Holmes Expanded: Magic-User Spells

In running a Holmes-based campaign encompassing a complete OD&D + Greyhawk edit, it was necessary to tabulate lists of magic-user spells from 4th to 9th level.

Holmes lists magic-user spells from 1st to 3rd level, adding three new 1st level spells and two new 2nd level spells.  Greyhawk lists sixteen magic-user spells from 4th to 6th level, but only nine 7th level spells, eight 8th level spells, and ten 9th level spells.

I decided to add three new 7th level spells and two new 8th level spells from the AD&D 1e Players Handbook, to balance out the magic-user spells from 7th to 9th level.

A magic-user casting "Dancing Lights".  Illustration from the AD&D 1e Players Handbook (1978)

Book of First Level Spells:

1. Charm Person - from OD&D vol. 1/Greyhawk

2. Dancing Lights - Holmes

3. Detect Magic - from "Detection" (II), Chainmail 1e

4. Enlargements - Holmes

5. Hold Portal - from OD&D vol. 1

6. Light - from "Wizard Light" (I), Chainmail 1e

7. Magic Missile - from Greyhawk

8. Protection/Evil - from "Protection from Evil" (III), Chainmail 2e

9. Read Languages - from OD&D vol. 1

10. Read Magic - from OD&D vol. 1

11. Shield - from Greyhawk

12. Sleep - from OD&D vol. 1/Greyhawk

13. Tenser's Floating Disc - Holmes

14. Ventriloquism - from Greyhawk

A Book of First Level Spells includes the eleven 1st level spells from OD&D + Greyhawk, as well as three new spells.  See also "Book of First Level Spells" at Zenopus Archives.

Book of Second Level Spells:

1. Audible Glamer - Holmes

2. Continual Light - from "Wizard Light" (I), Chainmail 1e

3. Darkness - from "Darkness, 5' r.", Greyhawk

4. Detect Evil - from "Detection" (II), Chainmail 1e

5. Detect Invisible - from "Detection" (II), Chainmail 1e

6. ESP - from OD&D vol. 1

7. Invisibility - a special ability of Wizards, from Chainmail

8. Knock - from OD&D vol. 1

9. Levitate - from OD&D vol. 1

10. Locate Object - from OD&D vol. 1

11. Magic Mouth - from Greyhawk

12. Mirror Image - from Greyhawk

13. Phantasmal Forces - from "Phantasmal Forces" (II), Chainmail 1e

14. Pyrotechnics - from Greyhawk

15. Ray of Enfeeblement - Holmes

16. Strength - from Greyhawk

17. Web - from OD&D vol. 2/Greyhawk

18. Wizard Lock - from OD&D vol. 1

A Book of Second Level Spells includes the sixteen 2nd level spells from OD&D + Greyhawk, as well as two new spells.  See also "Book of Second Level Spells" at Zenopus Archives.

Book of Third Level Spells:

1. Clairaudience - from OD&D vol. 1

2. Clairvoyance - from OD&D vol. 1

3. Dispel Magic - from the ability to cast a counter-spell, in Chainmail

4. Explosive Runes - from Greyhawk

5. Fire Ball - missile equivalent to a large catapult, from Chainmail 1e

6. Fly - from OD&D vol. 1

7. Haste Spell - from OD&D vol. 1

8. Hold Person - from OD&D vol. 1

9. Infravision - a special ability of Wizards, from Chainmail

10. Invisibility, 10' r. - from OD&D vol. 1

11. Lightning Bolt - missile equivalent to a heavy field gun, from Chainmail 1e

12. Monster Summoning I - from Greyhawk

13. Protection/Evil, 10' r. - from "Protection from Evil" (III), Chainmail 2e

14. Protection/Normal Missiles - a special ability of Wizards, from Chainmail

15. Rope Trick - from Greyhawk

16. Slow Spell - from OD&D vol. 1

17. Suggestion - from Greyhawk

18. Water Breathing - from OD&D vol. 1

A Book of Third Level Spells includes the eighteen 3rd level spells from OD&D + Greyhawk.

Book of Fourth Level Spells:

1. Charm Monster - from OD&D vol. 1

2. Confusion - from OD&D vol. 1

3. Dimension Door - from OD&D vol. 1

4. Extension I - from Greyhawk

5. Fear - from Greyhawk

6. Growth of Plants - from OD&D vol. 1

7. Hallucinatory Terrain - from OD&D vol. 1

8. Ice Storm - from Greyhawk

9. Massmorph - from "Concealment" (III), Chainmail 1e

10. Monster Summoning II - from Greyhawk

11. Polymorph Self - from OD&D vol. 1

12. Polymorph Others - from OD&D vol. 1

13. Remove Curse - from OD&D vol. 1

14. Wall of Fire - from OD&D vol. 1

15. Wall of Ice - from OD&D vol. 1

16. Wizard Eye - from OD&D vol. 1

A Book of Fourth Level Spells includes the sixteen 4th level spells from OD&D + Greyhawk.

