Book of Banishing

Key Stats

• Price: 50,000 gp
• Weight: 2 lbs.
• Source: Mythic Adventures
• Base Item: bonus on the reader's caster level check to overcome the chosen creatures' spell
• Enhancement Bonus: +2

Additional Stats

Description

Raw Data

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  "cl": "18th",
  "url": "pfsrd://Mythic Adventures/Rules/Mythic Items/Magic Items/Other Magic Items/Book of Banishing",
  "aura": "strong abjuration",
  "body": "<p class=\"stat-block\">This immense tome contains dozens of banishing rituals, each written in an ever-changing mix of languages. It can be read only by way of <i>comprehend languages</i> or a similar translating effect. As a full-round action, a mythic creature can flip to and read an appropriate ritual of <i>banishment</i> for a particular category of extraplanar creatures, such as angels or devils. Creatures not of that category are unaffected. The reader's caster level for this ritual is double her mythic tier.</p><p class=\"stat-block\">Once the ritual is read, the book counts as an object that the chosen creatures hate and fear, granting a +2 bonus on the reader's caster level check to overcome the chosen creatures' spell resistance. If other objects and substances that can affect the caster level check to overcome spell resistance are available, the book's user can apply those objects and substances when using the <i>banishment</i> ritual, further increasing her bonus.</p><p class=\"stat-block\">A <i>book of banishing</i> can be safely read once per day. If read additional times during that period (regardless of who reads it), the reader must succeed at a DC 20 Will save or suffer the effects of a <i>feeblemind</i> spell. This save DC increases by 5 each additional time the book is read that day.</p>",
  "misc": {
    "Construction Requirements": {
      "descriptor": ""
    }
  },
  "name": "Book of Banishing",
  "slot": "none",
  "type": "item",
  "price": "50,000 gp",
  "source": "Mythic Adventures",
  "weight": "2 lbs.",
  "description": "<p class=\"stat-block\">This immense tome contains dozens of banishing rituals, each written in an ever-changing mix of languages. It can be read only by way of <i>comprehend languages</i> or a similar translating effect. As a full-round action, a mythic creature can flip to and read an appropriate ritual of <i>banishment</i> for a particular category of extraplanar creatures, such as angels or devils. Creatures not of that category are unaffected. The reader's caster level for this ritual is double her mythic tier.</p><p class=\"stat-block\">Once the ritual is read, the book counts as an object that the chosen creatures hate and fear, granting a +2 bonus on the reader's caster level check to overcome the chosen creatures' spell resistance. If other objects and substances that can affect the caster level check to overcome spell resistance are available, the book's user can apply those objects and substances when using the <i>banishment</i> ritual, further increasing her bonus.</p><p class=\"stat-block\">A <i>book of banishing</i> can be safely read once per day. If read additional times during that period (regardless of who reads it), the reader must succeed at a DC 20 Will save or suffer the effects of a <i>feeblemind</i> spell. This save DC increases by 5 each additional time the book is read that day.</p>",
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