Destruction Sphere

You may either increase the casting time of your destructive blast by one step or spend an additional spell point to apply two (blast type) talents instead of 1. The resultant blast does half of its damage of each type and any additional effects of the blast types are applied normally. If the die size for the two blasts are d8 and d6, use d8; if d8 and d4 use d6; if d6 and d4, use d4. If two blast types have different caster levels, then use the lower caster level for determining the admixtured blast’s caster level.

Special: You do not increase the casting time or spend an additional spell point when using the Admixture talent with two blast types from the same blast type group.

When a creature receives damage from your destructive blast, it suffers a -1 penalty on all saving throws against your destructive blasts until the end of your next turn. This penalty stacks with itself if a target is damaged by your destructive blast more than once in a round.

You may spend an additional spell point to have all damage from the destructive blast be treated as continuous for the purposes of any concentration checks until the start of your next turn (Fortitude negates).

When making a destructive blast unaltered by a (blast type) talent, you may change the damage of the destructive blast to be either bludgeoning, piercing, or slashing, and may change all rolled 1’s and 2’s to 3’s.

You may choose to have all damage dealt by a destructive blast be nonlethal damage. Damage dealt is calculated as if the destructive blast was its original damage type as well as nonlethal (for example, an acid blast would still be subject to acid resistance), but the resulting damage is added to the target’s nonlethal damage total and not subtracted from their hit points. When using a (blast type) talent that already deals nonlethal damage, your destructive blast damage increases by +1 damage per die.

Alternatively, you may choose to deal no damage at all, only inflicting secondary effects, such as from (blast type) talents, or only expressing minor, controlled effects of the damage type you would normally deal with your destructive blast. For example, you might create a spark with a Fire Blast, drive a nail into wood with the bludgeoning force of a standard destructive blast, or make an indistinct sound with a Thunder Blast. These effects should never be powerful, and the GM is the final arbiter of what can be accomplished this way.

You can tune your destructive blast more towards inanimate objects rather than creatures. When you use your destructive blast this way, you deal +1 damage per die and deal full damage to objects, ignoring any reduction that would normally apply from being an energy attack, ranged attack, ineffective weapon type, or similar effect, though hardness still applies. Anything other than an inanimate object struck by this kind of destructive blast only takes half damage from it.

You can make attacks of opportunity with your destructive blast, as if it were a melee weapon. You are considered armed with your destructive blast, and if you possess the ability to make attacks of opportunity with ranged weapons, you may do so with a destructive blast. Using a destructive blast to make an attack of opportunity is considered a (blast shape), and you cannot use any effects that would increase its casting time, nor spend a spell point to increase its damage. Using your destructive blast this way does not provoke an attack of opportunity for the casting, though it may still provoke if used to make ranged attacks.

Wiki Note: Absent other effects, Energetic Response does not allow you to use your destructive blast as part of an attack action, and broadly does not work with talents from Spheres of Might (including the Sentinel's Opportunistic Offense ability).

You are immune to any damage and other effects of your own destructive blasts. This includes ignoring difficult terrain from your Crystal Blast and immunity to your own Energy Wall, Energy Cloud, and any other blast shape with a non-instantaneous duration.

Increase the range of your destructive blast by 1 range level (close to medium, medium to long). You may select this talent multiple times. The effects stack.

When making a destructive blast unaltered by a (blast shape) talent, your destructive blast damage increases by +1 damage per die.

You may increase the casting time of your destructive blast by one step to reduce its spell point cost by 1 (to a minimum of 0).

You may exclude one creature plus one per 10 caster levels from the area of your destructive blasts that have an instantaneous duration. You may spend a spell point to increase the number of excluded creatures by your casting ability modifier (minimum +1).

You can choose to have your destructive blasts affect spiritual targets. When used this way, your destructive blasts extend into the Ethereal Plane to affect ethereal targets normally, and does not halve damage or suffer a 50% failure chance against incorporeal targets.

When using a blast type that entangles, flying entangled targets that are entangled must succeed at an additional Reflex save or be unable to fly and fall to the ground. This does not affect creatures with magical flight.

Instead of a single destructive blast, you unleash a volley of destructive power. You deliver 2 surges, each requiring a melee touch attack or a ranged touch attack within range. A ranged surge counts as a ray attack. Each surge may be delivered at the same or different targets, but all surges must be delivered simultaneously. Determine the damage dealt by each surge by distributing the damage dice dealt by your destructive blast between each surge. A surge must deal at least 1 damage die or you do not create that surge. If you spend an additional spell point, you may deliver one additional surge, plus 1 surge for every 6 caster levels you possess.

Even if this (blast shape) damages a target more than once, this (blast shape) only counts as damaging a target once for the purposes of (blast type) effects and the Cascade Failure talent.

Additional effects from a destructive blast modified with this blast shape only affect a creature once regardless of how many times they are damaged.

Example: A destructive blast which deals 7d6 damage could be distributed between the two surges as 3d6 and 4d6, 1d6 and 6d6, or any combination the caster chooses. Each surge must deal at least 1d6 damage, or the caster does not create it and the burst is lost.

A caster would only make a single disarm attempt against a creature struck multiple times by this blast shape when modified by the Static Blast blast type, and only applies additional effects from the Admixture talent or admixture feats to the damaged creature a single time. Effects not caused by the destructive blast, such as additional damage caused by the Fate sphere Harm (word), would trigger on each successful surge. Additional damage from other sources (such as the bonus damage from the Primal Blast feat) would apply to each surge. Sneak attack is never applied multiple times, as per the normal Paizo FAQ on spells and sneak attack, regardless of whether you are delivering melee or ranged surges.

Author's Note: - Blast Salvo and Spell Strike / Spell Combat The Blast Salvo talent cannot be used alongside a magus's spell strike to deliver multiple surges; surges must be used as part of the same initial action (either casting, the initial spellstrike, etc.) or are lost. This talent is otherwise meant to be an analog to scorching ray with a melee option, not chill touch, and is not synergistic with spell combat or similar abilities.

