Much skinnier lines today, Adam. Kinda goes well with the “fragile” point.
As for wizardry, a friend of mine claims the spellbook is simply necessary to LEARN spells, not to USE them. Is that a part of D&D fundamentally, or a house rule from a generous GM?
Much skinnier lines today, Adam. Kinda goes well with the “fragile” point.
As for wizardry, a friend of mine claims the spellbook is simply necessary to LEARN spells, not to USE them. Is that a part of D&D fundamentally, or a house rule from a generous GM?
(comment didn’t come up on my end after initial posting, apologies if this is a double)
It may depend on the edition, but at least in 3th, 3.5th (and Pathfinder) and 5th, you need your spellbook to *prepare* your spells. Once prepared, you don’t need the spellbook to cast them.
Why I prefer sorcerer. Sure, you’ve got fewer spells, but you are much more flexible with the ones you have. No spellbooks needed!
Of course, there’s the slight disadvantage of “being an unstable magical anomaly that’s a danger to yourself and everyone around you”, but worrying about abyssal portals and raw annihilating elemental energy is for pansies!
Bandaids?
Only if the party does stupid stuff and then my cleric will gripe, grumble and chastise the whole time and then some when doing so.
My cleric dresses in the struggling merchant style of fashion and when needed transforms into a divine can of whoopass.
Yes I do love to use an empowered maximized expanded storm of vengeance when the opportunity arises. [hugs my meta-magic rods] and my deity [GM] lets me know when it is appropriate to do so, since smashing into splinters while dissolving into liquid fertilizer whole villages [or smallish armies] in one go is normally frowned upon by most. [no salvage]
Well, one carries a spellbook, others never leave the house without a towel…
Much skinnier lines today, Adam. Kinda goes well with the “fragile” point.
As for wizardry, a friend of mine claims the spellbook is simply necessary to LEARN spells, not to USE them. Is that a part of D&D fundamentally, or a house rule from a generous GM?
You need the spellbook to memorize spells for the day, so as long as you haven’t used up all your spells you’re fine.
Much skinnier lines today, Adam. Kinda goes well with the “fragile” point.
As for wizardry, a friend of mine claims the spellbook is simply necessary to LEARN spells, not to USE them. Is that a part of D&D fundamentally, or a house rule from a generous GM?
(comment didn’t come up on my end after initial posting, apologies if this is a double)
It may depend on the edition, but at least in 3th, 3.5th (and Pathfinder) and 5th, you need your spellbook to *prepare* your spells. Once prepared, you don’t need the spellbook to cast them.
Well, they *are* glass cannons… or glass bazookas (with diabetes) as the case may be!
Why I prefer sorcerer. Sure, you’ve got fewer spells, but you are much more flexible with the ones you have. No spellbooks needed!
Of course, there’s the slight disadvantage of “being an unstable magical anomaly that’s a danger to yourself and everyone around you”, but worrying about abyssal portals and raw annihilating elemental energy is for pansies!
Please do cleric in this series. I want to see how you feel about my armored box of band-aids!
Bandaids?
Only if the party does stupid stuff and then my cleric will gripe, grumble and chastise the whole time and then some when doing so.
My cleric dresses in the struggling merchant style of fashion and when needed transforms into a divine can of whoopass.
Yes I do love to use an empowered maximized expanded storm of vengeance when the opportunity arises. [hugs my meta-magic rods] and my deity [GM] lets me know when it is appropriate to do so, since smashing into splinters while dissolving into liquid fertilizer whole villages [or smallish armies] in one go is normally frowned upon by most. [no salvage]
I’m only level two at this point. I have the divine cantrip of smiting, but other offensive spells are sadly lacking at the moment.
Sorcerers: for when you want to be a wizard but don’t want to be a nerd