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   I wanted to remake the healer class into something more like a battlefield medic, something that you might actually find in an adventuring party, instead of a town healer like the class currently is built.  To this end, I added buffs to their spell list, mostly defensive, so they have more than a single role while still fitting their archetype comfortably.  I also made them spontaneous casters in the vein of warmages and beguilers, as many others do, because it is very appropriate for the class.

Healer

Alignment: Any good

Hit Die: d8

		Saves				Spells per Day
Lv	Base Attack Bonus	Fort	Ref	Will	Abilities	0	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th	6th	7th	8th	9th
1	+0	+2	+0	+2	Healing Hands	5	3	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
2	+1	+3	+0	+3	Skill Focus (Heal), Cleanse Fear	6	4	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
3	+1	+3	+1	+3	Cleanse Paralysis	6	5	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
4	+2	+4	+1	+4	Cleanse Poison, Advanced Learning	6	6	3	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
5	+2	+4	+1	+4	Cleanse Disease	6	6	4	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
6	+3	+5	+2	+5	Reserves of Health	6	6	5	3	-	-	-	-	-	-
7	+3	+5	+2	+5	Healing Mastery	6	6	6	4	-	-	-	-	-	-
8	+4	+6	+2	+6	Effortless Healing, Advanced Learning	6	6	6	5	3	-	-	-	-	-
9	+4	+6	+3	+6	Cleanse Curse	6	6	6	6	4	-	-	-	-	-
10	+5	+7	+3	+7	Postpone Death	6	6	6	6	5	3	-	-	-	-
11	+5	+7	+3	+7	Cleanse Petrification	6	6	6	6	6	4	-	-	-	-
12	+6/+1	+8	+4	+8	Project Healing, Advanced Learning	6	6	6	6	6	5	3	-	-	-
13	+6/+1	+8	+4	+8	Cleanse Spirit	6	6	6	6	6	6	4	-	-	-
14	+7/+2	+9	+4	+9	Rapid Cleanse	6	6	6	6	6	6	5	3	-	-
15	+7/+2	+9	+5	+9	Restore Limb	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	4	-	-
16	+8/+3	+10	+5	+10	Cleanse Form, Advanced Learning	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	5	3	-
17	+8/+3	+10	+5	+10	Healing Grand Mastery	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	4	-
18	+9/+4	+11	+6	+11	Wings of the Blessed	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	5	3
19	+9/+4	+11	+6	+11	Chosen of the Blessed	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	4
20	+10/+5	+12	+6	+12	New Life, Advanced Learning	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	6

Class Skills (4+int mod skill points per level, x4 at 1st level): Concentration (Con), Craft (Int), Diplomacy (Cha), Handle Animal (Cha), Heal (Wis), Knowledge (nature) (Int), Knowledge (religion) (Int), Profession (Wis), Sense Motive (Wis), Spellcraft (Int), and Survival (Wis).

Weapon and Armour Proficiency: A healer is proficient in all simple weapons, light armour, and light shields.

Spells: A healer casts divine spells, which are drawn from the healer spell list given below.  She can cast any spell she knows without preparing it ahead of time, much like a sorcerer or warmage does.  When a healer gains access to a new level of spells, she automatically knows all the spells for that level listed on the healer spell list, given below.  Essentially, her spell list is the same as her spells known list.  Healers also have the option of adding to their existing spell list through their advanced learling ability as they increase in level (see below).
   To cast a spell, a healer must have a Charisma score of 10 + the spell's level.  The Difficulty Class for saving throws against a healer's spell is 10 + the spell's level + the healer's Charisma modifier.
   Like other spellcasters, a healer can cast only a certain number of spells of each spell level per day.  Her base daily spell allotment is given in the table above.  In addition, she receives bonus spells for a high Charisma score (see Table 1-1, page 8 of the PHB).

Healing Hands (Ex): Whenever a healer casts a spell that cures hit point damage, she adds her Charisma bonus to the amount healed.  If the healing lasts for multiple rounds, it only applies to the first round.  If the spell can also be used to harm undead, the bonus is added to the damage dealt as well.  This ability only works on spells cast as a healer, not to those cast from any other class the healer might also have access to.

Skill Focus (Heal): A healer gains Skill Focus (Heal) as a bonus feat at 2nd level as part of her training.  If she already has this feat, she may choose a different one she meets the prerequisites for.

