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Those who are under the effects of this poison can convert the next 2 hit points of lethal damage they take to nonlethal damage; this effect last for 1 minute or until expended.

For every rank in Craft (alchemy) you possess, the creature can convert an additional 2 hit points of lethal damage into nonlethal damage.

The creature also gains a +2 circumstance bonus against spells and abilities with the (pain) descriptor, +1 for every 4 ranks in Craft (alchemy) you possess.

A creature cannot benefit from an Anesthetic Dosage more than once per hour.

Your target must be within range of both items.

When you have at least 10 ranks in Craft (alchemy), and again at 20 ranks, you may throw an additional alchemical item as part of the same action, taking an additional -2 penalty to your attack roll and increasing the circumstance bonus to affected creatures’ saving throws by an additional +2 per item added.

If the splash weapon misses, this talent has no effect.

You can take this talent a second time. If you do, the selected squares are not affected by any effects of the thrown splash weapon.

For every 5 Craft (alchemy) ranks you possess, you may increase the penalty of this poison by -2. You may apply all of this penalty to a single ability score, or divide it in units of -2 between multiple ability scores. You choose which ability scores receive penalties, and how the penalty is divided, when creating this poison.

Unlike a standard formulae, it takes 1 month to brew an elixir of immortality, and it costs an additional 50,000 gp in materials to create.

You create a concoction you can draw and drink as a move action to restore your martial focus.

You may also draw and administer this formulae to an ally within your reach as a standard action, granting them its benefits as though they had drunk it themselves.

You can increase the Craft DC for this item in increments of 10; each time you do so, the focusing formula becomes more potent, allowing you to drink less for the same effects, giving you an additional use of the item before it is consumed.

In addition, if a target is affected by an ingested poison with further effects on consecutive failed saves, it must attempt an additional save against that poison at the beginning of each 24 hour period in which it is affected by the poison. The first of these additional saves happens after the unmodified duration of the poison (normally 1 minute).

A successful save does not end the poison’s effect, but a failed save causes a new effect as normal for that poison which lasts for the remaining duration of this poison.

You create a flask of alchemical grease that can be applied to yourself or a willing creature within your reach as a move action, or thrown as a splash weapon.

When applied to a willing creature, they gain a +5 circumstance bonus on Escape Artist checks, and to CMB checks to escape a grapple.

When thrown as a splash weapon, creatures directly hit by the attack take a -2 penalty to Acrobatics checks, CMD against disarm and trip attempts, and to Reflex saving throws against effects that deal fire damage or which cause a creature to catch fire on a failed saving throw; creatures within the splash radius of the weapon take the same penalties but reduce them by 50% (rounded down). In addition, any creature affected by this alchemical grease who falls prone must succeed on an Acrobatics check with a DC equal to the practitioner’s combat talent save DC when standing up or immediately fall prone again.

A creature may end this effect by spending a standard action removing the grease.

This grease remains for 2 rounds.

You can increase the Craft DC of this alchemical by 5 to increase the duration of the grease’s effects for 2 additional rounds, or to increase the bonuses and penalties granted by the alchemical grease by 1.

You can apply both modifications to the same vial of grease but must apply the DC increases separately for each effect (so increasing the grease’s duration by 2 rounds and increasing the bonuses and penalties by 1 requires a total modification to the crafting DC of +10).

You create a flask of acid that functions as a splash weapon you can use as a ranged touch attack with a range increment of 10 ft., dealing 1d6 acid damage +1d6 per two Craft (alchemy) ranks you possess to the target of a direct hit, half that damage to targets 5 ft. away from the point of contact, and 1 point of acid splash damage per die of damage this weapon deals on a direct hit to targets 10 ft. away from the point of contact (to a maximum of half the damage dealt to the primary target).

Targets who take at least 2 points of acid damage from the initial attack take half the total damage again on the following round.

You can increase the Craft DC for this weapon in increments of 10; each time you do so, the range for each damage increment increases by 5 ft. (for example, if you increase the Craft DC to 25, you would deal full damage to all targets within 5 ft. of the point of contact, half damage to all targets 10 ft. away from the point of contact, and 1 point of damage to all creatures within 15 ft.).

