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Name	Summary	Prerequisite
5e Spells
Adaptive Ward	A low-level reactionary Stoneskin, meant to replace Absorb Elements.
Afterimage Dodge	A low-level, reactive Mirror Image
Agonizing Word
Alwin's Arcane Virus	Infect a caster's spell. A nuisance in the short term, but can turn deadly if left untreated.
Alwin's Spell Siphon	A riskier version of Counterspell that can recover spell slots
Arc Loop	A small bolt of lightning that bounces from target to target.
Arcane Buckler	Useful but modest update of 3.5e's Shield to 5e.
Arcing Blade	Hit an enemy, causing lightning to lash out at other enemies close to them.
Astral Seal	Mark a target, to heal your allies when it is struck if it is strong, or to suffer additional damage if it is weak.
Blackthorn Arrow	Ranged "Blade" cantrip; Target can't heal for 1 round.
Blades of Vanquished Armies	Conjure spectral warrior spirits to swirl around you, harming those who come close. You can also command them to surge forth and strike your foes for you.
Blazing Rebirth	Reactive Revivify, with some fire damage and extra healing.
Bodyguard	A defensive spell for a school of magic that is criminally underdeveloped at lower levels.
Bone Puppet	A flavorful cantrip for a school of magic that is criminally underdeveloped at lower levels.
Boreal Wind	You create a fierce gust of freezing wind that is 20 feet high and 20 feet wide.
Breathing Room	A quick boop to get enemies away from you.
Cadaver Bomb	An offensive AOE spell for a school of magic that is criminally underdeveloped at lower levels.
Calamitous Curse	A stronger version of Jinx, forcing the creature's next d20 roll to fail catastrophically.
Call Steed	Call a mount you've bonded with to travel to your location.
Chilling Blade	Hit an enemy and grow crystal armor temporarily.
Column of Ice	Conjures one column of ice, 10-ft. radius and 35 ft in height
Conjure Creature
Conjurer's Blade	A simple cantrip to create a melee weapon.
Corrosive Grasp	3.5e conversion of Rusting Grasp; Smack your targets to corrode their flesh, armor and weapons.
Crashing Stone	Toss a pebble that turns into a boulder mid-flight.
Creeping Cold	You turn a creature's sweat and the air's ambient moisture to ice, creating blisters as the ice forms on and inside the skin.
Crumbling Curse
Crystal Blade	Hit an enemy and grow crystal armor temporarily.
Daze	Momentarily disorient a creature
Decay	Cause the slow but inevitable decay of matter over time, dealing 1d6 necrotic damage per round.
Divisive Challenge	Challenge your opponents, Goading those that are Worthy, while Frightening those that are not.
Dreadtheft	Create a beam of life-draining energy, withering foes and healing yourself.
Earthwalk	Gain a burrowspeed and tremorsense
Ekbom's Imaginary Insects	Target hallucinates insects all over their body and attacks themselves.
Elemental Rebuke	Hellish Rebuke buff. Use at your own risk.
Emberflash Arrow	Ranged "Blade" cantrip; Target catches fire for 1 round.
Encode Memories
Endure Elements	A creature protected by endure elements suffers much less harm from being in a hot or cold environment.
Extinguishing Strike
Fangblight Arrow	Ranged "Blade" cantrip; Weapon constricts target for 1 round.
Fissure	Punch the ground, sending out a line-shaped shockwave.
Flashing Blade	Hit an enemy and hinder its vision.
Focus Breaker	Shatters focus and concentration
Freezing Strike	Much in the line of the Smite spells, imbue your weapon with the power to freeze a foe in its tracks.
Gift of Recovery	A little bit different take on healing; Basically fast healing from 3.5e.
Glyph of Oath-binding	You inscribe a glyph on one or more willing person to enforce an oath or contract.
Hammer	Bludgeoning damage: The cantrip.
Hand of Blight	Launch clawing hands of necrotic energy at your foes.
Hastening Strike	Much in the line of the Smite spells, steal your opponent's time.
Heartripper	An update of a 3.5e spell, you use a targeted bolt of force to push a creature's heart out of its body.
Heat Drain	The heat in the room seems to rush toward you, leaving everyone around you in bone chilling pain while you feel amazingly refreshed and alive.
Sanguine Siphon	Use your reaction to suck the blood out of your enemies.
Mass Sanguine Siphon	Use your reaction to suck the blood out of even more enemies.
Hymn of Recovery	A Channeled healing spell. Don't worry, it's not broken.
