What's your favorite spell?

[Eorendil]

Hrmmmmmmmm... NWN fave? I crave creative ways and bending of the laws of the universe so I spose most of mine would be RP only spells.  Wish they had things like Wall of Iron, stone, etc.. though I enjoy everything lightening.

PnP.. Anything illusion based.. or anything that can be played with to get interesting results.  Damage spells can have creative uses as well.

[Eight-Bit]

I have a small list of favorite spells. They are, in no particular order...

Slay Living. Nothing is cooler than coming out of your invis above a giant enemy that failed it's touch attack and save.
Destruction - Same as above, but cooler looking. Plus, the sound is totally worth it.
War Cry - Not enough people use this, with all the Bards we have, it's a very useful spell.
Invisibility - Everyone likes this.
Dominate Monster - A battle can easily be turned around with one casting of this, espically because most npc casters are barely able to save against it if you're a powerful enough Enchanter. It was cooler back in Beta 4 when it lasted for 23 minutes at level 20, which was enough time to get the Greypeak Giant King into Fisterion's lair for another casting, then watching the second hardest boss get whiped out by the hardest.
Summon Creature 9 - A'duh. It's great for any faith.
Summon Creature 3 for Branderback - Great DR, Concealment, and HiPS. Fun spell for a Halfling to use.
Negative Energy Ray, Blast - Great for healing my summons at a distance.
Harm - Great assassination spell. Harm combined with Destruction is a basic insta-death for anything, anywhere, ever, that isn't a DM, Undead, or Fisterion.


That's about it.

[gilshem ironstone]

From 2nd Edition PnP I have a couple of favourites:

Enlarge: The best first level buffing spell, and it was reversible.
For Rp'ing it had to be Suggestion.  I would take my tiefling enchantress with 17 chr in to a room with someone who wanted to kill me for two minutes, and they would walk out having told us everything and ready to kill his boss.

[Schmack]

Polymorph Other here, why fight a dragon when you can fight a squirrel  

[merlin34baseball]

As far as a lower level spell... Combust, its kinda funny to watch an ogre or giant become a huge torch.  But the bodies smell bad when they keep burning.

[Marswipp]

Offensive: Hammer of the Gods (good for combat), Greater Ruin (Don't get caught in the blast!)
Defensive: Any and all healing spells (HP restoration in particular), Haste (Super fast when Monk Speed is at its highest), Undeath to Death (and other buffs).

[FlameStrike]

Greater Ruin is actually a single-target Epic Spell, maybe you wanted to say Hellball.

[Marswipp]

Greater Ruin has a blast radius, almost as deadly as Hellball.

[FlameStrike]

Spell effect

Caster Level: Epic

Innate Level: 10

School: Evocation

Component(s): V, S

Range: Medium

Save: Fortitude ½

Spell Resistance: No

Area of Effect/Target: Single

Duration: Instant

Description: The caster deals 35d6 positive energy damage to a single target. This spell is not affected by armor casting penalties, nor can it be interrupted.

 http://www.nwnwiki.org/Greater_Ruin

[LoganGrimnar]

Mmmm Greater Ruin is nice, Here Lichy lichy lichy! Though for Epic spells i think im going to take Epic Mage Armor first, then Timestop. Timestop sonds wonderful.. but never seen it in use

[Filatus]

merlin34baseball - 8/12/2006  3:19 AM

As far as a lower level spell... Combust, its kinda funny to watch an ogre or giant become a huge torch.  But the bodies smell bad when they keep burning.

Yeah, Combust is one of the best spells out there, relative to level. Combine an empowered combust with a target with low reflex and you'll see what I mean.