Fertility (Reversible)

(See also: Fertility (Priest Spell))

This spell is primarily for use on food crops. It affects all small plants (or one mature tree) per caster level in an area up to 60' per level on each side. If cast within a month of planting (or budding), it boosts the crop yield for the following six months by 5% per level of the druid.

Fertility can also affect one female mammal (including humans, elves, etc.) per level of the druid, although mammals must be touched for the magic to take effect, and targets are allowed saving throws versus spells unless they willingly submit to the spell. For the next six months, all affected mammals will produce offspring after mating, assuming that they weren't sterile to begin with.

In addition to reducing crop yields by 5% per level and preventing affected mammals from bearing young, the reversed spell, sterility, can affect a single plantlike monster (e.g. shambling mound, treant, whipweed, yellow mold, etc.) with hit dice less than or equal to the druid's level. Such a monster must be touched; if it fails to save versus spells, sterility suppresses its ability to produce and spread seeds, spores, etc. This eliminates, for example, the spore attacks of a yellow mold or yellow musk creeper, or the rhizomes of a gas spore. The druid is not harmed by touching the monster to discharge the spell, although he is subject to the creature's attacks while he gets close.

The material component is a pinch of dried bone marrow, or salt for the reverse.