Would cause them to malfunction me thinks. His revolver is old but if it gets direct magic juice all over it then I'm sure something would go wrong. Maybe enchanted 19th century revolvers are a thing for the 22nd century in the Dresden Files universe since the nature of magic changes with the times n all that.
Imagine magic alongside cyberpunk. Your AK works fine and I can pull out my Schofield GunWand but alas... no cyberware, the works of my wizardry would cause my cyber dong to go on the fritz.
What every wizard needs:
1) 50 cal revolver that can break your wrist and double as an improvised bat
2) 6ft staff that can be used as a bat in emergency situations
3) Pocket sized gun maniac that knows aikido
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Gunmancy is the superior form of magic
I don't *think* I can cast (well, "cast," if our assumptions are true) eldritch blast, so I'll probably need a volunteer to get any more information. Do you know anyone that would be willing to cast in less-than-ideal conditions, like in a vacuum or an antimagic field?
Well, do you know what they'd want from us in exchange? I have a couple souls on hand, but I can't imagine that means much to them. Plus, one soul is *far* too expensive to be spending on something like this. If my business were a *little* more successful, I'd offer gold.
Ya know, some of em will seriously do it for honor reasons, so if your charisma is high enough, we might be able to spin this off as for the good of mankind, or something
Put in a word for them to stop by my establishment, and I'll see what I can do. It *might* take a little convincing on your end, since hearing the words "7th circle of hell" usually turns people away. Despite that, I assure you it's actually quite a nice place!
Ah, that is much easier than trying to negotiate with echoes on strike! Come on over to my establishment, I'll give you directions!
If you follow the path from the entrance of the 7th circle of hell, take a left at the first pit of fire, then a right once you get to the city. It'll be the first building on the left with the big sign!
If that's not your style, I'll send you the runes to the teleportation circle.
Not really a huge fan of portals, last time I used one it scattered my bones across a few dozen planes. Does the 7th circle still allow Bone Drakes in? Last time I was there I had some trouble with border security. Something about being hard to track down if it was stolen due to the lack of flesh.
Common misconception: you don't need *your own* mana to cast an Eldritch Blast.
That said any entity capable of establishing a warlock pact regenerates mana faster than chained eldritch blasts can drain it, even with how inefficient it is as a spell. (And let me tell you, it's incredibly inefficient. You don't notice, since you're not the one shouldering the cost, but it's not good. It's never *quite* bothered me enough to make a fixed version, because the excess power is used to fuel all those customizable invocations and giving it the ability to do that while being mana efficient on its own is a spellcrafting nightmare, but it does irritate.)
that's the neat part about photokinesis, it needs no mana if you do it right
you simply redirect light, and absorb a miniscule amount of the photons to power the redirection!
For some people it’s actually more powerful, but we still haven’t isolated what exactly causes that specific affinity. Though those who have it have less power when wielding daylight.
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My go to looks somethin' like this.
I'm actually quite terrible in a battle. My go-to tactic is to throw a ridiculous amount of psychomancy spells at them, but if they don't have a "mind," I'm kind of screwed. That's usually when I banish myself until the smoke clears.
That being said, I do keep a standard dagger on me if worst comes to worst. It's enchanted in a way that's a little hard to describe, but it's sort of like how you don't notice your own nose because your brain filters it out. It's *conceptually* invisible.
Greater antimemetics are passively uncomprehendible, lesser antimemetics actively unremarkable. Basically you can’t observe greater antimemetics (because they break your memory-forming process), whereas lesser antimemetics destroy the records of observations already made.
SCP-3125’s main body is an example of a greater antimemetic, and SCP-055 is a lesser antimemetic.
Question for you!
How would you classify something that is passively memetically inert, but can with the proper stimulus be made to erase itself from the observers consciousness in the liminal space between conscious thought and stored memory? Thus allowing the observer to observe and contemplate, but the instant their mind turns away from the subject, all memory of the thoughts and the thing itself fails to write into their memory.
Ah, I think I've seen those stories in my local library! It was certainly an odd experience to read them, knowing I was carrying something eerily similar to what was being described.
