Aura versus Alignment

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.

Banishment

Needs script fixes - should fire at target point not on self

Clarity

Spell School: Necromancy → Abjuration

Counterspell: Added Charm Person

Needs script fixes - should fire at target point not on self

Counterspell: Added Gate

Description updated: Include Verbal, no spell resistance, and large radius

Innate level in description updated to 2

Metamagic: Quicken added

Counterspell: Add confusion

Description: clarified effects removed

Counterspell: Lesser Spell Breach, Lesser Spell Mantle

Counterspell: Added Mass Charm

Removed Hostile flag

Description: Innate level 3

Removed Hostile flag

Counterspell: added Lesser Spell Breach and Greater Spell Breach

Mentioned in the spell description but not implemented, added both since obviously just "Breach" is a lower powered version anyway

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

Acid Fog

Scripts can be updated to remove the fortitude check every round, just deal damage instead.

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.)

Acid Splash

Updated to be 1d4 +1 points of damage similar to Ray of Frost.

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).

Cure Minor Wounds

Cure Light Wounds

Cure Moderate Wounds

Cure Serious Wounds

Cure Critical Wounds

Script: remove affecting Constructs, updated description.

Will save versus the damage for Undead.

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.

Elemental Swarm

Counterspell: Dismissal added

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

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.

Alternative is we can lower the duration of all the Planar Binding spells, but the SRD is basically "forever". 1 hour/level makes more sense.

The summons need some improvements quite likely, and some more variety added, maybe with a selection available.

Heal

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

Lesser Planar Binding

Summon duration stated as 1 hour/level.

Lesser Restoration

Added Counterspell: Ghoul Touch

Description: also removes damage immunity and skills.

Mage Armor

+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'll be 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.

Mass Heal

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

Melf's Acid Arrow

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: Can use 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.

Mestil's Acid Sheath

Made it 1d6 + 1 / caster level acid damage, 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.

Monsterous Regeneration

AI category fix (self → single)

Neutralize Poison

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.

This is a silly spell, it's Planar Binding but for Clerics. Ultimate expansion padding spell.

As other Planar Binding spells mainly need to review summons.

Planar Binding

As other Planar Binding spells mainly need to review summons.

Prayer

Scripting: improve so enemies are selectively chosen.

Counterspell: Bestow Curse

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.

Restoration

Restoration - Other

Added skills and paralysis to the description.

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).

Summon Creature I - IX

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)

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!).

Counterspell: Blindness

This is kinda naff. We could make it a "see somewhere else" 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).

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.

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")

Now matches spell description.

Note Find Traps and Knock probably need a bit of rework. For now Find Traps just finds them doesn't disarm them.

Innate level set to 1

Description and script: Only identifies a single magical item.

Incorrectly was set to 2

Incorrectly was set to 5

Kept as is since Identify was changed to single item.

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).

Temp HP so needs adjustments for dispel magic.

Change targeting to Harm Enemies only

AI category changed to Harmful AOE (Discriminate)

Keep as a merged spell, makes it more viable.

Counterspell: Clarity

Amended targeting to not harm allies. Is discriminate.

Counterspell: Clarity

Counterspell: Clarity

Script: Duration needs fixing.

Counterspell: Clarity

Clarified what a "person" is.

Counterspell: Bless

Save and SR checks need reordering.

Counterspell: Freedom of Movement

Counterspell: Freedom of Movement

Counterspell: Freedom of Movement

Updated description to match duration.

Script changes needed: Better analysis of who to affect (ie not casters party), 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

Note: script needs some immunity check fixes

These are not used for variable duration rolls

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: Make sure AOE can't affect self.

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.

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

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.

Description and script: Update to be 10d6 flat damage, and if you fail the reflex save you are knocked down for 3 full rounds.

Range updated to 0 since personal/self only spell.

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.

The obvious route is to add additional penalties for failing the safe, vis-a-vis knockdown. This helps allies, and yourself, to attack those knocked down.

Increase damage to 1d4 + 1 from 1d3.

Hostile flag enabled.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Targeting: Doesn't hurt self

Metamagic: No metamagic can change rolls for duration of effects, so removed the Empower and Maximize.

May update description + effects see notes.

The effects of the spell are a bit better than the SRD version but also a bit worse. Better when stunning only (stun seems much better than blindness!) but much better odds on a good Sleep duration (3 + 1d4 vs 2d4).

I'll leave as-is for now. But with EffectRunScript we can do some changes to effects (and clear them when the run script ends).

