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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Sepulchrave II" data-source="post: 3056930" data-attributes="member: 4303">Retrofitting Casting Times and Components into Seed SPs and Other TweaksAfflict: Reduce the base SP to 8 for bindness/deafness. The reason that I let this go originally was the added versatility of being able to afflict any sense seemed worth a +4 increase, and the iconic stature of bestow curse could be retained. Not so sure now, though. I think at SP 8 you should strike the target blind or deaf; at +4 SP afflict some other sense (blindsense, tremorsense etc.)Animate: I want to include animate plants. Waive the arcane surcharge.Animate Dead: Increase create greater undead subseed SP from 20 to 28 to reflect 1-hour casting time.Contact: Reduce the interplanar factor of telepathic bond from +4 to +2: precedent SC p.125; interplanar telepathic bond is only sor/wiz 6. Maybe increase the sending SP by +6 to relect 10-min casting time of root spell: this seems pretty harsh, though. It might be offset by reducing the additional targets SP from +6 to +2 and adding an 'for each additional 25 words' clause at +1.Delude: Increase screen subseed from SP 20 to SP 26 to refelct 10-minute casting time. I'm cool with this, as screen is pretty potent.Energy: Add sonic effect at either +4 SP or at same SP but 10d4. I incline towards the former, or the wall of ... function gets difficult to manage.Force: I think the combination resilient sphere and wall of force works, as the root resilient sphere is susceptible to greater dispel magic and an epic spell derived from this seed is not. Epic dispel can hit them both, anyway. I think we can waive the 1-level discrepancy.Foresee: Increase SP for divination and contact other plane by +6 in both instances to reflect 10-minute casting time. Including moment of prescience and foresight would be nice, but foresight is notoriously subject to DM interpretation. Moment of prescience was originally excluded because of Spellcraft inflation - I didn't get round to putting it back in.Heal, Harrow, Life: Been there, done that.Reveal: Increase the SP by +6 and base scrying subseed on greater scrying (20 hrs) instead. Increasing clairaudience SP by +6 (10 minute casting) seems too much: a greater clairaudience (lvl 7, 1 hr/level) to mirror greater scrying seems wholly reasonable. Reduce interplanar factor from +10 to +4. Increase Discern location function by +6 to reflect casting time. Hate the other factors - this seed needs serious work.Transmute: Turn A into B (not polymorph). This one's a headache - I want to include transmute rock to mud and flesh to stone but also some effects from polymorph any object (which is broken). Somehow translate the weird sympathetic magic durations of poly any object into factors: all would be permanent.</blockquote>

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