May25
on May 25, 2018
Scent of Adventure
90% of the spells in D&D are about kicking ass. Which is probably not what people would do with actual magical abilities. There would be spells devoted to doing the laundry and dishes and cooking dinner. Spells focused on cleaning the house. To say nothing of spells allowing you to gain the benefits of exercise without actually having to go to the gym. All manner of creature comforts and quality of life improvements wholly unrelated to killing goblins. Being able to forego a morning shower and shave and instead wave a wand and recite a six second incantation would save me hours each month.
Actually, there are just three spells I would care to use:
– charm person (no more need to work, do homeworks and the like);
– sleep (quite useful when you got young kids);
– invisibility (when everything else fails… you seem to be elsewhere).
So… being a 3rd – 4th level wizard would be enough to me.
Cause getting to 5th level would be very hazardous to everyone.
“Fireball” is too much of a temptation…
My centaur needs a hair growth spell, that’s for sure. You wouldn’t believe how often someone tries to lop off his tail.
Yeah, I remember playing a mischievous wizard/rogue character in that way. He would abuse spells for all kinds of pranks, and used cantrips to do trivial tasks. I mean, he’ll summon little tornadoes instead of dusting or sweeping or the like, and yet, he finds it to be too much work. He would also use his spells to supplement his thieving.
He was also a lecherous slimeball who’ll use Bigby’s magic hand spells to grope tavern wenches from across the room (and they would assume it was someone else); use clairvoyance to be a peeping tom; put large illusionary bouncing titties on people’s chest (regardless of gender or if person is mammalian or not) during conversations he finds boring (much to the chagrin of the speaker), or even create illusions of people he find “too full of themselves” as preforming lewd acts on themselves, even while in front of them.
Naturally, he made a LOT of enemies to where even the gods did not find him amusing, so tried to make him humble by turning him into a woman of voluptuous beauty (who would be at risk of sexual assault and abduction)…
Once
heshe learned how to weaponizedhisher beauty, things only got worse! (Mind you, this was a silly, over-the-top campaign.)Prestidigitation is a great spell for these little sorts of things. I recall a sewer-based adventure that ended with the party getting it cast on them twice each as they headed up to the NPCs up above. Not only did they succeed and save they day, but they all came out of the sewer completely clean and smelling of roses!