Song Spells preface

 A little bit ago, my brother came across an idea in a pair of LOTFP books called vaginas are magic and eldritch cock that talked about using the music we listen to as a means to devise spells for use in other settings or the settings in the books. My brother has been working at this idea for a great deal of time now, and I will link his blog here:

https://systematicrules.blogspot.com/

Not only is the song title format one of his current projects, but also a great deal of dungeon rooms. 

This song spell format will be tweaked in my case to try to fit the dungeon setting but it won’t be that much of a departure. There may be overlap of song titles but it’s mainly because we listened to the same stuff as kids. Leading back to the format, it will go as follows with each part defined so there is no confusion about meaning:

Title - Artist and song name will be here 

Appearance - What the spell will manifest as if it has an appearance or physical effect

Effect - What the spell is meant to do when it is cast

Duration - how long it acts for

Range - how far it travels or if it’s a radial effect

Type - In my dungeon system I use the categories: Evocation, Transfiguration, Illusion and meta. These are the signifiers that formalized magical education institutions use but there are spells that meld these together or take on a property of their own. 

To explain these in simple terms:

evocation - Conjuring energy or matter to affect reality for the duration of the casters will

Transfiguration - Altering the properties of already existing elements in reality

Illusion - Creating the false presence of something that affects others mentally

Meta - Altering the properties of magic such as splitting a spell into two weaker forms or making it have less range but be more powerful when it strikes

This will be a fairly often project that I will work towards, and along with the song spells, I have a rather ridiculous project idea that I will keep you posted on. It will push the limits of the dungeons plausibility and I can't wait to see how difficult it will be. 

Here is a combative wizard in the midst of a fight:






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