D&D General Color of your magic?

abe ray · Jun 29, 2019

What does your magic take the form of? In other words does it take the form of either snakes,arrows or letters from a book, these are examples for magic miscles .

aco175 · Jun 29, 2019

I had a few PCs in the past that had flavor like this, but now we mostly just say something like, " Magic Missiles shoot from the enemy caster to hit you." I think it can work for player characters, but the DM may need to be specific and just tell the players what is happening.

Maxperson · Jun 29, 2019

We haven't tailored spells since 2e I think, or maybe a bit in 3e. If I had to choose a color, though, it would be octarine

77IM · Jun 29, 2019

I had a gnome wizard who was a "particle metaphysicist" and all his spells were scientific-sounding. Like instead of magic missile it was deterministic energy exchange and instead of fireball it was spontaneous exothermic state collapse. Many of them had a lasers-and-sparks visualization.

I have another character I haven't played yet, a sorcadin, who has the cantrip blue-flame blade and has a blue firebolt. The idea is to create fire that is hotter than most other casters' (ala Azula).

abe ray · Jul 3, 2019

Any other spell design themes?

jaelis · Jul 3, 2019

I should make a character whose spells are dad jokes.

"Magic won't-miss-ile!"
"Polymore-fun for you!"
"I rename you William, and now you're invisi-Bill!"

abe ray · Jul 7, 2019

Anyone ever create comedy themed magic spells?

bedir than · Jul 7, 2019

jaelis said:
I should make a character whose spells are dad jokes.

"Magic won't-miss-ile!"
"Polymore-fun for you!"
"I rename you William, and now you're invisi-Bill!"

This is a bard!

jrowland · Jul 8, 2019

Revivify: Automated External Defibrillator (AED)

Istbor · Jul 8, 2019

Depends on the NPC caster when I DM.

Say the once druid who is now a warped evil warlock. Her misty step takes the form of dried dead leaves that slip threw craps or ride a quick breeze to her new location.

Stuff like that. I think that can really help to stick a character out for your players, and even get their minds cranking on cool personalized magic. I mean, why should Tenser, Bigsby, and Melf have all the fun?