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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lizard" data-source="post: 4438384" data-attributes="member: 1054">I had a cleric of the spider goddess in my 3x game heal herself by summoning swarms of tiny spiders which spun webs to close the wounds. Her inflict wounds manifested as the tips of her fingers turning into yawning spider mouths, and so on.Individualization of spell effects should be strongly encouraged, but mechanical changes -- like the above-mentioned Cold keyword -- should be treated with more care. "My magic missiles look like icicles" is cool (no pun intended), but if they actually do Cold instead of Force damage, you run the risk of introducing unexpected imbalance (they gain extra damage from whatever feat it is that pumps up cold, they are ineffective against some creatures and more effective against others, etc.)In short, in terms of "What it looks like", there should be no limits[1] -- and the DM should neither penalize nor benefit the spell mechanically. (If you say "I fire all my spells from a summoned bow", this should not mean you suffer OAs if you're in melee, for example.)[1]Other than good taste and campaign theme, of course. A wizard who defines Magic Missile as "I give 'em a few rounds from my Mac 10 and bust a cap in their ass![2]" *probably* is going too far, though in some campaigns, it's pretty much par for the course....[2]Is that what the kids are calling it these days? I can't keep up.</blockquote>