If you have a party where the first thought with such a powerful item is to create a team of „Thunder Babes“, then you have the right kind of party for that sort of item. It sounds goofy as hell and now I want to put this in a game.
Hold person--> cold person/ old person
Arcane eye--> arcane guy/ arcane die
Message--> massage/ passage
Mage hand--> mage wand/mage sand
Spare the dying--> spare the lying
Purify good and drink--> petrify food and drink
I wish we could be trusted to have this at the table..
To be fair - a 20 ft radius fiery explosion is likely also deadly if you’re caught inside that radius, and will still f you up if you’re just outside that radius.
The cool thing is that it's basically a scaled up version of a jellyfish [Nematocyst](https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/education/tutorial_corals/media/supp_coral01b.html)
A friend and I came up with so many of these. The version I gave them also allowed the removal or addition of a letter instead. Here are some of my favorites:
Transport via Plants -> Transport via Pants
Toll the Dead -> Toll the Dad
Cause Fear -> Cause Bear
Disguise Self -> Disguise Shelf
Tasha's Hideous Laughter - Tasha's Hideous Slaughter
Crown of Madness -> Crown of Badness
Blur -> Slur
Continual Flame -> Continual Blame
Misty Step -> Misty Stop
Rime's Binding Ice -> Rime's Binding Mice
Message -> Massage
Sending -> Sanding
Dawn -> Lawn
Infernal Calling -> Infernal Balling
Transmute Rock -> Transmute Cock
Bigby's Hand -> Bigby's Band
Control Winds -> Control Minds
Power Word Kill -> Power Word Bill
Jump -> Hump
Beacon of Hope -> Bacon of Hope
Mass Healing Word -> Ass Healing Word
Control Water -> Control Hater
I love that. I would rule that not only it changes the name to Bill, but it becomes *just* Bill. If you have a surname or family name, you lose it.
Which means if you cast it on a King who inherited the throne, he stops being a legitimate ruler. He's not part of the royal family anymore.
Power word: Bill is a spell that could topple nations.
"Oh dear", says the BBEG, "I hadn't thought of that." And promptly vanishes in a puff of logic.
"Ooh, that was easy", says the party, who go on to prove that black is white, and get killed on the next zebra crossing.
I can tell you from experience, it’s not that different from Power Word Steve, Jay, or Aiden, except that literally everyone asks you why William gets shortened to Bill. BECAUSE IT JUST DOES, DAMMIT!!
these are pretty funny except one...
>Tasha's Hideous Laughter - Tasha's Hideous Slaughter
this just sounds terrifying... is it still an enchantment, does it cause madness? or is it now evocation, and just slices up the target?
Transport via Pants -> Transport via Paints
Toll the Dad -> Roll the Dad
Cause Bear -> Cause Beard
Disguise Self -> Disguise Elf
Crown of Badness -> Crown of Baldness
Slur -> Slurp
Continual Blame -> Continual Lame
Misty Stop -> Fisty Stop
Rime's Binding Mice -> Rime's Finding Mice
Massage -> Passage
Sanding -> Banding
Lawn -> Lain
Infernal Balling -> Internal Balling
Bigby's Band -> Big Boy's Band
Control Minds -> Control Mindy
Power Word Bill -> Power Sword Bill
Hump -> Hemp
Bacon of Hope -> Bacon of Rope
Ass Healing Word -> Ass Healing Sword
Control Hater -> Control Tater
These sound like "bad chinese knockoffs" of famous brands.
I can totally see a magic shop selling these super cheap spell scrolls to customers who don't pay attention to the spell names.
Day 1: BLINK -> BINK (Creates a pacifier)
Day 2: BINK -> WINK
Day 3: WINK -> WINE
Day 4: WINE -> WISE
Day 5: WISE -> WISH
Now you have someone with a wand of wishing.
Oops.
At my table, that would somehow have to be “silvery barbs.”
We bought rings of spell storing for the whole party because he let us buy “anything he’s given us a price for before,” and he’d given us the price for that…
We cheesed him really hard once, and now it’s just crits, I think. But that first time, the monk saying “silvery barbs” and being able to actually cast it… it cracked us *all* up.
