Been playing around with the spell builder and I want to make a custom spell that is going to be for water genasi and I don't see that I can do that.
Am I missing something or do I just need to like homebrew a water genasi race and add that spell to it?
Nah, we can’t use a race as the “spell list” for a spell, we must pick a class (or at least a subclass) to attach the spell. And even then you would still need to homebrew the race (or at least a feat) to attach the spell.
What I usually do when I want a spell to only be for a specific thing and not generally available to players, is I have a special fighter subclass with spellcasting added for testing homebrew functions, and I list that subclass as the list upon which the spell appears. Since no PC will ever have that subclass ever, none of them could ever accidentally find the spell while perusing. Then, if I wanted to do what I think you intend is simply make a variant race for the Water Genasi and set it to swap the feature that grants this spell in for the original Call to the Wave feature. (The new version will replace the original, so if your intention was to just add onto it instead of replacing it, make sure the new version includes everything that the original one did too.)
Been playing around with the spell builder and I want to make a custom spell that is going to be for water genasi and I don't see that I can do that.
Am I missing something or do I just need to like homebrew a water genasi race and add that spell to it?
ya just make a variant for it
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Nah, we can’t use a race as the “spell list” for a spell, we must pick a class (or at least a subclass) to attach the spell. And even then you would still need to homebrew the race (or at least a feat) to attach the spell.
What I usually do when I want a spell to only be for a specific thing and not generally available to players, is I have a special fighter subclass with spellcasting added for testing homebrew functions, and I list that subclass as the list upon which the spell appears. Since no PC will ever have that subclass ever, none of them could ever accidentally find the spell while perusing. Then, if I wanted to do what I think you intend is simply make a variant race for the Water Genasi and set it to swap the feature that grants this spell in for the original Call to the Wave feature. (The new version will replace the original, so if your intention was to just add onto it instead of replacing it, make sure the new version includes everything that the original one did too.)
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