Miasma of Shadows (4E)

Miasma of Shadows

With a dramatic gesture, you open your cloak, and a dark fog envelops the area.

Level: 3	Component Cost: 150 gp
Category: Deception	Market Price: 250 gp
Time: 10 minutes	Key Skill: Arcana
Duration: 4 hours

A dark miasma with faint starlets floating in it spreads out to cover the area. The entire area becomes dimly lit regardless of the earlier level of light and the miasma offers light obscurement.

• Concealment: A creature has total concealment against you if 5 or more lightly obscured squares stand between you and it (including the nearest square of the creature’s space). Closer creatures have concealment, but not total concealment.
• Vision: You can see through lightly obscured squares, but you take a –5 penalty to Perception checks to see or spot things.

The area affected is a close burst with a radius depending on the Arcana check that created it. The area is immobile once created. You can always chose to affect a smaller area.

Arcana Check Result	Size of the Close Burst
9 or lower	Close burst 2
10-19	Close burst 20
20-29	Close burst 200 (300 yard. radius)
30-39	Close burst 2,000 (3,000 yd. radius)
40 or higher	Close burst 20,000 (30,000 yard radius)