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Wordomancer Words

The following are Arcane Powers for the Wordomancer base class.

Level 1 At-Will Words

Bolt Wordomancer Attack 1
You shoot a bolt of energy from a body part or implement.
At-Will ✦ Arcane, Implement, Base Word
Standard	Ranged 10
Target: One creature
Attack: Charisma vs. Reflex
Hit: Nothing unless modified.

Bref Wordomancer Attack 1
You release a gout of energy from a body part or implement.
At-Will ✦ Arcane, Implement, Base Word
Standard	Blast 2
Target: Creatures in blast
Attack: Charisma vs. Reflex
Hit: Nothing unless modified.

Burs Wordomancer Attack 1
Energy explodes out from you.
At-Will ✦ Arcane, Implement, Base Word
Standard	Close Burst 1
Target: Other creatures in burst
Attack: Charisma vs. Fortitude
Hit: Nothing unless modified.

Mynd Wordomancer Attack 1
You will the target to experience the energies of your spell.
At-Will ✦ Arcane, Implement, Base Word
Standard	Ranged 10
Target: One creature
Attack: Charisma vs. Will
Hit: Nothing unless modified.

Sord Wordomancer Attack 1
You imbue your weapon with the energies of your spell.
At-Will ✦ Arcane, Weapon, Base Word
Standard	Melee Weapon
Target: One creature
Attack: Charisma vs. Armor Class
Hit: 1[W] + Strength modifier damage.

Wurl Wordomancer Attack 1
You practice the ancient art of the circle spin.
At-Will ✦ Arcane, Weapon, Base Word
Standard	Close Burst 1
Target: Other creatures in burst
Attack: Charisma vs. Armor Class
Hit: Strength modifier damage.

Level 1 Encounter Words

Kol Wordomancer Attack 1
You imbue your spell with the power of slippery ice.
Encounter ✦ Arcane, Boost Word
Minor	-
Attack: Base Word vs. Base Word
Hit: The target is knocked prone.
Effect: The spaces occupied by each target, and any spaces in the affected area, become a zone of difficult terrain for 1 round.

Long Wordomancer Attack 1
You imbue your spell with extra reach.
Encounter ✦ Arcane, Boost Word
Minor	-
Special: Double the range of the affected power. If it's a melee power, double its reach. Since this is affecting the range, not the area, this has no effect on Blasts or Close Bursts.

Pyr Wordomancer Attack 1
You imbue your spell with the power of burning.
Encounter ✦ Arcane, Boost Word
Minor	-
Attack: Base Word vs. Base Word
Hit: The target takes ongoing 5 Fire damage (save ends).

Level 1 Daily Words

Aispaik Wordomancer Attack 1
You imbue the energies of your spell into spontaneously created spikes of ice.
Daily ✦ Arcane, Enabler, Boost Word, Cold
Minor	-
Attack: Base Word vs. Armor Class
Hit: The target takes 2 points of cold damage. On a critical hit, the power also deals 1d12 points of physical damage.
Special: Applying this Boost Word to a Base Word Power also makes that power target AC instead of the defense it normally targets, as noted above.

Sayif Wordomancer Attack 1
You give yourself the ability to imbue your spells with certainty and avoid killing your allies or healing your enemies.
Daily ✦ Arcane, Enabler, Boost Word
Minor	-
Attack: Base Word vs. Base Word
Hit: You may choose to have the power do nothing to the target.
Miss: If the power dealt damage, you may have it deal half that damage on a miss.

Stup Wordomancer Attack 1
You imbue your spell with a painful hallucination which accentuates any damage your victims take.
Daily ✦ Arcane, Boost Word, Psychic
Minor	-
Attack: Base Word vs. Base Word
Hit: For a number of rounds equal to your Intelligence modifier, whenever the target is hit by one of your allies' attacks, that target takes 5 points of Psychic damage.
Miss: For 1 round, whenever the target is hit by one of your allies' attacks, that target takes 5 points of Psychic damage.

Yuri Wordomancer Attack 1
You give yourself the power to control the minds of lesser beings.
Daily ✦ Arcane, Boost Word, Enabler, Charm
Minor	-
Attack: Base Word vs. Base Word
Hit: The target is Dominated until the end of its next turn.

