onlyawfulrpgideas: Illustrated edition, pages 1-4!!That pesky verbal component…I’ve rarely played a
onlyawfulrpgideas: Illustrated edition, pages 1-4!!That pesky verbal component…I’ve rarely played a game in which people actually roleplay the full casting of a spell. Typically, everyone will be cool with simply saying “I cast _____”, and it happens.So I decided to ask my friends what they thought the verbal component of a spell would sound like. All of them unanimously agreed that the Handbook leaves it deliberately vague. While this leaves space for player creativity, they all said that they would perform the casting in character, except spells are most often cast in make-or-break situations and it’s difficult to come up with some fictional jargon on the fly.Introducing “Say the Magic Words”: some suggestions of utterances to fill in your verbal spell components.To reflect the idea that magic in D&D comes varied sources and has been discovered by peoples from all across the worlds and histories, I tried to incorporate little hints of different languages from around the real world. Came across some fantastic foreign vocab and I can’t help but love the sheer diversity and similarities in human languages - both written and spoken. -- source link