Spells that are annoying to DMs

[Cam Banks]

I can't stand Otto's irresistible dance. Stupid dumbass spell. How to make a scary dragon look like an idiot.

Cheers,
Cam

 

[Twowolves]

That's a plot device for why you can play your old character in a 1st level game. "And so though I destroyed the Tome of Xiphid, it cost me all my magical power. I've had to start all over."

A plot device I've actually used back in 2nd ed.

 

[Nebulous]

Detect Evil. If i run another campaign with it, i'll restrict it to just detecting extraplanar evil, or monsters with evil in their descriptor.

 

[Thanee]

I can't stand Otto's irresistible dance. Stupid dumbass spell. How to make a scary dragon look like an idiot.

Cheers!

Bye
Thanee

 

[Night Watchman]

Comprehend Languages.

There's just something really annoying about working on a great handout that has some strange script written on it or working for hours and hours on a new spoken language for the character's to have to muddle through and once it comes into play one of the spellcasters simply casts Comprehend Languages and undoes hours of work.

 

[barghus]

I forgot Scry. That's another plot buster unless you go to the ridiculous lengths of having every villain have lead lined walls.

Add Know Alignment to the list as well.

 

[Oryan77]

Swift & Immediate spells are becoming annoying to me. They are very useful & I like them...but as a DM, it gets annoying because they've made a swift spell that avoids any type of penalty a PC may have gotten.

PC causes an AoO? Nope, his swift spell prevented that. NPC is about to hit on his 2nd attack & will take the PC unconcious and get him out of the combat? Nope, a PC's Immediate spell acts in the middle of the NPC's action and gives himself more HP's to survive the NPC's 2nd attack.

Great spells for PC's, but not so common for an NPC to have unless you get cheesy.

 

[phindar]

A plot device I've actually used back in 2nd ed.

Me too, except it was a 20th lvl Barbarian who fell in love with a wight. "Where are all the wight women at?" Good times.

OT, Web, Entangle, anything that we have to look up the specifics for every single time its cast because we game every other week and no one can remember how the spell works...

Anything that handles the unleashing arcane and divine energies with all the wonder and awe of applying for a small business loan... (yeah, I've used that line before, but I stand by it.)

 

[Piratecat]

Evard's Black testicles tentacles. It's a pain in the butt to run. I find dispel magic annoying, too.

 

[Pbartender]

Simply put, any spell whose effects cannot be described in 100 words or less.