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I have a concept for a character that is some kind of "reversible caster". The idea is that any spell she can cast, she can cast an opposite version of it. So if she can cast bless, she can also cast bane. Or if she can cast light, she can cast darkness. Heal and harm, etc. I'm wondering if that is any sort of easy way to sort the list of spells into groups like this without going through each of them one by one or taking guesses based on the names of each spell. Or if anyone could just point me in the direction of a tradition that has a good number of such spells.
Any advice?
Thanks in advance!
If you are on Archives of Nethys, you can sort the tables with Traits, and use those traits to pick opposing spells.
Maybe set the table to a specific level of spell and 2 traits, like Light and Darkness for example.
That should make your search a bit easier. Though I will say that there aren't TOO many sets of spells that cancel each other out neatly in the way you've described. You already named 3 of them.
All of those appear on the Divine list btw, so that is probably a good place to start.
I'm also not entirely sure what you mean by casting an 'opposite'. For actually counteracting each other, I think you already hit most of them. Chilling Darkness / Searing Light would fit the theme too. And the Divine tradition even.
There are also elemental spells that are similar but use 'opposing' elements. Burning Hands / Chilling Spray. Flaming Sphere / Aqueous Orb.
And that is all of them that I can think of off-hand.