Telekinesis

5th level transmutation

Sorcerer, Wizard

Theme Week– Guilds of Ravnica: Izzet League

Last weekend was my monthly theme week release over on Patreon, and it was up to my patrons to select their favorite guild from the city-plane of Ravnica! Last month’s winner was the Golgari Swarm, who I do love, but I’ll always have a special place in my heart for the megalomaniacal science-casters in the Izzet.

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[I have been hit with Inspiration. Or maybe it just accumulated. Either way I got some more original posts coming.]

Quill’s Electrocution

5th-level Evocation

Casting Time: Action

Range: Touch

Components: S

Duration: 1 round

Description: You grasp an enemy and send a debilitating burst of electricity through their body. Make a melee spell attack. On a hit, the target takes 10d10 lightning damage and must make a Constitution saving throw or be paralyzed until the end of your next turn.

At Higher Levels: When you cast this spell using a spell slot of 6th level or higher, it deals an additional 2d10 lightning damage per slot level above 5th.

Appropriate For: Artificer, Tempest Cleric, Sorcerer, Warlock, Wizard

Mageseek

5th-level divination, galactic (Bard, Cleric, Druid, Ranger, Sorcerer, Wizard)

Casting Time: 1 minute Range: The same galaxy Components: V, M (the focus of another caster) Duration: Instantaneous

You extend your senses to locate nearby magic-users. You can choose to exclude any number of creatures you can see from the search, or to limit your search to only magic-​users capable of casting spells of a certain spell level. You also choose whether to seek only humanoids or any creature with the Spellcasting feature.

The DM tells you whether the nearest magic-user the spell targets is friendly, indifferent, or hostile to you. You choose whether to select this magic-user or search for the next-closest caster, deferring your choice for up to four magic-users (if you refuse the fourth, the spell ends with no further effect). Once you have selected a magic-​user, you learn that creature’s name, race, preferred school of magic (if any), and current location in relation to you. You may then send the selected magic-user a telepathic message of up to 25 words, after which the spell ends.

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The actors strike is over, GTA 5 was announced, Shrek 5 release date leaked, Legend of Zelda movie was announced, Omegle gets shut down, Ghostbusters Frozen Empire trailer is released, First posters for The Boys S4 drop and Frank Ocean previews new music. Man, November 8th was quite the day wasn't it.

Under the assumption that Sparrow Oak Garcia has a 9th level spell slot to burn on conjure animals, he could summon any one of the following: 8 giant spiders, 16 swarms of spiders, or 32 giant wolf spiders. I’m just imagining the unique position Sparrow Oak Garcia is in to completely ruin Nicky Foster/Close/Freeman/Swift/whatever other last name he collected when we weren’t even looking’s whole day

once again thinking about that fact that chip *used to* speak abyssal but at some point just. forgot.

OMG! They uploaded a story on Kazuki’s Instagram Account!

Japanese: 娘にカレシとか、いつぐらいから覚悟しておくべきなんですかね…。

English: About when should I start preparing for my daughter having boyfriends and stuff...?

Since there are a number of answers, I won’t be providing the Japanese, just the English translation. I’ll also be going from left to right, from top to bottom.

1. I think it’s best to start preparing for things like that when she is around her junior high and high school years...

2. Kids these days start [dating] around elementary school age now..

3. Miri is cute, so you better start prepping right now‼️ ‼️ ‼️

4. Kids these days move fast, so you better start preparing for that around the age of 4!

5. Maybe around upper elementary school age... 🤔💭 

6. Since Miri-chan is cute..it seems like she’ll start having BFs around her elementary and junior high school years.

Hey fellow scientists!

If you are making a post on Tumblr that is aimed at general audiences, turn off the academic speak. Stop throwing fancy words into every sentence (we get it you're very smart!) if someone has to Google what a word means every other sentence, they are going to feel dumb and are less likely to take what you say to heart. Or, even worse, they will assume you are right without any critical thinking! We should all be open to valid criticism and questions!

Think about who you are trying to persuade. If it's other people in your specific field then by all means go ahead. But using words just to sound fancy without explaining them, will alienate general audiences or even other scientists outside your field.

Destructive Wave

5th level evocation

Paladin

Arcanatober Days 14 & 15– Lustrous Shell & Horrifying Pigments

So I missed a few days trying to recover from vaccination shots, but I’m back at it again with some more tarot-inspired content for the Halloween season. I’m pulling double duty each day until I get caught up, so today I’ve got two more– The Lovers and The Hanged Man, represented by Lustrous Shell and Horrifying Pigments, respectively

The first is a spell that wraps you in a beautiful, protective shell, but forces a steep cost for its casting and for when the shell finally breaks. The second acts as a cursed version of the classic marvelous pigments, creating living creatures instead of inanimate objects-- but ones imbued with a barely controlled, murderous rage. And maybe it’s better not to risk breaking the rules of the paints...

"Castoria and Oberon are both constantly fucking pissed about being forced to play their roles, if Guda has any feelings like that too they must keep them buried real real deep" + "no matter what, Guda doesn't want to regret joining Chaldea or forget that it was their own choice" was the concept here

Identify Ancestry

5th-level divination, galactic (Cleric, Wizard)

Casting Time: 10 minutes Range: Touch Components: S, M (a fresh and dried leaf from the same tree) Duration: Instantaneous

You touch a willing creature and learn the names, races, birthdates, and professions of the creature’s biological parents. If a parent is deceased, you also learn the date, location, and general circumstances of their death (such as old age, poison, or a weapon injury).

