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<blockquote data-quote="jgsugden" data-source="post: 9047306" data-attributes="member: 2629">Picture yourself in a fantasy world looking up into the sky and seeing a simple message created using this spell.&nbsp; Do you have your mental picture of it?&nbsp; Was it 50 or so characters long?&nbsp; How big were the letters?Just to toss it out there - third level druids can basically ritual spam 6 of these spells giving them 60 words.&nbsp; A circle of a dozen druids might be able to maintain 720 words all day long .... and each word could be very long - 30 to 40 characters, or longer if you permit a name to be a word.&nbsp; Lets say 12 druids generate 2250 characters in the sky ... constantly ... every day ... Think about the mental picture you had of that spell and now picture instead of 50 characters there were 45 times as many letters overlapping in the sky...&nbsp; An what if that 12 druids were 100 druids for ~375 times as much sky blocked out....That could be used to block out all that direct sunlight over farm lands ... to give undead freedom to walk in the daylight without being hit by the rays of the sun ... etc....This is one of those spells that - if a DM allows it to function as many of us visualize it being cast in isolation - could be a weapon of mass destruction if abused.(I've been thinking about this since Critical Role Campaign 2 when we heard about the dark skies in Wildemount ... and people asked how you could do it with existing spells).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="jgsugden, post: 9047306, member: 2629"] Picture yourself in a fantasy world looking up into the sky and seeing a simple message created using this spell. Do you have your mental picture of it? Was it 50 or so characters long? How big were the letters? Just to toss it out there - third level druids can basically ritual spam 6 of these spells giving them 60 words. A circle of a dozen druids might be able to maintain 720 words all day long .... and each word could be very long - 30 to 40 characters, or longer if you permit a name to be a word. Lets say 12 druids generate 2250 characters in the sky ... constantly ... every day ... Think about the mental picture you had of that spell and now picture instead of 50 characters there were 45 times as many letters overlapping in the sky... An what if that 12 druids were 100 druids for ~375 times as much sky blocked out.... That could be used to block out all that direct sunlight over farm lands ... to give undead freedom to walk in the daylight without being hit by the rays of the sun ... etc.... This is one of those spells that - if a DM allows it to function as many of us visualize it being cast in isolation - could be a weapon of mass destruction if abused. (I've been thinking about this since Critical Role Campaign 2 when we heard about the dark skies in Wildemount ... and people asked how you could do it with existing spells). [/QUOTE]

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