 Magic Jar
Source PRPG Core Rulebook pg. 309
School necromancy; Level alchemist 5, arcanist 5, investigator 5, sorcerer 5, summoner 4, summoner (unchained) 5, witch 5, wizard 5CastingCasting Time 1 standard action
Components V, S, F (a gem or crystal worth at least 100 gp)EffectRange medium (100 ft. + 10 ft./level)
Target one creature
Duration 1 hour/level or until you return to your body
Saving Throw Will negates; see text; Spell Resistance yesDescriptionBy casting magic jar, you place your soul in a gem or large crystal (known as the magic jar), leaving your body lifeless. Then you can attempt to take control of a nearby body, forcing its soul into the magic jar. You may move back to the jar (thereby returning the trapped soul to its body) and attempt to possess another body. The spell ends when you send your soul back to your own body, leaving the receptacle empty. To cast the spell, the magic jar must be within spell range and you must know where it is, though you do not need line of sight or line of effect to it. When you transfer your soul upon casting, your body is, as near as anyone can tell, dead.
While in the magic jar, you can sense and attack any life force within 10 feet per caster level (and on the same plane of existence). You do need line of effect from the jar to the creatures. You cannot determine the exact creature types or positions of these creatures. In a group of life forces, you can sense a difference of 4 or more HD between one creature and another and can determine whether a life force is powered by positive or negative energy. (Undead creatures are powered by negative energy. Only sentient undead creatures have, or are, souls.)
You could choose to take over either a stronger or a weaker creature, but which particular stronger or weaker creature you attempt to possess is determined randomly.
Attempting to possess a body is a full-round action. It is blocked by protection from evil or a similar ward. You possess the body and force the creature's soul into the magic jar unless the subject succeeds on a Will save. Failure to take over the host leaves your life force in the magic jar, and the target automatically succeeds on further saving throws if you attempt to possess its body again.
If you are successful, your life force occupies the host body, and the host's life force is imprisoned in the magic jar. You keep your Intelligence, Wisdom, Charisma, level, class, base attack bonus, base save bonuses, alignment, and mental abilities. The body retains its Strength, Dexterity, Constitution, hit points, natural abilities, and automatic abilities. A body with extra limbs does not allow you to make more attacks (or more advantageous two-weapon attacks) than normal. You can't choose to activate the body's extraordinary or supernatural abilities. The creature's spells and spell-like abilities do not stay with the body.
As a standard action, you can shift freely from a host to the magic jar if within range, sending the trapped soul back to its body. The spell ends when you shift from the jar to your own body.
If the host body is slain, you return to the magic jar, if within range, and the life force of the host departs (it is dead). If the host body is slain beyond the range of the spell, both you and the host die. Any life force with nowhere to go is treated as slain.
If the spell ends while you are in the magic jar, you return to your body (or die if your body is out of range or destroyed). If the spell ends while you are in a host, you return to your body (or die, if it is out of range of your current position), and the soul in the magic jar returns to its body (or dies if it is out of range). Destroying the receptacle ends the spell, and the spell can be dispelled at either the magic jar or the host's location. Parasitic SoulSource Book of the Damned pg. 185
School necromancy [death, evil]; Level arcanist 9, cleric 9, oracle 9, psychic 9, shaman 9, sorcerer 9, witch 9, wizard 9CastingCasting Time 1 standard action
Components V, S, F (a gem or crystal worth at least 100 gp)EffectRange medium (100 ft. + 10 ft./level)
Target one creature
Duration permanent (D)
Saving Throw Will negates; Spell Resistance yesDescriptionThis spell functions like magic jar except as noted above, and instead of your own soul, you can transfer a trapped soul (such as one trapped in a soul gem or trapped with soul bind or trap the soul) from the receptacle into an unwilling target’s body. If the target creature fails its saving throw, it dies and the trapped soul in the receptacle permanently inhabits the body as if using magic jar. The trapped soul does not get a saving throw to resist this transfer. To dismiss the spell, you must be within range of the possessed body. Possess ObjectSource Ultimate Magic pg. 232
School necromancy; Level arcanist 5, sorcerer 5, witch 5, wizard 5CastingCasting Time 1 standard action
Components V, S, F (a gem or crystal worth at least 100 gp)EffectRange medium (100 ft. + 10 ft./level)
Target one object; see text
Duration 1 hour/level or until you return to your body
Saving Throw Will negates, see text; Spell Resistance yesDescriptionThis spell functions as magic jar, except you transfer your mind to a single object, animating it as if using animate objects, except your mind controls the object as if it were your own body. You cannot speak or cast spells while possessing the object. Because your original body is effectively dead while under the effect of this spell, this temporarily suspends disease, poisons, and other afflictions affecting you.
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