General Rules: Feats - Lace Spell: Unravel

Lace Spell: Unravel [Gnome, Eldritch] (from the Book of Eldritch Might)
You make your spells more potent and harder to ward against.
   Prerequisites: Gnome, Gnomish Arcane Scholar, Intelligence 17+, Charisma 15+, spellcaster level 10^th+.
   Benefit: You give extra power to an offensive spell that you cast on an opponent. The lacing attempts to suppress, for this laced spell only, any spell effect on the target that directly interferes with the laced spell taking effect. For example, a sorcerer casts an Unravel-laced fireball at a foe with protection from elements (fire) already active upon herself. The sorcerer makes a level check with a DC of 11 + the caster level of the caster of the protection from elements. If the sorcerer's attempt succeeds, the spell is "unraveled" before the fireball takes effect. However, immediately after the fireball's effects have taken their toll, the unraveled protection from elements spell knits itself back together again for its subject.

Unravel lacing affects only spells cast upon a creature or object. Independent spell effects, or those affecting an area - such as wall of fire, an antimagic field, an illusion, or a conjured monster - cannot be suppressed, even if they prevent the laced spell from affecting the target.

Unlike the more powerful Lace Spell: Spellripper feat, a spell laced with Unravel can suppress only temporarily those effects specifically intended to foil that spell (spell immunity, a shield spell protecting against magic missiles, and so on), or spells that provide greater protection from other spells (protection from evil, spell resistance, and so on).

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