I've got a player interested in playing a wizard, but I was wondering how well that would work out considering there are probably no libraries, etc. for spell research on the Sea Wyvern or Isle of Dread. The same difficulty would be experienced with item creation.
So, would a wizard be a decent character choice and if so how would one handle the spell research, etc. aspect?
no prob, add one to the colony... some old library a old wizard wanted to build but died of heart attack before arriving..
no prob, add one to the colony... some old library a old wizard wanted to build but died of heart attack before arriving..
Yes a very disorganized one - but a treasure trove still - that would encourage him to undertake the finishing of the library.
There should be plenty of time to work on research and make items, since the pacing isn't as tight between adventures as AoW. Since to date there aren't any wizardly enemies to capture spellbooks from and copy, you can drop a few useful magic tomes in as treasure here and there--say, a hidden chamber off the dungeon at Tamoachan with some nice books in it, or a big stash of magic scrolls in one of the underground locations on the Isle of Dread. One can also imagine that the Witchwardens and/or the Seekers would have set up some sort of presence at Farshore.
We don’t need any boring old libraries and laboratories! :)
Any adventuring spell caster worth his cantrips shouldn’t forget to check out all those old ruins, abandoned tribal huts, lost caves, rakasta haunted dells, exotic barrows and many other strange and unusual places your wizard might find spellbooks or items for arcane research.
Any half decent DM should make sure that spellbooks can be found in all shapes and sizes not just as dusty old books on shelves in cities, especially for this campaign.
Sources of new spells could be found on stone tablets, dinosaur skin wall hangings, sword sized horns or teeth covered in spidery arcane etchings found driven into the holy ground of the Gwqango tribe and other weird looking tomes might be made from large tropical leaves bound together with vines and wads of chewed up gum tree sap by the bright green tree frog people of the Rrbyytt valley.
Shame my pals wont roll up a spellcaster!
I want to have a jungle tree lab/observatory, how cool would that be? With a landing platform above the canopy for my dire mage-bred Archaeopteryx mount!
Humph! That does it! I’m gonna have my very own DMPC wizard and screw what the players think! ;)