Greater Shadow Conjuration

Shades

Shadow Conjuration

Corrected spell schools of subspells to Illusion

Fixed some metamagic omissions

Scripts: Will point to the original spells but need to take into account some things like say, a potion of Shadow Conjuration and drinking the Magic Missile version!

Will be reviewing in more detail/adding more spells/something else in Overhaul Spells - Shadow Conjuration

This could do with being reviewed. Possibly the duration (or improve Displacements duration).

Possibly "Once Invisibility is lost the concealment lasts for X rounds" (based on caster level) meaning it doesn't last foreverver.

Note: The engine does support "proper" improved invisibility, ie the "you stay invisible even if a hostile action occurs" but that way is madness.

Counterspell: Invisibility purge

Updated description: Re-entering doesn't provide invisibility again, and you can't see your allies (engine limitation).

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.

Tempted to move to Transmutation when the Shadow Conjuration spells are improved.

Bioware original spell. Similar to Ghostly Visage and Ethreal Visage probably just making up some useful spells for Illusion which has limited non-complex options.

Updated description and script: Will save to negate when entering, interactions with amplify (Dispel/overlapping).

Counterspell: Amplify

We need a standard "Can vocalise" which includes a check for this used consistently for things like singing Bard Songs etc.

Updated once I noticed Amplify should counter/dispel it.

Note SRD has the AOE at "Large" radius not "Colossal" but might be willing to give Weird the benefit of the doubt due to the cooler VFX and the fact Wail of the Banshee is just usually better (3.0E has this problem with several spells!)tz

Animate Dead

Counterspell: Sunbeam and Sunburst

Circle of Death

Counterspell: Death Ward

Amended description to have area be "Large" which seems sensible (matches VFX/script).

Circle of Doom

Counterspell: Healing Circle

Contagion

Counterspell: Remove Disease

Hostile flag added.

Would be nice to have variable DC's for the Disease application so it scales better. Either lots of disease.2da lines or some new engine method.

Control Undead

Counterspell: Sunbeam, Sunburst

Create  Greater Undead

Counterspell: Sunbeam, Sunburst

Summons could do with a once over. The Necromancy ones in DND need a body, but we'd need to rework a lot of stuff to make that viable (ie keep corpses around, allow them to be essentially resurrected!). But it's a possibility.

Create Undead

Counterspell: Sunbeam, Sunburst

Summons could do with a once over. The Necromancy ones in DND need a body, but we'd need to rework a lot of stuff to make that viable (ie keep corpses around, allow them to be essentially resurrected!). But it's a possibility.

Death Armor

Description and script: allow up to 1d4 +10 damage. Corrected description no will save or SR involved.

Descriptor: Damage Shield added to this and others of it's type. ("Magical Armor" removed)

The scaling on this is oddly low, even the PnP spell extends up to +10 damage, ie level 20.

Death Ward

Counterspell: Finger of Death

Destruction

Description: added Death descriptor.

Removed Placeable targeting (and should in the script too!)

Need to think if this, or Finger of Death which is similar, should apply the damage if the creature is immune to death magic. Probably should be no damage tbh.

Energy Drain

Description: Noted what spells can restore the negative levels, and what happens to undead hit.

Noted what negative levels do.

Noted how you can die from too many negative levels.

Negative levels could go in a glossary but for now putting it there.

The SRD also has this noted if undead are hit "2d4 x5 temporary hit points for 1 hour". So why not, let's add it in case someone is silly enough to cast it on undead. Or want to buff their own undead I guess!

SRD notes a "ray" - might be fun to make it a ray with a ranged touch attack instead of a fortitude save. Not sure.

Enervation

Same as Energy Drain.

The temporary duration can stay, I think, but let's make it similar to Energy Drain and only removable by other big spells.

SRD has "If the ray strikes an undead creature, it gives that creature 5 temporary hit points per two caster levels (maximum 25 temporary hit points) for 1 hour."

Fear

Counterspell: Remove Fear

Finger of Death

Script: Feedback when the immunity means no negative damage would be good.

Could have this act like Destruction and apply the damage if they're immune to death magic. But probably not - better updating Destruction to be honest.

Ghoul Touch

Script: Fix the AOE to apply attack reduction. Fix the damage reduction to apply to physical damage types. Fix the AOE  save to be also negative. Have the AOE OnExit remove all the effects once the AOE goes.

Counterspell: Cure Light Wounds

Hostile flag added.

Odd how only Cure Light Wounds is a counter, maybe should add Cure Moderate Wounds as well.

Harm

Counterspell: Heal

10 damage per level, will save for half, max 150 damage.

Does not affect constructs.

Hostile flag added.

Healing Sting

Script and description: Updated with touch attack and removed Fortitude save. Increased damage to 1d12 and capped bonus damage to +10.