You may place a destructive blast onto an adjacent, unoccupied 5-foot square. Any creature who steps onto that square is affected by your destructive blast, and is allowed a Reflex save for half damage. A blast trap lasts for 10 minutes per caster level before becoming inert. This is a magical trap with a Perception DC and Disable Device DC equal to the blast’s save DC. You may have one active blast trap at a time, +1 per 10 caster levels; placing a trap beyond this limit deactivates an earlier trap of your choice.

You may spend a spell point to arc your destructive blast between multiple targets. Choose a number of targets no greater than 1 + half your caster level (minimum 2 targets total). Make a ranged touch attack against each of them in order. No target can be farther than 10 feet + 5 feet per 5 caster levels from the previous target and no target can be targeted more than once. Should any of the targets fail to take damage, either by a missed attack, resistances, or other method, the chain stops and no further targets are damaged.

As a move action, you may spend a spell point to surround yourself with an aura of elemental energies for a number of rounds equal to your casting ability modifier; any creature that ends its turn within 5 feet + 5 feet per 10 caster levels of you is affected by your destructive blast, though the damage is reduced to its minimum (so a 4d6 blast would deal 4 damage, or 12 with Crafted Blast). A Reflex save negates this damage. You may only have one aura active at a time; casting it again ends the previous instance.

^{Source: Diamond Spheres: Erudition & Esoterica}

You can spend 1 spell point to channel a constant beam of destructive energy.

The beam is an up to close-range line that emanates from you and remains for as long as you concentrate on it—if you move more than 10 feet in a turn, your concentration is broken immediately. If you do move, the end point of the beam moves in the same way (but does not change direction unless you shift it, noted below).

When the beam is first created—and on subsequent rounds that it is concentrated on—you can move the end point of the beam up to 10 feet in any direction (albeit within close range), plus 5 feet per 4 caster levels you possess.

If a creature is within the area as the beam is created, moves into the beam (or has it moved into them), or ends their turn within the beam, they are subject to the destructive blast’s damage and effects as normal (Reflex halves). An individual creature can only suffer this damage once per round.

As a standard action, you may touch a small container of liquid and spend a spell point to instill a destructive blast inside it. As a standard action, this can be primed and thrown as a splash weapon. A direct hit deals the destructive blast’s damage to the target and damage equal to the minimum blast damage is dealt in a 5-foot splash radius. Any creature taking damage from either the direct hit or the splash must save against any additional effects of the blast type.

This cannot be used with the Gather Energy talent. An instilled liquid remains potent until you rest to regain spell points. If you have equipment on hand (such as an alchemy lab), the cost of bottles and water is considered negligible. You may target food (in which instead of a splash weapon it affects the target who consumes it) but not an already-magical item, such as a potion. All spell points must be spent and all variables of the sphere effect must be chosen at the time the instilled liquid is created. You cannot instill multiple effects in a single liquid, nor create multiple instilled liquids with a single action.

You may spend a spell point to move in a straight line up to your destructive blast’s range. This movement provokes attacks of opportunity as normal. You may pass through occupied spaces by making an overrun maneuver as a free action against the targets, using your caster level + your casting ability modifier in place of your base attack bonus + your Strength modifier for this check. If a target attempts to impede you during this overrun, they suffer the effects of your destructive blast (Reflex half), whether or not they succeed in stopping your movement. You may also attempt to crash through objects or barriers, dealing your destructive blast damage to them, and passing through unimpeded if this successfully destroys them. If, however, a target successfully stops you during an overrun or you are unable to destroy an object or barrier, your movement immediately stops at the nearest unoccupied space and you are staggered for one round.

You may spend 1 spell point to form your destructive blast into 1 satellite that orbits your body that lasts for one minute per caster level or until discharged. This cannot be combined with Gather Energy or spending a spell point to increase the destructive blast’s damage. You may maintain 1 satellite at a time + 1 additional satellite per 10 caster levels. You may increase the casting time when using this (blast shape) by 1 step in order to form multiple satellites (up to your normal maximum). You may select different (blast types) for each satellite formed this way, spending any additional spell points or costs required.

As an immediate action, you may discharge a single satellite, targeting any creature within 5 feet + 5 feet per 2 caster levels to deal your destructive blast damage (Reflex half).

You may shape your destructive blast into a non-instantaneous sphere that fills a 5-foot square. Any creature within this space is dealt damage from your destructive blast (Reflex negates). This sphere has a 20 feet fly speed + 5 feet per 2 caster levels and perfect maneuverability, and wind does not affect its course. The sphere has a duration of concentration, but you may spend a spell point to increase this duration to 1 round per caster level.

As a move action, you may direct this sphere to move to a new location and strike a new target. Your sphere stops to attempt to deal damage whenever it enters a space with a creature, and cannot attempt to directly damage more than one target in this manner per round. Your sphere has no mass and does not impede movement, but creatures moving through its space must succeed at a Reflex save or suffer damage. Your sphere must stay within your destructive blast range or disappear.

As a standard action, you may make a single weapon attack in conjunction with making a destructive blast. This casting cannot be reduced below a standard action, and does not provoke attacks of opportunity, unless as usual if making a ranged attack. If the target is struck by the attack, it is also struck by the destructive blast. If using a scatter weapon, the blast only applies to a single target, chosen at the time of attack.

You may send out a tendril of energy to bind your foe to you. Make a ranged touch attack against a target within range. If successful, the target suffers your destructive blast damage (Fortitude half). You may concentrate to maintain this tether each round, or may spend a spell point as a free action to allow it to persist for 1 round per caster level without concentration.

Each round a target remains bound by the tether, they suffer its damage (Fortitude half). The tether has 10 hit points plus 2 hit points per caster level, an AC of 5, hardness equal to 1/2 your caster level, and a Break DC equal to the blast’s DC. Neither you nor the tethered target may move further away from each other without first breaking the tether (you may dismiss a tether as a free action) or succeeding on a drag or reposition combat maneuver, pulling the other along with them. If you or the tethered target move closer to each other you may, as a swift action, shorten the tether; the new distance between you becomes the new length of the tether. You may also lengthen the tether as a swift action, but only to your maximum distance. Swarms may not be targeted with this blast shape. You cannot have more than one tether active at any one time; creating a second tether dismisses the first.

