Talk:True Dweomers

System and Structure

True Dweomer Damage Model

Spell Strata	Burn Cost	Min Level	Base Dice	max dice	range	avg	perfected
1	+3	19th	1d6+6/CL	35d6+210	245-420	332.5	840
2	+3	21st	1d6+8/CL	35d6+280	315-490	402.5	940
3	+3	23rd	1d6+9/CL	35d6+315	350-525	437.5	1050
4	+3	25th	1d6+10/CL	35d6+350	385-560	472.5	1120
5	+3	27th	1d6+11/CL	35d6+385	420-595	507.5	1190
6	+3	29th	1d6+13/CL	35d6+455	490-665	577.5	1330
7	+3	31st	1d6+15/CL	35d6+525	560-735	647.5	1470
8	+3	33rd	1d6+16/CL	35d6+560	595-770	682.5	1540
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 complete
• OGL info updated
• System scope and balance spreadsheet at about 70 percent complete (134 TD's placed so far)
• 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
• optionally, all TD's can be cast as rituals, requiring time as defined by the GM, but usually at LEAST a full minute, usually an hour or more. If cast this way, AOE's are multiplied by 10 in all dimensions, multi-target spells affect ten times as many, all ranges increase by 100 percent (double). saves and damage are the same.
• 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)