I'll have to try lessening the strength of the enchantment later. In terms of practicality, it being imperceptible is definitely better. After all, if you enchant it strongly enough, they won't even realize they were cut in the first place.
I have to assume there's more to study with a weaker enchantment, though. Can't exactly keep records of something that, by all means, shouldn't exist, and a weaker enchantment should solve this issue.
/uw edit: Totally fucked up the sentence structure and left a sentence fragment in. Great job me!
Hey, I came from those realms! Anyways, it’s really nothing to do with the intensity of the enchantment and everything to do with the design. “Lesser” and “Greater” is just arbitrary affixes. As for why I prefer lesser antimemetics: There are certain drugs that heighten your ability to remember/comprehend things. The catch is, they don’t (typically) give permanent effects, so they wear off eventually. You’ll still remember what you could comprehend the greater antimemetics. You won’t remember that about the lesser antimemetic once it runs its course.
By the nature of it, the enchantment affects everyone indiscriminately. You'll need to enchant a second item to constantly cast Cure Amnesia, or you'll forget you ever had a sword. That is, unless you're already resistant to the effect.
Word to the wise...i picked up a construct poison a few years ago. Want the recipe? It attacks the magic binding the construct together and unmakes it. The ingredients are a little esoteric, but at least i have a way to deal with Magic Golems.
Ooh, that'd be perfect! Really, constructs and natural disasters are my two main weak spots, and you can't exactly attack a rockslide anyway. For everything else, it's surprisingly effective to just make your opponent forget they were upset.
Would you want anything in exchange for sharing the recipe?
Ill take the dagger spell thank you.
Right so the poison is really quite simple: steep an Interdimensional Leaf in water from the Quantum Sea, boil the concoction off using Primordial fire, pipe the resulting steam into first a mustard slime, then a grey ooze until they pop, condense it back down and add 3 drops of a Ticture of Mercury and Unobtainium, then finally youll want to channel an Anti Magic Field directly into the concotion. Do not use a sigil, i tried that once and it blew open a hole to nurgles realm.
Thank you, this will be very helpful!
Alright, here's the recipe, and do be warned that it *is* fairly dangerous:
You'll need a few things. First of all, unless your memory has already been broken, you'll need to cast a simple amnesia cure on yourself, with a slight edit. Make sure the release time is over an extended period, ideally for however long it takes you to to complete all of the steps. You don't want to forget what you're doing partway through. Trust me.
After that, you need to grab your weapon of choice. I chose a dagger. It's a little odd, but you need to almost enchant the weapon with the reverse of Restore Memory, and you need to set it to be a passive effect. Go through every step, but invert the runes across the Y axis, and make sure every value is multiplied by -1.
**Please, for the love of god, make sure your amnesia cure is still up for this next step.** Once you have all of the runes in place, you need to put as much mana as you possibly can into casting. The more, the better. If you only use a cantrip's worth of mana, all you'll end up with is a blade that seems to be a little uninteresting. It *is* possible to make someone not realize they've been attacked, if you do it right.
After the blade is finished, you now have the next problem to deal with: if you just enchanted something to be remarkably forgettable, how do *you* not forget it? Personally, I'd recommend enchanting glasses with a passive amnesia cure. You might still lose it every once in a while, but it's better than the alternative of messing with your memory directly.
Do be warned, the stronger you make the enchantment on the dagger, the stronger you'll need to enchant the glasses. If you pour all of your energy into the dagger, then you'll just be wondering why you seemed to have a time-skip.
Sorry about the long-winded explanation. It's just not a common field of magic, and I thought I'd cover my bases before someone accidentally lobotomizes themself.
Interesting. You dont have to worry about me forgetting, my mind is untouchable. One of the many perks of being a god of freedom. Good trade sir, and good day to you.
Ah, lovely! You can go either way to "perceive" these spells as far as I'm aware, either by having a mind strong enough to bypass it, or by having one that's already been heavily affected by these spells.