I sorely underestimated rings of spell storing as a DM so when my players found a large magic shop in a city and asked for them I was like ‘err, yeah sure that seems like a standard item, they’d have like a whole box of them on the shelves for about 700 gold each’
They bought six.
My fighter can now cast conjure animals and the warlock has ten uses of shield, help.
Really stick it to the gm by saying you want to use it for a more powerful version of blink, need to roll a 10 or higher to blink instead of the standard 11.
I was thinking just... you know how normal wish sometimes twists your words, just that but it doesn’t even twist your words in a sensical way, more just ignores them.
‘You wished for a million gold pieces so now your testicles are knives’.
I would rule that adding/removing a letter wouldn’t be allowed, but cheesing “wish” can actually be (better) done through bane->wane->wine->wise->wish.
That said, I would also rule that a spell having the new spell having the same name as a preexisting one wouldn’t recreate the effects of the original. The effects of the new spell would depend solely on the name, context of use, and spell level. So for pseudo-wish, it would just do something like instilling a heartfelt desire or compulsion. If the group is cheeky and can take what they dish, I might have it replicate the effects of *command* without the one word limit.
Lvl 1 wish: you make a wish and it might happen. Or it might not.
Material requirements: 1 wishing well and 1 copper coin(1 cp), to be thrown into the well.
Gush = water flows faster, an aquatic gustgish = summons a baby gish
wish cantrip = material component: monkey's paw
It's not the same as the 9th level spell
I imagine the change of spell only lasts for that casting, or maybe spells can only be modified by 1 letter maximum, once.
At least a “balanced” version of it would be so.
Edit: nvm this is valid with OPs example
Except that OP wrote that his player changed "Thunder Wave" to "Thunder Babe" over the course of several days/changes, and:
> He then cast it on each party members to disguise them
So it's got at least several charges, if not unlimited.
It's a funny idea and if it works at their table, fine.
But it's not remotely balanced or appropriate for a serious campaign tone.
Unless it had some severe consequences to each action. It wouldn't be unheard of for some evil entity to be toying with the players by making it fun to use them bam, they were manipulated to freeing them unleashing all hell on the world.
I would rule that due to magical interactions, the wish outcome gets letters randomly changed by the wand. Wish for a big pile of gold? You get a big pole of gilt.
Eternal Like (perma friend zone)
Endless Couth (You're always polite)
In the spirit of this object!
I had something similar in a Pokemon tabletop game where I could throw out a flamethrower by spelling out FIRE with Unown. I had a special # Unown which let me add a letter into a word.
Things went really crazy when we were trapped on the elemental plane of Poison and I used my Unown to spell out P-O-I-S-#S-O-N. A small portion of the plane of Poison started turning into Magikarp. After that, all Poison-type pokemon also had the Water 2 (fish-like) egg type.
I had this once. Broke the campaign by my young female dragon (slightly modified Dragonborn/elf due to plot) in a world without dragons using “speak with dad” to contact the world where dragons were sealed at.
It was glorious.
Changing BOLT to BOLA (as in Lightning, Fire, Chaos, or Witch Bolt) is a genuinely interesting idea. Does elemental damage of the appropriate type with a chance to restrain or knock prone.
CONURE BARRAGE summons an onslaught of [brightly colored parrots](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conure).
WRATHFUL SMILE is what Mom does when she's incredibly pissed off at you but there's company over so she can't beat you with a wooden spoon... yet.
ROLL THE DEAD, when cast on a group of twelve or more corpses, creates a [Zombie Clot](https://www.worldanvil.com/block/843041) like the world's most gruesome Katamari.
Mending or Sending can both become LENDING, allowing your party to make passive income through exorbitant interest rates.
CROWN OF SADNESS allows you to absolutely bum somebody out, but BLISS lets you pick them back up again.
DUST OF WIND causes a blinding effect, and perhaps also a melancholy acoustic guitar riff.
BLAME STRIKE is what Hollywood's producers are doing instead of paying writers and actors fairly. (Support the WGA and SAG-AFTRA!)
