New Spell - Smell Bad

[Mark Causey]

This spell has been referred to as a benchmark for every awful smell in our game ... and its never been cast. When our party's dearly beloved kobold sorcerer once spoke of a smell in pidgin common as 'bad as Goblin Fart', it was assumed that he meant a spell ... and so it got made. However, not everyone in the world should suffer like the Paladin when I say those words. As such, I've found a somewhat better name for it. Here is the spell:

Smell Bad
Transmutation
Level: Sor/Wiz 1
Components: V, S, M
Casting Time: 1 standard action
Range: Touch
Target: Corporeal Creature Touched
Duration: 1 round/caster level
Saving Throw: Fort negates
Spell Resistance: Yes

As per stinking cloud, but the cloud is affixed to the squares that the creature occupies. The targeted creature is immune to the effects of the spell, the Fortitude save prevents the spell from taking effect. In a sense, the creature is temporarily changed to exude a noxious nauseating stench. Anyone occupying an adjacent square to the affected creature when they take their initiative or that makes an attack of any sort from an adjacent square may be affected. Anyone attempting to grapple the affected creature must make their save or be unable to initiate the grapple.

Material component: A rotten egg, or several skunk cabbage leaves.

 

[Faerl'Elghinn]

Yuck. Wouldn't it be fun to cast this one on a companion? I'd pack it as a still, silent, eschew materials spell just for the hilarity factor. "Hey, wanna' see a bar fight!?!"

 

[Mark Causey]

I wonder if it should also be a cleric spell so that Goblin clerics can 'bless' the warriors before a large battle?

May the stench be with you.

 

[Tuzenbach]

Being ludicrously conservative, I refuse to utilize a spell with the word "fart" in the title. It's a good spell, though. How about "reek" or "stench" or "flatulence" or "foulness" instead of fart?


*hides behind ogres*

 

[Mark Causey]

I started thinking about renaming it, Tuzenbach, and I started hitting some three word type spell names, along the lines of Goblin Maleficent Odor or something like that. However, to keep with the flavor of the native origin of the spell and to take a cue from Labyrinth, I think I'll go with:

Smell Bad.