Sleep Dust (Magic Dust)

Sleep dust is created with the aid of pixie-cast sleep spells. Its physical components consist of exceptionally rare ingredients-the dusty coating of pixie wings and the breath of a hibernating bear, among others. These ingredients, hulderfolk magic, and the unusual sleep spells of the faerie kind give the dust its surprising potency. A sparse handful causes a giant to slumber; a sprinkle puts a human-sized person to sleep, and a single pinch is sufficient to bespell kender and other diminutive humanoids. Even elves are not immune to its effects, which are differently achieved from those of an ordinary sleep spell. When sleep dust touches a living target, that person (or animal) falls asleep immediately, into an enchanted slumber lasting 1d4+1 hours. There is no saving throw allowed to resist the effect. The dust is most efficient when sifted upon persons from above, or cast on them from a short distance (a foot or two) away. Sleep dust is light, and easily blows away in a breeze. If it should blow back on the one who cast it, that person is as susceptible to its effects as any other. Once it settles to the ground or other surface, its magical dweomer discharges, and it has no more power to cause sleep.
If an insufficient portion is cast on the target (as, for example, when just a pinch lands upon a giant), the victim is allowed a saving throw vs. spell to resist the dust's effects. Failure means slumber for 1d3 hours. 
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