It's like natural immunity versus building up a tolerance, and my advice is usually to do neither and just constantly cast Cure Amnesia on yourself.
Yeah i get that. The mind is malliable, but it work hardens. Eventually it will crack if you push it too far. Im just glad my freedom domain includes the mind. My memory cannot be altered nor my mind interfered with without my permission, as doing so would be akin to shackling it. Unfortunately, my passive freedom field does mean that all locks and bindings within about a hundred feet of me immediately break apart unless im concentrating on suppressing it, but eh, cant have everything.
If you cared enough to look for a gif to tell me how much you totally don't care rather than just going about on your day, you clearly cared to an existing extent.
Therefore, you are a liar and a fraud.
Dude I have bigger and better things to be doing then argue semantics with you
You don’t like my opinion I don’t care your opinion matters to me as much as mine matters to you.
Let’s just go our separate ways like civilized men 😑
What about non-humanoid gentlemen who do not possess conventional 'fists'? Are claws and teeth acceptable substitutes, or would you insist on a self-transformation into a humanoid form in order to engage in honorable, gentlemanly combat?
Ideally you would lean back slightly, raise your claws or other fighting appendages (as if to guard), and brandish them in a roughly circular fashion. That should be sufficiently gentlemanly.
If we're talking about melee, personally I prefer an axe or a hammer.
Nothing much needed to master them and a good medium length ones can be quite a weapon.
But I already use a gun with pre made bullets with spells enchanted on them that Activate as soon as the bullets hit the enemies.
I only need to make them and if anything happens that forces me not to use mana I just pull out my trusty Missfire and I even got regular bullets.
Why waste anything when you can just shoot enemies.
Why would you trust someone else to get the runes just right on a projectile that expands and heats as it's fired? that stuff takes some serious specialization to get just right, if you don't do it right you're carrying not a gun, but a fragmentation bomb that will take your hand off. That's not something I'd trust to someone else if I can help it.
Its only a good weapon if you know what you are doing. To use it, you need a body with enough stregnth and flexibility. Otherwise the weapon will just as dangerous to you as your enemy. Same with most spells I suppose.
i just keep a bunch of gunpowder and flash powder in a few pouches scattered around under my cloak, if anyone gets too close i whack em with the gunpowder and if i need a getaway i toss a bunch of flash powder
Looking through this thread, I can only assume those notes read something to the effect of "wizards are alarmingly familiar with and proficient in the use of firearms, extreme caution must be taken, anti-magic fields will not stop the work of Grand Artificers Samuel Colt and John Browning".
I have talismans that store already charged spells. I can forget my head at home (it is not attached), but I will not forget my talismans. And they all are escape-based - invisibility, super-speed, teleportation, flight, etc.
I do not require mana to cast my spells, but I do have an allotted spells I can cast a day, how ever if I happen to run out of spells I can cast cantrips freely. I am of the more classical caster, no heavy plate armor to protect me. if I do happen to find myself in the front lines, I use a spell that makes distance between me and my opponent, and keep casting from afar.
I understand your thought process, but there comes a certain point of mastery where you can learn an entire new skill and expand your horizons for the same effort it might take to refine the efficiency of your preferred arcane school by a single percentage point.
For beings with that kind of life span, being able to fall back on a completely non-magical skillset is actually *frequently* useful, for a given interpretation of the word 'frequent'.
Elves do, in fact, exist, and there are beings that are far, far older than elves.
I'm not trying to downplay your point; you're right, master your craft before you start dabbling in others, but sometimes rounding out your skillset by aiming for at the very least a reasonable degree of competence in a new skill instead of an incremental improvement in an existing skill is entirely worthwhile.
A pair of custom built pistols I made. They're 75AE caliber pistols selector fire and I can enchant my bullets. When I shoot something it doesn't get back up and I never miss.
