Some New 2nd Level Spells for 5e D&D or Whatever

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Adamant Grip

Cleric/Paladin/Wizard/Witch

2/rnds level duration, end as a free action

One handheld item

No save

For the duration 1 handheld item may not be removed from your grip unless you expressly choose to end the effect as a free action. It is held by a kind of magical magnetism, a kinship beyond physical, and functions like a part of your body. If it is a tool or weapon you double your proficiency bonus in its use. If it is a consumable item it will not spoil, shatter, or otherwise ruin in your grip. If it is a shield you may add your shield bonus to your saves. If it is another mundane item or valuable the item will remain in your possession, intact, until you release it, even a string of pearls with a golem tugging on it. If you are magically petrified the item will not be petrified like the rest of your gear.

Dispel magic can override the effect, someone can Command or Charm you into releasing your grip, other magical exceptions apply. Otherwise even great force pulling on the object will be like pulling on your arm, so you can be thrown around by it and ripping the item free would do as much damage as ripping your hand off. 

The item has to be something your character can lift with one hand without becoming encumbered. So you can't attach yourself to an orc or a horse or a cart but you could attach yourself to your magical staff or the reins of your horse and stuff. You can use it to attach yourself to a line (like rope or chain) but it only secures your current handhold, so it's best for stopping falls and such.

I guess you can cast it at higher levels to extend the duration or add +1 to any of the described effects but not both.

Arcane Confluence

Wizard

Range: Special

Target: Two memorized spells

Duration: Special

Casting Time: 1 round

The caster chooses two different memorized spells that will be cast simultaneously in the next round. It becomes effectively a single spell with the worst/lowest duration, area of effect, number of targets of the two spells. If the spells have two different saving throws, the receiver may choose which save to use.

Corpse Mirror

Witch

Range: touch

Area of Effect: 1 mirror

You reach into a mirror and pull out a corpse that looks exactly like you. If anyone uses speak with dead on it, it says the opposite of whatever you would say.

Fragile Egg

Druid, Witch

Casting Time 10 minutes

Range 0

A of Effect-One hollow egg

Duration 2 hours / caster level

This spell creates a hidden space inside a hollowed-out egg, which can hold up to 30 lbs or 3 cubic ft. of material.

The item can be made from the egg of any creature which has previously been carefully emptied and painted with appropriate magical sigils. At the end of the Casting Time the caster places the item(s) desired into the shell.

The caster may not remove any item without breaking the Egg and dispelling the magic. Only non-living, unenchanted items may be stored within, and while there no time passes for them. This allows the storage of cooked food, lit flames and volatile liquids.

The result weighs no more than a normal unhatched egg, and is just as fragile.

When the spell duration runs out, if the Fragile Egg is shattered or the magic Dispelled, everything that was stored inside instantly hatches out. On occasion there may also be found small traces of rich soil and leaves, for reasons unknown.

Ganonball

Range: 50'

Area of Effect: object/creature

Wizard

Make an attack roll against a target creature. They make an attack roll, and if they beat your attack roll, they knock the ganonball back at you. This process repeats until someone fails to beat the previous attack roll, and they get hit in the face with the ganonball, which does d6 for each attack roll made.

I Am You, And You Are She

Wizard, Witch

10 minute duration

30 ft radius sphere

CHA save if aware of spell

Caster randomly swaps around the faces of every living thing (including self) within a 30 ft radius--must be at least 3 creatures. This includes animals. 1 in 20 chance  of gaining some permanent feature of the face briefly worn.



Invisible Candle

Witch, Druid

Range: touch

Area of Effect: you

Duration: 1 round/level of caster

If you hold a light source, its light becomes invisible to anyone except you.

Mortification of the Flesh

Cleric, Witch

Target: Caster

The caster asks his or her God to grant a spell from the cleric's spell list that (s)he is able to cast. To do so, the cleric must flog him/herself. For each d8 of inflicted damage, there is a cumulative 10% chance that the spell will be granted--maximum of 60%. The number of d8's must be chosen before rolling.

Mouse Time

Witch

Range: 10'

Area of Effect: 1 willing creature for every caster level

Reagent: 1 mouse per target, held by you

Duration: 1 round/level of caster

You shrink to mouse size, and the mouse grows to your size. This spell also works on things that are merely mouse-sized.

Precarious Haggling

Wizard, Witch

Range: One object

Duration: 24 hours

The (gp) price of target object is halved, but an additional cost is to be paid as determined by a random roll on a goblin market price list table ( eg. the one on Zak's blog: dndwithpornstars.blogspot.com/2015/10/goblin-market-works-like-this.html ).

The object must be purchased within the next 24 hours or the seller will never sell anything to the caster anymore.

Safe Escape

Wizard 

Duration: instantaneous

Range: caster

Save: none

Teleports the caster 1d1000 feet in a random direction. If this makes the caster appear within something solid they will instead appear within the nearest bit of open space. May result in the caster suffering significant falling damage.

Skein of Fate

Cleric/Wizard/Witch

Range: Line of sight

Area of Effect: 1 creature

Caster roll 2d20--those will be the target creature's next two d20 rolls. Caster doesn't have to tell the target the results if they don't want to.

Staring Contest

Wizard

Range: 50'

Target: 1 creature

A target who meets your gaze must make a save. If they fail, pause the game. You fight the target in a side-combat, 1-on-1. The side-combat takes place inside a spherical room 30' in diameter (located inside your eye). The side-combat ends when someone is reduced to 0 HP. The loser immediately passes out for 1d6 minutes. Damage taken inside the side-combat does not carry over into the real world, but non-bodily effects do (such as insanity, curses, etc).

Till Death Do Us Part

Witch

Range: Line of sight

Target: One creature

Duration: One minute

Target creature and the caster are linked by a magical bond and cannot move away from each other beyond the distance during the spell. The only natural way to disperse the bond is by the death of either one.

Transpose Person

Wizard

Range: 10'/ (At 4th level: line of sight)

Area of Effect: two creatures

Caster and target creature of human-size switch places.

Weretime

Witch, Druid

You turn into a common local animal for 10 minutes. You do not have any control over the creature for the duration. It will behave as a normal creature would.

Wandering Eye 

Witch

Duration: 10 minutes (Concentration)

Range: Touch

Save: None

Components: V,S,M (two small marbles)

The caster's eyeballs and marbles switch places for the duration of the spell. The caster can continue to see out of the eyeballs but not out of the marbles. Each eyeball has 1 HP and AC 8. If the eyeball were to be destroyed, it returns without ill effect to the caster's eye socket.

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