For me blistering invective, as the idea of being able to insult someone so heinously it literally makes them catch on fire seems pretty cool. Bonus points if you say "oooh, burn" after casting it.
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That's a good one.
Personally I have to go with Mad Monkeys. Just, suddenly monkeys. They're all over you, stealing your things, being a nuisance. The mental imagery is hilarious. Helps that it's pretty effective too.
That sounds cool to. I've also always really liked the prismatic spells for some reason. Would be cool to say "taste the rainbow, (censored)" before casting prismatic spray.
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Not from Pathfider, but the Arduin Grimoire Druid spell, "The Stone that Weeps in Silence" that turns you to stone but leaves you conscious, effectively forever, to think about what you did to anger a powerful Druid. The game had some of the best ideas and the worst organization.
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Not from Pathfider, but the Arduin Grimoire Druid spell, "The Stone that Weeps in Silence" that turns you to stone but leaves you conscious, effectively forever, to think about what you did to anger a powerful Druid. The game had some of the best ideas and the worst organization.
Yeah, I love reading through it for ideas, and then groaning when he'd get to a stupid bit.
I have to go with Mad Monkeys. Just, suddenly monkeys.
If only it was called 'Summon Mad Monkeys,' so that the Augment Summoning feat would work on it... (Ditto the one that summons poison frogs.) But yeah, it is pretty cool looking.
My favorite 'visual' was a version of color spray from 3.5, IIRC, that stripped the color off of you (turning you temporarily invisible) and flung it outwards to blind and dazzle others.
A lot of legacy D&D spells feel less 'magical' and more science-y (even more so back in the day when fireballs expanded to fill 33,000 cubic feet and lightning bolts bounced, but there are still spells with science fiction names like 'teleport' (a word invented in the fifties!), or whatever), but stuff like burning disarm or sticks to snakes and beguiling gift has that magical feel that scorching ray and acid arrow don't, IMO.
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Greater Claim Identity: turn someone into a porcelain mask, while they are still conscious, and put them on and become a perfect disguise of them. Holy s#+* that's evil fairy tale stuff right there!
Frightful Aspect: This isn't even my final form! The bad guy turns into a giant, hulking, anime villain version of themselves. That's just amazing. The slight problem is it's like an 8th level spell and useful only to a martial character.
Im surprised nobody said Snapdragon Fireworks yet.
Love having this overall, be it for parties or for using during some performance moment haha.
Greater Claim Identity: turn someone into a porcelain mask, while they are still conscious, and put them on and become a perfect disguise of them. Holy s!!~ that's evil fairy tale stuff right there!
Frightful Aspect: This isn't even my final form! The bad guy turns into a giant, hulking, anime villain version of themselves. That's just amazing. The slight problem is it's like an 8th level spell and useful only to a martial character.
I agree. Only thing I don't get is why it it just gives +10 to disguise rather than always work (if you look EXACTLY like the person, how can the disguise fail)?
Beguiling Gift is one of my favorites. Hand the BBEG a Necklace of Strangulation and break out the popcorn.
+1 for vomit swarm
Personally I have to go with Mad Monkeys. Just, suddenly monkeys. They're all over you, stealing your things, being a nuisance. The mental imagery is hilarious. Helps that it's pretty effective too.
I really wish I'd known about Mad Monkeys before I ran my homebrew "Gorilla Island" adventure in my last Freeport campaign. It would have greatly simplified statting up the magical Barrels of Monkeys that my crazy vanara summoner/crafter NPC invented. (I'm still kind of disappointed that the all-CN PC party talked nice right off the bat instead of provoking him, so he never got to drop one on them.)
In my current home game, my wife recently discovered the Confess spell and immediately chose it for her inquisitor's new spell.
And my PFS witch has started using Vomit Swarm again, now that she's high enough level to produce wasps.
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Polypurpose Panacea.
+1 For Vomit Swarm. Also Cape of Wasps and Swarm Skin. My witch tends to pick 'body horror' themed spells (he's a healer and physician) so with him I rather like Bloodbath and Excruciating Deformation; looking forward to getting Slough and Blood Tentacles.
Polypurpose Panacea.Seconded!
"That's useless, why do you even have it in your spellbook?"
"Because my wizard has days off and it's less dangerous than real drugs."
I third this. I wonder if the spell can make you feel the effects of other drugs besides alcohol? I would allow it as DM. I imagine you could even get people to quit drugs by teaching them how to cast the spell.
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Who knows? Maybe it's an inadequate substitute for your favourite mind-altering substance. Maybe the social effects of sharing those substances with friends or similar is important to the user; people like going out to drink their booze. Maybe there are effects from overusing PP. Not enough data.
My favorite 'visual' was a version of color spray from 3.5, IIRC, that stripped the color off of you (turning you temporarily invisible) and flung it outwards to blind and dazzle others.
That would be Blinding Color Surge,
I think Raging Rubble is cool. Not that useful, but cool.
/cevah