Hostile flag added.

We're going to use the PnP description for this. More touch attacks is good, since it adds some variety to spells that usually just use a basic saving throw.

"Focusing the power of negative energy, you deal 1d12 points of damage +1 per caster level (maximum 1d12+10) to a living creature and gain an equal amount of hit points if you make a successful melee touch attack. A healing sting cannot give you more hit points than your full normal total. Excess hit points are lost."

Horrid Wilting

Description: Removed Death descriptor. Clarified description on who is affected (living creatures).

Script: Should affect the caster. Silly not to with new spell targeting! Also affect Water Elementals with a bigger save DC.

Infestation of Maggots

Script: Add touch attack! Probably change it to a EffectRunScript as well.

Hostile flag added.

PnP version says:

"With a successful melee touch attack, you infest a creature with maggotlike creatures. They deal 1d4 points of temporary Constitution damage each round. The subject makes a new Fortitude save each round to negate the damage of that round and end the effect.

The infestation can be removed with a cure disease or heal spell."

Inflict Minor Wounds

Inflict Light Wounds

Inflict Moderate Wounds

Inflict Serious Wounds

Inflict Critical Wounds

AI Category changed to Harmful Touch from nothing (except critical, already set to that)

Added counterspells (equivalent Cure spells)

Minor Wounds: Increased to 4 base damage (will for half).

Does not affect constructs.

Hostile flag added.

Negative Energy Burst

Counterspell: Negative Energy Protection

Description and script: Clarified workings (Undead get a strength bonus) and made it so the strength penalty needs a failed save.

Actually better than the Tomb and Blood version in 3E, adding Strength damage and upping the damage cap. Neither are terrible changes - the spell is entirely outclassed by the basic Fireball regardless. But has a nice way to heal summoned undead at least.

Have added a saving throw for the negative strength.

Negative Energy Ray

Description and script: Add ranged touch attack.

Apparently the spell scroll item for this spell has no ability for Clerics to use, but Bards can.

Added Hostile flag.

The D&D version has a touch attack as well. This might be good both since you can crit on it, and it fits the spell!

Description and script: Add touch attack, make poison a custom one (but reuse the icon!) and have the effects be permanent magical ones from an EffectRunScript.

Added Hostile flag.

SRD states:

"The character inflicts the subject with a poison by making a successful melee touch attack. The poison deals 1d10 points of temporary Constitution damage immediately and another 1d10 points of temporary Constitution damage 1 minute later. Each instance of damage can be negated by a Fortitude save (DC 10 + one-half caster level + casters Wisdom modifier)."

This is both better (better effects/DC) and worse (DC lower than 18 at lower levels, simple implementation).

Can fix this with a better poison engine effect, or by doing an EffectRunScript with a "fake" poison.

The original spell left the poison effect as default, which in the engine does actually set it as Magical, oddly. So it can be dispelled. This is noted in the description.

Counterspell: Added Bull's Strength

Metamagic: Silent removed

Description: Changed to "Maximum of +5" and Negative as the descriptor

Metmagic: Silent added

Counterspell: Added Remove Fear

Hostile flag added.

Description and script: Removed Negative descriptor. Clarified damage is negative. But saving throw is vs. Death. Immunity to death will provide immunity to the damage as well.

Added Hostile flag.

Script: Fix LOS for AOE. Fix the distance checks (ie lowest distance first).

Change to a death effect that bypasses immunities, rather than, hilariously, Divine damage (even though it has a Negative descriptor!)

Description clarified (living creature, melee touch attack)

Script can fix the damage → resisted → still get temp HP. Also don't remove all instances of temp HP. Maybe don't even remove any!

Counterspell: Negative Energy Protection

Hostile flag added.

Description and script: Made indiscriminate, will not affect deaf or silenced creatures. Removed Sonic descriptor since save was vs. Death only (Sonic can maybe be added later if multiple save types can be used).

Counterspell: Silence.

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.

Description and script: Apply the bonuses to skills and the Turn Undead bonus separately. Add note about healing 1HP to those in the area. Change the AOE to be smaller (Medium, 3.33M). Make a mobile AOE that applies the +2 save vs. Fear.

The +2 vs. Fear is +5 in the Bioware version so might just up it. Bit weak otherwise perhaps.

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. Maybe that's just the better option all round. Paladins don't get a lot of love.

Will think about it.

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).

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
Level: Druid 7,
Components: V, S,
Casting Time: 1 action
Range: Close (25 ft. + 5 ft./2 levels)
Target: One creature per 3 levels, no two of which can be more than 30 ft. apart
Duration: 1 round/level
Saving Throw: Will negates (harmless)
Spell Resistance: Yes (harmless)

All targets receive a +4 enhancement bonus to Strength, Dexterity, and Constitution scores.

