Powder, Itching

Source Adventurer’s Armory

This fine gray powder causes targets to suffer from uncontrollable itching until they spend at least 1 round washing it off. Throwing a packet of itching powder is a splash attack with a range increment of 10 feet. Anyone standing on the square of impact must succeed on a DC 12 Fortitude save to resist the powder, while those in adjacent squares must make a DC 8 Fortitude save. Creatures that fail the save take a -2 penalty on attack rolls, saving throws, skill checks, and ability checks.

Create: Craft (alchemy) DC 25

Alchemical Power Components

Source Adventurer’s Armory

Itching powder can make an otherwise innocuous spell especially irritating.

Glitterdust (M): For each packet of itching powder used as a power component, you may designate one creature in the area to be affected by itching powder (DC 12).

Repel vermin (M): The first vermin that enters the emanation is subject to the effects of itching powder (DC 15). Each packet of itching powder beyond the first means the spell affects another vermin that enters the emanation. A swarm of vermin counts as one vermin for the purpose of this effect.

Summon swarm (M): Increase the swarm’s distraction DC by 2.

An alchemical power component is an alchemical item used as a material component or focus for a spell in order to alter or augment the spell’s normal effects. What follows is a sample of these effects using this item as a component; your GM may allow other combinations.

• Spells followed by an (M) expend the alchemical item as a material component;
• Spells followed by an (F) use the item as a focus and do not expend it.

In both cases, the alchemical item does not have its normal effect and does not affect any other parameters of the spell. You cannot use the same item as both a focus and a material component at the same time.