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🕑 Added 2018-11-01 04:30:05 +0000 UTC

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Mage Hand Press

I take no legal responsibility for how silly your spellcasters get from here on out.

Frank Bone

This is so ridiculously useful that I didn’t even know how badly I needed it. Let the Lovecraftian Dragon Hardlight mages commence!

Mage Hand Press

We cleaved most of those spells, since they're literally just a weird pun. Same reason we cut the Mispelled Spells from Fey Folio; they don't make sense without context.

Joan Mulberry

Im fine in that i like the complete craftsman but im intrigued over all these spells

Justin Forkner

I'm upset that Good Barry didn't make it in :P

Kristopher R. Hunter

So, I just wanted to take a moment to thank ya'll for all the various construct spells you added with this archive. I realize they're primarily designed for the Dark Matter campaign, but I love how much they add as far as spellcasting for a Conjuration wizard in general. I really feel like creating objects is an under represented skill for them, and this makes me want to pull out my old Conjurer from 3.5 :) It just makes it that much more hilarious that these spells require a power ring to use :)

Charles Koeppel

Awesome Sauce! Thanks to you both and congrats on another great month!

Mage Hand Press

You're welcome, welcome, welcome!

The Nails of Vecna

It should absolutely let you duplicate an anvil. That's a relatively small manufactured item, after all. The new object appears on the ground, though, so you'd need a second spell (like telekinesis) to drop it on someone.

Ryan Patrick Nolan

i dont think the intention for this spell was a wild e coyote shenanigans moment, good on you if it was lol.

Ryan Patrick Nolan

Yeah, thats a good workaround, maybe a weight restriction too, i looked up 5 cubic feet of gold, and its over 3 american tons, 6000 pounds, pretty sizable

The Nails of Vecna

It would copy any mundane materials within the object faithfully. The spell isn't really meant for blocks of raw materials though; the intent is to copy manufactured goods like weapons, clothes or furniture. Maybe we'll have to amend the spell to clarify that. I'd be okay with putting a maximum gp value on the object to be created, like with Nolzur's Marvelous Pigments.

Ryan Patrick Nolan

Hey, another question, with the "Duplicate Object" spell, i know that you cant copy certain materials, but what about valuable ones, such as a big 5ft block of gold or platinum, or another metal, not to mention cold iron, to make fae damaging stuff.

Ryan Patrick Nolan

Mkay, I just thought it was a little weird

The Nails of Vecna

Also, crawling claw is not SRD, so we definitely can't mention it in the book.

The Nails of Vecna

You're definitely meant to use the MM creeping claw. That was what inspired me to write the spell! We kinda figured it was so obvious that we didn't need to call it out...

The Nails of Vecna

Yep. The idea is that the enclave is big enough for an entire fairy village/palace (and if not, I'm pretty sure I worded it to allow nested enclaves), so the enclave becomes a permanent settlement that can only be accessed by high level casters who already know where it is.

Ryan Patrick Nolan

I know SRD and all that, but i think just referencing it in the spell would be fine, i just imagine killing a foe, then using all its hands and feet to kill the next one, morbid

Ryan Patrick Nolan

Hey, just reading through it and i had a question (and ill probably have more so sorry in advance!), i was reading animate body part, now, i saw that there was no hand option available in the animate body parts, are we just supposed to substitute the creeping claw statistics?

Mage Hand Press

1: Just fixed it. Thanks for pointing that out. Secret Enclave is from Fey Folio. Once you've created an enclave, it's fixed in one place. If you leave, you can access it again by casting this spell again, but only if you do so while at the entrance to the enclave. Otherwise, if you leave, there's no coming back.

Charles Koeppel

Love it! Three Questions! 1: Did you know there is a second table of contents at the bottom of the file under the Licence? You probably did, though I hit end and I thought I was at the top again. 2: What is Secret Enclave from? It lacks a tag. AND 3: Secret Enclave, based on the wording, you can create the initial portal an it can only be opened from that same point from then on even if you use another 9th level spell to reach there again while elsewhere? I ask because it has a time limit on how long the door is there but says that the location is then fixed, just looking for a little clarification! Danke!!!

EthnicElvis

Oh, thanks, that makes sense. I didn't catch that one was ranged.

The Nails of Vecna

The difference is that minor lifesteal (formerly known by a different, copyright-infringing name; see <a href="http://mfov.magehandpress.com/2017/02/necromancy-spells.html" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">http://mfov.magehandpress.com/2017/02/necromancy-spells.html</a>) is ranged, while bloody lancet requires a melee attack (it's got a 10-foot range to allow it to work with reach weapons) like the blade cantrips in SCAG.

EthnicElvis

This is really cool! One small thing that confused me though is the existence of bloody lancet and minor lifesteal. It seems weird that they both exist and give you the same amount of hp, but one simply does more damage than the other.

The Nails of Vecna

You mean _lightning_ boogaloo :P

Damian Spurling

Thank you, thank you, thank you!

Mage Hand Press

"Arcane Archive 2: Electric Boolgaloo"

Xenonach

Will a second one be named "More from the Arcane Archive"? :V

Mage Hand Press

I haven't decided, but _probably_ not. It would be a lot of upkeep. That being said, I'm happy to do another one of these books when we've written a lot more spells.