RARY'S ARCANE CONVERSION
Universal
Level: Wizard 6
Components: V, S
Casting Time: 1 full round
Range: Personal
Target: You
Duration: Instantaneous
You feel slightly dizzy as the power of your
spell rewrites the knowledge within your
mind.
Rary's arcane conversion allows you to
exchange a prepared wizard spell for
another spell of equal or lower level.
For instance, upon casting this spell,
you could choose to lose a prepared fly
spell and have fireball prepared in its
place. The replacement spell must be
one already scribed in your spellbook.
The new spell is now prepared and ready
to cast as normal, just as though you
had prepared it when you last studied
your spells.
Excerpted from Complete Mage.
Universal
Level: Wizard 6
Components: V, S
Casting Time: 1 full round
Range: Personal
Target: You
Duration: Instantaneous
You feel slightly dizzy as the power of your
spell rewrites the knowledge within your
mind.
Rary's arcane conversion allows you to
exchange a prepared wizard spell for
another spell of equal or lower level.
For instance, upon casting this spell,
you could choose to lose a prepared fly
spell and have fireball prepared in its
place. The replacement spell must be
one already scribed in your spellbook.
The new spell is now prepared and ready
to cast as normal, just as though you
had prepared it when you last studied
your spells.
Excerpted from Complete Mage.
Your GM is right to laugh. Spock can cast any spell in the game using a slot 2 to 4 to 6 levels too low.
But but, do you have any wizard spells prepared? What is the definition of a "prepared wizard spell" in this instance? Is Arcane Preparation + any spell appearing on sor/wiz list enough? Excluding Sor only spells, of course.
Yes it is, by my reading, or wizards are going to have trouble here too.
While I don't normally truck in fluff, all evidence in the actual feat suggests that arcane preparation was intended to allow you to count as preparing spells. Just as paladin spells are always paladin spells, wizard spells are always wizard spells. At least this is as far as I can reckon, given what I know.
What you gain is that chameleon nets you the ability to own and have a spellbook, as well as to scribe into it using your floating feat and extra spell with a little bit of finagling. As a chameleon, we have access to any list we want. So our spell book is full of spells we known, but can't really cast.
Oh Wait.
Thanks Rary!
You can certainly do this with Picard, and probably could stretch him to stratospheric power levels, it's just less interesting. I wanted to see if a sorcerer could do this. To clarify, there's only two distinct builds because I wanted to demonstrate a simple version. You can snatch or swap any parts you really favor back and forth.
That being said, couldn't Spock just float scribe scroll? Or if you want to scribe your Extra Spells, isn't dragon heritage Psychic Reformable? Short of that, you could just temporarily P.Reform Earth Spell, grab scribe scroll, scribe away, then reform back.
I'm not sure what you mean by Rary's wording allowing "double dipping" with SCM, could you elaborate on that?
It's Kirk who's flawless!
(bah dum psssh!)
It strikes me as inferior to Uncanny Forethought. Which is none of your fault, given how stupidly powerful UF is.
(I think it's more interesting when a trick stands mostly on its own, i.e. is not entirely dependent on another powerful trick.
There's potential here, so I look forward to the Doctor squeezing more juice out of it.
)Kirk? Pffft, surely you meant Picard
Oh Sh*t Everyone stand back as the biggest nerd war finds a new (not to mention ripe) battleground. Everyone should know what I'm talking about.
Perhaps I don't understand this thread DocRoc... why is this so great? I think we need you to walk through the steps succinctly. And yes that was a test to see if you know your spiderman well enough
See, poor old Rary never said you had to switch INTO a wizard spell.
So with the chameleon dip and some strong kung-fu, we actually have access to just about anything we can write down. And for a chameleon, that's basically anything you can lay your hands on. And with extra spell and our shifting lists, we can lay our hands on anything we want or need.
Next, we use this + signature spell from halruaan elder which is.... poorly worded to snag Rary's in the first place. Now we're actually not using aptitude focus here, we end up using our floating feat and extra spell and then just writing it down so that we know it. Which we can do. We have the spellbook, and we do know how to use it.
Signature spell then as worded in the halruaan elder allows us to pick any spell we know. And make it accessible to all of our lists of spells known.
We now never need to prepare rary's, instead we can burn spells for it.
More to come. I promise you this guy's power level is over 9000.
Basically, you can use rary's all day, the day before, then rest to recover your slots. Spells you don't change just stay in your head, as I understand it. I've certainly never seen any contra-evidence, and the artifact spells from eberron in fact _require_ it to be this way, and no exception was written for them. My conclusion seems to be basically valid. I will, in a bit, explain the dip\double-dip mechanism.
I'll try to write it up succinctly. This should have been posted up by Guide_Seneschal...
Oh Sh*t Everyone stand back as the biggest nerd war finds a new (not to mention ripe) battleground. Everyone should know what I'm talking about.
Perhaps I don't understand this thread DocRoc... why is this so great? I think we need you to walk through the steps succinctly. And yes that was a test to see if you know your spiderman well enough
Yes indeed, the gauntlet has been thrown down!
Does a Heightened Rary's do what I think it does? It does, doesn't it...
It doesn't take much to turn this into "Adaptive Style for Wizards"....
