Detect Ill Intent

Detect Ill Intent
School Divination; Level cleric/oracle 1, inquisitor 1, shaman 1

CASTING Casting Time 1 standard action Component V, S, DF

EFFECT Range 60 ft. Area cone-shaped emanation Duration concentration, up to 10 min./ level (D) Saving Throw none; Spell Resistance no

DESCRIPTION You can determine if a creature harbors ill intent towards you or your allies. The amount of information revealed depends on how long you study a particular area or subject.

1st Round: Presence or absence of those with ill intent against you or your allies.

2nd Round: Number of creatures within the area who have ill intent agianst you or your allies.

3rd Round: The location of each creature with ill intent against you or your allies as well as the strength of their intent. Because this ability detects intent, creatures who are simply performing a legal task expected of them would not detect as having ill intent towards you. A guard who believes they are arresting you for good reason on behalf of the duke from the moderate example in the chart above would not detect as having any ill intent towards you. An enforcer thug who was sent by a gang leader to bring you back to pay a debt, however, still would ping as having ill intent as they are aware of their situation.

Creatures who act purly on instinct, such as animals or mindless creatures, never detect as having ill intent towards you.

Any spell or effect that would block attempts to detect alignment also blocks this spell.

Detect Ill Intent as a Class Feature
Paladins, antipaladins, and other classes who gain detect alignment as a class feature instead gain detect ill intent.

Detect Ill Intent (Sp): At will, you can use detect ill intent, as the spell. As a move action, you can concentrate on a single individual within 60 feet and determine if it has ill intent against you or your allies, learning the strength of their intent as if having studied them for 3 rounds. While focusing on one individual, the paladin does not detect ill intent in any other individual within range.