Cleanse Fear (Su): At 2nd level, a healer gains the ability to remove fear from a creature.  As a standard action, she can pick one target within 30 feet, and automatically removes all fear effects currently affecting them.  She may use this ability at will.

Cleanse Paralysis (Su): At 3rd level, a healer can now remove paralysis from a creature with a touch as a standard action.  The touched creature is instantly freed of all paralysis effects.  She may also remove it from herself instead as a purely mental action.  A healer can use this ability once per day, plus her Wisdom bonus, and an additional time every four levels after 3rd.

Advanced Learning: At 4th level, and every four levels thereafter, a healer can add a new spell to her list, representing the result of personal study.  The spell must be a cleric spell of a level no higher than she already knows.  If it is from either the Conjuration or Abjuration school, she gains it at the same level that clerics know it at, otherwise the spell is one level higher for the healer.  Once a new spell is selected, it is forever added to that healer's spell list and can be cast just like any other spell on her list.

Cleanse Poison (Su): A healer, upon reaching 4th level, can purify poisons with a touch, just like the spell Neutralize Poison.  She may use this ability once per day, plus her Wisdom bonus, if any.  She gains an additional use per day every 5 levels thereafter.

Cleanse Disease (Su): Upon reaching 5th level, a healer can Remove Disease, as the spell, with a touch.  She may use this ability a number of times per day equal to her Wisdom bonus (minimum 1).

Reserves of Health (Su): At 6th level, a healer's spells that restore hit points can now overcharge the recipient.  Any healing from a spell cast by a healer, and not from any other class she may have, in excess of the creature's maximum hit points is converted into temporary HP for it.  Temorary HP do not stack, and overwrite any previous total if higher.  Temporary HP from Reserves of Health last for up to 1 hour.

Healing Mastery (Ex): A healer of at least 7th level has increased her mastery over healing such that she can boost spells of the healing subschool heal an extra 50% more hit points.  This also increases any damage dealt to undead by a like amount.  This ability only works on spells cast as a healer, not to those cast from any other class the healer might also have access to.  This ability can be used three times per day, plus the healer's Wisdom bonus, if any.

Effortless Healing (Ex): At 8th level, a healer is now so skilled at casting spells of the healing subschool that she does not provoke attacks of opportunity when doing so.  This only applies to such spells cast as a healer and not from any other class.

Cleanse Curse (Su): At 9th level, a healer can start removing curses with a touch, just as the spell Remove Curse.  She may use this once per day.

Postpone Death (Su): At 10th level, a healer can, as an immediate action, postpone any effect, other than hit point loss, that would kill another creature.  The target must be within 60 feet of her and be about to die.  The effect is suspended for 1 round for every 2 levels of the healer, allowing the creature to act normally for that time, and perhaps allow the healer to undo the effect or immunize the creature somehow.  Once the delay is over, the effect, if it has not been dispelled or otherwise countered, takes its full effect.  This ability can be used twice per day, plus the healer's Wisdom bonus.

Cleanse Petrification (Su): At 11th level, a healer can restore a creature that has been turned into a statue.  With a touch as a standard action, she removes any effect that changes the target's composition into an inert material, such as Flesh to Stone or Glasstrike.  It does not affect spells of the polymorph subschool, however.  She may use this ability thrice per day.

Project Healing (Ex): Once a healer reaches 12th level, she is now able to cast her healing spells at range.  All spells of the healing subschool with a range of touch now have a range of Close (25 feet plus 5 feet per 2 caster levels).  This only applies to spells cast as a healer and not from any other class.  If the target is unwilling, the healer needs to succeed on a ranged touch attack in order to deliver the spell.

Cleanse Spirit (Su): A healer that has reached 13th level can now restore a creature with a touch, as the spell Greater Restoration, as a standard action.  She may do this once per day.

Rapid Cleanse (Ex): At 14th level, a healer can choose to use any of her class abilities with Cleanse in the name as a swift action instead.  She may do this thrice per day plus her Wisdom bonus, if any.

Restore Limb (Su): At 15th level, a healer gains the ability to Regenerate a creature with a touch, just as the spell, as a standard action.  She can do this once per day.

