Do you remember this spell?

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

I can't remember what edition this was from, but I seem to recall a spell that could turn a skull into a security camera, recording whatever it "saw," which the caster (necromancer?) could then review later on.

I'm thinking I'd like to use that spell in my Midwood game, but damned if I can remember the name of it, what book it was in or even the edition.

Does this sound familiar to anyone at all? If not, I'll just knock it out myself, but I'd love to see the "official" one as a starting point.

 

[Theo R Cwithin]

3.5e Spell Compendium has "Echo Skull", a druid spell that turns a animal skull into a scrying/communication device.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

3.5e Spell Compendium has "Echo Skull", a druid spell that turns a animal skull into a scrying/communication device.

Awesome, thanks. If I cut out the communication aspects and make it a bit more restrictive, I think I can make a decent 4th level arcane spell out of it.

 

[Lancelot]

There's also Skull Watch, a 4e ritual from Open Grave.

Enchant a skull... it watches for intruders (using caster's Perception, with a +5 bonus)... alerts the caster (within 1 mile) if it detects an intrusion, and the caster can look through the skull's eyes to see what it is seeing.

Quite a cool warding ritual, especially as you can designate certain types of creatures as "exempt" from detection, and you can move the skull (i.e. by picking it up and dropping it down elsewhere) without disrupting the ritual.

 

[Aberzanzorax]

I believe the specialty priests of cyric had a spell like this in both 2e and 3e... but that's going from memory for the time being.

 

[Treebore]

Yeah, I seem to remember that from the Forgotten Realms 2E days. I think it had to do with a Skull Port product. I think the "creatures" in charge of Skull Port used this spell.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

There's also Skull Watch, a 4e ritual from Open Grave.

That's the name I remember, but I don't currently own any 4E products, and have never laid eyes on that supplement, so I'm guessing it appeared in multiple places in either 2E or 3E.

 

[JeffB]

I believe the specialty priests of cyric had a spell like this in both 2e and 3e... but that's going from memory for the time being.

Yeah, I seem to remember that from the Forgotten Realms 2E days.

This is my recollection too.

 

[Aberzanzorax]

I looked it up in Faiths and Avatars.

Cyric has skull of flame (sorta a combo magic mouth and glyph of warding/explosive runes).


Skull Watch, as mentioned by someone earlier, is a spell in which a skull acts somewhat like an alarm spell. It faces a direction and screams if it sees someone. Is in both 3e and 2e.



That's what I've turned up so far....more if I find it.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

What 3E books did you see it in, Aber? I only owned the 3E FR core book, so I wouldn't have seen it in a FR supplement from back then.