occultist
4
cleric
5
sorcerer/wizard
5
School
necromancy
Descriptors
[evil, pain]
Casting Time
10 minutes
V
S
M (mercury and phosphorus, plus powdered diamond and opal worth a total of 1,000 gp)
Range
0 ft.; see text
Duration
None
Saving Throw
Fortitude negates
Spell Resistance
None

This spell functions like symbol of death, except that each creature within the radius of a symbol of pain instead suffers wracking pains that impose a --4 penalty on attack rolls, skill checks, and ability checks. These effects last for 1 hour after the creature moves farther than 60 feet from the symbol.

Unlike symbol of death, symbol of pain has no hit point limit; once triggered, a symbol of pain simply remains active for 10 minutes per caster level.

Note: Magic traps such as symbol of pain are hard to detect and disable. While any character can use Perception to find a symbol, only a character with the trapfinding class feature can use Disable Device to disarm it. The DC in each case is 25 + spell level, or 30 for symbol of pain.