Is there a list anywhere giving ideas of what you can actually say when you cast a spell?
I could just make up something, but I am pretty sure someone has compiled a list of what words you use for various spells somewhere.
Thanks,
John
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I can guarantee there's nothing official.
That said, my gnome sorcerer generally screams "Taste the rainbow!" while casting Color Spray.
For cleric characters, I'll sometimes chant, "Mighty Sarenrae, bless these adventurers and grant them a +1 bonus on attack rolls and saving throws vs fear, amen".
Personally, I think the little touches like are fun to personalize and add some humor to playing sessions.
For cleric characters, I'll sometimes chant, "Mighty Sarenrae, bless these adventurers and grant them a +1 bonus on attack rolls and saving throws vs fear, amen".
How very OOTS-ish of you, Roy...
I goof around like that too.
My verbal component for Grease is basically sticking my tongue between my lips and making a "Pppppfffft" sound (hard to convey the exact sound in text - basically a wet raspberry).
My verbal component for Magic Missile is "Pew Pew Pew" (one "Pew" per missile) and the somatic component is making guns with my thumb and finger and pointing at the enemy and making the shooting gesture with my thumb.
You don't want to know my somatic component for Stinking Cloud...
On a different note, about 20 years ago I got inspired by the computer game Wizardry which had a system much like the current Pathfinder system for power words: each spell was a single word or short phrase, and then there were other words to modify the basic spell to increase area, range, elemental effect, or whatever. So I made up an entire system of power words, using many of the words from Wizardry and making up others (usually Latin).
My players loved it. They had a complete set of verbal components and I encouraged them to try mixing their basic spell words with their modifier words to make up spells on the fly. One player loved Fireball so much he then made a habit of casting Ice Ball, Lightning Ball, Fear Ball, Dark Ball, Light Ball, Acid Ball, etc.
I required them to say the spell out loud as their characters cast it - roleplaying the verbal component was not optional.
As a fun bit for me, if anyone mispronounced any word, I made it a bit like a fumble: whatever word they mispronounced, I changed that part of the spell into something else. That same player mispronounced the word for Acid frequently and ended up with Aster Ball (a burst of flowers) and Asp Ball (a burst of venomous snakes) and Axiom Ball (a burst of lawful energy that only damaged chaotic targets - he started using that one a lot, on purpose).
Is there a list anywhere giving ideas of what you can actually say when you cast a spell?
I could just make up something, but I am pretty sure someone has compiled a list of what words you use for various spells somewhere.
Thanks,
John
The Dragonlance books frequently showed Raistlin's verbal components - they were things like (let's see how I do from memory)
"Ast kiranann kair soth aran / suh kali jalaran" (Fireball)
"Ast kiranann kair Gadurm soth-arm / suh kali jalaran" (Lightning Bolt)
...and something that ended "suh tangus miopar" which I think was Sleep.
Excalibur uses one incantation for everything Merlin and Morgaine do, which sounds like
"Anhal nathrakh / urth vasst bethud / dorthriel dien-ve"
repeated over and over. If you rehearse some nonsense sounds like that and use them in a couple permutations, it goes a long way. (Latin's good too, especially if your players are sharp enough to catch the odd bit - Rowling pulls that off pretty well with the pseudo-Latin magic words in Harry Potter.)
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You could use google translate to change common phrases into mystic sounding spells. Slightly more time consuming would be coming up with short phrases in a dead language.
I have used both Welsh and Latin to good effect, with google translate reading the phrase back to me so I know the pronunciation. (Scary part is, I'm doing it enough with character names that I'm actually starting to pick up some basic Welsh phrases.)
I've also used crude attempts at Summerian, but who's to know I butchered the attempt.
Here's a good thread for this kind of thing.
Mekka
Lekka
Hai!
Mekka
Heiney
Ho!
(thank you Peewee! Well, if you like it so much, why don't you marry it?)
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Damn. Ninja'd by a Castille.
I like to research the race / religion / town / group / etc. and then work insults into the spells I cast on them. Especially when said race got beat or lost a war thousands of years ago.
... or when they were too "stupid" to avoid major calamity like the drow
Damn. Ninja'd by a Castille.
Silly RD. Ninjas don't cast. ; )
That said, my gnome sorcerer generally screams "Taste the rainbow!" while casting Color Spray.
I suppose it was foolish of me to believe that i made that up.
For a little while I spoke the name of the spell backwards.
I use google translate to get an appropriate phrase in russian as my verbal components.
Mount: 'Where did I leave that horse'
Invisible: 'Do not underestimate the sneeky'