Level 2 Utility Words

At-Will

None

Encounter

Arm Wordomancer Utility 2
You imbue your spell with the power of armoring.
Encounter ✦ Arcane, Boost Word
Move	-
Effect: The target gets a +2 power bonus to defenses for a number of rounds equal to your Intelligence modifier.

Lyf Wordomancer Utility 2
You imbue your spell with the power of healing.
Encounter ✦ Arcane, Boost Word, Healing
Move	-
Effect: The target may spend a healing surge. If they do, they recover an additional amount of health equal to your Intelligence modifier.

Daily

None

Level 3 Encounter Words

Bang Wordomancer Attack 3
Fire an exploding ball of energy.
Encounter ✦ Arcane, Implement, Base Word
Standard	Area Burst 2 within 20 squares
Target: Creatures in burst
Attack: Charisma vs. Reflex
Hit: Nothing unless modified.

Lek Wordomancer Attack 3
You imbue your spell with shocking bolts
Encounter ✦ Arcane, Boost Word, Lightning
Minor	-
Attack: Base Word vs. Base Word
Hit: 1d6 + Charisma modifier lightning damage and the target is stunned for 1 round.
Miss: 1d6 lightning damage.

Nuj Wordomancer Attack 3
Throw those baddies away.
Encounter ✦ Arcane, Boost Word
Minor	-
Attack: Base Word vs. Base Word
Hit: Target is pushed a number of squares equal to your Intelligence modifier.
Miss: Target is pushed 1 square.

Level 5 Daily Words

Burs Wordomancer Attack 5
Energy explodes out from you.
Daily ✦ Arcane, Implement, Base Word, Enabler
Standard	Melee Weapon
Target: One creature
Attack: Charisma vs. Armor Class
Hit: 1[W] + Strength modifier damage.
Special: You may move your speed before attacking.

Tres Wordomancer Attack 5
You give yourself the ability to shoot three bolts of energy from a body part or implement at a time.
Daily ✦ Arcane, Implement, Enabler, Base Word
Standard	Ranged 12
Target: Three creatures in range
Attack: Charisma vs. Reflex
Hit: Nothing unless modified.

Level 6 Utility Words

At-Will

Shiu Wordomancer Utility 6
Imbue your magic with elemental shields
At-Will ✦ Arcane, Boost Word
Minor	-
Effect: Choose one of your Base Damage damage types when you cast this power. Creatures targeted by this power gain resistance 10 + your Intelligence modifier against that damage type for a number of rounds equal to your Intelligence modifier.

Encounter

None

Daily

Hest Wordomancer Utility 6
You upgrade your targets' feet with tiny feet that help them move faster.
Daily ✦ Arcane, Boost Word
Minor	-
Effect: The target gets a +2 bonus to their movement speed until the end of the encounter.

Level 7 Encounter Words

Layeen Wordomancer Attack 7
You expel your magical energies in a beam of raw power.
Encounter ✦ Arcane, Implement, Base Word
Standard	Ranged 30; see Target
Target: A creature within 30 squares, and all creatures in the line between you and that creature
Attack: Charisma vs. Reflex
Hit: Nothing unless modified.

Tox Wordomancer Attack 7
You imbue your spell with debilitating toxins.
Encounter ✦ Arcane, Boost Word, Poison
Minor	-
Attack: Base Word vs. Base Word
Hit: The target takes gets a -2 penalty to saving throws and a -1 penalty to defenses (save ends).

Tract Wordomancer Attack 7
Drag the squishies into the gaping maws of your Barbarian buddies.
Encounter ✦ Arcane, Boost Word
Minor	-
Attack: Base Word vs. Base Word
Hit: Target is pulled a number of squares equal to your Intelligence modifier.
Miss: Target is pulled 1 square.

Level 9 Daily Words

Nurv Wordomancer Attack 9
You imbue your spells with shocking bolts
Daily ✦ Arcane, Boost Word, Lightning, Enabler
Minor	-
Attack: Base Word vs. Base Word
Hit: 1d8 + Charisma modifier lightning damage and the target is dazed for 1 round.
Miss: 1d8 lightning damage.

