Alchemical Item: Tanglefoot Pills

Materials

a Tangleweed for each pill (Tangleweeds are native to the Grasslands, Minduinath and the edges of the Desert in the Overworld, and to several Underworld Wilderness areas, especially the Desert of Winds.  They uproot and blow freely in the wind to reseed.)

Guideline Purchasing Price: 1CP

Spell

Elementalist Dehydrate (after treating with a secret shrinking / preservation solution)

Guideline Purchasing Price: 1GP per Pill produced

Effect

Wet Tanglefoot Pill and throw it to produce a Tanglefoot (rehydrated Tangleweed).

Tanglefoot Strength 3d6

Duration: permanent, until Tanglefoot destroyed or decays naturally

Diameter: (4 + d6) ft, as a sphere

Notes:

  1. All corporeal Beings caught within the Radius when thrown are automatically caught in the Tanglefoot (no saving throw).  Those on the edge of the Radius are not caught.  Spiders and Beings (such as Spider Cultists) with Web Walk are caught as normal.  
  2. Tanglefoot Strength is the amount of DAM that must be done by all Beings caught for all of them to break free.  The DAM must be done with a cutting weapon or attack mode (e.g. Sword, Axe, Claw, Bite).  Other methods (e.g. Mace, Spear, Butt) do only half damage for this purpose.  The DAM is done by taking AMR as normal, automatically hitting the Tanglefoot, and just rolling normal DAM.  Ranged Weapons do not damage the Tanglefoot (but can damage those caught in it).
  3. Those caught in the Tanglefoot take a minus to both D & RD of current Tanglefoot Strength less the DAM they have done so far to break free.  Doing them DAM with melee weapons is likely to help them break free.
  4. Once the Tanglefoot has taken Tanglefoot Strength in DAM, it is destroyed.
  5. Pass Through Overgrowth is effective against Tanglefoots (as it passes through vegetables).
  6. Fire burns up the Tanglefoot in 1 sec, doing 1d6 Fire Damage (BTS 50% (Co) to those caught in it (or Passing Through Overgrowth through it).
  7. Acid does double damage to Tanglefoots.  They are unaffected by Cold or Lightning.
  8. The Tanglefoot does not significantly obscure visibility.
  9. Tanglefoots are not sticky.