You create a flask of alchemist’s fire that functions as a splash weapon you can use as a ranged touch attack with a range increment of 10 ft., dealing 1d6 fire damage +1d6 per two Craft (alchemy) ranks you possess to the target of a direct hit, half that damage to targets 5 ft. away from the point of contact, and 1 point of fire splash damage per die of damage this weapon deals on a direct hit to targets 10 ft. away from the point of contact (to a maximum of half the damage dealt to the primary target).

All targets closer than the furthest splash damage ring is set On Fire.

You can increase the Craft DC for this weapon in increments of 10; each time you do so, the range for each damage increment increases by 5 ft. (for example, if you increase the Craft DC to 30, you would deal full damage to all targets within 5 ft. of the point of contact, half damage to all targets 10 ft. away from the point of contact, and 1 point of damage to all creatures within 15 ft.).

Improved bottled lightning unleashes a small bolt of lightning toward an enemy within 20 ft. of you.

This is a ranged touch attack that deals 1d8 points of electricity damage, plus 1d8 per 2 Craft (alchemy) ranks you possess. Any creature in a line between you and the target (including the target) takes 1 point of sonic damage plus 1 point per rank in Craft (alchemy) you possess from the terrific clap of thunder the bolt generates.

You can increase the Craft DC for this weapon in increments of 10; each time you do so, the range increases by 10 ft. and the sonic damage dealt to creatures in the line of effect increases by 1d6.

You create a single use bag of improved flash powder that can be thrown as a ranged touch attack with a range increment of 20 ft.

Creatures within a 10-ft. radius burst of the point of contact are Blinded for 1 round unless they succeed at a Fortitude saving throw against this effect.

You can increase the Craft DC for this item in increments of 10; each time you do so, the radius increases by 10 ft. and the duration of the blindness increases by 1 round.

An improved fuse grenade may be lit and thrown into an unoccupied square capable of supporting an object within 60 ft. as a standard action.

1d3 rounds after being lit, the grenade explodes, dealing 2d6 points of bludgeoning damage and 2d6 points of fire damage in a 20-foot-radius burst (Reflex halves).

For every 3 ranks in Craft (alchemy) you possess, both the bludgeoning and fire damage from this item increase by an additional 1d6.

You can increase the Craft DC for this item in increments of 10; each time you do so, the radius increases by 10 ft. and the Reflex save DC increases by +1.

You create a single use bag of fine gray powder you can throw as a ranged touch attack with a range increment of 10 ft. that causes targets to suffer from uncontrollable itching until they spend at least 1 round cleaning it off.

Anyone standing on the square of impact or in adjacent squares must make a Fortitude save; targets 10 ft. away must also succeed at a Fortitude save but gain a +5 circumstance bonus.

Creatures that fail the save take a –2 penalty on attack rolls, saving throws, skill checks, and ability checks until they wash the powder off.

This is a poison effect.

You can increase the Craft DC for this item in increments of 10; each time you do so, the area of effect improves by 5 ft., and all saving throw DCs increase by +2.

You create a single use bag of coarse yellowish-red powder that can be used as a range touch attack with a range increment of 10 ft.

Anyone standing in the square of impact or an adjacent squares must make Fortitude saves; creatures within 10 ft. of the point of impact must also make Fortitude saves, but gain a +5 competence bonus on the save.

Creatures who fail their initial save are Staggered for 1 round as they succumb to uncontrollable sneezing, and must make a Fortitude save each round for 1d4+1 rounds thereafter or continue to be staggered. A successful save ends the effect.

This is a poison effect.

You can increase the Craft DC for this item in increments of 10; each time you do so, the area of effect improves by 5 ft., and all saving throw DCs increase by +2.

You create a single use bag that can be thrown at a creature as a ranged touch attack with a range increment of 10 ft.; on a successful attack, the bag comes apart and goo bursts out, entangling the target and then becoming tough and resilient upon exposure to air.

If hit, the target must make a Reflex save or be glued to the floor, unable to move. Even on a successful save, the normal Entangled movement penalties apply.

