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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Edena_of_Neith" data-source="post: 451239" data-attributes="member: 2020">Some answers and correctionsMake it a 9th level spell.  Now ...  - - -  i read the whole thing and while an interesting idea i'm still a little in the dark as to what it does.  what level spells can be sent through?  ANSWER:  Any level.  The point of the beam is to augment other spells somehow.  Epic Level spells may be augmented, or perhaps the beam will prove a mitigating factor in the casting instead.  how are they sent through?  ANSWER:  They could be sent directly through the web.  However, this would not be practical, as the web is too long, and too convoluted.  However, the mage could touch the web at a certain point, to cause specific effects up and down from the point of touching.  why wouldn't every mage and his 3rd cousin not cast it?  ANSWER:  First, the spell permanently drains half the mage's hit points and constitution (round fractions down.)  Secondly, the spell is bound to send beams into Ravenloft, the Outer Planes, and other places where it is not wanted (like the keep of an archlich.)  These beings will attempt to locate the beam caster, and either persuade him gently to dispel his own magic, or kill him.  Also, the spell tends to activate dormant magic and monsters (a problem completely beyond the control of the caster to stop) which can lead to no end of interesting disasters.  is the only down side if it breaks and the initial lose of con?  ANSWER:  Remember that anyone with a True Seeing, Wish, Miracle, or powerful divination can tell a great deal about the mage by studying his beams:  his alignment, personality, goals, moods, and even secret desires.  And it is possible to trace the web back to it's source, with a powerful enough spell (that is, to trace the web caster.)  This is in addition to all of the above problems with this spell.  scince it's life force can things that devour souls and life energy feed off of it?  ANSWER:  Maybe.  The Weave Anchor prevents them from destroying the beam by drinking from it.  However, this enables them to drink directly from the Weave - if they are the right kind of monster - and THAT could have disastrous consequences, as the monster in question gained hit dice and power in spades.  The beam would not be weakened by the draining, as the Weave sustains it.  However, the beam caster might well be injured, along with many or most of the people the beam is touching.  (When everyone becomes sick, you know something bad is going on ...)  how common is it does eceryone have the spell or only the chosen of mystra?  ANSWER:  The spell is considered rare.  It is not available to the general spell-casting public.  If the Chosen of Mystra have this spell, they aren't saying.  why does mystra allow such a spell?  ANSWER:  Mystra has this bad tendency to allow all sorts of crap to go on in her domain.  Witness Larloch and his necropolis, the phaerimm and Anauroch, the Red Wizards and their anarchy, and of course the endless schenanigens of priests and priestesses of all faiths.  For that matter, consider Deepspawn.  wouldn't all of the webs from all the spellcasters eventually end up touching the sphere of anialation?  ANSWER:  Yes.  It is inevitable.  However, it may take quite a while (anywhere from a year to a millennium.)  Of course, an enemy who can move a Sphere of Annihilation with magic or psionics can bring this touching about much sooner ...  what about the creatatoin of an almost infinite number of evil beings from mirrors?  ANSWER:  This is one of the great dangers of Weaveweb.  It produces a new being from a Mirror of Opposition for every thread that touches the Mirror.  As a result, an army of evil beings will be persuing their real opposites, seeking their destruction.  The answer, of course, is to either destroy the Mirror or destroy the spell (and the web caster.)  Most mages and the like do not take kindly to having their hanging spells and dormant monsters awakened haphazardly.  Said magics and monsters tend to attack their creator, being now uncontrolled.  So this spell tends to make the caster unpopular.  (For that matter, most ordinary people do NOT like the idea of being wrapped in magical beams from someone else's spell, even if it isn't affecting them.  They do not like it, and they like even less the fact it cannot be dispelled.)  how are you going to use this spell?  ANSWER:  I don't know.  I am trying to think of creative ways for it's use.   eventually all of the strings would no longer have a hight or width so how can anyone see them?  ANSWER:  They effectively have length only, being stretched beyond height or width being detectable.  However, because they are magical, a detect magic will still see them (starlight comes from objects in the sky too small for the human eye to actually see, but the light is seen nonetheless.)  how can detect magic work at all everything would be magical?  ANSWER:  Detect magic will NOT work, initially, as the detect magic caster sees nothing but a myriad of beams stretching in every conceivable direction, and endless numbers of them wrapped around him and everyone else.  The Detect Magic user can fine tune the detect magic spell, however, to filter out this interference.  The beam, when stretched so far, is relatively weak magic - stronger magic will show through it like sunlight versus a dim lightbulb.  Of course, the detect magic user is still in for an astonishing surprise, along with EVERYONE he tells what he is beholding.</blockquote>

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