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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Szatany" data-source="post: 3167969" data-attributes="member: 21178">To put quite simply, these are altered spells in my games. Some of the changes I haven't been able to playtest yet, but they look good on paper (at least to me). I'm using them with ultimate classes, but they work in normal games equally well.SPELLSAlter SelfTransmutationLevel: Brd 2, Sor/Wiz 2Components: V, SCasting Time: 1 standard actionRange: PersonalTarget: YouDuration: 10 min./level (D)You assume the form of a creature roughly similar to you and of your size. The new form can be imaginary and you cannot assume the shape of any specific person. You can change into a member of your own kind or even into yourself.You gain +2 bonus on any physical ability score. You retain all special attacks and qualities of your original form, except for those requiring a body part that the new form does not have (such as a mouth for a breath weapon or eyes for a gaze attack).If the new form is capable of speech, you can communicate normally. You retain any spellcasting ability you had in your original form, but the new form must be able to speak intelligibly (that is, speak a language) to use verbal components and must have limbs capable of fine manipulation to use somatic or material components.You also gain one of the following abilities per 3 caster levels (maximum 3 abilities at level 9), provided the new form has appropriate body parts. Each ability can be taken only once. Those are:<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Fly speed 10 (poor) (requires wings)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Climb speed 20 (requires claws or 6 legs)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Burrowing speed 10 (requires claws)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Swim speed 20</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Natural armor bonus 2 (requires either scales or thick fur)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Natural attack that deals 1d6 + Str modifier damage (requires appropriate appendage or mouth)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Damage Reduction 2/-</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">+4 racial bonus to one of the following skills: Hide (requires coloration), Listen, Move Silently, Spot (requires eyes), Survival</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Low-light vision (requires eyes)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Immunity to blindness (requires lack of eyes, but you are not blind because of this spell)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Immunity to deafness (requires lack of ears, but you are not deaf because of this spell)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Scent</li> </ul>If you alter self as a member of existing race, you are disguised as an average member of that race and you get a +10 bonus on your Disguise check.When the change occurs, all your equipment that cannot be worn by your new form falls to the ground.Any part of your body that is separated from the whole reverts to its true form.Astral ProjectionNecromancyLevel: Clr 9, Sor/Wiz 9, Travel 9Components: V, S, MCasting Time: 30 minutesRange: TouchTargets: You plus one additional willing creature touched per two caster levelsDuration: See textSaving Throw: NoneSpell Resistance: YesBy freeing your spirit from your physical body, this spell allows you to project an astral body onto another plane altogether.You can bring the astral forms of other willing creatures with you, provided that these subjects are linked in a circle with you at the time of the casting. These fellow travelers are dependent upon you and must accompany you at all times. If something happens to you during the journey, your companions return to their bodies immediately.You project your astral self onto the Astral Plane, leaving your physical body behind on the Material Plane in a state of suspended animation. The spell projects an astral copy of you and all you wear or carry onto the Astral Plane. Since the Astral Plane touches upon other planes, you can travel astrally to any of these other planes as you will. To enter one, you leave the Astral Plane, forming a new physical body (and equipment) on the plane of existence you have chosen to enter, while your old body simultaneously decays into a poo of green slime. Should destruction of your old body be impossible, new one will not be formed and you might be trapped in your astral form indefinitely.While you are on the Astral Plane, your astral body is connected at all times to your physical body by a silvery cord. If the cord is broken, you are killed, astrally and physically. Although astral projections are able to function on the Astral Plane, their actions affect only creatures existing on the Astral Plane; a physical body must be materialized on other planes.You and your companions may travel through the Astral Plane indefinitely. Your bodies simply wait behind until you choose to return your