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Updated description: No spell resistance, damage is done to any alignment.

Updated to remove Empower and Maximize since the random damage cannot be affected.

This and any subspells the targeting corrected to be single target Helps allies only.

Fixed script to do the correct targeting and sorts by HD to do least → most instead of randomly based on world position.

VFX updated to be a bigger "Unsummon" VFX.

Clarity: Spell School: Necromancy → Abjuration. Counterspell: Added Charm Person

Lesser mind blank: Counterspell: Add confusion. Description: clarified effects removed

Mind Blank: Counterspell: Added Mass Charm. Removed Hostile flag

Clarity moved to same spell school as Lesser Mind Blank and Mind Blank and to match the spell description. While it's a "Bioware made up spell" it fits in the 3 spell structure.

Probably need to up what the Mind Blank spell removes (level 8 spell!) it is a bit tepid. At least remove Fear hah.

Major change: Made this single target, added it will affect Outsiders and script sorted with additional save DC modification.

Counterspell: Added Gate

Decided to make this "Banishment-lite" and allow outsiders BUT put it back to the SRD "single target" option.

This makes more sense since then it has a good use case (the save DC might be better than Banishment but it's single target only!) and doesn't just distinctly overlap with Banishment (and in Bioware's case with a much improved save DC).

Lesser Dispel: Description updated: Include Verbal, no spell resistance, and large radius. Innate level in description updated to 2. Metamagic: Quicken added

Dispel Magic: Updated description: No spell resistance and Large radius

Greater Dispelling: Updated description: No spell resistance and Large radius. Made spell Innate level 6 and this is also updated in Overhaul Gameplay (COUNTERSPELL_GREATER_DISPEL_THRESHOLD is set to 6).

Mordenkainen's: Updated description: Large radius

All the same spell script now.

Updated description: Innate Level: 1 for Endure and Innate level 3 on Protection.

All elemental protection spells are now 1 minute/level duration.

Using the "combined resistance" meaning you have a running total which counts all damage against it, no more 30 fire / 30 electricity all stopped by energy buffer it'll now clear it.

It's a set amount of protection so no benefit to having a higher caster level (except the duration) makes me want to adjust the total resisted based on caster level slightly. This might offset the "proper" combined damage protection.

Could maybe use a tweak to have the VFX actually look a bit different depending on the version applied. Make less fancy VFX if there is less protection maybe.

Standardised with the other Concealment spells. No real updates.

Counterspell: Added Web

Bard: Added as level 4 spell

Clarified description (and in script) that it will only remove and stop magical effects.

Counerspell: Added Greater Spell Breach as per description.

New EffectIcon for this and minor globe.

There are further options in the 3E version, specifically having spells tied to the spell to be cast. It will be more work and need NUI edits OR just 7 subspells. Some examples of what could be included from the Cleric list:

• Scare
• Inflict Wounds (Minor - Serious)
• Summon Monster (1-3)
• Bane
• Darkness
• Dispel Magic / Lesser Dispel
• Sound Burst
• Negative Energy Ray / Searing Light (although not sure how a glyph can do a ray attack so probably not!)
• Bestow Curse

The 3.5E of the spell also allows rogues to disable it as if it were a trap. This could be done - we just generate a trap object (which is roughly a circle to match the 2.5M sphere) as if the caster set it. Then put an (otherwise inactive) AOE over the top of it that can be activated by the trap.

For now just using an AOE object to be consistent and so it's easier.

Greater Spell Breach: Counterspell: added Globe of Invulnerability, Greater Spell Mantle

Lesser Spell Breach: Counterspell: added Minor Globe of Invulnerability, Lesser Spell Mantle

Counterspells fixed and made consistent (Lesser/Greater Spell Breach).

No real updates needed

Greater Stoneskin: Moved to Abjuration spell school.

Not really much reason why Greater Stoneskin was in Transmutation. Maybe to block it from the spell school Conjuration? But they get Premonition anyway.

Premonition being the 3rd version of the spell kinda makes sense - it's more replacing another level 9 spell (which is powerful but not possible to do in NWN). I guess this is just spreading spells out.

Resistance: Innate level set to 0

Protection from Spells: Made it level 8 and moved to Abjuration as per SRD. Might have been Enchantment for balance reasons but Enchantment will get a fair few new Overhaul spells anyway.

Added quick and dirty impact VFX

Resistance: Left at 2 minutes duration due to the NWN videogame effect of time losing out and it's only a +1 save and a cantrip.