You may craft your destructive blast into a 5-foot-by-5-foot cubic wall with a duration of concentration, so long as it is fully contained within your destructive blast range. You may spend a spell point to increase this effect and create a wall up to 20 feet high and up to 20 feet wide per caster level in a straight line, or a hemisphere with a radius up to 5 feet per 2 caster levels (minimum 5 feet). If used in either way, the duration increases to 1 round per caster level.

The wall does not block line of effect, line of sight, projectiles, or thrown objects. Creatures passing through your wall suffer your destructive blast’s damage and effects as normal. Creatures standing in the wall’s space when it is created are allowed a Reflex save to avoid damage.

You may transform your destructive blast into a burst effect centered anywhere within range. This destructive blast fills a single 5-foot square (Reflex negates). You may spend a spell point to increase this burst to a radius of up to 10 feet + 5 feet per 5 caster levels (Reflex half).

You may spend a spell point to add a +20 circumstance bonus to your destructive blast’s attack roll.

You may spend a spell point to create a destructive blast which sharply turns. You may create up to a close-range line emanating from yourself but excluding yourself which travels half the total distance again at the end of its length at a 90 degree angle. Creatures in the effect are allowed a Reflex saving throw for half damage.

For example, you may fire a knight’s blast which travels 40 feet forward, then turns 90 degrees and travels 20 feet left, right, up, or down.

Special: If you possess the Energy Leap talent, when you use the Energy Leap blast shape, at the end of your movement, you may spend an additional spell point to move half the total distance traveled again at a 90 degree angle.

You may give your destructive blast any array of strange shapes, as you require. Making a mutable blast costs 1 additional spell point. Each time you use Mutable Blast, you create any area you desire out of contiguous 5-foot cubes, up to a maximum of 5 cubes + 1 cube per 2 caster levels. At least one of these cubes must be in a square adjacent to you. All targets in the area are affected by your destructive blast, and can attempt a Reflex save to take half damage.

You may use your destructive blast to shield a target within range from ranged weapons, area effects, or even other destructive blasts for 1 round, giving them the benefits of evasion, a +2 cover bonus to AC vs. ranged attacks, and a +1 cover bonus to their Reflex saves. These bonuses increase by +2/+1 respectively for every 5 caster levels you possess.

By spending a spell point, you may perform a rebuff as an immediate action, or provide the benefits to all targets within 10-foot of you + 5 feet per 5 caster levels. You may spend 2 spell points to gain both of these benefits with the same rebuff.

Whenever a creature misses with a melee or melee touch attack against you, you may spend a spell point as an immediate action to affect that creature with a destructive blast. This does not provoke an attack of opportunity, and cannot be combined with Gather Energy or spending a spell point to increase its damage. The creature may attempt a Reflex save to negate the damage. You must be aware of the attack and able to act.

You may spend a spell point to create a destructive blast as an area effect, affecting your choice of either a 10-foot radius + 5 feet per 5 caster levels burst, a close-range cone, or a medium-range line, each emanating from yourself but excluding yourself from the effects. You do not need to make any attack roll for area attacks, but creatures in the effect are allowed a Reflex saving throw for half damage. These ranges are not increased by the Extended Range talent or similar effects.

Your destructive blast deals acid damage. Any creature struck by the attack or that failed their Reflex saving throw if one was required suffers 1 point of acid damage per damage die the following round.

You transmute your destructive blast into a sticky, acidic sap. Your destructive blast deals acid damage, and any creature struck by the attack or that failed their Reflex saving throw if one was required must succeed at a Reflex save or be entangled and unable to move for 1 round.

You may change your destructive blast into a blast of air. An air blast deals nonlethal bludgeoning damage. You may make a bull rush as a free action at range against the target or targets struck by your air blast or that failed their Reflex saving throw if one was required. Your CMB for this check is your caster level + your casting ability modifier, and all targets are pushed from the point of origin of the effect. (This is usually yourself, but if using a talent such as Explosive Orb, it would be the center of the blast. If using Energy Wall, each square of wall is considered the center of effect for those who enter that section. If using Guided Strike, you may choose from which direction you want to push the target, even pushing them up or down if you should desire. Pushing a target into the ground knocks them prone if the bull rush is successful.)

If the target is knocked into a solid object, they suffer 1d6 bludgeoning damage, +1d6 for every 5 feet they would have continued past the barrier. You do not move with the targets of your bull rush.

Your destructive blast deals acid damage, using d4 instead of d6 as its damage die. You may make a trip attempt as a free action at range against the target or targets struck by your alkali blast or that failed their Reflex saving throw if one was required. Your CMB for this check is equal to your caster level + your casting ability modifier.

Your destructive blast is a shocking current of latent static electricity built up by cats. An alternyating current blast deals electricity damage. Any creature struck by the attack or that failed their Reflex saving throw if one was required must take a 5-foot step. Affected creatures may take this 5-foot step in any direction they choose. If a creature was forced to take a 5-foot step by this effect, they may not take a 5-foot step during their next turn (but may otherwise move normally). If an affected creature would be forced to take a 5-foot step by this effect and could not, they do not move and cannot take a 5-foot step during their next turn (such as being surrounded by difficult terrain).

^{Source: Arcforge Players Compendium}

You may change the damage type of your destructive blast from bludgeoning to electricity. Targets damaged by an attracting blast take a -2 penalty to AC for 1 round.

Your destructive blast becomes a hail of smooth stones, dealing bludgeoning damage and using d4 instead of d6 as its damage die. You may make a bull rush as a free action at range against the target or targets struck by the attack or that failed their Reflex saving throw if one was required. Your CMB for this check is equal to your caster level + your casting ability modifier, and all targets are pushed from the point of origin of the effect. (This is usually yourself, but if using a talent such as Explosive Orb, it would be the center of the blast. If using Energy Wall, each square of wall is considered the center of effect for those who enter that section. If using Guided Strike, you may choose from which direction you want to push the target, even pushing them up or down if you should desire. Pushing a target into the ground knocks them prone if the bull rush is successful.)

If the target is knocked into a solid object, they suffer 1d6 bludgeoning damage, + 1d6 for every 5 feet they would have continued past the barrier. You do not move with the targets of your bull rush.

This blast ignores spell resistance, spell turning, and can penetrate a globe of invulnerability, antimagic field, or other forms of antimagic, and is not treated as a spell or magical for the purpose of bypassing damage reduction, damaging incorporeal creatures, or for creatures or classes that gain a bonus to saving throws against magic.

