A while ago I began compiling a list of, uh, alternative spells for Pathfinder, so basically for D&D.
Having been prompted by Big Jack Brass' recent tweets, I hereby present an extract from that inexplicably-unpublished manuscript, "Inglenook's Lesser-Used Spells"
- Flares
- Speak to Dead
- Burning Hams
- Disguise Elf
- Ear-Piercing Cream
- Enlarge Parson
- Really Obscure Poison
- Cockling Skull
- Reign of Frogs
- Enter Poe Singh-Han's Big Bees
(yes, I actually have rules for these, but I don't feel like editing them for the blog at 1am and I might try to make them into something publishable)
Heh!
ReplyDeleteI confess to a lingering fondness for the ½-level spells from Still More Outrages from the Mages by John M. Maxstadt in Dragon #144 (April 1989). The basic conceit is to skew spell names, so that they start as one and end as another; thus we get such gems as Explosive Familiar, Transmute Rock to Stone, Detect Normal Fires, and Drawmij's Instant Death ("When this spell is cast, Drawmij, wherever he is and whoever he is, dies. […] As this spell has been around for some time, it is safe to assume that Drawmij is getting pretty sick and tired of it").