I am stupid. I cant figure out how to create a home brew spell where the mage can use spell levels to increase the duration of the spell.
Im trying to convert the bigby's spells from greyhawk adventures and one of them allows for the mage to get 2 more rounds per level. I want to create the spell where the mage can spend spell levels to get the +2 round duration.
Just cant get it to do that where when the mage adds spell level the duration increases in dnd beyond.
Have you looked at a spell like hex as an example? A lot of the homebrew system is not intuitive, trying to find something similar that already exists is the best way to solve many homebrew issues.
There's probably a bug OR D&D Beyond has to do a better job at making tutorials...any tutorial online will--for some reason-- stop explaining what to do after you've created your spell, but not how to properly add modifiers. Anyway, I've found a workaround that will at least highlight in blue textwhat you're trying to improve upon in your spell. Not only will it show up on your character sheet....but it'll show up at the right time as well.
After activating the Spell Scale check mark when creating the spell, and selecting from the three option drop down menu, head over to the "At Higher Level" section and DO NOT CREATE A MODIFIER. Type in your spell level value and DO NOT link it to any modifier, just toggle the scale effect to "Extended Duration" and on the details section type in the length it will be upgraded to... for example "2 Rounds" or "10 Minutes". You do not need a fixed value because for some reason it's not even recognizing it.
Hope this helps!
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I am stupid. I cant figure out how to create a home brew spell where the mage can use spell levels to increase the duration of the spell.
Im trying to convert the bigby's spells from greyhawk adventures and one of them allows for the mage to get 2 more rounds per level. I want to create the spell where the mage can spend spell levels to get the +2 round duration.
Just cant get it to do that where when the mage adds spell level the duration increases in dnd beyond.
thanks,
taco
Got it setup to extend the duration per level but when casting at higher levels doesnt increment the duration.
Have you looked at a spell like hex as an example? A lot of the homebrew system is not intuitive, trying to find something similar that already exists is the best way to solve many homebrew issues.
See hex for an example of time duration increase.
Yeh. I found something that extended duration but i must have messed it up. Ill check. Hex. thanks!
There's probably a bug OR D&D Beyond has to do a better job at making tutorials...any tutorial online will--for some reason-- stop explaining what to do after you've created your spell, but not how to properly add modifiers. Anyway, I've found a workaround that will at least highlight in blue text what you're trying to improve upon in your spell. Not only will it show up on your character sheet....but it'll show up at the right time as well.
After activating the Spell Scale check mark when creating the spell, and selecting from the three option drop down menu, head over to the "At Higher Level" section and DO NOT CREATE A MODIFIER. Type in your spell level value and DO NOT link it to any modifier, just toggle the scale effect to "Extended Duration" and on the details section type in the length it will be upgraded to... for example "2 Rounds" or "10 Minutes". You do not need a fixed value because for some reason it's not even recognizing it.
Hope this helps!