Crushing Hand

Evocation [Force]

Level: Sorcerer 9, Strength 9, Wizard 9

Components: V, S, F/DF

Casting Time: 1 standard action

Range: Medium (100 ft. + 10 ft./level)

Effect: 10-ft. hand

Duration: 1 round/level (D)

Saving Throw: None

Spell Resistance: Yes

The crushing hand can grapple an opponent like grasping hand does. Its grapple bonus equals your caster level + your Intelligence, Wisdom, or Charisma modifier (for a wizard, cleric, or sorcerer, respectively), +12 for the hand’s Strength score (35), +4 for being Large. The hand deals 2d6+12 points of damage (lethal, not nonlethal) on each successful grapple check against an opponent.

The crushing hand can also bull rush an opponent as forceful hand does, but at a +18 bonus on the Strength check (+12 for Strength 35, +4 for being Large, and a +2 bonus for charging, which it always gets). The hand always moves with the opponent to push that target back the full distance allowed, and it has no speed limit.

A very strong creature could not push the hand out of its way because the latter would instantly reposition itself between the creature and you, but an opponent could push the hand up against you by successfully bull rushing it. It would still provide cover (+4 AC) for you against that opponent.

The hand can also interpose itself as interposing hand does, providing cover as mentioned above.

Directing the spell to a new target is a move action.

The hand is 10 feet long and about that wide with its fingers outstretched. It has as many hit points as you do when you’re undamaged, and its AC is 20 (–⁠1 size, +11 natural). It takes damage as a normal creature, but most magical effects that don’t cause damage do not affect it. The hand never provokes attacks of opportunity from opponents. It cannot push through a wall of force or enter an antimagic field, but it suffers the full effect of a prismatic wall or prismatic sphere. The hand makes saving throws as its caster. Disintegrate or a successful dispel magic destroys it.

Clerics who cast this spell name it for their deities.

Arcane Material Component: The shell of an egg.

Arcane Focus: A glove of snakeskin.

Source: Player’s Handbook (version 3.5), page 204. Originally named Bigby’s crushing hand.

Roll20 Macro

Arcane Version

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&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The **crushing hand** can [grapple](https://kaabbott.synology.me/a35/Rules/Combat#Grapple) an opponent like [**grasping hand**](https://kaabbott.synology.me/a35/Spells/PH/Grasping_Hand) does with a **+**[[ @{arcanecasterlevel} [CL] + @{arcanecastingstat} [casting attribute mod] + 12 [spell Str mod] + 4 [spell Size mod] ]]&#8203;bonus. The hand deals **2d6+12** points of damage (lethal, not nonlethal) on each successful grapple check against an opponent.
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&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Directing the spell to a new target is a move action.}}

Strength Domain Version

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&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The **crushing hand** can [grapple](https://kaabbott.synology.me/a35/Rules/Combat#Grapple) an opponent like [**grasping hand**](https://kaabbott.synology.me/a35/Spells/PH/Grasping_Hand) does with a **+**[[ @{divinecasterlevel} [CL] + @{divinecastingstat} [casting attribute mod] + 12 [spell Str mod] + 4 [spell Size mod] ]]&#8203;bonus. The hand deals **2d6+12** points of damage (lethal, not nonlethal) on each successful grapple check against an opponent.
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The **crushing hand** can also interpose itself as **interposing hand** does, or it can [bull rush](https://kaabbott.synology.me/a35/Rules/Combat#Bull_Rush) an opponent as [**forceful hand**](https://kaabbott.synology.me/a35/Spells/PH/Forceful_Hand) does, but at a **+**[[12 [spell Str mod] + 4 [spell Size mod] + 2 [charge mod] ]]&#8203;bonus.
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Directing the spell to a new target is a move action.
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Clerics who cast this spell name it for their deities.}}