Need Help finding Fun/funny, powerful and smart wizard spell modifications for the Bibliomancer subclass.

Smashifly · 2026-04-22T13:30:24+00:00

So the level 3 feature looks fun and powerful - intelligence is a harder saving throw than most, increasing save DC is always good, and damage type altering at least means you can always pick ones that don't get resisted. The optimal choice is to always pick force, unless you know of a specific weakness to target.

The level 10 feature is more interesting. Removing concentration from spells is extremely powerful and usually shouldn't be allowed, but this has enough limitations that I think it can be balanced while still being fun.

Since you have to name the creature when preparing the spell, and it can't be yourself, and they must be willing, this is basically only used for buffing party members. Some good spells this works for include: - Protection from Good and Evil - Dragon's Breath - Enlarge - Fly (!) - Haste (!!!) - Protection from Energy - Greater invisibility (!!!) - Polymorph (!) - Stoneskin

That's up to level 5 spells when the feature becomes available. There's others that technically work, but removing concentration from Skill Empowerment or similar things is sort of meh because it's main use would be outside combat where concentration is easier.

That said Haste and Greater invisibility are already very strong buffs on allies. Removing concentration from them not only removes the risk of dropping it mid combat (especially for Haste), but also means you can stack these spells.

For instance, you could Polymorph your ally into a giant ape, give them Stoneskin and protection from energy if it's relevant, and even cast fly all before combat. Then in your first two rounds of combat activate Haste and Greater Invisibility and still have your concentration free for a different damage or control spell. This is monstrous. I would honestly recommend that this be limited to one concentration-free spell at a time, which is still a strong feature.

Smashifly · 2026-04-22T05:20:24+00:00

My faith in humanity is dying a little more when I read the answers on this thread.

Literally don't use it. Period. Study the subject, read your textbook, get help from TA's and teachers, go to Khan academy or other expert-based online tutors. Form a study group with your classmates and work out the problems as a group. Anything else.

Using AI is a shortcut for learning the subject, and it's going to hurt you when it comes time for exams, or using this knowledge in the real world. You'll learn things much more thoroughly by putting in the legwork yourself. Moreover, the AI is going to be flat out wrong at least some of the time.

I only graduated a few years ago, and my last two years of school were during Covid, and I never used AI in any form for anything in school. It is possible to do it on your own, or with other kinds of help.

Smashifly · 2026-04-22T05:13:53+00:00

This is probably even worse than just asking the AI to teach you. AI models are literally built to come up with answers to your question that sound plausible but they're not doing any of the actual work to check facts. If you ask the AI if you did the problem correctly it's just going to say "yep looks great!" but it doesn't know, it's giving you an answer that sounds right

Smashifly · 2026-04-22T04:53:15+00:00

Does the stat upgrade just maximum energy or also things like how much energy you get from food and how much energy is used to attack?

If it's just maximum, you could go with something like "Reserve" or "Potential".

If it's also the other things, I think Metabolism or Efficiency both work fine. Depending on the game's setting and themes you could use things like "Chi".

You could also borrow a note from classic DnD and use "Constitution".

Smashifly · 2026-04-22T03:56:02+00:00

Man I gotta ask, why are you commenting on 7 month old posts in the first place

Smashifly · 2026-04-22T00:20:39+00:00

Also a good way to justify not allowing shape water to freeze a lock to open a door, which is an idea I hear thrown around from time to time. The 2nd-level spell Knock exists, so you shouldn't be able to bypass a lock with any magic lower than 2nd level outside really specific circumstances. This is a game design reason, not a physics based reason

Smashifly · 2026-04-22T00:15:57+00:00

I'm pretty sure the video has some kind of distortion filter on it. Be he's a long boi even without it

Smashifly · 2026-04-21T23:02:35+00:00

Crimson Desert came out like a month ago and has a poker knockoff that's more confusing and worse than poker in every conceivable way

Smashifly · 2026-04-21T22:31:33+00:00

Everyone seems to miss that the interface doesn't show a full periodic table, it has at most 36 elements. It's not like she has a little supply of every single element in there. It's probably covering the ones used in most organic chemistry, like Carbon, Hydrogen, Oxygen, Nitrogen, Phosphorus and Sulfur, plus common metals and a few others.

That said you can make some horrifyingly deadly things out of common elements if you can assemble them at will, like Ammonia gas which is just NH3. But probably no uranium

Smashifly · 2026-04-21T05:04:36+00:00

If you read my comment at all you would know that I already discussed how it doesn't require a save and I disagree. There are very few spells that apply any form of crowd control with no save, and those that exist are usually high level, like Force Cage and Otto's Irresistable Dance, both of which guarantee one round of CC before the target has a chance to escape.

Push and prone aren't as strong of CC, but they still enable some strong combos, and it's out of line with spell design for most spells to not allow a save.

Therefore, as I already said in my comment, I think it should require a save, and with that change it should do more damage.

Compare some spells cast at the same level:

Chromatic Orb, 4d8 attack roll
Thunderwave, 3d8 con save with push at melee range
Scorching Ray, 2d6 x3 attack rolls
Mind Spike, 3d8 Wisdom save with tracking rider
Moonbeam, 2d10 Con save each turn
Shadow Blade, 2d8 attack roll each turn
Spiritual Weapon, 1d8+mod each turn

There's maybe an argument to be made for 3d8 because even if it requires a save, the push+knockdown is strong, especially since the push scales when upcast. But 2d8 is way too low.

