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SPELL TABLES, MAGIC-USERS, Cantrips
Notes Regarding Cantrips
 

Useful

Reversed

Legerdemain

Person-Affecting

Personal

Haunting

Minor Illusion

Number	Useful (INT) (I: INT-3)	-
1	Chill	1
2	Clean	2
3	Color	3
-	Cut	4
4	Dampen	5
5	Dry	6
6	Dust	7
7	Exterminate	8
8	Flavor	9
9	Freshen	10
10	Gather	11
-	Gallop	12
11	Polish	13
12	Salt	14
13	Shine	15
14	Spice	16
15	Sprout	17
16	Stitch	18
17	Sweeten	19
18	Tie	20
19	Warm	21
20	Wrap	22

Number	Reversed (2-8) (I: 2-5)	-
1	Curdle	1
2	Dirty	2
3	Dusty	3
4	Hairy	4
5	Knot	5
6	Ravel	6
-	Scorch	7
7	Sour	8
8	Spill	9
9	Tangle	10
10	Tarnish	11
11	Untie	12
12	Wilt	13

Number	Legerdemain (2-5) (I: 2+d4)	-
1	Change	1
2	Distract	2
3	Hide	3
4	Mute	4
5	Palm	5
6	Present	6

Number	Person-Affecting (2-8) (I: 2-5)	-
1	Belch	1
2	Blink	2
3	Cough	3
4	Giggle	4
-	Listen	5
5	Nod	6
6	Scratch	7
-	Snatch	8
7	Sneeze	9
-	Sting	10
8	Twitch	11
9	Wink	12
10	Yawn	13

Number	Personal (2-8) (I: 2-5)	-
1	Bee	1
2	Bluelight	2
3	Bug	3
-	Catfeet	4
4	Firefinger	5
5	Gnats	6
6	Mouse	7
7	Smokepuff	8
-	Spark	9
8	Spider	10
9	Tweak	11
10	Unlock	12

Number	Haunting Sound (2-5) (I: 4+d4)	-
1	Creak	1
2	Footfall	2
3	Groan	3
-	Horn	4
4	Moan	5
5	Rattle	6
6	Tap	7
7	Thump	8
8	Whistle	9

Number	Minor Illusion (Illusionists only: 4+d4)
1	Colored Lights
2	Dim
3	Haze
4	Mask
5	Mirage
6	Noise
7	Rainbow
8	Two-D'lusion

SPELL TABLES, MAGIC-USERS, Spells

Number	1st Level	Number
1	Affect Normal Fires	1
2	Alarm	2
3	Armor	3
	Bigby's Bookworm Bane	4
	Bigby's Feeling Fingers	5
4	Burning Hands	6
-	Catapult	7
5	Charm Person	8
6	Comprehend Languages	9
7	Dancing Lights	10
8	Detect Magic	11
-	Detho's Delirium	12
	Drawmij's Beast of Burden	13
	Drawmij's Light Step	14
9	Enlarge	15
10	_____	16
11	Feather Fall	17
12	Find Familiar	18
13	Firewater	19
14	Friends	20
15	Grease	21
16	Hold Portal	22
17	Identify	23
18	Jump	24
19	Light	25
20	Magic Missile	26
21	Melt	27
22	Mending	28
23	Message	29
	Mordenkainen's Protection from Avians	30
24	Mount	31
	Nystul's Dancing Werelight	32
	Nystul's Flash	33
25	Nystul's Magic Aura	34
	Otiluke's Bubbling Buoyancy	35
	Otiluke's Smoky Sphere	36
	Otto's Chime of Release	37
26	Precipitation	38
27	Protection From Evil	39
28	Push	40
	Rary's Empathic Perception	41
29	Read Magic	42
30	Run	43
31	Shield +3+	44
32	Shocking Grasp	45
33	Sleep	46
34	Spider Climb	47
-	Spidereyes	48
35	Taunt	49
	Tenser's Eye of the Tiger	50
36	Tenser's Floating Disc	51
	Tenser's Steady Aim	52
37	Unseen Servant	53
38	Ventriloquism	54
39	Wizard Mark	55
40	Write	56

