I've never built a spell before, and am not sure I'll give it due justice. I have a Player who swears by the Animate Rope spell, half as a joke, and half because he is very much into the RP rather than Combat of Pathfinder.
He has tried to use Animate Rope in so many situations, and it's become a running gag with his wizard. Talking about it, we though it would be cool if he actually started upgrading the spell and making it useful for high level use.
So, I think I want to build a third, fifth, and maybe seventh level version of the spell. Traits I could see adding are:
- Ability to Trip an opponent
- Ability to Grapple an opponent
- Ability to Bind an opponent
- Having it spring from his hands as a ranged Touch Attack instead of having to be within a few feat or throwing it
- Increasing it's strength versus breaking or damage
- Possibly making it permanent at high level
- Ability to Grapple an opponent
So scaling it is my biggest problem. I was thinking of it in the same manner as Bigsby's Interposing and Bigsby's Grasping Hand spells. Thanks in advance for the help!
Ya, that looks like a good template to go on for the third level. Actually that can handle a fair number of what I was thinking, though I imagined some of those would be higher level abilities.
Any thoughts then on what a fifth or seventh level would look like?