Cleanse Form (Su): When she reaches 16th level, a healer can restore a creature to its original form.  With a touch, she removes all polymorph effects from a creature, or forces a shapeshifter back to its natural form.  Shapeshifters cannot use their ability to change shape again for one minute per level of the healer.  She may use this ability a number of times per day equal to her Wisdom bonus (minimum 1).

Healing Grand Mastery (Ex): At 17th level, a healer's mastery improves even further.  The bonus from Healing Mastery is improved to +100%, doubling the spell's effect.

Wings of the Blessed (Ex): At 18th level, a healer's devotion to the ways of purity and good are rewarded, by granting her a pair of white feathery wings.  She gains a fly speed equal to twice her base speed, with good maneuverability.

Chosen of the Blessed (Su): At 19th level, a healer may choose another creature to receive her blessing.  This creature, which must be good aligned, gains a +4 sacred bonus to AC and saves, spell resistance equal to the healer's level + 12, wings just like the healer's Wings of the Blessed, and can now stack two sets of temporary HP from Reserves of Health from the healer.  He may also be targeted by spells and class abilities of the healer at any range, so long as she has line of sight and line of effect to him.  The healer's spells automatically ignore the spell resistance granted by this ability.  This blessing lasts until the healer chooses another to bless, or the healer dies.

New Life (Su): Upon reaching 20th level, a healer can restore life, as if she had cast True Resurrection.  This ability can only be used once per week.


Spell List

0 - PHB: Create Water, Cure Minor Wounds, Deathwatch, Detect Magic, Detect Poison, Light, Mending, Purify Food and Drink, Read Magic, Resistance, Virtue
      CC: Summon Holy Symbol

1 - PHB: Bless Water, Cure Light Wounds, Endure Elements, Enlarge Person, Lesser Restoration, Protection from Evil, Remove Fear, Remove Paralysis, Sanctuary, Shield of Faith
      SC: Benign Transposition, Conviction, Delay Disease, Lesser Vigour, Resurgence
      PHBII: Invest Light Protection, Rouse, Stand
      BoED: Ray of Hope

2 - PHB: Aid, Bear's Endurance, Blur, Bull's Strength, Calm Emotions, Cat's Grace, Cure Moderate Wounds, Delay Poison, Eagle's Splendor, Fox's Cunning, Gentle Repose, Make Whole, Owl's Wisdom, Remove Blindness/Deafness, Remove Disease, Resist Energy, Rope Trick, Shield Other, Status
      SC: Close Wounds, Divine Protection, Lesser Spell Immunity, Protection from Negative Energy
      CC: Benediction, Body Ward, Conduit of Life, Soul Ward
      BoED: Elation
      DrM: Soul of Light

3 - PHB: Create Food and Water, Cure Serious Wounds, Displacement, Heroism, Leomund's Tiny Hut, Magic Circle against Evil, Neutralize Poison, Prayer, Protection from Energy, Remove Curse, Restoration
      SC: Grace, Holy Storm, Mass Aid, Mass Conviction, Mass Lesser Vigour, Mass Resist Energy, Safety, Spark of Life, Vigour
      PHBII: Channeled Divine Health, Hesitate, Invest Moderate Protection, Regroup
      BoED: Heart's Ease, Refreshment

4 - PHB: Cure Critical Wounds, Death Ward, Dismissal, Freedom of Movement, Leomund's Secure Shelter, Lesser Globe of Invulnerability, Mass Cure Light Wounds, Mass Enlarge Person, Spell Immunity
      SC: Contingent Energy Resistance, Delay Death, Greater Resistance, Indomitability, Mass Shield of Faith, Panacea, Planar Tolerance, Positive Energy Aura, Recitation, Wall of Good
      PHBII: Blessing of the Righteous, Healing Spirit, Mystic Surge
      CC: Seed of Life
      BoED: Greater Status

5 - PHB: Atonement, Break Enchantment, Mass Cure Moderate Wounds, Raise Dead, Spell Resistance, Stone to Flesh, Stoneskin, True Seeing
      SC: Dance of the Unicorn, Divine Agility, Hidden Lodge, Lesser Ironguard, Life's Grace, Greater Enlarge Person, Greater Vigour, Mass Sanctuary, Revivify
      PHBII: Invest Heavy Protection
      CC: Darts of Life, Healing Circle
      BoED: Convert Wand, Energetic Healing
      FB: Ice to Flesh

