Babble, A new spell I'm working on Options

[Friggas Ring]

The goal of my spell is to make it so that a target (or group of targets, for the AOE variation) can neither understand nor be understood by other audibly.

This is what I've come up with thus far.

Babble
Illusion Spell - because I only need it to modify the words of someone. I'd pick Manipulation if I wanted to alter all sounds.
Base Drain of Light - because the target can still hear, just not comprehend speech
Target number of 4 - I forget where I got that from, Sadly, I'm a work at the moment
-1 drain level for it being an Illusion spell
+1 drain level for it being physical (cast it on a surveilance camera so that it can't record your conversation)

Add +1 to the drain level for the area version of the spell

So basically, this is where I stand:

Babble - Physical - Direct Illusion - TN: 4 - Sustained - Drain: (L)
If the target of this spell fails to resist with his Intelligence rating, he is unable to understand any language for as long as the spell is sustained.

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Any comments? Changes you think I should make? Too easy to cast? Wrong spell type?

[Ancient History]

Mispeling Vyrus, anyone? :rotfl: Seriously, you might have to deal with Celedyr for copyright issues.

[Jason Farlander]

This would also make an interesting basis for an indirect illusion. Cast the spell around a subject or an area. Anyone (or anything) attempting to understand speech issuing from the target or area must resist the spell.

The indirect version would have a TN of 4, since there is no single, specific target. The direct version would almost certainly derive its TN from the Willpower of the affected target(s), though.

[RangerJoe]

I think the idea for the spell is excellent, but I'd prefer there to be a mana version (just affecting metahumans) and a physical version (affecting all kinds), like the invis/imp invis pair. That way you could call the mana version "Babble" and the technological version "Typo."

[Backgammon]

I'd use Translate as a base and work from there. Not that your rules are bad, just saying.

[Kagetenshi]

Babble and gibberish? Babble and gobbledeygook?

~J

[Dashifen]

[Kanada Ten]

When I designed a very similar spell based on Sahandrian 's Garble I made it an Indirect Illusion cast upon a subject making everyone he or she talks to unable to understand him or her and ended up with a drain of M (major single sense, sustained).