World's Most Usless Spells


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I remember that dragon article well. As I remember it:

Detect fire... touch range.

Remove hands (one of your hands drops off)

Find hand (good after previous spell)

Explosive familiar (Does X damage to everyone within 10 feet, and considerably more to the familiar)

Wizard killer (Kills the nearest wizard. Range, 1 inch.)

Funny stuff.
 

I don't know where this one came from, but it turned into a running gag in our gaminggroup:


Morrison's Next Whiskey Bar:

A spell that when cast shows you all the pubs in a 1 mile radius, and makes you aware of the prices on whiskey in them.

This spell was a gift of the indian spirits to Jim Morrison. They decided it should come in handy for him :lol:
 

Lesser Transformation - gain the BAB and HP of a wizard of your level. Proficiency with sticks and daggers.

Call GM - on every playstyle weakness they posess. GM gets depressed and stops campaign. Well done.

Hate of D02 - Transmutation - Level 3 - Duration: Permenant - You whine incessantly about how rubbish D20 is and how every other system is better. The other players will eventually kill you.
 

Wel it`s orginal called something else and it has been around for a long time.

Hevard`s Handy Cupopener.
conjuration (Brd 0, Wiz0, Sor0)
Duration: 1 round.
Save: none
SR: None
Compentents: VSM, Material: an pot or cup that won`t open.

When this cantrip is cast hold the item that has to be opened in front of you. A huge gate will appear an angry demonlord will get out. Cast an angry glare at you and open the item. Then he will vanish again through the gate. The deamon lord cannot do anything else.

The history of this spel is that a certain wizard learned of the true name of a deamon lord after he had dealings with him. The deamon had double crossed him and so he devised this spell to irrate the deamon. He taught it to his aprentice and started to spread it around. One day the deamon will learn how to get out of this spell. And then everybody who summoned him will be in big trouble until then he cannot harm them.
 



Umbra said:
I have a vague memory that Dragon Magazine had an April Fool's article years ago with things like the Summon Monster Cantrip (Caster yells at top of voice "Here I am!"). Maybe someone has the article...

I do, somewhere. There were some real gems in there, such as Detect Fire (range: touch). I'll look it up and post the spells sometime when I've had more sleep.
 

I believe that 'cupopener' spell is from With a Single Spell or one of the books in that series.

Very funny series, each featuring a (different) quite Reluctant Hero. There are serious bits, too. Quite worth reading.
 

Self-Replicating Spell Transcription -- this spell will always appear to be just barely one level higher than the mage would normally be able to understand. Should the mage transcribe the spell into his own spellbook for later study, the SRPT will immediately copy itself multiple times in the book until all pages are filled with it, even to the extent of wiping out other spells to make use of the page space. Variations on this spell include a time-delay or trigger feature (copies don't occur until after X hours pass), and an infectious feature (copies to other spell books and scrolls in contact).

Helpful Spell Suggester -- this spell appears innocuous at first, seemingly a 0-level cantrip of no particular use. However, the HSS is actually attached to another written spell (on the previous page of the spell book), and when that more-useful spell is transcribed to a mage's own collection the HSS copies itself as well. Thereafter, whenever the mage casts a spell from that spellbooks or scroll, the HSS will activate, causing the illusion of other spell pages to pop into the air in front of the mage's face as helpful suggestions -- "Try THIS spell next!"
 

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