Talk:Mantissa's Theft Avenger (3.5e Spell)

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SoD at spell level 0 is an odd start. Making it personal is even weirder. If it's meant to be used in magic items, why not just make a magic item instead and skip the suicide cantrip? --DanielDraco (talk) 00:36, 3 February 2013 (UTC)

Wouldn't making it a magic item drastically limit the variety of magic items this spell could be made a part of?

What level do you suggest this spell be? (Making this higher than 1st level would require changing the name, since I've decided that Mantissa's spellcasting ability consists of a single level of wizard.)--Ideasmith (talk) 02:59, 3 February 2013 (UTC)

It would not limit anything. You can make it an item template, like those things in PHB2. EDIT: It would certainly be less limited than it is now, because it requires further homebrew before actually existing in any item. The magic item pricing guidelines are not rules, and are really just homebrew guidelines.

The lowest-level SoD, requiring 2 failed saves, is level 4. --DanielDraco (talk) 21:47, 3 February 2013 (UTC)

"It would not limit anything. You can make it an item template, like those things in PHB2."

Even if I were willing to purchase the PHB2 in order to write such a rule, wouldn't the result be useless to the many 3.5 players who still wouldn't have it?

"EDIT: It would certainly be less limited than it is now, because it requires further homebrew before actually existing in any item. The magic item pricing guidelines are not rules, and are really just homebrew guidelines. "

True of staves (to my disappointment), but check the wording to Scribe Scroll and Craft Wand.

"The lowest-level SoD, requiring 2 failed saves, is level 4."

Since I am not sure what books you are considering, or what you are counting as an SoD (I gather that death knell doesn't count), the relevance is not clear. --Ideasmith (talk) 04:48, 4 February 2013 (UTC)