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Counterspell: Blindness

This is kinda naff. We could make it a "see somewhere else" as per SRD but due to how LOS and stuff is tied to the player character this won't be viable without more engine changes (ie arbitrary possession).

We could jump the player itself around but meh.

Counterspell: Heal

Removed reference to touch attack.

Script and description: Made supernatural and removable only by specific healing spells.

Enchantment

Kept: This is kept as a Divination spell (for now at least, until a review of Divination spells is done, but there are not many!), and it's also of limited duration, enough for a fight though.

Really this sis the only "Offensive" divination spell. Need to have Spell Focus: Divination and so forth have some additional effect given this might be moved out of the school.

Innate Level 3 → 2

Metamagic: Removed Extend

Description and script: Remove the disarming of traps, just reveal them (since it's "Find Traps" not "Disarm Traps") when under DC 35 (rogue limit)

Now matches spell description better.

Note Find Traps and Knock probably need a bit of rework. For now Find Traps just finds them doesn't disarm them. It uses 35 as the limit. Could make it caster level dependent (maybe 10 + Caster Level + Search Skill?) up to 35.

The 3E version (which is just a cleric spell) just lets you "search as a rogue can" which in 3E is detecting traps higher than DC 20 which is quite a bit lower then the 35 for rogue limit that NWN has.

We could make it similar to that, but it'd need tuning traps quite a lot, quite common in NWN.

Innate level set to 1 (was 2)

Description and script: Only identifies a single magical item.

Innate level 5 → 6

Altered description to match notes; we identify all items in inventory but at a higher lore skill.

The SRD version is a multi-minute casting spell to reveal information. Bioware's was a +bonus Lore skill. We've altered Identify to be strictly 1 item identified.

How about we just keep the usefulness of the bonus lore skill and remove the tedium of clicking on everything (or in SP just pausing and clicking on everything):

We automatically identify all items in the inventory we can instantly but with an increased Lore skill (Bioware used +10, +1 per 2 caster levels)

This means for a level 6 spell it's both a timesaver and keeps to Bioware's original version.

Keeping Power Word spells here for now. But may move later.

This is another Bioware-only spell but sensible enough, and gives Divination something! Foresight is the only real SRD equivalent which is mainly some bonus AC and not being caught flat footed (nice but no DR makes it a lot less useful).

Metamagic: Added Quicken

Moved from Transmutation to Divination

It was probably in Transmutation since the 3E SRD spell Darkvision is exactly that. Instead we move to the maligned Divination since it makes sense for this specific spell.

Will add a separate Darkvision since it's simple.

Temp HP so needs adjustments for dispel magic.

Change targeting to Harm Enemies only

AI category changed to Harmful AOE (Discriminate)

Spell script: No longer focused on self

Description: Added note about Bless Bolts.

Counterspell: Add Remove Blindness/Deafness

NOTE: May move back to Transmutation

Keep as a merged spell, makes it more viable. Or split for the rare times one immunity is present stopping the other?

Originally this was Transmutation may want to move it back. NWN2 made it Illusion for some reason. Mass version would be good to add as well.

Counterspell: Clarity

Description: Clarified who is affected humanoid wise. Consistent now with Dominate Person.

Counterspell: Clarity

Description: Clarified who is affected humanoid wise. Consistent now with Dominate Person.

Counterspell: Clarity

Amended targeting to not harm allies. Is discriminate.

Counterspell: Clarity. Updated casting sounds and visuals a little.

Left at 2 round duration since NWN is a bit more vague with rounds so 1 round is a bit of a waste.

Counterspell: Clarity on all

Dominate Person: Description and script: Expanded to Charm Person creatures (ie humanoids too).

Domination needs some engine fixes RE: NPC on PC domination, or NPC on NPC domination, alas.

Counterspell: Bless

Save and SR checks need reordering.

Counterspell: Freedom of Movement

Added for all Paralysis effects a save-every-round to escape. It even gets the DC from ones applied from items.

