Blood Money? who gets it?


Rules Questions


So here is my question I see a spell called Blood Money on the magus's list and it also lists wizard and witch. But when I look at the wizards spell list it does not have Blood Money. Am I to assume this is a typo and the wizard doesn't have it or what?

http://www.d20pfsrd.com/magic/all-spells/b/blood-money

BLOOD MONEY

School transmutation; Level magus 1, sorcerer/wizard 1, witch 1

CASTING
Casting Time 1 swift action
Components V, S

EFFECT
Range 0 ft.
Effect 1 material component
Duration Instantaneous

DESCRIPTION
You cast blood money just before casting another spell. As part of this spell's casting, you must cut one of your hands, releasing a stream of blood that causes you to take 1d6 points of damage. When you cast another spell in that same round, your blood transforms into one material component of your choice required by that second spell. Even valuable components worth more than 1 gp can be created, but creating such material components requires an additional cost of 1 point of Strength damage, plus a further point of damage for every full 500 gp of the component's value (so a component worth 500–999 gp costs a total of 2 points, 1,000–1,500 costs 3, etc.). You cannot create magic items with blood money.

For example, a sorcerer with the spell stoneskin prepared could cast blood money to create the 250 gp worth of diamond dust required by that spell, taking 1d6 points of damage and 1 point of Strength damage in the process.

Material components created by blood money transform back into blood at the end of the round if they have not been used as a material component. Spellcasters who do not have blood cannot cast blood money, and those who are immune to Strength damage (such as undead spellcasters) cannot use blood money to create valuable material components.


This spell is from RotRL Anniversary Edition, more specifically Golarian. Which means that Paizo owns it and doesn't have it up on the PRD most likely.

Because it is one of those weird outliers the SRD may not be able to actually have it on it's website. So the fact that it isn't connected to the actual list is probably just a coding error.

Wizards should be able to cast that spell.


The spell's from an AP, and so it's not on the generic Wizard list.


Better off as few people know about it as possible... it's so stupidly broken I don't think any GM would allow it anyway.


^I suppose I could see how it might get way too OP. They really should have limited the amount of material component cost covered by the spell and/or made the health cost higher. I do like the idea a lot though. It is like you bust out a knife and stab yourself in the leg to cast a spell (epic). Also wouldn't the spell require a standard action to stab yourself or is that just part of the spell? The spells requires cutting yourself so unless you have a knife in your hand you also have to draw it right?


Is it PFS legal?

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