New spell, Filibuster

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Filibuster
Transmutation
Level: Sor/Wiz 0, Bard 0, Pal 1, Blkgrd 1, Assn 1
Components: V, S, M
Casting Time: 1 Immediate action
Range: 80 ft
Area: All enemies in a 80 ft radius burst centered on you
Duration: 1 minute (see text)
Saving Throw: None (harmless)
SR: No

You interrupt whatever is going on in order to speak, usually to give some kind of monologue or villainous rant. This spell allows one minute of speech, all of this time occuring in less time than an eyeblink relative to normal time. To onlookers and victims, a disertation is crammed into their minds in the space of an instant.

You cannot use the time alloted by this spell to use any spells or abilities, or even bardic music, and you cannot take any action to affect your surroundings or move from your current position. Only regular, mundane speech is affected. Any information that doesn't deal with the past or already established plans is wiped from the memories of those listening, so this spell also cannot be used for extra time to speak with allies, nor to try a diplomacy or other interaction skill check.

Filibuster never requires a concentration check to use. You may use Filibuster immediately after an attack has reduced you to -1 or fewer HP, but if you do, you die as soon as the spell's duration is over. If you are an Undead or Construct, you may use Filibuster immediately after an attack has reduced you to 0 or fewer HP, and are not destroyed until the spell's duration ends.

Material component: a bit of legal document, torn apart at the start of the spell effect.

Coming Soon: Filibuster, True. The level 9 uber version of this spell!

[bardiclasher]

Add the following: Filibuster never requires a concentration check to use. You may use Filibuster immediately after an attack has reduced you to -1 or fewer HP, but if you do, you die as soon as the spell's duration is over. If you are an Undead or Construct, you may use Filibuster immediately after an attack has reduced you to 0 or fewer HP, and are not destroyed until the spell's duration ends.


Also, I think duration should be longer. A true evil rant can take upwards of 10 minutes, and dying words have been known to take up entire 22 minute episodes, Vegeta. (Though Frieza's finally telling him to shut up and shooting him through the heart once he was already dying was priceless)

[streamofthesky]

I was trying to "balance" it -- it is only a damned cantrip. 1 min/level? As written, you could just cast it several times over different rounds...

I'll definitely add the first paragraph.

EDIT: I'm also afraid of making it possible to use the spell for a "city bomb" type combo with certain feats, so I need to really limit exactly what affect it can have on those in the area (none).

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Filibuster, True
Transmutation
Level: Sor/Wiz 9, Bard 6 (?)
Components: V, S, M
Casting Time: 1 Standard Action
Range: 80 ft
Area: All enemies in a 80 ft radius burst centered on you
Duration: Instantaneous and 2 hours/level (see text)
Saving Throw: See text
SR: No

This widely feared spell utterly distorts the time-space continuum, causing victims to hear you speaking for many endless hours in just a few seconds of real time. When the spell is cast, all affected creatures must make a will save. Alternatively, they can make a diplomacy check at a -10 penalty instead of a saving throw. If the caster wishes to, he may make a diplomacy or perform (oratory) check. If he does so, any target opting to use diplomacy must win an opposed check with the caster, instead of replacing a will save at a -10 penalty. Merely saving on your own is not enough, however. A minimum of 3/5 of those affected must succeed on their save/check in order to stop the filibuster. In the case of groups not in multiples of 5, the fraction of successes must be greater than 3/5 the total rolling.

If the motion to filibuster is not killed, all targets experience a mind-numbing flow of hours transpire as they are forced to listen to the caster's words. This speech can not be used to affect the victims in any way other than the spell describes, such as social skill checks or bardic music with perform oratory, just as the Filibuster spell. Otherwise, the words spoken can be coherent and can be substantive, if the player wishes to write out any portion of the speech. The speech lasts a time of 2 hours / caster level relative to those affected, and is instantaneous to the normal frame of reference, which the caster remains in. For the targets, this expenditure of time is real, causing the durations of any effects active to run out if their durations were less, as well as leaving all targets exhausted from lack of rest, if they normally require it. Perishable food carried may become wasted, as well as any other effects appropriate to the passage of such time.

Material component: a bit of legal document, torn apart at the start of the spell effect.