Causes a creature to shake and cower in fear.
AD&D[]
Scare[]
Debuted in the Player's Handbook as a magic-user spell
| Level: 2 | School: Enchantment/Charm |
| Components: V, S, M (a bit of bone from a skeleton, zombie, ghoul, ghast, or mummy) | |
| Range: 1" | Casting Time: 2 segments |
| Duration: 3d4 rounds | Saving Throw: Negates |
| Target: One creature in range | |
The target creature must save vs. magic or begin trembling and shaking with fear. The target can fight, but is at -1 to attacks, damage, and saves. Certain creatures are immune, including creatures of 6 or more HD or levels, clerics of any sort, the undead, larvae, lemures, manes, elves, and half-elves.
AD&D 2e[]
| Scare | |
|---|---|
| Spell Level: 2 | Rarity: Common |
| Schools: Enchantment/Charm, Shadow | |
| Components: V, S, M (a bit of bone from an unded skeleton, mummy, ghoul, ghast, or zombie) | |
| Range: 30 yds + 10 yds/level | Casting Time: 2 |
| Duration: 1d4 rds + 1 rd/level | Saving Throw: Special |
| Area: 15-ft radius | |
Creatures in the area with less than 6 hit dice cower in place. They have a -2 reaction adjustment, and, if cornered, can fight with a -1 penalty to attacks, damage, and saves.
There is normally no save against this spell, but elves, half-elves, and priests can make a saving throw vs. spell. The spell has no effect on undead or on upper planar creatures.