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I was watching The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy and thought about how Grim is using his deadly magic to do casual things like cooking or to do housework. How fun would that be to roleplay?
To all the wizards. What are some very casual things you did with unusual spells?
I can cleary see someone casting restore corpse followed by a purify food for a good lunch. Maybe even use sculpt corpse to turn rat meat into mock chicken.
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I once used disintegrate on a door because the party spent 5 minutes discussing what to do if it was trapped. I got annoyed and solved the problem.
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Magic missile to detect images (it ONLY strikes the real Wizard!).
Though technically correct it doesn’t identify the wizard for follow up attacks. The images continue to move through and around. Basically you do the damage, but there is no other mechanical effect.
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Color spray, glitterdust and fireball make for great fireworks displays.
Ray of frost on metal sheets or barrels of water in the basement are good ways to keep a room chilled (to store foodstuffs, for instance). Part of an apprenticeship at the Arcanimirium, in Absalom, might include going around town and refreezing paying patrons iceboxes.
Heat metal could be handy in a forge, to quickly get metal to be worked red-hot (and then maintain it that way with mundane hot coals, the old fashioned way).
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My 2nd ed Wizard would use dig to make shelters and sometimes to have a latrine when he needed one.
Played with a druid who was a pyro. She didn't think flint and stone was very safe because the sparks could travel beyond the camp fire. So she'd insist on lighting the campfire with Flame Strike. Chaotic Neutral Druids, man...
Played a Cleric who use to use Blade Barrier to help chop firewood and ingredients for the stew.
In a very ancient version of Star Wars my soldier stole a lightsaber from an Inquisitor he killed and used it to open his beer. And sometimes doors. But never to fight with. I think the GM was mad I never tried to fight with it. Oh well.
On a side note I did play with a guy who's Gunslinger was our unofficial mechanic/repair guy. Any tech was all him and if he kept failing rolls he'd find a way to make Utility Shot rolls to help him repair things. Essentially if it gave him trouble he shot it until it worked.
I rather like the Druidic flower seller always keeping her flowers fresh and healthy because she keeps Plant Growth or more powerful spells "memmed".
As to the BonBons, I have an Arduin character with a magical sling that treated candy as ammunition, and even provided extra bonuses for some types of candy. Would that effect the Abundant Ammunition spell? That would certainly have helped him with his sugar-junkie deodanth protector/fangirl who tended to steal and eat his wonderful candy, well, eat them even faster than he did.
I used color spray for grenade-fishing once.
Planar binding for menial servants is a display of power (it was by an NPC) I guess.
Overland flight to make a stone bed seem soft should qualify too.
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Disintegrate, stone shape, create water and various fire spells to carve out a hot tub on a snow capped mountain.
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Potato Bombs. sack of potatos with explosive runes on each, when infiltrating a building rolling a potato down the hall to the guards. They pick them up and read the rune, boom. DM's hate the annoyingly creative ways I can use any spell.those are some expensive fries! and you assume the peasants can read or are interested in tossed tubers. Probably they'd just grab their halberds and come down to see who tossed the dredel taters down the hall...
In 3.X, my druid once summoned a "thoqqua" which is a red hot giant worm that melts through stone. We were supposed to search for 4 special gems to open the magic door. I just melted through it, and then made a gentleman's agreement with the DM not to abuse that ability to ruin his adventures.
There are a lot of summon X spells that have a lot of utility based on creature type and their spells and ability.
those are some expensive fries! and you assume the peasants can read or are interested in tossed tubers. Probably they'd just grab their halberds and come down to see who tossed the dredel taters down the hall...
If they can read then boom, if not, why would they care that a random potato just showed up? >.>
*Now is actually envisioning a grand ding dong ditch type of situation, eventually the guards will either try to read the potatoes, or just give up chasing whoever it is, when they can't find them and instead find potatoes at their post* x3
i had a similar thing happen i was playing a child rogue, our dm was experimenting with a new game mechanic we earn energy for each kill and can use that energy to do things like item crafting or casting spells. so we had a new party member join us and he just wouldn't believe we had magic powers(due to the energy mechanic) and the party was arguing for like 15 mins of real time about this so i just pointed to a nearby tree and disintegrated it by using the energy to cast disintegrate it took a good chunk of energy to pull off but it made the new party member stop arguing and keep quiet for a whileI once used disintegrate on a door because the party spent 5 minutes discussing what to do if it was trapped. I got annoyed and solved the problem.
Same character different situation: party arguing for a few minutes about how to keep a particularly nasty BBEG from being resurrected. *disinegrate* * kicks pile around with foot* “we done here?”
I used Tongues to make my rat familiar a translator.
I used Overland Flight to never walk on the ground and hence, never leave a trail or set of pit traps. Realistically, his legs would atrophy, but it's a fantasy game.
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There is that one archmage who bound a pair of pitfiends(!) to operate the sluice gates on a damn.
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Druids as peerless construction workers: erect two Walls of Stone, fill the space between with mud, then cast Mud to Rock. Finer details can, to an extent, be handled with Stone Shape. Move Earth and the like to dig out a moat. We’ll have that castle built in a week. Great Wall of China? Ok, maybe a few months.
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Fireball upwards as a flare signal. Lets the villagers know I need supplies, I have an arrangement for delivery of groceries.
Fishing with Fireball.
Jump starting the ceramic hot water heating stove with Fireball.
Helping start the local mines smelter with Fireball.
Fireball once a week to get rid of the garbage in the garbage pit.
Crotchety old retired wizard. "If'n ya caint solve whatever the problem is with a fireball, y'aint castin' it right."
