The Amazing Erstwhile Jocular

Prankster’s
Spellbook

W
hile many practitioners of
the arcane arts are noble pursuers
of truth, some students of magic are just
in it for the laughs. Ancient enchantments
can be inverted for a lark, and the creative
writing Andrew Englebrite
editing Mike Myler
possibilities are endless when magic is color art Rachel Maduro
being used just to see the look on observ- layout Eric Life-Putnam
ers’ faces. The following spells are perfect
tools for those who thumb their nose at
authority or who are simply up to no good.

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New Spells
Befuddle Person
2nd-level enchantment (bard, sorcerer; arcane trickster,
Trickery domain)
Casting Time: 1 bonus action
Range: 30 feet
Components: S, M (piece of writing rife with
misspellings)
Duration: Concentration, up to 1 minute
An alteration of the common charm person spell,
this version retains the stupefying elements need-
ed to initiate the charm, but simply ends before
plying the target’s will to leave it temporarily in a
dumbfounded and pliable state.
A target creature within range must make a Wis-
dom saving throw. On a failed saving throw, the
target’s mind is befuddled until the spell ends or
until it uses an action to clear its mind by succeed-
ing on a concentration check against your spell
save DC. While befuddled in this way the target
has disadvantage on Intelligence, Wisdom, and
Charisma saving throws.
Compelled Fool
1st-level enchantment (bard, sorcerer; arcane trickster,
Trickery domain)
Casting Time: 1 bonus action
Range: 30 feet
Components: V, S, M (clown wig)
Duration: Concentration, up to 1 minute
With an arcane tweak an opponent can be com-
pelled into foolishness. One creature you can see
within range must make a Wisdom saving throw.
On a failed save, the creature is compelled to make
people laugh. For the duration, it has disadvantage
on attack rolls. During each of the creature’s turns,
it uses a bonus action to tell a joke or do some-
thing foolish, making a Charisma check against
your spell save DC. The spell ends on a success.
Dweebify
6th-level enchantment (bard, sorcerer; arcane trickster,
Trickery domain)
Casting Time: 1 action
Range: 150 feet
Components: V, S, M (pair of spectacles that has been
broken and repaired)
Duration: Instantaneous
This lesser form of the infamous feeblemind spell
is designed to blast away only the personality and
social skills of a creature within range. The target
takes 3d6 psychic damage and must make a Cha-
risma saving throw.
On a failed save, the creature’s Charisma score
becomes 1. In addition, the creature is frightened
for 1d4 rounds after rolling initiative for combat.
At the end of every 24 hours, the creature can
repeat its saving throw against this spell. If it suc-
ceeds on its saving throw, the spell ends.
Fauxerball
2nd-level illusion (bard, sorcerer; arcane trickster, Trickery
domain)
Casting Time: 1 action
Range: 150 feet
Components: V, S, M (counterfeit manufactured good)
Duration: Instantaneous
Frustrated by the boasting of a rival wizard
of the evocation school, Ingvald the Illusionist

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crafted this spell to prove that only the impression
of burning alive was really required. An illusory
bead launches from your pointing finger to a point
you choose within range and then explodes with
illusory fire. Each creature in a 20-foot-radius
sphere centered on that point must make an Intel-
ligence saving throw. A target takes 5d6 psychic
damage on a failed save, or half as much damage
on a successful one.
The illusory fire is harmless to the area itself
and is only visible to the spell’s targets. Creatures
outside of that radius only see that targets inside it
react as if they were engulfed in flames.
At Higher Levels. When you cast this spell using
a spell slot of 3th level or higher, the damage in-
creases by 1d6 for each slot level above 2nd.
Ingvald’s Imposed Impersonation
3rd-level illusion (bard, sorcerer; arcane trickster, Trickery
domain)
Casting Time: 1 action
Range: 120 feet
Components: S, M (costume mask)
Duration: 1 hour
With this inversion of the common disguise self
spell you create an illusion around a creature you
can see and anything it is wearing or wielding,
making it look different until the spell ends or un-
til you use your action to dismiss it. The target can
seem 1 foot shorter or taller and can appear thin,
fat, or in between. You can’t change its body type,
so the target must retain a form with the same ba-
sic arrangement of limbs. Otherwise, the extent of
the illusion is up to you.
This illusion is completely invisible to the tar-
get, but it can be seen by any other creature that
observes it. The changes wrought by this spell fail
to hold up to the physical inspection of others. For
example, if you make a guard appear like a demon
with horns and a pointy tail, objects would pass
through the tail and anyone who touches it would
feel nothing.
Other creatures that interact with the target
can discern that it is disguised by using an ac-
tion to inspect the target’s appearance, making
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an Intelligence (Investigation) check against your
spell save DC to disbelieve the illusion.
The target can only discern that it is disguised if
it is told about the illusion by other creatures.
Jumpscare
1st-level illusion (bard, sorcerer; arcane trickster, Trickery
domain)
Casting Time: 1 reaction, which you take when targeted
with an attack by a creature within range
Range: 60 feet
Components: V, S
Duration: Instantaneous
With a flash you surround yourself with an illu-
sion of terror to frighten your attacker away. The
creature that targeted you with an attack must
make a Wisdom saving throw or become fright-
ened of you until the end of its next turn, missing
with the attack it targeted you with.
At Higher Levels. When you cast this spell using
a spell slot of 2nd level or higher, the target re-
mains frightened of you for one additional round
for each slot level above 1st.
Karmic Backfire
1st-level enchantment (bard, sorcerer; arcane trickster,
Trickery domain)
Casting Time: 1 action
Range: 30 feet
Components: S
Duration: Concentration, up to 1 minute
Ingvald the Illusionist skillfully avoided many
conflicts with this spell and the coy phrase, “stop
hitting yourself.” Choose a target weapon you can
see within range. The next time that weapon
is used to attack, if the attack hits, any damage
that would be dealt to the attack’s target and any
effects that would be inflicted on the attack’s
target are magically dealt to the wielder of the
affected weapon instead. Once damage is dealt in
this way the spell immediately ends.
If the target weapon is being held by a creature,
its wielder must make a Charisma saving throw.
On a failure the target weapon is enchanted and
its wielder does not realize it.