spirits to them or form new ones. The spell lasts until you desire to end it, or until it is terminated by some outside means, such as dispel magic cast upon either the physical body or the astral form, the breaking of the silver cord, or the destruction of your body back on the Material Plane (which kills you).Material Component: A jacinth worth at least 1,000 gp, plus a silver bar worth 5 gp for each person to be affected.AwakenTransmutationLevel: Drd 5Components: V, S, DF, XPCasting Time: 24 hoursRange: TouchTarget: Animal or tree touchedDuration: InstantaneousSaving Throw: Will negatesSpell Resistance: YesYou awaken a tree or animal to humanlike sentience. To succeed, you must make a Will save (DC 10 + the animal’s current HD, or the HD the tree will have once awakened).The awakened animal or tree is friendly toward you. You have no special empathy or connection with a creature you awaken, although it serves you in specific tasks or endeavors if you communicate your desires to it.An awakened tree has characteristics as if it were an animated object, except that it gains the plant type and its Intelligence, Wisdom, and Charisma scores are each 3d6. An awakened plant gains the ability to move its limbs, roots, vines, creepers, and so forth, and it has senses similar to a human’s.An awakened animal gets 3d6 Intelligence, +1d3 Charisma, and +2 HD. Its type becomes magical beast (augmented animal). An awakened animal can’t serve as an animal companion, familiar, or special mount.An awakened tree or animal can speak one language that you know, plus one additional language that you know per point of Intelligence bonus (if any).You cannot awaken a creature that has 3 or more Intelligence score (not even when that score is drained, reduced, or damaged).XP Cost: 250 XP.Blasphemy (same changes apply to Dictum/Holy Word/Word of Chaos)Evocation [Evil, Sonic]Level: Clr 7, Evil 7Components: VCasting Time: 1 standard actionRange: 40 ft.Area: Nonevil creatures in a 40-ft.-radius spread centered on youDuration: InstantaneousSaving Throw: Will partial; see textSpell Resistance: YesAny nonevil creature within the area of a blasphemy spell suffers the following ill effects.[code][B]HD                    Effect[/B]Equal to caster level    DazedUp to caster level –1    Weakened, dazedUp to caster level –5    Paralyzed, weakened, dazedUp to caster level –10    Killed, paralyzed, weakened, dazed[/code]The effects are cumulative and concurrent.Dazed: The creature can take no actions for 1 round, though it defends itself normally.Weakened: The creature’s Strength score decreases by 2d6 points for 2d4 rounds.Paralyzed: The creature is paralyzed and helpless for 1d10 minutes.Killed: Living creatures die. Undead creatures are destroyed.Furthermore, if you are on your home plane when you cast this spell, nonevil extraplanar creatures within the area are instantly banished back to their home planes. Creatures so banished cannot return for at least 24 hours. This effect takes place regardless of whether the creatures hear the blasphemy.Creatures whose Hit Dice exceed your caster level are unaffected by blasphemy.Whenever a creature makes successful Will save, it suffers blasphemy's effects as if it was one HD category stronger. For example, if a creature would normally be weakened and dazed on a failed save, it is only dazed on a successful save. A creature with HD equal to the caster level suffers no ill effects of this spell if it makes a successful Will save.Neutral (neither good nor evil) creatures gain +4 bonus on Will save.Cure Minor WoundsConjuration (Healing)Level: Clr 0, Drd 0This spell functions like cure light wounds, except that it cures only 1d3 points of damage.Dimension DoorConjuration (Teleportation)Level: Brd 4, Sor/Wiz 4, Travel 4Components: VCasting Time: 1 standard actionRange: Long (400 ft. + 40 ft./level)Target: You and touched objects or other touched willing creaturesDuration: InstantaneousSaving Throw: None and Will negates (object)Spell Resistance: No and Yes (object)You instantly transfer yourself from your current location to any other spot you can see within range. You always arrive at exactly the spot desired. After using this spell, you can’t take any other actions until your next turn. You can bring along objects as long as their weight doesn’t exceed your maximum load. You may also bring one additional willing Medium or smaller creature (carrying gear or objects up to its maximum load) or its equivalent per three caster levels. A Large creature counts as two Medium creatures, a Huge creature counts as two Large creatures, and so forth. All creatures to be transported must be in contact with one another, and at least one of those creatures must be in contact with you.Divine PowerEvocationLevel: Clr 4, War 4Components: V, S, DFCasting Time: 1 standard actionRange: PersonalTarget: YouDuration: 1 round/levelCalling upon the divine power of your patron, you imbue yourself with strength and skill in combat. You gain a +10 enhancement bonus to Strength, and you gain 1 temporary hit point per caster level.Enlarge