Orb Wordomancer Attack 9
You blast a target, and the energies splash onto nearby creatures with a delayed effect
Daily ✦ Arcane, Implement, Base Word
Standard	Ranged 15
Primary Target: One creature
Attack: Charisma vs. Armor Class
Hit: Nothing unless modified
Secondary Target: Creatures within 3 squares of the primary target
Secondary Attack: Charisma vs. Reflex
Hit: Same as if it hit the primary target, but with a 1 round delay.
Miss: Same as if it missed the primary target, but with a 1 round delay.

Level 10 Utility Words

At-Will

None

Encounter

Port Wordomancer Utility 10
Move your team into position.
Encounter ✦ Arcane, Boost Word
Move	-
Effect: The target may choose to teleport up to a number of squares equal to your Intelligence modifier.

Wyd Wordomancer Utility 10
You imbue your spell with extra width, blasting huge swathes of enemies.
Encounter ✦ Arcane, Boost Word
Minor	-
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Special: Double the area measurement of the affected power. (Double the number after Burst or Blast.)

Daily

None

Level 13 Encounter Words

Aci Wordomancer Attack 13
You imbue your spell with the power of dissolving.
Encounter ✦ Arcane, Boost Word
Minor	-
Attack: Base Word vs. Base Word
Hit: The target takes ongoing 10 Acid damage (save ends).

Igna Wordomancer Attack 13
Your victims run around screaming
Encounter ✦ Arcane, Boost Word, Fire
Minor	-
Attack: Base Word vs. Base Word
Hit: The target takes ongoing 5 Fire damage, and must spend all its standard and move actions to Run around the full possible distance, (save ends both).
Miss: The target takes 5 points of Fire damage.

Swop Wordomancer Attack 13
Swap the locations of two targets.
Encounter ✦ Arcane, Boost Word, Teleportation
Minor	-
Effect: Choose two hit creatures, or one hit creature and yourself. Those creatures swap places if they are 2 + your Intelligence modifier squares away from each other or fewer.

Xin Wordomancer Attack 13
You imbue your spell with poisons that make it very hard to see straight.
Encounter ✦ Arcane, Boost Word, Poison
Minor	-
Attack: Base Word vs. Base Word
Hit: The target gets a -2 penalty to attack rolls and perception checks (save ends).

Level 15 Daily Words

Saun Wordomancer Attack 15
You deafen people with your overly loud magic.
Daily ✦ Arcane, Boost Word, Thunder, Enabler
Minor	-
Attack: Base Word vs. Base Word
Hit: 1d8 + Charisma modifier thunder damage.
Miss: 1d8 thunder damage.
Effect: Whether you miss or not, all targets and all creatures within 2 squares of any targets are deafened for 1 round.

Strom Wordomancer Attack 15
You make your targets arc lightning onto other people.
Daily ✦ Arcane, Boost Word, Lightning
Minor	-
Attack: Base Word vs. Base Word
Hit: The target takes 3d6 + Charisma modifier points of lightning damage, and becomes Electrically Charged (save ends). At the beginning of an Electrically Charged creature's turn, choose a non-Electrically Charged creature within 3 squares of that creature. The chosen creature takes 5 points of lightning damage.
Miss: The target takes 2d6 points of lightning damage.

Level 16 Utility Words

At-Will

None

Encounter

Deth Wordomancer Utility 16
You weaken the barrier to the afterlife so that your victims' deaths can let forth beings of destruction.
Encounter ✦ Arcane, Boost Word, Necrotic, Summoning
Move	-
Effect: If a target is killed by the Base Word power Deth is boosting, create a Death's Image minion at that target's location. It may act on your next turn and any later turn. Death's Images have 0 in each defense, a movement speed of 4, and a Charisma Vs. Armor Class basic attack that deals your Base Damage value in Necrotic damage, using your Charisma-based attack bonus (but not any Implement or Weapon bonuses you have).

Kyur Wordomancer Utility 16
You imbue your spell with the power of recovering.
Encounter ✦ Arcane, Boost Word, Healing
Move	-
Effect: The target may attempt to save against each (save ends) effect on it. The target gets a +2 power bonus to these saves.

