Spell Reflecting

[Zeful]

Spell Reflecting: A weapon with this ability can reflect any spell that specificly targets the weilder, as through the Spell Turning spell. This ability can be suppressed anytime as a standered action.
Strong Abjuration; CL18; Craft Magic Arms and Armor, Spell turning, Spell Immunity; Price +5 bonus.

Am I missing anything?

[Abd al-Azrad]

You're missing the fact that it's too good. A ring of Spell Turning is ~100,000gp, and only works a few times per day. Your weapon could be as cheap as 72,000gp, and works infinitely. It's a cheap item that makes you partially immune to magical attacks... I feel it's too good.

[OzymandiasVolt]

Let's take a look at the SRD, shall we?

"Great Reflection

Any time its bearer of this shield is targeted with a spell, it automatically reflects the spell back at the caster (as the spell turning spell). The wearer can lower or raise this effect as a free action (thus allowing beneficial spells in as desired).

Caster Level: 25th; Prerequisites: Craft Magic Arms and Armor, Craft Epic Magic Arms and Armor, spell turning; Market Price: +10 bonus."

It's basically the exact same thing, only it's much more expensive, it's EPIC, it can only be used on armor, and it's official.

[Soniku]

I had a weapon with a similar ability, but to do that I had to "baseball bat" the spell back. Not too hard on somethihg like a fireball, but really fast spells will be near impossible =p

[nows7]

Spell Reflecting: A weapon with this ability can reflect any spell that specificly targets the weilder, as through the Spell Turning spell. This ability can be suppressed anytime as a standered action.
Strong Abjuration; CL18; Craft Magic Arms and Armor, Spell turning, Spell Immunity; Price +5 bonus.

Am I missing anything?



Where did you find this?

[Zeful]

No where, I thought it up, granted the way I intended it was far different than it is on paper. It was orginally a monster ability that would reflect spells that didn't beat it's Spell Resistance, with all the disadvantiges of spell turning. When I transfered it to a weapon ability the result was the above.

[Darkie]

Quite clearly, the result doesn't work. The existing Epic power is "Caster Level: 25th; Prerequisites: Craft Magic Arms and Armor, Craft Epic Magic Arms and Armor, spell turning; Market Price: +10 bonus" as Ozy said, so... no.

[Dalcassius]

There are effects you can put weapons and armour (includeing shields) that do a similar effect, its just a matter of finding them in the books. Some suggestions I have are the "complete" series, the FRCS, magic of FR and perhaps the "races of" books. I know what you're looking for isn't Unearthed Arcana, so I can save you some work there. I'll skip through my collection if I get time and come back and update with info. We'll see.

[Zeful]

I don't have any of those books but I recently looked at the Complete Warrior, more specificly the Occult Slayer Prestige Class. The flavor text says that they can reflect spells back at the caster. At tenth level.

[OzymandiasVolt]

My, how delightfully out of context.

Yes, at 10th level they can reflect spells back...twice per day.

The epic ability functions continuously.

[The Glyphstone]

An Occult Slayer at 10th level is Epic anyways...the PrC only has 5 levels in it... ;D :D

[Dhavaer]

And you can't have 10 levels in a 5 level PrC, even in Epic.
If you made it so it only functioned for a few rounds a day, and was activated in total defence, it might not be too unbalanced.

[OzymandiasVolt]

An Occult Slayer at 10th level is Epic anyways...the PrC only has 5 levels in it... ;D :D

5 levels in a class with +1 BAB progression and 5 levels of Occult slayer = 10th level, Mr. I-Enjoy-Taking-Things-Literally-So-I-Can-Say-Funny-Things. :P

[Zeful]

And you can't have 10 levels in a 5 level PrC, even in Epic.
If you made it so it only functioned for a few rounds a day, and was activated in total defence, it might not be too unbalanced.
Thank you for your advise, I'm new to weapon ability creation so when I asked if I missed anything, I ment something more like, help me complete this. Granted I should have said that at the begining, but I didn't.

[The Glyphstone]

5 levels in a class with +1 BAB progression and 5 levels of Occult slayer = 10th level, Mr. I-Enjoy-Taking-Things-Literally-So-I-Can-Say-Funny-Things. :P

Many apologies, Mr. Can-Apparently-Read-The-Minds-Of-The-Poster-And-Find-Additional-Meanings-Despite-The-Fact-That-10-Level-PrCs-Are-Quite-Common-And-The-Poster-Might-Have-Made-A-Mistake. ;D :D :P

This has been a message from Mr. I-Have-No-Clue-What-This-Disagreement-Is-About. ???

[Zeful]

I didn't make a mistake. I was refering to character level not class level.

[The Glyphstone]

Well, glad that's cleared up.

Now, back to the actual topic...

Your weapon ability really is vastly underpriced, considering all the other examples.
-Occult Slayer - at 5th level (char. 10th), can deflect 2/day.
-Ring of Spell turning - 100,000Gp, can deflect 1/day.
-Spell Turning Shield ability - +5 bonus, can deflect 1/day.

-epic Great Reflection ability - +10 bonus, Epic, deflects at will.

[Zeful]

So how about thrice a day when using the full defence action as described by Dhavaer?

[The Glyphstone]

That's not bad at all - usable only in Total Defense is a good limiter. I'd price that at +5, maybe +4.

[OzymandiasVolt]

Many apologies, Mr. Can-Apparently-Read-The-Minds-Of-The-Poster-And-Find-Additional-Meanings-Despite-The-Fact-That-10-Level-PrCs-Are-Quite-Common-And-The-Poster-Might-Have-Made-A-Mistake. ;D :D :P

This has been a message from Mr. I-Have-No-Clue-What-This-Disagreement-Is-About. ???

I must now change my name to Mr. Doesn't-Make-It-Obvious-Enough-When-He's-Being-Sarcastic.

There is no disagreement. I was just clarifying what I said and poking fun at yaz.

[Zeful]

We could call you Mr. Needs-to-get-back-on-topic