Range: Touch → Self

Valid Targets: Self, Item

Changed to self-targeting for ease of use. It just affects your animal companion after all.

This needs some scripted fixes to allow Maximize to work too.

Note: The original spell could affect any animal, which is fine, and we might change to that but for now just leaving for animal companion.

Nothing really to fix but need to consider the item property to catch the thresholds.

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.

VISUAL EFFECT NEEDED AND ADDING OF HORN SOUND

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.

Removed Hostile flag

Removed projectile (personal only)

AI category changed to Persistent AOE

Minor fixes

Counterspell: Remove Curse

Possibly change to subspells for options to make this more useful.

It's tempting to add all the options: https://www.dandwiki.com/wiki/3e_SRD:Bestow_Curse

-6 for a specific statistic

-4 attack rolls 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.

Spell school Enchantment → Transmutation

Noted Haste specifics in description.

Will remove the amount of creatures limit since the level you get this is so high it might as well be everyone.

Innate spell level of subspells 3 → 4

Subspells added relevant metamagic (just in case we need a reference for it)

Monster Ability

Spell School changed to General

Personal (0) range from 20M

Marked as hostile

AI category changed to AOE Discriminate

Epic Spell: Epic Mage Armour

Epic Spell

School changed to Conjuration (For what it's worth)

Epic Spell: Greater Ruin

Epic Spell

Added Hostile flag

Epic Spell: Epic Warding

Epic Spell

Removed Hostile flag

AI Category changed to "Protection Self"

Range changed to 0

Monster Ability

Removed "master" of this spell

Polymorph Ability (Shifter, Azer Chieftain)

Removed erroneous metamagic, changed to General spell school

Monster Ability

Copied settings from other Gaze abilities:

Range: 20M → 8M

Somatic component added

Allow target area

AI category updated to AOE Indiscriminate

Spell targeting info updated to match

Polymorph Ability

As above

Monster Ability

Updated description to match effects

Spell school set to General

Updated icon

Monster Ability

Updated description to match effects

Changed target flags/made cone AOE

Spell school set to General

Updated icon

Remove concentration

Monster Ability

Updated description to match effects

Spell school set to General

Updated icon (Although better would be to recolour a spell icon (eg Mage Armour) to yellow to make it easier to see.

This is a good thing: We should make all the monster versions the same as the shifter versions really. Or at least make them work better for non-shifters if used as a NPC.

Monster Ability

Updated description to match effects

Changed target flags/made cone AOE

Spell school set to General

Updated icon

Monster Ability

Updated description to match effects

Removed erroneous metamagic flags

Fixed target flags

Spell school set to General

Updated icon

Monster Ability

Updated description to match effects

Fixed target flags (self only)

Spell school set to General

Updated icon

Components updated to Somatic only (from just Verbal) to match other Psionic abilities

Was "Psionic Mind Blast 10m radius" which itself was wrong - it's a 15 meter radius!

Perfect candidate for the new Psychic damage type

Updated description to match effects

No longer verbal

Hostile flag enabled

Monster Ability

Updated description to match effects

Fixed target flags (self only) and range (0M)

Spell school set to General

Updated icon (really needs a new one)

Added AI Category: Protection (Self)

Left with no components.

Polymorph Ability (Spectre, Shifter Undead Shape)

Renamed to Spectre Shadow Attack

Updated description to match effects.

Removed "Uses Concentration" (has 0 cast time)

Removed verbal component

Hostile flag enabled

Reusable on other creatures. Does level drain damage on hit.

Remove Concentration

Remove hostile flag

Fix AI Category (Self Enchantment)

Type changed to Feat

Spell School changed to General

Changed to Feat category and General spell school

AI Category changed to Summon (although probably needs feat version changed too)

Deathless Master Touch

Remove Verbal component

Type changed to Feat

Spell School changed to General

Range changed from Touch to Close (8M)

Changed to Feat category and General spell school

Removed unneeded metamagic

Type changed to Feat from Creature Power

Target creatures, doors, placeables and ground (fireball arrow after all)

Removed Verbal component left Somatic

Spell School changed to General

AI category changed to Harmful AOE (indiscriminate)

Oath of Wrath

Type changed to Feat from Spell

Removed targeting items

Spell School set to General

Changed to Feat category and General spell school

Changed to Feat category and General spell school

Changed to Feat category and General spell school

Rogue's Cunning

Type changed to Other (Item ability) from Spell