Number	2nd Level	Number
-	Agannazar's Scorcher	1
1	Audible Glamer	2
	Bigby's Dextrous Digits	3
	Bigby's Silencing Hand	4
2	Bind	5
-	Blacklight	6
-	Bladethirst	7
-	Circle Dance	8
3	Continual Light	9
4	Darkness 15' Radius	10
-	Decastave	11
5	Deeppockets	12
6	Detect Evil	13
7	Detect Invisibility	14
-	Dire Charm	15
-	Dispel Silence	16
	Drawmij's Adventurer's Luck	17
	Drawmij's Breath of Life	18
	Drawmij's Scent Mask	19
	Drawmij's Swift Mount	20
8	ESP +4+	21
9	Flaming Sphere	22
-	Flying Fist	23
10	Fools Gold	24
11	Forget +4+	25
12	Invisibility	26
13	Irritation	27
14	Knock	28
15	Know Alignment	29
16	Leomund's Trap	30
17	Levitate	31
18	Locate Object	32
19	Magic Mouth	33
20	Melf's Acid Arrow	34
21	Mirror Image	35
	Mordenkainen's Encompassing Vision	36
	Nystul's Blackmote	37
	Nystul's Blazing Beam	38
	Nystul's Crystal Dagger	39
	Otiluke's Boiling Oil Bath	40
	Otto's Soothing Vibrations	41
	Otto's Tones of Forgetfulness	42
-	Plague	43
22	Preserve	44
23	Protection From Cantrips	45
24	Pyrotechnics	46
-	Quimby's Enchanting Gourmet	47
	Rary's Aptitude Appropriator	48
25	Ray of Enfeeblement	49
-	Ray of Ondovir	50
26	Rope Trick	51
27	Scare	52
28	Shatter	53
-	Skyhook	54
29	Stinking Cloud	55
30	Strength	56
31	Tasha's Uncontrollable Hideous Laughter	57
	Tenser's Brawl	58
	Tenser's Hunting Hawk	59
32	Vocalize	60
-	Waves of Weariness	61
33	Web	62
34	Whip	63
35	Wizard Lock	64
36	Zephyr	65

Number	3rd Level	Number
	Bigby's Pugnacious Pugilist	1
1	Blink	2
2	Clairaudience	3
3	Clairvoyance	4
4	Cloudburst	5
5	Detect Illusion	6
6	Dispel Magic	7
	Drawmij's Marvelous Shield	8
	Drawmij's Iron Sack	9
7	Explosive Runes	10
8	Feign Death	11
9	Fireball	12
10	Flame Arrow	13
11	Fly	14
-	Ghost Pipes	15
12	Gust of Wind	16
13	Haste	17
14	Hold Person	18
-	Hover	19
-	Icelance	20
15	Infravision	21
16	Invisibility 10' Radius	22
17	Item	23
-	Laeral's Dancing Dweomer	24
18	Leomund's Tiny Hut	25
19	Lightning Bolt	26
-	Mailed Might	27
-	Missile Mastery	28
20	Material	29
21	Melf's Minute Meteors	30
22	Monster Summoning I	31
	Mordenkainen's Defense Against Lycanthropes	32
	Mordenkainen's Defense Against Nonmagical Reptiles and Amphibians	33
	Mordenkainen's Protection From Insects and Arachnids	34
-	Night Scar	35
	Nystul's Crystal Dirk	36
	Nystul's Expeditious Fire Extinguisher	37
	Nystul's Golden Revelation	38
	Nystul's Radiant Baton	39
	Otiluke's Acid Cloud	40
	Otiluke's Force Umbrella	41
	Otto's Crystal Rhythms	42
	Otto's Sure-Footed Shuffle	43
23	Phantasmal Force	44
24	Protection From Evil 10' Radius	45
25	Protection From Normal Missiles	46
26	Secret Page	47
27	Sepia Snake Sigil	48
28	Slow	49
29	Suggestion	50
-	Tasirin's Haunted Sleep	51
	Tenser's Deadly Strike	52
	Tenser's Eye of the Eagle	53
30	Tongues	54
31	Water Breathing	55
32	Wind Wall	56

