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| Spell | Change Made | Notes |
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| Amplify | Added new counterspell: Silence Description and script: Dispels Silence. Applies an AOE that lowers Move Silently skill for those in the area and decreases sonic immunity. | Make it long range and able to dispel silence at range makes it much more useful. Even if limited to bards: https://dnd.arkalseif.info/spells/spell-compendium--86/amplify--3825/index.html Also made alterations to Silence to match. Acts like Slow/Haste kinda now. |
| Aura of Glory | Description and script: We basically keep it the same as Bioware's version but make the description accurate. Made it be 10M range. | 3.0 Version has: +2 vs. Fear for those within 10 feet, and +2 on various Charisma skill checks and +2 on Turn Undead checks. Plus some healing. Bioware did +4 Charisma which is sort of the same as adding to related skills and the Turn Undead checks, but also affects Divine Might. This however is probably just fine since, well, Paladins don't get many good spells and this is still potentially worse then just drinking a potion of +Charisma. Bioware also upped the saving throw vs. Fear effect, and made it a large single use area. We'll keep this it simplifies things. Healing needs improving to the 3.0 version, 1d4 as per Heal Minor Wounds. |
| Aura of Glory - Cursed | Disabled, unused in the game and just confusing. | |
| Aura of Vitality | Range: Touch → Short Description and script: Needs fixing to not centre on caster. Changed to Large radius as per PnP and added the limit of 1 creature per 3 levels (shouldn't be an issue tbh). VFX changed to Natures Balance for now, need a nature one of the right size (now large) to be used. | As noted in the description. Note spell script also needs fixing (centres on caster anyway). This is how the 3E spell works: https://dndtools.org/spells/magic-of-faerun--20/aura-of-vitality--1732/ Transmutation All targets receive a +4 enhancement bonus to Strength, Dexterity, and Constitution scores. |
| Awaken | Updated to affect any animal. So animal companions and some summons. The 3E spell requires a saving throw we'll bin that, to keep it simpler, and keep the Bioware changes (attack bonus versus having +2 HD). Range: Touch Valid Targets: Self, Item | Awaken being more useful is always good. |
| Barkskin | Nothing really to fix but need to consider the item property to catch the thresholds. | |
| Balagarn's Iron Horn | Spell School Enchantment → Transmutation, Marked as Hostile AI category changed from AOE Discriminate to AOE Indiscriminate Description, function and script: Change to a cone ala Cone of Cold. Proper strength checks. | It was obviously meant to be Transmutation since the PnP is Transmutation. Probably copy/paste error. Changed this to the cone effect since more cones with the new targeting is good. Also more unique and to the original spells description. Additionally clarified the description to match strength check rules. This really needs a better VFX - have reused the "Sonic Cone" one, but maybe recolour it (and make more transparent) or reuse a "gaze" and recolour. |
| Battletide | Removed Hostile flag, removed projectile (personal only) Script and effect: For now we just deal with it as Bioware did, free bonuses for the caster and negatives for those enemies entering. May improve later. VFX: Updated VFX size to be 3.3M as per AOE entry. Saving throw type changed to neutral though (not Negative, and certainly not Mind Affecting) | The 3.0E version has some better effects (bonus partial action - ie bonus attack) but it seems to be just a single fire-and-forget, no distance change needed. This would be more sensible to be honest! The extra attack is quite powerful. Not sure we want to add that in. 3.5E is a bit different mainly clarifies the effects since 3.5E does some stuff to haste etc. |
| Bestow Curse | Counterspell: Remove Curse Description and script, and setup: Add melee touch attack due to the increased strength of the spell (it's permanent after all). Have 8 options as subspells:
| We should add some better options options: https://www.dandwiki.com/wiki/3e_SRD:Bestow_Curse -6 for a specific statistic -4 attack rolls, saving throws and skill rolls 50% chance to act normally 50% not. 8 options for subspells means we can have the 6 attributes at -6, -4 to attack rolls and skill rolls, and -3 to all stats (a better buff then -2) to reflect the original spell. The 50% to not act is more like Confusion and probably best leaving that to a shorter duration spell (it'd be mega annoying on this permanent one). Also need to add Break Enchantment. |
| Blackstaff | Description and script: Removal of prepared spells or slots on hit on a failed will save. Clarified Dispel check. | Full description: https://dnd.arkalseif.info/spells/magic-of-faerun--20/blackstaff--1737/index.html Changes we can now do is add the spell loss - which is quite a powerful function of the original spell!