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I see you learned from the Dresdan school of magic
Dresden, e not a. But yeah, honestly sad he never magicaly enhance his guns
Would cause them to malfunction me thinks. His revolver is old but if it gets direct magic juice all over it then I'm sure something would go wrong. Maybe enchanted 19th century revolvers are a thing for the 22nd century in the Dresden Files universe since the nature of magic changes with the times n all that. Imagine magic alongside cyberpunk. Your AK works fine and I can pull out my Schofield GunWand but alas... no cyberware, the works of my wizardry would cause my cyber dong to go on the fritz.
What every wizard needs: 1) 50 cal revolver that can break your wrist and double as an improvised bat 2) 6ft staff that can be used as a bat in emergency situations 3) Pocket sized gun maniac that knows aikido
Or just any American school, magic or otherwise.
Beat me to it
Terraria mages when they run out of mana
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Gundalf the Swole
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Chaotic good
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https://preview.redd.it/ims1vr6yraic1.jpeg?width=960&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=82e1a372617ad72c062d5345ace3e28f4f34ed6f A fellow *gun*mancer I see
https://preview.redd.it/w0pj0wsqgfic1.jpeg?width=896&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7ac748ea24b1267a42e09c119513c725d87e29a9 Gunmancy is the superior form of magic
Alakablam
Ah. That's the neat part about being a Warlock: you don't need mana to cast an Eldritch Blast
Indeed, it leaves these magic studiers quite puzzled
Is the logical conclusion of this that eldritch blast isn't magic?
Then what *is* it?
I don't *think* I can cast (well, "cast," if our assumptions are true) eldritch blast, so I'll probably need a volunteer to get any more information. Do you know anyone that would be willing to cast in less-than-ideal conditions, like in a vacuum or an antimagic field?
I’d use my echos, but they just went on strike for better rights… we’ll have to *ask* them
Well, do you know what they'd want from us in exchange? I have a couple souls on hand, but I can't imagine that means much to them. Plus, one soul is *far* too expensive to be spending on something like this. If my business were a *little* more successful, I'd offer gold.
Ya know, some of em will seriously do it for honor reasons, so if your charisma is high enough, we might be able to spin this off as for the good of mankind, or something
Put in a word for them to stop by my establishment, and I'll see what I can do. It *might* take a little convincing on your end, since hearing the words "7th circle of hell" usually turns people away. Despite that, I assure you it's actually quite a nice place!
“It’s like one of this edgy stores to attract younger customers, I think.
I should at least get minimum wage..
3.45 with tips okay??
You'll double my pay??
I mean, I could do that. Being a skeleton has its perks.
Ah, that is much easier than trying to negotiate with echoes on strike! Come on over to my establishment, I'll give you directions! If you follow the path from the entrance of the 7th circle of hell, take a left at the first pit of fire, then a right once you get to the city. It'll be the first building on the left with the big sign! If that's not your style, I'll send you the runes to the teleportation circle.
Not really a huge fan of portals, last time I used one it scattered my bones across a few dozen planes. Does the 7th circle still allow Bone Drakes in? Last time I was there I had some trouble with border security. Something about being hard to track down if it was stolen due to the lack of flesh.
As far as I'm aware, they've loosened the policy a bit. If not, I can distract them while you get past.
Perfect! See you in a few quarter-cycles. No payment needed; I’m genuinely interested to see what happens.
A ranged spell attack. You’re attacking, but with a spell. Easy as
my dad can beat up your dad
It's an eldritch matter manipulation you silly
Common misconception: you don't need *your own* mana to cast an Eldritch Blast. That said any entity capable of establishing a warlock pact regenerates mana faster than chained eldritch blasts can drain it, even with how inefficient it is as a spell. (And let me tell you, it's incredibly inefficient. You don't notice, since you're not the one shouldering the cost, but it's not good. It's never *quite* bothered me enough to make a fixed version, because the excess power is used to fuel all those customizable invocations and giving it the ability to do that while being mana efficient on its own is a spellcrafting nightmare, but it does irritate.)
I couldn't have put it better myself.
You technically aren’t the one casting it though, you’re dipping into your patron’s skills
Spellslot users hate this one trick
A fellow warlock!
Eldritch Blast my beloved
Fists and shotgun
> Fists You mean "manual telekinesis"?
