28 August 2005

Introducing Mental Lottery and Physical Lottery to the catalogue of Wild Magic. Both are Open Game Content.

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26 June 2005

Singular Invisibility has been altered so that the personal glamer is at a distance of five feet from the target. Furthermore, breaching this barrier, or moving out of spell range, cancels the spell instantly.

Cone of Invisibility went up in level, and the cone-affected can now cancel the spell for themselves if they break the spell range.

The durations for both spells decreased from 10 minutes/level to 1 minute/level. All of these changes apply to the open game content, too. (As always, the prior content remains open; I merely no longer link to it. Archive.org and the like can be used to obtain older open versions.)

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23 June 2005

Wild Magic is available (with surges), and open game content, too.

The following are various feats, skills and spells associated with Wild Magic.

• Feats
  • Imbue With Wildness
  • Wild Mage
  • Wild Master
  • Wild Savant
• Skills
  • Wild Magic
• Spells
  • Dispel Wild Surge
• Wild Magic Spells
  • Create Wild Zone
  • Prismatic Spray
  • Prismatic Wildsphere
  • Prismatic Wildwall
  • Redirect Missiles
  • Reconstruction
  • Wild Impediment
  • Wild Nondetection
  • Wild Nullification
  • Wild Sense
  • Wild Shield
  • Wild Shield, Lesser
  • Wild Speech
  • Wild Turning
  • Wildly Lucky
  • Wildly Unlucky

I'll mention a few more things that are related to Wild Magic mostly by proximity:

Cannibalize Item has a new location, and is OGC. Use Magic Device, imported from the SRD with a tiny wild magic modification, is available and open. Both are available through the newly revamped abilities page.

Radiation and strong radiation have had minor presentation changes.

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22 June 2005

Protection From Jalakala, Improved has been deleted. The 'ringing bells' effect of that spell has been moved into Protection From Jalakala.

A minor wording change to Quaron's Magic Bubbles: "Cast on a container of soapy water" was changed to "Cast on an open container of soapy water".

Alax's DandeLions was moved from 3rd level to 4th/5th, and was modified with a new XP cost, a few extra physical details to the DandeLions, and a 100-foot 'leash' of sorts. The spell, as previously written, was much too powerful compared to Mage's Faithful Hound.

Chase and Grotto of Krynhoth changed from Transmutation [Teleportation] to Conjuration (Teleportation).

Quaron's Dastardly Dynamics of Doom has an added notation that it may contain the Wild descriptor. (What's the Wild descriptor? See the update on Wild Magic!)

Detect Thoughts now uses the word "cone" instead of "quarter-circle" in the Area description.

Doctor's Doom now has the Evil descriptor, just like contagion.

"Mass Animal Domination" is now Mass Dominate Animal, its range and casting time have changed to match "Dominate Animal", and it dropped to 8th level.

Certain spells have been altered to provide smaller stat blocks, because they rely on other spells for much of their description. Doctor's Doom, Mass Dominate Animal and Mass Monothot Misdirection are affected.

All of the modifications above also apply to the spells' OGC versions.

And finally, the internal sorting/listing mechanism has been altered to handle Mass, Greater and Lesser spells. For instance, Mass Monothot Misdirecton now comes after Monothot Misdirection in a name sort.

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11 January 2004

Restore the Ties That Bind has been deleted.

Destroy the Ties That Bind is now simply The Ties That Bind, and will be focused on for rewriting. However, since school's starting up again, I don't know when I'll finish it.

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20 December 2003

Vyord crystals and two related spells have been modified slightly.

The Vyord, Missilefruit Bow, and Slippers of Recall are now open content, as well as the spells Affect Vyord Crystals and Empower Vyord Crystal.

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18 August 2003

Scattermind got a rewrite to clean up some confusing language. I may have written it in an entirely new confusing way, though.

Speed Decay has been rewritten, raised from 4th to 5th level, and moved from Transmutation to Necromancy.

The other previously-ok stuff has been prepped for eventual release as open content. I need to write up a general description of disjunction, plus fix up the other spells, before I open it all up.

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17 July 2003

Affect Vyord Crystals has been updated with Permanency rules.

Empower Vyord Crystal has been edited slightly for clarity.

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13 July 2003

Magic updates:

Rewritten:

• Absorb
• Doctor's Doom
• Grotto of Krynhoth
• Lord Urik's Howl
• Mass Monothot Misdirection
• Monothotism
• Ownership
• Summon Ruhl
• Teleportational Track

New spells:

• Affect Vyord Crystals
• Cone of Invisibility
• Detect Thoughts
• Empower Vyord Crystal
• Limit Light
• Singular Invisibility
• Torch Ward
• Wall of Invisibility

I'm a bit wary of Torch Ward's low level, but I put it out there, anyway. Detect Thoughts is from the SRD, but uses different terminology.

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8 July 2003

Disjunction still needs a whole lot of work.

Wholesale conversion needed:

• Destroy the Ties That Bind
• Jalakala
• Restore the Ties That Bind
• Scattercalm
• Scatterfocus
• Scatterwave
• Speed Decay
• Trigger

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Spell summary:

Rewriting needed:

• Absorb
• Mass Monothot Misdirection

Minor, cosmetic rewriting needed:

• Doctor's Doom
• Grotto of Krynhoth
• Lord Urik's Howl
• Monothotism
• Ownership
• Summon Ruhl
• Teleportational Track

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