I've got the D&D Spell Compendium- Any questions?

[mirivor]

could you tell me if the spells are arranged by class access, divine or arcane, school, alphabetized? This is a big thing to me. I do not like the system that the PHB uses. I am not sure what system I am looking for, but it is not the current one.

 

[danbuter]

I'm assuming the PHB spells are not in the book, correct?

 

[Haffrung Helleyes]

Spell Compendium

The PHB spells are not in the book.

The spells are arranged in the same fashion that they are arranged in the PHB.

There are 2 9th level Divination Sorcerer/Wizards Spells: Eye of Power and Hindsight. Eye of Power is like Arcane Eye, but you can cast spells of third level or lower through it, and the eye is visible and corporeal -- a fine object with AC 18 and 77hp.

Hindsight is Sor/Wiz9 (and Bard6). It lets you see what happened in the past in a 60' emanation from you, with a level of detail that depends on whether your timeframe is days, weeks, years, or centuries. I'm not sure why they made this a 9th level spell, to be honest. It even has a 1000gp material component.

Ken

 

[Haffrung Helleyes]

Spell Compendium

It's 285 pages, and $39.95.

Ken

 

[Haffrung Helleyes]

Spell Compendium

Here's a powerful spell from the Spell Compendium:

Owl's Insight
Druid 5
Target: creature touched
Duration: 1 hour

The subject gains an insight bonus to Wisdom equal to 1/2 your caster level.

Ken

 

[Gothmog]

Gothmog, are there any 2e spells updated to 3.x for the first time? I was hoping that some of the 2e spells would be added.

As for the comments on Orb of Force, its ranged touch and the damage caps at 10d6. I think its ok having no SR. Its one of my LG wizard cohort's favorite spell

thanks!

Mike

Nope, I don't see any 2e spells updated to 3.5. However, Necromancer Games Eldritch Sorcery supplement is exactly what you're looking for if you're wanting 2e spells updated to 3.5. Its a great product as well.

 

[Sammael]

Here's a powerful spell from the Spell Compendium:

Owl's Insight
Druid 5
Target: creature touched
Duration: 1 hour

The subject gains an insight bonus to Wisdom equal to 1/2 your caster level.

Ken

I.e. a free +5 to spell DC for druid spells (on top of owl's Wisdom, even). It was originally in MoF, and I was hoping they'd get rid of it. It's way too much.

 

[Kobold Avenger]

Did they bring back that bouncing fireball spell from Magic of Faerun, and fixed it so that it doesn't cause damage again if it moves over someones square again?

What about those spells that were variations on Evard's Black Tentacles?

Are there more Sonic Damage spells? And how many of them are bard spells?


And yeah Hindsight sucks as a 9th level wiz/sor spell, as there's a 2nd level psionic power (Sensitivity to Psychic Impressions) which does almost the same thing.

 

[GQuail]

There are a couple of options around this. The first is Steve's Spell list (maintained by several folks and in a few different versions, but out of date these days) or SpellGen at http://d20spellbook.home.comcast.net/. Either of them will allow you to generate a list of your characters spells (although Steves may take some hairy data entry) and include book/page references.

I admit to a certain level of bias, as I was a beta tester for SG.

Granted, you still end up carrying a lot of books around, but you can find what you need. Check it out.

Well, I had tried this program before, and instead of getting a usefull collection of spells, got into a curious infintie loop of downloading .NET framework updates and patches which didn't seem to ever get me anywhere closer to it running. :-(

I did search online and find some otehr things that do a similar job (my Druid currently has a spreadsheet made up which calculates out distances, saves etc for his spells) but even then, for efficiency, I'd rather my players on ly had to deal with as few books as possible: in this case, two books for my spellcasting PCs. There is no way I would pu tup with players hunting through Dragons, sourcebooks and a stack of Wizards print-outs while we play, slowing the game to a crawl: that's the purview of the DM only.

 

[tristan_tewksbury]

Well, I had tried this program before, and instead of getting a usefull collection of spells, got into a curious infintie loop of downloading .NET framework updates and patches which didn't seem to ever get me anywhere closer to it running. :-(

That's too bad. I don't know what to tell you about that as I have never seen anything like that happen.

I did search online and find some otehr things that do a similar job (my Druid currently has a spreadsheet made up which calculates out distances, saves etc for his spells) but even then, for efficiency, I'd rather my players on ly had to deal with as few books as possible: in this case, two books for my spellcasting PCs. There is no way I would put up with players hunting through Dragons, sourcebooks and a stack of Wizards print-outs while we play, slowing the game to a crawl: that's the purview of the DM only.

Well, the new compendium would certainly cut down on the number you needed to have

As for not wanting your players to hunt through all kinds of books, I agree. One of the nice bits about SG is you can specify *which* references to use when generating the list. The program was made by someone in my gaming group, and we only use less than half the references available ourselves. The "shorthand" description often serves as sufficient reminder, but if more detail is needed the page reference is available.

To each their own. If it doesn't work for you then you wouldn't use it. I am certainly not implying you are not following the "one true way" or anything Just trying to help.

Good Gaming!