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    Just use the Pledge of Allegiance for every single spell. Claim there's nuance in the inflection of each word that dictates which spell it is.

    >_> <_<

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    Quote Originally Posted by JeenLeen View Post
    I like it when the incantations are linked to the spell system. For the homebrew, why does each mage have their individual incantation? Does it channel the power in some personal way? Do the words/tone matter, or does whatever work? I'd like the answers to things like that to effect the spells.
    In the game Eternal Darkness (I think that's the title, at least), the magic is based on combining syllables to make different spells, linked in circles of 3, 5, 7 (guessing again; been a while). To cast the spell, the character recites the syllables. Seemed real cool for the game.
    Since it has observable effects in-setting, I like the idea of "spell level" being the number of lines in the incantation. E.g. a 3rd-level spell is three sentences long, and metamagic adds extra lines. You might end up with something like...

    Quote Originally Posted by Scorching ray (2nd level)
    Fire, gather at my hand.
    Shoot forth and strike my foes!
    Quote Originally Posted by Energy Substituted (cold) Maximized Scorching ray (5th level)
    All of my will is yours,
    And all of thy strength is mine.
    Frost, gather at my hand.
    Shoot forth and strike my foes!
    Heed this command!

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    "Sleeping late might not be a virtue, but it sure aint no vice. The old saw about the early bird and the worm just goes to show that the worm should have stayed in bed."

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    I think, therefore I get really, really annoyed at people who won't.

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    Min Hatt!
    Den har Tre! Kanter!
    Tre kanter har min hatt!
    Och har den EJ tre kanter
    Så är den ej min hatt
    !

    It's one of those old folk-lorish spells from my homeland. It's supposed to be used in conjunction with tracing a triangle around your head every time you say "tre" to invoke the holy trinity,and protect you from trolls and other old evil.
    It's mostly whispered under your breath, but speaking it out loud sounds better. You should use it for a protection spell or something.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Concrete View Post
    Min Hatt!
    Den har Tre! Kanter!
    Tre kanter har min hatt!
    Och har den EJ tre kanter
    Så är den ej min hatt
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    It's one of those old folk-lorish spells from my homeland. It's supposed to be used in conjunction with tracing a triangle around your head every time you say "tre" to invoke the holy trinity,and protect you from trolls and other old evil.
    It's mostly whispered under your breath, but speaking it out loud sounds better. You should use it for a protection spell or something.
    Or as a protection spell against the entity summoned thusly:

    Triangulum, entangulum. Meteforis dominus ventium. Meteforis venetisarium!

    egassem sdrawkcab!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Prime32 View Post
    Since it has observable effects in-setting, I like the idea of "spell level" being the number of lines in the incantation. E.g. a 3rd-level spell is three sentences long, and metamagic adds extra lines. You might end up with something like...
    Please just don't do the full Eternal Darkness method. The idea is awesome, but moving beyond Verb Noun Element is dull in-game. They just ham the word Power in there as often as possible.
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    Quote Originally Posted by georgie_leech View Post
    Please just don't do the full Eternal Darkness method. The idea is awesome, but moving beyond Verb Noun Element is dull in-game. They just ham the word Power in there as often as possible.
    Eternal Darkness limited it by how many points in your spell-circle you could generate.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Segev View Post
    Eternal Darkness limited it by how many points in your spell-circle you could generate.
    It would work well with "casting time" rules. More words make more powerful spells, but also take longer to incant.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Segev View Post
    Just use the Pledge of Allegiance for every single spell. Claim there's nuance in the inflection of each word that dictates which spell it is.

    >_> <_<
    There was an old Star Trek episode where a cult used the pledge of allegiance as a prayer
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    See if you can use this as your verbal component.
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    The Lord of the Rings is not a trilogy; words have meanings, and cannot be arbitrarily redefined just because you're lazy and/or careless. Or, put another way: Infer we shoe to gobble the blueberry jazz musician? Spleen! Water crackers pontificate when sebum roasts merrily for the lagoon.

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    "Anaal nathrach, orth' bhais's bethad, do che'l de'nmha."

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    Earth Elimental, I choose yooooooou!

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    From Total Annihilation kingdom: Rhene blet itze Babarote / Tempus Phara Curva

    In por ylem / an ex por / In nox / kal vas flam

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    Before it's too late
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    Hakuna heigh-ho fragilistic bibbidy chim cheree!

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    "Sleeping late might not be a virtue, but it sure aint no vice. The old saw about the early bird and the worm just goes to show that the worm should have stayed in bed."

