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|reason=It's a higher level slightly more brutal version of Avasculate (which was plenty brutal on its own). And I think it's quite appropriate for the spell level. The name is a bit tragic though, as "Mass" has a much more common usage among spells and it's easy to get the wrong idea about this one. | |reason=It's a higher level slightly more brutal version of Avasculate (which was plenty brutal on its own). And I think it's quite appropriate for the spell level. The name is a bit tragic though, as "Mass" has a much more common usage among spells and it's easy to get the wrong idea about this one. | ||
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| + | Avasculate and Avascular Mass were originally published in the Spell Compendium, but they really only have the names and basic effect of the versions on this wiki. The original Avasculate (a 7th-level spell) ''doesn't'' rip the target's blood vessels out of the body; it just expels some of the blood (cutting the target's current hit points in half and stunning it for 1 round if it fails a Fortitude save). The original Avascular Mass (an 8th-level spell) rips the target's blood vessels out, but mechanically, the only difference is that Avascular Mass creates two twenty-foot net-like masses of blood vessels that anchor themselves to opposing surfaces and entangle everything in the way (they also provide cover for creatures that aren't adjacent to each other). Personally, I had a bit of an issue with the original Avascular Mass's flavor. It rips the target's blood vessels out - it really ought to be a guaranteed kill!!! But, yeah, ripping out the blood vessels is originally what distinguished Avascular Mass from its lesser variant, so that's where the name comes from. --[[User:Luigifan18|Luigifan18]] ([[User talk:Luigifan18|talk]]) 00:27, 26 October 2012 (UTC) | ||
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| Whoa. This is what the Spell Compendium's version WISHES it was. I mean, honestly, ripping a person's blood vessels out of their body? That should totally be a guaranteed kill... (Hey, where'd the Evil descriptor go?!?) |
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| It's a higher level slightly more brutal version of Avasculate (which was plenty brutal on its own). And I think it's quite appropriate for the spell level. The name is a bit tragic though, as "Mass" has a much more common usage among spells and it's easy to get the wrong idea about this one. |
To answer TarkisFlux's question...
Avasculate and Avascular Mass were originally published in the Spell Compendium, but they really only have the names and basic effect of the versions on this wiki. The original Avasculate (a 7th-level spell) doesn't rip the target's blood vessels out of the body; it just expels some of the blood (cutting the target's current hit points in half and stunning it for 1 round if it fails a Fortitude save). The original Avascular Mass (an 8th-level spell) rips the target's blood vessels out, but mechanically, the only difference is that Avascular Mass creates two twenty-foot net-like masses of blood vessels that anchor themselves to opposing surfaces and entangle everything in the way (they also provide cover for creatures that aren't adjacent to each other). Personally, I had a bit of an issue with the original Avascular Mass's flavor. It rips the target's blood vessels out - it really ought to be a guaranteed kill!!! But, yeah, ripping out the blood vessels is originally what distinguished Avascular Mass from its lesser variant, so that's where the name comes from. --Luigifan18 (talk) 00:27, 26 October 2012 (UTC)
