Mr. Wensleydale
2008-03-25, 04:11 PM
Hello! To make a long story short, the character I'm playing in my current campaign is an air-manipulating Warlock whose invocations are drawn from the list of spells I can convince my DM an air-manipulating Warlock would have. To make a short story long, click the spoiler.
My character's upbringing took place on a faraway mountain that was so tall and the air so thin that, among other things, people could not breathe and sound waves could not propagate, so manipulation of the air became essential for everyday everysecond survival. Originally the idea was that such thin atmosphere would have required a massive Con to inhabit, and that as your prowess at manipulating air grew you would be able to climb ever higher, where ever more powerful techniques would be inscribed on the mountain the higher you climbed. This was my best attempt to convince my DM to accept a Con-based spellcaster; alas, to no avail. Still, I liked the concept and to allow for ceaseless windcasting he suggested I be a Warlock who could use any spell I could convince him I ought to have. In compensation, the other Warlock in our party gave up Eldritch Blast for double the number of invocations at each level. You'd think this would be massively unbalanced, except that our ceaseless founts of pure magical ability are utilized 5% towards cleansing the world of evil and 95% towards doing the sorts of cool miscellaneous things that ceaseless founts of pure magical ability enable you to do.
My dilemma is that I'm relatively new to D&D and this is my first spellcasting character, so I don't really know which spells would be suitable and I don't know in which of the fifty books that I don't own I should start my search. Can anyone out there suggest cool, flexible, or fun spells to take up these invocation slots that I can't seem to fill? There are only a few criteria:
1) They don't need to be air-based spells at all, as long as they could pass for being air-based spells (for instance, Blade Barrier could just as easily be Windy Threshold of Cutty, Slicy Wind and Mage Hand becomes Windy Wind Hand with sufficient imagination).
2) They need to be suitable for use by a 4th-level Warlock. "Suitable for use" is up for debate, and will likely depend on how many cool uses I can think up for the spell that don't break the world. For instance, my DM (a fairly lenient and very cool guy) is letting me use Gust of Wind as an Eldritch Essence invocation, which doesn't really break anything since we're usually fighting large or larger creatures anyway. If you'd like to suggest a spell you may optionally ignore this criterion entirely if the spell is cool enough. :smallwink:
Thank you!
My character's upbringing took place on a faraway mountain that was so tall and the air so thin that, among other things, people could not breathe and sound waves could not propagate, so manipulation of the air became essential for everyday everysecond survival. Originally the idea was that such thin atmosphere would have required a massive Con to inhabit, and that as your prowess at manipulating air grew you would be able to climb ever higher, where ever more powerful techniques would be inscribed on the mountain the higher you climbed. This was my best attempt to convince my DM to accept a Con-based spellcaster; alas, to no avail. Still, I liked the concept and to allow for ceaseless windcasting he suggested I be a Warlock who could use any spell I could convince him I ought to have. In compensation, the other Warlock in our party gave up Eldritch Blast for double the number of invocations at each level. You'd think this would be massively unbalanced, except that our ceaseless founts of pure magical ability are utilized 5% towards cleansing the world of evil and 95% towards doing the sorts of cool miscellaneous things that ceaseless founts of pure magical ability enable you to do.
My dilemma is that I'm relatively new to D&D and this is my first spellcasting character, so I don't really know which spells would be suitable and I don't know in which of the fifty books that I don't own I should start my search. Can anyone out there suggest cool, flexible, or fun spells to take up these invocation slots that I can't seem to fill? There are only a few criteria:
1) They don't need to be air-based spells at all, as long as they could pass for being air-based spells (for instance, Blade Barrier could just as easily be Windy Threshold of Cutty, Slicy Wind and Mage Hand becomes Windy Wind Hand with sufficient imagination).
2) They need to be suitable for use by a 4th-level Warlock. "Suitable for use" is up for debate, and will likely depend on how many cool uses I can think up for the spell that don't break the world. For instance, my DM (a fairly lenient and very cool guy) is letting me use Gust of Wind as an Eldritch Essence invocation, which doesn't really break anything since we're usually fighting large or larger creatures anyway. If you'd like to suggest a spell you may optionally ignore this criterion entirely if the spell is cool enough. :smallwink:
Thank you!