You draw upon ancient summoning magics to imbue your words with great arcane power, causing pain to creatures caught within a magic circle or other similar binding effect. Dolor acts as a buff for binding spells like planar binding. This power has no effect on creatures not caught in a binding spell cast by you. Because your voice causes captured creatures strong discomfort, you gain a bonus to your spell save DC on all Charisma-based checks or saving throws made to compel the target of your planar binding to perform some service. This bonus is equal to a +1 per three of your caster levels. For example, a 9th-level caster would gain a +3 bonus on the spell save DC for Charisma saving throws of the target of the planar binding spell, while a 17th-level caster would gain a +5 bonus.
Using dolor poses two risks. First, the creature you compel using dolor is more likely to try to maliciously corrupt the intent of your commands and later seek revenge (how this occurs is decided by the DM). Secondly, because this spell ties you more directly to the power of the planar binding spell, if the result of the target’s Charisma saving throw per planar binding or another binding spell is a natural 20, not only does the creature escape the binding ritual, but you are automatically affected for a number of rounds equal to the escaped creature’s Hit Dice as if it had successfully cast charm monster on you
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