See, rary's doesn't specify the spell level.
We heighten the spell we chose to burn, which specifies what spell level we can get a hold of.
This does EXACTLY what you think it does, since it uses the level of the prepared spell. This, then, is the same as the trickery we love to hate involving the SCM. We don't just get versatility out of this, we get a chance at serious power.
We can burn it into a heightened illusion spell, letting us double dip (earth-spell\arcane thesis+heighten\sanctum spell) for the purposes of SCM.
It's as bad or worse with a sorcerer.
"The replacement spell must be one already scribed in your spellbook."
I am probably still not understanding well where you're going...
Univ Rary's Arcane Conversion: Instantly lose a prepared wizard spell and replace it with another spell from your spellbook. (Wizard only.)
That from the spell list in Complete Mage. The (Wizard only.) at the end presents a slight problem.
That from the spell list in Complete Mage. The (Wizard only.) at the end presents a slight problem.
That is descriptive text in a spell list, not the rules text for the spell.
Additionally, the "(Wizard only.)" refers to the fact that appears on the wizard spell list, and not the sorcerer list. This is because the section of the spell lists in which it appears is the "Sorcerer/Wizard" section.
Anyways, whenever you can get a Star Trek reference in a game, you automatically win, until Q(or PunPun in DnD terms) shows up.
Another interesting idea to work with, thanks Doc :D
I wonder. Huh. I think that cinches the RAW of it! Thank you so much!
I keep trying to figure out some kind of loop with Repeat Spell and Mneumonic Enhancer, still without success.
Have fun!
Halruaan Adept, Spell Thematics, any item creation feat. You have the metamagic feat.
Fixed, but not to my satisfaction. Superior options are gleefully accepted.
Effects of Metamagic Feats on a Spell: In all ways, a metamagic spell operates at its original spell level, even though it is prepared and cast as a higher-level spell.
So persistent shapechange is still just a 9th level spell. Will Rary's let us change any spell into a super metamagiced version? We aren't preparing the metamagic versions, so the bump on spell slot does not matter. But will we need an open higher level slot to actually cast the spell, or does Rary's let us get around that?
In other words, in an epic campaign world where there are wizards capable of casting such spells, for the right price, enough research, and a DM willing to put up with it, you could track down scroll of, say... Twinned, Empowered, Maximized Summon Monster 9. Say hello to my 20 + 1d4+1 (I say twin and empower would balance eachother out) SM 7 level friends :D
Edit: Rapid Twinned Empowered Maximized Summon Monster 9, get it it out in a standard action. Or worse, have Arcane Spell Surge up, Cast one with Rapid, one Without.
My immediate thought was versatile spellcasting so you can prepare a 10th level spell.
It lets you cast but not prepare.
And I finally understand the 'rary' = SANCTUrary spell thing.
But as posted before ... the purpose of this is to get an arcane (spontaneous) archivist right?
Did you mean Sanctu-rary? ;)
Then, use Circle Magic to cast a 10th level spell at self, triggering the field and resulting in the Absorption getting put on us. We step out of the field, and cast the spell a second time. We now have 10 levels of spell to play with, to cast 'any spell we know' without using a slot.
Which spell do we choose?
If the spell we cast on ourselves just happened to be benefiting from Earth Spell, Sanctum Spell, and Arcane Thesis; and was also an Echoing spell (Adroit Casting set to Echoing Spell); we can step into the field once again, and cast it to get our Absorption back.
In about an hour, all three spells we cast will Echo, one after the other. We step out of the field for round 1, and the first Echo gets Absorbed. Cast the spell again, using the Absorbed energy, and step into the field in time for the next Echo to trigger the field and put on a new Absorption. Step out of the field, and the next Echo gets Absorbed.
One can see what's happening. The Energy Transformation Field and the Absorptions let us get more out of the Echoing spells than we put into them. Absorption energy has the additional virtue of letting us cast any of the spells we've scribed, which is anything at all for Spock. Both Absorption and Energy Transformation Field trigger on the spell level of the incoming spell, and Echoing Spell reduces caster level which they don't care about. Circle Magic lets us get plenty of Echoes from the outset, anyway.
Now, at some point we might want to do something other than dance around in a magical field shuffling juggling huge chunks arcane energy. This will probably be the point at which we've got a 10th level Echoing Silent Image coming back in every round, for an hour, the period of Echoing Spell.
We no longer need to rest to prepare new spells, and have the functional equivalent of 600 10th level spell slots.
Is that a completely new infinite hack?
*edit*
Okay, apparently not too lazy to check, didn't find it easily, but I'm sure I've seen this, or a similar one before.
I think the Echoing part may be new.
I just thought since Spock is down here casting any spell in the game, it's just such a shame for him to be limited to a certain number of slots.
because this may be my single favorite of my builds. Also because I've done very little interesting work since. :|I see how you can switch around your spells known using Rary's Arcane Conversion. I see the argument for sorceror's having a spellbook. So you can switch out spells limited by the amount of times you can 6th lv spells to use on Rary's Arcane Conversion. Is there a trick or two I'm missing? I don't see how you are casting spells 2 to 4 to 6 lvs lower nor do I understand most of the other stuff going on. Can someone clearly explain this trick, step by step?