a Fortitude saving throw.

On a failure, it takes 2d8 fire damage and is burning 2.

On a critical failure, it takes twice as much damage and is burning 4.

On a success, it takes half as much damage and is burning 1.

On a critical success, it takes no damage.

Augment

You can increase the damage by 2d8 and the burning level by 2 for each additional mana expended.

concentration, 5 minutes/mana

As an action, a weapon you touch ignites in flames. For the duration, the weapon sheds bright light in a 2-meter radius and dim light for an additional 2 meters and deals an extra 1d4 fire damage.

Alternatively, you can touch a quiver containing arrows or bolts, granting the ammunition pulled from it the same effect. The spell’s magic ends on a piece of ammunition when it hits or misses.

Augment
You can augment this spell with the following options, expending mana for each option.
  • You can increase the damage by 1d4 for each additional mana expended.

  • You can expend 1 additional mana to ignite an additional weapon you touch in flames.

As an action, flames wreathe a creature that you can touch or see within 10 meters. The creature must make a Fortitude saving throw.

On a failure, it takes 3d10 fire damage and is burning 3.

On a critical failure, it takes twice as much damage and is burning 6.

On a success, it takes half as much damage and is burning 1.

On a critical success, it takes no damage.

Augment

You can increase the damage by 3d10 and the burning level by 3 for each additional mana expended.

As an action, harmless flames race across your body. As an action, you can have the flames shed bright light in a 4-meter radius and dim light for an additional 4 meters. Additionally, you have resistance to fire damage, advantage on skill checks to end the burning condition, and ignore the effects of extreme heat for the duration.

Augment
You can augment this spell with the following options, expending mana for each option.
  • You can target one additional willing creature that you can touch or see within 10 meters for each additional mana expended. The creatures must be within 5 meters of each other when you target them.

  • Immunity. You can expend 2 additional mana so you are immune to fire damage.

  • Cold Resistant. You can expend 1 additional mana so you have resistance to cold damage.


Dampen Fire

1

As a reaction, which you use when you take fire damage, you gain resistance to fire damage until the start of your next turn.

Augment

You can expend 1 additional mana to trigger the spell when a creature that you can touch or see within 10 meters takes fire damage. The creature gains the resistance instead.

As an action, choose an area of nonmagical flame that you can see and that fits within a 1-meter cube within 10 meters. You can extinguish the fire in that area, and you create either fireworks or smoke when you do so. If a burning creature is in cube, the burning condition ends for it.

Fireworks. The target explodes with a dazzling display of colors. Each creature in a sphere twice as big as normal centered on that point must make a Fortitude saving throw.

On a failure, it is blinded and deafened until the end of your next turn.

Smoke. Thick black smoke spreads out from the target in a sphere twice as big as normal, moving around corners. The area of the smoke is heavily obscured. The smoke persists for 1 minute or until a strong wind (at least 30 kilometers per hour) disperses it.

Augment

You can increase the smoke’s radius by 2 meters for each additional mana expended.

As an action, a column of superheated air lifts you into the air, allowing you to fly up to 5 meters without provoking opportunity attacks. If you move at least 3 meters straight toward a creature, make a weapon attack against it.

On a hit, add 1d8 + your spellcasting ability fire damage to the attack’s damage roll and the creature is burning 1.

On a critical hit, add twice as much damage.

On a miss by 4 or less, add half as much damage.

Augment

You can increase the damage by 2d8 and the burning level by 2 for each additional mana expended.

As an action, you hurl two bolts of fire at two different creatures or objects within 20 meters. Make a ranged spell attack for each bolt.

On a hit, it takes 2d6 fire damage and is burning 2.

On a critical hit, it takes twice as much damage and is burning 4.

On a miss by 4 or less, it takes half as much damage and is burning 1.

Augment

You can create one additional bolt that targets any creature within range for each additional mana expended.

As an action, searing flames bursts out from you. Each creature other than you in a sphere centered on you must make a Reflex saving throw.

On a failure, it takes 3d6 fire damage and is burning 2.

On a critical failure, it takes twice as much damage and is burning 4.

On a success, it takes half as much damage and is burning 1.

On a critical success, it takes no damage.

Augment
You can augment this spell with the following options, expending mana for each option.
  • You can increase the damage by 2d6 for each additional mana expended and the burning level by for every two additional mana expended.

