Controlling Your Lightining Bolt: Bounce, Ricochet, Skip, etc.

[TarionzCousin]

Is there anything in the Third Edtion rules, including Third Party materials, that allows a spellcaster to gain greater control over the path of his/her lightning bolt?

Are there any feats or magic items that enable one to bounce, ricochet, skip, or control in any way other than a straight line a lightning bolt?

Pathfinder stuff is welcome, too.

P.S. Yes, I know this was possible in earlier editions of D&D.



Edit: Now I know about the Sculpt Spell metamagic feat, but that doesn't allow a bolt to bounce.

 

[Voadam]

8-Lightning-Bolt-Feats by Rogue Genius Games has a Mystic Arcs feat to turn the line into an arc. Behind the Spells might have a variant.

 

[Grogg of the North]

Extraordinary Spell Aim in Complete Arcane lets you exclude one person from your AoE spells.

 

[Dandu]

Sculpt Spell from CArc lets you sculpt the spell.

 

[Ranes]

Sculpt Spell from CArc lets you sculpt the spell.

True, but...

...I know about the Sculpt Spell metamagic feat, but that doesn't allow a bolt to bounce.

There is a spell reflection character option for roguish/evasion types in Complete Mage but that is only reactive. Still, it might serve - along with sculpt spell - to inspire some fine home-brew ruling.

Extraordinary Spell Aim in Complete Arcane lets you exclude one person from your AoE spells.

Can you help me out here, with a page number maybe? I might be going blind but I can't find anything in Complete Arcane that maps to what you describe. I have to say though, that this happens to me more often than I'd like.

 

[Grogg of the North]

Can you help me out here, with a page number maybe? I might be going blind but I can't find anything in Complete Arcane that maps to what you describe. I have to say though, that this happens to me more often than I'd like.

Sorry, Complete Adventurer pg 109.

 

[Ranes]

Oh thank you. That is good.