Every Wizard cantrip and 1st Level Spell in 5th
Edition, reflavoured into bugs. I like the idea of someone with swarms of bugs
living on them, plus I like giving examples of just how easy it is to reflavour
things in RPGs.
Cantrips
Acid Splash: A big, bulbous bug that splats itself against
the target.
Blade Ward: Armoured insects crawl all over you.
Chill Touch: An oversized, black mosquito.
Dancing Lights: Fireflies.
Fire Bolt: A vermillion wasp with a stinger of white-hot metal.
Friends: Butterflies dance about you, pinkish powder falling from their wings.
Light: A little fat glow-worm.
Mage Hand: A particularly dextrous dragonfly.
Mending: Ants swarm all over the object and fix it up.
Message: A fly shoots over to the target, relays your message, and returns with a response.
Minor Illusion: Put a beetle on your tongue and your thoughts turn into sound and image.
Poison Spray: A big stinkbug's fart.
Prestidigitation: A spider on the back of your hand bites down, now your hand has powers.
Ray of Frost: A hairy bug with a freezing bite.
Shocking Grasp: Centipedes on your hand deliver the shock through their mandibles.
True Strike: A moth whispers the enemy’s secrets in your ear.
1st Level
Blade Ward: Armoured insects crawl all over you.
Chill Touch: An oversized, black mosquito.
Dancing Lights: Fireflies.
Fire Bolt: A vermillion wasp with a stinger of white-hot metal.
Friends: Butterflies dance about you, pinkish powder falling from their wings.
Light: A little fat glow-worm.
Mage Hand: A particularly dextrous dragonfly.
Mending: Ants swarm all over the object and fix it up.
Message: A fly shoots over to the target, relays your message, and returns with a response.
Minor Illusion: Put a beetle on your tongue and your thoughts turn into sound and image.
Poison Spray: A big stinkbug's fart.
Prestidigitation: A spider on the back of your hand bites down, now your hand has powers.
Ray of Frost: A hairy bug with a freezing bite.
Shocking Grasp: Centipedes on your hand deliver the shock through their mandibles.
True Strike: A moth whispers the enemy’s secrets in your ear.
1st Level
Alarm: Little insects lie in wait and report intruders.
Burning Hands: Crush a little red ant in your palms, then spread your hands.
Charm Person: Crickets play music in and around your words.
Chromatic Orb: A bunch of jewel beetles, all different colours.
Color Spray: A butterfly’s dazzling wings project the light.
Comprehend Languages: Eat a worm.
Detect Magic: More moths whispering secrets.
Disguise Self: Crush a beetle and brush the powder in a symbol on your forehead.
Expeditious Retreat: Ant swarms underfoot.
False Life: Eat an earwig.
Feather Fall: Butterflies hold you up as you descend.
Find Familiar: A little pentagram on the floor, a black beetle sacrificed in the centre.
Fog Cloud: A fat bluebottle explodes into bluish cloud.
Grease: Slug goop.
Identify: How do these moths know all these secrets?
Illusory Script: The ink is crushed beetle ichor.
Jump: Eat the spell’s listed material component.
Longstrider: A bug’s mandibles bite you, then you rip off the body and leave the dying head.
Mage Armour: Millipedes in your clothes.
Magic Missile: The vengeful ghosts of bugs from previous spells.
Protection from Evil and Good: Little bees with unnatural patterns bumble around your head.
Ray of Sickness: A bug with a poisonous bite.
Shield: A cicada’s carapace, animated with magic, takes hits for you.
Silent Image: Swallow a certain beetle, without chewing.
Sleep: Clouds of dust left behind from a giant butterfly’s wings.
Tasha’s Hideous Laughter: A crane fly whispers something in the target’s ear.
Tenser’s Floating Disk: Flying ants form a raft like red ants do in water.
Thunderwave: Crush a bug in your hand, only the sound is somehow amplified hugely.
Unseen Servant: Helpful bug ghosts.
Witch Bolt: A flurry of locusts swarm unending from your sleeve.
Burning Hands: Crush a little red ant in your palms, then spread your hands.
Charm Person: Crickets play music in and around your words.
Chromatic Orb: A bunch of jewel beetles, all different colours.
Color Spray: A butterfly’s dazzling wings project the light.
Comprehend Languages: Eat a worm.
Detect Magic: More moths whispering secrets.
Disguise Self: Crush a beetle and brush the powder in a symbol on your forehead.
Expeditious Retreat: Ant swarms underfoot.
False Life: Eat an earwig.
Feather Fall: Butterflies hold you up as you descend.
Find Familiar: A little pentagram on the floor, a black beetle sacrificed in the centre.
Fog Cloud: A fat bluebottle explodes into bluish cloud.
Grease: Slug goop.
Identify: How do these moths know all these secrets?
Illusory Script: The ink is crushed beetle ichor.
Jump: Eat the spell’s listed material component.
Longstrider: A bug’s mandibles bite you, then you rip off the body and leave the dying head.
Mage Armour: Millipedes in your clothes.
Magic Missile: The vengeful ghosts of bugs from previous spells.
Protection from Evil and Good: Little bees with unnatural patterns bumble around your head.
Ray of Sickness: A bug with a poisonous bite.
Shield: A cicada’s carapace, animated with magic, takes hits for you.
Silent Image: Swallow a certain beetle, without chewing.
Sleep: Clouds of dust left behind from a giant butterfly’s wings.
Tasha’s Hideous Laughter: A crane fly whispers something in the target’s ear.
Tenser’s Floating Disk: Flying ants form a raft like red ants do in water.
Thunderwave: Crush a bug in your hand, only the sound is somehow amplified hugely.
Unseen Servant: Helpful bug ghosts.
Witch Bolt: A flurry of locusts swarm unending from your sleeve.
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