The Great Net Spellbook, AD&D 2nd edition, wizard spells

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The Great Net Spellbook
Sixth edition
Compiled and edited by
Boudewijn Wayers
April 1995
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June 2008

The Great Net Spellbook (Prologue)
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Prologue
As I promised over a year ago, I am now — finally! — posting the
Great Net Spellbook
, currently at its sixth edition. This
version has a lot of new spells, compared to the fifth edition of the Spellbook. Almost all spells were edited by me to make them
somewhat more legible (for example: SOME OF THEM WERE COMPLETELY CAPITALISED, some of the spells contained
lines that did not fit on one line, while others contained much spelling mistakes). Please, read this prologue completely before
continuing to read on. It contains an introduction to the
Great Net Spellbook
.
Copyrights and Other Legal Stuff
Note that a lot of the spells contained in the
Great Net Spellbook
have been copyrighted by their respective authors. Starting this
edition, these authors — when known — have been mentioned along with the spells they contributed. Permission has been
granted by these authors to copy the spells for your personal use. Also, you may freely distribute copies of their work, so long as
you do not prevent others from doing the same, and no commercial or barter considerations are obtained in exchange for such
copies.
When you distribute these spells, you must distribute them in whole, unchanged. Specifically, this file containing the copyright
conditions, and the names of the editors must be included. Make sure that you distribute the entire package the way you have
received it yourself. You may not claim these spells as having originated from yourself.
Once in a while, the
Great Net Spellbook
will be updated. Because of the large amount of work this involves, and the few spare
time we all have, this will normally take quite a while. For example, it took me about two years to finish the sixth edition after I
published the fifth edition. Note, however, that since the fifth edition, the entire layout has been changed, so these two years of
work have not been in vain. I have never committed myself to a publishing date, and my successor (see the epilogue for more
information) will not likely commit himself to a date either. Please, be gentle with him: don't rush him. Only the fact that he has
taken much of the attention off my back over the last half year or so has provided me with the time needed to finish this sixth
edition. Whenever he thinks he has accumulated enough new spells to warrant a next edition, there will be a subsequent one, and
it
will
be posted, and most probably put on various ftp and www sites.
Another remark about copyrights: the spellbook has been checked as thoroughly as possible
not
to contain any spells that have
been published in any official TSR publication before. The fifth edition of the
Great Net Spellbook
appeared to contain no less
than six of these copyrighted spells, which have been duly removed. If we want to retain our own copyrights, we must respect
those of others.
D&D
,
Dungeons & Dragons
,
AD&D
,
Advanced Dungeons & Dragons
,
TSR
,
Dragonlance
,
Greyhawk
and probably lots of other
words used here are either registered or non
registered trademarks owned by TSR, Inc. They are used in this work without permission, but this should not be regarded as an
attempt to challenge their rights.
Note that this work can and should not be used without TSR's excellent
Player's Handbook
and
Dungeon Master's Guide
, which
have inspired a whole generation of roleplayers. Let me quote a passage from the
Player's Handbook
, which says:
"The AD&D game is continually evolving — each player and each DM adds his own touch to the whole. No list of special
thanks can be complete without recognizing the most important comtributors of all — the millions of players who, over
the years, have made the AD&D game what it is today."
Let's all cooperate to make the game even greater! See below, under
contributors
, for an attempt to thank at least a few of
the millions mentioned above.
Other Net Resources
This edition of the
Great Net Spellbook
now includes all spells from the
Net Carnal Knowledge Guide
and the
Net Guide to
Alcohol
, both edited by Reid Bluebaugh <c2mxblue@fre.fsu.umd.edu>, and all spells from the first edition of the
Net Dark Sun
Resource Book
, edited by John Martz <john_martz@unc.edu>. Note that this means that you will sometimes have to refer to
these sources to look up terms. Some spells that were written for the Dark Sun world might have to be adjusted when used on
another world. This is, of course, up to individual DMs.
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Note further that spells from the
Tome of Mighty Magic
(another Internet resource, not the TSR book) have not been included in
this edition. One reason for this is that all these spells were lacking most secondedition terms and were often too high or low
level, the other reason was that its copyright status is uncertain. Anyway, the
Tome of Mighty Magic
can easily be used on its
own, if necessary.