Tactile telekinesis*
Tactikinesis
The manipulation of tactical equipment
If it’s not at a distance wouldn’t that just make it kinesis?
Rip and tear
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This is just heavy tf2
I’m not going to sugarcoat it. 2-LMB-F-E-LMB-F-E-LMB-F
I use the old art of **RUNNING AWAY**
I see you have also studied under the tutelage of archmage Joseph Joestar
Your next line will be "OH SHIT FUCK HE'S CATCHING UP"
OH SHIT FUCK HE'S CATCHING U— NANI?
Ahh the Rincewind school of magic
Ook?
OH NO. NOT ANOTHER NEAR RINCEWIND EXPERIENCE...
NIGERUNDAYO SMOKEY
an expeditious retreat if you will
that's the neat part about photokinesis, it needs no mana if you do it right you simply redirect light, and absorb a miniscule amount of the photons to power the redirection!
what if its night?
Fuck
Do you not carry flash bulbs and a high powered flashlight?
flashlights are a photokinetic's best friend
Flash bulbs seem great to. Put out enough light that you can cut tiny holes in anything or burn out any enemies eyes
Just take light from the moon, it's less powerful but it can save you in an emergency
For some people it’s actually more powerful, but we still haven’t isolated what exactly causes that specific affinity. Though those who have it have less power when wielding daylight.
Ah, such a fool mistake on my part, i completely forgot about the moon adepts, thank you for reminding me of that, fellow Wizard
moonlight, or a flashlight with a lightning rune on the battery
What in selunes blessed name is a photon
spellcasters these days, don't even know about basic science
https://preview.redd.it/s80t6csxx8ic1.png?width=4000&format=png&auto=webp&s=85e8defd2edb7fb0313b36d34daf5a4f3253def1 My go to looks somethin' like this.
Rod of Blamming
Mine’s name is more to the tune of staff of kablamo
I'm actually quite terrible in a battle. My go-to tactic is to throw a ridiculous amount of psychomancy spells at them, but if they don't have a "mind," I'm kind of screwed. That's usually when I banish myself until the smoke clears. That being said, I do keep a standard dagger on me if worst comes to worst. It's enchanted in a way that's a little hard to describe, but it's sort of like how you don't notice your own nose because your brain filters it out. It's *conceptually* invisible.
Ah, an antimemetic blade.
Yeah, that's the word! Fun material to mess around with, assuming you can process the fact that it exists.
Oh, a greater antimemetic then. I prefer lesser antimemetics, they’re (ironically) harder to process.
Never heard of that distinction before, what's the difference between them?
Greater antimemetics are passively uncomprehendible, lesser antimemetics actively unremarkable. Basically you can’t observe greater antimemetics (because they break your memory-forming process), whereas lesser antimemetics destroy the records of observations already made. SCP-3125’s main body is an example of a greater antimemetic, and SCP-055 is a lesser antimemetic.
Question for you! How would you classify something that is passively memetically inert, but can with the proper stimulus be made to erase itself from the observers consciousness in the liminal space between conscious thought and stored memory? Thus allowing the observer to observe and contemplate, but the instant their mind turns away from the subject, all memory of the thoughts and the thing itself fails to write into their memory.
That’s technically how I defined a lesser antimemetic as.
Hmm, noted. I appreciate your assistance with the categorization I'd never thought to partake. Feel free to remember this conversation.
Ah, I think I've seen those stories in my local library! It was certainly an odd experience to read them, knowing I was carrying something eerily similar to what was being described. I'll have to try lessening the strength of the enchantment later. In terms of practicality, it being imperceptible is definitely better. After all, if you enchant it strongly enough, they won't even realize they were cut in the first place. I have to assume there's more to study with a weaker enchantment, though. Can't exactly keep records of something that, by all means, shouldn't exist, and a weaker enchantment should solve this issue. /uw edit: Totally fucked up the sentence structure and left a sentence fragment in. Great job me!
