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HyperactiveBuffalo

03-02-06, 09:28 PM
How do these spells sound in the power department?

Greater Prestidigitation
Universal
Level: Brd 1, Sor/Wiz 1
Components: V, S
Casting Time: 1 standard action
Range: Short 110ft +10 ft/lvl
Effect: See Text
Duration: 1 hour/lvl
Saving throw: See Text
SR: Yes

See prestidigitation for the general spell description. In addition the spell can perform the following: Color change can be made permanent, patterns may be added or edited to all surfaces. textures may be applied to all materials. Polish does not fade. Can attain a mirror finish on suitably flat and finely sanded surfaces. a personal rune, in all ways identical to arcane mark, can be created but is completelyu natural in nature and cannot be invisible. created items can be of fine detail (allowing the caster to roll an approrpriate craft skill when creating the item) but are always considered fragile and brittle. items can be of a beautiful level of detail but will never be affective for anything more than viewing and light handling. Items can be transformed into similar creations, but they are false. They look and feel, as well as smell the same but are not completely real. As such, no item created or changed can ever be used as a material component, or focus, for spells.

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Beguiling Influence
Transmutation
Level: Brd 3, Sor/Wiz 3
Component: S
Casting Time: 1 Standard action.
Range: Personal
Effect: +10 Bluff, Diplomacy, and Intimidate
Duration: 1 hour/lvl
Saving throw: No
Spell Resistance: No

After casting this spell the arcanist becomes more graceful and poised. His or her features soften, they seem more charming, and people bend to their will in conversation. The caster recieves a +10 bonus to Bluff, Intimidate, and Diplomacy for purposes of influencing others socially. No combat affects of these skills, such as feinting in combat, may recieve this bonus.

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Skillful Servant
Conjuration (Creation)
Level: Brd 2, Sor/Wiz 2
Components: V, S, M
Casting time: 1 Standard action
Range Close (25ft +5 ft/2 lvls)
Effect: One invisible, Shapeless, Servant
Duration 1 hour/lvl
Saving throw: None
Spell Resistance: No

As unseen servant except at creation caster chooses 1 profession or craft skill. The servant has a total modifier in that single skill equal to 1/2 of the caster level of it's creator. It is considered to be fully proficient in all aspects of that skill and can function without trouble when given general orders. Furthermore, the servant will become subserviant to any creature the caster commands it to follow, although the casters orders always override other overseers.

Material Component: A piece of string and a small statuette carved of wood.

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Puissant Servant
Conjuration (Creation)
Level: Brd 2, Sor/Wiz 2
Components: V, S, M
Casting time: 1 Standard action
Range: Close (25 ft +5 ft/2 lvls)
Effect: One invisible, shapeless, mindless, servant
Duration: 1 hour/lvl
Saving throw: None
Spell Resistance: No

As unseen servant except effective strength score is considered to be equal to the caster's caster level.

Material Component: A bit of rope and a piece of drift wood.

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Skillful Horde
Conjuration (Creation)
Level: Brd 4, Sor/Wiz 4
Components: V, S, M
Casting Time: 1 Standard action
Range: Close (25 ft +5 ft/2 lvls)
Effect: 2d6+1 per caster lvl invisible, shapeless, mindless servants.
Duration: 1 hour/lvl
Saving throw: None
Spell Resistance: No

As Skillful Servant, but create 2d6+1 per caster lvl (Maximum of +15)

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Potent Horde
Conjuration (Creation)
Level: Brd 4, Sor/Wiz 4
Components: V, S, M
Casting Time: 1 Standard Action
Range: Close (25 ft +5 ft/2 lvls)
Effect: 2d6+1 per caster lvl invisible, shapeless, mindless servants.
Duration: 1 hour/lvl
Saving throw: None
Spell resistance: No

As Puissant Servant, but create 2d6+1 per caster lvl (Maximum of +15)
tarkin

03-02-06, 10:25 PM
Mostly cosmetic changes, with a few level limits put in.

Greater Prestidigitation
If a duration lasts hours, then no 'permanent' changes last more than that. Make it "1 hour/level or see text"
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Beguiling Influence
Bard 3 is fine, but make it Wizard 4, and you have a reasonable spell
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Skillful Servant

No way should a 2nd level spell create something that has skills greater then that the caster has. Give it a total modifer equal to 1/2 the caster's total modifier, but also grant it one rank in all skills, allowing it to use 'untrained' skills.
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Puissant Servant
This spell needs a max strength of 10.

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Skillfull Hoard is fine.

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Potent Horde
Put in a max Strength of 15 here.
HyperactiveBuffalo

03-03-06, 01:41 AM
Thanks for the input, it all seems reasonable.