Number	4th Level	Number
-	Archveult's Skybolt	1
-	Backlash	2
-	Beltyn's Burning Blood	3
	Bigby's Battering Gauntlet	4
	Bigby's Construction Crew	5
	Bigby's Force Sculpture	6
-	Bowgentle's Fleeting Journey	7
-	Caligarde's Claw	8
1	Charm Monster	9
2	Confusion	10
3	Dig	11
4	Dimension Door	12
5	Dispel Illusion	13
	Drawmij's Handy Timepiece	14
	Drawmij's Instant Exit	15
	Drawmij's Protection from Non-magical Gas	16
	Drawmij's Tool Box	17
6	Enchanted Weapon	18
-	Encrypt	19
7	Evard's Black Tentacles	20
8	Extension I	21
9	Fear	22
-	Firebrand	23
10	Fire Charm	24
11	Fire Shield	25
12	Fire Trap	26
13	Fumble	27
-	Hailcone	28
14	Hallucinatory Terrain	29
15	Ice Storm	30
-	Ilyykur's Mantle	31
16	Leomund's Secure Shelter	32
17	Magic Mirror	33
18	Massmorph	34
-	Merald's Murderous Mist	35
19	Minor Globe of Invulnerability	36
	Mordenkainen's Electric Arc	37
	Mordenkainen's Faithful Phantom Shield-Maidens	38
	Mordenkainen's Protection From Slime	39
-	Nchaser's Glowing Globe	40
	Nystul's Blacklight Burst	41
	Nystul's Grue Conjuration	42
	Nystul's Lightburst	43
	Otiluke's Steaming Sphere	44
	Otto's Drums of Despair	45
	Otto's Silver Tongue	46
	Otto's Tin Soldiers	47
	Otto's Tonal Attack	48
	Otto's Warding Tones	49
-	Phase Trap	50
20	Plant Growth	51
21	Polymorph Other	52
22	Polymorph Self	53
-	Presper's Moonbow	54
	Rary's Memory Alteration	55
	Rary's Mind Scan	56
23	Rary's Mnemonic Enhancer	57
	Rary's Spell Enhancer	58
24	Remove Curse	59
-	Secure	60
25	SHOUT	61
-	Spendelard's Chaser	62
26	Stoneskin	63
	Tenser's Flaming Blade	64
	Tenser's Giant Strength	65
	Tenser's Master of Arms	66
	Tenser's Running Warrior	67
	Tenser's Staff of Smiting	68
-	Thunderlance	69
-	Tulrun's Tracer	70
27	Ultravision	71
28	Wall of Fire	72
29	Wall of Ice	73
-	Wall of Sand	74
30	Wizard Eye	75
31		76