PersonTransmutationLevel: Sor/Wiz 1, Strength 1Components: V, S, MCasting Time: 1 roundRange: Close (25 ft. + 5 ft./2 levels)Target: One huge or smaller humanoid or giantDuration: 1 min./level (D)Saving Throw: Fortitude negatesSpell Resistance: YesThis spell causes instant growth of a humanoid creature, giving it in essence powerful build ability. Affected subject can function in many ways as if he was one size category larger. Whenever the subject is subject to a size modifier or special size modifier for an opposed check (such as during grapple checks, bull rush attempts, and trip attempts), the subject is treated as one size larger if doing so is advantageous to him. The subject is also considered to be one size larger when determining whether a creature’s special attacks based on size (such as improved grab or swallow whole) can affect him. The subject can use weapons designed for a creature one size larger without penalty. However, his space and reach remain those of a creature of his actual size. The benefits of this racial trait stack with the effects of powers, abilities, and spells that change the subject’s size category.Enlarge person has no effect on a creature that already has powerful build ability.Enlarge person counters and dispels reduce person.Enlarge person can be made permanent with a permanency spell.Material Component: A pinch of powdered iron.FabricateTransmutationLevel: Sor/Wiz 5Components: V, S, MCasting Time: See textRange: Close (25 ft. + 5 ft./2 levels)Target: Up to 10 cu. ft./level; see textDuration: InstantaneousSaving Throw: NoneSpell Resistance: NoYou convert material of one sort into a product that is of the same material. Creatures or magic items cannot be created or transmuted by the fabricate spell. The quality of items made by this spell is commensurate with the quality of material used as the basis for the new fabrication. If you work with a mineral, the target is reduced to 1 cubic foot per level instead of 10 cubic feet.You cannot fabricate articles requiring a high degree of craftsmanship (craft's DC 15 or higher).Casting requires 1 round per 10 cubic feet (or 1 cubic foot) of material to be affected by the spell.Material Component: The original material, which costs the same amount as the raw materials required to craft the item to be created.Fire SeedsConjuration (Creation) [Fire]Level: Drd 6, Fire 6, Sun 6Components: V, S, MCasting Time: 1 standard actionRange: TouchTargets: Up to four touched acorns or up to eight touched holly berriesDuration: 10 min./level or until usedSaving Throw: None or Reflex half; see textSpell Resistance: NoDepending on the version of fire seeds you choose, you turn acorns into splash weapons that you or another character can throw, or you turn holly berries into bombs that you can detonate on command.Acorn Grenades: As many as four acorns turn into special splash weapons that can be thrown with 10 ft. range increment. A ranged touch attack roll is required to strike the intended target. You can throw more than one acorn at the same target at a time, but it's difficult. For each acorn you throw beyond first with the same action, you suffer -1 penalty on that attack roll. Each acorn explodes upon striking any hard surface and deals 3d6 points of fire damage. In addition to its regular fire damage, it deals 1d6 points of splash damage, and it ignites any combustible materials within 10 feet. A creature within this area that makes a successful Reflex saving throw takes only half damage; a creature struck directly is not allowed a saving throw.Holly Berry Bombs: You turn as many as eight holly berries into special bombs. The holly berries are usually placed by hand, since they are too light to make effective thrown weapons (they can be tossed only 5 feet). If you are within 200 feet and speak a word of command, each berry instantly bursts into flame, causing 1d8 points of fire damage to every creature in a 5-foot radius burst and igniting any combustible materials within 5 feet. A creature in the area that makes a successful Reflex saving throw takes only half damage.You can have up to 4 acorns or 8 berries enchanted at one time.Material Component: The acorns or holly berries.Fire StormEvocation [Fire]Level: Clr 8, Drd 7, Fire 7Components: V, SCasting Time: 1 roundRange: Medium (100 ft. + 10 ft./level)Area: Cylinder (40-ft. radius, 160 ft. high)Duration: InstantaneousSaving Throw: Reflex halfSpell Resistance: YesWhen a fire storm spell is cast, the whole area is shot through with sheets of roaring flame. The raging flames do not harm natural vegetation, ground cover, and any plant creatures in the area that you wish to exclude from damage. Any other creature within the area takes 1d6 points of fire damage per caster level (maximum 20d6).FlyTransmutationLevel: Sor/Wiz 3, Travel 3Components: V, S, F/DFCasting Time: 1 standard actionRange: TouchTarget: Creature touchedDuration: 1 min./levelSaving Throw: Will negates (harmless)Spell Resistance: Yes (harmless)The subject can fly at a speed of 60 feet (or 40 feet if it wears medium or heavy armor, or if it carries a medium