6 - PHB: Banishment, Globe of Invulnerability, Greater Heroism, Greater Restoration, Heal, Heroes' Feast, Mass Bear's Endurance, Mass Bull's Strength, Mass Cat's Grace, Mass Cure Serious Wounds, Mass Eagle's Splendor, Mass Fox's Cunning, Mass Owl's Wisdom, Regenerate, Word of Recall
      SC: Energy Immunity, Mass Restoration, Rejection, Revive Outsider, Superior Resistance, Vigourous Circle
      PHBII: Chasing Perfection

7 - PHB: Control Weather, Holy Word, Mass Cure Critical Wounds, Mordenkainen's Magnificent Mansion, Protection from Spells, Refuge, Repulsion, Resurrection
      SC: Fortunate Fate, Ironguard, Mass Spell Resistance, Renewal Pact
      CC: Rejuvenating Light
      BoED: Bastion of Good, Shield of the Archons

8 - PHB: Discern Location, Greater Spell Immunity, Holy Aura, Mass Heal, Mind Blank, Temporal Stasis
      SC: Death Pact, Mass Death Ward

9 - PHB: Foresight, Freedom, Miracle, Refuge, True Resurrection
      SC: Pavilion of Grandeur, Unbinding, Undeath's Eternal Foe

I got a call from the SPCA today.  My pet cat, Star, was found dead.  Probably hit by a car.

The tears won't stop.

I'm going to be making a summoner for Pathfinder, and I'm fairly new to the system.  There's no 3.5e stuff that can be brought in.

I'll be starting at level 6, 20-point build.  Planning on taking human or half-elf, leaning half-elf because I see they can get extra evolution points for their eidolon.

Is the Wild Summoner half-elf variant a good choice?

Is the Synthesist archetype any good?

Is biped or quadruped the better foundation for the eidolon?

Shared Magic, a teamwork benefit from Eberron's The Forge of War book, lets the team count as 1 fewer for any spell that affects a specific number of targets.  That means that a cleric could cast Heal, and affect 2 adjacent allies at once!  Or any buff spell that affects 1 target could be cast on 2.  Twice as many persisted buffs to hand out!  (may need Reach Spell to make it work, depending on whether your DM will allow you to persist touch range spells or not)

These two abilities are very nice for spontaneous casters, and apparently Rapid Metamagic does not interfere with Arcane Spellsurge (AS does not stack with other effects which reduce casting times).  Would you recommend taking both, or is there a good reason not to?

Also, Arcane Fusion and its Greater cousin, when applying metamagic to them, how does it work exactly?  Because I think those are great spells to use with the above pair, but I want to make sure I'm going to use them right.

After doing some work designing a character with a bloodline, using the rules interpretations found here, something about the XP costs didn't seem quite right.  If you're supposed to "take two levels of 3/6/12", shouldn't the costs be 2,000/5,000/11,000?  Which would make the final cost for a major bloodline 18,000 xp, not 21,000.  Or am I misunderstanding something?

Also, one of the examples for things which the bloodline levels advance is the save DC for Stunning Fist, which isn't a class-based DC, but rather a character level-based one.  Would you take this to mean that they would also advance racial abilities based on level, such as a githzerai's SR?  I would hazard a guess at yes, just because it's something they probably never took into consideration when designing bloodlines.

     After much debate about the arbitrary prices for materials such as mithral and adamantine, when other materials are scaled to weight or whatnot, I and my friends have come to what we think is a better design for them.  All special materials should be priced by weight.  Of course, this means that while mithral and adamantine items must still be forged as masterwork items, the masterwork cost must be included into the final cost of the item.


Adamantine: 200gp/lb.
 - All adamantine items must be crafted as masterwork.
 - Adamantine items have a hardness of 20.
 - Adamantine weapons ignore hardness of less than 20, and have an innate +1 enhancement bonus to damage, which does not stack with enchantment bonuses.
 - Adamantine armour grants damage reduction based upon its weight.  It gives 1 point of DR per 20 lbs, rounding off.  Ex:  For a medium creature, a chain shirt (25 lbs) would give DR 1/-, while full plate (50 lbs) would give DR 3/-, heavy plate (100 lbs) gives DR 5/-, and mountain plate (225 lbs) gives DR 11/-.