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    I think, therefore I get really, really annoyed at people who won't.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Bohandas View Post
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    and grin like a ninny at what is Spoken. Take
    thine refuge with thine wine in the Nothing
    behind Everything, as you hurry along the Path.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Segev View Post
    Just use the Pledge of Allegiance for every single spell. Claim there's nuance in the inflection of each word that dictates which spell it is.

    >_> <_<
    I pledge allegiance to Queen Frag, and her mighty State of Hysteria.
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    For disintegrate/deafen/blast
    Vuvuzela



    Actually, name everything after exotic instruments (or names from the relevant wikip article)
    Divje Babe, Jiahu, Chukchi, Sistra, ugab, kinnor, hasosra, syrinx, Alboka, Aslatua, Djembe, etc

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    So "Azurath metrion zinthos" isn't popular at anyone else's table?

    I annoyed a friend by using Dragon shouts from Skyrim for a while. I have a good memory, and when you hear them over and over...

    I've used incantations from Final Fantasy Tactics sometimes too

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    Quote Originally Posted by 2D8HP View Post
    "Round about the cauldron go:
    In the poisoned entrails throw.
    Toad, that under cold stone
    Days and nights has thirty-one
    Sweated venom sleeping got,
    Boil thou first i’ the charmed pot.

    Double, double toil and trouble;
    Fire burn and cauldron bubble.

    Fillet of a fenny snake,
    In the cauldron boil and bake;
    Eye of newt and toe of frog,
    Wool of bat and tongue of dog,
    Adder's fork and blind-worm's sting,
    Lizard's leg and owlet's wing.
    For a charm of powerful trouble,
    Like a hell-broth boil and bubble.

    Double, double toil and trouble;
    Fire burn and cauldron bubble.

    Scale of dragon, tooth of wolf,
    Witch's mummy, maw and gulf
    Of the ravin'd salt-sea shark,
    Root of hemlock digg'd i’ the dark,
    Liver of blaspheming Jew;
    Gall of goat; and slips of yew

    Sliver'd in the moon's eclipse;
    Nose of Turk, and Tartar's lips;
    Finger of birth-strangled babe
    Ditch-deliver'd by a drab,
    Make the gruel thick and slab:
    Add thereto a tiger's chaudron,
    For the ingredients of our cauldron.

    Double, double toil and trouble,
    Fire burn and cauldron bubble.

    Cool it with a baboon's blood,

    Then the charm is firm and good.
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    Quote Originally Posted by NovenFromTheSun View Post
    Alright, grab a black pearl, some red moss, a clove of garlic, ginseng, a mandrake root, some nightshade, an ounce of spider silk, and some sulfurous ash and repeat after me:

    "Vas kal an mani in corp hur tym."
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    As for me - The kuji'in are probably my favorite - both the hand movements, and the words that go with them:

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    Quote Originally Posted by NovenFromTheSun View Post
    Alright, grab a black pearl, some red moss, a clove of garlic, ginseng, a mandrake root, some nightshade, an ounce of spider silk, and some sulfurous ash and repeat after me:

    "Vas kal an mani in corp hur tym."
    Oh, man. Even now the words "Kal Vas Flam" make me flinch and want to run behind some cover.

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    So much win in this thread. Also note that there are now TWO Angela Lansbury connected references here.

    I've got one player that likes to add a little poetry to his castings - playing online, it ends up in chat (thankfully) That fell by the wayside as it became too time involved.

    For the Goblin bard (which I very much had a hand in making), every spell has an associated song. Invisibility is the James Bond Themesong, and Shatter uses a bit of Rolling Stones (shadoobie). The exception is Stinking Cloud, which has its own unique mechanism.

    He has a magic sword with two activation phrases: "Moon Tiara Magic!" (for Guiding Bolt) and "It's Showtime!" (for Moonbeam). The sword's magic doesn't require these, the sword just makes him do it before it'll activate.

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    Zazum zazamore. Tal, talmat, orem!
    Burning in the depths of the pits of darkness, let the fires of Hell take you!
    Let the fires become my sword and strike you down: VENOM!

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    Charlie Sheen, Ben Vereen,
    Shrink to the size of a lima bean!

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    This thread reminds me of a great bit of talk radio where Tim Conway Jr. discussed the fairy godmother's incantation

    Magicazoola, Bipity Boola, Bipity Bopity Boo
    Put them together and what have you got?
    Bipity Bopity Boo!

    No! No! No! You HAD Bipity Bopity Boo and you added to it. You can't end up with Bipity Bopity Boo! Are you having a stroke?"
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    Quote Originally Posted by Joe the Rat View Post
    For the Goblin bard (which I very much had a hand in making), every spell has an associated song. Invisibility is the James Bond Themesong, and Shatter uses a bit of Rolling Stones (shadoobie).
    To each his own, I guess.
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