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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DM_Jeff" data-source="post: 3080384" data-attributes="member: 3687">Wow, I love it, away for a few hours and over 20 responses, thank you all! I've cut and pasted the best suggestions and will do a little homework tonight. As it is, I don't really consider the spell broken as much as suddenly being used frequently because the players think they found an easy out. They're challenging me a bit, that's all.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> We've always played that once a spellcaster realizes he hears nothing, most wizards get what happened and know the area of a silence spell. Simply move at least 20 feet in a direction, and once your hearing is restored, you can react by casting a spell after the movement with no additional penalties. What I'm getting however are really canny players who corner the spellcaster. I don't want to houserule this in the middle of the campaign (and as is don't really consider it broken, been using it for years without too much hassle!).I already tried looking up wands and the like, they all require a spoken activation word. Curses! Ventriliquism would be tough too. It already has a V component. And if you;'re curious I'm running Red Hand of Doom, which specifically handles reporting PC actions to others, so my future folks will be ready for this tactic, I just didn't want to completely nerf it with every sdpellcaster having the same bizarre items to cancel it.Here's one to wrap your head around: I almost ruled a Mindbender with telepathy could cast his "command" in a silenced area by saying the verbal component, the command, telepathically to the target! But I didn't.These suggestions are great, thanks again!!-DM Jeff</blockquote>

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