Hypnopompic TerrorsSpell 8
Source Pathfinder Lost Omens: Monsters of Myth
Traditions Occult
Cast
(somatic, verbal)Range 30 feet
Target up to 10 creatures
Saving Throw Will
You send a wave of nightmarish visions crashing over your targets, leaving them Paralyzed by fear. These visions inflict real wounds on vulnerable targets, dealing 6d12 mental damage. If you target a sleeping creature, it wakes up as it attempts the save but takes one degree of success worse than the result it rolled on its save.
Critical Success The target is unaffected.
Success The target is Frightened 2 and takes half the mental damage.
Failure The target is frightened 2, is Paralyzed for 1 round, and takes the full mental damage.
Critical Failure The target is frightened 2, is paralyzed for 2 rounds, and takes double the mental damage.
Traits
This rarity indicates that a rules element is very difficult to find in the game world. A rare feat, spell, item or the like is available to players only if the GM decides to include it in the game, typically through discovery during play. Creatures with this trait are rare. They typically can't be summoned. The DC of Recall Knowledge checks related to these creatures is increased by 5.
IllusionEffects and magic items with this trait are associated with the illusion school of magic, typically involving false sensory stimuli.
EmotionThis effect alters a creature's emotions. Effects with this trait always have the mental trait as well. Creatures with special training or that have mechanical or artificial intelligence are immune to emotion effects.
FearFear effects evoke the emotion of fear. Effects with this trait always have the mental and emotion traits as well.
IncapacitationAn ability with this trait can take a character completely out of the fight or even kill them, and it's harder to use on a more powerful character. If a spell has the incapacitation trait, any creature of more than twice the spell's level treats the result of their check to prevent being incapacitated by the spell as one degree of success better, or the result of any check the spellcaster made to incapacitate them as one degree of success worse. If any other effect has the incapacitation trait, a creature of higher level than the item, creature, or hazard generating the effect gains the same benefits.
MentalA mental effect can alter the target's mind. It has no effect on an object or a mindless creature.