Protection from Spells: Left the mini-VFX (should be "creatures touched") and 1 minute/level duration (is 10 minutes/level for the SRD spell). Should be fair.

Could really do with a different VFX (maybe recoloured or altered slightly) for Protection from Spells since it uses the same one as Spell Resistance currently (ie VFX_IMP_MAGIC_PROTECTION and VFX_DUR_MAGIC_RESISTANCE). We could also use a minor versions of VFX_IMP_MAGIC_PROTECTION for Resistance to keep it thematically the same but that's less of a worry.

Counterspell: Added Lesser and Greater Spell Breach (similar to Globe of Invulnerability)

New EffectIcon for this and normal globe.

Removed Hostile flag

The SRD has "new save" instead we just remove fear effects. May expand this if we rework fear/shaken/etc.

Metamagic: Remove Empower, Maximize

Descriptor: Damage Shield added to this and others of it's type.

Mistakenly given Empower and Mazimize, even though no spell effects can use it

Note: Need to fix spell script so the damage shield is actually using randomised values each hit

Kept fortitude saves for half damage. Reworked scripts.

The SRD has 1 round/level instead of 1 round/2 levels. Might have been done to limit AOE spam. Will possibly revise to increase the duration since it is incredibly low (thus very low damage) especially since the SRD version adds all kinds of negatives just for moving through it (penalties to seeing, attack rolls etc.)

It is a level 6 spell but all those SRD penalties are a lot. Plus damage without save (although no on enter 4d6 damage). Hmm.

Updated to be 1d4 +1 points of damage similar to Ray of Frost. Updated spell casting visuals/sounds.

Could add a toggle to have touch attacks for cantrips but probably not necessary.

Bombardment

Script: Needs updating with these changes that the description got:

1d8 damage per caster level up to 20d8 (instead of 10d8). Damage is simple bludgeoning.

Reflex save failure means you are knocked down for 2 rounds (12 seconds)

Affects all objects in a large area (creatures, placeables and doors) (roughly 15 feet radius, so ~5 meters is fine).

Also: could use a new VFX. Just reuses meteor swarm. Can update it to be more rocky instead with a different sound effect perhaps.

Source from Players Guide to Fearun, plus some inspiration from NWN2: https://nwn2.fandom.com/wiki/Bombardment

Conjuration (Creation)
Level: Druid 8,
Components: V, S, AF,
Casting Time: 1 standard action
Range: Long (400 ft. + 40 ft./level)
Area: 15-ft.-radius burst
Duration: Instantaneous
Saving Throw: Reflex half; see text
Spell Resistance: Yes

You cause a rain of rocks to fall from the sky, burying your opponents.
You designate the spot on which the burst is centered.
Each creature in the area that fails a Reflex saving throw takes 1d8 points of damage per caster level (maximum 20d8) and is buried under rubble (see Avalanches, page 90 of the Dungeon Master's Guide).
A successful save halves the damage and avoids burial.
Buried subjects are subject to suffocation (see page 304 of the Dungeon Master's Guide) until they climb out from under the rocks (a full-round action).
Focus: A quartz crystal embedded in rock.

Cloudkill

Script fixes as per fandom wiki

May do further updates eg making it really Poison damage so it's not blocked by Endure Elements etc.

Basically a better version of Acid Fog since it's doing Poison damage and 1d10 per round. Could add a fortitude save to negate the damage.

Spell School Evocation → Conjuration

Updated description: affects any creatures in the area if not immune to poison

Moved from Evocation - isn't even a damage dealing AOE. Makes a lot more sense under Conjuration.

Creeping Doom

Various description updates.

Script changes needed to improve the way things are done; no SR, all damage dealt is counted, probably do an OnEnter damage then they'll next be damaged a minimum of 5 seconds after (use a timer).

Script: remove affecting Constructs, updated description.

Will save versus the damage for Undead.

Counterspells: Added Inflict range, to be consistent with the Inflict range.

Made Cure Critical Wounds - Others actually only able to target others. Not sure what this is used for tbh might remove.

Updated conjuration visuals to be a little more consistent. Added sound FX.

D&D says living creatures only (ie not constructs or undead, but undead are damaged); "When laying the character's hand upon a living creature, the character channels positive energy that cures 1d8 points of damage +1 point per caster level (up to +5)."

Also the will save is...not included in NWN for some reason. Clerics can use these against undead - like Inflict Wounds on non-undead - but they're even more of a powerhouse with them!

Note: We might need to add duplicates of these to allow Druids to cast Summon Nature's Ally spontaneously but to not cast these spontaneously. They'll be duplicates and fire off the same spell IDs.