The save-per-round is a 3.5E addition and I think suits the powerful nature of these effects.

Updated description to match duration in script (which is a sensible number) and that it is only enemy humanoids affected.

Script changes: Only affect enemies, change Charm to Daze for PC or associates.

Script changes: needs some fixes.

Should we extend the saving throw penalty to include any will save not just ones against mind-affecting spells?

Counterspell: Clarity

Updated description duration is actually 5 + 1 / caster level rounds

Usually 1 turn/level so rounds/level is more balanced.

Metamagic remove Empower, Maximise

Added Ignore Immunity for knockdown. Immunity to mind spells is respected in new save function as well.

Added Run Script to replace the knockdown animations with laughing version, and playing the laughter every 6 seconds

The spell is 1d3 rounds but usually 1 round/caster level (and is Bard 1) in 3.5E.

It will be kept at 1d3 rounds until some feedback is obtained, since knockdown effect for 3 rounds is quite powerful (fair amount better than some other disabling effects!)

Hostile flag added

Counterspell: Added Silence

Hostile flag since the game can apply Fear in an AOE

Persistent AOE AI category

Updated description with AOE size. Clarified how damage is done.

Hostile flag enabled.

Updated description with how the attack roll is made.

We might want to make the damage type "magical" since the D&D spell is like that. The damage is a "nice extra" on this spell.

Updated description with how the attack roll and grapple check is made.

Script: can make the paralysis bypass immunities to always apply.

This is  an odd one - really the spell is made up of interposing, forceful and grasping/clenched. Bioware made this more a one-time hit with a very powerful stopping power but after 2 checks.

Updated description with how the bull rush check is made.

Tempting since this one is actually usually more powerful than Clenched and Crushing to make the duration much shorter like 1 round / 2 caster levels or similar.

Updated description with how the attack roll and grapple check is made.

Script: can make the paralysis bypass immunities to always apply.

Basically a slightly weaker Crushing hand.

Might want to make this attack penalty only dispellable not removable by the Restoration line of spells, since itself isn't an "effect" as such, and makes the spell more usable in fights.

Updated description to state slashing damage.

Script: make it so when you enter it delays the next damage application (so you can't walk in and out quickly to get lots of damage)

We need to probably have AOEs not overlap. Can be very abusable. Or just have the timer so only one heartbeat will apply damage (timer set to 5.5 seconds or something).

Hostile flag enabled.

No changes but do we want to make this essentially outdoor only? Would be thematic, and Druids shouldn't be utter powerhouses, but the game has probably a lot of mistagged areas. But might allow a bit more game system interaction along with allowing the Call Lightning Storm option.

Script: Optimise loop

Hostile flag enabled.

Updated description with damage and duration info.

Script: can move to EffectRunScript

Hostile flag enabled.

Script: Made sure AOE can't affect self.

Description: Cone, 11M since that's how it's sized.

School: Illusion → Evocation

Script: Just make it a "permanent" effect as in a very very long temporary duration. Can tag it to stop it being dispelled if we want to loop and dispel items too, but it won't affect item prices and won't affect ILR or UMD checks.

Odd one this; there is engine code for the item property being added and it being checked for "should it now be unequipped" (ie too high a level/wrong class/race/alignment type) but it still affects the price! Egad Bioware so silly.

This has gotten a complete overhaul. It is meant to be a unique melee or ranged touch attack that does only fire damage. I think we can do this just fine with NUI support.

For now this will just do a ranged touch attack for the given damage to keep it simple.

Hostile flag added

Counterspell: Added Light

Subspells: Added 5 subspells for the delay until blast explosion is forced.

Script: Make it so only true enemies trigger it, or it explodes when it ends (on the last heartbeat) with a rounds + 2 seconds.

Updated targeting: does affect allies and made it 6.67 as in the area affected.

Subspells for the up to 5 rounds means the player can delay things properly. The AI choosing 1 round by default is fine.

AI category: Self enchantment.

Removed hostile flag.

