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List of arcane spells without somatic components?

Shin Okada

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Do anybody have a list of arcane spells without somatic components for 3.5e? Better if that list includes spells from Miniature Handbook and Complete Warrior.

I am planning to play some fighter mage type of character, maybe a spellsword. But as I will play that character from lower levels, he may suffer from arcane failure chance in the middle of his career. So I want to know which spell can he cast without somatic components. Thanks in advance.
 

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I don't have a full 3.5e list to hand, but off the top of my head a couple of good ones are truestrike (1st) and blur (2nd) and blindness(2nd)
 

Boredom at work, and ways to fight it.... here's the PHB spells a-la SRD:


Blindness/Deafness
Blur
Charm Monster, Mass
Contact Other Plane
Darkness
Dimension Door
Displacement
Feather Fall
Flare
Geas/Quest
Geas, Lesser
Hold Portal
Irresistible Dance
Knock
Light
Mage’s Disjunction
Phase Door
Power Word Blind
Power Word Kill
Power Word Stun
Prismatic Sphere
Shout
Suggestion
Teleport
Teleport Object
Teleport, Greater
Teleportation Circle
Time Stop
Tongues
True Strike
Ventriloquism
Wail of the Banshee
Wish

A lot of movement, and a lot of 9th level spells.

Bards get a few extra that are verbal just for them (anything with the word pattern in it, in fact).
 

Only one from Complete Warrior is Cursed Blade: Ass4 or Hex4.

From Miniatures Handbook:
Baleful Transposition (Sor/Wiz 2)
Benign Transposition (Sor/Wiz 1)
Blades of Fire (Sor/Wiz 2)
Slide (Sor/Wiz 1)
Slide, Greater (Sor/Wiz 2)

SRD ones, with levels:

Blindness/Deafness (Sor/Wiz 2)
Blur (Sor/Wiz 2)
Charm Monster, Mass (Sor/Wiz 8)
Contact Other Plane (Sor/Wiz 5)
Darkness (Sor/Wiz 2)
Dimension Door (Sor/Wiz 4)
Displacement (Sor/Wiz 3)
Feather Fall (Sor/Wiz 1)
Flare (Sor/Wiz 0)
Geas/Quest (Sor/Wiz 6)
Geas, Lesser (Sor/Wiz 4)
Hold Portal (Sor/Wiz 1)
Irresistible Dance (Sor/Wiz 8)
Knock (Sor/Wiz 2)
Light (Sor/Wiz 0)
Mage’s Disjunction (Sor/Wiz 9)
Phase Door (Sor/Wiz 7)
Power Word Blind (Sor/Wiz 7)
Power Word Kill (Sor/Wiz 9)
Power Word Stun (Sor/Wiz 8)
Prismatic Sphere (Sor/Wiz 9)
Shout (Sor/Wiz 4)
Suggestion (Sor/Wiz 3)
Teleport (Sor/Wiz 5)
Teleport Object (Sor/Wiz 7)
Teleport, Greater (Sor/Wiz 7)
Teleportation Circle (Sor/Wiz 9)
Time Stop (Sor/Wiz 9)
Tongues (Sor/Wiz 3)
True Strike (Sor/Wiz 1)
Ventriloquism (Sor/Wiz 1)
Wail of the Banshee (Sor/Wiz 9)
Wish (sor/Wiz 9)
 

Shin Okada said:
Do anybody have a list of arcane spells without somatic components for 3.5e? Better if that list includes spells from Miniature Handbook and Complete Warrior.

I am planning to play some fighter mage type of character, maybe a spellsword. But as I will play that character from lower levels, he may suffer from arcane failure chance in the middle of his career. So I want to know which spell can he cast without somatic components. Thanks in advance.

This Excel sheet has all the spells from the 3.5 SRD and Complete Warrior in a normalized data format. Use the AutoFilter to answer these kinds of questions fast. Lots of other pertinent data in there too. I posted this previously under my other handle, jdfrenzel. Enjoy!
 

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Thank you guys. I have been thinking about Paladin 2/Sorcerer 4/Spellsword x but now start to consider Paladin 2/Sorcerer 4/Havoc Mage 1 or 2/Spellsword x. Battlecast + True Strike + Powerattack seems nice.
 

In addition to these, you might want to consider spells that are cast well in advance of combat, or out of combat altogether. In these situations, you have time to get into and out of your armor to avoid Spell Failure.
Some examples:
L1: Comprehend Languages
L2: Protection From Arrows, False Life
L3: Tongues
L4: Scrying
L5: Prying Eyes, Overland Flight
 

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