Mind switch (4E)

4th Edition Dungeons & Dragons

This is a ritual description page for 4th edition Dungeons & Dragons.

Mind Switch

You possess a creature, forcing its spirit into your own body.

Level: 13	Component Cost: 1,000 gp
Category: Binding	Market Price: 3,000 gp
Time: 1 hour	Key Skill: Arcana
Duration: Variable

Perform this ritual on a willing or helpless creature. Your Arcana check must exceed the creature's Will defense. If you are successful, the duration depends on the result of the Arcana check.

Arcana Check Result	Duration
9 or lower	One hour
10-19	6 hours
20-29	24 hours
30-39	3 days
40 or higher	One week

Once successful, the ritual makes you and the target exchange bodies. In the new body, you can use the target's game statistics, just as if you were that creature, while you lose all of your original game statistics. The target can use none of your class abilities, powers, skills, or feats, but retains your hit points and attributes. If you want to impersonate the other, you use your own Bluff skill (not that of the body you possess) with a +5 bonus.

You can end the ritual at any time as a minor action. If either of you should start to die the effect ends. You also return once the duration is up. Regardless of how the effect ends, each of you end up in your original body in its current condition, possibly dead or dying.

The target does not normally get so makes saving throws to end the effect, but any effect that grants an additional save can be used to give the target a saving throw. Such powers and effects can be directed at either your body or the target's, but the target cannot use them on himself while in your body.