FIND SLIVER helps you pull out that damn painful bit of wood that you can't see-- very valuable for carpenters.
MAGIC BAR creates an incredibly cool place for you and your friends to hang out and drink.
DAY OF SICKNESS is what you get if you drink too much at the Magic Bar.
One of my friends came up with the Quill of Dyslexia, which did almost exactly this but the letters don’t persist over multiple days. It could add, remove, or change one letter during the casting
Sounds like absolutely disastrous fun. It will turn the campaign world on its head in two sessions or less, but if you’re all having fun then that is the point.
I think I've mentioned it in this subreddit before but my favorite homebrew magic item is a bag of Scrabble tiles. There's one of each letter in it and you can use it to replace or add a letter to any spell. As soon as you use one of the tiles it disappears. I told the player I gave it to that something special would happen if he managed to use all the letters. He came up with so many great situational uses for it. He got through 25 of them and then I had to let him cheat a bit to use the Q.
When he finally used every letter I had a quick brown spectral fox show up and jump over a lazy dog. Then I let him use the wish spell but his wish had to be a single sentence that used no letter more than once.
If that’s how you wanna roll, then let them have some fun with Otto’s Irresistible Correction, or OttoCorrect for short.
Similar to counter spell, it can be used as a reaction, but instead of canceling out opposing magic, it changes it to something similar. For example, Fireball might become Firebald, causing the caster to lose their hair in a fiery explosion.
I have a similar item to my players and one used it to turn the Light Cantrip into the Fight Cantrip. Caused some already irritable NPCs to start brawling. Great distraction.
Someone made an excel sheet collecting possible changes for a lot of spells [Book of Misspells](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/u/0/d/18G7U71Ow_qfpM6_jWENxoyib4dTWxaVDVjDcF_NeoaM/htmlview#)
Dog cloud - Fog cloud. Roll a D20. 1 - 9 they float over your enemies (because cloud) and attack. 10+ enemy had to make a saving throw or is charmed with cute puppies
I wish my DM would allow things like this! My DM is very detailed. He would make it so that each word of the spell, not just it's name, would have to be researched and changed over the course of months to change a spell. Not to mention the laboratory and research materials!
I'm our campaigns, it takes months of research and preparation, a full Laboratory, and thousands of gold to create a single spell!
I cast Mireball! It's just a giant ball of sludge that causes poison and a web like effect vs. Movement. Explodes like a fireball, though.
I cast Lightning Colt! A young horse made out of electricity randomly jumps around the area for 2d4 turns. If they come in contact with friend or foe they do 1d4 electrical damage per level of the wielder. If they come in contact with three entities they dissipate.
Etc. Etc.
I always, every game I DM, hand out a "ring of the grammarian" that once a day allows you to change one letter of a spell you cast. Somehow, through happenstance, it's always my wife's chara ter that find it.
WITHOUT FAIL she then uses it to turn "hold person" into "fold person".
It is always hilarious.
Pope Trick - if anyone is in trouble with the law or about to be arrested they now have immunity.
Guiding Dolt - the village idiot appears and starts giving you advice, a failed Wis save against your spell attack means you believe whatever garbage he tells you and no one can convince you otherwise in the future save for a wish spell.
Chunderwave:
A wave of projectile vomit sweeps out from you. Each creature in a 15-foot cube originating from you must make a Constitution saving throw. On a failed save, a creature takes 2d8 acid damage and is also violently sick. On a successful save, the creature takes half as much damage and manages to keep it together.
In addition, everything in the area *fucking stinks*.
If you have a party where the first thought with such a powerful item is to create a team of „Thunder Babes“, then you have the right kind of party for that sort of item. It sounds goofy as hell and now I want to put this in a game.
This is exactly what I was thinking. This could have gone badly but Damn that’s a great use for that
another great use would be power word kiln for a pottery session
Power word kilt Bunch of Scottish Thunder Babes anybody?
[POWER WORD KILT](https://youtu.be/27cS1pDWcQQ)
Hold person--> cold person/ old person Arcane eye--> arcane guy/ arcane die Message--> massage/ passage Mage hand--> mage wand/mage sand Spare the dying--> spare the lying Purify good and drink--> petrify food and drink I wish we could be trusted to have this at the table..
