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Wall of Thorns is a very respectable replacement. If anyone remembers Herogames Hero Fantasy the druid there could cast Wall of Animals which should be a fairly traumatic experience as dozens of woodland critters form an animal pyramid to stop your enemies attacks.
I'm a little surprised that there aren't any Time Travel spells in Pathfinder. I mean it is a horrible idea, introducing time travel into any game is a mistake because it basically leads to people trying to 'fix' everything. And then there is the horror of the BGs doing the same to you.
The reason I'm surprised is because its a very popular trope and well within the scope of 9th level spells (8th even), so I'd figure at some point the editors would make the mistake of letting an author introduce some sort of time travel mechanic in a limited setting and then people would insist on letting anyone in PFS and beyond use it in every setting.
Same here. Outright time travel is understandable because, yeah, players are hard enough to wrangle without giving them free access to the 4th-dimension, but there's a lot of ways to mess with the flow of time to interesting (and relatively manageable - at least as much as any other mid- to high-level spell) effect. I did one time decide to try and make a time wizard and found it difficult to grab more than one or two spells per level that fit the concept at all. I think I've noticed a few more time-related spells come out since then, so maybe I'll give it a second go, now that 1e is coming to a close.
I also feel like Time is a glaringly absent cleric Domain, when you think about it.
A change home plane spell. It seems like the sort of thing you'd want for forcing a summoned creature to stay on a specific plane, or to thoroughly ruin creatures that merely return to their plane of origin on death.
A Chimeric Polymorph spell also feels like it's missing. Fishing for just the right combinations of abilities is kind of the fun of polymorph spells, but at some point in the spell's life it should be more free form.
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Shame the duration on the greater heroism doesn't get increased. But I love the idea of the group participating in an hour long tea ceremony just before teleporting into the villain's stronghold.Well, there is the Karyukai Tea Set. If your diplomacy is good, you can get great effects.
/cevah
I did that once, with that tea set. And it was, indeed, lovely.
While I do wish there was a "Mutate" spell, which let you pick from one or two monster abilities and give them to yourself or someone else, one of the Words of Power does that. So there's a way for your outer god-worshipping oracle or sorcerer to just give people asymmetrical wings/compound eyes/webbed digits without having to thumb through the bestiaries.
How about a spell that makes the person affected by it take damage every time they miss with an attack (call it Price Of Failure or something like that)
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...I also feel like Time is a glaringly absent cleric Domain, when you think about it.
On the subject of domains...where's the Music domain? It seems such a blindingly obvious subject with dozens of possible spells. This is what I'd been thinking of (though many more spells have been published since I wrote this for 3.0):
Music Domain:
Perform (any musical instrument) is a class skill. You may use your Wisdom modifier instead of your Charisma modifier for Perform checks.
Bardic Music (Sp): You can use the Bardic Music ability as a bard of your class level, a number of rounds per day equal to 3 + your Wisdom modifier. This number increases by 1 at 3rd level, and every other level thereafter (3, 5, 7, etc).
Your cleric levels stack with other classes that provide Bardic Music abilities.
Angelic [Diabolic, etc] Choir (Sp): At 8th level, I've not really worked this out yet: Something: sing in the background for x rounds, and/or in addition for extra range & DC?]
Spells:
0 Ghost Sound
1 Hypnotism
2 Suggestion
3 Emotion
4 Shout
5 Sending
6 Mass Suggestion
7 Power word, Stun
8 Otto's Irresistible Dance
9 Wail of the Banshee
OOOH I got a super important one: a spell that tells you the target's favorite color.
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...I also feel like Time is a glaringly absent cleric Domain, when you think about it.On the subject of domains...where's the Music domain? It seems such a blindingly obvious subject with dozens of possible spells.
Yeah, one thing I'd want from a Domains list in a new edition would be for someone to go through the various gods of the more common mythologies here on earth and make sure that there's a domain for each of them.
Time, Art, Love, Beauty, Music, Fate and Fertility are all relatively popular, and worthy, IMO, of being full Domains and not just sub-Domains of Charm or Knowledge or whatever. Some don't exactly scream 'adventurer' like War or Fire or Magic, but real-world mythologies have a bunch of gods of stuff like Art, Love and Fertility!
As for your custom Music Domain, those are some good spell choices. For the level 8 power, perhaps something that modifies a spell cast with a verbal component (which can't be Silenced meta-magically if you want this benefit, as you have to sing the verbal component to get the benny). Alternately, something that allows you to continue singing to maintain a spell that normally has a fixed duration in rounds / level with concentration, in this case, represented by singing (as a move action) and remaining within 30 ft. of the spell effect.
Is there a spell that is the opposite of repulsion i.e creatures in the area get pulled closer every round the fail a save? There is a spell called "attraction" but it's not the opposite of repulsion despite it's name.
Is there a spell that is the opposite of repulsion i.e creatures in the area get pulled closer every round the fail a save? There is a spell called "attraction" but it's not the opposite of repulsion despite it's name.
Huh. There is in Starfinder (Gravitational Singularity) but I can't think of one in Pathfinder even thought I feel like I've seen a similar effect somewhere. Maybe a monster, trap, or magic item effect?
Summon Personal Assistant.
Reminders, organisation, flavour. Extra-dimensional an option.
Planar bind something lawful.
Is there a spell to make someone permanently mute? Or could bestow curse do this? What about make someone permanently illiterate?
Feeblemind does these, among other things. Mute meaning unable to meaningfully talk rather than unable to make noise in this case.
Edit: And no, I think this should be beyond the power of a bestow curse. Maybe a variant greater bestow curse could do it.
Money converts directly into power in PF, an infinite loop there is just a bad idea. Alchemists can make philosopher's stones but as an endgame ability.