FEAT: Portal Artist
Prerequisite: Intelligence or Wisdom of 18, or proficiency in a visual art such as forgery, calligraphy, painting, or drawing.
With this feat you can ritualize certain conjuration spells that normally cannot be cast as rituals. This includes the following conjuration spells:
Dimension Door
Gate
Misty Step
Plane Shift
Teleportation Circle
Teleport
Normally, you must know and be able to cast the conjuration spell in some manner. For example, the spell might be memorized, or it might be available as a scroll. Having a spell in a third party's spell book is not sufficient to use this feat for ritualizing a spell. However, with this feat, you can transcribe these spells into your own ritual book under the rules of the Ritual Caster feat, or the Warlock's Invocation: Book of Ancient Secrets.
To use this feat, you can take an action to draw a location from sight, from memory, or from a description. The accuracy of the drawing is determined by subtracting <<the number of minutes spent drawing the image>> from 20. Thus a drawing taking 20 minutes to complete will have a failure DC of 0 and therefore the ritual will not fail due to its accuracy, unless there are additional circumstances to consider. For example, a poorly-described or non-existent location cannot be drawn accurately, no matter how long one takes to draw it.
After the drawing is completed, you can take 10 minutes to cast the desired conjuration spell as a ritual, using the drawn location as if it was a place you can see. All other factors of the spell are as indicated in the description of that spell. For example, range, planar, and distance limitations are not changed.
The ritual fails if the drawn location does not actually exist, or if the description is faulty, or if the destination is occupied; no change in location occurs. Otherwise you make a skill check based on the DC determined as the drawing was created. A successful check indicated the drawing was sufficiently accurate, and the ritual spell succeeds.
The drawing is consumed by the spell unless it is inscribed into a substance of relative permanence. For example, a charcoal sketch on a piece of parchment is consumed by the spell, while a drawing carved on a stone tablet or ivory plaque would be reusable.
This feat can be used in coordination with magic such as a telepathy spell to draw a location familiar to a willing creature.
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