Blood Magic: Vile Spells

Blood Magic: Vile Spells

Obviously, Book of Vile Darkness had some spells that are appropriate to blood mages. Thus, here's a quick conversion of them for this spellcasting tradition.

Index: Miscellaneous Posts

Index: Miscellaneous Posts

I'm encountering a problem that I remember I wrote something that is useful to me, but I cannot find it. It's time to create an index.

Wizardry: Book of Vile Darkness Spells VIII

Wizardry: Book of Vile Darkness Spells VIII

At last, I'm done with this book!

Stupor is an incapacitating spell with a long duration. However, it also has a long casting time. As per original source, it is intended to be used on already helpless creatures.

Suspend Disease temporarily removes harmful effects of diseases already affecting the subject.

Tongue of Baalzebul is a devil-flavored charisma spell.

Tongue Serpents is a weird summoning spell.

Touch of Juiblex is a slime-flavored almost-instant kill spell.

Unliving Weapon turns an undead creature into a bomb. Note that this isn't a buff spell, so you may cast it on hostile undead!

Utterdark is a very large AoE darkness spell with a very long duration, but also high casting time and cost. Oh, and fiends can see pretty much fine there.

Vile Lance is the first example of a spell that deals vile damage.

Wall of Chains creates a semi-permeable barrier of chains.

Wall of Deadly Chains is the same as above, but with loose chains attacking everyone near the wall.

Wall of Ooze creates a semi-permeable wall of corrosive, paralytic slime.

Wave of Grief is simply a despair-flavored Fear.

Wave of Pain is a cone debuff spell with a short duration.

Wizardry: Book of Vile Darkness Spells VII

Wizardry: Book of Vile Darkness Spells VII

Psychic Poison creates some psychic poison for you. (I still have to reprice them.)

Slow Consumption is a villainous spell that lets you slowly drain the lifeforce of, for example, prisoner.

Snare Astral Traveler is a very situational spell, but quite deadly in the appropriate situation.

Sorrow is quite different from its original counterpart, but I decided that having a spell that causes Chronic Depression would be fitting here. Is it worth this many points? Probably not, but I added the secondary permanent effect to make it a bit more worth the cost.

Wizardry: Book of Vile Darkness Spells VI

Wizardry: Book of Vile Darkness Spells VI

    Lahm's Finger Darts is... a very strange spell. In the original source, this is basically a magic missile variant that uses your fingers instead of magical force and deals Dex damage for some weird reason. Now, you can temporarily lose your fingers for a RoF attack that ignores range penalties. Against unarmored targets, this is very powerful (but you can just use a weapon). Against armored targets, you will understand why Lahm didn't invent anything else. By the way, why is this spell listed after Liquid Pain? Somebody at WotC must have forgotten the alphabet.

    Mirror Sending requires some elaborate conditions and is more expensive than Sending, but has no familiarity penalties, and lets the caster see the target and his surroundings, which can be very advantageous. I just slapped a +100% Cosmic on it and called it a day instead of figuring out a complicated and probably ridiculously expensive build via linked Clairsentience.

    Morality Undone is a spell that turns somebody evil. In the original source, this is temporary, but here it is permanent, but reversible. Perfect for various evil cultists.

    No Light is a very simple and cheap spell that creates an area of darkness.

    Preserve Organ is a more limited version of Gentle Repose.

Wizardry: Book of Vile Darkness Spells V

Wizardry: Book of Vile Darkness Spells V

Forbidden Speech makes the subject unable to communicate about a single topic in any way.

Graz'zt's Long Grasp is a rather expensive but cool spell that lets you detach your hand.

Impotent Possessor forbids a possessing creature to do anything but leave the body it is possessing.

Imprison Possessor forbids a possessing creature from leaving the body it is possessing. Yes, these two spells can be combined to utterly screw ghosts.

Imprison Soul is a spell that lets you trap the subject's soul in a gem or other receptacle. This is similar to Trap the Soul, but does have enough differences.

Liquid Pain is a spell that extracts a drug from a creature suffering great pain.

Expanded A New Take on Grappling

Expanded A New Take on Grappling

In one of the most recent posts, I described just how much ANTOG was missing and that none of the four grappling systems GURPS can do everything the other three can. The list was very long, but now we have an expansion for this grappling system that lets it do everything the other systems can and more. This took a lot of work, but I wasn't doing it alone - I got a lot of help from Nate H, and I wouldn't have been able to do it this quickly (or maybe at all) without his assistance. He wrote probably more than a half of it. The document may look very scary, but the system isn't as difficult as it may seem - we just had to cover plenty of edge cases. So, I suggest you open up Pyramid #3-34, this expansion document, and run a test fight or two. I'm definitely going to do that and post results here on the blog. I'm particularly interested in trying out the optional rule that deemphasizes ST that is described at the end of the document.

Of course, if something comes up, the document will be edited.

Link - Expanded ANTOG