A magic-user conjuring a fire elemental.  Illustration by David C. Sutherland III, from the AD&D 1e Monster Manual (1977)

Book of Fifth Level Spells:

1. Animate Dead - from OD&D vol. 1

2. Cloudkill - from OD&D vol. 1

3. Conjure Elemental - from "Conjuration of an Elemental" (V), Chainmail 1e

4. Contact Higher Plane - from OD&D vol. 1

5. Extension II - from Greyhawk

6. Feeblemind - from OD&D vol. 1

7. Growth of Animal - from OD&D vol. 1

8. Hold Monster - from OD&D vol. 1

9. Magic Jar - from OD&D vol. 1

10. Monster Summoning III - from Greyhawk

11. Pass-Wall - from OD&D vol. 1

12. Teleport - from the "Transference" spell, from Dungeon!

13. Telekinesis - from OD&D vol. 1

14. Transmute Rock to Mud - from OD&D vol. 1

15. Wall of Iron - from OD&D vol. 1

16. Wall of Stone - from OD&D vol. 1

A Book of Fifth Level Spells includes the sixteen 5th level spells from OD&D + Greyhawk.

Book of Sixth Level Spells:

1. Anti-Magic Shell - from OD&D vol. 1

2. Control Weather - from OD&D vol. 1

3. Death Spell - from OD&D vol. 1

4. Disintegrate - from OD&D vol. 1

5. Extension III - from Greyhawk

6. Geas - from OD&D vol. 1

7. Invisible Stalker - from OD&D vol. 1

8. Legend Lore from Greyhawk

9. Lower Water - from OD&D vol. 1

10. Monster Summoning IV - from Greyhawk

11. Move Earth - from "Moving Terrain" (VI), Chainmail 2e

12. Part Water - from OD&D vol. 1

13. Projected Image - from OD&D vol. 1

14. Reincarnation - from OD&D vol. 1

15. Repulsion - from Greyhawk

16. Stone to Flesh - from OD&D vol. 1

A Book of Sixth Level Spells includes the sixteen 6th level spells from OD&D + Greyhawk.

Book of Seventh Level Spells:

1. Charm Plants - from Greyhawk

2. Delayed Blast Fire Ball - from Greyhawk

3. Drawmij's Instant Summons - AD&D 1e Players Handbook

4. Mass Invisibility - from Greyhawk

5. Monster Summoning V - from Greyhawk

6. Mordenkainen's Sword - AD&D 1e Players Handbook

7. Phase Door - from Greyhawk

8. Power Word Stun - from Greyhawk

9. Limited Wish - from Greyhawk

10. Reverse Gravity - from Greyhawk

11. Simulacrum - from Greyhawk

12. Statue - AD&D 1e Players Handbook

A Book of Seventh Level Spells includes the nine 7th level spells from Greyhawk, as well as three new spells from the AD&D 1e Players Handbook ("Drawmij's Instant Summons", "Mordenkainen's Sword", and "Statue", which appear as "Summon Object", "Sword", and "Statue" in BECMI).

Book of Eighth Level Spells:

1. Clone - from Greyhawk

2. Incendiary Cloud - AD&D 1e Players Handbook

3. Mass Charm - from Greyhawk

4. Mind Blank - from Greyhawk

5. Monster Summoning VI - from Greyhawk

6. Otto's Irresistible Dance - AD&D 1e Players Handbook

7. Permanent Spell - from Greyhawk

8. Polymorph Any Object - from Greyhawk

9. Power Word Blind - from Greyhawk

10. Symbol - from Greyhawk

A Book of Eighth Level Spells includes the eight 8th level spells from Greyhawk, as well as two new spells from the AD&D 1e Players Handbook ("Incendiary Cloud" and "Otto's Irresistible Dane", which appear as "Explosive Cloud" and "Dance" in BECMI).

Book of Ninth Level Spells:

1. Astral Spell - from Greyhawk

2. Gate - from Greyhawk

3. Maze - from Greyhawk

4. Meteor Swarm - from Greyhawk

5. Monster Summoning VII - from Greyhawk

6. Power Word Kill - from Greyhawk

7. Prismatic Wall - from Greyhawk

8. Shape Change - from Greyhawk

9. Time Stop - from Greyhawk

10. Wish - from Greyhawk

A Book of Ninth Level Spells includes the ten 9th level spells from Greyhawk.