The following is a list for Dungeon Masters which consists of spells that cost money to cast. They are organized by spell level. I’ve ignored tiny amounts of money for spell components, and just focused on the big stuff. An asterisks indicates that this is a 1 time cost and the spell component may be reused. These spells are only drawn from the Players Handbook, and not from any other source.
WIZARD SPELLS
- Find Familiar: 1,000 gp
- Identify: 100gp
- Wizard Mark: 100gp
- Deep Pockets: 50-200gp
- Fools Gold: 25-500gp
- Leomund’s Trap: 200gp
- Clairaudience: 100gp
- Illusionary Script: 300gp
- Melf’s Minute Meteors: 1,000gp*
- Nondetection: 300gp
- Sepia Snake Sigil: 100gp
- Illusionary Wall: 400gp
- Magic Mirror: 1,000gp*
- Rary’s Mnemonic Enhancer: 100gp
- Vacancy: 100gp
- False Vision: 500gp
- Wall of Force: 5,000gp
- Contingency: 100gp
- Death Spell: 1,000gp
- Enchant an Item: at least 100gp
- Ensnarement: 5,000gp
- Otiluke’s Freezing Sphere: 1,000gp
- Transmute Water to Dust: 500gp
- True Seeing: 300gp
- Drawmij’s Instant Summons: 5,000gp
- Duo-Dimension 500-1,000gp
- Finger of Death: 1,500gp minimum
- Forcecage: 1,000gp
- Mordenkainen’s Sword: 500gp
- Simulacrum: damage repaired at 100gp per hp.
- Antipathy-Sympathy: 1,000gp
- Binding: 1,000gp per HD of creature
- Sertens Spell Immunity: 500gp
- Symbol: 10,000gp
- Trap the Soul: 1,000gp per HD of target
- Shape Change: 5,000gp
- Succor: 5,000gp*
- Temporal Stasis: 400gp
PIREST SPELLS
- Augury: 1,000gp*
- Flame Walk: 500gp
- Glyph of Warding: 2,000gp
- Rainbow: 1,000gp if no rainbow is present
- True Seeing: 300gp
- Forbiddance: 1,000-5,000gp
- Transmute Water to Dust: 500gp
- Succor: 2,000-5,000gp
3 comments:
I've always ignored negligible spell components and found that simply enforcing one or two of the higher cost compenents to be very interesting. Have had parties wandering around for ages at a time with unidentified magic items because they can't afford a pearl, or when they can afford it unable to find one for sale because they're a thousand miles inland.
It certainly creates interesting situations.
I'm the same way, the spells given above are meant to be more controlled by the DM.
I find spell components to be interesting, I know lots of DMs whom don't use them, which is a shame. I consider spells learned in level advancement as free spells, and if a dead wizard is still in good condition (read not blown to a smoldering husk) there are chances that a captured traveling spellbook is also found with a bag of spell components for many of the spells which it contains.
After a wizard casts a spell for the first time, I usually just assume that he'll keep material components which he needs in stock.
Of course, another bonus is that a wizard can attempt to create a new version of the spell which can ignore expensive spell components, this gets a wizard player involved in the game, and also costs a ton of money, but what better way for a wizard to spend his gold, huh?
I've never permitted the "gain a spell free upon level advancement" rule. It almost always ends up being one of the boring spells that every player feels he MUST have. About 99.99% of the time, it'll be magic missile if he didn't get it at first level. Or fireball.
Keeping a much tighter reign on what spells go into a game, in my experience, leads to more interesting play as you can force the wizard's player to adapt to what spells he has as opposed to using the same spells every single other player has.
PS: Word verification was "Ingstach." I must now go and create an NPC named Ingstach.
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