This is the second spell I am creating for one of those in my party, and I would love y'all's feedback on clarity and balance. My character is playing a bear who has been endowed with sapience, and I would like for them to be able to pass in some social situations. Disguise self won't allow her to look like a humanoid, so I came up with this as a solution. It uses disguise self as its base, but incorporates a bit of phantasmal force to make it usable for a bear pretending to be a human.
Please, let me know what you think. I would relish some constructive feedback. It is called BEARly Recognizable.
Level
2nd
Casting Time
1 Action
Range/Area
Self
Components
V, S
Duration
Concentration 1 Hour
School
Illusion
Attack/Save
None
Damage/Effect
Shapechanging
You make yourself--including your clothing, armor, weapons, and other belongings on your person--look different until the spell ends or until you use your action to dismiss it. You can seem 1 foot shorter or taller and can appear thin, fat, or in between. You can't change to a creature that affects its environment in ways that would be entirely unreasonable for one of your type (for instance, a humanoid cannot turn into a fire elemental, a humanoid cannot turn into an incorporeal ghost, etc.), and cannot take the shape of a creature of a size larger or smaller than yourself. Otherwise, the extent of the illusion is up to you.
Another creature that observes any discrepancy between your effect on themselves or your surroundings and what would be expected from your illusory form roll an intelligence saving throw against your spell save DC. On a failed save, they rationalize any illogical outcomes from discrepancies between your actual form and your illusory one, including in interacting with your apparent shape and appearance. For instance, if your actual form has a wide girth and another creature bumps into you, though they would not have bumped into your illusion had it been real, then they might imagine having stumbled into your illusory form. They also rationalize any difference in tactile sensation between your actual form and your illusory one (e.g., a metal gauntlet might feel like a cold, sweaty hand) .
To discern that you are disguised, a creature can use its action to inspect your appearance and must succeed on an Intelligence (Investigation) check against your spell save DC.
I think seeming is a bit more like a multi-person version of disguise self. Both 'won't hold up to inspection' whereas 'BEARly Recognizable' is more like a phantasmal force that creates an illusory change of only yourself, and is limited in the images it can generate.
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Hi all!
This is the second spell I am creating for one of those in my party, and I would love y'all's feedback on clarity and balance. My character is playing a bear who has been endowed with sapience, and I would like for them to be able to pass in some social situations. Disguise self won't allow her to look like a humanoid, so I came up with this as a solution. It uses disguise self as its base, but incorporates a bit of phantasmal force to make it usable for a bear pretending to be a human.
Please, let me know what you think. I would relish some constructive feedback. It is called BEARly Recognizable.
You make yourself--including your clothing, armor, weapons, and other belongings on your person--look different until the spell ends or until you use your action to dismiss it. You can seem 1 foot shorter or taller and can appear thin, fat, or in between. You can't change to a creature that affects its environment in ways that would be entirely unreasonable for one of your type (for instance, a humanoid cannot turn into a fire elemental, a humanoid cannot turn into an incorporeal ghost, etc.), and cannot take the shape of a creature of a size larger or smaller than yourself. Otherwise, the extent of the illusion is up to you.
Another creature that observes any discrepancy between your effect on themselves or your surroundings and what would be expected from your illusory form roll an intelligence saving throw against your spell save DC. On a failed save, they rationalize any illogical outcomes from discrepancies between your actual form and your illusory one, including in interacting with your apparent shape and appearance. For instance, if your actual form has a wide girth and another creature bumps into you, though they would not have bumped into your illusion had it been real, then they might imagine having stumbled into your illusory form. They also rationalize any difference in tactile sensation between your actual form and your illusory one (e.g., a metal gauntlet might feel like a cold, sweaty hand) .
To discern that you are disguised, a creature can use its action to inspect your appearance and must succeed on an Intelligence (Investigation) check against your spell save DC.
so... it's a single person variant of seeming?
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I think seeming is a bit more like a multi-person version of disguise self. Both 'won't hold up to inspection' whereas 'BEARly Recognizable' is more like a phantasmal force that creates an illusory change of only yourself, and is limited in the images it can generate.