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50 New Ways to Blow Things Up

Starlanko the Magniicent’s Big Book of Evocation!

Abbreviations

PHB = Player’s Handbook

DMG = Dungeon Master’s Guide

by Matthew J. Hanson

Requires the use of the Dungeons & Dragons Player’s

Handbook , Third Edition, published by Wizards of the Coast,

Inc. This product utilizes updated material from the v.3.5

revision.

Content Editor: Dana Driscoll

Mechanics Editor: Lance Kepner

Artwork: Cover art by Tom Lavalle, Interior art by Joe

Slucher

Layout: Kosala Ubayasekara

About the Author

Matthew J. Hanson is an aspiring d20 designer and playwright

from Minneapolis Minnesota. In addition to his work for

Silven Publishing he has contributed to books from EN

Publishing and Expeditious Retreat Pres and published the

occasional article in Dragon Magazine. If you would like to

learn more about Matthew, please visit his website at www.

matthewjhanson.com .

About the Editor

Synonyms for the word Dana include variegated, multifarious,

or perhaps convoluted. Dana has a variety of different

interests including reading, writing, environmentalism , and

playing RPGs. She is the Chief Editor of Silven Publishing

since its inception and was the Editor-in-Chief of the Silven

Trumpeter for two years. She wrote Libem Liborium: The

Complete d20 Guide to Books and has a host of editing credits

within the RPG industry. She is currently a PhD student

in Rhetoric & Composition and holds a masters degree in

linguistics, a bachelors degree in literature, and minors in

women’s studies and information systems.

About the Mechanics Editor

When not writing for food, Lance Kepner can be found running

sessions of D&D at local Gamer’s Anonymous gatherings.

moons he was the originator of the Project:Crossroads open-

world building project hosted by Silven Crossroads, and used

to be a freelance writer for ENWorld.

Contents

Introduction 4

Appendix I: Bard, Cleric,

Druid, & Paladin Spell Lists

The Spells in this Book

Bard

Are Evocations for Me?

Cleric

Tactics

Druid

How The Spells Are Organized

Paladin

Spell List

Appendix II: New Feat

Spells 8

Scribe Generic Spellbook

Acid Spit

Arcane Feedback

Open Gaming License

Armor of Light

Blinding Light

Your Notes

Bonds of Lightning

Carpet of Fire

Cauterize

Chocking Darkness

Consuming Line of Acid

Crumble

Darkheart

Dim

Encase in Ice

Eternal Shadow

Eruption

Explosive Dispel

Freezing Wind

Force BeatStick

Force Spike

Ghost Bomb

Globe of Electricity

Ignition

Inner Explosion

Javelin of Light

Light My Fire

Lightning Capacitor

Living Lighting

Molten

Phase Explosion

Phase Ray

Pointer

Pressure Spray

Push

Quick Shot

Reciprocity

Resonance

Signal

Slam

Smart Blob

Smart Missile

Sword Shock

Trip Line

Useful Second-Level Damage

Causing Spell

Vorpal Disk

Water Blast

Washout

White Noise

Wildspell

Introduction

All of the lavor text in this book is written with

the idea that Fifty New Ways to Blow Things Up

is not only available to the players, but to their

characters as well. Thus, it is written by Starlanko

the Magniicent, a powerful wizard and experienced

salesman who lives on a generic fantasy world.

Details for pricing of Fifty New Ways to Blow Things

Up can be found in the lower sidebar on this page.

Greetings and thank you for purchasing Fifty New

Ways To Blow Things Up: Starlanko the Magniicent’s

Book of Evocations . I, as you may have guessed,

am Starlanko the Magniicent. This book is sort of a

culmination point for me. After years of selling spells

on a one-to-one basis, I am inally able to reach the

broad market I had always hoped to and bring you

the greatest spell-related tome ever written!

The lavor text is also designed to help spark

campaign ideas for adventures, and especially

NPCs. The names of speciic kingdoms or historical

events can be easily changed to relect your

campaign. Feel free to borrow any ideas and use

them in your game.

Instrumental to this tome is a new technique of spell

scribing developed after years of research that allows

you to prepare spells directly from this book, even if

you have never seen the spell before in your life.

The Spells in this Book

First, I want to include a brief disclaimer. Under

certain literal interpretations, the title of this book

could be perceived as being not entirely accurate.

There are ifty spells in this book but not every spell

literally blows something up. I prefer to think of it as

a metaphor that signifying that the spells contained

within belong to the evocation school, a school that

is well known for its ability to blow things up. Thus,

I do not feel that the claim made by the title is

intentionally misleading.

