I'm thinking of creating a high level spell that freezes or compresses time, allowing the caster and a chosen target within range to converse with impunity. I hope to get some ideas and suggestions on how best to implement such a spell.
Some thoughts:
- Target gets a will save to negate, but is aware of the spell's effects and may voluntarily accept a failure result.
- Caster and target actions will be extraordinarily limited during the apparant duration, such as only being able to take purely mental actions and verbal actions. Absolutely no physical actions, spellcasting, manipulating the environment, or harmful actions can be taken while the spell is in effect.
- The spell could be entirely mental, plunging caster's and target's minds into a psychic black void completely cut off from the outside world. Sort of like Stranger Things.
- The spell is instantaneous to outside observers, but will have an apparent duration of no less than 10 minutes to those effected, after which the duration can be extended indefinitely so long as all parties wish to keep it going. Targets cannot prematurely end the effect during the initial duration unless they succeeded on their initial save and chose to be effected by the spell's effects. The caster can end the spwll's effect at any time.
- Higher spell ranks allow the caster to attempt pulling more people in, though the target size remains small (2-5 additional targets I'm thinking). Furthermore, a higher rank might allow the caster to eject participant(s) from the spell effect prematurely.
- Leaning towards 8th or 9th rank, with 10th rank allowing more targets.
What do you think? How might such a spell potentially be abused?
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The 1st-rank spell Mindlink appears to be a one-way version of what you're suggesting, so making the communication two-way and extending its range a little could easily warrant a bump up in a single rank. If you want something with planetary range, you could look at Dream Council, an 8th-rank spell, as another example.
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I dunno if this really needs to be sky-high level. If you can't do spellcasting or violence, then I think the worst that you might be able to do is subject people to social skill checks? If someone has to listen to you for ten minutes and you're legendary at those then you can probably cause some mischief, but still, I'd be looking at more something similar to Sending in level.
The Starfinder spell New Game has a 1v1 combat application in a virtual environment. Maybe tone that down or adapt a dual Quandary like effect (which is another thing New Game can do).
PF1 had a psychic mindscape spell, I think, that allowed mind to mind discussion and combat. Make it harmless and time compressed.