You can target another creatures staff or magical staff - even the spell specifically says that can be done. We'll sort dispel magic to remove temporary item properties so this works. Another thing:
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| Blade Thirst | Description and script: Add light property, add blue flame VFX. Script: correct duration to be 1 round/level. | I love the description in the book: You touch a blade, and it catches fire. Unearthly blue flames crackle along its length while the weapon beneath remains cold and unharmed. You grant a slashing weapon a 3 enhancement bonus. The weapon sheds illumination as if it were a torch. So we can add a bit of that with a new weapon VFX (blue flames!) I think we can fix the script to match the description for duration. 1 round/level seems sensible. |
| Bless Weapon | Description: added note about casting on holts (Blessed Bolt) Script: correct duration to 1 minute/level. Make it so it replaces existing weapon enchantments entirely probably. | Leaving as the usual vs. Undead damage. Might extend the duration depends. |
| Blindness/Deafness | Counterspell: Add Remove Blindness/Deafness Moved to Transmutation as per 3E (from Enchantment). | Keep as a merged spell, makes it more viable. Or split for the rare times one immunity is present stopping the other? |
| Blood Frenzy | Ignore Immunity for the AC decrease, also probably will change to an enemy attack bonus (ie "misc AC"). | Will debate on adding Fatigue to rage. If so it'll apply to this spell as well. Note the 3.5E of this spell actually allows a use of the base Rage feat without using a use of it, and interesting use and might make this more useful if it was added as a feature ("If the target has the Rage ability they use it for free" kind of thing). |
| Burning Hands | Description: Clarified size of AOE | This is a perfect one we could extend at least up to caster level 10, at no real threat to higher spells due to the lower dice used (d4). Magic Missile even outpowers this quickly. |
Camouflage Mass Camouflage | Camouflage: Description: Minor wording changes (removal of "competence" etc.) Mass Camouflage: Changed to Medium range. Remove hostile flag. | Mass: Keep it nice and simple. Alternative is a mobile AOE that only applys the hide once, but removes it when someone exits the AOE. We could use a better AOE effect |
| Crumble | Description: clarified it affects placeables and doors. | Not much to say on this one. We could add the size limits of what you're affecting as per the 3E version (up to 9th, large, up to 15th, huge, which is the max usual NWN size) but meh. The 3.5E version downgrades the level to 3 which does make it more usable and is tempting...but limits the damage to 10d8. Could use a new VFX, the current one is a blue magical explosion. A rocky explosion would be more appropriate. |
| Deafening Clang | Description and script: Deafening effect can only happen once per round maximum, leave the other effects as usual. Script: Need to clarify when things are removed/replaced when adding temporary item properties. | This is a bit more powerful than the base book version which only has the deafness. Just want to tidy up the description really. The 3.5E of the spell lasts a mere round but gets the advantage of an improved save DC I guess for deafness, and +1d6 sonic damage. Book copy: You empower the touched weapon with magic that causes it to emit a loud clang when it is struck against a hard surface, such as a floor, wall, or creature. |
| Drown | Description and script: Clarify affected races and add Ooze to not affected. | Drown is pretty crazy. The actual spell in PnP is instant suffocation (instant go to 0HP!) which is crazier still. Compared to Slay Living and the like though about the same (save or die, in this case save or nearly die). Might also add some appearances that are unaffected. Could use a new VFX currently uses a really basic one given the damage done! |
| Entangle | Clarified description a little on what entangle does. | The famous entangle! Some engine fixes has solved the lack of AC. The other issue though is it affects the AI negatively - it interrupts their spellcasting (even if they're standing still). Might need to solve this - possibly script around it, but for now just leave as-is. Keeping the low duration, the 1 turn/level of the 3.0E is crazy powerful in NWN's environments. |
| Evil Blight | Disabled | Unused by any spellbook and is basically Mass Bestow Curse sorta. To be honest it'd be more fun to reuse the icon for Bestow Curse, Greater, a high level spell with bigger curse penalties. Might put back as a mass curse that just applies the base Bestow Curse in an area but mmm. Does have a spell scroll I guess it'll just not have a property so be valueless. |
Expeditious Retreat | Updated to 1 minute/level. Made it a double increase in speed (+100%). Have script to check if haste items or haste spell is applied and if so remove. | The 3E spell doubles speed for 1 minute/level instead of the Bioware 1 round/level. Alongside not applying if Haste is present, due to item haste we will have this check for haste-equipped items every 3 seconds and remove it then too. |