Oh crap! I built a tank. I have to find that tank! It was a flying tank! It used a series of immovable rods on a belt for each track and could 'drive' into the air on them.
I'll be back >:D
Found it! Thread is literally called Wizard Tank :P
"I wish you were a beer!
I wish you were a beer!
I wish you were a beer!
I WISH YOU WERE A BEEEEER!"
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...What?
1. Dig a hole 19' 11.9" deep by about a foot in diameter (shape stone could be useful here)
2. Place a metal grid over the opening of the hole
3. Put meat on the grid
4. Stick your finger through the grid and cast fireball
Sticking your finger through and a wider hole means you almost certainly won't have to make an attack roll against the bottom of the pit.
Oh crap! I built a tank. I have to find that tank! It was a flying tank! It used a series of immovable rods on a belt for each track and could 'drive' into the air on them.
I'll be back >:D
Found it! Thread is literally called Wizard Tank :P
I came up with something very similar, though it was more of a gnomish “flying” tower. Series of tracks and angled metal bits that would press the immobile rod button to activate and deactivate them. I even had a whole schematic to show how it moved in three dimensions.
1. Dig a hole 19' 11.9" deep by about a foot in diameter (shape stone could be useful here)
2. Place a metal grid over the opening of the hole
3. Put meat on the grid
4. Stick your finger through the grid and cast fireball
Sticking your finger through and a wider hole means you almost certainly won't have to make an attack roll against the bottom of the pit.
THat's a good way to burn your finger and maybe get a light sear on one side of the meat, but it's not gonna cook it.
Black Tentacles to find enemies when you know there's an ambush but cannot see the ambushers. Similarly, Weird.
Weird requires targets, so that wouldn't work.
Targets any number of creatures, no two of which can be more than 30 ft. apart
Back in 3.5 I once used a Stone to Flesh spell to transmute the wall behind a door that was trapped with something really nasty. Then I made the barbarian tunnel through the flesh, around the door.
I think we asked if it was edible. I think the DM said it was, but bland and had an unpleasant texture.
What kind of flesh, though? Would it be delicious steak or several cubic feet of intestinal lining? White meat or dark meat? Heck, what animal for that matter? Hope you're not allergic to shellfish....
I dunno... for some reason ham comes to mind... lol... put it in some warm water and cook very slowly for Sows Vide ^(*(oo)*)^
What kind of flesh, though? Would it be delicious steak or several cubic feet of intestinal lining? White meat or dark meat? Heck, what animal for that matter? Hope you're not allergic to shellfish....
SPAM
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In 3.X, my druid once summoned a "thoqqua" which is a red hot giant worm that melts through stone. We were supposed to search for 4 special gems to open the magic door. I just melted through it, and then made a gentleman's agreement with the DM not to abuse that ability to ruin his adventures.
I got the same talk after summoning a thoqqua on an enemy boat and having it burrow straight down the keel.
Black Tentacles to find enemies when you know there's an ambush but cannot see the ambushers. Similarly, Weird.Weird requires targets, so that wouldn't work.
Targets any number of creatures, no two of which can be more than 30 ft. apart
Objects can be targets. Then, once it's cast it effects everyone in the area.
I knew agroup who payed mage who used disintegrate to make a long hollow tube in this party's man(men?) cave so they had a place to put empties (empty beer cans) when ever they filled it up they would have him come back out clear out the whole. Don't ask me how they got beer cans in that time period it wasn't my game...
Objects can be targets. Then, once it's cast it effects everyone in the area.Black Tentacles to find enemies when you know there's an ambush but cannot see the ambushers. Similarly, Weird.Weird requires targets, so that wouldn't work.
Targets any number of creatures, no two of which can be more than 30 ft. apart
Weird isn't an area spell, it's a multiple-target spell. Objects are not creatures, either, so no, you can't target them with Weird.
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how about the opposite of the op question?
i used a non lethal spell to assasinate a high level target.
back in 2ed my gm used the oriantal adventures books.
i played a ninja\wu jen (only multiclass in 2ed that was open for humans as any ninja had to take a 2nd class as it's 'formal face'.)
wsa sent to kill a high level samurai. so i got myself into his shugan court, waited for him to aproch and then hit him with 'Tasha's uncontrolable hidius laghter' while he was adressing his lord...they had him perform sepuku.
Wall of Force on the public privy seats. Like saran wrap.
Had a crotchety cabal of old wizards that wrought destruction, shenanigans, and light entertainment in varying degrees on a city in the midst of an autumnal festival.
Other not quite as funny things included the Rage spell cast on a group of children, a few shambling zombies from the cemetery down the road, doors rendered invisible or stuck closed all over town, and living midden heaps. I'm also spending time trying to find a way to cast insanity on a flock of pigeons.
Oh. Animate Weasel.
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Contingency (Catatonia) set for when I next fall asleep+Poly purpose Panacea (sleep). For if you do not wish to be woken up early.
Sands of Time/Threefold aspect-->Senior Discount without actually aging.
River Whip as a sprinkler for your lawn.
Animate Objects to clean up a room.
Cloudkill fumigation
Rainbow Pattern Raves
Icy Prison to get ahead of the line at the coffee shop
Heat Metal to boil water
Chill Metal for ice cubes for your beverage
Invisibility Sphere+Hallucinatory Terrain=Surprise Party
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Animate Objects to clean up a room.
Great list! Added a link for you: Animate Objects to clean up a room.
Great list! Added a link for you: Animate Objects to clean up a room.
Animate Objects to clean up a room.
Haha, that's exactly what I imagined when I saw the post!