Wormtongue Spell (metamagic)

[heirodule]

WORMTONGUE SPELL [METAMAGIC]
Prerequisites: Spellcraft: 5 ranks. CHA 13+

Benefit: By making a successful Bluff check, you may cast a spell with verbal components in the course of making nonmagical speech without allowing anyone to notice. The Bluff check is opposed by anyone able to listen to the conversation making a Sense Motive roll with a +5 modifier. 5 ranks in Spellcraft grant a +2 circumstance modifier to the Sense Motive roll.

Special: Somatic components are still immediatly obvious, as are most material components. A slight-of-hand roll might conceal a material component being used at the DMs option.


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Note: a good feat for sorcerors, since they get Bluff now.

[update]: added some prereqs and a circ modifier to the Sense Motvie roll.

 

[Frank_Vinneti]

Wow, thats a great idea! A clever politician could charm his audiance while making his speech, without having anyone notice! You know, since he often points around, and move, and stuff..

Maybe the opposed check should be a Spellcraft check?

Frankto

 

[poilbrun]

What spell slot level would a spell used with this metamagic feat use?

 

[heirodule]

What spell slot level would a spell used with this metamagic feat use?

The idea would be that its exactly the same.

Since Silent Spell only bumps by 1, and this

1) requires *some* conversation to happen, so it can't been done by a hiding person

2) requires an opposed bluff check, so isn't a guarantee.

 

[Jeph]

What happens if the Bluff check is a failure? Does the spell miscast, or do the targers simply realize that they're being dwoemered and the spell works normally?

 

[Galethorn]

I want to see a mage cast chain-lightning while he's pretending to surrender. Now that would be funny.

"We surrender unconditionally. I hold out my hand to--"

ZAP!!

 

[The Iron Mark]

This feat is pretty cool. Is it supposed to be WORMtongue, as in the little creature in the earth, or WYRMtongue, as in the big nasty dragons that eat you for lunch?

 

[Nifft]

I suspect it's supposed to be "Wormtongue", like the guy in Lord of the Rings.

-- N

PS: And it is indeed a very cool Feat.

 

[Saeviomagy]

I'd suggest you base the feat off of the bardic version - I believe it was +1 spell level (after all - you're partially emulating both still and silent spell).

 

[Al]

Looks like a great feat, though I'd side with FrankTrollman on the opposed check: make it the better of Sense Motive or Spellcraft, since both could be conceivably used in this situation.