  • Blazing Inferno. You can expend 1 additional mana so the flames around you are continuous. The duration changes to 1 minute/mana, concentration and the flames spread out from you in an aura shaped as a sphere. Until the spell ends, the aura moves with you, centered on you.

    Whenever a creature enters the area for the first time on a turn or starts its turn there, it must make the Fortitude saving throw. The damage is reduced to 2d6 and the burning level is reduced to 1, additional augments to the damage increase the damage by 1d6 for every two additional mana expended and the burning level by 1 for each additional mana expended, instead of the normal increase.

As an action, make a weapon attack.

On a hit, add 2d8 + your spellcasting ability fire damage to the attack’s damage roll and the creature is burning 1.

On a critical hit, add twice as much damage.

On a miss by 4 or less, add half as much damage.

Augment

You can increase the damage by 2d8 and the burning level by 2 for each additional mana expended.

concentration, 5 minutes/mana

As two actions, you call forth a fire elemental which appears in an unoccupied space that you can see within 10 meters. The elemental is a fire elemental companion, using 2 resources. The creature has no mana or stamina dice, but you can infuse it with mana, ki, or stamina dice by expending mana up to your mana limit or ki up to double your mana limit. For each mana or 2 ki you expend, the elemental gains 1 mana or 2 stamina dice. The elemental is friendly to you and your companions, and it disappears when it drops to 0 health or when the spell ends.

Any creature you animated with this spell acts after your turn. You can mentally command the creature if it is within 20 meters of you (if you control multiple creatures, you can command any or all of them at the same time, issuing the same command to each one). The creature(s) will generally follow any specific verbal commands that you issue to them if the likely outcome is in accordance with its desires (no action required by you). For example you may command it to guard a particular chamber or corridor, explore the room ahead, or to attack a specific creature. If you don't issue any commands, they defend themselves from hostile creatures, but otherwise take no actions.

Augment
You can augment this spell with the following options, expending mana for each option.
  • You can use an additional resource for each additional mana expended.

  • You can expend 2 additional mana to call forth another elemental.

As two actions, a bright streak flashes from your pointing finger to a point within 20 meters and then blossoms with a low roar into an explosion of flame. The fire spreads around corners and ignites flammable objects in the area that aren’t being worn or carried. Each creature in a sphere centered on that point must make a Reflex saving throw.

On a failure, it takes 6d6 fire damage and is burning 2.

On a critical failure, it takes twice as much damage and is burning 4.

On a success, it takes half as much damage and is burning 1.

On a critical success, it takes no damage.

Augment
You can augment this spell with the following options, expending mana for each option.
  • You can increase the damage by 1d6 and the burning level by 1 for each additional mana expended.

  • Delayed Blast Fireball. You can expend 1 additional mana so the ball lingers at the point of origin as a glowing bead while you concentrate on the spell for up to 1 minute. If at the end of your turn the bead has not yet detonated, you can increase the damage by 1d6. When the spell ends, either because your concentration is broken or because you decide to end it, the bead explodes.

    If the glowing bead is touched before the interval has expired, the creature touching it must make a Reflex saving throw.

    On a failure, the spell ends immediately, causing the bead to explode.

    On a success, the creature can throw the bead up to 5 meters. When it strikes a creature or a solid object, the spell ends, and the bead explodes.

concentration, 1 minute/mana

As two actions, you expose a creature that you can touch or see within 10 meters to fire. The creature must make a Fortitude saving throw.

On a failure, it loses any resistance to fire damage for the duration and the first time on each turn the creature takes fire damage, it takes an extra 2d6 fire damage.

Augment

You can target two additional creatures for each additional mana expended. The creatures must be within 5 meters of each other when you target them.

1 minute/mana

As two actions, a 1-meter diameter sphere of fire appears in an unoccupied space of your choice within 5 meters.

When you cast the spell—and once on on each of your turns thereafter as an action—you can move the sphere up to 5 meters. If you ram the sphere into a creature, that creature must make a Reflex saving throw, and the sphere stops moving this turn.

On a failure, it takes 5d6 fire damage and is burning 2.

On a critical failure, it takes twice as much damage and is burning 4.

On a success, it takes half as much damage and is burning 1.

On a critical success, it takes no damage.

When you move the sphere, you can direct it over barriers up to 1 meter tall and jump it across pits up to 2 meters wide. The sphere ignites flammable objects not being worn or carried, and it sheds bright light in a 4-meter radius and dim light for an additional 4 meters.