Contributors
Many thanks to Jim Lewallen <cscon113@uoft02.utoledo.edu> and Michael Lerner <cl115826@ulkuvx.bitnet>, who
respectively accumulated and posted the starting lot of these spells. When they started out, they were going to put each author's
name next to each spell. Then they started getting two or more copies of the same spell, and decided to just put their names in one
big list. Unfortunately, this meant that when I took over, I was unable to trace most of the spells back to their original authors.
The following people
have
contributed to the
Great Net Spellbook
, but I have been unable to link them to any specific spell. Still,
I would like to thank them for posting or emailing their spells (there must probably be some people whose names are missing
even here: my apologies to them all):
Name Unknown
<gcwynne@ecuvm1.bitnet>
Name Unknown
<jaydee%maple.decnet@pine.circa.ufl.edu>
Name Unknown
<mrm4730@ritvax.isc.rit.edu>
Name Unknown
<nhoj@hicom.hitachi.com>
Howard Abrams
<habrams%pale@cs.utah.edu>
Per Beremark
<beaver@logm.se>
Gregory R. Block
<gblock@csd4.csd.uwm.edu>
Gary Brewerton
<g.p.brewerton@lut.ac.uk>
John Deachman
NO net access any more
Ted Dreibelbis
Address unknown
Geoffrey Edward Fagan
<gefagan@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu>
Jamie Ford
<ford@athena.cs.uga.edu>
Matthew Goldman
<goldman@ferris.cray.com>
Richard Griffith
<rjg@doe.carleton.ca>
Rob Holden
<pyr530@oz.plymouth.edu>
Geoffrey Hopcraft
<hopcraft@mailer.swarthmore.edu>
Charles K. Hughes
<ordaniadm@cup.portal.com>
Craig A. Jensen
<slfxx@cc.usu.edu>
Paul D. Jones (Illithid)
<pdj7631@venus.tamu.edu>
Matt King (Archmage)
<mck1@ra.msstate.edu>
Christopher M. Knuth
<cmk113@psuvm.psu.edu>
David Krikorian
<dkk@mit.edu>
Jim Lewallen
<cscon113@uoft02.utoledo.edu>
Chua Hak Lien
<c9eal@danube.berkeley.edu>
Allan Longley
<longley@theochem.uwaterloo.ca>
John Murray
<murray@fsu.scri.fsu.edu>
Rob McNeur
<rob@ccc.govt.nz>
Doug Newcomb (Grimbor)
<kjenks@gothamcity.jsc.nasa.gov>
Bill Noland
<pyr563@oz.plymouth.edu>
Louis Norton
<lnorton@acsu.buffalo.edu>
Michael Owen
<mwo@beach.cis.ufl.edu>
The Jade Piper
<schmidea@clutx.clarkson.edu>
Stephen P. Potter (Sh'r'ldana)
<anagram@desire.wright.edu>
Matt Presley
<matt@sapphire.jpl.nasa.gov>
Liam Russell Eric Quin
<lee@sq.sq.com>
Sean A. Reith
<sean@mullet.gu.uwa.edu.au>
Rincewind
<tkelly@unix2.tcd.ie>
Daniel L. Rouk
<gt6940a@prism.gatech.edu>
Allen S. Rout
<asr@beach.cis.ufl.edu>
Ronald P. Sater
<sater@cis.ohiostate.edu>
Donald A. Shaffer
<dshaffer@andromeda.rutgers.edu>
Mark Steiglitz
<steig@cs.stanford.edu>
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Elf Sternberg
<halcyon!elf@sumax.seattleu.edu>
Nathaniel Tagg
<tagg@hg.uleth.ca>
Marcus M. Trevino
<thedm@leland.stanford.edu>
Jim Valdesalice
<cmk113@psuvm.psu.edu>
Jim Vilandre
NO net access any more
Russell Wallace
<rwallace@vax1.tcd.ie>
Lei Wang
<l2wang@napier.uwaterloo.ca>
Jamye Worthington
<dmccart@modl01.intel.com>
Ed Zeamba
<rogue@ucrmath.ucr.edu>
Special thanks should go to Glen Barnett <barnett@agsm.unsw.edu.au>, who didn't contribute any spells, but instead sent me
some 60 kByte of constructive criticism, which has proven very helpful in my editing work.