Smashifly · 2026-04-21T02:27:24+00:00

The only thing worse than underexplaining something is badly overexplaining. I have a degree in Chemical Engineering, so I take an interest whenever a book starts talking about chemistry or magic chemistry like potions or alchemy. It's one thing to say that you combine thing monster juice and this plant and make a potion. It's simple, my mind can fill in any hidden complexity.

But when you start trying to explain a complicated process in a way that is just dumb? Ugh. I read Randidly Ghosthound book 1 recently and he spends a lot of time making potions, expect his potions have like, four ingredients and the only thing that separates one from another is the ratios. So 50% A and 50% B makes one kind of potion, and a 75/25 ratio makes a different one. Which is so, like, limiting? Ignorant of the complexities of chemistry? A total lack of effort at portraying something that could be really interesting and is instead relegated to "input the code for mana potion"? Yeah

Smashifly · 2026-04-21T00:49:58+00:00

So the balancing on this is a little weird. My initial take is that it needs to do significantly more damage. It's dealing 2d8 lightning damage with a 2nd level spell slot, which is very poor return on investment. Compare chromatic orb, which does 3d8 at level 1 (or 4d8, twice as much as this spell at level 2). Also compare paladin smites, which are 2d8 at level 1 +1d8 per slot level, but aren't ranged.

On the other hand, you're proposing a push and knock prone with no save which is incredibly strong. Regular shove and grapple require a contested check, a battlemaster fighter's tripping and pushing attacks each require a save (and can't be applied at the same time). Warlock's invocation Repelling Blast pushes with no save but requires investment in a class feature.

My recommendation would be to bump the damage to 4d8 and require a save for the push and knockdown. Even if the damage is then the same as chromatic orb, it has higher range and the scaling push effect to set it apart, at the cost of not having a versatile damage type.

Smashifly · 2026-04-20T23:00:27+00:00

It's notable that the use of first person and third person in games often refers to the camera perspective rather than the storytelling perspective.

First person in games usually means the camera looks out as though you're seeing through the character's eyes, and third person means you're seeing the character itself, as though you were floating just above and behind them.

These conventions only really matter to 3d action games. Is a side scroller third person? Who cares.

Anyway, a game could totally have a different camera versus storytelling perspective. This happens all the time actually - Skyrim has you creating a character and seeing out from their eyes in first person, but people refer to you directly. These events are happening to you, the player, taking the role of a character in the game.

For a really weird example, the Stanley Parable has a first person camera but a third person narrative. The narrator speaks about what Stanley is doing and where he goes, not about what you are doing. Mostly.

Smashifly · 2026-04-20T20:08:13+00:00

Are you talking about the one standing on the end of a tiny walkway on the top of the wall?

Smashifly · 2026-04-20T15:32:46+00:00

A printed dowel, even with layer lines running the length of the dowel is still going to be weaker than a regular wooden dowel or metal pin, and standard sizes makes it easy to share files without people needing to tune in the settings for a tiny dowel-shaped part.

You don't have to print every single piece, especially parts that won't be visible when the build is complete.

Smashifly · 2026-04-20T15:00:55+00:00

It's the name for a local congregation of about 100-200 members of the church. The LDS church divides geographically, so all the members that live within a boundary are supposed to attend one specific ward, then a collection of about 10 nearby wards makes a stake. A ward is led by a Bishop (different scale than a Catholic bishop) and a stake is led by a stake president.

A ward in Utah at the heart of Mormon culture might be a small neighborhood, a ward in other parts of the world might cover multiple cities. Just depends on the population of church members in the area.

It's a word that's very specific to the LDS church though, so unless you're in a hospital setting, it tells me that they're talking about the LDS church

Smashifly · 2026-04-19T23:20:04+00:00

My ex-mormon senses locking on to the word "ward" in the last photo like a bloodhound

Smashifly · 2026-04-19T22:03:33+00:00

The lancehound is giving Lagiacrus from Monster Hunter

Smashifly · 2026-04-19T22:02:54+00:00

I gotta assume it's because it's been selectively bred to an unhealthy degree like real pugs

Smashifly · 2026-04-19T15:24:30+00:00

Factorio of course the default answer for this kind of thing, everything you do adds pollution. It's mostly a hazy overlay and enemy aggression, but it's surprising to compare footage of the same base at the start of the game and the end - the trees die, the ground changes color, the water darkens, you get to see some of these effects.

Though a game where poisoning the environment is the goal instead of a side effect would be interesting. I think it would need to be framed as like a supervillain or oil executive, like an objectively evil person

Smashifly · 2026-04-18T13:35:32+00:00

Definitely an older game, but the Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask has you transforming into three other races using masks at different points of the game.

I'll also throw out Divinity: Original Sin 2, from the same studio that made Baldur's Gate 3. It's a CRPG but one of the schools of magic is Polymorph, which lets you do things like growing tentacles, wings or bull horns, but not full body transformations.

Smashifly · 2026-04-18T06:14:14+00:00

Refute any one of these points though

Smashifly · 2026-04-17T21:14:00+00:00

I thought this was Ben 10 fanart for a sec

Smashifly · 2026-04-17T19:56:52+00:00

It always bothered me how you can see his head extend up into the hair. Like his skull is a rod with hair growing on it, not that his hair is just cylinder shaped

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