So, I made a spell for a specific story purpose in a campaign I had to abandon due to personal health reasons. It was one of a trio that I spread around the campaign so that the combination would be one option for dealing with a certain situation in the planned endgame of the campaign...but I knew as soon as I homebrewed them that there would probably be some sort of ridiculous applications that I'd completely failed to foresee, and I chose to embrace that possibility.
In any case, I can't make the spell public, not because of questionable content (there isn't any -- I'll include the text below), but because the spell included an "external link" -- to itself. Now, the link isn't critical (doesn't change anything about the mechanics of the spell), but I felt like it would have been contrary to the spirit of the spell to leave it out. So, without the link, we have:
Recursive Synecdoche; Level 5 spell
CASTING TIME 1 Action RANGE/AREA Self COMPONENTS V, S DURATION Instantaneous SCHOOL Conjuration ATTACK/SAVE None
A spell scroll of Recursive Synecdoche appears in the target's possession.
Not much on its own, but it combined with two other homebrewed spells, Hermeneutic Interpolation (which allowed swapping spells named in the text of other spells) and Semantic Recontextualization (which as a reaction changed the target of a self-targeted spell), definitely ill-advised and just begging for some exploits and derailing. As intended.
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So, I made a spell for a specific story purpose in a campaign I had to abandon due to personal health reasons. It was one of a trio that I spread around the campaign so that the combination would be one option for dealing with a certain situation in the planned endgame of the campaign...but I knew as soon as I homebrewed them that there would probably be some sort of ridiculous applications that I'd completely failed to foresee, and I chose to embrace that possibility.
In any case, I can't make the spell public, not because of questionable content (there isn't any -- I'll include the text below), but because the spell included an "external link" -- to itself. Now, the link isn't critical (doesn't change anything about the mechanics of the spell), but I felt like it would have been contrary to the spirit of the spell to leave it out. So, without the link, we have:
Recursive Synecdoche; Level 5 spell
CASTING TIME 1 Action
RANGE/AREA Self
COMPONENTS V, S
DURATION Instantaneous
SCHOOL Conjuration
ATTACK/SAVE None
A spell scroll of Recursive Synecdoche appears in the target's possession.
Not much on its own, but it combined with two other homebrewed spells, Hermeneutic Interpolation (which allowed swapping spells named in the text of other spells) and Semantic Recontextualization (which as a reaction changed the target of a self-targeted spell), definitely ill-advised and just begging for some exploits and derailing. As intended.