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Thought Form is new in DnD’s unearthed arcana, but it’s not great.
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We got a new spell in the recent
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Unearthed Darkana Scion updates. It's
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called Thought Form, and it's it's
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weird. It's a transformation spell for
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scions that turns you into physical
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thought. While you're in this form, you
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have the ability to fly. You're immune
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to psychic damage and you're immune to
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poison damage, which like, yeah, that's
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okay. That's pretty good. Um, I could
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see this being super useful on a
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metamorph, flight, some damage
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resistances. That's going to be useful.
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At high levels, psychic damage becomes
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more common because enemies are using
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psychic, radiant, necrotic, and force
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damage to get around more common damage
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resistances. So like that will see some
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use. And poison damage is common
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throughout the entire level spectrum. So
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like resistance immunity always pays
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dividends with poison. Final part of the
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spell lets you touch a creature as an
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action and restore a spell slot of
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levels one, two, or three at random. You
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can only do this once per long rest per
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target. So, you can't like cast the
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spell, give everyone spell slots, cast
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it again, do it again. Like, that's not
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a thing you're allowed to do. They saw
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that coming. But, it just feels like a
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super weird addition onto this spell. I
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guess it feels nice if you like cast a
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highle spell to get into this form and
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then the fight immediately ends like,
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well, I guess I just wasted a spell
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slot. I guess I'll go give my party
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spell slots. Why not? But that's also
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only useful if you have other
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spellcasters in the party, which is a
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big assumption. So that means that the
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usefulness of the spell depends heavily
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on if you have other spellcasters in the
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party and if they've spent spell slots
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already today. So it's entirely possible
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you could have the perfect party for
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this and it's still completely useless.
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So yeah, I think this one needs some
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more thought. I think it might be too
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high level for what it's doing. Um, the
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granting a spell slot thing needs some
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more options. Like maybe you give back
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hit dice for characters who can't cast
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spells or something like that. But this
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is salvageable, but right now it's just
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not in a good spot. I hope it gets
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better.
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