Settle a bet for me, what does magic missile sound like!?


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Callous Jack wrote:
Asphesteros wrote:
Video evidence!
Hilarious.

YET SOME how sad at the same time. because we all know if nobody was filming we would of/have done the same thing.sigh in our bathrobes


KaeYoss wrote:

Magic missile? A sad, pathetic fffffft, like a leaky balloon slowly deflating.

SEE LOBO!! I have a believer that it makes a Fffffft sound! SO HA! Havnt heard anyone say it sounds like SHOOM SHOOM.

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Lobolusk wrote:
Callous Jack wrote:
Asphesteros wrote:
Video evidence!
Hilarious.
YET SOME how sad at the same time. because we all know if nobody was filming we would of/have done the same thing.sigh in our bathrobes

*nervous laughter followed by shifty eyes*


Master_Trip wrote:
KaeYoss wrote:

Magic missile? A sad, pathetic fffffft, like a leaky balloon slowly deflating.

SEE LOBO!! I have a believer that it makes a Fffffft sound! SO HA! Havnt heard anyone say it sounds like SHOOM SHOOM.

well i cant help it if i am the only sane one!

FOOL ! CHARLATAN


They acually sound like the fireworks, "whistling chasers" including the retort on impact!


when I cast magic missile there are normally screams of pain that follow.


Richard Leonhart wrote:
when I cast magic missile there are normally screams of pain that follow.

you want to stretch before a good magic missile cast it can strain the back and arm muscles all that waving around!


Unless the spell "Flavor Text" gives you and indication of what it looks like or sounds like (Some do like Magic Missiles Description :A missile of magical energy darts forth from your fingertip and strikes its target)then the spell has no real audible or visual component except for hand gestures and words used to cast it.

Now what this allows is players given the GM approval can come up with visual and Audible "Fluff" that while not impacting any part of game but allows the character to personalize the spell.

For instance: A Wizard focusing on Necromancy and the dead may choose to have his missile's appear to be Small skulls that shriek toward their targets or wail as they fly through the air. This is totally legit. Now there is some consequence for this, this sound or visual effect may alert people to casting (so casting a spell with the flavor of loud sound may alert other creatures when if you had normal missile , unless they heard you cast the spell they typically would not have a perception roll to be alerted.)

So with that in mind he could have his Missile's sound like a bazooka going off, or lasers from star wars, heck it could cackle like an old witch, or actually say ZAP ZAP as it flies in air, its really up to the dm. be warned though, if you the dm decide to make spells have these components and force them upon the players, its in bad form to also penalize them by having everything alerted to them because you the DM chose to make it so. If player decides on effect , and it can penalize him, that was his choice, forcing it I feel is just crude.


Tharg The Pirate King wrote:

Unless the spell "Flavor Text" gives you and indication of what it looks like or sounds like (Some do like Magic Missiles Description :A missile of magical energy darts forth from your fingertip and strikes its target)then the spell has no real audible or visual component except for hand gestures and words used to cast it.

Now what this allows is players given the GM approval can come up with visual and Audible "Fluff" that while not impacting any part of game but allows the character to personalize the spell.

For instance: A Wizard focusing on Necromancy and the dead may choose to have his missile's appear to be Small skulls that shriek toward their targets or wail as they fly through the air. This is totally legit. Now there is some consequence for this, this sound or visual effect may alert people to casting (so casting a spell with the flavor of loud sound may alert other creatures when if you had normal missile , unless they heard you cast the spell they typically would not have a perception roll to be alerted.)

So with that in mind he could have his Missile's sound like a bazooka going off, or lasers from star wars, heck it could cackle like an old witch, or actually say ZAP ZAP as it flies in air, its really up to the dm. be warned though, if you the dm decide to make spells have these components and force them upon the players, its in bad form to also penalize them by having everything alerted to them because you the DM chose to make it so. If player decides on effect , and it can penalize him, that was his choice, forcing it I feel is just crude.

i was making a joke about the dm forcing players to make noise lol sometime my humor doesnt go off as i would like it to


I just imagine a sweaty overweight half mustached man whispering in my ear like a drill sergeant. "you call that magic missile!"
i am terrified with fear as i wimper yes sir?...

he slaps me in the face and screams "no no no" ...."this is magic missile"

suddenly he jumps on the table whirls his cloak behind him like some award batman and gets very serious and says "as the orcs approach I point my hands and say "i will send you back to hell where you belong greenskinned terror" and yells so loud the whole pizza place reverberates "MAGIC MISSILE THOOM THOOM" for a second i could swear i saw blue streaks fly form his hand.

he turns to me ans says "that is how it is done"

and we sit back down at the table the adventure continues "rognar your sword is covered in orc blood.....


The sound of a sacred cow getting crunched.

*crunch*?


I think you have to scream the name of the spell before it gets casts

example 1

"ray of frost" shawooom freeze!

example 2

"magic missile" shoom shoom thud thud!

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Lobolusk wrote:
I think you have to scream the name of the spell before it gets casts

Lobolusk, use Hyper Beam, NOW!

...

Whaddya mean you don't know that one yet?

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Like photon torpedoes from Star Trek, only it does not have that satisfying thud when it impacts.


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