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Hey, CandleComfort has 12 black votive candles 12 bucks! You could use them for a pentagram (with one in the middle), and still have enough for next playtest!

PS.: will trade incense for black chalk, local only.

I launched FireFox to download a playtest version of RPG book. Instead, in a google-search-for-suiting-quote gone wild, I learned how to clap with one hand.

Oh, internet.

Come on people! With this technique, we can clap twice as much!

No worries, I consider this more of a Wall duty, ideas bouncing-wise :)

K, back to business.

Curse of The Body - why on earth is it 4th level for clerics? It's on 3rd level anyway, so it's in the tough company, and clerics, not mages are the stock undead-busters. Maybe it's just me, but I rarely see incorporeal creatures that are not some sort of undead.
If anything, the ratio would seem healthier as cleric 3, soercerer/wizard 4

Chromatic Wheel - Make it occupy spell slot of level appropriate to highest used colour, sort of like when maximizing/quickening a spell.
With level you gain ability to cast the spell with higher effect. You control this by adding appropriate gems to the wheel component. Every second orb means 1 higher spell slot, and it's calculated by the highest colour (so wheel using Black orb would occupy 6th level spell slot, regardless of how many other colours you're using).
I'm not great at balancing stuff, so I can't help with which colour should occupy which spell slot.

Dwarven Hatred (normal and mass) - simultaneously too strong and too weak :P It's too strong, because it's much stronger than actual dwarven hatred, if anything - it could copy the racial enemy effect (and the actual racial enemies listed are orcs and goblins...). And what about rangers favored enemy? The fluff/description really doesn't make much sense in context of what is presented in core books.

And it's too weak at the same time, because... you know. Bulls strenght, owl wisdom, bear endurance - that lot.
It's effectively any good only for casters/shooters - and does magically induced hateful rage help aim stuff?

Guardian Earth - it seems extremely... un-druidish. Then again maybe there are similar spells for druids, I never really play the buggers. As GM - I'd consider stripping a druid of his powers (similarily to cleric and paladin) if he ever used this spell.

OK, that's end of a page, so a good moment to pause :)

Woo, shiny.

Better make ourselves useful then :P (although I can't select and copy fragments of spell descriptions so it makes it a bit tricky).

Arcing weapon:
Might be overpickiness on my part, might be a potential problem, you decide:
Is:
"The weapon now deals an additional 1d6 points of electricity damage +1 for every two caster levels."
Possible problem: unclarity as to type of bonus damage and it's amount. Is the whole 1d6+1 or only +1 multiplied; is the +x damage dealt by electricity or generic magic enhancement?
Easy fix:
"The weapon now deals an additional 1d6[,] +1 for every two caster levels (eg. 1d6 + 3 on 6th level) points of electricity damage"

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Assasin's Bane - dunno, seems a tad strong for paladin, but then again, there's bull strength, owls popsicle and shield other, so I guess it'll be rather a NPC's spell.

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Bestial healing - um, could be renamed to MindFrier, or directly to Kill The Damn caster. Seems to be Extremely powerful, even though it has to pass the SR.

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Breath of Caliostra - I don't get it.
So he is dazed only for the first round, and if the total duration of spell is longer, he is not affected by this state longer. But what about the -2 penalty - is it stacking in the meantime (-2 on first, -4 on second, -6 on third etc) or is it flat -2 for X rounds? I think it's flat -2, but only because of how powerful it'd be, not because the description suggested it.

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Burning Boneyard - me likey, but it's another strong caster-killer. Then again what good is the supplement if there are no strong spells, eh? ;-)

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Caress of Caliostra - the name. If I'm to die of ecstasy, I'd rather not have people mishear that as carcase of caliostra. "You've heard about Reth Gif? Died of ecstasy with carcase of some Cali lass" "That dirty %$#^*."
What's wrong with stroke? It sure resonates better with spell description. And while the character is affected by SoD - there's an upside, he can have impure thoughts!

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Carriage - I suggest changing it from 4 to 5 people if the intent is to allow PC's to travel around. Typical family has 2.5 kids, typical gaming group 4.3 players. Those partial people add up somewhere ;-)

K, enough for now, time to read something useful :P But to quote the governor of California: I'll be back.