| Flesh to Stone | Clarified that it won't affect certain creatures | The Bioware "You have 1 round/level on Normal or below / it's gone when you rest" makes sense. It's not fully "to the spell" but I think makes it more workable. Especially if you stone a guy, and need items off them! Lot less broken modules that way! Other ways to remove might be a good idea, two come to mind, the ultimate cure-all Greater Restoration and Break Enchantment. We've added Break Enchantment will review Greater Restoration sometime. Could really do a better set of VFX for applying - it's kinda wimpy even though it's a really powerful effect. |
Bull's Strength Greater Bull's Strength Cat's Grace Greater Cat's Grace Eagle's Splendor Greater Eagle's Splendor Endurance Greater Endurance Fox's Cunning Greater Fox's Cunning Owl's Wisdom Greater Owl's Wisdom Owl's Insight | Bull's Strength: Counterspell: Ray of Enfeeblement Greater versions: No changes yet. May add back into spellbooks. Owl's Insight: Corrected innate level in description. | Greater versions: Not in any class spellbook not sure why but it hasn't got a standard description. Seems sensible enough but maybe was intended to be item only. 3.5E has the same spells as Sor/Wiz 5, Drd 5 (and a flat +1 / 2 caster levels bonus). Might be upped to a level 6 spell on both due to the innate level here. Need to think about it. |
(Greater Sanctuary) Ethereal Jaunt | Description and script: Lasts up to 1 round per 4 caster levels. | I hate this spell. Players hate creatures that use this spell. It makes things so boring especially since the engine doesn't really work correctly regarding it since True Seeing can't actually let you attack them under it. Yes AOE spells work but come on... Basically then:
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| Haste | Description: Clarified interaction with Slow. Script: Remove Expeditious Retreat. | Haste is powerful but fine. 3.0E is being kept so 2 spells. It's a true DND spell and certainly speeds up the game (especially singleplayer) as a fighter and very much as a mage. More to the point need to think about movement speed. We might be upping everyone to have up to 300% speed limit akin to the monk. But we don't necessarily want everyone to easily get 300% speed. In fact spells like Haste remove some existing speed bonus spells! There are a few ways to do this;
The reason we want to allow 300% but not always implement movement speeds of over 150% is that then it works well with bonuses built into classes - primarily Barbarian and Monk. There may also be spells we want to be at 200% speed or higher, or overlap. |
| Hell Inferno | Creature Power not sure if used ("NPC only spell for yaron"), might replace as a monster power that uses HD and drops spell resistance. Or just disable. Currently left as a "Spell" but no real reason for it. | |
| Inferno | Description and script: "Against creatures lacking flammable flesh, hair, clothing, and items, the spell has no effect" sort of thing. See other spells that don't affect elementals explicitly. As per notes leave out "putting out" for now. | This is an odd one. It is actually reasonably to the rules but you can just extinguish the flames since it is normal fire. Bioware's version is slightly better - no way to put it out, simply 1 round = 2d6 fire damage, for up to Caster Level rounds. So at level 20 it's potentially 40d6 damage to a single target. It is a level 5 spell though and fire is the most resisted damage. It does need this adding: "Against creatures lacking flammable flesh, hair, clothing, and items, the spell has no effect." so no affecting ghosts or golems or elementals...seems fair due to the other spells like this. Extinguishing: "After the first round, the target can take a full-round action to attempt to extinguish the flames before taking additional damage. It takes a successful Reflex saving throw (DC 15) to extinguish the flames. Rolling on the ground allows the character a +2 bonus. Leaping into a lake or magically extinguishing the flames automatically smothers the flames." We can certainly make certain spells cancel the flames. A water douse spell would help against this, and Combust. Control Water maybe but that's a high level spell without any real utility in NWN. |
| Keen Edge | Description: Minor clarification on targeting and damage types applied to now piercing and slashing. | Upgraded to be slashing or piercing since 3.0E has "The spell can be cast only on piercing or slashing weapons." |
| Knock | Metamagic changed to Quicken/Silent instead of Quicken/Still Description and script: Updated to be single target. No caster level limit yet. | No somatic component only verbal so this makes more sense. SRD for reference. Need to rethink this spell. Possibly affect a certain DC only based on caster level, along with the single object. |
| Magic Vestment | Description: Clarified targeting of other creatures items. | |
Magic Weapon Greater Magic Weapon | Description: Clarified targeting of other creatures items. | Do we want to affect ammo? Or ranged weapons? (if we extend the item properties to the ranged weapons). |
| Mass Blindness/Deafness | Counterspell: Remove Blindness/Deafness Moved to Transmutation from Illusion. | Not sure why this is Illusion other than "they don't have many offensive spells". The base version is correctly Transmutation, and this one was made up by Bioware. |
| Mass Haste | Spell school Enchantment → Transmutation Noted Haste specifics in description and the limit of 1/caster level. | Moved to Transmutation not sure why it was in Enchantment which already has lots of good (albeit disabling) spells. |