Augment

You can increase the damage by 3d6 and the burning level by 2 for each additional mana expended.

concentration, 1 minute/mana

As two actions, choose a manufactured metal object, such as a metal weapon or a suit of heavy or medium metal armor, that you can touch or see within 10 meters. You cause the object to glow red-hot, searing any creature in physical contact with the object. The creature must make a Fortitude saving throw.

On a failure, it takes 5d6 fire damage and must drop the object if it can. If it doesn’t drop the object, it has disadvantage on skill checks until it drops the object.

On a critical failure, it takes twice as much damage.

On a success, it takes half as much damage.

On a critical success, it takes no damage.

If a creature is holding or wearing the object at the start of its turn or picks it up, it must repeat the saving throw.

Augment

You can increase the damage by 3d6 for each additional mana expended.

concentration, 5 minutes/mana

As two actions, a swirling cloud of smoke shot through with white-hot embers appears in a sphere centered on a point within 20 meters. The cloud spreads around corners and is heavily obscured. It lasts for the duration or until a wind of moderate or greater speed (at least 15 kilometers per hour) disperses it.

A creature that enters the spell’s area for the first time on a turn or starts its turn there must make a Fortitude saving throw.

On a failure, it takes 2d8 fire damage and is burning 1.

On a critical failure, it takes twice as much damage and is burning 2.

On a success, it takes half as much damage and is burning half as much.

On a critical success, it takes no damage.

At the start of each of your turns if the cloud is within 20 meters of you, you can cause it to move up to 2 meters in a direction that you choose. If you spend an action, you can move it up to 10 meters.

Augment
You can augment this spell with the following options, expending mana for each option.
  • You can increase the damage by 1d8 and the burning level by 1 for every two additional mana expended.

  • You can expend 1 additional mana so duration changes to 1 hour/mana.

concentration, 1 minute/mana

As two actions, you incite the fears of creatures at a point within 10 meters, causing them to panic. Each creature in a sphere centered on that point must make a Will saving throw. If the creature is immune to being frightened, the spell has no effect on it.

On a failure, it is confused and frightened of the area in the center of the sphere for the duration.

A creature can repeat the saving throw at the end of each of its turns, ending the effect on itself on a success.

1 minute/mana

As two actions, you create a two tiny meteors in your space. They float in the air and orbit you for the duration. When you cast the spell—and once on on each of your turns thereafter as an action—you can expend a meteor, sending it streaking toward a point within 20 meters. Once a meteor reaches its destination or impacts against a solid surface, the meteor explodes. Each creature within 1 meter of that point must make a Reflex saving throw.

On a failure, it takes 2d6 concussion damage and 2d6 fire damage and is burning 2.

On a critical failure, it takes twice as much damage and is burning 4.

On a success, it takes half as much damage and is burning 1.

On a critical success, it takes no damage.

Augment

You can increase the number of meteors by 2, the concussion damage by 1d6, the fire damage by 1d6, and the burning level by 1 for each additional mana expended.

As two actions, a fountain of molten lava erupts from a point on the ground within 20 meters. The ground in that area becomes difficult terrain until cleared. Each 1-meter square portion of the area requires at least 1 minute to clear by hand. Each creature in a cylinder centered on that point must make a Reflex saving throw.

On a failure, it takes 5d6 fire damage and is burning 2.

On a critical failure, it takes twice as much damage and is burning 4.

On a success, it takes half as much damage and is burning 1.

On a critical success, it takes no damage.

Augment

You can increase the damage by 1d6 and the burning level by 1 for each additional mana expended.

concentration, 5 minutes/mana

As two actions, you create a wall of fire at a point within 20 meters that lasts for the duration. The wall can’t occupy the same space as a creature or object and it needs to be vertical, but doesn’t need to rest on any firm foundation. The wall blocks line of sight, but creatures and objects can pass through it. A creature that enters the wall’s area for the first time on a turn or starts its turn there must make a Reflex saving throw.

On a failure, it takes 6d6 fire damage and is burning 2.

On a critical failure, it takes twice as much damage and is burning 4.

On a success, it takes half as much damage and is burning 1.

On a critical success, it takes no damage.

Augment

You can increase the damage by 2d6 and the burning level by 1 for each additional mana expended.