New Epic Spell: Awaken the Draconic Soul. Opinions, please.

[Kweezil]

This is a spell that an NPC archmage in my campaign world developed after discovering one of her family's dark secrets (her great grandmother was a silver dragon). So far she is the only person to recieve the benefits of the spell, and she intends to keep it that way. Opinions?

Awaken the Draconic Soul
Transmutation
Spellcraft DC: 65
Components: V, S, M, XP
Casting Time: 3 days
Range: Touch
Target: One willing creature
Duration: Instantaneous
Saving Throw: Fortitude negates
Spell Resistance: Yes
To Develop: 549,000gp, 10 days, 21,960xp. Seed: Transform into half-dragon (DC 39) dragon type, breath weapon, immunities, template race (ad hoc +10 DC). Factors: change duration to Instantaneous (ad hoc x4 DC). Mitigating factors: burn 10,000 xp (-100 DC). increase casting time to 3 days (-26 DC), rare material component (ad hoc -5 DC)

Through a long and complex ritual, during which you exsanguinate the target and replace their blood with the material component, you awaken the spark of draconic might in a creature, transforming them into a half-dragon. The half-dragon template is applied as normal to the target. Only creatures with a draconic heritage can benefit from this spell (DM's discretion) and the target becomes a half-dragon of the same breed as their ancestor. The transformation is instantaneous and therefore cannot be dispelled, disjoined or suppressed by antimagic.

Material component: Enough fresh blood from the chosen type of dragon to fill the circulatory system of the target (around 7 pints for a human). This must be given freely by the dragon, without coertion.
XP Cost: 10,000 xp

 

[justinsluder]

I've been thinking of something similar, only with the Paragon and Pseudonatural templates,

How scared would you be facing a 42nd level pseudonatural Bbn?

Justin Sluder

 

[Upper_Krust]

Hi Kweezil mate!

I have to ask - where did you get hold of the Epic Level Handbook so quickly?

Oh...and are you going to GenconUK?

 

[Kweezil]

Heya, UK

I have to ask - where did you get hold of the Epic Level Handbook so quickly?

Amazon.co.uk, I had it pre-ordered.

Oh...and are you going to GenconUK?

'Fraid not. I had been planning on driving down with a few friends, but they all decided to go the the Gathering instead, so no transport

 

[wolff96]

The spell looks okay to me...

I just have a problem with the "flavor text" side of it.

While casting a THREE DAY spell, you also have to drain all the blood out of your own body and replace it with dragon's blood. Wow. It really stinks to be an arcanist, some days.

 

[Kweezil]

The spell looks okay to me...

I just have a problem with the "flavor text" side of it.

While casting a THREE DAY spell, you also have to drain all the blood out of your own body and replace it with dragon's blood. Wow. It really stinks to be an arcanist, some days.

I was thinking about that, perhaps reducing the casting time to 1 day or less and adding backlash damage to represent the raw power of the dragon blood (and the self-exsanguination

 

[Grazzt]

I was thinking about that, perhaps reducing the casting time to 1 day or less and adding backlash damage to represent the raw power of the dragon blood (and the self-exsanguination

I kinda like this idea for the spell in question. Reduce the casting time to 1 day and let it deal backlash damage to the caster.

 

[Crothian]

I kinda like this idea for the spell in question. Reduce the casting time to 1 day and let it deal backlash damage to the caster.

I'll second the guy by the Lake. I like that idea a lot. THe spell itself is a very interesting idea and I can sdee something like this developed for all the templates.

 

[Kweezil]

How about this, then?

Awaken the Draconic Soul (revised)
Transmutation
Spellcraft DC: 59
Components: V, S, M, XP
Casting Time: 1 day
Range: Touch
Target: One willing creature
Duration: Instantaneous
Saving Throw: Fortitude negates
Spell Resistance: Yes
To Develop: 531,000gp, 10 days, 21,240xp. Seed: Transform into half-dragon (DC 39) dragon type, breath weapon, immunities, template race (ad hoc +10 DC). Factors: change duration to Instantaneous (ad hoc x4 DC). Mitigating factors: burn 10,000 xp (-100 DC), 10d6 backlash (-10 DC), increase casting time to 1 days (-22 DC), rare material component (ad hoc -5 DC)

Through a long and complex ritual, during which you exsanguinate the target and replace their blood with the material component, you awaken the spark of draconic might in a creature, transforming them into a half-dragon. The half-dragon template is applied as normal to the target. You suffer 10d6 damage from the raw power of the magic and the target suffers an equal amount of damage due to the trauma of the ritual. If you are casting the spell on yourself, you suffer 20d6 from the trauma and backlash.
Only creatures with a draconic heritage can benefit from this spell (DM's discretion) and the target becomes a half-dragon of the same breed as their ancestor. The transformation is instantaneous and therefore cannot be dispelled, disjoined or suppressed by antimagic.
Material component: Enough fresh blood from the chosen type of dragon to fill the circulatory system of the target (around 7 pints for a human). This must be given freely by the dragon, without coercion.
XP Cost: 10,000 xp

 

[Grazzt]

Since you are dealing 10d6 points of damage to the target (if you cast it on another creature) wouldnt you need to bump the DC up? Actually since transform (seed) doesnt deal damage, wouldn't you have to employ another seed in this spell as well? Backlash damage is dealt only to the caster.

I would just remove the line about dealing a like amount of damage to the target (and dealing 20d6 to the caster if cast on himself....) If it dealt 20d6 to the caster, the DC would be further reduced.

Otherwise the spell looks very nice. Very nicely done.