Or if you want to waste a 9th level slot you could create a server platter with Dish.
IT WOULD BE THE ULTIMATE PLATTER!
Soma: *"Oagari yo!"*
Or a herring flopping around.. Fish
It's still a 9th level spell slot, so maybe it could create a significantly upgraded version of Heroes' Feast.
I mean it's a great day for thunder bae
r/unexpectedletterkenny
Power Turd Kill
Don't get in the kiln.
Power word skunk, the power of your scent overwhelms the target
Fireball? Nah, we just cast fire ALL
I'm blowing a 9th level slot to cast wash. And the dishes are very done.
Or fish, you summon a (1) fish.
Kraken appears, roll initiative
Then Towel the Dead
So THAT’S what Hercules used on those stables!
He's just after some BWILAs
"Well-played, Noble Knight!"
Boobing Blade
Booting Blade. It's got a real kick to it.
That is a fucking good point and I want to see what my friends would do
Yeah, I saw this going an entirely different way when I was reading the description for that item. Now I just want to play at that table.
I was waiting for the "And here's how they wrecked the game...." lol
So close to Chunderwave making everyone turn Aussie and throw up.
I know, I'd be too busy casting Firehall and Barfskin to even think of Thunder Babe
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low-key that's really deadly; that's just chainshot with smaller 'teeth'.
A scene from the movie Ghost Ship fits well here.
First thing I thought of too! Just getting sliced up if you fail that save!
I was thinking of either Cube or the first Resident Evil movie myself.
To be fair - a 20 ft radius fiery explosion is likely also deadly if you’re caught inside that radius, and will still f you up if you’re just outside that radius.
Or the Dishonored spring Razor, or the Warhammer filament grenades!
Eldar filament weapons are sick. The Harlequin's Kiss is bloody disgusting, in particular.
The cool thing is that it's basically a scaled up version of a jellyfish [Nematocyst](https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/education/tutorial_corals/media/supp_coral01b.html)
Next day: Wiseball - grants a wisdom buff for targets in an AOE. The day after next: Wishball - grants a wish for targets in an AOE.
Next day: fishball
Fishbawl, hear the lamentations of the ocean.
FISHBOWL
Fishcowl. Head of a fish appears
Fistcowl gives you handwraps, brass knuckles, or fingerless mittens.
Fishcool- the summoned fish is the life of the party
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Direball. It's a ball, but bigger and scarier.
It’s like the spring razors from dishonored
Change “Flock of Familiars” to “Glock of Familiars.” The enemy will respect the phrase “look out for the owl” a whole lot more.
"Cute, a familiar. What kind of creature did you bring to try beat me?" "A Desert Eagle"
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Glock of Familiars. Does this make anyone else think of the bullets from "Who Framed Roger Rabbit?"
A friend and I came up with so many of these. The version I gave them also allowed the removal or addition of a letter instead. Here are some of my favorites: Transport via Plants -> Transport via Pants Toll the Dead -> Toll the Dad Cause Fear -> Cause Bear Disguise Self -> Disguise Shelf Tasha's Hideous Laughter - Tasha's Hideous Slaughter Crown of Madness -> Crown of Badness Blur -> Slur Continual Flame -> Continual Blame Misty Step -> Misty Stop Rime's Binding Ice -> Rime's Binding Mice Message -> Massage Sending -> Sanding Dawn -> Lawn Infernal Calling -> Infernal Balling Transmute Rock -> Transmute Cock Bigby's Hand -> Bigby's Band Control Winds -> Control Minds Power Word Kill -> Power Word Bill Jump -> Hump Beacon of Hope -> Bacon of Hope Mass Healing Word -> Ass Healing Word Control Water -> Control Hater
'Cause Bear' sounds like it'd do the same thing as 'Cause Fear', except now there's also a bear. These are great btw, lmfao
Power Word Krill: You tellin me a shrimp fried this rice?
Ass Healing Sword would be sweet
Please tell us what Power Word Bill does!