On some ftpsites, you might find some of these spells as they have originally appeared, including the name of the one who
posted them first. Lots of spells have been emailed to me directly, and won't be found on the ftpsites, except for in this or
another edition of the
Great Net Spellbook
. Note that where you found this collection of spells, you should also find a file
containing all spells in their original form, if I could trace it back.
Editor's Notes
After receiving these spells, I read them all, edited them to get a uniform format, and to make them more legible. Also, note that,
starting the fifth edition, I did a lot of editing, and not only in a lot of obvious cases of spelling errors.
Especially, from the fifth edition on, I have tried to remove all traces that were left over from first edition AD&D, and to change
everything to second edition terms and format. Should you find any remains of or references to the first edition, please send the
editor email saying so, so it can be corrected in a subsequent edition.
Note that — even though they aren't in the second edition — I did retain the cantrips. There are also some 10thlevel spells,
which have been introduced into second edition AD&D in the
Dragon Kings
book (Dark Sun setting).
Where no level was indicated, I just guessed what level the spell was to be in. Furthermore, in those many cases where either
school, range, area of effect, or anything the like were missing, I just used my own brilliant mind and made them up.
Disclaimers
• All references to gender have been generalized, where the text allowed for this (I have removed all references to "her" and
"she" for uniformity reasons, since "he" can, in English, refer to both men and women).
• Hopefully, all firstedition notations, most notably the "segments" and the infamous "yards"notation have been removed.
• The use of capitals is as uniform as I could manage in the little time I have (if you notice, for example, any capitalized names
of spells, or spells that have not been
italicized
, please drop me a line).
• All spelling has been and will be changed to British English, not American English (at least, according to my speller).
• Talking about spelling: everything should have been spellchecked. If you still notice any errors, again, please don't hesitate to
write the editor.
• The use of abbrevations has been made more uniform; have a look at the standards I try to keep to get an impression how
exactly.
• I've tried to uniformise the references to foot/feet etc.
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Terminology Used, often Confused
Note that the
Player's Handbook
clearly mentions that if a spell does not mention otherwise, its range is always limited to the
wizard's
sight
, next to any other restrictions. Furthermore, when there is a reference to a
person
, what is meant is any bipedal
human, demihuman, or humanoid of mansize or smaller, such as dwarves, elves, gnolls, halflings, and kobolds. Only intelligent
undead should be considered persons.
I have used the following two notations when naming spells:
II
and
[2]
. Let me explain why I make this distinction. When a spell
is named, for example,
magic bolt [2]
, the
[2]
indicates that this is a spell of about the same strength of an already existing spell
of the same name. The corresponding
[1]
spell can be found in either the
Great Net Spellbook
or in an official TSR publication.
In the latter case, the original spell obviously has no
[1]
to its name. Spells that were almost exact copies of existing spells have
not been included. When a spell is labeled
magic bolt II
, the
II
indicates that this is greaterstrength version of an alreadly
existing spell. Again, if the original spell was from an official publication, the original won't have a
I
attached. Note that most of
these spells just increase the range, damage, or something like that, and thus aren't very interesting. Sometimes, however, one of
these spells is really original. Since I don't want to be a judge on which spells to include and which to exclude, I have decided not
to remove any spells at all.
A Final Remark
Dungeon Masters, you should be sure to check these spells before introducing them into your campaign (preferrably before even
showing them to your players), and make sure they are right for the way you run your campaign. Some are awfully powerful (if
not munchkinlike) but others could use a little more kick, that is for you to decide. If you find that some spells seem far too
powerful as given, but you don't have time to adjust the range, duration, area of effect, material components and the spell effects
as carefully as you would like, you might consider just increasing the level of the spell, to be more in accord with spells of similar
power. Similarly, you may want to reduce the level of other spells. Don't let your players talk you into introducing a spell at too
low a level.
Boudewijn Wayers, Keeper of the Great Net Spellbook and the Great Net Prayerbook.
March, 1995.
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