Hello, I want to create a new spell available for a druid and a ranger.
LEAP INTO ANIMAL 2nd level transmutation Casting Time: 1 action Range: 10 ft. Components: V, S Duration: 1 minute/level
Leap into animal enables you to meld your body and up to 100 pounds of nonliving gear into a single willing animal (such as an animal companion). The animal must be your size category or larger. To any observer, you appear to leap and phase into the animal; you are gone, while the animal remains. For all intents and purposes, you no longer exist while merged with the animal, and you cannot be detected or affected by anything as long as you remain within it. While melded with the animal, you mentally direct its actions. You can make it attack, run, or take any other action it could normally physically accomplish. However, because you are directing the animal with your own intelligence, it can undertake actions normally beyond its own instincts (such as manipulating objects with its claws or mouth). Suicidal or self-destructive commands (including an order to attack a creature two or more size categories larger) are ignored. You receive direct sensory input from the creature using its normal senses and skill modifiers. You cannot take any mental actions while within the animal other than directing it or dismissing the effect (such that you cannot manifest a psionic power or cast a spell, even if it has no components). Injury to the animal has no effect on you. If the animal is killed, if the spell is dispelled or dismissed, or if the spell’s duration expires, you appear (as if leaping forth from the animal) in an open space of your choice within 10 feet of the animal’s position. If no open space exists, you are shunted to the nearest open space and take 1d6 points of damage per 10 feet so moved.
Special: A character with any Mark of Handling dragonmark, or with the Favored in House background (Vadalis), can use this spell to merge with an unwilling animal.
It is an adaptation of a spell from a previous edition. What do you think about this spell ? Are there need to bring modifications ?
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Interesting. You could keep the spell name as "Leap Into Animal" but would need to change "animal" to "Beast" in the text.
Other things I'd suggest:
Make it a Concentration spell with duration 1 minute; when cast at higher levels, increase the maximum duration by 1 minute per level above 2nd.
Instead of disallowing self-destructive commands, let's give you some skin in the game: whenever the beast takes damage, you also take half the amount of damage the beast received, applying any resistances/immunities of your own.
You are shunted out of the beast once it falls unconscious or the spell ends, appearing in an open space you choose within 10ft of the beast, but end up lying prone if you are unconscious. (Leaving out the part where you take 1d6 damage if shunted further away.)
Maybe give the target a Wisdom saving throw if it's unwilling?
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Hello, I want to create a new spell available for a druid and a ranger.
LEAP INTO ANIMAL
2nd level transmutation
Casting Time: 1 action
Range: 10 ft.
Components: V, S
Duration: 1 minute/level
Leap into animal enables you to meld your body and up to 100 pounds of nonliving gear into a single willing animal (such as an animal companion). The animal must be your size category or larger. To any observer, you appear to leap and phase into the animal; you are gone, while the animal remains. For all intents and purposes, you no longer exist while merged with the animal, and you cannot be detected or affected by anything as long as you remain within it.
While melded with the animal, you mentally direct its actions. You can make it attack, run, or take any other action it could normally physically accomplish. However, because you are directing the animal with your own intelligence, it can undertake actions normally beyond its own instincts (such as manipulating objects with its claws or mouth). Suicidal or self-destructive commands (including an order to attack a creature two or more size categories larger) are ignored. You receive direct sensory input from the creature using its normal senses and skill modifiers.
You cannot take any mental actions while within the animal other than directing it or dismissing the effect (such that you cannot manifest a psionic power or cast a spell, even if it has no components).
Injury to the animal has no effect on you. If the animal is killed, if the spell is dispelled or dismissed, or if the spell’s duration expires, you appear (as if leaping forth from the animal) in an open space of your choice within 10 feet of the animal’s position. If no open space exists, you are shunted to the nearest open space and take 1d6 points of damage per 10 feet so moved.
Special: A character with any Mark of Handling dragonmark, or with the Favored in House background (Vadalis), can use this spell to merge with an unwilling animal.
It is an adaptation of a spell from a previous edition. What do you think about this spell ? Are there need to bring modifications ?
It’s cool.
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No connection to Dragonslayer8 other than knowing them in real life.
Interesting. You could keep the spell name as "Leap Into Animal" but would need to change "animal" to "Beast" in the text.
Other things I'd suggest:
Helpful rewriter of Japanese->English translation and delver into software codebases (she/e/they)