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It didn’t take long for Holam to start summoning me. I knew him well enough to recognize that watching me speak with the cleric via the scrying sensor I’d established would prove nearly irresistible. Maybe it was jealousy. Maybe curiosity. Or maybe it was the simple realization that the cleric...

Events in the mortal realm exploded with such unexpected fury that the cleric neither had time to utilize my gift nor redeem my fee. It seemed the despotic warlord whose secrets they had raided was bent on conquering nearby territories, some of which included cities that the four companions...

INSIGHT 6th-level divination Casting Time: 1 minute Range: Self Components: V, S Duration: Up to 1 hour You tap into the force of life itself to increase your own insight. When this spell is cast, your hitpoint maximum is reduced by 3d6 and either your Intelligence, Wisdom, or Charisma score...

The next time I was called it was from within a temple, with wards placed all around and a cadre of paladins prepared to restrain me, presumably while some uncomfortable compulsion was cast upon me. I suppose the cleric had spoken about me with his priestly superiors and they had decided to put...

HELL’S FURY 6th-level transmutation Casting Time: 1 bonus action Range: Self Components: V, M (one damned soul, in a soulcoin or other suitable vessel, which the spell consumes) Duration: Concentration, up to 1 minute Consuming a damned soul and absorbing its potential energy, you transform...

The cleric didn’t spend very long amongst the adoring crowd – something about humility I suppose – before he came and found me. “I’d like to get my question over with now if it’s all the same to you,” he grumbled. I cocked an eyebrow. “Why did I give Saribel a fair deal when she threw herself...

It was several months before they called me again. Watching them in the mirror, I knew that this delay was due entirely to the cleric’s resistance. The other three seemed actually eager to utilize my services, to the point that they were inventing reasons why they might need me to solve this or...

It's been a year so giving this a bump - one of the best solo writeups I've read and others deserve the chance to read it too!

Needless to say, the wizard summoned me. I adopted my hamatula form and appeared promptly within the diagram. “Do you have more magical darkness for me to peer through?” I inquired. I’ve found that mortals cannot tell most devils apart, and so I asked the question to ensure they knew I was the...

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Time passed. The Blood War raged. I used my mirror and my crystals and my bones in service of my Duke, to predict where our enemies would strike and to penetrate the veils that hid from us their weaknesses. Thanks to me, we staved off a demonic incursion with forces that far outnumbered our own...

I was watching them in my mirror when the call came. “Mine,” I growled. No one dared challenge me. It has been many decades – centuries, even, perhaps – since I answered a call. I don’t need to anymore, for my mirror and my crystals and the charred bones that I toss in a pit of fine sand fulfil...

Thanks! These are some great ideas to think on. I definitely enjoy the math/stat manipulation side of the spell creation, so trying to build a system that rewards people for optimizing & thinking creatively while still building in safeguards to prevent players from breaking the game. Obviously...

They do if someone writes them! I agree that it would be unreasonable to introduce this system into a game where not everyone has access to cool things, so there would have to be cool things for non full-casters to do too. That said, my hope is that between the time and gold it takes to research...

The way the system is currently written, you have a number of epic spell slots equal to half your spellcasting modifier rounded down. So for most characters with a +5 spellcasting modifier that would be 2 epic spell slots per day. The other thing to keep in mind though about reducing the DC to...

Maybe, yeah. I sort of like the idea of being able to get the DC down to 0 if you're in a pinch and need to do something that you don't have prepared and you're willing to suffer a lot of ability drain or exhaustion or something, but it does certainly lead to a problem when you can just use a...

Not quite, because when you look at "double duration" and "double radius" it says if you apply it multiple times you add the base radius again, not multiply by two. I know it's confusing... I probably should have said "add duration again" or something. Although instead of doubling duration so...

I put permanency as a factor in the epic spell creation at +30DC

I love epic spells from earlier editions, and so I've tried to create a model that would allow high level (17th-20th level) characters to brew spells in 5th edition. I've translated a lot of the rules from 3.5e and tried to scale them to 5e. Clearly this presents some inherent problems: XP is...

The game is on a bit of a pause due to everyone's schedules this month. Will hopefully pick back up in March.