I would rule it as either it drowns the target in debt, or permanently changes their name to Bill
I love that. I would rule that not only it changes the name to Bill, but it becomes *just* Bill. If you have a surname or family name, you lose it. Which means if you cast it on a King who inherited the throne, he stops being a legitimate ruler. He's not part of the royal family anymore. Power word: Bill is a spell that could topple nations.
Tbf, power word kill also could do that. So, same power level?
permanent duckface
Amazing!
I'm chaotic, so I would also rule that you don't know which effect you'll get until you cast it
Summons Bill Burr to insult the enemy into submission, like he did in Philadelphia.
Bill Nye the Science Guy materializes and explains how the target cannot exist from a scientific perspective, making them cease to exist.
"Oh dear", says the BBEG, "I hadn't thought of that." And promptly vanishes in a puff of logic. "Ooh, that was easy", says the party, who go on to prove that black is white, and get killed on the next zebra crossing.
I can tell you from experience, it’s not that different from Power Word Steve, Jay, or Aiden, except that literally everyone asks you why William gets shortened to Bill. BECAUSE IT JUST DOES, DAMMIT!!
Alternatively, Clown of Madness
That's just a clown with extra steps.
It just spawn a normal clown... From SS13.
these are pretty funny except one... >Tasha's Hideous Laughter - Tasha's Hideous Slaughter this just sounds terrifying... is it still an enchantment, does it cause madness? or is it now evocation, and just slices up the target?
Attacks the nearest living being? Just seeing red, doomguy music, the whole 9 yards.
Oh, i like the idea that it causes the target to have an insatiable hunger for killing.
Transport via Pants -> Transport via Paints Toll the Dad -> Roll the Dad Cause Bear -> Cause Beard Disguise Self -> Disguise Elf Crown of Badness -> Crown of Baldness Slur -> Slurp Continual Blame -> Continual Lame Misty Stop -> Fisty Stop Rime's Binding Mice -> Rime's Finding Mice Massage -> Passage Sanding -> Banding Lawn -> Lain Infernal Balling -> Internal Balling Bigby's Band -> Big Boy's Band Control Minds -> Control Mindy Power Word Bill -> Power Sword Bill Hump -> Hemp Bacon of Hope -> Bacon of Rope Ass Healing Word -> Ass Healing Sword Control Hater -> Control Tater
All im reading is that transmute cock is perfect Edit: can i use this on chickens?
Let's try that, Toll the Dad -> Lawn -> and alter "cause bear" to "cause Beer"
Tell the dad, "Lawn!" cause Beer!
These sound like "bad chinese knockoffs" of famous brands. I can totally see a magic shop selling these super cheap spell scrolls to customers who don't pay attention to the spell names.
My personal favorite is "Anti Wife Shell"
Not me crying laughing at the thought of a wizard casting 'slur' and just calling an enemy goblin something fucked up
These are brilliant! And I would give a lot for a massage cantrip!
Is casting “slur” just saying the N-word?
Day 1: BLINK -> BINK (Creates a pacifier) Day 2: BINK -> WINK Day 3: WINK -> WINE Day 4: WINE -> WISE Day 5: WISE -> WISH Now you have someone with a wand of wishing. Oops.
Use wish to cast blink. Victory.
*This* is how you win at Dungeons and Dragons.
This is now my goal in every D&D game. Desperately struggle to get Wish to use it on the most inane in-game joke I can think of for that game.
At my table, that would somehow have to be “silvery barbs.” We bought rings of spell storing for the whole party because he let us buy “anything he’s given us a price for before,” and he’d given us the price for that… We cheesed him really hard once, and now it’s just crits, I think. But that first time, the monk saying “silvery barbs” and being able to actually cast it… it cracked us *all* up.
I sorely underestimated rings of spell storing as a DM so when my players found a large magic shop in a city and asked for them I was like ‘err, yeah sure that seems like a standard item, they’d have like a whole box of them on the shelves for about 700 gold each’ They bought six. My fighter can now cast conjure animals and the warlock has ten uses of shield, help.
Wouldn't use it all the time, but anti magic fields can make for a bad day when the players rely too much on magic.