Laughing Gas Cloud
2nd-level conjuration (bard, sorcerer; arcane trickster,
Trickery domain)
Casting Time: 1 action
Range: 120 feet
Components: V, S
Duration: Concentration, up to 10 minutes
You create a 20-foot-radius sphere of purple fog
centered on a point you choose within range. The
fog spreads around corners. It lasts for the dura-
tion or until strong wind disperses the fog, ending
the spell. Its area is heavily obscured.
When a creature enters the spell’s area for the
first time on a turn or starts its turn there, that
creature must make a Constitution saving throw.
On a failed save, the creature falls prone and be-
comes incapacitated and unable to stand up for the
remainder of its turn. Creatures that don’t need to
breathe and those with an Intelligence score of 4
or less aren’t affected.
The fog moves 10 feet away from you at the start
of each of your turns, rolling along the surface of
the ground. The vapors, being heavier than air,
sink to the lowest level of the land, even pouring
down openings.
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Phantasmal Embarrassment
4th-level illusion (bard, sorcerer; arcane trickster, Trickery
domain)
Casting Time: 1 action
Range: 120 feet
Components: V, S
Duration: Concentration, up to 1 minute
You tap into the memories of a humanoid you
can see within range and create an illusory mani-
festation of its most shameful or embarrassing
memory, visible to it and any other creature with-
in line of sight of it. The embarrassing memory is
distracting, and for the spell’s duration any attacks
made against the target and any of the target’s al-
lies that have line of sight to the target are made
with advantage.
If the target ends its turn in a location where it
doesn’t have line of sight to any of its allies, the
creature can make a Charisma saving throw, end-
ing the spell on a success.
Snap Rocks
Transmutation cantrip (bard, sorcerer; arcane trickster,
Trickery domain)
Casting Time: 1 bonus action
Range: Touch
Components: V, S
Duration: 1 minute
Sometimes a quick distraction is all that’s need-
ed and this spell provides just that. You imbue
explosive magic into up to three stones you touch.
A creature can throw (range 20/60 feet) or hurl an
imbued stone as a ranged spell attack or in a sling,
using your spellcasting ability modifier for the at-
tack roll. An object or creature hit by an imbued
stone takes thunder damage equal to 1d4 + your
spellcasting ability modifier. In addition, the im-
bued stone explodes with noise audible up to 100
feet away. After being used to make an attack, an
imbued stone is destroyed.
When you use this spell to imbue more stones,
any previously imbued stones lose their magic.
Swan Song
3rd-level illusion (bard, sorcerer; arcane trickster, Trickery
domain)
Casting Time: 1 reaction, which you take when you take
damage and are at half of your hit points or fewer
Range: 30 feet
Components: V, S, M (opossum whiskers)
Duration: Concentration, up to 1 minute
When defeat is certain, an overly dramatic
“death” can be the key to living another day. This
spell creates the illusion around yourself that
the triggering damage killed you. You can shape
this illusion to be as dramatic or as simple as pos-
sible. For example, if you were hit with a sword,
you could shape the illusion so that it appears as
if you were struck in the heart, you could create
an illusion of your own gruesome decapitation, or
you could give your illusion a dramatic monologue
before slumping over dead.
Your illusion isn’t perfect but it has both visual
and tactile components. If your chosen death il-
lusion involves parts of you being separated, such
parts can be both seen and touched regardless of
their distance from you. A creature that uses its
action to physically inspect you or an illusory part
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of you can see through the illusion with a success-
ful Intelligence (Investigation) check against your
spell save DC. If a creature discerns the illusion for
what it is, the creature can see through the image.
In addition, you become invisible until the spell
ends. Anything you are wearing or carrying is
invisible as long as it is on your person. Your invis-
ibility ends if you attack or cast a spell.
Theme Song Curse
3rd-level enchantment (bard, sorcerer; arcane trickster,
Trickery domain)
Casting Time: 1 action
Range: 60 feet
Components: V, S, M (broken musical instrument)
Duration: Concentration, up to 1 minute
Each creature in a 20-foot cube originating from
a point you choose within range must make a
Charisma saving throw or become cursed with a
theme song. You may decide the exact nature of
the theme song, which can range from literal
music, to laugh tracks, or even a loop of annoying
noises or the sounds of bodily functions. For the
duration, any creature cursed in this way emits
your chosen theme song and is audible up to a
range of 30 feet.
Any attack roll against an affected creature or
object has advantage if the attacker can hear it,
and the affected creature or object can’t benefit
from being invisible. e