Talk:True Dweomers

I'll get you a template today. For the monk colors, that's easy enough to do, but I'm guessing you mean on the spell list tables, not inside each spell page, right?

er...yes?  make it look the same as spells...only COOLER

now that i think about it....would it be possible to put the colors into the TD pages?  if it's a PITA, don't worry about it

it is possible, but I'd need you to tell me where you want the color to show up.

i'm thinking a bar of color at the top of the description.  it might be useful to have the name show up in gold letters in that bar, or something, and maybe a second bar lower down that displays the DC's to cast the spell? just thinking....

System and Structure

True Dweomer Damage Model

Spell Strata	Burn Cost	Min Level	Base Dice	max dice	range	avg	perfected
1	+3	21st	1d6+6/CL	31d6+186	217-372	294.5	744
2	+3	23rd	1d6+8/CL	31d6+248	279-434	356.5	868
3	+3	25th	1d6+9/CL	32d6+288	320-480	400	960
4	+3	27th	1d6+10/CL	32d6+320	392-512	452	1024
5	+3	29th	1d6+11/CL	33d6+363	399-561	480	1122
6	+3	31st	1d6+13/CL	33d6+429	462-627	544.5	1254
7	+3	33rd	1d6+15/CL	34d6+510	544-714	629	1428
8	+3	35th	1d6+16/CL	34d6+544	588-748	668	1496
9	+3	35+	1d6+17/CL	35d6+595	630-805	717.5	1610

True Dweomers are affected by metamagic feats, but note that many of the more potent feats have such a large level adjustment, they cannot be fit onto the higher level true dweomers without use of a magic wand or spell research.

• range

true Dweomers can use any range

• area of effect

true dweomers with AOE's tend to be LARGE, up to thousands of feet, miles, even leagues. note that metamagic can make even that larger.

• saves

true dweomers follow the basic rule 'no auto effects', but may impose severe save penalties in exchange for smaller range and/or area of effect, to the extreme of the example below "Corrupt Dweomers"

Current status

• True Dweomers - data compilation begun
• for balance pass, need to take into account the true-dweomer damage capacities of clerics, mages, druids, bard, paladins, rangers, etc. ergo, need to develop a bare-bones 'early implementation' of TD's
• have to take a feat to get a TD
• standard cast time is a full round action
• make skill roll below to cast as a standard, can be quickened if you want
• feats make skill roll easier/redundant

Example:

Bailiwick Skill Check:

• Roll is optional; if you succeed on an impossible check, you can cast the TD as a standard action, otherwise, always castable as a full round action. However, if you roll an Easy result or lower (or a 1), it counts as an auto-miss/auto-save. With 3rd and 5th feat, this risk mostly goes away, and it's just a question of whether you can get the impossible result or not.
• If you choose not to roll, or you get any result other than impossible or failure, TD takes a full-round action to cast.

Thus:

• Impossible DC (52) - standard action to cast
• Hard DC (47) - full round action to cast
• Challenging DC (43) - full round action to cast
• Average DC (38) - full round action to cast
• Easy DC or lower (33) - full round action, auto-miss/auto-save (half damage or whatever partial it does on a miss/save)

Examples of new Feats

Truemagic Feats

• Truemagic Scribe - learn 3 new true dweomers of 10th level, level 16 to take
• Truemagic Supplicant - learn 3 new true dweomers of 10th thru 11th levels, level 21 to take
• Truemagic Ordinate - learn 6 new true dweomers of 10th thru 12th levels, bailiwick skill check 1's are counted as 2's, level 21 to take
• Truemagic Nominate - learn 6 new true dweomers of 10th thru 14th levels, level 26
• Truemagic Heirophant - learn 9 new true dweomers of 10th thru 14th levels, level 31, all td's are castable as standard actions 'for free'

this model has 5 TD levels, and gives 27 TD spells for 5 feats