At Higher Levels. When you cast this spell using a spell slot of 6th or higher, you learn the same information for the preceding generation (grandparents at 6th level, great-grandparents at 7th level, and so on).

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Powerfully imaginative minds can draw closer to other realms in their sleep, dreams pulling forth energy and possibly even active minds. When interacting with powerful magic, these otherworldly dreams can occasionally manifest fully, becoming the creatures known as animate dreams. Incomplete, imperfect beings, they feed upon the imagination and emotion of living beings, with sapient creatures providing far more nourishment than mere beasts.

As such, the animate dream can draw forth these powerful emotions for its food. Its touch causes mental anguish and horror that sustains it, but it gains even more sustenance by putting a creature into a state of horror. They prefer infecting creatures with nightmares, whether waking or sleeping, and even just by staying in close proximity to a sleeping creature they can prompt bad dreams. These proximity dreams are enough to keep it healthy, but are weaker than magically caused nightmares and so few animate dreams are satisfied with such feeding for long, nearly always escalating to more delicious terrors sparked by magic. Starvation doesn't kill animate dreams however, just causing ever increasing pain and distress that results in them becoming more aggressive and hostile.

While animate dreams can choose not to cause true harm in their feeding, few bother with such trouble. Creations of pure id and the erratic nature of dreams, they rarely feel proper sympathy or connection with the victims of their feeding, seeing them as nothing more than easily harvested thoughts. Perhaps the transient nature of dreams means they are never meant to take permanent form like this, and that paradox leads to the horrors an animate dream leaves behind.

While animate dreams are around the size of the average humanoid, their exact appearance is flexible and changes as they feed to take on a form similar to the fears and thoughts of the creature they're gaining sustenance from. The more an animate dream feeds off of a single creature, the more stable its form appears, but there's always some variation in what others see as their own emotions and fears influence how the animate dream appears to them.

Originally from the Pathfinder Bestiary 2. This post came out a week ago on my Patreon. If you want to get access to all my monster conversions early, as well as access to my premade adventures and other material I’m working on, consider backing me there!

5th Edition

Animate Dream Medium aberration, neutral evil Armor Class 19 Hit Points 104 (16d8 + 32) Speed 0 ft., fly 40 ft. (hover) Str 2 (-4) Dex 18 (+4) Con 15 (+2) Int 10 (+0) Wis 15 (+2) Cha 21 (+5) Saving Throws Wis +5, Cha +8 Skills Deception +8, Intimidation +8, Stealth +7 Damage Resistances acid, cold, fire, lightning, thunder, bludgeoning, piercing and slashing damage from nonmagical attacks Condition Immunities frightened, grappled, paralyzed, prone, restrained Senses darkvision 60 ft. passive Perception 12 Languages telepathy 100 ft. Challenge 8 (3900 XP) Force Of Personality. The AC of the animate dream includes its Charisma bonus. Incorporeal Movement. The animate dream can move through other creatures and objects as if they were difficult terrain. It takes 5 (1d10) force damage if it ends its turn inside an object. Actions Nightmare Touch. Melee Weapon Attack: +7 to hit, reach 5 ft., one creature. Hit: 40 (8d8+4) psychic damage and the target must succeed on a DC 16 Charisma saving throw or become cursed with nightmares. The cursed target gains no benefits from Long Rests, and it must repeat the saving throw every 24 hours, gaining a level of exhaustion on a failure. Exhaustion gained this way cannot be removed as long as the creature is cursed. The curse lasts until the target succeeds on three saving throws in a row, or its removed by remove curse or similar magic. Spellcasting. The animate dream casts one of the following spells, requiring no material components and using Charisma as the spellcasting ability (spell save DC 16): 3/day each: dimension door, fear, sleep (as a 5th level spell) 1/day each: confusion, dream, phantasmal killer

13th Age

Animate Dream  Double-strength 5th level spoiler [aberration]  Initiative: +10 Cursed Nightmare Touch +10 vs. PD - 30 psychic damage and the target is dazed (save ends). Natural 14+: The save is a hard save (16+). Natural 18+: The target takes 10 ongoing psychic damage and is helpless as it falls asleep (save ends both). R: Waking Nightmare +10 vs. MD (one nearby enemy) - 15 ongoing psychic damage and the target is weakened (save ends both). First Failed Save: The ongoing damage increases by 5 and the target is confused instead of weakened. Miss: 10 psychic damage and the target is dazed until the end of its next turn. Limited Use: The animate dream can only use this attack when the escalation die is even. Fear: Enemies engaged with the animate dream that have 24 hit points or fewer are dazed and do not add the escalation die to their attacks. Feed on Nightmares: The animate dream regains 2d6 hit points if it starts its turn engaged with a creature that is asleep, affected by its waking nightmare attack, or affected by its fear aura. Flight. Ghostly: The animate dream has resist 16+ to all damage except force damage. It can move through solid objects, but can’t end its movement inside of them. AC 19 PD 15 MD 19 HP 104

Gail Carson Levine was drinking the same juice as Jane Austen when she wrote Char and Ella like COME ON. “How lucky the man you choose to marry, and how great the queen you would be if I am that man” !!!!!!! “I could extol your virtues endlessly, but I want you to stop reading and answer me quickly. Love (for it is such a relief to pen the word), love, love Char” “our hands knew each other” !!!!!!!!!! I am THROWING UP SHAKING CRYING GOING INSANE.