D&D 5E Is posting spells against the rules?

[Lanliss]

I got an idea to change wizard around. I can do it on my own, but wouldn't mind throwing it at greater minds than I. Would it be against any rules, either ENworld ones or Legal rules, to post every spell in the PHB? My gut feeling is "yes", but I am not sure...

 

[Jester David]

SRD spells wouldn't be illegal, as long as you quoted the OGL too. But that's a lot of text.
If you don't need to post the full text of every spell I likely wouldn't.

 

[Leatherhead]

Do you mean the Names of every spell, or the Rules of every spell?

Because I am sure the second one is going to get someone in trouble.

 

[Lanliss]

To clarify, I intend to add a "second tier" of sorts to wizard spells, basically better/worse versions of them that are locked for all but specific Wizard traditions. Hoping to make your chosen tradition stand out more. It promises to be a pretty massive undertaking, so I was curious if I was allowed to post the spells to get help with it. Not too important, I will see what I can manage myself, and only bring it to you all if I get stuck.

 

[CapnZapp]

Start by focusing on one spell - show us your variant versions of that spell.

That should make us understand what your idea is, start discussion, and not get anyone into trouble.

 

[Leatherhead]

To clarify, I intend to add a "second tier" of sorts to wizard spells, basically better/worse versions of them that are locked for all but specific Wizard traditions. Hoping to make your chosen tradition stand out more. It promises to be a pretty massive undertaking, so I was curious if I was allowed to post the spells to get help with it. Not too important, I will see what I can manage myself, and only bring it to you all if I get stuck.

That is a crazy amount of work.
I highly recommenced adopting the "Tradition gets theirs better" idea if you do this. A Fireball is a Fireball no matter if a wizard, Cleric, Sorcerer, or even Fighter cast it; all classes use the same rules for the spell. And having one exception for a tradition is less to keep track of than having 10 or more exceptions for every other tradition. Although I think what you are trying to do would be easier if you reworked the traditions themselves.

 

[Lanliss]

That is a crazy amount of work.
I highly recommenced adopting the "Tradition gets theirs better" idea if you do this. A Fireball is a Fireball no matter if a wizard, Cleric, Sorcerer, or even Fighter cast it; all classes use the same rules for the spell. And having one exception for a tradition is less to keep track of than having 10 or more exceptions for every other tradition. Although I think what you are trying to do would be easier if you reworked the traditions themselves.

You must have misunderstood me. What you are saying is what I meant. For example, take Shield. I could say

Shield
+5 AC until beginning of your next turn.
Abjuration get advantage on all concentration checks from attacks while Shield is active.

Or

Shield
+2 AC until start of next turn.
Abjuration +5 AC until start of next turn.

Depending on if I think standard Shield spell is good enough or not.

 

[pukunui]

If I were doing this, I would just post the changes, but not the full text of any spell. I don't even think that's necessary. We've all got access to the rules. We can look up the full text if we need to. Just mention a spell and the parts you want to change, and you (and we) should be good to go.

 

[BoldItalic]

Why not post the principles that you are wanting to apply? For example:

If you cast a spell of your specialist school:

• If it requires you to make an attack roll, you get advantage.
• If it requires the target to make a saving throw, you add +5 to your spell DC
• Otherwise, it counts as if you had used a spell slot one level higher

That sort of thing. Not saying those are the rules you have in mind, but tell us what yours would be.

 

[Lanliss]

Why not post the principles that you are wanting to apply? For example:

If you cast a spell of your specialist school:

• If it requires you to make an attack roll, you get advantage.
• If it requires the target to make a saving throw, you add +5 to your spell DC
• Otherwise, it counts as if you had used a spell slot one level higher

That sort of thing. Not saying those are the rules you have in mind, but tell us what yours would be.

I will see about that once I start on it. I know a good number will be simple things, like Evocation wizards dealing more damage than others with their Evocation spells (maybe 1die size bigger?) but the more corner case spells will probably be unique to each spell.