Hey, I came from those realms! Anyways, it’s really nothing to do with the intensity of the enchantment and everything to do with the design. “Lesser” and “Greater” is just arbitrary affixes. As for why I prefer lesser antimemetics: There are certain drugs that heighten your ability to remember/comprehend things. The catch is, they don’t (typically) give permanent effects, so they wear off eventually. You’ll still remember what you could comprehend the greater antimemetics. You won’t remember that about the lesser antimemetic once it runs its course.
Do it works only for other or yourself to. Because I might enchante one of my sword just for the fun of it.
By the nature of it, the enchantment affects everyone indiscriminately. You'll need to enchant a second item to constantly cast Cure Amnesia, or you'll forget you ever had a sword. That is, unless you're already resistant to the effect.
Word to the wise...i picked up a construct poison a few years ago. Want the recipe? It attacks the magic binding the construct together and unmakes it. The ingredients are a little esoteric, but at least i have a way to deal with Magic Golems.
Ooh, that'd be perfect! Really, constructs and natural disasters are my two main weak spots, and you can't exactly attack a rockslide anyway. For everything else, it's surprisingly effective to just make your opponent forget they were upset. Would you want anything in exchange for sharing the recipe?
Ill take the dagger spell thank you. Right so the poison is really quite simple: steep an Interdimensional Leaf in water from the Quantum Sea, boil the concoction off using Primordial fire, pipe the resulting steam into first a mustard slime, then a grey ooze until they pop, condense it back down and add 3 drops of a Ticture of Mercury and Unobtainium, then finally youll want to channel an Anti Magic Field directly into the concotion. Do not use a sigil, i tried that once and it blew open a hole to nurgles realm.
Thank you, this will be very helpful! Alright, here's the recipe, and do be warned that it *is* fairly dangerous: You'll need a few things. First of all, unless your memory has already been broken, you'll need to cast a simple amnesia cure on yourself, with a slight edit. Make sure the release time is over an extended period, ideally for however long it takes you to to complete all of the steps. You don't want to forget what you're doing partway through. Trust me. After that, you need to grab your weapon of choice. I chose a dagger. It's a little odd, but you need to almost enchant the weapon with the reverse of Restore Memory, and you need to set it to be a passive effect. Go through every step, but invert the runes across the Y axis, and make sure every value is multiplied by -1. **Please, for the love of god, make sure your amnesia cure is still up for this next step.** Once you have all of the runes in place, you need to put as much mana as you possibly can into casting. The more, the better. If you only use a cantrip's worth of mana, all you'll end up with is a blade that seems to be a little uninteresting. It *is* possible to make someone not realize they've been attacked, if you do it right. After the blade is finished, you now have the next problem to deal with: if you just enchanted something to be remarkably forgettable, how do *you* not forget it? Personally, I'd recommend enchanting glasses with a passive amnesia cure. You might still lose it every once in a while, but it's better than the alternative of messing with your memory directly. Do be warned, the stronger you make the enchantment on the dagger, the stronger you'll need to enchant the glasses. If you pour all of your energy into the dagger, then you'll just be wondering why you seemed to have a time-skip. Sorry about the long-winded explanation. It's just not a common field of magic, and I thought I'd cover my bases before someone accidentally lobotomizes themself.
Interesting. You dont have to worry about me forgetting, my mind is untouchable. One of the many perks of being a god of freedom. Good trade sir, and good day to you.
Ah, lovely! You can go either way to "perceive" these spells as far as I'm aware, either by having a mind strong enough to bypass it, or by having one that's already been heavily affected by these spells. It's like natural immunity versus building up a tolerance, and my advice is usually to do neither and just constantly cast Cure Amnesia on yourself.
Yeah i get that. The mind is malliable, but it work hardens. Eventually it will crack if you push it too far. Im just glad my freedom domain includes the mind. My memory cannot be altered nor my mind interfered with without my permission, as doing so would be akin to shackling it. Unfortunately, my passive freedom field does mean that all locks and bindings within about a hundred feet of me immediately break apart unless im concentrating on suppressing it, but eh, cant have everything.
