Bloodletting Strike

Tome of Battle: The Book of Nine Swords (ToB)Updated Supplementals (3.5)

Bloodletting Strike is a D&D 3.5 spell (Shadow Hand (Strike)) from ToB. On class lists for Swordsage (Level 5). Range or area: Melee attack; Saving throw: Fortitude partial; Duration: Instantaneous; Casting time: 1 standard action.

School
Shadow Hand (Strike)
Casting Time
1 standard action
Range
Melee attack
Target
One creature
Duration
Instantaneous
Saving Throw
Fortitude partial
Spell Resistance
No

Spinning your blade in a butterflylike pattern, you administer a dozen precise cuts in an eyeblink. Blood flows from your foe’s opened veins.

As part of this maneuver, you make a single melee attack. If this attack hits, your opponent takes 4 points of Constitution damage in addition to your attack’s normal damage. A successful Fortitude save (DC 15 + your Wis modifier) reduces this Constitution damage to 2 points, although the foe still takes full normal melee damage.