So I've been catching up on Legend of Korra and it has be thinking about home brewing a magic removal spell or ability. So I figured I'd crowd source some ideas from the forums here.
Some questions/advice:
1) What level should a spell that removes magical abilities be? 9th? Mythic?
2) Should it be a save or suck type of spell, or should should it be more incremental? Assuming this is used on PCs, it would suck to instantly lose ALL of your class abilities due to a failed save. Of course, there will be a way to "unlock" it again with an opposite spell, but still, that probably won't be available for awhile (just to keep the tension up story-wise).
3) What flavor would be made for removing all the types of magic? Arcane, Divine, and Occult?
Thanks for any and all suggestions.
1) At least 9th.
2) Losing spells, spell-like abilities, even supernatural abilities? That would suck.
3) I could see it being all three actually. Arcane is constantly being modified and expanded, some Wizard or Arcanist could easily create a spell like this. Divine is controlled by the whims of the gods, so maybe they decided that it is high time to shut down some people. I could feel the Occult bit with Amon's touch from Korra, plus that magic is all about the mind, so maybe they get insider your head and shut down your ability to shape magic.
3.5 Psionics had Apopsi as a level 9 power.
- removes 1d4 powers of specified power levels (specific spells randomly determined by the DM)
- manifesting time: 1 round
- range: close
- duration: instantenous
- fortitude negates
- can be restored by restorative psionics
I thought this would be a thread about a spell that can cancel out Permanency...
1) At least 9th.
2) Losing spells, spell-like abilities, even supernatural abilities? That would suck.
3) I could see it being all three actually. Arcane is constantly being modified and expanded, some Wizard or Arcanist could easily create a spell like this. Divine is controlled by the whims of the gods, so maybe they decided that it is high time to shut down some people. I could feel the Occult bit with Amon's touch from Korra, plus that magic is all about the mind, so maybe they get insider your head and shut down your ability to shape magic.
Yeah it would suck. It's why only the BBEG would have this power and it'd only be used on the PCs for the final fight. Though they'd definitely see it happen a lot.
I think for divine it'd be more like cutting off the link between their god and the worshipers.
Imma give this the ol fashioned bump.
Just depends on where magic comes from and why it exists in your setting.