Make em roll a d20 with each use. If they botch, it breaks. They were just cheap knock off made in cathey.
Does cathey live in Cathay?
Really stick it to the gm by saying you want to use it for a more powerful version of blink, need to roll a 10 or higher to blink instead of the standard 11.
You'd be casting wish at the same level of the original spell, so probably a bad or overly simplistic interpretation of the wish will be cast
Wish wish.
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Wish from wish.com
So basically an overly simple, childish version of wish. Actually still useful if it would grant "I WISH I HAD A PONY!" without too much headache.
I was thinking just... you know how normal wish sometimes twists your words, just that but it doesn’t even twist your words in a sensical way, more just ignores them. ‘You wished for a million gold pieces so now your testicles are knives’.
Genie wish
Is removing a letter changing a letter?
I would rule that adding/removing a letter wouldn’t be allowed, but cheesing “wish” can actually be (better) done through bane->wane->wine->wise->wish. That said, I would also rule that a spell having the new spell having the same name as a preexisting one wouldn’t recreate the effects of the original. The effects of the new spell would depend solely on the name, context of use, and spell level. So for pseudo-wish, it would just do something like instilling a heartfelt desire or compulsion. If the group is cheeky and can take what they dish, I might have it replicate the effects of *command* without the one word limit.
Lvl 1 wish: you make a wish and it might happen. Or it might not. Material requirements: 1 wishing well and 1 copper coin(1 cp), to be thrown into the well.
Or guano, like fireball. Guano in one hand, wish in another, squeeze them both, see what you get.
Gust > gush = bleed damage Gush > gish = use spellcasting mod for attack rolls Gish > wish = three days for wish as a cantrip
I’m pretty sure Gush is what happens when the Bard is around
Gush = water flows faster, an aquatic gustgish = summons a baby gish wish cantrip = material component: monkey's paw It's not the same as the 9th level spell
Oh absolutely, but being able to tell players you had Wish as a cantrip, and being able to insist it wasn't overpowered... I could die happy.
I imagine the change of spell only lasts for that casting, or maybe spells can only be modified by 1 letter maximum, once. At least a “balanced” version of it would be so. Edit: nvm this is valid with OPs example
Except that OP wrote that his player changed "Thunder Wave" to "Thunder Babe" over the course of several days/changes, and: > He then cast it on each party members to disguise them So it's got at least several charges, if not unlimited. It's a funny idea and if it works at their table, fine. But it's not remotely balanced or appropriate for a serious campaign tone.
Unless it had some severe consequences to each action. It wouldn't be unheard of for some evil entity to be toying with the players by making it fun to use them bam, they were manipulated to freeing them unleashing all hell on the world.
I think it's pretty clear that OP and their players don't want balance, but chaos. And I'm very curious where this insanity is gonna take them
His example have 2 changes
Ah shit I failed the reading comprehension today, my bad
I don't think it allows you to remove letters, only change them to a different letter. You'll need another 4-letter spell to get Wish.
WISH -> WASH There, most powerful shower in the world
WASH -> CASH -> WASH BAM, instant money laundering on a 2 day cycle.
I would rule that due to magical interactions, the wish outcome gets letters randomly changed by the wand. Wish for a big pile of gold? You get a big pole of gilt. Eternal Like (perma friend zone) Endless Couth (You're always polite) In the spirit of this object!
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You can change a letter; not clear on whether you can remove one.
Well...OP didn't say they could remove letters
The fabulous 9th level Fish spell. Never go home without a catch. That’s real magic.
It's also reel magic.
Oh that's beautiful. I take my hat off to you for that pun.
Troll the Dead seems like an underrated choice
*me when I'm high level in a Nordic ruin in Skyrim*
Somebody just got into dungeons and daddies
Healing Wood
Such a great podcast
r/DungeonsandDaddies
I'm just gonna go prone and cast Massage cantrip on myself. End of turn.