You may spend a spell point to have your destructive blast deal untyped damage. Any creature struck by the attack or that failed their Reflex saving throw if one was required must succeed at a Fortitude save or be blinded for 1 round. The damage die size increases to d8 against undead creatures and any creatures vulnerable to sunlight.

Your destructive blast deals fire damage. Any creature struck by the attack or that failed their Reflex saving throw if one was required suffers a -2 penalty on Fortitude saves for 1d4 rounds.

^{Source: Diamond Spheres: Erudition & Esoterica}

You can spend 1 spell point to have your destructive blast deal acid damage. Any creature struck by the attack or that failed their Reflex saving throw (if one was required) must succeed at a Fortitude save or gain bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing weakness equal to 1/2 the number of damage dice of the destructive blast for 1d4 rounds. This weakness is only applied once in an individual attack (so a weapon that deals both piercing and bludgeoning damage only subjects the creature to the highest weakness they possess).

Your destructive blast becomes an explosion of crystal, growing where it strikes. A crystal blast uses d4 instead of d6 as its damage die and deals piercing damage. Any creature struck by the attack or that failed their Reflex saving throw if one was required must succeed at a Reflex save or be entangled and unable to move. In addition, the target’s square (or the blast’s affected area) becomes overgrown with crystal and counts as difficult terrain. Breaking free of the entangled condition is a move action, requiring either a Strength check or an Escape Artist check against the crystal blast’s save DC. A target may also destroy the crystal on a square or creature by dealing 3 damage per caster level to the crystal. This removes the entangled condition from the creature and destroys the difficult terrain. Crystal disappears after 1 minute.

^{Source: Diamond Spheres: Erudition & Esoterica}

Your destructive blast deals bludgeoning damage. Any creature struck by the attack or that failed their Reflex saving throw (if one was required) gains cold and electricity weakness equal to 1/2 the number of damage dice of the destructive blast for 1 round.

You may spend a spell point to have your destructive blast become a stream of water, pounding your foe, disorienting and choking them. This deals bludgeoning damage and any creature struck by the attack or that failed their Reflex saving throw if one was required are considered wet and must succeed at a Fortitude save or be nauseated for 1 round. The water disappears at the end of your turn, but fires extinguished or creatures soaked by the water continue to be so.

You may change the damage type of your destructive blast from bludgeoning to electricity. Targets wearing metal armor or primarily comprised of metal suffer a -3 penalty to AC and to saving throws against an electric blast. An electric blast can ignite combustibles, and melt metals with a low melting point, such as lead, gold, copper, silver, or bronze.

Your destructive blast deals fire damage. Any creature struck by the attack or that failed their Reflex saving throw if one was required must succeed at a Reflex save or catch fire. A burning creature takes 1d6 damage the following round, plus 1d6 per round until the flames are extinguished. Each round the target may attempt another Reflex save to attempt to extinguish the flames. Rolling on the ground or using a blanket to smother the flames (a full-round action) grants the target a +4 bonus to that round’s saving throw.

You may spend a spell point to change the damage type of your destructive blast to force. Any creature struck by the attack or that failed their Reflex saving throw if one was required must succeed at a Reflex save or fall prone.

^{Source: Diamond Spheres: Erudition & Esoterica}

Your destructive blast deals cold damage. Any creature struck by the attack or that failed their Reflex saving throw (if one was required) must succeed at a Fortitude save or gain bludgeoning and cold weakness equal to 1/2 the number of damage dice of the destructive blast for 1d4 rounds.

You may change the damage type of your destructive blast to cold. Any creature struck by the attack or that failed their Reflex saving throw if one was required must succeed at a Fortitude save or be staggered for 1 round.

You may change your destructive blast into a forceful wind that deals nonlethal bludgeoning damage. You may make a trip combat maneuver as a free action at range against any creature struck by the attack or that failed their Reflex saving throw if one was required. Your CMB for this check is equal to your caster level + your casting ability modifier. If this check fails, you are not tripped in return.

Your destructive blast deals negative energy damage. Any creature struck by the attack or that failed their Reflex saving throw if one was required must succeed at a Fortitude save or be sickened for 1 round. Undead creatures take no damage, but are instead blinded for 1 round on a failed Fortitude save. This bypasses the immunities of the undead type.

Your destructive blast spews forward a torrent of flesh, organs, blood and other bodily fluids. A gore blast deals bludgeoning damage, but ignores spell resistance, spell turning, and can penetrate a globe of invulnerability, antimagic field, or other forms of antimagic, and is not treated as a spell or magical for the purpose of bypassing damage reduction, damaging incorporeal creatures or for creatures or classes that gain a bonus to saving throws against magic. Creatures struck by your gore blast or that fail their Reflex saving throw if one was required suffer a -1 penalty to Fortitude saves for 1d4 rounds. This penalty increases to -3 against saves made against diseases or poisons.

You may spend a spell point to change your destructive blast into swirling winds that swirls around the target, dealing nonlethal bludgeoning damage. The target suffers a penalty to ranged attacks and Fly checks equal to 1/2 your caster level for 1d4 rounds.

Your destructive blast deals untyped damage using d4 instead of d6 as its damage die and any creature struck by the attack or that failed their Reflex saving throw if one was required suffers a -2 penalty on Perception checks and Will saves for 1d4 rounds. The damage die size increases to d8 against undead creatures and any creatures vulnerable to sunlight.

You may spend a spell point to have your destructive blast deal positive energy damage to non-living creatures using d4 instead of d6 as its damage die. Living creatures instead of taking damage gain an equal number of temporary hit points (which cannot exceed their maximum hit points) which last for 1 hour, but also must succeed at a Fortitude save or become dazed for 1 round.

You may spend a spell point to create a living crystal blast, covering the target and their space in a mass of ever shifting and clinging crystals. Your destructive blast deals piercing damage. Any creature struck by the attack or that failed their Reflex saving throw if one was required must succeed at a Reflex save or be entangled and unable to move.