Daily

None

Level 17 Encounter Words

Kwiki Wordomancer Attack 17
You hurriedly stab your enemy before they can do whatever they were trying to do.
Encounter ✦ Arcane, Weapon, Base Word
Immediate Interrupt	Melee Weapon
Trigger: An enemy within reach begins an action.
Target: The enemy
Attack: Charisma vs. Armor Class
Hit: 1[W] + Strength modifier damage.

Thro Wordomancer Attack 17
Rearrange the battlefield to your liking.
Encounter ✦ Arcane, Boost Word
Minor	-
Attack: Base Word vs. Base Word
Hit: Target is slid a number of squares equal to your Intelligence modifier in any direction.
Miss: Target is slid 1 square in any direction.

Vyl Wordomancer Attack 17
You magically infuse bits of your internal organs into the spell.
Encounter ✦ Arcane, Boost Word, Necrotic
Minor	-
Attack: Base Word vs. Base Word
Hit: The target takes 5d6 + Charisma modifier points of Necrotic damage.
Miss: The target takes 3d6 points of Necrotic damage
Cost: Casting Vyl costs you 15 health and uses up two of your healing surges.

Level 19 Daily Words

Anch Wordomancer Attack 19
Anchor the target to yourself.
Daily ✦ Arcane, Boost Word, Enabler
Minor	-
Attack: Base Word vs. Base Word
Hit: The target is Anchored to you (save ends). While Anchored, the target cannot move to (or be pushed, pulled, or slid to) any square that is further away from you than 15 - your Intelligence modifier.
Miss: The target is Anchored to you for 1 round.

Kablooie Wordomancer Attack 19
That popping sound as enemies explode is just so fun, you can't help yourself.
Daily ✦ Arcane, Boost Word, Fire, Enabler
Minor	-
Attack: Base Word vs. Base Word
Hit: The target takes 1d6 points of Fire damage. If it is killed, deal 5 points of Fire damage to each creature adjacent to it.

Level 22 Utility Words

At-Will

Lob Wordomancer Utility 22
You arc blasts around corners, and stab people from a distance.
At-Will ✦ Arcane, Boost Word
Minor	-
Effect: You may have the Base Word power Lob is boosting, count as originating from any space within 2 squares of you instead of from your location. Multiple instances of Lob increase this distance by 2 squares each.

Encounter

Concil Wordomancer Utility 22
Make people a real pain to see
Encounter ✦ Arcane, Boost Word, Illusion
Minor	-
Effect: The target gets a power bonus to Stealth checks equal to your Intelligence modifier, and can make a Stealth check at a -10 penalty to avoid being detected while attacking. This lasts for 2 rounds.

Daily

None

Level 23 Encounter Words

Poi Wordomancer Attack 23
You imbue your spell with deadly poison.
Encounter ✦ Arcane, Boost Word
Minor	-
Attack: Base Word vs. Base Word
Hit: The target takes ongoing 15 Poison damage (save ends).

Tacles Wordomancer Attack 23
Tendrils of darkness, light, or thought reach out of the ground or walls to grab your hapless victims.
Encounter ✦ Arcane, Boost Word
Minor	-
Attack: Base Word vs. Base Word
Hit: Target is immobilized (save ends).
Miss: Target gets a -2 penalty to movement speed on its next turn.

Level 25 Daily Words

Korkdur Wordomancer Attack 25
You imbue the terrain with a repeating effect.
Daily ✦ Arcane, Implement, Base Word, Zone
Standard	Area Burst 5 within 10 squares
Target: Each creature in the zone each round.
Attack: Charisma vs. Armor Class
Hit: Nothing unless modified. Note that the first attack doesn't happen until the beginning of your next turn.
Effect: The area becomes a zone for a number of rounds equal to your Intelligence modifier. At the beginning of each of your turns, make an attack against each creature in the zone, applying Korkdur's modified Hit/Miss effects as appropriate.

Level 27 Encounter Words

None

Level 29 Daily Words

Lith Wordomancer Attack 29
You must speak this word with a particularly stony expression, or it won't work.
Daily ✦ Arcane, Boost Word
Minor	-
Attack: Base Word vs. Base Word
Hit: Target is petrified (save ends). When it saves, the target is immobilized (save ends).
Miss: Target is immobilized (save ends).

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