Raze Feats

Raze feats are feats that require an arcane spellcaster to be a defiler. They can only be applied when defiling.

Multiple raze feats can be applied simultaneously. For example, a defiler who has Distance Raze, Destructive Raze and Fast Raze can benefit from all of them when casting a single spell. A wizard’s bonus feats can be used to acquire Raze feats if the wizard fulfills the feat prerequisites.

Agonizing Radius
Your defiling techniques are particularly painful.

Benefits: The penalties for being caught within your defiling radius increase by one (i.e. from –1 to –2).

Controlled Raze
You increase your defiling radius and may specify unaffected squares.

Benefits: Your defiling radius increases by 5 feet. You can specify one 5 ft. square per 5 ft. radius of your defiling circle that is unaffected by your energy gathering. Creatures in unaffected squares do not suffer the adverse effects of being caught in the defiling circle, nor is vegetation in that square turned to ash.

Distance Raze
You can gather energy for spells at a distance.

Benefits: You can move the center of your defiling circle (on the ground) up to 10 feet per caster level, in effect moving the entire circle of defiling.

Normal: Your defiling circle is centered on you.

Destructive Raze
You can focus the energy you absorb from plants to increase the damage your spells inflict.

Benefits: Add +1 to damage per damage die inflicted by evocation spells when defiling.

Efficient Raze
You can gather energy more efficiently, utilizing the maximum energy potential of a given terrain.

Benefits: Treat the terrain you gather energy in as one category better when you defile. E.g. a spell cast in barren terrain (–1 spell save DC and –1 penalty to caster level checks) is treated as if cast in infertile terrain (no spell save modifier and no penalty to caster level checks). In abundant terrain the bonuses to spell save DCs and spell checks are increased by an additional +1. This feat has no effect in the Obsidian Plains.

Exterminating Raze
Your defiling techniques are particularly damaging to plant creatures.

Benefits: Plant creatures caught in your defiling radius suffer 4 points of damage per spell level.

Normal: Plant creatures caught in your defiling radius suffer 2 points of damage per spell level

Fast Raze
You can gather energy faster.

Benefits: When defiling, you can spend a move action to gain a +1 caster level bonus. Spells with a normal casting time of 1 round or longer still require an extra round to be cast in this manner. Your defiling radius increases by 5 ft. when using Fast Raze.

Normal: It takes one round to gain the caster level benefit.

Razing Craft
You can make special magic items that employ defiling as a power source.

Prerequisite: Defiler.

Benefit: You can create staves and wands―as long as you possess the appropriate item creation feats―whose spells are not activated by spending charges but instead by defiling. Spells from staves can make use of any Raze feats the wielder possesses, as well as certain class abilities and magic items. See Defiling Items for details.

Sickening Raze
Your defilement makes others sick.

Prerequisites: Agonizing Radius.

Benefits: Creatures within your defiling radius become nauseated in addition to any other penalties for 1 round.