In addition, the target’s square (or the blast’s affected area) becomes overgrown with living crystal. Any creature entering an affected square must succeed at a Reflex save or become entangled and unable to move. Breaking free of the entangled condition is a move action, requiring either a Strength check or an Escape Artist check against the living crystal blast’s save DC. A target may also destroy the crystal on a creature by dealing 3 damage per caster level to the crystal. This removes the entangled condition from the creature. The crystal disappears after 1 minute.

You may cause your destructive blast to sap the magic energy from your target, funneling it to you. A mana siphon does nonlethal force damage using d4 instead of d6 as its damage die and any creature struck by the attack or that failed their Reflex saving throw if one was required must succeed at a Fortitude save or lose 1 spell point. This loss increases by one die size (1d2, 1d3, 1d4, 1d6, etc.) for every five caster levels. You gain an equal number of temporary spell points that last for one round per caster level, though you cannot receive more spell points than your target loses. These temporary spell points do not stack with spell points from other targets, other instances of this ability, or any other source.

You may change the damage type of your destructive blast to negative energy. Any creature struck by the attack or that failed their Reflex saving throw if one was required must succeed at a Will saving throw or be shaken for 1 round. A nether blast does not damage undead; instead, the undead must succeed at a Will save or become frightened for 1 round. This bypasses the immunities of the undead type.

Your destructive blast deals cold damage. Any creature struck by the attack or that failed their Reflex saving throw if one was required suffers a -2 penalty on Reflex saves for 1d4 rounds.

If you are of lawful alignment, you may spend a spell point to make your destructive blast deal axiomatic damage. If you are of chaotic alignment, you may spend a spell point to have your destructive blast deal anarchic damage. You cannot use this blast type if you are of neither alignment.

Note: Axiomatic damage comes from attacks that are heavily infused with the power of sheer law and carry this orderly power over as a form of harmful energy to chaos-aligned beings. Axiomatic damage deals full damage to incorporeal targets, and deals damage as if the weapon were law-aligned. As it is not a weapon damage type, it automatically bypasses all damage reduction.

Anarchic damage comes from attacks that are heavily infused with the power of sheer chaos and carry this disorderly power over as a form of harmful energy to law-aligned beings. Anarchic damage deals full damage to incorporeal targets and deals damage as if the weapon were chaos-aligned. As it is not a weapon damage type, it automatically bypasses all damage reduction.

Your destructive blast deals untyped damage, and uses d4 instead of d6 as its damage die. Any creature struck by the attack or that failed their Reflex saving throw if one was required must succeed at a Fortitude save or treat all creatures as if they had concealment (20%) for 1 round. This bypasses the immunities of the undead type. The damage die size increases to d8 against undead creatures and any creatures vulnerable to sunlight.

You craft your destructive blast into a series of jagged crystal shards, dealing slashing damage and using d4 instead of d6 as its damage die. Any creature struck by the attack or that failed their Reflex saving throw if one was required must succeed at a Reflex save or have its movement speed reduced in half until 24 hours pass, or it receives at least 1 point of fast healing/magical healing/regeneration. This effect may also be healed as a caltrop wound. In addition, every space affected by the razor blast becomes covered in jagged crystals. Any creature who moves over such a space must succeed at a Reflex save or suffer 1 point of damage and have its speed reduced by half, as detailed above.

A charging or running creature must immediately stop if it fails this saving throw. Any creature moving at half speed or slower can pick its way through the area with no trouble. A creature need only attempt one saving throw per round to avoid this effect, no matter how many affected spaces they cross over that round. Crystals can also be destroyed by dealing 1 point of damage per caster level to the crystal in a particular space. Crystal also disappears after 1 minute.

^{Source: Diamond Spheres: Erudition & Esoterica}

You can spend 1 spell point to have your destructive blast deal sonic damage. A resonating blast uses d4s instead of d6s. The blast does full damage to objects, and causes any objects that are damaged by it to become resonant for 1d4+1 rounds. While resonant, the object’s hardness is reduced by your caster level, and it no longer halves energy damage dealt to it.

You may spend a spell point to make your destructive blast become a thundering sonic boom, dealing sonic damage. Any creature struck by the attack or that failed their Reflex saving throw if one was required must succeed at a Fortitude save or suffer a penalty to concentration checks and all mental skill checks equal to 1/2 your caster level for 1d4 rounds.

Your destructive blast deals fire damage using d8 instead of d6 as its damage die.

Your destructive blast becomes a sonic lance, shattering whatever it strikes. A shattering blast uses d4 instead of d6 as its damage die and deals sonic damage. The blast does full damage to objects and ignores up to half your caster level in hardness.

You may spend a spell point to have your destructive blast deal electricity damage. A shock blast uses d4 instead of d6 as its damage die. Any creature struck by the attack or that failed their Reflex saving throw if one was required must succeed at a Fortitude save or be dazed for 1 round.

Your destructive blast becomes a stream of jagged blades, dealing slashing damage, and using d4 instead of d6 as its damage die. Any creature struck by the attack or that failed their Reflex saving throw if one was required suffers bleed damage equal to 1/2 the number of damage die rolled (minimum 1). The blast ignores spell resistance, spell turning, and can penetrate a globe of invulnerability, antimagic field, or other forms of antimagic, and is not treated as a spell or magical for the purpose of bypassing damage reduction, damaging incorporeal creatures, or for creatures or classes that gain a bonus to saving throws against magic. These blades disappear after 1 minute.

If you are of good alignment, you may spend a spell point to make your destructive blast deal sacred damage. If you are of evil alignment, you may spend a spell point to have your destructive blast deal profane damage. You cannot use this blast type if you are of neither alignment.

Note: Sacred damage comes from attacks that are heavily infused with the power of sheer good and carry this holy power over as a form of harmful energy to evil-aligned beings. Sacred damage deals full damage to incorporeal targets, and deals damage as if the weapon were good-aligned. As it is not a weapon damage type, it automatically bypasses all damage reduction.

Profane damage comes from attacks that are heavily infused with the power of sheer evil and carry this unholy power over as a form of harmful energy to good-aligned beings. Profane damage deals full damage to incorporeal targets and deals damage as if the weapon were evil-aligned. As it is not a weapon damage type, it automatically bypasses all damage reduction.