or heavy load). It can ascend at half speed and descend at double speed, and its maneuverability is good. Using a fly spell requires only as much concentration as walking, so the subject can attack or cast spells normally. The subject of a fly spell can charge but not run, and it cannot carry aloft more weight than its maximum load, plus any armor it wears.Should the spell duration expire while the subject is still aloft, he falls to the ground, taking 1d6 points of damage per 10 feet of fall. Depending on the height he was at, falling may take more than one round, at which time spellcasting, among other activities, is possible, but with a -4 penalty.Arcane Focus: A wing feather from any bird.ForbiddanceAbjurationLevel: Clr 6Components: V, S, M, DFCasting Time: 6 roundsRange: Medium (100 ft. + 10 ft./level)Area: 60-ft. cube/level (S)Duration: PermanentSaving Throw: See textSpell Resistance: YesForbiddance seals an area against all planar travel into or within it. This includes all teleportation spells (such as dimension door and teleport), plane shifting, astral travel, ethereal travel, and all summoning spells. Such effects simply fail automatically.In addition, it damages entering creatures whose alignments are different from yours. The effect on those attempting to enter the warded area is based on their alignment relative to yours (see below). A creature inside the area when the spell is cast takes no damage unless it exits the area and attempts to reenter, at which time it is affected as normal.Alignments identical: No effect. The creature may enter the area freely (although not by planar travel).Alignments different with respect to either law/chaos or good/evil: The creature takes 6d6 points of damage. A successful Will save halves the damage, and spell resistance applies.Alignments different with respect to both law/chaos and good/evil: The creature takes 12d6 points of damage. A successful Will save halves the damage, and spell resistance applies.At your option, the abjuration can include a password, in which case creatures of alignments different from yours can avoid the damage by speaking the password as they enter the area. You must select this option (and the password) at the time of casting.Dispel magic does not dispel a forbiddance effect unless the dispeller’s level is at least as high as your caster level.You can’t have multiple overlapping forbiddance effects. In such a case, the more recent effect stops at the boundary of the older effect.Material Component: A sprinkling of holy water and rare incenses worth at least 150 gp, plus 150 gp per 60-foot cube. If a password is desired, this requires the burning of additional rare incenses which doubles the price.Freedom of MovementAbjurationLevel: Brd 4, Clr 4, Drd 4, Luck 4, Rgr 4Components: V, S, M, DFCasting Time: 1 standard actionRange: Personal or touchTarget: You or creature touchedDuration: 1 min./levelSaving Throw: Will negates (harmless)Spell Resistance: Yes (harmless)This spell enables you or a creature you touch to move and act normally for the duration of the spell. While under the effects of this spell, the subject enjoys the following benefits:<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Under the influence of spell or effect that impedes movement but doesn't allow a save or skill check to ignore the effect, the subject has 75% chance to ignore the effect for one round. [*]Under the influence of spell or effect that impedes movement and allows a save or skill check to ignore the effect (such as grapple or pin), the subject gains bonus on said save or check equal to the caster level.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Underwater, the spell allows the subject to move and attack normally, even with slashing weapons such as axes and swords or with bludgeoning weapons such as flails, hammers, and maces, provided that the weapon is wielded in the hand rather than hurled. The freedom of movement spell does not, however, allow water breathing.</li> </ul>Material Component: A leather thong, bound around the arm or a similar appendage.GateConjuration (Creation or Calling)Level: Clr 9, Sor/Wiz 9Components: V, SCasting Time: 1 minuteRange: Medium (100 ft. + 10 ft./level)Effect: See textDuration: Instantaneous or concentration (up to 1 round/level); see textSaving Throw: None or Will negates; see textSpell Resistance: NoCasting a gate spell has two effects. First, it creates an interdimensional connection between your plane of existence and a plane you specify, allowing travel between those two planes in either direction.Second, you may then call a particular individual or kind of being through the gate.The gate itself is a circular hoop or disk from 5 to 20 feet in diameter (your choice), oriented in the direction you desire when it comes into existence (typically vertical and facing you). It is a two-dimensional window looking into the plane you specified when casting the spell, and anyone or anything that moves through is shunted instantly to the other side.A gate has a front and a back. Creatures moving through the gate from the