Protection from Prime, 10' Radius

(See also: Protection from Prime, 10' Radius (Wizard Spell))

The Planewalker's Handbook Text

The globe of protection created by this spell is identical in all respects to a protection from prime spell (a 1st-level priest spell), except that it protects a larger area of effect and has a longer duration and casting time. Aside from the differences in duration and casting time, this spell is identical to the 4th-level wizard spell protection from prime 10-foot radius.

Priest's Spell Compendium Text

The globe of protection created by this spell is identical in all respects to a protection from prime spell (a 1st level priest spell), except that it protects a larger area of effect and has a longer duration and casting time.

When this spell is cast, it creates a magical barrier centered on and mobile with the recipient. The subject of the spell must be a planar creature or being. Protection from prime does not function at all on the Prime Material Plane. In effect, this spell is a version of the protection from evil, 10' spell. As such, it has three major effects:

First, all attacks made by beings from the Prime Material Plane against the protected creatures suffer -2 penalties to attack rolls; any saving throws necessitated by such attacks are made with +2 bonuses.

Second, any attempt to possess (as by a magic jar attack) or to exercise mental control over a protected creature is blocked by this spell. Likewise, a possessing life force is merely kept out. It would not be expelled if in place before the protection is cast.

Third, the spell prevents direct bodily contact by creatures from the Prime Material Plane. This causes the natural (body) weapon attacks of such beings to fail and the beings to recoil, if such attacks require touching the protected being. Animals or monsters summoned from the Prime Material Plane are likewise hedged out.

This third protection ends if the protected individuals make a melee attack against a blocked being or the recipient tries to force the barrier against the blocked being. The penalty applied to attacks from Prime-Material beings presented as the first spell effect remains active in any event, however.

To complete this spell, the priest must trace a 10-foot-diameter circle on the floor (or ground) with the powdered bone of a Prime-Material creature.