You may spend a spell point to have your destructive blast deal electricity damage. You may make a disarm attempt at range against any creature struck by the attack or that failed their Reflex saving throw if one was required. Your CMB for this check is equal to your caster level + your casting ability modifier. You receive a +4 bonus on this check against any target that is wielding a metal weapon.

You may change the damage type of your destructive blast to slashing, piercing, and bludgeoning. A stone blast ignores spell resistance, spell turning, and can penetrate a globe of invulnerability, antimagic field, or other forms of antimagic, and is not treated as a spell or magical for the purpose of bypassing damage reduction, damaging incorporeal creatures, or for creatures or classes that gain a bonus to saving throws against magic. These stones disappear after 1 minute.

^{Source: Diamond Spheres: Erudition & Esoterica}

Your destructive blast deals fire damage. Any creature struck by the attack or that failed their Reflex saving throw (if one was required) must succeed at a Fortitude save or gain fire and nonlethal weakness equal to 1/2 the number of damage dice of the destructive blast for 1d4 rounds.

Your destructive blast deals negative energy damage. Any creature struck by the attack or that failed their Reflex saving throw if one was required suffers a -2 penalty on attack rolls for 1d4 rounds. Undead creatures take no damage, but are instead sickened for 1 round. This bypasses the immunities of the undead type.

You may change the damage type of your destructive blast to sonic. Targets who take damage from your thunder blast must succeed at a Fortitude saving throw or be deafened for 2d4 rounds.

^{Source: Spheres Apocrypha: Battlefield Manipulation Talents}

Your destructive blast creates a pocket of empty space that pulls things in, dealing bludgeoning damage. You may make a drag combat maneuver as a free action at range against any creature struck by the attack or that failed their Reflex saving throw if one was required. Your CMB for this check is your caster level + your casting ability modifier, and all targets are dragged towards the point of origin of the effect. You do not move with the targets of your drag.

Targets are typically dragged towards the caster, but if using a talent such as Explosive Orb, the point of origin is the center of the blast. If using Energy Wall, each square of wall is considered the point of origin for those who enter that section. If using Guided Strike, you may choose which direction to pull the target, even pushing them up or down. A target pulled into the ground, or a horizontal surface, is knocked prone if they would have continued past the surface.

If the target is knocked into a solid object, they suffer 1d6 bludgeoning damage, +1d6 for every 5 feet they would have continued past the solid object.

Gaseous creatures are considered vulnerable to the damage dealt by this blast.

^{Source: Baron’s Secluded Library}

Prerequisites: Destruction Sphere (Admixture)

When you damage a creature with a destructive blast which deals multiple types of damage, you may spend an extra spell point to allow the blast to tailor its damage to the target. Whenever a creature is damaged by the blast, if one type of damage would deal more damage than the rest due to a difference in resistance, immunity, or vulnerability, all of the blast’s damage is converted to the most damaging type (for example, a fire-immune creature damaged by an admixture that uses both Frost Blast and Fire Blast would take all of the blast’s damage as cold damage and would take the ongoing fire damage as cold damage). Different targets affected by the blast result may have different damage types applied to each of them in this way.

Prerequisites: Destruction sphere (Admixture, Blast Salvo (blast shape), Greater Admixture (advanced), Split Blast (advanced)), caster level 10th.

When you use Admixture or Greater Admixture in conjunction with this talent to fire a blast salvo, you may spend 1 additional spell point to cause each surge fired as part of the blast salvo to use a different blast type or Admixture feat for the purpose of determining its effects (as with the Split Blast talent, any surge which applies the effect of a sphere besides the Destruction sphere may deal no damage at the caster’s discretion). A target is only affected by non-damage effects and non-destruction sphere-effects on the first three surges to strike them as part of a blast salvo (for example, if a ghost strike admixture surge and a Frost Blast surge were both to strike the same target which has already been struck by two surges, said target would only have to save against either the stagger effect of Frost Blast or the effects of the ghost strike).

When using this talent, you do not need to pay additional spell points for using Admixture feats beyond the cost of the effect that they are applying (such as a ghost strike which may cost 1 or more spell points on its own).

When using Greater Admixture in conjunction with this talent to fire a blast salvo in which each surge only carries a single blast type, you may spend 2 spell points to fire one additional surge plus another per two caster levels rather than per six caster levels.

^{Source: Baron’s Uncanny Gateway}

Prerequisites: Destruction Sphere (Energy Cloud or Energy Sphere)

As a move action, you may move any number of energy sphere or energy cloud destructive blasts you have active up to half their normal speed. Alternatively, as part of a move action to move, you may move a single energy sphere or energy cloud destructive blasts you have active up to half its normal speed.

Prerequisites: Destruction sphere (Explosive Orb (blast shape) or Sculpt Blast (blast shape)), caster level 10th.

When creating a destructive blast, you may spend 2 spell points to shape your destructive blast into a vast shape. If you possess Explosive Orb, you may create a close range-radius burst centered within range. If you possess Sculpt Blast, you may create either a long-range line, a medium-range cone, or a close-radius burst centered on yourself. All targets are allowed a Reflex save for half damage.

Prerequisites: Destruction sphere, caster level 5th

Whenever you would roll the listed amount and size of dice using a destructive blast, you may roll the corresponding dice on Table: Conflagrant Cluster Variant Dice. You do not need to replace all of the dice used in the destructive blast with their alternatives and may make multiple substitutions as part of a single destructive blast (for example, when making a destructive blast that deals 16d6 damage, you may have it deal 4d24+1d14+2d6 damage). Effects that modify a destructive blast based on the number of dice rolled use the new number of dice rolled (so a focused blast using the above layout of dice would only deal +7 damage).
You may take this talent a second time, in which case you may select from an additional variety of Alternative Dice

^{Source: Card Casting 3: Volatile Variance}

Prerequisites: Destruction sphere (any two (blast type) talents in the crystal blast type group including either Crystal Blast or Living Crystal Blast), caster level 10th.

When using the Crystal Blast or Living Crystal Blast talent, you may spend an extra spell point to fully encase your targets in a shell of crystal. Targets that fail their Reflex saves against your destructive blast are helpless and cannot take physical actions other than to attempt Strength or Escape Artist checks to escape the crystal, but can still breathe and take purely mental actions. The crystal blocks line of sight and line of effect to and from the encased target. Destroying the cocoon frees the victim, the crystal having hit points as normal for the Crystal Blast and Living Crystal Blast talent.

