PHB II: Where is the Omnislash spell? It is in the art gallery, but not the book.

[heirodule]

I noticed one or two pieces of artwork posted on the Wizards site that didn't make it into Spell Compendium as well. One of them actually looked pretty useful, though I can't seem to find it in the printed book:

http://www.wizards.com/dnd/images/spellcomp_gallery/tn_92289_jpg.jpg
It's labeled as 'Tiny Mount,' which I thought might be Reduce Mount, though neither appear in the Compendium.

I hope it was taken out for sillyness, not that it was a broken spell.

See, if it was magic, it could shrink any creature, but thats a too-powerful effect. But why would magic be so limited it could only shrink 'creatures used as a mount'.

The trend of 'spell designed to do some rules-based thing' rather than a general purpose spell that might have interesting corner-case uses is bothering to me. Tiny mount would exist because PCs on adventures need a convenient way to bring their mounts along when scaling cliffs. "Shrink animal" would exist because mages can change the size of any creature.

 

[Eridanis]

Any book have this spell yet?

No, this spell has not appeared in any book yet. (Unless it appeared in Dragon Magic or Complete Mage which I haven't seen yet.)

Tiny Mount is from Dragon #299, which also gave us one mind, stabilize, and other good paladin spells. Those other spells made it into the SC, but that one didn't - probably because it was needed in 3.0, but the 3.5 paladin pokemount pretty much took care of the problem tiny mount was created to address.

 

[sjmiller]

Pulled on account of copyreich?

Umm, as someone who actually has a couple of item of Intellectual Property under Copyright, I find it perfectly reasonable that the owner of a copyright (or a Trademark, for that matter) might defend that copyright and ask WotC to not use it. That might very well be the case in this instance.

This is, however, not the place for a vigorous discussion on the merits of Copyright and defense of Intellectual Property. I apologize in advance if others take my comment as permission to do so.

 

[Felon]

I recall the DMG II gallery depicted an item called the wand gauntlet or something like that which didn't make the actual book. Too bad, it looked cool.

I always find it interesting that as much as D&D revolves around bloodletting that very few combat pictures actually depict any grue.

 

[Alzrius]

Any book have this spell yet?

Actually, there's a psionic power that's pretty much that picture exactly found in Silven Publishing's NPCyclopedia: Psionics. It's called multi-dimensional strike.

Now if we can just get a spell to do the Omnislash ver. 5 that we saw in Advent Children...

 

[Rystil Arden]

I recall the DMG II gallery depicted an item called the wand gauntlet or something like that which didn't make the actual book. Too bad, it looked cool.

I always find it interesting that as much as D&D revolves around bloodletting that very few combat pictures actually depict any grue.

Not so! Here's two:

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

The trend of 'spell designed to do some rules-based thing' rather than a general purpose spell that might have interesting corner-case uses is bothering to me. Tiny mount would exist because PCs on adventures need a convenient way to bring their mounts along when scaling cliffs. "Shrink animal" would exist because mages can change the size of any creature.

You're bothered that powerful spellcasters would create spells that would make their lives more convenient?

 

[heirodule]

You're bothered that powerful spellcasters would create spells that would make their lives more convenient?

I think they would create more general purpose spells. Its better 'balanced' in game terms to make a spell that only affects the mount, but any mage worth his salt would make a spell that affected any animal, or any living creature, period.

 

[WayneLigon]

I always find it interesting that as much as D&D revolves around bloodletting that very few combat pictures actually depict any grue.

I'm sure you were around when the Dragon ran that fairly gruesom picture of the cannibal halfling (or something like that). You never heard the like of whining and complaining.

 

[frankthedm]

I'm sure you were around when the Dragon ran that fairly gruesom picture of the cannibal halfling (or something like that). You never heard the like of whining and complaining.

the Halfling that had cracked open the skull of the economy sized orc?

I just did not like the art style for that illo. They should have gone with Ron Spencer if they wanted viceral for rpg art.