A flying creature is not stuck to the floor, but it must make a Reflex save or be unable to fly (assuming it uses its wings to fly) and fall to the ground.

Improved tanglefoot bags do not function underwater.

A creature that is glued to the floor (or unable to fly) can break free by making a Strength check or by dealing 20 points of damage to the goo with a slashing weapon. A creature trying to scrape goo off itself, or another creature assisting, does not need to make an attack roll; hitting the goo is automatic, after which the creature that hit makes a damage roll to see how much of the goo was scraped off.

Once free, the creature still counts as Entangled.

The goo becomes brittle and fragile after 3d4 rounds, cracking apart and losing its effectiveness; any penalties imposed by this effect end at that time as well. An application of universal solvent to a stuck creature dissolves the alchemical goo immediately.

You can increase the Craft DC for this item in increments of 10; the first time you do so, all creatures within 5 ft. of the original target must make a Reflex save or suffer the effects of having been hit by an improved tanglefoot bag.

For every additional 10 by which you increase the DC, the radius of this effect increases by an additional 5 ft.

You create an alchemical stone that can be used as a ranged attack with a range increment of 10 ft. When it strikes a hard surface (or is struck hard), it creates a deafening bang that is treated as a sonic attack.

Each creature within a 10-ft.-radius spread must make a Fortitude save or be Deafened for 1 hour.

You can increase the Craft DC for this item in increments of 10; each time you do so you increase the duration of this ability by 1 hour, add 1d6 sonic damage to all creatures within the effect’s radius (creatures who pass their saving throw against this item take half damage), and increase the radius of the effect by 10 ft.

• If it was a contact, ingested or injury poison a creature that attempts a save against it must attempt a new save against the poison at the beginning of each of their turns for a number of rounds equal to your practitioner modifier.
• If it was an inhaled poison the area it affects when thrown remains poisoned for a number of rounds equal to your practitioner modifier; creatures that enter or begin their turns in this area must attempt a save against this poison (a creature only needs to attempt a save against this poison once per round, regardless of how many times it might enter the poisoned area).

Additionally, if they fail their saving throw against this poison, they must pass another Fortitude save at the beginning of their next turn or gain another temporary negative level and need to save the following round or gain another.

If a creature dies due to the effect of this poison, they rise 1 minute later as a zombie. This talent is a death effect.

This damage happens before resolving the effect of the poison.

You can take this talent a second time. If you do, the damage from this talent applies to all your Alchemy sphere poisons. When creating a poison with this (toxin) talent, this extra damage stacks with the poison’s normal damage.

DC 20: Fatigued, shaken, sickened.

DC 30: Diseased, exhausted, nauseated, poisoned, staggered.

DC 40: Frightened, blinded, deafened, paralyzed, stunned.

Those who are under the effects of this poison gain a +2 alchemical bonus to either their Strength, Dexterity, or Constitution (chosen upon creation) and a -2 penalty to one of the creature’s mental scores for 1 minute.

If this enhances the creature’s Strength, it applies a penalty to their Intelligence. If it enhances the creature’s Dexterity, it applies a penalty to their Wisdom. If it enhances the creature’s Constitution, it applies a penalty to their Charisma.

At the end of this talent’s duration, the creature must make a successful Fortitude save or be Sickened for 10 minutes.

A creature cannot benefit from an Performance Enhancer more than once per hour.

If you possess at least 10 ranks in Craft (alchemy), this bonus increases by +2.

A philosopher’s stone appears to be an ordinary, sooty piece of blackish rock. If the stone is broken open (break DC 20), a cavity is revealed at the stone’s heart.

This cavity is lined with a magical type of quicksilver that enables any character with at least 10 ranks in Craft (alchemy) to transmute base metals (iron and lead) into silver and gold. A single philosopher’s stone can turn up to 5,000 pounds of iron into silver (worth 25,000 gp), or up to 1,000 pounds of lead into gold (worth 50,000 gp).

However, the quicksilver becomes unstable once the stone is opened and loses its potency within 24 hours, so all transmutations must take place within that period.

The quicksilver found in the center of the stone may also be put to another use. If mixed with any cure potion while the substance is still potent, it creates a special oil of life that acts as a true resurrection spell or Greater Resurrection sphere effect (if using Spheres of Power) for any dead body it is sprinkled upon.