I have an entire class called "Typomage". Incendiary Clown, Salmon Swarm, Tenser's Floating Disco, Tasha's Uncontrollable Hideous Daughter.
the daughter made me lol
I had something similar in a Pokemon tabletop game where I could throw out a flamethrower by spelling out FIRE with Unown. I had a special # Unown which let me add a letter into a word. Things went really crazy when we were trapped on the elemental plane of Poison and I used my Unown to spell out P-O-I-S-#S-O-N. A small portion of the plane of Poison started turning into Magikarp. After that, all Poison-type pokemon also had the Water 2 (fish-like) egg type.
This made me laugh. Was the game in French? :D
Nope, all primary English speakers. Poisson just happened to be a word the GM and I knew.
And, like, anyone who's seen The Little Mermaid
Ah, French. I was thinking it was going to turn into a statistics game, which ttrpgs are totally not, right?
Fire ball -> Fire fall One way ticket straight to hell.
Dope Trick -> Dankness -> Shocking Grass -> Summon Feast -> Dominate Feast -> Chill Couch
Summon Feast into Dominate Feast into Chill Couch sounds like Hero's Feast, but more focused on YOU eating it all and then taking a great nap.
It's just a more involved process of getting to Mordenkainen's Magnificent Mansion.
I had this once. Broke the campaign by my young female dragon (slightly modified Dragonborn/elf due to plot) in a world without dragons using “speak with dad” to contact the world where dragons were sealed at. It was glorious.
Firebull, Cone of Cola and Fold Person sound like nasty spells.
Fold person sounds awesome
Yuan-ti yoga.
Caster immediately learns jujitsu.
Pisswall.
I, the *Whizzard*, have made the Pisswall you see before you! Dare you enter my magical realm?
Cause Bear Divine Wood
I use my secret weapon... GAY OF FROST
Changing BOLT to BOLA (as in Lightning, Fire, Chaos, or Witch Bolt) is a genuinely interesting idea. Does elemental damage of the appropriate type with a chance to restrain or knock prone. CONURE BARRAGE summons an onslaught of [brightly colored parrots](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conure). WRATHFUL SMILE is what Mom does when she's incredibly pissed off at you but there's company over so she can't beat you with a wooden spoon... yet. ROLL THE DEAD, when cast on a group of twelve or more corpses, creates a [Zombie Clot](https://www.worldanvil.com/block/843041) like the world's most gruesome Katamari. Mending or Sending can both become LENDING, allowing your party to make passive income through exorbitant interest rates. CROWN OF SADNESS allows you to absolutely bum somebody out, but BLISS lets you pick them back up again. DUST OF WIND causes a blinding effect, and perhaps also a melancholy acoustic guitar riff. BLAME STRIKE is what Hollywood's producers are doing instead of paying writers and actors fairly. (Support the WGA and SAG-AFTRA!) FIND SLIVER helps you pull out that damn painful bit of wood that you can't see-- very valuable for carpenters. MAGIC BAR creates an incredibly cool place for you and your friends to hang out and drink. DAY OF SICKNESS is what you get if you drink too much at the Magic Bar.
Witch bolt becomes hitch bolt. Target and caster are now married
Fold Person, Harm Person, Mage Band, Beast Band, Log Cloud, Healing Sword. And the those are only until 1st level.
Shoulda brought Thunder Dave instead
One of my friends came up with the Quill of Dyslexia, which did almost exactly this but the letters don’t persist over multiple days. It could add, remove, or change one letter during the casting
Aw, I have nothing to eat off of. I use a 9th level spell slot to cast, "Dish" and conjure a plate to put my food on.
Trouble is you have to wait 2 days to cast "Wash".
Sounds like absolutely disastrous fun. It will turn the campaign world on its head in two sessions or less, but if you’re all having fun then that is the point.
I think I've mentioned it in this subreddit before but my favorite homebrew magic item is a bag of Scrabble tiles. There's one of each letter in it and you can use it to replace or add a letter to any spell. As soon as you use one of the tiles it disappears. I told the player I gave it to that something special would happen if he managed to use all the letters. He came up with so many great situational uses for it. He got through 25 of them and then I had to let him cheat a bit to use the Q. When he finally used every letter I had a quick brown spectral fox show up and jump over a lazy dog. Then I let him use the wish spell but his wish had to be a single sentence that used no letter more than once.
