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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cleon" data-source="post: 8481438" data-attributes="member: 57383">Alternatively, we can give the Worm Lord some of those "Priest Spells" or reasonable substitutes thereof as Wizard spells, i.e. light as a cantrip, mage armor instead of barkskin, glitterdust for faerie fire.However, pyrotechnics is also a 2nd-level wizard spell and we don't have a spare 2nd-level wizard slot if we keep the blindness, blur, summon swarm of the original Wizard selection.Hmm, a decent solution would be to swapping summon swarm for pyrotechnics and just have summon worms for a swarm-summoning spell:Wizard Spells Prepared #2 (4/5/5/4/2/1), save DC 13 + spell level. 0—light, two, three, four; 1st—burrowᴺ, cause fear (DC 14), charm person (DC 14), sleep, mage armor; 2nd—blindness (DC 15), blur, glitterdust (DC 15), pyrotechnics, summon wormsᴺ; 3rd—flame arrow, fly, wormworkᴺ, four; 4th—ice storm (DC 17), stoneskin; 5th—one;However, there was the idea of substituting the cleric spell searing light for pyrotechnics as the spell level matches (the original's pyrotechnics was a 3rd-level priest spell, but it's a 2nd-level Sor/Wiz spell in 3E):Cleric Spells Prepared #2 (6/5+1/5+1/4+1/2+1/1+1), save DC 13 + spell level. 0—create water, detect magic, detect poison, guidance, purify food and drink, resistance; 1st—bane (DC 14), blessᴰ, cure light wounds, divine favor, entropic shield, sanctuary; 2nd—augury, hold person (DC 15), wormslickᴰᴺ, four, five, six; 3rd—continual flame, cure serious wounds, dispel magic, prayerᴰ, searing light; 4th—neutralize poison, wormtongueᴰᴺ, three; 5th—curse of the wormsᴰᴺ, two; Wizard Spells Prepared #3 (4/5/5/4/2/1), save DC 13 + spell level. 0—light, two, three, four; 1st—burrowᴺ, cause fear (DC 14), charm person (DC 14), sleep, mage armor; 2nd—blindness (DC 15), blur, glitterdust (DC 15), summon swarm, summon wormsᴺ; 3rd—flame arrow, fly, wormworkᴺ, four; 4th—ice storm (DC 17), stoneskin; 5th—one;Hmm, I think I prefer Wizard #2.As for dust devil, as we've discussed ages ago, that doesn't appear to exist in 3E at least in official sources. The closest a cursory search turned up was storm mote, a spell in Sandstorm that creates a miniature, well, sandstorm.What's a good substitute for dust devil? Preferably something on the cleric list that's 2nd or 3rd-level.Maybe wind wall? At least it's air-related:Cleric Spells Prepared #3 (6/5+1/5+1/4+1/2+1/1+1), save DC 13 + spell level. 0—create water, detect magic, detect poison, guidance, purify food and drink, resistance; 1st—bane (DC 14), blessᴰ, cure light wounds, divine favor, entropic shield, sanctuary; 2nd—augury, hold person (DC 15), wormslickᴰᴺ, four, five, six; 3rd—continual flame, cure serious wounds, dispel magic, prayerᴰ, wind wall; 4th—neutralize poison, wormtongueᴰᴺ, three; 5th—curse of the wormsᴰᴺ, two;Yes, that works.Come to think of it, how does the 20% miss chance from entropic shield interact with that from blur? The former spell says it's "like concealment" (which'd mean the Worm Lord just gets one 20% miss chance as a target can only get one concealment miss chance), but it also says it deflects attack ("This field deflects incoming arrows, rays, and other ranged attacks"), which sounds like entropic shield produces a physical force that diverts the ranged attacks rather than concealing the target's position like blur does. If they are independent, the Worm Lord would get two 20% miss rolls (equivalent to a single 36% miss chance).I suspect the former was the intention, otherwise the spell description wouldn't have "like concealment" in it.</blockquote>

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