Those who are under the effects of this poison can select a single Intelligence, Wisdom, or Charisma-based skill, gaining a +2 alchemical bonus to the next check they make with that skill within 1 minute.

Those under the effects of this poison suffer a -5 penalty to Initiative checks for 1 minute.

A creature cannot benefit from a Psychotropic Hallucinogen more than once per hour.

For every 5 ranks in Craft (alchemy) you possess, this bonus increases by +2.

In addition, whenever you and an adjacent creature would both be affected by one of your alchemical items, you can forego the normal bonus granted by this ability and apply it as a penalty to the creature’s AC or saving throws against the item’s effects or attacks made with the item.

You create a poultice that can be used as a standard action to heal yourself or a target within your natural reach for 1d8 points of damage per 2 ranks in Craft (alchemy) you possess (minimum 1d8) plus your practitioner modifier.

You can only attempt to heal a particular creature with this ability a number of times per day equal to 1/2 the number of ranks you possess in the Craft (alchemy) skill (minimum 1) plus your practitioner modifier.

You can increase the Craft DC for this item in increments of 10; each time you do so you increase the healing granted by the salve by 5.

Creatures who fail two consecutive saving throws against this poison have their speeds reduced to a quarter of their normal amounts, and creatures who fail three consecutive saving throws have their speeds reduced to 5 feet. This cannot reduce a target’s speed to less than 5 feet.

For every 4 ranks in Craft (alchemy) you possess, you may select another creature type (or subtype).

This damage is not multiplied on a critical hit, but it does stack with a rogue’s sneak attack. This only functions while within an area of your darkness.

When a creature within this area attempts to move, or when a creature first enters this area, they must pass a Will save or become disoriented. A creature must attempt this Will save every time they enter the area of darkness.

If the creature fails this saving throw, they must roll a d8 to determine direction: 1 is their intended direction, with 2-8 rotating around the creature in a clockwise direction. The target moves that direction as if it were their intended course. The target does not realize they are off-course until their next turn or until they leave the area of darkness.

Creatures within this area of darkness must pass a Will save or become shaken. Creatures who succeed at this save but remain in the darkness must save again at the end of your subsequent turns.

If any creature enters this area of darkness, they must immediately save or become shaken. When a creature fails their saving throw, they remain shaken for as long as they remain within the area of darkness. This is a mind-altering effect.

Any creature inside the darkness must pass a Fortitude save or suffer 1 point of Constitution damage. Creatures who remain within this area of darkness must save at the end of your subsequent turns or suffer another point of Constitution damage. If a creature enters this area of darkness after it is created, they must immediately save or also suffer this damage.

A creature may only be affected by Hungry Darkness once per round, regardless of how many times they enter or exit the area that turn.

Creatures within this area of darkness must pass a Will save or suffer a -1 penalty to all saving throws so long as they remain within this area of darkness. This penalty increases by 1 per 5 caster levels. If any creature enters this area of darkness, they must immediately save or suffer this penalty.

This is a mind-affecting effect.

Because of the blurring of reality between the Plane of Shadow and the Material Plane, the target can’t make out details of the terrain or areas you pass over during transit, nor can you predict perfectly where your travel will end. It’s impossible to judge distances accurately, making this ability ill-suited for scouting or spying.

Furthermore, when stepping back into the Material Plane, the target is shunted 1d10 x 100 feet in a random horizontal direction from the desired endpoint. If this would place the target within a solid object, they are shunted 1d10 x 1,000 feet in the same direction. If this would still place them within a solid object, they are shunted to the nearest empty space available, but the strain of this activity renders the creature [fatigued]] (no save).

Creatures within this area of darkness must pass a Reflex save or become entangled. Creatures who succeed at this save but remain in the darkness must save again at the end of your subsequent turns. If any creature enters this area of darkness, they must immediately save or suffer the effects.

An ensnared creature can attempt to escape its entanglement by making a Strength or Escape Artist check as a move action, with a DC equal to the Reflex save DC.

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.