| Mordenkainen's Sword | The creature blueprint needs some fixes - or at least the immunities on the hide of the creature, which point to invalid spells. Leaving Orange until we fix the blueprints (or replicate all the summons to be new blueprints). Otherwise done as Bioware's is. | We have two options: keep as-is as a construct summon, or like Persistent Dagger and Black Blade of Disaster make it a invisible human appearance. The spell apparently isn't in 3E proper, only 3.5E, as something different. |
| Nature's Balance | Description: added duration, updated to say it won't heal undead or constructs. Script: Fix healing undead and constructs (ala Cure spells). Added Metamagic: Extend. Corrected spell targeting and changed targeting distance to personal (0M) since it is self cast only. | The real spell is a rather boring level 4 moving 1d4+1 of your ability scores to someone else. Great for PnP "you take some of my intelligence Wizard" to buff beyond the usual ability buff spells but is pretty naff. This level 8 version is much better; removal of spell resistance sometimes matters, and the healing is a nice little bonus. I'm going to leave as-is. |
| One with the Land | Description: Removed word "competence" since it's just another bonus. | Frankly a filler spell (a few bonus skill points) could do with some improvements. Still better than the original that gave a measily +2! |
| Polymorph Self | Innate spell level of subspells 3 → 4 Subspells added relevant metamagic (just in case we need a reference for it) | Could do with some more polymorph shapes for variety, plus fixes to them as needed. |
| Quillfire | Description: Noted poison DC | Need custom poison DCs for this to be more effective as it levels. Same poison effect as Poison at a higher spell level isn't great either. To fix once EffectPoison is improved. Note that the 3E version is a thrown weapon (1d8 damage/then poison at the right DC with 1d6 strength/1d6 strength damage). |
| Shapechange | Corrected subspells to match parent spell (Concentration, metamagic, components) | Mainly need to review the polymorphs and maybe add some. |
| Slow | Description: Corrected what slow does and how it interacts with Haste. | Corrected description - slow actually sets your base attacks to 1! This is...quite a lot more powerful than I thought. |
| Spike Growth | Description and script: Clarify what happens, cure wounds can clear and need legs. | Some issues:
Maybe we reduce the duration or only do one save on enter? It is still by default close to SRD so keeping it as-is for now. VFX: Needs a new VFX, this is the 3rd spell using Entangles VFX. A variation (maybe a different texture) might be enough. |
| Stone Bones | Description and script: Added corporeal requirement. Need some bones to stone! Added sound effects to casting. | VFX: Probably could do with a nicer VFX then the generic AC increase one. |
| Stone to Flesh | Metamagic: Remove extend | Could do with a new VFX (currently uses Dispel Magic). |
| Tenser's Transformation | Description and script: Updated to SRD version. Can use spell failure + effect bonus feat now. Can put on temporary HP separately and a RunScript to remove it if the spell is dispelled. Added spell hook to catch item usage and spell failure 100% for that part. | This needs the overhaul with new effects we have. SRD Transformation spell used as basis. The character gains 1d6 temporary hit points per caster level, a +4 natural armor bonus to AC, a +2d4 Strength enhancement bonus, a +2d4 Dexterity enhancement bonus, a +1 base attack bonus per two caster levels (which may give the character an extra attack), a +5 competence bonus on Fortitude saves, and proficiency with all simple and martial weapons. The character attacks opponents with melee or ranged weapons if the character can, even resorting to unarmed attacks if that's all the character can do. The character can't cast spells, even from magic items. --- We might want to also make it so there is only ever 1 extra attack granted, not potentially several, or we use SetBaseAttackBonus to set the number of attacks. --- 3.5E for comparison; it basically standardises the bonus stats and adds bonus constitution. I kind of like this version a bit better since it makes you a bit tankier. You gain a +4 enhancement bonus to Strength, Dexterity, and Constitution, a +4 natural armor bonus to AC, a +5 competence bonus on Fortitude saves, and proficiency with all simple and martial weapons. Your base attack bonus equals your character level (which may give you multiple attacks). |
| Time Stop | No real changes yet but ideas to the right. | The classic! There are two options here:
Could make it a subspell for the options involved. Example description: Caster Level(s): Wizard / Sorcerer 9 The caster is able to defy the sands of time and is able to cast 5 defensive spells instantly they currently have memorised. If a spell of a particular type (such as Stoneskin) it will not be cast again. The order of defences are as determined by the caster, but if no preferences are set it will automatically try and do these spells:
Note that no metamagic such as Extend will be applied to these spells. |
| Virtue | Script: Made it so it can stack, it's a cantrip. Updated spell casting visuals/sounds. | 1 HP? Meh. At least let it stack! |
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