If all goes according to plan, this spellbook will be the

irst in a series of Fifty New Ways to... spellbooks.

Each will focus on a different school of magic, each

one as good, if not better, than the one you hold in

your hands. If you enjoy this book or ind it useful,

please be on the lookout for further volumes. Feel

free to scribe me a letter or contact me via sending

as I’m always eager to hear the opinions of my

fans. Or better yet, tell let all of your friends about

the book; word of mouth is the greatest form of

advertising.

The spells contained herein are a number of

evocations that I have collected over several decades

of travel. These journeys took me from the to the

dragon illed lands, to the elemental planes, and

even to the Mage Academy of my youth. I have

Spellbooks for Sale

Fifty New Ways to Blow Things Up may be available for purchase in your campaign. The in-game version of

Fifty New Ways to Blow Things Up contains all of the lavor text in this book as well as the magical notations

common to spellbook format. The spellbooks are all scribed using the new Scribe

Generic Spellbook feat (see Appendix II), so they are much easier to memorize than from a typical

borrowed spellbook. (See feat description for details.)

Several options are listed below for purchasing the spells: buying them all in one set, buying them in

multilevel volumes, or buying them on a level by level basis. In true salesman’s fashion, the larger the

quantity of spells purchased, the lower the price per spell is.

Complete Three Volume Set

Spell Levels 1-9

19620 gp

Plus comes with a free copy of Starlanko the

Magniicent’s Elementary Draconic Primer ! A 500 gp

value!

By Spell Level:

Zero 330 gp

One 550 gp

Two 880 gp

Three 1650 gp

Four 2640 gp

Five 3300 gp

Six 3300 gp

Seven 3850 gp

Eight

Volume I

Spell Levels 0-4

5500 gp

3520 gp

Nine

3960 gp

Volume II

Spell Levels 5-7

9500 gp

Volume III

Spell Levels 8-9

6800 gp

assembled what I deem to be the cream of the crop

of the school of evocation. Like most things in life,

I have developed a general philosophy about which

spells I should allow into this book, and that general

philosophy is this: every spell in this book must

have an aspect in which it surpasses all others. That

is to say, for each spell circumstances exist where

said spell is the best possible spell to use. Some of

these uses are highly specialized. For example, ghost

bomb is the best spell to use when your opponents

are partially or completely located on the ethereal

plane. Other spells have more general usages. Useful

second-level damage causing spell is the best spell

when you want to cast a second level spell that

causes damage but does nothing else. Most of the

spells herein fall somewhere in between.

If you enjoyed this book, you might want to check

out “The Adventures of Starlanko the Magniicent”,

a iction series featuring the same Starlanko the

Magniicent (albeit in his younger days). While the

stories connect to each other, and events from

one month affect the next, each episode is also

a complete story by itself, allowing you to start

reading any time you want.

I have occasionally also included a few spells based

primarily on their ‘cool factor,’ such as vorpal disk

( Vorpal disk is a disk of force that cuts people’s heads

off! How cool is that!) However, even these spells

must be useful, even if they are not the singularly

most useful spell in a given situation.

One small addition has been made to the

conventional spell descriptions. For spells with costly

material and focus components, a (C) has been

added after the M and F , in the components line.

Are Evocations for Me?

The evocation school is one of the most popular

schools of magic for a very simple reason: it

allows you to blow stuff up. Allow me to elaborate.

Evocations are a great school to study for the

adventuring wizard, or any other spellcaster who

frequently engages in combat. If you are an armchair

wizard, a peacenik wizard, or a wizard who tries to

stay behind the scenes, there are probably other

schools you want to focus on. While the evocation

school does have its fair share of handy day-to-day

spells, (I am a huge fan of what’s-his-name’s loating

disk ) the school is really known for what it does best:

dealing damage.

I irmly believe that effectively dealing damage

is only half of why evocations are so popular. The

other half of the equation is instant gratiication.

Here’s what I mean: transmutation can allow you

to increase your allies ighting power, thus more

effectively overcoming the enemy. Conjuration could

allow you to summon a celestial giant bombardier

beetle to attack the enemy, also allowing you to

overcome your foe. Note in both these cases, damage

is being dealt to your enemy as a result of the spell

but always through some intermediary. Evocation lets

you shoot a ball of boiling acid into your opponent’s

face, burning him horribly and possibly scarring him

for life. That’s what I mean by instant gratiication.

Tactics

Each spell herein includes speciic tactics for that

spell, but I also felt it wise to include some general

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