Description: Updated to be up to +6 bonus.

Script: Update so the damage bonus is weapon damage, not magical damage.

Script: Egad where to begin?  Test EffectModifyAttacks is a bit broken, so perhaps use SetBaseAttackBonus with an EffectRunScript to remove it.

HP can also be tied to the spell with EffectRunScript and being supernatural.

Final description:

The caster causes a massive earthquake around themselves, causing 10d6 points of bludgeoning damage to all creatures in the area of effect. If they fail the reflex save they are also knocked down for 2 rounds.

In addition any spellcaster must make a concentration skill check (DC the spell save DC) or have 6 seconds of spell failure due to the moving earth, making them lose their current spell.

The caster is not affected by the earthquake.

Range updated to 0 since personal/self only spell.

Changed Druid level to 8 (matching 3.5E) for consistency.

Hostile flag enabled.

The spell exists in the PHB but it's got some distinctly bigger effects - including if you fall in a fissure they close and the creature just...outright dies. Ouch.

The current spell isn't great since 10d6 damage is already reached when you get level 8 or 9 spells, and even though Clerics and Druids are not meant to be doing significant huge damage with spells, doing simply up to 60 basic bludgeoning damage - even in a large area - isn't really good. Meteor Swarm as a comparison does 20d6 fire damage - a much more useful damage type - and even has a small area it doesn't affect nearby for allies to stand in.

Obviously this doesn't have Spell Resistance checks as a bonus but that's hardly a killer feature in most cases.

2 rounds of knockdown and 1 round of spell failure on failing a concentration skill check also added.

Increase damage to 1d4 + 1 from 1d3.

Hostile flag enabled. Spell casting visuals updated added projectile.

Script changes: Remove all other damage shield effects.

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

Script fixes: Cap damage to 20d6 similar to other spells, and fix the saving throw where it does 2 separate reflex saves (sigh!) to work out the damage done. It would be better to have just one save vs. Fire or better of Fire or Divine.

Might decide later to remove the "enemies only" part. Make it similar somewhat to Meteor Swarm in that way, with affecting everyone but not affecting the caster.

Going to make the AOE spells all pretty similar so going in the same script.

Could use Fireball to get a bit of a better VFX, maybe copy the "radius going out" of the Scintillating Sphere VFX which looks good. Maybe adjust the fireball size as well.

Description updated with correct AOE size.

Hostile flag enabled.

Hostile flag enabled.

Description and script update: Divine damage can affect allies too. Can redo the script to apply one saving throw ala Fire Storm against fire, but half the damage to deal and deal that in divine. Really two saving throws is weird.

Hostile flag enabled.

Not sure why Bioware made the divine damage not affect allies. Removing this makes the cleric be a little more careful in where it hits.

Now does just a flat 1d6 fire damage bonus on a melee weapon.

Description and script: Make it only affect weapons, not creature weapons. Note it is not affected by critical hits.

This now will be more like Burning Sword which it appears it is mostly based off. Also it now properly applies critical damage and doesn't just outright stack with existing weapon damage bonuses. For a level 2 spell it was super powerful!

Hostile flag enabled.

Clarified knockdown is for 1 round.

Removed "Ignores self" from targeting.

Could well be better but I guess 3 different saves for some relatively good effects is interesting. Should 100% affect the caster if it doesn't already.

Might put a specific list of spells covered but for now leaving as-is.

Description and script: All creatures in the area are affected, daze duration cannot be affected by metamagic (due to it being to do with durations, and cannot be extended since it's "instant")

This could be split into 4 different spells affecting different alignments (chaos hammer, holy smite, order's wrath, unholy blight) but not sure it's worthwhile. Everyone would just use the vs. evil one and they'd be good/neutral and ignore the damage.

Was originally stagger (take partial actions) in the original. Could do this by having, say, a penalty to the number of attacks and have them slowed (so no haste + less movement/walking only).

Minor description updates clarifying what is affected (a single melee weapon).