front are transported to the other plane; creatures moving through it from the back are not.Planar Travel: As a mode of planar travel, a gate spell functions much like a plane shift spell, except that the gate opens precisely at the point you desire (a creation effect). Deities and other beings who rule a planar realm can prevent a gate from opening in their presence or personal demesnes if they so desire. Travelers need not join hands with you—anyone who chooses to step through the portal is transported. A gate cannot be opened to another point on the same plane; the spell works only for interplanar travel.You may hold the gate open only for a brief time (no more than 1 round per caster level), and you must concentrate on doing so, or else the interplanar connection is severed.Calling Creatures: The second effect of the gate spell is to call an extraplanar creature to your aid (a calling effect). By naming a particular being or kind of being as you cast the spell, you cause the gate to open in the immediate vicinity of the desired creature and pull the subject through, willing or unwilling. Deities and creatures with at least 6 HD more than your caster level are under no compulsion to come through the gate, although they may choose to do so of their own accord. All other creatures can make a Will save to resist the pulling of the gate. This use of the spell creates a gate that remains open for just a moment - whether or not the subject is pulled.You may call either a single creature or several creatures. You can call several creatures as long as their HD total does not exceed your caster level +5. Creatures you gate are not controlled. An uncontrolled being acts as it pleases, making the calling of such creatures rather dangerous. An uncontrolled being may return to its home plane at any time.Note: When you use a calling spell such as gate to call an air, chaotic, earth, evil, fire, good, lawful, or water creature, it becomes a spell of that type.HarmNecromancyLevel: Clr 6, Destruction 6Components: V, SCasting Time: 1 standard actionRange: TouchTarget: Creature touchedDuration: InstantaneousSaving Throw: Will half; see textSpell Resistance: YesHarm charges a subject with negative energy that deals 10 points of damage per caster level (to a maximum of 150 points at 15th level). If the creature successfully saves, harm deals half this amount.Harm cannot reduce the target’s hit points to less than -8.If used on an undead creature, harm acts like heal.Hold PersonEnchantment (Compulsion) [Mind-Affecting]Level: Brd 2, Clr 2, Sor/Wiz 3Components: V, S, F/DFCasting Time: 1 standard actionRange: Medium (100 ft. + 10 ft./level)Target: One humanoid creatureDuration: 1 round/level (D)Saving Throw: Will negatesSpell Resistance: YesThe subject becomes paralyzed and freezes in place. It is aware and breathes normally but cannot take any actions, even speech.A winged creature who is paralyzed cannot flap its wings and falls. A swimmer can’t swim and may drown.If any enemy begins a hostile action (such as casting a offensive spell, making an attack, stealing a purse, and silmilar activities), the subject becomes free to act again and can defend against the action in a normal manner.Arcane Focus: A small, straight piece of iron.IdentifyDivinationLevel: Brd 1, Magic 2, Sor/Wiz 1Components: V, S, MCasting Time: 1 hourRange: TouchTargets: One touched objectDuration: InstantaneousSaving Throw: NoneSpell Resistance: NoThe spell determines all magic properties of a single magic item, including how to activate those functions (if appropriate), and how many charges are left (if any).Identify does not function when used on an artifact.Material Component: A pearl of at least 100 gp value, crushed and stirred into wine with an owl feather; the infusion must be drunk prior to spellcasting.Inflict Minor WoundsNecromancyLevel: Clr 0Saving Throw: Will negatesThis spell functions like inflict light wounds, except that you deal 1d3 points of damage and a Will save negates the damage instead of halving it.MiracleUniversalcoming soonMordenkainen's DisjunctionAbjurationLevel: Magic 9, Sor/Wiz 9Components: VCasting Time: 1 standard actionRange: Close (25 ft. + 5 ft./2 levels)Area: All magical effects and magic items within a 40-ft.-radius burstDuration: InstantaneousSaving Throw: Will negates (object)Spell Resistance: NoAll magical effects and magic items within the radius of the spell, except for those that you carry or touch, are disjoined. That is, spells and spell-like effects are separated into their individual components (ending the effect as a dispel magic spell does), and each permanent magic item must make a successful Will save or be turned into a normal item for 1 week. An item in a creature’s possession uses its own Will save bonus or its possessor’s Will save bonus, whichever is higher.You also have a 50% chance of destroying an antimagic field. If the antimagic field survives the disjunction, no items within it are disjoined.Artifacts and epic items are immune to disjunction.</blockquote>

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