River of Blood

Whenever anyone other than you opens the warded book, a river of globular, black blood spews from its pages dousing everyone within a 10-ft. radius of the book.

Ink and Quill  
Author Thomas Knauss
Series Dragonwing Games/Bastion Press
Publisher DWBP
Publish date 2002

Conjuration

Level: Sorcerer, Wizard 3
Components: V,S,M
Casting Time: 1 action
Range: Touch
Target: One touched book
Duration: Until discharged (D)
Saving Throw: Reflex ½ (see text)
Spell Resistance: Yes

The vile substance inflicts 5d4 points of damage and also nauseates affected humanoids for 5d4 rounds. A successful Reflex save halves the damage, but does not negate nausea.

Extremely popular among evil necromancers, this spell’s material component requires the usage of ink crafted from humanoid blood. Triggering the spell destroys all spells penned with the ink. It can be removed with a dispel magic or whenever the caster elects to end the spell.

The DC for a rogue using her Search skill to detect river of blood is 29.