Ice Crystal Phalanx	Fire a line of freezing ice, that leaves spikes behind in its wake.
Impaling Conjuration	Briefly summon spears, arrows, and other piercing projectiles to impale your enemies.
Incite Rage	The Goad version of Cause Fear, with one extra twist.
Infernal Spheres	Conjure sphere of flame to protect you, striking those that harm you.
Inflame	An AoE Goad, in the vein of the 3rd-level Fear spell.
Irk	Touch your opponent to annoy them; The opposite of Guidance.
Jinx	Curse your target with instant bad luck, dealing random damage to them as something abrupt and painfully inconvenient happens to them.
Kinetic Blade	Push an enemy around the battlefield by bonking it over the head.
Kiss of Vanti	Psychic Vampirism
Lithic Block	Raise a 5ft cube out of the ground to hide behind; More cubes as you gain levels.
Lunging Maw	Conjure a giant mouth to swallow your enemies.
Mass Mage Armor	Gives Mage Armor to a number of creatures for 1 minute
Mass Revivify	Revivify 3 targets with 1 action, get more with upcasting.
Mass Swift Barrier	A mass version of my Shield rework.
Necrotic Awareness	Detect the presence of necrotic cysts
Necrotic Burst	Encysted subject killed, cyst begins to roam.
Necrotic Cyst	Infect the subject with an undead sac of tissue.
Necrotic Scrying	Hear or see encysted subject at a distance.
Prismatic Burst	A pop of bright color with various debilitating effects for those that roll a 1.
Quickening Blade	Hit an enemy and hasten your reaction time.
Redirecting Rift	A low-level reactive Conjuration spell to throw an attack somewhere else.
Reflexive Foresight	A low-level reactive defense spell, utilizing the painfully utilitarian school of Divination.
Rekindling Touch
Revitalizing Word	A Healing Word that is good for something other than a cheap way to bring up a downed ally.
Roaring Arrow	Ranged "Blade" cantrip; Deals minor AoE Thunder damage.
Saving Grace
Shadow	Creates a zone of shadow
Shafts of Radiance	Briefly summon spears, arrows, and other piercing projectiles to impale your enemies.
Shout	An update of a 3.5e spell.
Skybolt	A long-ranged small AoE Lightning spell. Too many fire spells these days...
Slow Healing	Recover hp slowly over time.
Soul Summons	You look within yourself to conjure your own soul, which separates from your body and takes its own form.
Sound Burst	An update of a 3.5e spell.
Spectral Stampede	Remember that scene from The Lion King? Now with force ghosts.
Swift Barrier	A Shield replacement that is more versatile and less annoying.
Séance	A lower-level, riskier alternative to Speak With Dead. As detailed as it is verbose.
Terraform	Reshape the earth and stone around you into simple objects and structures.
Thousandfold Strike	Much in the line of the Smite spells, hit your foe with a multitude of attacks across dozens of timelines.
Toxic Blade	Hit an enemy and hinder its actions.
True Dodge	Sense your foe's next attack and preemptively evade it.
True Strike, Variant	A variant to true strike that attempts to fix the problems with the original.
Twisted Magic Field	You manipulate and twist magic around you
Twisting Blade	Hit an enemy, and immediately move without provoking your foe's wrath.
Vampiric Smite	Empowers your weapon with life-draining force.
Vampiric Weapon
Vanishing Strike	Much in the line of the Smite spells, charge up, and vanish the moment you strike.
Venomous Strike	Much in the line of the Smite spells, imbue your weapon with deadly poison.
Vexing Word	A Silvery Barbs replacement that doesn't break the RNG.
Warping Strike	Much in the line of the Smite spells, hit your target and teleport away.
Windshear	Cut your enemies with a solidified razor of high-speed wind.
Withering Blade	Hit an enemy and stop them from healing.
Woodwisp Arrow	Ranged "Blade" cantrip; Ignores cover from wooden objects.
Z's Compelled Duel	A rework of Compelled Duel using the Goaded condition.
Z's Cure Wounds	My redux of Cure Wounds. Can't heal targets above half HP.
Z's False Life	A rework of False Life that gets stronger the weaker you are. Y'know... So there's actually a reason to pick it over Armor of Agathys.
Z's Healing Word	A Healing Word that is good for something other than a cheap way to bring up a downed ally. Can't heal targets above half HP.
Z's Toll the Dead
Z's Witch Bolt	A rework of a bad spell, using my Channeling variant rule.

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