Script: Should remove previous castings before the new one is applied (ie remove the temporary item property, then add the new one, since we can't alter the duration).

TBH keeping the effect as-is is fine. Notably some weird bug listed on the fandom wiki about losing higher enchantment bonuses might be worth checking.

Clarified the deafness cannot be subject to metamagic.

Description and script: Extend damage to 20d4 max.

Extended damage range up to level 20 makes this spell more viable then a simple throwaway.

Description and script: Limited to CL 20 for damage (well level 18 which is 8d6 cold + 3d6 bludgeoning, with no save!).

Hostile flag added.

The 3E version just does a non-saveable 3d6 impact + 2d6 cold. Bioware made this one scale, actually entirely into epic levels, without having a save still.

For now we're capping it at level 20 for damage see about revision of many spells if we extend to epic levels.

Scripting: Remove +3 to DC. Save or Die is already powerful enough. Also remove "not affecting self" since why would it not affect yourself?

Description and scripting: Add in gaseous/incorporeal check.

The AOE is low enough but may make it limited in number of targets affected as per original SRD version. Clerics shouldn't be killing stuff super easily.

Doesn't count as Death Magic too, hmm.

No changes but noting the original does provide concealment/blindness. Not sure we want to add that.

Amended description slightly.

Also needs a heartbeat script adding so new invisibility effects can be removed.

Counterspell: Invisibility

Isaac's Greater Missile Storm

Isaac's Lesser Missile Storm

Description and script: Up to 5 missiles per creature at most.

The "kill anything not immune to magic damage" spell. No save, damage type you shouldn't be able to resist, and 1d6 or 2d6 damage.

Like other Ball spells (Firebrand etc.) we need to limit the amount of missiles per-person.

5 seems sensible - this is still 5d6 or 10d6 magical damage, and for Greater, for instance, you'd need 3 or less creatures for it to not throw out the most damage possible, at 4 or more you get the full damage.

Would be good to add some counterspells.

Description: clarified fire damage.

Hostile flag added.

Clarified description with saving throws needed etc. and how the 2nd effect is done.

Targeting: Ignores self

Clarified damage type.

Script: Need to make undead damage 1d8 based.

Metamagic: remove Empower, add Extend

Description: Clarified the attack bonus.

Metamagic: add Empower (had Maximise already)

Not adding Extend since the spell effect is "Instant" not "Temporary" which is just how D&D is sometimes. It'd also make the spell quite powerful for a level 2 AOE stun spell.

May need description adjustments so the stun doesn't affect deaf/unable to hear people.

Metamagic: add Empower (had Maximise already)

Made to be Druid 7 (and Innate 7) only.

Hostile flag enabled.

Counterspell: Create Greater Undead.

Description and script: Made indiscriminate.

Druids get this AND sunburst haha.

Really this would be better redone (the original spell did actual beams) but needs a new VFX I think for that. Maybe make it similar to Lightning Bolt so it's got a longer but narrower AOE.

However removing Cleric makes sense, and reverting to the original druid level 7 since why would they ever cast this otherwise?

Description: Colossal area affected, and clarified it is all creatures affected.

Script: Need to make it standard hostile. No reason this shouldn't affect everyone caught in the area.

This is a better version of Sunbeam essentially, especially due to the clearer AOE in the SRD, but still can be indiscriminate.

Like other AOEs if you enter you should not take damage until 5.5 seconds later.

Component: Somatic

Fixed visual targeting (discriminate, only affects allies)

Again like some other spells this could be split into 4 variants (affecting particular alignments) but meh.

To balance slightly the SRD version of effects might be used:

Deafened: The creature is struck deaf (see blindness/deafness) for 1d4 rounds.

Stunned: The creature is stunned for 1 round. A stunned creature can't act and loses any Dexterity bonus to AC. Attackers gain +2 bonuses to attack it.

Confused: The creature is confused, as by the confusion spell, for 1d10 minutes. This is a mind-affecting enchantment.

Killed: Living creatures die. Undead creatures are destroyed.