<check 31, check UA errata to see if there is a missing spell>

Number	5th Level	Number
1	Airy Water	1
2	Animal Growth	2
3	Animate Dead	3
4	Avoidance	4
	Bigby's Fantastic Fencers	5
5	Bigby's Interposing Hand	6
	Bigby's Strangling Grip	7
	Bigby's Superior Force Sculpture	8
-	Caddelyn's Catastrophe	9
6	Cloudkill	10
7	Conjure Elemental	11
8	Cone of Cold	12
9	Contact Other Plane	13
10	Dismissal	14
11	Distance Distortion	15
12	Dolor	16
	Drawmij's Flying Feat	17
13	Extension II	18
14	Fabricate	19
15	Feeblemind	20
-	Flame Shroud	21
-	Grimwald's Greymantle	22
16	Hold Monster	23
-	Hold Vapor	24
-	Ironguard	25
17	Leomund's Lamentable Belabourment	26
18	Leomund's Secret Chest	27
19	Magic Jar	28
20	Monster Summoning II	29
-	Nulathoe's Ninemen	30
21	Otiliuke's Resilient Sphere	27
22	Mordenkainen's Faithful Hound	28
	Mordenkainen's Faithful Phantom Defenders	29
	Mordenkainen's Private Sanctum	30
	Nystul's Enveloping Darkness	31
	Nystul's Radiant Arch	32
	Otiluke's Dispelling Screen	33
	Otiluke's Electrical Screen	34
	Otiluke's Polar Screen	35
	Otiluke's Radiant Screen	36
23	Passwall	37
	Rary's Mind Shield	38
	Rary's Replay of the Past	39
	Rary's Superior Spell Enhancer	40
	Rary's Telepathic Bond	41
24	Sending	42
-	Shandaril's Tracer	43
25	Stone Shape	44
26	Telekinesis	45
27	Teleport	46
	Tenser's Primal Fury	47
	Timeheal	48
28	Transmute Rock to Mud	49
29	Wall of Force	50
30	Wall of Iron	51
31	Wall of Stone	52
-	Watchware	53
-	Xult's Magical Doom	54

<check 31, check UA errata to see if there is a missing spell on the table>
 

Number	6th Level	Number
1	Anti-Magic Shell	1
	Bigby's Besieging Bolt	2
2	Bigby's Forceful Hand	3
3	Chain Lighting	4
4	Contingency	5
5	Control Weather	6
6	Death Spell	7
7	Disintegrate	8
	Drawmij's Beneficient Polymorph	9
	Drawmij's Mercyful Metamorphosis	10
8	Enchant An Item	11
9	Ensnarement	12
10	Extension III	13
11	Eyebite	14
12	Geas	15
13	Glassee	16
14	Globe of Invulnerability	17
15	Guards and Wards	18
16	Invisible Stalker	19
17	Legend Lore	20
18	Lower Water	21
19	Monster Summoning IV	22
	Mordenkainen's Faithful Phantom Guardian	23
20	Mordenkainen's Lucubration	24
21	Move Earth	25
	Otiluke's Diamond Screen	26
	Otiluke's Excruciating Screen	27
22	Otiluke's Freezing Sphere	28
	Otiluke's Sphere of Containment	29
23	Part Water	30
-	Power word: Silence	31
24	Project Image	32
	Rary's Protection from Scrying	33
	Rary's Urgent Utterance	34
-	Reconstruction	35
25	Reincarnation	36
26	Repulsion	37
-	Shaeroon's Scimitar	38
27	Spiritwrack	39
28	Stone To Flesh	40
	Tenser's Fortunes of War	41
29	Tenser's Transformation	42
30	Transmute Water To Dust	43
-	Turnshadow	44
-	-	-

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Number	7th Level	Number
1	Banishment	1
2	Bigby's Grasping Hand	2
3	Cacodemon	3
4	Charm Plants	4
5	Delayed Blast Fireball	5
6	Drawmij's Instant Summons	6
7	Duo-Dimension	7
8	Forcecage	8
-	Khelben's Warding Whip	9
9	Limited Wish	10
10	Mass Invisibility	11
-	Mindspin	12
11	Monster Summoning V	13
12	Mordenkainen's Magnificent Manshion	14
-	Mordenkainen's Penultimate Cogitation	15
13	Mordenkainen's Sword	16
-	Nezram's Ruby Ray	17
-	Otiluke's Death Screen	18
-	Otiluke's Fire and Ice	19
-	Otiluke's Siege Sphere	20
14	Phase Door	21
-	Power Word, Pain	22
15	Power Word, Stun	23
-	Rary's Plane Truth	24
16	Reverse Gravity	25
17	Sequester	26
-	The Simbul's Synostodweomer	27
18	Simulacrum	28
-	Spelltrap	29
19	Statue	30
-	Stealspell	31
20	Teleport Without Error	32
21	Torment	33
22	Truename	34
23	Vanish	35
-	Vipergout	36
24	Volley	37