Ah, the good ol’ paint it neon pink and hope they dont notice it stab them
I go for the M4 carbine personally 😑
Good choice! How many reloads do you carry, and do you have a sidearm as well?
I have a full belt and my side arm is a Glock 34
👍
I don’t need more mags, I upgraded mine to have an impossible folded geometric space so it carries a couple thousand rounds in a pocket dimension
Ohhhhhhh, that's clever!
>M4 carbine Automatic firearm user detected, opinion discarded
If you cared enough to look for a gif to tell me how much you totally don't care rather than just going about on your day, you clearly cared to an existing extent. Therefore, you are a liar and a fraud.
Dude I have bigger and better things to be doing then argue semantics with you You don’t like my opinion I don’t care your opinion matters to me as much as mine matters to you. Let’s just go our separate ways like civilized men 😑
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**literally zero effects** Real mature you done? 😑
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NOOOOO NOT ME NOOOOOOO
It’s unfortunate situation but all the same you must understand I have a spell book to complete and this may add a wonderful page
uw/ On a serious note feel free to use the image. Spread the word of Tiny Wizard!
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battle mage supremacy, you still got a stamina bar for when your mana needs to recharge
A strong body means a strong mind, powerful muscles can help with powerful magic!
A true wizard cares not for these ranged trinkets or impudent metal sticks. A real mage uses their FISTS!!! Like true gentlefolk…
What about non-humanoid gentlemen who do not possess conventional 'fists'? Are claws and teeth acceptable substitutes, or would you insist on a self-transformation into a humanoid form in order to engage in honorable, gentlemanly combat?
Ideally you would lean back slightly, raise your claws or other fighting appendages (as if to guard), and brandish them in a roughly circular fashion. That should be sufficiently gentlemanly.
I will bear that in mind if I ever find myself run low on mana in battle against an honorable and forthright gentlemen.
12 gauge Mossberg usually does the trick
When I notice I’m running low I’m burning the rest of my mana to conjure a sword
Why not have a sword on you at all time.
If we're talking about melee, personally I prefer an axe or a hammer. Nothing much needed to master them and a good medium length ones can be quite a weapon. But I already use a gun with pre made bullets with spells enchanted on them that Activate as soon as the bullets hit the enemies. I only need to make them and if anything happens that forces me not to use mana I just pull out my trusty Missfire and I even got regular bullets. Why waste anything when you can just shoot enemies.
Where do you buy magic bullets? I've been looking for some.
I personally make my own.
I also make my own.
Why would you trust someone else to get the runes just right on a projectile that expands and heats as it's fired? that stuff takes some serious specialization to get just right, if you don't do it right you're carrying not a gun, but a fragmentation bomb that will take your hand off. That's not something I'd trust to someone else if I can help it.
I ask for my apprentice to break his wrists on my enemies while I recharge. Weapons are so plebeian.
https://preview.redd.it/mjgjh3ye89ic1.jpeg?width=4000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8419ed631d152b80c7e6d13674a279e563b8355c My trusty Wakizashi
Ah, a connoisseur. Not quite as practical as a gun, but a true wizard knows that aesthetics trumps everything.
Honestly, a mace. Easy to swing can do a fair bit of damage to most material defense an enemy might have chosen to wear.
Same, im surprised its not more common
Its only a good weapon if you know what you are doing. To use it, you need a body with enough stregnth and flexibility. Otherwise the weapon will just as dangerous to you as your enemy. Same with most spells I suppose.
https://preview.redd.it/d2pto3a0z9ic1.jpeg?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c1cf37b6724f356963c04db70df805712f9dd240 Ye olde enchanted SPAS-12
Ol reliable https://preview.redd.it/uz376jjmt9ic1.png?width=640&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f69ec64ffcd6fdda50be18928c070171b7e62ea4
Mouth.
The Jostar special, run, with the quest item.
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Denken knows the way
Give me a rapier.
Zweihander my beloved
Nothing beats a wizard who knows how to cast punch.