Mithral: 50gp/lb. (item's original weight) or 100gp/lb. (actual weight of mithral)
 - All mithral items must be crafted as masterwork.
 - Mithral items weigh half as much as normal.
 - Armour check penalty is halved, rounded up, but stacks with the -1 from masterwork.
 - Mithral armours and shields increase the maximum dexterity bonus by +2 and lowers arcane spell failure by 10%.
 - Mithral armour counts as one category lighter for movement calculations only, meaning you must still be proficient in the appropriate category in order to wear it without non-proficiency penalties.
 - Weapons count as one category lighter, so a 1-handed weapon is now light, and 2-handed is now 1-handed.  A weapon 1 size category larger than the wielder can instead be treated as the wielder's size, so that a large mithral greatsword would be a 2-handed weapon for a medium-size character, and does not incur the -2 penalty to attacks.
 - Weapons count as silver for purposes of DR.
 - Weapons which have wooden hafts can only get the lighter category property if the haft is made from darkwood.
 - Double weapons, and certain other weapons still need to be wielded in two hands.  Use practical logic to figure this out.

Starmetal: 210gp/lb.
 - Shares all the properties of adamantine.
 - Weapons forged of starmetal deal +1d6 damage to extraplanar creatures.
 - Starmetal armours and shields grant a +1 bonus to AC against attacks (including touch attacks, and spells and abilities that make attack rolls) from extraplanar creatures.

Obdurium: 400gp/lb.
 - All items crafted with obdurium must be masterwork.
 - Obdurium items have hardness 30, and 60 hp per inch of thickness.
 - Obdurium weapons bypass hardness less than 30, and  have an inherent +2 enhancement bonus to damage, which does not stack with enchantments.  They can also bypass DR /adamantine.
 - Obdurium armour grants DR /- based upon its weight.  It gives 1 point of DR per 15 lbs, rounding off.  For example, a chain shirt (25 lbs) gives DR 2/-, full plate (50 lbs) gives DR 3/-, heavy plate (100 lbs) gives DR 7/-, and mountain plate (225 lbs) gives DR 15/-.

Pearlsteel: 20gp/lb. (original weight)
 - Everything made from pearlsteel must be masterwork.
 - Pearlsteel has hardness 10, and 30 hp per inch of thickness.
 - Pearlsteel weighs only 75% as much as normal.
 - Slashing weapons made from pearlsteel suffer only a -1 attack penalty underwater, and both slashing and bludgeoning pearlsteel weapons only take a -2 damage penalty underwater instead of half damage.
 - Shields and armour made from pearlsteel have a maximum dexterity 1 higher than normal, and do not apply any armour check penalties to swimming.

Riverine: 350gp/lb.
 - Riverine items must all be masterwork.
 - Riverine is immune to all damage and is unaffected by most spells.  However, Disintegrate, Mordenkainen's Disjunction and similar spells, as well as a Rod of Cancellation or a Sphere of Annihilation will immediately destroy anything made of riverine, causing the water to spill out in a sudden rush.
 - While armour and shields made of riverine do not form a complete enclosure and therefore do not give any immunity to the wearer, they do apply their bonuses against incorporeal touch attacks.  In addition, riverine armour and shields grant half their AC bonus (rounded up) as armour or shield bonuses to AC, the rest is instead a special barrier bonus.  The barrier bonus from riverine shields stack with the bonus from riverine armour.
 - Weapons made from riverine do not suffer any incorporeal miss chance, and are able to hit ethereal beings.
 - Walls made of riverine block effects just as a Wall of Force does.
 - Because Riverine is not a metal, it cannot be alloyed with oerthblood.


     Due to demand, I designed an alloy for mithral and adamantine.  Because it will be capable of bypassing DR/adamantine, silver, and cold iron, I'm calling it starkine.

     Because mithral and adamantine would normally mix about as well as oil and water, additional ingredients, plus a hefty dose of magic, are required to make starkine.  A small amount of mercury, as well as special dust that is inherently anti-magical (such as from the centre of a dead magic zone) are needed to emulsify the disparate main ingredients, and layers of enchantment to stabilize it.

