New Spell: Quintin's Quality Contingency. Input wanted

calypso15

Explorer
Quintin's Quality Contingency

Evocation
Level: Sor/Wiz 9
Components: V, S
Casting Time: At least 10 minutes; see text
Range: Personal
Target: You
Duration: See text

You can dedicate a number of your spells so that they come into effect under some conditions you dictate when casting quality contingency. You can specify a number of conditions equal to your caster level divided by 3, rounded down.

The quality contingency spell and the companion spells are cast at the same time. The 10-minute casting time is the minimum total for all castings; if any of the companion spells have a casting time longer than 10 minutes, use that instead.

Once the companion spells are cast, the spell slots or spells per day which they occupied or used are dedicated to quality contingency. Another spell cannot be prepared in the slots until the quality contingency is triggered, at which point the slots or spells per day are considered used until you rest and regain spells.

The quality contingency remains until triggered or dispelled.

The conditions needed to bring the spell into effect must be clear, although they can be general. In all cases, the contingency immediately brings into effect the companion spell, the latter being “cast” instantaneously when the prescribed circumstances occur. If complicated or convoluted conditions are prescribed, the whole spell combination (contingency and the companion magic) may fail when called on. The companion spell occurs based solely on the stated conditions, regardless of whether you want it to.

You can use only one contingency spell at a time; if a second is cast, the first one (if still active) is dispelled.

Example: If you are 18th level and have 3 8th level spells per day and 2 9th level spells, you could cast quality contingency, followed by power word stun, and time stop. As long as the conditions of the contingency are not met, you would only be able to memorize 2 8th level spells per day and 0 9th level spells.

Thoughts?

Calypso
 

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calypso15 said:
If complicated or convoluted conditions are prescribed, the whole spell combination (contingency and the companion magic) may fail when called on.
This needs clarification. It's a guaranteed fight between the player and the DM eventually otherwise.
 

Whizbang Dustyboots said:
This needs clarification. It's a guaranteed fight between the player and the DM eventually otherwise.

I just yoinked that from standard contingency.

Basically, it means if the condition is "Trigger when a red-haired man approaches on the second tuesday of the month, but only if it's a full moon and the Red Sox won the World Series this year." then there's a good chance it'll muck up.

Calypso
 

calypso15 said:
I just yoinked that from standard contingency.

Basically, it means if the condition is "Trigger when a red-haired man approaches on the second tuesday of the month, but only if it's a full moon and the Red Sox won the World Series this year." then there's a good chance it'll muck up.

Calypso
I wonder what spells I would put as contingency to reply to this trigget?!? ;)
 


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