Counterspell: Dismissal added

Standardised into summon script.

Evard's Black Tentacles

Description updated: as if a +2 magical weapon

Script changes: indiscriminate attacks, need to limit the amount of grapple checks per creature.

https://www.dandwiki.com/wiki/3e_SRD:Black_Tentacles has notes on the tentacles being things that can be attacked.

This means we could balance this a little by having failed grapple attacks remove the tentacle or similar? Or have AOE damaging spells kill the AOE? (like Fireball).

For now make it indiscriminate and have it limit the number of tentacles to half the total amount per creature.

Flame Arrow

Description: clarify only one SR check is made. Add ability to add fire damage to projectiles. Added touch attack to hit for each arrow.

Still only one SR check at a time (they're either immune at that instance or not).

Script: Add the fire damage to projectiles if cast on inventory item.

May add subspells for the AOE and ammunition options.

https://www.dandwiki.com/wiki/3e_SRD:Flame_Arrow

Do we want to have an option to spread the damage among multiple creatures? Ala Issacs Missile Storm?

If not it might be good to limit the amount of arrows, although touch attacks help limit damage a little.

The ammo damage is similar to the SRD, but with a time limit more than 1 round (1 round/level) so it scales nicely enough if people don't have magic arrows later. Must be cast on item in inventory since the Medium range means you could cast it at far away unintended distances otherwise (or it fails and you have to tell them "move closer" even when it doesn't automatically).

• We could put a subspell for this option be touch range, allow ally targeting and auto-choose ammunition to improve.
• Subspell could add in the AOE version as well!

Gate

Summon: Probably have the summon UTC template be in the Hostile faction. Then if RemoveSummonedAssociate is ran on it, it'll properly attack the PC. It's currently in the Commoner faction and while it does target the PC with a specific SetIsTemporaryEnemy this means the commoner faction tends to not like you still if you attack them back.

Hostile would allow guards/other party members to attack them but that might happen anyway (eg Balor casting Fireball) and additionally you can add something special to the AI scripts to have the Balor only target the caster and if they can't use spells or other ranged attacks. If they can't get to them at all, just unsummon.

Could also add additional summon options (it is a level 9 spell after all!) using subspells. EG:

• Balor (as it is now)
• Hezrou (would need a buff)
• Pit Fiend
• Orcus (maybe too powerful!)

Grease

Script needs updating.

Spell Resistance check only on enter, applies the 50% movement speed penalty through a more complex EffectRunScript that applies 50% only even if overlapping areas.

Added Counterspell: Freedom of Movement

Tricky level 1 spell to "solve", the D&D version is a very tiny area and a low duration (1 round/level). NWN has a bit of a longer starting duration and tails off as caster levels increase which seems fair.

Mainly the spell has unlimited reflex saves with no spell resistance for knockdown (which in NWN stops all actions).

I think it's not awful as-is.

Greater Magic Fang

See Magic Fang

Clears more effects from 3.5E version, and caps healing/damage to 150.

As Cure spells - eg not healing constructs.

Change to "Mass Cure Light Wounds" which it essentially was a prototype for.

Added Counterspell: Ghoul Touch

+4 Bonus to Armor AC instead of 4 +1 bonuses.

Magic Fang

This is changed to affect creature weapons, given the D&D spell is like this. This extends its use to many summons / allied animals / polymorphed creatures.

It is applied as a temporary item property on the creature weapons and an EffectRunScript on the targeted creature that if dispelled will remove the creature items effects.

Might alter to be a simpler "apply the item property and just let Dispel Magic deal with it" but for now this will do.

VFX could do with an update; currently just uses Aid VFX.

Change as per heal (cap on healing / damage, and saving throw vs. damage).

We keep the ranged touch attack (compared to the other Mass Cure XXX spells) for balance purposes (you get up to 250 damage!). Plus the will save on top.

Added Extend metamagic.

Description updated with new 2d4 damage and 18 caster level limit. Touch attack to hit. However you can apply more than one at once.

Scripting: Used EffectRunScript.

A magical arrow of acid springs from your hand and speeds to its target. You must succeed at a ranged touch attack to hit your target. The arrow deals 2d4 points of acid damage. There is no splash damage. For every three caster levels (maximum 18), the acid, unless somehow neutralized, lasts for another round, dealing another 2d4 points of damage for that round. At 3rd–5th level, the acid lasts for 2 rounds; at 6th–8th level, the acid lasts for 3 rounds; and so on, to a maximum of 7 rounds at 18th level.