Number	8th Level	Number
1	Antipathy/Sympathy	1
2	Bigby's Clenched Fist	2
	Bigby's Most Excellent Force Sculpture	3
3	Binding	4
-	Body Sympathy	5
4	Clone	6
5	Demand	7
6	Glassteel	8
-	GREAT SHOUT	9
7	Incendiary Cloud	10
8	Mass Charm	11
9	Maze	12
10	Mind Blank	13
11	Monster Summoning VI	14
12	Otiluke's Telekinetic Sphere	15
13	Otto's Irresistible Dance	16
14	Permanency	17
15	Polymorph Any Object	18
16	Power Word, Blind	19
17	Serten's Spell Immunity	20
18	Sink	21
-	Spell Engine	22
19	Symbol	23
20	Trap The Soul	24

 

Number	9th Level	-
1	Astral Spell	1
2	Bigby's Crushing Hand	2
3	Crystalbrittle	3
-	Dismind	4
4	Energy Drain	5
5	Gate	6
6	Imprisonment	7
	Kiss of Night's Guardian	8
7	Meteor Swarm	9
8	Monster Summoning VII	10
9	Mordenkainen's Disjunction	11
-	Phezult's Sleep of Ages	12
10	Power Word, Kill	13
11	Prismatic Sphere	14
12	Shape Change	15
-	Spell Ward	16
13	Succor	17
14	Temporal Stasis	18
	Timereaver	19
15	Time Stop	20
16	Wish	21

Notes Regarding Magic-User Spells:

Magic-users employ a greater variety of material components than do
other character classes employing spells, i.e. clerics && druids. Some of
the required components will be difficult to find and/or expensive, but
alternative spells can always be chosen.

The relatively short casting time for those spells with a material
component assumes that the magic-user has decided upon which spell he
or she will employ, and the material or materials needed are at hand in
the numerous pockets and folds of the magic-user's garb. If this is not the
case, there will be a delay commensurate to the situation. It has been
recommended to the referee that actual time relate to the game time in
such situations if at all possible. If it takes 6 seconds to decide on which
spell to cast, 1 segment of the round is gone. Having to search through a
pack to locate some component is as good as wasting 5 segments - 30
seconds.

Substitute materials might be allowed. This is up to your DM.
It should be noted that such substitution could affect spell range, duration,
area of effect, effect, etc.

In general, reversible or multiple application spells require the magic-user
to determine which form he or she is memorizing prior to the adventure.
Consult your referee in this regard.

[OUOTE]I am also intrigued by the comment on "1oth level mage psells". Did you intend to publish these in, say, a second edition of AD&D, or even use them in your own campaign? Do so powerful spells have a place in the game... Especially in the hands of Player Characters?[/QUOTE]
 

I planned to test them in my campaign, and if they worked well introduce the new level of spells in a revised edition of AD&D I hoped to get to in the late 80s--I left notes for the revised edition at TSR, but those were not followed. The new spells were powerful, but not world-shattering, and if campaigns went on for many years I figured they would be useful--not to mention as material for DMs' potent NPCs... they were to fit into the expanded game with Mystic and Savant character classes, as well as the jester one. (Don't ask about that oinformation. It is all lost or proscribed by legal agreement.)
 

Quote:
Originally Posted by Edena_of_Neith
When we first attempted the infamous Tomb of Horrors (your creation, Gary  ) my character was the only survivor of the battle against Acererak.
We all learned the hard way what Acererak could do to you simply by rising up and looking at you (I won't go further, since I would never spoil the surprise for those wishing to attempt the Tomb and the destruction of Acererak! <big grin> )

Ok, this attack of Acererak: if it is a spell, what level would it be? If it's over 9th level - and I'm guessing it is well over 9th level - then does Acererak have access to 10th, 11th, and higher level spells from the Arcane Age that existed in the days of the power of the Suloise Imperium?
If the attack is an innate spell-like power, the same question applies: what level is it equivalent to, and if higher than 9th does it come from the Suloise Arcane Age?

