Althor's Bounce Back

Background: Althor the One Armed is well known as a master spell creator specializing in force field spells of great elegance and complexity.  He was started down this path when he barely survived a gnoll attack as a young fighter mage (Ax Specialist) by improvising a V only magic missile spell to kill the gnoll that had just ripped off his right arm. He went on to develop a whole class of force field based spells of which perhaps the best known are his Althor's Arm, Althor's Return and Althor's Ax spells.

Casting Restrictions: All of Althor's 2nd level spells require at least a 16 INT to learn and cast. All of them are cast as a 2 minute ritual which embeds a spell pattern into the material item carried by the creature or item to be affected or who will be triggering the spell. Once the ritual has been cast the spell can be triggered  as either a reaction or an opportunity action by EITHER a quick 1 hand gesture OR a single keyword as a reaction. If cast as a full ritual (12 minutes cast time) the spell counts as a standard ritual spell. If the shorter ritual is used, then a spell slot is used up.

Spell: Althor's Bounce Back

The owner of the coin may trigger the spell using either a hand gesture or a keyword. Only one Althor's Bounce Back spell may be active on the owner at any one time although several spelled coins may be carried for future use.

Once triggered, a shield of force appears near the coin owner granting the following benefits.

• The shield will not deflect area of effect, melee or non-physical attacks such as psychic, charm or hexes and the like.
• The shield will reflect half of one ranged single target attack (normal or spell) per round against the owner back at the attacker.
• In the case of multiple attacks, the owner may decide which attack to bounce with the exception that magic missile attacks are auto-selected
• Magic missile attacks are totally negated with all of the ones targeted against the owner bounced back at the attacker.
• The attacker will take half the damage of the attack unless they make a DEX save for quarter damage instead.
• The owner will takes half the damage the attack would have delivered and can make a DEX or Acrobatics save for no damage as they dodge the slowed attack.