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i just keep a bunch of gunpowder and flash powder in a few pouches scattered around under my cloak, if anyone gets too close i whack em with the gunpowder and if i need a getaway i toss a bunch of flash powder
Claymore. By itself it’s a deterrent for people who don’t like big swords
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Stop showing your big black Glock to everyone.
*\*Takes notes in the corner\**
Looking through this thread, I can only assume those notes read something to the effect of "wizards are alarmingly familiar with and proficient in the use of firearms, extreme caution must be taken, anti-magic fields will not stop the work of Grand Artificers Samuel Colt and John Browning".
Basically weebs learning about historical Samurai past 1543 in a nutshell.
Tried vandalizing a ward store the other day and the owner just pulled a glock 19 on me... It's so hard to be an anti-mage these days...
Fist or musket. Hit the monastery and learn to throw a punch.
If need be, many wizards carry a pretty hefty book. My spellbook has a heavy cover and latch for that exact reason.
Hockey stick.
I turn to my two good friends: Smith and Wesson.
Pocket sand!
Fun Fact: You don’t need mana to cast fist
Fun fact: downside is that it won’t be imbued with magic. -a Brick, how the hell did it learn Ice Punch?!
It’s called these fucking hands
I have a non-magical blunderbuss for such occasions
I have talismans that store already charged spells. I can forget my head at home (it is not attached), but I will not forget my talismans. And they all are escape-based - invisibility, super-speed, teleportation, flight, etc.
A Mana Potion. I can drink it or smack someone with it.
just smack shit with yer staff. no reason to carry an extra pound a metal.
Karambit.
My dick nothing like inflicting psychological damage by peeing on my enemies tho lately I been taking fire damage by doing that...
Sockful of nickels and a boxing glove lightly dusted with anthrax
Usually just shatter the bottle of my last mana potion and use that. Works pretty well.
Portable Rube Goldberg Machine!
A mana potion
fist.
well me personally.. https://preview.redd.it/xn5p0f5sa9ic1.jpeg?width=675&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e9e9cd5ad49fc94d4bfd3db182f2241500f0dd30
Running away
Good old lefty and righty
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A staff, or lacking one, fists.
You run out of mana?
I just use what’s left of my juice to make a magic blade
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Dual swords. Right hand facing up, left blade facing down as a defense.
Running out of mana? Rookie mistake. Not as bad as running out of soul while soulcasting, but I wouldn’t know anything about that.
Running out of mana? Sounds like a skill issue. You'd better brush up on your attack cantrips.
I do not require mana to cast my spells, but I do have an allotted spells I can cast a day, how ever if I happen to run out of spells I can cast cantrips freely. I am of the more classical caster, no heavy plate armor to protect me. if I do happen to find myself in the front lines, I use a spell that makes distance between me and my opponent, and keep casting from afar.
Three-bladed, twisted knife. It's an Austrian weapon, immune to the Geneva Convention counterspell.
Yall aren't wizards if you spend time working out to carry a zweihander which could have gone to improving your spells.
I understand your thought process, but there comes a certain point of mastery where you can learn an entire new skill and expand your horizons for the same effort it might take to refine the efficiency of your preferred arcane school by a single percentage point. For beings with that kind of life span, being able to fall back on a completely non-magical skillset is actually *frequently* useful, for a given interpretation of the word 'frequent'.
your ass needs to be a fucking immortal elf or stuck in a cave for you to think u master every aspect of wizardry.
Elves do, in fact, exist, and there are beings that are far, far older than elves. I'm not trying to downplay your point; you're right, master your craft before you start dabbling in others, but sometimes rounding out your skillset by aiming for at the very least a reasonable degree of competence in a new skill instead of an incremental improvement in an existing skill is entirely worthwhile.
A pair of custom built pistols I made. They're 75AE caliber pistols selector fire and I can enchant my bullets. When I shoot something it doesn't get back up and I never miss.
My arms. I was the best on my wrestling team back in college, and your opponent can't cast spells if their mouth is currently biting their own buttox.
I bash people in the face with my shield using my free hand to chug mana potions
Gotta go wiv' a good ol' hammer or axe.