Starkine: 1000gp/lb. (item's original weight) or 2000gp/lb. (actual weight of starkine)
 - Has all the properties of adamantine and mithral, with one exception: it does not lower arcane spell failure.
 - Can bypass DR of the adamantine, silver, and cold iron types.
 - Also grants Spell Resistance equal to the actual weight of the item.  Items that are composed of more than just metal, such as axes or spears, only count the actual weight of the starkine used, such as about half for axes, and 1/10th for spears/arrows.  Multiple items made of starkine stack, so a human in full plate (25) and wielding a greatsword (4) would have SR 29.  This SR does not stack with any other sources, and cannot be voluntarily lowered.  Also, SR applies even against spells cast by the wearer, so you must first overcome the starkine SR in order to cast spells upon yourself, unless you remove all such gear first.

     The spellcaster making starkine needs the Craft Magic Arms and Armour feat, and must spend 100xp for each pound of alloy.  Ingredients cost 1000gp for each pound of starkine to be made, but the process is quicker than enchanting magic items, and up to ten pounds can be made each day.


     Shadowglass is a special glass that is incredibly durable.  It is transparent and resembles regular glass, except that tiny flecks of shadow seem to flit through it.  Shadowglass can be coloured while in its molten state, but must remain transparent, with the addition of small amounts of certain impurities which do not otherwise alter its function.

Shadowglass: 75gp/lb. (item's original weight) or 150gp/lb. (actual weight of shadowglass)
 - Shadowglass items must all be made masterwork.
 - Shadowglass has 12 hardness and 30 HP per inch of thickness, and weigh half as much as a metal version.
 - Weapons forged from shadowglass count as 1 category lighter, just as mithral weapons do, and use the same rules.
 - Because shadowglass edges are extremely sharp, slashing and piercing weapons made from it deal an extra +2 damage.
 - Shadowglass armour and shields lower armour check penalties by 3, in addition to the masterwork bonus, raise the maximum dexterity by +3, and reduce arcane spell failure by -15%.
 - Armours also grant a +2 bonus to saves against negative energy and death effects.
 - Shields, because of the transparency, can be looked through.  When used as such, gazes are completely blocked, but due to curvatures and shadow flecks, the wielder suffers 20% concealment against all targets.
 - Shadowglass is neither metal nor crystal, and is not vulnerable to attacks which target either of those.  However, this also means it cannot be alloyed with oerthblood.


     The oerthblooded alloy modification from Dragon 351 should also be included.  Its effects stack with the base metal it is alloyed with.

Oerthblood Alloy: Add 400gp/lb of the item's original weight, plus the cost of whichever other metal it is alloyed with.  In the case of iron/steel, just use the base price of the item.
 - All oerthblood items must be masterwork.
 - Double the base metal's hardness, and add 50% more HP.
 - Weapons gain a +1 luck bonus to attack and damage, and apply a cumulative -1 penalty to struck enemies' saves vs magic for 1 round.
 - Armours add adamantine DR, effectively doubling the DR granted by oerthblooded adamantine armour, and adds a +1 luck bonus to the wearer's saves vs magic for every 20 lbs (round off) of the item's original weight, to a maximum of +5.
 - Oerthblood items are more easily enchanted, requiring 25% less time and XP.



Edit: Completely reworked the materials so that all relevant information is now here.  You no longer need to look up both here and the original source.

From the wording of the feat, it seems that living creatures should gain a negative level each time the spell damages them.  Am I reading it right, and spells like Melf's Acid Arrow or Acid Fog or Evard's Black Tentacles would keep stacking on the negative levels round after round?

The spell has a duration of 1 round/lv, and a fort save to negate.  But there is no mention in the text about either, and whether or not the save must be repeated every round, or if once the save has been made, that person does not have to worry about that casting any more.  What is everyone's guess at how exactly this spell works?

It's in the Spell Compendium, though I don't know what the original source is, so I can't look that up and see if it had the answers.

Which spell is better, when used to coat a patch of ground?

Grease
 - 10' square
 - Requires reflex saves every round or fall prone
 - DC 10 balance checks also required to move at 1/2 speed; fail by 5 or more, fall prone

Ice Slick
 - 20' square
 - Requires balance checks every round or fall prone
 - movement limited to 1/2 speed, unless skating or gliding

Does Ice Slick's balance DC equal the save DC, since it isn't a stated number?