Mount Magic
Hello everyone, and welcome to another great edition of Obscure Arcana, where we bring you more and more spells to expand your mage’s spellbook and provide inspiration to those spell-granting gods and spirits of your game world. It’s Mount Week this week at Necromancers of the Northwest, and so today let’s talk about mounts. Magical mounts have a long and storied history with magic and fantasy, and Pathfinder actually has a spell which creates a magical mount: it’s called mount. Today I wanted to create a number of somewhat more powerful spells which are similar to mount, as well as a handy spell which makes being mounted more palatable for mages.
Black Horse
This spell summons a powerful Black Horse from an otherworldly realm, normally inaccessible to mortals, to serve the mage. The Black Horse has the same statistics as a combat trained heavy horse advanced to 10 Hit Dice, except that it is completely unaffected by damage and it can hear the telepathic commands of the caster. The Black Horse will obey any telepathic commands of the caster perfectly to the best of its ability, but only while the caster is mounted on his back.
While mounted on the Black Horse, you gain a number of benefits as follows. Firstly, you do not need to eat, drink, or sleep, and you become immune to all diseases and poisons while mounted on the Black Horse. Additionally, any food you touch instantly rots and becomes devoid of nutritional value. Finally, any time a creature fails a saving throw from a spell you cast, it becomes exhausted for 1 minute.
Easy Ride
This spell makes riding horses somewhat easier for spellcasters. For the duration of this spell, you no longer need to make concentration checks to cast spells while mounted.
Pale Horse
This spell summons a powerful Pale Horse from an otherworldly realm, normally inaccessible to mortals, to serve the mage. The Pale Horse has the same statistics as a combat trained vampiric heavy horse advanced to 8 Hit Dice, except that it is completely unaffected by damage and it can hear the telepathic commands of the caster. The Pale Horse will obey any telepathic commands of the caster perfectly to the best of its ability, but only while the caster is mounted on his back.
If a living creature mounts the Pale Horse, it must succeed a Fortitude saving throw or suffer 10 points of damage per caster level. Living creatures who remain mounted on the Pale Horse gain 1 negative level every round they remain mounted on the Pale Horse.
Undead creatures mounted on the Pale Horse instead gain a number of benefits. Firstly, you gain a +10 bonus to your channel resistance, or gain a channel resistance of +10 if you do not have a channel resistance score. Additionally, as a standard action you may make a single melee touch attack which, if successful, causes the target to gain 5 negative levels. Finally, the saving throw DCs of any death effects which originate from you, either from your spells or from innate special abilities, are increased by +1.
Red Horse
This spell summons a powerful Red Horse from an otherworldly realm, normally inaccessible to mortals, to serve the mage. The Red Horse has the same statistics as a combat trained heavy horse advanced to 10 Hit Dice, except that it is completely unaffected by damage and it can hear the telepathic commands of the caster. The Red Horse will obey any telepathic commands of the caster perfectly to the best of its ability, but only while the caster is mounted on his back.
While mounted on the Red Horse, you gain a number of benefits, as follows. Firstly, all attacks made with swords gain a +4 bonus to attack and damage while you are mounted on the Red Horse. Additionally, you can make an additional attack with a held weapon each turn; this ability stacks with similar effects such as the haste spell or the speed weapon special ability. Finally, all spells you cast of the evocation school deal an additional 1 point of damage for each damage dice they would deal. This last effect does not affect spells which do not deal damage dice.
White Horse
This spell summons a powerful White Horse from an otherworldly realm, normally inaccessible to mortals, to serve the mage. The White Horse has the same statistics as a combat trained heavy horse advanced to 10 Hit Dice, except that it is completely unaffected by damage and it can hear the telepathic commands of the caster. The White Horse will obey any telepathic commands of the caster perfectly to the best of its ability, but only while the caster is mounted on his back.
While mounted on the White Horse, you gain a number of benefits, as follows. Firstly, all attacks made with bows gain a +4 bonus to attack and damage while you are mounted on the White Horse. Additionally, you gain a +6 bonus to all Charisma-based skill checks you make while mounted on the White Horse. Finally, the saving throws DCs of all spells of the enchantment school you cast are increased by +2.