Made it 1d6 + 1 / caster level acid damage (Down from 1d6 + 2/level), plus added 50% Acid resistance.

Descriptor: Damage Shield added to this and others of it's type.

+2/caster level made a ridiculous amount of damage. +1 and some Acid resistance makes more sense and comparable to Elemental Shield.

Also could cap the damage as per spell level (eg Death Armor is +5, Wounding Whispers +10, Elemental Shield +15 and Acid Sheath +20) but not done that yet, since it scales better into Epic.

We should remove all Damage Shield effect when a new one is applied.

Updated description to add that ability score reductions are also removed.

We might be able to remove just poison based ones at some point.

Scripting: Don't remove diseases, there is Remove Disease for a reason!

Planar Ally: Updated description with what is summoned.

Greater Planar Binding: Summon duration increased to 1 hour/level. The summons are not that powerful for a level 8 spell and it matches the lower ones.

Planar Ally: This is Planar Binding but for Clerics. Sorta. Ultimate expansion padding spell especially since no Lesser or Greater versions (could add them!).

Greater Planar Binding: Alternative to 1/hour level is is we can lower the duration of all the Planar Binding spells, but the SRD is basically "forever"/until a task is completed. 1 hour/level makes more sense.

The summons need some improvements quite likely, and some more variety added, maybe with a selection available. Compared to Summon Creature it should probably be more around special ability outsider users not pure melee damage.

Prayer

Scripting: improve so enemies are selectively chosen.

Counterspell: Bestow Curse

AI category fix (self → single)

Renamed:

Monstrous Regeneration → Regenerate Serious Wounds

Regenerate → Regenerate Massive Wounds

Adjusted effects and added the various other ones in the line. Added those spells as per New Spells list.

Adjusted spell level - Monsterous Regeneration: 5 Cleric / 5 Druid to 5 Cleric / 4 Druid.

New range of Regeneration spells to be a bit more consistent plus it opens up this for lower level casters: https://www.dndtools.org/m/spells/masters-of-the-wild-a-guidebook-to-barbarians-druids-and-rangers--44/regenerate-light-wounds--1883/

Basically:

• Regenerate Light / Moderate / Serious / Critical Wounds plus Regenerate Massive Wounds added as a final step.
• 10 rounds + 1 round/level duration
• 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 per round
• Cleric level 2, 3, 5, 6, 7
• Druid level 1, 2, 4, 5, 6

Monstrous Regeneration → Regenerate Serious Wounds

Regenerate → Regenerate Massive Wounds (newly named just a step up from Critical). The actual "Regenerate" spell in D&D is to regenerate lost limbs (and do in a pinch healing as if it was cure critical wounds basically) and is a level 7 (Cleric) or 9 (Druid) spell.

Applying a second regenerate spell of equal level extends the first spells duration by the full duration of the second spell.

NOTE: Will get new icons but the icons can be reused for the new Druid spells Regenerate Ring and Regenerate Circle.

Counterspell: Blindness/Deafness

Made single target. Not sure why it was ever AOE.

Moved from Divination to Conjuration.

Counterspell: Hold Person

Updated description and will update script to remove Paralysis and Slow effects. Paralysis on multiple people is meant to be additional saves made.

If we change Paralysis to be a save every round we'll update this a bit.

Lesser Restoration: Added Counterspell: Ghoul Touch. Description: also removes damage immunity and skills.

Restoration: Added skills and paralysis to the description.

Greater Restoration: Removed healing.

Stonehold

Update script so the saving throw is correct (vs. Paralysis not Mind Spells).

Storm of Vengeance

Updated description to match effects.

Script: also need to increase duration slightly (by 3 or so seconds) so it can apply the last bit of damage (might need to do this for other spells too).

Standardised spell script. No more animal domain bonus.

Made the effects extraordinary but the summoned creatures themselves can be directly dispelled.

We could rename this (D&D calls it Summon Monster) but it's still different to Summon Natures Ally which we'll be adding for Druids.

There are some options here:

• Allow one summon as it currently is with the longer duration (maybe 1 hour/level instead of 24 hours?)
• Allow multiple summons but lower the duration to the PnP 1 round/level

Also we might:

• Add options for different summoned creatures (radial spells)

Review creature templates as well

Vine Mine

• Entangle
• Hamper Movement
• Camouflage

All made conjuration spell school as parent

All made level 5

Web

Counterspell: Freedom

Updated description to cover the movement speed decrease

Scripting: Need to make the movement speed decrease more reliable with better noting of overlapping AOEs (only apply once!).