You may make a Bull Rush at range against the target or targets affected by your air blast. Only a target successfully struck by the blast (or one that fails their Reflex saving throw if one was required) is affected. Your CMB for this check is equal to your caster level + your casting stat modifier, and all targets are pushed from the point of origin of the effect (usually yourself).

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 ft they would have continued past the barrier. You do not move with the targets of your Bull Rush.

You may make a Trip attempt at range against the target or targets affected by your alkali blast. Only a target successfully struck by the blast (or one that fails their Reflex saving throw if one was required) is affected. Your CMB for this check is equal to your caster level + your casting stat modifier.

You may make a Bull Rush at range against the target or targets affected by your battering blast. Only a target successfully struck by the blast (or one that fails their Reflex saving throw if one was required) is affected. Your CMB for this check is equal to your caster level + your casting stat modifier, and all targets are pushed from the point of origin of the effect (usually yourself).

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 ft they would have continued past the barrier. You do not move with the targets of your Bull Rush.

The blast ignores spell resistance, spell turning, and can penetrate a globe of invulnerability, antimagic field, or antimagic circle, and is not treated as a spell or magical effect for creatures or classes that gain a bonus to saving throws against magic.

Each time it is taken, increase the number of blast traps you may have active at once by 1.

At the end of any turn in which the target takes a forbidden action they suffer the effects of your destructive blast unless they succeed on a Will save. The target of a brand automatically knows what actions have been forbidden to them. This brand lasts for one round per level.

You may only place one brand on any given target, and attempting to place a brand on an already branded target requires a magic skill check, with success replacing the previous brand with the newest one.

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 ft + 5 ft per 5 CL 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, resistance, or other method, the chain stops and no further targets are damaged.

A crystal blast uses d4’s instead of d6’s as its damage die and deals piercing damage. The target of your crystal blast must pass 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.

When using a (blast type) talent that already deals nonlethal damage, your destructive blast damage increases by +1 damage per die.

Alternately, 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.

Anything other than an inanimate object struck by this kind of destructive blast only takes half damage from it.

You only apply (blast type) talents when the Destructive Maw is shaped, rather than with each attack.

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 make a Fortitude save to negate this effect, but still take destructive blast damage. The blast effects even objects constructed entirely of force, but not magical effects such as a globe of invulnerability, an anti-magic field, or the barrier ward of the Protection sphere.

The blast deals bludgeoning damage. Any creature damaged by the attack must pass a Fortitude save or be nauseated for 1 round. The water disappears at the end of your turn.

At the start of each of its turns, the target must succeed on a Fortitude save or suffer the damage and effects of your destructive blast. The effects of an Energetic Affliction last for 1 round per caster level, or until the target succeeds on two consecutive Fortitude saves against it.

Alternately, an afflicted target may attempt to stifle the energy with a full-round action, which allows them to make a Reflex save with a +4 bonus to end the effect immediately.

So long as you can use your destructive blast, you threaten all squares within 5 ft. + 5 ft. per 10 caster levels of yourself with it as either a melee touch attack or ray attack. You may not apply a (blast shape) talent to this use of destructive blast, or make use of any effects that would increase its casting time.

Using your destructive blast this way does not provoke an attack of opportunity.

For a number of rounds equal to your casting ability modifier, any creature that ends its turn within 5 ft + 5 ft per 10 caster levels of you is affected by your destructive blast as if it had dealt minimum damage (so a 4d6 blast would deal 4 damage). A Reflex save negates this damage.

You may only have one energy aura active at a time; casting it again ends the previous instance.

These crystals can be passed to other creatures for later use. As a standard action, this crystal may be primed and thrown as a thrown splash weapon with a range increment of 20 ft.

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 ft splash radius. Any creature taking damage from either the direct hit or the splash must save against any additional effects of the blast type.

Crystals persist for 1 hour per caster level.

This movement does not provoke attacks of opportunity and you may pass through occupied spaces. Any creatures whose space you pass through are affected by your destructive blast, with a Reflex save for half damage. If you attempt to pass through an object and fail to break through it, you appear in the nearest unoccupied space and are staggered for one round. This blast shape cannot be combined with the Extreme Range advanced talent.