Yours Sincerely
Edena_of_Neith

Indeed!

The demi-lich is a terror. Roblilar assessed that at a glance (a few words of my description), scooped up the treasure, and ran away.

I envisaged the the terrible power Acererak possesses as coming from the nether planes deity he served, not from any human source. It is cleaner assuming such, for then there is no lost lore of super magic to be discovered.

that said, I do believe that 10th level spells, even 11th and 12th, are appropriate in high-level campaigns. such should be available only to mages of 19 or greater Intelligence at 20th, 22nd, and 24th level perhsps.

Cheers,
Gary

<maybe edit this one>
 

Quote:
Originally Posted by Edena_of_Neith
(loved those Capital One commercials ...) 

Gary, since you gave the answer you did above, I wish to ask three questions I would not have otherwise asked.

We know of the Prismatic Spells: Prismatic Spray (7th), Prismatic Wall (8th), and Prismatic Sphere (9th.)
In Dragon Magazine, they introduced Jaran's Prismatic Sword. It was 9th level. I disagreed with that assessment, thinking it should have been higher. What would it have been in your game?

And (rather obviously) Prismatic Plate Armor (or, just plain Prismatic Armor) comes to mind.
What level would it be?

If there is Prismatic Sword, perhaps there is Prismatic Bow (and Arrows) or Prismatic Bolts (1 bolt per level!) What level would this spell be?

Incidentally, in 2nd Edition they created spells of 10th, 11th, and 12th level. But the increase in spell power was not linear. It was exponential.
In the case of the above questions, I am assuming (hopefully correctly) you go by a linear approach, so no analogy to the 2nd edition spells is drawn here.

Those are tough questions for which I have no ready answer.

I don't recall the Prismatic Sword and its powers, so I can say only that and non-mage-use item involving the prosmatic magical effects would be quite extraordinary and difficult to forge, as the basis is Illusion coupled with the Plane of Radiance and Light.

While I do go with a linear progression, I don't think that would apply to prismatically charged items. If they could be made at all, I believe that those of considerabole power would be akin to artifacts in reagrds their level.

Of course I am not actually setting about the description of any such items, just offering suggestions off the cuff 

Cheers,
Gary
 

Quote:
Originally Posted by Anson Caralya
Gary, is this just pure theoretical musing, or have you thought through spells over 9th level at some point? What might they be like? Given that one well-known character of yours is a mage of greater than 20th level (although I never saw him statted-out with an Int >18)... I had always accepted 9th level as the far end of the OAD&D spell power continuum given the absolutes of the all-powerful wish, the no-save temporal stasis, and the godly-morphic shape change.

And is a 20th level m-u now an archarchmage?

In all the intriduction of higher level m-u spells requires the same for all other spell-casters, and commensurate magic items and monsters of considerably greater power as well.

As the system isn't mine to alter, I have no plans to undertake the task, or to comment on how I would manage it.

I can say that a wish spell is hardly "all-powerful." Rather it is a likely disaster when employed by an over-weening PC. When I DMed I loved to have a wish used by the PCs,, and any error in its phrasing, including trying two wishes in one, made its intent go awry. All able DMs saw to that. Mordenkainen used wishes only in extremis to bring back associates that had met their end.

Cheers,
Gary
 

Quote:
Originally Posted by Nathan P. Mahney
Hey Gary,

I was wondering about the various named spells (Mordenkainen's Faithful Hound, the Bigby's Hand spells, etc.).
Were these spells that were actually researched by the respective characters during the course of play, or did you just assign them to the characters on a whim?
 

Heh...

Rather a moot question.
As the author of the AD&D game, the arbiter of the Greyhawk campaign from which much in the underlying game sprang, and the player whose PCs they were, or for whom some of the name spells PCs I was DM of, you are essentially asking what hat I was wearing.
All of that came from one source 

Indeed, Mordenkainen has a few magic items that are non-suches, as do some of the old Greyhawk PCs of other persons.

Cheers,
Gary