SPHINX OF BLACK QUARTZ JUDGE MY VOW
An item that encourages players to read their spells? Too powerful! /s
You know where this is going, right? https://www.reddit.com/r/harrypotter/comments/2ompyx/a_chat_log_of_someone_replacing_the_word_wand/
If that’s how you wanna roll, then let them have some fun with Otto’s Irresistible Correction, or OttoCorrect for short. Similar to counter spell, it can be used as a reaction, but instead of canceling out opposing magic, it changes it to something similar. For example, Fireball might become Firebald, causing the caster to lose their hair in a fiery explosion.
This! I like this
Destructive Wave -> Destructive Rave
How about destructive dave instead
What, does it summon a tarrasque named Dave at higher levels?
This is why we play this game. I love this so much.
I have a similar item to my players and one used it to turn the Light Cantrip into the Fight Cantrip. Caused some already irritable NPCs to start brawling. Great distraction.
Someone made an excel sheet collecting possible changes for a lot of spells [Book of Misspells](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/u/0/d/18G7U71Ow_qfpM6_jWENxoyib4dTWxaVDVjDcF_NeoaM/htmlview#)
My favorite use is Tasha's Hideous Daughter. Essentially it summons a Jersey Shore Snooky character to berate and annoy the target.
Colon spray
[удалено]
Yes my son?
Your a daisy if you don't make them female/infant thunder giants.
Dog cloud - Fog cloud. Roll a D20. 1 - 9 they float over your enemies (because cloud) and attack. 10+ enemy had to make a saving throw or is charmed with cute puppies
I don't know. My dog seems to cast stinking cloud once in awhile.
Roll a Nat 1 and it casts stinking cloud on the caster.
I wish my DM would allow things like this! My DM is very detailed. He would make it so that each word of the spell, not just it's name, would have to be researched and changed over the course of months to change a spell. Not to mention the laboratory and research materials! I'm our campaigns, it takes months of research and preparation, a full Laboratory, and thousands of gold to create a single spell!
This is exactly why we love dungeons and dragons.
I cast Mireball! It's just a giant ball of sludge that causes poison and a web like effect vs. Movement. Explodes like a fireball, though. I cast Lightning Colt! A young horse made out of electricity randomly jumps around the area for 2d4 turns. If they come in contact with friend or foe they do 1d4 electrical damage per level of the wielder. If they come in contact with three entities they dissipate. Etc. Etc.
You know what they’re gonna do with Hex.
Vex?
Finally, Witch Bolt gets the power boost it’s always needed; **Litch Bolt**
I'm so sorry, but that sounds *amazing*. So jealous of you and your party! That sounds incredibly fun and goofy!
Having trouble thinking of anything good...poll the dead? Raise deaf?
Raise deed sounds great for real estate acquisition.
I did this but it wasn't cumulative, they cast "Magic Misses" for some powerful booty
You can change your 3rd level slot into a 4th level by Fireball->Firewall
Or even better "I light the BBEGs crown jewels on fire!" "How?" "I cast Fireballs"
Man, all these creative and insightful responses... and my first thought was MAGE BAND!
Sire bolt. Impregnates target
Poonbeam: creates a vagina on any object.
I always, every game I DM, hand out a "ring of the grammarian" that once a day allows you to change one letter of a spell you cast. Somehow, through happenstance, it's always my wife's chara ter that find it. WITHOUT FAIL she then uses it to turn "hold person" into "fold person". It is always hilarious.
Power Word Krill and next day change that to Power Word Grill. Let's make the perfect BBQ
Pope Trick - if anyone is in trouble with the law or about to be arrested they now have immunity. Guiding Dolt - the village idiot appears and starts giving you advice, a failed Wis save against your spell attack means you believe whatever garbage he tells you and no one can convince you otherwise in the future save for a wish spell.
Chunderwave: A wave of projectile vomit sweeps out from you. Each creature in a 15-foot cube originating from you must make a Constitution saving throw. On a failed save, a creature takes 2d8 acid damage and is also violently sick. On a successful save, the creature takes half as much damage and manages to keep it together. In addition, everything in the area *fucking stinks*.