^{Source: Arcforge Players Compendium}

Prerequisites: Destruction sphere (Blast Salvo, Explosive Orb).

When you fire a blast salvo, you may spend an additional spell point to replace any number of the surges with 5-foot radius explosions which deal damage as a surge and are subject to the same restrictions. Creatures in the area of the explosion are allowed a Reflex save to negate the damage. If you spend an additional spell point, each explosion covers a burst with a radius of 10 feet + 5 feet per 5 caster levels and allows a Reflex save for half damage rather than no damage.

Any creature damaged by a surge has a -4 penalty to their saving throw against any explosion created using the same blast salvo.

^{Source: Baron’s Uncanny Gateway}

Prerequisites: Destruction Sphere (Energy Sphere, Explosive Orb, or Sculpt Blast)

When creating a destructive blast with the Energy Sphere, Explosive Orb, or Sculpt Blast blast shape, the blast also extends straight upwards and downwards up to close range from the center of the blast, causing blasts to take the form of flat-topped pillars with total height of twice your close range.

If you possess the Calamity talent, you may spend a spell point to have the blast extend upwards and downwards up to medium range.

Prerequisites: Destruction sphere, caster level 5th.

You may spend a spell point to have your destructive blast deal untyped damage. Any creature reduced to 0 or fewer hit points is entirely disintegrated, leaving behind only a trace of fine dust. A disintegrated creature’s equipment is unaffected. This blast type does full damage to objects and ignores all hardness, energy resistance, and energy immunity.

When targeting a single object, the destructive blast simply disintegrates as much as a 10-foot cube of nonliving matter. Thus, it disintegrates only part of any very large object or structure targeted. Attended objects may attempt a Fortitude save to negate this effect, but still take destructive blast damage.

The destructive blast affects even objects constructed entirely of force, but not magical effects such as a globe of invulnerability, an antimagic field, or a barrier from the Protection sphere.

Prerequisites: Destruction sphere, caster level 10th.

You may spend three spell points to make your destructive blast into a roiling cloud of destruction. The cloud covers a 10-foot + 5 feet per 5 caster levels radius, is 10-foot + 5 feet per 5 caster levels tall, and is stationary unless directed by the caster to move as a move action, which it does at a rate of 20-foot + 5 feet per 2 caster levels and persists for 1 minute per caster level. The cloud obscures vision as the fog cloud spell. Any creatures who begin their turn inside the cloud suffers your destructive blast damage. Affected creatures are allowed a Fortitude saving throw for half damage. You are immune to damage from your own cloud.

Prerequisite: Destruction sphere.

When you gain this blast type, select 6, 8, 10, 12, or 20 blast type talents, no more than one being from each blast type group (you may only select 20 if you possess Admixture feats, see below). You do not need to possess these blast type talents but must meet the prerequisites for any advanced blast type talents selected with this ability. Assign each of these blast types a single number which could be rolled on a d6, d8, d10, d12, or d20 with the die used corresponding to the number of talents you have selected (a d6 if you selected 6, etc.).

When you use Erratic Blast, after deciding on your target(s) but before rolling attack rolls or saves, roll a die corresponding to the number of talents selected. Use the talent corresponding to the die roll result to determine the damage die, damage type and additional effects (including feats or class abilities such as Fan The Flames, Frozen To The Bone or elementalist’s favored element) to determine the effects of the destructive blast on the target(s). Erratic Blast costs a number of spell points equal to the greatest spell point cost of the blast types selected.

If you possess the Admixture talent, you may choose to make the maximum possible value of the die (8 for a d8, for an example) be an admixture of two other blast types which you have selected for the talent. Roll twice more on the table, ignoring any repeat rolls or any further maximum rolls. The next two results rolled are used together as an admixture at no increased spell point cost. If you have the Greater Admixture talent, you instead roll three times and use the next three results rolled for the admixture. You cannot use the Admixture talent with an Erratic Blast.

If you possess any Admixture feats, you may select any effects that you could apply to an admixture (such as ghost strikes if you possess Ghostly Admixture). As with (blast type) talents, you need not possess these talents but must meet their prerequisites.

If these abilities have variable spell point costs, determine the number of spell points you would spend on each of these effects when you select them as blast types for this talent (for example, you may choose to have your Lich Strike have an effective spell point cost of 1 or 3 for the purpose of determining the cost of an Erratic Blast which incorporates it, with the ghost strike having different effects corresponding to the number of spell points spent).

You can change the blast types or admixture effects selected with this talent whenever you level up.

For example, Astore is an elementalist with the Admixture talent. He creates the following table to determine the effect of his destructive blast whenever he uses it. As none of the blast types he has selected cost additional spell points, he does not need to spend additional spell points to use Erratic Blast.

Addendum: [3PP] You may select 5, 7, 12, 14, 16, 24, or 30 blast type talents with your erratic blast, rolling dice appropriate to the number of talents chosen and abiding by the normal restrictions.

^{Source: Card Casting 3: Volatile Variance}

Prerequisites: Destruction sphere (Extended Range [range] x2), caster level 5th.

Your destructive blast has a range of 1,000 feet + 100 feet per caster level. Destructive blasts outside of your long range but inside this range can only target squares or large objects (ones the occupy more than one square), not individual creatures and take effect one round after being used.

Prerequisites: Destruction sphere (Knight’s Blast (blast shape)).

When using the Knight’s Blast blast shape, instead of firing a straight line with a single 90 degree turn, you may instead change direction up to 90 degrees a number of times equal to your caster level provided that the total distance traveled is not greater than close-range plus half the distance.

Prerequisites: Destruction sphere (Admixture), caster level 5th.

When using the Admixture talent, you may spend an additional spell point to add a third (blast type) talent. The damage dealt is split between the three blast types and the additional effects from each blast type apply normally. If different damage die apply to the different types, use the largest. If the blast types have different caster levels, then use the lowest caster level for determining the Admixtured destructive blast’s caster level.

Special: You do not increase the casting time or spend an additional spell point when using the admixture talent with blast types from the same blast type group. The additional spell point cost of Greater Admixture still applies. This can be used to apply two Admixture feats to a single destructive blast.

