Entity: Earthquake

You shake the ground, topple creatures into fissures, and collapse structures. The GM might add additional effects in certain areas. Cliffs might collapse, causing creatures to fall, or a lake might drain as fissures open up below its surface, leaving a morass of quicksand.

• **Shaking Ground** The ground is [difficult terrain](/Rules.aspx?ID=453), and creatures on it take a –2 circumstance penalty to attack rolls, AC, and skill checks.
• **Fissures** Each creature on the ground must attempt a Reflex save at the start of its turn to keep its footing and avoid falling into 40-foot-deep fissures that open beneath it. The fissures are permanent, and their sides require successful DC 15 [Athletics](/Skills.aspx?ID=3) checks to [Climb](/Actions.aspx?ID=33).
• **Collapse** Structures and ceilings might collapse. The GM rolls a flat check for each (DC 16 for a sturdy structure, DC 14 for an average structure and most natural formations, DC 9 for a shoddy structure, all adjusted higher or lower as the GM sees fit). A collapse deals 11d6 bludgeoning damage to each creature caught in it with a [basic](/Rules.aspx?ID=329) Reflex save. A creature falls [prone](/Conditions.aspx?ID=31) unless it critically succeeds and falls into a fissure if it critically fails.

Heightened (10th) You create a massive earthquake that can devastate a settlement. The range increases to half a mile and the area to a quarter-mile burst.

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500 feet

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Elemental

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Magrim, Treasures of the Eternal Delve, Zevgavizeb

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Shake the ground with a devastating earthquake.

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Arcane, Primal

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