^{Source: Baron’s Uncanny Gateway}

Prerequisites: Destruction Sphere (Energy Sphere), caster level 10th

When you create an Energy Sphere, you may spend a spell point or increase the time needed to concentrate on it by 1 step to have the sphere automatically home in on a single creature you can perceive. At the start of each of your turns, the sphere moves up to its speed towards the targeted creature without you needing to spend an action to move it. As a standard action, you may select a new creature for the sphere to pursue each turn. You may only have one instance of Hounding Sphere active at a time.

^{Source: Baron’s Uncanny Gateway}

Prerequisites: Destruction Sphere (Energy Strike, any (blast shape) talent which can target an area)

When you deal damage to a creature with an Energy Strike that deals at least 2 dice of damage, you may spend a spell point to reduce the number of damage dice applied by the destructive blast by half. If you do, you may create a single destructive blast effect with a (blast shape) that targets an area originating from either you or a location adjacent to the damaged creature (spending extra spell points on the (blast shape) as normal). The secondary destructive blast uses the same (blast type) talents as the original Energy Strike destructive blast and the damage dice of this secondary destructive blast is equal to the number of damage dice removed from the Energy Strike destructive blast.

^{Source: Baron’s Secluded Library}

Prerequisites: Destruction Sphere

When you gain this blast shape, select 6, 8, 10, 12, or 20 blast shape talents which can be used as a standard action. You do not need to possess these blast shape talents but must meet the prerequisites for any advanced blast shape talents selected with this ability. Assign each of these blast shapes a single number which could be rolled on a d6, d8, d10, d12, or d20 with the die used corresponding to the number of talents you have selected (a d6 if you selected 6, etc.). At GM discretion, other dice such as d3, d7, d16, and d24 may also be used, with you selecting a die corresponding to the number of blast shape talents.

When you use Intractable Blast, roll a die corresponding to the number of talents selected. Use the talent corresponding to the die roll result to determine the shape and range of the blast (including feats or class abilities such as Energy Snake) to determine the effects of the destructive blast on the target(s). Intractable Blast costs a number of spell points equal to the greatest spell point cost of the blast shapes selected. If a blast shape has variable spell point costs (such as Explosive Orb or Energy Sphere), determine the number of spell points you would spend on each of these effects when you select them as blast shapes.

You can change the blast shapes selected with this talent whenever you level up.

^{Source: Expanded Spheres: Weaves of War}

Prerequisites: Destruction sphere (Energy Strike [strike])

You may only use this blast type in conjunction with the energy strike blast shape. The blast deals damage of one or more types that the attack corresponding with energy strike deals, chosen when the attack is made. Add the damage of the attack and the destructive blast together before applying DR and energy resistance. This blast cannot deal ability damage.

This blast ignores spell resistance, spell turning, and can penetrate a globe of invulnerability, antimagic field, or other forms of antimagic, and is not treated as a spell or magical for the purpose of bypassing damage reduction, damaging incorporeal creatures, or for creatures or classes that gain a bonus to saving throws against magic unless the corresponding weapon is considered any of those things.

Magnifying blast counts as its own blast type group for the purpose of abilities which select a specific blast type group.

Prerequisites: Destruction sphere, caster level 5th.

Your destructive blast ignores energy resistance equal to your caster level. You may spend a spell point to increase this effect to become twice your caster level. If a creature has immunity to your destructive blast’s damage type, treat that immunity as if it were ‘resistance 40’ instead of ‘immunity’ and calculate as normal.

Prerequisites: Destruction sphere (any two (blast type) talents in the fire blast type group), caster level 5th.

You may spend two additional spell points to have your destructive blast do half fire and half untyped damage. Any creature damaged by the attack must succeed at a Fortitude save with your destructive blast’s DC or suffer the effects of low radiation.

A creature suffering from radiation instead must succeed at a Fortitude save with your destructive blast’s DC or have the level of radiation increased by one step, inflicting the new levels primary effect. This effect stacks with the effects of lower radiation levels. Saves against the secondary effects of the radiation are made at their normal save DCs. The target’s square (or the destructive blast’s affected area) becomes irradiated for 1 minute per caster level. Any creature passing through an irradiated square must succeed at a Fortitude save DC 14 or be affected by low radiation.

Radiation
Radiation is a poison effect, whose initial effect causes Constitution drain and secondary effect causes Strength damage. Radiation dangers are organized into four categories: low, medium, high, and severe.

^{Pathfinder Campaign Setting: Technology Guide © 2014, Paizo Inc.; Authors: James Jacobs and Russ Taylor.}

Initial Effect: Radiation initially deals Constitution drain unless the exposed character succeeds at a Fortitude saving throw. A new saving throw must be attempted to resist radiation’s initial damage each round a victim remains exposed to it.

Secondary Effect: Secondary effects from radiation deal Strength damage at a much slower rate than most poisons. This secondary effect ends only after a character succeeds at two consecutive Fortitude saving throws to resist secondary radiation damage. If a character has Strength damage equal to his current Strength score, further damage dealt a secondary effect is instead Constitution damage.

Removing Radiation Effects: All radiation damage is a poison effect, and as such it can be removed with any effect that neutralizes poison. Ability damage and drain caused by radiation damage can be healed normally.

Prerequisites: Destruction sphere (Admixture, Blast Salvo (blast shape)).

When you use Admixture in conjunction with the Blast Salvo blast shape, you may cause some of the surges to use one blast type used in the Admixture while other surges use the other blast type. For example, a character who uses Admixture with Fire Blast and Numbing Blast talents could fire one surge that deals fire damage and causes a target to catch on fire as well as a second surge that deals cold damage and causes the target to take a penalty on Fortitude saves.

This talent may be used in conjunction with Admixture feats, in which case any surge which applies the effect of a sphere besides the Destruction sphere may either deal bludgeoning damage as a basic destructive blast with no blast type or deal no damage but count as a surge of 1 die (chosen when the surge is fired).

When using Admixture in conjunction with this talent to fire a blast salvo in which each surge only carries a single blast type, you may spend 2 spell points to fire one additional surge plus another per three caster levels rather than per six caster levels.